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VARIETY.
.For Wheeling Repository.
Mr. Editor,
IT is said that every man is govern
ed by some ruling passion ; and I have
not the least doubt but the sentiment is
correct. I am myself one, of the many
persons in this country, w hose predomi
nant passion is, the love of whiskey, JV!y
attachment to this liquor, for a long
time, so absorbed every other consider
ation, that I at length found myself re
duced to the condition, in which I could
no longer find means to gratify it. In
this forlorn state I was beset by a train
of reflections which continually present
ed to my mind my former enjoyments,
by way of contrast to my present condi
tion. Ruminating on the subject, it oc
curred to me that many of your readers
might, perhaps, feel some concern for
me, if acquainted with my cogitations.
It also occurred to me, that many good
citizens might be edified, by viewing at
a distance, the reflections which obtrude
themselzes, when kegs and bottles are
empty, and the door beset by Sheriff’s
ami Constables. These considerations
induced me to give my reflections a re
gular form, and something like a poeti
cal dress, and to requisition you would
deposit them in vonr useiui Repository.
I am confident that many of your l end
ers will peruse them w ith no small share
of interest.
MuM ANY-OJ-US.
Tl iv pow’r, O Whiskey ! .tarnls confvst,
'l ino’ all our land, Irmn Hast to West ;
You to tile weary and distresM,
Can give relief,
And from the melancholy breast
Chase care and grief.
”Tis true you’re often the occasion
<)i sorrow deep, and keen vi xaiion ;
’ 1 is true you work dire ruination,
And dreadiul woe,
And spoil full many a rej utution,
The country through.
Yet, to tell truth, I love you dearlv;—
1' :r you l\v plodded late aid early,
And if I g a y -u, foul, or fairly,
It mad »o matter,—
I bro’t you homi, and drank you rarely,
just like cold water.
Full often I have quit nvr plough,
J\Iy plane t my necdu, aw., or hoe,
When I had work enough to do,
That wanted doing,
And trudged away in search of you,
Who’ve work’d my ruin.
And if I found you, I’d ne’er leave you;
Nothing could from my gullet save you;
At any rate, or price, I’d have you,
While TRUST would buy you;
Thru,O good fellow ! how I’d shave you,
While I was nigh you !
For you, some thousand lies I’ve told ;
For you, I’ve all my substance sold ;
For you, I’ve brav’d both heat and cold,
By day and night,
And by the Sheriff been enroll’d,
In mournful plight.—
Now, I’m by poverty beset,
You, like the world desert me straight;
Yet could I one more jug-ful get,
I’d sit me down,
And never murmur at my fate,
Till ye were gone.
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1 IT FOR i AT.
Immediately after the Hon. Dc Witt
Clinton, late Mayor of the city of New
York, had received his 15,o00-dollar ap
pointment, he waited on a gentleman of
the name ol Ferris, Inspector ol Flour
in that city, and informed him of his re
moval in the following words : u Sir, I
now inform you that you are no longer
Inspector in this city.” It happened
that Ferris was at Albany when Mr.
Clinton was removed, in February last.
When the removal was known, Mr. F.
returned Mr. Clinton’s compliment by
deliveringhim the following note: “ Sir,
1 take ibis early opportunity of inform
ing you that you are no longer Mayor
ot tlu city of New-York.”
EktraoroinaryLaziness.
W e mentioned, (says the Charleston
Courier) that the schooner John, which
put into that port in distress, had lost
one of her crew overboard. It seems,
however, that this was incorrect. lie
was one night left at the helm, while
tapt. Nelson went below. Shortly after
wards, it coming on to blow, capt. N.
am" upon deck, and found the helm
deserted ; and as he could hear nothing
of the man, it was naturally supposed
'hat he had been washed overboard.—
1'his, however, was not the case. The
man was somewhat overcome with fa
tigue, and strongly tainted with lazintvs;
and as the vessel was very It akv and re
quired frequent pumping, he thought it
best to give up all hopes of life, and re
sign himself at once to his fate. Ac
cordingly he crept silently below, and
secreted himself among some barrels in
the hold, where he lay si* days without
the least sustenance of any kind ; nor
did he quit his hiding place until the
vessel had been some hours at anchor,
when he crawled out, and begged the
hoy for something to eat. Capt. N. has
committed him to jail for thus giving
way to his laziness in preference to man
fully facing the dangers which threaten
ed them.
From Paulson's Advertiser.
Mr. Poui.son,
The following is a copy of a genuine
direction, upon a letter not long since,
sent from Lancaster County, to a person
in this city* in order to be forwarded by
the first vessel for Ireland ; its oddity
struck my attention and I offer it you
for insertion. W.
“■ To Dennis M‘Farrow, in the Coun
tv of Tipperara, in the kingdom ol Ire
land; and if he should not be there, de
liver it to Bridget Dougherty, his first
cousin ; and if she should be dead, de
liver it to Brady M‘Con ; perhaps he
may be hung, for he was a little light
fingered ; and if that should be the
case, deliver it to his great Uncle Allen
M‘Caffertv; however he talk’d some
time ago of going over to England to
collect some moneys due his Aunt Liz
zy, and if that should be the case, then
ph ase deliver it to Mv. Farron Walnut,
who lives at the sign of the green tree.”
Fatal Assemblage.
A late London paper gives the fol
lowing melancholy relation :—
At the execution of Hollaway, and
Haggerty, the murderers of Mr. Steele,
and Elizabeth Godfrey, the murderer
of K. Prince, on Monday, oue of the
most dreadful accidents experienced for
a long series of yerrs happened, owing
to the immence crowd which assembled
to \\ itness the awful scene, in which the
press became so great that, humanity
shudders to relate the fatal consc*
i q unices, but sorry we are to say that 24
mt n and 3 women were tramplep npon
and killed, and 13 men and two women
were wounded, some of them having
the flesh torn from their legs arms &c.
—Total 42, in St. Bartholomews Hos
pital.
Just at the moment that the unhapi
py culprits were about to be launched
t