The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-04-12 00:00:00

SPECIMENS OF KENTUCK.

The new farce of " The Kentuckian." has been acted with
great success at Covent-garden. We wish (says the Literary
Gazette) we could give our readers any idea of the drollery of
the following Specimens of Kentuck, so admirably delivered by
Mr. Hacket, with the emphasis regularly imposed in the wrong
place :-
1 can out- talk any man in the United States, and give him half an
hour's start.

I have had a speech in soak these six months.
I am all brimstone but my head, and that's aquafortis.

His threats when about to fight a ddel:—

Pistols ! pistols are trumpery : they lodge a ball in a man's body
and wounds his feelings a rifle, now, sends it clean through, and no
mistake.

Stranger, bet you 500 dollars I hits you between your eyes
without touching your nose.
Half a mile ! Do you want me to strain my.rifie ?

Uncle, dont you know I can out-eat any man in the States ? I wish
he'd staid till I untied my neckcloth ? I'd have swallowed him whole.
You are like a new pen, and I'll use you up to the stump.
Stranger, if you think to turn me, you may as well row up the
Falls of Niagara in a fish-kettle, with a crow-bar for an oar.
I say, stranger, if you try to get through that ere sand-bank, I
guess you'll burst your boiler.
I can out-grin a wild cat. I was in a menagrie once ; stranger, says
I, talk o' your wild cats grinning ; look here, says I, and I gave one
of 'em a look, and he turned on his back and died.
Vanity, thy name is woman I—that's Shakespeare, and he's a
screamer.

He'd ride through a crab-apple orchard on a flash of lightning.
Aly.father can whip any man in Kentuck, and I—l can whip my
father.

Stranger, if you keep your mouth so wide open, I guess you'll sun-
burn your teeth.
I never owned a nigger; but 1 -borrowed one once : he'd a fever
and an ague ; the fever stopt, but the ague left him, he was so tarna-
tion lazy he would'nt shake.

If yoit plant a crow-bar overnight in Kentuck it will sprout ten-
penny nails next morning,

Gii;'e us some music 30(Thorse power.
I give him such a teaser he disappeared, and nothing- was found
but a spot o'grease on the ground.
If it warn't true, may I be tetotaciOusly exilunctified.
Stick me into a. split log for a wedge.
I was going into the swamp one dad, and I see a white hat moving
on the mud in a pretty considerable queer way. So I just whipped
it up with the but-end o' my whip. Hallo, stranger, who axed you
to knock my hat off? says a voice. Hallo, says I, where's the rest of
you ? In the next country ; and there's a' waggon and a team of
horses under me.

I belong to the Temperance Society, but it is only between drinks:

Description of his Kentuck sweetheart:
She ! she's a feeler she killed a bear when she was thirteeni and
now she'll whip her weight in wild eats.

THE ETTRICK SHEPHERD'S ADVICE TO
EMIGRANTS.

We have received the following important communi-
cation from oar friend the Ettrick Shepherd, and we ear-
nestly call the attention of the public and our contempo-
raries to its contents :

To the Editor of the Edinburgh Evening Post.
AITRIVE, April 2, 1833.
DEAR SIR,-At this painful season, when so many more
thousands of our most valuable peasantry are preparing to leave
their native country, I beg you will be so kind as give publi-
city to the following injunction. Let not one of the .emigrants
pay one farthing of earnest-money on booking their names at
the various agents of each ship. Let them enter their names
as passengers where they will, but never pay a sixpence until
they are on board, and have received their berths. I received
a letter from Quebec last year, from a friend who had just
landed there on his way to upper Canada, desiring me to charge
any of his friends, or my own, who come out this year, to pay
no earnest-money. And I think you will allow that his tale
warrants this caution.

An American Company advertised a ship to sail about the
end of May. They had agents over all the country, both in
Scotland and England, who took in all that offered, and
charged earnest-money for all; to the amount of ss. a-head, or
El Is. Od. for a family. What was the consequence? The
ship was only registered for eighty passengers, so the first
eighty that arrived were received on board, and 'the vessel set
sail. Upwards of three hundred arrived from all quarters, and
these were handed over, partly to an English ship, lying at
Maryport, and the rest to a large American,, lying at White-
haven. This last party, in which were several of my intimate
friends and relations, had to board themselves there for a month
before the vessel sailed. The American Captain then took
them on board atthe fare formerly stipulated; but every one
lost their cards; or earnest-mOney • and my friend avers, that
what with board before sailing, and-the loss of their former
payments, that goer company of industribus.emigrants lost up-
wards of £lOO. Such mistakes deserve to be exposed, and I
request thatthis notice may be copied into all the papers in the
west of Scotland. • Yours truly,
JAMESITOGG.

DANIEL ON THEAVOOLSACK ! was the ominous heading of a
paragraph in the Dublin Evening Mail the other day, and the
announcement, we hear, sent one-half Dublin into a fit of de-
light and the other into a fit of 'despair before the mystery was
solved as follows :—Dan, is chairman of the Carrickfergus elec-
tion committee ; all the committee rooms belonging to ,the
house being occupied, Dan suggested to the committee to estab-
lish themselves iu the Court of Chancery in WeStminster-hall,
then vacant, and accordingly the agitator took his seat on the
English equity bench', in j iidgnient on a Tory member. We do
not wonder at the Pats being frightened at the news !—Age.

NEW • BANKII PTC Y CoraratssioNas.—The foliowing gentle-
men have.beeu appointed Commissioners in fiats of Bankruptcy
for Liverpool And a circuit of 20 miles round it :—F. Raincock,.
Esq., L. J. Venables, Esq.; , Henry. Lawrence, Esq., and T. J.
Hall, Esq., to' be quorum commisSiOners.--Mr. Lace, Mr. Avi-
son, Mr. IV. Thomson, Mr. Radcliffe, Mr. Brooke, and •Mr.
Littledale are the attorneys.—[We araitifoirned, on authority
Whereon we can.rely, that although it is probable the above
appointments may hereafter take place, they have not yet done
so in fact';. that the bankruptcy arrangements are not yet Com-
pleted, it being doubtful whether the bankruptcy and ihstavent
business will not he united, and•the commissioners of tlie latter
court increased so as to afford one for eaCh county.]