Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-08-25
CHOW BAD YOU LOOK"

CHOW BAD YOU LOOK"
There are some people in our world,
Messrs. Printers, who, under the cloak
of kind and sympathetic friendship,
most dearly love to wound the feelings
of fellow creature Ifyou are in mis-
fortune, they soothe you with 'spoor fell
io,c ho'c l pity you-ho,c hard your case
is"-Or detail to you score OF un-
pleasant things which are whispered
about you, entertaining you by the hour,
as an Indian entertains his prisoner at
the stake, with torture after torture,
that they may enjoy the satisfaction OF
seeing how you bear it! Ifyou appear
resigned to your fortune, they tell you
your case is too grieyous to be borne
that you ought not to be insensible to
it-that to be so seems like stupidity,
or something worse-and if not resign
ed-they tell you, "poor sceak creature,
ycu ought to bear it ,Uiih fortitude."
You will meet these kind Of people
in the street at almost all hours. If
you have been sick, the first thing you
see is the mouth screwed up, the eyes
full of the most admirably affected as
tonishment-and "Good heavens, hon
5adyou look," on their tongue-and then
you must hear catalogue OF every
symptom of disease that they will tell
you is visible on your countenance-
and before you leave them believe that
You are very fair candidate for the
grave, or that your kind friends are
very notable story tellers.
An old lady the other evening who
was walking in the street for exercise,
was accosted in my hearing with, "poo,
dear creature' ho,o a,cfal you look-ah!
yon bare that cough yet-not long for this
,oorld, I see,-hope that you are prepared
for BETTER" The. woman might or
might not have been prepared-but
confound your pity, said to myself,
if that's the way you manifest it, and
at the same time | turned to look at the
"awful" object which had caused the
soliloquy-I had known her for ten
years-she was pale and thin-Just as
she was the first day | saw her.
Sometime ago went with one oil
these good folks to see person who
was labouring under one Of those dis
eases, which most require flow OF spi.
rits to enable one to recover FROM
The first salutation the sick man re-
ceived was-"Bless me ho,c bad you look
you are ten times ,oorse than Ihad any
idea of" turned OH my heel and lief,
my companion to manage the CONVEX.
sation he had thus introduced himself
Isuppose there will not be one, of all
who read this, that could not add an
instance or two to the above. The SUBJ
ject is one so disagreeable to me, that
cannot dwell upon it. 1t is the gross
est cruelty thus to sport with the feel
ings Of the unfortunate. And if, read
err, one of your neighbors is in a habit
of doing SOL beg of you to send him
this paper-mark the piece, and per.
haps they will consider how improper
their conduct is, and be induced to a.
mend it. Georgetown Metropolitan.
EZRA Of good feeling. I'VE have no,
heard of a more remarkable instance oil
the prevalence Of good feelings be-
tween Englishmen and Americans, than
the following: A letter from an Amer
lean gentleman at Trinidad, an English
island, to his friend in Salem says
yesterday, being the anniversary Of
our country's independence, the Amer
lean flag was waving gallantly over ev'
cry American vessel, and the English
flag, out of compliment to our country
was hoisted from every British ship in
port"
A letter is reported to have been re.
ceived in New-York from New Or
leans, stating the appearance of VEL.
LOW FEVER in that city. The Or.
leans papers to July 81 are silent on
the subject, William. Goat had died
from eating purified herrings. He
was condemned as an outlaw in 1928.
allowed to roam the streets Of Orleans,
but forbidden, under pain of death, to
enter any house or enclosure. So says
the New York Evening Post.
.Aurora and Franklin Gaz.
ADVANTAGE OF CANAL TRANSPORT
ALTON.
A traveller in passing the Great
Western Canal, in letter Of the 9th,
inst. observes
/ saw fifteen large guns in one boat,
.rhich were hrouph from Sackett'S