Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1828-06-27

off then! le'em speak to him agin! ri Ie, bi,
know" 80 MN
Saying this, he walked up TO the bov & &C.
ing his goard. stick, threat ned 40 cur hin, :,
10 inch pieces" '"'
| drew nearer, and the boz looked I'd y,i,bon.
tine last sign Of fear, and asked VIVA, Lr bsS
done "aU
"Why. twa, you t turned them ain go,
in'o that air ieId-wi!l ye!" shaking The ,,i,, s
at him again. '''NN
The boy denied at
Veil then! it was one jess like We. an dom.
you lei me SEE thar "a white ha, o. vo,,n .,i.
that's alleged, III give IN y,r.-B,ckP
l say. whoa, hush, will yr!-you do j, s.,,r =
you dare; cut We into inch piccry."
but didn't d. it before" said n. bo,
swell. YOU du il agin, ihal's sun' monte,
the other, going away very quietly as he smoke
ard following his team. "You do il ay;n
say--rave,ied this road lif cen years! and moan
TO ,rave i, iifteen more yt"--lai ,ire his yoir.
at every word now, as other pcopl. hove ia
sight, and he gan 10 see his way lear y,
Now, notwiih,'a nding all these threats the
man would as soon have put his right b,nJ
INTO he fir, as strike that boy. Sch is ,ba
native Yankee. Portland Kqnks.
HUMOROUS DESCRIPTION OF THE STEAM Fx
CINE he steam engine may be us Is r4s,,3
ed as the fourth estate Of he rs aim, and ri,,,
worth the other three. II . the ,ivfyirp nrin.
ciplc OF taxation, which is the gr. al end Of N
civilized governments 1t is more pow,rGI
ConseNator Of the peace than regimen &
cons'ables, or than who, vice suyprps,in,
ASSOCIATION; Tor the insiSDt it stops working
the people immediately become lurpglcnr and
discontinued. What is the grand courrrDoi,.
10 the Duke Of Wellington and his Try col.
raguen?-thc steam engine What b,lant,,
the national deb'?--the steam engiu,. WHAT
feeds the noble army Of pacemen aud snecur,
Ists!.-again | say, the steam engine Even
the people themselves, for whom alone wong
headed radicals presume government exclusive
ly to ext t,may become too numerous, but t.ere
is nothing erigeam in The character Of The
steam engine. If it ca'not work, it does
no, jacubinaly insist upon eating; and likes
rood Christian machine as it is, it takes no
thought wherewith it shall be clothed #
pressed ico hard, it may sometimes make
blow up" but SO will those living Steam en-
gines-the mob. There is however this e,,en>
tiaI difference between the two, thai, the burst
once over, the mach ine becomes as tan aid
harmless as a child, or a rafting Wing lawyer
with place under government; "hriea, he
people, when duly reused, 80 Oh laundering at
the door O. the Legislature with On increasing
force, SO that if YOU once indulge their impOr.
tuni'y, by reforming the most inveterate abuse,
you usi go on ill "soci4l order" i, cut upiu,
20 ribbons, and nothing remains for 4 tax cate;
10 su6sist upon. But if steam engines are
better subjects ,han the people, they have like
wise many advantages over the aris'ocracy.
They never combine, for example, 10 MAKE cO'd
dear; they never TAX the public to D" amount
Of thousands to make places by which thy
Cali only huuureds, nor waste whole provinces
by their arbitrary caprice and Ignorance OF III
sound principles Of administration. steam
engincIs never Jesuit, like Charles, it never
SETS itself against learRing like Francis nor
is absurdly tyrannic.l, like FerGiHond. II
NAV be as culdly indifferent, 10 human suffering '
as Nero or Henry VIE and it will certain
ly chop off the hes, head that ventures 10 thro't
its nose across is movements; but then, nthfo'
Their 'haDd, never goes out Of Us WY 'odo
who leiIii alone, &, as things in general go,lha'
is no fling advantage. Nftc No. nag
Lord Byroa's Skull Drinking Cp.-ln ea''
net a, Ne end of The room (rhe reicc,ofy at New
stead ASbey) carefully preserved and eon',''
ed in sliding case, is kept the Celebrated 'S',
cup, upon which are inscribed those sN't"a"
verses
"Start not, --nor deem my spirit fed, &c
People often suppose, from the name, 'h'' ~
cue retains all The terrible appearances o.
dc -sh's head, and imagine thai they eoU'"
"Behold through each lack.lus,re, eyeIess hO'
The gay recess of wisdom and OF "I':
not at all-there is nothing whatever s'af.n'
in it; nothing can be cleaner and less o"r
sive-in fact, nobody would know, were he
told, that it was not a ommon bone DOW
1t i. madfiof the crown of tie head cui s'r':
off, so that all the disgusting portion 81
skull is avoided; is well polisht' I!' cage
bound by broad rim Of silver; and II ls'''
neat stand Of the same metal, when ".'r
as handle, and upon The fou' sid'' 0' . .,.
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