Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1830-07-01

last war and embargo-t was desput SICK }
going fo1ad the pint aud didn't see It after |
al. ! walked Virginia fence all the time inc
boat kept rocking so. j was alesrd some oil
them would think ! had taken q drop or so
toe much and tried to walk crack but
couldn't DO 1t. i began to feel pale, cold
sweat started out Of my forehead, my coffee
begun to rie, and then knew / should cast
sp my accounts pretty soon. 1t was a long
time however before could get any thing up
| Us horrible thing TO he sea sex. dICRt
Seepa TO care what become Of me.
After we got round TIA. punt begun TO feel
better. looked up but couldn't see bit OF
land and my heart sunk witain me ! couldn't
help thinking If any accident should happen
what would become of Us. ! wished was ct
home swinging On fathers gate, but ii was
too late now. NhdeL was leaning over tho
rails heard one man say to another he ;bOt
was the matter with the bier, for he heard
the steme hissisg like snake. i said moth
i = but as soon as got chance | went and
aAed the captain about ii: DC kind Of avoided
an answer which made tea times more sus-
picious. | didn't sleep much that night, but
kept thinking about It, | laid on nIy back
aud kept goiag up and down as i'll was riding
on tit hammer. the machinery jared the
boat so.
Towards merning get into kiHd Of doze
and dresmpt the biIer busted. In Z moment
sprung out on the floor and gave the alsyG.-
This Learnt after | got walked I'd, for the
next moment half the passengers followed
ike sheap over wall all crying cut The hller
is bust Seine ran oncNray and some anoth
cr. lFushe d on deck as thought and caught
hold eft the mast. Then itSyas | walked up,
aSd what do you think had hold of, il was
the aigear cook, great black greasy gal. as
big rsund hogshsad, and there was 10
The midst Of the cabin before them all, hug
ging her up 80 kill never felt ~ sheepish
in ollsy life, and sneaked off Ike silged
eat | tell ye. Most Of tbepassepgsrs laughed
themselves te pieces about it, but one old
dutchmsa whe slept over me swore it was
enc tam yankee trick to break him of his
rest.
got.up early in tie morning and went GA
deak, Il was Just ike seeping upon stack
of salt lsy under that are dutchlnan, looked
out pretty sharp fer he'll gate, didn't see SIN
gle gate, ANY bIgaheds en- the river. Ii
want long before we came in sight Of the
city. Ny stars, if the houses ant crowded
together as thick a. flee round bpng holos
as much as thsse miles lcBg- Boston is a foo!
to it. When We got up to tie wharf it was
crowded with people. L guess they thought
Lafayette wac coming or come ether great
man; they jumped en- hoard all ae once, one
fellow snatchsd up nay tfank and was run
aing of with it. | caught hold o! his eoes
and told him to stop lie said he should
charge quarter deer first. told him TO
charge il to the pump and took my trunk
and walked OF i am row at Mrs. tasemins
In water street where you paust direct your
letters or thsy went get to aie.
Yours with y steam.
.ENOEIt fFIMRrRToFG
p f.---{ Will write you again after est
place. Mr.. Palmer who keeps the intell-
geaee oihey SAYS that they are pretty well of
for help in Newly 0rk If dent succeed
shall go up the river wouldn't adyise yeu
te eeale Ola.
The editor OF the u. S. Gazette thus phi
losophically comments on one OF the evils
which printers are heir to,
r Pi-We ware sent Cor Yesterday morning
30 visit the press room Of our oftiae, where a
= form Of our paper had fallen into pc: We
gazed with mournful visage at tbs wreck Of
matter and sighed to think how evanssceat
sTere the causes fer lelicitation--how fleeing
the brightest gleam OF satisfaction. But a
, few moments before, and the form lay before
us ''a map OF busy lie" There was Greece
and the story Of her anatatoPs-a and in de
I hghtful juxtapositIon was Turkey; to the left
Spain and Portugal we're ramemberad-our
own country had its locations, and its events
were recorded with glowing pen The
scenery was enriched with fleets Ct ships
sailing IN ''columns" and here and there
house dotted the landscape-ths b.,d was
heard from Parnassus, and Itipmsn. lighted
his torch with gles But how changed! what
a revolukoa--a eonvulsion. The packets and
steamboats, lay bottom upwards on the cal
loghany Portage" "real estate in Chesnut-st:n
had fallen indeed; and an extract from Dir
Channing's Sermon" was found in the midst
of one ofeur correspondents "moral essays"
Hhcporte of public sales and ''Fecent ap-
pontments," were hudded together; Greece !
was mingled with the. concerns of the called |
powers;" two "marriages" were all in confu- |
zion; and a4 enumeration of the leading pol |
iticans Of the times hadGsllen among the arti- |
cles "for sale"
1Yhile we stood in the midst Of the eenfa- !
sion of the broken form, like Marius ualsng .
tho rains Of Carthage, we were called from (
our contemplation by the PHILOSOPHY of our |
devil. WHO, with his composing stick in his |
hand. instantly set hivosslf dswn to the work !
Of reform, quoting from Pope the admirably |,
adapted line,
"Ai!FoRMs that perish, other FORMS supply"
lar FcR 'SIFEEP.--,a Gentlemen ,eiso keeps
large }loc': efslSep, oss,res as that during |