Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-05-18

OF every kn0Cker Wltnin hedi'S' '"Pp
that she fell i'll, and was. for several days. con-
fined to her bed. Unable to observe IN person.
what was going on without, she stst'oned ner
maid at the window, as substitute for the per-
Torrance of that duty. But Betty soon grew
weary of the occupation; she became careless IN
her reports-impatient and tetchy when repri-
manded for her negligence. betty, what are
you thinking about! don't you hear double
knock at No. 9? What is it," "Ihe trst-
floor Iodser, Ma'am." Betty! Retty!-i de- ,
clare must give you warning. Why don't you
tell me what that knock is at 54 ?" "Why
Lord Ma'am. it is only the baker with PIES
g. Pies, Betty! what can they want with pies at
81 !? they had pies yesterday"
Of this very point he ayallcd hinself.& skctched
the portrait Of busy, pryng meddlng body, as
the public know, with great felicity, and no lit
tie genuine wit and humor.
-ANe&
A correspondent has written US communca.
tion-hot as Cayenne pepPer-concernlns what
he calls Sc the abominable outrage against nature
perpetratet by the female sex in their attempts at
wearing whiskers." Though these remarks are
from friend who is great favorite with the sex
he 50 rates, vet for very prudent reasons between
ourselves. we think we had better let them lie on
the table. We would not, by any manner OF
means, destroy the serenity or comp'acency with
which any fair friend surveys, in her mirror, the
incpent stages of her approach to the very acme
of fashion-Yet cannot refrain from inserting
what our correspondent has sent US IN the shape
of addenda to his own observations, being an eX-
tract from Philadelphia paper:
Women and Whiskers.-One would suppose
that in precisely the ratio that the march OF mind
prevailed in and enlightened this. country. that
the absurdities of fashion would take retrograde
movement and be expelled from all society,"
| This is not the case, however, and some OF our
country readers will doubt the fact, when we as
sure them, that some Of the fashionable bellies OF
this city have an ambition for whiskers; and in
an attempt to crafty this absurd within, arrange
their hair upon their faces to give them the APP
pearance of wearing these masculine appendages.
Several of the softer sex thus disguised have ap-
peared at the theatre & in our public promenades.
| We notice the fashion as one discreditable, and
beyond the prerogatves of the sex. 1t should
| be frowned down by the common consent of eve
| nv feminine spirit. In the animal creation none
| OF the female gender have whiskers, but spe-
cies, which, above all others, delicate woman
would dislike to pattern after. A dandy with
mustachios is bad enough in all conscience. but
woman in .whiskers-ye Brummels-'tis mon
strous.
EAS%
A man was lately brought before tie Munich
pal Court in Boston, from the State Prison. for
additional sentence and the information set forth
| that he had been convicted of two offences at a
former Court. and having been imprisoned and
discharged was again convicted before the Su-
| preme Judicial Court and sentenced to imprison-
ment, the case was at the last term submitted to
| Jury, and on their verdict was continued for
advisement. The Judge now informed the pri-
| soner that it had hitherto been usual for him to
consider one or more convictions at one time, as
operating in the nature of one Imprisonment, and
that the next subsequent conviction would be the
second subiecting the offender to further but
| limited confinement; but that under recent de-
| cision Of the Supreme judicial Court, each con-
viction was to be counted by itself, and that it
would therefore be his duty to impose sentence
on him of confinement for life. "What!" said
the astonished convict, ahave you been doing
wrong all this time, and are you now going to
begin to do right, upon me-"
&NS&
! The Camden Journal, an excellent paper, wor-
| thy of all commentator for the stand it has ia
ken in South Carolina against the disorganizers Of
that State, in reply to writer who afflrms that
this government and this country have no nation
atty, says:
"a grosser libel never darkened the columns
of newspaper. Deeper heresy never rested on
politicians utterngs. 1t has not even the
merit of ordinary pIausblity. tbs equally false
| in fact and abomlnabe in sentiment. A more
homogeneous people than ours is not to be found
on earth. The United States, covering terri
tory extensive enough to make half dozen Eu-
ronean Kingdoms. are less diversified in the man
ners and custorns of their people, in their local
interests, and even in the dialectical discrepan-
c,es of their language, than little Ensland, her.
self-embraciug an area less than some of our
SINGLE States. A Kentish or Cornish man, is
less like Yorkshireman in all these particulars,
than a Yankee from the northernmost nook of
Maine is like the native CT the Georgia sand-hil.'
There is much truth in this last remark, and
we wish it to be remembered. The local jealou-
sizes and sectional feelings which exist amongst
US, do not destroy the national character which
our people have already assumed. 1t is assured.
" the duty and interest of every patriot. still
further to generalize. if we may so express it,
the different divisions of our ctizens-all posses