The Arkansas advocate., 1831-07-06
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 We extract the following interesting article from the Cincinnatti Chronicle. 1t is from the pen of MORGAN NEVILLE, Esq. One who possesses the power of recording hls soatpenlrs in so agreeable a style, owes q debt to society of which we hope this is only the first instalment.
 Puasburg Totetligencer. The elevation of the Duke of Or Leans to the throne of France. recalls some early recoilcctions, and if you will indulge me in the privilege of the fair seheherezade of digrcssing as much as please, paragraph or two is at your service:
 It was probably in l799 or 1900, that this distinguished parsonage, aceompa- nied by his two brothers, Montpensier ard Beauiolais, came to the western Country. On arriving in Pittsburg, then a small village, they found one or two eaaferes, who had formerly filled promi- nent stations under the oa,cienne regi5ne, but who were now earning a scanty sub- slstence in carrying on some little busi- ness of merchandise. One of them, the Chevalier du B---c, one of the wor- thiest of men, and an admirable phiIos- opher, kept little shop, then denomin- ated, par ereclence, coniectionary.- The articles, and the only ones, by the way. emitting the cllevaiier's to this at tractve name, were the kernels of ha- seia'its, wainuts and peach stones, en- closed in an envelope of burnt maple su- gar, fabricated by the skillful hands of the chevalier himself. Du B--c was the most popular citizen of the village; he had a monkey of admirable qualities, and bis pointer (Sultan) could, like the dog in the Arabian Nights, tell counter teit money from good; at least, the hon. est folks who supplied our little market with chickens and butter, thought so, and that was the same thing. It was smnsing to hear the master of the shop, calling his two familiars to aid in se- fecting the good from the bad "eleven penny bifss." 'sissIIlons Sultan, tell desc good ladie de good nonaye from de eonnte .fait." Then followed the n,- psrtant consultation betweenthed dog and the monkey; Pug grinned and scratch ed his sides; Sultan smelt and in due time scrapcd the money into the draw CT. Is there was no counterfeit sseleven pennies.n Sultan seldom failed--"Ma damc,' would my friend say to the blowsy country lass, ssSultan is like de Pope, he is infallible." Sultan and Bi- jou laid the foansiation of this excellent mans fortune. They broueht crowds of custom to the shop, and in two or three years he was enabled to convert his little business into handsome fan ey store. An attraction was then add ed to the establishment that diverted q portion of the public admiration from sultan and the monkey: this was a Dutch clock, with goodlY portion oi gliding. and two or three white and red figures front, which, before striking. play ed T waltz. Ii was inestimable; this mu- sic had never before been heard in the west, and those who have been brought up amidst the everlasting grinding oi our present museums, can have no con ception of the excitement caused by oni chevalier's clock. In these days every unique piece of furniture or rare toy was helieyed to have formed part 9 the spo'io oniaaa of t'le= sfreach tsesoiu ton, and most generally they were SC