Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 182?-183?, 1832-03-23

seoul the rich folk that niver wasted thought
on ye? till me now, your honour, till me. %
And the crone curtesied with mock air
of beseeching humility.
"I never forgot, even in want, the love
due to my fellow sufferers ; for, woman, we
all suffer,-the rich and the poor; there are
worse pangs than those OF want"
eye think there be, do We? that's COM
fort, umph! Well I'll tell we now, feel
RESPECT for you, that don't for the rest on
'em; for your face does not insult me with
being CHEEKY like theirs yonder an have
noted we walk in the dusk with your eyes
down and your arms crossed; and have said
that man do not hate, somehow, for he
has something dark at his heart like me-"
"The lot of earth is woe" answered A
ram, calmly, yet shrinking back from the
crone's touch; t.judge we charitably, and
act we kindly 10 each other There-this
money is not much, but it will light your
I hearth, and heap your table without toll ,
for some days at least !"
"Thank your honour; an what think you
III do with the money -
"What;"
"Drink, drink, drink cried the bag,
fiercely, "there's nothing like drink for the
poor, for thin we fancy ourselves what we
hloL, dilu, uCI fOlCG lulO d Wills
per, al thinks thin that have my foot on
the billies ofrich folks and my hands twisted
about their entrails, and hear them shrek
and-thin Pm happy!'
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EXTRAORDINARY SToRy.--A gentle
man has furnished us with the following
account of a transaction which took
place few years ago.-A respectable
master of ship, belonging to this port,
was in London, several years ago, and
his mate obtained his consent to spend
an evening on shore. He did not return
till late at night. and assigned as the rea-
son. that, as he was walking in the street,
he was accosted by respectable look
| ing female, and after some conversation
she invited him to accompany her to her
house. She led him into house up a
court, which on entering the outer door
she fastened, and he was conducted by
her up stairs; on entering the chamber,
she fastened that door also, and sat some
time conversing, when she got up and
excused herself a few moments she
did not return until his suspicious were
awak ened that some mischiefwas Inten-
ded him, he looked round and found
that he was a prisoner, the door was
locked on the outside, and the window
barred, so that he could not open them
he then removed the curtain of a bed
in the room, when he beheld the body of
a man, with his throat cut, lying dead
upon the bed. The mate was struck
with CONSERVATION, and believed HIM
self lost person, until it occurred to him
that he could with his pocket knife re-
move the lock or part of it and open
the door; he succeeded, and made his
way to the outer door, which was for
tunately unfastened on opening it he
observed a man with lantern coming
up the court with the woman, when he
came to the resolution of making des-
perate effort to make his escape. He
ran upon the man and overturnedhim by
his strength and before the man could
recover himself he got off. Itappeared
afterwards in the public papers that the
woman had gone to the watch and in
formed that murder had been commit
ted in her house, ard requested the as
sistance of the watch to secure the MUIR
derer, and the mate was to have been
sacrificed as the innocent victim for this
nefarious crime.-Newbwyport Adr.
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Marriage.-I never knew a marriage
expressly for money that did not end I'M
happily. Yet managing mothers and
heartless daughters, are continually play
ing the same unlucky game. l believe
that men more frequently marry for love
than women ; because they have free
choice. | am afraid to conjecture how
large portion of women marry because
they think they shall not have a better
chance and dread being dependant
Such marriages no doubt sometimes prove
tolerably comfortable, but greater nun.
Der would have been far happier single
If may judge by my own observation:
of such matters, marrying for a home
is a most tiresome way of getting a liv.
ing.-Mrs. Child.
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Talents in Nopkm.-A gentleman
once introduced his son to Rowland Hill
by letter, as youth Of great promise
and as likely to do honor to the Univer
sity of which he was member "but he
is shy" added the father, land idle, anC
l fear buries his talents in a napkin.
A short time afterwards, the parent, anx
ious for his opinion, inquired what h,
thought Of his son ? 81 have shaker
the napkin" said Rowland Hill, "at al
the corners, and there is nothing il