Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1832-09-04

sy, and child 23 months old Portsmouth has dscon
dnued her hospital.
We hail these circumstances with great satisfaction
and are happy to add that the cholera has not yet shewn
Itself in our city.
TO SOUTH CAROLINA
My respected .funt IL am i'm downright earnest when
yen YOU m your own words sit was with great surprise
and no little regret that read the singular letter you
thought proper address to- my veneraed mother, Vr-
gnia, through the Enquirer of the Nth August.
mortified at the gross injustice il contained The pungent
severity aud sarcasm you cneavored inuse into
coed from ireiuness that will be explained hereafter
IT, you say, you had "imagined that Virginia had in
short placed pen in the hand of of her little
children TO observe h0ao he could shape his letters and
what improvement he had made in writing; you ought
not, in charity 10 have made illusions wrng schools
-grammacal inaccuracies and juvenile blunders in the
meaning and application of words" Such things come
with an air OF rudeness and breedng o say nothing
their unkndnessD from lady of your chaste intellect
and refined education. You should have remembered that
people bear TO be told of such things and thatit is
much more grating 10 their feelings TO have their imper
iections gdSeted But whoever TO do this
sunes superiority which every body may be dspos-
ed 10 admit and which, say the least Of it, looks lit
! tie vain AID arrogant.
| have been reading newspapers more than forty
years, man and boy and never in short
an article, such affected aud ridiculous display of
ing You must have kept the dictionary Of quotations
constantly open upon your writing desk Now, aunt, do
you really think that such volles of Latin and Greek
evidences of real substantial learning? Do they
play any common sense the contrary, do they
justly expose the writer to the charge of the most
gious pedantry and vanity hardly think that any of
my smooi-iaced brothers, upon quitting the university,
chock full OF love, could have been led into ridiculous
exposure OF himself Ii would have YOU
had selected the Greek and have nded
your letter wholly in that But, that Mr. Richie
has Greek characters among his types | dare saw
however, that in his reprehenSibe zeal 10 publish all the
nonsense that is sent TO him by friend foe he would
have managed to display your great learning your adj
miring sserhood."
like always to take hold of every thing by its proper
nandie-when speak, TO say just what ttiUk-and n-
duge vague maginations about the doings of any of
my fellow mortas But, nevertheless, L cannot help
"nndSmtnS on this occasion, that the hig toned
and maternal of all my has been induced
her pen in the hands of pedancal graduate fresh
from the tuelary instruction OF the renowned Doctor
Cooper And, in this she probably excusable since
graduate ought certainly be able reply, TO the epis
tie OF of her sister Virgina's little children My
aunt is peculiarly subject hysterc sshe is never sa
tisied with a middle course is always on one ex
treme or the other. OF all things in the world, she puts
me more in mind of the sQui6s with which the little
children in my mothers nursery themselves, when
ever they can steal the powder horn make them with
AS nus amusement may not be known among my young
cousins on the waters of the COngGi eeS, Pedees and
Sdntees will be mischevous enough to tell them how
hey may enJoyi It, In the first place. the horn OF powder
having been secured, get parcel of the largest and
longest goose quilts, off the feather end aud clean
them out-they then to be filled with small charges
alternately, of dry and moistened POWDER charge
being OF the dry. BY putting the quill the floor and
gnng the powder at the open end; it shoots the
room like bursting meteor. The dry powder it
to dart in one direction with great veocity the weted
powder gives stream of beautiful kissing fiery PARTICLES
causing the quill TO turn round and round; and, some
Times, TO move short distance in straight line When
me next charge OF dry powder catches fire. the quill
direction.
odchicdrd and forwards, the and under the
petcoats oil all present. without regard consequences
unhi the whole is consumed The room is left highly
charged with the disagreeable fumes Of sulphur and the
Iloor Is frequently marked with sreaks OF deep black
You may suppose that during the shor lived coursngs
and turnngs of the squb the little ones have to be very
acuVe 10 keep out OF its way, and avoid being singed.
now my good aunt is not Flirting and Tickle in
ner PartlaIlies Principles and Politics. Her Camelon-
ike hamours, l am sure will not permit her to make
amanuensis OF another of the pupils that restless dis
organizing and very learned Engshman whom she has
as son. ana taken so fondly to her bosom That
gentleman one would have thought, ought TO have found
out in the of long life that aho the maxim
dld not apply 10 himself yet as the President of dis
ungulsed College, ii was his duty teach all his pupils
that suite learning is a dangerous thing"
The pedant who wrote the letter, in the name of my
aunt, surely did not be understood bv the one
hundredh part of the people that he knew would see his
unique production. However, nv good nature nclnes
me TO THINK that he had positively bad motive in using
so many quotations from the dead languages. only
venal desire TO show his splendid partswhen he stops
while at Jericho, and has been under the operation of
The razor for the space of few years more he will
quit cutting such shines Yes, am that he will
soon learn, that when honest 90 abroad among man
Kind they never carry dark lanterns in their hands, and
are Wiling That even the blind should profit if possible,
by whatever lights they have If had only one half the
learning and one-tenh part of the secondence display
cd by this writer, would work with all my might,
prove 10 the Editor every newspaper in America that
was duty he owed to ninetee twentes of his
to admit into his columns a single tcoyd that
was not to be found in the English Dictionary
But tins would not suit my aunt Carolina. She is too
much on the Grd'dee order. Aho she Of the
is TOO proud TO cedT any of W manufacture any of
it. shall pay her visit for the special purpose of
seeing whether not she permits her servants TO wear
any thing so Uugdrand to see, moreover whether or not
she has not taught them all the dead languages and
higher sciences. i have itching curiosity to know
these and other things with the domestic
management of her household. My mother Virginia
has great similarity OF interest with her Southern sister
and although the elder will gladly take useful lessons
rem her expcnence-Besdes, | shall be able to tell
the old lady when come home whether the Ia
TW which is running her is invisible YAM
pyre, with sucking mouth like a rnulei; or what
something OF the in my mothers domi-
Mons which has since 1916 annoyed my mother and the
whole family good deal. We have suffered smartly by
the hing-or it gets hold Of many Of our sinners
But this would not be bad if il did prevent so many
OF our risky people from being quiet under the hope that
our good mother would succeed in persuadng the Master
OF the beast pull out all its iecth that sharp enough
TO draw blood; and TO whip il Of a lheying robbing
disposition which IL nanests eUeTy tCheTe This aborn
nabe Tariff monster gives great uneasness in another
way; The accounts which hear Of its ravages and de
yastatons among Southern kin, almost frghten the
tConen aud the chcken-heared boysin my mothers FAINT
pass through dominion their way TO Congress they
stop often aud they talk much. They give such wonderful
accounts Of the greedy appetite of that sex-wanng
seT, which have all agreed to call TARIFF Gu bad im
taon suppose, of the SndkeShip, given by New
England mariners TO another that so long haunted
them, and gared his red eyes and rolled his bum
Ply back at them that many Of weakcr-minded people
do sometimes think, that, in reality, they 10 he eaten
dhre pray God to give such people little composure
and patience, and 10 teach them TO hope that they may
yet be delivered from Egyptian bondage without being