Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1833-08-21

lCui) {! Co3 uut Tue eCttIlGu 10 Ue dlI WiiiS,
with only little aperture in the centreto
look through; and for his nose, will not
describe it otherwise than by referring
you TO a ploughshare. notified white and
blue. But his mouth-it was the mouth
that marked the man; the lower part Of
his face appeared to have passed through
IA rolling mill, and his teeth and tongue
inhabited an open country, having six
inches perhaps, of frontier, and extending
back to an unknown distance; he had
! thirty-five teeth at least.
Mr.. Bib, not such as have described
him. but in the state such man would be
II in, when sea-sick, with an invisible beard
half an inch long, and ID sky blue tippet
about his neck, was soliloquising upon a
roast potatoe and a bit Of cod fish, in the
stern sheets of the long boat, when the
steward threw me in beside him. by the
by said Mr.. Bib, show are you to-day?'
could only answer by dropping my I'M
der Jaw. The Canadian comprehended
me, and offered me the skin of his potatoe.
1t was in truth, a beautiful day; though
in the middle of January, the air was
warm and pleasant; the sea was compar-
lively calm, though the pitching of the
ship made me dizzy, as the remembrance
Of it does now. We were going merrily
on our way, under a sulliciency of sail,
and the men were at work repairing the
ioreyard, which had been injured two
lights before in squall. | began to
think might like the ocean yet, and in
tlmated as much to my fellow Sufferer
All, said he by the by, SO thought my
SELF But hope is as notable huzzy all
sea as on shore, and when had eaten two
plates Of rice tinctured with molasses. ard
drank IA tumbler of wine and water, i
found it advisable to call all hands and
take to my berth again.
Why is it that nobody will sympathize
with person when suffering under the
the two most purgatorial troubles of this
world a-sickness and disappointed
love? Let man have headache, or a
twnge Of rheumatcs, and who thinks oil
laughing at him? But let him be cast INTO
a state Of mind and body when life is
burden; food, rank poison; hope, energy,|
and every thing else gone, ard he Is fair
game. 1t is ii disgrace to civilized man.
And just SO when poor fellow embarks
in chase Of "A wife; let but the Jade
play him foul, cut the throat of his afftr-
tons, and strip the skin from his heat,
and he is sure 10 be attacked by every D
Their member of the community. say
again, il is a disgrace to civilized mar;
and so | said to myself, AS ! lay grinding
my teeth, and heard the captain discus
me with the one sound passenger, by name
Mr.. Stone, over IA roast turkey and Graz
berry sauce.
This Mr.. Stone, as afterwards discov
cred, was quite a character. He was al
revolutonist to the back bone, a deist. al
lnguist, a chemist, aud in short, rank
hereto on every subject but the excel
lence of brandy. He was a man of tai
ent, but self1ducated, concerted, and al
hgot. He began his life in pottery:;
but finding that within him which aspired
10 something above the fashioning of clay,
he ran away, and went to sea, and be-
came cabin boy i'll "A man of-war; this he
liked very well, but one day while in port,
he unluckily drank more grog than came
TO his share, and in the course Of the Ca
pers whereby he let off the super excite
mcnt, he broke the cabin mirror, and be
ing of opinion that desertion was the only
true kind of valor, at any rate in cabin
boys, ne dropped from the window at mid
night, and swan ashore, carrying in his
pocket a roll of money which he took
from the captains locker, thinking doubt
less, in the hurry and darkness. that he
was taking shirt out of his own empty
chest.
He next turned the face of his multi
form genius 10 making up pills, and com
pounding nameless doses in the back shopI
of what was is called in England, chem
list and druggist, i. e. an apolhecary.-i
From his worthy master in this line, he
imbibed the spirit of reform that was fair
Iy devouring him; from him came the i
IDEAS of government, of professional men,
upon whom he looked down with great
contempt, and of various other important
matters.
And Mr.. Stone was no mere taIker; he
had done all in his power 10 overthrow
the British monarchy; and failing in that
he had moved to America, where he in
tended to bring about reform that should
be felt through every department of the