Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1833-10-17

KELLOGG, Esq. in the S0th year of HE
age. He took an early part in the ma
tional struggle for independence, and
was one of the gallant band engaged
in the battle Of Bunker Hill. Through
a long and active life he was occupied
in the discharge of various civil offices
and was distinguished for undeyiatine
probity.
The last best Joke.-Sam Rogers once
said that the best Joke he ever heard Of
was a legacy of21O left by patriotic
individual towards paying off the Ma.
tional Debt Of Great Britain.
This is not near so good a joke as is
contained in the following paragraph
in President Jackson's late cabinet VIZ.
To:-"Whatever may be the opinion Of
others, the President considers his re.
election as a decision of the people a.
gainst the Bank"
Now it is we'll known that this was
not the hinge ON which the election
turned. A majority Of the House of
Representatives was decidedly Jackson,
yet vote passed for the re-chartering
of the bank by 107 TO So. Pennsyl.
vania gave erery electoral vote for
jackson, yet probably nine tenths of
the voters were in favor ofre-charter-
ing the L. S. Bank. 1t was so with
some other States--and if the question
had been taken ofthe people, by ballot,
there is no doubt that large majority
would have been in favor of re-char.
tering the bank of United States. Of
course we can only consider the bold
assertion of the President, which we
have quoted, as very excellent, but
harmless joke.-LoveH Journal.
Mo'cing Wheat.-A writer in the
Maine Farmer recommends moving
wheat, instead ofreaping or grading it.
He contends, that, bythis method three
fourths of the usual time of harvesting
is saved, at a season when time is par.
tlcularly valuable; that greater guam.
tity of straw is saved, and that the
dulling Of the scythe the succeeding
year, on the old stubble prevented.
A farmer near Albany, N. Y. rails.
ed ON one acre and three quarters of
low, wet land sixty-two and a half
bushels of wheat. He attributes his
success to two causes-sowing two and
a half bushels of scheat to the acre, and
draining the land we'll by bitches twelve
feet apart. He observes particularly,
that it was an old pasture lot, that he
applied no manure to it, but "ploughed
and narrowed it till it was mellow and
fine"
Hard Electioneering.-We saw a
countryman, the other day, with his
hand in a sling. Being asked what
was the matter, he said one of the
Candidates had squeezed it SO hard, il
had lost its natural feeling ever since.
Aug. Cow.
Circulating Medium.--A letter from
Washington gives an amusing account
OF run concerted by the Kitchen Ca.
bnet upon the Branch Bank of the U.
nlted States in the city of Washington.
1t seems that by hook and by crook
principally by the latter themembers
OF the culinary department had scraped
together the enormous amount of two
thousand dollars, in bills of the
United States Bank, and determined
forthwith to shake tottering fabric to
Its foundation. Accordingly, Francis
+. Blair, the Editor of the Official Or.
gan, was constituted the agent to &C.
complish the work of destruction
With porter and a wheel barrow he
repaired to the Bank, and instead of
applying the said $4,000 in paving off
the Sl4, 800 which he owes that insti-
tuition, he pompously demanded the
specie! Strange to tell not a cheek
blanched at the annunciation of the de.
mand,-but the teller very composodly
counted out the specie to the bank debt.
or, who, with no little solemnity de.
posted it in the wheel barrow, and
marched off in advance of it-as grave
and heroic as the Sultan would stride
from a massacre to his Seraglio.
One of the Clerks, having perhapsa
'prnkllng ofYankee blood in his veins,
was curious enough to observe its des-
inatlon, and soon ascertained that It
was wheeled off to another Bank
doubtless 70. S4fety. BY way of hu.
noring the joke, therefore, the officers
IF the Bank forthwith despatched their
with two thousand dollars of
he bills of the Bank that was in theact
If receiving the new acquisition, when
hr. Blair had the pleasure of seeing
lis two thousand dollars rolled back a.
,ain to the hated Branch, whence it
.ame.
This is the first run we have heard
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