Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-05-10

inthe Statesl wish he'd staid till I united my
neckcloth; I'D have swallowed him whole.
You are like = new pen, and III use you up to
the stump.
Stranger, If you think to turn me, you may as
we'll row up the Falls Of Niagara in a fish kettle,
with q crow bar for an oar.
say, stranger, if you try 10 get through
that ere sand-bank, | guess you'll burst your
boiler.
/ can out grin a wild cat. was in a manage.
rie once; stranger. saws L, talk e. your Wild
cats g%rinning; look here, saws l.. and gave one
Of 'em a look, and he turned on his back and d.
ed.
Vanity. thy name is woman!-that's Shakes
pere, and he is a screamer.
He'd ride through a crab apple orchard on a
Hash Of tightening. :,
My father can whip any man in Kentuck, and
IL can whip my father. -,
Stranger, IL you keep your mouth SO wide
omen I guess you'll sun burn your teeth.
never owned a Niger; but I borrowed one
once: he'd a fever and an ague: the lever stopt,
but the ague left him, he was SO tarnation lazy
he wouldn't shake.
If you plant crow-bar over night 10 kentuck It
| will sprout tenpenny nails next morning.
Give US some music 500 horse power.
I give him such a teaZer he disappeared, and
nothing was found but a spot Of grease on the
ground.
Hit warn't true, may l be tetotaccously ex-
iunctified.
Stick me into a split log for a wedge.
was going along the swamp one day, and /
| see a white hat moving ON he mud in a pretty
considerable queer way. So I just whipped it
up with the butend o. my whip. Halo, stran-
ger, who axed you to knock my hat of? says a
voice. Halo, says l. where's the rest OF you!
In the next ~country; and there's a Wagon, and
a team Of horses under me.
Description Of his Kentuck sweetheart:-
She! she is a feeier! she kill'd a bear when she
was thirteen, and now she'll whip her weight in
wild cats.
The following letter. which we copy from the
New York Gazette is Of interest to all our cities:
To the Hon. Gideon Lee, Mayor, &c.
SIR: l respectfully notify you, that a mum.
Der Of vessels are fitting out 10 London to carry
emigrants to Canada and other Colonies THIS
i, the form Of announcement in the London pa
pers. The truth is, the prisuns aud the poor
houses about London, are this summer to be
cleared out. A compact has been made among
the Parishes in Middlesex and Surry. and it is
settled the United States are to be burdened with
as many of the small thieves, vasrants, and pau.
pers as possible. The cities of Boston and Pro-
violence this year will get a large proportion OF
these paupers-as many of these emigrants will
be so disposed Of as to make their entree into
Boston as easy for them as possible. The in
crease Of foreign pau pers in this CITY within the
last year il visible to the most careless observer
-Something must be done to avoid the threaten.
| oil caiauifv In ynu sir AfiUrpsS mVgptf in
hopes your patriotism may suggest to the Com
mon Council some means of avoiding the bane-
full results consequent on the inroadS Of these va.
grants Of the old world In August and Sep.
TENDER the city will be filled with the fnreign
poor. l shall then take the liberty Of republish.
ing this letter, with such remarks as the circdm-
stances at that time may justify.
Respectfully, your obedient servant.
VINER VANpERHosT.
The Miners (Pottsyille Pay Journal of the
4th instant. has a short but animated account Of
a confagration in the mountains near that town.
which occurred last week.
CONFEDERATION on the Momtains.-A grand
and imposing spectacle, which language is made
quate properly to describe, was presented to OUT
view on Thursday evening last, BY the near ap.
preach of the fires, which for some weeks pas
have been ravaging and devastating with unparal.
leled fury, the surrounding districts Of country.
In the afternoon of the above mentioned day, tire
close proximity Of the devouring element was
announced by dense volumes of smoke which
were waited to US by an eas'erly current, and
completely developed and overshadowed oar bo.
rough.
The thick and murkey vapor assailed our eyes
ard ~nostrils with much annoyance, and hung our
streets with dark, intense and almost impenetra.
Bile folds. The blood red disk of the sun de.
scendins 10 the west, and the empress of the
night majesiicaliy rising in The east, with an
equally lurid aspect. glared ominousiy from the
armament. through the impending mass, As the
evening advanced. the Sharp Mountain exhibited
the scene to which we have alluded. the broad &c.
livity Of which, ascending to a lofty eminence.
facing in an e~asterly direction the lower part of
the town, became developed in sheets Of flame.
Crowds Of our inhabitants, both male and female
hocked FROM their houses to witness the sublime
and brilliant spectacle.