The Arkansas advocate., 1834-05-16

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 heitiismansa a good, quiet, ,easvirend of ours,
 and sat himself in the stern. Directly saw seal, and took shot ai #. always
 believed killed 1t. Tom, However, stood
 to the contrary. t.Just grazed his back"
 says he .'hand me the gun, and I'll pepper
 this black nosed fellow over the stern here." He cracked away, and his shot hit about
 three feet to the right "Close shot, any
 how, Ii did miss, he cried. .sLuff, Tom,
 or you'll be on sand bar cried ore of the
 pafty--a mate of a vessel. "Shut your
 shells" answered Tom in high dudgeon,
 and kept his course-and in about minute
 We grounded. The tide was coming in,
 however, and we did not mind it much, and
 m quarter of an hour we were of. We
 played about, tacking and lodging here and
 there till the tide turned. The wind had
 been against us, that IS, blowing down river, all day-and every time we lacked, for the
 sake of reaching up the rver, we fell lower
 down, till just al sunset We were at the
 point of. the island, within half mile of the
 sea. Fe ran the beat ashore and had to jump into the water, waist deep, and then
 walk to town, by way of the bridge-but
 notwithstanding all this, Tom was an excel lent steersman.
 Tom was a universal critic. The dress
 ot the ladies. poetry, music, and every thing
 else, all was like we'll conned book to hlin. We'll, he was noble fellow. Would
 that the world were full of men of his true
 goodness of heart, magnanimity, liberaity,
 and ailectlon Tom, I give thee cordial
 shake of the hand, in imagination, for thou
 vast the best of the 4knowing characters
 Will Caucus is another. Will was po-
 lltleal .'l5aowinG character." IIe was not
 hot partizan. On the contrary, he magnan-
 lnousiy reirained from throwing the weight
 of his powerful influence into either scale.
 lie Was only occupied in ditfusnlg light on
 the machinery of government, and into the
 heads of the lrequenters of coffee and pot
 houses and nine-pin alleys, concerning that
 machinery. He was familiar with the de-
 tails of politics fer the last twenty years, and t was dead loss of fifty thousand a
 year 10 the State, that he was not II Con-
 gHess. Will, poor fellow, Aad been pros-
 porous and respectable merchant. He mar
 fied yeung and beautiful wle--he had 8
 good business, hut--he would talk politics.
 lie would stand behind his counter and talk,
 and then he would adjourn io she ,,ass
 uurnent out--and one day, about noon, his
 store was closed. He saved something out
 of the wreck of his fortune, but his wife
 broke her heart, and the grass and flowers
 grew over her. Then his father died, and
 left him small fortune of which he could
 only touch the interest. Will did not be-
 come sot or a vagabond. Not by any means. He lounged about low places, it } is true-but it was only 10 talk politics. .--- , He kept up the appearance of a gentleman, , but 1t was a melancholy sight. Will was hardly fair specimen of these characters. l They are generally q drunken, ignorant, 7 useless set of non-entities, the very sight } of whom is disgusting. You may see one : of them, with torn coat and Q rusty Lat, I holding to the button ol some listener, and giving long disquisitions on Jaoksonism } and local politics. "Whp me such knaves." ; Old Hugh Homiiie was religious ssknow- : inc character" l remember him as tho : had seen hiin yesterday. He was dea- con in the Congregational church-a fat, burly butcher of fifty five. About once every month, of Tuesday evening, it came to his turn to make long prayer in the chapel. This was his glory, and for a . fortnight beforehand you could see him with the dictionary and a prayer book, selecting Z here and there, and jointing' the excerpts = together with a little of his own Then it : was committed to memory, and tn the ap- n pointed evening he shone forth Ike a new Q ledged orator. Hugh was peculiarly vers- . ed in biblical lore, and could gpe you an | extract of any length. from anypart of 1t. D He could tell you exactly how much you a wanted of being fit for the l{ngdom of u heaven, and knew all the steps for produ- ? cine a revival, and all the operations of re- S generation. He was most fiisous bigot, : and always prayed to be deliverea from Ari- k anism, Socinanism, Antinomialsm. and ], several other isa,s which can' just now e recollect. If preacher made asingle slip 1t from old Hugh's system of dotrines, he F fell into evil hands, for the old Iutcher al- n ways bounced upon him wiihou mercy.- tt He was member Of the schod commit ], tee. and generally regaled the bgs on ex- J animation day with a long dnsourse on 1t some such lucid subject as eledion or re- |, oenerafiop. Enough ui ii,iTii. i ere Is too = little of the milk of human kindess in my : fselinos towards him for me te desire to | think of him.
 a Rut old Harry killbuck-the rue heart 1t ed, genuine, glorious western ppneer and 1t hunter-what of him? Many such men fl are scattered throughout the Net-and it. Is is this makes me love that broal and great ,, country, of which I an rot yf even an $ adopted son. Harry IS supreme in the