Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-08-29

ed, and embelliShed, would form the subject OF
a story, or novel, unsurpassed by any thing pro-
duced by fiction. Murrell was sentenced to ten
n T. Star.
Contraband Cookery-Alas! what mighty
changes may not be wrought in an instant al
most in the entire domestic policy of popula
ton. Twas but the other day our mouths we're
watering like Ichabod Cranes at the Dutch
DANES tea party. We were Smacking our lips
with the prospects of the delicious fruits as they
should come tumblng into the markets. Alas!
" the spoiier came" and robbed these visions of
all their sweetness. Every luxurious delcacy
of the vegetable world is banished by choera's
iron regime into the limbo" of the garbage
cart Ghost of Pot Pie Palmer!" what har-
vest you would have had! The delicious Yer
gaio and BeUrre Griss now melt aw ay in their
own saccharine juices. The purple ChdsSelds
and Isabella blush in vain from their stem. The
downy peach, the malakatoon and the lemon
cling, waste their sweet perfume on the desert
air." or ANONYMOUSLY mngIe their lily roseatc
hues among the rubbish of mud cutters and
fish stalls. No more shall ye grace the festive
board, and take your appropriate position in
silver vase on FURNISHED mahogany, among
green and yellow and sparkling gobets OF your
| own aristocratiC companions from Rheims and
| Johannisberg. Ye humble berries, too, of the
| wild woods, and briar brambles, and creeping
vines, that annually in autumn bring the tribute
| of your Shrubbety, ye are for ever interdicted!
Your hues are too filnerea Your dark red Jul
| ces are worse than hellebore or manGrag CORA!
| -Vociterate no more through the streets, ye
young urchins of the huckeherry trade, for
| none will now empty your well filled baskets
| Take them back again to Communipaw, or to
| the Pine Barrens from whence you have robbed
! them! Thou poor wretch too, with lugubrious
wall of " hot corn! baked pears!' who stitch on
| yonder step till the last rays of the midnight
moon have gone down and the tramp Of human
foot is hushed into Stiffness thou shalt sit there
| noticed and abandoned. Not even the wander
| ing beggar as he reels home to his cellar, shall
! chatter you out of the miserable pitance which
| is the price Of your refuse. For that which
| thou vendeth is the very representation OF DEATH
And if you had the strength of twenty men,
1t would despatch you straight
| Creep on, too, unmolested beneath your broad
| spreading leaves ye branded outlaws OF the me-
| Ion and cOw-cumber tIIbes You shall no long
! er encun,ber our banquets, nor shed your enli-
vening frankincense through the room. You are
| not BETTING food even for COWS. The sliced
| onion shall mourn with you over your melan-
choly fate and the sleepy lettuce marshal you
the way to oblivion, heraided by troops of
! turnips pumpkins, and cantelopes! The ver-
million pulp OF the delicious watermelon like
the red livery of the lobster, no more shall grace
the entremets of the table dhote! Nor the
orange but rarely, and the pine apple never shall
come again amidst the flowers of porcelain and
agate handled knives of silver, to crown with
their golden fragrant fruits the voluptuousneSs
Of the dessert. E.r neceSSitate rein Y Star.
Sea Serpent-In the vicinity Of Cape Roster,
near Castne Me. Sea Serpent was seen for
several days during the first fortnight in July,
by a large number Of credible persons. When
seen in the morning, he usually carried his head
about twelve feet above water but in the after
noon his head was not so much elevated His
rate when passing through the water was some
times incredibly rapid leaving long wake"
behind. In one instance, he was seen at dis
lance by the crew of fishing schooner off Cape
Roster. three of whom got into boat and row.
ed towards him. When they had proceeded
some distance from the vessel he came directly
within rod, with his head elevated he went
below the surface, and passed under the boat,
being in plain sight as he passed. Two Of the
men had mnskets loaded, which they pointed at !
him as he approached; but his appearance was
so formidable they thought it prudent not to fire
unless he attacked them. He appeared to them,
and to others, who saw him at different times, to |
be about sixty feet long: and hence it may be in
ferred that there are several of these animals on
our Coast, as the serpent seen in this neighbour
hood has been often estimated by good judges
to be nearly twice the length of that seen near
Cape Roster.
Another man who was taking fish out of the
meshes of mel at the Cape, observed some dis
turbance in the water, and soon after ascertain
ed that the Sea Serpent was helping himself at
the other end of the net. Not liking his COM
pany the man hastily withdrew.-Bos Dai. Adr.