Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1836-10-06

And Tom expires a driveller and show !"
The latest accounts from Richmond tell US
that granny RitChie's clean ddft-she raves
like bedlamite. A Tigress deprived of her
whelp, is less impeten,, but not more furious
than the gram, deprived OF hers.
For the last week nothing can be distin-
guished but the word "Pap" frequently and
indistinctly uttered, from tSolhless and sunk
en- lips-So that every one declares, the poor
old lady has entered on her second childhood.
True 10 habit, however, she still scrawls a
way, in the most incoherent manner, and
the devil of her office, gathers and prints
the sybi leaves, with which the natien is as
tonished. " The new Wing coffin handbill
-Abominable cauSe.-Infamous means
Invading the receeses of private lifo.-RiCh-
ard NJ. Johnson-remarkable for some noble
trails.-Lost kentucky.-Old Tecumseh.-
Siamese-Double Standardization No. l !"
&c. &c.
In her melancholy arrangement she has
taken tabby Cat 10 bed with her, and while
she pats and strokes il continually, she calls
il cher dear little Van-her sweet little fell
low, )" and mutters curses on her friends, be-
cause they will not fall down and worship it,.
To see the poor granny, wrapped in her
night clothes, sunken Of feature and play ing
with her cat one would take her for an Egyp-
tian Mummy resusctated, s. worshiping the
god of her fathers. She insists that when
pussy dies, she will follow the Egyptian GUS
tom, on such occasion, and shave her eyes
brows.
Her extraordinary affection for the animal
is said 10 have originated, first from lis CO.
lour-which is black, and 10 which she has
| lately, on various occasions shown wonderful
preierence-uniiormiy wearing black silk
IL, IL l. al IL
cap, and black collar. But secondly
from the fact that on the night the news ar
rived of the Wing triumph in n. Carolina,
puss mewed most pitiously the whole night,
in evident sympathy with the fortunes OF her
northern brother.
A friend of the old lady calling on her the
other day, was surprised TO find that, having
seated puss on a stool before her, she was bu-
silly engaged placing crown on her head,
and chuckling 10 see how brigh! and gaudy
it looked. Her pale face was suGused with
momentary blush, at the unexpected intru-
| sion, and she remarked to her friend with
some bitterness, that il was a"private" eccu-
patton of hers, and she hoped no lady would
''invade the recesses OF private life by tel
! ling the rascally w higs how she and Tabby
amused themselves when alone.
Her queerest whim, however, was TO pur
chase monkey OF a Snowman, and having
hung bag of gold coins about his neck anC
placed him bolt upright in go-cart, she en-
ploys four free negro children 10 draw him
constantly about the room-,sha introduces
him TO all as Inc Heau OF the Republican
( party" and swears che looks splendid in his
| English carriage. melancholy to be-
| hold the wreck Of a mind which once dictat-
ed the law OF action to our state!
Since writing the above. am told she has
In,
news Of the Maryland election was too much
for her, just as she :"cc laying the fattering
JUNCTION 10 her SOUP that the State had gone
for Van; and leaving Tabby cat, monkey
and all, she sits wrapped in a black night
| gown, squat in a corner, and evermore re-
peats in a slow, scared and maniac tone
TIP PE-CA>NOE.