Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Wayne County, Ind.) 1831-1837, 1836-10-15

At ~ U CtOCA tnlS O1y 0eueEdi AAdII sSOE T.
will be happy to receive the visits Of the
people of this city at the City Hall. His
services to his country have been general,
not to q party-0H have alike reaped the I
benefits Of his military achievements and
civic yiEenes, and all without reference to
party, should pay him their respects. His
political opportunity need but see to esteeml
him.-[Cour. and Eng. Oct. IL
From the Philadelphia saturday News.
ICHADOD LOOKINs;
on, DonEsrIc UNEAsIHkss.
Ir was past the noon of night, and the
greater part of those who had beds to 60 to,
had retired to rest. Light after light had
ceased to flash from the windows, and every
house was in darkness, save where family
burning candle in the attic told that Sambol
or Dinah had Just finished labOur, and were
about enjoying the sweets of repose, or where
fitful flashing through the fan light of an en-
try door, limited at the fact that young Hope
full was still abroad at his revels. 1t seemedI
that the whole city and liberties were in bed,
and the active imagination Of the solitary
stroller through the streets could not avoid
painting the scene. He figured to HIMSELF
the two hundred thousand human creatures
who dwell within these precincts, lying prone
upon their couches-couches varied as their
fortunes, and IN attitudes more varied than
either-some, who are careless of making al
figure in the world, with their knees drawn
up to their chins; the naughty and ostenta-
tious stretched out to their full extent; the
ambitious, the sleeping would be Caesars,
spread abroad like the eagle on a sign, or al
chicken split for the gridiron, each hand and
each foot reaching towards different point
of the compass; the timid rolled up into little
balls, with their noses just peeping from I'M
IL hos md %bo valiant c1onchoA
fists and boscms bare, for character manifests
itself by outward signs, both in our sleeping
and in our waking moments-and If the ina
I gination Of the speculative watcher has ears
as well as eyes, the varied music which pro-
ceeds from these two hundred thousand SON.
nolent bodies, will vibrate upon his tympanum,
the dulcet fute-like snoring which meIodious-
,Ily exhales from the Phidian nose Of the sleep.
ing beauty; the querulous winning OF the
+ nervous papa; the warlike, startling snort OF
mature manhood. ringing like trumpet call
and rafting the window glass with Vi gorous
= fury; the whistling, squeaking and granting
.of the eccentric; and in fine, ali the diversified
; sounds with which our race choose 20 &C
r company their sacrifices to Morpheus.
i But although SO many were in bed, their
v, was at least one who should have been II
j. bed, who was not there. The obscure ray
$ of corporation lamp family defined the Out
:, lines Of a dark mass, which lay cooled up lik
l., boa constructor after supper, in the angi
n formed by fight of steps and the wall.
II was evidently a man, for near it lay the rem
e nant Of hat, and a little bundle of susP
e cious color; and its pantaloons were m'PPe
IS with patches, 50 that schooIboy might hav
= studied geography on the giobular projection
81 by referring to the neither ,nteguments OF IA
oI sleeper. Had the bricks been patent ella
v tic hair mattrass, and the scraper, upon whic
his head reposed, pillow of elder down, I'll
J. slumbers Of Ichabod Lookins-for it was a
II less personage-could not have been MOI
t. profound.
a. Several dogs had approached to ascertai
l. whether he was an acquaintance, and LOCI
$. ms had borne the survey without murmu
ID A drove of ordinance-breaking swine Ia
1t rooted about his ribs, and champooned hi
IS with their shouts, preparatory to revengin
y the wrongs of their race by chewing up h
,e mortal part, without meeting more angr
st reiuke than a somnolent, don tickle, spoke
las 1T formed part of dream, and had q
at, reference to the exterior world. But at las
T. when both pigs and dogs were gone, Lookil
lie started up wildly.
NJ! what! come to breakfastv exclaimed h
&c with hungry eagerness. Breakfast, indee,
s. no such luck. l wish there was; but brea
in fasts are sort Of thing that remember q
D. tener than l see. There must be enough
Ii this world for US all, or else we wouldn't I
e here: but 'spose some greedy rascal ge
" my share of breakfast, and other such elegar
'el luxuries. Its Just the way Of the worit
ID there's plenty Of shares Of every thing, 81
y somehow or other. there are folks tnat Ia
ol their fingers on two or three shares, an
p sometimes more, according as they get
al chance, and the real owners, like me, may 6
'el whistle. They've fixed It 50. that 4 you II