The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1839-10-17
DANDIES.

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street the other day, | was very much
amused at Il few remarks made BY two
little urchins who were rolling on be-
tore me.-They had just met one Of
our modern dandies, whose upper lip
was pretty considerably shaded with
dark grizzly looking hair.
'What's that? asked the Younger
lad. ..... 49,.
THAT replied the other, swhy that
that isl don't know what they
call it, but it belongs to the caravan
Go the caravan!--why | wonder
how it got lost!--Perhaps it will bite.
No, | guess not--poke stick at
it and see.'
Not at all afraid, the younger did
run after it, and coolly pohed q stick
at it,
You impertinent little rascal ex-
claimed the exquisite, turning sudden
ly round, 'des!st, or I'll ctastise ye,
dam'me, if | will not!'
'Hey? cried the astonished urchin.
'H-a-y! yes, you low, vulgar, ILL.,
born, 'lllterate scamp, I'll absquatalize
you in an instant and raising his
foot suddenly, to effect his purpose,
as i'll luck would have it, seam gave
way, and one leg of his pantaloons
was entirely ripped apart.
Burst his boiler! burst his boiler!!'
screamed the lads, and away they
scampered.
The best of the joke was, three Ia
dies by the way had witnessed the
whole affair, apparently with much
Observation-Disclosures Jour-.
In Gov. Everett's speech at the
Barnstable celebration, he thus des-
cribed, in powerful language the i'm
portant consequences to mankind,
which resulted from the landing of the
pilgrim passengers Of the Mayhower,
on Plymouth Rock.
"Within that poor tempest-tost YES
sci, there lay on the 18th of Novem-
Der, 1920, a moral treasure Of value
wholly inappreciable; family concei-
we'd Of by us, it's immediate inheritors,
after two hundred years possession
principles of social and moral growth
and Improvement, which for ages to-
come will not be developed in all their
virtue and efficacy. There lay scarce
ly organized the elements of a pure
democracy. On that day the first
written Constitution of popular gov
eminent was drawn up and signed, by
the people, assembled in Convention
for that purpose. Cycles of human
history may pass, before events of
equal Importance to humanity shall re-
cur. And what a disaster to the gen
eral cause Of freedom and truth had
this vessel and all she contained been
lost! Embattled navies might con-
tend and go down. Foundered gal
Icons might pave the green floors of
the ocean with ingots of silver and
gold, and the next generation be nei-
Their the poorer nor the weaker forI
the loss. But if this weather-beatenl
Mayhower and her company had
sunk beneath the waves, which SO Of
ten seemed opening to engulf her, (de-
cisive as the event would probablv'
have been, for an indefinite period, of
all further attempts to colonize Amer
ica) there would have been inflicted a
wound, which might neverhave been|
healed, on the great cause of Con-
science, Free Government, & Truth
The following extract from the Gov
errors speech, is in different vein:
Sour fathers were pestered with
troubles, and had to provide against
evils, of which in these latter days wei
know nothing. It seems that it was
thought necessary, in the early legis-
lation of the Colony, to enact that mol
man shall strike his wife, nor any wo-
man her husband, on penalty Of such
fine, not exceeding ten pounds for
one offence, such suitable corporeal
punishment as the Cour6 Ny direct
| see by the smiling facesW both sex