, 1840-08-01

tentedneSS and go0d humor, number oil peO-
pie coming to witness the circumstance, which
continued until the duckIings coming to days
of discretion, required no longer the join:
guardianship of the goose and the hem
dublin Magazine.
MAN SOMETIMES A FEGErABLE.-The a.
musing Georgia Lawyer" mo less a per-
sonage than the Hon. Judge Charlton. Mayor
Of Savannah) in the last Knickerbocker,
gives the following anecdote, in proof Of his
position, that man is sometimes nothing more
than q vegetable.
Two friends, and brother lawyers Of mine,
were travelling, some years since, on the
circuit There route led them across the
sandy hills that form the northern boundry Of
the .Alatamaha, one of the noble rivers Of
our beautiful state. These hills, or ridges,
however, are as barren and desolate as Arabia
Petrnr. You might plant a Yankee there,
and he would not grow! Perhaps. after this
assertion. it would be 'surplusage' to say,
that no effort of industry or ingenuity could
coax a blade Of grass to rear its head above
the sterile soil. 1t was a rainy, gloomy day,
and after travelling for some time without
ny siuy SiSuS vi lii'bd ihCs tiiC
hearts were cheered by the sight of the smoke
that so gracefully cuIled,' and they knew,
forthwith. that a cottage was near And
sure enough there was. A clumsy, i'll. shapen
log hut, with interstices, or TO speak more
ciassically, chinks' wide enough TO throw a
sizeable bear through.
My friends dismounted and entered. A
fire of pine wood, or slight wood, as it is
technically called, in the clay chimney. In
one corner of the fire place were hunddled a
bakers dozen of yellow Completed, brats.
A tall, gaunt female; with long uncombed
~tresses, or punches of coarse red hair, was
seated upon the floor; while in front of the
fire, and occupying the only stool in the how
ell, sat the lord Of the SOIL shivering under
the malign influence Of a%tertian ague.
Good morning. my friend, said one of the
visitors, who is celebrated for his politeness
and urbanity.
Morning twas the ~laconic and echo-like
reply. q believe that is an incorrect ex-
preston. Echo, like a woman, always gives
the last word.)
Fine situation you have hered resumed
brother attorney.
Fine h--ll y responded the host; whats
it fine forr
why | should suppose you would have
good sport here, in hunting
Then you'd suppose a d-n lie! You
can hunt. 'ceptIng you got something to hunt
at, kin your
No; that's a very clear case; | thought,
however, that so near the river, there would
be plenty OF deer. Still, if it is not a good
hunting-ground, it is fine place for raising
1t is, is it! S'posin' the cattle gets in the
swamp. and the id river rises pom 'em,
and the cursed fools DON'T gel out of the way,
but get drowned! How you gwine TO raise
'em them, chr
THAT is certainly very bad continued nv
indefatigable friend; 'but there is one comfort
nor the acknowledgement, nor the grecnes,
pasturaSe, YOU have what is better than the
monarch's diadem, or the highest niche in the
Of Fame; you have health
'The h-ll | have, stranger! Don't you see
them yaller Completed critters in the cor.
ner there? Them's got health, 'aint theyl
The old women there has got it, Amt she?
And look at me, with this cu'sed ager shak-
ing my bones into a jelly! You call that
health, don't your
Look here, my FRIEND exclaimed my bro.
Their chip, answer me this question, and ]
won't ask you another. lfyou can't get any,
thing to grow here, aud nothing TO hunt; if
all your cattle drown, and your family are
all the while sick; why, in the name of com.
mon sense, do you not up sticks and off,
Why do you stay herer
'Oh, cause the light-wood knots are so ma.
Yin handyn
Gentle reader!-look me steadfastlv in the
face. Upon your honor, as n gentleman, Tor
do you believe that was an animal?-I
Do you think tina. a real genuine man, or
brute, would have remained his whole life,
these circumstances, in such a spot?-
No, you don't. Now that is what | call a
man of the vegetable species.
NEwspApERs.-There are in the United
1855 newspapers, magazines and Pc
riodicals. Of these 274 arc published in the
state Of New York, and II in the city Of New
Vort IJe ara published daily. II FRI.