Lexington union., 1840-12-26
From the Picayune.
A YANKEE EPISTLE.

st, who sent US the owl, and we would ad-
wise Dan Marble to find him out and get
new play written.
INTEERAUR OF LUzYANNA, Nov. 70.
To the Picdyune-- Dear SIR; ] have on
ly ben in this country two weeks, and l
guess it will be about the last time ! shall
ever come agIn. If ever 1 live to get
back to Massachusetts once more, you'll
never ketch me out Of her agln as long as
1 live. was a Tool to come gaddn oil
down mere, tu thousand miles, spendIn
time and money, when father had enough
of every thing to eat and drink to hum'
and wood enough 10 make warm cll-
mate in his own house--und chink enough
to Elre n Frenchman to come and larn me,
instid of my comm clean down here TO
Iarn to parly VOC. "lchabod," SAID lather
to me one day last carly part OF October,
jist as we was gittn in the last LOAD OF
punkins-"lchabod, you're ben botherln
me about two years, to let you 60 down TO
Luzyanna TO larn to talk French. Now
do you think you can take care of your
self, if let you go? DO you think you
won't larn to duel, and gamble, and dr1nk!
Do you think you won't larn extravagans
habits and get murdered fore you come
back?" go. K" says |, ''father .. H.,
don't fear me--I've ben 10 Bosiing nine
times in my life, and never was ketched IN
IA scrape yet" Well, the old gentleman
} fully agreed to let me start, and packed
up aud sot off. Ii cost me jist SO dollars
to come down here, besides 10 dollars that
lost with handsum dressed gentleman
who larn't me 10 play what he called poker.
! on the steamboat. He made me bet nine
pence a time, to SNAKE il lnterestln," ac
} he said but he alwers won il every time.
q Then there is lady that owes me 20 dol
Il lars, that she said she'd pay me any time
e | come down to New Orleans. She was
8 young wilder, about 20 years old, tina,
G was lravellin down TO spend the winter
: with her cousin in New Orleans. A gen
s tleman, a cousin of her'n, | believe, come
e and axed me to protect her down, us was
c comm on the same boat; yol never ketch
. a Yankee boy sayin no to lady, nor did !
J. waited upou her clean down, an polite as
!; could be-bought sugar candy for her
,. and sot and talked with her every day.
g tell you she did make the tears start or
10 r,svl.- t5uI u
n New Orleans, she come and aged me II
e would 'commodate her with 20 dollars, to
a make on, her passage money. She sait
y she hadn't got money enough, and th'
"a lclerk couldn't change the 500 dollar bill
y she'd rot--but she would hand me the 2C
dollars back as soon as she got to her cou
SIMS. Well, | let her have it, Of course
4 but arter ! got TO my hotel in the city,
re- went TO where she told me to call for her
II and couldn't find nothin Of her. guess
:; she made mistaKe when she give m
le direc,ions-but she knows where Pm stop
s. min, and expect letter from her ever.
e. day, tellin me where to find my 30 dollars
STEAM CuTrERs.-The Boston Insu
II rance Companies and Merchants are pre-
IN pairing petitions to Congress, that steam
n. revenue cutter may be placed upon ths
I'd station The immense advantages Q
n. such vessel over the description Of yes
"a. sells ordinarily employed in that servic
e. does not need to be pointed out. Asid
p from the better performance of The ostens
at ble duties of a revenue cutter, there IS
ed the winter, another and more useful duty
Of which has al last been recognised by con
n. gress, in the act employinga coast squa'
Al. ron. to assist vessels short handed, or oil
nl or otherwise in distress.
ice At The very time when assistance
is, most needed, the present cutters, belr
Of sailing vessels, are Subjected to the san
he dangers as those they relieve. A stor
I'd affects alike the distressed and the succc
"a er. Moved by steam, the cutters wou
by bo !, all cases more efficient, and in man
md if properly constructed, absolutely sup
cd. r;or to The dangers Of storms which re
in. der shorthanded vessels helpless on the
f return passage. Two or three ext
.(ul hands thrown on board storm distress
zen shin. with crew disabled by sickne
in. NAV often save vessel TO underwater
and what is of infinitely more important
in preserve valuable lives.
- But il is unnecessary TO enlarge upor
, TO subject which is sufficiently understood
on, ready. The aid given by the coast squs
sal ron last winter and during the winter p
hen vious. is we'll remembered. A steam-c
tied Ter in each port on the Atlantic, would
J Of of infinitely more service, than feet,
be curing an immense expenditure, COZ
lent possibly be; and after the first outlay
had the vessels, the additional expense Of ke
uct, ing them ahoat, would bear no compari:
,on. 10 their increased efficiency. We tr
rded the merchants OF New YORK Will toll
ppo. The example set by Boston. and memor
h I ~ Congress- also.-Bro. Jonathan.