The Arkansas banner., 1843-09-23
No. 2.

see John and won't you come Tn as you used to do p
 ssl have not time, excuse me now,o said ], l" 50 .faretceH '" and she ripped across her fathers threshold, and have never seen her since.
 Heavens what a stroke was this--wlfat a blow to my vanity. returned ;o the me tropolis with every emotion resembling love deadened; and with my lofty enthusiasm completely palsed There is the origin of my single blessedness.
 She married him, and can now boast of eight responsible pledges of affection to John Smith.
 From that day to the present, have not dared to venture declaration of love, for fear should find that that cratic parsonage, John Smith, was before me, with every thing fxat' for a marriage on Friday.
 English Mns and English Serrants.-.in American, whose letters from England are published in the Richmond Enquirer, writes thus from Felton, in N northumberland county, England
 ss have had cause to be surprised at the comforts to be had at the country inns of England, equalling, as they generally do, those of the best hotels of London. say surprised; because the terms, as compared with those in London, are so moderate. At this inn, the price of lodging, such as prince might be content with, is only one shilling. Meals are not quite so cheap, but much lower than the same in London. You know the London hotels are proverbially high-priced the world over. This is not at all wonder ful, when you consider, in addition to the heavy taxes upon everything that is used, the extravaganza with which all tlieir departments are conducted The loss inevitable from this extravaganza and waste must come out of the pocket of the stranger who patronlzes the establishment. Any one, too, who will look at the servants, and the manner in which they dress, will not be surprised that they want high fees from all upon whom they attend. Imagine Gas IS actually the easel the waiter dressed in fine broadcloth, ruflled shirt, white cravat, elegantly worked collar, pumps. and, occasionally, white gloves; and what contrast do we see to those we have been accustomed to have around lis! This finery, in which these servants dress, is no doult borrowed from the servants of the nobility, who are very gaudily arrayed. The aristo- cracy seem to have quite d passion for hand
 
 in livery but as livery is not confined to the nobility, but extends to many commoners as well, | cannot see it's use, unless 1t be to dis tinguish the servant from the master. A stranger, without this distinction, would be al loss to know who was the gentleman tic seryais: being :.: many instances the bet ter and more intellectual looking man of the two, as have often observed in Hyde Park,
 "The practice of giving fees to servants in England, has become as much a part of her system, as the revenue laws themselves. It is custom the more especially vexatious to Americans, because they have moi been used to it. The evil does not consist in anything so much as the uncertainty as to what you have to pay. If, when ones bill were pre- scented at tavern, the amount due to servants were added on, according to some fixed and general rule, there would not be much req son to complain. But, as it is, the traveller is often put 10 the necessity of paying more than he can afford, or than the services are worth, for fear of seeming to impose upon menial by paying too little. At many public places, where no tickets of admission arc sold, antique places, churches, noblemen's seats, &c., fees arc regularly expected, and generally the qualification felt by the stranger is such as to make him feel that any little sum he may have to bestow, is well spent. l can tolerate poor widow, making her live lihood by exhibiting the memorials of such man as Shakespeare; l can excuse work man, in hot inanuiactory or foundry, toiling and sweating from day 10 day for lean wages asking for the wherewith to buy bottle ot ale or some comfort for his family; but when I see noblemen, who are rolling in wealth and splendor, and superAuity, making, as 1t were, public places of their seats, grounds, and gal leries, permitting their establishments to bc shown for money, which indirectly finds its way to their pockets, or else paying their housekeepers and porters with what IS re- ceived, and thus permitting these gentlemen in livery to levy contributions upon the pub lie, wherewiih they may gamble, and carry on high life below sairs,'-I can find no justification for such practices being carried on by men who assume to be above every l thing sordid, and, more than that, who style themselves snoble.' do not know how the practice of taking fees could have become so general, unless it be sort of extension ol I the principle upon which John Bull has acted that of taxing everything that would bear it. You know that servants, the world over, will initiate the vices of their masters. think the English menials, seeing what large sums their masters, who governed the country, raised by means of taxes and protective ta- riffs, only adding on little to the price of ev- cry article, resolved that they would do the same, and protect themselves by screwing . small sum, or as much as he could give, ou of every gentleman they metz
 1He rirer ,Amdaon is navigabie without I single obstacle, nearly one thousand leagues from it's mouth; yet no steamer has ever as cended it at all, nor any sailing vessel abov' the Rio Blanco, about seven hundred miles up One dminutve steam vessel, of twenty-five
 horse power, lies in the river, without engi
 neers or stokers It was brought by son' $ United States Americans, who proposed tt i. f,r,,, |, o,,,,,,anxy and with this very made