The Arkansas banner., 1843-09-23

tour-and-twenty plnts, and travel twice as once. A first-rate spanker, cap'en was it : Yes p
 "A most e-tarnal spanker,'' said the skipper.
 '' | admire at your good fortune, cap'en. ou might loan me cork-screw at the same time, and half-a-dozen glasses, if you like. However bad the elements combine against my country's noble packet-ship the Screw, sir" said the colonel, turning to Martin, and drawing flourish on the surface of the deck with his cane, 'her passage either way is almost certain to eventuate a spanker!'
 The captain, who had the Sewer below at that moment lunching expensively in one cabin, while the amiable Stabber was drink ling himself into state of blind madness in another, took cordial leave of his friend, and captain the colonel, and hurried away to dispatch the champagne well-knowing Gas it afterwards appeared) that if he failed to conciliate the editor of the Rowdy Journal, that potentate would denounce him and his ship in large capitals before he was day older; and would probably assault the mem ory of fffs mother also, who had not been dead more than twenty years. The colonel being again left alone with Martin, checked him as he was moving away, and offered, in consideration of his being an Englishman, to show him the town and to introduce him, if such were his desire, to genteel boarding house. But before they entered on these proceedings, The said,) he would beseech the honor of his company at the office of the Rowdy Journal, to partake of a bottle of | oh of hic oyvr,
 All this was so extremely kind and hospi- table, that Martin, though 1t was quite early in the morning, readily acquiesced. So, in- structing Mark, who was deeply engaged with his friend and her three ehldren-when he had done assisting them, and had cleared the baggage, to wait for further orders at the Rowdy Journal Oflice-he accompanied his new friend on shore.
 They made their way as they best could | through the melancholy crowd of emgrants upon the Wharl-who, grouped about their beds and boxes, with the bare ground below them and the bare sky above, might have faI- len from another planet, for any thing they knew of the country-anl walked for some short distance along busy street, bounded on one side by the quays and shipping, and on the other by a long LOW of staring red brick storehouSes and offices, ornamented with more black boards and white letters, and more white boards and black letters, than Martin had ever seen belore in fifty times the space. Presently they turned up mar row street, and presently into other narrow streets, until at last they stopped before a house whereon was painted in great charac- terS, "RowDY JoURNAL.o
 The colonel who had walked the whole way with one hand ii lis breast, his head occasionally wagging from side to side, and his hat thrown back upon his ears-like a man who was oppressed to inconvenience by a sense of his own greatness-led the way up dark and diry flight of stairs into a room of similar character, all filtered and betsrewn with odds and ends of newspapers and other crluhpled fragments, both in proof and manuscript. Behind mangy old writing table in tais apartment, sat a figure with the stump of pen in it's mouth and great pair of scissors in its right hand, clipping and slicing at file of Rowdy Journals; and 1t was such Imaginable figure, that Martin had some difficulty in preserving his gravity, though conscious of the close observation of Colonel Diver.
 The individual who sat clipping and slicing as aforesaid at the RoWdy Journals, was a small young gentleman, of very juvenile ap- pearance, and unwholesomely pale in the face; partly, perhaps, from intense thought, but partly, there is no doubt, from the excess sive use of tohacco, which he Was at that moment chewing vigorously. He wore his shirt-colar turned down overa black ribbon, and his lank hai "a fagile c-of-was not only smoothed and parted back from his brow, that none of the Poetry of his aspect might be lost, but had here and there been grubbed up by the roots; which accounted for his loftiest developments being somewhat pimply. He had that order of nose on which the envy of mankind has bestowed the ap- pellation ..snub,' and 1t was very much turned up at the end, as with a lofty sceFR. Upon the upper lip of this young gentleman, were tokens of sandy down-so very, very smooth and scant, that though encouraged to the utmost, 1t looked more like a recent trace of gingerbread, than the fair promise of a moustache; and this conjecture, his ap- : parently tender age went far to strengthen He was intent upon his work and every time he snapped the great pair of scissors, he made corresponding motion with his jaws which gave him very terrible appearance.
 Martin was not long in determining within himself that this must be Colonel Divers son; the hope of the family, and future handspring of the Rowdy Journal. Indeed he begun to say that he presumed this wa; the colonel's little boy, and that it was very pleasant to see him playing at Editor in al
 
 the guilelessness of childhood; when tho colonel proudly interposed, and said: .My War Correspondent, sir,-Nlr lief ierson Brick p
 Martin could not help starting at this un , expected announcement, and the conscious ness ofthe irretrievable mistake he had nearly made.
 , Mr. Brick seemed pleased with the scrlsa ton he produced upon the stranger, and shool hands with him with an air of patronage de signed to reassure him and to let him lnov = that there was no occasion to be frightened | r I-N I. :. l.