Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1843-07-12

These forms be paper OF such dimensions as to
present pages of twenty-five inches more in BREADTH the
depth be less convenient; pages Of this
breadth would give one hundred columns.
On the same horizontal line, and in the column Of each
candidate named any ballot, would be the
No. corresponding to the No or place OF preference given
said candidate on that ballot.
Accompanying each book of forms should be statement
made by the officers presiding the place of election where
said book used, setting forth the total number Of votes
contained in the book and also the total number Of
therein received by each candidate respectively designating
the number which he held the first, second, third &c
place OF No. OF preference respectively, according Sec
ion Nv.
These books and the above statements attached thereto
being all rendered the officer officers appointed TO re-
eeiye the the division, according Section "
be readily made from the data furnished in the
In proceeding, according Section W. also these state
ments will afford index which books necessary
expedient 10 be first used
The person appointed off the votes according 20
Section vi, will then the column Of the
ected candidate aud following down the column of said
candidate, whenever he No indicating said candi-
date TO have received the rst highest place Of preference
on the ballot 10 which belongs, he will draw line hori-
zontaly through only the No in the column of the
ected candidate but through the columns the other
candidates named that ballot according Section VII,
reading TO other person the of said other
candidates, which other person will make register Of the
same that, when the required quoent for the selected
candidate shall have been completed said votes be de-
Quoted from the aggregate number OF votes of said other
candidates respectively, according to Section VII
among the of these other candidates counted
off, there be the Of candidate candidates who
may have been previously selected il will be unnecessary
because to purpose record the number Of mark
ed off from the columns of such previously selected cand
dates This will render the work simple, rapid, and
easy il progresses.
WILLIAM b. WHITING.
The following exquisite little poem is from the pen of Mr.
o. W. Holmes, whose tributes the muses., have from time
TO tmc for several years. enriched the columns the
ton papers There Of pnhos some stanzas
which be exceed by any writer Of the day. Its be-
nevoent philosophy is also OF superior that
anottaal
The pathos Of the fourth snnza and the phos.
Ophy of the last deserve the need of Immortality their
author
LINES ON AN OLD GENTLEMEN.
saw him before,
As ne passed by the door
And again,
The pavement stones resound
As he loiters DER the ground.
With his cane.
They say that in his prime,
Ere the pruning. knife of Time
Cut him down,
Not better man was found
BY the crier on his round
Through the town.
But now he walks the streets,
And looks at oil he meets
So forlorn.
And he shakes his feeble head
That IL seems IL he said,
"They are gone:"
The messy marbles rest
On the lips that he has pressed
la their bloom
And the names he loved TO hear
Have been carved for many year
On his tomb!
My grandmamma has said
Poor old lady, she is dead
Long ago
That he had Roman nose,
And his cheek was like n rose
In the snow.
But now his is thin,
And IL rests upon his chin
Like staff;
And crook is in his back,
And melancholy crack
In his laugh.
know IL is a sin
For to sit and grin
~ him here;
But the old ihreo.cornered hat,
And the breeohes-and al that
Are so queer
And Il / should live to be
The last leaf upon the
In the Spring.
Lot them smile, NJ do now,
AZ the old forsaken bough
Where cling.