Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1844-08-03

Ma. FHELrSGuUrsEN.-The New York Com
mercial Advertiser relates the following anec-
dote Of Mr.. Frelinghuysen:
During an icy time last Spring, a gentleman,
who was making his morning walk on the
Eighth avenue, lost his balance and threw out
his right arm to save a fall. The attempt was
f%ruitless, and his whole weight fell on the ex-
tended arm, which was severely fractured. In
extreme pain he looked around him for aid,
but saw no one within the reach Of his voice.
Presently d sturdy eountry-man came driving
down the avenue, and paused to see why a
stranger was sitting on the ground.
"Sir," said the gentleman, ga fall on this ice
has broken my arm, and | am in want of aid.
II you will help me into your wagon and carry
me over to Washington Place, / will pay you
for your trouble my house is in the vicinity"
care you Mr. Frelinghuysen 7" said the wa
goner; "if you are, ! shall be glad 10 carry you
for nothing, and | would carry you TO Wash
ington City if it would do you any good"
This plain man uttered the sentiment which
a few weeks later was called forth al Balti-
more. And if the people, without party or
ganization on either side, could make the cleo
ton, there would be no need of the appliances
of any party to carry MIR. Frelinghuysen TO
Washington City on the 4th Of March, lS45,
Miss LUcfFER Se--"She is a perfect angel"
said Fitzosborne, "but how came she by that
appalling namsP'
am tell you,'' quoth the dwarf grufiy. "At
her christening, the deaf parson asked the
child's godmother what it was To be called
LUCY, thir,' answered the old lady, who IN
fortunately lispcd. 81 baptize thee Lucifer. in
the name, &c, said the parson. And that was
her name irrevocably."
whats in a name Z" unused Fitzosborne,
as he walked of, cumming the popular air Of
go to the -- and shake Yourself"
CHARAcTER1srIc.--An Irish weaver Just i'm
ported from the sister isle, took to his employ
or in Kilmarnocb, recently, the first cloth he
had woven since his arrival. His employer
dstected in the cloth, two holes, within half
an inch of each other, and told him he must
pay a fine Of a shilling a hole.
And plaze ye returned Pat, is it by the
number Of holes, or the the size of them, that
you put the fines on us1
BY the number of holes 10 be sure.
Aud a big hole and a small one is of the
sam0 price?
Yes, a shilling for each hole big or little.
Then give me hold of the piece, resumed
Pat, and getting the cloth into his hands, he
tore the two small holes into one, and at the
same time axclaimed.-By the hill Of Howth,
and that saves one shilling, sir, any how
TIE DRUNKARD's W1LL.-Iloave to society
a ruined character, a wretched example, and
memory that will soon rot.
leave TO my parents, during the reat oftheir
lives, as much sorrow as humanity, in a feeble
and desperate state, can sustain.
| leave to my brothers and sisters as much
notification and injury as could well bring
on them.
leave to my wife a broken heart, a life of
wretchedness, = shame to weep over me, and
premature death.
give aud bsqueath 10 each of my children
poverty, ignorance, q low character, and re-
rRembrance that their father was a monster.
There is more reality than romance in the
subjQined extract from a capital little story in
a late number of the Knickerbocker
1t is surprising how a woman will stick 10
her betIotbed against the field" I'll kuew
that Ter lover had scraped his mother TO death
with an oyster-shell, | should only make her a
foe for life by the really friendly ac! of giving
the information. A woman in such case
will doubt the testimony of a whole regiment
under oath, and the evidences of her sem
SEES into the bargain. Besides, if you could,
by some miracle, conuince her, you would &C.
nothing, for she forgiyes even mere
obxtinately than she disbelisves, and unless
yeu can actually produce before her eyes a
previous living wife and five children, Iall the
bona fae property Of her sutton, you had much
1atter let her alone.