The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-02-06

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CHrf-C HATrERY--P Personalities Deponent's po-
sihon defaed-the Editors of The Nei0 Mirror
and this del onent-the Hutchinson Concert of
Saturday night, DC, Dc
Mr.. EDITOR: We like a little innocent clap
Trap gossip, now and then. /" 1t is human natur,"
as the Dominic would say. But from our occa-
sional gossippings over the cherries autograph
Of Bachelor Bob, We apprehend that the young
uns" have sifted therefrom the fattering solu-
ton that we have genius for albums and acros
Tics. No such thing-the gaiter is on the other
ANGLE. We prefer sandwich at the European
TO feast Of roses in lady's bower. and the
matter-of-fact process Of signing receipt for
"ceran monies" to the privilege of contributing
TO the common place book OF vanity Of the pref
test coquette that ever cheapened bobbinet or
bombazine.
Our dream Of romance, so MYSTICAL so sad,
and yet so fascinating, pending which your de-
ponent came within an ace of starving to death,
is indefinitely postponed. We have fallen in
with the spirit OF the age, which is incontesably
utilitarian, and have resolved to profit upon the
modicum Of common sense which it has pleased
the Almighty to spare us, as follows: /. To our
own individual. benefit; g. TO the defence of the
rights Of the masses, and the exposition Of their
duties as class, severally and collectively; 3.
To the maintenance of such habits, customs,
fashions, and recreations, as conducive to the
intellectual or physical improvement of human
ity; 4. To occasional essays on the amiableness
of old bachelors, as contrasled with the crab
apple temperament Of veteran spinsters; 5. To
the current topics Of the locality, &c.
During our last summer sojourn among the
Gothamites. we learned "lhing or two" of
those excellent good fellows, Messrs. Morris and
lie tha1 IF tha Nnvr
Mirror And it shall be an incentive to our am
biton TO meet the responsibilities due those gen.
temen at our hands Meantime, we make our
most respectful congee to Mr.. Willis for his pre-
meditated familiarity with our incognito, per
New Mirror, February 3. Had we been per-
mtted the privilege of cullng flower from the
greenhouse Of Glenmary," we should most
likely have preferred the celestial fragrance of
the Involuntary Prayer of Happiness" and
therefore should have absracted that little Mary
GOLD. Thank you, most clever Nathaniel We
shall make draft upon the nine elderly young
ladies Of Parnassus afore long in cancellation Of
the bond.
But you say, sir, that :" Bob's hobby is the
theory Of happiness" Very good" And Of
this theory he had practical illustration in the
Hutchinson concert Of Saturday night last; for
1T is part Of our theory that there is happiness
in music. Of verify, Saturday evening last
was one of our happiest evenings of the season.
The youth, the comelness, the accomplish
ments, the skill and good taste of this musical
branch of the tribe of jesse" together with
the large and highly respectable" audience, as
Squire t. would say, were sufficient to human
ize the most splenetc and dyspeptical. The
Hutchinsons do not torture US with this most
romantic and affected Italian jargon-nor with
this nerve-rasping, krout-digesting, Hessian min
strelsy, nor with French squalling, nor Spanish
squealing but they give us the eloquence of
music in the natural harmony of their natural
voices. There are no shrieks like the veil of a
Pottawatome squaw in the hug of grizzly
bear-no swoonings, no crocodile tears, no SUI
perclious rolling up Of the eyes, no affected pal
pitations of the heart; but all is as simple and
graceful as an alderman dissecting canvass
back duck. The youths, and their favorite, and
justly fayorie, sister, are sure to be well received,
wherever the songs of Morris, or the wild and
spiritual poetry of Longfellow, are appreciated.
They "come from the mountains of the old
Granite State" and are the least dangerous com
bination of Yankees that we have ever encoun-
tered. There is no pettfoggng deception in
their contract. They meet it honorably, and
even transcend the bill of fare. They might
penetrate with IMMUNITY into the very heart of
Virginia, the people of which State have suffer-
ed SO severely from the shrewd spectators of
the universal Yankee nation. We confess that
we had prejudice against this family on ac-
count of their sectional origin with the swindling
clock-pedlars from away down East" But
since the delightful entertainment Of Saturday
night, and little chit-chat with the "family,'
we pronounce them as worthy the patronage of
the odd sister States" as well as of the good
people Of the Federal metropolis
Their concert Of last night, notwithstanding
the inclemency Of the weather, was well attend |
ed, and the pieces sung were well sung well
selected, and well received. They are fine |
cage Of singing BIRDS those Hutchinsons, and as
Americans we should be proud of them. ANons.
BACHELOR BOB.
An ancient quarry of Alabaster has been dscov-
cred in Egypt. From examinations of HERO |
gyphica inscription found in it, it is ascertained
that the quarry was opened and worked by order