Wisconsin herald, and Grant County advertiser. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1844-1845, 1844-11-23
THE HALF MAST FLAG.
A TRUE STORY.


towns, and cities and wards and dis
tricts in them, acquire subriquonts, or
nick-namcs, with which the boys taunt
each other, to the magnanimous and
patriotic rage ofthe tainted. Men al
so preserve these follics Of their youth,
and thus pcrpctuate them from gcncr-
alton to generation. The continent
of North America is not deficient its
vocabulary, as the terms, Yankees.
Nutmeg Vendors, knickcrbockcrs,
Buckeyes, Wolverines, Knobs, Hoos-
iers, Suckers, pewks, and the half
thousand other names can testify.
But We can get along to-day with
New England-and small part of
that country. We will let Connect
cut, and her coat ofarms, shad's tail,
and a string Of dried apples, alone we
want nothing ofthe pine knot soups of
Maine, equal to turtle ; the Granite
State we shall pass, and the leather
aprons of Vermont. We want to do
with Massachusetts alone, and with
one town in one county there. As
Rowlcy is famous for pumpkins and
Charlestown for pork, SO is Beverly
for beans. AS current rumor goes,
lpigs could not course the streets there
with the IMMUNITY they do here. In a
vast kiln, the cooking of the pulse for
the consumption ofthis town ofDaniol
daily goes on, and the pork, which
unctuates the otherwise dry mass, is
driven in, alive and whole.
All this, be it understood, is the as
scrtion of the Hogs of Charlestown, the
Pumpkins, of Rowlcy, the Marble
heads of Marblehead, and other enc
mics Of the ancient town which once
formed part or piecinct of Salcm.-
No Beverly man will confess the inn
parchment in all its counts, though
many of them are ready to go the death
on beans, as Gov. Hamilton was on
his sugar. The vessels from Beverly
take out abundance Of the article among
their stores, and it is matter of report
that a Beverly vessel once signalizcd
hcrsef in distress for provisions, on
coming home. Assistance went down,
and it was discovered that nothing was
deficient in the harness casll, or meat,
barrel, there was water enough on
board for month longer, and bread
and potatoes sufficient for the same
length Of time. The only article de-
icient was-beans! and without them
the mariners would not and coull not
support the fatigue of working their
vessel up the harbor,
That probably, however, may be
mere fiction; and as vcracious chron-
iclcrs, we are bound TO stick to facts.
In the fall Of lS-a large number OF
American vessels were as usual, at
), Cronstadt in Russia and wherever
there is large number Of American
vessels in any port, you arc pretty sure
to find some of them commanded by
captains from Cape Cod, and so along
shore in Massachusetts, and very like
/ ly to find among those Massachusetts
boys, a small sprinkling of lads from
Beantown." The youth there are
amphibious, and from padding and
living in among the docks, are not UNI
| frequently seen with scales on their feet
particularly when they have been
catching fish,
Among these American captains II
Cror stadt, there was one thorough
blooded "bcancr. I" Ask him the
particular characteristic of America,
and he would tell you it is the continent
on which Beverly is situated. En-
quirc into further details, and he would
mention New York, Philadelphia. Bos-
ton and some other villages, as also
situated in the United States. But
Beverly was always uppermost-it was
bis Jerusalem to which, after all his
wandering. be " calculates" to return.
SO do many othcrs-and surely it is 10
bad place which clings thus to the
hearts of it, wandering children.
That our captain was roasted like
parched pulse among his conntrymcn,
the reader will easily guess. He bore
il all in very good part, without word
of complaint, but looked unutterablc
things. lie rctortcd upon his friends,
with the soubriqucts Of their places Of
nativity-but beans stuck the best,
and while all Jokes on him told well
none Of his jokes told upon others. -
lie was decidedly in a most hopeless
minority.