The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1849-08-08
George, let me see that biggest bar
skin / let you have spell back, said

George, let me see that biggest bar
skin / let you have a spell back, aaid
our man. 2$ass
Davis handed ont the skin, and il
measured nine feet one inch and
half!
Twenty to start on, and twenty are
forty, and forty are eighty! Sweet
J--s! Whoop Come, here Cash.
Good evening to you all, gentlemen,
sang the oyer:joyed native; and the
last I saw ofhim, he and Cash were
eating ginger cakes at the market
house. 90 Vest AlaJamiaa.
INCIDENTS OF THE WRECK OF THE
CHARLES BARTLETT.--A lady passen.
ger in the steamer Europe in a letter
to the National Intelligencer, relates
the following incidents in that terrible
catastrophe:
"The wild despair Of one poorm T
shall never forget; he literally lost his
all--his wife and four children, and his
whole fortune. The poor creature
wrung his;hand and tore his hair-it
was heartrending to see him. There
were thirty-fve children under sixteen,
and seven under eleven months ON
board. :" : Captain Forbes, Of
Boston, as soon as the accident took
place, pulled off his coat and shoes and
plunged overheard, rope in hand, to do
all he could; he saved one poor man,
who died before he got him alongside
the ship. A more heroic deed never
saw, and sturdy men shed tears when he
came back to the cabin safe among us.
The captain Of the wrecked bark is a
sunburnt old sailor, with thirty years Of
his service to look back to, and, Us he
told US, the is sea first accident; he had
never buried q soul from any ship he
had commanded. The tears rolled
down his rough and sunburnt face as he
told US the scene before the vessel went
down.
A Jack Tar, growing sick Of his bus.
mess, deserted his ship, went into the
the country, and hired himself to a.
farmer. He was Immediately set to
ploughing with o yoke of oxen and an
old mare called Jia. The sailor being
wholly unacquainted with the manage
ment of the tacks, sheets, and bowlines
of his old mare and oxen, in his first
attempt to put about missed stays, andy
by turning the yoke, threw jim and the
oxen all down in & heap together -
Jack, frightened with the confusion,
bawlcd out for help. The farmer ask
ed, 't'what is the matter p sMatter!
matter enough, by conscience, replied
Jack, 'the larboard OK has got on the
starboard side--old jim has got foul in
the rigging, and they are all going to-
the devil stern foremost.
UNGoDLY BooT.-We once heard
faom tho lips of an old man Of the Pu~
ritanic school that, when brown top
boots were first introduced, he took.a
fancy to pair, which he wore for a
Sunday or two, when, to his great sur
prise and annoyance, he was summoned
to a church meeting to answer for the
ungodly manner in which he appeared
on the Sabbath. The good man, with
the brown-tops, looked as if he had been
charged with visiting Bartholomew
Fair. The elder gravely arose, and
stated tho judgment of the church,
which ran thus: ssShould brother
George Slater, again appear on the
Lords day in ungodly brown.top bootss
he will be expelled from this church.
Fitz Greene Halleck gives the fol-.
lowing summary of late news from Eut
rope:
Kingdoms to-day are upside down.
The castle kneeis before the tcwn,
A monarch fears o printers frown,
A brickbats rauee!
Five me, in preference TO q CROWN,
Five shill'ngs change. .
TwooH gentlemen Of our acquains
tance were complimenting each other
on their habits Of temperance.
sDid you ever, neighbor," said oness
s'see me with more than could carry?'',
"No, indeed" was the reply, sinot.
I. But / have seen you when I
thought you had better have gone after
aftes."
hfg" "WHAT SHALL WE EAT' is the
heading tom editorial article in cou,s-
try exchange. Man alive, wHY EAT
WAITS "soT" before you..- afaysville
(K) Herald