The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1849-08-08

skin let you have spell back, said
our man.
Davis handed out the skin, and it
measured nine feet one inch and a
half!
Twenty to start on, and twenty arc
forty, and forty are eighty! Sweet
Is! Whoop Come, here Cash.
Good evening to you all, gentlemen,
sang the ovcr;joyed native; and the
last | saw ofhim, he and Cash were
eating ginger cakes at the market
house. - Vest Alubamian.
INCIDENTS OF THE WRECK OF THE
CHARLES BARTLETT.--A lady passen.
ger in the steamer Europe in letter
to the National Intc!ligcncer, relates
the following incidents in that terrible
catastrophe:
"Thc wild despair of one poor man +
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-fvc 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 I 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, as he
told US, the is sea first accident; he had
never buried a 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 O.
farmer. lie was Immediately set to
ploughing with a yoke of oxen and an
old mare called Jia. The sailor being
wholly unacquaintcd 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, and,
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
cd, "what is the matter p Matter!
matter enough, by conscience, replied
Jack, 'thc larboard OK has got on the
starboard sidc-old jim has got foul in
the rigging, and they are all going to
the devil stern foremost.
UNGoDLY BooT.-Wc once heard
fIom the 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
Sunday or two, when, to his great sur
prise and annoyance, he was summoned
to 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 graycly arose, and
stated tho judgment of the church,
which ran thus: "Should brother
George Slater. again appear on the
Lords day in ungodly brown-top boots,
he will be expelled from this church."
Fitz Greene IIallcck gives the fol-
lowing summary Of late news from Eu-
rope:
Kingdoms to-day are upside down,
The castle knecls before the town,
monarch fears printers frowu,
A brickbat's range!
Five me, III preference to CROWN,
Five shill!ngs change.
Two old gentlemen of our acouain.
tance were complimenting each other
on their habits Of temperance.
"Did you ever, neighbor," said one,
"see me with more than | could carry?''
"No, indeed" was the reply, s'not
[. But | have seen you when I
thought you had better have gone after
aftc4."
hG~ "WIAT sHALf WE EAT" is the
heading to nm editorial article in coun-
try exchange. Man alive, WHY EAT
WAITS "sor'' before you.-[ Maysville
(K) Herald
GA SENsIBpE MAN--'Well, Rob-
crt, is there any answer? Buttons: Yes,
m. Mr.. Jolliboy's compliments, and