The Smyrna telegraph. (Smyrna, Del.) 1849-1850, 1850-01-03
Carriers Address.

| To one WHO'S brought you Sc. much news,
Yes, once a week, the year just past,
Through summers sun, and writer's blast
I've faith hlly performed the task
Which fortune to my lot has cast.
The glios: Of cishtern-dprty-ninc
Upon the river Styx dothpino
And seeks nj tardy Scaron's hand
a iP1ssagc to somc better land,
While 1850 from ynn hill
Over some mountains CLASSY rill
Peeps 6'ertliis bdmpy world to sec
What kind OF souls we morals be
Twill surely find as s;ran5 &c race
rs ever lived Or fell from grace.
Hail newborn year, VIC welcome thee
Il lellow-,rayelcr on times SEE,
Ind pray you bring no tempest dark
T., ruin earh's old creaky bark,
The old year Ind its suns and showers,
It's lights and shadows, thorns and flowers
Its pains and pleasures, signs and tears
1t had as other by gone years, +
Il every changing scene We glance,
is round our town VIC weekly prancc
To place into our patrons hands,
Tho nows of this and distant binds,
Ind now while try to narratc
Some things in country town, or state,
hope YOU will excuse bad rhymes,
-1nd fork over 81 want the dimes.
FIRST 10 the ladies', bless their souls,
| make bow, and in my bowls,
Wi!l drink to their eternal health
Whether in poverty or in veal h
| wish that corns were of their toes
And that they each dozen beaux
That spite OF i'll looks and i'll nature
Not one "darlin' lite craturo''
Would eyer reach a score and six
Un;li she'd get one in s.rlx''
Rather than one be an old maid
Iii marry them all and feel wen paid.
The twcnty-six:h or last July
Az cit TilI lliGrc Was nCaru cry
O.pleasurc; from both grave and gay
Swing" his is truly great day
In Snirnt's hi,to.'y-loy d mt Ia ,sh-
HIRE comes the SMyRNA TELEGaArM."
And ever since that Time till now,
Each -Lhyrsdsy.I have n,ade. la,,>lInr, - >
As round lwtnt fem door to door,
10 give you news oflctee and var,
. Fam NJ, pesilcncc and crime,
In Europe and Columb;a's Isle,
Poor Hungary, was forced to yield
TO icaru odds upon TIM field
Where she had nobly Tough and bed
BE aus" They were by traitor led,
Bat may they soon again arise
Anl raise their ea, 5lcs towards the skirs
dnd> st;ikc the Russian Bear nth awe
And make HIM so and '.snck his paw"
The Pope is sill at ga-e.tn,
And likely !here he'll have to stay
H.. .nF should. he try to go tn Ronr,
He'll find, alas, It's not his home.
For Romans, though they have been gulf
80 long by "Bplls" from cunning souls,
Have vowed at last, to form in bands,
and act like "RoMAN CITIZENS"
The French and Brother Jonathan
Have s'''lrd the NJ mister question down
And gro Wis andthreats have sunk to sleep
Upon old oceans stormy deep.
The gold star soon will take her zion
Within the Unions constellation,
Aud nestle then beneath the wing
vi freedoms bird-ihe 'calhcr'd king,
Wo p the man who'd dare to sever
This UNION, which, now. and forever,
Stan's 'mong the n1tionsaN, ~,
The brightest land beneath the sun.
In Kent we've lawyers quite sufIicicn.,
Some with talent, some deficient,
And Doctors too, bo h Cd and Young
Who, is-of old, do differ some,
Oar Merchants have got alargc stock
. goods, and now to raise talk,
They say, "as goods are coming down
Wen sell TN per cent che,pc than any en-
else in town.
That change of verse has blown me skv-biel
The lincs9stge just ga feet' to short for IN
G nills to tiiTnin. Give me elbow room
and | am whole team. But I'll resume,
And change my rhyming to this goodIv town
And sing in tanc 10 "knock nigga down. -
| his is great town, dear friends, between Il,
For dcvilment, ct oa,ne gems,
The b'hoys are hard to beat at ''cuchcr,"
''.Scvcn up" sail fours," abrag' and uroker