North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-04-05


tended to commefnora tie.
beg you sir, upon your return to the golden State
which you represent with so much honor to YOUR /
self and proht to her, to make known to the young
men of California the grateful emotions which their
present has awakened in my bosom, and assure them
that while they have demonstration that
knows her friends, they may restassured she has no
enemies.
The eveninp,was joyously spent by hilarious par-
ty until late hour. in the course of which the Hon.
Sam Houston and others contributed TO the intelec-
tual enjoyment of all that were preseDe.
THRILLING SKETCH. The Columbus correspon-
dent of the Cincinnati Commercial, is responsible
for the following:
/" While making my usual rambles along the banks
OF that romantic stream, the Scota, of these lat
ter bright bracing mornings that would WOO even a
hermit from his CELL and make the anchorite forget
the vow that immures him between the walls of
selt-continued prison, met with little adventure,
which for its oddity help relating the risk
OF being considered prox and tedious by your read
ers but old men will be garrulous when talking of
their own adventures, and have always found best
to let them tell their stories their own way.
had prolonged my walk as far Ambos & Lennox's
extensive machine shop, engine and boiler manufac-
tory, in Franknton, the river one OF the part
ners of which is the brother of poor Tom Lennox of
theatrical memory, another brother residing in Co
lumbus. After resting myself sufficiently and recre-
aing in long talk with my friend Lennox, who is
shrewd, sensible man, who keeps an eye all his
irons in the fire, took kind of circumbendibus
ramble in the delta of the Scota opposite the city,
AS slowly neared sort OF tumble down shanty
which answered the graphical and musical description
Tasso gives of the accommodation of the tavern
keeper overhaued by the Afkansaw Traveller when
observed stout chunk of boy ride up, mounted
upon old crowbait, sckleham, skewbald sized,
blind in eye and unable to see out of the other,
over whose back was thrown bag, containing in
end stone jug filled with baldface, and stone in
the other end to balance.
The bow had just been to neighboring distillery
20 hic load nd iucfa honf md IL To
hard looking customer, whom took to be his father
who looked the personifcaiion.of Red Eye,' and
my friend Billy Nc of the House of Refuge would say
had evidently 90: up that morning. with the rhcu-
matis in his hair, the loadstone which was evident
ly the magnetic attraction of the poor inmates when
my old purblind dog Towser who accompanies me
in my excursions, friskng along before me, wagging
his short stump of tail like the leader of wgwag
club, when Simon says up Before he was aware
oft (for Towser has good deal of canine sagacity)
he ran bolt against the Old Hoss,' his sharp poin-
ted tail (and an awful tail it made) pricked one Of
old Dobbin's heels when I'D went Dobbin and down
came the boy and the freight of what the aborgnes
up north denominate white walnut catchup. You
never Nc of the Woodcock Bob Martin of the
Union, Sandy Thompson. Wully Thompson, Peter
Thomp, Barney Finn, or any Of your accomplished
artists in that line, make tChiskeu smash in any
thing like the time that old boss did being thereunto
instigated by the dog. Ihobbled on towards the boy
supposing him to be hurt, but the little fellow, who
brgh-eyed, lusy chap, bounded to his feet and
ran after the venerable steed laundering round and
round like, Mantni SAYS, dem'd old horse IN
demnition mill. Old Towscr, who had bristled up
in earnest, was after the quadruped also, with sharp
tall barking and swapping his best, having got his
back up from the kick he received at the time of the
rise in boys, and the fall of whiskey.
The father paid no attention to the boy or the
horse-his was deeper source of mental concern.
He surveyed the broken vessel the dsintegrated por-
tons of which fractured into pieces so small that
their would hold even fraynsentary sop
Of his avorite beverage, fresh from the stll-as the
lover who sings False love thee N'-the
picture of Marus amid the ruins of Carthage, a
defeated candidate musng over the Carthage Con-
vention. He was aroused from his reverie. or moro
properly spiritual trance. by my approaching and
commencing and apology for the of the mishap
when he greeted in the following dogmatical and
savage style:
DIN dog MQt'H skeer boss an Mro,v a bay an
break jug, filled with gred aohiskey, 1 say!
exPostuIated with him, but he would not listen
to and repeated his anathema against old Tow
doubt whether he would not have replied to
truly spiritual adviser in the language OF the poet
"Think not thankless, but this grief
Looks not to priesthood for relief"
His better (although it difficult tell whether
she what he had taken her for, better or worse)
haf-who attracted to the door of the shanty by
the hubbub, cleaning that omnibus of cookery, skill
ar dangerous dog, strangerT Yes responded
her old man. : he ar d-n dangerous dog. and if
he wur mine I'D cut that ar stump tail o. his'n off
close behind his years, if wouldn't the DEVILS hog
rlhoinS tndt the pdftieS WOulo not listen 10 reason.
handed the cost of the broken vessel, although
was s.outy importuned to pay for contents. (Which
didn't do bv jug full, the owner say ing that he
going to seine the river "a rather insane freak
this stage Of the weather) and needed something to
neutra'ize the chilly water. Says he, by way of
clinchng the tail end, Stranger, talkins talkin,
but IL takes money to buy ,Ohiskey' Invent my way
rejoicing, aug Ching at the results of this most lud
crous dogtastrophe; old Towser himself laughing
and wagging his tail in waggish manner, utterly
unconscious of the anathema hurled against him.
AN ACCOMMODATING JUDGE. We find the follow
ing anecdote in Gov. Fcrd's History of Illinois:
In those days, (from 1918 to Is3O,) justice was
administered in the courts without much show, pa
rade ceremony. The Judges were gentlemen of
sense and learning, who had their courts mostly in
log houses, the bar-rooms of fitted up for
that purpose with temporary bench for Judges, and
chairs and benches for the lawyers and Jurors. At
the first Circuit Court in Washington county, by
Sheriff ont into the ard md said the