American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-05-13
AMERICAN TEL LEGRAPH
SKETCHES OF DISTINGUISHED MEN.
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SKETCHES OF DISTINGUISHED MEN,
Written for the American Telegraph.
NO. L-NoGGs AS HE WAS TO BE, AND NoGGs AS
I y HE WAS. aaE @d1 "a 3sA .a
Who does not know Noggs? Our Noggs--The
Noggs-T(not Egg Nosgs)--but the veritable
Noggs-that self-sacrifcing, patriotic Noggs,
who hurra'd at elections and got drunk on
either victory or defeat suffering in physi-
cal sense, either from his elation or depression
Of spirits, and who went quietly, perhaps sneak
ingy, home, arm-in-arm with his melancholy,
or broke the street lamps and held a small race
with some over-lively Charley in the exuber-
ance of his spirits and facetiousness-thats the
nan--our Noggs. Hoggs was q model infant
to be sure he kicked and cried as much as in
fants generally do, and, but for the strength of
his garments, might have torn them; but be-
yond this there was something land there al
ways is a little something-invisible to careless
observance, of course, but palpable to the par
rental eye, which induced them to believe for
tune chad marked him for its own E'.
Progressing gradually, as is customary with
children, from the pap" to "marbes," see our
young Noggs, and how his peculiar faculty de-
velops itself. Every thing is his--in the broad-
est extension Of the phrase, epery thing is his.
Ma and Pa have said so; all is his. Like Sell
kirk, he is monarch Of all he suryeys!" The
secret is, those .tar-seemg people, Ma and Pa,
have discovered that he will, in manhood, only
have to sigh that he has not " another world to
conquer!" What matters it, though some
stoutly-built young chap may gracefully orna-
ment young Noggs's eye with cerulean tints
1t is but step in the ladder of his greatness.
Noggs is hero; but, hero as he was, how that
eye DID burn! Who can expect even Noggs
to be Spartan? Who believes that Noggs
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burned, without murmur? Murmur, indeed!
Noggs's murmuring aroused the whole neighbor-
hood; thatstoutly- built young chap had blacked
his eye 7 + Aa ..a"a
/ In the course of human events Noggs reached
manhood-that happy state in childish eyes
which emancipates them from the thraldoms of
the maternal eye and arm-that halcyon period,
fraught with every joy, with every comfort. Seen
through the roseate glasses of childhood, what
glorious visions of happy independence gladden.
the sight, picturing the free man as, living upon
the very honeycomb of existence, strolling
through fowery meadows, and rocked to sleep
in gilded bed by perfumed air! This was the
fairy-land seen by Noggs, and he mourned for
the good time to come. When he had attained
that much longed and looked-for period, was it
rs Clancy painted ?"i Noggss feelings find a
vent in soliloquy-and to his companion and
friend, the fire-plug, which serves as his chair,
table, and listener, he pours forth his story and
his Impressions: ~ T'.3 erF gs'St"
"Now, what's the use folks say I'm bound
to rise : but if my legs was hammered down
into the ground and clinched, they couldn't hold
me down much tighter; why forty-horse
power wouldn't bulge me bound to rise !!
Now if was a balloon, or puff of smoke, or
even one of them things called go-summers, /
might-but ain't--I wish was-what a jolly
good time l would have Of it. | know some
folks say, go 10 corb-pursue steadily, and
yOu acW rise see IL in you.' See it in me |
them be blowed! Whats the use a working
and er sweatin and er cussin'? them's my SEN
timents Our folks used to say was genus
and / am: so work be blowed. Now who'd 90
and work when they could have such jolly
good time doin' nothin' ? iSpose my trousers j,
tore, what of it? 'Spose an, hungry, is it
anybody's business? There's been plenty of
fellers what went and worked, and worked, just
o writin' book usen to hear 'em. Mt school,
in a book called 'his-story but who his
was | don't know but that story said they
was poor and starving, and SO forth, which
means much more Of the same sort too numer.
ous to mention so.I says, hoorra for no work
| Pll rise bimeby-I wish / was pot of yeast,
maybe | wouldn't rise But what's the use
frettin and O worretin'? Every step | TAX,
up is like on treadmill, it brings me down L
what | was before. Oh CANNON what's thu
use a tryin's / spends what | gets, and i get'
what spend. Hoorra for money! What dt
folks mean by 'stoppin' at the spiggot and
leakin' at the bung p / don't like to try
to find out, il would only make me sweat and
hates sweatin'; it alters makes feller feel as
though he's workin', and hates work, alters
did. Leave me alone, and I'll rise bimeby."
Alas, poor Noggs The prediction was not
verified. The last sad scene Of all found
him in charity hospital, the victim of his
parents delusion, that he was born to make q
world "behold and admire" CETHo.
BosToS, May l2th-11 p. m.--Later from,
Buenos Ayres.-The ship Dragon, bringing Bue-
nos Ayres dates Of March 2lst, and Montevideo
adviccs to March 23d, arrived to-day. The
frigate Congress was ut Buenos Ayres, bound
on cruise South to the Falkland Islands
The Bainbridge was Mt Montevideo. The st.
Louis, Com. McKeeyer sailed on the 10th. Of