Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-12-07

Our readers Will ind below many amu-
sing anecdotes taken from that very ex-
cellent magazine. :" The kuickerbocker'
which is published in the city of New
York, by Sam. Hueston, 139 Nassau ST.,
at the moderate rate of $3 per annum in
advance. To any one who wishes good
.magazine-we can Recommend "Old
Knick."
From a pleasant gossipping epistle Of
legal friend ofIndiana we take the following
amusing passages:
"My thoughts often recur to neigh
borhood where. in days when the country
was new, and the people unsophisticated,
religious worship was Il very different
thing from what it is now. Where sincerity
and simplicity existed, what matter if
touch of awkwardness or ignorance did
sometimes raise n laugh The laugh did
no harm, and the religion no ne the worse
Among the traditions of that day is one
of good old brother who officiated oc-
caaionally at a. blowing and striking" and
who was trusted frequently with the Of
flee of concluding the exercises. He had
heard the presiding elder, with more than
usual ceremony, precede the benediction
by requesting the congregation to sing
the Doxology. Bcother A, with
equal solemnity, eccasoned among his
hearers II bursting of buttons and hooks
and-eyes that would have done honor to
Peggotty, by announcing that they would
a. sing the 4Sockaologsr, and then dismiss"
An actual fact, l do assure YOU
The politicians. occasionally sara good
thing. l fear stump -oratory. at it's best
estate, is altogether vanity an immeasu-
rable waste stale, fiat, and unprofita-
bic" The stray sunbeam OF wit or hu-
NOR is all the more attractive is so meIan-
choly desert. l have often Thought of
shot from Tom Wnlpole's bow, had trans
fixed Abe Hammond. Both were candi.
dates for the State. Senate. WaDoIe, an
old stager, cunning as fox. a good spea
ker, and thoroughly acquainted with She
people; Hammond, a man of talents, but
novice in the field. After period spent
in the ordinary process of electioneering,
a meeting was held at the county town,
where all the candidates were to appear
and make speeches. Hammond had sat
lsfed himself that he was pursuing a " cold
trail, and in his turn to speak, told the
sovereign public that he had been a can
didate nine days, and having convinced
himself that all efforts to succeed must
prove abortlve, he had determined to re-
tire from the canvass !; and accordingly,
to.use our western phrase, he " flummux-
ed" The temptation to Walpole was ir-
resistible: '' Yes fellow citizens" said
he "ynu all know it takes puppy Just
nine days to get his eyes open -
Tom Marshall did nearly as well when
Pitcher was harranguing about ''6is faith
er having been poor man. his father
was cooper" and more of that sort of
thing. Marshall said lIe would admit the
Seutleman's father was poor man per-
haps he had been Il cooper, but if he was
(PoIntIng to Pitcher, } lie had put NIGH
ty poor heat to one of his whiskey barreIs!"
Isn't it a little curious, that almost eve
cry village in New England land else
= where too, no doubt) has some real or
traditipnary character, that is a g house
hold word" to all the inhabitants &? A
fixture :; town-Pump'' parsonage :.
veritable verify" and''. no mistake ?''
OF such was Desire Ayres, if we may
believe (and we do, implicitly an agreea-
bic correspondent, who thus describes her,
and her =" doings -
g In my native town of NJ, in the
year 10 could be seen, two afternoons
5n each week, large collection of devoted
ladies duly organized into a +" Sewinq
Ctrcfs. Among the {" sewers that went
1ortn 10 sew on these occasions, was n
maiden lady of about fortv-bv name.
Desire Ayres. She WAS an invetorafe
snuff -taker, and her nasal twar,r wos w.
particularly agreeable to any b9Jv 3nd
she was sometimes, to the inconsiJcrato
the subject of practical Jokes.
'' BY the aid of the e Circle ), 6vo
missing young men were enabled to ,sraJU.
ate from - University, and expected
to enter the ministry. But to the preat in
dIgnatlon ofDesire and Others, ,,,one had &c a
call from charming young widow to take
charge of plantation, which of course he
accepted. Another had "a call" To
quack medicines; another to scLool.tea.
ching. although as he soon arrived to great
distinction a horse Jockey and Da-
Eld Jones, Esq. can "post you up'' as
20 20 the fourth. The last. Mr. p. a
otunder'ng. near sighted. absent minded
man graduated at the Theological Semi.
i."I y ana went as missionary to an is
IS'Io Vi tne Pacific. After twenty wears
absence he returned to visit the scenes of
ms oynood' and to look upon the faces of
those who had SO kindly assist 't'eeS o'
The joy ofthe ''old folks at a Loma,, MIN m
no bounds The young people canght %
the excitement A score of old won5au