The North-Carolinian. [volume] (Fayetteville [N.C.]) 1839-1861, 1853-07-09
JoNATHAN'S VISIT TO THE OPERA.

JONATHAN'S VISIT TO THE OPERA.
'.Wcll. I'm harned if you ever catch
me at another Oppcrer, or Uproar. where
that All honey, (alI fat, they ought to call
her. sings to feIIers in bob-taicu coats
and their younger brothers trecches."
''Why, what's the matter Uncle Jona-4
than?
"Well, ye see, l went down to town to
attend to some chores, when | seen a
whole regiment of teIIers, with big paddles
on their shoulders. with '.Opperer,- and
Aii-boney to night" Now, I'd heard II
great deal about the snsin and iidlin, SO
thought I'd go. Well, l went into place
they called Niblo's Garden, but l'm darn
| ed it seen anything Of a garden. but two
| or three tubs with green bushes stuck III
! 'r's>.-- " r4a.l was walk in along into the
Opperer, when a felier sung out, rfiere's
Uproar glasses aud Lornknecks for hire
but as didn't understand them things, /
kinder slid along, till a chap with bunch
Of flowers on his breast, bowed aud scrap
ed, for all the world like one of them dan
dy walters down Broadway, stepped up
with
'.'fhis way sir-vour ticket. sir.''
Well, | give him little bit of paper the
chap at the front door said to keep till cal
led for. when he hussed ,ne along through
crowd of the all!ires putty gals | ever
seen, all covered with nose gays and rib
bons. and says he
..Make wa " there for 56O.''
Says /, ,.Hello. waiter. that ant my
; name, it's Jonathan-Uncie Jonathan, rs
all the folks call me-
Well, the people .nickered, and the
feIIer never said IA word, but got hold of
! another chap and stuck him into 700.
Byme by the big fiddle went ahead like
sa win boa,ds. and a feller got hold OF
something like the old dinner horn at home
and then another little felicr with Eli, k.
commenced to cut fab dabs in the air: icst
as If he was keeping swarm Ot beesiotf
him-then | heard bell ring. and all at
once the big painting commenced to 20
up Well. | seen that much, when FIN
darneJ if didn't think was goner, for
there sot one of the puttiest gals ever
did see. right in front fine looking through
one Of them young double barreied spy
glasses, right into my face. I'm conHus-
tricated If wasn't skeered, for everybody
was takin aim at each o,her, and was in
range of every one-the darned pcckerish
looking things, 1 didn't know anything
about 'em. they might have gone Off!
$ We'll. the consequence was, l didn't see
anything of All honey, but heard devil
of q rumpus in the back room of the theatre,
and the people cheered, and slipped. y
WHY LABoRERs DO NOT GET AHEAD.
-Nuthing can be truer than NJ rs Sw iss
helm's assertion. in thePittsburs Saturda y
Visitor, that it is extravaganza and i'm
providence, aud nothing else, which kee D
The Iaboring classes in tue power Of CAPT.
ftal. The way to become independent.
5 continues Mrs Swhisshelm, is for cvery
d man to live OH half his wages. or less, If
possible, until he buys and pays for an
acre of ground, fences it, builds on it "A
house large and close enough to shelter
, himself and family from ii winter storm
This is his fort. Then let him take a! |
the time he now spends in taverns and
other lodging places. to lay in stores of
ammunition and provisions. in the shape
Of useful knowledge cleaned from books
aud papers. aud grape-vines. trees, pota-
5 toes and cabbages growing in his enclo
ure. II he plants every foot of it with
something pleasant to the eye and good
e for food. no tyranical employer can starve
t him into any degrading submission. Mrs
Y Swisshelm's article ON this subject ought
$ to be posted up on the walls Of our work
| shops in the country.