The Port Gibson reveille. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 185?-1857, 1854-05-10

From Putnam's Monthly Magazine.
Our Exodus from Jericho.
A RAzoRIAL RHAPSODY.

aHAfRn- Bfs Jonson.
1BKARD Dp-ShakesDeaye
Dos MusrAenos THE Spaniayd.
The news Of the day is not one Of the re.
cognized departments Of Putnams Monthly,
but there is one local fact so striking - 4:
tent in the face aud under the eyes of the
neople. that we stepaside to make it History.
80 some fat band-leader. hidden By his
trombone, oblivious as to his boots, reckless
as to his path. purple as to his face, and puff.
fed ont rs to his cheeks to such an extent that
his beard looks struggling, will sometimes in.
termit bis professional labors. 70 give-Pcr.
haps a glance at his following, perhaps mo.
ment to his handkerchief perhaps a turn to
his perched.up musc-book, perhaps an unex-
pected attention to SINE too prominent vocal
and personal initiate among the urchins. and
then fall back TO his sDasmotic sound-volcano,
as if his tortured lipl had never before quit
ted the sonorous metd since they were trans
ferred from the maternal bosom.
BE il known. then that this instant month
Of March, lS54,-thS time Of CESSATION Of the
curront number Of Ptinam's Monthly, to-wit
Number XYI--is to be known for all time.
and noted by all funre Valentines. as the
month Of incipient nustachios One half
the men you meet in New York to-day (be IT
kalends, nodes, or ids Of March.) shave not
their lips Tho hirstte growth Of one half Of
these is not yet long enough to begin to turn
down, or is down, bwny. aud not begun to
turn 10 ANYTHING else OF this half, one half
left of shaving this week. half Of whom stop
ped day before yesterday! (Let the wise and
statistical air Of Thu statement make up for
its concealed loossnsss and unimportance it
will not be the frit trial Of such expedientl }
So one sixty y-fourth Of tho face Of nature thu.
man nature, Of course, in cities) is ia mere
cloudy state or, in other words the reform
is ia nu5ibus. One thity-second part bears
hairs that look as if thcyhad c1me out wrong
end frs, or were in a surprised state at not
finding themselves nipptd in the bud. One
sixteenth is in stubble ofalI sorts and shades.
and one eighth. in all, IS now unchecked in
its persistent efforts TO produce the crop that
needs no planting. As is clear to every deep
thinker and political economist. land TO whom
else need we try 70 speak , this leaves one
half TO be counted as minors. and one quarter
as adult females. among whom the beard is Of
no account. Not that they oppose by indif.
ference the great movement No, bless
them they are right now. as always. To be
sure. as class. they say "horrid, but it is
with an air that rather helps than hinders its
progress; an air that says. we set our faces
against il" aud 50 suggests charming pictures.
They like boards, but each very much prefers
to have some one to carry hers for her. The
HTgstaz is ia tax she likes not to have imposed
on herself. though hirsute she likes to see her
suitOr.
The rubicund is past, (as Brown said when
he handed the claret to Jones.) and the man.
ly Is attained. The crisis has arriyed-the
climax ofthe shaving edi6ce has been reached !:
let Us hope no annihilator may be nigh when
il is set fire to. Its fall is begun. The
5" Emollent," the Military" the " Cream,
and the divers other shaying-soap factories
may cease to offend olfactories-may boii
their last boiling-ley their last a. IN
saclscloth, if they like. There
more lather. The nose Of JIG