The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-04-09

5 The CREATURE e,xLIED Boy. "A very un.
i certain, mysterious, inexplicable creation is q
' boy-who can define him.
: will try. A boy is the spirit OF mische,
embodied. A perfect teetotum, spinning round
: like jenny, or tumbling heels over head. He
invariably goes through the process Of leaping
t over every chair in his reach; makes drumheads
] of the door; turns the tin pans into cymbalsi
takes the best knives out tosdig worms for bait,
and loses them; hunts up the molasses cask.
and leaves the molasses running; is boon
companion to the sugar barrel; searches for all
the pies and preserves left from supper, and eats
them; goes to the apples every ten minutes;
{, hides his old cap in order to wear his best one;
cuts his boots accidently ifhe wants new pair;
tears his clothes for fun; jumps into the pud-
dies for sport and for ditto tracks your carpets.
marks your furniture, pinches the baby, worries
the nurse, ties fire krackers to the kittens tails
drops his school books in the gutter while he
fishes with a pin, pockets his schoolmaster's s
specs and finally turns a sober household up
side down if lie cuts his little finger.
He is a provoking and proyokable torment.
especially to his sisters. He don't pretend to
much until he is twelve. Then begins the rage
for frock coats, blue eyes, curly hair, white
dresses, imperfect rhymes and dickies. At
fourteen he is too big to split wood or GO af-
ter water; and at the time these interesting Of
fees ought to be performed contriyes to be in
yisible-whetheT concealed in the garret, With
some old worm -eaten story for company, en-
sconced on the wood-pile, learning legerde
main, or bound off on some expedition that
turns out to be more deplorable than explora-
bic.
At fifteen he has tolerable experience of
the world; but from sixteen to twenty We may
clear the track when he's in sight. He knows
more than Washington; expresses his decision
like Ben Franklin; makes his mind believe that
he was born to rule the world, and new lay
the track of creation; thinks the president is
near-sighted; understands the theory and the
science of the pronoun I; informs his father
how general jackson fought the memorable
battle of New Orleans; asks his minister if he
don't consider the bible title too orthodox? En-
other words, he knows more than he ever vii!
again.
just hail one of these young specimens as
boy at sixteen, and how wrathy he gets, he
does not answer you precisely as the urchin did.
who angrily exclaimed, don't call me boy
pye smoked these two yearsp he will give you
whitening look that is meant to annhilate you,
turns on his heel, and with curl on the lip,
mutter disdainfully, why do you call me Il
boy? and oh, the emphasis! But, jesting aside,
| an honest, blunt. merry, mlschierous boy is
something to be thought Of, whether as brother
or son, for all bis faults, his kind and generous
feeling gets the better of him, and leads him
soon to repentance, and be sure he will remem-
Der his fault--at least FIVE minutes,
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MERCHANTS NOTES.-The peculiarities of
carrying on business here and in England, is il
lustrated by the difference with which good
notes pass in England and in our country A
note of hand, when given for any business pur-
pose, is not taken to some neighboring banker.
to be discounted or sold, but is treated with all
that Difference ne give to other kind of notes
signed by certain officials known as president
and cashier of bank, for the simple reason
that, if made by an honest, responsible man, it
is worth just as much.
The holder can, any day, in the neighbor-
hood where its character may be known, with
out any previous negotiation, buy any thing he
pleases, and pay for it with this paper, by sim
ply endorsing it--because the second holder
knows that he in turn can do the same and so
1t goes, getting farther and farther from home,
until, having passed through the hands of more
than twenty different persons, and being liter
ally covered with endorsements, it is finally
lodged IN the bank for collection. Such note
OF flOOO frequently is made to pay the in
debtedness of twenty different men, net one of
whom needs know whether the bank is calling
in Or letting out its best money, or to care
whether his banker is easy or .stight' in his
financial condition. We certainly make too
great and often absurd distiction between the
notes Of an Incorporated bank and those of a
known, sound, and solvent man. If the latter
is not, as the former, payable on demand, they
are just as good for what they represent, name
ly, their face, less than the interest for the time
they have to run.
The following extract Of letter from New
J ork IS from source likely to be we'll inform
ed, and goes to corroborate the rumor of Eu-
ropean movements against Nicaragua, mention
ed IN our Washington correspondence this
morning, They give new interest to the events
occurring IN that quarter, and promise us ex-
citing intelligence by every mail. The Mon
roe doctrine is about to be put to searching
test, and must soon become substance, or be
abandoned as delusian:
wrote you the other day, since when the
Star Of the West has departed. taking OUT a
goodly number Of emigrants. The Vanderbilt
refused to give any tickets except one for capt.
Anderson. | wrote the particulars, and sent
his letter OF refusal to general Walker. I also
gave him the items of a plot of the English to
assist Kinney and the other four States with
men and money. The report came to me di-
rectly from an English quarter, and was to the
effect that the British were to send four vessels
to the Pacific coast and six to the Mosquito
coast, land 5000 men, have them equipped and
uniformed in the uniform of the States, march
upon Walker from all quarters, and crush him
out. give the particulars for what they are
worth, not souching for them; yet on the morn
ng OF the 9Th inst, when the steamer sailed,
he Washington news received almost corrobo-
rated it. Mr. Marcy has all the particulars in
1ls hands, and now has an opportunity of cog
tating on the Monroe doctrine" N. O. PIC.
lsDIAsA.-The report of the auditor Of In