Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-03-14

But ever keep this truth in mind
IT'S better late than mover!
DOUGLAS JERRoLp.-The National Magazine has
a sketch of Douglas Jerrold, from which we clip
the following interesting extract
by this time it is no secretthat he is reputed
in London lirerary circles to be the wittiest man
going. In grave, downright or discursive CONVEX
sation, or in eloquent and varied monologue, there
may be others of our men Of letters who came up
to him or surpass him; but in the one quality Of
wit, and above all, in the facility Of instant, pun
gent, flashing, blasting retort, he is believed to
have no equal. Not that he is q peculiarly argu.
mentative and combative man, far less that he is
really cynicalor ill-natured. His ordinary or spon-
taneous talk is bright, free, various, anecdotic,
~fanciful, and often very earnest though still char
terized by a play of wit. But the fashion Of
wit combats.' even among friends, has not yet
gone out; and often where there is no difference
at all, or where, if there is q differencefeit is
a perfectly amicable one, something will he said
by some one present containing within it the ele-
ment by possibility of a j%est--a jest confirmation,
a jest critical, a jest sarcastic, a jest dissolvent,
a Jest personal to the speaker, or n Jest purely
arbitrary and fantastic. Then is Mr.. Jerrold's
moment. a fash and it is ort! Away some
where among the afinilies ere one could count
two: the thing has been caught; n word has been
doubled up, an analogy siezed on the wing; two
IDEAS that had lain apart since chaos are sud
denly brought together; the quickest hearer had
it first; the laugh goes round like a cracker; and
just when the rest are done, the metaphysical
ocotchman at the end of the table cries out 4
see it, aud sends round the laugh again. When
the jest is confrmative or fantastic, all are pleas
ed; when it is critical or sarcastic, or dissolvent.
the speaker may 90 on at the peril of another
when it is personal and no hahn is meant. o
good fellow will keep his temper. There is, per-
haps, no conversation in which Mr.: Jerrold
takes part, that does not elicit from him half o
dozen good things of the kind described"
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FIRST PROTESTANT MEETING HOUSE IN AMERICA.
The frat Protestant settlement in the United
States was made at jamestown, Virginia, and
among the earliest settlers was Capt. John Smith.
He gives the following as the appearance of their
first place of worship:
when l first went to Virginia. we'll remember
wee did hang an awing (which is an old saile) to
three or foure trees to shadowe us from the Sunne;
our walls were rales of wood, our seats unhewed
trees, till we cut plankes. our pulpit a bar of wood
nailed to two neighbOring trees in foule weather
we shifted into an old rotten tent, for we had but
few better, and this came by way of adventure for
a new. This was our Church till we built n horne.
y thing like q barne. set up cratchets, covered
with RATS, sedge and earth, so was also the walls
that could neither we'll defend wind nor raine
Yet wee had daily Common Prayer, morning and
evening, every Sunday two sermons, and every
three months the Holy Communion till our Minis
ter died"
APPLEs BY TIE RoADsIDE.-In Germany, it ii
common to line the highways with choice va
r%ieties of the apple. The owner marks alternate
trees by tying to them a rod string, which, il
that country means, IF you leave this fruit
you may have the rest;' and we have been told
though we cannot vouch for the truth of il
that the public generally keep the contrac
faithfully. Would it he 80 with us? We fea
not. But have We not agriculturists who woul,
set a few Golden Sweets. Summer Pippins. an,
some fall and winter varietis. along the highwa,
that skirts their land ? Their children nigh
not; but many a poor child, whose parents 'ow
no soil, might have delicious fruit without steal
ing it; many a ~wayfarer might regale himsel
on it: and the owner would have tho satisfaction
of knowing that, in SO far at least, he had bee
a benetactor
: WEATHER ON THE OcEAN.-It frequently occur
that of two vessels leaving England at the sam
D time and destined far the same port in the Uni
7 ted States, one will experience very stormy weath
G err, while the other will NEST with moderate breez
es ~and.hne weather. This has occurred with yes
n sells sailing in tracks not many m lies apart, henc
e the great necessity for accurate tables Of the pre-,
alent winds of the ocean throughout,all it's part:
during every day of the year. The ateamship Al
G go, which arr lived at this port from Havre, France
n on the 18th ult., in Is days, "a very fast passap
It for her, reported good weather. while every othe
!, steamer which crossed the at IAi'antic last mont
6 experienced most t~emplious westher-!N Y Pape,