Washington telegraph., 1857-01-07
CAMP MEETING TALK.

A chap out West went to camp-meet
; ing, and gives the following amusing ac
count of the disjointad conversation b.
heard there
Preaching had not begun, and promo
nading was in progress. We took con
venient stand, and tried to catch the re
marks of the varions couples as they wen
slowly by Us
eyes, indeed" (two girls talking, oi
course,) and my brother Tom says thai
Henry Soaker brags about the many times
he has kissed her right in the mouth, and
she never slaps him at all when nobody is
by, and I'm sure [ should die if people
was to talk of me as they do about her
1.COrn IS up again, you know, and |
shall make at least six hundred barrels ii
[ make a peck, and consequently
"What spectacle this is, to be swah.
Chaw. All wondah il these people
denl'd pooty gul, AIM she-build the yah
own tents owa hiwah men to do it fowah
EN- Must be great boah to-
| ssBe married in six weeks from last
| Tuesday l heard ma talking about it,
but you mustn't mention it for the world.
It is great secret -
Greatly now, and she's as ugly as''-
''The finest sow you ever saw, sir
Pure Berkshire, and has nine splendid
pigs. 1t was the best trade I ever made,
and I wouldn't take thirty dollars for''-
"Hooped petsicoats and sici likes as
that, onlT look, Ann, Nine founces and
hustle. Oh how I would love to-
''Go to picnic Oh Thurs day +? Oh
thank YOU You don't know how L would
love to be present, sir, I am SO fond of the
exhilerating dance, but father says
ssI truly gratifed, my dear young
friend, to learn that you are so deeply ln-
pressed with the necessity of Immediate
repentance, and I shall this very day
make
s'Ten yards of gimp for the bosom, and
maroon velvet binding for the neck and
sleeves, OH, Emily
'''Ihe finest baby you ever saw-black
eyes and large limbs, six weeks old and
weighs
":sixty-oae pounds and quarter to the
bushel None better in the country
Free from garlic and coekrel, and large
grained | hold 1t at
s'Stillopolis, next Saturday Bothsydes,
the formereea viii speak, as
ne says
"Ah, Mr. Pepper, you aatter me so =
Just so. How horribly Kate Wilmot is
dressed She will wear yellow, though it
makes her look like
"Feyer and agy. | believe. They've
all been up with it, and now the poor mans
got
Sweetest bonnet I yer saw. Where
did you get it? I must recommend my
sister to your
ssWasher-woman Stole every one
Some OF 'em bout half ripe I swow III
shoot them If they don t.
ssGo to the White Sulphur. It is the
best, place in the whole world, ma am.-
I've seen some OF the most wonderful cf-
fects of the waters Tom Holocaust was
cured Of
twenty-five pounds of butter week
And always get quarter pound, and
sometime" -
"Four eggs. two handsful Of -four,
dab of yeast, half tin cup full of molasses,
and it makes y
'.The best manure I ever used sir
Vastly superior to guano, or super phos-
phate- Two hundred and fifty pounds to
the acre raised me-
''The handsomest women on the ground
[ can see no equal to her, except Miss Ma
ry-, and she's GOT
'Both hind legs spawned. And there's
a speck in her right eye that's bound to
THAT beautiful girl in black over there.
l never saw her but once before, and that
was at
"Mr. Muggin's failure, sir. And he
has taken to drink awfully, and only last
week had"-
ellis head under my arm and was plug
ging him in the mouth, when he got my
finger
"Between the 10Th and 18th of Septem-
Der. [ viii get my wheat to market, and
it will bri g.
ellis gray hairs in sorrow to the grave
Oh, it is awful to think how
ssClose she hangs to his arm.
She ought to be ashamed of herself,
and never saw him until
sSWilliam was born twenty-five years
ago last April. I am an old woman now,
and the grey hairs makes
Toot toot s.Preaching viii now COM
mence,' said the Presiding Elder, and We
heard no more
A SOUTHERN SLANDERER OF THE SoUTH.
The New York Evening Post states. ON
authority, that William Henry Hurlburnt,
native of South Carolina, but at present
residing In NewYork, is the author of the
article upon the Southern States, published
in the Edinburg Review, and to which
reference was made by Senator Benjamin,
during the debate in the Senate few
days ago.