Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-08-18

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1t was like probing deeper than the skin
Some mammoth fester such its tainted mixtures
Of decorations. furniture and fixtures
It seemed as if q bomb-shell, charged and Loaded
With paint, and gilt, and plaster, had exploded
Without regard to anybody's feelings
On walls and columns, cornces and ceilings
The ambitious plaserers had eclipsed the builders,
And in their outdone by the gilders;
The painters then-beside whose rich adjoining,
The brightest rainbow would have seemed deep mourning
From lowest basement up to toplnost attic.
The g an rna ,nS
Paint by the bucket, frescoes by the yard,
Laid thickest layers by battaons
Of exiled red Republican Italians!
With pots and brushes blues and greens and yellows
They scaled the walls. the bold designing fellows.
Fruits, III awers. aamHges landscapes aud zoology,
Mermaids and Fauns, Arcadan shepherdesses,
Hernes and gods and goddesses and ogres.
Nymphs in pink tunics, sagcs in red '"gas.
Heads of Old Masters, shaded somewhat duer,
And full length venuscs, all in flesh color!
Then following up the grand Tw" Million plan,
Where paint left off: upholstery, began;
The latest artist fres, msrvels AIMS,
Acres of mirrors in prodgious frames
And miles of damask spread in rich expansion
Of gilt and CRIMSON through the costly mansion;
Incredible carpets which outstared the ceiling,
With flaming hues that set the brain Keeling,
And with the walls in one fierce blaze united
what sight, when all the gas lighted,
And Firkn. seated with some fe"w snnb,
SURVEYED the scene beneath the brilliant SreaIners,
Which went t ahead Of ali the Collins Steamers amt
Taylor's saloon, when every jet is on;
Or the new Capitol nj Washington"
And echoed back the truthful observation
50 There's nothing like it in the whole CREATION
She is quarantined i'll the portico" by the foot
man, lest the plague OF poverty should sp cad furth'r
Contrast the picture just given with her abode:
The TENEMENT House. DER which friendly movement
Has waved the Enclmn,ers wand of Modern Improve
ment,
, a hnb, or" f hsaar~ h I nd buob
Intel and door-rost sprinkcd with its sign
House after house, extends the dismal line;
A drparv Sipht to uhilantlruuhc ewes.
Between the gutter and the d.stan. skies,
BY filth and n''s' me "aors marked MA, ana tracked
through the dense districts "here inc poor are packeo
Crowded and swarmlng IN those wretched hives,
Layer ON layer of cheap human lives!
Or, if you think the picture overdrawn
60 for yourself, II You nave never gone;
TO IN nlid.winier, when the drifting Sieef,
through Inc Dare nan pufS"es your freezing Ieet,
And, as from room to room you hurry past,
The crazy building ra!iiing IN the blast,
AT doors agar, gaunt faces peep and glare
In hopes some 1reno:y s'cP may niger ihere
70 IN mo snlnmel,when me august rays
Pour the place their fierce, untenlc,rd blaze;
From the scurched pavement TO the suiiSirnck caves
No point OF shade the hamlig MASS relieves,
And the hot air, with rank aid poisonous breath,
Through doors and windows putfS disease and death.
Or go as Frkin went-on some bright day.
When all without CLOVIS i'll the cheerful ray; -,
And as your f0olsteps cross the Numbering sill,
Feel the cold dampncss and the sudden chill
Strike through your ,hiver,ng sense with onens i'll:
He walked. encircied in atmosphere.
Filtered and rar;hcd to that degree,
By his Two Million power Of sOvency,
Tha, such impressions had power of stealing
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And, when the Lawyer came, both SETS Of hers
rnancea aeT rec on NM h canning mr., ne was ahers
lie Gained the upfoar, heard the story through,
Aho sr9!e 10 VAN 10 each lis miudeh clue.
10 tear ms Miii had firkIn really meant
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percnahce u question: pur y Vi in,ehl,
rerchace oi oou0lui Jaw I'D eilher view,
Inc case was mover ana inc point was new;
ano; was PLAIN az w .ne ~ 1rT, , npserva'o"
G""o nr a IT"Jan wa OF litigation:
Stra'gnt ON Inc lawyer Gear prophetic sight,
Ing fiRkiS " ILL CASE rises INTO night,
ast anu ns @ ,s o. snG ,ahons d causes
ne secs the eager b'ras 3 prey VINO walt
In the dim chambers Of the Surrogate;
Three bulky q"artos stuffed with the proceedings,
'edrg eraaer VIVID special pleadnss
| With crossexaminations scaricd:
| And twenty doctors purity and persistent
| With twenty theories, all inconsistent!
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No o risk Of loss, no client t." be dunned,
All the expenses charged upon the FUND!
The ORIGINAL Of this sketch &c ,ot ,rob.h, e., >,
"e 's'""' " III" sAetcn 10 hot prooaoy Tar tc
seek. The lawyers advice we do not remember to
have seen before in any printed proceedings. 1t is
too long to quote and too good to be NEGLECTED. W.
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