The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1858-03-17
TER MS.
Sg~ Circulation equal to all the
other City Gailies combined.
The Post Office and the City
Index.

The Post Office and the City
Index.
1t is exceedingly difficult to locate Yam
keedom OR to give a precise definition of
the Yankee. Unthinking foreigners, in a
sort oflazy generalization, take the United
States in lump-from the st. Johns to
the Rio Grande and from Norfolk to San
Franeisco--as the locus IL, quo, and look
upon every American Sovereign as an
incarnation of the character With nicer
discrimination, however, we ourselves re-
iect this facile but unjust throwing of Our
claims into hotch potch, aud abjure most
heartily SO careless bestowal of so equi-
vocal a dignity. As Pope mot the Pope
Of Rome) sang:
"Ask where's the North? at York tbs on the
Tweed;
In Scotland at the Orcades; snd there,
AT Greenland, Iembla or the Lord knows
where;"
80 are we disposed, ia like manner with
these popatlt ad aqn'loaem posit,, to place
the locality out of our own immediate
neighborhood Some Of the British tour
lists who have INDUCED the spleen excited
by accumulated grievances at bad hotels
i'll this country, by the porpesration of
saucy Notes Of 7i'aca against us have
found theieeitimate habitat Of the Yankee
nation variously in kentucky, Tennessee,
Ohio, and on board the mississippi
boats 1t is pretty generally settled,
though, to come to a frank avowal, that
the veritable Simon Pure Yankee, in his
highest and most distinctive development,
is found somewhere in New England
principally in Connecticut and Vermont.
Some say, nevertheless. chat the genas is
to be found, with but small! variation of
ppec,eS, where the Indian WA born. Eat
Nantucket, Cape Cod, aud all along
shore."
In that portion OF our Juvenile 4Eucid
where the pesfd;ous Simon is discoursed
Of in heroic hexameter there il somewhere
phrase wherein considerable philosophy
ia concentrated in small focus
Disco ofRaes;'
and, acting in its spirit, we will recount a
tale, which is quite illustrative Of Yankee
character. Some years ago, the Legisla-
ture Of a Northern State passed law
making the innocent diversion of rolling
ninepins, certainly not maiuan IA, Sc, ma
lam in proh,ta. To propei a globe of lig-
numvite towards nis,ep;as became a
misdemeaaor, punishable by fine and i'm
prisonment. The thunders Of the alley
were not long hushed however. fer the
native shrewdness of some ingenious
wight who loved the play was parturient
OF an idea. 1t was an extremely simple
one--oniy little problem in addition
Another pin was added, the collective
wisdom of the Commonwealth was baf-
' aed, aud the old game re-christened ten-
pres, yet fourished as before in unmarried
privilege.
Henceforth, however, let Weathersfeld
dof its tile to Norfolk though maybe
Baltimore may come in for fraction Of
the courtesy. Let Connecticut, from this
day forward, ''pale her Intellectual fires. >
The grind-stouc cheeses are cut done. --
The Shoe-peg oats and oaken hams ere
nowhere. The famous nutmegs Of the
bark of the evergreen and ominously
symbolic hemloch are at fault. Bring no
more ethargic wooden clocks and imprac-
tA;able patent churns to the Eastern
Shore Of Virginia Let Sam Slick go to
grass, straightway. Let Jack Downing
':now hide his diminished head" while
Sol. Smith retires on the profits Of his i'm
proved beehives and his miraculous soap,
While you, oh, petty operators, have On
ywheedled few confiding clodhoppers,
the City, hedex-right here on Chesapeake
Bay somewhere -has outgeneralled the
Most venerable of all Generals the Gen.
sral Postmaster
1t is we'll known, in this vicinity at
least, that this Hoe-and- Plough Advatt.
sx, issued twice a month at Baltimore,
although mendaciously hailing from this
Gty---one of the most paltry representa-
Mves of those predatory sheets gotten up