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cJL.mj., ,-veUSHv \V. CHESTER, EDITOR ANI PUBLISHER.THE ALTON OSBERVER.pitcher, and forgotten long before Aunt Charity had ; on loveVO. 148, MAIN ST. CINCINNATI,)it lt;3 00 a year, payable in six mouths ;$3• ,;rni^'Cl 11 3 .,„o Kn nnid strictiv in advance. No• *mth« or 2.50 paid strictly in advance. No Charity. WhenHut abolition had well nigh made an end of Auntlove; ailove ispaidthe carpet she forgot11 ° lt;ubsCiij’tion discontinued, unless all ar-v ia«1'\ 'ill [1(* J | 1 »l I V'** J *•** • wwwr- | m , ^ i *viid up except at the option of the pub- quired of every one she could meet with, and interro- ls consevery thing else. She read the newspapers, and en-ness ofis expo in the iarc l-v00 InN u mbersgated every negro, little or big, to learn something forat les*(K,server is published for the present as a-Nl!.’n ni,tfrr it is, from necessity, essentially thefortNow, the abolitionists er the jwhom iwere coming with a tremendous army of black, white timateCineinnati Journal, being published at the am^ rrc^ t0 liberate the negroes and give the whites uJ.S(^.on!■fb _ ,l „ul the Editor being the same.! ‘ , \ T,*iit of the Observer, Rev. T. B. Hurlbut,G'!iCTV ‘,“pUnois, to whom all communications on bu-*.* ;r ]**addressed and payments made.—Com-* v f 0u ., payments, it’ more convenient, car. be made®unlCriZ at Ciucinnau.thetheir turn of servitude.imagined herselfbeggingfor life of his Excellency Governorand again she dreamed of plumedMingo,offerincrenderisdoncaps and crested see on*helmets on the heads, and gold epaulettes on the„ moral lt;wE. W. CHESTER.shoulders of her sable acquaintances, and if the ne-fraud, 1groes could have maintained their gravity, she wouldthe apjrejoicehave made a formal contract with half a score of them her pe?il.TOX OBSERVERthat she should not he reduced, whencamepises, ipower, below the rank of a chambermaid, and that herh andLADIES’ DEPARTMENT.prostitihusband should be sold to some one not more than prostititen miles off.jpecunuMONDAY.ARY 12, 1838.Whether it was for her own amusement, or whether len(^eriit really happened exactly so, we don’t pretend to say,\|v ood friend; Did you ever set down after break- (Aunt Charity may say that we dreamedgreater heart hcalls tlt;dcontrive something for dinneT, when it seemed)WCllthere was nothin* eatable in the house’ Did you enough in a little black girl of Aunt Charity’s tosufferefciafter racking your brains for an hour, almost wishoccasionally at her expense—anda fewShe hakeeper? Wellknew if the worst should come, the punishment would chines/did, vou may imagine something of an Eaitorsshe tareIdes. Although he may sometimes serve up cold i_-vet whether he has any thing new to cook orU, .ur.hinj me.™? than to be called an i*np*ide!it. good for nothing little jade, with a pinch of the ear if she J‘er °^vcould’nt dodge. “Mistress* mistress, there’s a greathe must at his peril, occasionally present a new big abolitionist up here at the tavern.tion ar “You lie, tothofyou hussey, its no such thing.” “Yes there be, mis-Thv'ff 1 will candidly confess that I am greatly at a ’I'ess-1 8eed him” “Give rae m’ bonnet and lt;-loak-44*wherv hatnew dish to present my readers with this Did ’ou ever seea hpavy loaded steamboat makingness iscontra**flw 1 must trust to the kindness of an old acquaint-. to permit herself to be cooked up upon such anagainstand death were contending for the mastery? Well,inquie,r JCV, and as I am too far off to be in danger, I we re not 80 “mannerly as to compare Aunt Charitying,housetiF ’ make whoever shows her the paper my agent to t0 any suc^ ,*lln£’nor eivubmA to, and receive whatsoever she may thenThundering was the knock that morning at thew h ic hsionslt;] l!iere consider of the Editor in this behalf.door of Mrs. 8, and it was no idle knock of cere-nol won’t call her name, but just saymony, for though she waited no invitatation to enter,live edeli oli* t Charily. I choose this name because I onceit was a notice to all the house that Aunt Charity wascal teithere. “O dear! Mrs. S. I’m dead, I’m dead, my houseof the, , i • v v u» • to# m. ui uruui m. in vjyuu, in » nnlKP,j a tale of her. She was a good maiden lady who .. # 4 c _, , .u i , . . „ . z. „ . . .. throat is cut trom ear to ear. Im chopped up into wedloA, w*J *v attended to the affairs of all her neighbors.Ifresausage-meat—you’ll all be murdered and burnt upwas no report true or false, ever started within „ . * , . ., .1........ , . and made slaves of before night.■risdiction, of which she did not take cognizance..... . . 5 . . another minute.0,1 won’t stay here■I’m going straight back to New’*her special business to find out, not only the „ _ ^ ° , t ' „ ,_ , ... ,A England. I would nt live here another day for all the, hut thA i.OArOi An.N a! h AW n AI /fit Ka WO UnH f A ^ *I ness, but the intentions of her neighbors, and toAsme the depositary of every secret. But her endworld—if W. a must unfortunate one. A Frenchman took lodg-tion negroes and all.”would give me his whole planta-b 1 and at; on the opposite side of the street. The good.It is the misfortune of pocr mortals that, howeverdejectman, as a matter of course, set herself at w’ork togreat their haste, they must take time to breathe.pray.Aft■n who and what he was, and w’hat his business,Perhaps Mrs. 8. did not set this down on the list of as^ ^rther he was a married man, a widower or a bach-evils at this time, at any rate we have no well authen-morni-.and all the thousand et ceteras that enter into aticated account that she was so disposed.mothtindividuality. She watched him from her win-44Aunt Charity, what has frightened you so this«ligiouFrcwalks—enquiredmorning?You are certainly not dead, if you are, der mSevone•3UG **»**» in uio * UIA' UIICU VI CYC . , • , J Ol. , 1 your ghost very much resembles substantial flesh and r ,, but from none of these sources could she ob- „ . . . , c , , , , ~ . tl,edany information to allay the fever of her curiosi-blood.” “Blood! there isn’t a drop of blood left in dreanWeek after week passed away and all continuedbody. Dead! I wish I witho. kaiid mysterious.as—everywas dead and buried a hundred feet deep. I w’ish IIn•v,and vet she knew’ nothing of him, save his outerwas a hundred millions of miles off—they'd just assuddeNarance.Poor woman! All things else were for-Osoon cut my throat right on my best carpet as anyiwas r8ht.ten—the town—the world—was to her a blank.body could tell her who or what this Frenchman44. Dav after dav she sat beside her window watch-tbn window of this mysterious person.(lei all her skill.Hope at length gave place towhere else—my carpets and floors will all be ruined. Chris I’ll sell them all this blessed minute at half price.” dejec!” “Mat- PlacP;socialter! why you act as if you had no sense. Don’t you gent iOVu tl.ot lUe wl»*L 4.»«-n 'wllP'S Dllfl Ka- f fd til,illDo aunt Charity, tell me what is the matter.ipairher strengthfailed—she betook herself tody killed? We’ve all got to wash the negroes’ feet and Pbed and soon breathed her last. Poor AuntChari-sleep in the kitchen.• L o u for h€I won t stay in the State anoih- g.n to:d of a Frenchman!t*i iniiiute. Tliere are forty abolitionists come hereLilto the tavern not an hour ago.” “Forty abolitionists, vived44I i this was not my Aunt Charity. She is still Aunt Charity!” “Forty, yes more than a hundred,tivit least I know nothing to the contrary—and and they have got a hundrednegroesuponsomeheart2 may she live to take care of things in the village ready to rise when they give them the wink—we oflig*But woe to the wight who ven- sha’nt he a mouthfull apiece for them.” “But they44Pnto present himself to her as the Editor’s substi- won’t cook you whole, Aunt Charity?” “You needn’tare tlt;see 8I give her full leave tc cuff his ears and pull make sport of it, Mrs. S. I feel them picking my jpss^hair.4bones now.Well don’t be impatient, my dearhot Charity, though wedded to some three hun- woman, it will take them a good while to get at theIage oaNfpoonds of good solid flesh, has never been trou- bones.” “O you wicked wretch, to be cracking jokes ^mindwith the cares of children. Of course she has w hen they’ll have that little fellow of yours, fried upaugghbors—evelike a chicken before night.”“Mother—motherviout44Am‘ .ke upon herself a portion of their cares, and ever Aunt Charity—what does an abolitionist look like?. he' v to become the depositary of their secrets. Is a Is it like a bear or an elephant? Do they keep themsteh lobe made? Who so kindly lends a helpingin cages!44Pooh, you little dunce—youas Aunt Charity? Ithere to be a wedding?has never told you what an abolitionist is—he’s noth-011see it in the bus.tliwr of Aunt Charity as plainlyinor but a man.O44Well then I’ll go and see them,a a mirror with all the parties before it. Has says Ned, any how,’ and off he starts.44Pooh,v-r* ** Iliner new happened, or threatened to happen?— says Ned, when he returns, “there is nothing there,On*• nt Charily is seen on the way to some neighbor but an old man with spectacles on, eating his break-;' d hfor g.utyou something is in the wind, andfast.” “Get away, you blockhead, you know nothingimportance of it in her estimation may be exactly about it, there won’t be a white person alive in the■i: - u re cl by her speed. It will hardly do to say that State to-morrow morning,” and home started Auntw“its along the streets tw’o hundred pounds weight Charily to provide dinner, as if she expected to liveIml■ i be expected to move without some effort, even a thousand years.Tn under the high pressure of a new discoveredMASON’S YOUNG MINSTEL:inchciatiA NEW COLLECTION OF JUVENILE SoNGS, WITH ;the: it to witness Aunt Charity when she rushes into appropriate music, for sale by Truman Smith,Woi:'ds house satis ceremonie breathless with impa- Cincinnati.*mtRevBerl■to communicate what she had been compelled This is, as the name imports, a collection of music Verss«®3l| ‘eP locked up in herbosomadaptedSinging ansvss the street, would be worth a jonrney to the Schools, Common Schools, Family and Sabbath*«* 5e whose name w*e have so carefully concealed. Schools.Vft spoke in hyperboles. With her, nothingWfor the causepretend(sentI.. —‘*6'6?$n3n ordinary character, but superlatively good of vocal music, than Professor Mason, and w*e are andbad—the very best man or woman, or glad that he has given such a work to the youngA»(tv worst that ever lived!—the most astonishing W ithout professing any skill in the science, we canthe-r that ever happened!—the like had never before safely recommend it to our youthful friends. Wremcitai: heard of in the whole world! and truly none who have heard several of the pieces performed by child-3,fl' jnever seen Aunt Charity before had ever heard of ren, at anniversaries, under the direction of Prof. Ma-Lutlike.uN\rs. S.of suchMrs. 8.did you ever hearson, with thrilling effectIWadditiontatictiona(r.**was there ever such a thing known?” life, we doubt not that we shall see, vocal music made} what Aunt Charity?” “Do tell me haven’t a part of common school education. The testimonypra3Theare! !-parlt;J of it! Haven’t you heard the news? The of those who have made the experiment is, that ani ^ if _t.fown isan uproar—theyears—hour a day spent in singing,instead of interruptingconsedult;P*will have his neck wrung off—he’ll never minute’s peace as long as he lives— he’s ;ifV! crazy now—jrone clean beside himself-the progress of pupils* decidedly accelerates the ir reli^**advancement in other studies, while it refines and ele-madvates and purifies the heart. W e recommend toit arstrufrightened out of his senses.” “ Why teachers of common schools who are capable of it, toOiarity do tell me what is the matter.”44’ tW0l)ldtake a month—you never heard of suchO I make the experimentall your life—it’ll fly all over the countyMARRIAGE DUTIES.Pru2schlt;AtranWh■e nightthere won’t he a hair left on his head.”There are duties of marriage, which begin before histlcan be the matter Aunt Charity?” “O dear, Ikll half a quarter of it—you knowr that big bluethe marriage itself, in the provision that is made fur matrimonial virtue and happiness; and lie who neglects the means of virtuous love, in a state of whichsclnAby if,f'r that Mrs.had w hen she was married?Ifvirtuous love is to be the principal charm, is far more• • • i • I .___ a I_____« U a U AArl I ADC?wrilt know it?” Don’t know that big blueinconsiderate, and far more guilty, than the heedless theryes you do every bodyit—youMr?•;i hundred thousand times—-the biggestproducer of misery, who forms a matrimonial connection, w ithout the prospect of any means ot subsistence, for one w ho is to exist with him, only to sufferwilljustshoint--•f ikpitcher in the state—why ’twould hold morewith him in indigence, and for the little sufferers who j sclnan your well—its broken all to smash M big as your finger nail.” “How did itafterwardstionnot a jje wj10 Las vowed to love one to whom he I tion?rn Aunt Charity?” “O I can’t tellworth vpoorreasonquittionor other smashed it all to pieces they{u alve together another day—you never heard14complain of the difficulty of loving the unworthy.If however, it be necessary for man to be carefu.m M m m 1 . - — — I. «seniI(It turns out that a little pieceengages3is surely not less necessary for the gentler tendernesnyour nail w’as broken off the «ide of a qua j of woman. She, too, has duties to fulfil, that depend j met
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Alton Observer
Alton, Illinois, US
Thu, Feb 15, 1838
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