Vevay Times and Switzerland County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 49, Vevay, Switzerland County, 12 November 1840 — Page 4

VEVAY TIMES AND SWITZERLAND COUNTY DEMOCRAT.

O. K*

Jjist of Matters

"Yat zoy mean by ze letters, O, K. rich 1 see every day, almost two, tree, eleven times in re journal politique of re day!” asked a French gentlemen in a crowd yesterday. "I read zc grand national affair, ond ven 1 come ze end I behold O. K! I glane my cyo to ze report of zs election, and he begin wiz of O. K, —and I nctferc ehall comprehend him.” “flout awa man,” said a bonnte Scot, "dinna ye ken it’s the shortest way of setting down Oil Korrcd /

REMAINING in the Post Office at Veray, Switzerland county, Stale of indianai on the 1st day of October, 1840, which if not taken out of the office within three months, will be sent to the General Post Office as dead letters• Anthony L 1) H Malin Georg® . Aquid Camilla McKay Allen Albro Joseph McGrady Mary Boyd James Mullen John Beckwith Nancy ■- Miller Samuel Rroneon Moses McKay Thomas ■ Boral Ulyesea iMalin Esq. < Joseph _ Bornand Andrew 2 Mendenhall Martha B Campbell John D McCollum Ellen Cox Noah R McGinnis Josiah Cole Jamea W Northcott Kevtt m 3 Cbcnaut M Ogle Hiram Carter Thomas .OrrJohn Colton J. U Peak T Dawson John Peabody S G . Dills John Pearson MB Dyer James Pickett Younger: Dumont A B • Philips William Duncan Peter ProUman Samuel Dufour & Co J Protsroan William Decmcr Jamea B Philips James Drummond & Myers Rankin John • Elliott Peter -Redd Mordccat - Elmore Clarissa Rodwein T Flinchpach G Rickards William Funstan Nicholas II Sheets F G ■ Freeman Thomas W Steward James Farrar Andrew J. Smith GY Frazer Charlotte Smith Thomas H Graham James Scott Walter Gray W II .SmithIrby Grisard F Smith Anderson Dully Mrs Ann Shepherd James • IlinesCadwell . Schoonover Francis Hoag Mr. Thrasher Benjamin Hubbard Samuel V 2 Swaddle Eber Huston William W Tardit Louisa Helen Hollingsworth Amanda Uglo* James ' Hamilton Robert W - Vanbrigglo Eliza K" r “r.„ A ' V et . r ind.|("King Minerva Jano Wolley Silas Knox George G Wells Jacob C Keeler Eliza Woolley S Lewis Rebecca Worden Adam , Leo Clarissa ' Woolley Epay _ ' Lockard John ■ Webb Daniel-W ; Lanham Shadrick II , Witherspoon William LeClerc Anthony . WyattS Lewis Hezckiah Whitehead John London D W. Whitmore Wm. Marsh Webster Wright ThoT Murphy Jesse

POETICAL.

‘ [at REQUEST.] X Wonder if She loves Me! 1 wonder if she lotesmel I would'give the world to know!. . For though her laugh still whispers Yes, Her lips still utter No. Why should she blush so when we raeci, If I be not near her heart! And her liny hand still trembles, when We undertake to part!

“U blood an ouns!” said a raw Greek who was present, "did you bear that! 0 courtlier, marther, was there ever such an inhuman butchery of the Queen’s vernacular! Sure the letthers mane Or/ul KaIatlrophe t and what mother’s son of a Christian could give them any other signification!”

VT1BC0MIX . Baal ofWitconttn, Green Bay, —. Sant of Mineral Point,, 10 a 20 dis Fox River Ujdranlic Company, 50 dis Missouri. StateSantiofMo. at St. Lorn*, & Sr. par a 2 prea ARKANSAS. State Sant* and branches, [old iiiue] 40 a 50 dii, do do do lueirlnuel do Beat Estate Sant, L , do ttiu. UOTernment Treasury Notes, - 85 dix SPECIE. - Si I«G „ „ ■ 4 a 5 prea. American Gold, , 5 a 6 prem. Sovereigns, doll*. *5 0 Doubloons, Spaniili, llollt. 16 * 17 0 i do: Patriot, I6al650 English Guineas, C5 00 Looisd’ors, "4 00 a 15 50 Napoleons, ' . -00 . Ten Guilder nieces, 00 TenTfaalcn, •' 8 00 Frederictd’ros, 4 00

"Ha! ha! ha! kt—i —i! whew! hooh!” roared & strapping Kentuckian, "I tay, my lads, you got your broughlcn’ up in mother country, didn’t you! Como here, I pity your ignyranee. O. K. stands for Old Kentuck up and down, all the world over, seven-eights perpendicular of a horse and considerable of acircumferance of an-aliga-lor. Old Kcniuck , and nothing else. 1 tell you, stranger, you can’t make it nothing else no how you can fir it. O. K. Old Kentuck hooh! hooh! hooh! kt—i—:! give her a lick back!” "You make a devil of a noise there,” said a chap from Maine, who was hurrying past, "O. K, means Off_/br Ktn/. Shut up.” "You ish all tarn noeshenso,” said a Dutch Jew, popping a hooked nose between the shoulders of two other speculators, "O. K. ish de th attic ash to shay Oil ith Konjirmed.'* - "Vy you doesn't hunderstand tho Hinglish language,” said a "nice young man” wilhkid gloves and a cane, ”0. K. forms the initial abrevialion for the elegant expression of Oil Kom u/cle.” "No sir,” said an important lookingpersonage, looking around upon the bystanders with "eye sever” end assuming the striking manner of a "Sir Oracle;” “No sir, the letters O, K. as now used, are intended to signify tbo brief and comprehensive expression Oil {Compelled,” The whole crowd was now hushed and awed into silence by the learned solemnity of the umpire; when Corn Meal came singing round the corner, and a little nigger with a basket of vegetables in his baud, who had been listening, with bis enormous red cavern of a mouth wide open, to all this conversation, ran out into the middle of (he street, bawling at the tap of his voice, "i know what 0. K. means —Old Kornmeal!

BANK NOTE TABLE. As a meant of cobbling the public to guard, in „ lome measure, against losics by depreciated Bank paper, .we have made out the following table, giving (ho rates of discount at Cincinnati and Louiiville on < the notes of the varioui banks. It will be corrected weekly, from the paper# of those cities: j KENTUCKY. Bank.of Louisville, P* r Bank of Kentucky and Branches, \ Northern Bank of Kentucky-and Branches, \ Savings Bank of Louisville, Otis Arnold Ac. . Co’s checks on do. P ar Hotel Company, Old Bank of Kentucky, 3 per ct dis. Commonwealth Bank and Branches, Sdis. ; South Western Real Estate Bank, fraud. INDIANA. Farmers 1 and Mechanics* Bank, Madison, - 1 dis* State Bank, 1 “ Branches at Now Albany, Madison and Lawrenccburgb, P* r All other Branches, I di*. ouio. Bank of Cleveland, H Bank of Massillion, H *“*• Bank of Cirdcvillc, H Bank of Wooster, >* f BankofXenia, 1* dis. Bank of Sandusky, ** ,!* Bank of Hamilton, *1 dis. Batik of West Union, H dis. Bank ofChiticothc, li dis. Bank of Marietta, H dis Bank of Mount Pleasant, li dis. Bank of Nonvalt, U dis. Bank of Geauga, li dis. Bauk of Zanesville, li dis, Belmont Bank of SU ClairsvBIe, U dis. Bunk of Steubenville, H dis. Clinton Bank at Columbus,. - li dis. Colombian Bunk of New Lisbon, li dis. Commercial Bank of Cincinnati, ‘ • par Commercial.Bank of Lake Erie, 31 dis. Commercial Bank of Sciota,' , U dis, DaytonBiti, ' ■ ■’ .. li dis. Day ton Mug.-Company, Saadis. Exchange Bank Cincinnati, , 11*3-dis. Fanners A. Mechanics Bank Steubctuviile, 11-2 dis. Farmers Bank Canton, .. ./ 20 dis. Franklin Bank Cincinnati, par Franklin Bank Columbus, 1 1-2 dis, German Bank Wooster, ' ■ ■; 11-2 dis. Granville Alexandrian Society, . ; 11-2 dis. Kirtland Safely Society, V .' ■ ; ..fraud Lancaster Ohio Bank, . .11-3 dis, Lafayette Bank Cincinnati,V ‘ "-‘‘par Manhattan Bank at Manhattan Ohio, . : SO dis. Mechanics & Traders Bank Cincinnati, "1 1-2 * Miami Exporting Company CincionnU, ! par Musktognm Bank Putnam, - I f-2 dii. M unroe Falls Mng. Company, ■ : doubtful Orphans Institute Bank,. • ■ -; • : ? T‘ - T Ohio Rail Koud, . 50 tits, Ohio Life Insuranco&TrtulCompany." par Urbann Bonking Company, ' V ' I 1-3 dis.' Western Reserve Banc at.Warren, 11-2 dis. Union Bank of Exchange, Cincinnati,' 'fraud . * ' LOOIBIASA. '' . Clinton and Port Hudsoi, at Jackson, . 50 dis. New Orleans City Banks, ’ par ' uitsissirri. ‘ Agricultural Bank Natchez, - . 35 a 50 dis. Planters Bank'No tcliez, ‘ do. . Commercial Bank Natchez; 33 Natchez Post Notes, ■ 75 dis. Natchez Rail Road, - ~ -75 a 80 dis. Miss. Shipping Company, .75 a 80.dis. Grand Gulf railroad & Banking Co., , 60 a 75 dis. West Feliciana do. -do. .do.' : 50 dir. Commercial Bank of Manchester, ' ’ 50 dis. do. r do. . Rodney, ' " 75 dis.’ Commercial Railroad and Banking Com- .; -' pany. Vicksburg,' . - 50 a 75 dis; Bank of Vicksburg, GO n 75 dis. Vicksburg Water .Works & Banking Co. $0 a 75 dis. City of Vicksburg Post Notes,' ’ . : v,’v no sale Lake Washington, V . - 75 a 80 Gif, Commercial Rank, Columbus ’ ■ 30 a 50 .tits. Tombigbec,-.- ‘ 30. dis. Union Bank at Jackson, Post Notes, ; : . 75 dis. do. - payable at tight,' 75 dis. Bank of Port Gibson, " 30a50dii. Citizens Bank Madison County, ; ■ i - 75 a 80 dis. Chickasaw Land Bank, * .75 n80 dis. All other banks oflhis State are worthlea.: r michioan ' . .■■■ : Detroit City Banks, ' -v 1 :! ; l0a25 - Bank of River Raisin, Monroe,'. t: do, : ; Solvent country [chartered] Banks, ’ * ■ ‘ 25 to 50 Joint slock, Safety Fund and Wild Cat,no sole ilukoii. . . ‘ ; - • ■'' .. Slate Bank of Illinois and its Branches, 11-2 dir. Bank of Illinois anti branches, Shawncelown, - 11-2 dis. Bank of Cairo, -5a10d[t, Illinois Saving# Bank, ■ . fraud Manufacturer#’ and Miners’ at Jackson, - fraud Merchant# and Planters Bank at Chicago, . fraud ' A Lit AKA. State Bank and branches, . - JO dis, All other solvent Banks, do. \ ■ zeasartTAxiA. » Philadelphia City Banks,' ■ - par a 3 prem. Pittsburgh banks, “ a 3 ; ** ■ Country banks, - par TENNESSEE. . Ranks of Tennessee and branches, .. 7 1-2 dis* Planters’Bank and branches, ' 7 1-2 dis. Union Bank and branches, 7 1-2 dis. Yeatman, Woods and Co. 1 71-2 dis. vraoiMA. . " Bank of Virginia nnd branches, ' v par Farmers’ Bank of Virginia and branches, ; par Valley Batik and branches, -par Northwestern Bank of Va. at Wheeling, '* par Merchants’and .Mechanics’Bank at do. 1 . par and branches, . par NEW VOIK, , * -. City Banks, 5 a 10 prem. Country thinks, 2 a 5 prem. Mechanics’ & Traders’ Bank, Albany, .' fraud MARYLAND. Baltimore City Banks, par a 2 prem. Country Banks, 2 dis. FLORIDA. Southern Life Insurance and Trust Company, St Augustine, 25 a 50 (lit. All other solvent Bonks, 30 a 50 dis. GEORGIA. All Solvent Banks, 10 a 50 dis. SOUTH CAROLINA. Charleston City Banks, 5 a 71-2 dis. Country Banks, do, do. NORTH CAROLINA, ! Bank of Cape Fear ’ 5 a 7 1*2 dis. All other solvent Banks, do, NEW ESGLARn. Boston City Banks. . 2 a 5 prem. All other solvent Banks, par a 2 prem. CANADA. Montreal City Banks, 25 dis. Quebec do, 25 dis. 1 Bank of Upper Canada, at Toronto, SG dis. 1 Mechanics'Banks, Montreal, fraud - Ottawa Bank, do. fraud Mechanic’s Bank, St, Johns fraud

1 wonder ifshe loves me! . Last night we were alone, And I thought there was a coldness Unusual in her tone; Yet, toying with her curls, I stole SucAa sweet kiss! and though She looked unutterable things, She did not hid me go!

I wonder if she loves mo!' To wake her woman’s prido, I feigned to love another, once! But sho neither spoke, nor sighed; Still, though she seemed emotionless 1 watched her black eye well, And Pm certain that a tear drop From its silken lashes fell.

LOOK WELL TO YOUR BANK NOTES. Counterfeit Dank Notes, on ihe different good banks, and fraudulent issues nf post notes and other worthless paper, without capital or basis, are innumerable. * Counterfeits. INDIANA* - Farmers’ axd Mechanics’ Hass.* 6s. letter B. Very coarsely executed, purporting to be engraved by Murray, Draper, Fairman & Co, They can be detected by observing that the letter a in Murray is omitted. State Base or Indiana. .

St, dated Jan. 1,1339, Payable to G. W. Kath•bcne S, Merrill, Pres. John Hess, Cash. Can bo detected by observing the names of the engravers, W. Ihne & Co. The genuine veto engraved by Hawdon, Wright, Hatch & Co., New York. The spurious bills have for a vignette, a man standing under a tree, with cattle, hogs,ic. In the distance, a view'ofiocomo- ** fiire, bank has never issued any bills !".bcarihg”datc Jan. 1,1929. - of the genuine Tcts is that ;l‘of a ttdnter on Horseback, white the cocntci>,fcilB>liaTe<;f('r a vignette a view of a ,SteamboaT; Sfiip; dec,, 30* a'nd ICUs altered fromiw.tljoy may be readi- • ly ; detected by being clumsily altered,, and by retained llm'headaof particular Individuals on the notes, at all the fives have—none ■ of' which heads are on the $20 or $100 bill: . - The^onlyv$30.bill,Issued; has the ;Jrtdiana i SuieTIouse for itsynain design; while that if ■ the only $100 bill is a Roman soldier and matron. The upper and lower margin is cm oif the $5 in making the alteration. :

I wonder if she loves me? I’m sure 1 can't decide, for sometimes she’s all tenderness, And sometimes she’s all pride: In vain I question of my hopes, My tears still weigh them down, Since even her sweetest, suniest, smile Is featured by a frown!

VARIETY.

The TbesidextialElection.— Frank Smith, and Thomas Keddin were up,before Recorder Baldwin on Sunday morning. They were arrested for being 1 noisy and intoxicated. * ‘ ‘Smith,’ said the Recorder, ‘about what did you and Reddin quarrel 1 .’ ‘Vy*. about the old thing, your honor,’ said Smith.

Old Karnmvat! clta! cha! whew! get away! Old Kornmcal /”

[Exit lillle nigger round the corner . «.Vj6 di’jpener leccfoHy.]— AT, O. Pie.

FERRET DUFOUR, P. M. Post Office, Vevay, la., Oct. 1,1S40, 31c

*VVhal do you call the old thing?’ said (he Recorder.

Ilemlnlscences.of the late War.

KENTUCKY; UaXK OP LoCISTILLE.LoUJBVILLK Kr,

• Vy, this here presidential helection,’ said Smith.

A writer in a Western paper, who was a staff officer in a volunteer corps called out by the patriotic proclamation of General Smyth, gives an account of divers causes—other than the love of country, the love of glory, or the love of fight—which induced men to leave their homes and their friends for the field of battle and chances of: war.

•6, you differ in politics, do you?’ said the Recorder.

5b. letter C, payable to H. Millikin, dated Ocl. '9th 1853.' The signatures'are very well exe- . cutcd, but tho engraving iscourte, and the . ink- much paler than tn the genuine notes. There .arc also others of the same denomination blade to \\VNUbitl; which resemble the above in most respect*, except that the Ink is darker than in the true notes. They - may easily bc-delcctcd on a slight cxnmina- ■; lion. ■■ V Bank or Kentucky. ■

‘Certainly we do,* said Smith— 1 ‘he ia a ra66i/ locofoco and 1 is a rig,’ ‘A hhall’laid the Recorder.

*A wiolent politician and in favor of Wan Buren,* said Smith. ‘Bull’ll tell your honor as bow it ia. Ye both lives in the same yard, and venever 1 passes him ho says, there goes Hard Cider; there is von of the party wot aint got no principles; there’s n supporter of the man wots been made brave by certificates am) not by his swordi and )iq goes on in that ere vay vich no good vig can. stand. Yen ho finds the other vigs out what live in the yard and the locofocos at home, he is sure to talcs the wote and then he calls it a Wan Buren rrfetory and a sign of t the tithes, and ali that. The fact is, your honor, if the feller vaen’i looing out for an office I doesn’t think he’d be half as patriot as he is.*

One of these heroes discoursed lo the follow* ing effect: ■ “If Hannah had not been so snappish, and made me du all the milkin and churnin tew, 1 should never have been here. She told mo she guessed I’d be sorry I’d listed—but she druv me to destraction. I’d rather stand the bewlels than her eternal clatter of tongue, halves and fords and tin things. If she is a widderitis all her own fait. Tell her 1 dew dream about her and the baby, came* times—I kalkalale all things arc foreordained tu all eternity, and if I die in fighiin, I shan't have the expense tu pay of a long spell of sickness, good by, Ephraim—you hain’t got more tobacker than will dew you hum, have yel”

20*. ■ letter A.; payable to It. S.' Todd, June 10, -1825, signed G. C. Gwathmey, Cashier, Jolm ' ’ I Jacob, President. It is badly executed, touch lighter Utah the genuine note, in d very imperfect ib each.ofthcdevices. The figum of the India non the left end is modi lighter and imperfect, 'particularly about the 'head. The .word belter ; la shorter, and the sole about , one-eighth of aVinch abort er than the genuine, and. the filling badly done.' it will he easily deleciedbygood judges. NobtiibrH Baiik op KEXTecitv. 20s.'letter D, dated Oct. 1,1838. Vignette, a roan in a sitting posture, with a female kneeling and offering flowers or something of the * kind; pngraving very coarse, plate new, and not even an attempt at copying the genuine. They can easily bo detected by observing that - the signatures have been marked out in fine

Hlcddln,* said the Recorder, ‘is your conduct such os Smith describes it!,

l Kut a bit on it,’ said Reddin—'if I vas to be let alone I’d never do nothing to nobody, but he’s heternaUy talking politics. Vcn my old votnan locks the door and goes out he makes a fox on it vith chalk and writes underneath it, ‘this hare is sly Reynard from Kinderhook, vot vosfor some* limes in the London Zoological Gardens, but now is in the Menagerie at Vashington; he’s the most cunning hanimal vot’s known to naturalists.’ This is not,all, your honor. Yen I vams to sleep at night I’m bio wed if] can gel a wink, he kicks up such a rumpus, singing Harrison songs tho whole time and crowing like a rcg’lar rooster. I have challenged him over and over again, but I never can get him lo toe the mark, no how.’ ‘Ho you know,’ said the Recorder, ‘that by challenging him you have been guilty of inciting to a breach of the peace.’ ‘I doesn’t mean a duel, your honor,’ said Reddin, ‘but to a discussion of principles: but I’m blamed if Idon't believe he baint got any.’ .'Rut can’t you both retain your respective political opinions without quarrelling!’ said the Recorder,

“Tell Sally,” says another, who leaning on his musket to ,ease his blistered feel and feastcrcd heart at the same lime, “tell the cruel girl, llm if I fall in battle, it is alt her fault—that I wish her all the felicity in the world—with Sam Johnson, who never can Jove her aa I did. Hero, look at this,” and ho drew something from his bosom, “her profile is dose lo my heart, and my blood may redden it. Take care of my pung, and don’t lend it for Chrismas sleigh rides,' Tell Sally Ido forgive her, when ehe slighted me at singing school;—but 1 never shall forget it.” [Ezeter Acids Letter,

hair marks, which are not covered in the sign-

ing.

Northebr Bake, Kt., Brakcu at Louisville. 3a, Pay to T. Anderson, dated Aug. 10, 1838, M, T. Scott, Cashier. Paper light and engraving faint; olherV>>u-caIcuIated to deceive.. ... OHIO. Bake or Clsvelako, Ohio.

Boot, aud Shoe Making* THE undersigned, who for three m-| - yean occupied tbo establishment , | [ j formerly occupied by Chas, Thiebaud, lakes this method of returntog his thanks -to bis customers and the public generally, for the liberal shar£ of patranage extended to him. Ho has rpmoved to the shop lately occupied by C. W, Gray &Co., fronting the market street, where he will at all times keep on hand a complete assortment of Roots Shoes, coarse and fine, womens’ and childrens shoes, at the lowest prices. All Roots and Shoes made in his estabI is e men t will be of Eastern and Cincinnati stock, and will be mended gratia when ripped. He hopes by close application to business, and a desire to pleaoe the public, to merit a share of public patronage. F, J. GEORGEL. May 28,1840. 26lf

A Domestic Scene.— Time, Bed Time. Dramat it Persona:: A mother ami Aer two daughttrt, Emma and Fanny. ‘Fanny dear! come love and say your prayers —thal’fl a dear.*

30s..altered from Is. *The Ago re SO in a largo .die is impressed in 7 places, and very clumsily done. This bank has never issued any $20 bills. Babe op Gbarvillc.

“P’ay got to b’ess fader and muver, and make Fanny a good girl,’

‘Emma! you abominable girl, put down tho milk jug miss, and don’t let me see you put your fingers in the butteragain. Goon Fanny Dear.’ And when I lie mo down lo a’ecp, . 1 p’ay the Lord — ‘EmraaM saw ysu miss—you naughty girl,’ : —-my soul to keep And If! die before 1 wake, I pray the Lord my soul to lake. ‘Take (hat, miss, I told you not to put your fingers in the butter again. Corns and say your prayert you abominable creature. Fanny Jove, go lo bed like a good girl. Exit Fanny making faces at Emma, which Emma returns with compound interest, and at the close of the performance she says Atr prayers and thus ends this scene in the domestic Drama.

3s. no letter: Various dates. Vignette, a Steamboat and Kail-Road Cars* On the right band margin, an Indian figure in a standing posture, with bow unstrung. Commercial Bare of Cikcirrati. IOs. letter A, payable to John W. Wales, dated May 4th, 1837, signed J. S. Armstrong, President/W. S. Hatch, Cashier, and engraved by ■' Underwood, Bald 4sSpencer. The signatures ' MW.tolerably welt executed. The counterfeits ; ’may' bo'eakily detected by noticing the plate, Vibe bank;having issued none of this description: in the centre of the note, at the lop, is a, vignette of William the Fourth, and on thfr right and loft are female figures, the former seated, holding a sheaf of wheat, and the latter standing, with a cap of liberty in her right: hand. '

‘Veil, -then,’ said Reddin, ‘your honor must bind him over not to sing Arrison songs between the hours of ten o'clock at night and six o’clock in tho morning, and not to be frightening my children out of bed by firing off that old rusty musket in celebration of wictorics when he haint gained none. Yes, and prewent him, your honor,* continued Reddin, ‘from making his big dog stand bn his bind toga in my presence, and saying, as be points to him, “here ta von of Wan Huron's present standing barmy;” nor I wont stand no more from him about negro testimony, cause it’s all gammon. 1

BOOT AND SHOE MANUFACTORY.

C. Thiclmud nnd T. Haskell. CHARLES THIEDAUD would inform hit friends and former customers, that he has resumed his Dimness of boot and Shoe making in alt its branches, at his old stand in the brick building on Main, one door west of Ferry street, Vevay, la., and has taken into partnership with him Thomas Haskell. They are determined to spare no pains or expense to render satisfaction to those who may favor them with their custom. They have now oo hand a large quantity ol the best quality of stock which is being put together by mecnanics of the very first class, so that their customers may depend on having work uf the best quality, at prices to suit the times. All orders in their line tbankLMy received and pTompUy attended to. May. 14.1840, 24fm.

On the part or Smith it was provided that Roddinwas not to call him & hard cider cask nor a worshipper of log cabins, any more. They made mutual promises to act with more forbearance towards one another in future, and to display a greater degree of political charity than they have evinced heretotorc, and were discharged A*. 0. Picayune.

Rather Bao Fresch.— A couple of loafers; during the rain and darkness ofThursday night came across a suspicious looking chap lying at the Battery gale." Before approaching too near, they halted; and one addressed the odd customer, we believe, in English, Irish and Dutch, but no answer came.

There arc counterfeits on nearly every bank* in the State of Ohio, and persons cannot be too cautious in taking them.

An elderly maiden, meeting a newly married man, who had once been her servant, carrying home a cradle, exclaimed, ‘Ah, John, these arc the fruits of marriage.* ‘No, madam;* replied John, ‘this be only theyruit batkcl.’

Bins or Illinois, Shawkeetowx, III.

ILLINOIS.

‘Stand aside, Jo,* said the other,‘let mespeak to him io French. ’ Ilem! Bone Squaih. Monthen'.'

20r, payable to \V. C. Doyle, dated Aug, 4, 1699. On the left hand end of the note, around a circle, are the words *'$100,000 ownby the State.”—The paper and engraving are in good imitation of the genuine. The sig~ natures of the President and Cashier are rather badly done. Bank of the United Slates. ■.

*1 say Jem,* inquired Jo, what did you say to him.’ '

‘Why 1 said* good eventage ait/ ‘Well you dum fool you, its nothing more than a black hog* If you'd just given him a bit of hog lattn that ere French ofyour’n mightn’t have been wasted.’—Sunday Mercury

‘That’s a thundering big lie!* said Tom. ‘No.’ replied Dick, ‘it’s only & fulminating enlargment of elongated veracity!’ Harry took off bis hat, elevated hit eyes, and held bis tongue.

LAW PARTNERSHIP.

10s. now' plate, letter A. on botb'endf; signed for J.Cowperthwaito, cash,, S. hTason; for N.’ Biddle, pres., 0, W. Fairman. The center vignette of the 'banking house' is tolerably well executed, but the, bead .on. the ends of the bill are coarsely engraved.

M. G. BRIGHT AND J. M. KYLE, HAVING associated themselves together in the practice of the Law in the Switzerland Circuit Court, will attend to all business entrusted to their care ta said Court.

A lady seeing her lover running in great baste to meet her, observed to him that he must be in a great harry, to ran so faal. ‘Madam,* replied the lover, *1 was following thy inclination.* .

The following toast was givenat the cattle ■bow dinner in Concord: 'Old Bachelors and Old Majds, a cold set; may they be toasted till they are melted together.’

GROCERY STORE. TUB subscriber respectfully informs the citizens of Switzerland county, and the public generally, that bo baa on land and is now opening at the old stand of Matthias Mad ary on Ferry street, opposite the Market space, in Vcvay., on extensive assortment of GROCERIES, consisting, in part, of Teas, Loaf and New Orleans Sugar, Coffee, Molasses, Mackerel, Pepper, Alspice, Ginger, Tobacco, Cigars, &c. &c. Also an assortment of choice • ‘ Foreign and Domestic lilRUORS, consisting of Brandy, Hum,' Gin, Wine, Whiskey, dec.,'all of which lie offers for sale low for cash or approved country produce. The farmers of Switzerland county generally, are invited to call and examine the Groceries, and benr his terms. The subscriber will not be prepared to receive Pork for two or three weeks, at which lime due notice will be given, EDWARD HOUSTON. Vevay.Sept. 24, 1840. 42lf