From the Portsmouth Journal.


A WASHING DAY.
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s' time for all things."-soLoMoS.


"An hour before the worshpped sun
Peered forth the golden window of the east.
A troubled mind drove me to walk abroad"


SHAKspEARE.


Perhaps it is not known to all the bene-
diets who magnanimously live. (as Cap
tain Dalgetty hath it "for their own pc.
:uliar," who wisely shut themselves out
from the common perils of domestic Ca
lamity, and snore as long as they please
every morning il. their own hired houses
Perhaps it is not known to such comforta
bly, situated gentlemen, what an event 9
washing day is; how, and when it begins
and when, and how it ends. A washing
day, at home. then, is the longest day i,
the week; it generally begins at 7 O'Clock
ON the evening of Monday-and continues
foul weather with breezes, till the after.
noon of Tuesday.


The dreadful "notes of preparation
are first sounded by the splashing of buck
cts full of water, on the evening previous
to the ill-fated day. 1t would seem as il
the second sack Of Troy had commenced
the hum of buckets and kettles-the fami
liar "household words" of Polly ant
Thomas and Niabby, reiterated from one
extremity of the house to the other, all in
dicate the force of the enemy and that the
battle is waxing hot--Polly is wanted in