Lancaster Gazette

PHILOLOGY. It is impossible to account for all the barbarisms which have crept into our language, through the medium of the newspaper press. It is indeed almost impossible to enumerate them, so common have they become. Every day's experience brings mortifying proof of the justness of the following satire, which is copied from the New-York Commercial Advertiser, a paper which deserves no little praise for its unwearied pains to preserve the English language from utter ruin, by the heedlessness or ignorance of editors of newspapers. Many of the popular vulgarisms are here happily hit off:-

Melancholy Catastrophe. A pig with rather a lengthy tail, but which, when curled up, looked rather shortish, was being run over by a cart on yesterday, by the means of which his life was eminently jeopardised, when a gentleman, who was progressing diagonally across the street, and who thought the cartman a notorious fellow, and that his conduct was obnoxious, predicating the idea upon the supposition that he might have cleared out of the pig's way, or called out to him to stop. The cartman made a profane declination, and the wheel passed over the balance of the pig, and broke his back. The owner of the animal, considering that there was no preventative for his death, which opinion he based upon the fact of his not being able to stand, has brought a suit in the Justice's court to recover two dollars damages. The value of pork has appreciated, according to the valuable and talented price-current of Mr. Clayton, which is copyrighted, and found eminently useful by commercialists and agriculturalists. We have these facts over the signature of the pig's proprietor; and hope he may recover; in order that other cartmen may take warning from the case of this one, and not do like he did.--Com. Adv.