POETICAL.
MAKE HOME BRIGHT AND PLEASANT.
More than building showy mansions,
More than dress and fine array,
More than domes or lofty steeples.
More than station, power and sway—
Make your home both neat and tasteful,
Bright and pleasant, always fair,
Where each heart shall rest contented,
Grateful for each beauty there.
More than lofty swelling titles,
More than fashions lurid glare.
More than Mammon's gilded honors,
More than thoughts can vfell compare—
See that home is made attractive
By surroundings pure and bright ;
Trees, arranged with taste and order,
Flowers, with all their sweet delight.
Seek to make your home most lovely—
Let it be a smiling spot,
Where, in sweet contentment resting,
Care and sorrow are forgot.
Where the flowers and trees are waving,
Birds will sing their sweetest song;
Where the purest thoughts will linger,
Confidence and love belong.
There each heart will rest contented,
Seldom wishing far to roam,
Or, if roaming, still will cherish
Mcm’ries of that pleasant home.
Such a home makes man the better;
Pure and lasting its control;
Home, with pure and bright surroundings,
Leaves it impress on the soul.
THE SAILOR’S VALENTINE.
BY FITZ-JAMES O'BIUEN.
Ah! Maggie, would that I could send
To you some 6weet and tender line,
To tell you that your sailor lad
Still claims you for his valentine.
But all around is lonesome sea;
The unseen fingers of the wind
Clutch at the ropes and tear the sails,
And heap the billowy hills behind.
Yet watching on the dismal deck,
Through midnight hours so drear and black,
My heart still sings its valentine,
But who will bear the message back?
Clouds scudding by the watery moon,
Go bless her cottage from above,
And shed from high in mystic dews
This lonely utterance of my love!
And you, dark ocean, myriad-tongued,
Wave following wave with ceaseless beat,
Seek you the beach she walks at eve,
And lay my message at her feet.
Fly. white winged sea-bird, following fast,
mat atps arouna our loamy wane,
Go nestle in her virgin breast.
And kiss her pure lips for tny sake.
Winds howling through the shapeless night.
Unkenneled hounds that hunt the sea,
Hush your hoarse voices to a song.
And sing the love that lives in me.
Toll her, ye all, through midnight dark,
In heat and eold, through storm and shine,
The sun-burned, honest sailor lad
Still thinks about his valentine.
EDWIN BOOTHS FIRST REPRESENTA
TION OF RICHARD III.
Ten or twelve years ago, says The New
York Express, old Booth was playing an en
gagement at Chatham street Theatre in this
city, and was announced on a certain night
for Richard III; he went to rehearsal in the
morning, and gave no indication of the eccen
tricity which sometimes seized him, or of any
disinclination to perform in the evening; lie
was ill. however, and when night fell, utterly
refused to go to the theatre ; his dresses were
packed and put into the carriage that awaited
him, but he was obstinately immovable. He
said to his son Edwin, now the inheritor of
his father’s fame, but then a boy of sixteen,
who had played only parts like “Richmond”
in this very play, or “ Laertis in Hamlet, and
these but seldom—“Neddy, you must go and
play ‘ Richard’ for me.” The boy thought
his father was joking, but the strange man of
genius persisted ; and the other genius, not
knowing what he did, or what he was going
to do, got into the carriage and drove to the
theatre. He told his story, and the manager,
who knew how intractable old Booth was when
he got into his vagaries, called for J. R. Scott,
who sometimes played a part when the greater
actor disappointed his audience. Scott, how
ever. refused ; he was cast for “ Richmond,”
and “ Richmond” only would he play. The
house was crowded, the overture was over.
The manager exclaimed in despair : “There
is no one to play ‘Richard’ but you, Edwin.”
“ That’s what my father sent me to do.”
“ Are you up in the part?” (which means “ do
you know the text?”) “ Yes.” And without
consulting the youngster further, they dragged
him into the dressing-room, made him up to
look as much like his father as possible, dressed
him in the parternal garments, (so that he lit
erally stepped into his father’s shoes and wrore
his father’s mantel,) and without giving him
time to think, without announcing to the au
dience any change in the cast, they rang up
the curtain and Edwin Booth appeared as
“ Richard III.” It was a strange debut for him
to make, as a star, who has since gained so en
viable a dramatic rank. The audience looked
amazed : but they were used to having Booth.
the elder, take all sorts of liberties with them;
most of them knew who it was that filled his
plaee. from the son having supported the father
at intervals in this theatre. They were curi
ous to see if any of the fire that animated the
old man so wonderfully had been transmitted.
It was a sensation, a novelty, and they sub
mitted. The boy went through the piece,
was applauded at times, and called out at the
close of the play. Then, indeed, he was more
frightened than before; then lie must appear
in his own person, and leave “Richard 111”
behind the curtain. He dared not go; so
Scott took him by the hand, led him out. and
said to the house that cheered so loudly •. “ A
chip of the old block;” words that have been
proven since, more than casually true. And
so young Booth for the first time played
“Richard.”
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Difference Between Simple and Com
pound Interest.—From the birth of Christ
to the 25th December, 1815, one penny, at
five perceut. simple interest, amounts to 7s.
3 Jd.; at compound interest, it would be
£1,227.742,357.151,589.060,967,240,755,
941 9s. 9d., (One decillion, two hundred and
twenty-seven nouillions, seven hundred and
forty-two octillions, three hundred and fifty
seven septillions, one hundred and forty-one
sextillions, eight hundred and seventeen quin
tillions, five hundred and eighty-nine quadril
lions. sixty trillions, nine hundred and sixty
seven billions, two hundred and forty millions,
seven hundred and fifty-five thousand, four
hundred and ninety-one pounds, sterling, nine
shillings and nine pence.)
Allowing a cubic inch of gold to be worth
£38, 16s. (id., and the above sum to be con
densed into a globe of gold, its diameter will
be 6,193,604 miles, 540 yards, 1 foot, 6 inches
and a fraction, which would exceed in magni
tude all the planets in the solar system; and sup
posing this earth to be solid gold, it would not
pay one hour’s interest of the above sum.
If a man should live a million of years, and
should count a million every second lie would
not be able to count this number.
It is a little singular that we have not, in
all our journalistic experience, ever noticed
in our exchanges a case of conscience in
which a woman was the case in qnestion.
Tuscany is so rich in metalic ores that
I ships in the channel of Piotnbino have to al
low for the variation of the needle. Sardinia
[From The London Era.
ORIGINAL STORY OF HAMLET.
[ From the Latin of Saro-Grammatticus, but inter
spersed.]
Florwendillus. King of Jutland, married
Geruthra. (or Gertrude), the only daughter of
Buric, King of Denmark. The produce of
this union was a son called Amlettus. When
he grew toward manhood, his spirit and ex
traordinary abilities excited the envy and ha
tred of his uncle, who, before the birth of
Amlettus. was regarded as presumptive heir
to the throne. Fengo, which was the name
of this haughty prince, conceived a passion
for his sister-in-law, the Queen; and, meeting
with reciprocal feelings, they soon arranged
a plan, which, putting into execution, he as
cended the throne of his brother, and espoused
the widowed princess. Amlettus, (or Ham
let), suspecting his father had died by the
hand or devices of his uncle, determined to be
revenged ; but. perceiving the jealousy with
which the usurper eyed his superior talents,
and the better to conceal his hatred and in
tentions, he affected a gradual derangement
of reason, and, at last, acted all the extrava
gance of an absolute madman. Fengo's guilt
induced him to doubt the reality of malady so
favorable to his security—and, suspicious of
some direful project being hidden beneath as
sumed insanity, he tried by different strate
gems to penetrate the truth. One of them
was to draw him into a confidential interview
with a young damsel, who had been the com
panion of his infancy, but Hamlet’s sagacity
and the timely caution of his intimate friend
frustrated this design. In these two persons
we may recognize the Ophelia and Horatio of
Shakspeare; a second plot was attended with
equal want of success. It was concerted by
Fengo that the Queen should take her son to
task in a private conversation, vainly flatter
ing himself that the Prince would not con
ceal his true state from the feelings of a mother.
Shakspeare has adopted every part of this
scene, not only the precise situation and cir
cumstances but the sentiments, and sometimes
the very words themselves.
The Queen's apartment was the appointed
place of conference, where the King, to secure
certain testimony, had previously ordered one
of his courtiers to secrete himself under a heap
of straw. So says the historian ; and though
Shakspeare, in unison with refinement of more
modern times, chancres that rustic coverin'!
for the Royal tapestry, yet it was even as Saxo
Grammatticus relates it. In those primitive
ages, straw, hay or rushes strewed on the floor,
were the usual carpets in the chambers of the
great. Ouc of our Ilenrys, in making a pro
gress to the north of England, previously sent
forward a courier to order clean straw at every
house where he was to take his lodgings. But,
to return to the subject:
The Prince, suspecting there might be a
. concealed listener, and that it was the King,
! pursued his wild and frantic acts, hoping that,
j by some lucky chance, he might discover his
hiding place. Watchful of all that passed in
the room, as he dashed from side to side, he
described a little movement of the uneasy
countier’s covering. Suddenly Hamlet sprung
on his feet, began to crow like a cock, and
flapping his arms against his sides, leaped
upon the straw; feeling something under him,
he snatched out his sword and thrust it through
the unfortunate lord. The barbarism of the
times is most shockingly displayed in the bru
tal manner he treats the dead body; but, for
the honor of the Danish Price, we must sup
pose it was not merely a wanton act, but done
the more decidedly to convince the King,
| when the strange situation of the corpse was
• seen, how absolutely he must be divested of
! reason. Being assured he was now alone with
' his mother, in a most awful manner he turns
upon her. and avows his madness to be as
| sumed; lie reproaches her with her wicked
' deeds and incestuous marriage, and threatens
I a mighty vengeance upon the instigator of her
crime.
In the historian, we find that the admoni
tions of Hamlet awakened the conscience of
the Queen, and recalled her to penitence and
: virtue. The King, observing the change, be
' came doubly suspicious of the Prince; and,
I baffling some preliminary steps, he took to
; vengeance. Hamlet was entrapped by him
! into an embassy to England. He sent along
! with him two courtiers, who bore private let
I letters to the English monarch, requesting
! him, as the greatest favor he could confer on
j Denmark, to compass, by secret and sure
means, the death of the Prince as soon as he
landed. Hamlet, during the voyage, had
| reason to suspect the mission of his compan
ions ; and, by .a strategem. obtaining their
! credentials, he found the treacherous mandate,
I and, changing it for one where he had ordered
I the execution of the two lords, he quietly pro
I ceeded with them both. On landing, the pa
I pers were delivered, and the King, without
. further parley, obeyed what he believed to be
the request of his Royal ally; and thus did
! treason meet the punishment due to its crime.
i The daughther of the King being charmed
with the person and manners of the Foreign
Prince, evinced such marks of tenderness that
Hamlet could not but perceive the depth of
the conquest. He was not insensible to her
attractions, and receiving the King’s assent in
the course of a few days, led her to the nup
tial altar. Amid all joys he was, however,
like a perturbed ghost that could not rest;
and before many suns had risen and set, he
obtained a hard-wrung leave from his bride,
once more set sail, and appeared at Elsinore
just in time to be a witness of the splendid
rites which Eengo (supposing him to be mur
dered) had prepared his funeral. On the pro
clamation of his arrival, he was welcomed
with enthusiasm by the people, whose idol he
was. and who had been overwhelmed with
grief when Fengo announced to them his sud
den death in England.
The King, inflamed with so ruinous a dis
appointment, and becoming doubly jealous of
his growing popularity, now affected no con
ciliation, but openly manifested his hatred
and hostility. Hamlet again had recourse to
his pretended madness, and committed so
many alarming acts, that Fengo, fearing their
direction, ordered his sword to be locked in
its scabbard, under the plea of guarding the
lunatic from personal harm. After various
adventures the Prince accomplished the death
I of his uncle's adherents and vengeance on the
fratricide himself, by setting tire to the palace
during the debauch of a midnight banquet.
Rushing in amid the flames, he kills Fengo with
' his own hand, reproaching him at the moment
! with his murder, adultery and incest. Imme
j diately on this act of retribution he was pro
i claimed lawful successor to the throne, and
' crowned with all due solemnity.
Thus far Shakspeare treads in the steps of
j the annalist. The only difference is iu the
j fate of the hero; iu the one he finds a king
j dom, in the other a grave. Saxo-Grammatti
I eus carries the history further; and, after the
i crowning of Hamlet as King, brings him
again into Britain; where, in compliment to
j that land of beauty, he marries a second wife,
; the daughter of a Scottish King. Hamlet
; brought both his wives back to Denmark, and
prepared tor a long life of prosperity and
i peace. But the sword hung over his head;
| war burst around him, and he fell in combat
by the hand of V igclotes, son of lluric. Saxo
Grammatticus sums up his character in a few
I words: He was a wise Prince and a great
5 warrior.” Like Achilles, he had the princi
pal actions of his life wrought on his shield.
1 The daughter of the King of Scotland, cast
j ing her eye on it, loved him for the battles
1 he had won, and became his bride.
THE TERRIBLE HAVOC OF WAR.
It is difficult to conceive what fearful havoe
the custon of war has made of human life.
Some of its incidental ravages seem to defy
belief. It has at times entirely depopulated
immense districts. In modern as well as an
cient times, large tracts have been left so
utterly desolate that one might pass from vil
lage to village, even from city to city, without
finding a solitary inhabitant. The war of
1756, waged in the heart of Europe, left in
one instance no less than twenty contiguous
villages, without a single man or beast. Ihe
thirty years’ war, in the seventeenth century,
reduced the population of Germany from
12.000. 000,to 3,000,000—three-fourths; and
that of Wirtemburg from 500,000 to 48,000
more than nine-tenths. Thirty thousand vil
lages ware destroyod; in many others the
population entirely died out; and in districts
once studded with towns and cities there
sprung up immense forests.
Look at the havoc of the sieges—in that
of Londonderry 12,000 soldiers, besides a vast
number of inhabitants; in that of Paris, in
the sixteenth century, 30,000 victims of mere
hunger; in that of Malplaquet 34,000 soldiers
alone; in that of Ismail 40,000, of Vienna
70.000, of Ostcnd 120,000, of Mexico 150,000,
of Acre 300,000, of Carthage 700,000, of
Jerusalem 1,000,000. Mark the slaughter
of single battles: at Lcpanto 25,000, at Aus
terlitz 30,000, at Eylau 60,000, at Waterloo
and Quatre Bras, one engagement in fact,
100.000, at Arbela 300,0U0, at Chalons
300.000 of Attila’s army alone, 400,000 Usi
petes slain by Julius Caesar in one battle, and
430.000 Germans in another.
Take only two cases. The army of Xerxes,
says Dr. Dick, must have amounted to 5,183,
320; and if the sttendants were only one-third
as great as common at the present time in
eastern countries, the sum total must have
been 6,000,000. Yet in one year this vast
multitude was reduced, though not entirely
by death, to 300,000 fighting men; and of
these only 8,000 escaped destruction. Jen
ghis Kalian, the terrible ravager of Asia in
the thirteenth century, shot OU,000 on the
plains of Nessa, and massacred 200,000 at the
j storming of Charaism. In the Herat district
: he butchered 1,600,000, and in two cities
with the dependencies, 1,700,000. During
| the last twenty-seven years of his long reign,
: he is said to have massacred more than half a
million every year; and in the first fourteen
years, he is supposed by Chinese histo
rians to have destroyed not less than
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! in forty-one years!
I In any view, what a fell destroyer is war!
> Napoleon’s wars sacrificed some 6,000,000,
j and all the wars consequent on the French
! revolution, some nine or ten millions. The
Spaniards are said to have destroyed in forty
two years more than 12,000,000 of American
Indians. Grecian wars sacrificed 15.000,000;
Jewish wars, 25,000,000; the wars of the
twelve Caesars, 30,000,000; in all the waisof
the Romans before Julius Caesar, 60,000,000;
■ the wars of the Roman empire, of the Sara
cens and Tu:ks, 60 000,000 each; those of
the Tartars, 80,000,000; those of Africa,
i 100,000,000.
“If we take into consideration,” says the
J learned Dr. Dick, the number not only of
I those who have fallen in battle, but those who
have perished through the natural conse
> quences of war, it will not perhaps be over
| rating the destruction of human life, if we
were to affirm that one-tenth of the human
race has been destroyed by the ravages of war;
I and, according to this estimate, more than
14,000,000,000 of human beings have been
slaughtered in war since the beginning of the
world.” Edmund Burke went still further,
and reckoned the sum total of its ravages,
from the first, at no less than 35,000,
I 000,000.
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| A New Style or Steamboat.—An offi
cial report has been published in England of
a river steam vessel belonging to the Oricn
tial Steam Company, and intended to navigate
the shallow rivers of the East, which possesses
peculiar scientific interest, from the fact of
this composite vessel being the longest vessel
ever yet constructed, being nearly half as long
again as the Great Exstern. It appears that,
on trial, this great vessel, or train, was found
to be exsily managed, and attained a satisfac
tory rate of speed; and its success solves the
important problem how to convey a very large
cargo on a small draft of water against a rapid
stream. The train consists of a steamer and
five barges, of the collective length of nine
hundred feet. But these barges, instead of
being towed asunder, like common barges,
are joined to one another by circular joints,
like a hinge, so that they constitute one long
flexible vessel, with only one bow and one
stern. The purpose of this arrangement is to
obtain the necessary displacement with small
resistance, and without the risk of damage,
| should the vessel get grounded; and allot'
these conditions are effectually fulfilled by the
arrangement adopted. The train is thirty loot
broad and seven feet deep. At a draft of
water of three feet, it will carry about three
thousand tuns.
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That Belt Again.—The presentation
belt of Sayers, which was a follow to the one
pretended to be given to Hcenan by the En
glish people, has been redeemed from its late
custody and handed over to the ex-champion,
as was proper. The belt of lleenan, how
ever, which all England admitted to be
deserved, and which was handed to him by
the editor of Bell’s Life, in all England’s
name, still remains “in soak” for want of a
subscription of some fwo hundred dollars.
The people of England, who did not hesitate
to call Hcenan “a fine fellow,” made up a
subscription for Tom Sayers of fourteen thou
sand dollars, but could not afford to keep
their word to the “Yankee” to the tune ol
two hundred. lleenan could easily have
redeemed the belt himself when he came
away from London, but though he wanted it,
he disdained to do it- This business of the
belt is the shabbiest feature of the Farnbor
ough fight, we arc sorry to say; and we have
but little hope to see it mended. We have
still less expectation that lleenan will think
it worth his while to test English fair play
and liberality again, until justice is rendered
him in the matter of belt. [Wilkes’ Spirit.
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Thirty-six Thirty.—The reader who is
curious to know exactly where runs this oft
mentioned line, will get a clear idea of it by
taking the map and tracing it as follows : It
commences at the point of the Atlantic coast
where the dividing between Virginia and
North Carolina commences; passes along the
line between Tennessee and Kentucky; along
the line between the States of Missouri and
Arkansas; thence through the Territory ot
the Cherokee Nation, through New Mexico,
striking the eastern boundary of the State of
California, a short distance south of the mid
dle, striking the Pacifica short distance south
of Monterey bay. On the south of that line
there are about 300,000 square miles, includ
ing Indian reservations while on the north
there are about 1,300,000 square miles.
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One of the Western Representatives in
Congress, who had become irritated at Iris in
ability to get the floor, of which the Speaker
possibly thought he couldn't make good use.
was heard to exclaim the other day in a fit of
passion: “ I have been in Washington all
winter, and have caught every darned thing
in town, except the Speaker’s eye.” ^ i
1
A SCENE.
Riding in an up-town omnibus, in New
Orleans, the other day, I witnessed a curious
scene. A rough-looking, brusque sort ot
man entered, putting a cigar, which the pres
ence of ladies did not cause him to remove
from his mouth. Next to him, and at the
tail-end of the vehicle, sat a well-dressed man
of quiet demeanor, who was evidently annoy
ed by the smoke, every whiff ot which was
carried into his face by the current ot air.
He bore it for a few monjpnts, but seeing no
prospect of a discontinuanue ot the nuisance,
he touched his fellow-passenger lightly on the
shoulder, and politely said :
“ My friend, will you have the goodness to
exchange seats with me ?” *‘ W hat lor (
asked the smoker, apparently astonished at
the request. “ Why, to tell you the truth,
where 1 sit I get more of your tobacco smoke
than I am entitled to, and 1 am just a little
scrupulous about it.” lie ot the cigar took an
enormous puff thereat, and puffed out a per
fect phenomenon of a cloud, but he vouch
safed no other reply. Since you decline ex
changing scats with me,” persisted anti-tobac
co, *• I must request that you will discontinue
smoking while I sit here.”
He of the cigar removed that article from
between his lips, and simply ejaculated, "1 11
be damned if 1 do,” then replaced it with an
air the most cool and placid imaginable.
“ Then,” said the other, “ 1 regret that I am
obliged to deprive you of your cigar,’ and,
suiting the action to the word, lie snatched it
suddenly from the smoker’s teeth and flung it
into the street. The latter was confounded
for an instant, and then made a quick blow at
anti-tobacco, who parried it dextrously, while
several gentlemen jumped up and declared
there should be no fighting in the omnibus.
“ Never mind, my boy,” said the discomfited
smoker, his face glowing with a vengeful pur
pose, *• I'll fix you when you get out o’ this
wagon.” “ Should you reach your stopping
place first,” quietly said the other, *• don t
trouble yourself to go to mine ; I shan’t have
far to go anyhow, and as 1 don’t wan’t to put
you to any inconvenience, 1 11 get out when
you do.” “ Then, by G—d. I’ll get out now,
said the smoker, pulling fiercely at the strap.
Out leaped tobacco and anti-tobacco; oft went
their coats, and at it they went, “ hammer
and tong,” as the i*. R. historians say, in true
pugilistic style
In justice to the pugnacious propensities oi
my countrymen, I must record the fact that
m-oiM' mnl.i nuecon *rOl* 1 Tl flitlf (il 1111 1 } 111 SJ10TI
Seed the balance of his ride to the kccnci
pleasure of witnessing the issue of this singu
lar combat. Indeed, I suspect that some oi
them had gone far past their proper destina
tions for the purpose of seeing the affair out
and even one vixenish-looking lady abandonee
the omnibus and remained an enthusiastic bu
quiet spectator until the close of the " mill,
which resulted in the utter overthrow of the
smoker—anti-tobacco turning out to be a pow
erful game, and scientific hitter, and knock
ing down his antagonist as fast as the lattei
could pick himself up. He did it. too, witl
the keenest relish, and was fast taking every
bit of fight out of the smoker, when the spur
was interrupted in a very disagreeable mannei
by the arrival of a police officer, who tool
them both into custody, a proceeding whiel
appeared to be highly unpopular with tin
: very respectable croud that had assembled.
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A VIEW OF EUROPE.
A recent letter from Turin thus graphically
sums up the indications of difficulty and wa
; in the European horizon :
“ The coming months arc most critical fo
! the state of Europe. Napoleon arises anil re
commends a congress for settling the pend
| ing question ; England is uneasy ; the nev
; king of Prussia, William I., declares in hi
I first manifesto to his nation, that the conti
donee of Europe is shaken ; Havana prepare
for war, and Austria a still in the ann ul
sions of a financial and political crisis. Bus
sia, though deeply engaged in the immediati
emancipation of the serfs, concentrates an ar
my on tire Pruth, and threatens Moldo-W al
laehia with an invasion in case the llungari
- ans should try to organize an inroad from tin
Principalities into Transylvania. Prina
j Conza suddenly turns round, and alter havim
for a time favored a scheme of Hungary, pro
claims now the strictest neutrality, and expel
the Hungarian refugees. The Prince of Ser
bia is likewise frightened, and no lunge
dares to put himself in opposition to Austin;
and Russia. Rut Bosnia, Bulgaria and Mon
tenegro are still agitated, and it is scarcely
possible that the year ISlil will pass away
without serious commotions in European fur
key. Besides these greater questions then
remains still tlie squabble about Sehel-wig
Holstein and the constitution of Hessia
which may be a pretext both by Napoleor
and Czar Alexander, for disturbing ( icrmany
1 need not say the American difficultie.
greatly influence the money market, am
there is an uneasy feeling prevalent that Eu
rope is on the basis of a great war or revolu
UVll*
A Beautiful Reflection.—Bulwcr clo
quently says: “ I cannot believe that earth b
man’s abiding place. It can’t be that our lift
is cast up by the ocean of eternity to float £
moment upon its waves and then sink intc
nothingness! Else, why is it that the gloriou;
aspirations, which leap like angels from tlu
temple of our heart, arc forever wanderin',
about unsatisfied? Why is it that the rainbow
and clouds come over with a beauty that is noi
of earth, and then pass off and leave us to must
upon their favored loveliness? Why is it that
the stars, who hold their festival around tlu
midnight throne, are set above the grasp ol
our limited faculties, forever mocking us witl:
their unapproachable glory ? And, finally, whj
is it that bright forms of human beauty an
presented to our view, and then taken from us
leaving the thousand streams of our affections
to flow back in Alpine torrents upon oui
hearts? We arc born for a higher dcstinj
than that of earth; there is a realm where tlu
rainbow never fades—where the stars will b(
spread before us like islands that slumber or
the ocean—and where the beings that pass
before us like shadows will stay in our pres
encc forever.”
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The Rattlesnake Banner.—The Sa
vannah (Georgia) Republican says:
The rattlenake banner, which some of oui
enthusiastic Southern-rights friends hav<
raised and kept bound to the monument ii
Johnson Square for some weeks past anc
which its architects christened the “Colonia
Flag of Georgia.” is, excepting the mottc
overhead, the identical flag of the Union, ai
it was first reared in the city of Philadelphia
We have only been surprised that they turn
allowed it to remain so long.
Take down the Snake, boys, and run uj
“ Wisdom, Justice, Moderation !”
The people of the North have been maim
facturing so long for the South, that thej
imagine that it is their peculiar province tt
do so. Not content with the monopoly o
the ordinary articles of commerce, they nov
assume the exclusive right to make the gov
eminent and laws. [Louisville Courier.
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A fire, supposed to have been caused bj
spontaneous combustion, broke out in Whit
ncy’s armory, New Haven, Connecticut, ;
few nights since, but was discovered and ex
tinguished just in time.
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the last of tiie ghost stories.
The Crown Point (Ind.) Register is re
sponsible for the following—the last ghost
story: A little south of Crown Point, proba
bly about two miles, stands a house that is to
some a wonder. The house of itself is noth
in^ more than a building eighteen by twenty
four feet, and a story and a half high. Aot
many, months since a mother and daughtei
who occupied the house, were taken sick, and
in a few days died. There was nothing pecu
liar about their death as any one obsenet.
They were buried, and the house left vacant.
Soon after a family moved in. and since then
it has been unoccupied most all the time unti
within a few weeks, when it was found im
possible for a family to reside there. Tor
weeks they have seen manifestations of a su
pernatural presence. Beside the moving of
all moveable articles, the tinkling of glasses
and the rattle of tinware, there were frequent
and startling sounds as of whispered conver
sation, singing and subdued laughter, all imi
tations of the human voice. These ghosts
have been seen at all hours of the night. An
old lady clad in her grave clothes has been
seen to come from the adjoining forest, where
the wind sweeps in tremendous gusts, rattling
the icy branches of the trees. She invariably
walks around the house and sings the dole
ful tune, until she is joined by a young fe
male, when the two unite in a plaintive song.
Usually light footsteps arc soon heard in the
! house, and at times the ghostly visitors are
t seen promenading the kitchen and other
rooms of the house, until a late hour of the
night, and in some instances have not left till
daylight. The family became so alarmed and
■ troubled at these manifestations that they
picked up their duds and left the premises.
\\’e understand that no earthly consideration
I could induce them to return.
PuOVKEBS WORTH PRESERVING. — lie
I that is too good for advice, is too good for his
: neighbor’s company.
jjeath is the only master who takes his scr
! vants without a character.
! When pride and poverty marry, their chil
dren are want and crime.
He that borrows binds himself with his
neighbor’s rope.
Where hard work kills ten, idleness kills a
I hundred.
Hasty people drink the wine of life scald
' ing hot.
The firmest friends ask the fewest favors.
Content is the mother of ..ood digestion.
Tolly and pride walk - do by side.
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A GENTLEMAN residing in a village, find
ing that the diminution of liis wood-piles con
tinued after liis fires were out, lay awake one
night in order to obtain if possible, some clue
to the mystery. At an hour when all honest
folks should he in bed, hearing an operator
1 at work in the yard, he cautiously raised his
chamber window, and saw a lazy neighbor
endeavoring to get a large log into his wheel
barrow.
*• You're a pretty fellow,” said the owner,
i “ to come here and steal my wood while 1
! sleep.”
•• Yes,” replied thief, “ and I suppose you
1 would stay up there and see me break m\
neck with lifting before you’d offer to come
and help me.”
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Extraordinary Coincidence.-A strange
! coincidence lias happened at Hempstead
' Rhode Island. A valued canary died, be
• longing to a lady, whose oldest son soon sick
eued and died too; a second canary wa
bought, which soon died as the first, and the
remaining child followed the other to the
grave ; again a third canary was purchased
' and it, too, died Lke the two others, and se>oi
the childless mother bad tu mourn tlie eleatl
’ of her husband.
An Irishman who was standing on Lon
don bridge, accosted a youth standing beside
him, saymg:
•• Faith, i think I know ycr; what’s yei
name ’
*• .My name is .Jones,” replied the youth.
“Jones, Jones,” said the Irishman, 1
knew two oulel maids by that name in Dublin
Was either of them ycr muther '{ ’
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Coal Fields of the I nited States.
• The report of the Commissioners of the Hcn
i oral Land Office shows that the coal fields of
■ the l nited States cover upward of 200.OIJI.I
• | square miles, and arc capable of supplying
i steam power equal to the whole physical force
of the present population of the globe.
■ I Affection in Men and. Women.—Wo
men are said to have stronger attachments
than men. ltisnotso. Strength of attachment
is evinced in little things. A man is often
attached to an old hat; but did you ever
know of a woman having an attachment for
an old bonnet ? [Punch.
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A Repuiilican paper in New Haven, Con
necticut, urges the propriety of* celebrating
Washington s birthday, February li2d, on a
grand scale, and adds : “ Our city would be
filled with strangers, who would, of course,
, leave a good portion of money behind them.”
Lucy Stone recently made a speech in
1 sisting that the election of women, as well as
O # '
men, to Congress would improve the charae
| ter of that body. We suspect that the habit
! of “ pairing off ” would be even more com
mon than it is.
An individual who is no friend to Lincoln
gets oil his “sentiments” as follows:
Two posts standout;
One beam orossant;
• One rope pendent:
Abram at. the enclant—
Gelorious splendent.
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Bears are forsaking the mountains in \ ale
county, California, in great numbers, ami com
mitting great ravages on the settlements, in
consequence of the scarcity of acorns. The)
are so lean as to be uneatable.
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Virginia Lorini, the daughter of Whit
ing, the New York actor, is the prima donna
of the Italian opera company at Berlin. She
has attained a marvelous degree of facile, flo
rid execution.
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A woman of forty-two, Anna Marston, at
tended the funeral of her eighth husband in
Portsmouth, England, on the 13th ult.; and
strange to say, sbe never had a child.
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Mits. Julia Howard, a resident of Gins
gow, Scotland, gave birth recently to a paii
of twins, in the sixty-seventh year of her
1 age. What an impressible female !
In a small ultra Presbyterian town, in Scot
land, a school teacher was lately expelled
from church because he insisted on writing
1 God with a small “g.”
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Muggins advises men with dark-tressed
wives never to go home with long, light hairs
on their coats, if they wish to avoid a domes
’ tic scene.
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Tiie total exports from Philadelphia for
18()U exceeded in value those of any yeai
since 1854, and were greatly above the total?
of 1858 and 1859
Barnum will open a branch museum at i
i suitable locality in the upper part of Broad
• way. New York, as soon as a proper building
' can be erected.
The marine losses by the insurance compa
nies in Boston have been very heavy within
the past few weeks, several first-class ships
with their cargoes having been wrecked.
It is rumored that Mr. and Mrs. Burch,
whose divorce recently created so much ex
citement, are about to come together again,
a la Mr. and Mrs. Sickles.
A PARTY of Indians deliberately cut an
Indian’s throat near San Joaquin, California,
one day last month, because he was over one
hundred years old.
Bile Bright, who seduced a woman at
Central Hill, California, recently, was found
on the evening of the 10th ult., with seven
balls through his heart.
Toe leather inspectors at Philadelphia,
stamped 480,598 hides in 1860, nearly 50,
000 more than 1859; the largest number
ever inspected in oneyear was496,520in 1855.
The notorious Dr. Eads, a defaulter to the
school fund of the State of Iowa in the
amount of §55,000, is publishing a paper at
Warrensbug, Missouri.
There are at present three hundred and
sixteen persons confined in the Frankfort
I (Kentucky) penitentiary, of whom twenty
! two are negroes.
The Caledonian (Scotland) Mercury eele
i brutes its two hundredth anniversary by giv
j ing a fac simile reprint of its first number,
The Mercurius Caledouius.
Twenty-four students “seceded” from
St. Joseph College, near Mobile, last week,
and went to the city to enlist with the State
troops.
An eastern editor is delighted at having
nearly been called “honey” by the gal he
loves, because she saluted him at their last
meeting as "Old Beeswax!”
1
The gentleman so often spoken of in novels,
who riveted people with his gaze, has now
; obtained employment in a boiler manufactory.
The Supreme Court of Indiana has decid
; cd the liquor law of that State to be constitu
i tional in every respect.
The Mount Vernon Banner gives a list of
thirteen candidates for that postoffice, and
closes it : “ To be continued.”
The Daily Banner, a newspaper in Raleigh.
North Carolina, lias the name of Stephen A.
Douglas for President in I864at its masthead.
An accomplished skater at Namur, Jielgi
urn, recently won a wager by skating an hour
with a basket of eggs on his head.
When a great man stoops or trips, the
small men around him very suddenly become
I greater.
O
Tiie present difficulties would have been
settled ere now, if the North had been willing
to do justice. It is now too late.
The smallpox has entirely disappeared
from Columbia. South Carolina.
It is both safe and true to tell a knocked
; down r an that “ he lies.”
i Punch asks whether a sewer derives any
! particular gratification from being diverted.
Ink i.s a caustic that burns most often the
fingers of those who use it.
W. B. CROCKER & C0.f
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
CSr r o c e r s 9
First door West of J. II. Quisenberry's Store.
1
E) ES A It C , A It Iv A \ S A S.
rrUKE PLEASURE IN ANNOUNCING TO
JL the citizens of Prairie and adjacent counties,
that they are now in receipt of a large and well
selected stock of
I GROCE111ES AND II ARDWARE,
Consisting in part of Sugar®. Molasses, Coffee,
Candles, Cheese, Vinegar. Salt, Whisky. Rice,
Pickles, Sardines, Flour, Fish, Raisins, Figs, Cit
rons. Almonds, Candy, Soap, Starch, Soda, Crack
ers, Tobacco, Cigars, Nails. Castings, Iron, Steel,
! Log Chains, Ox Chains, Pole Axes, Spades, Shov
; els, etc., etc., with all other articles usually to be
found in a similar establishment. All ol' which
they are now selling low for cash. novo-tf
S Y L V A IN I Al
cL emy,
PRAIRIE COIXTY, ARK AXSA8,
D. M’FAYDEN,.Principal.
R. A. Richmond, ... Assistant.
milE SECOND SESSION OF TIIE ABOVE
' JL Academy will open on Monday, the itli day
of February next. The Principal Hatters himself
that, having an experience of many years in the
profession of teaching, lie will be enabled to give
satisfaction to the patrons of his school. The
Academy is located in a healthy region of coun
try, remote trom all those localities of dissipation
and vice, so destructive to the morals of youth,
and in the midst of a community, combining all
those virtues that compose a good neighborhood.
No pains will be spared by the teachers to advance
the pupils entrusted to their charge. Special
attention will be directed to have them thoroughly
to understand the elementary principles of all the
branches of Science taught in the school. No
pupil need apply for reception who is unwilling
to be either governed or instructed. Pupils will
bq charged front the time of entrance. No deduc
tion will be made except in case of protracted
illness.
TUITION PER SESSION OF FIVE MONTHS.
Elementary Branches, .... §10 00
Higher English Branches, - - - - 15 00
Languages and Higher Mathematics, - 20(H)
Board can be obtained at from Eight to Ten
Dollars per month.
Oakland Grove. Prairie Co., Ark. jy 11 ’t>l-4t
E X C E L E E N T P L O W S .
TYTi: HAVE JDST RECEIVED A LARGE
VV quantity of the best Cast Plows, which wf
offer cheap. nov :i. J. JACKSON A CO.
LOOK SHARP!
VLL PERSONS INDEBTED TO ME, EITHER
by note or account, will come up by the 1st
of January next and pay me, or they will be put
in the hands of an officer for collection.
^ dec7-tf J GEO. W. VADEN.
DES ARC CITY^
DRUG STORE
To Physicians Druggists, Merchants,
PLANTERS,
AND TIIE PUBLIC GENERALLY
Your attention is respectfully invited to one uf
tlie Bc.?t Selected stocks of fresh
DRUGS, MEDICINES,
FRENCH, GERMAN & AMERICAN
CHEMICALS, PATENT MEDICINES
TOILET ARTICLES,
PERFUMERY, BRUSHES,
DENTAL & SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS,
GLASS, GLASSWARE, PAINTS, OILS,
DYE STUFFS, Etc., Etc.
and all other articles pertaining to the Drugbnsi.
ness, lately received, and now offered at the
DES ARC CITY DRUG STORE,
At WHOLESALE OR RETAIL!
[
ON ACCOMODATING TERMS.
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!
A CHOICE LOT OF
Sugars, Chewing & Smoking Tobacco,
ALSO, ALL KIXP3 OF SLTEBIOU
LHilOILS FOIl llEDK AI, ISES,
KEPT CONSTANTLY ON HAND.
Orders from a Distance Mill Receive Prompt Attention:
AND THE GOODS FORWARDED WITHOUT DELAY.
PHYSICIANS PRESCRIPTIONS
i
Compounded of the purest and best materials,
with accuracy and despatch, at
All Hours of the Day or \i£lit:
nov 3-1 y. JOHN T». PERKINS. .
N E W STOKE!
ENTIRELY NEW STOCK!
We have just opened our new stock of
FALL AND WINTER GOODS,
which consists, in part, of
I KERSEYS, WOOLS Elf,
HOME-MADE JEANS,
KENTUCKY JEANS, SATINETS,
LIN S E Y S,
AND GEORGIA PLAIDS.
VLSO, A FINE ASSORTMENT OF POPLIN?.
De Borages, Merinoes, Scotch Plaid Alpaca
etc., etc., etc.
ALSO, A COMPLETE STOCK OF
CLOTHING!!
A better assortment cannot be found. Also, tl*
largest stock of
BOOTS AND SHOES!
In the market. We kindly solicit all who wish if
purchase to give us a call, and examine
our goods and prices.
TAYLOR & CO.,
nov 3-tf. Des Are. Arkansas-^
AT HOST AlkO C ARRIAGE.
I AM OFFERING MY ENTIRE STOCK 0'|
Dry Goods at Cost and ten per cent. Lver^B
body is invited to call and see for thcmsei'l'|
My goods are inferior to none in this market, a" 9
my object in selling off at cost and carri 'ge i» ’ v
enable me to replenish with a stock which will ‘fe
lDouglit. exclusively with cash.
novd-tf. LEVIN nARRISOj^
ATTEA'TIONI OFFICERS!
4 LL TI1B OFFICERS COMMISSIONED A*‘
x\_ non-commissioned of the Second BatnoJ1
of Fiffitietli Regiment, are hereby commamh'1*'■
appear at Des Are, on the 23d day of Februtf.*
for the purpose of oflicers’ drill. By order ot
J. B. TERKINS, Major
per Russ Evans, Orderly. jau 25,'611'
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