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j, | T'vNE Portable Engine and Boiler £-,.•«<
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it
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I Am Alone.
UT GERALD QRIEF1N,
My soul is sick and alone.
No social ties its love entwine,
A heart upon R desert thrown
Bents not in solitude like mine :
For though the pleasant sunlight shine,
It showed no form that I may own.
And close! to me is friendship's surhie,
I am alone 1—I am alone !
It is no joy for me
To mark the fond and eager meeting
Of friends whom absence pined, and see
The love-lit eyes speak out their greeting
For then a stilly voice repeating.
What oft hath woke its deepest moan,
Startles my heart and stays its beating,
I am alone!—1 am alone !
Why hath my soul been given
A zeal to soar at higher tilings
Than quiet rest—to seek a haven
And fall with scathed heart and wings?
Have 1 been blessed ? the sea-wave sings
’Tween tae and all that was mine own ;
I’ve found the joy ambition brings
And walk alone !—and walk aione !
I have a heart—I’d live
And die for him whose worth ! knew,
But could not clasp his hand and give
;\ly full heart forth, as talkers do ;
And they who loved me—ttie kind tew—
Believed me changed in heart and tone,
j And left mu, while it burned as true,
To live alone!—to live alone!
1
And such shall be my day
Of life, unfriended, coni and dead,
My hopes shall slowly wear away,
As all my young affections fled ;
No kindred hand shall grace my Lead,
When life's last flickering ligut is gone ;
But I shall find a silent bed.
And die alone !—and die alone !
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Autumn Sunshine.
.Mild as the glances of angel eves.
• Soft as the kisses of first born love.
Down through the haze of the Autumn skies ,
Comes the glad sunshine from tr.c realms ■
above.
Beautiful pictures it sketched) now,
Touched with the glowing* hues of old
Painting the valley and mountain's brow
With purple and opal and red aua gold.
A whisper of beauty the spirit fills,
Tales of a land that faciei b never,
Sunshine that gilduth the beautiful hills,
Over the bank of the shadow river.
Beautiful rest for the weary soul.
Earth hath no beauty ai. in to this!
Anthems of gladness forever roll
Over those haieyon plains of bliss.
Down the steeps of life's western hill.
Beautiful sunshine of hope, and i.ght,
Every shadow and hope dispel,
Lift my spirit from the realms of night.
Soft as the beams of the Autumn sun,
Sweet as the death of the summer Sowers,
Gather thy jewels one by one.
Take my sou! to those lad -less bowers.
Sut Lovingood’s Dream.
TARTARUS, AND WHAT HE SAW THERE.
I was orful dry t'other day, George,
au’lindin’a lot ove green whiskey,!
jist sucked in a skin lull ovo hit strait
along. The first mouthful 1 sw.illard 1
heart) spolish iu my heels. 1 vv is dry
an’empty both, bygojiy—so dry linil
arter hit rispurty well up in my paunch,
hit soaked through and stod all over
my belly in draps, milkin' hit look like
a big reticule kivered with beads, but I
swelled tight arter a while, an’ then 1
filled up party soon. As soon'us 1
could reach hit, by runnin’ a spoon
handle down my front, 1 shot off steam,
and sot it to round Hit want long
afore I l'oun’ myself tangled by the
laigs in the dorg fennel, an’ I fell heap
clown hill, so 1 thought the mo-’ peace
ful thing I could do were tu go tu sleep
a thinkin’ of a runnin' windmill. Well
I dreamed me a dream. I thought 1
were in hell an’ had been sent there fur
votin’ the Eadikil ticket. 1 felt the
justice ove the sentence so much so
that I didn’t feel so uneasy an' mad
abont hit as I wttd a been, if tjjey had
n. spnt, mp. fnr lTniiYlpHii’ n hlinp r»l/»
’Oman, or milkin’ a,back log ove some
gal’s lus baby, al ter soakin hit. in tur
pentine, or sioh like common wicked
ness. I thought I had been thar long
enough to sorter begin to git used to
the taste ove the whisky they stills
down thar, an’ I mus’ say 1 thinks hil a
little better than the truck wliatt.be
| skulkers out ove the Confederate army
, | failed for the Government, because hit
dident create the appetite tu cuss, steal
or desert half as soon, an’ me in Tophet
at that. T’was safer whiskey, George,
safer whiskey, Well! I thought heb
■ was a perfeckly roun’ hole—as roun’ a
' a bumb shell, right plum in the centre
ove the vearth, The walls wer glazed
I as slick as an ingyun pealin’ an' hit \vn
jist half full ove melted dinner pots
dog irons an’ old clock weights. i\ ith a
scum ove smokin’ brimstone a foot
deep. The devil staid aboard of a boat
i an’ had hisself rowed roun’ jist as in
pleased, by the jury what'Toun' the hi!
agiuJeff,. Davis. They looked sortei
like they'd like to hane another pop a
that job. I think by golly they’d bun
a long spell afore they toun’ hit agin i
c they jist had an other chance.
I thought thar wer long feather-aid
ged cleets nailed on the walls to dim I
by. They wer squar-aidged up so tin
climin’ had all to be done on one side
e and whenever fellers got tired of swim
1 min’, they gist sot in to climin' tli
e cleats. 1 noticed that new comers we
powerful foil’o. climin’. They’d sorte
slack oft'sometimes outil. they sunk ii
the melted clock wates up tu the pin
of thar tail bones, an’ then, by the gc-s
1# ove a 6cared monkey, they’d come u
overhanded tu thar work agin, ji
J awriggliu an’ a snortin. They workc
L. like squirrils on a tred mill. Durn’d i
). they didn’ keep the thing roilin’ strai
along, and, Ooorge, jist as sure n« yu i
a foot high, THAT WHAT KEEPS THE YEA
rth turnin’ aroun’. • has foun’ Jiit
out at las'. Well! one day the trap
door opened, an’ the devil Ordered ole
Forney to steer under the hole. He
steers wild, an’ after swimmiii’ nearly
all over hell he got hit thar. When
down poured into the boat, tbe dnrnd'st
sluice uv mean lookiu cusses you over
seed. Everybody already thar turned
their heads to look at ’em, anVIom fas
ter—skerred at ’em. by golly! They
war radicals, the Iasi durn’aone. Some
had roaps aroun’ thar nex. wif a runn
ing nuee ailin' the year, some had boles
in thar heads, some had a big gill cut
under their chins, an' every one shode
signs of hard times and hurry. Among
'em I see Stevens, Sumner, Wade, llut
icr—surnamed the beast—an' Wendell
Phillips. ‘Hey !’ sez the devil,‘what’s
wrong above, cholery ‘Wus nor that,
says Sumner. ‘The Constitution peo
ple lias viz, an’ ove korce we are alt.
here. Say, yer majesty, is Preston
Brooks here?’ Oh no,’ sez the devil.
‘Well!' sez Sumner, sorter brightening
u]), an’ nibin his hams. ‘Em. durned
glad he aint’ —‘stop a minitit,’ sez, the
devil, wait until I sorts you all out.
He Ink up a needil as long as harpoon,
and wif a big quite ove trace chains lie
threaded it. Then he picked out all the
common cusses from among ’em ami
strung ’em on the chain, riiniu’ the
needil in at their mouths, and lettin' it
come out thar—I forgot which, and
then hung the whole bunch over the
aidge ove the boat into the brimstone.
Jesohasfat! bow they sizzled air slosh
ed, an’ dove, an’ sprinkled hot. iron
about wif their tails. A string ove sun
pcarc-h would have been jiist no wliar.
While the devil wer striiigiii the
small fry. Butler, surnamed the Beast,
aidged back to wliar f sot in the boat, a
keepin one eye sot, on the devil, an
tother on me an’ lie whispered in my
ear. ‘whars Sisyphus?' Sez 1 don't
know, why ? Oh nothin, quit 1 wanted
to see which kuowed the .most ove our
trades, him or me. Then lie whispered,
(that mortal off eye ove hisiu still sot
on the devil,) say, does you know wliar
his majesty keeps Ids spoons'? Sez I.
do you see that chain liangin over the
at tot her aimt ove hit. lie jist went
over the staru head lost, an’ coon d hit
down the chain, outen sight onder the
brimstone. A rter bein gone a spell, lie
come back lookin dismpinted like, hut
!>is gineral looks wer powerfully im
proved, by-his bath in melted brimstone.
1 swow he looked a heap more like a
bn man. Sea he, gone, pot an' all. i
Opened my eyes ; sots he, h'aint Forney
got’em? rtez 1, maybe so—lie's been
mmbtin rotin’the staru a good while.
Dam if he dident sareh every pocket
Forney had, an’ the ole cuss never cotch
him at hit. an’ he got ti’.i: spooks.
While this wer gwine on, old Tiiad wer
a tryin to claim kin wif the devil, a
comparin his foot along wif oh- Nick's,
i think the pint wer to git an oliico, for
I hcarn the cievii keep savin' no, 1. he
dam if I do. we lias order here now.
Alt' ail the time old Wade were a pee
terin his majesty lor u free ticket on
his doggery. 1 seed that the devil wer
a gittin inonstrous oligasy. Wendeil
Phillips kept a wutchin lust the side
that went down onder the climbers, an'
then tli(> side what come up out ove the
lake. }Fc jist hopped overboard, an’
swum over thar au tryin his durndest
to turn jut tothkr way, he'd grab the
slopill side ove the cleats, an' hold on
as long as he could, an' then slosh hack
agin among the melted dogiixms an'
brimstone. 1 reckon he must a made
lifty trials afore he quit an’ swum back
to the boat, an’ then lie sot in tlie most
yearnest manlier, to.persmidin the devil
intake oft'the cleats, an'nail 'em on
; again upside down, so as to i;rx hki.l
I J JACK WARDS, an’ OVI3 COURSE THE OCT
j .-IDE WORLD WITH hit, witliout givin a
j single reason why lilt help the matter,
i This made the devil bile over, llc.sed,
i not a dun one ove ’em should stay that
1 another hoot*. That they'd raise a re
! hellion sure an’ destroy the institution,
! au' then what would the world do, imu
! CICL'j.aklv j\ew England!
1 tell you lie jist rared ; sez lie,‘I’ll
! clear my dominion of you durn d quick,
j an' he ranged a big bom morter, what
I were in the boat, point blank at the
J hatch hoje,;an' lie loaded in old Wad e
: feet fust, an’ made Forney tetehhit otf
' Hv troll \ ! he went wliiz/en’ tlnioua'ii
ilie hole, un’ lilt rained whiskey on on
, the lake outil hit burnt bluy. Next hi.
grabbed ol Tirol; sez he, trembiiu,
please, yer majesty, load her in wii'mi
a plntm to a site nigger strung on tin
chain ; sez the devil no sir. 1 think wt
fin manage her artel' you is gone, a tie
besides, sue looks like she needed a lit
tle rest, linking! an I jist Coteh ;
glimpse ove Thad’s hooked foot serupit
a splinter oil the hatclicombin. X e>
he yoked Sumner, an’ lie begged to la
loaded head lust, as lie sed liv'd always
traveled sturn lu>t through life, as in
wanted to tiuisli his journey the saint
way, ox account ove his record. So
stunt utsthu come Oil tell t lie morter,
sturn fust he went outen the hatch hole
an I recoil sturn fust he busted agii
sumthin away yonder on the outside
Butler s-sui iiamed the Beast, turn conn
nex. \V bile the devil worn loadin bin
j in, 1 observed him buisy a buttojuiu uj
; las pockits. Wben the morter Jired
wet w.itoliin the hatch dost: J diden
I like the idear ove his leaviu : but dan
i if he went thar. he foli.ored the uni
| ove ms cock eve. and busted into i
.million pieces agin the wall. Spoon
, an breastpins fell a foot deep all ove
- i the lake, and J hearn- the wirnmen al
, I cheer. The devil then licked Iris lips
. | an went for Wendil, put he jist lopei
- i overboard and dove un tu save his :il
•! the tlevil couldn’t tind him. FIoM rais
-1 trouble th ir vet, sec of he don’t. Xe:
> ! he grab bed Forney, his steersman, a)
t 1 sez ho, \ on don't steer in suit me', an h
i cr mmenred a loadin him in, an’ don'
i; you believe, ji*t as the cuss’s head wer
t ; a go in out ove sight, he whispered i
1 (he devil’s year that I were Jamisot
i the actor. The devil remarked, i’v
1 i got miirm agin Jamison, you is the one
- mad at me hv golly, jist bekazo he see
the beast out-smarted him in (lie spoon
business. I hearn somthiH like quack
quack! down in the bowils ove the mar
tar. an' then hit went oil', an so did the
duck. Thar'l be peace in hell fur «
while, if the devil kin only ketch
Weni>iI- an' reconstruct the durn d ras
kil. Old Smutty reached forme the
last one, an put me down his gun. 1
got into hoggin hard. We/, he you must
go, tho prosperity of my kingdom de
mands that nothin havin the smell ove
radical onto hits close kin stay here.
1 seed you a whisperiu wif the Beast,
and I’d shoot out ole Itobespiere hissclf,
if 1 wer tu ketch him at sich an ornarv
trick, air lip's been helpin roll hell
roun' in a orderly way ever since the
French Revolution. By golly! I jist
limbered aif over, tlie gun roared an' 1
wakened. Now what do you think was
the matter wif me? Why, old Bob
1 lavs' were a try in his durndest to splin
ter a four loot clap hoard over my back,
-aid he wanted me logit, oil ten his pas
ter, afore he shut the gate, for the night.
I wer a sweatin’ orful George, perfect
ly orful.
1 sorter wished I had dreamed on a
little longer. I'd a liked powerful well
to a foun' owl what hud become ove ole
Tbad in ter be wer shot, outovc lie'll,
liiti sorter injur his standin, won’t hit,
as he roams through nothin forever?
I believe if I'd been bim I’d rather
staid tharwif my she nigger. Been
hard on tier though, poor devil, an a
little to good for him. Ain't 1 boss on
skeery dreams.
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A Romantic and Tragic Story
The following highly romantic and tru
•ric story is from the New Orleans limes:
•• Nearly a year ago one of the first
merchants of the city met and loved a
woman of English birth, whom he believ
ed to be a widow.
“ His advances .were favorably received,
and after many hours passed in pleasant
converse.the gentleman at. length declared
his passion. To his surprise and chagrin
the ladv. with many tears, informed him
that her husband was not dead. A long
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JitUIV ti II rv III* I uisao, nvpivvij
niciit. and a separate maintenance was re
lated. The fair one, with the utmost frank
ness, went into all the details of her wretch
ed existence, and ended by Imping that a
divorce suit, that pending, would termin
ate in her favor. The gentleman, en
S eon raged by the confidence, and eager fin
the possession of such a treasure, insisted
I on her at once departing for Knglnnd. and
bountifully supplied the lubricating mate
j rial fur the rusty machinery of the courts
I The journey was made, and in the course
| of a few weeks the bagatelle £12,000 ex
pended
“ Mot many moons elapsed ere the lover
was favored with a most tender epistle,
conveying in the postscript intelligence oi
another draft for £10,000, which he would,
of course, pay on presentation. The busi
ness of the law proved very expensive
Two more drafts lor £10,000 each were
forwarded to this country, and promptly
paid. The gentleman becoming alarmed
at the enormous drain on his purse, ven
tured to remonstrate, and bogged the lady,
if possible, to conduct the business with
more economy.
“ The communication in reply, dated
Paris, quietly informed him that the suit
had been decided against Iter, that she
was tied forever to the object of her de
testation, and that although she could
never forget the disinterested friendship
of the kindest of men, they must never
again meet on earth
“The unhappy gentleman, maddened at
his/folly, and crippled in his business by
the immense outlay of money, ended his
existence hy his own hand Long after
this tragedy the real creator of it presumes
again to a I dress the man she so wronged ”
Sett.vu in New Okeeanh.—The Cres
cent states a curious fact in reference to
1 ho commerce of tlnit city. Instead of
being exporters of sugar and molasses,
as was formerly the case, both are now
largely imported.
/(i.a The I’ev. Andrew Hunter, was
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to ilu* .jut i«4s' of PreBiamg Elder of the
Little Hock District.
Rev. W. !’. ltatcTiffe was assigned
by the Little Hock Conference, as
j igent of the Bible Society for the State
! of Arkansas,—[Little Rock Conserva
tive.
~ Kx-ConlVderate States Secretary
of Hie Treasury, Trenholm, was par
doned upon tin: recommendation of
Generals O. H. Howard, Sickles, John
A. IA i x, ami other Union officers.
ft®" Mississippi has acted like her
own noble self in sustaining her great
statesman, .J'efforson Davis. When the
resolutions passed by her legislature
re tch him in prison, his eye, once like
the eagle’s, but now dim and blind, will
brighten, and joy once more light its
i tires in bis heart.
,1 6©* The Rome, Ga., Courier, of the
11 27th says : On the morning of Thurs
day the 25th instant, we bad. in this vi
cinity, a real killing frost, in fact a dead
, freeze. Cotton, peas. po*atoe vines, and
n fine, all vegetation except a few oi
i the mor ■ hardy kinds were killed. This
i consi uvably curtails the cotton crop
■ from whit it might have been if frost
I had kept off another month. The rains
that were received after the drouth ol
I summer inaugurated a sort of second
.; crop, that was rapidly maturing, but
. which has now been “nipped in the
; ' bud."
1 ; CAST A cow exhibited at a recent Illi
■nois agricultural lair gave, during three
t weeks in the mouth of June last, a yield
of milk averaging twenty-nine quart;
i 1 daily, and from the cream thirteer
,! pounds of butter were made weekly
■ iDistancing all competitors in the mill
; i and butter trade, she took the higlies
1 premium.
Wliat Sort of Stuir Kebeis are
made of
The New York Day Book talks to the
Northern Radicals in the right strain, as
will be perceived by its article below. It
does not mince matters with those fellows,
but flings hot-shot into them as often as
they present their rotten broadsides to
him :
The lunatics and besotted tools, who
call Jefferson Davis and others in the
South rebels, and fancy that, they are go
ing to render this term infamous by con
tinual iteration and reiteration, will bo re
garded by tho next generation as even
greater tools than knaves, though it is
difficult to suppose them eclipsed in the
latter respect. Rebels, forsooth! It is tho
noblest word in our language—in our pre
sent as well as in our past history—and
from the nature of things, always will he.
however, fools and knaves, and the tools
and toadies of despotism may strive to dis
honor it. Who are tho rebels in English
history? Why, the Uampdcns, Crum
wells, Bussells and Sidneys, etc , many of
whom died on the scaflold, and at this
moment all intelligent men know that,
whatever there is of good in the English
system is the result of the sacrifices and
efforts of those illustrious rebels. So in
Sootland and Ireland—the Bruces, and
W alluces, and Emmets, and Fitzgeralds,
are the heroes of history—indeed, we only
state a simple historical truth that no loyal
man is remembered in history save for his
crimes and for the purpose of avoidance,
as Alva, Jctfereys, and similar loyalists.
Why even our most clamorous loyalists of
this country, Ben. Butler or Job Holt,
would never piegumo to place the loyal
Arnold in the same category wit.h the re
M Washington, or Butler and his loyal
i angers above the rebel Sehuyler and his
rebel followers—indeed, as observed, from
the nature of things, rebels are the very
salt of the earth, and whatever may he
the clamor of the loyal for a moment, re
bels are illustrious lor all time. But it
will be said that rebels to a Republican
government are altogether different from
t • , t .v . r. lit.
reutJJft nuinjm.ui tuvcimm-iu'. jo mm
so ? No —namesare nothing, if the things
they represent are change.1. The people
can’t rebel against what was and what pur
ports to be their government, why the
thing is changed, of course. Thus, il
Abraham Lincoln would agree to admin
ister the true government, of the States
Jefferson Davis and others would not have
been rebels, nor would Washington and
Adams, if George III had done so. This
pregnant truth this generation may not
receive, perhaps, but vre believe they will;
it all events, whatever may be the seem
ii»g virtue of to-day, Jefferson Davis and
bis brother rebels are as certain of posteri
ty as Washington and all the other rebels
of history.
An Important Decision.
The Probate Court of Sumter county,
Alabama, lias just rendered a decision
touching the validity of investment by
administrators, executors and guar
dians of the funds they held as such in
the bonds of the Confedrate States, “so
called,” which embraces points Unit
will, perhaps, be interesting to parties
in other States. The points of the
decision are as follows :
The ordinance of the Slate Conven
tion, and the different acts of the
Legislature for the protection of ad
ministrators, executors and guardians,
are valid; and investment made by
them in good faith in late Confederate
securities, under color of law, will now
bo upheld the loss falling upon the
estate, and not upon such executors,
administrators or guardians'
Contracts made during the war
which recognized the lawfulness ol
Confederate bonds and treasury notes,
and which were then valid, will not
lie pronounced void.
Collections of debts due an estate, by
the personal representatives, in Con
federate treasury notes, will be unhcld
if made ill good faith, even though the
debt was due before the war, and tin
notes became worthless in the hands ol
the administrator.
Where rights had already vested be
fore the surrender, or acts have been
performed under the laws then in lorct
the public policy which existed at tin
time such right accrued, and not pre
sent public policy, will control the
question of their legality ; and loyaltt
to the National Government does noi
require interference with such pas!
transactions, if honestly made, and it
accordance with the laws of the Statt
at the time.
The administrator in the case, having
in good faith sold a large amount o
cotton, by the advice and order of tin
Probate Court, in 1863, for a fair price
and having»taken a note for the pur
chase money from tin- purchaser, wind
was delivered to the guardian of tin
heirs, and afterward collected by tin
guardian in Confederate money, is no
liable to account again for said cotton
although the sale was made with refe
rence to the market price in Conl'ede
rate money,
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Goon Humor.—Is the clear blue ski
of the sottl. on which every star of talon
will shine more clearly, and the sun o
genius encounters no vapors in his pas
saga. Tia the most exquisite beauty o
a fine face ; a redeeming grace of a home
ly one. It is like the green in aland
scape, harmonizing with evey color
I mellowing the-glories of the bright, atn
! softening the hues of the dark : or, lik
! a flute in a full concert of instruments
- a sound, not at first discovered by th
i ar, but tilling up the breaks in the con
' cord with its deep melody.
A cylinder printing press is sai
. to have been invented in Leipsic, whic
: j can print 14,000 sheets an hour, an
: | costs far lessthan lloe'sgreat America
press.
CSy-We should learn that in youth
which we practice in age.
jjgy-We pass our lives in regretting
the past, complaiug of the present, anu
indulging false hopes for the luture.
8&yA girl baby has been born in La
Crosse with two tongues. Won t her 1
husband catch it if she lives to have j
one ?
fl«a5““Ah 1 my dear, how came you so
wet?” inquired an affectionate mother ’
oilier son. “Why, ma, one of the boys
said I darsent jump into the creek, and
by gosh ! 1 tell you I ant to be dared. ’
ogjKPbilosophers say that shutting
the eyes makes the sense of hearing
more acute. Perhaps this accounts for
the habit some people have of always
closing their eyes in church during the
sermon.
#aP A surgical journal speaks of a
man who lived five years with a ball
in his head. Joe squires says he has
known ladies to live twice as long With
nothing but balls in their heads.
jgy-A grim old judge, after hearing
a glowing oration from a young barris
ter, advised him to pluck out the feath
ers from the wing of his imagination
and stick them in the tail of his judg
ment.
f&P’Young man qualify yourself for
business. Re aspiring, it is not only a
privilege but a duty. Re in earnest,
persistent invincible ; seek to rise upon
your own merits; maintain inviolate
your integrity, and there will await
you riches, honor, fame and friends.
0:5?* “Madame,” said a very polite
traveler lo a testy old landlady, ‘If I see
proper to help myself to this milk is
there anv impropriety in it?’
“I don’t know what you mean; hut
if you mean to insinuate that there is
anything nasty in that milk, I’ll give
von to understand you’ve struck the
wroung house! There ain’t a first
hair in it, torus soon as Marthy Ann
told me the oat was drowned in the
milk, I went right straight and strained
it over.” h >
Hie young man lanitea.
Gardening for Ladies.—Make np
your bed early in the morning; sew but
tons on your husband's shin ; do not
rake up grievances; protect the young
and tender branches of your family;
paint a smile of good temper on your
face, and carefully root out all angry
feelings and expect a good crop of hap
piness.
.4
Accommodating Himself to Cir
cumstances.—The Richmond correspon
dent of the Danville Register tells the fol
lowing anecdote about General “Allegha
ny” Johnstont on the march to Bristoe
Station in the fall of 1863. The General
was aiding along the road, and perceiving
one of his men up a persimmon trea, hal
loed out to him :
“ I say, there, what are you doing up
there F ' Why ain’t you with your regi
mont ?”
“ I’m gettiu’simmons, I am,*' replied
the sold’er.
“ Persimmons, thunder! They are not
ripe yet. They are not fit to eat.”
“Yes, but General,” persisted the Con
fed., “I'm trying to draw my stomach up
to suit tho size of my rations. If it stays
like it is now I shall starve."
The General had nothing further tosay,
but rode on.
Pishing for a Goose.—When Gen.
Iloke's division was on the retreat
through Goldsboro’ one of the boys
baited a hook with a grain of corn and
threw it into a flock of geese that had
been driven into a farmer’s yard for
protection. No sooner on the ground,
than it was seized and swallowed by *
the old gander. Suddenly, his goose
ship was seen to fly over the fence, and
with bis wings spread, lie was follow
ing the soldier. The old farmer seeing
j this, ran out and exclaimed, “Don’t
I l»i™ (Yionc! lio wmrt hurt, vim !”
lie had not seeu the cord, aud suppos- j
cd l he. gander was for making fight at
the stranger. He followed on for half
■ a mile, begging that liis goose should
not he hurt; when, to his utter dismay, <
the goose mounted the horse with the
rider, and was soon out of sight.
BQfA hov, whose honesty is to be
more commended than his ingenuity,
once carried some butter to a merchant
in a country village to exchange for
goods. The butter having ' a , very
beautiful appearance, and the merchant
being desirious of procuring8 shell for
his own use, invited the hoy to bring
him all the butter his mother had to
1 spare. “I think,” said the hoy. “she
can't spare any more, for she said she
would have not spared this, only a rat
I fell into the cream, aud she did not like
to use it herself.”
Matrimony on the Brain.
The People's Press, Hernando, Miss., J
gets off the following :
The young folks of the present time
seem to “have it mighty bad” about
efteh other, particularly in this county.
We individually, self*collectively, per
se, know of thirty-nine contemplated
weddings, in and round Hernando, by
the 2oth of December. This is what w’o
call “crowding the season,”hut, never
theless, are led to exclaim: “go it
while you’r young.” We believe in
marrying, and marrying young, early
and if necessary we say marry often,
for oh, 'tis truly Heavenly bliss (they
jsay)to have about fourteen yards of
: calico hitched to you for life, one for
- whom you would as it were, forget all
■ | others, and one whose calico-enveloped
■| form, with her sweet little angel face
; would meet you at the gate each even
ing as you returned from your day’s la
i ! hors, with a sweet smile and kiss. Even
i our “devi ” when he looks upon the
1 softer sex, is seized with an almost ir
ii i resistible desive. to enter, as he says,
the “Dismal Swamp” of matrimony'.