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OUR JOB PRINTING DEPARTMENT.
WE nave suppuru uu^hycs hhu a guuu
assortment of Printing Material, and are
ready to execute all kir.ds of Job Printing, on
■reasonable terms.
We are prepared to print Pamphlets, Cata
logues, Posters, large or small, Cards, Ball
Tickets, Bill Heads, Blanks of eatery descrip
>ion, for Cle ks, Sheriffs, Justices of the
Peace, Constables, &c.
“@7C¥iyjiLYr'
DRUGGIST,
AND
Ar>OTTIT10A.TlY,
ALSO, DEALER IN
Stationery, Perfumery,
FHVCT ARTICLES, &(.,
Lane k Watts’ old stand, Buena Vista street.
cr Fine Wines. Brandies, &c., for Me
dicinal purposes, always on band.
F’hvsicians p-escri ptioris are accurately
compounded of the best articles that can be
procured. janlStf.
- ~ JtIJSOV
QARPENTER AND JOINER, Also,
Dealer in Sash, Doors, Mantles, Window
and Door Frames. &<•.
J3T Shop corner of Erwin and Park streets.
DKS ARC. ARKANSAS.
v. ||. — Coding made to order, on short
notice. feb22:ly.
B. IS. JTOEISISON,
BUGGY AND CARRIAGE
TMtanufacturor.
Hickory Plain, Ark.,
Will m ike and repair Buggies
ml Carriages,&c., to order. Or
ders respectfully solicited.
■nr* All orders will be readily attended to,
all new work warranted twelve months. I re
turn my thanks to the public for past favors,
»nd hope to receive a liberal patronage in the
future. nov23-tf.
J. 8. A\DUU80\,
SADDLE, BRIDLE
-A N D
ffarness .Manufacturer,
DES AltO, A UK A NS AS.
RESPECTFULLY informs
the citizens of Prairie and
adjacent counties, that he has on hand. "*■' ^
and is prepared to manufacture to order,
Saddles. Bridles, Martingales, Buggy.
Carriage and Hack Harness,
As well as every other description ot work
i . . . ; .u . »1.1 :
|fy Shop on Lyon street, back of Frith &
Jackson’s store. jan21-ly
n LAC K S A1 IT H i V G
Wagon and Buggy Making.
MARTIN SHETTER,
DES ARC, ARKANSAS.
rpHANKFUL to tl>e
L„* people for their past fa-W
vors,respectfully announces o
that he has opened a shop at T. V. Lee’s old
stand, on P.u k street, where he is prepared to
do all kinds of wont in the above line.
. (GP-Bi aeksmithing, wagon and buggy build
ing, wheelbarrows, repairing. &e., done on
ehor notice.
irsc-sbocing done promptly,
feb 18-tf _
J OH N M c N A M E E,
T .f f #/ O II ,
D e s A r-c.,- Arkansas.
SHOP ON BURN A VISTA STREET—
opposite the “Nucleus House”—where In
is prepared to execute all kinds of work in
his line of business, in a neat and fashionable
style.
July 27, 1859 —[tf] _ _
W M . G it¥EN SLADE,
•Merchant Tail or,
Des Arc. Ark..
SHOP on Buena Vista street, one door West
of the Post office. All work executed in
a neat and fashionable style.
feb29-ly.
J oil DAN BO DEM E It,
SHAVING, II UR-CUTTING,
HAIR-DRESSING SALOON
SHAMPOOING AND HAIR-DYING
BUENA VISTA Street, south-side, twi
doors east of G. & J- McLaren’s, Dc
Arc. KtkinHn. jaoll-tr.
riujSESSIONAL CARDS.
s<™Cfon. West Point. Arkansas. Offers
tnLPr°f j'9'0.'131 services to the citizen, of the
town and adjacent country. [auglS If
TVRS RIRDSONG & TUCKER, Re^T
If dent Physicians. Surgeons and Ac
cnucHEURs. having formed a eo-partnershi...
offer (heir professional services to the citi
zen* or Dps Arc and surrounding: country.
From their long experience in their profes
sionthev hope to share a liberal patronage.
lp^*Particn|ar attention given to all chro
nie diseases of femalMs.
Office—Buena Vista street, first room up
stairs in Perry & Jackson’s new building.
augl5 tfj
'^r-I!T^NX0N M' D' JNO. R BI.ANTON. M. D.
Tj 1 J. BL A NTON & SON . Physicians
I " and Surgeons. Office and resi
dence, Centre Point, Prairie countv. Arkan
9a9- _ [aug8 ly
T. SANDERS. j. j NF.F.L.
DBS. S ANDERS & NEEL. Resident Phy
sicians. Dos Arc. Ark., having formed a
partnership in the practiceof their profession,
tender a continuation of their services to the
citizens of Des Arc and adjacent country.
Office —up stairs, corner of Buena Vista and
Woodruff streets. my26-tf
DR H. A RMISTE A D having permanent
ly located at Des Arc. offers his pro
fessional services to the citizens of the town
and adjacent country.
mr Office on Lyon street, Martin & Simp
son’s Law Office. [march21-fim
DR. VVM. RETHELL will continue the
Practice of Medicine in Des Arc and
vicinity. From his long experience in his
profession, and having resided in Arkansas
during the past fifteen vears. he hopes to
receive a share of the public patronage.
Office at Balslv’s Drug Store. Resi
dence near the forks of the Little Rock and
Searcy roads, first house on the South side of
the road, entering the town. mai2l-lv.
J- J. UNF..W. H. tHAMBFR~~
ORS. LANE & CHAMBER1'hiving form
ed a partnership in the practice of
their profession, tender their services to the
citizens of Des Arc and adjacent country.
From their experience they hope to share
at least a nortion of the uatronage of the
public.
,T3T Office on Buena Vista street, at Bai.s
ly’s Drug Store. feblitf
OR. N. L. R AGLAND. having located at
the resilience of R. B. Trezevant,
ffoi-merlyB B. Allens place.) miles from
Wattensaw Landing, offers his professional
services to the public.
1ST Particular attention given to deseases
of women and children. jan 1-ly.
nil. \V. F. WALSH, having located at
lies Arc, offers his Professional Ser
vices to the public. (W Calls promptly at
tended to. may29,1858-ly*
SW. SORRELLS. M. D., Physician and
* Surgeon. Brownsville. Ark. Office—At
Lightfoot’s Drug Store, Main st. * je2-tf
J NO. JAY WILKINS, Attorney at Law.
and Solicitor in Chancery; Oakland
Grove. P airie Co.. Arkansas. Will give
prompt attention to all land matters, the
collection of claims which may be entrusted
to his care, and the practice of his profession
generally in the counties of Prairie, Pulaski,
Pope. Perry, White, Monroe, Conway. Jeffer
son, Yell and Jackson. auglS tf.
RT SIMPSON, Attorney at Law, Dcs
» Arc, Arkansas. Will practice in Prai
rie, White, Arkansas, Monroe, Jackson, and
the adjoining counties. Office on Lyon street.
jy 18, I860- __
S. W. WILLIAMS. J. W. MARTIN.
WILLIAMS & MARTIN, Attorneys
at Law, Little Rock, Ark. Will
practice in the counties of Pulaski, Prairie,
Perry. Yell, Pope, Conway, White, Jackson,
Monroe, Arkansas, Jefferson, Hot Springs and
Saline, and in the Supremeand Federal Courts,
at Little Rock. jy 18, I860.
rn I VVnnrmON Aimrnov nt Lmv.
Des Arc. Arkansas, will practice in the
Fifth Judicial Ci.cuit, and the counties of
White, Jack-On and Monroe.
*„• All business entrusted to his care will
be promptly attended to. maySly.
AW. McNEILL, Attorney at Law. Des
• Arc. Arkansas, practices in the courts
of Prairie and adjacent counties. (J3?”Olfice,
corner of F.rwin and Lyon streets. [apll.
It W DOUGLASS, Attorney at Law,
lj» Brownsville. Arkansas, will promptly
attend to all business entrusted to him, in
Prairie. Arkansas. Monroe, Si. Francis, Jack
son and White counties.
* • Prompt attention given to the collection
of all claim- entrusted to his care. apr28
n |7 TURNER... T. JONES.
filURNER & JONES, Attorneys at
* Law Brownsville, Arkansas. Will at
tend promptly to all business entrusted to
them. _Jan4-tf
nil R. LAWRENCE, Attorney at
® * Law. Des Arc, Arkansas. Will Prac
tice in the Counties of Prairie, Arkansas
Monroe, Jackson, White and St. Francis,
p.ompt attention given to all business enti list
ed to his care. Office corner of Walton anc
Woodruff Streets.
O 11. HEMPSTEAD, Attorney at Law
O. Little Bock, Arkansas. OlficeonMaik
ham street. janll-tf.
R s. G\NT1\ ~ wT J. URONAUGH
(A A NTT & BRONAUGH, Attorney:
It at Law, Brownsville, Arkansas Wtl
attend promptly to any business confided t,
them. _?<Tt14 tf
rn B KENT, Attorney at Law, Des Arc
1 . Arkansas, will practice in the courts o
Prairie, White, Monroe. Arkansas. St. Fran
cis. Jackson, and Independence counties. A
business intrusted to his care shall meet witl
prompt attention, fl0T O-ncE ?:i Lyo
street. __‘•J1 _
T E. GATEWOOD, Attorney a
.1 Law, Des Arc, Prairie county, Arkansas
Wi*lI practice in the counties of Prairie. A'
Kansas, Monroe, St. Francis, Jackson. Whlti
Conwav, and Pope. Will investigate Lai.
Titles, and act as General Land Agen
Prompt attention given to all business entrusl
ed to him. . ,
OrncE—First door up stairs, one doc
East of John lackson & Co.’s, Store.
f eb 13-tf._____
J L HOLLOW ELL.W. D. JACOWA1
rTOLLOWELL & JACOWAY, At
H toaneys AT Law, Dardanetle, Arkansa
Will practice in the counties of ke l, Perr:
Saline, Pulaski, Prairie, Conway and Pope.
je26-tf _____
, TaCOB T. MORRILL, Attorney a
J Law, Notary Public, and Justice c
..the Peace. CIsHtgton, (Sunfish ) Moon
County, Oh<o. [jul?7.tf.
newfirm.
H. D. PERRY. • N. S. WILLIAMSON. «J. M. PETTEY.
Perry, Williamson & Pettey,
(Successors to J. A. Jennings & Co.,)
Sontli Side of Ruena Vista Street,
DES ARC. ARKANSAS:
dealers IN
STAPLE, FANCY, FOREIGN AND
MinmcstiC Miry Howls.
A COMPLETE ASSORTMENT . ^
3C I’nncysilUs. (M
RIBBONS, TRIMMINGS. JIND
3F3 a hi © j i\ ir ft I © H © s,
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION:
ALSO—LARGE DEALERS IN
J BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, r»
CAPS, READY-MADE CLOTH-iag
ING. HARCWAnE.QUEENSWARE, BONNETS, &C.
Gty A large ot of Plantation Goods, of
every description—all at the very lowest pos
sible prices.
(jy All kinds of goods, by the piece, at
wholesale prices. augl5-tf
J. A. SAMPLE M. R. MITCHELL. J. M. SAMPLE. •
SAMPLE, MITCHELL, & CO. '
Cotton Factors,
-AND -
Commission. Receiving and Forwarding
MERCHAJiTTB, 1
Madison street, opposite the Union Bank, f
au22-6m Meinplii , »en>« ,
R. A. PARKER. SR. R. A. PARKER. JR. (
R. A. PARKER & SON, 1
Cotton m factors,
Commission & -fovmcriiing
MERCHANTS,
NO. 6 HOWARD’S ROW,
jyl8-3m Memphis, Tenn. 1
A. WHIPPLE. APCH P.r ID. M. O. HOPKINS. J
t
PLANING MILL, j
—AND— (
LTO» Y&ISiB* '
SASH, DOORS AND BLINDS. '
Ylf7E have recently built a large addition to 1
VV our Plaining Mill, and fitted up our
manufacturing department vvitn all uie ino- ^
dern machinery for the manufacture of Sash. '
j Doors, Blinds, Moulding, Mantels, Door and ‘
! Window Frames, Casings, Cornice, Brackets, I
I Newel Posts, Turning and Scroll Work, of .
every style. We have on hand a large stock
of Lumber of all kinds, Flooring. White Pine
and Poplar Weather-boarding, Sheeting Shin- (
gles, Fencing, and a large lot of Cedar Posts, i
Our manufacturing department is under the
supervision of an experienced foreman, and we |
flatter ourselves that as to price, quality, style
and durability we can compete with any simi- !
lar establishment in the United States. Or- l
ders promptly filled.
WHIPPLE, REID & CO.
Planing Mill, near the Bayou on Madison
Street, Memphis, Tenn.
Sept. 5, lbfiO—ly. I
REMOVAL! ,
rpHE undersigned has removed his Carpet |
1 and Curtain business, to the Jackson (
Block, 363 Main Street, where he is prepared
to show the best assortment of Carpet and '
Curtain Goods in Memphis. Velvet, Tapes- !
try, Brussels, Super and Common Carpets, |
Iiiigs, Mats, Matting, Cocoa Matting, etc.
Silk, Damask, Lade and Common Curtains,
Tassels, Loops, Bands, Picture Cord, Corni- 1
ces, etc.; BufT and White Holland of differ- i
ent widths; Gilt, Landscape and Plain Shades. |
Floor Oil Cloths, from six to twenty.four feet |
wide. •
Finkle & Lyons’ Family Sewing Machine, 1
the best machine made, for from $55 to $130. I
The best of Workmen on hand to cut, make ,
and lay carpels, hang curtains, shades. &c. .
H M GROSVENER.
Jackson Block, 363 Main St., Memphis.
je30-tf _
16th Sections for Sale.
ON Saturday the 15th September next, I
will offer for sale at public auction, before
the Court House door in Brownsville, within
legal hours, the Sixteenth Section in Township
2 north, range 5 west. Also, the Sixteenth
Section in Township 1 south, range 6 west—
all on a credit or live yeais. ruunascn
give bond and security, and pay interest at the
rate of eight per cent, per annum, payable
semi-annually in advance.
VVJV1. I>. PRESTON,
Common School Com’r. •
Aug. 15. 18S0—4t.
Dr. Geo. HADFIELD 3
HOMOEOPATHIC
@IPE©0IF0© IK£[M[EE)!][ES0
TAEVER AND AGUE BOX CONT A IN
I’ ing 4 vials, with full directions warranted
7~° «so no
to cure
Fevers, vial with directions, - 25
Scarlet Fever Preventive,
Headache, - - - 2 vials, 50
Rheumatism, - 2 do.
Spasms, ... 2 do.
Croup, - 2 do. 50
Diarrhoea, - 2 do. 50
Diarrhcea of Children, - 2 do. 50
Dysentery, ... 2 do.
Colic. - - - - 2 do. 50
i Coughs and Colds, - 2 do.
Neuralgia. * 2 do. 50
i Case of Medicine containing 77 vials, and a
large work giving full directions $15 00
For sale at this office. For sale Wholesale
. and Retail by Dr. Geo. Hadfield, Little Rock,
E Arkansas. aPr 28-tf.
11 Administrator’s Notice.
'j r T A V1NG taken out letters of administra
1 ri tion on the estate of Levi Byrain, de
ceased, this is to notify all persons having
claims against said estate to present them,
r i properly authenticated, within one year from
• j this date, or they may be precluded from any
' benefit in said estate, and if not exhibited
> within two years, they shall be forever bar
1 red and precluded from all benefit in said es
• tate. W. W. BYRAM,
au29-lm Hickory Plain, Prairie,Co.
r .hi iniiiisftiifor'u .Yotici".
fTlHE undersigned, having been appoint
l ed administrator of the estate of A. B.
' Hope, deceased, all persons having claims
• against the same are requested to present the
i. same, legally authenticated, within the time
\ prescribed by law. and all those indebted to
said estate are requested to come forward aDd
settle the same without delay.
au29-lm] W. E. MADDOX, Adin’r.
r All those iudebted to the firm of Mad
r doxtii Hope must make immediate payment,
e as further indulgence cannot be given._
jIV• E>
Sensible Wishes.
I’d kind o’ like to have a cot.
Fixed on some sunny slope or spot,
Five acres more or less,
With maples, cedars, cherry trees,
And poplars whitening in the breeze.
’Twould suit my taste, I guess,
To have the porch with vines o’erhung,
With bells of pendent woodbine swung,
In every bell a bee,
And round my lattice-window spread
A clump of roses, white and red,
Tn snla**" “n»J me.
I kind o’ think I should desir)>
To hear around the lawns a choir
O’ wood bird singing sweet;
And in a dell I'd have a brook,
Where I could sit and read my book.
Such should be my retreat,
Far from the city’s crowds and noise ;
There would I rear the girls and boys,
(I have some two or three.)
And if kind Heaven should bless my store
With five or six or seven more,
How happy I should be.
?he Rescue of Syrian Women and Chil
dren by English Men-of War
The following letter from Capt. Payn
er, of the English Navy, describes some
ew of the horrible scenes he has recently
vitm-ssed in Syria, and gives an account
if the rescue of 2000 women and children
>y English tmn-of war:
With reference to the Deir-el-Kamnt
he Druses commenced on Wednesday,
he 19th nisi., to enter the town in large
lined hands, and began pillaging llie
hops and warehouses at four in the after
loon ; the troops joined the Druses in
iluudering. During ihe night the Druses
f the Hauran and the Metualis entered
he city from different directions. Early
in Thursday morning ihe town was set on
ire in several places, and a massacre of
very male inhabitant, from the helpless
dd man to the infant at the breast, notri
nenced, and ihe women who did not fly
vere violated. These atrocities conlin
md, without intermission, until Friday.
At 8 p. m. on Thursday, his Excellency
Choursheed Pasha, Governor General of
Syria, arrived, but taking no notice of the
lorrors committed by ihe troops or Druses,
mssed onto a station called Italieen,which
iverlooked the town. He then issued an
irder to stay the slaughter, which was dis
egarded by both the troops and the Druses;
•'>00 males, it is stated, are now lying un
tuned amid the ruins of Detr-el-Kamar.
tul the women and children who fled from
he scene of slaughter', 1 was informed by
Hr. Consul-General Moore, were mak
ng their escape to the seaside, near the
Jumoor river, hunted uown like wild
leasts.
I instantly dispatched Capt. Lambert,
if the Gannel. who was about to proceed
o Athens, and desired him to signalize to
he Mohawk', then on her way from Sidon,
vitli the fugitives from the massacres at
dasbeiyn, to assist her with the boats in
irnbarking the refugees.
I enclose you the reports of Commnn
ler Lambert and Acting-Consul West.and
n doing so I beg leave to inform you that
he service was performed under great dif
iculty, and reflected great credit on all
:oncerned ; and it will be gratifying to you
o know that, with the means that you have
ilaced at my disposal, we have saved from
he horrors of famine, murder and viola
ion, upwards of 2200 Christian women
ttid children.
In the first trip the Gannet brought up
seven hundred, the Mohawk four hundred
md fifty-six; the second trip the Mohawk
Drought up six hundred and twenty-four,
ind the third trip upwards of five hundred,
n every stage of misery. The most se
verely wounded I received onboard of the
Exmouth, and their wounds were dressed
ay the surgeon of this ship ; the remain
der were landed and sent to (he French
hospital. The whole of tho-e wounded
were shot or sabred flying Iroin the town
after their husbands and male children had
beet) slaughtered.
I received every assistance from the
boats of the French, Russian and Turk
ish ships lying here, in landing these poor
creatures; and the French Commodore
dispatched to the northward a vessel in or
der to rescue any others that may have
remained, hut I have every reason to be
lieve that the fugitives from Zihle, Has
baiya and Deir-el-Knrnir have been takei.
off from our vessels.
The conduct of Osman Bey really ap
pears in this age without n parallel. Ht
first of all induced the Christians to sur
render their arms ; tie then crowded the
poor creatures in the courts of the Seaai
and for eight days kept them with barelt
sufficient loud to keep life together ; am
then, when unable to resist from physica
debility, he opened the gates and allotvet
th" Druses 10 rush in and massacre then
to the number of 800, men, women ant
children. The few that escaped ovvedthei
preservation to crawling under the bodie
of the dead, and escaping under the cove
of darkness.
On (tearing of this butchery, and be
lieving it possible that many of the wo
men and children would escape to the se
coast of Tyre and Sidou, 1 immedmtel
dispaiched the Mohawk on the 21st, t
iliosr places, with orders to communicat
with the Vice Consul, and bring off an
of the fugitives. It was on the return t
the Mohawk from these places with 50
that »he assisted in embarking the wome
in Deir-el-Kamar on hoard the Gantlet.
-It is said that Chang and Eng, th
Siamese twins, differ in politics. Both ai
veteran Democrats, but Chang is now f<
Breckinridge and Eng for DougI»3. This
the last‘Democratic division.’
Mr. Breckinridge on Territorial Sove
reignty.
Il has been the policy of the Douglas
organs in the South to show a correspon
dence or identity between the opinions
held by their chief, as to the powers of a
Territorial Legislature, and those enter
tained by the leading Democrats in the
country. Some of them have asserted,
and the Opposition press has repeated the
charge, that Mr. Breckinridge and Judge
Douglas stand together on 'hat question
The assertion, so far as we are informed.
, -111
from a speech made somewhere, by the
former in 1856. in which he said that the
people of a Territory had the right to de
cide the question of slavery for themselves.
This his interpreters have construed into
an admission of the doctrine that a Terri
torial Legislature has exclusive and sov
ereign power over the subject, when no
evidence is adduced to show that the pow
ers of a Territorial Legislature were the
subject under consideration. But Mr.
Breckinridge has not left the country in
doubt as to his position on this question.
He has a record on it as clear and pointed
as a sunbeam. In December 1859. he
was elected by the Legislature of Ken
tucky, to the Senate of the United Slates.
At tiie request of a portion of the Legis
lature, immediately after his election, lie
delivered a speech in the Hall of the
House of Representatives upon questions
of public interest. At the time the “squat
ter sovereignty” and “unfriendly legisla
tion" doctrines of Judge Dougins Imd been
explicitly avowed and were clearly under
stood ; Mr. Breckinridge scouted them as
having “no warrant Irom the Constitu
tion," and declared that the decision of the
Supreme Court in derogation of squatter
sovereignly, and in affirmance and sup
port of ihe rights of the slaveholder, should
lie upheld and enforced in the Territory,
if need be, bv the whole Executive and
Legislative power of the Government.—
Here is what he said. Read it, and an
swer whether the Southern heart does not
beat responsive to his declaration :
“ The fact that neither Congress nor a Ter
ritorial Legislature can constitutionally ex
clude from, or confiscate in a Territory, pri
vate property having been judicially detei min
ed by the highest court in the United States,
I confess that I did not anticipate the doctrine
of unfriendly legislation ill regard to African
slaves. It has ifd warrant from Ihe Constitu
tion. if we recognize the highest judicial in
terpretation of that Instrument.
‘ 111 another part or tile same opinion, tne
Supreme Court points out the duty of the ju
dicial department in its proper sphere—to
maintain the constitutional rights of the citi
zen in his person and property. In speaking
of the acquisition of Territory, they pronounce
it a political question ; and then hold the fol
lowing language
“ And whatever the political department of
government shall recognize as within the lim
its of the United States, the judicial depart
ment is also bound to recognize and adminis
ter in it the laws of the United States so far
as they apply, and to maintain in the territory
the authority and rights of the government:
and also the personal rights of property of
individual citizens, as secured by the Consti
tution. All we mean to say on this point is,
that as there is no express regulation in the
Constitution defining the power which the
General Government may exercise over the
person or property of a citizen to a territory
thus acquired, the Court must necessarily look
to the provisions and principles of the Consti
tution and its distribution of powers for the
rules and principles by which its decision
must be governed.”
So that in regard to every description of
property, including slaves, recognized and re
garded by the Constitution, it is the duty of
the courts of the country to protect and guard
it whenever the question is brought before
them. To which I add that every good citi
wi II admit that the decisions of (lie courts
within their appropriate sphere must be sus
tained and enforced. In common with many
public men, 1 hold that the existing machine
ry of our government is inadequate to execute
Ihe decisions of tfie judicial tribunals. But
should the time ever arrive when adocisionof
a competent court on a question of private
right is like to fail for want of adequate rem
edies to execute it, those remedies, executive
and legislative if need be, shall be afforded,
or government is a failure—and from this con
clusion I see no escape for any just mind that
would uphold the authorities of the country.
[Columbus (Georgia) Times.
Interpretation or Dreams. — To
dream of a small stone around your neck,
is a sign of what yon may exp-ct if you
get nn extravagant wife. To see apples
in a dream, betokens a wedding because
where you find apples you may expect to
hnu pears. to dream Hint you are Inin .
is a token ilnu you will get into a hobble.
When a young lady dreams of a coffin, it
betokens that she should instantly discon
tinue the use of light slays, and always
go warmly and thickly shod in wet weath
er. To dream of fire, is a sign that—it
you are wise—you will see that the lights
in your house nre out before you go to bed,
Tii dream that your nose is red on the tip,
is an intimation that you had better leave
off brandy and water. To dream of walk
ing bmefooted, denotes a journey that you
i will make bootless. To dream of eggs, it
i a sign that you will discover a mare’s nest
I When a fashionable lady dreams of a fib
• bert, it is a sign that her thoughts are run
s ning upon the colonel. If you dream 01
r clothes, it is a warning not to go to law
for, by the rule of contraries, you will hi
■ sure of nonsuit. To dream that you are
- eating, is certain to come true at break
i ! fast. To dream of a barber, denotes los
,• ses—hairs may be expected to be cut off
) To drearn of having a great number o
:■ servants is madness. It is very lucky te
r drearn you pay for a thing twice over
f since afterward you will probably take can
3 to have all your bills receipted.
— Mrs Fartiligton says that Ike ha
bought a horse so spirituous that he alway
e goes off in a decanter.
e --I think, wife, that you have a gres
r many ways of calling me a fool.” “I think
:s husband, that yon have a great many ways c
being oae .”
Aunt Betsey “ Riled Up.”
“ I declare if I wan't riled up," said
Aunt Betsey Green dropping her knitting
work into her lap. and pushing her spec
tacles up over her cap border; “1 declare
if I wnn’t! If I could only have taken
■ hat man by the collar, as I used to my
Reuben when he didn’t ‘toe up’to suit me,
I'd have given him such a shaking as he
never henrd on. I’ll be bound.”
“There he sat in that rocking chair, his
feet on the fender, and kept growling out
at Lizy Jane to bring him his boots, or
tie* tfling* at!'fife vvKite" thaish e‘w a s “t?
ing to dress them four young ones, nnd
had the headache so she looked more like
a giiost than a breathing woman. If 1
was in that ere place they call legislates
I’ll bet tliere’d be a law passed to huild a
penitensbry, or some other kind of pen.
for such critters as he is—with no mercy
on woman whether she’s sick or well, just
keeping up their “you do this,” or “you
tlo that,” from sun-rising to sun-setting.
“But then there's Lizy Jane is most as
much to blame as he is. If she’d had a
bit of spunk he never’d have got her un
der his thumb that way. Most likely he
begun to order her round before the ho
ney-moon was set, when she hadn't got
her eyes open no more’n a three-day»-old
kitten, and thought she should be blessed
forever ’cause she’d got her neck in the
same yoke with his’n. If she haint lound
out her mistake, nnd had some tears to
shed over “cracked idols,” as they tell
about in poetry, I don’t know what kind
of siufT slie's made of.
“When I was married—thank my lucky
star—I didn’t get tied to any such kind of
crockery. Joshua wasn’t uncommon hand
some to toon at, to ne sure—any one migni
have thought of a brown earthen plate
side of a china vase, comparing him with
such a whiskered, scented-up chap as Li
zy Jane's husband, but I can tell you he
is just what I took him to he, and I never
shed one single tear, finding that my "idol”
must he handled careful, fussed over, wait
ed on and run for to keep it in good hu
mor without fear of breakage.
"I did feel kind of spiteful when Lizy
Jane set her head up and acted like slit
kind of crowed over me ’cause she’d got a
city husband; but ever since I slopped
there, I’ve felt real Christian nbout it.
"I tell you, girl*, when a chap asks you
to stand up before the parson with him,
you just find out whether he can siir out
of a rocking chair long enough to find Ins
hoots, or not, and whether you are to be
head-waiter or help-meet after you arrive
in the County of Matrimony, Stato of
Bliss.”
-♦ ».
The Secret of Eloquence.—I owe
my success in life to one single fact, name
ly : At the age of twenty-seven I com
menced. and continued for years, the pro
cess of daily reading and speaking upon
the contents of some historical or scienti
fic book. These ofT hand efforts were made
some-times in a cornfield, at others in the
forest, and not unfrequenily in some dis
tant barn, with the horse and ox for my
auditors. It is to this early practice in the
great art of arts that I am indebted for
the primary and leading impulses that
stimulated me forward, and shaped and
moulded my entire subsequent destiny.—
Improve, then, young gentlemen, the su
perior advantages you here enjoy. Let
no day pass without exercising your pow
ers of speech. There s no power like
that of oratory. Cse*ar controlled men by
exciting their fears; Cicero by captivating
their affections, and swaying their pas
sions. The influence of the one perished
with the author; that of the other contin
ues to this day.— [Henry Clay.
Lorenzo Dow.—On one occasion he
look the liberty, while preaching, to de
nounce a rich man in the community re
cently deceased. The result was an ar
rest, a trial for slander, and an imprison
ment in the county jail. After Lorenzo
trot out of "limbo.” he announced that iti
spite of his (in his opinion) unjust pun
ishment, lie should preach, at a given
time, a sermon about “another rich man.'
! The populance was greatly excited, and a
crowded house greeted his appearance
With great solemnity he opened the Bi
ble and read. “ And there was a riel
man who died and went to-thet
slopped short, and seemed to be suddenly
impressed; be continued: “ Brethren, I
shall not mention the place this rich mar
went to, for fear he has some relations it
this congregation who will sue me for de
famation of character.” The effect on tin
I assembled multitude was irresistible, am
lie made the impression permanent by la
king another text, and never alluding n
the subject again.[—Harper’s Magnxme
----
A Negro's I’rayer.—It bus been sug
gested to us that the following prayer, re
ceutly reported to us, might appropriate!
be offered in many congregations through
out the land. A pastor of a church preach
ed one Sabbath afternoon to the black:
! A large croud attended, among whom a
j impression prevailed that the minister wa
soon to leave Ins charge, and that thi
I would be his farewell discourse to their
At the close of the sermon he called on
pious old negro to pray, which lie did wit
i much feeling. In ti.e course of his pray
er. with uplifted hands and a swingin
- motion of body, be fervently ejaculate
Going away! Going away! and leave i
without a shepherd. O, Lord make ei
8 pay him. and keep him here.”— [I’re
8 Witness.
t _Two brothers of the name of Rlc
, lately- married two sisters of the name
f Wing and have emigrated ; thus showing th
‘riches takes to themselves wings and fly away
A Chime of Death.
The longer Life, the more offense;
Tbe more offense, the greater pain;
The greater pain, the less defense;
The less defense, the lesser gain!
The loss of gain long ill doth try,
Wherefore, come Death, and let me dial
The shorter Life, less count I find ;
The less account, the sooner made;
The count Boon made, the merrier mind ;
The merrier mind doth thought invade!
Short life in truth this thing doth try,
Wherefore, come Death and iet me dit!
Come, gentle Death, the ebb of care ;
The ebb of care, the flood of Life :
The flood of Life, the joyful fare ;
The joyful fare, the end of strife!
The end of strife, that thing wish I,
Wherefore, come Death, and let me dial
MISCELLANEOUS “items.
—I’ll be with you In a crack,” aa the
rifle-ball said to the target.
— A tnan from the country, whose wife
had eloped and carried oft'tbe feather-bed, waa
in Louisville, in search of them—not that he
cared anything about the wife,* but the feath
ers,” said be, “them’s worth forty-eight centa
a pound.”
—-De Quincy, being asked why there were
more women than men replied: It is in con
formity with the arrangement of Nature—we
always see more of heaven than earth.
-A good man who has seen much of the
world, and is not tired of it says : The grand
essentials to happiness in this life are, some
thing to do, something to love, and something
to hope for.
-The higher we rise In the sphere of
j ideas, the more lonely we get in our intellect
ual affinities, ami tbe more difficult it becomes
to find congenial companions.
-“What a fine head your boy has,’’ laid
an adinii ing friend.
‘‘Yes,” said the ford father, “'he’s a chip off
the old block, ’aint you sonny?”
“I guess so, daddy, cause the teacher said
yesterday I was a young blockhead.”
-Kissing is a custom handed down to ua
from the Greeks and Romans, as to the .true
signification of which we are not perfectly
clear. Probably it is symbolic of the sun’a
rays greeting the earth ( and If so, doubtless
was received, with all the other lore of sun
worship, from the Orientals.
A Proverb of Sot.F.wN’UN I—“It Is better
that a woman should scold than do worse.
Better for us to endure the present 111 than to
fly to others we know not of. We do not rel
ish the noise of scolding. We never did.
Scolding seems to be a poor use to make of a
woman ; but then scolding may have its ad
vantages. We do not like the noise of a boi
ler blowing off steam ; but if it saves the
boiler from bursting, we should be content to
endure it.”
-No man has probably ever had a keener
realizing sense of genuine “interior life” than
Jonah when he was making a submarine voy
age between Joppa and Tarshisb.
——An indiscreet person is like an unsealed
letter, which every one may read, but which
is seldom worth reading.
—Don’t locate yourself on the back of a
wild horse, unless you want to be dislocated.
An Imfobtant Question Answered.—
Wbat would this world be without women ?
Ans. —A perfect blank—a sheet of paper not
even kuied !
-Handsome features alone are incapable
of expressing real beauty, as speech alone U
incapable of expressing wit.
-The editor of an Ohio paper says their
town presents a lively appearance this spring.
The ‘fence has been taken away from around
the place, ar.d about half the Inhabitants hsve
escaped into Iowa, and the balance are too
poor to get away.’
A Pill for the DoctoH.—Said Dr. Bolus
to Mr. Quirk, “I never could understand what
you lawyers mean by docking an entail.”—
‘ That is very likely,” answered the lawyer)
“but 1 will explain It to you. It is doing wbat
you doctors rarely consent to—suffering a re
covery.”
-“Perhaps Brother Jonathan does carry
hi3 hands In his pockets,” said a drawling
Yankee in dispute with an Englishman. “But
the difference between him and John Bull is,
that Brother Jonathan has his hands in his
own Dockets, while John Bull has his in soma
body eise’s.”
-A pious Irishman, not long since, In ex
horting a meeting, let his remarks take an
analogical turn. “ My beloved friends,” eaid
Pat, ‘-all cannot be parts of the same building.
Some have to be posts, some rafters, etc., and,
f'iends, if there were not already too many
slapers In the house, 1 would be willin’to be a
slaper (sleeper) me elf.”
-Hope writes the poetry of the boy, but
memory that of the mail. Man looks forward
( with smiles, but backward with sighs. Such
s the wise providence of God. The gup of
, life is sweetest at the brim, the flavor is im
paired as we drink deeper, and the dregs are
made bitter that we may not struggle when it
, is taken from our lips.
Good fob Katrina.—A good old Dutch
man and bis fmw sat up till gaping time,when
the latter, after a full stretch, said : “1 vish I
vas ill Hapen.” Hans also yawned and re- ,
^ plied, “I vish I vas in der shtill-house.” Ka
s trina’s eyes flew wide open, as she exclaimed,
“I pe pound for you, you always vish yourself
f |in de pest place.
-Two o^i friends met, not long since, af
ter a separation of thirty-five years. “Well
j Tom says one. how has the world gone with
' you, old boy? Married yet?” ‘ Yes, and I’ve
1 a family you can’t mafeh : seven boys and one
3 girl.” -I can match it exactly,” was the re
ply, ‘ for I’ve seven girls and one boy.”
' _A collegian, enlightening afariner upon
animalcule, applied hi * microscope to the
i, cheese, saying. - Now, look and see them wig
>f gle.” ‘-Well,” said the farmer, placing the
it cheese in his mouth, “ let toera wiggle, I CM
.’ 1 stand it us long as they can,”
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