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„? DRUGGIST, $
is *K11
A3POTHBOATIY,
ALSO. DEALER IN
Stationery, Perfumery,
FANCY ARTICLES, &.C.,
Lane k Watls* old stand, Buena Vista street,
©$3
Fine Wines, Brandies, fee., for Me
dicinal purposes, always on hand.
(5JTPhysicians prescriptions are accurately
compounded of the best articles that can be
procured. janl8-tf.
j. t.paiMaSl
architect,
CARPENTER ASD JOINERi
Respectfully informs the citizens of
Des Arc and vicinity, that he is prepared
to execute alt work intrusted to his care, with
neatness and dispatch.
PLANS AND DESIGNS OF BUILDINGS
Furnished to order, free of charge where he
bis the contract for the same.
From his experience, both as an archi
tect and contractor, he flatters himself that he
can render entire satisfaction. jun29-tf
w» a. dtaiBauttraow
CARPENTER AND JOINER,
HAVING permanently located at Des Arc,
Arkansas, is prepared to execute all
ffork in HIS I,ine of Business.
in a satisfactory manner. From his expe
rience, he feels confident that those who favor
j him with contracts will have no cause to re
I "ret it. j.
innnne Tenroi- TUP PATTMT11V
v ‘vujkjjtvw i. it* * » • ~ —
I Left at G. W. Vaden’s Store, will meet
| ritti prompt attention. jun29-ly
~jTs7anderso\,
SADDLE, BRIDLE
—a n d
Harness .Manufacturer,
DES ARC, ARKANSAS.
i RESPECTFULLY informs
! the citizens of Prairie and 'jPj®
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 of work
usually done in such establishments.
2^ Shop on Lyon street, back of Frith &
uackson’s store. ]an21-ly.
^BLACKSMITH IJYG
Wagon and Buggy Making.
MARTIN SHETTER,
DES ARC, ARKANSAS,
w- mHANKFUL o the
jlr J_ people for their past fa-ll 11
vors.respectfully announces \) V
;hat he has opened a shop at T. V. Lee’s old
•land, on Park street, where he is prepared to
dealt kinds of worn in the above line.
!®“Blacksmithing, wagon and buggy build
wheelbarrows, repairing. &c., done on
’her notice.
Horse-shoeing done promptly.
feblS-df
F. LEPTIF.N.
I CLOCK. AND WATCHMAKER
AND
JEWErjUiER,
Buena Vista Street,
Three doors East of G,
& J. McLaren &. Co’s
DES ARC, ARK.,
RESPECTFULLY in
forms the citizens of
Arc and the adjacent country, that he has
new and select stock of
CLOCKS AND JEWELRY.
i», as usual, prepared to execute all kinds
CLOCK and WATCH Work, in a work
, and to Repair and Clean
•fCK-tf
L
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
DR. H. ARMISTEAD having permanent
ly located at Des Arc. offers his pro
fessional services to the citizens of the town
and adjacent country.
(t3F Office on Lyon street, Martin &. Simp
son’s Law Office. [inarch21-f>m
DR. WM. BET HELL will continue the
Practice of Medicine in Des Arc and
vicinity. From hi3 long experience in his
profession, and having resided in Arkansas
during the past fifteen years, he hopes to
receive a share of the public patronage.
Office at Balsly’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. mar2t-ly.
J. S. LANE.W. H. CHAMBER9.
DRS. LANE & CHAMBERS having 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 portion of the patronage of the
public.
$5?” Office on Buena Vista street, at Bai.s
ly’j Druo Store. febl:tf
DR. N. L. RAGLAND, having located at
the residence of R. B. Trezevant,
(formerly B. B. Allens place.) 2,1 miles from
Wattensaw Landing, offers his professional
services to the public.
Particular attention given to deseases
of women and children. jan 1-ly.
T\R. W. F. WALSH, having located at
\J Des Arc, offers his Professional Ser
vices to the public. Calls promptly at
tended to. may29, 1858-ly*
TJ. WOODSON, Attorney at Law,
. Des Arc, Arkdnsas, will practice in the
Fifth Judicial Ciicuit, and the counties of
White. Jackson and Monroe.
*.* All business entrusted to his care will
he promptly attended to. may?-ly.
AW. McNEILL, Attorney at Law. Des
• Arc. Arkansas, practices in the courts
of Prairie and adjacent counties. (^"Office,
corner of Erwin and Lyon streets. [apll.
EW DOUGLASS, Attorney at Law.
• Brownsville. Arkansas, will promptly
attend to all business entrusted to him, in
Prairie. Arkansas, Monroe,St. Francis, Jack
son and White counties.
%• Prompt attention given to the collection
of all blaim-j entrusted to hicare. apr28
J. W. MARTIN.. T. SIMPSON.
ART1N & SIMPSON, Attorneys
at Law, Des Arc, Arkansas. Will
practice in Preirie, White, Arkansas, Mon
roe, Jackson and the adjoining counties.
Office on Lyon street. feb‘21)-tf.
n. n. turner.wm. t. jonf.s.
HPURNER St JONES, Attorneys at
Law. Brownsville, Arkansas. Will at
tend promptly to all business entrusted to
them. jan4-tf.
It. LAWRENCE, Attorney at
* Law, Des Arc, Arkansas. Special at
tention given to collecting. jan4-tf.
Q H. HEMPSTEAD, Attorney at Law,
k?. Little Hock, Arkansas. Office ori Mark
ham street. janll-tf.
R. 3. GANTT. W. J. HRONAUG1I
/'I ANTT & BRONAUGH, Attorneys
VT at Law, Brownsville. Arkansas. Will
attend promptly to any business confided to
them. septl4tf
TACOB T. MORRILL, Attorney at
J Law, Notary Public, and Justice of
the Peace, Clarington, (Sunfish.) Monroe
County, Ohio. [jul27-tf.
J. E. GATEWOOD..J. A. MOON.
GATEWOOD & MOON, Land
\jf Agents and Hf.al Estate Brokers,
Des Arc, Arkansas. Will attend to payment
of taxes, locating Government, Swamp or Mil
itary lands. Blanks of every description al
ways on hand. aug3-tf.
TB. KENT, Attorney at Law, Des Arc.
• Arkansas, will practice in the courts of
Prairie, White, Monroe. Arkansas, St. ^Yan
cis, Jackson, and Independence counties. All
business intrusted to his care shall meet with
prompt attention. 25?” Office on Lyon
street. [jun8-tf
T E. GATEWOOD, Attorney at
,) , Law, Des Arc, Prairie county, Arkansas.
Will practice in the counties of Prairie. Ar
kansas, Monroe, St. Francis, Jackson. White,
Conwav, and Pope. Will investigate Land
Titles,' and act as General Land Agent.
Prompt attention given to all business entrust
ed to him.
Office—First door up stairs, one door
rs i . r 1 T I_ t. V. Ctm-A
izajl 1 iMMlil JOVUSWH VW -J
febl3-tf._
C1AMUEL W. WILLIAMS, Attok
ney at Law, Little Rock, Arkansas.
Office on Markham street. [mar21
J. L. 1I0LL0WF.A..w. D. JACOWAY.
HOLLOWELL & JACOWAY, At
torneys at Law, Dardanelle, Arkansas.
Will practice in the counties of Yell. Perry,
Saline, Pulaski, Prairie, Conway and Pope.
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" HOUR. ADAMS,
CLOCK, WATCHMAKER
JEWELER,
(In rear of C. T. Petit’s Drue Store,)
Augusta, Arkansas.
Respectfully informs the citizens of
the town and adjacent country that he has
PERMANENTLY LOCATED IN AUGUSTA, and IS
prepared to execute all kinds ot Clock and
Watch Work, repair and Cleanse Jewelry, as
well as every other description of work usual
ly done in such establishments.
(ggr Musical Instruments of every descrip
tion repaired and putin good order, r rom
his experience and me hamcal knowledge, be
feels confident of rendering satisfaction to his
patrons.
TohnHmcN ame e ,
'/’ .1 i Mj o « ,
Des Arc, Arkansas.
SHOP ON BUENA VISTA STREET
opposite the “Nucleus House”—where h<
is prepared to execute all kinds of work n
his line of business, in a neat and fashionabh
style.
July 27, 1859—[tf]
STRAYED OR STOLEN.
FROM mv ,dace, 22 miles west of Des Arc
a large SORREL HORSE. 17 hands high
one white hind foot, and a little white in th<
face.below the eyes, shod before, and the righ
fore hoof broken off on the outside. Any om
returning him to me, or any information con
I earning him will be thankfully received am
j liberally rewarded. G. W. CLARK.
1 my26-3t Oakland Grove, Aik.
Footsteps of the Departed.
BY H. W. J.OHGFKLr.OW.
When the hours of the day are numbered,
And the voices of the night
Wake the better soul, that slumbered,
To a holy, calm delight;
’Ere the evening lamps are lighted,
And like phantoms grim and tall,
Shadows from the fitful firelight
Dance upon the parlor wall ;
Then the forms of the departed
Enter at the open door j
The beloved, the true-hearted,
Come to visit me once more.
He, the young and strong, who cherished
Noble longings for the strife,
By the roadside fell and perished,
Weary with the march of life.
They, the holy ones and weakly,
Who the cross of suffering bore,
Folded their pale hands so meekly,
Spoke with us on earth no more.
And with them the being beauteous,
Who unto my youth was given,
More than all things else to love me,
And is now a saint in heaven.
With a slow and noiseless footstep
Comes the messenger divine,
Takes the vacant chair beside me,
Lays her gentle hand in mine.
And she sits and gazeB at me
With those deep and tender eyes,
Like the stars so deep and saint-like,
Looking downward from the skies.
Uttered not, yet comprehended,
Is the spirit’s voiceless prayer,
Soft rebukes, in blessings ended,
Breathing from her lips of air.
Oh, though oft depressed and lonely,
All my fears are laid aside,
If I but remember only
Such as these have lived and died.
Tobacco — Its History — Illustrious
Smokers.
A new volume has just appeared in
London, to bo added to the numberless
treatises devoted to the history of lubuceo,
aud to anecdotes connected with it. Mr.
Fail holt, the author of the work, goes
gossiping through the story of tobacco aud
tne three centuries of possession which it
lias held ever since certain Europeans
first beheld a few American savages
•• enjoying a pipe.”
Here is a whiff or two from Mr. Fair
holt’s well filled pipe :
Of literary men, Golhe hated tobacco,
a very extraordinary tiling for a German
to do. Heinrich Heine had tne same dis
like. Of French literateurs, Balzac, Vic
tor Hugo, aud Dumas did not smoke ; but
the smokers are Alfred de Musset, Eu
gene Sue, Merimee, Paul de St. Victor,
and Madam Dudevant, belter known by
the soubriquet of George Sand, who often
indulges in a cigar between tne intervals
of literary labor, as the ladies ol Spaiu
and Mexico delight in doing at all other
intervals. Charles Lamb, “the geulle
Elia,” was once a great smoker. In a
letter to Wordsworth he says: “Tobacco
has been my evening comfort and my
morning nurse for the last five years. 1
have had in my head to write this poem
lor these two years (Farewell Tobacco);
but tobacco stood in us own light, wtieu it
gave me headaches that prevented me
singing its praises.” Lamb once, in the
height of his smoking days, was putfimg
the coarsest weed from a long clay pipe
in company with Parr, who was carelul
in obtaining finer sorts, and the doctor, in
astonishment, asked him how he acquired
this prodigious power. Lamb answered,
“ By toiling after it, as some men toil
after virtue.”
nr nihur liiernrv smokers in England
we may nole Sir YValter Scott, who at one
time carried the habit very far. So did
Bloomfield, Campbell, Moore and Byron,
delight in its temperate enjoyment, as
does our present laurente, Tennyson, who :
has echoed us praise, with Byron, in im
mortal verse. Robert Hall, when at
Cambridge, acquired the habit of smoking,
from being in Parr’s company; and being
asked why he had commenced, “I am
qualifying myself for the society of a
Doctor ol Divinity,” was the reply, “ and
this (holding up the pipe) is ihe test of
my admission.” When presented with
Clark’s pamphlet on the “ use and abuse
of smoking,” he said, ‘ I can’t refute his
arguments, but I can’t give up smoking.”
The *• learned in the law,” us well as the
dignitaries in the church, have smoked.
Lords Eldon and Stoivell, and Lord
Brougham, in early life, indulged thus.
The late Duke of Sussex and the Duke
of Devonshire gave it aristocratic sanc
tion, and George IV. royally patronized
it.
Thus from the throne to the cottage the
j>ipe has been a solace—it has aided sol
dier and sailor in bearing many a hard
privation. Many would rather go with
out their rations than without their pipe,
and endure any hardship with it. Here
is a modern instance from the late Cri
mean war: A lady told me a story of a
man, M-, in her division, which shows
how much some of them will venture for a
smoke. He had just had oue of his toes
taken off, under ihe influence of chloro
> form—it bled profusely, and the surgeon,
[ after binding it up, went away, giving
; strict injunctions not to allow him to move,
1 and ordered him some medicine, which he
' would send presently. She was called
1; away to another patient for a few minutes,
I leaving M-with strict orders not to
pul his fool down. On her return to his
bedside, he was gone; and alter some
searching she discovered him, by the
traces of blood on the stairs and corridor,
silting down in the yard smoking his pipe
with the greatest sang froid. She spoke
to him seriously nhout disobeying orders
and doing himself an injury, but he was
perfectly callous on the subject of his toe.
She succeeded, however, in working on
his feelings at having disfigured the cor
ridor with blood, and he came back sav
ing, “ Indeed, madam, I could uot help
going to have a pipe, for that wns the
nastiest stuff" I ever got drunk on in my
life”—alluding to the chloroform.
--
[From the Louisville Courier.
A PAGE FROM THE PAST.
There is such a close analogy between the
motives which actuated the representatives
of the Southern States in seceding from
the Charleston Convention and those of
the gallant patriots from the South in the
25th Congress, December 20th 1837, who
made the first memorable secession, that
we cannot refrain from citing the discus
siou which took place on that extraordina
ry occasion. It exhibits the sensitiveness
of the South, united then upon this ques
tion of vital importance, aud sustains by
precedent, if precedent were needed, the
correctness of the course pursued by the
seceding States from the Charleston Con
vention. Our gallant representatives in
that Convention would have been unfaith
ful to the logic of past history had they
faltered and fallen in the combat.
The question arose upon the “abolition
of the slave trade and slavery in the Dis
trict of Columbia.”
Mr. Slade, from Vermont, moved to re
fer the memorials to a select committee,
with instructions to report a bill providing
for the abolition of slavery and the slave
trade in the District ol Columbia.
Mr. Legare, of South Carolina, hoped
the gentleman from Vermont would allow
him to make a few remarks before he pro
ceeded further. He solemnly entreated
him to reflect on the possible results ol
such a course, which involved the interests
of a nation and a continent. He would
warn him, not in the language ofdefiance,
which all brave and wise men despised,
but he would warn him in the language
of a solemn sense of duty, that il there
was “a spirit aroused in the North in re
lation to this subject that spirit would en
counter another spirit in the South full as
stubborn."
Mr. Slade again entered into an argu
ment touching the subject of slavery in
the Stale of Virginia, and was about to
read a paper on the subject, whereupon,
Mr. Wise interposed, and said that the
gentleman had been discussing slavery in
the South, slavery in the State of Vir
ginia, slavery in his District, and he now
asked his colleague to retire with him Jrorn
that hall.
Mr. Holsey made the same request to
his colleagues from Georgia, and express
ed a hope that the whole. Southern dele
gation would retire.
Mr. Grantland joined in the wish.
Mr. Rbelt—The whole of the delega
tion from South Carolina has already
signed an agreement.
Mr. Robertson—One remark, Mr.
Speaker.
Mr. Slade—I claim the floor.
The Chair (J. K. Polk)—Does the
gentleman from Virginia rise to a point
of order?
Mr. Robertson—No sir. I wish to
make one observation.
Mr. Rhett—I rise to a point of order.
Mr. Robertson—I wish simply to pro
pose to the Southern delegation—
Mr. Rliett—1 rise to a point ot order.
The question of order is, whether the
member from Vermont lias a right to go
into the consideration of slavery in the
Slate of Virginia? I say he 1ms not;
and if it is insisted upon, I request the
whole Southern delegation to go into the
room of the Committee for the District ol
Columbia.
The Chair reminded the House that he
had repeatedly interposed when the gen
tleman from Vermont had been going into
the question of slavery in the States. He
was not permitted to give his own opini
ons, but they might readily be inferred
by the House. He felt it his duty to stale,
that if it were possibly in his power to
allay excitement and to prevent discussion
of this sort, he would do it.
Mr. Turney- rose to a question or
der.
Mr. Slade—I ask leave to read a pa
per and to state what that paper is.
Mr. Grantland—I object to the reading.
Tiie Chair.—The gentleman will take
his seat.
Mr. Johnson, of Maryland—Will it be
in order. Mr. Speaker, to lake the sense
of the House whether the member from
Vermont shall be permuted to proceed ?
The Chair replied negatively.
Mr McKay—Mr. Speaker, has not
| the member from Vermont been declared
| out of order ?
Ti e Chair — He has.
Mr. McKay—Then has he a right to
proceed ?
The Chair—No gentleman has raised
! that question.
Mr. McKay—Then, sir, I make that
question. I object to his proceeding. I
object to his resuming his remarks, and I
; hope the House will not permit him.
The Chair then, under the rule, direct*
j ed Mr. Slade to take his seat, and pro
j nounced the gentleman out of order for
i discussing the question of slavery in
Virginia. Referring to the 22d rule, the
Chair added that the gentleman could not
longer proceed without the leave of the
House, and he was about to propound the
qeation, when
Mr. Slade said he wished to state the
position in which he stood. I propose,
said he, to read a single paper—
Hr. Turney—I object to the gentle
man's proceeding at all.
The Chair said the rule was impera
tive. The gentleman could not proceed,
under the question made by Mr. McKay,
without leave of the House.
Mr. Slade—The question now is wheth
er it is in order for me to ask for the read
ing of a paper.
The Chair—The other question is nlso
before the House and must be decided by
its vote, without debate.
Mr. Slade—I ask if I am out of order,
while proceeding with leave of the House,
going on for at least twenty minutes, and
then merely asking leave to rend a paper.
The Chair states that his power to com
mence was when the question of order
was made; thereafter the rule was im
perative, directing its decision without
debate.
Mr. Slade (who was still on his feet)—
Mr. Speaker—
The Chair—The gentleman will take
his seat. *
Mr. Slade then pledged himself if the
House would permit him to resume, not
to discuss the question of slavery in the'
States.
The Chair then propounded the ques
tion to the House, that the gentleman
from Vermont have leave to proceed.
Yeas and tiavs were then called.
Mr. Rector moved the House to ad
journ.
Mr. Slade asked for the yens and nays,
and resulted yeas 166, nays 63.
Mr. Campbell then gave notice that
IIJC UUUlllCl 1J uricg'iuwuo *•**-»• —
sembled in the room of the Committee for
the District of Columbia; nnd he said he
was instructed by their committee to re
quest the attendance of nil gentlemen re
presenting slaveholding interests on that
floor immediately.
Mr. Benton says, “The above report
gives only a meagre skeleton account ol
the most disturbing movement on the sub
ject of slavery ever made in our Con
gress. and which occupied the whole day,
and led the memorable secession from
ihe Hall of the Southern members, to
deliberate among themselves what line of
conduct it behooved them to take in
such ati emergency.”
Does it not thus appear, that this ques
tion (or its sequences) smothered by the
firmness and courage of the Southern
members, in Congfess, nearly a quarter
of a century ago, has again sprung into
new life to fright the Democracy from its
propriety? How is it to be met ? Look
to the past. The same firmness and the
same courage on the part of the South,
will slide it again, ere it comes too late;
and in this connection the prophetic lan
guage of Mr. Calhoun, about the same
ime, is now fully verified. He said:
If a single step be yielded, the fanati
cal spirit would be reanimated with new
excitement, and those therefore, who so
yielded,' incurred a fearful responsibility.
He despaired, as far as the Northern part
of the country was concerned, on the ques
tion of abolitionism. It was interwoven
with the political condition of the North,
in the nature and state of parties, and it
would run, and must run into their strug
gles for Stale ascendancy. It was im
possible to prevent us having a control
over the political parties of the North.—
The great mass of Northern people be
believed that this Southern institution
was radically wrong. The result would
be this: That abolition efforts would begin
with the lowest grades of society and by
gross misrepresentations, but it would go
upward, and spread, and he had told a
distinguished Senator four years ago,
while discussing another subject, that the
spirit of abolitionism would spring up in the
North, and however much he, and others
like hint, were opposed to the doctrine, it
would one day spread so as to drive him
from public life, or compel him to yield to
its dictates.
Mr. Calhoun did not ask how the North
would be affected ; his object was to keep
the South united on this subject, with a
susceptibility always alive. They must
first preserve themselves, for this was a
question involving the very existence of
the South. Their next object was to pre
serve the Union, and there was no other
course for them to do this, but by a united
and firm resistance to these encroach
ments, and the earlier the better, for the
country was sounder to-day than it would
be to-inorrow, and delay would leave it to
proceed from worse to worse.
A gentleman who has just re
turned from Mississippi informs us that
he heard the following conversation at a
tavern :
*• Halloa, boy!"
•' Halloa, yourself!”
“ Can I get breakfast here 1”
“ I reckon you can’t.”
“ Why not ?’’
•M assa away. Missus drunk, de baby
got de colick, and I don’t care a darn for
nobody!”
-A clergyman, in view of the sleepiness
of his congestion, anti their Sunday diet, es
timates that be preacheato fifty-five bushels
1 and three pecks of baked beans, every Sunday.
The Census of 1860.
The following are the questions pro
posed to be asked by the takers of the
census of 1860 :
What is your age ?
Where were you born?
Are you married, and if so liotv do you
like it ?
How many children have you, and do
they sufficiently resemble you to preclude
he possibility of their belonging to any
of your neighbors ?
Did you ever have the measels, and if
to, how many ?
Have you a twin brother several-years
older than yourself ?
Have you parents, and if so, how many
of them t
Do you read the New Testament regu
larly ?
What is your fighting weight ?
Which do you like best fur light read
ing, “ The Gunmaker of Moscow," by
Cobb, or the President’s last Message,
by J. B?
How many times hasyoUr wife “wished
be was dead,” and did you reciprocate
he wish ?
Do you ustj Boughton tobacco ?
Were you and your wife worth any
thing when married, and if not, what pro
portion of her things were your’u, and
your things were her’u ?
Were you ever in the penitentiary?
Are you troubled with biles?
How many empty bottles have you in
the house ?
How does your meerschaum color ?
Have you all of Thayer’s speeches on
the horse-railroad ?
Are beans an urticle of regular diet in
your family, and if so, how does it go?
State whether you aro blind, deaf, idi
otic or have the heaves?
How many chickens huve you, and are
tliev on foot or in the shell? Also, how
many succedaneurns ?
Is there a strawberry mark on your left
arm ?
Which food do you prefer, rum or
mixed drinks?
Stale how much pork, impending crisis,
Dutch cheese, popular sovereignty, siand
aid poetry, Gavety papers, slave code, red
flannel, Constitution and Union, old junk,
perfumery, coal oil, liberty, hoop skirl,
Nebraska wheat, &c., you have on hund.
Persons liable to be “ censussed ” will
do well to cut the above out and put it up
in a conspicuous place.
Papering Rooms.—The Scientific
American remarks thut many lives have
been lost from the laziness or iguorance of
paper hangers, who hove laid one paper
above another, instead of leuring off the
old before hanging the new. There was
a very handsome house near one our best
provincial towns, which could never keep
its tenants. At last stood empty and be
came worthless, because a dete»nble fever
seized upon every family that lived in it.
A ready wilted observer promised the
owner to find out the cause. He traced
the mischief to one room, and shortly
found what was the matter there. He let
a slip ol glass into the wall, and found it
next day dimmed with f®tid, condensed
vapor. Ho tore down a strip of paper,
and found abundant cause for any amount
of fever. For generations the walls had
been papered afresh, witb9Ut the removal
of anything underneath. And there was
the size and the fermenting old papers
inches deep. A thorough cleanauce,
scraping and clearing put an end to the
fever, and restored the value of the house.
Tue Birthplace of w ASHINGTON.
Some years since Lewis Washington, a
descendant of the General, presented to
the State of Virginia the lot of land in
lV/.ulmArolanrl PnUriltf An which KIAaH till*
house in which the lather of his country
first saw the light of day. This was done
with a view to having the spot marked by
some suitable monument to the Stale. We
learn that it is the intention of the Gov
ernor and Secretary of the Commonwealth
to proceed to Westmoreland county and
examine into the present condition of the
birth-place of Washington, ceded to the
State by his decendant. They propose
having the ground (one or more acres)
enclosed, and a road made to it. It lies
on the Potomac river. A monument will
be put up to designate the spot. A piece
of hearthstone of the ancient edifice (per
haps tbe only remaining relic) is now in
the Stale Capitol in Richmond. Many
years since a marble slab denoted the
place of Washington’s first home, but the
mutations of time and chance, it is be
lieved, has caused it to disappear.
Babnum’s Wife — Chabity. — In a
receut speech ut his Museum, in New
York, the resuciiated Barnum made the
following handsome allusion to his wife :
In the day of my prosperity I made
over to my wife much valuable property,
including the lease of this Museum buiid
mg—a lease having about twenty-two
years to run, and enhanced in value to
more than double its original worth. I
sold the Museum collection to Messrs.
Greenwood &. Butler, subject to my wife s
separate interest in the lease, and she has
received more than $80,000 over and
above the sum paid to the owners of the
building. Instead of selfishly applying
this amount to private purposes, my family
lived with a due regard to economy, and
savings (strictly belonging to my wile)
were devoted to buying in portious of my
estate at the assignees’ sales, aud to pur
chasing ‘clock notes" bearing my indorse
ment. The Christian name of my wife is
Charity. I may well acknowledge, there
fore, that I am not only a proper “ subject
of Charity,” but that “ without Charity I
am nothing.”
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Extraordinary reau oi strength.
The Musical Fund Hall was crowded
last evening with a large audience, to
witness the feats of strength performed by
Dr. Winsbip, of Boston, supposed to be
the strongest man in the United Slatea, if
not in the world. Previous to exercising*
the Doctor read a long and well writtau
lecture, showing the means by which he
had acquired his strength. He is a well
proportioned man of nboui twenty-four
years of age, and weighs about 150
pounds. He first lifted about 1100 pounds,
consisting of ten kegs of nuila, 107 pound*
each, which, with the tackling, weighed
about 1100. To do this he stood upon a
platform about ten feet high, resting on
two trusscls. There was a hoi* in the
center through which the kega were sus
pended, bound with ropes. At the lop
was a chain, through which b* thrust a
stick of wood ; and taking hold of tin*
with one hand in front and one behind
him, he raised this twice, to the height of
five or six inches. Next he put up over
his head, with one hand, a dumb-bell
weighing 180 pounds ; after which he took
two dumb-bells, 100 pounds each, one iu
each hand, with the view of raising both
at once over his head, but he raised only
the right-hnnd one, his left shoulder hav
ing been injured recently by a dumb-bell
falling on it during bis exercises. Next
he raised his body, by means of the little
finger of his left hand, from a ring sus
pended to a beam over his head, and
afterwards raised himself in the same
manner with the middle finger of the
right hand. He then shouldered a bar
rel of flour, weinging 217 pounds, and
walked several steps with it. He was
rapiuously applauded during the perform
ance.— [Plnla. Press.
A Star Burned Out.—The Russian
correspondent of the London Telegraph
writes as follows:
At Moscow a physical phenoinenan ha*
been recently observed, such as would
have given rise to the creation of a whole
cycle of fantastic myths in the times of the
world’s infancy. We learn from a para
graph in the leading paper of that city,
that at a quarter to ten o'clock, on the
night of the 1st and 2d of March, a star
to the southwest of the Great Bear sud
denly commenced to wax larger, assum
ing at the same time the color of iron at
read heat, but without the appearance of
any sparks or rays. In this condition the
star continued until half-past eleven, vary
ing in the intensity of its light, and attain
ing the size of nearly the half moon. A
little before midnight the dimness began
to increase, and at 12 o’clock the star bad
entirely disappeared. In its stead a sort
of black speck was to be noticed by the
light of the stars, which were unusually
brilliant this evening. It remains for the
astronomers to describe, and poets to sing
the destruction of the luminary, which,
for aught we know, may have been the
body of a race superior to our own.
83P There’s a man down East who
has lived so long on corn bread that bis
hair has turned silk, like that which grows
on the grain, and his toes are so lull of
corns that he expects to see them with
covered bosks the next year.
——“Master at home?” No, sir, he’s out.”
“Mistress at home?” “No, sir, she’s out.”
“Then i’ll step in and sit by the fire.”—
“That’s out, too, sirl”
—The young gentleman who once saw
the day when he “wouldn’t associate with
mechanics,” is now acting as clsrk to a ma
nure wagon.
-.Why is a dog with a broken leg like a
boy at arithmetic? Answer—Because ne pute
down three and carries one.
The man who was injured by e buret of
annlanse is recovering.
-In what auit doe* a man »***r (m)
comfortable? A law «uit.
Dick —“I say, Jack, suppose three bad eggs
and a pair of old boots boiled down in a galloa
of Croton, how do you think it would com
pare *ttb Saratoga water? Jack (reflect
ingly ).—“It wants another egg.”
-Kev. Mr. Giles in a lecture, recenthr,
said, “For himself he rather disbelieved la
accumulating riches. Nothing could induce
him to be worth a million of dollars. He
agreed with the wish which had tne endorse
ment of Scripture, ‘Give me neither poverty
nor riches.’and therefore, he would be eonteut
with a quarter of a million.”
-Here, you bogtrotter, said a dandy to
an Irish laborer, ‘come, tell me the biggest
lie you ever told in your life and I'll treat
you to a whiskey punch.’
‘And by my sowl,’ quickly returned Fat
‘yer honor is a gentlemanl’
—A gentleman in a steamboat asked the
man who cams to collect the passge money,
if there was any danger of being blownup, a*_
the "steam made such* horrid none". Not
the least,” said the sharp collector, “unless
you refuse to pay your fare.”
_\ young man in Vermont feeds hi*
geese on iron filing* and gather* steel pens from
their wings.
_The world is ruled by three king*—
Cash, Commerce, and Calico.
_-Why is conscience like the strap on
tbo inside of an omuibus? Because it i» an
inward check to the outward man.
—It is said that in some villages In the
West it is so healthy that the folks have to
skoot a man to start » burying-ground.
-We know some men, who, when they
are perplexed in an argument, get out ust|a»
poor debtors get out of jail—they swear out.
-Smith met two editors who bad previ
ously been at “outs,” upon tWe street, w»lk»
iug arm in arm. “Hello!” sasd Smith, “the
Lion and the Lamb lie down together, do
they?” “Oh, yes,” said editor N°- *“
“Jones, here, did the ly»n’ and I did the 1*»
Ds n’/ami, of course, we came down together.”
_Calhoun Benbam, the second of Judge
Terry in the Broderick duel, has been con
firmed by the Senate as District Attorney of
California.
j _A boy, Charles Byers, while carrying
locusts in his hat in Wetzel county. Ya., re
cently, was stung on the head and died from
[ the ntfects of the injury.