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LIFE—ITS SEASONS.
Life hath its Spring time ! Childhood's morn,
W hen pure is young affection’s ray ;
Gay are the flowers its path adorn,
And bright the hues of opening day!
Wild music lingers in its bowers—
Grateful (be fragrance of its flowers—
And all betokens bliss:
Hope weaves the wild, enchanting song,
Anti sings, at every path along,
That all shall bo like this!
Time's rapid footsteps never stay*—
Life’s golden Spring-time speeds away !
Life bath its Summer! ardent now
Is manhood’s toil, ambition's sway,
: Hope lighteth still the fevered brow,
And sweetly sings the coming day:
Fond are affection's whispers, bland,
And warm is Friendship's proffered hand—
Summer's horizon fair:
Hut alt! anon a cloud is seen ;
Hark and morodurk its threateuingmien—
A.teiupest gathers there! ■
Sunlight and storm arc o’er at last ■
! Life's fitful summer-iinte is past!
; Life hath its Autumn! where have tied
Those flattering promises of Spring?
Alas! like withered roses dead,
Around no sweet perfume they fling:
Hope hath been false, as site was fair;
The smile hath fled, and gathering care,
Ami woe around tiro cast :
Gloomy is Life’s late lovely bower—
Here falls a leaf, there fades a flower,
And chill the dreary blast!
The showers of ruin fall around;
Life's withered foliage strews the ground!
Life hath its Winter! snowy ago,
When Manhood s noblest vigors fiil!
Weary becomes the chequered page,
j -Cold is the wintry, piercing gale:
The faltering step—the trembling limb—
The flagging pulse—the eye-ball dim—
Alike deliverance crave;
Fainter—yet fainter—hark ! the breath !
0 haste lliee, tyrant, angel. Death!
Welcome the frightful grave!
■ Tis finished! Life's short journey’s done—
I Th% Sun hath set-—the Seasons run !
IS JOHN WILKeTbOOTII DEAD I
From the Metropolitan Hccortl.] ’
When we first saw in one of our exchanges
a statement tending to throw doubt upon the
story of J. Wilkes Booth’s death, we passed it
by as something too extravagant to be enter
tained, but having thought over the matter a
good deal lately, wo are now of the opinion
that his death is by no means certain.
The whole story on which we are required
to believe in Booth's death, when reduced to
its simplest terms, is this : A party, headed
by General lb»n«r, ..•itt-cm-m «cing to hs num
bers the valorous Boston Corbett, found two
men concealed in a barn. 'The bArn was sur
rounded and the men called on to surrender,
or he killed. After some parleying, one of the
men came out and surrendered. This man
said that, the other was Booth. The man in
tlm barn did not deny that lie was Booth ; we
will even admit, in order to make the ease as
strong as possible, that he claimed to be
Booth. During the night Boston Corbett
killed him. No one outlie farm, no one of
the galhuit band that killed the terrible assas
sin, bad ever seen Booth, sons to be able to
identify him. The corpse was thrown into a
wagon, roughly jolted about for at least fony
eiglit hours, and then, all applications to view
it having been sternlyrefused.it was buried
by Baker and another man, both of whom took
an oatii, as Baker himself says, never to re
veal (lie spot.
Now, we believe this is the sum, or at least,
the essential part of all the evidence which
has been produced to prove Booth’s death.
It depends entirely, so far as it goes, upon the
veracity of Baker and Corbett, and it lacks
one all important item, the identification of
the body of the man killed by Corbett. For
this last we have no proof, except the word of
the imiu Harold who was captured in the
barn.
Boston Corbett has since proved to be little
better than a lunatic. A military commission
with General Hunter for President, Joe Holt
for Judge Advocate and Stanton for instigator
did not dare to take Corbett’s testimony, even
when he was swearing Li is best on their side.
Baker lias been tried anil found guilty of seri
ous offences committed under cover of bis
official position, and public opinion we think
; will not be much influenced by the testimony
of a professional spy and informer, especially
upon a subject in which his pocket was so
much interested, lf .it was Booth who was
killed in the barn, Baker gets a lot of money;
if it was not. Booth, Baker gets laughed at.
There remains the assertion of the compan
ion of the man slain, and the admission of the
man himself that he was Booth, these men
knew that they could expect no mercy at the
bauds of theif capiors, Baker and Iris sleuth
hounds. No confession which they might
make would do them any good, but tlicit ac
complices miglit bebenefitted by the assertion
that one of them was Booth. After one of
them had been killed, killed needlessly and
before time had been taken to examine them
and to get a true confession out of them, it be
came stilt more to the survivors'interest to
maintain that the dead man was Booth.
Therefore, (/’the men found in the barn did
both declare that one of them was Booth, (and
remember that this is only an if depending
upon the veracity of Baker ami Corbett) we
don’t thiuk it amounts to much any how. This
then is the character of the principal evidence
before the country to show that John Wilkes
Booth is dead. Let us add to it. that liis fam
ily mourned him as dead, and that his estima
ble brother, the greatest living American actor,
retired from the stage determined, it was then
said, never to appear again, so great was his
horror at the crime of his brother, nnd his
dread of outraging the public by continually
reminding them in his name, in his person,
and in his profession, of the assassin ot Abra
ham Lincoln.
Now let us look at the other side. Not only
for a few days after the assassination but for
some weeks afterwards, the military authori
ties in Washington were in a state of utter be
wilderment, nnd by them were di.ectcd all
undertakings in pursuit of the murderer. The
large rewards offered, and the injudicious
manner in which unusual authority tor the
search was given, started upon the hurit a
number of parties who behaved more like j
madmen than like reasonable beings. It
would not hare been a bad plan for the real assets- j
sin to burr joined one oj these parties i hoy ttl[ ,
aeamuytl lift! AiW tits a^assln. j;,..-h
IS
was satisfied that tiie man it happened to pur
sue was the identical llooth. I tut ns only one
party brought back a dead man, only one had
a chance to claim the credit of having followed
the right trail.
Booth was a first-rate actor, had plenty of
money, and an intWiate acquaintance with
the locality in which the crime was committed.
It would have been easy for him to have dis
guised himself so as to have remainnd several
days in Washington, and have left it unmo
lested in one of the usual ways, llis profes
sional skill in disguise would have enabled
him to deceive even his accomplices. Lee’s
army had surrendered. There wsre no Con
federate forces auy where near Washington,
and there is no reason to suppose that Booth
"could have expected a welcome from the Con
federates, even if ho had reached them : for
all tiie efforts of Stanton, Holt, and a hundred
other very slightly less infamous and unscru
I pidous enemies of the Confederates had failed
j to find an iota of evidence to prove that they
liad the least share in, or knowledge of, the
i conspiracy.
| A man on horseback could hope to escape
j only by reaching the Confederate lines : and
as we have shown the impossibility of (his, we
eonelude, for ourselves of course, that Booth
j never committed the folly of attempting to
! escape on horseback, and that the man for his
charitable assistance to whom Ur. Mudd is
now suffering torment at Fort Jefferson, and
die man whom Corbett foolishly shot, ntidBa
I ker secretly interred, without permit tiny the
I body to lie identified, was not Booth.
\ About a month or two ago wo read a letter
j (published) in which the writer stated that lie
I had met Booth iiuoue of the West India Ts
| lands—had recognised him, and talked witli
him. lie says that llooth told him that lie
had escaped first to Canada, and tlienee to On*
ha. The letter we speak of was written on
I the eve of (lie writer’s departure for a foreign
I country. Recently a man named King was
! arrested jn tiie West for some crime. lie de
| manded to sec Gen. Jeff. 0. Davis, and con
! fessed to him that he was the real murderer
j of Mr. Lincoln and tlie person who attempted
I-to kill Sewiird, and that Booth was only an
i accomplice. Furthermore, that tlie man shot
! in the bavn wkrf not ]>ootli, and that booth lout
I escaped first to-Cauadu, anil afterwards to Cu
ba. 'ijjiis adds to t)ie probability of truth in
! the letter writer’s story.
Of course this man King will lie declared
crazy, for it will not do for the men who tried
(?) the conspirators, who hung Payne for the
I attempted assassination of Seward, and who
j pride themselves on the terrible vengeance
! inflicted on Booth by consigning his corpse to
an unknown grave, to admit, that they were
mistaken. But a great many people will be
lieve that whoever the real assassin was, John
Wilkes Booth is still alive. There is another
■reason for doubting his death. If linker’s sto
ry he true, no man knows it better than Stan
ton duos. Wc wish to sec Stanton driven
trtmi iiic <!;ilitno.t ror tin- country’s sake, mid
beeaitsc we believe that as soon as he becomes
a private individual lie will begin to suffer
some of the consequences of his official
crimes ; but not the least among our reasons
for desi1 ing his removal is our curiosity to
learn some Of the secrets of the II. S. A. Spy
Corps, and to find out who was the man whom
Boston Corbett killed, and Stanton’s familiav,
Baker, annihilated as John Wilkes Booth.
Why Sweet Mi sir I’lioiucks Saoness.—
Sweet music, says Leigh Hunt—that is to say
•■sweet” in the sense in which it is evidently
used in the following passage—something not
of a mirthful character, hut yet not of a inelati
choly one—does not always produce sadness:
but it does often, even when the words, if it
he vocal music, are cheerful. We do not pre
sume to take for granted that the reason we
are about to differ with, or perhaps rather io
extend, is Slmkspearu’s own, or that lie would
hav^stoppod thus short if speaking in his own
person, though he has given it the uir of an
abstract remark ; but Lorenzo, irt the “Mer
; chant of Venice,” says that it is because our
“spirits are attentive,”
“I’m never merry when I hear sweet music,”
says pretty Jessica. “The reason is, your
spirits are attentive,” says her lover:
•‘For do but note a wild and wanton herd,
Or race of youthful and uulmndlud colts,
Fetching mail hounds, bellowing and neighing
loud.
Which is the hot condition of their blood ;
If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound ;
Or any air of music touch their ears,
You sliall perceive them make a mutual stand,
Their sage eyes turned to a modest gaze,
By the sweet power of music.”
How beautiful! But with the leave of this
young and most elegant logician, his reason
is. at least, not sufficient jfibr how does it ac
count for our being moved even to tears, by
music which is not otherwise melancholy!
All attention, it is true, implies a certain ilc
grei of earnestness, and all earnestness has a
ihiai (U t ui iwunucciJ « bviiouciivw *■;
(he prevailing character of attention in all in
stances; for we are attentive to fine music,
whatever its character'; and sometimes it
makes us cheerful, and even mirthful. The
giddier portion of Jtossini's music do not
uiako us sad. Figaro does not make us sad,
nor is sadness the general consequence of
hearing, dances or even marches.
And -yet, again, on the other hand, in (he
midst of any of this music, even of the most
light and joyous, our eye shall sometimes fill
with tears. Mow is this?
The reason surely is, that we have an in
stinctive sense of the fugitive and perishing
nature of all sweet tilings—of beauty, of youth,
of life ; of all these fair shows of the world, of
which music seems to be the voice, aud of
whoso transitory nature it reminds us most,
because it is then wo most regret our morali
ty.
We do not, it is true, say this to ourselves.
We are not conscious of the reason, that, is to
say. we do not feel it with kaowingness ; but
we do feel it, for the tears are moved. And
how many exquisite criticism of tears and
laughter do not whole audiences make at
plays, though not one man in fifty shall be
able to put down his reasons for it on paper!
-The wife of ex-Oovernor Harris, of
Tennessee, was in Net*-'Orleuns on the 17lh
instant, on Iter way to join her husband in
Mexico. Several steamers are advertised to
leave New Orleans lor Vera Cruz, and emi
grants to Mexico are said to be quite numerous.
We cannot doubt the love of the Southern peo
ple for their country, but we do doubt their
wisdom for leaving it.
-Mrs. Jefferson Daria arrived in Mon
treal on the Milt iust. whither she ^-n| to Hen
jtVr ehildi'94 who jvc attending uu Academy
there.
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HvstiAN'ns and Tiif.iu IIaiuts—Some hus
bands nevfcr teavo home in'the looming with
out kissing their wives, ami bidding them
“good-bye, dear,'’' in (lie tones of unwearied
lovo: nud whether it he policy or fact it. hns
all the effect of fact,- ami those homes are gen.
erally pleasant ones, providing always, that
the wives are appreciative and welcome the
discipline in a kindly spirit. We know an
old gentleman who lived with liis wife fifty
years, and, never loft home without the kiss
and the “good-bye, dear,” Some husbands
shake hands with their wives and hurry off ns
fast as possible, as though the effort were a
something that they were unxiohs to forget,
holding their bends down and darting-around
the first corner. Some husbands before leav
ing home nsk very tenderly, “What would you
like for dinner, my dear?” knowing all the
while that she will select something for hfs
particular palate, and off lie g<rcs. Some hus
bands will , leave homo without saying any-,
tiling at all, but thinking a good deal, as
evinced by their turning round at the last
point of observation, and waving an adieu at
the "pleasant face, or faces, at the window.
Somo husbands never say a word, rising from
the break last table With the lofty indifference
of a lord, uml going out with a heartless dis
regard of those left behind. It , is a fori unate
thing for theif wives that they can find sym
pathy elsewhere. Some husbands never leave
: home without some unkind word or look, ap
I paroutly thinking that such » course will keep
things straight, in their absence. Then on re
turning—some husbands coma home jolly mol
happy, unsoured by the world; feoiiie'tpilky and
surly with its disappointments. Some hus
bands bring home a newspaper or a book, and
bury themselves for theeveuing iipitscOntcnls.
Some husbands are called away overy evening
by business or social engagements ; some dose
in speechless stupidity on a sofa until bed
time. Some husbands are •curious to learn of
their wives wlmt iias transpired through the
day; others are attracted by nothing short of
a child's fumbling down stairs or the house
taking fire. “Depend Upon it,” says jfr.
Sbooner, “that home is the happiest where
kindness and interest and politeness and at
tention arc thevulc on the pni t’af the jwtsbands
—of course>)ll the responsibility rests with
lltnm-nud iAnintnt tun finds tin fnnt i it «r f burn ”
Praise Torn Wife.—P aiso your wife,
man ; for pity's sake give her a lirile encour
agement; it wou't hurt lier. >Slio lias made
your home comfortable, yonr Kea' th bright
and shining, your food agreeable: for pity's
sake tell her you thank her, if nothing more.
She don't expect it; it Will make her eyes,
open wider than they hare these ten years,
but it will do her good for all that, and you
too.
Thcvenremany women to-day thirsting for
the words of praise, tho language of encour
agement. Through summer's heat, through
winter's toil, they have drudged uncomplain
ingly, and so accustomed have their fathers,
brothers, and husbands become to their mo
notonous labors, that they look for and on
them ail the,, do the dally'rising of tho sun,
and its daily going down. Home every day
may be made beautiful by an appreciation of
its very holiness. You know that, Xf tlie floor
is clean, manual labor has been performed to
make it so. You know', if you can take from
yonr drawer a clean shi t whenever you want
it, that somebody’s fingers Lave ached in the
toil of making it so fresh and agreeable, so
smooth and lustrous. Kvorytbing that pleas
es the ey e and the sense 1ms been produced by
constaut work, mucli thought, great care, and
uniiring effo 'ts, bodily and mentally.
It is not that many men do not appreciate
those things, and feel a glow of gratitude for
tiie numberless a, tent ions bestowed upon
them in sickness and health : but they don’t
conic out with n hearty ‘‘Why, how‘pleasant
you make things look, wife !” OK "I am much
obliged to you for taking so mfueli pains!”
They thank the tailor for giving them “fits:”
thoy thank the man in a full omnibus who
giyes them n seat; they thank the ybung lady
who moves along in ihid concert room ; in
short, they (batik everything oui of doors be
cause it is the Custom, anil come home, tip
t licit' chair back, nml tlielr heels up, pull out
the newspaper, gt umble if wife asks them to
lake the baby, scold if the fi. c is; gone down,
or, if everything is just right, shut their
mouths with a smack of satisfaction, but never
say, ‘M tlmnk you.” t ■
I tell you what, men. young and old, if you
did but show an ordinary civility toward the
common articles of housekeeping, yonr.wives
—if you gave them the hundred and sixteenth
part of the compliments you almost choked
them with before you were married—1 fewer
women would seek for oilier sources of affec
tion. Praise your wife, then, for nil the good
qualities site lias, and you may rest assured
that iter deficiencies arc fully counterbalanced
by your own.
A Constant Tick coat.—The New York
Herald seis itself up 10 give advice to the
Soul hern people. The advice limy be good,
hut the South is suspicious. It is notorious
that for months and years before ibe war the
Herald w^ the noisiest advocate of “Southern
llights” anywhere tobe found north of Mason
and Dixon. For many weeks prior to the
breaking out of hostilities, it patted the South |
ou the back—bade the socessiouists go ahead,
that they were fight, and ilieir cause just and
holy in the sight of God aud man. Bat when
the actual collision came, the Herald not only
basely deserted those it had encouraged to
draw the sword, but turned around aud for
four years and a half became the bitterest and
most unrelenting enemy the South had
throughout the entire circle of the Northern
press. It went as far as ho went farthest in
doing all it could to conquer, subjugate, and,
if necessary, exterminate the people of eleven
States. It constantly stigmatized as traitors
the men that it had “uggod” iuto war. Up to
a very late period it has been more Uadical
than Sumner, or Stevens, or even ttrowulow.
And now, this audacious sheet comes forward
to a incite the South—most paternally anti pat
ronizingly, to tell those whom it deluded into
rebellion what they ought ta do, how they
ought to deport themselves in the present cri
sis ! Such insolence and impudence arc un
paralleled in the history of journalism.
Fav i i.y Cox N p.ctions.—A Persian merchant,
complaining heavily of some unjust sentence,
was told by the judge to go to the cadi. “^u(
the cadi is your uncle,” urged the plaintiff.
•‘Then you can go to the "Taud vizer.” “But
his secretary is yn-‘r COusin, ” “Then. Von
may go t“, 'lM sultan.” “B>“ jj-is favorite
suit ana is your niece. ” (t,cn, go to the
"-v.s»»,m c»n
couri""' '-ta the luerchaut, as he left the
in Aispasr.
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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
A Woman That’s Haro to Please,—She
does not like'a nmii that's tall; ft man that’s
short is worse than nil. She much abhor*
a man that's Cat; a man that’s lean is worse
than that; A young titan W n constant fiest:
an old eld one Would bor room infest. : ifior -,u:
does she like a man that's fair; a man that’s
dark she ehhrtot Hnr. A man of kcnce shit
■cannot rule;.and yet she oonldnot wed » fool. ,7,'
A sober man she will not. take: a dmitkett
man her heart would break. All these she
does most sincerely hate; and yet •belike*
the married state. • ••
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A hungry Irishman not long since in London)
mistaking a barber shop for an eating house,
boltod in, and begged to bo served. The bar
ber, supposing’,' from the lctigth of his ‘Hard,
that ho wished to be shaved, knocked hpw nio
basin of suds, and, placing it before hint, with
a washba.lt in it went to, got the razor. ,,1’iu
without wating for grace, suped up tlie ftiuls
anil s'wiiltowcdthe wash ball: niiil, on tlie'bar
ber's ret it rtiing with the razor, oootTyObserved
“Tliere is no occasion)fur a knife honoy; your
soup is very good but your turnip , wait not ;
quite boiled enough.” tin paying UU money,
i ho bade iheastoiiishod barber adieu,
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—A Paris blacksmith has invented a now
systoniof shoeing horses. Instead of the slpru
dicing placed on the hoof and burping its own
resting place, the outside of the hoof is cut
away urotthd'tho foot to the dfeptli Of an 1'nieb;
this'Uj|veg a ledge, into which the shoe fits,
nmd is then flush with thc Tvog, which jiutfc,, ,
touches the ground, instead of Htttg;.ralspd,.
i as of old, by the shoe. The advantages of this
i.are that the foot is little pared, and insteadof'' ’
J a heavy shoe -the oninltil iM shod Ih what a to
littlo’iuorc than racing plates. The advanta
ges claimed by the inventor are, that, the horsa.,,,.
never slips, that the shoe allows the foot to '
expand uaturally, and thill it hist.s ns long fttttl
is us as cheap as the old plan. ' ' ' :rff ’
-Thoro is a pew report about tlio second
volume of Napoleon’s‘"life of i'tesar.’f' Thq
London Alhetitcuni HliCves that it maji‘We'tt*-:
pooled In flic latter part of the present month.
It will be devoted to the history of Gicsnr’a >ii i
wars in Gaul, wiiieli is undorsipod to have
been Cm- many years a favorite tpibject with
the Kthporor, aud it will be rendered jnoril
vnlhtt’bfo by the extensive excavations amt
exidoratinns of all kinds WliNtli have been
made on the sites of Comar's exploits, by or- ^
tier of the Uuiperor. ;
Goon Aovios i;a Aovr.im**.— We adopt
the following Witggcstive and pnulieal advice
to buisncss men, making only a slight varia
tion utils close; Advertise who I you have to
sell; advertise whore it Is for sale; advertise how
you can Hell it—that it Is-yotir Puisnes*' to
sell it—that you wilt sell it elieap'; advertise
your wants ; advertise if you have lost or
'found anything; advertise and ho rich; udver-[, \
tiso akv now iu thoClTiXK.v, anil you will neVCf'
regret it.
A Cosset use s-Stuickkx Times.—Thirty
throe years since a than had hilt pocket picked
iu Utica, N. Y., of $201). [tt lS'fl he received
nn anonymous letter inclosing $100. In 18tW
ho received the second note inclosing $l((
••frqpi one wlio had wronged him out of it.”
Three weeks since lie received the third note
inclosing $150, aud asking fbrgivenOSS'for •'
the thief. 'in
Germ.vs Wises.—The Philftdolphio Gutted*
assures its readers that some or the German
wines tire as sour as vinegar and nis'rough. ns
nfllc. Ii is remarked of the wines of eSintt gat'd
(suysthis authority.) that one is like a cat
scampering dnwu your throat head-foremost,
and another is like drawing the saute cat back
by the tail. ' n
—-ThtS Cojurlhodsis,1 wlll^ (Tie records of
the county, of I.nfayette ohunty, Ala., was
burned on Hat nrday lusli! There being a
large number of indict incuts for criminal of
fence on t he dockets, it was supposed that the
alleged criminals caused It to be sift on tire for
the purpose Of destroying ilieroeords;
-Vlndyhndn favorite lap dog. which
she called l’crcimuoe. “Where did yon Hud
that name t” some body asked, “tfb, from
Byron's dog ; you rememiier where he says:
"Perchance, my dog, will howl.’’
s———s“Pnp, T planted sumo pofatses 'in otir
garden,” said a smart youth ;|u liis father, and
“wliat dqyou think came up?” “)Vhy potatoes
of course.” “No, siree! There cajiio lip n,
drove of hogs and ate them all;’*’ v ' 1
Tut: New Hoops.—Aji eiUfpr,. in desribing
the fashion of the female cost nines, as he iptef' 1
them, says; “I observe that the prevailing
style of garters is blue.” The late Style of
hoops is what enable liiin to made the obser
vation.
--Thad. .Stephens''sardonic smile is
sai,d to be a whisky strait, lie invariably,
however, adds a little ,,billers."
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AttTiior.s and I'aiKTeus Ty those why,are
inclined to grumble,because slight mistakes
may happen to occur in an illegibly written
article, we would rocommend the following
from the Sew York-Pay book. ;
“I have seen the arguments of lawyers, In
high reput e as scholars, sunt to the printer
in their own hand-writing, with many—capo-'
ealy technical and forign terms—abroviatod
words rutg-splled and, few or no points, atitl
these few, if any, entirely out of place. I have
seen sermons that were sent to be published
without points or capitals to designate the
divisions of sutences—-sermons which if pub
lished with llic imperfections of the luauscripA
would have disgt-aced the authors, and the
printers would have been treated with scorn
and contempt, as an illieratc block-head,
as a fellow hotter fitted to be a wood-saw
yerthan a printer. No one would believe
that such gross and palpable faults were
owing to the ignorance or carelessness of the
author. And no one but a practical printer
knows how many hours the compositor, and
afierhim the proof-reader, is compelled to.
spend in reduebig to readeble condition,
manuscripts that the writer himself would be
puzzled to re»*I.
Tr.c above, in whole or in pail will, apply
to al leant two-ihirtls of the writ ova tor too
press. Many who have something of a repu
tation as authors, can neither punctuate, spell
or write gramiuatiealy to say nothing ot their
sprawling pen-ut»nfthip., And, as might be
expected these are generally the ones that Unit
the most fault, which is no small annoyance,
and we have sometime* wl-dted it vfeye a penal
offence iff ewevt »t» aittbm autftussrijfH
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