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adjacent counties, that he has on hand, L/J
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
T^ll n7l RAGLAND, havinglo
cated on Wattensaw, at the residence
heretofore occupied by W. B. Means, deceas
ed, offers his professional services to the
public.
23?” Calls promptly attended to. [apr 1-ly.
jnsRTfTj. CUMMINGS, having per
manently located at Atlanta, Prairie
county, Ark., offers his professional services
to the public.
asr Having practiced in hospitals as well
as in families, he flatters himself that he can
render satisfaction to his patrons.
23?" Office at Peebles’ Hotel, [apr 1-tf.
T)R J. C. GOODWIN, determined to
remain permanently in Des Arc, will
continue to treat diseases, both Acute and
Chronic in accordance with the most approv
ed principles of Scientific and Demonstrative
Medicine.
w Thankful for the liberal patronage he
has heretofore enjoyed, respectfully solicits
its continuance.
fig Office at D. P. Black &. Co’s., Drug
Store.__aprill-ly
T)R. J. L. NEEL, having permanent
-^■"ly located in'Des Arc, Arkansas, offers
his professional services to the citizens of
the town and vicinity. Office over Washer,
Vaughan & Co’s Store. [mar ll-6m.
DR. T. SANDERS, late of Memphis,
having settled in the town of Des Arc,
tenders his professional services to the citi
zens pf said town and vicinity; and, from a
long experience in the healing art in the West,
flatters himself that he will share their pat
ronage. jvg Orw'rg on Buena Vista street.
Residence on Woodruff street. dec5-tf
DR. W. F. WALSH, having located at
Des Arc, offers his Professional Ser
_4 4-V, „„kli„ /TSP n-allc nrnmnUir af_
tended to. may29,1858-ly*
DR. WM. BETHELL, 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 fourteen years, he hopes to re
ceive a share of the public patronage.
(jgp* Office at Lane & Watts’s Drug
Store. 'Residence in the building formerly
occupied as the “ Erwin House.” may22-tf
DR. J. J. LANE, will Practice Medi
cine in the different branches of the Pro
fession, and respectfully tenders his services to
the citizens of Des Arc and surrounding coun
try, hoping to share at least a portion of their
patronage. OFFICE—On Buena Yist^,street.
inayl5-tf
Ml B. KENT, Attorney at Law, Des Arc.
L • Arkansas, will practice in the courts of
Prairie. White, Monroe. Arkansas, St. Fran
cis. Jackson, and Independence counties. All
business intrusted to his care shall meet with
prompt attention. Office on Lyon
street. [jun8-tf
Robert h. crockett, attorney at
Law, Mount Adams, Arkansas county,
Arkansas. Will practice in the Counties of
Arkansas, Monroe, Desha and Prairie.
aprii22-tf.__
WAKEMAN W. EDWARDS, Law
yer. Springfield, Conway county, Ar
kansas. Will practice in the various courts
of Middle Arkansas. (J^” Prompt attention
eiven to the collection of all claims entrusted
to him. _____n3°*
CHARLES P. BERTRAND. Attor
ney at Law, Little Rock, Ark. [jan21
P JORDAN, Attorney at Law,
. Little Rock, Arkansas. [decll-ly.
WG. & B. D. TURNER, Attor
neys at Law, and General Collec
tors, Searcy, White county, Arkansas. Prac
tice in the Circuit Courts of Randolph, Law
rence, Independence, Jackson, White, Prairie,
Monroe, Arkansas, Jefferson and Pulaski
counties, and in the Supreme and Federal
Courts at Little Rock Ark. (jy Prompt and
faithful attention given to the collection of all
claims sent to them. [jan8-tf.
L. FEATHERSTON. ..Z. T- H. FARR.
FEATHERSTON & FARR, Attor
neys at Law, and Real Estate Agents,
Clarendon, Arkansas. Will practice in the
counties of Monroe, Arkansas, Prairie, St.
Francis, Jackson and Phillips. Particular
attention given to collections. References:
Madison, Ark., Hon. W. G. Beaseley, S. W.
Childress: Clarendon, Ark., H. M. Couch;
Panola. Miss., Col. Calvin Miller; Uotteevine,
Miss., E. C. Walthall; Memphis, Tenn., D.
M. DuBose. Esq., W. J. Webb ; Holly Springs,
Miss., W. T. Featherston ; Washington, D.
C., Jacob Thompson. jyiy__
JE. GATEWOOD, Attorney at
. Law, Des Arc, Prairie county, Arkansas.
Will practice in the counties of Prairie, Ar
katisas, Monroe, St. Francis, Jackson, White,
Conwav, and Pope. He will £ive prompt at
tention’ to all business entrusted to him.
(par OFFICE—Over Town Hall, (Frith’s
New Building.) first door._feb!3-tf
w. MARTIN, Attorney at Law,
Des Arc, Prairie county, Arkansas. Will
practice in the counties of Prairie, Arkansas,
Monroe, St. Francis, Jackson and White.
KB” Prompt attention given to the collection
ofclairas; also, the locating, selling and pay
ing taxes on land. 83P Office on Lyon street.
sept2<5-tf___
WILLIAM T. JONES Attorney
at Law, Brownsville, Arkansas. Will
practice in the comities of Prairie, Jefferson,
Arkansas, Monroe, St. Francis, Jackson and
White. Prompt attention given to the collec
tion of all claims in the middle and eastern
part of the State. sept26-tf
SAM’L W. WILLIAMS.W. L. D. WILLIAMS.
vi/TLLIAMS & WILLIAMS, At
■ » tornevs at Law, Little Rock, Ar
kansas. Office on Markham street. One o!
our firm will be almost always at Brownsville
where he can be consulted on professions
| business, and will give his personal attentior
! to all matters in Law and Equity, entrusted t<
' them. dec4
» _____—---1
J A. MOON, Attorney at Law
. General Collecting and Land Agent
For the Northern and Eastern Counties o
k Arkansas. Des Arc, Arkansas. octIU
• J. L. ..'"V'Aw lv°WAY
HOLLOWELL & JACOWAY, At
•roRNEYS at Law, Dardanelle, Arkansas
. Will practice in the counties of Yell, Perry
Saline, Pulaski, Prairie, Conway and Pope.
je26-tf__
, BLANKS! BLANKS!!
a Just printed and for sale at the “Citize
Office:”— Deeds of Conveyance 5 Quit Clai
’ Deeds; Justice’s Summons’, Exec itions, D
[livery Bonds, Ac. A«
OLD LETTERS.
BY FRANCES BROWN.
Came from sinner or from saint,
Cast them in, for the fire is faint,
The fire is faint, and the frost is strong,
And these old letters have lived too long.
How welcome once it matters not,
Their worth away with time has sped,
The love is over, the hope is dead,
And the old friend has forgot.
Cast them in, they’re heard to keep,
And will not let one’s memory sleep,
For hints of age, and tales of change—
Oh, but the turns of life are strange.
The world whereof they speak is gone—
How bright they came, and how dim they part
These passing ages of the heart,
While life and we wear on.
Cast them in, why should they last
When the light we read them by is past,
And never again will gild our day?—
Up lika a banner goes the blaze—
It is waste paper and nothing more ;
Some have been treasured up for years,
Some are blotted with heavy tears,
And some our dreams read o’er.
These are sprinkled with many a vow,
The love was never as warm as now—
Those by a trusty hand were penned—
Woe is me for that friendship’s end—
There goes a page of boyish rhyme—
That was a sheet of good advice—
We took our own way on the ice,
And learned the worth of it all time.
One glosey curl of wavy gold
Was held in this burning letter’s fold;
’Tls long since that golden beard grew gray,
And the crave where it rests is far away—
Up in its might the broad flame flashes !
And there they lie, in what all our aims,
Seekings and striveings, hopes and schemes,
Must come to—dust and ashes!
BURLING, THE NEW YORK DUN.
The Boston Post's account of this man
gives but a tame picture of him. I will
give you one from real life:
Ten years ago I was seated in my office
at No. 12 Wall street, busily driving the
quill, when I heard a quiet step behind,
and then a mild voice inquiring if I had
the transcript of a certainjudgement against
one J. G. O-, the projector of the
great Peg-ghe-wah-wah Company for sell
ing Indian Medicines. 1 looked up nnd saw
a man whose twisted foot and palsied arm
were quite familliar to me, but of whose
name or calling I knew nothing.
"Yes,” I replied, “I have the trans
cript.”
Well, I want it,” he said ; “ I’m going
to collect it for the creditor.”
“Going to collect it!” I exclaimed,
“ Why, the judgment is perfectly worth
less. Executions, and proceedings arter
judgment, and all ordinary means of grace
have long ago beeu exhausted upon O—.
He is hopelessly insolvent, and is besides
the most adroit scamp of a swindler I ever
encountered.”
“ Whales that to me ?” broke out the
visitor in a gruff, strong voice, quite dif
ferent from *his first tones. “ Perhaps
you don’t know who lam? I’m Burling,
the man about town. You a lawyer and
not know me! Sheriffs are good for
nothing; Constables are good for noth
ing; executions and creditors’bills are
good for nothing. Give me the trans
cript—here’s the order for’t—I'll make the
money out of him.”
I swiveled around my chair and-started
at the man. “ And. will you be so good,
Mr. Burling,” I asked, “as to tell me
what is your patent plan for superseding
officers and writs, and for squeezing blood
out of turnips, and cash out of the Presi
dent of the Peg-ghe-wah-wah Company ?’’
“How I do it? you mean. Why I dun
’ „ Lmiano T .1 >lr> m in lltO
street, I dun ’em at the theater, I dun ’era
in church, I catch ’em early in the morn
ing and slick to ’em all day ; follow ’em up
wherever they go; go to meals and eat
with ’em; go to bed and sleep with 'em;
give ’em no peace night nor day, Sunday
nor week day; stick to ’em like death to a
dead nigger. A man owes a debt. He
won’t pay it. I follow him up all the week
so he can’t do any business, nor go to see
his sweetheart, nor walk in Broadway, nor
eat with any appetite, nor sleep without
dreaming I’m after him with the devil to
help run him down. All this won’t do.
Very well. When he goes to church
Sunday he finds me in his pew. (Your
Sheriff's can’t work Sundays—I do my best
business then.) The congregation rise,
and he rise, takes out his book, opens at
the place, and there he finds the bill I’ve
stuck there, and gets so mad he can’t say
•amen.’ ”
“Sheriffs and Constables!” continued
he, getting loud and fierce," will a Sheriff
go of a Sunday morning to a parson’s
house and follow him to church, and walk
up the broad aisle with him before all the
congregation, and go up the pulpit stairs
close to his heels, and slip into the pulpit
after him before he can shut the door, and
take a seat by his side, and get up when
he gets up, and when he opens the Bible
opens John Jones’bill full length, and slaps
it down over the chapter and verse, and tel
him : There's that bill of horse hire, pai
it before you preach ! But that’s what 1
did—and I got my money too.”
“And what commission did you charge?’
“ Fifty per cent."
“ Rather strong," I suggested, “ bu
. still, your mode of procedure was strong
. Do you often get as much as fifty pe
j cent?”
“ When I earn it, I get it. Dr. C,
. of Broadway, sent me to dun a fellow wh
lived back in a yard, and kept two bu!
n dogs that he let loose when any body cam
? to collect honest debts. I went at hir
with a horse piitol in each hand and Doc
lor C’s bill in my teeth, and made him
pny up. What did Doctor C. offer me
for getting his sixty dollars?—he offered
me one dollar. I won't take it, says 1
I'll pay on more, says he. Pay me thirty
dollars, says I. Get out of my office, 01
I’ll kick you out, soys he. Pay me thirty
dollars, says I. Go to hell, says he, and
he kicked me out of his door and down the
steps into Broadway. I goes across to the
-hotel and hires a great arm-chair out
of the bar-room, and takes it across the
street, and plants it on the curbstone, righi
opposite Doctor. C.'s office door, and 1 lays
ihe bill I had made out on a full sheet o!
foolscap across my knees, hanging dowr
so every body that went by could read in
large, black, sanded letters:
DOCTOR C
To J. BURLING, Dr.
For collecting of Richard Roe, .
Commission,..... .$30 00
And all the crowd kept stopping to read
so that there was all the while two oi
three hundred people standing on the
Doctor’s pavement, and reading first my
bill and then his sign, and making theit
jokes. I had hired the chair for the whole
afternoon, but he didu’t stand this more
than fifteen minutes before he comes tc
the door, and says, come here, you damn
ed rascal, and I went in and took thirty
jollars of this money, and left the bill re
ceipted.
“ But, my'friend, don’t your impudent
ways often get you into scrapes; are you
not afraid someone will some day break
your head ?”
“ Break whose head ?” he thundered :
11 didn’t Col. S., of New Orleans, a mar
that’s killed seven men in duels, when 1
went to dun him, at the Astor nouse—
didn’t he grab me by the slack of mj
breeches, and hold me out the fifth storj
window, and shake me there above the
pavement, and say, damn you, shall I le
you fall, and break .your neck on the
stones, or take you in, and kick you down
stairs ?”
“ Well'’ said I, anxiouly, “ what die
you do then ?”
What did I do? I said, pay me thai
money! and didn’t he pull me in and pay
me every cent ?"
The intensity of his manner, as he thus
related his exploits, cannot be rendered or
paper—especially when- he exclaimer
with closed teeth, and the fingers of hi:
round hands clinched—“pay vie Via
money."
He look the transcript, and limped out
In another day the Impless debtor, ar
over-match Tor all the regular thuml
screws of the law, caine in to bog piteous
ly I would call off the blood hound. 1
told him it was the creditor’s affair, no
mine. Next day I met Burling at thi
corner of Counlandt street, looking mild
and happy, and asked him how he succeed
ed. “ I haven’t got it yet,” was the re
ply, “ He hasn’t found me out, but he ha:
just paid me five dollars, to let him dim
at the-Hotel, down there, without in;
company. We’ve taken all our meals to
gether for the last two days, and he begin
to find his appetite fail.”
Whether the five dollars was credilei
on the judgement, or pocketed as a person
al perquisite, I never knew.
W. J. F.
♦ « ♦
AN INCIDENT OF THE MEXICA1
WAR.
•From the New York Tribune.]
*■ As the Kentucky regiment crossed th
Nueces, and reached those immens
prairies and wood-bound streams whicl
spread themselves out three hundred mile
in the Rio Grande, great Quantities c
game presented strong temptation to th
soidiers, and it was found very difficult t
keep the regiment from straggling.
When the camp ground was chosen, th
sick, the lame, and the hunters were, con
trary to all military rules, stretched out fo
miles behind. This was the greate
breach of orders, because frequent sigu
of roveing Comanches were seen, vvh<
not having the fear of Uncle Sam befor
their eyes, were ready to cut off any strag
gler secretly, and appropriate his clothe
and gun. One day, Capt. Cassius JM
Clay, of the Kentucky Volunteers, wa
hunting turkeys, aud strayed several mile
from his regiment. A flock of turkej
flew out of the the prairies into the wool
which skirted a stream (that once was, bi
is now, in July, dry.) Tying his fine blooi
ed horse to a bush, he entered the di
channel of the quondam stream, the ban!
of which rose on both sides above his heai
and began calling the turkeys, in India
style, with the small bone of a defun
turkey’s pinion. The fowls answere
and came nearer and nearer.
At length, on raising his heat! cautiou
ly above the banks, instead of seeing tl
turkeys he heard a “ click !” There is ■
noise of tree or stream, or wild beast,
all savage nature, like this suggest!
sound—to Clay’s practiced ear it was
death-knell—the springing of a trigger
As quick as thought, he slipped back in
the ravine, aud running some hundn
yards, he reached and mounted his trus
courser. His suspicions were nowall t
well confirmed. The regiment had croi
ed the wood.above, passing west, and
soon as the last horseman disappear
1 from the distant horizon, the Comancbi
who had been watching them from t
L wood, took an opposite course, and quiti
. troop of them could be seen deploying frt
r the wood, in long Indian file, into t
prairie eastwardly. The regiment h
, crossed in such a direction that Clay h
> to follow the trace by making the two sic
1 of a triangle, and the Indians, if delerm
; ed to interrupt him, had only to ma
1 one. Notwithstanding the odds agaii
• him, trusting to the blood of his Kcntuc
racer, he gave a snot oi aenance, wavcu
his hat, and plunged into the wood, follow
ing the trace for half a mile before he
struck the opposite prairie. With breath
less anxiety he approached the clear space,
not knowing but that he would be cut off
by a superior force, while still out of hear
ing or a gunshot from the regiment. But
“ luck attends the daring sportsman,” and
as he emerged into the wide sea of grass
and flowers, the coast was clear, and all
was serene and lovely—not a red-skin to
be seen!
Clay describes his feelings as being a
descent suddenly from the sublime to the
ridiculous, arid he ftughed outright at his
resemblance to the “ wicked,” who are
said to “ flee when no man pursueth.”—
But the sun was fast sinking in the west,
and, being far behind the regiment, he
kept up a brisk canter, till the hindmost
stragglers came into view. Misery loves
company; so does merriment. Putting
spurs to his already panting charger, and
assuming the wildest and most terrified
air, he came up crying, “ Fly for your
lives; the Cotnanches are coming!”—
Then there was mounting in hot haste.
Some had captured wild horses, some had
loaded themselves with fruit and game,
some were sick, others lame, etc. But
when the cry of “Indians” came thus
startlingly upon their ears, all else was
forgotten. The horses were turned loose,
the grapes and grain strown around, coats
and hats were scattered in all directions;
the blind saw, the lame walked and the
sick were cured. As one overtook another
in the race for life, the same inspiration
of terror became a common feeling, till
nearly one-sixth of the regiment was in
full stamnede! The more Clav cried,
“ Halt, and defend yourselves!” the faster
they ran, and the less inclined were they
to halt. The captain had a jolly time of
it, and many a day afterwards, a singular,
half-comical, half-serious shadow would
pass over some brother soldier’s face when
the capnin would ask him what had *' be
come of his gray mustang?”
•--—
Chief Justice Taney on the Bight and
Ducy of Congress to Protect Slave
Persons and Slave Property.
[From the Richmond Enquirer.]
It is a matter of sincere congratulation
among the conservative men of the whole
i country, at this moment, when present au
! thority on the subject is so important, that
the most authoritative judicial voice in the
Union has spoken directly on the question
of Congressional prqtection to slave prop*
erty.
In the case of the slave Amv, decided
a few days since, Chief Justice Taney has
. furnished a written decision, which re
i peats and confirms in all its force the views
previously set forth by Gov. Wise, in his
late letter to Mr. Sanford.
From a review of the decision, we dis
i cover the assertion of the following great
; principles of doctrine,
r 1. That slaves are recognized by the
Constitntion of the United States in the
i character of persons.
2. That slaves are represented in Con*
I gress as persons.
3. That as persons, they are, in many
instances, at least, subject to certain liabil
ities, and invested with the rights corre
sponding to those liabilities, in the same
f way that other persons are.
4. That among these liabilities are those
which render them amenable to trial and
punishment for crimes and misdemeanors;
5 and among these rights is the right of legal
9 protection against personal injury.
1 5. That the Constitution of the United
States also recognizes slaves as property.
' 6. “As property, the rights of the owner
3 nrp entitled to the Drotection of the law;”
i. e., the law6 of the United States enacted
’ by Congress.
e The entire identity of this view of the
matter, with that presented by Govenoi
r Wise, must be at once manifest 'to every
reader.
Thus, the last question which has threat'
’ ened to divide us by a sectional issue, k
B at last directly decided by the highest ju
dicial authority in the Union. Even thos<
8 of our fellow-citizens who have hitherlt
‘ been disposed to withhold Congressiona
3 protection from slave persons and slav<
8 property, will, doubtless, yield the sami
|S acquiescence to the decision in the case o
3 the slave Amy, which they have already
I as good citizens, accorded to the decisioi
* in the case of Dred Scott.
y It is a matter of further congratulatioi
,S that both these decisions are due to th
’ sagacity, the legal lore and high integrity
of a man who wears not less worthily thai
i did his predecessor in office, the ermin
’ robe which he received immediately froti
the shoulders of John Marshall.
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ie Hollow Brick Walls.—A gree
10 saving of expense and material in the con
ln struction of buildings, has been for som
,e time gained by builders in the Easier
a cities, by making their thirteen-inch wall
• or walls of greater thickness, hollow. Th
outside and inside of the wall is built, i
the usual manner, leaving the inside vs
ty cant, except every fourth or fifth course <
■,0 brick, when it is tied together, thus makin
it just as substantial as a wall built solic
a* The saving in material and expense i
fully one—fourth, which is a considerabl
's> item. In addition to the saving in en
[ie pense, another very important considers
: a tion is gained thereby. It prevents tl
m inside walls of brick houses from becomir
damp, as the solid wall is sure to do ;
, this climate.
ad _
es -Dr. Franklin said : “When I see a hou
n- well furnished with books and newspapei
ke there I see intelligent and well informed chi
ist dreo} but if there be no books or paper-} tl
ky children are ignorant, if not profligate.”
; AIMiAllUg X IVvUlC VI bUV JSU§«|01UVIlfe
at Magenta—The Emperor Napoleon
in Battle.
The following particulars of the battle of
Magenta are extracted from a letter in the
Paris Constitvtionnd of June 10, written
from Novara, on June 5, by M. Ernest
Dreolle;
Yesterday, as the first battalions of the
Voltigeurs of the guard, after conquering
in a first engagement at Turbigo, were
pursuing their march toward Milan, it ap
pears that 40,000 Austrians, formed in
columns, suddenly countermarched, and
confident in their numbers, advanced
against our leading columns, hoping to turn
them and check the concentration of our
army upon Milan. But they had not
taken into their account the division of the
grenadiers and chasseurs of the guard,
commanded by General Mellinet. This
division rapidly got together between Buf
falota and Magenta, not far from the spot
where the Turcos fought, and they very
soon showed a front to the enemy.. To
ward noon the Austrians, after hesitating
for some time, decided to attack. The
zouaves and grenadiers united did not
make up more than 10,000 men, but with
out budging a foot they held their own
against the vainly energetic efforts of the
40,000 Austrians. The latter, surprised
at such an obstinate resistance, retired in
good order, formed again, and returned to
the charge a second time. •
They might as well have rushed against
a brazen rampart. The guard soon be
came tired of this passive attitude, and re
solved to take the offensive. It charged
and scattered the enemy. But the latter,
I nprceivinfp how small were the numbers
of the French, came up again and again.
Seven times in the course of two hours
were these heroic charges renewed. The
grenadiers and zouaves were electrified by
the presence of the Emperor, who, sword
in hand, supported and directed them.
The Emperor, however, was frequently
seen to turn his eyes toward the points
where, pursuant to his orders and calcula
tions, he expected to see the divisions of
Niel and McMahon make their appear
ance. They arrived, and were saluted
with a long bravo, which astonished and
disconcerted the enemy. General Mc
Mahon advanced to Magenta with an ar
dor, a dash, and an enthusiasm which was
the admiration of the whole army. At
the moment when his attacking column
was crossing the bridge, Gen. Espinasse,"
who was leading it with his well known
intrepidity, was unfortunately struck by a
ball in the very center of his breast. He
must have died instantly.
On seeing him fall, the soldiers, quite
beside themselves, rushed forward to
avenge his death. Nothing could slop
them—on, on they went, sweeping away
every obstacle, and after completely rout
ing the enemy they effected their junction
with the Imperialjijruard, which was all
the while commanded by the Emperor in
person. The battle was gained. Mar
shal Canrobert and General Regnault de
Saint Jeand’Angely had done wonders on
their side. We were masters of the field.
I hear that the Emperor warmly congrat
ulated the new Duke of Magenta, to whom
he attributed a large share of the success
of the day. The Emperor did not shrink
from exposing himself during the action,
and more than once General Fleury threw
himself before him, braving, with a devo
tion which all admired—though all were
ready to do the same—the bullets which
threatened his Majesty.
Humboldt’s Appeakance.—Bayard
Taylor, the Traveler, who has enjoyed the
society of the great Humboldt, has fur
nished to the press the following interest
mg sketch ol bis personal appearance:
“In person, Humboldt was short, strong
ly built, yet without any approach to cor
pulency. During the last years of his life,
he carried his head bent, with stooping
shoulders, as if his body bad not vigor
enough to hold up the weight of knowledge
contained in his massive brain. Yet in the
prime of life, when perfectly erect, his
height could not have been more than five
! feet six inches. His head was large and
marked by a beautiful symmetry, his fore
| head smooth and unwrinkled, and the bide
r eyes as soft, steady and clear aa those of»
child. His sight was perfect, enabling bin
’ to read the finest print without spectacles
1 His nose and mouth were of the heavj
Teutonic type, and the expression of hii
* face fully accorded with the truth, consist'
ency and benignity of his character. Nt
J person could have seen him without being
! inspired with an immediate personal regart
' for him. In the castle at Tegel, the pal
rimony of the Humboldt family, hangs i
picture representing him in his ihiriy-fifil
l year, ou the side of Chimborazo. Hi
there appears rather slender, but with th'
, same massive head and clear blue eyes
' and with thick brown locks. In anothe
s portrait, at the age of fifty, his hair is al
E ready snow white. His countenanc
r, changed very little after that period, lb
skin st 11 remaining smooth, and with
f fresh, healthy tint.
* Tomatoes.—The following method (
j preparing tomatoes for the table, we ar
~ assured by one who has made the exper
ment, is superior to anything yet discovei
ed for the preparation of that excellei
vegetable:
Take good ripe tomatoes, cut them i
slices, and sprinkle over them fiuely pu
verized white sugar, then add claret wit
sufficient to cover them. Tomatoes ai
se sometimes prepared in this way with dill
s, ted vinegar, but the claret wine imparts
1 them a richer and more pleasaut fUvo
ie more nearly resembling the strawberri
than anything else.
*i m— in m mm
• I ■ • '■'»
-“I say, Jack, lad, dost want a place?
Master wants a fool.” ifAye, indeed,” replied
Jack, “want a fool, does he ? Then you in
going to leave, or does he want a couple?
-A lazy, over-fed lad returning fromtiis
dinner to his work one day, .was asked by hU
master if he had no other motion ttlan that.
“Yes,” replied the youth, drawling out each
letter; “but it’s a little slower.” ;
Distressed Father.—“I am sure 1 don’t
know what to do with rny boy Tom; He has
acquired such an inveterate habit of lying.”
Sympathizing neighbor.—“Make a diploma
tist of him, sir, and his fortune is made.”
-According to Alfonso, King of Arragoa,
there are only four things in this world worth
living for, “old wine to drink, eld Wood to
burn, old books to read, and old friends t« talk
with.” . .
■——“You exhibit a great deal of vanity,
madam, in always tailing what other* tbtutrof
you.” “It would certainly be no vanity 1*
you, air, to tell what the world thinksof yoa.”
-When Suwarrow was defeated in Swit
zerland, some person told the King of Prussia
of tka bombastic proclamation which that gen
eral had issued, “fcahl” said tfce King,“Sue
warrow resembles a drum f he make* 00 noisy
till he is beaten.” ,
—“Father, have you seen anything of my
bonnet ? I must have left it tn this room.”
“No, my dear, I have not; but I will take my
microscope and look for it.” _ ,.
-“Prisoner stand upl Are you guilty or
not guilty ? ” “Faith,do you think I’dfee alter
telling the work of the jury, when they at*
paid for it? I’ll let them find it out!”; . .,
-A pretty girl and a wild horse are liable
to do much mischief; for one runs away with
a fellow’s body, and the other runs away with
his heart. „ ll4* ...3 »
* irnnHcmitn rodit tin tn m. nutilic houflfr
In the country, end asked, “Who is the master
of thishousr? ” “I am, sir,” replied the land
lord t “my wife hae been dead about thru*
weeks.”
-“What are you doing? ” asked e mother
of her little girl. “Playing school,” wae the
reply. “But it Is Sunday to-day.” “I know
it,” said the child, “so ! am playing Sundijf
school.”
——A frantic fair correspondent says that
the ladies ere beginning to give up society,be
cause they encounter nothing but spoilt h°X§
and premature old men.
——-A political economist estimates' the
amount of money spent every year by Ameri
cans, in traveling for pleasure, to be forty
millions of dollars.
--As a razor is bsst whetted in oil, *0 Wit
ie set sharpest by politeness. The lack ot edgd
in both is discoverable from the offence or
pain they give. —
-A good cure f" dyspepsia ie to collect
bills for e newspaper. If that don’t give you
an appetite, you may as well sell your stomach
for tripe, and be done with it.
-When a Kentucky Judge, eoine yuan
since, was asked by an attorney, upon some
strange ruling. “Is that law, your Honor J ”
he replied: “If the Court understand herself,
and she think she do, it are I ”
—A Judge in Cincinnati is said to have
so much REAL ESTATE ON HIS MAUDS, that
nothing short of soap and water can relieve
him. This calls to mind Charles Lamb’s re
mark to a person of rather unclean digi's,
while playing cards. “Well,” eaid he, “if
dirt were trumps, what a hand you’d have.”
—A mother was instructing her daughter
in the duty of prayer, and tha aura anawera
given to believers, and proceeded to repeat the
Lord’s Prayer. When she came to the clause,
“Give us this day our daily bread,” the little
one broke out with, “O, mother, say cake, say
cake.”
—.A French magistrate, noted for his lova
or the pleasure ol the table, speasing one nay
to a friend, aaid: “We have juat been eating
a superb turkey) It was excellent, stuffed to
tbe neck, tender, delicate, and of a high flavor.
We left only the bones.” “Bow many ot you
were there ? ” said his friend. “Two,” replied
the magistrate, “the turkey and myself.”
Cork for Snoring.—An Inventive Yankee
has produced an apparatus which hfe' claims is
a cure for snoring. It fastens upon the mouth
a gutta peacha tube, leading to the tympanum
of the ear. Whenever the anorer snores, ho
himself feels the first impression, finds how
disagreeable it is, and, of course, reforms. We
predict an active sale of the article in married
circles I
; .— a *
Singular African SuraasriTiON.—
The Now York Times has a rapid sketch
, of the history of the island of Hayti. and
gives an account of a ,singular African su
, perstition, which prevails not only on that
island, but amoug the negroes of the South
western States. The superstition is tho
| worship of a green serpent as a god.—
t The reptile is put in a cage, inclosed on
, three sides, and open only on one. Thu
. worshipers perform their rites in secret
' places. They divest themselves of cloth
ing, and put on red handkerchiefs instead;
’ then form a circle around the cage, and
perform a crazy sort of dance. The high*
> priest then passes round his hat and re*
' ceives offerings; and putting up a petition
' for needed beoefiu, resumes tbe mad or*
gies, until in a delirium of fanatical pbren
zy, they retire to tho wood and enact scenes
f of nameless horror. This idolatry per*
B vades the entire lower classes of the Hay
- lien population. Soulouque, the now ex*
• iled emperor of the island, was exahed to
l the throne in 1848, mainly on the ground
of his popularity as high- priest of the snake*
a worshiping sect, and his wife was high'*
• priestess of the -same. Perhaps a belter
e clue to the moral and intellectual state of
e of the vulgar masses of the Haydens could
i- not be given. There is no accounting for
o the absurdities of heatbeuism, only that
r, men “did uot like to retain God in their
v knowledge, and God gave them over to a
(reprobate mind."