THE VOICELESS.
BY OLIVER WENDELL IIOLMES.
We count the broken lyres that rest
Where the sweet wailing singers slumber,
But o'er their silent sister's breast
The wild flowers, who will stop to number?
A few can touch the magic string,
\nd noisy Fame is proud to win them;
Alas! for those that never sing.
But die with all their music iu them !
Nay. grieve not for the dead alome.
Whose song has told their heart's sad story;
Weep for the voiceless, who have known
The cross without the crown of glory!
Not where Leucidian breezes sw - -p
O’er Sappho’s memory-haunted pillow.
But where the glistening night-dews weep
O’er nameless sorrow’s church-yard pillow.
Oh! hear/s that break and give no sign
Save whitening lip and fading tresses,
Till Death pours out his cordial wine.
Slow-dropped from Misery - crushing presses;
If singing breath or echoing chord
To every hidden pang were given,
What endless melodies were poured,
As sad as earth, as s'weet as heaven!
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The following lines were recently found pasted
on the wall of an old house in Newark, New Jer
sey, and were probably written many years ago:
Oh! what will become of that flag when we part ?
Shall it droop o'er the toom of our national fan >■'!
Shall it stream o'er tlie wreck, when each hope of
the heart
Has abandoned the wreck to oblivion and sha .
When that banner of glory forever is fin • !.
Shall each gem be )---set and tran-’- ted i ?
Shall the bright cons'ellation that li-'it- 1v. • 1
Be re-placed by a distant and desolate star :
Bather heap its proud trophies, and over them
This all of our honor—this shroud of on.- -din:. .
Fire the pile! fling the ashes abroad on the blast;
It was born amid storm—let it perish in flume!
Capture of a Rop.rer I'mder, I >i j 11
CULTIES.—An Olney, Illinois, corn -mm-!: u\
of The Vincennes Sun gives the fo!lov.:
account of the arrest of Thread, the mail
robber, in that, rdneo a few rlavs
1*. M. Cullen. of Oliuo, notified <rili:s- •
special agent, of the whcreabouts^of Thread
the mail robber, whose ] rose lice" was much
desired at Springfield before a dissolution of
the 1 nion made the ! nited States Court of
no account. Last night Gillinore, Sheriff
Johns, (Constable Lynch, and two or three
others took it hack for Edwards county, a
few miles north of Albion, to investigate the
house of one Peters, the brotlier-in-law of
Thread, where it was reported Thread was
6e reted.
About midnight the posse arrived, and
after secreting the axes and other deadly
weapons about the premises, opened the
unlocked door, entered Thread’s room, pulled
him out of bed, end handcuffed him in a
moment, amidst the cries of " Oh, sister!
Peters! Help! murder!’’
Mrs. Peters, who is a young, athletic
woman, struck the floor in her night-gown
like a she tiger—gave a scream and called
“Bull.” seized a hickory stick and laid out
Gillinore limber and helpless. The dog fol
lowed and took Johns by the log. Peters
caught Lynch and downed him—a Frencli
mhn of tho company came to his rescue—a
blow with the fearful stick, aimed at John’s
head, caught in the folds of the heroine’s
night-gown and saved the head of that “public
functionary”—six or eight shots made the
dog silent forever—a lamp broken over the
females head, cooled her ardor—various kicks,
cuffs and buffets sent Peters off for help.
Thread would not move tu get into the hack
—so by the hair, legs and clothes lie was
thrown in—brought to Olnev. and is now on
his way to Springfield by raiir ad.
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Importation of Bonks.—It is reported
in some of the papers that a ship load of
human bones have been landed in one of the
Eastern ports from the Crimea. These bones,
it is said, have been gathered up from the
battle fields of Sevastopol, where they have
lain since the memorable battle- of that place.
nether these bones are really human bones
we will not attempt to say, but the fact of
their importation into thi- ( am try is prif
positive that some of our A meric u finm r
are beginning to see the importance i f hus
banding all the resources within their reach
that will add to the fertility of the oil. It i
a fact that the bones on the buttle field- <•;'
Napoleon the J. were gathered up an 1 served
as manure for the wheat fields of Great Brit
ain, and since that time thousand- of tons of
animal bones have been exported from tbi
country to England for the same purpose.
Besides thousands of tons of bon - v ar d
from the products of American soil and
to that country, nearly the entire r i . :!.
vail cake of this country lm- found the sa1
market, and after having served the pun
of fattening the beef and mutton raised : f
country, has finally reached the field of tin
British farmers in the form of manure.
"While our surplus grain is export*"1 to mi r
countries, our farmers would do well to retain
at home the hones of our slaughtered animal-,
and the cake from our oil mills, to su-ta'u
wasting fertility of our own soil, as well .
husband every other species of refuse niatmr
upon the farm that can in any way an.-v t
the same end.
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Stupidity of Lobsters..—Lobsters, sav
Dr. Biukland, if left on the rocks, never ro
back of their own accord ; they wait until iim
tide conics to them. This jieculiarity was m,
served after a great land-slide on the coast of1
Dorvetsliirc, England, which 1 ay it.-; meat
weight, forced up a portion of the bottom of
the sea. On this suddenly elevated bit of
ground there happened to he several lobsters,
who doubtless thought the low tide had taken
place with uncommon celerity, and that it
would return again. Anyhow, the foolish
creatures waited for the tide to come up and
cover them. Of course it never did come up
a train ; they remained in their places and died
there, although the water was, in many in
stances, only a few feet from their noses.
They had not the sense to tumble into it and
save their lives.
Tiie Colored Population of Georgia.
A bill has passed the Georgia Legislature
which provides that every free person of col
or who has reached the age of fourteen years
may choose an owner and go into voluntary
servitude for life; that parents may choose
owners lor their children when the latter are j
under fourteen vears of age ; and that all free !
persons of color found in that State after the I
first of March, 1S02. who have taken no steps !
to select owners, shall be liable to seizure and
sale as slaves for life.
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The Lafayette (Indiana) Journal publishes
the following frigid extract from a reply by a
Boone county subscriber to a dunning letter:
“ Sorry to say, old ho«s, that 1 can’t pay, I aw
very tight up. which is to say, 1 liain’t got
nary red. Ef lard oil was ten cents a barrel,
I couldn’t buy enough to grease my hair.
Don’t worry about it. 1 freely forgive you
the debt.”
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Tiif. Coming Year.—The year lt>01 will
be the first of the 060th Olympiad. There
will be an annual eclipse of the sun on the
II tli of January, another on the 7th of July,
and a totaleclip.se on the 31st day of Decem
ber. There will also be a partial eclipse of
the moon on the 17th of December.
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From Blackwood’s Magazine.
A DREAM.
What was it ? A tallow candle, to bo sure.
The gas wouldn’t burn, the kerosene stran
gled me with its noxious odor, the fluid
^puttered. burned blue, and went out. I am
afraid of the dark; that ghostly blackness
which makes one’s eyes ache with its want of
light; that palpable gloom which seemed to
beat like a roomful of palpitations of the
heart around \uu, above you. about you,
every wheie; that visible nothing, which
holds the tables, the chairs, the portraits you
are familar with, yet hides them in its black
vail from your view; that the empty fulness
through which you thrust out your groping
arms, then shrink back, oppressed with a
presence you can neither hear, see. nor feel.
31 illy,’7 L said to my little maid, •• run
somewhere and get me a light.”
."die ran to the grocer’s wile, and came back
with a penny dip in a brass candlestick.
As she placed it on my table, went'out and
shut the dour, the little boy in bronze on my
mantle raised his hammer and struck the fig
ure of time twelve ringing blows upon the
heart, it was midnight.
The candle burned clearly. I resumed the
old volume of llerman legends l was reading,
and as i laid my linger on a paragraph, and
paused to ponder on the possibility of spirits
returning to earth to vreak vengeance on
foes, or work w*-al to friends. I heard a deco
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sigh at my dhow.
! tunic i ; .a h !! the ghost of my grand
mother. ,
.1 knew h v IV >m her resemblance to her
portrait. H • v.ore th .-ante white cap with
it' wide hord>-r l .tted round her face.—the
same prim <!n-«s with which 1 had grown
familiar in the picture.
She died t,. lty y< ars ago. I was named
for licr.
1 <i w up the rocking chair for the ghost.
Sir- - it d"’.'.:i in it. A pillow could not have
1 re uoislesslv than she did.
kept h-u- i.; n Is in the same position on
1 r hi that somebody tied them twenty
years ago.
idle f: ■ 1 her keen black eves upon me—
• ( — whii-h I 1:1 aiuruvs admired
in the portrait. None of her descendants
had such eyes.
•• ! ■ aid not come,” she ■-'aid. in deep sep
ulchra 1 * >nes, in gas-light. Ghosts and gas
light-; are at war always. As l'ur kerosene
oil. we groan in spirit at its use. I low mor
tal noses can, night after night, inhale the
odor it omits, is a wonder. It is worse than
brimstone. AVc have put our cold lips under
your chimneys, and blown our ghostly breath
into the fame. We lmve seen the chimneys
blacken with smoke, and apartments liil with
disgusting fragrance. People only said the
lamp is in draught. They moved it and bore
with it. We shall have to yield. Kerosene
is a modern discovery. Ghosts are old-fa.-di
ioned. To he out of date is to be out of mind.
Your tallow candles please me. We ghosts
like the light of other days around us. AV e
always, in the body, burned tallow candles.”
The line eyes of my grand-mother gazed at
my penny dip steadfastly for a moment. She
seemed to see vissions and dream dreams.
“.My dear,” she said "you arc the first of
the family that has returned to candles since
the innovation of gas. You are indebted to
y ur dip for my presence, llt.w hollow 1
would have looked under a ohaiidalicr—how
blondle-s. lnj.'v white! As it is, 1 think I am
1- -king very natural, am 1 not?”
She glanced up at her portrait and waited
my reply.
“A little pale, grand-mother.” [said; “tell
me dear madam, if your pursuits in the other
World are of such a nature that they admit of
your returning to this at any time ?”
•• ]>y no means. 1 am permitted to appear
in this sphere but seldom. My influence I
can make 1 ol L. of’tencr. 1 have not been seen
before since my coffin lid was closed. 1 am
come to tell you there arose a yell in Pandemo
nium. L looked in to see whence it came. I
found the great chamber as igued to little
children, and which is always full of little
ones of al! sizes and ages, the scene of great
commotion. Iufauts were crawling into cor
ners ; three year old toddlers were tottering
out of the way. Oidcr ones were hastily
finding scats, and all faces wore a listening
c\] cession. A small voice was saying:
‘•■If was no fault of mine that brought me
here. 1. who am now but live years old.
might have lived to be fifty. Nature, unfor
tunately. gave me a fine physical develop
ment. My chest was round and full, my
skin clear, my linn - finely moulded. My
birthplace wa- ;n a cold climate. My tender
mother, nroud of her offspring, bared my
neck . no . lm- n tlm chili winters, when her 1
and 9 were ] tekt •! in warm '
straw and th roughly protected from every !
blast. 1 v, - hr unlit down to be viewed bv j
an ; • cd to d Sen . t tempera- *
tines ;i ■ 1 v -at from room to room. My
mother wr: m •! in -oft velvet and comforts- i
Me sill id not suffer. I did. but 1 ,
I „ ,1 0.11 1 , f in,,l- .1,1 I
in the house. My
!"■: ::y !. 1 ii'i jvtvd on from month to .
lno'ith. l at at live years old. of
<• itsui: pi. My l mtlifr cried over my lit
tle i !•.’;• i. knew. but I could not. tell her
-a then il u her own vanity bad placed me
there—would scud me here.’
•••1 v ; trolled to death,’ cried a more
piping \e. as the first speaker sat down.
•A woman was hired expressly to take care ot ;
me. and si e tuck care that J should not want ,
for exercise. Her days and nights were
spent in keeping me going “up. up. upy, and ;
"down. down, downy.” ’J hat unknown won
der. perpetual motion, was to be found in my
nurse’s knees. Every bone in my poor little
body was racked, every ounce ol' flesh was
sore. My food went down milk and came up :
cheese. If 1 cried, 1 was trotted; if I scream
ed. I was trotted ; if 1 was still. I was trotted
—1 became little better than a human churn,
from which the butter bad been taken and
the sour milk left standing. My brain turned
to bruises, my blood to whey, my bones grew
so sharp they pierced the knees which trotted
them. 1 began to cut teeth, my tongue was
constantly jolted between my jaws, and in
danger of being bit off. I dared not whine,
for 1 knew the penalty; I began at last to cal
culate bow long the torture could possibly
continue. Warm weather was coming on.
and I thought one or the other of us must
soon give up the ghost; and as my nurse’s
exertions were almost superhuman, 1 imagined
1 might outlast her. < )ne unlucky day, how
ever. my mother entering the room unexpect
edly. 1 smiled at her. 1 had never done so
before.
"The darling,” cried my parent, “sec. it
knows me.” t
"Poor thing, rather,” said the nurse, “it
has windon its stomach 1” *■
•• ‘ Forthwith she proceeded to trot it out.
Every thump of her foot on the floor was, I
knew, a nail in my coffin. 1 felt I should
never smile again. My faithful nurse con- i
tinned her efforts, and I was trotted out of
existence upon the poor old woman’s knee.”
“ As the speaker ceased, one of the older
occupants of the room descried me,” said my ,
grand-mother, "lie at once made room for
me to enter, and begged me to remain awhile
and bear the remarks. I consented, and took
a seat near the entrance.
"‘I.’ said-a little fellow, rising from his
seat, with his blue eyes all bloodshot, and his ;
curb matted together, ‘ died of delirium tro- ‘
•
mens. At the age of six months, 1 was a con
tinued drunkard. 1 had not been a very quiet
baby, and every time I was uneasy, a little
liquor was administered to do me good. I did
not want wine, but water. I was naturally a
very thirsty child, and everything that was
put between my speechless lips increased my
thirst. My mother's milk was sweet, the
panada given me was sweet, and if now and
then I was blessed with a draught of goat or
cow’s milk, it was wanned and sweetened first,
to make it as much like my mother’s as pos
sible. I used to cry. No other way do we
poor babies have of expressing our feelings,
and the chances are ten to one that we will be
misunderstood. To stop my crying, I was put
to the breast; this, at such times, 1 would
indignantly refuse. Then there would be a
commotion. "Nurse,” my mother would say,
what shall we do with him The nurse
was a stout, hearty old woman, who always
made a practice of tasting whatever was pro
vided for her charge. Her sovereign remedy
was liquor. 1 was taken, and a spoonful
administered at a time. At first I rebelled—
1 strangled, kicked and coughed. The firm
hand held the spoon to my little tongue, and
down went the contents in spite of me. Little
by little the dose was increased. 1 soon liked
it. Iji my thirsty moments i cried for it. It
was given me readily, for alter a few moments
nf wild glee, 1 fell into a drunken stupo»
which gave my attendants many opportunities
nf enjoying themselves, as my sleep was sure
to be long and - mud.
•••At length, mania a ftafu assailed me.
During my whole life no one had ever thought
nf o'iyi||._r jny -male spoonful of the water i
had craved—: lie cooling, cheering, refreshing
ilrons of water! Now. 1 no longer cared for
it. In my wildest frenzies 1 was accused of
having the colic ; down, as usual went the fiery
I’rink. until lit.ally 1 was literally burnt out.
1 was n ithing but a cinder within—a shell
without. 31 v stomach was cooked to a crisp,
my intestines wore shrivelled—my lungs no
lunger filled with pure air. belched forth only
the fiery lunic.- that had consumed me. I died.
1 was good for nothing. I hope whatever
form my dust is destined to take on earth,
will not Ik; watered, as when 1 inhabited it.
with alcohol.’
•• As t!ii' speaker ceased, there arose a wail
of sympathy. such a- had first attracted me to
the pandemoniue chamber. as it subsided, an
other little figure had taken the stand—
•• • 31 y lees, lie said,’ * brought me out of the
world. 31 y mother labored under the strange
delusion that her child was born a Highland
laddie of American parents and in America.
I was dressed, or M‘t undressed rather, in
short, plaid stockings, yaching to the calf of
legs, and an elegant kilt reaching just to the
knee. 31 y limbs ware’moulded in cherubic
forms, and when exposed in the nursery were
pretty. Jiut the mu-cry was too narrow a
field in which to display my beauty. < >u hit
ter cold days 1 was walked out over the icy
streets, the keen wind chapping my flesh and
chilling my blood t;il my knees looked like
twin nutmeg graters painted purple. 1 used
to look at mv mother's long comfortable skirts
and thick leggins drawn up over warm hose,
and wondered if she could survive a fashion
such as 1 wore it adopted by herself. 1
became afflicted with inflammatory rheuma
tism. and unable to endure the pain, 1 gave
up tile* ghost.’
I felt.” -aid my grandmother, " that this
victim was a sacrifice to a fashion started since
mv day 1 know that your father was never
dressed in such a ridiculous style when a little
bov, for with my own hands I knit his warm
woolen stockings, and saw that his comforta
ble little trousers came well over the instep of
his little ca!f-sk:n shoes.
"The next speaker was a dream-faced little
_:rl. v,lr> trembled as . he rose an 1 >.iid :
•• • ! am an opium eater. 31 y death-warrant
a as written on t lie label ot the fir.-t bottle ni
Godfrey's Cordial brought into my mother’s
house. A few drops at first sufficed to hush
my feeble cries. Then (Jodfrcy’s Cordial
would not do. A few drops of pure laudanum
was administered. Soon I could not go to
deep without it. Then my nurse would give
lie a small opium pill in my panada. Of
course 1 was I ut little trouble. 1 was a deep
deeper, but my digestion became impaired ;
• >o much sleep weakened me, and 1 knew no
ntfural slumber. 31 y eye- became like th — ■
if a sleep-walker, full of dreams when Wide
iwake*. i lost my appetite, my bead grew
ull of pain; my baby-heart was always
idling. 1 closed my eyes one day forever on
lie home where 1 felt i could be little loved,
where mv low wails were never permitted to
ippeal to those around me, but were hushed
it once; where loy blue eyes were* seireely
*.er permitted to look around the world m
which they had been opened, and where,
instead of proper care and food and exercise,
be baleful pill and enervating sleep were all
hat was ollere i me. There are many parents
,\ho seem to think that children must pass
heir childhood "out ot the way, and only
act in the way when they have become, in
,pite of ail sorts of ill-treatment, useful or
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• Tins child was still . peaking,” said my
grandmother, “ when 1 rushed out. I had
been u mother once, ami cmild not listen to
these innocents in that fearful waiting cham
ber. recapitulating the woe that had sent
them there, any longer.
•• 1 felt impel1* 1 to re-visit earth. 1 came.
In no light could 1 make myself visible to
you until your tallow candle was brought in.
“31y dear, remember what 1 have told you.
Sumc ot those days you may hi* a mother, lie
more than careful of the sacred charge of lit
tle children, flunk for thorn—-feel lor them.
Do not. to case your cares, sink them into the
unnatural slumbers, or give them over to sel
fish nurses. 1 pon you hangs their lives—in
a great measure their happiness, both here
and hereafter—l beg you will give—”
Just at this moment the cock crew loudly.
The voice at my elbow was still. 1 looked
around—the rocking chair was empty, the
ghost had vanished.
Occupation op the Agriculturist.—
Xo man is so high as to he independent of
the success of this great interest ; no man is
so low as not to he effected by its prosperity or
decline. Agriculture feeds us; to a great
extent it clothes us; without it we could not
have manufactures, and we should not have
commerce. These all stand together, hut
they stand together like pillars in a cluster,
the largest in the centre, and that largest is
agriculture. We live in a country of small
farms and freehold tenements; a country in
which men cultivate with their own fee sim
ple acres, drawing not only their subsistence,
but also their spirit of independence and
manly freedom from the ground they plow.
They are at once its owners, cultivators and
defenders. The cultivation of the earth is
the most important labor of men. 3Iau may
be civilized, in some degree, without great
progress in manufactures, and with little
commerce with his distant neighbors; but
without cultivation of the earth, lie is, in all
countries a savage. When tillage begins,
other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are
the founders of human civilization.
[Daniel Webster.
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A 3iiss (liLLMORE was courted by a man
whose name was Iladducks; who told her
I hat he only wanted one gill mure to make
him a perfect fish.
A Poet says the wind kisses the waves,
rhat. we suppose, is the celebrated •• kiss for
i blow ” about which we have heard so patch.
PICTURES.
Xo house, no matter how simple or lowly
its occupants, should be without a few pic
tures, even should they be hut the rude two
penny sketches that grace the meanest book
stall. There is a depth ot enjoyment, a
world of chaste and pleasurable emotion to
the educated intellect to be found in the
presence and contemplation ot paintings,
which must he felt to be understood; and tiie
same kind of joy, though in a diitorent man
ner and degree, can be experienced by the
rudest and most uncultivated mind. A loom
can never be gloomy, the walls of which aie
decorated with a few engravings or paintings ;
these furnish food for thought, give the mind
a refuge for its vagaries and emotions, and to
the imagination a world in which to roam
with unrestrained freedom and delight.
The rude sketches that adorn the walls of
a country inn. afford a pleasure and a subject
for study, to the wayfarer, no matter what lies
means of knowledge or station may be ; this
only proves the grace and divinity of art. and
its power and influence over both mind and
heart. The presence of pictures in the house
always betokens signs of gentleness and taste
in the occupants, and with them a hovel be
comes in as great a degree to its inmates a
scat of refinement and elevated feelings as a
palace of art to its titled and lordly owner.
.Many persons forbear to indulge in the lux
ury of pictures because they cannot buy
costly ones ; this is a sad mistake; the plain
est sketch, the simplest engraving is better
than no picture at all. and will serve, though
nut perhaps in so large a measure, to elevate
the mind, and minister to the intellectual
] wants oi its possessor.
Let. then, every apartment be graced with
a picture of some kind, it it be desirable that
_• ntlern amenity, and good temper should
reian in the household, and that bright and
! cheerful thoughts, like angel’s breathing, may
| fall on home and hearth.
Fable for Nai hiity Ciiii.hrln who
WANT TO lJRKAK LI* THE IloLSLHOLD.— I
I will tell you a pretty fable. Not a new one
i:... v..m- lilu.lv con have heard it before.
But this pretty fable has amoral, ami your
naughty eomiuct makes me very much fear
that the printer has left it out oi your story
book. Hear the fable and«heu the—moral.
\u old man had many sons who often
<l'iarreled with one another. \\ hen the
father had interposed his authority, ami to
! no purpose used every means to reconcile
j them, he at last resorted to this expedient,
lie ordered his sons to he called before him.
and a bundle ot short sticks to be brought.
! Bach son was then commanded to try if. with
1 all his might and strength, he could break the
'bundle. All made the attempt, but vainly ;
for the sticks being closely and compactly
hound together, could be broken by no man.
-• Now each take a single stick, and prove
whether you he able to break it. which each
did with all imaginable ease.
Oh. inv sons," said the old man. " behold
the power of unity, for if you. in like man
ner would hut keep yourselves conjoined in
the bonds of friendship, it. would not he in
: the power of any mortal to hurt you; but
when oice the tie- ol brotherly affection are
dissolved, how soon you become exposed to
every injurious hand that assaults you."
Mom! •• Cnion is Stn iijtli.”— Bear naughty
children, remember this moral is more pre
servative than platforms, more consolidativa
' than Constitutions, mure satisfactory than the
sword. II. II.
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PltESKUviMi Cam::.—It is said that game
mav be kept perfectly fresh and sweet lbr
! several davs by a sprinkling of ground entice.
Clean your game, that is. wipe oil the blood,
'cover the absordent parts with paper, wrap
uji the heads, and then sprinkle the ground
coffee over or among the feathers or fur. as
- the ease may be : pack up carefully, and the
game will be preserved sweet and fresh in the
lit unfavorable wcatlnr. (lame sent open
i and loose cannot, of course, be treated in this
1 manner; but all game packed in boxes or
hampers may be deodorized as described. A
j teaspoouful of coffee is enough lbr a brace of
birds, and this proportion ibr more or lar
ger game. [New York Spirit.
< rttjni; on- Cows’ T§ats.—Mr. S. K.
Todd, of Lake Ridge, New York, has re
moved troublesome supernumerary teats from
his cows by twisting very small wires si
tightly around them as to stop all circulation.
In three or four weeks the teats dropped
oft without producing coreness in the udder,
which healed in a few days. In describing
hi.-- process in The Boston Cultivator, he says
lie fastened his cows so that tlicv could not
kick, and twisted the wire with pliers.
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Back 1 Jktween aTk.un of C uts and a
Bu.Koon.—Mr. Simmons, an ..erofiaut. who
recently ascended from Baltimore, found the
evening passenger train of the Northern Cen
tral Railroad leaving the city at the same
time; lie kept vertically over the train lbr a
distance of live miles; then, on rising to a
. . • i l l • l # • • . 1 I *
..hi tiiuiuur. in* l * *. i u. Jiiuiuuij;
near Ruler’s switch station, lie luul nearly com
pleted the packing <>t" his balloon before the
train, which he had outrun, arrived at the
. same station.
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i Revou:TloxAllv Si itvlVORS.—Aceord
iii'i to the report of the eommissioiiers ol pen
sions. but eighty-seven soldiers of the Revo
lution yet survive, out of one hundred and
six tv-five who. on the iDth of Juno, ls.>!h
were on the pension rolls. Among the survi
vors is one who participated in the great first
battle of the Revolution. Pensions are al
lowed also to to sixty-six widows of Revolu
, tionary soldiers—making the number now on
| the rolls three thousand two hundred and
! four, a diminution since the last annual report
i of five hundred and te*i.
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Doth the moon stay herself to lecture to
every dog that bayeth at her ? Doth the lion
turn aside to each cur that barketh at her?
Do the stars cease to shine because the night
ingale reproves them for their dimness ? Doth
the sun stop in its course because of its offi
cious cloud when it vails it? Or doth the
river stay because the willow dippeth its
leaves into the waters? Ah ! no ; God’s uni
verse moves on, and if man will oppose it, it
j heeds them not. It is as God hath made it;
it is working together for good, and it shall
I not he stayed by the censure nor moved on
by the praise of men.
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Broiled Steak.—Should be cut from a
well-kept rump, and they are generally liked
about three-quarters of an inch thick. Most
cooks beat them with a rolling pin for ten
minutes, but, if the meat is of good quality,
and the rump has been well-kept, there will
I be no necessity for this. Just before finish
ing. rub a lump of butter over, and lightly
dredge with pepper and salt. Pickles and
scraped horse-radish make a good garnish,
and for sauce—suit your taste.
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Dow, Jr., says that the reason that man
was made after everything else, was, if he had
been created first, lie would have annoyed the
Almighty with endless suggestions of im
provement.
‘•Mr. A., I understand that you said I sold
you a barrel of eider that had water in it!”
•• Xo, no,” was the reply, ‘-1 only said you
sold me a barrel of water with a little cider
iu it.”
The Moutii of the Mississippi Sen
sible Views.—The New Orleans Picayune,
discussing the question of the relation tvhich
the several confederacies would bear to the
Mississippi, in case the Union is broken up
into two or more separate, independent repub
lics. scouts the idea that the froc egress or in
gress of that great stream could ever become
a subject of serious controversy. The intei
est of the Eastern Atlantic States, it argues,
would he in favor of the Gulf States llepub
lic shutting up the Mississippi; for, as it very
justly remarks, they have, at very great cost,
constructed numerous railroad and canal com
munications, for the very purpose ot di\citing
the trade of the Vest from the .Mississippi
river to the Atlantic coast, and \\hate\cr
might obstruct the downward trade to the
Gulf, would work into their hands. In at
tempting. therefore, to obstruct the tree navi
gation of the Mississippi, or tobmthen it "*t 1
taxes, Louisiana would be playing into the
hands of New York, Boston, Philadelphia,
and other Atlantic cities. The Picayune says
—and what it says is conclusive ol the whole
matter: , ,
Between the States on the upper slopes
of the Valley, and those nearer the mouth,
the commercial relations are too intimate and
too deeply cherished to be dissevered by any
political disruption. The Mississippi is. in
fact, a mighty inland sea; and they who
dwell upon its banks, whether in the gorges
of the bills, at its remote sources, or on the
sugar and cotton fields, that expand where it
pours the combined floods of half a continent
into the Gulf, must live as friends with each
other. More especially must that State,
which, occupying all its mouth, and thus re
ceiving perpetually the drain and flow of its
incessantly growing productions, and holding
the gates for the return flood of its mighty
commerce, feel her prosperity and growth so
intimately blended with theirs, and so identi
fied with the common use of this interior sea.
that it is folly to dream that she would ever
attempt to separate them, or consent to sepa
rate them, under any possible change of po
litical relations. ’
Nkc.ro 3If.ciia.nics.—An article in a late
number of Be Bow's Review, from the pen
! of Judge Ilopkin’s of 3iobi!e. directs atten
tion to the injury which the writer thinks is
likely to l.e inflicted on the .South by the
system of instructing negroes in the mechan
ic arts, and employing them as mechanics,
lie says :
•• If it be dc.-irable to preserve the patriar
chal system of negro slat ery now existing at
the South, is the very basis of >cial order
an 1 of moral and domestic iuteyritv winch
none may doubt, who has evoked wisdom and
virtue in p irsuiny the (jiiestions, slaveholders
should allay this antagonism in their midst,
bv agreeing through legislative action, to con
fine the negro to the soil, thus to elevate and
i open the mechanic trade.-to the non-slavohold
iny people around them. Dignify the trades
to the level with the professions, in common
acceptation, and idling, loafing, lounging,
fox-hunting, < r in other words, general dissi
pation of health, energy an ! time among the
Young men of the South \v. u 1 cl almost eease.
and in their place bo substituted general busy
indu-trv. I>v confining the negro to the soil,
the mechanic would he at once converted from
all open or secret enemy of negro slavery, into
its firmest advocate and supporter, because lie
would then feel himself lifted up ip the scale
of social respectability and maintained in that
'position by the subordinate negro confined
exclusively to menial service. Before the
law and community, all white citizens should
stand strictly on a footing of couuiity. and be
i alone distinvui-hed bv courtesv and men
1
m it.
—
S'MOKlNti A l’RI.Vi .vriYK OF SuRF TlitMAT.
The Boston .Medical and Surgical .loitt nal sa\ .
that tobacco, when sumkcil. prevents clutgv
mon’s sore throat, it ha- been said that few.
if any. instsvTicc- of this affection can be
found to exist in those in the habit of smok
ing. and we know of one or two instances
where it yielded at once to the influence of
tobacco. It probably acts by allaying irrita
tion. which, it allowi i to increase, would mid
. in inflammation; ami perhaj s. by counteracting
any spasmodic condition of the surrounding
muscles—a very natural source of trouble in
this distressing disease.
Tm: I'iXCiti.i.i'.vr lAm tifjcations of
11 .\ i i'A.— iaeta is so well fortified, both b\
nature and art. that, though the Piedmontc.-e
troojis amount to over Nrl.OOtb while the gar
rison doc- not prohaldv contain more than
one-third this number, it will not be reduced
for some months. i here arc plenty of pro
vision.- there, and the king s sol hors vie with
each other in defending this lust stronghold
The po.-ition taken by the Piedmontese on
the .‘hi nit., after crossing the (’ariejiano. wa
nt the mole of < laeta. a small town -ix miles
northeast from the fortified port of (laeta.
H.viu» Tijsks in Massachi setts.—The
Boston Traveler lias a letter from Natick,
which says business was noer before so dull
there as it lnw is. Two siioo manufacturer
have recently i'ailed, having liabilities amount
ing to $ll!b.0U0. Two or three hundred
shoemakers arc out of employment, and then
is a prospect of a hard winter. The Haver
hill correspondent of the same paper savs that
the shoe business is ••entirely flat” at that
place. Large numbers of workmen are idle
and those employed receive only very smal
wages.
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The Bridal and the Tomb.—Jame;
Mct'ollach, a prominent citizen of Peters
burg, \ irginia. was married on Thursday even
ing. November 2"Jd, in that city at 4 o’clock
1 he couple visited Richim nd the same even
ing to spend the honeymoon, and he wa:
| taken sick suddenlyjat the supper table at tin
Spottswood House, aud died at hall’-pas
| 1 L o’clock the same night. The same paper
that announce his marriage also announce hi;
! death.
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Absurdities.—To attempt to borrow mon
ey on the plea of extreme poverty.
To judge of people’s piety by their attend
nace at church.
To keep your clerks on miserable salarie
| and wonder at them robbing you.
To make servants tell lies for you, and after
wards be angry with them because they li
for themselves.
To tell your own secrets, and believe othc
people will keep them.
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An old maid was heard to exclaim, whil
sitting at her toilet the other day, “ I cai
bear adversity, l can encounter hardships, am
withstand the shocks of a fickle fortune ; bu
oh, to live and droop like a single pink—I cai
] not endure it; and what’s more, 1 won’t.”
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Black-Eyed ladies are most apt to be pas
sionate and jealous ; blue-eyed, soul-full, truth
ful, afleetionate and confiding ; gray-eyed
philosophical, literary, resolute and cold
hearted; hazel-eyed, quick-tempered am
tickle.
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*• Testimony of the Rocks.”—The Nei
| York Commercial Advertiser says: “ Th
most beautiful pocket edition of this liighl
interesting work that we have seen is—
| twenty dollar gold piece !”
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Fame.is like an eel—rather hard to catch
> and a good deal harder to hold.
ARKANSAS LEGISLATURE.
STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE SENATE.
On the Judiciary—Oates, Watkins, Craig
head, Lemoyne, Clark McCulloch, Askew
and Gray. .
On Auditor’s and Treasurer s Books— inru
ble. Douglas and Ward.
On Military—McCreery, Mitchell, Miller,
Fa can and Uelser. .... . ,, r, ,
On Banks—Lemoyne, Craighead McCul
loch, Mitchell and Kosson.
On Education—Clark, Mecklin, Belser,
McAlexander and Trimble.
On Internal Improvement—Carrigan Da
vies, Belser, Miller, Oates, Terry, Clark and
Lemoyne.
()n Ways and Means—W atkins, Kosson,
Pennington, Jones and Askew.
On Agriculture—Belsen, McCreery, Mil
ler. Mecklin and Eagan.
On Counties and County Lines—McCul
loch, Pennington. Ward. Gray and Kosson.
On Public Loads-—Douglas, Miller, Trim
ble. Davies and McAlexander.
On Enrolled Bills—Eagan, Mitchell, Trim
ble. Mecklin and Gray
(in Election—Jones, Craighead, Oates,
McCulloch and Douglas.
On Public Printing — Ward, Carrigan,
McCrcerv, Watkins and Davies.
On the Penitentiary—Terry, Belser, Lc
moyne. Miller and Askew.
On Claims—Davies, Craighead, Penning
ton. Jones and Clark.
< >n Memorials—Mitchell, McCreery. Gray,
Askew and Davies.
On Public Buildings—Pennington, Terry,
Mecklin, W aid and W atkins.
On Public Expenditure;—McAlexander,
Carrigan. Eagan, McCulloch and Jones.
(in Swamp and Overflowed Lands—Los
son. Craighead. Askew, Terry and Miller.
STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE HOUSE.
Ways and Means—Humphrey, Garland,
Thorn, Hemingway, Smith, Crawford and
Pennington.
Judiciary—Boone, Duvall, \ ell. Gibson,
(My ton, Lewis. Harper. Harrison, Cravens,
Mack. Key, Trigg. \ an Patten, Kilgore,
i I umphreys and f arr.
Education—Veil, Mitcell, Ware Jwmdon.
Landrum. Kenner, Jones oi Yell, Acree and
l-’enruNHi
Federal Relations— Duval. Humphrcey
Harper, Crowi'ord. Smith. Robertson Ihorn,
Clayton, Veil, Van Fatten. Hemingway and
Bonne.
Internal Improvements — ^ an Fatten,
Smith. Morton. Jennings. Bowden, Childers
and Jones.
Ranks—Harper. Crawford, Mitchell. Rob
, in-on. Van Fatten. Sanders. Jones. Bowden
and Duval.
Geological Survey — Hemingway, Bell,
Dunoiran, Harper. Bowden, Mcssiek, Ihorn.
Clayton, Davis. Kenner and Bel-on.
Auditors and Treasurer's Books—Seaborn.
McLean, .Mitchell. Sharp and Fadgett.
State Lands—Smith, Cargile, Jones of
Veil, Murphy. \\ heeler, ( ouk. Coulter and
Farr.
Fenitentiarv—Kev. Baines. Childers, llar
Sandei>. Landrum and done- of Fike.
Count v and County Lines—Lewis, Bowden,
Montgomery, lla.nes. Stephenson and Chil
ders.
Fublie Buildings—Crowell. Coulter. T.ou
dott. .Ma-sev. WooUrd, Williams. Satl'uIJ and
W heeler.
Militia—Jennings. Ferkius. Jones ot Chi
cot. Tinker. Fettus, Lee, .Morton, Raines.
I Maxwell and Futnam.
Agri< ilture—Fettus, Harris, Bowden Al
len. Acree and \\ heeler.
Swamp and <)veril .wed Lands—Armstrong.
Garland, Woulard, Crawford, Crowell, Smith
i and 11 ihsou.
j’eti; on- and Memorials—(»arland. ( ook.
Coulter. Thom. M.c k. Childers, Van Fatten ,
and Jones of < 'hieof.
Knrollmont—Ware. Landrutn. Lee. Brown,
Fadnett. Futnam and Farr.
( •aim:—Brown. Jennings. Tucker, Arm
.•ru!i.'. Lander-. Feuuington. Sharp, Stone
and Edmondson.
Flections—Kilgore. Duval. Fennington.
Humphrevs. Smith, Crowell. Clayton. Bootle
and 1 iooper.
s\2.;joo wotiru or
Just Kceeived on (onsigument!
>2l'Srr BE SOLD!
j 1ST RECEIVED, A EOT OF GOODS TO SELL
•I AT COST, AND LESS THAN COST.
Such as Ladies’ Talmas, Silk Dress Patterns,
Trimmings and Fringes, Shoes, Parasols, Cra
vats. Gloves, Milts, figured and plain Muslins,
Holies, Pierage, Sliallies, Cotton Cards, Segar
Cases, Buttons. Hats. Bonnets Coats, etc., etc.
Attention of Merchants is especially called, as
l will sell in lots, at less than Eastern prices.
. Call and see the bills.
J. 11. QUISENBEIIRY,
Auction, Commission Merchant,
i nov 30-tf. and Land Agent.
1 > E S .V It C
[FEMALE ACADEMY,
MISS SALLIE A, DAVIS, Principal.
s
j
>
rpi!IS INSTITUTION WILL BE OPENED ON
. I I Monday next, the 2tith inst., for the reccp
, tion of pupils.
TERMS Of TUITION, TER SESSION OF TWENTY-ONE
r ] WEEKS.
| Orthography, Reading and Writing, - - $10 00
l English Grammar, Arithmetic, Geography, 12 00
, Algebra and the higher English branches, 15 00
French and the higher Mathematics, - - 20 00
1 Students will be charged from the time of enter
^ ing school until the close of the term, except in
cases of protracted sickness,
l
References.—Rev. J. Douglass, A. M., Prcsi
| dent of Franklin College. Holly Springs, Miss.;
Hon. J. J. Stegcr. North Mt. Pleasant, Miss.; Col.
M. D. Shelby, Carson’s Landing, Miss.; J. E.
- Gatewood, Esq., T. J. Woodson, Des Arc.; J. M.
, ! Coyle, Hickory Plain, Arkansas. nov 23-2m
j! A. w. mcneillY
Attorney a,t Law,
? ! DES ARC, ARKANSAS,
PRACTICES IN THE COURTS OF PRAIRIE
^Ind adjacent counties. Office, corner Erwin
x j and Lyon streets. nov 3
SEEDS! SEEDS!!
A LARGE LOT OF FRESH HUNGARIAN
> i XTL Grass Seeds, just received and for sale by
> U0V. 3. JOHN JACKSON & CO.
des arc city'
DRUG STORE.
To Physicians, Druggists, Merchants,
i*l a \ rr i: h s,
AND THE PUBLIC GENERALLY.
Your attention is respectfully invited ‘o.one of
the best selected stocks of fresh
DRUGS, MEDICINES,
FRENCH, GERMAN & AMERICAN
CHEMICALS, PATENT MEDICINES,
TOILET ARTICLES,
PERFUMERY, BRUSHES,
DENTAL &.SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS,
GLASS, GLASSWARE, PAINTS, OILS,
DYE STUFFS, Etc., Etc.
and all other articles pertaining to the Drugbusi
ness, lately received, and now offered at tbe
PES ARC CITY DRUG STORE,
At WHOLESALE OR RETAIL!
ON ACCOMODATING TERMS.
A CHOICE I.OT OF
Scgars, ( hewing & Smoking Tobacco.
ALSO, ALL KINDS OF SUPERIOR
L2QI OKS t'OR MEDIC Al. I'SES,
KEPT CONSTANTLY ON HAND.
Orders from a Distance Hill Receive Prompt Attention:
AND THE GOODS FORWARDED WITHOUT DELAY.
PHYSICIANS PRESCRIPTIONS
Compounded of the purest and best materials,
with accuracy and despatch, at
^2! Hours of Hie Day or Xigiit!
nov 3-1 y. JOHN P>. PERKINS.
N E W !S T ore :
ENTIRELY NEW STOCK!!
We have just opened our new stock of
FALL AND WINTER GOODS,
whieh consists, in part, of
j KERSEYS, W00L3EYS
HOME-MADE JEANS,
KENTUCKY JEANS, SATINETS,
LIN S E Y S,
AND GEORGIA PLAIDS.
VLSO. A FINE ASSORTMENT OF POPLINS,
De Berages, Merinoes, Scotch Plaid Alpacas,
etc., etc., etc.
I
ALSO, A COMPLETE STOCK OF
!
CLOTHING!!
A better assortment cannot be found. Also, the
largest stock of
I
BOOTS AND SHOES!
In the market. We kindly solicit all who wish to
purchase to give us a call, and examine
our goods and prices.
TAYLOR & CO.,
: nov 3-tf. Des Arc, Arkansas.
AT COST AAI) CARRIAGE.
¥ AM OFFERING MY ENTIRE STOCK OF
I Dry Goods at Cost and ten per cent. Every
body is invited to call and see for themselves.
! My goods are inferior to none in this market, and
my object in selling off at cost and carriage is to
| enable me to replenish with a stock which will be
bought exclusively with cash.
nov3-tf. LEVIN IIARRISON__
T. J. WOODSON,
Attorney tit Law,
DES ARC, ARKANSAS,
ATTILL PRACTICE IN THE FIFTH JUDICIAL
V V Circuit, and the counties of White, Jack
son and Monroe. All business intrusted to bt»
care will be promptly attended to. uov 3.