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_POETI CAL._
HOOD ON DUELLING.
Tom Hood describes an intended duel which ^
was prevented by an amicable arrangement made i
upon the ground. The parties—Mr. Brady and ,
Mr. Clay—rivals for the affections of Miss Lucy i
Bell, find it necessary to appeal to arms:
But first they found a friend apiece,
This pleasant thought to give—
That when they both were dead, they'd have
Two seconds yet to live.
To measure out the ground, not long
The seconds next l'orebore;
And having taken one rash step, '
They took a dozen more.
They next prepared each pistol pan,
Against the deadly strife;
And putting in the prime of death,
Against the prime of life.
Isow all was ready for the foes;
But when they took their stands,
Fear made them tremble so. they found
They both were shaking hands.
Said Mr. C. to Mr. B„
“Here one of us must fall.
And, like St. Paul's Cathedral, now,
Be doomed to have a hall.
“ I do confess I did attach
Misconduct to your name :
If I withdraw the charge, will then
Your ramrod do the same ?”
Said Mr. B.. “I do agree—
But think of Honor's courts—
If we be off without a shot,
There will be strange reports.
“But look: tbe morning now is bright,
Though cloudy it begun ;
Why can't we aim above, as if
We had called out the sun ?”
So up into the liarless air
Their bullets they did send ;
And may all other duels have
That upshot in the end.
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PRO VERB IA L PHILOSOPHY.
We have seen the thought contained in the fol
lowing Persian fable, before, in the shape of a
perap of “Proverbial Philosophy,” by an eastern
page, but the sentiment is so admirably versified
in the lines, that we cannot resist presenting
them to the reader:
“A little particle of rain.
That from a passing cloud descended,
Was heard thus idly to complain:
‘My brief existence now is ended.
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Uuseless to live—unknown to die.’
“It chanced to fall into the sea.
Arid then an open shell received;
And, after-years, how rich was he
Who from bis prison-house relieved it!
That drop of rain had formed u gem,
To deck a monarch’s diadem.”
Power of Music.—One stormy night a
few weeks since, we were wending our way
homeward near midnight. The storm raged
violently, and the streets wwe almost deserted.
Occupied with our thoughts, we plodded on,
when the sound of music from a brilliantly
illuminated mansion, for a moment arrested
our footsteps. A voice of surpassing sweet
ness and brilliancy commenced a well-known
air. We listened to a few strains, and were
turning away when a roughly-dressed, misera
ble-looking man brushed rudely past us. But
as the music reached his ears, he stopped and
listened intently, as if drinking in the melody,
and and the last sound died away, burst into
tears.
We inquired the cause of his grief.
For a moment, emotion forbade utterance,
when he said—
“ Thirty years ago. my mother sang me to
sleep with that song—she has long been dead,
and I. once innocent and happy, am—an out
cast—a drunkard—
“I know it is unmanly,” he continued, after
a pause, in which lie endeav ored to wipe away
with his sleeve, the fastly gathering tears. “ I
know it is unmanly thus to give way, but that
•- sweet tune brought hack vividly the thought
of childhood. Her form seemed once more
before me—T—I can’t stand it—I—”
And before we could stop him, he rushed
on. and entered a tavern near by, to drown
remembrance in the intoxicating howl.
While filled with sorrow for the unfortunate
man, we could not help reflecting upon the
wonderful power of music. That simple strain,
coming, perchance, from some gay, thought
less girl, and sung to others equally as thought
less. stiil had its gentle mission, for it stirred
up deep feelings in an outcast’s heart, bring
ing back happy hours long gone by.
[Albany Knickerbocker.
The Social Horror.—An untidy wo
man! Little soap and much perfume. Plen
ty of jewelry and a lack of strings and but
tons. Silks and laces, and tattered under
clothes. Diamond rings and soiled collar.
Feathers and flowers, and battered cap frill.
Silk stockings and shabby boots. Who has
not Seen her? If you are a person of cour
age, enter her dressing-room. Make your
way over the carpet thiough mi.—mated slip
pers, tippets, belt-ribbons, hair-pins, pictor
ials, magazines, fashion prints and unpaid
bills, and look vainly round for a chair that is
sufficiently free from dust to sit down upon.
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jitmiv in i iic liiu.MMi iiiuu\%*iurialiis,
the questionable bedquilt and pillow-cases,
the un-freshness of every thing your eye falls
upon. Open the closet-door, and see the
piles of dresses, all wanting •• the stitch in
time,” heaped pell-mell upon their pegs; see
the band boxes without covers, and all the
horrible paraphernalia of a lazy, vapid, ineffi
cient, vacant, idea-less female monstrosity,
who will of course be chosen out of a bevy of
practical, good, common-sense girls, bv some
man who prides himself on - his knowledge
of women,” as his ‘"help-meet” for life ! 1
use the word ** monstrosity” advisedly; for
even in the cell of a prison 1 have seen
wretched female^ trying, with woman’s beau
tiful instinct, to brighten and beautify the
bare walls with s’ me rude colored print.
Thank Heaven! the untidy woman is the ex
ception. not the rule. Would we could say
the same of the untidy man.
FANNY FERN.
Mutations of Life—Tiie Effect of
Perseverance.—In .September. 1805, a pen
niless young mechanic, lately arrived from
England, encountered a pleasant-faced gen
tleman, in his wandering about New York,
standing in the doorway of his house. He
was made welcome to stop there till he could
get employment and a house. Twenty-five
years after that same mechanic was employed
by Major Noah, then surveyor of the port, to
put together aViachiue, then in the custom
house. and takewnodels of it. This was done,
improvements wctc made, and he died in 1833.
rJ he son succeeded his father in the business
and further imjWved it to what it is to-day;
the machine is Hoe’s ten cylinder press; the
penniless English lad was Robert lioe; the
good Samaritan was Grant Thorburn.
A man down in Maine, determined to live
to a good old age. uses no alcoholic or fer
mented drinks, no tobacco, no tea, no coffee,
spices, pepper or vinegar, and eats but little
meat or butter, no flour bread, or other fix
ings to coax the appetite. He rises at four
summer and winter, and always bathes in the
coldest water be can obtain. For twenty-six
years he bad not ache or pain, and, being fifty
years old, considers himself good for fifty more,
and never expects to die uutil the machine
wears out.
AGRICULTURAL. < j
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Draining Orchards.—We have repeat
edly. says The Country Gentlemen, urged the
importance of draining for the purpose of
protecting orchards at the West, from the
effects of cold winters. A correspondent in
Illinois has been very successful with his
trees, both in nursery and orchard, by plow
ing good surface furrows to carry of all excess
of water before freezing up. and by planting
his orchard on ridges made by plowing strips
of land as wide as the rows. We had the
following useful remarks on this subject, in a
late number of The Prairie Farmer:
“ I visited, not long since, the successful
orchard of seventy-five acres, owned by Mr.
James Wakcman, of Cottage llill, Du Page
county. One of the leading features of this
orchard was that the trees had the appearance
of being planted on ridges which was caused
by annually plowing towards the trees, lie
commences to plow next the tree first, which
leaves a deep furrow in the center, between
the rows, which acts as a partial drain—a very
efficient auriace drain in winter. For when
the snow is thawed by the iniinenee of the
sun, the ground being frozen, it runs into the
hollows. It cannot penetrate the soil. If the
slope is completed to the dead furrow, it goes
there. Put if there is a hollow, immediately
about the body of the tree, it flows there. 1
I have seen it stated recently, that the expan
sion or lifting power of ice is nearly equal to
twice the lii'tiug power of gunpowder. Hence
the effect of a body of ice immediately about
the body of a tree. Hence, too, the impor
tance and benefits of banking up with earth,
in the fall, immediately about it. I have had
trees destroved in this manner, by ice form
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ing about the collar. I have seen hardy
grapes ruined in the same way. Scores of
trees, whose bodies are otherwise protected by
the sun, are killed at the collar by this lifting
ice. It is a good plan, 1 think, to bank up
about trees in the fall, and especially plow
orchards, as above described.”
Grafting the Grape.—Select the grafts
while the vine is dormant. The one-year old
does not answer a good purpose, from the fact
that it is nearly all pith. The two year olds
will not do, on account of the difficulty of
forcing a bud; but the two combined answer
admirably.
Keep moist, and in a coM place, until the
leaf of the vine is fully expanded, and not
until the buds are fully started ou the stocks,
but insert in the vine at that time, and my
experience is, that failure will certainly he
the result, as the excessive flow of sap will
prevent the parts uniting.
Late in the season, the sap becomes thick
and gummy, and there is no need of failure
once in a thousand times, if properly inserted.
Cut with two or three buds, one is suffi
cient, if the joint be long enough to place the
splice five or six inches below the surface of
the ground ; three inches is long enough for
the two year old wood. Two inches from the
end, cut it almost half in two, but not quite,
then turn the opposite side, and cut it in the
same way. Split out the two sides, leaving
a thin sliver in the center, just sufficient to
serve as a splint to bind the graft and stalk
together. The shoulders should be square.
Now remove the earth from the talk, cut the
root off square, slit it in the center, insert the
graft so that the shoulders of the graft and
stalk will fit closely; tie a striii_ around the
top of the stalk, draw the earth up and tramp
firmly, then draw a little loose earth on to
prevent baking from the previous tramping,
and my word for it, there is no such word as
fail. I have seen them grow thirty feet the
first summer. <■ [Valley Farmer.
Dwarf Apple Trees.—Dwarf apple
trees are fast becoming lavorites. Although
they will never be so extensively employed
for orchards as dwarf pears, they will un
doubtedly be freely brought into gardens
where a variety is desired in a small space.
Every season proves these trees to be what
they have been set out for. They are pro
ductive and easily managed ; the head'- being
low. they are easily sheltered, and protected
if necessary, during the winter, livery part
of the tree is immediately under the eye of
the cultivator, by which bo is able to control
perfectly their forms, ami to destroy any in
sects that may attack them.
We arc aware that they public know little
of these trees, but, after several year- obser
vation. we have no hesitation in te-lilying to
their value. The trees can be planted six
feet apart, so that quite a variety can be
planted in any garden, without occupying
much space.
Like pears grow on dwarf trees, the fruit
of dwarf apple trees is usually larger and
finer than the same varieties grown on stand
ard trees.
The best age to transplant the trees is at
two years from the bud or graft, and they
will commence to bear the first year alter trans
planting.
At tlie West where fruit is scarce, and im
mediate produce very desirable, and where,
also, high winds are prevalent and the
changes of temperature in the winter season
| are very sudden, we think these trees might
j be planted to great advantage. And. indeed,
i we are aware that the Western people have
j already commenced to plant them considerably.
[Genesee Farmer.
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* Don’t he afraid of a little fun at home,
good people ; don’t shut up your houses, lest
the sun should fade your carpets, and your
hearts, lest a hearty laugh should shako down
some of the musty cobwebs there. If you
want to ruin your sons, let them think that
all mirth ami social enjoyment must lie left
on the thresh hold when they come home
at night. When once a man is regarded as
only a place to eat, drink and sleep in, the
work is begun that ends in gambling hous« -
and reckless degradation. Young people
must have fun and relaxation somewhere. If
they do not find it at their own hearthstones
it will he found in other, and perhaps less
profitable places. Therefore, let the lire burn
more brightly at night and make the home
nest delightful with all those arts that parents
so perfectly understand. Don't repress the
the buoyant spirits of your children ; hall an
( hour of merriment around the lamp and fire
light of home, blots out the remembrance of
many a care and annoyance during the day,
and the best safe-guard they can tak<- with
them into the world is the unseen iutlueuce
of a bright little domestic sanctum.
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First Gun.—A boy got his grandmother’s
gun and loaded it. hut was afraid to lire—he,
however, liked the fun of loading, and so put
in another charge, hut still was afraid to fire.
He kept on charging, hut without firing, until
he had got six charges in the old piece. His
grandmother learning his temerity, smartly
reproved him. and, grasping the old continen
tal discharged it. The recoil w as tremendous,
throwing the old lady on her hack. She
promptly struggled to regain her feet, hut the
hoy cried out, *■ Lay still, granny, there are
five more charges to go off yet.”
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Filial Duty—There is no virtue that
adds so noble a charm to the finest traits of
beauty as that which exerts itself in watching
over the tranquility of an aged parent. There
are no tears that can give so noble a lustre to
the cheek of innocence as the tears of filial
sorrow.
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Marrying is like fiddling—depends a
good deal upon the teuM-ing up.
MATRIMONIAL AND FINANCIAL.
A ^Southern planter named P., once lived
on thleastcrn shore of Maryland. One of
the mamgest and most marked traits of his
character was an inordinate love of money.
In the course of time P. was of age, and
thought it about time to get married. He
went to a neighboring village and in the
course of time was introduced to the daugh
ter of J udge B.
“Hang line gal,” said the embryo to his
friends, who were training him an entrance
among the elite.
“ Very.”
“ How much might Judge B-be
worth ?”
*• Why about ten thousand dollars,” was
the reply.
“ Ami how many children has Judge B ?”
continued the inquirer.
“ Only three.”
“Three into ten goes three times and a
third over,” mentally cyphered P.
Here was a chance, a glorious chance, and
he improved it, too. He made love to the
beautiful amPunsopliisticated daughter of the
J udge, with all his possessions. Strange to
say, for he was as unncouth a looking cub as
ever went unkicked, his suit prospered and
they were married.* The honeymoons do, and
they were happy. The bride was lively and
chatty and often made allusions to her broth
ers and sisters. Startled at a number of
names he thought ought not he in the cata
logue of relations, one evening at tea, said:
“ My dear, I thought there were only three
of you.”
“ So there are by my ma but pa’s first wife
had eight more.” ^
“ Kleven into ten. no times and none over!”
said the astonished P., who jumped up and
kicked over the chair, and groaned in perfect
agony, “I am sold, I’m sold—and—and—
and a slight cheaper than an old bell-weather
sheep at that!”
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“ Mother’s Head.”—An accident occur
red at the city prison some time since, that
brought tears to the eyes of every one who
witnessed it. Within the barred doors was a
man confined on a charge of maltreating his
family. One of his children, a bright-eyed,
intelligent, little fellow of eight years, applied
at the prison for permission to see his father.
The request was granted, and the child was
conducted to his parent. The man, who is
well-advanced in years, as the child entered
the place where corruption and vice seems to
babble from the very floors and hideously
start forth in spectral gloom from the walls,
stood with lib back toward the door.
The little fellow ran up to him. and catch
ing him by the hand, faintly muttered,
Father!” which caused the degraded and
unnatural parent to turn suddenly around,
and, without returning the recognition, he
rudely shoved the boy away. •• Father.”
said the lad. almost choking with grief.
Father, mother's dead !” lake a shot these
words went home to the heart ot the parent.
The deeds that had marked his earner through
a long period of years started forth before his
imagination, all were pictured in that sentence.
For a moment he stood motionless, then fall
ing upon his knees, clasped the boy to hisbo
s un. and wept bitterly. There and then a
prayer went up that must have found its way
to heaven. < )n bended knees he made a
solemn promise never again to touch intoxi
cating litjuors, and we doubt not that the
solemn vow will be kept. [Exchange.
r.M.ueKV People.— It is a part of the
great fact of luck—the indubitable fact—that
there are men. women, ships, horses, railway
i engines, whole railways, which arc lucky,
and others which are unlucky. 1 do not be
lieve in the common theory of luck, but no
thoughtful or observant man can deny the
fact of it. And in no fashion does it appear
more certainly than in this, that in tin* case
of some men cross accidents are always mar
ring them and the effect they would lain pro
duce. The 'vstem of things F against them.
They are not in every case unsuccessful, but
whatever success they attain is gained by
brave lighting against wind and tide.
At college they carried off many honors,
but no such luck ever befel them a.- that some
wealthy per.-on should oiler, during their days,
some special medal for e>.-ay or examination,
which they would have gained as a matter ol
cour-e. There v : - no extra harvest for them
to'reap ; they could do no more than win all
that was to be won. They could go to tin
bar, and gradually make their way ; but the
day never comes on which their leader is sud
denly taken ill. and they have the opportunity
of earning a brilliant reputation, by conduct
ing, in bis absence, a case in which they art
thoroughly prepared. They go into church
and earn a fair character, as preachers; hut
tin- living they would like, never becomes va
cant. and when they are appointed to preach
on some important occasion, it happens thai
the g and is a foot deep with snow.
[Frazer’s .Magazine.
‘•Axt.Mi roti ih:n.”—Pol. Pick Nasi
U lis a ric h story about “ axing for her” in hi
I earlier days, lie was deeply smitten with
the daughter of a wealthy skin-flint residing
in Alabama.
The Colonel, self-confident of success, ar
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i tijy »■ i limi'fii in n,.> .-'in. ci 11 vi jiiuiwiin
to call oil the parent, tor the purpose of ob
taining consent to the consummation he de
voutly wished. Matters had all along gone
on smoothly; and Col. Nash had every
ground to hope for success. Finally a con
venient season arrived for him to approach
the old .tin. Says the Colonel :
•• Squire, my business to-day is to ask for
| your daughters hand.”
“ It is. is it'! What ! You marry my
gill ? Look here, young man. leave my pre
mises instnnter, and if you ever set foot here
again. I ll make my niggers sink you! Marry
my daughter, indeed! You—
The Colonel left; lie ,-avv that the old gen
tlemen Mats angry. After getting off to a sale
place, he thought he Mould turn and take a
last fond look at the home of his lost idol
when he spied the old man busy, with spade
in hand shoveling up his tracks from the
yard and throwing them over the fence.—
Colonel Nash imagined he was an unwelcome
visitor at that house.
Fai,l of the City of Mexico.—“Pri
vate dispatches received from Vera Cruz says
: the Liberal army took the city of Mexico on
i the 2.)tli ult. Gen. Miramou finding no sup
port, at once resolved to capitulate.” 'i lit
I foregoing wc find in the telegraph this morn
ing. It would seem, then, that the Liberals
have at last made a blow which may prove
decisive, and thereby imparted to themselves
additional strength, vigor and confidence,
which they were rapidly losing by their va
cillating course. Miramou, Phocenix-like,
has so often risen from his own ashes, that
the efforts of Juarez to accomplish his final
overthrow have not been attended with suc
cess. The city of Mexico was the reaction
ists’ stronghold, and now that it has fallen,
and the power Miramou is so broken, as the
advices regarding the capitulation indicate,
the further details by mail may justify the
conclusion that the knell of the Miramou
government in Mexico has sounded.
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A person inquiring at one of our railway
stations what time the 7:1-’) train would start,
was answered, “ At a quarter to 8 ” “ God
bless me !” exclaimed the inquirer, “ you are
alwuys changing the time on this road.”
A MORNING CALL OX A MOORESS.
The visits of a European lady to a Mooress
are looked on by the latter as a kind ot
amusement, and welcomed with as much zest
as children welcome the squeak of a Puneli
and-Judy man. * * The Moorish ladies
soon get tired of the comparative insipidity ot
trying to understand and make themselves
understood in turn, and proceed to action.
They first pull you about and examine every
thing you have on. iNext they divest you
of your walking habiliments and dress
you up, if you will permit them, alter their
own fashion. A French lady, curious to see
to what lengths they would carry investiga
tions, determined to give herself up entirely
to the caprices of a Moorish family on whom
I she was making a short “ morning calk
They commenced by cutting her front hair
short in a twinkling, and then while one
painted her eyebrows with cohol, a second
dyed her finger nails with henna, and a third
| stuck little gold span dies over her face. To
• attempt to envelope her in .Moorish habiii
I merits was the next step, which, however, she
resisted vigorously, anxious to save herself
the trouble of that mysterious and iltimitable
| ■■ minute,” during which ladies ask you so
j ruthlessly to wait while they are “putting
their things on.” And then they clapped
! their hands with the greatest glee at the droll
: appearance she cut. 1 need nut to say that
she scarcely recognized her own face in the
glass, nor 1 think would her nearest relations
■ have known her at that moment. Cohol
takes at least a week before it can be remov
ed. while henna can only be eradicated as the
nail grows and is cut. The lady perceived at
once, at she dolefully endeavored to put her
j docked hair into shape, that a thick veil would
be necessary until the effects of the mas
i querading had worn away with time.
[The Corsair and his Conqueror.
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Origin of the term “Mississippi.”
There has been some diversity of opinion
with reference to the true derivation of the
word “ Mis.'issippi,” says the Columbus
I Whig, and its biteral signification. In a let
ter which we have from Peter Pitchlyn. one
| of the chiefs of the Choctaw nation, and a
j man of considerable talent, some light is
| thrown upon this controverted subject. He
is now engaged in search after the remnant of
| of his tribe, that have hitherto refused to
j abandon the house of their fathers and the
l scenes of their early and fondest association.
He writes from Mobile, of date the loth ult..
| as follows: _
1 am still en "aired in the business of hunt
I ing up the last Choctaws which lias led me
; into many crooked routes, through pine flats,
i cane-brakes and palmetto swamps—by land
and by water—through villages, towns and
cities, and where my journeyings are to end 1
know' not. but I hope in a short time in my
land beyond uh kin ita Uialt situ
’Jjt % 3je He iS'
You see I have use ! the word M ish sha
Sippukni, from which 1 am certain the word
Mississippi derived its origin. The word is
thus defined : Ik bin na—liver; Mi.-di sha
; —’the river beyond any age.’
The white man never writes Indian names
' correctly, but the word Mi ll sha Sippukni.
; which we pronounce Mish sha sjppi, i- spelt
nearer your own term Mississippi than your
, own river Toinhigbee is like tin Indian words
I from which it received its origin.
| The Arsenals of Pennsylvania.—
J There are two I'nited States arsenals in the
.•state of Pennsylvania—one ’at Bridesburg.
near Philadelphia, and the other at Pittsburg.
The former contains twenty-live brass iield
pieces, li. 12. and 21 pounders, and twenty
one heavy guns. The columbiads are all at
. Pittsburg. In the Bride.-lnirg arsenal are
111,0011 muskets, IdOO mu-koto ms and rifles,
and a stock of ammunition fir livid guns.
Its ammunition includes 41,000 pounds ol
musket and Dd'hl pounds of cannon powder.
ready for use, <0 saltpetre* for gunpowder
manufacture, the arsenal contain* - nne two
million pounds. The article is purchased by
the (Jovernment in large quantities. Thear
1 senal now has |.> i.OOtt musket Imlk. ready
for immediate conversion into ball cartridges,
and 4-(0.000 pounds of iilphur. Six mil
lions of gun caps are also in store, the entire
I’nited States army being suppled with caps
made at the ar-•■mil. The ar-enal at H ray -
Ferry is used for the deposit of stores rather
| than munitions of war. It is commanded by
Captain Hibson, and contains military cloth
ing and camp equipage sufficient to stock an
army of about ten thoii-ind men. Of all the
arms in the country, the Northern States have
about two-thirds, and all the best and mo.-!
improved munitions of war.
[Philadelphia North American.
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FolTClERY ON THE I'NITED STATES \Y.UI
Depart mint.—Some days ago a well dressed
man appeared at the (juartermater's Office ol
the War Department, in State street, and pre
sented for payment soldiers' claims to the
amount ol’ STUO. His story as to how he
came in possession of them appeared satisfac
tory i nought, but as there were no funds a<
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uie uiojn ;ru > v;i iuv/ ji u > uio , inv. iii.ci >tu.
directed to call again. Subsequently Major
il ill received dispatches from Washington in
forming him that the claims were forged, and
directing him to arrest the person, whose
name was Win. Smith, as lie was a •deserter
from the 9th Infantry regiment stationed in
California. The matter v as placed in the
hands ot detectives, who having met Smith
pretended they wanted to enlist : Smith took
them ti> No. 0 State street, and again pre
sentediho forged claims, when he was arrest
ed. Major Hill sent the accused to the
guard-house on Governors Island.
[New York Tribune, 12lh.
Cotton Seed Gas.—We copy the follow
ing from The Memphis Methodist Christian
Advocate: liev. Dr. Porter, pastor of the
Presbyterian Church in Chelsea, adjoining
this city, has discovered that a superior qual
ity of gas can lie made out of cotton seed,
with the addition of a little rosin. Hi*
| church and dwelling are lit up with it at s
trifling cost. We visited the brother pastoi
this week, at his residence, and saw the prep
aration of the gas by a simple process. Wi
think this discovery will be the most economi
cal and safe light lor cities, towns and village;
that can he made. Our large schools will find
: it the very thing for them. Steps have beer
I taken to secure a patent for (be discovery.
Made Insane by the Political Crisis
Rev. Mr. Botsfbrd, pastor of the Presbytcriar
Church, in Eighty-sixth street. New York
was removed to the Bloomingdale asylum on
Saturday, violently insane. It is said that
first symptoms of insanity were exhibited
while Mr. Botsford, who has been a close stu
dent, was preparing a sermon on the great
political questions of the day, which he in
I tended to preach to his congregation on Sun
! day.
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Bailey, the South Carolina clerk, who de
predated on the Treasury to the amount o:
SS70.000, wore the blue cockade in the pub
lie offices. He should now wear striped ton
breeches in the District Penitentiary—with a
blue cockade on the seat of them if he like
it. [Louisville Journal.
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i The contractors of the Southern Pacific
Railroad have bound themselves to complete
twenty-five miles of the road, west of Marshall
Texas, by the last of May.
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ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.
Twenty patriots of the Revolution have
died within the last year. Eighty-two are
now all that remain.
When does a farmer act with great rude
ness toward his corn? When he pulls its
curs.
A false friend is like a shadow on a dial:
it appears in clear weather, but vanishes as
soon i^s a cloud approaches.
He is a brave man who isn’t afraid to wear
old clothes until he is able to pay for new
ones.
We admire the ladies because of their
beauty, respect them because of their intelli
gence, and love them because we can’t help it.
An exchange wishes to know if the overt
acts of Lincoln, so often referred to, is the ax
he split rails with.
WHO was it, who first introduced salt pro
visions into the navy ? .Noah; for lie took
Ham into the Ark.
A young lady advertises for the man who
“embraced an opportunity,” and says if he
will come over to their town he can do better.
In all noble enterprise the ladies are like
the electric telegraph—fur in advance of the
j -males.’
The Fejee Islanders put charges into their
j guns according to the size of the person they
intend to shoot at.
Let the first action of manhood be to gov
' ern your passions, for he who knows how to
I govern himself always becomes a favorite with
society.
The succeeds of Edmund About’s Rome
Comtemporaiue increases daily, and it is pro
nounced the chief d’ceuvre of this witty, yet
profound writer.
There is a girl of twenty-one in the prison
at Morgantown, Virginia, who has become
hopelessly insane from inordinate use ol
tobacco.
Fine Metaphor.—Edward Everett, in
welcoming Califorinia to the Union, mention
ed her as “Uur little sister with the golden
locks.”
j Luring the past week 4.>0,000 pounds of
poultry have been shipped by the Camden
and Amboy railroad for the New York mar
j ket.
A little boy, returning from the Sunday
school, said to his mother, “ Ma, aint there a
kitten-chi~m for little boys ? ' This catechism
is too hard.
“ Where are yon going ?” Asked one lit
tle hoy of another, who had slipped and fallen
on the icy pavement. “ (doing to get up,”
was the blunt reply.
A letter from Melbourne, mentions that
a soldid cake of gold, worth C1E5U0. the pro
duce of the crushing of only ten tons of quartz,
had been sold to the Hank of the New South
! Wales.
A t emale writer say- nothing looks worse
on a lady than darned stockings. Allow us
to observe that stockings that need darning,
look a great deal worse than darned ones—
darned if they don't.
A farmer in Sutton, England, tried to
ki.-s his house-keeper, and in the struggle,
knocked her over and injured her spine to
such an extent that £75 were required in a
police court to mend it.
EiKt t-Coi.onel William Henry Walker
has re-igned hi- position in the ( nited States
army on the issue of resistance to Lincoln's
inaugurati ui. lie was shut seven times in
one day in Mexico.
A ' v\ i ;e ftightene 1 out of his
In no of I'ohl cry by the swfiet simplicity of
a - ililaiy sj in ter. who putting her head out
of the window, exclaimed, " Now, ain't you
a-hamed 1
■■ Sir.” .-aid a husband, speaking of his
wife, a lady whose mind was exclusively de
voted to '-tic allairs. •• sir. she would have
made a dumpling of the apple that revealed
i the law of gravitation to Newton.’
A LAWYER once jo-ely a-ked ahoar ling
I house keeper the following question: “Mr.
-. if a man gives you So ld to keep for
him. and he dies, what do you do I* Do you
pray for him ?’’ " No. sir.' he replied, •• 1
pray lor another like him.”
“All, doctor, how is my wife to-day?”
The doctor shook his head and said. “You
must prepare for the worst."
“ \\ hat 1 exclaimed the alarmed husband;
is she likely to recover?”
“My r.RACiors !” said Ike. “ if some fairy
would give me a pair of wings, would’nt 1 go
. round among the plantets, though! I'd go
to Mar-, and \ onus, and Jupiter, and-"
“And Satan.” interrupted Mrs. Partington;
“and Em afraid you'll go there without
wings!”
“ Tough, madam, tough, did you say ?”
said an irasible boarder to the landlady, as lie
was trying to carve what was ostensibly a
chicken. •• Yes'm, and were I to give iuv
omiunn in tn tin* tnwl 1 if .J.i
enough to have scratched up the seeds nl
original sin, when they were first planted.’1
A i i.i.rgyman, who was adicted to strong
! potations, having imbibed more than usua
one day, his stomach rejected the overdose
j A member of his flock passing by at the time
inquired what ailed him. The parson, win
who was on his knees, wretched violently
hiecttnpzd out that it was only an outpourin'
of the spirit.
Soi:ni> Reasoning.—In a recent ease foi
assault, the defendant pleaded guilty. “ J
think I must he guilty,'’ said he, becaus<
the plaintiff and i were the only ones then
were in the room ; and the first thing 1 knev
was that 1 was standing up, and he was dou
bled over the table. You’d better call i
guilty.”
A Sharp Paris Dodge.—A dealer in dn
goods in Paris, has engaged the services o
several well dressed ladies, who promenadi
near his store, and when they see any lad'
looking into the w indow', two of them approaei
and exclaim, “Oh, isn’t it sweet !” or “liov
cheap! Let us go in and buy it!”
j A Steam Carriage Sensation.—Lon
Caithness, a Scottish noblemen, has been ere
ating a sensation in London with his nev
i steam carriage, lie is said to have drivei
through the most crowded parts without fright
cuing the horses, and threaded the vehicles
thickly strewn as they are in the city, \yitl
; ease and elegance. yl
A 1 nion Widow.—A blooming ytuni
widow, living in one of the Southern State*
, which is strongly in favor of secession, send
word, through a lady friend, to a spry w'id
ower, but who is not in very robust health a
present, that “she is for Union.” To wind
he replied : “ And so am l, but due regari
must be had to the constitution.,”
Judge S. had a very wild son named Bob
who was constantly on a spree, and upon be
iug brought up once for drunkenness, th<
Judge cried out, Is that our Bob ?”
“ Yes sir,” replied the clerk.
“ Fine him two dollars and cost • I’d mak
it ten dollars if I didn’t know that it wuuh
j come out of my own pocket.”
SYLVAMA
A c a demy,
PRAIRIE COUNTY, ARKANSAS,
D. M’FAY 'EN,.Principal.
R. A. Richmond, - Assistant.
milE SECOND SESSION OF THE ABOVE
1 Academy will open on Monday, the 4th day
of February next. The Principal flatters himself
that, having an experience of many years in the
profession of teaching, he will be enabled to give
satisfaction to the patrons of his school. The
Academy is located in a healthy region of coun
try, reniote from all those localities ol dissipation
and vice, so destructive to the morals of youth,
and in the midst of a community, combining all
I those virtues that compose a good neighborhood.
No pains will be spared by tlic teachers to advance
| the pupils entrusted to' their charge. Special
attention will be directed to have them thoroughly
; to understand the elementary principles of all the
branches of Science taught in the school. No
pupil need apply for reception who is unwilling
10 be either governed or instructed. Pupils will
i be charged from the time of entrance. No deduc
1 tion will be made except in case of protracted
illness.
TUITION PER SESSION OF FIVE MONTHS.
Elementary Branches, - ^
Higher English Branches, - - - V"> 00
Languages and Higher Mathematics, - ~0 00
Board can be obtained at from Eight to Ten
Dollars per month.
Oakland Grove, Prairie Co'. Ark. jy H ’01-4t
]>ES ARC
| F E M A L E A 0 A D EIIY,
MISS SALLIE A. DAVIS, Principal.
mills INSTITUTION WILL BE OPENED ON
Monday next, the HOth inst., for the recep
tion of pupils.
TERMS OF TUITION, TER SESSION OF TWENTY-ONE
WEEKS.
Orthography, Reading and Writing. - - $10 00
English Grammar, Arithmetic, Geography, 111 00
Algebra and the higher English branches, Id 00
r rencu ana me mguer .uamemaues, - - -u uu
Students will be charged from the time of enter
ing school until the close of the term, except in
cases of protracted sickness.
References.—Rev. J. Douglass, A. M., Presi
dent of Franklin College. Holly Springs, Miss.;
lion. J. .J. Sieger. North Mt. Pleasant. Miss.: Col.
M. Lb Shelby, Carson's Landing. Miss.; J. E.
Gatewood. Esq., T. J. Woodson, L)es Arc.; J. M.
Coyle, Hickory Plain, Arkansas. nov 23-2m
i>i:js arc
MALE ACADEMY,
T. II. OSBORNE, Principal.
rnilE FIRST SESSION OF THIS ACADEMY,
1 located in Dos Arc, Prairie county, Arkansas,
commenced January 7, 1861.
The terms of Tuition are $10, $12,50, $15 and
$20 per session of five months.
The government of the Academy will be strict,
yet mild. The mode of teaching will be strictly
methodical. Parents will observe that it will be
of great advantage to their sons to be entered at
1 or near the beginning of the session. Parents or
guard ms need nor enter their sons or wards un
less subjecting them entirely to the mode of
instruction and of government established in the
school.
Tuition payable from the time of entering till
the end of the session. Deduction in cases of
prolonged sickness. jy-18-y
: W. B. CROCKER & CO.,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
Or r o c e r s9
First door West of J. II. Quisenberry's Store.
suns ARC, ARRAYS AS.
m.\KE PLEASURE IN ANNOUNCING TO
I the citizens of Prairie ami adjacent counties,
| that they are now in receipt of 1 large and well
1 selected stock of
GROCERIES AND HARDWARE,
Consisting in part of Sugars, Molasses, Coffee,
Candles, Cheese, Vinegar. Salt, Whisky, Rice,
i is* it « l • isi . i ’ r 1 T> • * .. . TV /V .
i i v i\ 11 ■*, mm i u>ui , ■ i~n, iKin-iu , « • • '.ii
runs. Almonds. Candy, Soup. Starch. Soda. Crack
ers. Tobacco, Cigars. Nails. Castings. Iron. Steel,
Log Chains, Ox Chains, l’ole Axes. Spades, Shov
els. etc., etc., with all other articles usually to he
found in a similar establishmest. All of which
| they arc now selling low for cash. nov 3-tf
j $2,300 W OUT 11 OF GOODS
Just Received oil Consignment!
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I UST RECEIVED, A LOT OF GOODS TO SELI
1 •) AT COST, AND LESS THAN COST.
Such as Ladies’ Talmas, Silk Dress Patterns
> Trimmings and Fringes, Shoes, Parasols, Cra
i vats, Gloves, Mitts, tigured.and plain Muslins
Robes, Rerage, Shallies, Cottfln Cards, Segai
Cases, Buttons. Hats, Bonnets Coats, etc., etc.
Attention of Merchants is especially called, a:
? i will sell in lots, at less than Eastern prices
| Call and see the bills.
J. H. QUISENBERRV,
Auction, Commission Merchant,
t nov 30-tf. and Land Agent.
ATTEVTIOV OFFICERS!
VLL THE OFFICERS COMMISSIONED AN1
. non-commissioned of the Second Bat tailor
, of Fiffitieth Regiment, are herein’ commanded t<
appear at Des Arc, on the 23d diiy of February
for the purpose of officers’ drill. By order of
J. B. PERKINS, Major,
per Russ Evans, Orderly. jan 2o, ’lil-tf.
EXCELLENT PliOWS. j
1 WE HAVG JUST RECEIVED a largi
I T V quantity of the best Ca^l Plows. which wi
j offer cheap. not 2. J. JACKSON & CO.
DES ARC CITY
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DRUG STORE.
To Physicians, Druggists, Merchants,
1* E A > T E R S ,
AND THE PUBLIC GENERALLY.
Your attention is respectfully invited to one of
the beat 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.
i and all other articles pertaining to the Drug busi
ness, lately received, and now offered at the
DES ARC CITY DRUG STORE,
At WHOLESALE OR RETAIL!
ON ACCOMODATING TERMS.
A CHOICE LOT OF
Segars, Chewing & Smoking Tobacco.
ALSO, ALL KINDS OF SUPERIOR
OSES FOR MEDIC .41. I SES,
KEPT CONSTANTLY ON HAND.
Orders Iruin a Distance will Receive Prompt Attention!
AND THE GOODS FORWARDED WITHOUT DELAY.
PHYSICIANS PRESCRIPTIONS
Compounded of the purest and best materials,
with accuracy and despatch, at
lit Hours of Iht* Day or \i|Tlit !
; nov 3-ly. JOHN B. PERKINS.
N E \\ STOli IZ Z
jENTIRELY NEW STOCK!!
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We have just opened our new stock of
FALL AND WINTER GOODS,
which consists, in part, of
KERSEYS, WOOLSEY?
HOME-MADE JEANS,
KENTUCKY JEANS, SATINETS,
LINSEYS,
AND GEORGIA PLAIDS. .
VLSO, A FINE ASSORTMENT OF POPLINS,
De Berages, Merinoes, Scotch Plaid Alpacas,
etc., etc., etc.
ALSO, A COMPLETE STOCK OF
C L O T II I N G !!
A better assortment cannot be found. Also, the
largest stock of
BOOTS AND SHOES!
In the market. Wc kindly solicit all who wish to
' purchase to give us a call, and examine
our goods and prices.
TAYLOR & CO.,
nov 3-tf. Pes Arc. Arkansas.
IT COST AID CARRIAGE.
T AM OFFERING MY ENTIRE STOCK OF
I Pry Goods at Cost and ten per cent. Every- (
body is invited to call and sec for themselves.
My goods are inferior to none in this market, and
ray object in selling off at cost and carriage is to
1 enable me to replenish with a stock which will be
bought exclusively with cash,
i nov3-tf. * LEVIN HARRISON
TOWS EJECTION.
,.4ice is hereby given, that an
i v flection will be held at the Mayors’ office in
Pes ore, on Mondey, the 4th day of February
next, for Majyt, Constable, and four Council
I men, for the seventh corporate year of said
town. j g. R. BROWN,
jo* 4, ’61-4w J - Mayor.
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