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OCTOBER.
BY THE LATE WILLIS GAYLORD CLARK.
Solemn yet beautiful to view,
Month of my heart' thou dawnest here,
With sad and faded leaves to strew
l’ale Summer’s melancholy bier,
The mooning of thy winds l hear,
As the red sunset dies afar,
And bars of purple clouds appear,
Obscuring every western star.
Thou solemn month! I hear thy voice;
It tells my soul of other days,
When but to live was to rejoice,
When Earth was lovely to my gaze!
Oh, visions bright—oh, blessed hours,
Where are their living rapture now ?
I ask my spirit’s wearied powers—
1 ask my pale and fevered brow !
I look to Nature, and behold
My life’s dim emblems, rustling round,
In hues of crimson and of gold—
The year’s dead honors on the ground ;
And sighing w:th*the winds, I feel,
While tbeir low pinions murmur by.
How much their sweeping tones reveal
Of life and human destiny.
When Spring’s delightsome moments shone,
They came in zephyrs from the West;
They bore the wood-lark’s melting tone,
They stirred the blue lake's glassy breast;
Through Summer, faining in the heat,
They lingered in the forest shade;
But changed and strengthened now, they beat
In storm o'er mountain, glen, and glade,
How like those transports of the breast,
When life is fresh and joy is new;
Soft as the halcyon's downy nest,
And transient all as they are true!
They stir the leaves in that bright wreath
Which Hope about her forehead twines,
Till Grief's hot sighs around it breathe,
Then Pleasure’s lip its smile resigus.
Alas! for Time, and Death, and Care,
What gloom about our way they fling!
Like clouds in Autumn’s gusty air,
The burial pageant ol'the Spring.
The dreams that each successive year
Seemed bathed in hues of brighter pride,
At last, like withered leaves appear,
And sleep in darkness side by side.
ARTEMUS WARD IN LONDON.
A “TRANS-JIEJIUjI.”
Mr. Pinch—My Pear Sir : It is
now some two weeks since a rather
strange lookin' man engaged 'part
menfs at the Greenlion. He stated he
was from the celebrated United States:
but beyond this he said nothin', ile
seemed to prefer sollytood. lie re
mained mostly in his room, ancl when
ever he did show hissclf he walked in
a moody and morose manner in the
gardin, with his head bowed down and
his arms folded across his breast. He
reminded mesumwhatof the celebra
ted lmf onhappy Mr. Haller, in the
cheerful play of the stranger. This
man puzzled me. I'd been puzzled
afore several times, but never so seen
orally as now. Mine !ost of the Greon
liou said I must interrigato this strange
bein’, who claimed to lie my country
man. “He hasn't called for a drop of
lieer since lie's been In this ’ere'ouse.”
said tlic landlord. “I look to you," he
added, “to clear up this dark, this orful
niistry!’’
I wringed tiro lan’lord's honest hand,
and told him to consider the niistry
cleared up.
I gained axes to the mi stems bein's
room, and, liy talkin' sweet to him for
a few minits, i found out who he was.
Then, returnin’ to the lali'lord. who
was nervisly pasin' up and down the
bar. 1 said :
“Sweet llolabdo, don’t trcnihle no
more! I've torn the marsk from the
liawtv stranger's face, and dived into
the recesses of his inmost sole! lie's a
trails mejim!"
I'd been to the beefnnham theatre (he
previs evenin’, and probly the dram
mar I saw affected me, beeause I'm not
in the luihit ol'goin' on as per above.
I like the Hccfanhani theatre very much
indeed, beeause there a euthoosiastie
lover of the theatre like myself can
unite the legitermit drammar with fish.
Thus, while your enrapfered soul
drinks in the lorftv and noble sen ten
cos ot the gated artists, you can eat a
hilcd mack'ril jest as comfor'bly as in
your own house. I felt constrained,
however, to tell a fond mother who sot
immegitly behind me, and who was ac
companied hv a gin bottle and a young
infant—1 felt constrained to tell that
mother when her infant playfully min
gled a rayther oily mack’ril with the
little hair tiiat is left on my vener'bli
lied, that I had a bottle of scented oil
at home, which on the whole 1 tho't
] preferred to that which her orfspring
was greasin' me with. This riled the
excellent female, and she said, “Git
out! You never was an infank your
self, I suppose! Oh no? You was toe
good to be a infank. you was! You
slid into the world already growed
didn’t you! Git out!” “No, madam,’
I replied, “I loo was once an infant! 1
was a luvlv child. Peple used to come
in large arid enthoosiastic crowds from
all parts of the country to see me, I -was
such a sweet and intelgent infant. The
excitement was so intons, in fack, that
a extra hotel was startid in the town t<
accommodate the pepel who throngec
to my cradle.”
Havin finished these troothful state
mints, I smilt sweetly on the worth)
female. She said, “Drat you, what dc
you come a-chafflu me for?” and tin
estymible woman was really get tin fu
ris. when I moll) fled her by praisii
he.i child, and axiu pardin for all 1 said
“This little gal," 1 observed, “this sur
prisingly luvlv little gal-” when tin
mother said, "It's t'other sect is he, su
it's a boy.” “Wall,” 1 said, “then thi
little boy, whose eyo+ is like a cagh
a-soaring proudly in.the azure sky
will some day be a man, if he don'
choke liisself to death in childhood"
sunny hours with a smelt or a bloater
! or some other drefful calamity. Hov
I sublime the tho't, my deer madame
I that this infant as you fondle on you
| knee, on this night may grow up into
: free and independent citizen, wlios
| vote will bo worth from ten to fil'tovj
pounds, accordin as suffrages may.
range at that joyous perid.”
Let us now return, jentle reader, to
the lan'lord of the Greenlion, who we
left in the bar in a state of anxiety and
perspire, lipbbin his hot face with a
red handkercher, he said, “Is the
strange bein’ a American ?”
“He is.”
“A gen’ral ?”
“No.”
“A coloniol ?”
“No.”
“A majer?”
“Not a major.”
“A capting ?”
“He is not.”
“A Te (tenant ?”
“Not even that.”
“Then,” said the lan’lord of the
Greenlion, “you ar deceived I He is
no countryman of yours.”
“Why not?” I said.
“1 will tell you, sir,” said the land
lord, “my son-in-law is employed in a
bankin house where every American
as conics to these shores goes to get his
drafts casht, and he says that none has
arrived on these shores durin the. last
eighteen months as wasn’t a gen’ral, a
colonel, a major, a captain or a lieuten
ant. This man, as 1 said afore, has de
ceived you 1 lie’s an impostner!”
I reeled into a chair. For a minit I
was speechlis. At length I murmured,
“Alars! I fear it is too troo! Even I
was a capting of the Home Guards.”
‘To be sure,’ said the landlord, ‘you
all do it over there.’
‘Wall.’ I said, whatever nation this
person belongs to, wo may as well go
to hear him leetur this evening, lie is
one of these spirit fellers—he isatrans
mejum, and when he slings himself into
a trans-state, he says the sperrets of
departed great men talk through him.
He says that to-night sev’ril em’neut
persons will speak through him—
among others, • Cromwell.’
‘And this Mr. Cromwell—is he dead ?’
said the lan’lord.
I told him that Oliver was no more.
‘It's a ‘umbug,’ said the lan’lord; to
which I replied we’d best go and see,
and we went. We was late, on ac
I count of the landlord's extensiv ac
quamrans AVitn me public house keep
ers along tlie road, and the hall was
some two miles distant, but we got
there at last. The hall was about half
full, and the inejim was just then as
sumin to be ‘Benjamin Franklin, who
was speaking about the Atlantic cable.
lie said the cable was really a merry
torious affair, and that messiges should
lie sent to America, and there was no
5 doubt about their getting there in the
i course of a week or two, which, lie said,
i was a beautiful ideal', and much quick
jerthau by steamtr or canal-boat. It
struck me that if this was Franklin, a
spiritooal life hadn’t improved tlie old
gentlemau's iutelleks partic'ly.
The iiudicns was mostly composed of
rayther pale peple, whose eyes I tho’t
rolled in a somewhat wild manner.
But they was well behaved, and the fe
males kept saying, ‘How beautiful!
What, a sublime thing it is,’ ct cotry, et
retry. Among the females was one
who was a fair and rosy young woman.
She set on the same seat we did, and
(lie landlord of the Green lion, whose
frekent intervoos with landlord’s that
evening had been too much for him.
fastened his left, eye on the fair and rosy
young person, and, smilin lovinlyupou
her. said.‘you may give me, my dear,
four-penny-worth of gin—cold gin. 1
take it cold, because-’
There Was cries of “Silence! silence!
: Put. him out! the scoffer!”
: ‘Ain't went the spotted boar?’ the
j landlord whispered.
■-No,'1 answered, ‘It’s another kind
I of a bore. Lis’en. Cromwell is goin
to speak through our inspired friend
! now/
‘Is lie ?’said the landlord—‘is lie?
Well. I've sutliin to say, also. Was
this Cromwell a licensed vittler?’
‘Not that f heard,’ I answered.
‘I'm very sorry for that,’ said Hie
landlord, with a sigli; ‘but you think
he was a man who would wish to st^p
licensed vittlcs respected in their
rights ?’
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‘Wall,’said the landlord, ‘jest you
keep a eye on me.’ Then rising to his
feet, he said, in a somewhat liuskv,. yet
tol’bly distink voice, ‘Mr, Crumbwell!'
‘Cromwell!' 1 cried.
‘Yes. Mr. Cromwell; that’s the man
[ mean, Mr Cromble! wont you please
advise that genTman who you are
talkin through; wont you advise him
during your ejekent speech to settle
his l>ill at my 'ouse to-night, Mr. Crum
ble,' saiil tIn* landlord, glarin savigely
round on the people, ‘because if he
dont there'll he a punclied 'ed to be
seen at the Grcenlion, where I don!
want any more of this everlastin non
sens.’ i'll talk through ’irn ! Here’s a
s])irret for you, young feller!’ ‘You’re
a healthy old sperrit I remarkt; and
then T saw the necessity of gettin him
out of the hall. The wimmiu was yel
lin and screamin, and the men was
hollerin perlice. * A perliceman really
came and collared my fat fren. ‘It’s
only a iit, Sir Richard,’ I said. I al
ways call the perlice Sir Richard. II
pleases tlicbn to think I'm the.victim oi
a deloosion. and they always treat me
perlitely. This one did, certainly, foi
he let u's go. We saw no more of the
trans-mejim.
it's dittikllt, of course, to say lion
. long these noosauces will be ailowee
to prowl round, I should say howev
er, if pressed for a anser, t hat they wil
. probably continuer on jest about a;
, long as they can find people tolis'en tc
’em. Am I right ?
Yours, faithful,
ART EMUS WARD.
tteyHon. AT in. Byers, member o
; Congress from the Batcsville district o
,; Arkausas, has been appointed Superin
-1 tendent of Indian affairs for the South
. I era Superintendancv, vice Elijah Selles
■ - resigned. This k a good appointmeni
i j and will give general satisfaction to al
>! persons having business with the India
i '• Department South,
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Signs of the Times.
Since, then, the kingdom of God
oometh not with observation, we need
not look for fearful sights and great
signs in the heavens. They arc hut
false prophets who cry “Lo, here !” or
“Lo, there!” when the still, small voice
is whispering all the while, “The king
dom of God is within ycm.” Yes,
within this framework of societyin
the midst of this busy, trivial, daily life,
which se> ins so full of small cares and
selfish seeking, the Divine Spirit lives
and works, and will yet raise it to the
heights of heavenly fellowship. II
breathes in the thousand methods devi
sed by ingenuity to lighten the burdens
of labor, by benevolence to soothe away
the bitterness of sorrow, by taste to
beautify the homes of poverty. The
little photograph leaves that flutter
down into every household in the land
are a great cloud of witnesses showing
us that science is but the handmaid of
God, whose, service is to hear to all the
blessings once reserved for a class. In
the old time it was only the few who
could fix for future years the beloved
features of a friend. Now every fond
mother may transcribe from birthday
to birthday (lie face of her darling, to
note its beautiful changes, and every
lowliest bride preserve for her chil
dren’s children the bloom other build
ing youth. The religious world lias
hardly learned to look for its millcnium
in the horse-cars. Nevertheless, its
signs are there, not to he mistaken.
The poor sewing woman feels their
presence, if she docs not trace them to
their source. The humble invalid
knows them, the domestic drudge, the
ailing, puny child, the. swart and stal
wart workman, who ride their one or
ten miles as swiftly and smoothly as a
millionaire, and are set down at shop
or home, or among (lie freshnesg and
fragrance and song of the beautiful
country. The horse-car is the poor
man’s private carriage, as carefully
fashioned for his convenience, as tidy
and comfortable and comely, as if it
cost him hundreds of dollars, instead
of the daily sixpence. Willi a lifted
finger he commands his coachman, who
waits promptly on his wish. ‘Without
care, lie is cared for. Without capital,
lie controls capital, Free society does
more for him than the righest despot
does for the. enslaved people whom the
instinct of self-preservation forces him
to cajole and does it too, without any
infringement upon Ids manhood. We j
call if energy, enterprise, modern con
veniences. it is the millenium.—[Gail ,
Hamilton.
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Flow of G old to the United States.
The London Review has the follow
ing: "The influx of gold to t he L iiifed
States has continued on a somewhat j
larger .scale than had been looked for,
although, in fact, amounting to no
great sum. After the enormous re
ceipts from that country, a month or j
two hack, it is not much to have to re- ]
turn some two hundred thousand or
three hundred thousand pounds in two
or three successive weeks. The most
satisfactory.feature in the movement is
! the confidence that it shows in the per
' manence of peace in America, and that
| as far as investors arc concerned, the
renewal of the civil war is considered
in the highest degree remote. As we
have already had occasion to observe,
this belief is not only felt by English
men and Germans, but has latterly
been shared by Frenchmen. The five
twenty bonds, which these shipments
arc made to pay for, arc as eagerly, if
not. more eagerly, hough1 in Paris, as
in London and Frankfort. Xot very
many years ago scarcely any foreign
securities were quoted on the French
; bourse, and it is significant to notice
i how great an alteration Inis taken place
in ibis respect. Except on our stock
exchange it may be doubted whether
in any other capital of Europe, not
even in Frankfort or Amsterdam, for
eign investments' are now so largely
held as in Paris. Formerly, native
capitalists would take nothing but the
nudes; now they are ready to invest
in Italian, Spanish, Mexican (unfortu
nately), and manv other similar seen
j vines, r.xcept, how ever, m rare m
i stances. United States bonds iiave been
j in little favor, and hence tlic signiii
canee of the present demand."
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Lessons for tlie Young.
Children, if you would be wise, and
I at the same time haypy.be diligent in
’ your studies, and read no books but
those which impart moral and useful
lessons. The light, trashy literature^'
the present day, avoid as you would a
1 pestilence!
Above all things earthly, honor thy
father and thy mother. Next, he res
pectful to all, but more especially to
the aged and infirm: those tottering
limbs, those sunken and bleared eyes,
those Rhrunkened cheeks and toothless
gums, are hot living examples of what
you may he at some future time. Their
limbs were once as houyant and elastic
as yours; those eves were once as
bright and as full of the fire of youth
as vonrs; those shriveled, sunken
checks, were once as rounded and rosy
sir your own; those toothless gums
were once bedecked with teeth which
vied with pearls in whiteness. Our
little friends, learn to pay homage and
to reverence the aged. ‘•Honor thy
father and thy mother in the days of
tliy youth, that thy days may he long
upon earth.”
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JSkjyChief Justice Chase has submitted
to the other Justices the question; to
he decided by a majority, whether the
Circuit Courts will be held this fall, in
the altered circuits, hv the Chief Asso
f, elate Justices and District Judges, or
I by District Judges alone.
i The Newburvport Herald says
General ilutler will he elected to Con
| gress from the 5th District, and that he
1 will be the Radical candidate for Presi
i; dent in 1868 against Gen. Grant, c-on*
■ servative.
Chinese Pirates.
Hong Kong papers give a full ac
count of ft recent capture and burning
of twenty-two pirate junks by a couple
of British gunboats which sailed from
Hong Kong, July 12, for Hainan Is
land. and discovered the pirates in 11
small inlet. The place is described as
a beautiful spot, covered with a luxuri
ant tropical vegetation, and usually
affording a safe retreat.. The junk?
each mounted ten large guns, and
showed tight without hesitation. The
gunboats advanced to within short
range, and were occasionally struck,
though most of the balls from the pi
rate junks paased over thorn.
The cannonading went on for about
two hours, when a new turn was given
to the course of events by means of a
landing party from the gunboats,
About fortv-livo men were put on
shore, and under cover of the jungle
made their way round to tHe part ol
the creek where the pirate vessels were
lying, without being observed until
they came close to the junks. From
those lying close along shore the pi
rates immediately fled, sculling in theii
sampans or swimming ashore to the
opposite side of the, creek, and gradu
ally, as the landing party took posses
sion of the juuks along shore, and by
means of boats began to board those
which were anchored out in the creek,
the pi rates gave up, and even from the
vessels lying further out, the crews
slipped over the sides and disappeared
with or without the assistance of sam
pans.
A number of pirates were taken
prisoners, but being mostly wounded
and in need of medical attention, were
allowed to escape. The junks were all
burnt, notwithstanding sonic of them
contained valuable cargo. It is thought
that the severe punishment thus inflict
ed, and the organization of a court al
Hong Kong for the suppression of pi
racy, ((he admiral of the station being
chief justice) will have a most salutary
e fleet.
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Brick Pomeroy on Courting.
Those other girls of ours, ns we arc
informed by letter, had done goiie and
got well locked unto a tinkerest of tin
gospel, who attended prayer meetings
swops horses, acts ehamjdaiu in 11k
army, steals and gets drunk on the slv
Oh. dear! rJ'his is much misery. How
we used to do the courting for those
girls. Candy, peanuts, w orm lozenges
popormint drops, little balls of hone)
soap, night blooming for seriousness
and such evidences did we pour int<
them lap of hers, whereupon, vespoi
chimes, this heart of ours did sweet!)
rest. Oil. dear, Oh ! K-lista!
We used to blacken our hoots, stare!
our hair, grease our shirts, and cur
our eyebrows for them girls. And wc
drove horses for paternal derivative It
cultivate corn ; and wc milked the brim
die heifer as what no other boy conic
milk, and we split oven-wood—am
who would not?—for her ina.
And at night, when hats com? forth
and tumble-hugs crawld over the lea
and young pullets sat in rnedifutior
free, holding their heads under one
wing so as to hear their hearts heat, wc
W'ould hasten unto Kalista's window7
and she would, with her lilly white
band haul ns up by the hair until wc
arrived at the bower of love, as she
styled her garret. 'Twas thus our hail
became less, and our confectionery foi
Kalista increased.
When the week had lmsted on tin
rock of Saturday night we used tc
wander by the brooklet, and let tlx
brooklet wander, too. And Kalistt
went forth with us. Hand in hand
like (ho Siamese twinsisterx.ve roamed
wc sat on the dewy bank to catch coir
in our heads, and luxuriate on the ban!
“wet with dew.” And wc used to re
( line against a fatherly and rnothcrh
elm tree, and squeeze each other’s ham
as w7e rolled our eyes and peeped up
ward into the bine vault, our spirit:
longed to vault into it., but didn't
O, this sparking is heaven in twe
volumes, hiui tnr pii'T niai K uiuiiicti
Did you over spark ? if not, advanci
your works on a female crinoline dear
and commence active hostilities at once
Value of Acguiiacy.—It is the rc
suit of every day’s experience tha
steady attention to matters of detai
lies at the root of human progress, am
that diligence, above all, is the motile
of good luck. Accuracy is also o
mudi importance, and an invariabh
mark of good training in a man—accu
racy in observation, accuracy in speech
accuracy in the transaction of affairs
What is done in business must be done
for it is better to accomplish perfectl;
a small amount of work than todohal
i or ten times as much. A wise mai
i used to say, “stay a little that we- nut;
i make an end the sooner.” Too lit
tie attention, however, is paid to thi
highly important quality of accuracy
As a man eminent in practical scienc
lately observed, “it is astonishing hov
few people I have met in the course o
my experience who can define a fac
accurately.” Yet, in business affairs
it is the manner even in which sinal
! matters are transacted that often decide
; men for or against you. With virtue
capacity and good conduct in other rc
spccts, the person who is habitual!
inaccurate in other respects cannot b
trusted, his work has to he gone ove
again : and he thus causes endless an
uoyancc, vexation and trouble.
Change of Name.—Acorresponder
of the Pantograph proposes to change
by law, the name ol’ the range of moun
tains in the western part of our Stati
; from "Boston Mountain” to “Cleburn
! Mountain.”
Let it be done, and while getting ri
j of a name that recalls the hotbed c
i wrong, it will make those Souther
j hills stand as a memorial to our grei
I Arkansas General. We want to he i
far from Boston or anything of thi
name “as the law will allow. —[Mad
1 son Pioneer.
The Grasshopper Plague.
Apprehensions are expressed that
next year the grasshoppor plague will
extend itselfto the east of the Missouri
river, and cover a wide area of country.
The grasshopper column that started
up on (he far western plains a month
since, has swept through n strip of
country about 00 miles wide—the
Kansns-Xebruska dividing line lining
about the centre of their march—and
have come to (lie Missouri river too
late to cross. But they have laid their
eggs, and left their mission to those
that shall come after. The ground is
thickly strewn with dead grasshoppers,
and is perforated with holes wlierin
their faithful females have deposited
their larvae. The Atchison Free Press
says : ‘‘l)ig in at random with a knife
blade. lift up a little of the surface of
the soil, and very likely you will at. the
first attempt unearth a little white col
umn like the pith of a rush, and open
ing this, you find a number of eggs like
ant's eggs, closely packed together.
We dug up some of their deposits and
counted in one of them 28 of the larvae,
and in several others upwards of 20.
The cavity is lined with an impervious
coating ol'whitish gum, which inclosed
the eggs or larvae, and the aperture
above the eggs is filled also nearly to
the surface with this white substance,
which probably serves the double pur
pose of protection to the larvae and
food for the young. Next summer
these will come out as minute grass
hoppers, and in the fall, if some acci
dent don't destroy them, they will be
such pests as have just now been
among us.”
-,4Q>,
Thomas Jefferson’s Ten Kules of
Life.
1. Never pul off till to-morrow what
yon can do to-day.
2. Never trouble others for what you
can do yourself.
3. Never huv what you do not want
because it is cheap.
4. Never spend your money because
you have it.
5. Pride costs us more than hunger,
iliincf mifl rnhl
(>. We never repent eating too little.
7. Nothing is troublesome that we do
willingly.
8. flow much pain have these evils
cost us that never happened.
9. Take things always by their
smooth handle.
10. When angry, count ten before
you speak ; if very angry, a hundred.
--
A Model Woman.—“Did you not
’ say. Ellen, that Mr. I?-is poor?”
“Yes, he has only his profession.”
“Will your uncle' favor his suit?”
“No: and 1 can expect nothing from
him.”
“Then, Ellen, yon will have to resign
fashionable society.”
“No matter—I shall sec more of
Fred.”
“ You must give up expensive
dresses."
“Oh, Fred admires simplicity.”
“You can't keep a carriage.”
“Hut wo can have delightful walks.”
“You must take a small house and
furnish it very plain.”
“Yes. for elegant furniture would be
out of place in a cottage.”
“You will have to cover your floors
with I bin, cheap carpets.”
“Then I shall hear his stops (lie
sooner.”
-—— --—.
A Tit a vellf.ii’s Expedience of Wo
men.— I have observed among all na
tions, that the women ornament them
selves more than the. men ; that wherev
er found, they arc the same kind, civil,
obliging, humane, tender beings ;—that
they are ever inclined to be gay and
cheerful, timorous and modest. They
do not hesitate, like men, to perforin a
hospitable action: not haughty nor
supercilious, full of courtesy and fond
of society; industrious, economical,
; ingenious ; more liable in general to err
than man, but in general, also more
1 virtuous and performing more good
■ actions than lie. 1 never addressed
' myself in the language of decency and
■ friendship to a woman, whether civiliz
■ eel or savage, without receiving a decent
and friendly answer. With a man it
has often been otherwise, in wander
ing over (lie inhospitable plains ol
I Denmark, the honest Sweden, frozen
I Lapland, rude and churlish Finland,
.'unprincipled Russia, and tlie wide
(■! spread regions of the wandering Tar
. tar, if hungry, dry, cold, wet or sick,
. women have ever been friendly to me,
and uniformly so;and to add to this
virtue, so worthy of the appellation ot
. benevolence, these actions have been
" i performed in so kind a manner, that il
C| thirsty I drank the sweetest draught,
, I and if hungry, ate the coarsest morsel
with a double relish.
-*<££>♦
i &-.?”All the printers in the Norfolk
Day Hook except three arc on a strike
, The proprietor tried to reduce tlieii
• wages from forty-live to thirty-five
{■ cents per thousand, and he went aboul
t it in a rather novel manner. He pro
posed that they buy out a one-halt'in
i’ terest in his paper at a valuation of$50,
s 000 in gold! he allowing them twelve
months to pay the money, and they, ir
. the meantime, to work at forty-five
,■ cents per thousand, but to allow him ft
. deduct ten cents per thousand to pay
j, interest on $50,000 in gold. The prin
_ ters couldn't see where the $50,000 wa
to come, from, and declined the libera
proposition ; but Mr. Hathaway insist
i ing upon the acceptance of it, all let'
1 | except three, and the Printers’ Uuioi
•; held a meeting and expelled those three
" and published the Day Book as a ‘‘hat’
’ office.—[Baltimore Commercial,
e _, m |_
1 J@“We are journeying through thi
j.| life in a most hurried manner, jostle*
I daily by munerons snares that tend t<
( I make our pathway difficult and rough.
,s| fiSr'Truth is the only real lastin;
,t foundation for friendship; and ii
i-: everything but truth there is a priori
! pie of decay and dissimulation.
SALMAGUNDI. J
D-aT-Misery loves company, and 81
does a marriageable young lady. '
jpay-'Arp you looking for any one il
particular?’ as the rat said when hi
saw the eat watching him.
{fcf'tlc temperate in diet. Our firs
parents ate themselves out efhouseaui
home.
ftai"‘Mary.’ asked Charles, ‘what ani
nml dropped from the clouds?’ Tht
rain dear,’ was the whispered reply.
fisar* What’s the latest and sweetes
thing in bonnets? The ladies’ faces til
be sure. *
fittyTTold your tongue fora fool, sai<
an Irishman to his wife. ‘Then.yon’l
lie after speaking,’ was the cutting re
ply- i
think, wife, that you have
great many ways of calling me a fool.
‘ I think, husband, that you have a grea
many ways of being one.’
®sg-‘Come, get up—you’ve been ii
bed long enough,’ as the gardener sail
when he was pulling up carrots to seni
to market. |
8@’The meanest reason for gettinj
married that we ever heard of was fros
a man w ho said he wanted some om
to part his back hair for him. "
tflEy-There is a man in Colorado si
thin, that wdien the Sheriff is after him
he crawls into his rifle, and wratchei
liis adversary through the touchhole
Domestic Relations.—Patrick, ii
writing ids autobiography, says! *
ran away srom niv father at an earl;
period of my life because I discover*!
that lie was only my uncle. ’
Getting Better.—‘ITow is your 1ms
band, Mrs. Squipps ?’ ‘Why, the docto'
says as how if he lives till morning, h
shall have some hopes of him ; but If hi
don’t lie must give him up.’
The Pig's Ear Mark.—A lawyei
asked a Dutchman in court what ea
marks a pig had, that wras in dispute
•Veil, he lias no earmarkc cxceDt I
very short tail.’
86g“‘Bob,’ said a young fellow at i
fancy fair, ‘you arc missing all thl
sights on this side.’ ‘Never mind, Bill,1
retorted Mol),‘I'm sighing all the missel
on the other.’ \
ASP* For months past, the negroes ol
Louisiana have been flocking back in
droves to the “old plantations.” They
are weary of the pilgrimage of free
dom.
ti&f There are fully twenty thousand
widows and sixty thousand orphans^
whites, in Alabama, and three-fourthi
of them arc utterly destitute.
JtCy A newspaper in England Wouhc
up an account of a mnrdev with thfi
I odd anticlimax': “For the safety oi
society it is impossible mercy can be
extended to him (the condemned) in
this world ; beyond that, the province
of the journalist does not extend.”
jg®“‘Why do you wink at me, sir?’
said a beautiful young lady, angrily, to
a st ranger, at a party, an evening Or two
since. -1 beg your pardon, madam,’
replied the wit, ‘1 winked as men do
when looking at the sun—your splendor
dazzled my eyes.’
JkSF'Why is the "tiller” like the poet
Gray? Bocaus it shows to the World at
beautiful elegy!—Exchange.
.lob says it is more like a will, be
cause it contains a i.kg-i see. i
A Galveston paper, commenting up
on the above, says, “that allegation is
false, and the allegator knows it.” j
[ We think the “tilter” exhibits a call
without brains!”
According to an official report
i of the Secretary of War, the number of
prisoners taken on either side, during
! the war with the Southern States, com
pare as follows: number of Federal
| prisoners taken, 200,000; number of
Confederate, 200,000. Numbed of Fed
eral prisoners who died whilst incar
cerated, 21,570; number of Confeder
ates who died in Northern prisons.
ton ' ?
-i W» »-:
U-uf The editor of the Charleston
Courier has received a letter from the
wife of the distiuquisiied prisoner at
Fortress Monroe, from which he learns
that the health of the latter continues
to decline, and that the pecuniary cir
cumstances of the family are becoming
very embarrassing. There are in the
South many who, notwithstanding the
calamities of war, have more of fortune
left than is necessary for the luxurious
support of themselves and families.
Will they not come forward and make
up a sufficiency to place the family of
our former leader beyond the necessity
of want ? It is bad enough that he
! should be in prison, under any cit-cum
stances, but that lie should pine away
there, and, in addition to his prison
troubles, have the sad reflection that;
his family is in need, is too much for
the generosity of the good people of
the South to permit him to endure.
Be Kind to tour Sisters.—Boys, be
kind to your sisters.- You may live to
be old, and never find such tender, lov
ing friends as these sisters. Think how
many tilings they do for you; how
they love you in spite of all your ill—
| temper or rudeness; how tlioughful
, they are for your comfort, and be you
! thoughtful of theirs. Be ever ready to
j oblige them, to perform any little office
I for them that lies in your power.
: Think what you can do for them, and
if they express a wish, be ready to
gratify it if possible. You do not know
how much hippiness you will find in
’ so doing. 1 never yet knew a happy
l and respected man who was not in
’ youth kind to his sisters. There is a
j beautiful song which says :
1' j lie kind to your sisters—uot many may know
i The depth of true sisterly love ;
- Tbt! wealth of the ocean lies fathoms below
The surface that sparkle* abor*.