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My Savior.
T am not skilled to understand
ii IV hat God eatli willed, what God hath plan
I
I only know nt ffis right hand
Stands One who is my Savior.
I take Ood nt His wovd and deed;
“Christ died to save me,” this I rend ;
Ami in my henrt I find n need
Of Him to bo my Savior.
Ami had there been in all this wide,
1 Sad world, no other soul beside.
Hut only tain., yet lie had died
That he might be its Savior,
One wounded spirit sore oppressed,
Ouo wearied soul, that found no rest
I'ntil it found it on the breast
Of Him that was its Savior.
TJicn had lie lefTHis Father's throne,
The joy untold, the lovo unknown,
And fur that soul had given His own,
That lie might tic its Savior.
And 0, that He fulfilled may see
The travail of His soul in mo
And wiili IIis work contented he,
As I with my dear Savior.
Yen, living, dying, let me bring
My strength, my solace from this spring—
That He who lives to lie my King,
Once died to lie my Savior.
The Exemption Law.
AN ACT to extend the exemption laws
of tlie State anil-for oilier purposes:
Sec. 1st. He it enacted by the General
Assembly > f the State of Arkansas, That
the following property when owned by a
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family of children, w any person having
the care or maintainancc of any minor child
or children, shall be exempt from sale un
tier execution or seizure by attachment,
except when the defendant is a non-resi
dent of the State, or is about to remove
himself or his effects out of the State.—
First, (wo horses or mules, or one of each,
or one yoke of oxen, and one horse or
mule, four plows, and four lines, one
wagon, two axes, two setts of gear, two
milch cows and calves, two spinning wheels
mid two pair of cards, one loom and appa
ratus, all spun thread, yarn and c.loth man
ufactured for family use, twenty pounds of
lump, flax or cotton, for each member of
the family, one sewing machine, ten sheep
end the wool grown i n them, ten stock
hogs, all the wearing apparel of the fami
ly. two beds, and one additional lied fur
every two children, with the usual bedding
and furniture, one bureau or wardrobe,
and one looking-glass and table for each
room used by the family, and such other
articles of curtains, pictures, and bowls,
kept fur family use, one dining table, one
safe or cupboard, table furniture, sufficient
for the comfort and convenience of the
family, one dozen chairs, all necessary
kitchen furniture and cooking utensils, fif
ty bushels of corn for each mule, horse or
yoke of oxen, ten bushels of corn, or five
bushels of wheat, or one barrel of flour,
for each member of the family, one hun
dred und fifty pounds of bacon or two bun
dled pounds of pork, or hogs sufficient to
make that amount of pork, for each mem
ber of the family, and corn to fatten them,
the family library and any books that may
he added to the same, one thousand pounds
of hay or fodder for two horses, or fifteen
hundred pounds for one horse or mule, and
one yoke of oxen, and such necessary hay,
fodder or other food, as may be on band to
feed milch cows and calves, and all groce
rics on nauu necessary ior iamoy use lor
one year.
See- 3d. All persons having families
nml not engaged in farming, shall he en
titled to all the benefits of exemptions pro
vided for in ono section of this net, the
quantities to be determined by the- ratio
provided in said section
Sec. 3d. Br it further enacted, That
any person, male or female, living alone,
end engaged in farming without a family
shall hold exempt from sale under cxecu
tion. two horses, or t-o mules, or one ol
a ’
’ each, and one yoke, of oxen, one wagon
two plows, and plow gear, two milch cow:
end calves, ten stock hogs, two hi s, auc
two axes, and five head of sheep and the
wool produced by them, all family cloth
ing, spun thread and cloth on hand foi
family use, and twenty five pounds of flax
hemp or cotton, and if a female, three
i beds, and if a male, two beds, and suel
other articles of comfort and necessity, auc
provisions, as are exempted iu sectioi
one, of this act, Prodded, That such per
son shall hold exempt from sale twenty
live bushels of corn, three barrels of flour
or fifteen bushels of wheat, three bund ret
pounds of bacon, or four hundred and fit
ty pounds of pork, or hogs sufficient ti
make that amount of pork, and corn am
fodder, or hay, for horses, mules or oxen
and milch cows, also to fatten hogs, as i
provided iu section one ot this aet.
Sec. 4th Be it further enacted, Tha
every person engaged iu business on hi
own account, other than farming which re
quires tl e use of a horse, shall hold on
horse or mule, exempt from seizure or sale
and this sectiou shall be construed to in
elude lawyers, physicians, constables,shet
iffs and their deputies, tauners, nml preael
ers of the gospel.
^ Sec. 5th. Be it further enacted, Th:
sections 33, 34, iiud tho last provision i
section 38, of chapter G8,.Gould's l>iges
of thfc statutes of Arkansas, anfl all otlu
laws and parts gf laws contrary to this ac
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POE A THKWSvPwyprietors. ikstablisiied sei'temher, i85t.j $2 50 PER ANNUM—In Advance. |
VOLTJMK2. OVS AltC, ARKANSAS, APRIL 6, 1867._JSTXJMBBB 5.
be, and the same are hereby repealed, but
all laws regulating executions and sales,
except, as herein modified or changed,
shall remain in full force and effect.
Sec. 6th. Beit further enacted, That
section 29, of chapter 68, of Gould’s Di
gest, be so amended, that the homestead
exemption of one town and city lot, shall
embrace tho entire residence of any per
son therein mentioned, including all out
buildings appurtenent thereto, notwith
standing the same may bo situated upon
one or more lots.
See. 7th. Be it further enacted, That
\ hereafter all books, maps, globes, manu
scripts, family pictures, and scientific ap
paratus which may belong to any'minister
of the gospel, school teacher, professor of
any college, academy or seminary, lawyer
or physician, or other citizen of this State,
shall be and the same are hereby, exempt
j from attachment or sale under execution in
this State, irrespective of tho value there
of, Provided, that said hooks, maps, globes,
j manuscripts, family pictures, and scientif
ic apparatus are not kept for sale or mer
chandise
Sec. 8th, Be. it further enacted, That
the provisions of this act shall not extend
to any execution upon any judgment, or
der or decree, of any court, rendered for
damages for any malicious or wanton inju
ry to person or property where such dam
ages may have been assessed by a jury or
court trying the cause upon evidence sub
mitted, Provided, the defendants may not
be the head of a family.
See 9th. Be it further enacted, That:
this act shall not be so construed as to, in
any manner, alter or effect the collection
of taxes on the State and. County revenue
as provided by law, before the passage of
this act.
See 10th. Be it further enacted, That
this act shall apply as well to contracts
made before the passage of the same, as to1
contracts made thereafter, and that this act
take effect and be in force from wl after
its passage.
Approved, March lltli, 1867.
ISAAC MURPHY, j
Governor of Ark. i
Office of Secretary ok State, )
Little Rock, Ark., March22, 1807. )
I, Robert J. 'JV White, Secretary Of!
State of Arkansas, certify that the forego-1
ing is a true copy of the original roll on
file in my office.
In testimony whereof, P leave hereunto
set my hand and affixed my seal,
of ofi'icc this, the day and date
[L. S.] above written.
ROBERT J. T. WHITE,
Secretary of State
Pruning of the Different Varieties of
Fruit Trees.
We will begin with the apricot, and
although hut little attention is paid to
this species compared with others in this
locality,ohicfly owing to its early bloom
ing, aud therefore liability for the fruit to
be destroyed by frost, wc will describe the
best mode of pruning it, and in doing ao
wc cannot do better (us has been admitted
by the practical hortuculturalists in this
country) than to quote the remarks of Mr.
Loudon, in his "Encyclopedia of Garden
ing,” upon this subject, given by him at
length. We will, however, first observe
(but the apricot has borne good crops at
and near Cincinnati about five times in
thirty-five years only. Mr. Loudon says :
"The winter pruning should either be
performed at the lull of the leaf, or af mild
intervals from that time to the beginning
of March (in northern latitudes just be
fore the swelling of the bud).” If it is
deferred until the buds begin to swell, the
promising shooti can bo better distin
L^IinUUU. liUO -
! general regulation both of tho last year’s
shoots and of the other branches. The
apricot hears upon tho wood of the pre
vious year, and upon spurs arising fVoni
. that which is older.
! A general supply of the most regularly
placed young Bhoots must he everywhere
retained for successioual hearers the ensu
I ing year. Cut out some of the most tin
| ked parts of the last two years' bearers,
and old brauchcs not furnished with a
, competent supply of young wood or with
fruit spurs; cut either to their origin, or
I to some well directed lateral, as must ex
: pedient to make room for training, a new
supply of tin# young hearers retained, and
cut away all decayed wood or old stumps.
1 Generally observe in this pruning to re
tain a leudiug shoot at the end of each
branch, cither u naturally placed torminal
—where a vacancy is to he furnished, one
formed into a proper loader by cutting to
I it. Let the shoots retained for bearers he
moderately shortened, strong shoots being
reduced the least—one-fourth or less ol
their length)*from those which arc weak
. take away one-third and sometimes half
This will conduce to tho production of i
competency of lateral shoots the ensuing
summer, from the lower aud middle place:
1 eyes. As small fruit spurs, an iuch 01
two long, often appear on sonic of tin
1 branches of two or three years, these spun
should generally he retained for bearing
and thick dusters of spurs, which are up
t to be formed upon aged trees, should hi
, thinnelt.
TIIK PKAlt.
r I This fruit docs not. like the apricot
t bear upon the wood of the previous sea
son, but on permanent spurs, and the
method of treating them is important.
The causes which render it necessary to
train the pear against the walls in Eng
land, are not offered in this country.—
There they want to obtain all the beat
they can, which this method does in that
country. Here the heat would be too
great against the walls. There they train
a groat number of nearly all the fruits flat
against brick and stone walls and woode11
fences, as well as on espaliers or open trel
lis-work. Here the 6un is powerful
enough to cultivate the peach, nectarine
and apricot as standards, Which there they
cannot do.
Standard Training Tn* Fkau.
A bud of one year's growth will, of
course, be a straight shoot, eaving buds
srom the base to the extremity. As tho
sap always seeks the highest point, thoso
buds which are at tho end will grow most
rapidly. If the shoot has been strong,
this would carry flic limbs of tho tree too
high, and leave the stem too slender;
therefore it is to cut back to the bight
from which it is desired to have the high
est limbs start, which should be Ikom two
and a half to three feet.
At the close of the second year the
young tree will present a trunk, from
which four shoots or branches have pro
ceeded, the central one being the highest.
At the next winter's pruning, (he leading
or higeest branch must be cut back con
siderably. and also the throe other branch
es, but the lower branches must be left
rather the longest, because the force of the
sap fends upward, and these will elongate
slower. The next- summer the buds upon
these limbs are pinched to three or four
leaves, except two at the ends, which are
allowed to grow. At the end of tho third
there arc one or two additional branches
grown from the first four branches At
the third winter these two nrc to ho very
much shortened. The snmc couroc should
be pursued until the tree hus attained
about twelve feet when these terminal
shoots, which are allowed to grow during
the summer, to draw up the sup into the
fruit buds below them, are cut baelflo
one eye every year.
It may he suggested, how can such h
course he pursued with a tree thirty or
forty feet high. The answer is, that a
good cultivator will not allow his trees to
attain that hight. While summer prun
ing generally holds the vigor of the tree
in cheek, yet it is sometimes necessary to
resort to root pruning. After the tree has
arrived at full size, all the pruning which
is essential, is cutting back the growths
upon the eud of each limb, and trimming
the Spurs.
The method of pruning the dwarf pear
is tho same ns that upon the standard or
free stock, liy proper training the latter
can be planted us near as dwarfs, and will
succeed as well as when at a greater dis
tauce.
THE CHERRY.
This fruit is so uncortain a crop when
left to itself, and yet so delicious, that it is
well to devise some method of pruning,
which sbnll, if possible, remove the obsta
cles to iU culture. It is of very vigorous
habit, even upon poor soils, and in north
ern climates docs not always ripen its wood
sufficiently to escape unscathed the vicis
situdes of winter* Hut we cannot make
this complaint of it just here While the
tree is forming, the young shoots should
be directed properly. Wlieu it has at
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pruning should be done in a way to check
its luxuriance. A low, flat, very rich and
rather damp soil is unsuitable to this fruit.
Root pruning will accomplish this check
ing, but a more mild operation may bo at
tempted first, and the former used as the
next resort. If the pruning is done uftcr
the buds havo swollen, wo may arrest its
great vigor. The morello varieties bear
fruit upou the wood of the previous sea
son, and regard should be had to a supply
of now wood, and that which has produced
should be cut out.
T1IK VINK.
Totally different from that of any of the
plants to which w#have referred, is tho
j pruning of the vine. As the sire and
! i|Uality of tho bunch and berry aro influ
i euced considerably by the strength of the
I eane, it is evident that, for constant fruit
j fulness, a succession of young wood must
i bo secured. When the viue is planted it
■ should be cut down so as to leave one eye
to grow. Some accident might destroy
this, however, and two or throe should be
left at tho lull pruning, when those which
I arc supet fluou/shwld be destroyed. 1 >u
i ring November it should be cut back to
five eyes j if it is delayed until spring the
1 wound will bleed, weakening the vino and
causing tho shoots to start with less vigor.
( This slump will show five branches which
are spread out on the trellis like a fan.—
At the next tall pruning these arms are
shortened, leaving two eyes upon each,
and the next summer the vine possesses
ten arms. At the next fall pruning, be
ginning at the bottom, the fruit liuib i.
cut witliiu two eyes, so as to secure one
and the next to nine, and soon alternate!)
two eyes and nine. The next summer tlu
five arms whieh have nine buds will fruit
from each ; the other five limbs throw fivi
- strong shoots for fruiting tho following
season. At the next ToII pruning th<
bearing arm or brunch should be cut fun k
to grow, while the oilier is left with nin<
i eyes to fruit; each arm fruits on alterant,
years.
Tombs of the Ancient Egyptians.
| A description of tlie tombs of the
! ancient Egyptians will be given in the
I following quotation of “Hawks' Egypt
j and the Bible.”
I “in Tapper Egypt, rocky mountains !
' form the western boundary of the val-1
I ley of the Nile. In these immense
I caverns were cut, with incredible labor, j
' as receptacles for the dead. In Lower j
j Egypt, where no mountains exist, deep
j pits were dug and lined with brick;,
< or w hen rocks existed, they were dug ,
into the rock, as places of interment.
Nothing presents itself in the study
of the mantlets and the customs of an
cient Egypt as developed in her exist
ing remains, inoro striking than the
respect shown to tlie dead. Diodorus
Siculus, who wrote fifty-six years bo
i fore the Christian Era, lias remarked
! that tlio Egyptians spent more time
• upon their tombs than they did upon
I their houses.
Some of the cemeteries are filled
i with the remains of the common pro- j
pie. These are not always in coffins, |
' but enveloped in the folds of the linen
; witli which they were swathed, they
' are piled in the mummy pits with
great regularity. They were nil en
! helmed, and the number is immense. ;
Again, there arc the family vaults of
tlie wealthy, the priesthood, the mili
tary. There are sometimes very ex
tensive, consisting of various rooms
connected by galleries with the walls
I of the apartments covered with paint-'
| iugs. The scenes delineated most
commonly have reference to the oper
ations of ordinary life.
The deceased is represented with His
| family around him ; sometimes they i
sre at the banquet, sometimes listen
ing to music, or amusing themselves I
i with the dance. Again, lie is seen in
; the country, hunting or fishing; next,
i he is superintending agricultural la
bors. In short, almost every species ,
of mechanical labor is depicted in the
in the tombs. All are scenes of activi
ty, and it has been well said that '‘eve
rything in them savors of life but the
corpse.
The predominant wish seems to hare
been to banish from them all flint
could suggest the idea of death ; and
the only explanation that otters itself
of this singular custom is that the pro
prietor of the tomb employed himself
while living, in the preparation for his
posterity of what might be called a
pictorial autobiography, lint the aris
tocratic dead of these costly resting-!
places, unlike the poor, w hose swathed
mummies are packed in tiers, sleep in j
! their respective coffin of granite, ba-1
, salt or alabaster, sculptured over with
figures and inscriptions which is char
1 italiie to suppose arc at least as truth- j
( ful as iho majority of modern epitaphs, j
I These stone coffins, it was doubtless
supposed supposed by their occupants, \
! would protect their bodies after death
from an unhallowed disinterment; but
| the very rare taken to secure their re
mains IYotu violation has often led to
| the desecration against which they
would guard. The linen bandage
J around the common mummy of tlie
1 pits offered nothing to the decipherer,
! while the inscriptions on the sarcopli
! ague afforded to the zealous uutiquuri
| an an opportunity not to he neglected,
I of adding'characters to his hieroglyph
1 ic alphabet, or words to his Egyptian
vocabulary. Many of tlie cabinets of
I Europe can show fragments of a sar
1 cophagus ; and iTUt few take the trou
ble to preserve many specimens of the
common mummy of the pit.
Sometimes the wealthy dead were
• coffined in a wooden cuee, or double
i case, of sycamore, covered with gild
ing and painting.
j Those, as they offered the same tcnipta
; lion as the inscribed sarcophagus, have
i shared the same fate. But the tombs
I contain, beside the dead, other articles,
; the removal of which involves no
; chargo of desecration, With the dead
it was usual to deposit, in the tombs,
articles of luxury on which they had
'seta value while living; and in the
| ease of the humble artisan, the tools
and utensils which lie used in life were
laid with him when he rested from bis
! toil, lienee various objects of interest
have been found in the tombs. Kle
: gunt vases of granite, alabaster, metal j
and earth, arc abundant in the various ,
museums of Kuropc. The tools of the |
mason and carpenter, articles of house
hold furniture, models of boats and
j houses, the pallets used by the sacred '
scribes, with their cakes of ink and i
reed pens or brushes, with various!
other articles, are by no means uncom- j
moil. Hooks, written on rolls of the
papyrus—which was made from the
' inner coat of a species of reed once
abundant in the lakes and canals of
Kjrypt, though now rarely to he met
with, are also found, sometimes en- J
closed in the swathing* of the mummy,
sometimes in hollow cases of wood or
in earthen jars."
lore U nothing magnanimous
in hearing disappointment with forti
tude when the. whole world is looking
on. Men in such circumstances act
bravely from motives of vanity ; but be
who, in the vale of obscurity, can brave
adversity, who, without friends to en
courage, acquaintances to pity, even
without nope to alleviate his misfor
tunes, ran behave with tranquility, is
truly great: and whether peasant or,
courtier, deserves admiration; anil
should be hold up for our respect.—
[tiold-milh.
A Great Example.
We lmvo a groat example in the Sa
vior. Would nny one know how to
live, let him turn to Christ's iiistory,
and let him learn there. Sec how lie
lived, devoted to the giorv of God and
the good of men ; how He made it llis
meat and drink to do His Father’s will
and also reverenced and obeyed His pa
rents; how He honored the Sabbath
day and kept the whole law of God;
how, neither envious of tiie rich, nor
ambitions to rise above His circum
stances, He submitted to an humble lot
and patiently endured His trials; how
lie bore a life-long humiliation with
contentment, and His few brief honors
with humility; how Up cherished His
friends and forgave Ilia bitterest ene
mies ; how gently rebuking the bad,
and kindly raising the fallen, instruct
ing the ignorant, helping the weak and
oppressed, pitying all that sorrowed,
relieving all that suffered, loving all
that lived, He lived for others, not for
Himself.
As a weaver on a loom working the
beautiful flowers of a pattern into His
web, let us. by the God's gracious help
try to weave a copy of Christ's life into
the body of our own. Men of God, for
you no better shield against temptation
or stouter buckler in a battle-dnv, no
(letter curb to ptdl us on the edge of
sin, nor sharper spur to urge us on the
path of fluty, than the constant imita
tion oft llirist—the habit of bringing all
our conduct to this holy test. Had
Christ been in our circumstances how
would He have acted? Would He
have felt, would He have spoken, would
He have acted an we arc doing! The
spirit helping us, we sliail thus become
living epistles of Jesus Christ, seen and
read of all men—true followers of Him
whose Iiistory is summed up in this
brief but weighty sentence : “lie went
about doing good."
With aims no less lofty, let His holy,
beautiful, beneficent life he the mode!
of ours; and its motto nobler than ever
emblazoned on banners of silk in let
torsol gold, ami borne before tlie great
est of kings—this : “For me to livo is
Christ, and to die is gain.”
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Tiir. T.ioiit or Xattiie.—The oelc
brated Mr. Hume wrote an os-ay on
the sutlifioney of nature ; and the no
less celebrated l>r. Robertson, on the
necessity of Revelation, and the insiif-'
ticieucy of Hie light of nature. Hume
came one evening to visit. Robertson,
and the evening was spent on the sub
ject. T^e friends of both were pres- ]
out, and it is said that Robertson roa
sonod with aeeustomed claernoss and ^
power. Whether Hume was convinc-i
ed liy liis reasoning or not we cannot
tell: hut at any rate lie did not ac-1
knowledge liis conviction. Jluinc was
very much of a gentleman, and as he
rose to depart, bowed politely to those j
in the room, while, as lie retired thro’ I
the door, Robertson took tho light to ^
show him the way: “Oh sfr,” lie cou-j
tinned, “I find the light of nature al
ways sufficient,” as he bowed on. The
street door was open, and presently, as
ho bowed along the entry, lie stumbled
over something concealed, uml pitched ]
down stairs into the street. Iiobert
ran after him with a candle, and, as he
held it over him. whispered softly and \
cunningly, “You had better have a lit- j
tic light from above, friend Hume,” j
and raising him up, he bade him good
night, and returned to his friends.
Fashion.
Fashion rules the world, and a most
tyrannical mistress she is—compelling
people to submit to-tiie most inconve
nient tilings imaginable, for fashion’s
sake.
She pinches our feet with tight shoes,,
or chokes us with tight handkerchiefs, |
or squeezes the lireath out of our body |
by tight lacing.
She makes people set up by night,
when they ought to be up and work- ]
ing.
blie makes it vulgar to wait on one’s j
self, and genteel to livo idle and use
less.
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would rather stay at home, eat when
they are not hungry, and drink when
they are not thirsty.
She invades pleasure and interrupts
business.
She ruins health and produces sick
ness—destroys life, and occasions pre
mature death.
She makes foolish parents, invalids
of children, and servants of all.
She is a despot of the highest grade,
full of intrigue and cunning, and yet
husbands, wives, mothers, fathers, sons
and daughters, black and white, have
become her obedient servants, and vie
with one another to see who shall be
the most obsequious.
•‘Shorten thy sleep and lengthen thy
knowledge,” says an Arabic proverb;
but if shortening one’s sleep should
happen to shorten his life as well, what
becomes of the knowledge then? It is
tin- opinion of a distinguished physi
cian that half the insanity of this world
could he prevented by sufficient sleep.
Karly rising is a good thing for persons
who go to bed early, and a hail thing
for those that don’t. Lengthen your
nights or shorten your days—take your
choice.
--* * -—
Cvr"-'!'oinmy, my son,” said a foml
mother, ‘alo jolt sav your prayers night
and morning ?” “Yes, that is of nights |
! but an\ -mart boy ran take care of 1dm
-c 1 f in the d iv time.”
An Indian's Idea of a Telegraph.
An American officer once nskrd his
interpreter to tell a Comanche Indian
about the magnetic telegraph. The in
terpreter, who was a Delaware Indian,
asked him:
“What do voit rail that magnetic tel
egraph ?”
“You have heard of New York and
New Orleans, I suppose?” said the of
ficer.
“Oh, yes,” was the reply.
“Very well: we have a wire connect
ing these two cities, which are about a
thousand miles apart, and it would take
a man thirty days to ride it on a good
horse. Now a man stands at one end
of the wire in New York and by touch
ing a few times he inquires of his friend
in New Orleans what lie had for break
fast. His friend in New Orleans touch
es the other end of the wire and in ten
minutes the answer comes back, ‘11am
and. eggs.’ Tell him that Beaver.”
His countenance assumed a most
comical expression, but lie made no re
mark, until (lie officer again asked him
to repent what lie had said to the Co
manche, when lie said :
“No, 1 not tell him that, for l don't
believe it myself.”
Upon liis being assured that such was
the fact, be said :
“Injun not very smart; sometimes
he's big fool; hut he holler pretty loud,
you hear him half a mile. Toil say
'Merlcan man lie talk thousand miles.
I 'speet you try to fool me now, cnpt'n,
maybe so you lie.”
-. ——
A Gray Coat.
The New York correspondent of the
Mobile 1’egistcr tells the following
story:
Col. B-, a gentleman well known
to the staff officers who served in the
Trans-Mississippi Department, was go
ing to liis office on the lower part of
Broadway, and the gray coat and old
slouch hat which mark him distinctly
as an ex-Confederate, and which ho
takes particular pride in wearing, at
iracicu me auenuou oi two Mermans
whom he passed. One of them nudged
the other, and said to him in a loud
whisper:
“l>ut is a rebel.”
“Yaw,” responded his companion,
••vat for lie wear dat dam gray coat up
lie re
Col. 1?-. who is a muscular fellow
with a well tanned face and nueye that
seems to he lighted with all the furies
when he is angry or indignant, over
heard the remark and the allusion to
hit favorite coat, and when lie had got
well before the two Germans he sud
denly wheeled around and looked them
full in the face. The teutons did not
wait to examine the color of ids eyes.
As soon as they sawi him turn they
stopped, and when his Hashing eve lit
on them they broke for the middle of
the street, and did uot slop running
until they were a hundred yards from
him.
How Jed Missed it.
Some folks arc in the habit of talking
in their sleep; anil Miss Betsy Wilson
was one of the number. This peculiar
ity she accidently revealed to Jedcdiah
Jenkins, in a careless conversational
way.
Jedcdiah had just finished the recital
of a matrimonial dream, in which the
young lady and himself figured ns hero
and heroine, he having invented the
same for the sake of saying at the con
clusion, it was “too good to l>e true,”
and hv thus speaking parables, assuring
the damsel of what he dared not speak
plainly.
“1 never dream,” said Betsy, “but I
sometimes take half tlie night and tell
ull I know in my sleep.”
“You don't say sol”
“Yes ; 1 never can have a secret from
mother. If she wants to know any
thing, she pumps me after l have gone
to bed, and 1 answer her questions as
honestly as if my life depended on it.
That’s the reason I wouldn’t go to ride
the other night. I knew she would
find it out. It’s awful provoking.”
Now Jed, as the reader has surmised,
had long felt au overwhelming partial
ity for tlie young lady, and yearned to
know if it was returned; but though
possessed of sufficient courago to
mount the imminent deadly breach, or
breeches (connubial ones, we mean) lie
could never muster spunk enough to
inquire into the state of her heart. Itut
lie now bethought himself of her con
fessed somnambulic loquacity, and felt
tlml the time to ascertain his fate had
come. Approaching the sofa lie whis
pered :
“My dear Hetsy, tell me, oil, tell me
Hie object of your fondest affections ?”
The fair sleeper gave a faint sigh,
and responded :
• I love—let mo think—(hero you
might have heard the beating of Jed’s
heart tlu'ough a brick wall)—l love ray
country, heaven, atul Imked beans.—
llut l have one passion above all oth
ers. it is for roast onions!”
The indignant lover didn’t wake her
hut sloped at once, a sadder, but not a
wiser mail.
Mt*n dying make their wills
why cannot their wives? Hceausc
wives liavo llieir wills during their
lives.
Bsiy if your sister, while engaged
with a sweetheart, asks you to bring a
glass of Water, from au adjoining room,
start oh the errand, but you need not
return. Von will not bo missed.
L*on't forget this, little bo\ ■?.
. ......
The Eternal Word.
No fragment of any army cvcrsur-)
rived so many battles as the Bible; no;
citadel ever withstood so ninny sieges ;
no rock was ever battered by so many
hurricanes and so many storms. And j
yet it stands. It lias seen the rise and,
downfall ofDauiers four cm pi res. As-'
Syria bequeaths a few mutilated figures
io tli3 riches of the National Museum.
Media and Persia, like Babylon which
they conquered, have been weighed in
the balance and long ago found want
ing. Greece faintly survives Its histo
rictime. ‘•’Tls living Greece no more;”
and the iron Pome of tho Caviars is
held in precarious occupation by a fe
ble hand. Ami yet tho Pock which
foretells ail this survives. While na
tions. kings, philosophers, systems, in-!
stitutions have died away, tiie Bible I
now engages men’s keenest thoughts, I
is examined by the keenest intellects, j
stands revered by the highest tribunals,
is more read, sifted, debated, more de
voutly loved, and more vehemently as
sailed, more defended ami more de
nied, more industriously translated and
freely given to the world, more honor
ed and abused, than any book the world
ever saw.
It survives all rlinngcs, itself tin-'
changed; it moves all minds, yet is'
moved by none; it secs all things de
cay, itself incorruptible; it sees myr-'
lads of other books cngulphcd in the;
stream of time, yet it is homo along
triumphantly on the wave ; and will he
borne along, till tho mystic angel shall I
plant his foot upon the sea and "swear, I
by Ilim that liveth forever and ever, |
that time shall lie no longer.
The Two Voices.
"When Guttenhurg, "the first printer, I
was working in his cell in the monas
tery of St. Abersgot. lie tells us that
lie heard two voices address him. The
one bade him to desist; told him of the j
power his invention would put into;
mu nanus vi uuu men iu propagate
their wickedness; told lii.ni how men t
would profane the art he had created;;
aud how posterity- would have cause -
to curse the.man who gave it to the
world. So impressed was Guttenburgi
with what he heard, that lie took a
hammer and broke to pieces the types}
lie had so industriously put together. }
Ilis work of destruction was only}
stayed by another voice, sweet and mu-i
sicul, that fell on his car, telling him to '•
go on. aud to rejoice in his work; that
all good might not he made the cause I
of evil; but that God would bless the j
right in the end. So to all of us, still |
comes those voices that came to Gut-:
ten burg; the one calling us to work
while is is called to-day; to try to leave j
the world better than we found it; and
the other tempting us to give over and
take our ease; to leave the plow iu
mid-furrow, and to rest on our oars
when wc should be pulliug against the
stream.
Exchange of Babies.
A laughable incident occurred a fevv
evenings since in this vicinity. A lady
and gentleman whom we will call Mr.
and Mrs. Smith, called to spend the
evening at a neighbors whom we will
call Peters.
Each family had a baby, and tiio lit
tle fellow s, about the same age, were
laid together, sleeping upon a bed.—
After the enjoyment together of a very
pleasant evening in sociability, the vis
itors prepared to leave, and while Mrs.
Smith was getting ready, Mr. Peters
jocularly callod to her not to take more
than her ow n, when she replied for him
not to fear, as she would ,-take nothing
that belonged to him"—-which proved
to be quite a joke on him as the allair
turned out.
After their friends were gone, Mr.
and Mrs. Peters prepared to retire ; the
child roused and commenced crying
and Mrs. 1*. remarked that it was not
Lucy’s voice.
On examining the little one, it was}
found to be Mrs. Smith’s baby and Mr.!
P W »• i n bn rn
mistake rectified; but soon met Mr. S.j
with tho exchanged baby in his arms,;
who thought the exchange “boat the]
nation,' as ho and his good wife found :
out the swap on arriving home, and re
solved at once to trade back. The mat
ter was adjusted with a hearty laugh,
principally at tho expense of Mr. and:
Mrs. Smith.
We believe this is the only circum-1
stance of tho swapping of babies on re-;
cord in Jefferson county—unless the ;
red men have some such historic event, i
—[Oskaloosa Independent.
Rri.ES fob Young Ladies.—A llos
rtni paper, no doubt versed in tlfci rules
of society at the "Hub,” suggests the
following memoranda r.a a guide to
young ladies in their conduct:
“Have a good piano or none. Re
sure to have a dreadful cold when you
are asked to favor the company. Cry
at a wedding but don't liiint. Always
scream at a spider. Never leave your
curl papers in the dnRviug room. Drop
your handkerchief when yon arc going
to faint. Mind you are‘engaged'if you
don't like your partner. Abjure ring
lets on a wet day. Never faint unless
it is convenient to fall into the arms otl
the young man you love. Remember
it is vulgar in the extreme to know
what your mother is going to have for
dinner. When you go a shopping, be
sure to carry your ma along to carry
tho bundles.
(rijr-It often happens, when the bus-1
baud fails to be home to diuuer, that it
is one of his r asx days,
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SALMAGUNDI.
KiKWl. y slionid women be employed
in the #ost office? Because they un
derstand how to manage the mails.
C€?*A radical paper says “there will
he a stir in Congress when General
Butler gets there.” No doubt of it—
he has the spoons to do It with.
£23*‘‘Bob, how is your sweetheart
getting along?” “Pretty well, t reckon
she gays I needn't call any more."
#3“ A man in T.oudon lost his life at
a game of poker. Jlis wife hold the
poker.
KJP-Why docs a sculptor die a harder
death than other men? Because he
makes luces and busts.
If a Colt's pistol lias six barrels,
how many barrels ought a horse pistol
to have ?
#3“ “ There arc ties which never
should he severed,”as the ill-used wife
said when she found her brute of a hus
band hanging in the hay loll.
S&" A wag has truly said that if
some men could come out of their
graves and read the inscriptions ott
their tombstones, they would think
they had got into the wrong grave.
£3“ Flattery is the oil of the machi
nery of society. AH arc susceptible to
it; and he that thinks lie is not, Hatters
himself in the outset.
ISp-Brigham Young has ordered one
hundred barrels of Bourbon whisky for
the medical use of Ids numerous fami
ly. It is thought it will lust him a
month.
*3“ A susceptible youth who clerks
in a store, says lie once kissed a girl
who was so sweet that he had to drink
vinegar and eat crab apples for two
weeks afterwards to keep himself from
turning to loaf sugar. Dangerous
girl! Wouldn't she make glorious
feeding for a hive of bees ?
tfay A negro woman was relating
her experience to a gaping congrega
tion oi'color, ami among other things
sho said site had been in heaven. One
of the ladies of color asked her:
‘•Sister, did you sec any black folks
in heaven ?"
‘•Oil! get out! you s'pose I go in do
kitchen when 1 was dar?”
Go to Chckcii.—There is no one
thing which helps to establish a man's
character and standing in society more
than a steady attendance at church amt
a proper regard for (lie first day of the
week. Every head of a flimily should
go to church as an example. Lounging
in the streets ami bar rooms on the
Sabbath is abominable, ami deserves
censure, because it lays the foundation
of habits which ruin botli body and soul.
Many fi man can date the commence
ment of his dissipation which made
him a burden to himself and liia friends
and an object of pity in the sight of his
Sunday debauchery.
Idleness is the mother of drunkenness
—the Sabbath is generally an idle day,
therefore, if it were not properly kept
it were better struck out of existence.
—[Mobile Tribune.
--
8*3“The following editorial from the
New York Times of the 22d is exceed
ingly racy:
General Butler is determined to im
peach something. lie went to Con
gress for that express purpose, and
docs not intend to be balked. He pre
ferred the President naturally enough,
but as Congress declines to gratify him
in that respect, lie is willing to com
promise on our custom house collector,
lie is accommodating as the politician
wlio called on President Jackson to de
mand the mission to England as the re
ward of his services, but on being re
fused this and everything clse'on the
descending scale, said he would sat
isfied if the President woulrF*gft-e him
some old clothes. Mr. Hulbard of
ercu a resolution in the House re
questing the President to remove col
lector Smythc; but (leneral Butler re
sists this and insists on impeachment.
We rather favor this proposition.
Congress has the right undoubtedly to
impeach any office holder, and we
should rather like, for the novelty of
llio thing, to see them do something
they have a right to do.
Force of JIarit.—There is an East
tern tale of a magician who discovered
by his incantation, that the philoso
pher’s stone lay- oil the bed of a certain
river, but was unable to determine its
exact locality. He therefore strolled
itlong the bank with a piece or iron, to
which he applied successively nil tho
pebbles he found. As one after anoth
er they produced no change in the met
al, he flung them into the stream. At
last he hit on the object of his search,
and the iron became gold in liis hand ;
but, alas! he bad become so accustomed
to the •• (ouch and go" movement, that
the real stone was involuntarily throwu
into the river after tho others, and lost
to him forever. This story well alle
gorizes the fate of the coquette. She
has tried and discarded so many hearts,
that at length she throws away the right
one, from puro force of habit.
ItS-The largest Sunday-school in the
world is fohnd in Stockport, near Man
chester, England. It numbers about
5.000 scholars, a greater portion of
whom are operatives in tho factories
and have no other means of education.
Besides instructions in the Scriptures,
they are taught writing ami elementary
book-keeping, with no hook nsed ex
cept the BU>1?<