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I si earner, having been thoroughly repaired,
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My goods are inferior to none in this market, and
my object in selling off at cost and carriage is to
enable me to replenish with a stock which will be
bought exclusively with cash.
nor 8-if. LEVIN HARRISON.
ru have ju«t received a large
quantity of the best Cast Plows, which wr
Lp. a J. JACKS! IN I < < I,
HEAP.
SON. i
ISUHIIX JKfrSH CARDS.
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GOGGIX, TRADER t HOLT,
Cotton and Tobacco Factors,
g hoc i: it w.
F0KWAKD1XG AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS
No. 1G I'E’ont Row, MEMPHIS, TENN.
"\"\7EEKL\ ACCESSIONS KE* EIA ED thrnvgh
tl out the season to their already large and
desirable stock of Tobacco. Hugging, Rope, Su
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and Plantation Supplies generally. Will Store
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of their business bouse, No. lb Front Row. We
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IMPORTERS AX!) DEALERS IN
Brandies, Gins, Wines, ( tears, Ac.,
ALSO,
DISTILLERS & MANUFACTURERS OF
Domestic NViiu-ss nml Uyuors,
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nov 23-tf. CINCINNATI, ©.
F. LEPTIEN,
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..V TV I > .5 M WEIAAglS,
BUENA VISTA STREET DES ABC,
Three doors east of G. & J. TFLaren k Co.’s
I >ESPECTFULLY INFORM? THE CITIZENS
1 t Des Arc and the adjacent country, that he
has a new and select stock of Clocks ami Jewelry.
He is, as usual, prepared to esecutc all kinds of
Clock and Mate)) Work, in u workmanlike man
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DES ARC HOTEL,
BY J. (. TAHhIXTON,
DES ARC. ARKANSAS.
H aving leased this well-arranged
. Hotel, tlie proprietor respectfully informs
t raved ers aai<i the public gem rally, that he has com
pletely renovated the premises, and is prepared
to accommodate all who m:1 y favor him with their
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secure the favor of all, he i-determine I to please.
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F. M. ROI5 IN SON, - - - - - - <■;. ,T. BRANCH.
ROBINSON Cl BRANCH,
(Successors to (\, V. VaAci).)
wiii»L*:s.i1.1* .wor.'tail r>r..\lets in
$ iroccvirsn-.u! I >i*otlu<,<*,
u:xtm\G. forwarder, ,wr.nnsM<>\ merchants,
dot3. DES ARC, ARKAXSAS.
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I>ES ARC. Al VANS AS.
I \TALERS in ST AT IE AND FANCY DRY
I tin*']..'. i. -■* ■! . d i t' i 11 ;l> ■* lit.
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Forwardiis/ a i i *V -ui~s, n Mt*reimnt*. nnv-'!.
GARVIN, BELL & CO.,
iMPciiTMtx a Rim:;, ilk dealers iv
COHERIN' A l'O.'-iEvL’LC BUY-GOODS.
AMI
Manii!M('!l! re-?-. o i" < lot illlli*.
Ni>--. nuil •! * I Men S re«*t north side,
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A. 8TEAV W<T, v. V. . IT, li. sit •• I 1.
STEWART A BROS,
I ?<*<•<*i\ in”', Foi’ws i*<1iiinf
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dotS. DIN ARC, ARKANSAS,
R. C. MCCAULEY & CO
DES ARC ARK A NS VS.
Dealers in st-vCLE and fancy dry
(iiftxls. Ready-Aide Outiiinpr. Hal . < t:)is.
Hoots. Shoe . !i Cin-'li'tt'are. Lit'., Ete..
Forwarding and < ouuiissioii Mereiiatits. nnv.;.
C. A. JUBSON,
Carpenter sxn<l Joiner,
DES AH', ARKANSAS,
Dealer in s.sit, f *i;s. mantles.
Window and D or Frame-', el-. SI.op corner
Erwin and Dark Strots. N. II.—< 'ofiin - ma le to
order, on short noli tmv .'!-y
o. H. QUZ3SNBERRY,
AUCTION. COMMISSION MERCHANT,
A N 1>
Heal IS*1:tto Ajrt'nt,
nov 3. DES ARC, ARKANSAS.
C. E. DAVIS,
FI ,A S > VT I»IIAOrr.
O- HDERSWIEL FIND ME RY ADDRESSING
me at Des Arc, care of John Jackson Si Co.,
or to Napoleon, care of T, W. Wilcox. novoO-lm
1*1 SO I'' MSSION VI. < V IS !>*-».
T. J JOBE,
Allorney at IjU vv,
I)ES ARC, ARKANSAS,
AVHLL PRACTICE IN PRAIRIE AND THE
adjoining counties. Particular attention
given to <’ollcetionL
Refkbkncb.—T. .1. & C. Powell. Knoxville,
Teun.t Tims. Jj. Callaway. President of Ocoee
Rank, Cleveland, Term.; Moore iV Mar«h. Chatta
nooga.'lcim.: Hon. John II. Lumpkin, Rome, (la.;
Hon. William Daugherty. Columbus, (la.; lion.
Joseph T. Mct oimcil. lLuggold, t«a.; William If.
Inman. President Northwestern Rank, Ringgold,
Georgia. nov 3.
J. T. PARHAM,
I .Ai’cliitect nii<l 15uii<l<*i*,
RES ARC, ARKANSAS.
OOLICITS CONTRACTS FOR BUILDINGS OF
IO every style. lie is also prepared to furnish
Designs. Estimates and Drawings of all the mod
ern orders of architecture; build, superintend
and furnish working plana for building at mode
rate prices. Orders left at the ■•Citizen Office,”
will receive prompt attention. nov 3-y
RUSS EVANS,
REAL ESTATE & GENERAL LAND AGENT
DES ARC, ARKANSAS.
1~)RQMPT ATTENTION WILL BE GIVEN TO
all business entrusted to him in his
line. nov 3.
DR. H. ARMISTEAD,
H aving permanently located at
DES ARC, offers his professional services
to the citizens of the town and adjacent country.
Office on Lyon street. nov 3.
= POETICAL._
LANDIS G OF THE PILGRIM PATH ERE.
WRITTEN BY MRS. HEMANS.
The breaking waves dashed high
On a stern and rock-bound coast.
And the woods against a stormy sky
Their giant branches tost;
And the heavy night hung dark
The liills and waters o'er,
When a band of exiles moored their bark
On the wild New England shore.
Not as the conqueror comes.
They, the true-hearted, came;
Not with the roll of stirring drums,
. And the trumpet that sings of fame ;
Not as the flying, come.
In silence and in fear—
They shook the depths of the desert’s gloom
W ith their hymns of lofty cheer.
Amidst the storm they sang.
And the stars heard and the sea!
And the sounding aisles of the dim wood rang
To the anthems of the free!
The ocean-eagle soared
Front his nest by the white wave's foam,
And the rocking pines of the forest roared—
This was their welcome home!
There were men with hoary hair
Amongst that pilgrim-band;
Why had they come to wither there.
Away from their childhood's land?
There was woman's fearless eye,
Lit by her deep love's truth:
There was manhood's brow serenely high,
And the fiery heart of youth.
Wliat sought they tints afar?
Bright jewels of the mine?
The wealth of seas, the spoils of war?—
They sought a faith's pure shrine!
Ay, call it holy ground.
The soil where first they trod!
They have left unstained what there they found;
Freedom to worship (iod !
-««>»
AT THE DOOR.
‘•Who is it knocks this stormy night ?
Be very careful of the light 1"
The good mail said to his wife.
And the good wife went to the door;
But never again in all iris life,
\\ ill the good man see her more.
For ho who knocked that night was Death ;
And the light went out with a little breath ;
And the good man will mi«s his wife,
Til he too goes to the door,
When Dealh will carry is ini uj* to Llo,
To Lelk'kl her face oijee mure.
TOrwiiwn—iwii ii' i t-WiM -wt-mi r 1 ^smm
AliMY BUTTONS vs. HAZEL EYES.
I was in a delirium of love. The dark,
hazel eyes a;, 1 s':;! dark r hair .~.b Im-A
me more than ever a frowning battle
ment awe 1 a foriern-1 i-tpe of fifty brave
hearted r doi . I had faced murderous
Indian.'on their "ivii hunting ground'; their
iiendi.sh yells had ar. limed me from my mid
liight slumbers to -lion. i ha 1 march* i
iiiiiliiH liiiigiy forward, leading lav men. while
arrow-, an t bullets 1--11 like hail around me.
All this 1 had met with e.miparative c*juuu
itnity. and returned to the im. |', t>i oar
nation only to he .'iihdtied by a weia.iu.
\ et Helen Sparrow was lair and hi-.iu iiiil
as an Italian . ..y. < on.-cious of ho t, ('na
tion. she ma " no effort to entrap me; but i
•ailed as >j'i mb. info hi r nt as the tvild man
into the snare of the hum-man. 'J la-re the
simile ends, for 1 {lettered n d tin* b-a-t let.
but yielded heart and soul to In r bev.’itehina
influence.
‘■Army butt us" are proverb! :!!$• ine in
stant, and I wa- u i i xeiMition io the general
rule. t)n this oc-.isioii 1 wa* l'a.riv caught i;i
my own net. so cat dully woven for Jlebn.
.My flirtation assumed a serious aspem — 1
love 1 her. yet i km w she niistra.-te 1 me.
It was in the .-umim r of '.’>S that the War
Impairment granted me a fiirl ugh of tv*,
month.-, and the t it was 1 me, her. But three
weeks had pa e l. and 1 would have thrown
up my commis-ioii had lb leu even hinte i
that such a sacrifice would gratify lo r.
At the expiration of this time, a party,
consisting of Helen, tb. rtru le St. Clair. Cap
tain Care.-a former messmate—the old folks
and myself, was formed for a trip to Niagara.
I lie old folks took care of tliein.-t l\i -, the
Captain took charge of (lertie. and Helen
foil under my especial protections.
At Niagara, the International was filled Jo
its utmost capacity. North and South had
poured their fairest daughters into this caul
dron of fashionable ex1-itemeut, ami handsome
sous had followed th.e wanderings of their
fair inamoratas. Among all, Helen—to me—
wa the fairest. \\ ith her eves I viewed the
mighty torrent as it pitched headlong into the
seething abyss ; when she was sad. L was de
spondent; when she-mill'd 1 was all vivacity.
\\ e walked, rode, talked, laughed and went
together, until my love amounted to frenzy,
and my frenzy to madness.
ISut this slate of things could riot last long,
for I was even then a lit candidate for a luna
tic asylum. I would have given worlds, had
tin y been iH'iie, to re ill the tirst week or so
of our acquaintance, when 1 had made a boast
x* . ... xi: .. *: _l iv i i. * \
' • 1 I I I > 11 11 ’ l I y 11 . I .» . . < . . . dill v ' I. \ i • I Li 1 <
very existence of such a thing as pure and
lasting love, i had ridiculed it, one evening.
a> a maudlin sentiment, and denounced ii the
next as the moonshine of juvenile precocity.
For all whic h I was soon to reap my reward—
and a hitter one it proved to be.
It was a calm and beautiful night, snob a
one as is designed especially for lovers. Helen
and 1 left the frivolous dance and strolled
away, ostensibly to view the Falls by moon
light. We had reached the haul? of the river,
and seated ourselves on a convenient rock, in
sight of the mighty cataract. The final week
of my furlough was drawing to a close. We
had been conversing about constancy, and
though my sentiments were materially ( hang
ed since our first acquaintance, 1 was afraid
to betray my inconsistency by expressing
them. My views of love were somewhat nulli
fied. and as that subject naturally followed the
other, the spirit prompted me to try the virtue
of action. With a sudden impulse 1 fell upon
my knees and poured into her attentive ears
my tale of love. Half doubtingly. but with
becoming gravity, she listened; occasionally,
at some unusual outbreak of sentiment., a faint
smile played over her face, but only for an in
stant. My vanity whispered that it was the
excess of joy which filled her. At length I
reached the momentous question—the imagi
nary turning point in my existence. She
placed her soft hand in mine, and while I
kissed it enthusiastically, ejaculating in the
interim, “Mine, mine, forever!” with the
other she raised her handkerchief to her eyes
and turned her head, as 1 supposed to conceal
the joyful tears which would naturally dim
her vision. I did not learn until several days
subsequently, that it was simply to smother a
laugh at my ridiculous actions.
1 returned to the hotel jubilant, and in the
very extreme of happiness. Happy had it
been for me had 1, by accident, fallen ovci
the precipice, for the dizzy bight from which
1 was about to be thrown brought me in the
end more sorrow and anguish.
A few days passed, and I received orders
to report for duty at Fort Leavenworth as
early as possible. We were all alone. The
parting was very like all such, which have
been described a thousand times on paper,
and occurs once at least in the life of every
one. i renewed my vows and protestations,
but she was submis.-ively tranquil. The last
farewell tv.is spoken ; a final kiss imprinted
on her lair brow; i had mv hand on the knob
oi the door, when she drew from her pocket
a letter, and gave it to me. She bowed sweetly,
and sorrowful y 1 returned to my own room.
33 itli cage xpeetation 1 opened the letter,
and here is a copy of it, word for word, as she
penned it:
“Niagara, September, 18->8.
31 v Excellent Friend:—The time Im
parting has come; the three is ended. Let
us raise the curtain, and calmly review the
events of the past two months.
3 ou returned to your home with the crown
uf victory upon your brow. Yon were courted
and flattered justly by all; 1 was proml of
yi'ur marked attentions, and 1 felt ihe first
dawnings of love for you in mv heart, liven
ing after evening you were with me. The im
pulses of your nature prompted you to make
many developments which taught me caution.
3 on seoji I at true love as an ideality, and at
constancy as existing only in story. 3Hu re
lated to me what you were pleased to call your
• harmless flirtations.’ anil the very recital of
them proved tiie fallacy of your unbelief.
Hoes not your heart soften when the pic
ture of that broken-hearted Spanish girl rises
before you f Has the presence of death no
]lower to subdue you '( Hues not the pale
spectre of - your dark-eyed Isabel’ haunt you
iu your dreams i flow can your sleep lie quiet
when you recall the besru-hing look and ti n
| der supplication of ‘your prairie bird,’ who
! even now mourns your absence, and awaits
j in vain your return.
3 ct I will no! add to your unhappiness, but
let conscience do it.- work.
1 had no confidence in the sincerity of your
prufe.-sions until a week before leaving home.
At no time have I believed in your constancy,
yet I encouraged you. for the voice of those
you bad wronged seemed to call for vengeance.
Whether they have been avenged 1 h ave to
your own feelings. ('nuld they have witnessed
ihc scene near the halls, perhaps they would
have been then satisfied. [To my handker
chief 1 am indehtc I for suppressing „ laugh
which might have sounded strung-!y out of
I h ave v ui to voiir own meditati as. \\ .■
nicer h<> in tc at tli»> place, but >h«*ull rhance
throw you in mv wav. you will be cordially
greeted by simp.y
\ mr friend, Helen S——
!n tlie first ebeiition of ] i- ’ >n T trampled
the 'letter under foot. But pride failed me.
and ! .-iibered more than Ian _nn..e can tell.
■it - he m \er knew it. I ler shafts-unk dee]),
and in time completed my reformation.
1 left Niagara a adder and a wiser man. I
knew it was n "le - to plead with her. f.e- her
d. . i,nee made was wmdicndde. in a
f-wwcks 1 was again at m\ past, and drowned
my sorrow ui the excitement. of front it r life.
a 1 y re; entail was thonni. h. I could not
• oil i,.: k the dea i to hie . I nf I mourned
m r m deep and letter contrition. (>n one
oi my e-.eur-ioiis into • 'alit’ornni. I vi. it-- - 1
tlie grave of the luvclv Spanish girl, ami
caused a haid-otne tablet to be placi i to Iter
nn u ay. it w - the la , to louial tliat e atld
i e be.'li v, I. \\ as idle m t 1 i 'king ilowii Upoil
me them and did she not intercede for ’me to
Him who i-eati heth and knowei'h all hearts j”
1'of mote tli m a year the • |,<-iirie Bir i
has fic-n my wife, and a darling little cherub
.- scream i g lustily, while 1 write. The babe's
name is Helen.
A TTllMl’T TO I'VISOX WASLUXCTOX.
\\ lien they reaelie 1 Springfield, they drew
up at tli" inn. where they tibgbted to warm
themselves. The inn-keeper, whose name
was Francis, was a Liberty man. and was
common ly calhd Black St.ui, I Vom tlie .-warthy
hue of his coin plea, on. lie had kept a - inu
lar establishment in Broad street, of New
\ iirk. which was awhile the eenter of attni"
tion to all the baeh'dnr.s and guv-minded gen
tleine!i far and near—drawn hither not : lone
by the wit aud good humor of the dark host,
hut by the allowed excellence aud unadulte
rated quality of his viands and liquors; and
be it remembered. Black Sam was a great
' hero in his way—for hundre Is of brawny
wights had lie laid upon their backs ; unnum
bered were the smooth \ oltartau noses ho had
converted into huge masses; an 1 many, very
many a star-beaming eye had he bedimmed by
the mighty influence of bis magical power—
yet, notwithstanding all this. Black Sam was
allowed to possess *good-will for all mankind,
and for his friends a generosity of feeling sel
dom equalled by any of his calling, or any
oilier interested caterer i f the good things of
this life.
He moved to Springfield when the British
army had taken possession of tlie city, follow
ing tlie footsteps of tie retreating Americans.
: and preferring to deal with his half-naked and
suffering countrymen, rather than to remain
where he was and grow rich beneath the pat
ronage ot loyalty.
As soon as our travelers had taken their
seats at a fire in a room of the inn, a smart
looking woman came to receive their demands
—the surgeon observing her, exclaimed :
•• Why. ble>s my heart 1 Can this be Polly
Honey ' ”
•• The same, sir.” replied the rosy cheeked
dame, with a coquettish courtesy, “ hut Mrs.
Molly Francis, now. at your service.”
*• And did Flack Sam make you mistress of
his house and heart to prevent you from di
vulging a secret that would have hanged him.
| in all probability i '
u He married me, it is true; but many
think he had a better reason than you assign
ed.” and she raised her eyes to the looking
glass that hung opposite her.
“ That is likely enough,” returned the sur
geon. half-persuaded, cm a second look, of the
truth of her argument. And now, Mrs,
j Polly, if that please you better, go and pre
pare dinner, and 1 will subscribe to all you
have said.”
Upon which Mrs. Francis pursed up her
pretty mouth, and, with another glance at the
mirror, retired from the room with an air ot
consequence arising t.om self-esteem which
may be pardonable in an ignorant beauty.
; though reprehensible in a Cicero.
As the door closed, the surgeon said to lib
companion :
•• That simple girl was instrumental in sav
ing the life of Washington. 1 can speak o1
| it now—it can do no harm. It was about the
1 middle of June, 1776, that, while the Gene
ral was in New York, waiting the approach o:
| the King’s troops, that girl came to Francis
her present husband, whom she considered ii
the light of a royalist, and informed him, as
a secret she had overheard, that there was a
plan in operation among the government men
to destroy the rebel leader—as she termed
the Commander-in-chief-—by poison, which
was to be plentifully mingled with green
peas, a favorite vegetable of liis, on the follow
ing day, at Iliclmioud Ilill the headquarters,
where he was to dine. Francis w<*ut imme
diately to Washington, and acquainted him
with the danger threatened him. The Gene
ral, having listened with the most careful
attention, said:
‘My friend. I thank you; your fidelity has
saved my life—to what reserve the Almighty
only knows ! But now for your own safety.
L charge you to return to your own house,
and let not a word of what you have related
to me pass your lips ; it would involve you
in certain ruin; and heaven forbid that your
I hie should be forfeited or endangore 1 by your
faith to me. i will take the necessary steps
to prevent, and at the same time to discover,
the instrument of this most wicked device.’
The next day. about two hours before din
ner. he sent for his guard, told him of his
plot, and requeued that he would disguise
himself as a female, and go to the kitchen—
there to keep a strict watch on the peas until
they should be served for the table.
The young man carefully observed the di
rections be had received, and had not long
been upon hi> post, before the unfortunate T.
iI.. another <.T (lie General's guards, came to
InS door, looked auxiousiy in. and then went
away.
In a few minutes after he returned and ap
! proached the health, where the peas stood,
and was about to mingle the deadly sub
stances. when he suddenly shrunk back as
though from the .--ting of the lbrked-tongucd
adder, his color changing to the pale hue of
death, and his limits apparently with fear,
evidently horror-stricken with his own pur
| pose—hut soon, however, the operation of the
1 nio-e powerful incitement urged forward his
1 hand, that trend ling, strewed the odious bane.
• and he left the kitchen, overwhelmed with
, conflicting pas. ions, remorse and confusion.
‘Harold sleeps no more—the cry hath
j reached his heart ere the deed be accompli.-h
: ed.’ said the youth on duty, in a voice not
j devoid of pity as he looked after the wretch.
* What! T. II. said the General, sorrow
fully, upon reading the information; ‘can it.
: he possible—so young, so fair, so gentle ! He
woul I have been the last upon whom a sus
picion ot that nature could have fallen by
, J • I t i. j < • »l! I i 11 *' i •(' 11 •«» \ lit] lit * r 11 11 * i» t . H
said t • the y< nth bei >re him. •• (jo join
your comrade^, and be secret.’
'I lie \ .sing man went acci rdingly. and j
Wa liingtcn rctnred to the piazza, where seve- ;
ral general i !h cr.- were assembled-—among
whom was the hero ef Saratoga, who was
waiting for further instructions from Congre s
before he departed for Canada.
In a few minutes dinner was announced,
and the party u-lmre 1 into a hand ome room,
where a sumptuous hoard was spread, covered
with all the <h 'icaetos of the season.
U a-ningtini t i k 1, seat, placed (Jen. t
Cates on his right hand ;.m! C.en, Wooster !
on his left. \\ hen the remainder of the offi
cer.- ami company were s ated and ‘rigor to
commence the duties of the table, the (lone- i
ral id % ery in j>r ■- sivt Ij :
• (icutleineu. I must ropiest von to suspend
your lnc.-d for a moment. Let the guard'at
tend me.’
All was silence and amazement. The
guard entered and formed a line toward the
tipper end of the apartment.
to h | pon his plate a
spoonful of the peas, fixed his c\e upon T. 11.:
• Shall 1 <• i uf this vegetable? * he asked.
’1 he youth tuim .l paic and became dread-1
ittered :
• 1 don’t know.”
Hero II. t rued his hand, as if by an in
voluntary imp lb', to prevent their being
La ‘i'd. A chi' it on was (lien brought, in. th. t
a conclusive c'.pcidmcut might be made in
the prc.-cncv' i.f .11 tlio-e witnesses.
'1 bn animal at • <»i‘ tl ■ peas, and immedi
ately died, and the wretched T. I!., over
come w ith honor and remorse, fell fainting,
and was borne from the apartment.
Mr. Kakkv Tam its an Irish Mark.
The London .News, in atf account of Barey’s
' list exhibition in the liamlcl Urch ester, Lun
j don, says:
hen the chesnut had been duty hob
bled, tumbled and otherwise done for, the
i whole trasept su Idcnly be -a me vocal w ith the
unearthly screams of the Irish mare, who was
about to receive her first initiation into the re
straints of a civilized manage. This animal,
which was nil her a dingy gray, was evidently
of great power. Hhe lashed, kicked, hit, and
appealed with all tin; Ira iitional eloquence of
her country for ■justice to Irel and.’ We cer
tainly never heard so much howling from a
horse, and did not believe that even an Irish
one could have managed it; hut perhaps the
t* i.1 IN
I t>\\ v Ml Kill U MX 1 II _ xn l III . x»iiv , .'V.V J i 1 < 1 .
account ior her extraordinary exciteipent and
j '• fait it was all of no use. Mr. Farcy
wiped his hirchcad. pulled out his strap, and
j waited hts opportunity. The leg was soon up,
J and the mare soon down, hut not without the
j execution oi one of her national melodies, with
brilliant variations, which brought down
! thunders of applause. Several times during tin
process of teaching she seemed ouite ready to
eat her preceptor, so that it was <piite a relief
to the audience when she was at last made to
•bite the dust." a feat which she certainly
performed with the most demonstrative vin
dictiveness. Having gone through the whole
lession. she was at last released, when she re
tired a model of gravity and decorum, and evi
dently with her mind tilled with perfectly new
ideas on the subjects of kicking, scraining and
biting in general.”
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Mrs. John C. Calhoun, relict of the distin
guished Senator from South Carolina, has
been for some time on a visit to her daughter,
Mrs. Cleuison. near Baldensburg. Mrs. Cal
houn is now sixty-eight years of age, with an
eye scarcely dimmed with age, cheerful in
conversation, and refers with pleasure to her
many valued associations during former resi
dences in Washington and Georgetown. The
lady of the departed statesman does not choose
to trouble herself with politics, and within the
past few weeks she has wrought, and exhibits
to her friends, a large and splendid curtain of
crochet work, done with her own hand, ‘‘and
without the aid of glasses,” adding that ‘"this
was but the first often which she had under
taken.”
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The Origin of Famous Toast.—The cel
ebrated toast, ‘‘the liberty of the press—it i?
like the air we breathe; if x\’e have it not
we die,” was first given at the Crown and
Anchor Tavern, in Loudon, at a whig diunei
in 1795.
ARTEMUS WARE” AMONG TEE MOR
M O N S .
Our oil friend “Artemus Ward” gives a
graphic account of a visit of himself and
'•grate show” to the realms of brother
Young, who invited him to see his wives.
"Artemus” was introduced:
"My wives. Mister Ward,” sed Yung.
“Your sarvant, inarms,” said I. as I sot
down in a cheer which a red-headed female
brawt me.
“Besides these wives you see here, Mister
Ward,” sed Yung, “I have eighty more in
varis parts of ties consecrated land that are
sealed to me.”
••\\ Inch?” sez I, gettin up and startin at
him.
“Sealed sir, sealed.”
“Whare bowls?” sez I.
“I seed sir, they was sealed.” lie spoke
in a traggedy voice.
•• \\ ill they probably continue on in that
stile to any great extent, sir?” i axed.
"Sir,” sed he, turning as red as a Idled
beet, “don’t you know that the rules of our
church is that i. the Profit, may licv as many
wives as 1 wants? ”
"Jos so,” I sed. “You are old pie, ain’t
you?”
" Them as is sealed to me—that is to say.
to he mine when 1 wants um—air at present
my sperrctooul wives.” sed Yung.
•■ Long may they wave!” sez T, seein 1
shood git into a scrape ef L dident look out.
After leaving Brigham’s quarters, he had
an exciting adventure with a crowd of .Mor
mons and •• Morinoiicsscs:”
1 left the Profit and started for the tavern
whare 1 put up to. On my way 1 was over
tuk by a large krowd of Mormins, which they
surrounded me A stutid that they wus goin
into the Show free.
" M all.” sez i. “ ef I find an individooul
who is going round lettiu folks into his show
free, lie let you know.”
" V> e ve had a ilevelashun biddin us to go
into A. Ward’s Show without payiu nothing!”
they showtid.
" \ es.” hollered a lot of female Mormones
ses, ccasin me by the cote tales and swinging
me round very rapid, "We re all goin in free!
So sez the Kevelashuu!”
• -M hat’s Old Kevelashun got to do with
my Show?” sez 1. gettin putty riley. “Tell
.Mr. Ilevelashun.” sez i. draw in myself up to
my full hite, and lookin round upon the or
neiy urow i v.isi a prowu ana ueiiuur mean,
"Tell Mr. Revel islum to mind his own biz
iii". subjeck only to the Konstitushun of the
I niied Staits ! ”
•• Oh, now let us in. that’s a sweet man.”
so l several famulus, put tin thare arms round
me in luvin stile. “ Beeum 1 of us. Beeum
a Freest, and liev wives Sealed to you.”
*• Not a Seal 1” sez I. starting hack in hor
ror at the idee.
“ Oil. stay, sir. stay.” sod a tall, gawnt fe
rn:.1:0. uve wlioos lied 37 sunitnairs must hav
parsed, •• stay & Hebe your Jentie Gazclie.”
"N it of 1 know it, you won't.” soz 1 “Awa
y.iu .'kanderlus l’emaiic, nwa! Go and be a
Nunnery!” That’s whet 1 sed. jes so.
"A 1.” sed a fat chunky iemaile, who
unis hav wade more than too hundred ILs, •• 1
will he your sweet gidin Star.”
Sez i. " 111 bet two dollars and a half vou
won't.” Whare ear I may R une. Ill stilf be
troo 2 thee, oh Betsy Jane! [N. B.—Betsy
•Jane is my wife's Sir name.]
‘‘Wiltist tl >u not tarry here inthe Prom
ist Band!” sed seveial of the miserable crit
ters.
‘lie see you all essenthally cussed be 1 I
wiltist!” roared 1. as mad as I could be at
thare internal noneents. I girdid up my
Lions and fled the Seen. I packed up my
duds and left Salt Lake, which is a 2nd Sod
d in and Gennorror, inhabited by as ibeavin
and onprineipuled a sit of rctchis as ever
drew Bretli in any spot on the globe.
A Si iiTERltAN! \ N Torrent.— Last Fri
ll::'. evening, savs The Pittburg Ghronicle.
ju.-t as tlio men laid ceased drilling lor the
day. at Ki--iek Bryson's well, on the Ma
honing river, onc-foiudh of a mile above Ed
inburg, they heard a rubling in the bowels of
the earth, and in an instant afterward a tor
rent of mud and water rushed forth, covering
the floor and shed erected over the work to
the depth of a foot or more. The workmen
left in a hurry, undone of them returning
a short time afterward with a lighted candle,
to see the extent of the damage dmie. the gas
from the well ignited, setting tire to the dei
ricks and other wood work in an instant, and
was only extinguished after a good deal of
hard labor and considerable loss to the pro
prietors. So far as we have learned, no one
was injured.
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Brief Anorvr of tiik Koran.—The
Mohommedau Bible was written at different
periods, about A. IV <>10. in the Koreish
Arabcc, and this tine language was pretended
to be that of Paradise. Mohammed asserted
that the Koran was revealed to him. during a
period of twenty-three years, by the angel
Gabriel. The style of the volume is beau
I I i l . I , illiUU U!IU V ' 'III . V.< y « I i i ' V ». '*111'. * " i I1
sublime. Mohammed admitted the divine
mission, both of Moses and of .Jesus Christ.
Gibbon said, that the faith which Mohammed
preached is compounded of an eternal truth
and fiction, namely, that there is only one God
and that Mohammed is the apostle of God.
The Koran was translated into Latin, in 1148,
1 and into English and European languages
j about 1 To-!. It is a rhapsody of 3090 verses,
divided into 11 1 sections.
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Ueligiohs Matin ess.-—A new fashion
lias been introduced in the "high society” ol
I Laris. Lrivate theatricals and private eon
certs are known as among the most piiju.mt
amusements of the fashionable world, but the
j harisians have invented private preaching
Cards of invitation fora matinee rcli;/euc art
issued, a’pulpit is erected in the drawing-room
and one of the most popular preachers is se
cured, just as at a musical party the pet sin
gcr of the town is often obtained. Sometimes
rival entertainments of this nature occur or
| the same morning, and then the strife is be
tween the hostesses, which shall proffer the
! most tempting inducement, and which shal
j succeed in drawing the largest crowd.
The Old Coin Mama.—The Salen
assachusetts,) Observer reports that a gen
| tlcman in that city, who is in the " old coin’
, line, recently sold to a collector in Hartford ;
| copper cent for seventy-five dollars. It wa
the coin known as the " Iliglcy copper,” th*
first copper cent of Connecticut, dated 1737
and struck by a blacksmith named Iligley
But three specimens of this ancient coin ar
known to he in existence, and being tlm
rare, it readily commands the high price paii
for $his one of the three.
President Buchanan has donated 8100 fc
the suffering people of Kansas.
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.
Old age is to us a dream—childhood the
recollection of a dream.
The concluding volumes of Carlyle’s "Fred
eric the Great,” are announced.
" Hopes and Fears” is the name of a novel
by the author of "The Heir of ltadcliffe.”
The Rev. Samuel Hysons has written a Life
of George Fox, the founder of Quakerism.
A lady sometimes gets as much intoxicated
at her glass as a toper does at his.
The talk of women is generally about the
men. Even their laugh is he 1 he ! he !
In all noble enterprises the ladies are like
the electric telegraph—tar in advance of the
males.
Edwin Booth is said to have accepted a play
written for him by I’itz James O’Brien, and
called " Blood thicker than water.”
A man in love has very little need of vict
uals. So if your landlady doesn’t give you
enough to cat, fall in love with her daughter.
A brother lawyer once told John G. Saxe
that a heard was unprofessional. '• Right,”
said Saxe, " a lawyer cannot be too bare
faced.”
Brown, the factotum of Grace Church,
New York, being asked why the Prince did
not visit that tabernacle, replied, “ Well, you
know we are rather select here!”
It is said that out of one hundred and nine
ty-live duels fought in Paris during the past
year, only two have proved fatal to the com
batants.
Rudd and Carelton will shortly publish
"The Little Annoyances of Married Life;”
the second of their edition of Balzac translated
by Wight and Goodrich.
Oliver Wendell Holmes says belief depends
in a great measure upon what one eats—upon
Ids digestion and constitution. The faith of
onion-eaters must be strong.
Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found
unfit for circulation; because men have dis
covered that is far more convenient to adulte
rate the truth, than to refine themselves.
Marshal Ilynders states that the census will
how New York proper to possess about 855,
<*00 inhabitants, and with Brooklyn, Jersey
City. Hoboken and Staten Island, 1.125,000.
tlio East has been translated by 31 ary llowitt,
and will be published in this country before
it appears in England.
Lieutenant 3Iaury is soon to visit England
to arrange for the publication there of an im
portant work on which he has long been
engaged—tlie 3Ieteorology of the Ocean.
There died at South Shields, on the 18th
of October, a man named William Hudson,
ninety-three years of age, who was with Sir
•John Moore, when that gallant officer was
killed at Corunna.
" Where shall I put this paper so as to be
sure of seeing it to-morrow ?” asked 31ary
•Jones of her brother Charles. ' On the look
ing-glass, to be sure,” was his very prompt
reply.
The young wife of an old pawn-broker at
Philadelphia, tried unsuccessfully on Wednes
day night of last week to palm off a spurious
infant, borrowed from the alms-house, on her
husband.
•• Never be critical upon the ladies.” was
the maxim of an old Irish paper, remarkable
tor his homage to the sex ; “the only way in
the world that a true gentleman ever will look
at the faults of a pretty woman, is to shut
his eyes.”
Punch says that (laribaldi is an Irishman,
and was born in Cork or Connemara, it is not
certain which; and. after his father, was
christened Richard 3Iurphy, a name which
lie 1ms now contracted to Dick Tutor!
The new dimes and half-dimes for I860
have appeared. The thirteen stars are omit
ted. and on the reverse the piece is encircled
with a sheaf of corn, and the other native
products.
£- I’ll teach you to play pitch and toss! I’ll
flog you fur an hour, 1 will.” *• Father,” in
stantly replied the incorrigible, as he bal
anced a penny on bis thumb and linger, •• I’ll
toss you to make it two hours or nothing !”
The Clayton (Alabama) Banner savs that
on Sunday last, the Rev. Alexander McLcn
non. of the .Methodist persuasion, preached in
the 3Iethodist Church of that town with the
tri-color rosette conspicuous on liis vest.
A gentleman having a horse that ran away
and broke bis wife’s neck, was told by a
neighbor that he wished to purchase it for bis
wife to ride upon. £‘ No,” said tbe wretch,
l intend to marry again myself.”
A passenger car lias been built in Philadel
phia for the Brinkhead (England) street ra.il
j way. Tbe builders intend to put in estimates
; ior t tie construction oi au tne cars to Lie rua
! on the English passenger road.
In the West India Islands there are two
! hundred Baptist churches, with ninety-six
thousand two hundred and fifty members
There is also a theological institute, for the
training of native preachers.
The Swedish Government has abolished
the passport system. Any body may hereaf
ter enter Swedish territory, travel through, or
leave it, without any molestation from the
civil authorities, or any police interrogating
them.
The Cleveland (Tennessee) Banner learns
from farmers in that county, that the horses
are dying with something like the blind stag
gers. A good many have already been lost,
some of them very valuable, and the disease
has not abated.
The annual report of the Bombay Chamber
of Commerce shows that all the expensive
experiments made in India to raise cotton,
have resulted in little else than disappoint
ments. The government have finally aban
, doned all attempts at successfully raising the
great staple.
The lion. Grantley Berkley’s “English
Sportsman on the American Prairies,” is in
1 press; this individual is the latest English
\ libeller of American institutions. Ills tirades
against the ballot-box, and his fabrications in
1 relation to our manners and peculiarities are
; equal in malignity to any that have been
; written.
A Bible was recently sold at auction in
, France, which had been presented by a noble
, man to a deceased actress. The purchaser
l turned over the leaves, and found scattered
here and there bank bills amounting to about
! three thousand dollars, which the actress had
r ; never discovered. Her heirs have commenced
i a suit to recover the money.