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ATTORNEYS AT LAW
A UG CSTA. ARKAXSAS.
'Will practice in the counties of Woodrufl
Jackson, White and Craighead. Special at
tention given to collections of all claims en
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assures him that ho oacglve general sal.m ;
faction. Ministers of the bospel. and all
who have been disabled m the service of their
country, treated gratis.
lies Arc. Arlt., February 2, 18t.fi—Cm
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attorney AT LAW,'
Cotton Plant, Arkansas.
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& MARTIN,
L with our T.au
STING
ill hi
lintel;
ssible
a pert;
jp
m PARTED.
, j They arc not ptffet, though their
Have wanderedin different
And though they niter more
1 On Winter eves «Sum
It matters not thoAAn
Tho’ boundUs*
For still defying f
Heart yearn^r
irojr
■'Jk |
J. .ifet OU. • y> ^ !
, -.are in our delights^
our side, and stllf
vis as pole from pole,
Vnpathetic thrill
Lrt and soul to soul.
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
Incidents Connected With His Re
lease.
Many stories and incidents arc related
concerning the release and bailing of
Davis. A. well informed correspon
dent says:
HIS BONDSMEN.
There was a decided sensation when
Mr. Greeley’s name was called, and he
stepped forward as first bondsman.—
The paper on which the names of Jeff.
Davis, Horace Grcqlfsy, John Minor
Bolts, Augustus Schell, and a dozen
leading Richmond Confederates, ap
peared together, is certainly a curious
and suggestive document. It is under
stood that the two blanks on the bond
are to be filled with the signatures of
Gcrritt Smith and Cornelius Vander
bilt.
The attendance in the Court room
was mainly that of the army friends of
tho prisoner. Besides those and their
attorneys and correspondents, there
were thirty or forty colored men. Ev
ery inch of space was occupied, and
many persuus wwuuwww .
benches, tables, window sills, etc., that
they might see and hear to a better ad
vantage.
Mr. Davis sat very quiet and erect
during the proceedings, smiling- from
time to time, as fricndstlaiuc forward
to shake his hands and congratulate
him upon his release. Mr. Greeley ap
peared quite as happy as any of the Into
Confederates when the- Court said it 1
would accept bail, and the greeting lie j
gave Mr. Davis was very cordial.—
There was a most hearty and forcible j
cheer when the Judge directed the Mar
shall to release the prisoner, and for a j
moment there was a great struggle on ;
the part of those anxious to extend eon- j
gratulatlons.
The passage of Davis back to the ho
tel was a great ovation. The street was '
soon tilled with people, and the win- ’
dows on both sides were crowded. .
mostly with ladies. His whole pro-,
gress was greeted with cheers and
waving of handkerchiefs.
TI1E INTERVIEW
between Mr. Davis and wife, and coun
sel and their friends, who were first
admitted to their rooms, is spoken of'
as very touching. The company join
ed iu prayer, winch was offered by the
Episcopal, clergyman under whose ad
ministrations the Davis family sat du
ring the Confederate Presidency. In
the afternoon, Davis held au informal
levee, and for two hours or more his
parlor was crowded by the people of
Richmond, all Confederates of any note
being present, llis friends announce
that he will live as quiet and secluded
ns possible during the summer and
fall.
HE STEAKS ENCOURAGINGLY OF HIS
HEALTH.
At Fort Harrison, Judge Ould called
him out, and lie gazed-silently upon
the frowning memorial ot the days
when lie wielded the power of a do
facto nation. To those days lie made
no reference at any time, and only oute
did he make any allusion to his present
position, wMcli he did wheu he said, in
reference to his health, that lie had a
plenty of vitality left, and would be ns
strong as he ever was wheu he should
get out of his troubles.
HOW THE LADIES RECEIVED HIM.
The ladies of the Hollywood Memo
rial Bazaar thronged the windows of
the building where the bazaar has been
held, and many faces suffused with
] tears were clearly discernible among
the fair spectators. The Rev. Dr. Min
uigerodo called upop him and had a
. most interesting Interview of about
half an hour. The doctor was aston
ished at the change which had taken
place in the appearance of Mr. Davis.
I He could hardly believe that two years
of imprisonment could hlegcli Uni cap
tive’s hair so wbile or produce that pal
lor and emaciation which Mr. Davis so
! visibly exhibited.
MR. DAVIS DEEPLY MOVED.
He showed an entire willingness to
! converse, especially with tlio.se triends
ho met upon the hoat, and with ouo of
those, who had served with him during
die Mexican war, reviewed their com
mon history of those days, talking
j ehccrfu.lv and betraying no uneasiness,
i no consciousness of any uuplcnsaiit
J ness of liis surroundings. Once, only
j'onoo, during the day, did lie seemed
moved. At Brandon Landtag, three
Misses Harrison, old and intimate
friends of the Davis family, came or
hoard, and Davis stepping eagerly for
ward to greet them, it was noticed that
his voice was husky and the tears fall
ing as he did so. The most of the day
however, the fallen chief spent in i
state-room with Judge Ould.
{fjr-Thc noblest hero is he who sue
; ccssfully battles with himself.
Cleburne's Grave.
Many of onr render* will probably
remember an Incident that occurred at
St. John Church, at Ashwood, Tcun., a
few days before the disastrous battle of
Franklin, wlTere the heroic Cleburne
wa* killed at the head of hilflotamand.
The following description of the in
cident alluded to, is extracted from a
[tetter written at Ashwood, to a lady of
This city :
“* » * Ashwood is merely a dis
tinguishing name for a neighborhood. ;
A postofllce on one aide of the Mount ;
Pleasant road, and an Episcopal chapel
on the other, constitute its neucleus.
Of the former I have nothing to say
—connected with the latter there is a j
legend tlint may interest you. We have ;
heard much of the ivy mantled cathe
dral towers of Europe. They arc not
mythical. I have not seen them, but I
have seen tlic tower of St. John’s at
Ashwood. English ivy covers it from
summit to foundation stone in lavish
greenery, In closo embrace, justifying
the old poetic idea of affection in the
plant for the thing which support* it.
The church, though small, is symmet
rical, and of unmixed gothic architec
ture.
■It stands upon a knoll, a fhort dis-1
(mice from tho road, in a grand old
wood that the dryad* cannot but love,
and that breathes out from its dim re
cesses the potent influence of silence,
or mystery* itnd of indefinable awe,
which must have added materially to
the impressiveness of the ceremonial
of Druidical Worship of the Celtic na
tions.
In front of this really beautiful
church, Pat Cleburne paused as he was
going to glorious death on Ihe blood- i
iest field of the war, and said to his at- j
tendants :•
would sleep well in a place like this.'
TIlUSUlC Jiero uuu M" "
that he spake prefiguring words. Cor af
ter that night of carnage before the lire
gilded works of Franklin, his friends,
remembering his musiugs boiorc the
church of St. John's, bore bis body
back to its quiet shade, where it rests j
with those of Grnnberry, Stralil. and i
some others of the bravest of the army
of Tennessee, who died lighting by his
sido.
This afternoon in company with
I visited his grave, and ns I stood be
neath the overhanging trees, damp
with tiic recent rain, fountl myself in
voluutarly repeating (and for tlie first
time realizing their full significance)
the threadbare lines:
“Ami Ardennes waves above them her green
leaves,
Dewy with nature’s tear drops as they pas-. :
Grieving, if aught inanimate ever grieves,
Over the miretnrning brave—”
With uncovered head, I looked upon
the lowly resting place of thiff “inher
itor of unfnttilletl renown’’—this Sid
ney of tho South, and while standing
there the memory of tjtqnewall Jackson
rose up fresh and vivid, intertwining
with that of Cleburne. At first I could
not understand the association, but in
a few moments I recalled certain words
of the great Virginian, spoken while cn
route to the last sceue of his earthly
triumph, and all was plain. It was the
eve of the fight at Chancollorsvillc.—
The day was sultry and his weary com
rades happened to halt for a few mo
ment's rest on the. barren side of a
stream, the opposite shore of which
was wooded. Here it was that lie said
to his men, “Let us cross over the river
and rest beneath the shade of tlie
trees."
Tho shadow of Azrad's wing was
over him then, as it was over Cleburne
at Asliwood, and in a little while his
name was giving new splendor to. the
already glorious necrology of his na
tive State.
Pat Cleburne I Stonewall Jackson!
Peers in courage, if not fame: one the
favorite of the Arpiy of Virginia, tho
other the favorite of the army of Ten
nessee, both as true as steel, as constant
as the sun in the discharge of every du
ty, each of them rests in the grave of
! his choice, grandly and peacefully,
while tlicir names arc written in ara
minthiuo letters side by side, in the
1 book of a nation’s remembrance.’’—
i [Miss. Index.
#G5“ The Japanese punish murder by
| decapitation ; parricide and other such
heinous crimes by crucifixion. A pris
oner sentenced to death is taken to the
place *1' execution, surrouuded by the
officers, and having hung around his
neck a placard, giving his name, rank
I and age, with his crime and sentence.
After his execution his head is left sus
! pended in sight for three days, with
the placard stijl hangiug to it. Arson
1 is punished by burning flic criminal at
the stake, yet as enforced, this penalty
does not bring a very painful death,—
The criminal Is first kept on a scant'
allowance of food for some time ; then,
before being taken out for execution,
ho is over fed oh rich and highly spiced
viands, till lie becomes stupid and in
different. lie is (listened to the stake,
am! wood and light materials heaped
around him. These are lighted at the
same moment in several different
places, and the victim is smothered a
quickly by the smoke as lie could he
strangled by a rope.
gfcjj-IGshfuhii'Ss Is more frequently
connected with what we call good scum
than we find assurance; and impudeure
on the other hand, is eften the effect o
downright stupidity.
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WouderfuliQase of Coma.
From thq Hick®**# Courier, fl.I.}
Som« sight miles from Hickman
there ekitts * vonng lady who presents
the most 'wondorfbl case Of coma, or
pretermit aril disposition to sleep, of
which wo mtwT6vcr khowri or heard.
Wfeft about ttratraryeurs old she was
' .ken with a severe chill nttd tFoatr.1
t v hef physicians accordingly. A» P< r
fever which followed tlie chill subsided
shU'fell i*tp a £cep sleep, in which con
dition she has remained ever since ex
cept at intervals. She awakes regular
ly twice in every twenty-four hours, at
which time nourishment is given her;
and it is a most singular fact that sjo
always awakes within n few minutes
of the same hours every day. .She will
reiuaiq awake ami perfectly conscious
live, ten or perlinps fifteen minutes, and
then gradually drop off to sleep again.
When asleep it is utterly impossible to
arouse her. *i>hc is now twenty-four
years old, and has consequently been
in tliis comatose condition n period of
twelve years. When awake, she does
not appear to suffer, except from a
drowsy, gaping inclination, and a per
sistent effort to cleanse her throat of
phlegm. She never complains of^Miy
bodily pain. In sleep she is very ner
vous at times, and appears to suffer a .
good deal by the violent twitching and
jerking of her muscles and limbs, and
her. hands arc ®1 clicked tightly as if en
during severe pain. The paroxysm
will continue perhaps five minutes and
she llien sleeps as calmly and quietly as
an LnfhnU Her food consists of mush,
gruel, and such things as are usually
given confirmed invalids. When awake
she will answer questions asked her,
and can converse with some intelli
gence, but never exhibit* au> interest
;u Anything, or desire to talk, Talking
seems to be a labor to her. She never
lias, of course, liad any of (he advan
tages of education or socie'y, and her
ideas of everything are diild-tike. Her
features are inclined to be pretty, and
though deprived Of the lints of health,
arc not marked by that sickly palor
which her condition would indicate.—
She ha* hrtig, dark, wnvv hair, which
her poor old mother take* great care in
comblhg and dressing; and her com
plexion is that of a pale, delicate bru
nette. She is of ordinary size, and her
limbs and muscles well proportioned
and devcfopril. She’ has grown con
siderably sites. Ism* ftttti.-1'on. Ilernantc
is Miss Mary (iodsy, and her mother is
a very poor widow lady, dependent
upon the charity of neighbors and vis
itors for a sit]>p<trf. ’She has been vis
ited since her affliction by jiiuny eml
nout physicians, but her condition de
fies all medical skill. Indeed, we have
not met any one who claims to under
stand the cause or nature of her dis
ease.
A Caution to Seamstresses.
A stoi v. wlijoh went the rounds of
the papers a few years ago, says the
London Lancet, wilt bo remembered
by some of our readers for the mixed
impressions of sensational interest and
utter incredulity which it excited. It
was briefly this:
A man in the act of saluting a young
woman to whom he was much attached,
clasped her in hi* arms; shortly after
lie became faint mid died. It was
was found that the young woman in
dulged in the perilous habit of sticking
needles in the front of her dress, and
one of them had pierced the heart of
her fond but unfortunate lover. A case
which occurred the other day would
lead one to think that the story pos
sessed some degree of probability. On
February 11, a woUmn of very intem
perate imbits died rapidly, with symp
toms of Ihinting. After death, the per
icardium was found full ot blood, that
had escaped from wounds in the aorta.
The gentleman making tlie examina
tion pricked his Anger with a common
sewing needle, whiqh was lying in the
pevieardial cavity, and which was
doubtless about the last thing he ex
pected to find ill quoh a situation.—
There is no story to show how it came
I there, The poodle m*y have been
. swallowed, but as the woman was in
the baby of using the front of her dress
in the situation of her heart, as a cusk
! ion for pins and needles, it is very like
ly that while falling about she drove
too iitt-Jc weapon-through the wall oi
, her chest.
BsjyThad. Stevens has caused an an
noun.ygip^ .tp he published, stating
tliat Senator Wilson lias no authority
lor stating that tjio Southern States
will be admitted to Congress upon their
acceptance of the Sherman Military
liili.
He gays Congress is not pledged and
in this rosjvu't ’Stevens is right. Ii
Congress intended in good faith to ad
mit the Southern State* when certain
conditions had been complied with
Why did it not author)** the ITosidem
to announce their admission, as in tin
case, of Nebraska, when the event had
taken place? Can any one answer?—
[Exchange.
—— --
tgjr The New York Times gives tin
i’oilojyiijj mysterious *«tl fearful announce
meut: We have received, diroetly frou
, the police authorities el the city, informs
tion of recent organisations which an
now in progress for the purpose of resist
ing, by violence and bloodshed, if noces
nary, the execution and enforcement o
the ex.-ise and other laws, which are ol
noxious to a largo class of our citinens.
Died,
In Washington City, District of Co
lumbia. on‘Monday, May 13, 1867, of
paralysis, Columbia Liberty, after a
severe ami protracted illness of seven
tedious years. •
The dceensed was born in 1776 of a
poor but respectable couple—Honesty
and,Patriotism. The first seven years
of her life were a struggle with myste
ry, even as were the closing seven.
But she grew up a beautiful lass, and
made her entke into society in 1787,
winning the admiration of friends and
the jealousy of rivals. At an early age
she formed a tender attachment for
Principle. A happy union followed,
and in the course of eventR a mimerons
offspring rose up to bless her. The
duties of matornity, however, did not t
detract from he® beauty, and as she ad
vanced in vears she seemed to increase
in loveliuess. Devoting herself exclu
sively to the care of her numerous j
family, and sure of the over enduring
love of her only spouse, the future lay i
before her bright as the vision of beau-]
titudo.
But alas for human frailty! In an!
evil hour, elderly matron though she
was. she listened to the honeyed words ;
of an unprincipled young fellow named ;
Radicalism, not yet out of his teens.
She resisted iiis advances for a while, ■
but in November 1860, lost to all sense
of womanly dignity, slie abandoned
the partner of her youth aud took lip
with this young scapegrace. This eafx
i’as created a lamentable disturbance
in her prftViousiV happy family. Elev
en of her most loving children refused
to live with this young step-father, and
sought for themselVes other homes.
For this piece of contumacy the wicked
step-father disinherited ten of them,
and dragging the eleventh back to the
itlrl linmoitofitl lif* on Jtnr tin- :
told barbarities and outrages. The
poor old mother, l^art-brokcn by the
disgrace of her household, was struck
with paralysis, and lias been bedridden
for several years. The physicians who
attended, were chosen by her unprin
cipled husband, and the public opinion
is that they were employed to kill in
stead of cure, as the old lady was an
obstacle to his ambitious designs on
her property and that of her children.
Last Monday, after unheard of sufi'er
Ing and anguish, she breathed her last.
Can this bo death? there’s biootn upon her
cheek.
But now 1 see it is no living hue,
But a strange hectic—like th’ unnatural red
V’hich Autumn plants uron the perished leaf.
It is the same ? O God ! that I should live
To look upon the snme!
Southern papers please copy*—Nash
ville Gazette.
A Curiosity in Photography.
In 1814, as Messrs. Hill and Adamsou
of Kdinburg were taking a daguerrootype
of York Minster, a child sat down on one
of the steps in front of tho principal en
trance, and the operators were afterwards
surprised to find that the child's figure
was transparent on the plate. The stones
of the edifice having been impressed on it
before, were visible through the portrait
of the accidental sitter. This singular
| occurrence was soou forgotten, and it is
only of late, since the invention of the
lenticular stereoscopo, that efforts have
i been made to apply such transparencies to
j some useful purpose—the representation
I of phantoms or apparitions, for instance.
1 The process by which such effects are ob
tained is very simple. Tho photographer
arranges the actors he is to represent In
their proper order, and fixes the place
where the phantom is to appear. The
actors turn their eyes toward that spot
with various attitudes of joy, fear or hor
ror, which the apparition is supposed to
produce. IV hen there are hut few sec
onds left of the time required for produ
cing the complete effect of light on the
plate, the person representing the phan
tom rapidly steps into the proper place in
the attitude previously agreed upon, and
is so reproduced in a transparent stute,
everything behind being more or less vis
ible through the body of the person.
This process Professor Mack now propo
ses to apply to anatomical preparations in
a very ingenious way.- Taking the skull,
for instance, he photograph* it steroseopi
eallv, so that the whole interior of the ear
is seen through the temporal bone. It is
easy to conceive the immense advantages
that may be derived from the system.
8oppose it wore required to show photo
graphically the exact position of the heart
. and its immediate connections in a given
posture of the person; that part would
I then bo photographed first from a model.
I snd the whole body over it; tho latter
would thus form a transparent outline
showing the relative positions of tho in
ner and outer parts.
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The following were among the
articles enclosed in the corner stone ol
! a vault recently created for the inter
ment of the Confederate dead at New
hern. 34. C.:
First Confederate flag, second Con
federate flag, Confederate battle-flag
! photographs of Davis, Lee and John
ston. a roll of officers composing tin
first Cabinet of the Frovisional Govern
meat, Confederate money of all deuoui
, iiuUions, a Mexican dollar, contribute,
by a Confederate soldier, Coufcdorali
army and navy buttons, and a silvei
- half dollar.
*siy* A gentleman's comforter—a pret
ty wife with an snjiablc disposition.
The Second Baby.
An' affection a to father, blessed with a
second baby, thus announced tlie fact
to tlie world:
By gosh, we've got another baby—
just like t’other, they’d been twiii6, on
ly one come along two years ahead.—
It's got tlie same old squall, yells like
blue blazes, and keeps spiting milk.—
I held it the other night while the miss
was hunting up tlie “lixer pro.” Well,
no matter, but T won't, “trot” it again
soon, if I do, rhy “wardrobe” may be
“spiled.” It sung sweetly all tlie while
until I gave it a slight dig in the back
which made her collapse, and if you’d
have seen this, J. W. B., you'd have
thought it was a lovely collapse, too.—
“Experience is a wise schoolmaster.”
I've iaid in a stock of wet goods for it,
seventy-tlirec bottles of teething syrup,
three quarts of patent suicide laud
anum. two dozen bottles of Godfrey's
cordial, so as to treat her cordially,
a barrel and three pints of paregoj-ie.—
I got the three pints, so if the barrel
gives out some dark nighf, in tlie mid
dle of a thunder storm. I'll be sure to
have quo dose left. I was brought up
to believe a man's house was his castle,
lint I'll he darned if I ain't mighty
small potatoes, in the new baby seSson ;
tlie “nuss”‘is boss, and carries the keys
of the castle gate, and she amuses her
self by trying to see that I don't have a
thundering bit of comfort; she keeps
me in the kitchen watching to see the
"gruel bile," or “daubing” mustard on
square bits of cloth with the handle of
a spoon marked “J. W. II.” ‘I can't
drink the baby’s ]varegoric witiiout the
“nuss” smelling it, ami telling my bet
ter or worse that I've been drinking
whiskey, and am a drunken brute. I
mn tknn nnr1
told that “if she should die I’d remem
ber this,” and “uuss” will say, “poor
tiling,” and noxFday tell all my neigh
bors how my brutal treatment is kill
ing my wife, and how the poor, dear
tiling sobs herself to sleep every night,
and 1 feel as sheepish as though 1 had
been indicted for stealing kindling
wood from a graveyard. The baby's
breath is as sour as ten day old butter
milk ; its mouth, when shut, ain't big
ger than a worm hole in a hickory nut.
it's generally open, and as big as a stove
pipe bole. * When she was two days
old I gave her a real bone tooth-pi ok,
to get tlie "chunks” of curdled milk out
of her teeth, who laughed at me, and I
looked and found that she wA deform
ed, for she was born with iothing to
chew with. It was coming a regular
gum game on me; blit I had to put up
with it. She has a tongue just about
as big as my palate, and all stained
white; if will swallow a quart bowl
full of milk, and then you can put ba
by, milk and all, into tl»c bowl and not
half till it up.
It ain't got but three hairs, and wife
prefers combing them straight to curl
ing. Its complexion is the color of a
mahogony wash stand, and its body
the shape of a peanut. She has a good
voice for ten or eleven o'clock nights,
but I've got an orthodox way of shut
ting her eye up; I take her by the bot
tom of her long white dress, let her
bead hang down, and swing her gently
backward and forward, keeping time
with the pendulum of the clock. If she
is very noisy, I let her bead'mb on the
Brussels carpet; then I let her up a lit
tle, and I see her breath coming back ;
I throw in a little more swing ; by wav
of dessert, I puff a little kiilikinick to
bacco smoko down her throat, which
makes her as mad as the douce, and it
j makes her squirm, too ; but I tell wife
it's good for worms, and I should think
I it ought to be, if it ain't; she is mighty
i independent, and don’t care any more
j for the memory of George 'Washington,
i than she does for the backbone of a cat
lull, and thinks more of a sugar-teat
; than of Audy Johnson or any other
; man; she is so partial to YEt.i,-ow, that
I think she will make a good abolition
i-it. Doc. says there is no use -M btty
1 ing flannel in small quantifies every
i two years, and that I Mil better lay it
by in tbo case. I Muted I hoped but
ter would cowe down, as my children
were so •veil bred they would require
larg* doses; he told me that I must not
think of the expenses, only to think ot
i what a help they would be to me. 1
1 sighed, and asked when ? And when I
: thought what was in store for me in
the future, 1 thought it would take a
! mighty big store to supply them. Wc
! are going to have that young dumpling
] christened just as soon as she’ll make a
j bundle big enough to carry out, and n
drop of water won’t drown her. We
have hunted over all the OAU-lie. xeu.
I lick, sacks-ou and greasv-ANN names,
but have concluded to wait until wife
| and me both dream one nairm the same
night. We want something "Weal, foi
what wo have of her now is all real. 1
guess you’d think so to see me glidiiiy
around the room on tiptoe in the stil
hour of the midnight, shivering will
cold, and holding a little tin sauce-par
over the gas-light, swearing clear dowi
in my stomach, waiting for the milk t>
| "bile;” it takes longer to “bile” twi
i gills of milk for a veiling baby than i
does to get tip steam on an ocean steam
or. 1 can “bile” over a doeen time
while tbs milk does once; then for i
sleepy head of the family it is delight
ful exercise to “by-a-baby” around tie
igiom, sticking stray pins in your feet
■ and swinging a cross Isa by to and fro
darn it, I always feel like giving then
a quart measure of carpet tacks; sir
was four hours the other day swallow
ing a salt spoou full of hash, and th
mother gave nte the deuce for feeding
her and sent for doc.; lie came, put his
ear on her chest, shook his head, order
ed a tenth of a drop of castor oil put in
a quart pitcher, and given sparingly ev
ery fifteen minutes until relieved, and
the little pug makes as much “muss”
swallowing it as I would a whole wa
termelon ; he said the danger lay in the
potato, lmt wife is shouting for me to
bring her.the paregoric, so I'll stop.
A Story for Swearers.
A gentleman once heard a laborer
swear dreadfully in tho proseuee of a
number of bis companions, lie told
him it was cowardly to swear in com
pany, when he dared not do it by him
self. The man said he was not afraid
to swear at any time or any place.
‘•I’ll give you ten dollars,” said the
gentleman, “if you will go into the vil
Inge churchyard at twelve o'clock to-!
night, and swear the same oaths you
have uttered hero, when alone witli
your God.”
“Agreed," said the man, “ 'tis an easy
way to make ten dollars.”
“Well, you come to me to-morrow,
and say you have done it, and the stake
is yours.”
The time passed on, midnight came.
The man went to the graveyard. It
was a night of pitchy darkness. As
he entered the graveyard not a sound
was heard ; all was a» still as death.—
Then the gentleman's words, “alone
with God,” came oterhiin with a won
derful power. Tiie thought of the
wickedness he had committed, and
what lie had come there to do darted
through his mind. Afraid to take
another step, ho fell on his kuces. and
Instead nf the dreadful natb lie intend
ed to utter, the earnest cry went up,
"God be merciful lo uie a sinner I”
The next day ho went to the gentle
man and thanked him for what lie had
done, and said he hud resolved not to
swear another oath as long ns lie lived.
Hold on, Boys.
Hold on to your tongue when you ;
are just ready to swear, lie, or speak j
harshly, or use any kind of improper j
language.
Hold on to your hand when you are!
about to strike, steal, or do any im
proper act.
Hold on to your foot when you are
on the point of kicking, running away
from study, or pursuing the path of er
ror crime or shame.
Hold on to your temper when you
are angry, excited, or imposed upon.'
or others are angry about you.
Hold on to your heart when evil per- j
sons seek your company, and invite j
you to join in their games, mirth or j
revelry.
Hold on to your name at all times,
for it is more valuable to you than
j gold, high places, or fashionable at
; tire.
Hold on to the truth, for it will serve
! well, and do you good throughout
! eternity.
Hold on to your virtue—it is above!
I all price to you iu all times nud iu all
places.'
Hold on to yotir good charterer, for ;
j it is, mid always will be, your best |
; wealth.
The Indian Troubles.
Every telegram from the plains indi
cates the probability of a fierce Indian
. war. The Indians are becoming more
I troublesome every day, despoiling settle
ments, stealing cuttle aud murdering citi
j zens. If this turbuiAit course is persisted \
' in it cannot fail to lead to tlie utter anni
| hilation of the red skins. Whatever may
have been the extent of the injuries in-,
dieted upon them in th'o past—and no i
one denies b“t they have endured terrible :
grievances—the Government is bound to
uffari protection to its citizens wlio have
j settled in the tar Territories under assu
1 ranees of Congress that security should be
guaranteed them in their homes, and avo
I cations. If now, the Indiau tribes, who,
: living on Government lands, and subsist
I ing on Government rations, allow their
hereditary love for the war trail to over
come better counsel and sound advice,
and precipitate a war, there is but little
doubt, judging from the well knowu mar
tial spirit aud military character of Gens.
Sherman and Hancock, who have control
of tiic United States forces, that before
the conflict is over there will be but few
tribes left to molest settlers in the future.
i
j Troops and supplies are being rapidly
' forwarded to the posts on the border, and
’ the war cloud daily increases in size. The
! old mountaineers all concur in the opinion
■ that the present season will be the sever
I est experienced on the plains for years, on
i accuuut of the Indiau troubles. The
! tribes on the war path number over six
j thousand with daily accessions to their
j rauks.—[St. Louis Times.
-.^. —
Ray If we can rely upon the report, the
lato race in England for the two thousand
1 guinea stakes exhibited by far the fastest
time on record. Toe course is one mile
aud seveuteeu yards, and it was run in
one minute and twenty seconds. The race
was won by the Puke of Beaufort’s ‘Vau
, ban.’ We believe that there is an error
i in the count.
I _ _____
; *a-wh y are the suow* of Mont
. Blanc like a ship-buHder ? Bocause
they can avalanche (hnvo a launch)
» whenever got ready.
SALMAGUNDI,
SSTAn old maid is like an odd boot
—of no use without a fellow.
who lives for himself alone,
ives for a mean fellow.
JefFrance proposes to tax bachelors
or not “proposing.-’
iSfTroubles are like babies—they
July grow bigger by nursiug.
•^Speaking without thinking is
iike shooting without taking aim.
JsSrWhen is a literary paper like
smoke? When it comes in volumes.
IS3“Mnn looks forward with smiles,
but backward witli sfghs.
#S“IIe who puts a bad construction
311 a good Act, reveals his own tvickcd
sdness at heart.
Isx’t It.—“Katv, have you laid, the
iable cloth and the plates yet?” “An
sure, I have mam—everything but the
L'ggs, and isn’t that Biddy's work?”
JsiyEvery hour comes to us charged --
with duty, and the moment it is past
Is registered how it was spent, for or
(gainst as in the final account which all
must give of their actions.
A young lady says there is but
one word in the Bible she wishes to be
altered. She would have the word
smite changed to kiss in the following
passage : ‘Whosoever shall smite thorf
3n thy rigid Check, turn to him tho
jthcr also.’
C^yAs a young lady was worship
ing the other Sunday, her waterfall
burst, flying into a hundred pieces.—
Iter brotlvpr had put some combustiblo
material in it, and the tiling wcut up.
The young lady suddenly changed her
prayers to something else.
fi£S*Lessons of virtue and wisdom,
inculcated by a mother in early youth,
act as guardian angels through life,
and finally overcome the evil passions
of oiir nature. The disregard of paren
tal authority hardens the child’s heart
and is generally followed by degrada
tion and crime, which ends in death.
8s?*"What is the use of living?”
snarled'a veteran grumbler the other
day. “We are flogged for crying, when '
we are babies; flogged because the
schoolmaster is cross, when wo arc
boys; obliged to toil, sick or well, or
starve, when we are men; to work still
harder (and suffer something worse!)
when wc arc husbands; and, after “T-—
hausting life and strength in the service
of other people, die, and leave our
children to quarrel about the possession
of our watch, and our wife—to catch
somebody else.”
PayThe editor of a country paper,
who no doubt, has more delinquent
patrons than he ought to have, appeals
to them in the following touching
straiu:
“When other bills and other duns
Their tales of woe shall tell,
Of notes in bank without the funds.
And cotton hard to sell;
There may, perhaps, iu such a scene,
Some recollection be
Of bills that longer due have been,
And you’ll remember me!”
Xone Stand Alone.—“It is the provi
dence of God that noue stand alone;
we touch each other; man acts with
man/ heart on ITfeart. We are bound
up with each other; hand is joined in
hand ; wheel sets wheel iu motion ; wo
aro spiritually linked together, arm-in
arm ; we cannot live alone ; wc canm
die alone. We cannot say ‘I will only
ruu risk with my own soul—I atn pre
pared to disobey tire Lord for such a
pleasure or such a gain, but I do not
want to implicate others—I ouly want
to be answerable for myself.” This
cannot be. Each living soul has its in
fluence on others in some way or
other.”
Bis?* A good story is told of an ec
centric old gentleman who, although
occasionally addicted to the habit of
swearing, was still punctlllious iu re
gard to sayiug grace at the table, and
this he never omitted on any occasion.
The story runs that on a certain occa- Jr "c
don the old gentlemau invited a sea
captain, a jolly old weather-beaten tar
of his acquaintance..to dine with him.
They sat down to dinner, and the old
gentleman, according to custom, com
menced saying grace ; but the captain,
whose attention had been diverted for
a moment, hearing the old gentleman
speak, thought he was addressing him,
and turned to him with—“What did
you say, Squire!”
“Why, d—u It, man. I’m saying
grace!”_,m, ' _ ___
He’s the ‘Teller.”
A little hopeful, at Loyalton, Sierro ^|j
Valley, says the Irownieville, (Cal.)
Messenger, was hurried into the house
by his mother to escape imminent dan
ger in the street, lie was informed
that he might have been mangled,
wounded, killed, or torn limb from
1 limb, and then poor mamma would have
no little wozy-tozv. Our hero livened
up with unwontcd*\uimation''as he ox
| claimed:
“Who was that feller you said made
| me. mother ?”
(11c had beeu taking a number of lcs
|sons iu the catechism.)
j “Why. God made you, my dear little
Tozv.” „
I “Yes, yes—he’s the feller; but can’t >
j he patch me up again as good as ever? jF ;
i You bet lie would, just because he loves -
j you.” C
Little Tory’s mother snptu-e;6e,j a
; sudden smile as she thought of the
! old block from which the chin was
Ihewu.
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