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IOUSTON HOME JOURNAL EDITED AND PUBUSHED BY J. T. WATERMAN, JY THURSDAY MORNING, BY J. T. WATERMAN. PERRY, GA„ DECEMBER 28, 1870. AT PERRY, GA DAVID HUNT. A STORY OF WESTERN -LIFE. tehms. Year, - '.v.':$2 50 Six Months, 1 50 Three Months 1 00 The paper will be stopped at the expira tion of the time paid for, unless the sub- ripdon is previously renewed. If the address of a subscriber is to be ’ ‘changed, we must have the old address as | -well as the new one, tfi prevent mistake. No subscription received for a less period [ than three months. No attention paid to anonymous commu nications, os we are responsible for every- > in our reading columns. This rule is operative. Any one sending ns five new subscribers BY MBS. ASS 8. STE?HEXS. old ppsitioh, wIien'two meii'bn horse- CHAPTER EL About ten miles from the residence of David Hunt; one of the largest tributary streams of the Mississippi made a sudden sweep inward, like bent bow, embracing a rich tract of alluvial or bottom land in its curve, and forcing its outer banks back into the shelter of a range of hills, more beautiful and picturesque than is usually fonnd in scenery composed [ $12 50, will receive the Home Journal, ^.v^. almost equally of wood and prairie fone year fees. Displayed advertisements will be charged [according to the space they occupy. All! advertisements should be marked for i specified time, or they wiB be continued tnd charged for until ordered out Advertisements inserted at intervals will ) charged as now each insertion. Advertisements to run for a longer time i three months, ore due and will be col lected at the beginning of each quarter. Transient advertisements must be paid for in advance. Job work must be paid for oa delivery. Advertisements discontinued from any ause, before tha time specified, will be ged only for the time published. Marriage Notices and Obituaric snbt tx- eediug ten lines Will be published tree.— fObituaries of more than tell lines will be [charged for at regular advertising rates. Notices of a personal or private character, ■ intended to promote any private enterprise I'or interest, will he charged as other odver- t tisemeuto. Advertisers are requested to hand in their ; favors as airly in the week as possible. The above terms will be strictly adhered to. ‘ Set nsido a liberal percentage for ndrer- tisiug. Keep yon self uuoc.i.-augly before the public; and it matters not what business j-yon are engaged in, for, if intelligently anil ! industriously pursued, a for; uuc will lie the result’’—Hunt's Merchants’ Magazine. “After I began to advertise my Ironware freely, business increased wife amazing ra- | q>idity. For ten years past 1 have’ spent .£30,000 yearly, to keep my superior wares ‘before the public. Had I teen timid in ad vertising, 1 should never liavc possessed my fortune of £360,000.”—Moiaod Jicltdnj Birmingham. “Advertising, like Midas’ tmich, turns everything to gold. By it your hiring men draw millions to their cuiibrs. "—Stuart 'Clay. success in business. ”—Hemy Ward Beecher. “Tho newspapers made Fi.sk. Jan,cs Ei.sk, Jr. “Without the aid of advertisements X could lmvo done nothing hi niy spoetdh- tions. I have the most conipl.-te faitli in printer’s ink. Advertising is ilie royal road to business. ”—!’. T. Bunnlm. POETRY. The Burial of Moses. By Neho’s lonely mountain, On this side Jordan’s wave, In a vale in the land of Mouli, There lies a lonely gl’ave; And no man dug tile sepulchre. And no limn saw it o’er, For the angel of God upturned, the sod,. And laid tho dead man there. That was the grandest funeral That ever passed oil earth; But uo man heard the "tramping, Or saw the train go forth. • Noiselessly as the daylight Comes tvh^n fbq,mght Is done; And the crimson streak on ocean’s cheek Grows into the groat sun. Noiselessly as the spring-time ' I Her crown of verdure weaves, And all the trees on all the hills Open their thousand leaves— , So, without sound or music, Or voice of them, that wept, Silently down from the moun'atu’s crown The gre.it procession swept. ■ Perhaps the bald old eagle Ou gray Betli-peorVheight, Out from his reeky eyrie Looked on the wondrous sight; Perchance tho lion, stalking; Still shuns that hallowed spo*; For keist and bird have seen uudheard That which man knowefe not. Hut when the warrior dieth, His comrades in the war, With arms reversed and muffled dram, Follow the funeral car; . They show the banners taken, 'AndalLr him lead his inasterlrfissteed; While peals the minute gim. Amid tho noblest of the land Men lay tho svge to rest, Anil giro the bard an honorcd place, With ccstly marble drest; In the gtjeat minster-transept, Where lights like gloryfaR, : - And afo tboir stogslimd the organ, rings, Along the emblazoned-wall - This was the bravest warrior That ever buckled sword; This the most gifted poet That ever breathed a word; And never earth’s philosopher Traced with his golden pen, On the deathless page, truth half so sage, As he wrote down for men. Just within the curve of this bow, or directly on “The .Bend,” as the in habitants called the plain which swept out from the embrace of the river— stood- the county-seat. The entire district was but sparsely inhabited, and, as yet, the county town Consisted *5iiiy of a few low cabins, half-buried in' luxurious com-tields, two or three young orchards filled with* trees, that had only docked themselves in the blossoms of a.sirigle spring, and one great frame dwelling, with verandas runtiing across the front, and two chimneys of new bricks standing on the expanse of glistening shingles, like members of a volunteer militia company in flowingregimental.s, whose jiride it was to keep guard over the humble log cabins and stick chimneys which Lay below. A blacksmith’s shop, so opeii in front that ydti could see the glowing iron even in winter as it poured a tor rent of sparks up from the huge ham mer which ground it to the. anvil, stood opposite the tavern; and this, with the no;83 of carpenters still at work in the interior of the. building, lent a sort of bustle and business as pect tb "The Bend,” which those who visited it found rather cheerful and exciting after the dim solitude of. their forest-homes. A flour-mill, too, clattered cheerfully night and (lay in a hollow close by the river, and there was scarcely a day in the week when a group of men might hot have. liei n observi d loitering around Judge Church’s tavern. It was Saturday, about live days after the visit of William Wheeler to David Hunt's farm, and the strangers back came round a coiner, -and, as if rejoiced by the sight of company, urged their biases to a trot, and draw ing up in a cheerful dashing style, dis mounted before the tavern. Wheeler started, and dashed - down his foot with a violence that drew, the chair forward till the front feet, rang against the floor. The light, struck full upon his face; it had,- all at once, , become white as a corpse, and his eyes glittered, like those of aroused ser pent - - ' E The two travelers had been busy lying their horses to the posts of the tbranda, and before they- were at- lei sure to notice any thing Wheeler. had fallen back to his old position. "Does not that looklikeBill Wheel er?” said the youngest of the. two as they Came up the wooden steps to gether. David Hunt cast a. quick glance tte ward the seemingly half-steeping man, knotted, his huge fingers tightly , to gether. and moved a step forward, "but Shaw caught his arm—“Remember your promise to Hannah,” he said in n lo^t voice, - but Bis own limbs trembled with rage as he restrained the veri- veance of the old man. “Remember, we have both promised,” he added, drawing Hunt toward the door, “but for that I have the best right.” ‘I have-never brokeii my word to the poor girl yet,” muttered David Hunt, moving reluctantly on, “I never will, but it’s tough work to keep my hands off him. ” And with these words David .Hunt and Isaac Shaw entered the public house, but the cheerfulness with which they had dismounted at the door was entirely dispersed; not even the hearty welcome which they received from the persons at the bar had power to restore them to moderate composure. “Why, who on earth isthis? David Hunt!” said the judge' laying down the sugar-stick and holding out his right hand, with which he shook Iris neighbor’s vigorously while he passed the tumble of brandy to a customer with the other. “It seems an age since we’ve seen you at The Bend—and you too, Shaw; we began to-think yon had taken to the bush for good; I was just calcu lating that your money would be so much dear gain in any hands, and had half dunned myself Tor tho interest, when I get word that you are coming down and scrape it up, interest and all, for tiie Liild-officei What’s in the wind now, Ike?—no girl in the wa-y-is there? I’ll tell you what,” continued face,, he tamed it away instinctively, or the honest smith might have Been startled by its pallor and. the fiendish expression lurking over it. - A hostler coming room'd from flic ..bom, with 2 riaid the -judge, turning a key in the « ' J : at m t _ -t .:■» * i measure of oats in bis band, sav hiin- standing there enveloped; ss~ it might And had he not 1 The liill-side -To lie in state v honor ? P^. - "With: state while angels wait, plumes, ttaUonel y jlo Jay Him in Ins grave, -In that deep grave, without a name, When his uncofiiried dav i._i,« - (most wondrous tho’t 1) and tavern toward sunsdt were more than usuallyntimeroiis. Tlireeor four farmers had come front a remote - part of the .country with avrgojt-loads of ftam, which could Rcferi-Sy be con verted into flour before the next day. Others-had brought their horses to l>e shod,‘arid, meeting wdh cheerful com pany at the tavern, were in no haste to return home. '• The evening was warm and sultry, and the dusk was come on, biit the blacksmith was htlrd at work; the sound of his anvil King over the r vil lage, and the glare ' of his forge red dened around him as the beautiful sunset felL through a bank of hazy clouds on the landscape without, A horse of light hay color, finely limbed and with the look of a high-blooded racer, was tied with a stout bridle to an iron ring at the door-post, but though the . hot ' sparks sometimes flashed- close by his eyes they only kindled up a little, as if some of the fire had shot beneath the lids; and though Ms nostrils dilated, he neither pulled at the halter nor seemed restive in the least, for oaeo when he had run back a little a voice from the opposite tavern checked, the fretful imp dse, and left him standing withjris eye to the flame, bait with a sL-tck halter and shrinking limbs, for to the poor ani mal there was something in 'that voice more terrible'thanthe shower of. hot fire sparks that rained over lriin. The voice came from a'young mta seated in thelower verarida of. the tavern.— His chair - was tilted back, and’his right foot rested upon his left knee, and though the fringe" of Ms hunting- frock swept over a portion "of the boot; its small size and unusually neat work; mansMp could net be entirely conceal ed. The man wore a fine otter sMn cap, wMch, being dfcawn over his face, the judge, folding liis aims over tbri foot, and then movedawny. win:.,^ j-R „ i .... -i t. -i • v . .. . . _ _ . railing of the bur and shaking Ms head, “this affair looks rather suspici ous.'" Ike Shaw blushed like a girl, but as he was about to stammer out some re ply, Ms face flushed still- more deeply; it was not embarrassment then, but Indignation, fot in turning his eyes he had soon the wMte Jane of William. Wheeler peering in at the- ..Trindaw; the face disappeared instantaneously, but Shaw felt as if those glittering eyes were still fixed upon Ms burning forehead.' If was rage rather- than terrord-hat arose in iris heart at the; sight of those eyes, but to a less brave man there would have been something startling in tiibir sharp and fiendish glare. Thd evidences of emo'fion, vis ible in Shaw’s face; were mistaken for embarrassment byi the good-natured judge. . “Well, well, he said,” if . yob -want the money, that’s enough; put up with me to-night, and I’ll try to make it out in the morning.” •Not here, I will not sleep under tlM same roof with', that Tuan,”* said David Hunt,- drawing, SliaW aside and speaking with great earncstnes*; ‘•-Iwould rather go , myself,” said Shaw, also in a low voice, “but. it looks- like a storm. If a hurricane should come iqa; we coidd never get through the woods alive.” “No matter alive or dead I will not stay at The Bend -to-night,” replied’ Hunt with suppressed energy, but Ms words reached the persons around tiie bar, and they looked at each other, a little surprised at Ms obstinacy and the stem, wilful tone in wMch his de- flames, and wondered what traveler had entered the 'town without his knowledge; for though Wheeler .was a boarder in the tavern, arid well-known to the mai, lri3 face was so changed uitlx the worlririg of evil passions that it seemed like that of a strange man. . “Have you fastened.the shoe?” said Wheeler hoarsely, toncMng the black ened arm of the sinith with Ms finger, for lie had spoken twice, yet could riot hear-the sound - of Ms, own voice.-' ‘‘Have yon fastened the shoe?” “No,” said the.blacksmith, leaning upon the pole of Ms bellows and wip ing the perspiration from Ms forehead with the coarse sleeve that was rolled above his elbow. Wheeler uttered an imprecation. “I huvn’t fastened that shoe, con tained the smith,. quite unmoved. by the fierce words that had reached Ms ear, and resuming his hold on; the bel lows with one hand, while lie raked the hot coals ovix a half-formed circle of iron glowing in the forgo, “but I have put ori a new one that fits like a lady’s slipper. That horse of yours-has got a neat hoof, rather too delicate for ’common workmen; I had to make un dersized nails for fear of breaking it.” “Is he shod? Have you done with him?” exclirimed Wheeler sharply. “Half an hour ago;” and taking up a huge pair of pinchers with which he dragged forth the iron front ita bed- of fire, and seizing his hammer the good man gave it one'swing with Ms right arm, and it came crashing down upon the anvil, with a force that sent a storm of fire sparks over the young man as he passed and untied his- horse from the iron ring at the door. Wheeler led Iris horse across the street and flung the bridle toward the man. who was removing the hits from the tired animal Hunt had just dis mounted, while Shaw’s -horse was quietly muncMng the oats wMch had been-set before him. “Here, Take care of the creature, "will you!” he said testily. “You need uot stay to rub him down, he is half starved!” - The hostler caught the bridle with a dexterous movement of one arm, and quietly drawing the lieud-stall back to -tho.neek of Hunt’s horse, pushed the measure of oats toward him with Iris “Where are the horses?” “They ought to be in the stable,” sloping lid-which closed a desk in Ms Chest of drawers; ‘"‘there is a storm seem, in a crimson mantle by tael Coming np, or I am no judge of signs!” Hunt had only heard the first -part of this speech; he was eager to leave fee room, and, hurrying orit to the forced the bits into their months, though scarcely half the oats had been consumed, r Coriie, Shaw, come, we shall have to ride fast, or the storm may come on us in the woods!” he called out from the veranda. Shaw went out, followed by all the persons in the room,' except Wheeler. He stood motionless, near the window, ing a deep breath, for file presence ofj its Wheeler darted by, but the 'move- Wheeler' Seemed to oppress liiifc— j ment was quick as the flight of-ari ar row, and, satisfied that it was brit a passing shadow made by the flitting candle, the man went on, XFormihgjn Ms description as the storm rose. Ouce out of the house, Wheeler crept in a stooping postwre around the veranda, thrust his arm through the railing and softly drawing forth the bridle that had been east there, fol lowed the windings of the fence till he came to the cross-road- He turned the comer with a bound, and, drawing one sharp breath, ran swiftly down to ward the wood. Here Tie tamed again, followed the line of brash-fence' that Separated the forest from the clover- fields, arid, keeping himself in tho wood, looked around for his horse.— The aniriial was grazing near the cen to them as if harsh feeling existed be tween the two men. “Very well, I’m ready to start the “Halloa, blockhead! where arc you going?” cried Whwler with an oath; “I don’t want him taken to {he bam, tiuri him into the wMte-clbver lot; and see you.put up the bars. The man .wheel; d round sulkily, arid grumbled below Ms breath. After crossing the road he took down a set of liars, slipped off the bridle, and gave- the spirited animal a, right blow with ft, which sent him bounding into a field wiriph was hedged, m frttoi the Mghwtty hy a heavy rail fence, and swept back from the tavern some ten or twelve aeres of short but fragrant sw-.lrd, Where it was lost in a forest of heavy timber. The tavern itself sloodin one coiricr of this field, and a cross-road bounded the opposite end;'wMch ran up from the forest and intersected turnpike some thirty rods below the'honse. Wheeler stepped within the ball, but stood watching the inun till he put up the bars and flung the bridle down inri corner of the veranda, then lie turned away "arid went into the sup- per-room- Ho look Ms seat at the lower end.of the tabic; so noiselessly that his en trance was nnoLsirved, till Judge Church-happened to look that way, and - uttered -an exclamation at his paleness. The rest of the company fastened tbeir eyes, as with one accord;, upon Ms face, the moment this exda- mutiori' escaped"the host. ' A spot of living-fire flashed into either cheek, and he .clutched his .knife arid fork hardus if angered by this general ob servation. - ' “I have the tooth-ache, • have been termination r Tvus expressed. IfTseemed racked to death with; it all. day, ” he tflthPHl.flf; rf llflTsll fprilitifr TaaJ .. ,.1 J i . > i' left the upper part in shadow, but- moment onr horses have had 'a feed,” Waves id light hair cuiiod up- among toPJtod Sriaii. rnonng toward the bar. 1 the rich fur about his temples, arid his. suppose^an hour or two wont make somewhat prominent chifi,.-upan.wMeh m frch diflerence with the judge?” | the light-lay strong, was so delicately ‘“None .at .all,'’ replied the judge, Moulded that Ms features seemed PoiMMg to an old-fasMoued chest of daawers in the comer, “the mnnor to said, in a clear and low voice, strongly at variance with the expression of Ms face. . ; h--‘/ “I will not sit at the srone table with ■ Mm,” muttered.David Hunt; grasping 1 Shaw by the arm. “Gome, let us go!” They both akosej but, as. if over come-with pain, "Wheeler left Ms seat and went but. Obeying the impulse ‘the Money is. .given by his;younger companion, Hunt trion, - , - • And stand, wife glory wrapped around, On fep hHls he never trod, ’ And speak of fee strife feat won our life Wife fee Inoamate Son of God O lonely toirib in Moab’s Land! 0 dark Bsfe-peor MR! leak to these curious hearts of ours, And teach them to be still, trod hath His mysteries of grace— Ways that we cannot tell; Tfehides them deep, like i Of him He loved so well - tffl the"two men mounted and rode away. Then he stepped hastily to the bar, seized a decanter, and pouring out a tumbler halfifullof clear brandy, drank it off, “Is your tooth no easier?” said the good hearted judge, returning to the room just ns the young man was tak ing his hand from the tumbler; “No, it keeps getting worse, I will gotoTieii and sleep it off—that is if I can,” he replied, taming Ms face from the right, and pouring out a spoonful of brandy which he held in Ms mouth as he went up stairs. “That’s a strange sort of] a fellow, said orie of the! guests, who had" been a boatman on the Mississippi, have seen that - smooth face of Ms somewhere before. How long has he been in these parts?” “About six months 1 ” replied the judge, to whom the question was ad dressed, “off and. on; he’s been hang ing about all Of that time, if not more.” “What does he follow for a living?’ persisted the guest, ‘He’s got sonic business with the land office, I believe, ” said the judge, “trades in fur, and wanders off with the hunters sometimes when they take to the woods.” ‘Just so,’’said the guest; “butwhere on earth have I seen him—that voice of his sounds nat’ral as can be. I’ve heard it before, and shall remember where by-arid-by;” Oh, as to Ms voice, "said the .judge, laughing, “he can speak sharp and loud enough one minute, and soft as a girl the next.” Wheeler was not mentioned again that night, but as if some association had been aroused, unconsciously, in the mind of the boatman, he began to talk about his wild life on the great' river, arid late in the evening was de scribing the fearful scenes wMch at tended the hanging of the Vicksburg gamblers. It was a terrible subject, and told a fearful hour; for the hurricane burst upon them strong, andloud, an terrible. It came blowing np from the forest and swept by, in its wratK till the great, half .empty house rocked like, a cradle. The chimneys toppled over, and crashed upon the roof over head. The verandas were 'tom-u.way, like a handful of rushes, and yet-That little group of men sat,- awestricken and fascinated, listening to the tough eloquence of.the boatman as he de scribed the storm of human passions that lie-had witnessed amid tfiri terri ble, hut still Jess awful storm'of the elements that raged around them. William Wheeler went- to /Ms room' and set down the right; reacMng <it far away with Iris hand, that it should not shine upon his face. He felt as if Ms thoughts were branded' in. crimson writing on Ms. forehead, and that some eye might read his purpose there. His conscience' whispered falsely. That forehead was. white as marble, but shrunk and knitted ^together with dark passions. Foolish man. Why did he tarastaway that candle so fiercely? The Almighty required no human light—no letters of blood upon the brow—to. read that wMch was passing in his heart. He took Iris bowie knife from his bosom, and felt the point—tried it against the seat of a chair till it seemed" as if the well-tempered steel-must have broken off in the woocL Then he drew a portmanteau from under the bed arid took out A hunting frock, darker than the one he usually wore, and without.the yellow fringe. -Hav ing put this on, and supplied its place in the. portmanteau with that wMch he had flung- off, he drew the otter- skin cap over his forehead, and, ^blow ing out the light; ; crept from ihexeonw He had nearly reached the stairs, The Pretty Giris- ; What a charm they have about | tliem! How they arc loved] followed, flawed to, and worshiped! What a ! power they have over the hearts of ; men! HcW eSSouraging is one of • their smites Bestowed upon a down jltesirted masculine gender! Where i they are, a man can, by a little excr- ; eise Of the imagUMtFwh supiiose a ; company of angels. There is a show- I im of suutaine wherever they go, and 1 ...'a pj ' j they letiye brtikirii hearts when they CURRENT ITEMS. i depart. All oiq.-Ositious will vanish “Madam yousaid your son was alaw- ^ "''upors before their magieul influ- yer; has he much practice?” “Why,! f™* Tb ^ r *. v■ ^ mfinence over the lit-jiris slid feelings yes sir, he has a great practice—of f of men is unlimited. They t ?o smoking cigars.” ! queens, indeed, and the Iwasted “lords A. “self-threading neidle” haring , . . ... . _ & fOlicdient.subjects. A» Atniosfjbereot been invented, an anxious old bachelor : j ove lln d adoration snrtonri'ds .them wants to know if some one cant design I on all sides, arid they Brcatlie it; us I, NO. % a “self-sewing shirt button.’ Cincinnati is to have a ‘fat man’ ; we poor masculines do the air amend | us; They have a kingdom, whiito fe i love, their sceptre is beauty and their ■risiening to every word that passed, . tre of the field, j A low, sweet wMstle made him pause just as- a toft of fra grant and dewy clover', was - folded in his lip—again that whistle came from the wood, still faintly, but a little shaiper than, before. Without staying to crop a handful of blossoms wMch- were, even then, filling his mouth with fragrance, the animal gave a start, Bung up Ms head, and .sprang away.— With a single bound he cleared the fence, and stood by the side of his master. - Wheeler took a heavy silk liandker- cMcf from Ms pocket, tied two of the corners together with a piece of cord, and slipped it over the horse’s head, where he arranged it with the cord knotted across the chest, and the square of crimson silk spread out upon the animal’s hack like a table-cteth. No saddle, no blanket to-night, old boy,” he muttered, hoarsely; while the horse bent Ms head for~~the bit. He put on the bridle, drawing rihe throat latch so fiercely that the horse shook his head and ran back. "Wheeler clenched Ms hand, opened it again as suddenly, and patted the restive crea ture on the neck. ‘So—so,” Me muttered, loosening the strap, wMch cut cruelly against the poor aniMal’s taroat. “No noise —no praiieirig here. jSo^so, be quiet boy—take t&e of the brush, and you shall be coaxed like a girl, for - once—- So-so.” ./ With these words, scarcely uttered above his breath, though the master ing storm would have drowned Ms loudest;tones, Wheeler sprang upon ;, and guided him, cautiously, lomer of the wood, came ,e cross road, about half a the town. for it!” burst from his lips in r, wMch seemed like a shout d with difficulty. “Now for convention, and the CMcago Times, royal pavilion is made of a thousand maliciously asserts that,' being a case and one charms. Where they go, lL> - y of bowels and not of brains, it conquer; where they speak, they nil,-, toto-i ,-wi x . • j and when they appiDnch, men render undoubtedly be a success. i deepest obcisiuce. Their smiles are “Adversity,” says a Western preach- ! SUmpses of paradise and their kiss*; ^ ; _ /i . . -j , | taste of heaven itself. We love them; . ’' ns up short ond sets lls everbodv loves them, and the mail is down hard, and when it’s done with; a brute who wouldn’t love them' us we.feel as contented as a boy that’s: lieen spanked and set away to cooL ” ! A Pennsylvania lawyer tells of a! “note shaver,” in Meadville, who 1 ODD PARAGRAPHS'. Scene at a mecling'm Preston, England: _ . Tak thi lint off,” said one fellow" in tho keeps the trank conteiriing his securi- I crowd to another in front of him. “What .tieS near the head of Ms bed, and lays j for?” “Why, aw cacnot see.” ‘'AYeU,'’ ro awake to hear them draw interest. The people of Enfield, N- H. not be ing satisfied with the census, taken by the Government, have token a new one by a committe of citizens and fonnd that ' they numbered ninety three souls more than the census rep resented. Two young ladies and an Irishman were conversing on age, when one of them put the home question; “WMch of ns do you think is the elder, Mr.- H. ?” Sure,” replied the gallant-Hiber Man, “yon both look younger than each other.” An exchange wants to know what General Gaant will do when Ms term of office expires. We have no idea what he will do; but if he does what he ought to have been doing for the last three years he will go to keeping a livery stable. “Frank,” said an affectionate mother fhe other day to a promising boy, “if yon don’t stop smoking and reading so much, you will get so after a while that- you won’t care anything about work.” “Mother,” replied the hopeful, leisure ly removing a very long cigar, “Ihave| got so now.” plied fee other, “if I tak my hat off thou’ll be worse off than over. My yore (hair is thirteen inches long, an’ it stons straigli' up. I’ve put my hat ou to keep it town.” There are nine Princes of the honse of.Boriiparte, but not one of them is with the French aririy, or tailing any dart with the French Republic. Young Bonaparte-Patterson is with Ms regiment, and is the only member of the family who seems willing to’ take any personal risk to defend tho honor of Ms house arid race. Mammy!” said a rittie fellow, jBSst big enough to gobble doughnuts, but wlio didn’t like to rock the cradle of his baby brother, of whom he professed to be very foml^very—“Mammy! if the Lord’s got’ any more babies to g?ri» awriy, don’t y'ofr take crav” A littlk chap hod a dirty face, and his teacher told- Mnr-to go tuiil wash it. He went- away, arid after a few minutes came bffcR with the - firmer part of his countenance tolerably clean, while the upperpae? was dSctjF and wet. “Johnny,” siMl the teacher, “why diefi^t-yon wasayoux face?” “I did wash if; Sir.” “You didn’t wipe it all over, then. ” “I did wipe it as Mgh np as my - shirt would go.” IFMoark’s next move should be to torment Republicanism in Germany, A box containing a black bear wife an ^ C , ro ^ . , , v*. - 'kicked out, and himself elected Presi re ceived at an express office in Siiri j dent Periiiaps the oM rat means to Francisco, the other day, with this- in scription; “Black Bare. Ef yew don’t want to get bit, kepe yer fingers outen the crax!” There had been a moon that even ing, but the coming storm overwhelm ed and shrouded it from sight. Still, “ pearly glow now and then shot along ■e'small and gloomy Clouds that came rging up from the north, and spread 'themselves over the’ sky like a lead- colored pavement, tom and agitated by unSeen hands. : But soon even the pearly gleam disappeared. It had lingered among, the clouds, -the last smile W'the face of heaven—now it was swept away, and left nothing but blackness and gloom behind. . The air seemed pressing down to the 'earth, thick;, stagnant and sultry. A dismal sound bame up fiom the - forest, as if the elements were chained among those gitirit teees-rmoaning'at their ctqitmty and wrathful with each other—still, amid darkness arid gloom, that liorse- irian sped on. The road was narrow, and toll of ruts. Stuinps, in some places, stood half crumbling away in the’very wagon track, but with a-loos ened rein and knees pressed hard -to his fleet animal that doomed man plunged onward to his fate. The thunder, wMch had Been-all the time muttering on Mgh; now- pealed and crashed above him—the lightning came down in sheets of lurid 'fire, shedding a bluish tinge over.the corpse like hue of his face.. Still, liis horse plunged on. amid, sheets of fame or black darkness, never' checking his speed for an instant. All at once that desperate rider’drew the curb with a sharp pull wMch Brought the horse’s foaming month, down upon his' chest. He staggered, A party of respectable CMcagdtLidics have formed a society tor reckririring yoiing men, and they .go abbfrt the streets nights and pick up young men who show signs of dissipation, invite them to their houses and treat them: to ice cream, cMcken salad, etc., and let them go home sober. As the re sult, it is reported that half fee young men in town lie around the streets nights to be taken in.* The Boston Journal says that Gener al O. O. Howard has hosts of friends in do it. Why is a large carpet like the late rebellion? Because it took such a lot of tax to put it down. St. Louis people are said to be willing tb take a solemn oath that the census-takers copy the names on the ItotoL register every day. There is nothitlg iitol Western enteiprise. Anthony Trollope says: “I do not comprehend the reason for the exist ence of. so many women; although I suppose Providence had some wise end in-view, in giving to every man at least- eight or ten women to choose from when he is about to select a wife.” Two centuries ago not one boy in fifty wore stockings. Fifty years ago not one boy in a tliousand-was allowed ... .to run at large at night. Fifty years tnat city. This implies that he hasn’-t! :l gp not a girl in a thousand made a many anywhere else. Boston always waiting-maid of her mother. Wcfrder-- was exclusive. * | fnl improvements in this age. Miclrigan having refused to strike the word “white” out of her Constitution, steps will-be at once taken by the Administration geese to reconstruct the MieMganders. Hon. James P. Holcombe has been invited to deliyer a memorial, address at the Washington- and.Lee Uriivesity on the 19th of January, the birthday of Gen.R. E. Lee. The Legislature , elected under the provisions of the Akerman bill willnot meet until the first Wednesday in November, I8TL Grant says he is sick of Porter. Bourbon is- now Ms only solace. The hardest thing to hold in this world is an unruly tongue. It-beats a hot smoothing iron and a kicking horse'considerably. The.gentleman who “fired at random did riot Mt; and, in disgust, handed his' rifle over to the' youth, who. “aims at immortality.’ • . - A dog is counted mad when he w-ori’t take something to drink, and a riinri when he takes too much. Why ii the world like a piano? Be cause it is full of sharps nnrl Aids.. A barrister entering the court with Ms wig very much awiy, was obh'ged to endure a round of -remarks on its Perkins will get tight occasionally much to the astonishment of him sel f and friends. “For years,” says lie, “it was; unaccountable to me, for I never did drink but a mouthful or two; and the cause never did srike me tui^ til I uuaisured my lpouth; and found that it held a pint.”’ Mr. Jessie Robinson, of Newcastle* Pa., has a fig tree wMch- has been growing for twelve years. It has now one hundred:, and twenty figs, with more coming. A peculiarity of the tree is that it never blooms. The fruit torriis onr it at once, and it is forming on-some branches wide ripening ori ethers. “Barber,” saida farmer to tonsor, “now corn’s dic-pp yon ought to shave for half price.” “Can’t, Mr. B said the man of razors. “I onght real- to cletrge more, for when corn’s .wxi farmers make such long faces that I have twice the groimd' to go oyer.” Charle3-^“Tell mo, Laura, why that sadnesi? Tell me, why thatolook of care? Why has fled that look of glad ness that thy face was wont to wcarr* r.n-n'y.;—..“i.mioa *g s useless to dis may wear afrovm, hair-pin, and T# fell-back upon his. haunches,'- and re-; appearance. At lost, addressing Mr. covered himself with a snort of padnjj Ctfrran, he asked: ‘-‘Do yqn sees any-. but all the time the rider was beritling ; thing ridicalons in-this wig?” “Notfa- forward tillMs face.aimostjjbuehed the ; ing brit thahead, replied tiie wife sat clown again, and no one observed when a thought seemed to.stiike^hinT; tiiat they had intended to leave the; { or te stole back, and, after searching table. As- »«».-• arched neck of Ms : beast,- Ms-,knees were pressed convulsively fotiie (IroiJp- -ing sides of ihe stumblirig auiuial, and he sfroye agtin'Hq catife, the sound of hoofs which had for an instant reached i ‘On, on!” The words came hLssirig _ through hist -teetikr'hut , riJtaeely j in. the. darik, found , the leather strinjg had- the 'gallant hearse: made a bound forward when the Cmb tSta fiercely When fiiey went into the bar-room; suspended from the wooden latch i after supper, Wheeler was walking up the floor of his room. -He tied ainot'drawn agaht anti down the room. He sec-xned 'fo in the end wMch he tiirhteried with hist “Tti : soine- be agitated, or in great pain, but there was only one small aindle in the bar, and ho kept in the shadow. Me;mtime, the judge in the end which he tightened with his ? teeth, and drew it.hack so fin- into.the j" igimblet hole which perforated the ; door, - that any one anxious . to enter; the brave horse leap iri theair, though toaBgdrawu ohe-had-never shrHnk frnifl thc-ilight- almost effeininate.. .'3.. _ This man sat' with half-closed eyes, 311 read 7 ™ old desk there. Go in smoking. Now and-then, as he bent allli taie “ & supper while the slightiy-forwara to, knock the ashes ^^horses are feeding. Gotae along, all from Ms cigar against the srile of Ms'. of ‘T on \" boot, lie glanced his eye tM-ough. the T!ie v;ho ' e group put itself in mo- bar-room uindo-v, which was operi a Non and followed, the judge out-into a little to Ms right, rind seemed to p s -- back.kitchen, where supper was laid tea. At such times., the shadow wMch 110 ver 7 delicate style, but in rough fell over Ms eyes was thrown on the 2nd hospitable’ profusion, temple, and the whole character of his William "Wheeler had been standing face changed. If wits a restless, wicked F&h Ms back to the. railing of the ve- eye, wMch hghted up every feature randa, Ms amis folded tightly over his with evil fire. It must have been a chest, and watching with cat-like : ia smflU riiver coin, with two or three ! then glided, with quick and noisekss pieces, ci-l cv-v’ natural expression, for there was noth- eagerness evoiy thing that passed in p kces of gold, and several bank notes ateps.'down the stairs. ,t-'ar " * ~ ing to excite or annoy Mm in the bar- ^e bar-room. The moment Judge J of.*^ apMunt. After, it had' been i There was no light in the hall; but lmra* room. Two or three persons only Lhurch went out, followed by the com- . eouuil , a over tvvo or thre , times . Ul ., ceilings, were ve: unohistr-red, and nized were garnered about the bar, joking P^L ke gnded softly down the steps, juil .„ om . lti , a it into an o’d shot-bag- a net-work of fidntravs foil thrort a each other, while the judge himscif and across to me bmoKsnufe’s shop. w h:re it Lad been previously stored- thousand crevices of the new lath, "" was Busy crushing lumps of sugar in Tne srnifi wa.s busyathisbenpws, and tied It up wife a piece of Mine, and wltich was the only partition betweS - m 7i tum }: lers ,f f 5 M$4Wmit to Shaw, taking Ms pi-omis- ; him.and the bar-room d^was partly Mfo open, and directly before itaat a group entree. On, without nn , r .,. ioftev^ers.listeMng to the c^iloita now. we have nothin" toc.oifhe Boatman. Tins man checked Fomey says that “one of the duties of an editor is to help the public sift the wheat from the c-haffi” The way that Fomey “sifo d that twelve thoui- and dollars out of Bollock shows that counting the money which Shaw had through hy some person within. He nirig-mot three r ids before them, a come to take np. It was much of it: listened a moment by the door, .... shotfortii .a -moment-the next he Tjeog- mark some bL:S ““mu gi J — “**• liiiy j glass which gave a Mugy hue to the ; l of glouing coals forced feeler sorv n . jte from ;lie TOI1Eg ^ brandy just poured out for one of his ; to draw close to the forge before he d..i; Vt . rc . ( j the r.innev customers. William Wheeler, for it i could make himself heard. When he ‘Come, and was i was he, had just drawn back to his foil the red light of the fire upon Ms kd^nsSre ” T "f 1-t :,'t ul<f * m *. - L -“^ u 1 -’- 1 cn - .-i-i gulfed m th • dark woods beyond. -j"- -—-u — —- r ll rl n. (to ts nj.vrevEi) u oa: wsr.] Annuitants are subject to a peculiar, malady known as the long-liver dem- pLoint. The trouble with spendthrifts of money and time is, that they bam he knows hisbuan.-ss to a%hj.fo. their candle at both ends. A writer in orie of our religious ex changes says: ‘T would like to see a thinking "department established in The acquainted this time, have fongh curd io havi onght to he well the ton-ted field by every engagement they t, they have taken good i-to-one. —( Tomahawk. m saysi “I hate everv- . ies more space £.zn '-$r- hate to see a load^f fcand- in the strrssCandi nnte of big. words without POTATO! s —Not a iiille dis been indulged in by wri- prop.-r time to dig, and way to c tre for potato:^ are dug. Oar cqiiniori -With M-th-it, When the for principles. A Scotchman who had hired himself to a fanner, had a cheese set down before him, that he might help Min- self. The master had occasion to re afterward, “Sam Th answered he. to be ripe, and after a if allowed to remain in potato is wot earth its quality is harmed, te vines are Jdiied by frost ’ ' liter is ripe,- ’ main in file frost re- as glow, aft ;r