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• «T~ BY S. B. CRAPTON. SANDERSYILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1852. YOL: YI—-NO.. 14. i THE CENTRAL GEORGIAN IS PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY MORNING, TERMS : - If paid strictly in advance, per year, .$1 50 If riot paid at the time of subscribing, $2 00 These terms will be strictly adhered TO WITHOUT RESPECT TO PERSONS} AND ALL SUBSCRIPTIONS WILL BE REQUIRED TO BE SET TLED UP EVERY YEAR. Advertisements not exceeding twel /e lines, will be inserted at one dollar for the first in sertion, and fifty cents for. each continuance. Advertisements not having the number of in sertions specified, will be published until for bid. ' „ Sales of Land and Negroes by Executors, Administrators and Guardians, are required by law to be advertised in a public gazette forty days previous to the day of sale. The sale of Personal Property must be ad vertised in like manner at least ten days. Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an es tate must be published forty days. Notice that application will -be made to the Court of ordinary for leave to sell Land and Negroes, must be published weekly for two months. Citations for letters‘of administration,- must be published thirty days—for dismission from Administration, monthly for six months— for dis mission from Guardianship, forty days. Rules for foreclosure of Mortgage must be published monthly for four months—for estab lishing lost papers, for the full space of three months—for compelling titles from Executors or Administrators, where a bond has been giv en by the deceased, the full space of 3 months. Publications will always be continued, ac cording to these, the legal requirements, unless otherwise ordered. All letters on business must be vost-vaid BUSINESS DIRECTORY. ^r.17warthen, Attorney at Law, SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA. 4—ly feb. 17, 1852 MULFORD MARSH, ttorney and Counsellor at Law, Office, 175, Bay street, Savannah, Ga. feb. 10, 1852. 3 ~ 1 >' J. B. HAYNE, ATTORNEYAT LAW. IIA LG YON DALE Ga. YiH attend promptly to all business en- itcd to his care in any of the Courts of the Idle or Eastern circuits, lalcyondale feb. 2 1852 2—ty JNO. W, RUM SILL. attorney at law, SANDERSVILLE, Ga. larch 10, 1851 8 ~ lv jaIes'sHhook; Atlorsiey at Laxv, SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA WILL PRACTICE IN THE COUNTIES OF . ) Washington, Burke, Scriven, lie-circuit. ^ jeflfcrson and Emanuel. hern Circuit. | - - - - Laurens. ulgee Circuit | - - - - Wilkinson, lice next door to the Central Georgian i. jail. 1, 1852. 51—ly S. B. CRAFTON, Attorney allaxv. SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA, ill also attend the Courtst.of jEmanu ins, and Jefferson, should hueiiichabe em >d to his care, iu either of those c’ountie? i. 11. - ; ‘4—tf JmQUH & co. iclors and Commission Merchants, No. 118, BAY STREET, SAVANNAH, GA. I. W. C. Loud.] iov. 4, 1851. [P. H. Loud. 42—ly BE BN & FOSTER, ictors and Commission Merchants. Savannah, Ga. [JOHN FOSTER. 2. 3—ly J. T. 70NBS. Manufacturer and importer of 3.Pistols, Rifles, 'Sporting Apparatus, &c., o. 8, Monument Square, Savannah, Ga. b. 10,1852. 3—ly* S, E. BOTEbWSXiL dt CO. Wholesale and Retail Store, No. 173, Bay street, Savannah, Ga. dealers in IVORS, WINES, GROCERIES, dfc E. BOTHWELL.] [it. I" GAMBLE. t>: 10,1852. 3—ly UNTON, JOHNSON & CO. GROCERS. Savannah, Ga. scranton, ) Savannah. H JOHNSTON. S i W. B. SCRANTON, l No. 19, Old Slip, N. Yor ». 10, 1852. 3 ly JOHN HSALKB&7. Draper and Tailor. aler in. Ready-Made Clothing and Gentle- ifurnishirig Goods. 155, Bay street, Savannah, Ga. .i0, 1852.' . 3—ly [from THE LOUISVILLE JOURNAL.] THE SPRING OF LIFE IS PAST The spring of Life is past, With oil its budding hopes and fears, , And the Autumn time is coming With its weight of future years ; Our hearts are dimmed with care, And Youth’s free dreams of gladness All perish darkly here, For earth is filled with sadness. While bliss was blooming near us, In the heart’s first bloom of spring, While many hopes could cheer us, Life seemed a glorious thing; Like a foam upon the river. When the breeze goes rippling o’er, These hopes have fled forever, To come to us no more. ’Tis sad, yet sweet to listen To the soft wind’s gentle swell, And think we heard the music Our childhood loved so well; To gaze out on the even, And the boundless fields of air, And we feel again our boyish wish To roam, like angels, there. There are many dreams of gladness That cling around the past, And from that tomb of feeling Old thoughts come thronging fast; The forms we loved so dearly, In the happy days now gone, The beautiful and lovely, So fair to look upon. Those bright and gentle maidens, Who seemed so formed for bliss. Too glorious and too heavenly, For such a world.as this : Whose soft, dark eyes seem swimming In a seat of liquid light, And whose locks of gold were streaming O’er brows so sunny bright. Whose smiles were like the sunshine, In the spring-time of the year, Like the changeful gleams of April, They followed every tear: They have passed, like hope, away, All their loveliness hats fled ; Oh! many a heart is mourning That they,are with the dead. Like the brightest buds of summer, They have fallen from the stem, Yet, oh ! it is a lovely death To fade from earth like them ; And yet the thought is saddening To muse on such as they, And feel that all the beautiful Are passing fast away! That the fair ones whom we love, Like the tendrils of a vine, Grow closely t< each loving heart, Then perish on its shrine. And we can but think of these, In whose soft and gentle .Spring, When the trees are waving o’er us, And flowers are blossoming : For we know the Wiuter’s coming, With his cold and stormy sky, And the glorious beauty round us _ Is budding but to die i " M IS CE L LA NE 0. US. P 0 E T TJ Y midwinter hangs from the nose of the town I U Jk 1 lk 1 • pump. Cruelv—deliberately did she crush his last hope, and with a mocking incred ulous smile she said— ‘You dare’sn’t do it! He sprang to his feet: despair was pain ted on his features ; desperation glared in his eyes. With his hands clasped in ago nv he turned an imploring look towards the mistress of his heart and exclaimed— ‘Once more I implore you to reflect; re call those cruel words or’I go to fulfil my threat;’ and with his hand upon the latch he waited her decision. It came like a thunderbolt to the unhappy youth; ‘You may go—if you wish—to grass!’ With one bound he gained the street; furiously he dashed along, and turning the first, corner, ran against a gust of wind that was rushing the other Why. The breeze knocked offhis tile; it bad cost him a V but the week before, yet he heeded not its loss. Like a whirlwind he swept along the side walk, and espying a blue bottle in a druggist’s -window, he made tracks like a longitudinal stripe of crude and solidified city milk, towards it. Opening the door with an impetuosity that made the clerk spring over the counter and seek safety be hind a glass case, he fixed his eyes with the ferocity of a bereaved maternal tigress upon the slim and trembling attendant, hoarsely growled— ‘Poison! give me poison ‘Eh—ah—what!’ grasped the horror stricken clerk from his place of refuge. ‘Poison ! do you hear ?’ thundered the youth furiously. 1 With a shaking hand, Plumb’s clerk 1 filled a phial and overrun the liquid on his | new inexpressibles, but not heeding this i' mishap he placed the significent label i ‘poison,’ on the bottle, and standing on tip toe reached it over the top of the show case to his dangerous customer. Clutching it : fiercely, the doomed young man hurled a ! quarter at the head of the clerk, aud then 1 hurried to his lodgings- When he reached his own room the ex- ! citement had passed away, but it was suc- l ceeded by a cool deliberation aud dermina- i tion that was as absolutely blood-chilling 1 as a cold night in December. Undressing 1 he prepared for bed, and then seizing the ! phial of poison he drank its contents un- faulteringly. Getting into bed he aroused his chum, who had slept through the whole of this terrible scene, and bade him arise and call his parents aud also send for his false lady-love to come and see him die. His request was complied with, and soon his weeping parents arrived to bless their ; dying son. While they were lamenting over him the door opened and Susan—the cruel, but now repentant object of his love ; entered the room. As she approached the | bedside of the expiring youth, he raised himself feebly ifp and said— ‘Susan, for thee I die !’ and sunk back helpless on his pillow. Who shall paint the anguish, the agony of the lovely maiden ? With shrieks that rent the air into shreds and drove the '• ancient tabby from the room, she rushed to | her doomed lover and imploring his forgive ness. Shecalledhim by every endearing . , ,, epithit, but alas, it was too late—too late ! The dim light of the lamp illumined the Fond i y s h e embraced him—tenderly she apartment for a while, but at last went out, ted ^ f rom his brow and kissed leaving the room in darkness, save when jjis.pale-forehead. They were reconciled an occasional flash of light from the halt w ^-j g wason the brink of eternity. # extinguished fire gleamed for a moment ]3ut the.poison was at work within; he upon, the obscurity. felt it coursing its burning way through In one corner, seated upon a sofa, were ; vein. He was conscious that he had the forms of a gentle maiden and her ado- ^ ut a f ew s b 0 rt moments to live, when his ring lover. The youth was pleading hu., who had entered to bid liim a last passion w'itk all the burning eloquence ot p arewe n inquired what he had taken. Per- impetuous love and imploring his charmer there ^, a3 an an aufei dote. to name the happy day that was to unite .^las —no,’ murmured the unhappy vic- tkem forever. But what was his grief to t - m j 3 l00 p lte to think of remedies. I find that she did not meet his fond wishes am almost gone. The bottle of poison is with corresponding ardor. j on the mantel; I do not know its name.’ ‘Ah, Susan,, he sighed, have I then de- cdum seized fc h e phial; he looked at ceived myself in fondly believing that your what remained 0 f the fatal draught dubious- gentle heart reciprocated my passion . ' [ y he sighed, and extracting the cork appli- She fixed her liquid eyes upon him, but ^ . fc ^ olfaetovy proboscis. Three long her words were few and coldly uttered : sn iffs took he, and the phial fell with a ‘I rather think you have. crash from his almost palsied hands, while ‘Wh^ ! youcannot mean that you do m tQUes of wonder he ejaculated— not love me ! You will not tear from the , hunder , sky of the future the bright sun oi hope, ; ‘VYhat!’ exSlaimed the expiring lover, and leave me to grope forever in darkness ! . • bolt upright in bed. Oh, Susan! by the happy hours we have S E |^t 0 f catnip, sure as rain; you are passed together—by the bright dreams ot: nQt isoned at a ll.” _ happiness we have cherished—by tne vow i oue bound the dying man gained you have sworn to love me I conjure you ^ middle of the room. His lady love to revoke what you have just uttered and j fle( j - n d ; smay at beholding him in his promise to be mine !’ I scanty costume, and he picking up the But all unmoved by his appeal, she f rao -ments of the phial, soon satisfied hira- curls her ruby lip and scornfully answers— j gel j? tJjat it was j ndee d catnip that he had ‘I shan’t do no such thing! : swa n owed . ‘Merciful heavens ! do I hear aright ? The youn r g lady was carried home on a must I then live on in loneliness, with all w j iee p barrow? and the adoring lover left in my hopes withered and like a solitary sun-1 ^ ^ steamer for California, flower stalk in the chilling winter s Nay, • LOVE AND CATNIP- BY EDGAR SOMERS. I. DASHER’S Cheap Dry Goods Store, 146, Congress street, Savannah, Ga. (Late H. Lathrop’s) fell .selected stock of seasonable staple ancy Dry Goods, are kept constantly on and will be sold cheap for cash. “ Please call and examine. . 10, 1852. 3—ly by the whole universe, I swear it shall not be! Mark me, cruel one; thou hast been the bright polar star by which I guided my whole existence. Thou wast the rock on which I founded my hope of happiness ; and if thou wilt not consent to be mine, I swear by the blaring sun, that when he ri ses as usual to-morrow morning, before breakfast, his rays shall shine on me a cold corpse beneath the angry waves of the ra ging Merrimack—or perchance my bloody renTains will be found upon its banks; and if these means of death fails me, I will swal low poisonl do you hear? and expire for love of thee. Then you will have to re mind you of him who loved you better than a thanksgiving dinner, save the con soling reflection that you are his murder- (585 f Bnt his agony, his threats effected her A Valid Excuse,—A. Spanish priest, once exhorting the soldiers to fight ike lions, added in the ardor of enthusiasm—“Reflect my bretheren that whosoever falls to-day in battle sups to night in Paridise.” Thunders of applause followed the senti ment. The fight began, the ranks waver ed, the priest took to hi3 heels, when a sol dier stopping him, reproachful refered to the promised supper in Paradise. “True, my son, true,” said the priest, “butl never eat suppers.” A fellow stole a wood saw, and on trial told the judge be only took it in a joke. “How tar did you carry: it?” asked the judge. . “Two miles "answered the prisoner. “That’s carrying the joke too far,” re marked the judge, and the prisoner was Coffee^-Caite and Beet Sugar. Mr. Payen, a distinguished chemist, in a late lecture at the CorUrvatoir de Arts et A New Tltiug. The New Y”ork Journal of Commerce has the following more extended notice of Cap- Metiers, spoke of the.composition and pro- j tain Erieson ? s project for the practical test perries of coffee. It seems that this favorite 1 of his new moving power : decoction contains, in one hundred parts, j Capt. Erieson has invented an ehgine, of thirty-four of cellulose, twelve of water from j which two large working models are now ten. to thirteen of oilly matter, fifteen and a! in operation, that differs in many impor- half of glucole, dextrine, and vegitable acid tant respects from any thing else in use; and is destined on the score of economy, safety, simplicity, and convenience, to su percede steam, provided that when applied to practical purposes it shall befound to work as well as the invenrior anticipates. His reputation for skill and sound judg ment, and his long experience in such mat ters is a, guarantee against any utopian scheme at variance with the established principles of physics or chemistry; and the method adopted to bring the invention be fore the public, is unexceptionable. In connection with two other gentlemen whose names are known in Wall-street, he is making preparations for the first public experiment on an unusually large scale. A vessel which cannot be called either a ship, or a steamer, is being constructed at the yards of Messrs. Perine, Patterson & Stack, something over two thousand tons burden, and expected to be ready for launching in August: while the whole force of the estab lishment of Messrs. Hogg & Delamate, is at work upon the .machinery. That portion of the work already in progress embraces some of the largest castings, of their kind, that have been made in this country. The whole affair, from the kelson to the paddle wheels, teems with novelties. Capt. Erie son has been privately at work upon the invention for several years, and now con siders it as brought nearly or quite to per fection; so that he can start it on its trial trip to Liverpool, with nearly as much con fidence as a new steamship made after oue of the approved models. Should the parries inierested complete the vessel, as they have commenced it, on their sole responsibility, they will have the profit and honor if it succeeds, and if it fails, the satisfaction of having deceived nobody but themselves. It is due to them to state that they have avoided publicity, and con sented with reluctance to any mention of it on the part of the press. It is impossible, however, to keep such a tiling^ private, and has for some time past been known in the commercial circles. not. She i’ coW ^ the icicle that in committed for farther examination not determined, ten of legumine and caseine, three and a half to five ofchloroginate of pa- tass and caseine, three of azoted organism one of free caseine, a thousandth part df con crete essentiaLoil insoluble in water, a thou sandth part of aromatic essence, six and half of mineral substances—potass, lime, chalk, magnesia phosporic, sulphuric,' and silicic- acid, and some traces of chlorine. After describing the compoment parts of coffee, Mr. Payen proceeded to describe its proper ties as an article of nutrition. He enter tains a high opinion of its qualities as a safe and agreeable stimulent and states that it has a notable effect upon the nutrition of the body, not by furnishing nutrition of it self, but by its benificial action on the issues It is, he says, less by furnishing assimilating substances than by preventing exhaustion and denourishmeut (en empechant de se de- nourrir) that coffee exercises upon the health a beneficial influence. He also discussed, iu the same lecture, the question of the comparative qualities of su gar made from cane and beet root. He stated that many persons still doubted whether there was any essential difference between the two products, but the question was easy of solution. Beet-root sugar in the raw state contains ail essential oil, the taste and smell of which are disagreeable. • Thus •the treacle of beet root cannot be used in a direct way, whereas the treacle of cane su gar is of an agreeable flavor, for the essen tial oil which it contains is aromatic, and has some resemblance in taste to vanilla. But beet root sugar, it is completely refined, dif fers in no sensible degree from refined cane sugar.—In appearance it is quite equal to cane sugar, and the process of refining it is more easy in the case of the latter. Give your Child A Paper.—A child be ginning to read becomes delighted with a newspaper, because he reads the names of things which are very familiar, and will make progress accordingly. A newspaper in ore year is worth a quarter’s schooling to a child and every father must'eonsider that substantial information is connected with advancement. The mother of a family, being one of the heads, and having a more imradiate charge ol children, should herself bt instructed. And mind occupied, becomes fortified against the ills of life.and is braced for any emergency. Children amused by reading or study, are of course more considerate and more easily governed. How many pa rents who have^ not spent twenty dollars for books for their families, would give hundreds to reclaim!a son or daughter who had ignorently or thoughtlessly fallen into temptation. ‘ Won't You Take Shingles?'-There is an amusing anecdote related of a specimen of the genus homo, who lives, or lived not a thousand miles “Down East.” After having completed his courtship, (in what precise manner, deponent saitb not,) he went with his intended spouse to the squire to get the connubial knot tied. YYhen preliminary formalities had been got through with the j the spectacles of the season bride-groom rose prsented his certificate. The magistrate opened it but looked blank when he discovered the absence of the cus tomary marriage fee. However, supposing all would be made right afterwards he pro ceeded to marry the impatient couple. The ceremony being performed to the satisfac tion of the parries concerned the happy husband for the first time thought of “set tling up.” He rose from his chair walked towards the astonished'justice, bent down his head and a whisper audible to all pres ent asked, “Won’t yon take shingles?” The man was a lumber dealer. Comment is un necessary. A Modest Cleric.—A. young lady with a mind intent on shopping, entered a store on a certain occasion, and addressing a fresh looking rosy cheeked youth, desired to know if he had any nice silk hose. ‘Certainly, Miss,’ replied he, and immedi ately the counter was strewn with delicate articles. After selecting a pair she looked up very innocently and enquired: ‘How high do they come, sir?’ The clerk blushed, turned in all sorts of colors, but spoke not a word, She gave him a look of surprise, and repeated hef question; again the youth stammered and said— ‘Realy, Miss— that is to say—I think— could not be positive, but my imprssion is, they come just above the knee.’ Origin of all Fools Day.—The Rich mond Dispatch says: The origin of the custom of All Fools’ Day, which prevails throughout Europe, and of which there is some resemblance in certain feasts in the East ^Indies, is not clear. There are several versions given of it, one of which is that, as in the middle ages scenes from Bible history5 were often represented without any feeling of impro priety, the scene in the life of Jesus, where he is sent from Pilate to Herod, and^.back from Herod to Pilate, was represented-in April, and may have given rise to the cus tom of fruitless errands and other tricks practiced at this season. The phrase of “sending a man from Pilate to Herod,” is common in Germany, to describe the send ing on unnecessary and foolish missions. The reason of choosing the 1st of April was, that the feast of Easter often falls in this month, and the events of this period of the Saviour would be naturally selected for HoweVer, it may become Grecian or Roman custom, de rived from the Eait and handed down through successive ages. As the trick is all the better for being played off upon the soberest and most profound people, who knows but what Lycurgus or Cato may have been made in their day, April fools of by the mischievous boys ? In France the unlucky party fooled is called un posson d'- Avril—m the North of Scotland gowk. Rabelais wanted to go from Marseilles to Paris on one occasion, and had not the means. He played off a first of April trick very successfully. He put a quantity of brick dust in phials‘ labelled, poison for the Royal family of France, and placed it where it woul be discovered. The result was he was conveyed, at government expense, very sapidly to Paris, where, when the trick was made known, it occasioned a great deal of merriment. Newpaper on Silk.—The Pekin, China a newtpaper of extraordinary size is published weekly on silk. It is said to have been started more than a thousand years ago— somewhat earlier than the one under the patronage of the “good Queen Bess.” An anecdote is related to the effect that in 1827 a public officer caused some false inteligence to be inserted in this newspaper, for which he was put to death—Several numbers of the paper are preserved in the Boy,s Library at Paris. They are each ten and a quarter yards long. The Burlington Sentinel, says, that ‘cra dles are ballot-boxes for women* in which thev should deppsite voters, and not votes.’ Hit him again.—The following ite m from a New Orleans paper, we publish for the benefit of those who ought to advertise —but who don’t: “At New Orleans, a man who recently commenced business, found his creditors rather two prompt in urging the payment of their little bills. “What is the matter,” he at length asked. “Do you fear me?” “Yes,” was the hesitating reply of a mod est dun. “Fear me!” he exclaimed “on what grounds? Has any one said I am Bot honest?” No; no,’ replied the other; ‘hut, but what sir?’ ‘Why, to be candid with you, we have no confidence in vour busi ness capacity, seeing you do not * advertise!’ The man immediately made annual con tracts with three papers, and is now in ex cellent credit, and prospering finely.” Some wag asks the editor of the Boston Carpet Bag whether, under the “Maine Law,” a man is allowed to wear his arm in a sling, to make merry over the London Punch, to sell soap in bars, to communi- .cate with the rapping spirits, to administer “a drop of comfort” to a ‘suffering friend, to punch his neighbor’s head, to purchase corned beef, to tap his enemy’s claret to eat rum cherries, or to beat the spirit-sriring drum. The Secret of Longevity Tue means known, so Ju* of promoting longevity, have usually concentrated in short, pithy sayings—-as- “keep your head cool, and your feet warm”-—“Work much, and eat little,” &c., just as if the whole science of hitman life could be summed up and brought out in a few words; while its great principles were kept out of sight. One of the best of these sayings is given* by an Italian in his hundred and sixteenth year, who being asked the reason of his living so long, replied with that improvisation for which his country is remarked : When hungry, of the best I eat, And dry and warm I keep my feet; I screen my head from suu and rain, And let fe\V cares perplex my brain. The following is about the best theory of the matter: Every man is born with a certain stock of vitality, which cannot be increased, but may be husbanded. • With this stock lie may live fast or slow—maV live extensively or intensively—may spread his little amount of life over a large space or narrow it into a contracted one; but when this stock is exhausted he has no more. He who lives extensively, drinks pure water, avoids all inflamatory diseases' exercises sufficiently but not laboriously, in dulges no exhausting passions, feeds on no exciting material, pursues no debilitating pleasures, avoids all laborious and pro- trated study, preserves an easy mind, and thus husbands bis quantum of -vitality—• will live considerably longer than he other wise would do, because he lives slow; while he on the other hand; who lives intensely, who beverages hiimelf on liquors and wines exposes, himself w inflammatory diseases or causes that produce them, labors beyond his strength, visits exciting scenes and in dulges exhausting passions, and lives on stimulating and higly seasoned food, is al ways debilitated by liis pleasures. One of the Iflegiiierisers- A few years ago the following story was overheard in the cars on the road between Albany and Buffalo. One of the conver- sauts was a mesmerizer—a : regular “devel opment—its astonishing -cure for diseases; the extraordinary discoveries through its agency. Finally lie got upon his superiori ty as a “professor” ; a congenial theme ; and here he 4 was at home. After narrating a variety of experiments ; some of them as tounding, of course ; he spoke of the fol lowing with a gusto that was irresistible.- Said he— “Last week I was going through one of the streets of Rochester, aud saw a person to whom I was anxious t<5 speak. He walked too fast for me to overtaken him without running, so I just straightened out my arm, concentrated mv will, made a pass at him—thus—and he stopped quicker than lightning.” . “Wh-wh why, mist’r y-v-you don’t call that m-m-m much of a tr-i-i-ick, do yon ?” “Yes, sir, I rather flatter myself, sir that it was a pretty strong demon rtration.” “W-w-w-well, it don’t b-b-gin w-with whatl once did.” “Th en you are familiar with the science sir, I pmurae ?’ “S-s s-some.” “Might I inquire what was the case you spoke of ?’ “Oh. c c c-certainly. YV-hy, you see, I happened to be up in B-b-atavia, once in the winter; G-g-going down the cars, I s-saw a m-a-man shoveling oft'snow. Pret ty soon his f-foot slipped and d-down he caine. Wh-when he was about half way d-down I made a p-pass at him, and it s-st- opped him quicker than powder. I c-c-arae off with-o-out thinking a-a-anything more a-a-bout it. If you are go-o-ing to Batavia, I wish y-you would jest let him down, for I pr-pr presume he is hanging there yet !” • The “professor” handed over his “hat.’ To Calculate Interest.—Divide the num ber of days by 6, and multiply the dollars by the dividend, tjje result is the interest in decimals, cut off the right hand figure, and you have it in dollars and cents. Thus—what is the interest on $100 for 21 days? 21 di vided bv 6 is 3 1-2; 100 multiplied by 3 U2 is 350, or 35 cents. Again—what is the interest on $378 X 15 1-2—5859—or $5,85 9-10. “My son, would you suppose that the Lord’s Prayer could be engraved on a space no bigger than a half dime?” “Well yes,-father, if a half dime is as large in everybody’s eye as in yours, I think t’ e e would be no difficulty in putting it on about four times. A Dutchman being called upon to help to pay for a lightning rod for the village church toward the building of which he had liberally subscribed, exclaimed, “I have help to build ter house for ter Lort, and if he schoose todunder on it and knock it down hemoosht do it at hish own risk.” JJ. S. Mint.—During the month of March the mint at Philadelphia coined gold to the value" of $3,886,632; also silver to the a- mount of $oS,106, and copper to the ex tent of 289,875 cents. A down east militia--captain, on receiving a note, recently, from a lady requesting the “pleasure of his company,” understood it as a compliment to those under hiscommand, and marched the whole of them to the lady s house. jjgr A Texas paper in speaking of one of the. Presidential aspirants, says as he has no morals, he had better go in for. the Vice Presidency. This is getting personal.