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brings us intelligence down to yesterday—
Louis Napoleon was at Baden-Baden, whith
er he had gone after a perfectly triumphal
reception at Strasburg. The papers will
tell you that the object of his visit to the
latter city was to be present at the open-
li ve. It may readily be conceived that the
situation of the two fat men was now any
thing but pleasant or agreeable, but Taxile
was the first to speak:
“What is the matter with you, my good
man ? and what do you roll your eyes a
ing of the new railroad connecting it with ! bout and grind your teeth in that savage
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POETRY.
[FROM THE CONSTITUTIONALIST & REPUBLIC.]
To tlie Memory of Miss Sarah
Sm y the.
Remember Thee!
When the dim morning from her sleep awakes,
And the full sun in cloudless beauty breaks,
Gem’ing with diamond drops the dewy leaves,
And bathing in rich gold the sighing trees
Whose waving boughs, all moist with dew and
light
Blend into one, the joys of day and night:
Then as each changing softness of the morn
and tree
One beauty forms—We w r ill Remember thee!
Remember Thee!
When the gay-wing’d bird fleets lightly on,
Breathing her thrilling joys, in gushing song
Of sweetly changing notes, now wild and glad,
Now melting in sweet pathos low, to music
sad:—
Then each mournful cadence of her song will
be
A sweet,—tho’ sad—Remeinb’rance of Thee.
Remember Thee !
Oh! Sarah! in thy gentle sleep, thou It evern
know
The mighty anguish—nor the wild deep woe
Of hearts that live to feel—and wildly weep
O’er memries dark, that will not—cannot sleep:
Shrouding the living heart in woful gloom—
’Til like its grief become a tenant of the
tomb
Oh! thou would’st weep, if from thy dream
less sleep could’st see
The grief of breaking hearts—Rcmemb’ring
Thee!
Remember Thee!
In the dim waste ol years, whose ceaseless tide
Wafts balm to broken hearts—while youth
and pride
In all its warm freshness, and its soft young
light _ .
Is shrouded in the gloom, of life’s bleak night:
Then in each changing tone ot earth s dark
sea
We’ll mourn a beauty gone—We will Remem
ber Thee !
Augusta, August 12, 1852.
MISCELLANEO US.
[from the n. o. picayune.]
Editorial Correspondence,
Paris, Thursday, July 22, 1852.
In one branch of business in France,
wbich formerly gave full and constant em
ployment to numbers, Louis Napoleon has
caused an almost utter stagnation ; the oc
cupation of the news paper correspondent
is gone. In former times—in days of’48
when every species of political quack and
mountebank, raising all sorts of political
jack-o’-lanthorns, drew the inhabitants off
into swamps of continual excitement, tur
bulence and revolution, then the correspon
dents of the English and American journals
ever had the raw material before them to
work up into interesting letters. But since
Louis Napoleon-has assumed the reins of
supreme power, there appears to be an end
to every thing in the way of excitement.
The French, under his regime, are rational
beings in comparison to what they were ;
they now seem to have legitimate callings
and business to occupy their minds and
bodies—are what we in the States are
wont to term useful and industrious mem
bers of society. The wheels of government
now move like clock-work—run smoothly
and evenly—without let or hindrance from
a community which seems perfectly con
tented and happy. There are no plots
hatching deserving the name—n d opposi
tion whatever is manifest—the Prince
President has his own way in every thing;
the duty of the historian, who is called up
on to record the events of the last six
months of the reign of Louis Napoleon Bo
naparte, will be but an easy task. Whetk
er the condition of the French is better or
worse under such a state of things, or when
all is turmoil, riot and foolish experiment, I
leave it for my readers to decide.
At last acoounts—and the telegraph
Paris. At every point on the long route
his appearance was marked by an enthusi
asm most unwonted even in France—there
is no mistake about this—while at Stras
burg the inhabitants went almost crazy in
their desire to do him honor. I know this
to be so from private accounts; I do not
gather it from the public rejiorts of his pro
gress. After the ceremonies of the inau
guration of the road were over, he appear
ed among the citizens in plain clothes, and
without escort of any kind, when the en
thusiasm seemed to increase. I note these
things as matters of history, and to show
the real state of feeling in France, wherever
its ruler appears openly among the inhabi-*
tants. I have never been admirer of Louis
Napoleon; on the contrary, I have ever
looked upon the act bv which he assumed
power as a positive and unjustifiable usur
pation. But at the same time I have ever
contended that the French were utterly
unable to govern themselves—that the des
potism of the one man power, as the mass
es are at present educated, was preferable
to the absurd attempts of the many to car
ry on a republic—and I simply point to
the present happy state of the country as
proof that I have not been far out of the
way. Every day the evidence accumulates
that the people of Europe are utterly inca
pable of self-government—they are half a
century behind us in all the essentials that
render men able to govern themselves, the
preachings of swarms of revolution mon
gers to the contrary. And when we all
know that the Dictator of France walks a-
bout openly among all classes of his sub
jects, without guard or escort, and when we
farther know that the Emperor of Austria
has just returned from a visit to Huno-ary,
through the length and breadth of which
he has passed without a corporal’s ^uard,
and amid the rejoicings of a community
which seemed to greet him as one man—
when all this passes under our notice, or
comes well authenticated by facts, it is near
ly time for us to reserve our sympathy and
our intervention until we can find a better
market for them than Europe at present of
fers. But I will pester you no more with
politics this morning.
An estimate has just been made of the
cost of keeping the streets of Paris in order
from which our law-givers may learn some
thing. To keep a square yard of macadam
as it is called in travelling condition costs
per annum 4 francs, or about 80 cents ; to
keep a square yard of the ordinary stone
pavement in order costs 50 centimes, or a-
bout 10 cents—a vast difference in the ex
penditures of a large city.
The weather here in Paris, which was
most insufferably hot during the two first
weeks of July, has turned pleasantly cool
during the last four or five days, much to
the satisfaction of both man and beast.
The number ofsudden deaths among the
population, during the excessive heat, was
really alarming, the papers every morning
giving long lists. Tfie number of horses
which fell dead in harness was also unusual
while the list of mad dogs, and of persons
bitten by them and afterwards died of hy
drophobia, was absolutely terrifying. Every
dog running loose and unmuzzled was pitch
ed upon by the police, and if he succeeded
in getting clear of poisoned sausages and
clubs, was compelled to run a gauntlet
which in the end was enough to drive the
best disposed cur raving mad. Thousands
of dogs have been killed, and those left alive
have only been secured by being tied fast
in inaccessible b ck yards or stowed away
in garrets. Many of the stories told of suf
fering by hydrophobia have - been -of the
most heart-rending description, while again
the excitement in relation to mad dogs has
given rise to several bits of waggery of the
most ludicrous and laughable description.
One story is so amusing that I must relate
it in full.
Three days'since a cattle-dealer named
Taxile, appeared before the Tribunal of Cor
rectional Police, brought there charged
with having given a person named Rajou
a most unmerciful thrashing. It was a
plain case—Rajou caried the marks and
more than the number of Taxile’s fists about
his nose, face and eyes—he had received a
mauling as severe as though he had been
engaged in a prize-fight with the champion
of England. But Taxile, in his defence,
contended that Rajou deserved all he got,
and more, and told the following story in
proof. On one of the hottest of the recent
hot days, he, Taxile, who is a very fat man,
got into the coupe of a diligence running to
Arpajon, and there found another man as
fat as himself. The coupe held but three
ordinary persons—there was barely room
and no comfort even for the two then in pos
session—but soon Rajou stopped the ve
hicle and crowded himself in. Under such
circumstances the latter should have been
quiet, should have accommodated himself
to any physical discomfort of his own choo
sing ; but being a wag, be bethought him
of a plan to get the coupe all to himself.
Settling himself between the two fat men,
he began to eye them in a sinister manner,
commenced writhing about in a strange
and wild way, growled something after the
style of an exasperated cur, and then set to
work gritting and grinding his teeth as
with iTl-suppressed rage, biting his lipsj and
rolling his eyes from one to the other as
though savage enough to eat them up a-
manner for ?”
“I hope I shall not bite you!” respon
ded Rajou, apparently with great effort; “I
will endeavor not to bite either of you, but
am not responsible for consequences !”
“Bite us ! mon Dieu!” ejaculated both
the fat men in a breath; “you haven’t got
the hydrophobia, have you ?”
“I-I-I hope not,” continued Rajou. still
gritting his teeth, “but I was bitten by a
mad dog a few days since, and I begin to
think I have the premonitory symptoms of
hydrophobia!”
In less than two seconds after this last
remark Rajou had the coupe all to himself
while the two fat men were seen bolting a
cross the fields as though forty mad dogs
were after them, and puffing and blowing
like porpoises. The affair might have en
ded here had not the wag boasted of his
exploit, the particulars of which getting to
the ears of Taxile’s friends, he was so quiz
zed that in his rage he sought out Rajou
and gave him the thrashing complained of.
The court decided that he had not the right
to chastise the hoaxer, and compelled the
fat cattle-dealer to pay 25 francs for the as
sault.
Another amusing story, all about the
hot weather, is told of an enchanted French
man living at Gentilly. Of a sudden his
neighbors saw a perfect shower of chairs,
tables, pots, frying-pans kettles and other
articles of kitchen and household furniture
flying in confusion from his windows. On
rushing up they found his apartment clear-,
ed of everything save the bedstead, and
this he was unscrewing in order that he
might pitch it out in company with the rest
of his furniture. In answer to a question
as to the cause of such proceedings, the man
wiping the perspiration which was pouring
from his face and forehead, quietly said that
he wanted air !—he was too close and hot
in apartments furnished.
The latest news I have seen from Spain
is dated at Madrid on the 4th inst. On
that day the Queen arrived in the capitalj
and proceeded at once to the church of
Atocha, carrying the infant Princess of the
Asturias in her own arms. On the next
day—on the 5th of July 1852—there was
to be a bull fight on a grand scale given by
royal command, on which occasion, accor
ding to the printed programme, the infant
Princess, who must no«v be nearly six
months old, was to “witness the great na
tional sport of Spain for the first time !” It
is to be hoped she was old enough to “take
notice.”
In the same paper in which I read the
above I saw the particulars of a national
cruise recently taken by the Queen of En
gland. As the report ran: “Her Majesty
Queen Victoria, accompanied by Prince Al
bert, the Prince of Wales, and the entire
brood of royal princes and princesses, sailed
from the Isle of Wight at a quarter past 5
o’clock, on a cruise, and returned a little
after 7.” The idea of calling a little ex
cursion of a couple of hours a cruise, sounds
ridiculous enough—is like terming a sim
ple trip or errand of a boy to the post office
the sending him on a long journey—but it
must be acknowledged that the recreations
and amusements of her Majesty of England
offers her royal progeny are far more hu
manizing in their influence than the page
ants got up by her Majesty of Spain to tic
kle the juvenile heir apparent to her
throne and sceptre. Yours, &c.
g. w. K.
Democratic Meeting.
Savannah, 31st August, 1852.
In pursuance of a public call, the Dem
ocratic party assembled at the Exchange
Long Room this evening.
On motion of Dr. R. Wayne, Hon. Thom
as Purse was called to the Chair, and E. G.
Wilson and John N. Lewis appointed
Secretaries.
Col. R. H. Griffin, after some remarks,
offered the following resolutions:
Whereas differences of opinion, on cer
tain grave questions of national legislation,
unconnected with mere party issues, have,
unfortunately, for nearly two years past, di
vided the Democracy of Chatham County,
in common with the Democracy of all other
sections of our State; and whereas, the ques
tions which caused the separation, having
been settled, it is now our duty, forgetting
whatever of discord has existed in the past,
and mindful only of the great political prin
ciples which we all cherish, to come togeth
er, once more on the broad platform of Jef
fersonian Democracy:
Be it therefore Resolved, That the Dem
ocrats of Chatham County, cordially re-uni
ted, hereby declare their unqualified approv
al of the resolutions of the late National Con
vention of the party, and pledge their indi
vidual support to the nominees of that Con
vention, ^ Franklin Pierce, of New Hamp
shire, and William R. King, of Alabama,
Be it further Resolved, That appealing
to our brother Democrats throughout the
State to come up to the good work of har
monizingand strengthening the party, we
respectfully suggest that, in accordance with
our approved good custom, and for the pur
pose of affecting a thorough re-union of all
the friends of our principles, a MASS MEET
ING of the Democracy, and all others of
our citizens, disposed to unite with us in
the support of Pierce and King, be called
Editorial Life.—The following remarks
of Dr. Johnson gives an answer to many
complaints of the present day. Dr. John
son says : ‘’I know no classes of the com
munity from whom so much disinterested
benevolence and thankless labor are expec
ted as from editors of newspapers. They
are expected to feel for every one but them
selves—to correct public abuses, and pri
vate ones also, without giving offence—to
sustain the difficulties of others, without re
gard to their own—to condemn improper
measures of every one, and not one at the
same time. They are expected to note ev
erything that is important or extraordinary
of men’s opinions, their notices must be cal
culated to please every one, and at the same
time offend no one.”
to assembe in the city of Atlanta, on the
eigh teeth day of September next, or at such
other time and place as to a majority of the
party, in primary meetings assembled, shall
seem expedient.
Be it f urther Resolved, That the Chair
man of this meeting appoint a Committee
of Correspondence, five in number, to fur
ther the object of the preceding resolution
Seconded by Judge H. R. Jackson, and
unanimously adopted.
The meeting was then eloquently ad
dressed by Judge H. R. Jackson, Solomon
Cohen, Esq. and Dr. R. D. Arnold. Mr. Co
hen stated that the Hon. W. R. King was
expected to visit Wilmington, N. C., on his
way home, and moved that the Chairman
appoint a Committee of Three to invite him
to visit Savannah.
On motion of Capt. John W. Anderson,
seconded by Jas. M. Jones, Esq., it was re
solved that the Democratic party of Chath
am be appointed a Committee to attend a
Mass Meeting of the party at Atlanta.
The Chairman then appointed the fol
lowing Committees:
Committee of Correspondence—Col. R.
H. Griffin, T. M. Turner, Esq., Judge H. R.
Jackson, Dr. J. Riordan and Capt. J. W.
Anderson.
Committee to address Hon. W. R. King
Sol. Cohen, Esq., Dr. Chas. Ganahl and
Hon. E. J. Harden.
A motion was then made to adjourn. Be
fore putting said motion the Chairman sug
gested that three cheers be given for the
Union of the Party, and three cheers for
Pierce and King, and responded to enthu
siastically. The meeting then adjourned.
THOMAS. PURSE, Chairman.
E. G. Wilson, ) Secretar : PS
Jno. N. Lewis, f becrelanes *
Important Rumor.—Sale of Cuba.—We
clip from the Charleston Mercury of yester
day the following dispatch dated New-York
Monday last:
“The Courier & Enquirer of to-day has
a letter from Spain, announcing that the
Spaniish Government has abandoned all
hope of retaining Cuba. That Hayti aims
to get possession of the Island and that ne
gotiatious are going on with Soluque, the
slaves to be liberated, &c. A great demon
stration is. to be made in Cuba on the An
niversary of the execution of Lopez. The
Cuban Consul at New-York is ordered home,
&c. The whole affair is believed by intel
ligent men to be a fabrication and hoax.”
Bank of St. Mary’s
We find in the Montgomery Journal the
following card of the President of the Bank
of St. Mary’s which we publish for the ben-
enfit of those holding or being interested
in the Bills of that institution.
Bank of St Mary’s.—For the informa
tion of the creditors of the Bank of St. Ma
ry’s I subjoin a condensed statement of its
condition on the 23d of April last, when it
suspended payment, and on its condition on
the 13th July, about 80 days subsequent
thereto.
On the 23d of April, its entire indebted'
ness, including circulation, deposits, out
standing checks, &c., was $585,888 64. On
the 13th of July, the entire indebtedness
(iembracing every form of liability was
$251,115 32; thus exhibiting a redemp
tion, in 80 days, of no Jess a sum than $334,
773 32—which does not include nearly
$100,000 of my own small change bills that
have been promptly redeemed in that peri
od, as presented.
I embrace this opportunity of renewing
my assurances to the public, that my efforts
shall continue unremitted to redeem the is
sues of the Bank—and that so far from its
being insolvent, it will be able, within a
reasonable time, to redeem, at par, its en
tire liabilities, her good assets amounting to
more than double her present indebtedness!
It is hoped that this notice will secure the
attention of all such editors as may be dis
.posed to guard the people against the sac
rifice of the notes of the Bank of St. Maiy’s
JOHN G. WINTER.
Travelling over Muddy Rodds.^-Por
tions of Ohio were formerly notorious for
awful roads. At some seasons of the year
a mile an hour was considered good pro
gress. Something of an idea of the. mud
may bo formed from the following anec
dote:
A traveller was riding on horseback near
Little Union meeting-house, when the mud
was so deep that his foot touched the “lob
lolly on either hand. The struggles of the
poor horse to draw bis foot out of the soft
clay, were, of course, desperate, and he
could not make more than a mile and a half
an hour. Ihe traveller soon came up with
a man who was standing on the fence, with
out coat or hat, and with a fence-rail wa9
plumbing the huge mortar-bed as though
endeavoring to sound it.
“Why, what’s the matter?” exclaimed the
equestrian; “you seem excited and out of
bieath. Are you merely amusing your
self/”
“Bless ye, no,” said the fence man. “I’ve
lost my wagon and team somewhere along,
here, and I am trying to see if I could
find ’em.”
The traveller could only give the unfor
tunate man his sympathy, and proceeded
on.
Call not that man wretched who, what
ever else he suffers as to pain inflicted,
pleasure denied, has a child for whom he
hopes, and on whom he dotes. Poverty
may grind him to the dust, obscurity may
cast its darkest mantle over him, the song
of the gay may be far from his own dwell
ing, his face may be unknown to his neigh
bors, and his voice may be unheeded a-
mong those with whom he dweljg, even
pain may rack his joints, and sleep flee
from his pillow but he has a gem which he
would not part, with for wealth defying com
putation, for fame filling a world’s ear, for
the luxury of the highest health, or the
sweetest sleep that ever sat upon a mortal
eve.
“Friendship is often outgrown ; and his
former child’s clothes will no more fit a
man thar some of his former friendships.
Often a breach of friendship is supposed to
occur, when there is nothing of the kind.
People see one another seldom; their cour
ses in life are different; they meet, and their
intercourse is constrained. They fancy that
their friendship is mightly cooled.*”
Philadelphia, Aug. 28.— Vessel sunk by
a raft.—About one o’clock this morning, a
large lumber raft in tow of a steamer, ran
foul of a small vessel lying at anchor above
Kaign’s point, near the Jersey shore, and
struck her amidships, she filled instantly and
sunk, the raft passing over the spot she oc
cupied. No particulars are known as to
her name, or whether any one was on board.
No cries were heard.
A preacher in—no matter where—ob‘
served, one day, that a striking proof of this
wisdom and benevolence of Providence was
given in placing death at the end of life—
thus giving one time for preparation. This
was almost as profound a remark as
that of another person, who thought “it was
lucky that Sunday was placed at the end of
the week, instead of the middle, as it would
have made a broken week of it.”
The Burial Customs of the Banes.—The
European correspondent of the Spring-
field Republican, writing from Copenhagen
gives the following account of the burial
customs in that country:
“A visit to one or two cemeteries in the
vicinity of Copenhagen, led me to remark
some instances in which the custom of the
Danes varies slightly from our own. The
various ‘lots,’ as we call them, are separa
ted, as with us, by hedges or iron fences,
but with them you’d not see the oblon_
tapering mounds of earth, which remind us
of a coffin, and are with us inseparable from
the idea of a grave; but instead, you find a
mound or slightly oval in form, surrounded
and supported by a ring of baked gray earth
enware, or else merely banked up with a bor
dering of white sea sand. Sometimes, and
this seems to be the newest lasliion, this
mound is enclosed by a basket-shaped iron
railing. But no matter how this inner inclo
sure is formed, it is always planted with
flowers or shrubs or even with trees, which
thus grow, not as is usual with us, around
the grave, but directly upon it.”
Another Slander Refuted—Gen. Scott
bids fair to become one of “the best abused
men” who has ever run for the Presidency.
The following letter from Senator Wade to
a gentleman in Norfolk, while it explains it
selt^ will show to what shifts his opponents
are put in their work of slander.
Washington, 'August 18, 1852.
Win. H. Granbery, Esq.—Sir: I have the
honor to receive your note of the 16ih inst.,
stating that at the head of a Democratic pa
per, published at Elizabeth City, N. C., call
ed the “Democratic Pioneer,” is the follow
ing:—“I would sooner cut off my right hand
than lend it to the support of Slavery.”
Gen. Scott to Senator Wade.
All 1 can say of the above is, (what
have frequently said of it since it has been
floating about in the papers,} that Gen.
Scott never made any such a declaration to
me or in my hearing, nor did I ever say, or
pretend that he ever did, and I believ^ it to
have been fabricated with a view to preju
dice the Southern people against the old
General. And permit me to add, that the
morbid sensitiveness of the Southern mind
on this subject, renders it peculiarly liable
to such impositions; and Northern dema
gogues knowing this, will not fail to take ad
vantage of it. .
Wm. H. Granbery Esq. B. F. WADE.
Hasty and Cool.—There is a story going
of a young man who was once invited to
dine with a gentleman of rather sudden tem
per. The dining room was on the second
floor, and principal dish a fine roast fowl
When the old gentleman undertook to carve
it, he found the knife rather dull, and in a
sudden passion, flung it down stairs after the
servant who had brought it; whereupon the
young man seized the fowl, and with admi
rable dexterity flung it after the knife.
“What on earth do you mean?” exclaim
ed the old man, as soon as he could speak.
“I beg your pardon,” was the cool reply,
“I thought you were going to dine down
stairs.”
A preacher was holding forth and had
contrived so to work upon the feelings of
his auditors, that the straw on the ground
inside of the altar was completely covered
with prostrate mourners. Perceiving there
were many others present, ready to cast
themselves down, who ■- refrained from so
doing solely through the want of straw to
lie upon, he cried out in the midst of his ex
hortation—“Straw! straw! We want more
straw here! Brother Brown for the Lord’s
sake run up to your tent and get more
straw? Twenty souls lost for the want of
straw!”
(KT “Trust to Providence! Trust to
Providence for assistance,’’ exclaimed a lazy
husband, while his affectionate spouse was
endeavoring to roll a barrel of flour up
stairs.
“Trust to Providence, eh! you lazy shape
of a man. Do you suppose that Providence
will come down and assist me to roll this
barrel of flour up stairs while the devil is
looking on?”
E3T We learn that Rollins, said to be an
accomplice of the notorious Dr. Hines, and
who aided in the recent escape of that gen
tleman, was arrested yesterday by the City
Marshal and officer Russell, by whom he
was lodged in jail with his professional
friend. It appears that on Tuesday, this
man Rollins succeeded, not exactly in mes
merizing, but in liquorizing a verdant indi
vidual, from whom he took one hundred
dollars in money, a gold watch, and some
other articles. With these he had made
his escape, and at some place not far from
Scriven’s ferry, traded his plunder for a
horse, and under the name of Harper was
about to continue his journey, when he was
arrested and brought hack to the city, where
it is to be hoped he will receive the atten
tion and consideration due to his talent and
enterprize. Such men as Dr. Hines and
Rollins alias Harper, are entirely out of their
latitude in our city, and it is to be hoped
their success in attaining their deserts, will
have the effect to encourage other profes
sional characters of the same sort to stay
away.—Sav. Mews, 26th inst.
J8T “Daddy,” said a young hopeful,
“let’s go up to the nine-pin alley and roll.”
“Roll! boy what do you know about roll
ing?”
“Me know about? Why, I can roll your
darned eyes out in less than ten minutes.”
The long mooted question, “Who
struck Billy Patterson?” we presume may
be considered as settled. Some of the rap
pers have been conversing with his spirit,
and it savs he never was struck.
“Sammy, my boy, what are breach
es of trust,” said a father to his smartest son.
“Why, what a funny question, Pa.”
“Can’t you answer it, Sammy?”
“Yes, Pa, but I don’t like to.”
“What a silly boy; come, out with it.”
“Well} Pa, your Sunday trousers are
“breeches of trust,” cos you got ’em on tick.”
[Exit Pa, whistling.]
A boy was prising the skill with which a
sister played the piano forte. “Why,” said
he, “she once imitated thunder so natural
ly that the old woman had to stop her.”
“What was that for?” asked a person
standing near.
“Because the imitation thunder turned
all the milk sonr!”
jfceT “Mother, I would not be surprised
if our Susan gets choked some day. rt
“Why, my son?”
“Because her beau twisted his arms a-
round her neck, and if she had not kissed
him to let her go, he would have strangled-
her the other night.”
J83T It seem there is a faint fmnor of a
liberation of political prisoners in France.
Warm as the weather has lately been, we
were scarcely prepared for this new proof of
it. It has even melted Louis Napoleon’s
heart.—-Punch
The Albany Patriot once sayth: One of
our Methodist clergyman remarked that if
all the world believed the second coming
wasto take place on the 13th of March, 1851
at 3 o’clock, P. M., two-thirds of them
would delay all preparation for it tUl half
past two.”
“Plaze, sir,” said an Irishman to a traveler
would yez be so obliging as to take me
great coat to Boston with yez?”
“Yes,” said the man in the wagon; “but
how will you get it again?”
“Oh, that’s mighty aisy, for sure I’ll re*
main inside ov it.”
“You havn’t opened your mouth during
the whole session,” complained a member
of the late Massachusetts Legislature to a
Representative from the same town. “Oh,
yes I have,” -was the reply; I yawned
through the whole of your speech on tho
“liquor bill.”
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A Sharp Wit.—An Indiana paper 9ays t
that during a trial in Lawrenceport, a young
lad who was called as a witness was asked
if he knew what was the obligation of aq
oath, and where he supposed “he would go
if he told a lie? He said he supposed “be
would go where all lawyers went to!”
There is nothing purer than
nothing sweeter than charity; nbthi
than love; nothing brighter than virtue;
and nothing more steadfast than "
These, united in one mind, form the L
the sweetest, theriehest, the brightest, !
holiest, and the most steadfast hapj" **