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t ‘9» oh ! oh-h-h h-h-h, my poor child!*
cried Mrs. Gumbo.
‘Eb, eh, e-e-e-e-e-e-e!’ screamed the
child.
‘Q, murder-r-r! 0, by everlasting sin I’m
wagon broken, the horse ran himsgjf to
death, his owner was beaten awfully by Bob
Carter, whose wife and the wives of many
others were dangerously scared; the paint
er was crippled, dry goods ruined, a qnaker
scalded to all eternity ! Mur-der-r-r-r roar- and deacon, two Irishmen, Joe Tucker,
ed the customer. town constable, Lawyer Hooker, Squire
The horse, a part of the wagon, and some Catcherri, and.fiity others shamefully whip-
wood, were on their mad career. The own- [ ped ! Lawsuits ensued, feuds followed,.and
er of the strange dog came out of the store I the entire peace and good repute "of Frog
just in time to see Joe Tucker seize a rock town annihilated-—all by a remarkable dog
to demolish said dog ; and not waiting to fight1
see Joe‘let drive,’gave him such a pop in • ^
the back of the ear, that poor Joe fell forty Couulerfeiters Detected,
yards up the street, and striking the foot of Some months ago a letter was received
a long ladder, upon which Jim Elderberry I aQ engraving house in Philadelphia
was perched—paint pot in hand— S Q me | post-marked at Chesterfield
thirty feet from terra tirma, brought ladder
Court House,
[signed by R. VV. Smith, requesting to have
Jim and paint pot sprawling to the earth; bills engraved tide a three dollar bill ef the
crippling poor Jim for life, and sprinkling Bank of Wadesboro, which was inclosed in
the blue paint copiously over the broad- tbe letter - The engravers immediately for-
cloths, satinets and calicoes of Abraham warded the letter to die Bank, of Wades
Miller, a formal and even tempered quaker, boro - The Bank instructed the engravers
who ran out to the door, just as the two to com P I Y' vitb the r€ G uest ' A regular cor
dogs had fairly gone at it—hip and thiofo ‘espondence ensued between the parties, in
nip and catch. A glance at matters seem- Chesterfidd and the engravers. In one of
ed to convince Abraham of the true state of ^ be letters ot the former, instructions were
the case; and in an unusually elavated voice seQ t to forward several packages of bills, one
Abraham called out to Joe Tucker, who had to Chesterfield Court House, one to Hornes-
righted up boro, and one to some other post office. In
‘Joseph Tucker, thv dog’s fightino- *” answer to this, and by the instructions of
‘Let’em fight it out,’’yelled the pugna-1 the Bank > a - few bills were forwarded to
POETRY.
music’s powie.
Have you never heard, in music’s sound
Some chords which o’er your heart
First fling-a moment’s magic round,
Then silently depart ?
But with the echo on the air,
Roused by that simple lay,
It leaves a world of Feelingthere
We cannot chase away.
Yes, yes—a sound hath power to bid them
come— :
Youth’s half forgotten hopes, childhood’s re
membered home.
When sitting in your silent home
You gaze around and weep,
Or call to those who cannot come,
Nor wake from dreamless sleep ;
Those chords, so oft as you bemoan
‘‘The distant and the dead,”
Bring dimly back the fancied tone
Of some sweet voice that’s fled !
Yes, yes—a sound hath 'power to bid them
con e—-
Youth’s half-forgotten hopes, childhood’s re
membered home.
And when, amid the festal throng,
You are or would be gay—
And seek to while, with dance and song,
Your sadder thoughts away !
The strike those cords, and smiles depart,
As, rushing o’er your soul,
Then untold feelings of the heart
Awake and spurn control!
Yes, yes—a sound hath power to
come—
Youth’s half-fomotten hopes, childhood’s re-
memberect home. [Home Journal.
bid them
cious owner of the strange dog. ‘Let 'em
fight it out; I’ll bet a load of wood, my dog
can eat any dog in the town, and I can eat
the owner 1”
We have said Abraham Miller was a mild
man ; quakers are proverbially ' so. But
the gauntlet thrown down by the burly
stranger from the country, stirred the gall
of Abraham, and he rushed into his store.
From the backyard—having slipped his
collar—Abraham brought forth a brindle
cur—long, strong, and all-powerful.
‘Friend,’ said the excited quaker, ‘thy
dog shall be well beaten, I promise thee 1
Hike 1 seize upon him. Turk-—here boy 1’
and the' dog went at it
Bob Carter, the smith, coming up in time
to hear the stranger’s defiance to the town
and bent on a fight with somebody, for the
insult and damage to his wife, clamped the
collar of the stranger, and by a series of ten
pound tens upon the face and back a::d
sides of his bully antagonist, with his natu
rai sledge hammers—-Bob stirred up the
strength and ire of the. bully stranger to
the top of his compass, and they made the
sparks fly dreadfully !
Joe Tucker’s dog, reinforced by that of
■Abraham Miller’s, took a fresh start, and
between the two, the strange dog was be
ing cruelly put to his trumps 1 Deacon
Pugh, one of the most sedate and substan
tial and pious men in Frogtown, came up,
and indeed the whole town was assembling
—and Deacon Pugh, armed with his heavy
walking stick, and shocked at the spectacle
before him, marched up to the dogs, ex
claiming as he did so :
“Fie, fie, for shame; disgraceful—you
men, citizens of Frogtown, will you stand
by and—’
‘Don’t thee, don’t thee strike my dog,
Deacon Pugh !’ cried Abraham Miller, ad-
Chesterfield Court House; to the address of
R. W. Smith. This package, it was ascer
tained, was called for and taken from the
office by William R. Griffith, Ordinary of
the District. Ou Tuesday of the last week,
Col. Hammond, Cashier of the Bank, was at
our Court House, with the letters, which all
who saw unhesitatingly pronounced to be
in Griffith’s hand write. Some how, on that
night, Griffith got wind of Col. Hammond’s
business, and fled, and has not yet been ar
rested. Subsequently R. W. Smith and
Berry Evans, who were concerned with
Griffith, have also fled, and have not yet
been arrested. It is not known that any of
the counterfeit bills are in circulation, but
the probability is, that they are. Thus, one
of the boldest attempts at villany which ever
disgraced our District, has been nipped in
the bud. Griffith was Ordinary of this Dis
trict about two years ago, and is supposed
to be worth several* thousand dollars over
and above his debts. He has respectable fam
ily connections, and involves in bis disgrace
an interesting family.— Cheraw Gaz.
[PROM THE BALTIMORE SUN.]
Washington, Oct. 10,1852.
Mr. Soule’s Select Committee have been
in session during the past’week, and com
pleted their arrangements for sending a
Commissioner to Mexico to examine the
mines designated by Dr. Gardiner and Dr.
Mears, as those which they worked, and
from which they allege that they were ex
pelled by the Mexican Government. They
have probably some other duties to discharge
in connection with the course of investiga
tion adopted by the committee. The com
mittee appointed three commissioners on
their part, to wit: Capt. Dupont, of the Na
vy; Samuel A. Patridge, and Buckingham
Smith. On the part of the President, Cap
tain French, of the Army, and Lieut. W. W.
TFISCELLANEO US.
A ReBMarttaWe Dog Fight.
Or, Frogtown in a Grand Furore.
BY FALCONBRIDGE.
Who ever saw a dog fight, without cu
riosity to see it out, go in—put in a word
get excited, and not unfrequently fight al
so ? VVe have no distinct recollection of
having ever seen a serious, regular pitched
battle between two dogs, without a general
fight.arnong the by-standers, or a scrim
mage between the owners of the animals,
at least.
But the most remarkable dog fight on
record, perhaps, came off at Frogtown,. on
the frontiers of Maine, some years ago. It
beat all plug musses’ of the kind we have
ever heard of; it engiossed the entire com
munity in one general and indiscriminate
melee—interminable law suits or suits of
lawsuits—distraction of the town, its down
fall and rain!
A fanciful genius named Joe Tucker, a
man about town—a lounger—-without visi
ble means of support—a do-nothing, loaf-
ing, cigar smoking, good-natured sort of
fellow—owned ai yellow dog; a slick, intel
ligent and rather pretty beast, always at
Joe’s heels, and known as well as his mas
ter, and liked far more, by the Frogtown
ers. One day, Joe and his dog were pass
ing Bunion’s grocery store, when a great
piebald ugly-looking deg standing along
side of a wood wagon, pounced on Joe Tuck,
er’s dog—knocked him heels over head,
A so frightened Bob Carter’s wife; who was
passing towards her husband’s blacksmith
shop, with his dinner, that she stumbled
back’ards, and her old sun bonnet flopping
scared the horse attached to the wood
wagon.
He started—hit Latherem’s barber
pole—upset the load of wood, half of which
falling down Gumbo’s refreshment cedar,
struck one of Gumbo’s children on the head
killed it, for a time, stone dead; and so a-
larmed Mrs Gumbo, that she dropped a
stew-pan of hot boiling oysters into the lap
instead of the diab, of a customer, who sat
waiting for the savory concoction—by a
table in the corner. Mrs. Gumbo rushed
to the child—the customer for the door !
Mrs. Gumbo screamed, the child screeched
and the customer yelled 1
-
vancing upon the deacon, who was about (tr , . XT - . . ,
to cut right and left amoig the dogs with | H " nte ‘’ oftb . e appomted
his cane.
‘Your dogs?’ shouted the deacon, with
evident fervor.
It was understood by the commiitee that
Dr. Gardiner was to accompany the com
missioners, and that he had agreed to do so.
‘Not „ dogs, Deacon Pugh,- echoed the I
’““what didyou say so for, then ?' shouted f Legation in Mexico, on the ground that
J 1 he was prejudiced against his claim, and re
fused to go with the party if Smith were to
form one of it. Some other objections were
the deacon
‘I never said dogs, Deacon Pugh.’
‘You did 1’ responded the deacon
excitement.
‘Thee speaks groundlessly Deacon Pugh I’
said the quaker.
‘You tell a falsehood, Abraham Miller!’
‘Thee utters a mendacious assertion!’
reiterated Abraham.
‘You—you—you tell an infernal lie!'
bawled the deacon.
‘Thee hast provoked my evil passions,
Deacon Pugh,’ shouted the stalwart qua
ker, ‘and I will chastise thee !’
And into the deacon’s wool went th£
quaker. The deacon, nothing loth, enter
ed into the spirit of the thing; and
leave them thus ‘nip and tuck,’ to
' also made in regard to the time of trial,
Gardiner wishing to secure ample time if he
went out with, the party. The committee
considered the objections as a refusal on the
part of Gardiner to go, and informed him
that the party would proceed him and dis
charge their duty under the instructions of
the committee. It was doubtful, therefore,
yesterday whether Gardiner would go with
the commissioners or not; but if not, he was,
as is said, to proceed to Mexico indepen
dent of them.
It is understood that the judicial trial
will not take place till after the commission
we j shall report, which will probably be in Jan-
Webster on tbe Evidences
Christianity,
There are very few, we think, who will
not agree with us, after reading the follow
ing, in the opinion that Daniel Webster
would have been as distinguished in the pul
pit as he has been at the bar and in the
Senate:
A few evenings since, sitting by his own
fireside, after a day of severe labor in tbe
Supreme Court, Mr. Webster introduced
the last Sabbath’s sermon, and discoursed in
animated and glowing eloquence for an
hour on the great truths of the Gospel,
cannot but regard the opinions of such
man in some sense as public property. This
is my apology for attempting to recall some
of those remaiks which were uttered in the
privacy of the domestic circle.
Said Mr. Webster; “Last Sabbath I listen
ed to an able and learned discourse upon
the evidences of Christianity. The argu
ments were drawn from prophecy, history,
with internal evidence. They were stated
with logical accuracy and force; ; but, as it
seemed to me, ihe clargyman failed to draw
from them the right conclusion. He came
so near the truth that I was astonished that
he missed it. In summing up his arguments,
he said the only alternative, presented by
these evidences is this: Either Christianity
is true or it is a delusion produced' by an
excited imagination. Such is not the alter
native, said the critic; but it is this: The
Gospel is either true history, or it is a con
summate fraud; it is either a reality or an
imposition. Christ was what he professed
to be, or he was an imposter. There is no
other alternative. His spotless life in his
earnest enforcement of the truth, his suffer
ing in its defence, forbids us to suppose that
he was suffering an illusion of a heated
brain.
Every act of his pure and holy life shows
that he was the author of truth, the advo
cate of truth, the earnest defender of truth,
and the uncomplaining sufferer for truth.
Now, considering the purity of his doctrines,
the simplicity of his life, and the sublimity
of his death, is it possible that he would
have died for an illusion? In all his preach
ing the Saviour made no popular appeals
His discourses were all directed to the indi
vidual. Christ and his Apostles sought to
impress upon every man the conviction that
he must stand or fall alone—he must live
for himself and die for himself, and gi ve up
his account to the omniscient God, as though
he were the only dependent creature in the
Universe. The gospel leaves the individu
al sinner alone with himself and his God. To
his own master he stands or falls. He has
nothing to hope from the aid and sympathy
of associates. The deluded advocates of
new doctrines do not so preach. Christ and
his Apostles, had they been deceivers, would
not have so prea,ched.
If clergymen in our days would return
to the simplicity of the gospel, and preach
more to individuals and less to the crowd,
three would not be so much complaint of the
decline of true religion. Many of the min
isters of the present day take their text from
St. Paul, and preach from the newspapers.
When they do so, I prefer to enjoy my own
thoughts rather than to listen. I want my
pastor to come to me in the spirit of the
gospel, saying, “You are mortal! your pro
bation is brief; your work must be done
speedily. You are immortal too. You are
hastening to the bar of God; the Judge
standeth before the door.” When I am
thus admonished, I have no disposition to
muse or to sleep. These “topics,” said Mr.
Webster, “have often occupied my thoughts;
and if I had time, I would write on them
myself.”
The above remarks are but a meagre and
imperfect abstract, from memory, of one of
the most eloquent sermons to which I ever
listened.— Congregational Journal.
Farmer’s Weather Ometer
BY A RURALIST.
“A rainbow in the morning.
Is the SJieperd’s warning,
But a rainbow at night,
Is tbe sheperd’s delight.”
A rainbow in fair weather denotes foul—
if foal, fair weather will follow. A double
rainbow indicates much rain.
A predominance of the purple color on
the rainbow, snows, wind and rain—dark
red, tempest—light red, wind—yellow, dry
weather—green, rain—blue denotes that
the is clearing.
If the Aurora Borealis appeaF after sev
eral warm days, it is generally succeeded
by a cloudiness of the air. If the Aurora
Borealis has been considerable, either an
increased degree of cold is immediately pro
duced, or bodies of clouds are immediately
formed.
If a very wet season the sky is tinged
with a sea green color, near the bottom
where it ought to. be blue, it shows that
rain will speedily follow, and increase; when
ft is of a deep dead blue, it is overcharged
with vapors, and the weather will be show
ery.
When t^e sun appears white at the set
ting, or goes down into a, bank of clouds,
which lie in the horizon they indicate the
approach or continuance of bad weather,
When it rains with an east wind, it will
probably continue twenty-four hours.
The harvest rains, when of long contin
uance generally begin with the wind blow
ing easterly, which .gradually veers roued
to the south, and the rains do not cease un
til the wind has gone to the west, or a little
northwest.
While rain is falling, if any small space
of the sky is visible, it is almost a certain
sign that the rain will speedily cease.
If. the clouds that move with the wind
become stationary when they arrive at that
part of the horizon which is opposite to the
wind and appear to accumulate, they an
nounce a speedy fall of rain.
A frequent change of wind with an agi
tution of clouds denotes a sudden storm.
A fresh breeze generally springs up be
fore sunset, particularly in the summer,
The weather usually clears up at noon
but if it rains at midnight, it seldom clears
up till sunset.
The winds which begin to blow in the
day time are much stronger and endure
longer than those which begin to blow on
ly in the night.
A hollow or whistling wind denotes rain
If the wind follow the course of the sun
fair weather will follow.
Weather, either good or bad, which takes
place in the night time, is not generally of
long duration and for the most part, wind
is more-uncommon in the night than in the
day time. Fine weather in the night with
scattered clouds does not last.
Violent winds prevail more in the vicini
ty of mountains than in open plains.
A Venitian author says, a “sudden storm
from the north does not last three days.”
If it thunders in December, moderate
and fine weather may be expected.
If it thunders at intervals in the spring
season, before the trees have acquired leaves
cold weather is still to.be expected. -
Thunder in the morning denotes wind at
noon—in the evening rain and tempest.
If in summer there be no thunder, the
ensuing Fall and Winter will be sickly.
uary.
the stranger and Bob Garter,, who fit, j General Scott’s tour is to be continued in
fought, fought and fit, until Squire Catch- j Qjjj 0} an( j extended, during the next week,
em and the town constable came up ; and western New York, whence he will re
in their attempt to preserve, the peace and ^ urn c jty via New Jersey and Balti
arrest the offenders, the squire was^ thrust more> Q n Tuesday, the T2th, local elections
through the window of a neighboring j w jjj ta j. e plaee in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and
watch-maker, doing a heap of damage,
while Lawyer Hooker, in attempting to aid
the constable, was hit, in a mistake, by the
furious blacksmith, in the short ribs, and
went reeling down Gumbo’s cellar with
frightful velocity I The friends and fellow
churchmen of Deacon Pugh took sides a-
gainst the quaker antagonist, and thashop-
boys of Abraham, seeing their employer
thus beset, came to the rescue, while a
brace of stray Irishmen—full of valor and
whiskey, belieying it to be “free fight,” tried
their hands Jil sticks upon the combat
ants indiscriminately; so that in less than
one hour, the quiet and happy borough of
Frogtown was shaken from its propriety,
by one grand, sublimely ridiculous and ter
rific battle! Heads and windows were
smashed—children and women ran. screech
ed and screamed—dogs barked—dust flew;
labor ceased, and so furious, mad and ex
cited became the whole community, that a
quiet looker-on, if there had been any,
would haveswornh—1 had broken loose and
the devils were all in Frogtown 1 A heavy
thunder storm, finally, put an end to the
row; the dogs were all more or less killed,
a child severely wounded, a man scalded.
Indiana, which will have an important bear
ing on the Presidential election. Ion.
A good story is told of a poor fellow who
had spent hundreds of dollars at the bar of
a certain groggery, and being one day faint
and feeble and out of change, asked the
landlord to trust him for a glass of liquor.
“No.” was the surly reply; “I never make
a practice of doing such things.”
The poor fellow turned to a gentleman
who was sitting by, and whom he had
known in better days, saying “Sir, will you
lend me sixpence?”
“Certainly” was the reply.
The landlord with alacrity placed the de
canter and glass before him; he took a pret
ty good horn, and having swallowed' it re
placed the glass with evident satisfaction; he
then returned to the man who had lent him
the sixpence, and said—“Here is the six
pence I owe you; I make it a point, degra
ded as I am always to pay borrowed money
before I pay my grog bill?” , -
Economy.—A man who chews $14 worth
of tobacco annually, and stops his newspa
per because he cannot afford to take it.
From Turk’s Island.
The barque Chase, in sixteen days from
Turk’s Island, arrived at New York on Sat
urday with dates to the 8th ult.
The Royal Gazette notices the arrival at
the city of Santo Domingo, from the United
States, om the 23d August, of Cols. Fergus
sou and Pickett, to enter into preliminaries
for the introduction into Santo Domingo of
4,000 or 5,000 American emigrants.
On the 6th ult., an attempt was made by
a foreigner named Monel air, to as assinate,
or otherwise injure, President Forth. The
individual was committed to jail.
The Gazette, of the 8th, has the follow-
ing:
“We understand that the American brig
Alfonso, which arrived on Thursday last
from St. Martin’s, had on board the last of
the Salt Crop (about 2,000 bushels) re
maining on that Island, they having had the
heavy rains at St. Martin’s last year which
were experienced at those islands.
The Great Pitch Lake of Trinidad.
Fred. Taylor, Esq., a distinguished natural
ist and mineralogist, has arrived at Trinidad;
the object of his visit being, it was under
stood, the further development of the cele
brated Pitch Lake to other purposes than
those to which its use has hitherto been
limited. The extent of the Pitch Lake
about 100 acres, of which 23 were some
time since leased to the Earl of Dundonald;
and in the past year no less than 800 tons
of asphalt were exported from this part of
the property to England and the United
States, where it has been chiefly employed
in the production of gas. . .
A Common Case.—“Silence! keep si
lence in Court!” said an angry judge.—
“Here we have judged a dozen cases this
morning, andT have not heard one of them.”
Justice was deaf as well as b-ind.
Cotton Crop.
In Texas;—We take the following from
the. Galveston News of the 1st inst,
“Weather has been clear, warm and
pleasant, daring the week, and favorable
for picking cotton and for ripening cane.
The rains mentioned in previous reports
seem to have been confined to the coast,
and were most heavy on this Island; from
lower Brasos, Oyster Creek, Bernard, Caney
and Colorado, we hear of injury done to
tiie cotton, such as to reduce crops one-
fourth to one-half beiow previous expecta
tions; we find no reason, however, to change
our opinion that the State will make an av
erage crop of cotton, and if favored by
dry weather and late appearance of frost,
a heavy yield of fine sugar.”
The Austin Gazette learns that the army
worm has destroyed the cotton crop in Mis
sion Valley, Victoria county.
The Nacogdoches Chronicle says that the
crops in San Augustine, Sabine, Jasper and
Angelina counties are unusually fine. Most
farmers are raising as much as they can gath
er.
TheHouston Beacon says there was frost
on the 21st ult., at Chambers on Cypress
Creek.
The Houston Telegraph, of the 1st inst.,
says the daily receipts of new cotton in that
city, exceed one hundred bales
In Alabama.—The Dallas Gaaette of the
1st inst, says:
“We have heard within the last few days
accounts from the cotton crop in the coun
ties of Montgomery, Lowndes, Autauga,
Perry, Marengo and Wilcox. In each coun
ty the worm and rust -have done immense
injury. The general opinion appears to be
that the crop in these counties will fell'short
at least one-third the yield of last year. In
this county the condition of the crop fo no
better. The late rains have completely des-
Damage to Florida Cotton Crop.
The Wakulla (Florida,) Times of Wed
nesday Last in an account of the late storm
says:
As far as we have heard from the aur*
rounding country, much damage has been
done to tjjje cotton crop, From the , cotton
growing portion of our own county, we learn
that the portion of the crop which reinain-
ed unpicked was nearly destroyed. GoL
Richardson’s gin bouse was blown down;
A gentleman from Jefferson gives it as
his opinion, that from fields which have
not been picked, there cannot be obtained
one bale of cotton from ten acres.
We are told that on the Turpentine
Plantations the number of trees blown
down is greater than was ever blown down
by any storm which has heretofore visited
this section of country.
The Tallahassee Sentinel, of the 11th,
contains what follows : '
The roads are all obstructed—few peo
ple have come in from the country, as yet
but these" few bring in melancholy news.
The cotton plant in this vicinity it will be
recollected, was stripped of all its leaves
two or three weeks ago, and the hot and
dry weather since' that time, bad opened
most of the bolls, that were approximating
to maturity. The consequence was that
a vast proportion—probably at least two
thirds of the whole crop lay exposed in the
fields, and the leafless stalks were white
with the tint. Meantime, planters were
straining every nerve at gathering, and the
vast majority of them bad their gin bouses
full of Cotton in the seed. Under such cir
cumstances, wherever the force of this gald
has been felt, it seems to us that an almost
total destruction of .the crop is inevitable.
The exposed fields, (withoutseeing them)
we are confident must be as bare of lint as
if picked by hand. In the leafless condi
tion of the stalk and exposed to a hot aim,
as most of the lint had been for a fortnight <
or more, a stiff breeze would have been
disastrous ; but such a gale it would ap
pear, must have torn off nearly every lock of
cotton. From the great destruction of out
houses that we hear of in the county, we
believe, also that a large proportion of the
picked and unpicked cotton is gone, .and ,
we shall be agreeably disappointed if a
good deal of the provision crop has not
been destroyed. At the very best, it can
not be doubtful that half the cotton crop in
this vicinity is lost. ,
J83T Miss Nancy says a man is good for
nothing until he is married; and (according
to her experience,) he aint worth but a
dreadful little when he is 1
The ropes lately used at the execution of
murderers at Now Ybrk, were made of silk.
An Editor in the Blues.—The editor of
the Saratoga (N. Y.) Republican, thus pours
forth his lamentation Having made pre
cisely money enough at the printing busi- ~
ness, the subscriber is satisfied to give up
and retire to the poor-house. Under these .
circumstances, he is induced to offer the
printing establishment of the Saratoga Re
publican for sale. The paper has; a circu-
ation of about 1,000-^one fourth of which
may be called paying, and the other three-
fourths non-paying, patrons. The office has
good variety of Job Type, and a fair run
of work of this description, provided the
work is done at the reduced New York
prices, and the printer will take “cats and
dogs,” for pay. This village is one of the
prettiest places in the world for a newspa
per publisher. Everybody will find fault;
do the best you can, and the editor that
pleases himself will stand but aslim ehaiica
of pleasing anybody else. The subscrip
tion list and good will of the office will be
thrown in, if the purchaser will take the
type, presses and materials, for what they,
are worth, and pay for them, so that there
will be no probability of the present pro
prietor being obliged to take the establish
ment back and to return to the business.”
Cuba and the United States.—‘We learn
from the New York Evening Times of Mon
day, that orders were received from the Na
vy Department at Washington on Saturday
night, directing the sloop of-war Cuane, Hol
lins, commander, to prepare immediately
for sea, and to sail for Havana at the earli
est moment possible. As the Cyane bad
just arrived from Norfolk, she was ready for
sea, and accordingly took her departure on
Sunday morning. She was towed outside
the Hook, in order to get a fair breeze, and
is now on her way to Cuba. It is also re
ported that the U. S. steam frigate Missis
sippi has been ordered to follow the Cyan*
with all dispatch.
The object of this movement, although
nothing certain ean be known in regard to
it, cannot be difficult of conjecture. The
Times says:
“We take it for granted that the com
manders of these vessels will be instructed
to avoid everything which can give the
Spanish authorities the slightest ground of
just complaint, but at the same time to re
sist and repel, at every hazpd, and by aQ
needful measures, every attempt to exercise
undue authority for er vessels of the IJ.
States, or to infringe in any vyay the rights
and privileges to which American citizens
in Cuba are entitled.”
A Way to Get Off.—“Pray, madam,”
said a Jonathan, in a low tone of voic^ at
the close of a qniltiag party, “shall I see
you home ?”
“No,” answered the lady, sharply,
will be all that is now anticipated.” ' « T
“I understood you
lot at all,*
to ask for i
iyouri
“If all the world were bli
ancholy sight it would be,”
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