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BY S. B.
SANDERSYILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1852.
VOL. YI--“NO. 4 a
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Commission Merchants,
93 BAY STREET,
SAVANNAH, GEO.
[P. A. LAWSON. J. E. GODFREY.]
XtOUS) & CO.
Factors and Commission Merchants,
118, BAY STREET,
SAVANNAH, GA.
J. W. C. Loud.] [P. II. Loud.
nov. 4, 1851. 42—ly
Seen & rosTHE,
Factors and Commission Merchants.
Savannah, Ga.
P.H. BEHN,] [JOHN FOSTER,
feb. 10,1852. 3—-ly
JOHN 3£AX.XiE&'2 > ,
Draper and Tailor.
Dealer in Ready-Made Clothing and Gentle-
i' en’sfttrnishing Goods. 155, Bay street,
Savannah, Ga.
feb. 10, 1852. 3—ly
PHXXiI? ESAK.
Draper and Tailor,
And dealer in Ready-made Clothing, shirts
stocks, suspenders, handk’ffs, gloves, Marino
and silk under shirts, drawers, &c. No. 98,
Bryan street, Savannah, Ga.,
feb. 10, 1852. 3—ly
MISCELLANEO US.
THE
WAY I MADE MY FORTUNE.
Three of us were sitting in a small room,
and complaining of the hardships of our
destiny.
“Without money one can do Dotbing,”
said George ; “were I to hit upon a specu
lation that would have done honor to a
Rothschild, coming from a pauper like my
self, no one would think it worth attending
to.”
“I,” said Albert, “have actually finished
a work which would establish my reputa
tion as an author if 1 could only find a book
seller to buy it.”
“1 have petitionod my employer for an
increase of salary.” 1 exclaimed, anxious to
contribute to the chorus of lamentation;
“and he told me that for forty louis a year
he could get more clerks than he wanted.”
“It would not so much matter,” said
Geoige, thoughtfully, “if besides being poor,
we did not seem poor. Could one of us on
ly be thought rich —”
“What is the use of the shadow without
J. T. JOKES.
Manufacturer and importer of
Guns, Pistols, Rifles, Sporting Apparatus, &c.,
No- 8, Monument Square, Savannah, Ga.
feb. 10, 1852. 3—ly*
the substauce?” I asked.
“Ofevery use,” said Albert. “I agree
with George—the shadow- sometimes makes
the substance. The next best thing to cap
ital is credit.”
“Especially,” returned George, “the Cied-
it erf having a good fortune. Have none of
ns a rich uucle in India?”
“A cousin of mine went to Jamaica or
Martinique, I forgot which,” I said, inno
cently, “and he never came back.”
“Capital! that is all one requires,” ex
claimed Geoige, “we will conjure up this
cousin of yours—or could we not kill him?
Yes; James Mevan, ofMairtiniqne, deceased,
leaving a sugar plantation, a hundred ne
groes, and a fortune of a hundred thousand
louis to his well-beloved cousin Louis Me-
ran.”
We laughed at the joke, and I thought
no mol e of it; but George and Albert—
slightly excited by the fumes of a bowl of
punch which I had sent for to do honor to
the testator—lost no time in concocting
and afterwards publishing a full account in
a local newspaper of the fortune that bad
been left me.
The next day, sundry friends dropped in
to compliment me. Of course, I endeavored
to undeceive them, but they would by no
means take denial. In vain I assured them
it was a hoax; it was of no use. Several
people remembered my cousin James very
well, and had seen him at Nantes before be
embarked in 1789. Among others came
my tailor, to whom I owed a small sum
which it was not quite convenient for me to
pay at that moment. No doubt the rumor
of my cousin’s decease bad sharpened his
memory. I wished my two friends at a
place that shall be nameless.
“Good morning, Mr. Mayer. I suppose
you are come for those fifty francs?”
“I hope, sir, you don’t think I came for
such a trifle as that. No, sir; 1 came to
take your orders for a suit of mourning.”
“A suit of mourning?”
“Yes, sir; cousiu’s mourning. Hark
brorze frock, for mourning- wear, dark trou
sers and waist-coat.”
“At the present moment, Mr. Mayer
t. DASSM’S
Cheap Dry Goods Store,
• No. 146, Congress street, Savannah, Ga.
(Late H. Lathrop’s)
A well selected stock of seasonable staple
and Fancy Dry Goods, are kept constantly on
hand, and will be sold cheap for cash,
eer Please call and examine,
feb. 10, 1852. 3—ly
8 S . BOfBWELL & CO.
Wholesale and Retail Store
No. 173, Bay street, Savannah, Ga.
DEALERS IN
LIQUORS, WINES, GROCERIES, dfc
s. E. BOTHWELL.] [R. L. GAMBLE.
feb. 10, 1852. 3—ly
SCRANTON, JOHNSON & CO.
GROCERS.
Savannah, Ga.
D. T. SCRANTON, ) g avaim?Jl .
JOSEPH JOHNSTON. (
5 W. B. SCRANTON,
} No. 19, Old Slip, Nf Yor
feb. 10, 1852._ 3—ly
HUMPHREYS
& JOHNSON
Wholesale and Retail Druggists,
Smets’ Buildings, corner of Broughton an J
Whitaker streets, Savannah, Ga.
Dealers in Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals,
Perfumery, Fancy Articles, &e.
gggf” Soda water of a superior quality.
• feb.HO, 1852. 3—ly
HENRY ROTSdHIIILD,
Dealer in Ready-Made Clothing,
DRY GOODS, 4-c.
No. 178, Congress street, next door to H. J.
Gilbert, Savannah, Ga.
Gentlemen’s garments made to order,
feb. 10,1852. 3—ly
Walking Canes and Umbrellas
"T/BINE assortment of Walking Ca my
V Umbrellas, just received and for sale bd
" ' rr HAINES & BRO.
nov.
Plastering and Bricklaying*
T HE undersigned has located in Sander.-
vide, for the purpose of carrying on th
Plastering and Brick-laying business. Spev i=
mens of workmanship can be seen in the
place. Jobs taken in the country.
mar. 4. 7—ly D STEVENSON.
.
“I hope, sir, I have done nothing to for
feit your patronage?”
“But, 1 repeat I have received no money
at all.”
“I hope, sir, you wont mention such a
thing, there is no sort of hurry,” exclaimed
the tailor; who busily employed himself in
taking my measure with slips of paper.
After all my wardrobe did want some
additions, and I said nothing more.
“My dear sir,” said the next visitor. “I
have a very great favor to ask of you. Buy
my bouse. You are very rich; you must be
on the look-out for safe and lucrative invest
ments. Sixty thousand francs are nothing
for you—a mere fraction of your income.
With me the case is different. I thought Mr.
Felix had made up his rated to purchase the
premises, and now I hear he has changed
his intention. What is to become of me?
I have heavy demands to meet, aud I don’t
know where the money is to come from.”
“I buy your bouse? -Why, it would be
madness to think of such a ihteg.”
“Madness? no such a thiog; you could not
find a better investment anywhere. In two
years, with triflng repairs, it will be worth
double its present value; you will never see
such a good opportunity again. Say ‘done,’
and I’m off.”
And he was off, without leaving me time
to put in a word.
Two hours after, in walked Mr. Felix,
evidently not in tbe best of tempers.
“Really, sir,” he began, you have taken
meqnite by surprise. That house is quite
indispensable to me; I reckoned on it as if
it were mine, and only offered fifty thousand
francs because the owner is embarrassed,
and I felt sure that he would be obliged to
take them. With you, sir, the case is dif
ferent; so I come to ask if you will let me
have it for seventy-five thousand francs.’
Fifteen thousand francs, dropping all at
once into the lap of a poor fellow who had
to work hard to gain eight hundred francs
a year! I could hardly believe my ears.
“I cannot give you an answer j ust now,
sir ” I said, “but if yon will take the trou
ble to call again at five, I’ll see what I can
do.”
At a quarter to five Mr. Felix made his
appearance. I spoke to him with candor:
1 “I should tellybu, sir, that I had no
idea of buying the house, tW the owner
prevailed on me to so. You say you want
the house; any other will suit me equally
well, so I accede to your terms.”
“You shall have a draft on Paris for the
amount in a fortnight,” replied Mr. Felix,
who bowed and withdrew, apparently en
chanted at my way of doing business.
A draft upon Paris ? The circumstance
appeared so unusual to me that I thought
I ought to send it to Paris to get it cashed.
I wrote accordingly to Messrs. Flanges and
Bergeret, the only firm I knew there. I
was in the habit of receiving through them
the interest of a small sum, that had been
left me by an uncle. I informed them that
having funds at my disposal, I wished for
information as to the best mode of invest
ing them. The signification of the word
“funds” varies very much according to the
name and position in life of the speaker.
The rumor of mv legacy had reached Paris
so that when I spoke of “funds,” it was evi
dent I meaut a considerable sura. This
was proved by the following letter :
“Sir.—We are in receipt of your esteem
ed favor of tbe I5lh current, which reach
ed us just after tbe conclusion of tbe last
loan negotiated by tbe Cortes, in which onr
firm lias an interest. Desirous that our
friends should have an opportunity of par
ticipating in an investment which we con
sider profitable, we have taken the liberty
of placing twenty thousand piasters at your
credit. Should that amount appear too
considerable, the rise of those securities ad
mits of yoflr selling out at a premium.
“We remain, sir,
“Yours to command,
“Flanges & Co.”
To this was added aposteript written by
the head of the firm :
“We have heard with pleasure of tbe re
cent good fortune that has fallen to the
lot of our old friend aud correspondent, and
beg to offer him our services, as occasion
may require.”
Twenty thousand piasters ! I let the.
teller fall in sheer amazement. What
would have been my astonishment, if more
conversant with te.ms of commerce, and
more attentive to the enclosed account cur
rent, 1 hud seen that what I took for the
principal, was only the yearly interest? 1
lost do time in writiog to my correspon
dents to inform them that the sum was too
large—“I have received no money,” I said
from Martinique; audit would be impossible
for me to meet my engagements.”
An answer came by r< turn of post:
“We learn, with regret, that you have
misgivings with regard to Lhe Spanish loan.
Accordiug to your order, which brings ycu
iu already a net profit of eighty thousand
francs. With regard to your property at
Martinique, we are too well acquainted
with the delays which bequests at such a
distance must necessarily involve, to think
for a moment that you can immediately put
in possession of your inheritance'; but your
simple signature will suffice to procure you
all the money you may require in the mean
time. We take the liberty of reminding
you of tbe advantage of making timely in
vestments ; lest, when tbe legal arrange
ments aie ended you should find some dif
ficulty in getting good interest for so large
a capital. With the hope that you may
entertain a better opinion of German secu
rities than you do of Spanish, we hand you
a prospectus for establishing a bank at
Grunningen, You will please to observe,
sir, that no deposit is required, and that, as
calls are only made at Jobg intervals, it will
be easy for you to sell your shares, should
you change your mind, without your hav
ing occasion to make anv payment. We
have placed fitly to your credit, and have
the honor to remain.” &c.
Eighty thousand francs! The amount
was a perfect mystery to me; no doubt the
clerk bad made some mistake in the figures.
My position was becoming embarrassing.
Congratulations poured m from all quarters
especially when I made my appearauce in
b’ack from head to foot. The Journal de
Goubmoroes thought it right to publish a
biographical sketch of my cousin, and tbe
editor wrote to me asking for further par
ticulars. Ladies connected with all sorts of
societies, begged that my name -might be
added to their list of subscribers, and the
money 1 had to pay for postages was some
what alarming. To escape from this ava
lanche of inquiries I hastily departed for
Paris. Directly I got there, I called on mv
bankers, by whom I was received as heirs
to a large property, geuerally are.
“Sorry that you have such a poor opin
ion of the Spanish stock,” said MoDsieur
Bergeret; “there has been a great rise;
however, we only sold out half your par
cel.”
“Would you have tbe goodness to let me
know what the present value of the remain
der might be?” I replied.
“Certainly, sir; ten thousand piaster’s
stock at seventy (the piaster being at five
francs, thirty-five centimes) tbe sum already
paid being If you sell out to : day you
will, with the proceeds of last sale, have
from two hundred and ten to twenty thou -
solid francs.”
“Very well. You skid something about
a German bank, I think!”
“Yes ; the Government made some dif-
doubt, well informed. I should like to find
a secure investment for those sums ; would
you have tbe goodness to tell me what would
be the best ?”
“Yon cannot have anything better than
ouv own five percents. I know of nothing
more secure; at the present price of that
stock, you get six per cent for your money.
I can easily understand that you should be
worried by such trifling details as these ;
you will soon have more considerable sums
to look after,”
“Then, if I invest the combined produce
of the German and Spanish stocks iu the
five per cents, what should I get a year ?”
“Let me see. Three hundred thousand
francs—funds at eighty—eighteen—twenty
—yes, twenty thousand francs a year'”
“Ah! twenty thousand francs a year I
And when can the investment be made?”
“To-morrow morning; that is, if you will
allow our firm to conduct the transaction.”
“Certainly ; in whom could ray confi
dence be better placed ?”
The banker made a polite bow.
“And now, I continued, “I should feel
obliged if you would have the goodness to
a dvance me a few louis, as I am rather short
o^ cash - ”
“My dear sir, all the cash I possess is at
your service. How much do you want-
two hundred—four hundred 1”
ri Thank you, fifty wil! be quite sufficient.”
‘ ‘May I hope,” added the banker, when
I rose to the continuance of your patron
age ?”
“Certainly,” I replied.
There are few moments of my life on
which I look back with more satisfaction
than on those occupied in my interview
with Mr. Bergeret. I doubt if I should have
believed in the twenty thousand francs a
year, if it had not been for the fifty Napo
leons.
In the mean time, my two friends were
shocked at the success of their story, and
were not a little alarmed at my sudden
journey to Paris, which was attributed by
olhers to legal business. George and xVlbert
then began to fear that I really believed in
the authenticity of the invention they had
concocted
Three days after my return, they eame
to see me with loDg faces.
“My dear Louis,” said George, “you
know your cousin is not dead 1”
“I cannot be sure of that,” I replied, “for
I am by no means convinced of his exist
ence.”
“Well; but you know that this inherit
ance is only a hoax ?”
“To telUhe tiuth, I think we are the on
ly people who are of that opinion.”
“We have been very wrong to originate
such a foolish invention; for which we are
Oil
very sorry.
-‘On the contrary, I am 7ery much ob
liged to you.”
“But it is our duty to contradict it, and
to confess how foolish we have been.”
Trnth cannot remain long concealed;
people began to wonder that no news came
from Martinique; the wise and prudent
shook their heads ominously when my name
was mentioned.
“The most ludicrous feature iu the case
is,” said one, “that he has ended by believ
ing in the truth of his own invention. . For
my part, I must say that I was always rath
er sceptical about that inheritance.”
“I also,” said Mr. Felix, “though it has
cost me fifteen thousand francs.”
On seeing a dozen letters on my table
one morning, I guessed that the bubble bad
burst. Their contents were much alike;
for instance—
“Mr. Mayer’s respects to Mr. Meran, and
having heavy payments to meet, will feel
obliged by a cheque for the amount of the
enclosed.”
My replies disarmed all doubts of my
perfect solvency.
“Mr. Meran’s thanks to Mr. Mayer for
having at Iasi sent in his account, auden
closes a cheque for the amount.”
My cool and unconcerned demeanor kept
curiosity alive for a few days longer.
“What a lucky fellow'!” said one.
“Luck has nothing to do with it,” rejoin
ed another; “he has played his caidB well
aDd has won.”
Once or twice, I confess, I felt compunc
tion of conscience ; but a moment s reflec
tion convinced me that my own exertions
had no share in my good fortune, and that
lowed all to a universal pub.ic worship of
the Golden Calf, and to tbe truth of Albert’s
axiom, “the next best thing to capital is
credit.”
South Carolina Resolutions.—-The South
Carolina Legislature, during its recent ses
sion, passed the following resolutions:
Be it resolved, That the General Assem
bly of South Carolina deplores the bereave
ments which have fallen upon tbe confedera
cy at large, te the decease of those illustri
ous citizens and eminent orators and states
men, Henry Glav and Daniel Webster; and
that whilst’we have recalled to us the mem
ory of sorrows nearer home, it but adds to
the poignancy of our grief to know that oth
ers mourn as we have mourned.
Resolved, That we offer, with fraternal
feelings, our condolence to our co-States of
tbe Union on this sorrowful occasion, and
Remarks ol General Pierce
Mr. Webster’s Death*
At Concord, N. H. on Monday, at 10
o’clock, most of the stores and offices were
closed, and business was genera’ly suspend
ed. A meeting was soon after held in the
Representatives’ Hall, which was crowded
full of citizens; a large number of ladies be-
ing present. Hon. Ira Perley was chosen
Chairman, and Dr. Parker Secretary. An
appropriate series of resolutions were report
ed and unanimously adopted. The Chan-
man, after the resolutions had been read,
called upon General Pierce to address tbe
meeting. The crowded hall became as still
as death as General Pierce rose to comply ;
and with deep emotion, whieh at times al
most overcame him, and In a calm and im
pressive manner suited to tbe occasion, he
spoke as follows :
Mr. Chairman:—How deeply have all
hearts been impressed by the fervent appeal
to that Power in which our fathers put their
trust, in the hour of their weakness and tri
als. And now has that solemn impressk a
been enhanced by tbe last words ot tbe tru
ly great man just read by Rev. Dr. Bouton.
But a few weeks have passed since a deep
gloom was cast over our country, by the
death of the great statesman of tbe West.
It had long been understood that this light
was flickering in its socket, and must soon
go out. Still, the announcement, when it
came, was laden with sadness ; aud we have
all since then been disposed to look with
warmer affection and more glowing grati
tude- to his compeer and associate, the in
telligence of whose sudden decease will fall
like a funeral, pall upon the public mind
throughout that Union, to which he gave
his best affections and noblest efforts,
I had met Mr. Webster repeatedly prior
to 1833, but my personal acquaintance with
hirn may be said to have commenced with
my first winter at Washington. His attach
ment to our State was singularly strong,
and this circumstance, perhaps, led to a se
ries of kind acts and courtesies towards me,
during the session of 1833-4, and after
wards^ the grateful recollection of which
will never be effaced. I mourn for him as
a friend for whose personal regard my own
heart has given back a true and full response.
Among eminent citizens of commanding
poweF and influence while I was in the Sen
ate, he stood perhaps pre-eminent. In bis
rich combination of qualities as an orator,
lawver and statesman, it may be safely said
he had r.o rival. How forcibly aud sadly
are we reminded of the great men with
whom he was associated in the Senate
chamber, and who preceded him in his tran
sit through the dark valley!” White,
Grundy, Forsyth, Southard, Wall, Linn, Se
vier, Silas Wright, Hill, Woodbury, Cal
houn, Clay—men who left their impress on
the age—names indissolubly connected with
the fame and history of their country ; all
like him, whose death we are now called
upon, to deplore, were links in the chain
which bound the past generation to the
present, and all like him are now on the
other side of that narrow line which divides
time from eternity. Upon whom have their
mantles fallen? Who are to take their
places in the perils through which our coun
try may be called to pass ? Who with pa
triotic courage and statesmanlike forecast,
are to guide in the storms that will, at times
inevitably threaten us, in our unexampled
developement of resources as a nation, our
almost fearful progress, our position of
amazing responsibility as tbe great, confed
erated self governing power of the globe ?
These are questions which will press them
selves upon all minds : but who, alas ! can
satisfactorily answer them ?
To speak of Mr. Webster’s genius, his va
ried aud solid attainments, his services,
would be to discourse of matters as familiar
even to the children of his native State, as
household words. Besides, this must be
left to the vigorous pens and eloquent
tongues, after the first gush of grief, and the
opppressive sense of loss, shall to some ex
tent have passed away. It is, and long has
been, my firm conviction that Mr. Webster
bad a bold upon the minds and hearts of
his countrymen, which will fail to be justly
estimated ; only because there has been no
full opportunity to measure it. You, Mr
Chairman, have truly said, that Mr. Web
ster’s greatness was of that rare character
which no earthly position could exalt’ He
came to official stations, as he approached
all subjects presented to his mind, their su
perior and their master. He has reared for
himself a vast pillar of renown, which will
stand in uodiminished strength and gran
deur, when the works of men’s hands, erec
ted to his honor, will be like Ninevah, and
I fear, when this Union may have shared
the fate which was the dread of his latter
years. A few years ago,.wheu the distin
guished brother of the deceased was called
in an instant from time to eternity, in the
Court room of this place, with the words
of a perfect sentence lingering upon his lips
auother citizen, most eminent and beloved,
(the late lamented George Bullivau,) ex
claimed, “what shadows we are, what shad-,
Scully about granting a charter; but it sis j more particularly to the Commonwealths of
all settled now, and the.promised shares Kentucky aud Massachusetts.
have risen considerable.”
“Can I sell out ?”
Resolved, That his Excellency the Gov
ernor be requested to communicate a copy
“Certainly; you have fifty, at four hun- 0 f jjj 3 message to the General Assembly, to
dred and fifty florins profit: that will bring 1 aether with the foregoing resolutions, to tbe
vou in about sixty thousand francs.”
* “Without any calls to pay?”
“None whatever.”
“Thki seeiiis' strange; but you are, no
Executives of Kentucky and Massachusetts.
Ohio sends two farmers and onecarpeu
' ter to the next Congress;
Wellington Saving Napoleon’s Life*
—The following passage from the memoirs
of the late General V. Muffling, written by
himself, under the title of “Aus meineiu
Leben,” will perhaps at this moment bei
read with some interests Muffling was tbe
agent of all the communications between
the headquarters of Blucher and the Duke
of Wellington, during the march of. the
allies oh Baris, after the return of Napoleon
Elba.
“During the march after the battle oi
Waterloo, Blucher had once a chance of ta
king Napoleon prisoner, whieh he was very
anxious to do. From the French Commis-*
sioners who were sent to him to propose an
armistice, he demanded tbe delivery of Na
poleon to him as tbe first condition of the
negotiations. I was charged by Marshal
Blucher to represent to the Duke of Wel
lington that tbe Congress of Vienna had
declared Napoleon outlawed, and that he
was determined to have him shot the mo
ment he fell into his hands. Yet he wish
ed to kuow from tbe Duke what he thought
of the matter; for if be, the Duke, had the
same intentions, the Marshal was willing to
act with him in carrying them into effect.
Tbe Duke looked at me rather astonished,
and began to dispute the correctness of the
Marshal’s interpretation of tbe proclamation
of Vienna, wbieb was not at all intended to
authorities or incite to tbe murder of Napo
leon, he believed; therefore, that no right
to shoot him, in case he should be made
prisoner of war, could be founded on this
document, and he thought the position both
of himself and the Marshal towards Napo-
leon, since the victory bad been won, was
too high to permit such an aet to be com!’'
raitted. I bad felt all the force of tliet
Duke’s arguments before t delivered the
message I bad very unwillingly undertaken,
and therefore was not inclined to oppose
them. ‘I therefore,’ continued the Duke,
‘wish my friend and colleague to see this
matter in the light I do, Such an act
would give our names to history stained by
a crime, and posterity would say to us, they
were not worthy to be his conquerors; tbe
more so, as such a deed is useless, and can
have no object/ Of these expressions, I on
ly used enough to dissuade Blueher from
his intention.”
There are three despatches given by Muf
fling in the appendix to his memoirs, in
which the execution of Napoleon is urged
on the Duke of Wellington by Blucher.—
They are signed by Gneisenau, and leave
no doubt,of the determination to revenge
tbe bloodshed of the war on the cause of it
had he fallen into the bands of the Prussian
commander. Blucher’s fixed idea was that
the Emperor should be executed on the
spot where the Due D’Enghien was put to
death. The last despatch yields an unwil
ling assent to the Duke-of Wellington’s re
monstrances, and calls his interferance, “dra
matic magnanimity,” which the Prussian
head-quarters did Dot all comprehend.-—
Probably but few Frenchmen are aware of
the existence of this correspondence, or that
it is a historical fact that Napoleon’s life
was saved by his rival, whom it cost, no
small exertion to save it*
L .T
ows we pursue!” How these emphatic
words come back to us here, as if by an
echo. How mere earthly honors and dis
tinctions fade amid a gloom like this; how
asperities are chastened.; w hat a
lesson to the living ; what an admonition
to personal malevolence, now awed and sub
dued,.as the great heart of tbe nation throbs
heavily at the portals of his grave.
I have no heart to speak, or to contem
plate the; extent of the loss we have sustain
ed. As a personal friend, as a son of New
Hampshire—-as an American citizen, I shall
be wU’i thousands, a sincere mourner of his
obseqnV-.
A Reason for Noisy Praying.—A w or-
thy physician of Baltimore, a member of
the Society of Friends, has a favorite negro
coachman, who is as bright and shining a
light in the church as is possible for such a
piece of ebony to be. You know I pre
sume how the blacks conduct their devotion,
Well, Sam was in the habit of selecting his
master’s ki tchen as the scene of his devotions
which he led; and these religious services
were not conducted entirely on a plan which
a Quaker would altogether approve.- The
doctor, however, is famous for his good na
ture, and he endured the boisterous piety
of his servant and his friends with wonder
ful equanimity. One night, however, when
they had beed unusually “powerful in pray
er,” the doctor thought proper to adminis
ter a gentle reproof. So tbe meeting over,
the zealous coachman was summoned be
fore his master. “Sam,” said tbe old gen
tleman, “why does thee make so much
noise in prayer? Doesn’t thee know that
the Almighty is not far off, hut nigh unto
thee; neither is his ear deaf that it cannot
hear ! He can hear thee as well when thee
as well when thee whisper, as when thee
roars? “Massa Doctor,” replied Sam, full
of confidence in his superior theological love,
“you isn’t read de Scriptures'wid no kind
ob‘tention.” “How so,Sam?” “Whyyou
done forgot, ‘pears to me, how it says dar‘
l Holored be dy name!’ ” The Doctor gaves
Sam up in despair, for there was no answer
ing that “argument.”.—Kni ckerbocJcer’
Magazine.
jRlfThe Postmaster General has accep"
ted the proposal of Mr. George F. Nesbitt,
of New York, to furnish his department
with the postage stamp envelopes author
ized by the law of the last session of Con
gress. We understand that these conveni
ent little wrappers will consist of three sizes,
viz: “Note,” “letter,” and “official.” The
denominations will be of three, six and twen
ty-four cents ; the latter rate being intend
ed chiefly for foreign correspondence. They
will be self-sealing, and bear a stamp faroil-
liar in style to the Engliah stamped envel
ope, and are expected to be in all respects
equal thereto. As the dies have yet to b
cast, and the paper is to be manufactured
expressly for this important purpose, it is
probable that the envelopes will not be put
in circulation before tbe first of January
next, but every exertion will be made to
| have them earlier.
A.*