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Newspaper Page TextSAVANNAH DAILY HERALD. VOL. I—NO. 60. The Savannah Daily Herald (MORNING AND EVENING} IS FCHUSHBD BY M. W. MASON & CO., At 111 Bay Street, Savannah, Georgia, terms: Per Copy Five Cents. Per Hundred $3 50. Per Tear slo 00, advertising: Two Dollars per Square of Ten Lines for first in sertion ; One Dollar lor each subsequent one. Ad vertisements inserted in the morning, will, if desired, appear in the evening without extra charge. -TOIi PRINTING every style, neatly and promptly done. COUSIN SHE'S Oil. FARM. “The most dreadful smell! Wliat on earth is it V Sally !«-I say—" “P’raps it’s the ile; some folk doesn’t like it. How de da, Cousin Peter ?” It wasn’t Sally the chambermaid. I knew that at once. Hut turning, I was puzzled to guess who the stranger was. To my knowl edge I had never seen him before, or I never should have forgotten him. Long and lank, with straw-colored hair, and blue eyes, like dull glass beads, with a nose long* enouglj to have made one apiece for three* ordinary laces, and with apparently two joints in it, both moveable, and a long expanse of yellow cheek awful to behold. Attired also, in the blue, long-tailed coat aril brass buttons, tbe yellow vest and tall hat of the stage Yankee. 1 verily believed that someone of my theatrical friends had played a trick on me, and was visiting me in masquerade. “How de cln, Cousin Peter t” said the pre sence again ; and I replied, upon ray guard against a practical joke. “And pray, what am I to call you, sir?” “Lor’, don’t stand on no ceremony; I ain’t stuck up if lam forehanded. Jest call me ‘Cousin Sile,’ like you used ter.” Then I knew him. It was Cousin Silas Peek, whom I had not seen since we played marbles, and robbed the orchards together down in Maine. He had elways had those eyes and that nose, probably m his cradle, but he wore roundabouts and was three feet high when we parted. “Cousin Silas, you had tbe advantage of me, I admit. Delighted to see you. (Ob, Mrs. Opiel) What has brought you this way?” Cousin Silas tucked liis coat-tails under \his arm, and sat down on a chair the wrong way, with his elbows on the back and his chin in both his hands, before he answered me in one monosyllable— “lie.” “What did you say?” “I!c.” “Ob, oil?” “Saitinly; ile.” As he warmed up—l meant outwardly, not with the subject of conversation—that awful smell grew stronger. Despite my desire al ways and under every circumstance*to ap pear well-bread, I was obliged to sniff audi bly. Silas heard me. “Plaiu tube seen’t you liavn’t gone inter it yet,” he said. “Into what?” I asked. “Inter ile.” “I trust a wise Providence will never see it necessary for my discipline that I should go into a thing Iso abominate,” I said. And then, as the smell grew stronger, I began to think of my cousin’s explanations of burst ing cans, overflowing hogsheads, etc. I looked at him, and involuntarily sniffed again. “Some accident ?” I said inquiringly. “Hey?” “You spoke of having been in oil. Ex cuse me ; It is apparent—painfully so. By what accident—” “Oh, ’twarn’t adzackly accident,” inter rupted Cousin Sila-, “I s'pose you beard ot my marrying Suke Jenks?’, “Yes, I received cake.” “Lor’, yes ; Mother Jenks made it; ’twarnt light. Well, Suke's dead, an’ I’m a widow er.” “I regret, to hear it.” “Waal it can't be helped, ye know. Old man Jenks died afore her, an’ he left her some land deown in Peunsylvany, besides the Jenks farm up our way, ye see.” “Ah!” “ You may ‘Ah!’ D'ye know I went down to see that land, and ’twarn’t wurth shucks? I'd a sold it, only nobody ’ad gin me nothin’ for it. So I kinder gin up all thoughts about it till last year. Then what d’ye s’pose happened ? ” “You sold it.” “Any thing green in my eye, Cousin Pete ? No, that land took to spoutin’.” • “To spouting?” “Yes, you never seen the beat. Little boy took a coal shovel to get some sile for a flower pot, and the minute he struck the artli up spouted ile, like this yer fountain in the Union Square you Yorkers are so proud of when it’s on full head. Most smothered the child. Wa’al, fact is my tract’s a ile tract.” “Dear me!” “Os course I came down an’ fecht hands. Neow thar’s about fitty ile fountains in full play. Men drawin’ it off in buckets. Got to be guarded by men with rifles like this here Emperor ’o the French when he goes a tidin’, t'other speculators is so envious o’ me down thar. Made the biggest pile a’goin’.— Buy out A. T. Stewart or Astor if I like.— Tell yon, like the smell or not, ile is a good thing to get inter, Cousin Pete.” “Excuse me,” 1 .said, “but don’t call me Pete. It’s vulgar; I don’t like it. I write myself Pierre, the French form of the n^une.” “Lor’, du you,’ said Silas, “wa’al, I wou der. I should like Pete; it sounds good; sort o’ short lor petroleum. That’s why 1 like Sile. Take away the Sand it’s ile, yeou know. So you ain't in ile?” I began to wish I was. “Conte down here to visit hotels,” said Sile, going on. “Want to contract to furn ish ’em with superior quality of table ile for salads and sicli. New well started yester day mornin'; delicious stuff; fetch you up a bottle.” J 1 “I beg you won't trouble yourself,” I said aghast. trouble at all, Cousin Pete—or what’s that you want to be called? Peer? Be sides you can write me a puff. Biggest ilc man goiu’, tinest quality ile, etc., etc. You’re m the newspaper line 1 hear.” SAVANNAH, GA., THURSDAY, MARCH . 30, 1865. “ I venture to call myself an author,” I remarked.' “Sartinly. Don't pay, does it ?” “Tolerably. There are things better than money, Air. Peck.” “Wa'al, I dunno what unless it’s ile. But I say, you know the big bugs, don’t you ?” I thought of my landlady’s bed-rooms during midsummer, and groaned “Yes.” “First families. Fifth Avney folks and them, ye know?” “A few,” said L “Wa’al, now I’m up in the world, I ought to knoAv'em, oughtn’t I? Tell you what, Cousin Pete—beg pardon, Peer, I’ll stay with you a spell, and you shall show me around.” “The accommodation,” I began. “Don’t make no apologies. Slep’ in an ile puddle many a time; lain to rough it at the wells,” sain Cousin Sile; and what more could I say ? Therefore he staid. We dined; we smoked. Then I began to look at the time-piece, I had an engagement at Alias Wickett’s; but to take Sile there in his blue coat,white hat and brass buttons, with such an odor of oil, was impossible. •! adored Aliss Wickett; I fan cied I had made some advances toward her esteem. To present a cousin like Silas Peek might ruin them at once and forever. At last, I ventured, “Not having your baggage with you, I presume I dare not hope for your company to-night, Cousin Silas ?” “Eh? Lor, yes, Don’t you see I’ve got on my Sunday bettermost ? Paper collar in my pocket, wrapped up with a fine-tooth comb in a clean handkerchief. Learn to make yerself slick easy at the wells.” So in despair I dressed, perfumed my ker chief with Night Blooming Cereus, and ac cepted Silas Peek's company with a groan. Our way up Broadway was marked by the sniffs ot pedestrians against whom we brush ed, and ejaculations of “Awful!” “Horrid!" “Kerosene, ain’t it ?” etc. They had a party at the Wicketts’—an ele gant, select affair, graced by the belles and exquisites of the creme de la creme. As Silas took his hat off and ran his fingers through his hair I felt my heart sink. -He seemed such a greasy wretch. I expected to be or dered from "the house when I said to Air. Wickett aside, “My dear Sir, I've taken the liberty of bringing with me a distant cousin of my own, Air. Peek—a—ahem—a rather unsophisticat ed gentleman—a— in fact, just from his ex tensive oil-farm, where he has amassed a for tune, and, I tear, learned to neglect the ob servances. I—ahem.” To my astonishment, Air. Wickett shook me by the hand. “No apologies,” he said, “These busy and prosperous persons are privileged; we don’t expect of them what we do of others. Intro duce me.” All kindness to me, of course. I felt grate ful. So I introduced Air. Peek, and went to find Aliss Wickett, w r ho w 7 as divine in scarlet and white flow ers. How 1 adored that girl ! How 7 1 feasted on her smiles! How L re joiced in those quiet moments w 7 hen I dared to say sweet nothings to her—when she look ed at me as only she could look! Every man has been in love once in his life, they say. If so, every man can recall his own experience, and know 7 how I regarded Wilhelmina Wick ett. Words cannot do justice to my emo tions. In her presence I forgot my cousin Silas Peek for a while. But, soon, in the midst of the silence in which w 7 e listened to Wilhel mina singing, I heard his voice, and, turning, saw him. He stood in the midst of a group of gentlemen, all with their faces very red with excitement and their eyes wide open with surprise,and held forth on the subject of oil. How his tract spouted, Sir, as if eleven thousing whales w 7 as uiulerneeth the arth.— llow folks went on their knees to get the first supplies of that ile. How 7 he did verily be lieve that diggin’ down six feet, you’d come to a great vat full, all ready to be scooped up; and how all the ile streams and ile w 7 ells jest bad their rise in Peek’s farm, and nowhere else, by jingo! And when she had done singing, Wilhel minal; mean —Mr. Wickett, darted from the crowd, and, seizing her hand, drew her to-, ward Silas w 7 ith the words, “My love, I must make you acquainted w r itk Mr. Peek, one of our oil pioneers,w r ho has been giving us some valuable information on tbe subject of oil lands.” Foor Wilhelmina—she who shuddered at the unpleasant perfume of a marigold, and could not walk in the garden until the gard ener had uprooted that, noxious weed—How I pitied her as the atmosphere of my horrible oil cousin surrounded her on the velvel tete a-tete. “For my sake you have borne it, angelic girl,” I thought?' and followed her with my eye3 as Silas took her down to supper, say ing ou the stairs, “I wise I’d a thought to fetch along a bottle o r ile, you could a seen how fine it ate on salad. And, I tell ye, (here ain’t nothin’ like it for a hair ile. Reckon you’ve noticed how slick mine looks. It would take that kink out o’ your’n in no time.” When we departed I could not help breath ing in her ear, “I appreciate your kindness, most amiable of mortal women—angel! ’ And she smiled as I and Silas bowed our selves out together. The next day there came to me a dainty note, written as an old friend may write. Papa was busy, ana papa had requested her to write. Gould Mr. Paragraph dine with them on W ednesday, and bring her dear, odd, and agreeable cousin, Mr. Peek, who had so interested papa about his wells and things, along with him ? And she remained WILHELMINA WICKETT. Os course Mr. Paragraph could. He was only too happy. Cousin Silas turned his paper collar ou the other side, and went too. They had invited Mr. Bungalee and Mr Trumps, of the firm of Wickett,Trumps, and Bungalee, to meet us; and the conversation ran on oil so entirely that it took away my appetite. But who should care for % food who could sit near Wilhelmina Wicketts. and feel the folds of her silken robe brush his knee— who was absolutely permitted to pass his Elate for more turkey, and to see that she as ‘just a morsel more gravy ?” Not I for one. A delicious certainty that my day dreams were to bo fulfilled, and that I would one day call Wilhelmina my own, possessed me. ’ <*» That night I drew her little note of invita tion from my bosom, and, kissing it, repeat ed, alluding to the signature, “Remain WilluAmina Wickett. Oh no! no ! not long, for I shall make you Wilhel mina Paragraph. Does she not” smile upon my oily cousin for m3 7 sake ?” Yes,* she had been very kind to Silas. She continued to be so. So did her papa. Also the members of the firm. Trumps and Bun galee. They made Silas Peek the fashion, and lovely girls called him “a dear odd crea ture.” When w 7 e passed along the street people ran to look at the proprietor ofjhe “Peek Oil Farm, and then would whisper, “That’s his cousin, Air. Pierre Paragraph, the poet.” So that I shone by reflected ligbt; tbe light of oil. I began to see at last that poetry was as nothing beside petroleum. That Silas Peek was adored for his farm’s sake. That he was a veritable liou. A man bowed down to and adored. He bad influence also; ever} 7 man with whom lie conversed resolved at once to “put his money into oil.” I should myself it I had had any. At last a harrowing suspicion dawned upou me. It was idioOfa. I laughed at it. Yet it remained. One day while diniug with cousin Silas at the Wicketts’, it forced itself into my mind. I resolved to banish it forever, and seized the moment when the old gentleman and Cousin Peek were roaring about ile, and we, Wilhel mina and I, were on the garden balcony. Then I began: “ Wilhelmina, you must long have known But she put up her hands and implored, “Please don’t, Mr. Paragraph 1” “I must,” said I. “I’ll go away if you do.” “Nay, stay and hear me.” “Oh dear! Ple-e-e-ase—” “Angel, we have no auditors. Your father and my cousin have forgotten all in oil. My heart—” “Oh, you mustn’t say anything about, your heart!” cried Wilhelmina in quite, a tragic way.. “It’s wrong for me to hear it.” “Wrong to hear my fervent protestations of adoration! Oh, Wilhelmina, I love you better than my soul! I-*-” “Oh! what would Air. Peek say? Do go aw 7 ay.” And she wrung her bauds despair ingly- “Mr. Peek! I trust Air. Peek would not venture to utter a word on the subject,” I said, haughtily. “I accord him no such privileges.” “Oh! but he has, you know.” “Has what?” “The privilege—the—the right, Oh, Air. Paragraph, don’t you know I’ve been engaged to Air. Silas Peek a fortnight ?” I fell back flat upon the flower-pots. When I picked myself up Wilhelmina had joined Silas Peek In the parlor. They had sold her for oil. Air. Wickett had put his money into oil, and added his daughter. Mr. Trumps and Air, Bungalee only wished that oil farmers were Alormons, that they might give him their daughters also. They had sacrificed her, driven me to despair, and established “The Grand Peek Farm Oil Company.” Next week she was married in Grace Church. Silas asked me to be his grooms man, and I, for the first time in our acquaint ance, turned on him and called him an “oil barrel.” Who cared ? They went on their tpur (to the oil farm,l suppose,) as merrily as though I had not uttered the vindictive words. About three months afterward I remember to have read something in a paper about, a celebrated divorce case. It appears that Mrs. Wilhelmina Peek bad been in divers'ways ill-used. Among other things expatiated upon by her lawyer were the facts that Mr. Silas Peek, having invested all her fortune in oil lands, had insisted on establishing bis res idence upon the oil farm, where it habitually rained grease; and, furthermore, had insist ed on replenishing the castor-cruets with pe troleum, and had forced the delicate Wilhel mina to partake thereof. I read the an nouncement with great gusto. I attended court daily throughout the suit. Yes. I have been avenged.— Harper's Weekly. The Toad an t d the Boldiek.— A number j of wounded from Petersburg were lying in a hospital tent, among whom was a negro whose leg had been taken off. He was on a matrass on the ground, and the weather being hot, the dressed stump of his leg was exposed, and a swarm of flies were settling upon it. Presently, a large toad hopped iuto the tent, and taking his station near the edge of the bed, began gobbling up the blue bottles in double quick. The moment one alighted within six inches of the spot, he would square himself for the attack, his eye twinkling with excitement, and then, with a flash of his tongue, and a smack of his mouth, the unlucky insect would disappear. The boy was asleep when this commenced, but soon awoke, and was at first frightened at the “ugty toad” so near him; but our friend bade him be quiet, and pointed out the service which the creature was render ing, yhen the negro and all present voted him a member of the commission, with many thanks, and his kindred were, at once, in high favor. — American Agriculturist. The New Atlantic Cable. —The cable for the new submarine Atlantic telegraph is being made at London, and placed onboard the Great Eastern. Messrs. Canning and Gifford are to commence laying the telegraph cable across the Atlantic fn June next. The Great Eastern will have 500 hands on board, with a weight of 15,000 tons, including 4.500 tons of cable, and 1,000 tons of coal. The con ductor is formed of seven copper wires, and as there are 3,300 miles of cable, there will be 16,000 miles of copper wire. Every por tion of this wire is subjected to electrical tests, and then covered with'eight successive coats of insulated material. This coat is covered with jute, and the jute is covered with ten iron wires, each of which is covered separately with five strands of tarred hemp. The manufacture and preparation of the cable aee going on with great rapidity, and there is every reason to hope and believe that this coming experiment to secure telegraphic communication between England and Ameri ca will prove a success. Who In-vented Spectacles? —We have asked a question which we cannot answer. Among learned men it has been, at intervals, a subject of controversy, for ages ; and more than a century has elapsed since Dr. Johnson expressed his surprise, that the inventor was regarded with indifference, and had found no biographer to perpetuate his fame. How ever, as the historical evidence on the sub ject is brief, we will submit it to the judg ment of the reader, with a few—very few— preliminaries. That the Ancients bad no knowledge of glasses for assisting impaired sight, we may conclude from their universal silence on this matter. The only rebel they had in such cases being eertaiu collyria or eye-salves; we are also told, that old men, among the classi cal ancients, read through a simple tube, which by isolating objects, made vision more distinct. Ten centuries of obscurity inter venes, until tbe Arabians began to cultivate the learning of the Greeks, when several of their philosophers resumed the study of' Optics. The earliest, of their works, which has reached us, is the celebrated treatise of Al-llassan, a distinguished mathematician, who died A. D. 1038. It was translated fyom the Arabic into the Latin by Risner, and was published under the title of “Opicne Thesaur us.” In it lie notices the magnifying power of segments of spheres of glass, a hint—from which it is supposed by many that the inven tion of Spectacles originated. In the writings of the renowned and learn ed Friar, Roger Bacon, the following passage occurs; “A plano-convex glass is useful to old men, as well as to those who have weak eyes; for they may see the smallest letter sufficiently magnified.” That Spectacles are alluded to, there can be no doubt.; but that, the idea originated with him —as maintained by several—is, by no means, so clear. How ever, it is quite certain that they were known and used about the time of his death, which occurred in the year 1292. Alexander D’Spaiu, a native of Pisa, who died in 1313, having seen a pair of spectacles made by a cotemporary—a Florentine nobleman, named Salviuo Armati, w r ho was unwilling to communicate the secret of their construction, had a pair made for himself, and found them so useful that he cheerfully made the invention public. Dominic Maria Mauni, an Italian writer ot eminence,mlso attributes to Armati, the credit of being tlie originator. A person rejoicing in tlie name ot Spoon, fixes tbe date of the invention, be tween the years 1220 and 1311. Signor Redi, from whom Spoon quotes the preceding facts, states that he possed a manuscript, written in 1299, in which the author says—“l found niyselt so pressed by age, that I can neither read nor write without these glasses they call spectacles, lately invented, to the great advantage of poor old men, when their sight grows weak.” The learned Du Cange, who died in 1(188, carries the invention further back, assuring us there is a manuscript in the French King s Library, which shows that, spectacles were used in Constantinople in the year 1150; nevertheless, it is stated in the Italian Dic tionary —Della Crusca—that Friar Jordan Rivalto, of Pisa, told his hearers, in a ser mon, preached in 1305, that “It was not twenty years since the art of making spec tacles was found out, aud is indeed, One of the best and most necessary inventions in the world.*” This would place the invention In 1225. Prenticeana.— The further Gen. Sherman goes the faster he goes. He is Geometrical Progression. Perhaps Charleston isn’t the worse for the late fire. She may have needed a little fu migation. Glorious victories are so common that we hardly notice them more than we do the glorious stars in the sky. So many dirty guerrillas have passed over the soii of Kentucky, that the Federal troops ought to scour the State. » The use of cannon, rifle and bayonet against a people may never win their love, but it of ten wins their respect and obedience. South Carolina will be a thousand times better off for being conquered. To her eyes the shadows of coming events, if rightly viewed, would look as bright as a Drummond flame. The Augusta Chronicle calls upon the Southern people to spring forth like the for est leaves. They may spring forth as thkikly but most of them may wither on the ground as early. Upon the occasion of Gen. Sherman’s ap proach to Charleston, the Charleston Mercu ry raved and raged and swaggered and blus tered and bullied and defied and cursed and swore and —skedaddled. The old South Sea Islanders thought that the valor of the enemies they conquered passed into their own bodies. If the valor of South Carolina were to pass into General Sherman,, we do not think that the world i would discover the difference.— lxiuisvil/o I Journal. Fraud in the United States Senate. —Six- ' teen railroad corporations in the Western ! States have been the recipients ot grants of I land from the United States on condition that their roads should always be subject to the use of the government, for the transporta tion of troops, military stores and other pub lic property, It has been decided that this provision gives the government the free use only of the track, and not of the rolling stock, and the War Department agreed with these railroads to pay two thirds their usual rates of transportation to reimburse their ex penses for the running of trains. This course was adopted by Congress and has been the practice from the commencement of the war; but the house of representatives at the last session, at the instance of Mr. Washburae,of Illinois, voted an amendment to the army ap propriation bill, that no money should be paid for transportation over these railroads. The Senate refased to concur in the amend ment, and it was dropped, but the House then passed a bill forbidding payments to the Illi nois Central Railroad. The bill was surrep titiously the desk of the President of the Senate, mid received his signature, probably by mistake, without having been put to vote. The error was discovered by Mr. Lincoln, when the bill was presented to him for approval, and upou examining the Senate journal it was ascertained that It had i never he n preseateH'to 'hat U>uy. The at fair is to be investigated. PRICE. 5 CENTS SURE RSTITIONS. SIGNS, WONDERS AND TOKENS. Sneezing — If yon snetize on Monday, it indicates danger; Sneeze on Tuesday, you will meet a stranger; Sneeze on Wednesday, you will receive a stranger; Sneeze on Thursday, you will get something better; Sneeze on Friday, indicates sorrow; Sneeze on Saturday, you will have a beau to-mor row ; Sneeze before you eat, yon will have company before 3 ou sleep: If you sneeze before you are dressed, you will see your bean before you rest. Fish and the Cat. —If a cat washes her face, you will have company before night. If you dream you catch fish, it is a sign you will make a good bargain, according to the size of the fish. The Broom.— [( the broom is moved with the remainder of the household furniture you will not be successful; but the broom 'must, be burned while standing in the corner, l>eing watched, to prevent the house taking lire, * Knife and Fork. —ls you drop a fork, and it sticks in tlie floor aud remains in a standing position, it is a sign a gentleman will call; but. if a knife, a lady will call. Disappointment. — When putting oil your shoes and stockings, it you complete dress ing one foot before commencing the other, it is a sign that you will be disappointed. Death in the Family . — The breaking of a mirror by any member signifies death in the family before tbe year closes. An Itching Foot. — ls the right foot itches on the bottom, you are going where you are wanted: it tiie left foot, where you will not be welcome. Marria .e.— lt a young lady finds a four leaved clover, and puts it in her hair, the first young man she meets she will marry. If a lady dons a gentleman's hat, it is a sign she wants a kiss. If you swallow 7 a chicken’s heart whole, the first young man who kisses you you will marry. If one sits on the table, it is a sign they wish to be married. Finger Nails. — ls you cut your finger nails on Monday, without either speaking or think ing of a red fox’s tail, you will have a pres ent during the w r eek. Another. — ls the nails be cut on Monday morning before eating, a present in' y be ox pected; but it while cutting you thi , , o white call’s tail, it will spoil toe harm. Crossing Hands. —ls lour persons ac kkintal ty cross bauds when shaking sonic onu 01 the company will soon be married. An Itching Ear. — ls the left ear itch and burn, it is an indication that someone is speaking ill of you. If the right ear, that they are speaking well of you. The Dish Cloth. — ls a dish-cloth be drop ped when in use, it is a sign you will have company to dinner. Salt. —ls you spill salt, it is a sign there will be a quarrel m the family. But if & small portion of the salt thus spilled be cast into the fire, it is said to counteract the in fluence. The Moon. — ls you see tlie new moon for the first time through glass orthiough the tree tops, it indicates that you will be unfor tunate : but if you see it over the right shoulder, or directly in front, that you will be lucky. An Itching Iland.—li the right hand itches, you will receive money; if the left, you will spend money. The letter R stands for re ceived ; the letter L for htgo. If the right eye itches, it is a sure sign you will ciy; if the left, you will laugh. 1{ stands for roar, and L for laugh- An Itching Nose. —So important is this sign that it has been poetized as follows: If the nose itches, The mouth is in danger ; You will shake hand* with a fool, Or kiss a stranger. Sharp,. Pointed, or Cutting. — ; Present a friend with a knife, scissors, or needles, and they will cut your love or friendship. A Funeral. — Should you, when on a plea sure excursion, meet a funeral procession, will have no enjoyment that day. The Bridal Dress. — Anything put white garments to be married indicates bad luck tor the bride, white being emblematic of irt nocence: “They say that white Is|a heavenly hue." • . Another has added: “It may be so. But the sky Is blue." Bad Dick.—lt you meet, when walking, a cross-eyed perssn, it indicates bad luck. The Chair. —Wliirling*an emptylchair, it in dicates that a whipping is in store for the transgressor. M Y/ie Cradle.— To rock an empty cradle will give baby the belly-ache. The Cat.— ls you are moving from one house to another, never take a cat with you, or she will surely bring bad luck to your new home, whereas she will add luck to the hopse, and those who move into it. Shoes and Dish-water. — Save the old shoes to throw after the carriage, when any of the family start on a journey; it will insure a safe return, Never let your dish-water come to a boil, as every bubble brings bad luck to the family. , The List Ijjolc. — Never look after a friend who 19 leaving you until he is quite out of sight, or you may never see him or her again; but turn your eyes away while he is still visible, in order that lie or she may return. Never during the present rebellion has the Government needed so large a fleet of trans ports as now. Every boat of sufficient ca pacity is being brought into requisition-that can be obtained. Such is the draught upon the water transportation aopliances of the country, that the usual channels of trade are being seriously embarrassed, and the price o. coal Is materially enhanced by reason of the immense stock being brought up by the agents ot the department for transportation purposes. Not a Sucker.—A gentleman, not long since, m one of his rides in southern Illinois, sought to make himself interesting to a good looking mother of a sweet baby, occupying the next seat in the car. After duly praising the baby, he remarked to the mother: ‘ ‘He is a real sucker, I suppose ?” “No, sir,” said the lady, blushing, “we had to raise him on the bottle.” The (gentleman resumed bis reading, and has not bragged on any strange baby since. Tn (reported plot to assassins th Pres: a upon ir.uuu uon D.v-,-wua pro-. a. '.. ng but the iustwe taik ot a druuneu u-an.