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quirer is thn space of eleven lines in small type,con
taining ae it does, one hundred words.
Legal Advertisement* published atthe usual rates,
and with strict attention to the requisitions of the law.
VV. F. LEE, D, D. S.
Dental Surgeon,
or Office on Broad street, over Mygatt's Str
coU Miirs, <;a.
Nov 2, 1852
41 tf
Dr. Hervey M. Cleckley,
c©’jcEfa, c j up'.liiaaa as
P HYSICIAN, indite I v t-nders Ilia Professional servi
ces to the citiz-ns of f’oiomhus and vicinity. He
may always he found at hut Ofl\ 2 doors above the
old Bank of St. Mary’s or at Cat P T. Schley’s rcsi
douce, on Broad street. [Oirt 12, 1852—41 fin
jTsT WOODBR1GE,
PRACTICAL ARTIST AND DA0UERRE0TYPI8T,
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
Rooms over Foster A Purple’s Jewelry Store,
Broad Street. [Columbus, Jan. 11,-2 ly
DAVID ROSS,
PAPER Ruler, BLANK and Letter-press
BOOK BINDER!:
No. 72, Broad Street, Columbus, Georgia.
Match 1, 1853 9 tf
" WM. B. CARTER,
TUNER AND REPAIRER OF
PIANO 5fm TUNER.
T HE underrlfcnod bake pleasure In anounnins to their
ru*tomers,nnd the publicqenerally, that they have
| obtained the service* of F. O. It I'M M, who forseve-
nil years past ha* l*een'I’DNK.a.tfcc. at A ranis, celebrated
•tabliihmenl, Paris. Mr. Rumm cornea I
I highest recommendations, i
i with th
„ y prepared to
attend to all orders for Tuning, Repairing, &c.,inth#
l most thorough manner. We hold ourselves rfiqxmrible
I for all work done by Mr. Uumm, believing he will give
I entire sntisfar tion.
KT All orders addressed to Truax «fe Pkabr or
| Whittruby & Co., will meet with prompt attention.
Columbus,F«h 15th ’53 7 tf
RHEUMATISM CAN BE CUBED !
We have now for Sale that Celebrated Remedy,
MG RTI 31 ORE’S
RHEUMATIC COMPOUND
BLOOD PURIFIER,
I fcciual cure of this {taitiful disease. This remedy has
I already cured thousands of rases, comprising every
I seeming form of this complaint, from the injhimmutory
I (scute) form, attended with swellings and enlargement
I of the joint*. to old chronic cases of from ten to twenty
I Hid thirty years’ standing. Those who hail for years
monad to the various celebrated apt logs, bad tried nil
|the liniments and external applications, and been un
lit treatment of some of the ablest physicians both to
|tiu» country and in Europe, ami were pronounced in*
|rur«Me; still, after all llic — efforts had failed, this com-
•rulches nr confined to tlieir'KAfs
I hr pears, certify to a complete and pormnnanl cure by
i of this remedy.
have not space in, in a newspaper advertisement,
rt, thn Bccumulatnd evidence in its behalf. This
nriiMMtonei from sources which mu t
I ry mind. The conductors of high-toned
Columbus Cnquirer.
VOLUME XXVI.
A STRICT CONSTRUCTION OF THE CONSTITUTION AN HONEST ANI> ECONOMICAL AO.H1NINTRATION OF THE GOVERNMENT.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA* TUESDAY* MORNING, MARCH 22, 1853.
NUMBER 12.
C. T. Cushman, D. D. S.
H
DENTIST,
(No. GO—Brood Street.)
AS returned from Now York, wnera ho critically
inspected, in various Dental Laboratories some of
the host work that can be done, and availed himself of
additional means to execute the same styles with des
patch. Also, to operate on the Teeth, with his usual
cure atnl finish.
(KT Over Foster & Purple’s Jewelry Store.
Columbus, Oct 26, 1852 43 tf
WELLS & DURR,
■<_? aa. as
GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
I.. W. Wells, Sav'h ] fl. M. Dunn,Co?um5u«, Qa
March 8, 1853 1<» tf
Dr. John H. Carriger,
(Late of Tazewell, Tennessee.)
H AVING determined to settle penniw.ciuly in Co*
Inmhus, tenders his Professional Services to
the people of this city and vicinity. Dr. ('arriear is a
graduate of Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia,
and hopes from his post experience in the practice of
Medicine, Surgery, Obstcterics, Ac.,
that lie may be able to give general satisfaction to all
who lavor him with tlmir confidence.
References will I** allowed to the Rev. J. M. Kelly,
Mr. U. Graham, Dr. J. Fulkerson, ('apt- 11 F. Cloud,
W. R. Evans, and the citizens of Tazewell, generally.
Office—-III the" St. Mary’s Rank building,” ill the
room adjacent to that occupied by Dr. Craig, where he
may at all time# be found, when not professionally ah-
Columbus, Nov 2, 1852 44 6ni*
$100 REWARD !
* brought to
be found the fir.
thi« market.
I would invite all who ti*" the "Weed” to call nnd
sample. To be sold, wholesale and retail, at Virginia
prices, with commission added.
T. M. HOGAN.
N. B.—Merchants would do well to call, liefore pur
chasing elsewhere.
Dec 14, ’52 50 tf
$25 REWARD.
R UNAWAY from the subscriber’# Plantation in
, Harbour county, Ala , on or alrnodt the i2ih of
September last, a copper-colored boy called RILL.alxnit
28 years old, six fettt high, raw-boned, stooped in his
shoulder*, and turn# Ills ton# in when walking. His
little finger on one hand is contracted ; he is quick ami
smart spoken.
\V. Ivey was informed by Mr. Corbett, of whom he
bough! said hoy in the early part of 1851, that said hoy
had a mother and brother in some one of the low conn*
ties of Georgia, n"t now recollected, hn, it h presumed
he is between the Chattahoochee and Flint Rivers.
MALACHI IVEY.
Nov 16, 1868 16 tf
$20 Reward.
U ANAWAY from the subscriber, about the 1st in«t.,
amulattn fellow named HARTWELL. Said ne
gro is about 28 years old, and i# somowhern In the vi
cinity of Columbus, ns he h.v n wife at Col, Seaborn
Jones’, and docs not want to leave her, to go with me
to Tuscaloosa, Ala He is a good Bricklayer and Plas
terer and has lived in Columbus, for the last 15 years.
I will pay the above reward for Ills delivery t • Isaac T.
Robinson, at Columbus, Ga., or 050 if delivered to me
at Tuscaloosa, Ala. WM. II. ROBINSON.
Columbus, Gn., March 15, 1853 II It
TAKEN UP!
RmrriiVftie n , «tlftd i ^l rt ill. m'-I.'lit Alnlmma ; the
owner is requested to come forward, prove property and
take him. W. J. McBRYDE, sheriff.
Talbot county,’Feb. 1, _ 5 If
Notice.
wonder
lefirial effects upon themselves and those
ml III-m. mill in mom In.lanre. .peek of kundrttU , ; i ;^ r y''i'rta:t. a,V.I .liii tl... Hit. of March, thermlter, for
- I ,1037 30| Mtb«oon,iiienilinn for wl.ifth wld nol« wm
<'°T r \ | {Jj
Physician# have resorted to it, and
tut, even in extreme cases, where consnltati'
fetn held, and they had decided that there was „ .
'•freroi-ery, even then, they procured this medicine end I
kiministered it, and it elFo-ted a complete cure. Minis-
kn t.f various deuotnlntlions have w riitei. id publisli-
e- wt.nt ii has done for them and their friend# while mer
t‘-»nt» cffli-ers, meHtsnies, and pritrarscitizen#, have
hreished v.dum * of evidence of th- highest character,
K , h as accompanies no other preparation in America.
We will give a short synopsis of a small portion of the
Imdence, and ’request all who ere afflicted to send to
"wsgellt and get a circular, and read what those who
Mr- lone afflicted have #aid of this remedy.
Mr. N. I’ti-ciiall, one of tlie editor# of the St. I«ouis
(Jlo.) Repuhlican, give# a long editorial stating his af-
irtions, and that he was cured by this remedy. The
tdiior of the St. 1/niis Intelligencer also gives notice of
|ia wowtaful effects in coring a severe case of chronic
rltumutism The editor o. b- t't, r.-iois Organ and
■ Reveille devotes a long «■! ••*•'• ' half of u« won-
Id« r fui effects in caring hundred* o| case# in that city.
|T\i« editors of the American Banner, Ternjieraiire Bat-
trrj', and St L“iii« Union, have all awarded
Sclcctctl ^OCtCJ?.
We
[rL'I.ISIIKD by request ]
TO WILLIAM. ,
thed from the band so dear,
That gathers round our hearth ;
Wo listen still thy voice to hear
Amid our household mirth ;
We gaze upon thy vacant place
Tiiy lortn we seem to see ;
We start to find thou art not there
Yet joy that thou art free.
A thousand dear familiar things
Within thy childhood's home,
Speak of the absent cherished one
Who never more shall come,
They wake with mingled bliss and |
We joy that thou art free.
For thou hast cui'ied it brighter land
And deatli’# cold stream is past,
Think are the joys at God’s right hand
Joys that forever last.
A crown ft on thine angel brow—
Thine eye the King doth see—
Thy home is with the semphsjnow,
We joy that thou art free.
WRITTEN BY A LADY E 1(5IITV YEARS OF AUK.
Cling to thy mother ! for site was first
To know thy being, and to feel thy life ;
The i. ipe of thee through many a pang she nursed,
And when, midst anguish like the parting strife
The hallo was in her arms, the agony
Wa» all forgot for bliss of loving thee.
Be gentle to thy mother : long she bore
Thine infant fretfulnem and silly youth ;
Nqr ruddy scorn tlie fhithtul voice that o’er
idle played, and Iniight thy lisping truth,
i old; yet on thy manly brov
md claim# time us her child u'c
Thy r
Yes she
•Site looks,
^Uphold thy mother: close to her warm heart
Mi- carried, fed thee, lulled thee to thy rest ;
Then tnught thy I •tiering limbs their untried art,
Exulting in the lledgliug front her nest;
And now her steps are feeble, he her stay
Whose strength was tiling in thy most feeble day.
Cherish thy mother! brief perchance time
May he that she will claim the care she gave ;
Passed are her hopes of youth, bur harvest prime
Of joy on earth ; her friend* arc in the grave ;
But for tier children, she could lay her head
Gltdly to rest among the precious dead .
He lender with thy mother, words unkind
Or light neglect from thee would give a |>aiig
To that fond bosom, where thou an enshrined
In love unalterable, inure than pang
Of venom’d serpont. Wound not her strong trust,
As thou would’st hope for peace when she is dust.
O, mother mine! God grant 1 ne’er forget,
Whatever he my grief, or what my joy,
The untrensiired, ttnuxtinguishahle debt
1 owe thy love ; hut find my sweet employ
through thy remaining days
I by *
To thee an faithful a
February 2, 1853,
thou wert to n
OUR ELLEN.
£ll-n, Ellen, (here’s no lulling
Half our love for thee, dear girl,
Ev.
"King,
unird
sweet voice ringing,
j #ncce«s in curing this d -aw. The edit
r Belleville (III) Advocate writes and pu
iral effort# hi curing him and
|IN#editors of the Glasgow Ti
«f tlie South ami West
Me of then knowledge f
i German National G.izi
■ >pnjre sirect, in the city of N
I him.
( „Miri"'imvn. .Man'll 15, 1M',3 II 8l
NOTICE!
\ S I am about to remove from C dumbus toTusca-
/V lonsa, Ala., I want all those who owe me to pay
the same, on I stand in nc*d of the money. In iny ab
sence, IS \ \C T. HOIIINHO V, ny authorized
binding as If I w -re to do it my#ejf.
March 1ft, 1853
® A SMALL FARM, about \[ miles from Colum.
bus. It contains 150 or 160 acre# of Land : abou
a Hurd of which is cleared, and in a suitable con
dilion for cultivation. The remaining portion is well
timbered with pine.
It is a desirable location for any person, wishing a
sinnII farm or summer residence 'bdty
city. Apply to
(‘olumbui. March i
Like u nird or like a hull,
Never weary, ever cheery,
Ever striving to excel.
Late or early, never surly,
Never fretting, seldom pad,
Thy appearing always cheering
Making everybody glad.
Youth jewire**ing, and each hlcioiiiig
Whic.lt the genial age impart#,
Still bewitching, dancing, Htitchiug,
Ever reigning queen of heart#.
Kitchen, laundry, all a# one,
Chicken feeding, playing reading,
Ever season in- work with fun .
Cunning talker, agile walker,
ding like a deer at play,
Fea'ure* merry, lip# liko cherry,
Laughing eye ami sunny curl,
Ah, dear Ellen, there’# no telling
Half our lova for thee, dear girl.
f Carpel Hag.
JHisc mnncouB.
DR. W. H. MOTT’S
COMPOUND SYRUP OF RHUBARB,
F ,ul
lave given voluntary
• virtues. The editor
•, published at No. 21
York, under date of
I |nL 9, 1H52, gives the history »
►* o f which lie hns a irersonal knowledge. One, the
wib of a wealthy merchant, who had for years tried
Uw ipriags, and had the treatment of the mo#t eminent
Ip’iydciaiwof our country; they could effect nothing.
|ahe was afflicted with rhnmic rh> nnuititm in its w orst
■ form. He was instrumental in inducing a trial of this
■ compound, and it effected a complete cure. He also
1 Mates that, a few weeks since, he bought a bottle ami
I **at it to a gentleman, a friend of his, who seemed a
tc-urn to this di c., - , this one hut tie cured him.
We mieht add editorials, nnd fill this entire sheet, hut
|*ill|pve a few names of |iromiuent physicians, trier-
I flams, ami others cured by it.
S White, M. D.,an eminent phy-e ian of St
L)ob, writes to a brother member of the prof*##ion. Dr
of Now York: ”1 have witnessed the efl-< i* o
do* cotntsiund in several case#; and so successful have
bren iu operation# in performing a perfect cure, w hen
cxsrv offier remedy liad been ineffectual, that I would
imr Gesiutc to recommend or prescribe u I think,
a .en in virtue# are ascertained by ’he profession, it
mil supersede every other remedy in the treatment of
r*re*ujti**i. It is adapted to every form of tlie discuss,
I I know no complication contra-indicating iw use.
Ii* J ttto be tlie duty of a | hy#iciaii, when convinced
®f t'»e efficacy of a remedy, and its superiority
whsr#, at lea»t for the
J. M. Rom-, M. D„
| yilb, Ky., “that a yoi
TAYLOR di CO.
11 tf
To Rent,
CIRCUMSTANCES rendering it necessary
I •. 1 that I should be. near my business, I «fTer the
&!«» < now will, for rant, from I lie flr»l of Jnn-
uaty rn-xt. until the first of October following. I here
i# not a more desirable place in Alabama. About eight
acre# of ground am open with a good strong h
teen acres in til® woods—th® place i#^
- lo . mile from the
Seven rooms In the holt#®, kitchen with two good
comfortable room#,smoke liojise and stomge -
stables, and an excellent well of Water.
For further particulars enuutre of me at bamtni# di
Itent cheap.
F. M- GRAY.
50 tf
Roony’s Furniture Store.
. member of tlie Col-
In lion, he and other
. . # liad derided that he could not recover. They
I finally concluded to try this remedy, and to their grunt
j utonwliment ons l ottie 'tutored him sound nnd well,
I although he hail not walked a step in six months previ-
| w*ly ; and that, during twenty five years’ practice, he
'*{J Reterl*-f’Tt* witnessed such a remarkable cure. ’
Professor H. L. Dunham. M. D . near Cincinnati,
Ohio, joins in a certifirale for publication with two
^« r *ymen «>f the Baptift Church, #tating tlie m« * of a
Mdy respectable Indy who was for eighteen year#
Knitted, and Itad become helpies*, and tl.at all other
'ws^li**# known, a# well a# the skill of the most emi-
^cat physicians, had failed, and there seemed no hope
•til they finally obtained this remedy.
Dec. 14
A Great Bargain!
FOR SALE, within ten minutes’ ride of the
city, a very desirable residence. The house has
>AiuL five good rooms, with kitchen, servant rooms,
store-rooms ore., in the basement, good out-houses nnd
good water!and surrounded by good neighbor# ; there
are about 17 acres of land, n portion of it in the woods,
" ,n ‘ l “ i ""j0MN"" , i0NKS.
Columbus, Jan 11. ... ^
"Choice Family Groceries
rp H E UNDERSIGNED, in
1 AVnrehotiMC and Commlsiiou h
offerii g a i.aruf. and raKSH surrt.v
HIES, adapted to both city and coiint/y
of Diarrlirca Dysent-ry, Cholera, ('hole*
Moibti#, ami all In*- aw# of the ROM ELS.
Thn high reputation which the Compound Syrup of
Rhubarb hn# attained since its first introduction t# al
most unprecedented. In
lie.
. ,i there an instance of iu having failed to cf
e; in nil discuses of the bowels,’it will be four
i prcjwtration that hn# C\i-r been offer d to the
Plii
bi
in tbe highest
.tiding lathe community,
ending the Compound Syrup of Rhubarb
orrns, with tie: strong conviction tbat it
dy of tlie nge, for nil diseases for which
ii |„ recommended. The Proprietor offers this
to tlie public, not doubling that ii will •'istain lie- Ingli
reputation it ha*already acquired'
. fn-qii'M tly r
d the Bowel Comp
iii.i upon children while l»—thi
found so universally effort uni.
C'EKTIFICATES.
Wrtumka, April 2,1818. - Dr. IV. //. Mali—Sir
lim ing used your t ompoiind Syrup of Rhulmrh,
ford# ii# pleasure to l« able to
and recommend it
pleasant medicine.
#dy will lie
estimony in it# favor
•onnection with the
nil >"*m- ^|foefi
it cured her sound and well.
respectfully ask tlu/se w ho are afflicted to
llieir vicinity and get a circular,
OB' . ... n
I 10 *gency
(e»d ti»e letters and certificate# of Rev. Ja#. Milch-
B o’ ** Brr I fn&n i R” v J- H. Linn, Rev. J. M. Kelly
“ #v - R. A. Colburn, and other clergymen
Op-
the name of Hon, j. Smfth, late Presidentof the
*- K of ii.- Slate of Mi—<>uri; C»»‘o- O. Atlwrion.otfi-
Via the Bank in St. Ix>ui« ; Messrs. Ja#. H- Eddy,
downing, A Holland,C. W. Stone, J. W. Christy,
Southack, will, other prominent merchants of
l *^Lo(ii», a# aim, vaat t,umlter# of other citizens.
■Hu# IS home evidence, and these are living witnesses
J* r * this great remedy wa# first tntrc»duceil, and
rh «re many ihousand# i,sve Iteen cured during the
f* ,wo year#. The proprietors have now opened their
I b' 11 ^ entr ** Dffi. ® at N*>. 1 Barclay
* * u *«, ii the city of New York, wlicr
* Wedicine will be promptly attended
Dus is a vegiialdm spirit—internal remedy, prep
rtrominended for this one disease alone.
corner recently occupied by Grimes, Kyle a I iioi
ton, No 115, Broad si., w here they are pnqmred to
ply custrm*rs, wholeaale ami retail, upon rn'#it tavr
hie terms. GUN BY, DANIEL At cc
f.Jiuohus. Fsbntary 1st, 1W
i£jcE>aaacs.33a
TRADED HOPE, by Mrs, 8igonrn«y; Romance of
r Students Life Abroad, by H B Kimball; Life of
Sir Wnlter Scott, bv D. MacLeod ; The New Continent
or Four Year# ill a Government Expedition, by Lieut.
Geo M. Colovcresses. I s. .Navy ; Aunt Kitty’s Tales,
by J. McIntosh; Th.- Master Builder, or Life at a
Trade, by I). K Lee; MmV Wives by Thackeray ;
Parisian bigliU and French Principles, seen through
Araeriraul oiwctwle.; the Adv.nlur, . ol o,„
,.,vn mrre.pon.!em in Iluly, •>/ M. Burk Hunan i #n,lo
American Literature and manners, from ih- French of
Philomti Chasles : Contentment bettor Utsn Wealth, by
Alice B. Neal ; Little Silver String. <»r rale. and I o-
WM- DAIVY, M. D.
W. E. BOISHEAM.
J M. SHELTON.
Montgomery,’Ala., Oct. 13,1852.—.Dr. IV. If. Molt
Sir: I liavo used your Rhubarb in a ca«c "f Dysunte
ry on a man in my employ, with entiro success, and
having lieen in the same lintise,(Exchange lintel,) with
f un fur six nr seven month# of the present year, I have
Irani a number of persona who have ureil your Syrup
In ca#e# of bowel affections, H|#-ak in the hiL'he»t ler
of it; and from the ntimb'-r ofcas.-- which I have
and heard of as having I cured by it* use, 1 am ►
isfied that by extending it# snh throughout the South
ern States, you will render yourself n public hciielaeta
JAMES J. STEWART.
Montgomery, Oct. 17, 1852.—D*. IV- //. Mutt
I have used tie most of the gallon of your Compour
Syrup of Rhubarb, with 1 believe, unvaried success
numrig my negroes, w ho have been much afflicted with
Diurrhren and Dysentery, for the ln*t two months, with
out counting tlie exact number, I should think I had
lined it’ on mure than thirty negne-., and know of no
stance of ita failure. Yours, JNO. ti. WINTER
Montgomery. Ala.. Oct. 19, 1852.—Dr. Mott— 1
have used severul buttles of your Compound Syrup of
Rhubarb, uml look upon it us an invaluable medicine.
I have used it myself, and adminihtered it to my family
nnd friends, and have nev.-r foiled of making permn
nent cures of Diarrlirca, some of which were of only a
few day# standing, and some •■( months. I want it dis
tinctly understood by nil persons reading this certificate
tbat 1 have no confidence in <jua« k medtclt > generally
but I have unlimited confidence in your Hyi
handles** to the Stomach and bowels, and liai
cures in every r -lanceV’all have known •
Uespectruliy, &c
Hoti
I* w
This I
ad S4
85 per single Isolde ; or three bottle# for $10.
ALEXANDER A Co., Proprietors, N 1 <»rk.
by DANFORTII A NAGEL, Columbus.
. ROBT. CARTER,
J^ary 25, 4 wly
| ( »V^
I W'-If, fcr Hie by R. CARTER,
r *b tf J No. nr>, Broad 8t
em« for the Young, by Wm.
and Heart Studies, bv Grace Aguilla ; the Children of
Light, a theme for tlie time, by Caroline
Eagle Pa#«, or Lit
ry ; Summerfield, or i.ne on
Buckeye Abroad, by 8am. S. •.•<»; V. e i.T‘7‘ ' T"V, '
Life of John C. Calhoun ; Twice I old la.es, by Haw-
thome; root-prints of Smith; Morning and Nigiit
Watches, Ac., Ac. . .
The above, witli many other new and valuable worn#
just received by J. W. PEASE.
Jawuary 25, 4 lf
Kie Border, by Cara Monigome-
i(in a Farm, by D. K Lea ; A
WaiMtar’s speeches;
effected
JAMES G. CARROLL.
Georgia Sarsaparilla,
DRKPAHBD by J. Penni., M. I)., Atwwia. (Jr.
I" f->r diteaMM of the Liver and to purify thr Wood
Tbe Diploma* of tlie htate Fair of Georgia, and the
S nth Carolina ln#litute, have been awarded to this
preparation. Ii i # decided by Phynicians an 1 those
•vD. YOUNG;
at Newnnn, by HALL A YOUNG,and Druggisu gene
ra,|Iy (January 18— 3 6in
LounORMORo, July 7, 1852—1 certify that 1 have
used Wm. H. Mott's Compound Syrup of Rhubarb in
my family, and Iwlieve it anezrellent medicine for Diar-
rhrra ; have succeeded in curing eleven c.-«ea in my
fninily, during the pn valence t»l the Ilian bom in my
neighuorhooil. WM. SADLER.
Montgomery, Ala., Aug,20,1852 —Dr \V. If. Mott
Dear sir: After using your Compound Syrup of Rhu
barb, we felt a delicacy in the first instance, in giving
you ft certificate, but ii afford# u# great pleasure at this
time to give you this certificate for it. It acted like a
charm in nil cases for which we used it, and made per
manent cures in overy instance
8A
Montgomery, Ala., Oct. 20, 18*52.— Dr. \V II Molt
Kir: I take plea-ure in recommending your Compound
Syrup of Rhubarb as an invaluable medicine for the
of Chronic Diarrh
it in my family, arid <■■
ing (•ermaneii!
jtery, having
dally in my own case, effect-
•ry instanc
Very respectfully,
HENRY 1
L. H. POPE
u T .... »r the Compound 8’
must b« aildrcsned
For sale by
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DANFORTII A NAGLE,
Columbus, Gr.
II 1m
(From the Now York Sunday Mercury.]
THE LITTLE KAZOlt-MAN.
BY LEWIS MYRTLE.
1 happened to got weather bound one day, in
journeying through a particular section of New
England, and became unexpectedly obliged to
console myself with whatever trilling diversions
might offer themselves within the walls of a little
snuggery of a country inn.
It was no Very inviting place, oulwardli/, to bo
sure, yet tin re was such mi air of tjomfori within,
that 1 half thanked tlie ill-forture, already, that
had thus walled me in there.
The diminutive bar-room was not crowded with
laev hangers-on; and no riotous babble from un
duly excited tongues Frowned my senses with its
din. This, 1 must say, \ liked hugely.
1 hud a tiro—an open fire—kindled in my apart
ment; end, wheeling up a table and an all em
bracing easy chair, before it, l resolved to make
the hours pass ns pleasantly as thoy would.
There wm# no lack of ink, pens and paper in the
house; uml I carried a few choice and well-thum
bed bonks in my portmanteau. And between tlio
one thing and the other—between a brief time of
labor and an interlapso of reverie—| managed to
go along with the finger on tlio dial, until mid-
afternoon.
Then I confess to a sense of oncoming weari
ness. I pushed back my chair—yawned—threw
down my book—looked discontentedly about tlio
room—and finally resolved to go down stairs.
1 entered the snug liillo bar-room. There was
no person there save one small man. lie was
busily engaged ubuut stropping boido razors, and
bowed very respectfully to mo as l wont iu. lie
was such a peculiarity in himself, that 1 am sure
1 shall bo pardoned lor briefly describing him.
His hair was a whitish brown, and drawn caro-
fully forward from his occiput, it did not alto
gether suffice to eonecul the broadly bald spot on his
crown, but reached onward to his wrinkled tem
ples, where it made an only half-successful effort
to work itself into a pair ot loose curls.
llis Forehead was full; his eyes tolerably quick
and bright; his nose decidedly aquiline; his chin
prominent—perhaps the more so from the loss of
iiis teeth ; ami his whole head all tho time in tic*
live mot on.
Hu wore no dickey about his neck—only a
white cravat, which seemed drawn round with
unnecessary, if not absolute unsafe tension. A
trusty little frock coat hung loosoly from his
shoulders—most thoroughly worn, yet brushed
with nice exactness and care. Ilia vest buttoned
high ; Ins pantaloons shone almost like silk; und
Ins feel were thrust into a pair of shoes, which
ho appeared to keep polished with all possible
Hcduluusnoss.
Thus far respecting his personal appearance.
As l took my seat before tho lire, 1 still kept
my eyes quite uneoltfciously fixed upon him.—
There seemed to he something mysterious about
him, which, though perhaps of little importance
of itself, was still a mystery, lie went oil strop
ping his razor, however, and his whole body mov
ed in harmony with hi* occupation.
“An unpleasant day, sir, ' exclaimed lie, stop-
pii.g to pluck a low liuirs from his head, tlmt
could ill spare even one, and drawing tlie razor’s
edge across them.
“Very,” 1 assented.
1 could not help wondering, just at that junc
ture, whether ho had lost all his hair in tho way
of his profession. l.o%vevei, not
long alter, by his asking mo il I had a razor that
vded '‘selling.” This was, 1 think, tho pro
fessional term.
Ulad to get utt opportunity to draw tlio liltlo
oddity into the least betrayal of the secret that
mod to mo to clothe his very person, 1 instantly
bethought me that 1 had a pair of them iu my
portmanteau, and ran to, get them. It was not
long before ho was hard to work over them.
As his body shook, hiiHongue began to run. 1
know not if ho made it u point to be always thus
ommunicativo with his patrons, but certain it is,
o opened a conversation.with mo, of whose tor-
iniiMtioii 1 could have no cone ptinii whatever.
Ih: wa#quite inquisitive at first ; but finding that
liillo dispo-ed to act in the capacity*of res
ponding tna- i m, ho had tl)o sagucily to drop that
very soon, und entered upon a field of pure liar-
radon—just what I most desired. To ho sure,
there was tnitcii soliloquy.mixed in with it; but
lli.it only served to spice the whole more to my
hungered taste.
A single judicious question or two pul him at
hr on the. track 1 wished; and Ids tongue ran
witli Incredible ease uud swiftness.
“Thiiiy-three yearn ago, this day,” said he, "1
Ho stared blankly nt mo fur a moment, on tho
back of thi-. statement, as if to see how l was
impressed with the deltburaleiioss of the state-
tt that time much better off' in prospect
than I uni now, n* you will not liml it difficult
to behove, sir. I was in a good business, and my
chances in (jfu cv.-ry d iy grew better.
hud long been an attachment between
my wife and my«elf,yind we hud always kept it
a secret from her hither. She was his only re
maining child, and hi truth, his only consolation;
for Iiis wifo had been many years dead ut that
time, lie loved his child as no father ever loved
another.
"At length I resolved to rail on the old gentle
man, and, in as low words as possible, inform
him of the attachment I had for Ills daughter. I
did so. Ho received me witli an excessive show
of dignity and pride,”—hero tlio little mutt's eyes
kindled, and his hand stopped in its quick motion —
“and did not even ask me to be sealed. So I stood
before him; and candidly told him howl loved
Iiis daughter—his only child—nnd that I wished
hi# |-( rmihsion to marry her.
“You never saw hiicii rage in uli your life, sir!
jlc rose from his chair, and hastily advanced to
me. 1 thought lie really foamed ut the mouth.
“ ‘Jjeuve my presence, villi&n! J^eavo my
presence, dog! and never pollute its atmosphero
again!—never daro sneako tome again, either
mi this or any other subject!’ ordered lie, clench
ing his fist, and offering to thrust it at mo.
“My temper was quick—it is apt to he, even
now—but 1 kept it down. Tlio temptation was
►Bong, but I came off’ conqueror that time. I
gnashed my teeth together, und left him at once.
“The rcHiilt of this interview w as made known
to his daughter, ut us early a moment us il could
be done, ilor resolution was taken the instant I
made tho proposition to her.”
“The proposition to do what interrupted I ?”
“To run away—toelopoi* replied he.
‘•Early one morning—and u dowdy morning it
was too— we were many a mile away from her
proud father, on the road to a magistrate. Re
fute breakfast tune we wero man and wife; and
a happier pair ol people you never did "ce!”
. 1 assured him I did not doubt it in tlie least.
“The end of it wav, her father was so angry at
the step riie had taken, that he disinherited her at
once, married again,and at his death, which hap
pened several years after, bequeathed the whole of
bin property to Iiis second wife and her children
by a former husband !
“We left those parts at once. I knew that was
not the place for me to suceoed according to my
heart’s desire. 1 resolved t<> move into a distant
part of the country, and uftcr many years return
home again, a rich mutt. I thought that was the
bent revenge I could have on him.
“Years rolled on. Our union was made still
more hlossed by the birth of a child—a girl. Hut
sorrow trod close on at the heels of joy, tor my
I wife herself died In less than a twelvemonth af
terward#, uml only my lube was left me ! Thus
re all my hopes dashed to the earth !
•Tire, child i/row tin. The Year*
have wings, so swiftly did they fly away. Tho
child became a 1 looming, beautiiul girl.
“I followed my calling with steadiness and in
dustry. In time I sent her away to school, deter
mined to give her every opportunity of improve
ment that was in my power. She grew as intel
ligent as site was handsome. Her cultivated
maimers well set off' the beauty of her person.
“She returned home to me again. You cannot
understand, either, s r, what a joy her presence
scented to diffuse about Iter. I almost felt that
her dead mother was back again !
“1 doted on my child more and more. My feel
ings grew, I believe, to bo half monomania. I
felt that two loves wero concentrated upon one
being—and she only a child.
“1 thought nothing of her ever leaving mo. I
felt that she could never have the htart to go and
leave me, when my lovo for her was ho strong
and so devoted. I gave myself no fears on that
score, but exertod myself to tlio utmost to make
her happy.
"1 thought she was happy. I was sure she
was. Nothing moro could have been done to
make her so.
"Rut the canker began to cat. I felt the thorns
at last, as they thrust their slender barbs through
the roses.”
“What ?” I involuntarily nsked.
I thought she might have died suddenly, too,
und thus left tlie old man quite desolate.
‘I awoke otto morning and went over tho house,
to find her gono,” said he.
•'(•one/” exclaimed I.
"Yes, sir,” ho mournfully replied. “Sho had
eloped with a young man who had been acquaint
ed with her but a very brief time !
"I knew nothing wlmt to do, or where to go.
I was distressed almost beyond endurance. 1 felt
asjif my heart would break. I thought that no an
guish could bo as keen as my own.
".My spirits were distressed. They failed me
ut last altogether. My business entirely run out,
and from a lair prospect of obtaining a snug little
fortune,! fell buck into the arms of poverty. Ah,
how utterly wretched I was!
"I was determined to leavo tho scene of this
my last distress, and venture this way. I have
traveled through thin section for many and many
years. The business I am now following, I have
followed all this time. It gets inc a living, and
that is enough. More than that would make me
miserable.”
Ho paused a moment or two from his work;
laid down the razor bosido him; brushed away a
tear from his eyes with his faded coat-sleeve, and
theiymtiently resumed his labor again.
How are tho follies of matt visitod upon him in
the way of punishment, I in used, oven during Ins
lifetime ! There is no escaping them.
"Just At that moment I heard tho crack of
whip and tho loud rattling of wheels. I inutiod
to the window. Tlio ponderous mail coach
coming up to tho door. It was blackened with
passengers.
They alighted,one by one, to take refreshments,
A lady, with two children, was among them
clad in the deepest mourning.
A mini suddenly darted by me, nearly throwing
mo down in (Ho doorway, which I had reached.
It was tho little Razor Man. He sprang forward
to tho lady, and threw his units about Iter person,
uttering mingled cries of distress and joy.
lie had found his dau^hlei
“ Tho Rulo of Lifo.”
We aro indebted to tho kindness of tho author,
lion. R. M. Charlton, for tho copy of an address
delivered by him at the request of the Young
Men’s Christian Association, in tho Lecture Room
of the Smithsonian Institution. Its theme is the
Rule ol Life. We need hardly say that it is char
acterized by a lofty religious tono which pervades
most of its author’s publications. Strange as it
may seem in a professed Christian country, it de
mands no small measuroof moral heroism on tho
part of a Senator or Representative, thrown amid
the fashionable and political circles of Washing
ton, to enable him to appear beforo the Christian
Association, in advocacy of the Christian’s “ rule
ofWe”
The following extract, with which the lecture
conclude.#, may ho taken uh a fair indication of
tho tone and talent which it exhibits.—Savannah
Georgian.
*’ What rnlo of life shall we follow to insure our
happiness ?” What is the rule ?
It belongs to no profession in particular; the
monarch upon his throne can secure it; tlio cap-
e in his loathsome cell tuny retain it. There is
station, there is no condition, where it is not to
be found; and it is this : Il is tho faithful and con
scientious discharge of every duty which may be
allotted to you, no mutter how minute, for if the
little things of lifo are tho terrible, they are also
the beautiful—the unwavering attention to the
uggestions of tho monitor within your breast. No
nun, though surrounded by fame, by wealth, by
scioncc, by love, can ho happy, who feels that he
has turned a deaf ear to his bosom’s lord. No one,
however degraded, trodden down, athirst, hungry,
wounded, can he miserable, who knows that ho
has been earnest in his search after truth, and un
faltering in his devotion to principle
" Honor and #hnme from no condition rise ;
Act well your part, there all tlio honor lie#!”
It is tho memory of our past lifo to which we
must look for comfort, or for reproach ; the pres
ent we are too busy with; the future has too
much of 1 lope’s brightest hues. It in tho stern re
ality of tho past, that must bo our treasure-house
of grateful recollections, or our charnel-house of
perished joy* ami perverted hours. Memory is
the most prominent attribute of tlie mind, it is the
goldon thread that connects tlie jewels togclhor,
and if it breaks, the gems will fall to the ground
and lie scattered in useless profusion. It is said,
and 1 have no doubt of it, that what wo have once
learned wo can never forget. Tho trifling incident
of our boyhood’s years, the passing event, which
seemed to float by upon the stream of Time, al
most unobsorved, will, in more mat it ro life, flash
hack upon our mental vision, with a startling viV'
nlness; it may be, that wo cannot recall each
scene ut pleasure; but in tho lodgements of the
brain they tiro hidden, and memory, when we least
expect it. will reproduce them, und oft time# make
our cheek grow pale, or our brow crimson at the
unwished for recollection. And time is like the
skilful workman who is about to take down some
ancient mansion, lie begins with the roof, and af
ter lie has demolished that, then he takes down
tlio higher story,and soon in an inverse order to
his lint and hand to ino together,
friend—tho little Razor
aninlVhawitness. I left
[Fium tli«x Olive Brunch.]
If you know any thing to make a brother’s heart
glad, run uml tell it. Any tiling to cause u sigh, hut-
tic it up, hutlie it up.”
Yes, I shan’t do it said Miss Nipper. I’vo liv
ed on scandal and Buhoa this sixty years; and a
change of diet at my time of lifo might prove fa
tal. It agrees with me, it does! I wouldn’t give
two pinches of snufflolive where nobody jumped
over the Ten Commandments! It’s fun alive for
me to ferrit it out. I may not always hit on the
right names of the parties, but that’s a trifle.—
Don’t preach lo me. One half tlio world earn
their “viltlcs,” by living on other folk's vitals. Il
you look into a lawyer’s Bible, I guess it would
puzzle you to find any such text, its “Blessed are
the peacemakers.’’ Don’t tltoy earn salt to lltcir
porridge, by setting whole neighborhoods by the
cars? Aim thoy m the seventh heaven# when
they can get hold of a long twistiffed snarl of a
family quarrel? Don't they how, uud smile, and
smirk, and help you out of the “Slough of Des
pond” with one hand, whiln they poke you back
with tho other l Oh, I tell you Mias Nipper Isn’t
the only mischief maker. There's a large fami
ly of Raul Prys; don’t all wear petticoats either.
Notno of them liavo masculine noses, that aro fur-
up in the air, snuffing tho “ill wind that
# nobody good”—descendants in u direct line,
from Auiihiiihh him! Snpphira. Know more about
a parish than the parson nnd his deacons; more
about a woman titan ibo father who begot Iter;
more about tlie world in goneral than Ho
who made it. Yes, thank goodness, thi# is (as
the ministers say.) “a wicked world." It would
be almighty stupid, if it wasn't; I suppose there’s
unobody or other doing something they ought
it to, about every minute; at least I hopo so.
. only wish these male gossips would clear tho
track and let the Nancy Nipper express train be
the first bearer of the despatches. (I should liko
to make sorno of ’em a present of u petticoat!)
You dont’ catch me knocking under, for speed
and embellishment, to any thing that sports a hat.
Where’s my snuff-box ?—Fanny Fern.
Early the noxt morning tlio coach rattled out of 1 ll 'cir erection, until he reaches the foundation,
the yard again. One of the paascngcTa waved which last of all, lie removes; awlRUcli in rimo’t
attack upon the memory. lie begins upon tho
last event, the ropslonn of our decaying tabernv
ntHJU, wm target mescune mat no naf just wtl-
uessed—and yoi remember well tho incident of a
score of years ago; and as ho advances nearer
uud noarer to tho grave of all his faculties, und as
a gloom mo-e horrible than death is settling upon
hiH worn out mind, whilst the present is dark be
fore him, his garrulous tongue will still prato to
you of his childhood’s visions, and loll you truly,
the events of Iiis early life. What a warning does
this give us; we aro now laying up for ourselves
blissful drean.s, or wo are heaping up layers of
wrath ; each deed we now commit, each thought
wo now harbor, whether it be of evil or good, we
are putting up in store for the retrospection of life’s
last hours ! Oh lot us see to it, that when we
draw nigh lo our final rest, that when the damps
of death are gathering upon our brow, and tho
bund of the destroyer is uplifted to strike us down,'
wo may look back upon tho long avenues of years
through which we have trodden, and hco there tho
smiling countenances of those whoso hearts we
have gladdened, whose lives we have cheered,
beaming upon us in their gratitude; und that wo
may lotm forward with joy uml humble hope, to
those bright and beautiiul mansions prepared for
ns iu Heaven, whose maker and builder isCiod!
1 have recently met witli a little poem, tlio au
thor of which I am ignorant of, which gives the
rule, in a lew practical word.#, and with the reci
tation of which, I will conclude this lecture
“ Tlmrear® throe lesson* I would write—
Three word#—as with n burning pen,
In tracinuH of eternal light,
U|Kiti tlie heart# of men.
“ Have llojie / Tho’ cloud# environ now,
And glitd'icM hide# liar fitco with scorn,
That
i to leavo
Belliug a Miniitor-
A clergyman, writing to a friend, thus tells how
was ‘done’ out of a dollar:
‘I wn s taken in by n brother tho ot her day He
has been publishing a honk, and his present btisi
in*## is selling it. 1 lo came to me in thn evening,
and uf course I invited him to take tea. He didn t
seem disposed to take Ins leave, so I offered him
a bed ami breakfast. Then he wanted tho names
of my leading members, and 1 gave him those of
my allies, hut without tho private signal r|,,,a '
being arranged, lie said—
* Now, brother L., will you allow
one of my books with you V
I supposed that he meant to make inc a present
of it, and began to say I trusted I should find it in
teresting and useful.
' Yes,’ ho rejoined, ‘ I think you will. It has
cost me a great deal of labor and expense; it sells
fora dollar at the bookstores, but 1 shall lei you
have it for eighty-seven and a half cents.’
I saw that l was done, and handed him a dol
lar. He hadn't any change, and kept tho whole.
A RICH FAMILY bcene.—A gentleman deeply
engaged in study—and a lady, pretending to knit,
is jnrplexing him with her miestions. Lady (in
tho drawling, affectionate style.) Ma dealt! cor
rectly speaking, what is a dentist?—Gentleman
(short, sharp, uml rather cross.)—Dentist is de
rived from dent, French for teeth. I)enti w t is a
man who pulls teeth out.— Lady (after knitting
once round, in order to givo the genlloman time to
become immersed in hi® book again.)—Ma dealt !
you said this morning that Professor Musty was n
great linguist. Is not linguist derived from tho
Latin lingua, a tongue ?—gentleman (tartly.)—■
Ye®.—Lady—Woll, then, is a linguist a man who
(mil# tongue® out ?—gentleman (very decidedly.)
v.. ......i.m . Laii I in tii'aven ho did
Roaetidalc r '^J 1 ,*^bV, J DAn!e’iVo''' 1 ‘Hm cliiid grow up. The years eceraod
—No, madam ; but 1 wish to heaven he did .-
Exit lady, in a huff'.
A recent report from the Register General of
Marriage® in Ireland, devclope* tlie singular fact,
that in the famine year of 184G, there wero moro
marriagos there than any single year since. Ac
cording to this showing, there is no truth in the
old proverb, ‘when (loverly comes in at the door,
love goes out of the window.’
But tlmu the shadow* from thy brow—
No uif(lii but hath it# morn.
“ Have Faith ! where'er thy bark i# driven—
The calm’s (li#port—tlio tempest'# mirth—
Know this—God rule# the ho#la of Heaven,
Th' inhabitant!* of earth.
" Have. Love. ! Not love alone for one,
But man, n# man, t|iy brother call—
And *ratler like the circling sun,
Thy charities on all.
“ Thu# grave these lesson# on thy soul—
Hope, Faith, and love—and thou shall find,
Strength, when life’s #urge# wildest roll—
Light, when thou else wer’t blind !”
Wo may as well remark, in this connection,
continues the Savannah Georgian, that the beau
tiful stanzas with which Judge Charlton closed his
address staling that lie was ignorant of their au
thor—were written, if wo rightly remember, by the
Into Willis (Jay)ord Clark, lor many years editor
of tlio Philadelphia Gazelle, also a well known
contributor to the Knickerbocker Magazine, and
brother of the editor of that old and meritorious
monthly.
Tho Fores of Imagination.
Buckland, tho distinguished geologist, one day
gave a dinner, aftor dissecting a Mississippi alli»
gator, having usked a good many of the most dis
tinguished of his classes lo dine with him. Hi*
house and all his establishment wore in ^ood stylo
and tasto. His guests congregated. The din
ner table looked splendidly, with glass, china, and
plate, and the meal commenced with excellent
soup. “How do you like the soup?” asked tho
doctor, after having finished hi® own plate, ad
dressing a fatnou® gourmand of tho day. “ Very
good, indeed, answered tho other; turtle, is it not ?
I only asked bocauso I do not find any green fat.”
Tho doctor shook his head. " I think il has some
what of a musky taste,” said another; “not un
pleasant, but peculiur.” “All alligators have,"
replied Buckland ; “tltc cayman peculiarly so.—
The fellow whom I dissected this morning, and
whom you have just been eating ” There
was a general rout of tho whole gnosis. Every
one turned pale. Half a dozen started from the
table. Two or throe ran out of the room, and only
those who had stout stomachs remained to the
close of an excellent entertainment. “Seo what
imagination is,” said Buckland. "If4 had told
thorn it was turtle, or terrapin, or bird's-nest soup,
salt water umphiha or fresh, or the gluten of a
fifth from tho maw of a sea-bird, they would have
pronounced it oxcollcnt, and their digestion been
none the worse. Such rs prejudice." " But was
it really an alligator?" asked a lady. “ As good
a calf’s bend aa ever wore a coronet,” said Buck-
land.
| Who was tho greatest chicken butcher ? Clau-
u s, ‘who did murder most foul.’
From the Galignani.
ESCAPE OF FOHTAHE.
During the seige o.' l ynx, the poet Fontan#
had been shut up with his family in the midst of
tho city in ruins. Full of alarm for the fate of hit
young wife and infant, ho resolved, at all risks, to
escape if ho could.
Haying obtained a passport, a difficulty arose
as to bow ho could carry away some plate and
other valuable articles, then considered quite anti-
republican. Among these valuables wm a chal
ice, a present from a sovereign, on whiui an ablo
artist bad engraved the arms of the King of Sar
dinia. Fontano greatly dreaded lest, this chalice
should bo discovered, a# being a vessel u®ed in
tho Bcrvicoof the Church, and bearing tho arms of
a king, it would tell as a threefold proof of aristo
cracy. However, he decided on taking it, and
hastened to the house of a friend, who had been &
nursery gardener.
The poet then laid aside all his feudal orna
ments, and set about exchanging his clothes to
give himself another appearance.
Having dressed himself in wide pantaloons, and
shoes stuck full of large nails, his hair cropped,
and every grain of powder removed, he emerged
from tho gardener’s house In the character of a
laundress’s porter, with a heavy basket of clothes
,on his shoulder—the plate and chalice carefully
packed under the linen. Ilia young family fol
lowed a few paces behind hint with the passport,
but they had to pass close to the terrible instru
ment of death; for there it stood, always ready for
use. Fontane shuddered. His wife turned palo.
To them their situation was awful! But reason
and necessity urged them on. Fontane resolved
to act a decided part. He walked up in front of
tlie guillotine, grasping tho basket Firmly with his
hand, and loosening the leather Htrap as if to easo
himself, ho looked stoadily at tho scaffold.
A man ol ruffianly appearance, who attended aa
if ho were a guard of tho guillotine, camo up to
him.
“Areyou afraid,” said ho to Fontane, “tbat
you look in this way nt the national razor?”
“Afraid.” said Fontane; “do yon take me for
a Federalist, that I should ho frightened at the sight
of a guillotine ! Sacrebleu! Look at mo; do
you see anything like an aristocrat in my face V*
“ What are you ?” said a second interrogator,
addressing Fontane.
“lama bleacher and scourer.”
“ And this good woman ?”
“ What a question,” said Fontane. “ Look at
tho little one—don’t yon suo the likeness—Vive la
Republique /”
“Ah! that’s right!” said the miscreant;
“ you’re a good one. Down with muscadins and
aristocrat*. Vive la Republique! and Vive la
Guillotine /”
Fontane could not join in this sanguinary cry.
Ho saw his wife tremble, and took her hand.
“ Come, wife,” said he," let us have a song.”
“ Ay, and a dance too,” said the barbariau who
had first spoken ; “ so, down with your basket, my
jovial fellow.”
“ But l—l ”
“ Nonesense—noboby will run away with your
basket; down with it, I say! Why, what’s tho
matter ? is it glued to your neck ?”
Fontane objected and resisted for a while, but
was noon obliged to submit; and, wiping tho cold
perspiration from his forehead, in a atato more
dead than alive, was relieved from the burthen of
his basket, lie biiw it placed on a heap of stones,
and feared everything would be turned topsy-tur
vy. Oh! tho fatal chalice! All hope of safety
was gone; ho was on the point of delivering him
self up and claiming compassion for his wife and
child, in the hope that they would be allowed to
pas*, when, happily, ho roused himself,clapped his
hands, and assumed a joyful aspect.
“ Hollo! my friend,” cried one of tho fellowx,
“ you’re wonderfully morry all at once.”
“ A thought has struck me ” said Fontane, “ a
bold idea! You seo my poor wifo? I know tho
Carmagnole always raises her spirits. Como, my
good fellows, let us danco it.”
His wife gazed at him with a look of dospair, a*
ho snatched tho child from her arms.
“ Wlmt now! don’t make a wry face, wife,"
said ho- “ Excuao her, she’s young and timid.—
Cotne, let us put tho little ono on tho basket-—
thero he lies, on tho top of tlie linen, and sleopa
soundly. Wife, your bund. Now, the ring—Uv©
republican ring. Come, friends, join handa for
liuabaiul meanT'"She tripped lightly round th®
ring, and joined in tho chorus of tho Carmagnole.
When the danco was oyer sho took up her child;
Fontane waH assisted in replacing his basket on
his shoulder. Ho made his wifo lead tho way,
and walked off after hor, whistling the Chant du
depart. And so they escaped.
Watching with the Doad.
It has long been tho custom in Pfbw England,
and moat part® of tho civilized world, to watch
with tho dead during tlie nights intervening be
tween death and burial. At present it is gradual
ly falling into disuBO.
The custom is very ancient, and of eastern or
igin. The superstitious people of roinoto ages,
in oriental countries, with minds strongly imbued
in ghoulism, entertained the idoA that the dead,
being no longer capable of defending themselves,
became tho natural prey of ghouls. Tho idea of
.being half-spirit and iiaff-carnato, has existed from
time immemorial in tlio oast, and has spread sotno-
wlmt into tho eastern part of Europe, where they
,aro denominated vampyros. According to their
belief, tlio ghoul bore something liko a human
form, the teoth like a dog’s, the eyes like ball fires,
and Iiis llesli saffron-colored and scaly. They
deemed that he lay in the caverns during the day,
and only sallied out at night In search of his prey,
guided by Iiis far-reaching and unerring instinct
of scent. To protect their beloved (load from tho
ravishing hands of the fabulous creature, the peo
ple early bftgan to kcop their night watch around
the enshrouded but unburiod corpse.
1 The custom thus formed in superstition has
long continued, furnishing a happy illustration of
the theorum that habit is soconu nature—for no
reflecting man can argue a use of tlio custom.-—
There is a notion still prevalent in New Eugland
that cats und dogs aro ravenous for tho flesh of
dead persons; and many aro tho Btorios soberly
narrated, in which they figure as coming down
chimneys, breaking the windows, and battling
liko fiend-cats with the watchers of tho doad, for
their desires. This is a sheer superstition ; and
wo think any cat in Christendom would aa liof
liavo a ‘cut’ at a good beefsteak as a human
corpse.
We shall ‘live to soo the day’ when tins vener
able custom will become & ‘thing that was, but is
An Lush Transposition.—An Irish farmer
once had a disputo with his landlord about a barn,
and be could not cumo to a settlement with him,
so lie resolved to have a lawyer’s advice ; accord
ingly he proceeded to the office of one of the
limb# of the law, and stated bis case. After pock
eting bis fee, the lawyer told him, that “in tho eyo
of the law his barn wus forfeited, but, if his land
lord was m t an austere man, to offer him an
equivalent, and get two arbitrators and an umpire
to put the matter in a train of confusion.”
“ Thank you vastly,” said tho fanner; and hur
rying home to his neighbors, he called them to
gether and informed them that “he had soon the
learned tnan, who told him that, in the eye of tho
law his barn was mortified, but if his landlord was
not an oysterman to offer him an elephant, and
get two carts o’potatoes and a trumpeter to put
the matter into a train of confusion.”
Settlino a Bill.—Four sharpers having treat
ed themselves to a sumptuous dinner at the Hotel
Montreal, wero at a loss how toaetlle for it, and
hit off the following plot:
They called tho waiter, and asked for the bill.
Ono thrust his hand into his pocket, aa if to draw
out Iiis puree; the second prevented him, declaring
he would pay ; tho third did the same. The fourth
forbade the waiter taking money from either of
them, but all three persisted. As none would
yield, one said:
“ The best way to decido is to blindfold tho wai
ter, and whoever he first catches shall settle tho
biff.” , .
This proposition was accepted, and while tho
waiter was groping his way around the room, they
slipped out of the house, quo after another.
Mr. Gardiner, Ihu colebraiod *iu»ioal amateur,
pare £10 for i tooth of Sh*k«p**r. Alter it
“red boon in Iris poMewdou »!»<•! foU , rl f*’.j* 6 *'*’
*he exhibited it one evoning to a celebrated *#r-
geon, who discovered that it was the tooth ^ .
• calf! However, as it cost so much rar-' ^
i virtuoso still retains it, and will ^
that he was imposed upon#
