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THE ls ,[t he published erery SATURDAY Morning, In the Tieo-Story Wooden Building, al the Corner of Walnut and Fifth Street, IH THE CITV OF MACON, GA. BV Vfl. It. IIARKISOX. TERMS. Tor the Paper, in advance, por annutn, $2. if not paid in advance, $2 50, per annum. If not paid until the end of the Year $3 00. Advertisements will be inserted at the usual fates—and when tho number of insertions do sirod is not spacified, their will be continued un til forbid and charged accordingly. ([J* Advertisers by tho Year will be contracted with upon the most favorable terms. (jj*Salesof Land by Administrators, Executors or Guardians, are required by Law, to be held on the first Tuesday in the month, between the hours 0 f ten o'clock in the Forenoon and three in the Af ternoon, at the Court [louse of tbe county in which the Property is situate. Notice of these Sales must be given in a public gazette sixty days previous to tho day of sale. [jy Sales of Negroes by A lministators. Execu tors or Guardians, must be at Public Auction, on tho first Tuesday in the month, between the legal hours of sale, before the Court House of the county where tho Letters Testamentary, or Administration jr Guardianship may have been granted, first giv r.g notice thereof for sixty oats, in oil* hft?ie pub i-gazettes of this State, and at the door of the Jourt Houso where such sales are to be held. Irj*.Votiee for the sole of Personal Property must agiven in like man nor forty days previous to the day of sale. | ifj’Xotice to the Debtors and Creditors of an Es- Lto must be published for forty days. 1 that application will bo made to the r.j Ur t us Ordinary for leave to sell Land or Ne groes must be published in a public gazette in this late for poor months, before any order absolute Kan bo given by the Court. ■ i for Letters of Administration on ||n Estate, granted by the Court of Ordinary, must Sj published thirty bays - (or Letters of Dsstuis-! ■<>a from the administration ofan Estate, monthly i a.. Mg months —for Dismission from Guardian-I (hip FORTY DAYS. ■ rJ-Rui.r.s for the foreclosure of a Mortgage,! [fli iit ba published monthly for four months — | I fin establishing lost Papers, for the full space of j [tktRZR months —for compelling Ti ties from Ex- | iej'itors, Administrators or others, where a Bond j given by the deceased, the lull space ot j It. iSK MONTHS. Bn !!. All Business of this kind shall roceiv- j Ipjo'npt uttentionat tho SOUTHERN MUSEUM j JO, ■, and strict care will be taken that all legal lAc "riiseinents aro published according to Law. May All Letters directed to this Office or the ICC tor on business, must be post-paid, to in- I so •• attention. UD or trw. XTAN Z V S . RY ROBERT EMM ETT HOOE. || My !tf« is like tlio scattered wreck, H Cast by the waves upon the shore ; |I Tho broken mas s, the rifted deck, [ Tell of the shipwreck that is o'er : 11 Vel from tho reties of the storm, I The mariner his raft will form. I MA;miu to tempt the faithless sea— I A But hope rebuilds no bark for tnc. |9,1y life i* like tho blighted oak, t'flial lifts its soar and withered form ; citlw'J by the lightning's hidden stroko Sternly to meet the hidden storm •• i t round that shapeless trunk will twine, p j Tim curling tendrils of the vine, rind iife and freshness there imparl, — _ Xot so ilie Tutssior..biighicu heart. |1 ■■llv life >s like, n desert rock, H \u tho mid ocean, alone and drear , ■taWnrii hy the wild waves’ ceaseless slicek, Tiip.t round ita base their surges rear j ■Bl >t, there the sea moss still will cling ■B Pome flower will find a cleft to spring, I »V"1 brent ho e’en there a rich perfume — KM V , me life's (lowers no more will bloom. -Match Mistaken for a Du lei..— I lie civilians and military of Blarney •"««liuor) livaliug each other in pigeon ■wii'iuing. '['he military claimed the paint, ■MtLLiiasted of their superior steady fire. HBTk physician, resolving to take tins Btiitt* out of the red coats, challenged one captains to a pigeon-match. 'I he was ncceptod, and the doctor to inform his brother-in law of ■ Meeting him in the count : lie said, in presence of one of 1 tilts, ‘ Captain has accepted i Come and see how 1 1! 1 Goodbye, I can’t stay any * The clerk, whose imagination Bar ted all tho bloody deeds of a dual, 16 Br •.'! off to a magistrate, and made the m depositions respecting the san e Mry intentions of" the captain and and c *’ A constable, in colored clothes was -r '* armed with a warrant, and ands t» ‘ tins cl cor’s rosidenco to arrest xo MB.' !"•' reaching there, the servant [in , ’ 1 diat ht>r master was out, but Sl>J n return Wlu >n the m ister j lily the servant informed him t tit «■ lp mau had called, and was rrm-t tor to see him. ‘Dear mo. that’s |C *’ luishatid,’replied hemau jj H tt::d no idea that I should he wan tkrt and, so saying he harried out uvD ' U3o,am ' commenced running to ttistnV indent’s residence, when the ® wM'u, s J7' n = '“in, and supposing that I s " tul, f n ; ’ ;i d”g his escape, gavo chase, icifJ tioyjp . '"j captured him escorted his ls . n ' c . ofv re , f l ? station-house, and thence 'S' ' ' vh ° la,1 S ,,c ' l heartily. fc ct j[ ' doctor, the constables and ncn"* ta! fl, ’ " : ° n tho denouncement of the lp eri * ibicld.c Uaa ® x plaittod, tho mistake into td tjj, Pacific disposition of the clerk ,!ji it-~ d'nt one Mr. Henry Broken pt. ? r,led i( ' Baltimore, a Miss Bank. I o,lc more bank now broken ! THE SOUTHERN MUSEUM. VOLUME IE Ths ilniileu es l!»e Moon. A CHIFPEWAY LEGEND, Thcfollowing legend was obtained from the lips of a Chippetvay woman, named Penaqua, or the Female Pheasant, and I hardly know which to admire most—the simple beauly of the plot, or the graphic and unique manner of the narrative, of which, 1 regret to say, l can hardly give a faithful translation : Among the rivers of the North, none can boast of more numerous charms than the St. Louis; and the fairest spot of the earth which it waters, is that where now stands the trading post of Fund du Lac. Upon this spot, many summers ago, here lived a Chippoway chief and his wife, who were tho paten sos an only daughter. Her name was Weesh—Ko-da-e-mire, or the Sweet Strawberry—and she was ac lutuwh-deed to he the m>>st beautiful mai den of her nation. Her voice was like that of the tuitle-d ve, and the red deer was not more graceful in its form.—Tho young men of every nation had s riven to win her heart, hut she smiled upon none. Curious presents were sent to her from the four quarters of the world, hut she re ceived them not. Seldom did she deign to reply to the many warriors who entered her father's lodge; and when she did, it was only to assure in m lha : , w hile upon earth, she would never change her enndi tion. Her strange conduct astonished them, but did not subdue their affection. Many and noble were the deeds they per formed, not only in winning the white plumes of the eag’e, hut in hunting the elk and the black hear. Hut all their ex ploi's availed them nothing, for the heart of the beautiful girl was still untouched. The snows of winter were all gone, and the pleasant winds of spring were blow ing over the land. The time for making sugar had arrived, though the men had not yet returned from the remote hunting grounds, and in the maple forests bright fires were burning, and the fragrance of the sweet sap filled all the air. Tho ring ing laugh of childho and and the mature song of women were heard in the valley; hut in no part of the wilderness could be found, more happiness than on the hanks of the St. Louis. But tho Sweet Straw berry mingled with the young men and maidens of her tribe in a thoughtful mood, and with and wncast eyes. Site was evident ly bowed down with some mysterious grief, but she neglec ed not her duties; p.nj though she spent much of her time a’.one, her buchere-hucket was as frequently filled with the juice as any of her companions. Such was the condition of aJTajrt-s when a party of young warriors fi.,m the far North came upon a fr die to tile St. Louis river. Having seen thy many handsome maidens of this region, *«’oe strangers be came enamoured of their charms, and each one succeedcx! in obtaining the love of a maiden, who was to become his bride during the marrying season of summer. 'i’lte warriors had heard of the Sweet Strawberry, 'out, neglected by all of them, she was still doomed to remain alone. She wit nested the happiness of her old play mate.-;, and, wondering at her own strange feMv, spent much of her time in solitude. She even became so unhappy and bewil dered tl.a she heeded not the tender words of her mother, and from that time the music of her voice was nevei heard. Thu sugar-making season was now ra pidly passing away, hit the brow of the Sweet Strawberry was still overshadowed with grief. Everything was done to re store her to her wonted cheerfulness, but she remained unchanged. Wild ducks in innumerable numbers arrived with every southern wind, and settled upon the sur rounding waters, and proceeded to build their nests in pairs, and tho Indian maiden s ghed over her mysterious doom. On one occasion she espied a cluster of early spring flowers peering above the dry leaves of ihe forest, and, strange to say, even these were separated into pairs, and seemed to be wooing each other in love ' All icings whispered t > her of love, the j happiness <>f her companions, the birds of ! the air, and the flowers. She looked into her heart, and, inwardly praying for a com panion whom she might love, the Master of Life took pity upon her lot and answer ed her prayer. It was now the twilight hour, and in he maple woods tho Indian hoys were watch ii.g t oir fires, and tho women were bring ing in the sap from the surrounding trees. The time for making sugar was almost gone, and the well-filled mokueks, which might be seen in all the vigwams, testified that tho yield had been abundant. Tin* hearts of tho old women heat in thankful , ness, and tho young men and maidens were already beginning to anticipate the pleasures of wedded life and those associ ated with the sweet summer time. But tho brow of the Sweet Strawberry con tinued to droop, and her friends looked upon tier as tho victim of a settled melan clioly. Her duties, however, were per formed without a murmur, and so contin ued to he performed until the trees re fused to fill her buchero-bucket with sap, when she stole away from tho sugar camp and wandered to a retired place to tnuse upon her sorrows. Her unaccountable grief was very hitter, but did not long en dure, for, ns slio stood gazing upon the sky, tho moon ns ended above the hills and filled her soul with a joy she had never felt before. The 1 tiger she looked upon the brilliant object, the more dcei ly in love did gho become with its celestial MACON, (#A..) SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 22, 1849. charms, and she bur t forth into a song—a , loud, wild, and joyous song. Her musical voice echoed through the woods, and her friends hastened to ascertain tho cause. They gathered around her in crowds, hut she heeded them not. They wondered at the wildness of her words, ar.d the airy like appearance of her form. They were spell hound by the scene before them, hut their astonishment knew no limits when they saw her gradually ascend from the earth into the air, where she di-appeared, as if borne upward by the evening wind And then it was that they discovered her c a sped in the embraces of the moon, for they knew that the spots which they saw w ithin the circle of that planet were those of her robe, which she had made from the skins of die spotted fawn. Many summer* ha\ -» pns'c-? awry Mftre the Sweet Strawberry became the Maiden of he Moon, yet among all the people of her nation is she remembered for her beau ty and the mystery of her being. Self-made Mf.n. —■ If you are to he an exception, ’ said \lr. Crabhe to his young friend, ’you will be the first in all my ob servation and xperience. You may take tho whole population of Ms yland, and se e t from it fifty men who are the most distinguished for talentsorany description of public usefulness, am! 1 will answer for it, they aro all, every one of them, men wh > began the world without a dollar. Look into the public councils of the na tion, and who are they that take the lead there? -They are men who made their own fortune—self made men, who with nothing. The rule is universal. It pervades our Courts, State and Federal, flora the highest to the lowest. Ilistruo of al! professions, it is so tiow; it has been s > at any time since l have known the public men of the State uv Hie nation ; and it will be so while our present i list it u - tions continue. \oo must throw a man upon his own resources to bring him out. 1 lie struggle which is to result in eminence is too arduous, nn.d must be continued too long, to be encountered and maintained voluntarily, or unless as a matter of life nml death. Ho who has fortune to fall hack Upon will soon slacken from his es h'rto, anil finally retire from the compett tt«m. With me it is a question whether it is desirable that a parent should lenvo his sou any property all. You will have a 1 argo fortune, and I am sorry for it, as it will be the snoiling of good lawyer. These are my deliberate sentiments, and l shall be rejoiced to find, in your instance, 1 shall he mistaken.’ Hard to Please. —-One of our Pearl i street exquisites recently went up to Ips i wich on a collecting expedition, says a j Boston paper, and hearing the dinner bell ting at one o’clock in Mie hotel where lie put up. said to the landlord: ‘ Why, ith that deenah l ’Tis too hor wid early, pon honor! I neevah dwine so early m the Twcmont city.’ • Ye don’t, then,’ was Boniface’s reply. * Waal, we sets u second table later here, for the help.’ The young gentleman palled up his shirt collar, staved in, and sat down at the tuble, looking daggers. Ax 000 Prescription. —An apotheca ry’s boy was lately sent to leave at one house a box of pills, and at another six live fowls. Confused on the way, lie left the pills whet o the fowls should have gone, and the fowls at the pill place. The folks who received the fowls were astonished at reading the accompanying direc ions— ’Swallow one every two hours.’ The Verdant Groomsman. —On no | occasion do people seem more prone to J commit blunders and plunge themselves into embarrassing predicaments than at ! weddings. Tho following actually oc j eurred in a neighboring town. In the : midst of a crowd of witnesses, the c orgy ! man had just c mulcted that important ceremony which hinds in the silver bonds o’ wed ock, two willing hearts, and stretch ed forth his hands to implore the blessings of lie < ven on the union At this point, the groomsman, seeing the open hands reached out, supposed it was the signal for him to surrender the wedding fee which was burning in his pocket. Accordingly, just as the clergyman c used his eyes in prayer, lie felt tho pressure of two sweaty half dollars on his open palms. The good man hesitated a moment, a pulled at the ludic rousness of his situation, bu at as! coolly deposit, and the money in Ids picket, and pro ceded with his devnti. ns An h recruit was asked by his officer, what is your height I’ to which I’at replied. The man that measures told me it was five sot en or ten foot five ; I’m not exactly sure which—but it wus oitherono or the other.’ A Bad Loo t. —“ s that the piisoner !” said one spectator to another, during a tri al for manslaughter. ‘•Yes,’ was the reply. •Ah ! indeed ! What a dreadful bad look he lias, especially about the eyes! Hut who is that respectable looking young man at his side in the green vest V •In the green vest ? Why that is the prisoner himself. The other man is his lawyer.’ ‘Well, now I do begin to see that the fellow in the green vest"don’t 1 ok so res portable after nil. Indeed, be has just the uir of an old offender.’ A Sucker’s Visit to the Theatre. ‘Well, I’ve been thar, Jim,’said a sucker : to his cr ny. •Wbar,down to Sent Louis? inquired Jim. ‘Well, no whar else,’ was the answer, j ‘And Ive seed some on the hardest things you’d ever lieerd on in the hull animal I creation.’ ‘What wur they like/’ inquired Jim. ‘Oh all sorts of Joins, mixed up sorter every way ; hut the thing that just tuck me straight warseein’ a Jlyin' woman / After tbe 11 a!-boat wur hitched, 1 sot to lookin round, and pooty soon 1 seed, on big, boss bills, stuck again houses, that a feller named Dan Sons, war goin’ to cut up some of the tallest kind of shindy’s 1 war nat’ rally hound c > find out what it war like, so 1 a xot i a feller, read in’ it and ho laughed— lie said it war ony the tke-ater. bays I, “that ar a show, aint it ?’ and said he,'it ar ; but it aint no circus show, nur a ani mal show, nur a slight-o hand show, nuth er, but all sorts of a handsom show, held in a place big as our country seat couft, house.’ Ijestmadoup my mind I’d go ten cents straight. 1 round out vvbnrthey kept it, and up 1 goes ; but they told me .he 1 ivvest notch war aeon! quarter. That staggered mu, hut i giu it. ‘Root or die, wlie i you’re in fur it,’ sez I ; so up I goes the alfirctdcst lot of stubs— 1 thought artev a spell I’d come out s urnewhar near the moon, but, by travellin’ awhile, I got up whar a lot of folks wur. It looked to me like a meetin’-h -use, with three galleries, and lit up like all out of-dours, in day-light. A t t of fellers fiddled away a spell by thur selves, but cubs mo if l could see whar that feller, D»n Sous, wur; and jest as 1 wur, goin’ to ask a chap whar the show wur, up rolled the hull side of the houso, right before me, and out slid a gal on her tiptoes, whirlin about,like as if she could'nt keep down to the yearth—The way she handled her yitis jest sot roe rearin’—it beat Mary Sellers all hollow,and aint slow. 1 asked u feller next to me who she wur, and I’ll swar if he didn't say it wur ‘l)in soos !’ —which instead < f bein’ a man's name, wur French for a dancin’ woman. 1 didn’t notice »i furs', but arter a spell 1 see tho reason sic couldn’t keep fiom jum pin’— it made ny har kind o’ rise—she wur not only a angel-lookin’ creature; but, Jim—you kin beleive is or not, hoss fly—l’ll declar she had wings ! ‘Here,’ says Jim, ‘you kin jest take my hat,’ ‘l know'd no body would believe me,’ said the Sucker ; 1 jest know’d it ; but I’ll swar I seed her take hold on the tip of a wing, spread it out, and fly, jest like a bird, clean across the hull side of the house. A feller wur chasin’ her, but ho couldn’t shine. She shuck her toe at him and slid right out of sight.’ ‘Thar,’ says Jim,‘that'll do; —I know’d you could do pooty well at lyin’, but that last effort kin take ihe cakes 1’ ‘I aint goin’ to tell it any more, but I’ll swar I seed it.’ ‘Seed thunder !’ Bhoutes Jim. ‘You seed what tho doctor’s call n'ofactery collusion !' Ennui. —Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices <>f mankind proceed from indo lence and idleness. Persons who have naturally active minds, —whose ‘quick thoughts like lightning are alive,’ —are most perniciously effected l>y ihe evils of sloth. The favored sons ofgenius, en dowed with great original powers, weie not made for repose ; indolence will quick ly ’fi euzo ihe genial current of the soul,’ and if left idle long they perish from inac tion, like a scimitar cot roded and destroy ed by rust. But the active occupation of our faculties is a safeguard against three great evils, vice, penury, and desponding gloom. Says Colton, ‘Ennui has made m >re gamblers than avarice, more drunk ards than thiist, and more suicides than despair.’ If we would ho both useful and happy, we must keep ourselves industri ously and virtuously employed. Old Dutnbiedikes was wise in charging his son to ‘be aye sticking in a tree when he had naething else to do.’ Count do Cayius, a French nobleman, being horn to woa’th and princely idleness, turned his attention to engraving and mademany fine copies of antique gems. (>uo of tho nobility deman ded from him a reason for his procedure, and wav told by tho industiious Count,‘i j engrave, that I tnaynot hang my self.’ Taking i r Coolv. —A gentleman resi ding Wi a village not many miles from Ex eter. in this Stale, finding that the diminu tion of his woodpile continued after his fires were out, lay awake one night in or der to obtain, if possih'e, some clow to the mystery. At an h ur when “all honest folks should ho in bed,” hearing an opera tor at work in the yard, he cautiously raised his chamber window, and saw a la zv brothot endeavoring to get a large log on his wheelbarrow. “You'r a pretty fellow,” said the owner, "In come here and steal my wood while l sleep.” “Yes replied tho thief, ” and I suppose you would stay tip there and see mo break my hack before you’d offer to comedown and help me.” * »r~ r* Esteem is the mother of love, but the daughter i* often < filer than the moth er. A man thatstudieth revenge, keeps bis own wounds green, which would other wise heal tind do well. A Prodigy < f Prof anenkss.—A mong the outre characters of Ayr, fifty years ago, there was none so remarkable as an oldish little m in, who was ordinarily called The Devil Almighty. Ho had ac quired this terrific subriquet from an in j voterate habit of swearing, or rather from | that phrase being his favorite oath. He iwas n > ordinary swearer, no mincer of dreadful words, no clipper of the king’s curses. Being a man of vehement pass ions, he had a habit, when provoked, of ' shutting his eyes and launching headlong j into a torrent of blasphemy, such as might, if properly divided, have set up a whole troop of modern swearers. The custom of shutting his eyes seems to have been adopted by him as a sort of su!vo to his con science. He ficonicd to think that provi ded ho did not ‘sin with his eyes open,' he did not sin at all; or it was, peihaps, noth ing but a habir. Whatever might be tho cause or purpose of the practice, it was once made the means of playing off upon him a most admirable hoax. Being one evening in a tavern along with two neigh boring county gentlemen, he was, accor ding to a concerted scheme, played upon anii irritated ; of course, ho soon shut his eyes, and commenced his usual tirade of j execration and blasphemy. As soon as ho 1 was fairly afloat, and his eyes were obser ved tp he hard shut, his companions put out the candles so as to involve the room in utter darkness. In the course of a quarter j of at) hour, which was the common dura- j tion of his paroxyms, he ceased to speak, j and opened his eyes, when, what was his amazement, to find himself in the dark. ‘How now ?’ lie cried, with ono of his most tremendous oaths, 'urn 1 blind ?’ ‘Blind !’ exclaimed one of the company, whasshould make you blind ?' ‘Why I can see nothing,’ answered the j sinner. * ‘That is your own fault,’ coolly observed his friend ; ‘for my part I can see well enough,; and ho drank a toast, as if noth ing whatever had hapened. This convinced the blasphemer that he had lost his sight; and to add to his horror, it struck him that Providence had inflic ted the blow as a punishment for his intol erable wickedness. Under this impres sion he began to rave and cry,and he final ly fell a praying, uttering such expressions as made his two copanions ready to burst with restrained laughter. When they thought they had punished him sufficiently, and began to fear that his mind might be affected if they continued the joke any longer, one of them went to the door, and admited the light. He was of course, overwhelmed with shame at the exhibition lie had been compelled to make, which had such an effect that from that time forward, he entirely abandoned his abominable habit. A Help to Energy. —To-day I found myself compelled to do something which was very disagreeable to me, and which I had long deferred : 1 was obliged to re sort to my ‘grand expedient’ in order to conquer my aversion. Yiw will laugh when l tell you what this is ; hut I find it a powerful aid in great things as well as small. The truth is, there are few men who are not sometimes capricious, and vet uftoner vacillating. Finding that lam not better than others in this respect, I in vented a remedy of tny own, a sort of nr tijical resolution, respecting things which are difficult of performance—a means of securing that firmness in myself which 1 might otherwise want, and which man is generally obliged to sustain by some ex ternal prop. My device, then, is this:—l give my word of honour most solemnly to myself to do, or to leave undone, this or that. I am of course exceedingly cau tious and discreet in the use of this ex pedient, and exercise great deliberation before I resolve upon it; hut when once it is done, even if l afterwards think I have been precipitate or mistaken, 1 hold, it to be perfectly irrevocable, whatever incon veniences I foresee likely to result. And I feel great satisfaction and tranquility in being subject to such an immutable law. If 1 were capable of breaking in after such mature consideration, I should lose all respect for myself; and what man of sense would not prefer death to such an alternative 1 — Tout of a German Prince. A Beautiful Figure. — Life is beauti fully compared to a fountain fed by a thou sand streams that perish if ono he dried. It is a silver cord twisted with a thousand springs that part asunder if one be broken. Frail and thoughtless moi tale are surroun ded by innumerable dangers which make it much more strange that they escape so long, than that they almost a’l perish sud dontly ot last. \Yo are encompasod with accidents every day to crush the mouldering tenement that wo inhabit. The seeds of desaese are planted in our constitutions by nature. The earth and the a'mosphere whence we draw tho breth of life are impregnated with death, health is ma le to operate its own destruction! The food that nourishes contains the ele ments of decay; the soul that animates it by vivify tig fire intends to wear it out by its own action ; death lurks in ambush along our p iths. Notwithstanding this is tho truth so palpably confirmed by the dai'y examples before our eyes, how little do we lay it to heart. Wo see our fiiends and neighbors perishing among us, but how seldom and es it occur to our thoughts that our knell shall perhaps give the next fruitless warning to t+re wocVi ! BOOK AND JOB PRINTING, JVi/l he executed in the m/jst approved style and on the Lest terms,at the Office of the SCTJTSSSIUT MTJSETnC —BY— WM. B. HARRISON. NUMBER 4. Farming off Jokf.s. —There are father Jess jokes as well as deserted children— the parents of both being, we presume, ashamed of their offspring. As there is no Foundling Hospital f«.r jokes, a word ofadvico tnay not be deemed out of place,to ' those who aro in the habit of abandoning I their little ones to the mercy oftho world. Jokes may be very well left at doors of i the following gentlemen : Sheridan, Rov erend Sidney Smith, Dr. Johnson, Dean Swift and the Reverend Rowland Hill. Care mu3t be taken that a proper selec tion is rnude, or the track will be di.scov- I ered, and the perpetrator nabbed but as a forlorn hope, send them to Ireland ; you may father any thing on Ireland, from a good joke down to a had potato. Ire land, rich in itself, is compelled to have a sort of “Union” poor-house, open for the reception of wreched whimsicalities, mis erable mishaps, and questionable jokes, for these are fanned upon poor Ireland every day in the year, and almost every hour in the day. An Innkeeper's Regret, —Joseph IT, when Emperor of Germany, traveling in disguise, stopped *>t at! inn isi the Nether lands, where, it being Fair time, and the house crowded, he readily slept in an out house, after a slender repast of bacon and eggs, for which nud his bed ho paid the charge of about 3s. 6d. sterling. A few hours after, some of his Majesty's suite coming up,the landlord appeared very un easy at not having known the rank of his guest. 'Shaw, man,’ said one of tho at tendants, ‘Joseph is accustomed to such adventures, and will think nothing of it.’ ‘Very likely” replied mine host, 'butlcati never forgive myself for having an Em peror in my house and letting him ofl'fo* three and six pence.’ Very Good. —So you are going out to East Hitigies, iny darlint Mrs. Marooney?’ said un old Irish crone to a young wife of a soldier about to embark for Madras,"l’v been in them parts, meself, well do l re-- member the went through.niglit and day with the muskatoes. They have lnngsukers bunging down from their heads, and they’ll draw the life's blood out of ye before ye can say peas.” This terrifyng account lived in the memory of the young woman; the vessel made Madras roads, the decks were soon crowded; ull hands deligt ed at the sight of land Mrs. Marooney a mong the rest; hut her joy was bf short duration; for, on the shore she precieved an elephant. Horror-stricken al the sight and in breathless agitation, she approach ed the mote, exclaiming, with uplifted hands,"Holy mother, is that a muskatoe?” Fops. —l doubt not that a fop is as ne cessary a part of the human family as a philosopher. He may not he useful to as many, but he is apt to be agreeable to more ; and who pleases, is quite as dear as ho who serves us. Nobody quarrels with the jay, because you cannot devour him with '.he same satisfaction which a partrigo gives on the table ; and the silly tomtit, if not so venerable a bird as the owl, is less destructive (« the chickens - I I suppose that fops and dandies hear just Ith e same relation to the human family as jays, parrots, and such like, to the feather ed tribes. Wits and mimics, and satirists, maybe likened to mucking birds; states men and philosophers to owls and other birds that see by night; politicians to bats and night hawks; and warriors to vul tures, to eagles and other voracious feed ers, carrying great beaks and always sharp ened talons. Circumstances alter Cases.—“ Is Mr Bluster within!” “No, lie is out of town," replied the ser vant. “Can I see him!” “Idontknow. Have you >ny special business with him!” “Yes, there is a small bill which I wish to settle.” “ Well,” said tho servant, “ I don’t dnow whether he will return this week or not.” “But I wish to pay the bill, as l am go ing toleave town immediately.” “Oh, you wish to pay him some money 1 ? He is up stairs, Tin thinking. I will call him. Take u seat sir. Mr. Bluster will be with you in a moment. ICT ‘ Mister, I say, I don't suppose you don't know of nobody what don’t want to kiio nobody to do nothing, don’t you ! The answer was, ‘Yes, I don't know cf nobody—do you V {CT’A beautiful Oriental proverb rune thus;—'With timo and patience the mul berry leaf becomes satin.” How encour aging is this lesson to the impatient snd desponding ! And what difficulty is there that man should quail at, when a worm can accomplish so much from the leaf the mulberry. IC*" Will you buy James’s lattV said a vender of small trash to a gentleman in a railroad car, the other day, price only 25 cents. “Yes,” said the gentleman,“if I could be satisfied that it was positively his last I would give three times that price.* Duties and Events.— Duties are ours events are God’s. This removes an infi nite burden from tho shoulders of the mis erable tempted, dying creature. On thi* consideration only can he securely lay 1 Jowti his head am! clove bis eye..