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ADVERTISEMENTS.
COME AND TRY MAC.
AT ADAIRSYILLE, GA.
d. n. hood,
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
AUGUSTUS R. WRIGIIT,
CASSVZXjZiE, GA.,
Will practice Law in the several courts
of Law and Equity in the Cherokee circuit.
April 24. 12—ly.
CHASTAIN & YOUNG,
ATTORNEYS AT
ELXiXJAY, GA.,
Will practice in the counties of the Cher
okee circuit.
April 24. 12—ly.
ROBERT H. TATUM,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
TRENTON, GEO.
Business entrusted to his care in any of
the Counties of the Cherokee Circuit, will
ruect with prompt attention.
Nov. 21. 43-tf
OULD most respectfully inform the
citizens of Adairsville, the surround
ing country, the people in “gmeral”—and
the Ladies more especially, that he is now
receiving and opening a very neat and care
fully selected stock of
Spring and Sommer Goods,
Dry Goods, Hats, Caps, Bonnets, Boots,
Shoes, Hardware, Cutlery, Drugs and Med
icines, Crockery and Glass-ware, Nails,
Groceries, ffcc., all of which he most respect
fully and emphatically offers at prices rea
sonable, and to suit the times, which all
will agree must be low.
He does not pretend to say that he sells
Goods cheaper than anybody in town—but
there’s one tiling he tcill say,—that if you
will only try him once, you will be certain
to come back and trade with him *' some
more.” His motto is, and always has been,
“ Live and let live.”
lie would earnestly request the Ladies
and Gentlemen who trade at Adairsville, to
give him a call and examine his Goods, and
ask the prices, as he consideis it no trouble,
but a pleasure to wait on all, whether they
buy or not.
Joe and Ben arc always ready, and ex
tremely anxious to wait on you at all times,
and under any circumstances, and the truth
is, these Boys,—Joe and Ben are mighty
hard to beat; and when Joe is not other
wise employed, he is what can do up your
“Tooth Carpentering” for you. He can
"paU out" your Teeth, or fill them up
cither.
Adairsville, Ga., April 15, 1852.
Thon wilt »ter left Me More.
DANIEL S. PRINTUP,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ROME, GEO.
Also Agent for the Bank of the State of
South Carolina, and will make advances on
Cotton shipped to Charleston, only charging
legalinterestforthc time the advance is made
Sept. 5, 1850.—tf.
JAMES MILNER. JOHN E. GLENN
MXXareH. fc GXKJSTST,
Attornei's-eJi Uw^
^ CASSVILLE, GA.
' March, 4, 1852. 4—tf.
NEW
Plain and Ornamental
BUGGIES FOR SALE!
MARCUS A. HIGGS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CASSVIIiXiE, GA.
Will attend promptly to all business con
fided to his care.
May 29, 1851.
17—tf.
J. D. PHILLIPS, / /
ATTORNEY AT LAW,!/
CASSVILLE. GEO.
2-1 y.
Feb. 19.
WM. T. WOFFO RD,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CASSVILLE, GEO.
March 15 tf
E. D. CHISOLM,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
VANWERT. GA.
Will practice in the Cherokee circuit, and
will transact any business entrusted to his
care.
Jan. 29, 185*. 51—ly
DAWSON A. WALKER,
.ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
Spring Place, Geo.
Refers to Kerbs & Hope, Augusta, Ga.,
Wiley, Banks, & co., Charleston, S. C.
A. Wells & co., Savannah, Ga.
April 24. 12-1 y.
JAMES C. LONGSTREET,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CALHOUN, GA.,
Will practice in the several courts of the
Cherokee circuit.
Refer to Hon. John P. King, ) Augusta,
R. F. Poe, J Ga.
Ricuard Peters, Esq., Atlanta, Ga.
W. Akin, Esq., Cassville, Ga.
April 24. 12—ly.
T HE undersigned having permanently lo
cated himself in Cassville, and engaged
the services of Mr. Robert Melson, who is
well known as a first rate wood workman,
and having procured a good stock of well
seasoned timber, and good fashionable trim
ming, he is prepared to make or repair all
kinds of Buggies, Carriages, &c., in neat
Northern sty le. All orders will be prompt
ly attended to, and no disappointment will
lie made to any who may patronize him un
less in case of sickness. Please call and sec
and judge for yoursUvcs.
WM. BRADLEY.
« is also prepared for Glass cut
ting, Gilding and painting signs, both plain
and ornamental, and other ornamental work,
such as Gilding, Bronzing, Painting. &c.
His shop is near the north-east comer of
the square, where he will do work low for
cash; and produce will be taken at the
market prices. May 6,1352.
HIW600BS,
PATTON & TRIMBLE,
ADAIRSVILLE, GA.
H AVE the pleasure of announcing to their
customers and the public generally,
that they are now receiving a forge and
handsome stock of Spring and Summer
Goods, selected with great care by one of
the firm in New York, Philadelphia and
Baltimore, which they are offering at unu
sually low prices. Thankful for the liberal
patronage heretofore extended to them, they
would ask a continuance of the same, and
think they can make it the interest of all to
give them a call before buying elsewhere.
We still continue to take in exchange for
Goods, Corn, Wheat, Peas, Bacon, Lard,
Feathers, Beeswax, Tallow and Rags.
Adairsville, April 14th, 1852.
Two Farms lor Sale!
JONES & CRAWFORD,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
CALHOUN, GA.
April 24.
12—ly.
JULIUS M. PATTON. ABDA JOHNSON.
PATTON A JOHNSON,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Cassville, Geo.
Will practice in the counties of Cass,
Thou art gone, but I am keeping
In my heart thy treasured name;
If I'm smiling—if I’m weeping,
Thou art with me all the same.
Yes, the link at last is riven,
All our pleasant dreams are o’er,
And, unless we meet in heaven,
Thou wilt never meet me more.
Once the summer sun alighted
On the petals of a rose,
And although her leaves be blighted,
Still he lingered till life’s close.
Thus the heart has sometimes cherished
Thoughts that wear away the soul,
Giving pleasure while we perish,
’Neath this strange yet sweet controL
Thou art gone, yet love hath bound thee;
Thou may’st struggle to forget,
In the heartless crowd around thee;
All in vain!—thou'rt captive yet.
Ah, forgive the pain I’ve given.
And thine own deep wrongs of yore,
For unless we meet in Heaven,
Thou wilt never meet me more.
/arts Soft panties.
Cobb, Chattooga, Floyd, Gordon; Murray,
Whitfield ana Walker.' {Feb 12.
. C. SHROPSHIRE.
JOHN A. CRAWFORD.
CRAWFORD & SHROPSHIRE,
ATTOEHEYB AT LAW,
CASSVILLE, GEO.
Business entrusted to their care in any.of
the counties of the Cherokee circuit, trill
meet with faithful attention. April 8.
T HE undersigned, living nine miles north
east of Cassville, in one of the prettiest
valleys in Cherokee Georgia, offers the two
following farms for sale: the one on which
he resides, containing something near twelve
hundred acres, about four hundred and for
ty of which are cleared, and in a high state
of cultivation, including orchards, grass
fields, Stc. This farm is well improved, with
first rate buildings, a good two story dwel
ling, complete y finished off; also a good
two story brick house, finished off likewise,
two good framed barnes, and all other nec
essary buildings, and one of the largest and
best Apple orchards north of the Etowah
river in Cherokee. This farm for beauty,
fertility of soil and convenience, cannot be
surpassed by any in the whole State; is as
well suppb'ed with water as any situation
in the country—there being some ten or
twelve of the finest kind of springs on the
premises, (some two or three of which are
free-stone water,) besides many other ad
vantages too tedious to mention, which
would readily strike the attention of an ob
server.
His other farm is situated some three or
four miles north of the above, containing
Nine Hundred Acres,
about two hundred of which are cleared,
in fine cultivation, and under a good fence.
Buildings only moderate.
Any gentleman desiring rich Land, fine
spring water, a beautiful situation, and -as
healthy a location as can be found South,
would be pleased with this place. There
are also several fine mill seats on bpth of the
above forms, and that convenient to water.
Terms to suit the times.
\V. CLARKS WYLY.
March 4,1852--*£
Thomas Francis Meagher.—Another Noble
Speech.
On Thursday afternoon, in New York,
Thos. F. Meagher, Esq., the Irish exile, ac
companied by Richard O’Gorman, Sen. Rob
ert Emmett, J. B. Dillon, Bart’w O’Conner
and others, was waited upon at the Astor
House, by a committee of the common coun
cil of that city;—when Alderman Oakley
presented him with a certified copy of the
resolutions adopted by both boards of the
common council, and earnestly requested
his acceptance of a public reception into, and
the hospitalities of, the city of New York.—
Mr. Meagher, in reply to this proffered hon
or, delivered the following eloquent address:
Gentlemen:—Had the effort in which I
lost my freedom been successful, the honors
now tendered would not have surprised me.
But it was otherwise. Far from realizing,
it obscured the hopes which accompanied and
inspired it—ending suddenly in discourage*
ment and defeat. This the wide world knows.
This you yourselves must inwardly admit,
though the goodness of your nature will seal
your lips to the admission, being fearful of
the disparagement it would imply. The
gratitude of a people is most bounteous. It
is quick to appreciate, to encourage, to re
ward. Never slow or stinted in the measure
it pours out, its fault is to be too precipitate
and profuse. Estimating merit not by the
severe standard of success, it takes motives
into consideration regardless of the fortune
which attends them, and for whatever sacri
fices they have entailed, awards a great e-
quivalent. In this the gratitude of a peo
ple differs from the gratitude of kings.—
With the latter, success is an essential con
dition of excellence. Pensions, knightly
decorations, orders of nobility, these are
given by kings in exchange only for the
trophies which decorate their halls, or the
acquisitions which widen the surface of their
dominion. Not so with a people, as I have
said. They do not barter and economize
their gifts. Whatever the result, be the
motive upright, be the deed honorable, and
their favors are forthcoming. Moreover, it
sometimes happens that where disaster has
most grievously befallen, there their sympa
thies are most evoked, and their treasures
mostplenteously bestowed. This it is which
explains the proceedings, in my regard, of
the noble city you represent. I have sought
to serve my country, and been anxious to
contribue to her freedom. This I shall not
assume the modesty to deny. Long before
I mingled in the strife of politics, it was my
ambition to be identified with the destiny of
my country—to share her glory, if glory
were decreed her—to share her suffering and
humiliation, if such should be her portion.
For the little I have done and suffered, 1
have had my reward in the penalty assigned
To be the last and humblest name in
M, B. PARROTT,
ATTORNEY AT LAW*
(CAIRSrSIRS'miLI&U (Bfio
Miwfc 11. 5—ly.
GENTLEMEN’S WEAR.
A fine assortment of Cloths, Cassimers,
Tweeds, Drap D’Ete, Silk Warp Cash'
merettc, Lances, Nankeens, fax at
PATTON & TRIMBLE S.
Adairsville, April 14. 1852.
should not consider myself so Unworthy, nor
decline so conclusively to eiyoy. The privi
leges of so eminent a city should be sacred
to those personifying a great and living cause
—a past full of fame, and a future full of
hope—and whoso names are prominent and
imperishable.
It pains me deeply to make this reply, be
ing sensible of the enthusiasm which glows
around me, and the eagerness with which a
public opportunity of meeting me has been
Clacking Women.
BY DOW, JR.
Text i—0! steep my feet in boiling oil,
Or put me on the rack;
But save me while I tarry here,
From yonder woman's clack.
Mv Hearers t—Perhaps we male mor
tals ought not, generally speaking, to brag
much about our faculties for restraining that
awaited. I know it will disappoint a gener- unruly member called the tongue ;—
ous anxiety, but the propriety of the deter
mination I have come to is proved by the in
efficiency even of this consideration to over
come me. I know, too, that as it grieves
me, it will grieve others, and that, perhaps,
the motives that have led to it may be mis
understood, misconstrued, and censured.—
But I am confident that, after a little while,
but I do think that women have no good rea
son to say anything, for if we are incompe
tent, in a certain degree, women most cer
tainly are, in a very uncertain degree.—
Their tongues are reeds shaken by the wind
—splinters upon a chestnut rail, that keep
up a buzzing and jarring so long as there is
a breath to move them. The least breeze of
the public judgment will sanction the act passion that springs up in their bosoms, sets
which a due regard to what I owe my coun- j their mill clacks in operation; and, as for
mm a. am,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CASSVILLE, GEO.
Is engaged in the practice of the Law in
the conn ties of Csss, Floyd, Gordon, Whit-
gdd and Walker, in the Cherokee Circuit,
Mid in Cobh. Cherokee and Gilmer of the
ne Ridge Circuit.
attention yrieen to the notlectimj
[May 6, 1852.
it. O’JBARR * BON.
R ESPECTFULLY announce that they
will faithfully attend to any business
in the Carpentering Line, that may be en
trusted to their ca.e. Address Ft. O’Barr,
Some, Geo.; or T. L. O’Barr, Cassville, Ga.
May SO, 1852,
A. Me BRADY,
{White BoU Street,) ATLANTA, Geo.
D EALER in Hardware, Carriage Trim
mingy Mechanics and Fanners’ Tools,
Ac. [April 15.
the litany which contains the names of Em'
mett and Fitzgerald—names which waken
notes of heroism in the coldest heart, and
stir to lofty purposes the most sluggish mind
—is an honor which compensates me fully
for the privations which I have endured.—
Any recompense of a more joyous nature, it
would ill-become me to receive.
Whilst my country remains in sorrow and
subjection, it would be indelicate of me to
participate in the festivities yon propose.—
When die lifts her head and nerves her arm
for a bolder struggle—when she goes forth
like Miriam, with song and timbril to cele
brate her victory—I, too, shall lift up my
head, and join in the hymn of freedom. Till
then, the retirement I seek will best accord
with the love I bear her, and the sadness
which her present fate inspires. Nor do I
forget the companions of my exile. My
heart is with them at this hour, and shares
the solithde in which they dwell. The free
dom that has been restored tome is embitter
ed by the recollection of their captivity.—
While they are in prison shadow rests upon
my spirit, and the thoughts that might oth
erwise be free, throb heavily within me.—
It is painful for mo spunk I should feel
happy in being permitted to be silent. For
these reaoos, yon will not feel displaced
with me for declining the honors yen solicit
me to accept. Did I esteem them leas- I
try, my companions and myself, seriously
dictates. Yet, so far as your invitation re
cognizes the fidelity with which I adhered,
and still adhere, to a good and glorious
cause, be assured that it has not been exag
erated or misplaced.
The feelings and convictions which influ
enced my career in Ireland, have undergone
no change. Still, as ever, I perceive within
my country the faculties that fit her for a
useful and honorable position ; and believing
that they require only to be set in motion to
prove successful!, I still would prompt her
to put them forth. Besides there is within
me a pride that cannot be subdued—there
is within me an ambition that cannot be ap-
I desire to have a country which
shall work out a fortune of her own, and
depend no longer for subsistance on the char-
ty of other nations. I desire to have a
country which I can point to with exulta
tion—whose prosperity shall he my life—
whose glory shall be my guerdon. I desire
to have a country which shall occupy a be
neficent position in the world, and by her
industry, intellect, integrity and courage,
shall contribute, in community with all free
nations, to the common happiness and grand
eur of humanity.
Hopes may have darkened, but the desti
ny to which I would see my country lifted,
is before me still—a height, like that of Tha-
bor, crowned with an eternal sun. It is a
bold ambition, but in this fine country I
could have none other. The moment we set
our foot upon her shore, we behold the off
spring of Freedom—the energy, the thrift,
the opulence to which she has given birth—
and, at a glance, we comprehend her fruit
fulness, utility and splendor. We behold
the wonders she has wrought—the deformed
transformed, the crippled Colony springing
into the robust proportions of an Empire
which Alexander might well have sighed to
conquer—the adventurous spirit of her sons
compensating by its rapidity, in little more
than half a century, for the thousands of
years in which the fond lay still in the shad
ow of the ancient forests—we behold all
this, and the worship of our youth becomes
more profound. To this land I came, as
an outcast, to seek an honorable home—
as an outlaw, to claim the protection of a
flag that is inviolable.
By one of the wisest and mildest of the
ancient legislators it was decreed, that all
those who were driven forever from their
own country, should be admitted into the
citizenship of Athens. On the same ground,
in virtue of the sentence of perpetual ban
ishment which excludes me from my native
fond, I sought a quiet sanctuary in the
home of Washington To no other land
could the heart which has felt the rude hand
of tyranny so confidently turn for a serene
repose. Long may she prosper—continuing
faithful to the inheritance left her by the
father of the republic. Long may she pros
per—gathering into the bosom of her great
family the children of all nations—adding
to her territory, not by the sword of the
soldier or the subtlety of the statesman, but
by the diffusion of her principles, and the
the consonance of her simple laws and in
stitutions with the good sense and purer as
pirations of mankind. Long may she pros
per each year adding to her stock of pros
perity and dignity, and wisdom, and high
above her countless fleets and cities, even to
the last generation, may the monument of
her liberty be descried. In the darkest
storm which shakes the thrones and dinasties
of the old world, may it stand unscathed !—
In the darkest night which falls upon the
arms of a struggling people, may it shine
forth like the cross in the wilderness, and
he to them an emblem of hope and signal of
salvation.
The Common Council seemed entirely tak
en by surprise during the delivery of this
address, though they could not but admire
the honorable and friendly motives which
prompted him to decline the flattering tes
timonial while his brothers in persecution
were still wearing out their time in the Pe
nal Colonies. While alluding to the suffer
ings experienced by these gentlemen, Mr.
Meagher was deeply affected, and many of
the audience were unable to control their
feelings.
The Baltimore and Pennsylvania delega
tions were present daring a portion of the
reply. _
stopping them, yon might as well fire a pop
gun against thunder, or blow a hand-bel
lows against a hurricane.
They will talk, like a poll-parrot, merely
for the sake of the noise, and (giving them
credit for no evil intention) they persevere
in jabbering, without once reflecting that,
what was music to them may be murder to
others. Oh! woman, woman! wherefore art
thou gifted with such gigantic powers of
gab! Thou wouldst have been an angel,
hadst thou an angel's whisper.
My hearers, I have been speaking of wo
men as a whole. As regards their noisy lo
quaciousness, there are many beautiful ex
ceptions. I know some whose words have
fine fur, instead of dog hair, upon them—
whose tones arc as soft and musical as the
mild breathings of the ieolian harp—to
whom it is soothing to listen, and whose so
ciety is as sunshine to the storm-beaten flow
er. But, oh ! make my bed under a tin roof
during a night of incessant hail; place for
ty tom-cats at my window, all in <full feath
er,’ (fur, I should have said,) for a tow;
bid me deliver an impressive discourse in a
grist-mill, soak my corns in a boiling solu
tion of potash; bore my ears with a two-
inch auger, or a Congressional speech upon
the tariff; grate loaf sugar by my side while
I am preparing a sermon on Sunday; put
me on the rack if yon choose—do what you
like, if you will only save me from the ever
lasting clack of that woman, whose mildest
tones are enough to harrow up a man’s soul,
[Shakspeare!] freeze his warm blood, and
make each particular hair—whisker, mus
tache, and imperial included—to stand on
end like bristles upon the back of a pup-
worried male pig.
My hearers, I am afraid that if I say
much more of the gentler sex, my soul, next
week, will be as full of regrets as an old
cot is of bed bugs in August; nevertheless,
I am bound to preach the truth to-day al
though the devil may tell me to-morrow I
ought to be ashamed for so doing. But,
when you see my nose projecting from this
old pulpit, know ye that I care not for
the fear of man, the favor of women, nor
the scoffs of Satan. I let out the truth, link
by link, and if I am thought to libel my
brother man or my sister woman, let heav
en be my judge—the twelve apostles, now
above, constitute a jury—and I’ll except of
anything for counsel other than a New York
lawyer—I can’t go that. In sooth, there is
no use in trying to lessen the noise of a talk
ative woman's tongue by applying the oil of
praise; for the more you grease it by flat
tery, the faster and louder it runs. Say not
a word; put putty in your ears, and it may
tire itself out.
Nature made man the strongest;
But woman’s tongue the longest;
Now, in conclusion, my dear brethren, if
you will but count up your errors, and add
to the sum total all your actual faults,
you will find that the account is to be given
to the credit of the femenine gender. Bear
and forbear, overlook trifles, forgive all er
rors on the part of the last and loveliest of
God’s works, and say as I do; Woman, with
all thy faults, I love thee still. So mote it
be!
Sunday Sports in Blew Orleans.
We gave recently an account of a Bull
and Bear fight, which came off on Sunday,
near New Orleans. The Crescent of Mon
day last gives an account of the sports of the
day previous (Sunday) on the Louisiana
course. The entertainments commenced with
a horse-race, two mile heats, for a purse of
$400. The next entertainment was a foot
race, for $25, which was won by Jemmy
Owen, in two stright heats. The next was
a contest for a silver goblet, to be decided
by elimbing a greased pole thirty feet high.
Several unsuccessful attempts were made to
climb the pole. The Crescent says:
The day’s entertainments concluded with
the pig business—thus: A hog was turned
loose, and whoever succeeded in catching
About one hundred enterprising individu
als entered the list against the unpromising
looking swine. At the tap of the drum, the
crowd raised a yell and made after the ..var
mint,’’ which in his turn trotted off at a
.. two-forty” lick, shaking at them his apol
ogy for a tail, and going it with a rash.—
He fooled every body ; no one thought he
had a ran in his leata and shadowy carcass.
The party finally got around the animal,
and sundry grabs were made at his abrevi-
ated continuation, hut being plentifully
greased, it slipped through their fingers like
an eel. The pig now took to the open ground
in the middle of the Course. The rabble
followed at a wide gap, and after running
half a mile, headed off the brute, and hus
tled him along to near the main stand.—
Here a reinforcement went in for the fun,
and the quadruped was hemmed in on all
sides. He fought bravely, and spun about
like a top, but he was beset fore and aft.
An enterprising Hibernian finally grab
bled him fly the spinal continuation, and
held on to him like wax. The Porker ker-
flummuxed, and was brought amidst the
cheers of the crowd to the front of the main
stand, where the judges announced him van
quished, and awarded the prize to the con
queror, who declared himself as .< Thomas
Ryan, the wild Irish boy of Tipperary!” So
ended the day’s sport.
The same paper contains the following an'
nouncement;—« Next Sunday gander pul
ling and donkey racing.”
Washingtons Charmed Life.
Of eighty-six officers, twenty-six were
killed, (in Braddock’s action,) among them
Sir Peter Halket, and thirty-seven were
wounded, including Gage and other field of
ficers. Of the men, one half were killed or
wounded. Braddock braved every danger.
His secretary was shot dead. Both his Eng
lish aids were disabled early in the engage
ment, leaving the American alone to distrib
ute his orders. «. I expected every moment,”
said one whose eye was on Washington, ..to
see him fall.” Nothing but the superinten
ding care of Providence could have saved
him. An Indian chief—I suppose a Shaw
nee—singled him out with his rifle, and bade
others of his officers do the same. Two
horses were killed under him; four balls
penetrated his coat. .. Some potent Mani-
tou guards him,” exclaimed the savage —
« Death,” wrote Washington, <• was levelling
my companions on every side of me; bnt,
by the all-wise dispensation of Providence,
I have been protected.” ..To the public,” said
Davis, a learned dirine, in the following
month,.. I point out that heroic youth, Col.
Washington, whom I cannot but hope Prov
idence has preserved in so signal a manner
for some important service to his country.”
.. Who is Mr. Washington?” asked Lord Hal
ifax, a few months later. .. I know noth-
of him,” he added. .. They say he behaved
in Braddock’s action as bravely as if he re
ally loved the whistling of the bullets.’*—-
Bancroft's American Revolution,
A'Case or Conscience.—In a certain
Ladies Moral Reform Society, existing not
many miles from the banks of a certain riv
er, the members were required to sign a
pledge not to . set up,’ as it is termed, or do
anything else that might be supposed to
have a tendency, however remote, to immor
ality. One evening as the President was
calling over the names, to know whether
each member had kept her obligation, a
beautiful and highly respectable young la
dy burst into tears, and on being questioned
as to the cause, said she feared she had bro
ken the pledge.
Why, what have you done? asked the
President.
Oh ! sobbed the young lady, Dr. kiss
ed me the other night when he waited on
me home from meeting,
Oh, well, that is nothing very bad, said
the President; his kissing docs not make it
that you have broken the pledge.
Oh, that isn’t the worst of it, exclaimed
the conscicncious young lady, I kissed him
back again t
A Love Tragedy.—A young farm labor
er, named Diory, of Fressancourt, depart
ment of the Aisne, France, and a servant
girl, named Celestine Falour, long enter
tained a violent passion for each other, but
the parents of the latter resolved to prevent
their union. This plunged the loving couple
into despair, and they resolved to die. The
man, accordingly, a few weeks ago, procured
a double-barrelled gun, which he heavily
loaded. He and the girl then went to the
cemetery at some distance from the village.
She placed one of the muzzles in her mouth,
touched the trigger with her foot, and fell
dead The man then seized the gun, and by
means of a string, which he had previously
attached, discharged it and he, too fell dead,
with his skull shattered to pieces.
A Model Dun.—The Eastport Miss. Un
Chineten of Gratia.
Tasso’s conversation was neither gay nor
brilliant.
Dante was either taciturn or satirical.
Butler was silent or biting.
Gray seldom talked or smiled.
Hogarth and Swift were very xbeent-mind-
edin company.
Milton was unsociable, and tttdlt iXtitsMa
when pressed into conversation.
Kirwan, though copious and eloquent ft*
public addresses, was meagre *3*1 dull in
colloquial discourse.
Virgil was heavy in conversation.
La Fontaine appeared heavy, course rid
stupid; he could not speak and discribe What
he had just seen, bnt then he was die model
of poetry.
Chaucer’s silence was more agreeable than
his conversation.
Dryden’s conversation Was slow and dull,
his hnmor statumine and reserved.
Descartes was silent in mixed campany.
Corneille in conversation was ao insipid
that he never failed in wearying. Ha did
not even speak correctly that language of
which he was such a master.
Ben. Johnson Used to sit silent in company
and suck his wines and their humors.
Southey was stiff, sedate, and wrapped up
in asceticism.
Addison was good company With his inti
mate friends, but in mixed company he pre
served his dignity by a stiff and reserved si
lence.
Junius Was so modest that he could scar
cely apeak upon the tooet common subject
without a suffusion of blushes.
Fox in conversation never flagged ; his an
imation and variety were inexhaustible.
Dr. Bently Was loquacious.
Grotius was talkative.
Goldsmith wrote like an angel, and talked
like poor Poll,
Burke Was eminently entertaining enthu
siastic, and interesting in conversation.
Curran was a convivial deity; he soared
into every region and was at home in all.
Dr. Rich dreaded a pen as he did a torpe
do ; bat he sordid talk like running water.
.. the fire is going ottt, Miss Filkins.”
«I know it, Mr. Green; and if you would
act wisely you would follow its example.
It's unnecessary to add that Green never
« axed” to set up with that gal again.
jjar* «* Mr. Dobson, you said you though?
the defendant Was slightly inebriated; what
made you think so ?”
« Because he persisted in wearing the knot
of his neck tie under his ear and would have
it that the brick house at the corner was
trying to jump on hie hat.”
The court allowed that Simpson had par
taken of stimulants.
. Joe, what makes your nose so red r
■ Friendship.”
■ Friendship! how do you make that
out ?”
«,I’ve got a friend Who is very fond of
brandy, and he’a too weak to take it strong,
and I’ve constituted myself hie taster.”
A Human Monster.—A late Paris let
ter in the Baltimore Sun says i
Politics have been for a moment forgotten
the sensation caused by the terrible con
fession of an assassin—a monster under
whose hands four women have perished with
in less than a month. His name is Prade-
anx, an artificial flower maker, 32 years
old. On the 7th of April, he murdered a
man in the Rue des Sevres, and stole 600
francs; on the 22d April he murdered a
woman in the Rue VanneaU: ott the 30th
April he mnrdered a second woman in tha
Rue des Bourguignoris; on the 1st May ha
attempted to murder another woman in tha
Rue des Sevres. In committing this assas
sination he was arrested. The most dramat
ic incident is that he was about marrying a
young artificial flower maker the day of his
arrest, and of his last murder. When tha
gendarmes went to his house they found car
riages before the door, and bride and guests
within waiting the appearance of the bride
groom. The bride had on her neek and head
several jewels, which her betrothed had sto
len from his murdered victims!
Melancholy End or a Romance.—A
letter to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, dated
May 27th, gives a narrative of an ill-aasor-
ted marriage, as follows t
In 1839, and 1840, Catlin, the painter,
hibited a number of Indians in London, a-
mong whom was Cadotte, an interpreter.
Sarah Haynes, then a beautiful English girl
of sixteen, became enamored of Cadotte, and
they were married On reaching America,
the romance of love was over; for two or
three years they resided on the banks of the
river St. Clair, on the little property the
bride was possesed of; and since that at the
and holding him fast by the tail, was to ■ ion thus talks to bis subscribers who have |'g au it > vrhere she taught French and music,
Napoleon used to say, * Strange as it may
appear, when I want any good head work
done, I choose a man, provided his education
has been suitable, with a long none. His
breathing is free and bold: his brain, as well
as heart, cool and dear. In my obnerva-
tion of men, I have almost invariably found
n long sees and a bead together.
claim him as the prize of valor. In due
time the quadruped was trotted out, his
trainer pulling him back by the tail to make
him go forward. He came into the ring with
a perfect looseness! It was a regular swamp
swine, of the breed called << gutter snipe,”
so lean that the buzzards wouldn’t peck at
him, and to all appearances weak enough to
have to lean against a fence to grunt. In
Yankee land they have to aoak the same
kind of hog to make than hold swill!
He was turned loose, and immediately
commenced reoonaoitering the enemy. The
crowd had time to contemplate him in his
aspects. His bristles stuck up like the back
bones of s herring, and bis general appear
ance was lilts a shad taken to dry land.
got the slow fever, in money matters
<4 Wagons cannot run without wheels—
boats without steam—bull-frogs jump with
out legs, ar a newspaper be carried on. on
everlasting time, no more than a dog can
wag his tail when he has none. Our subscri-
to the time of her decease. She retained her
beauty to the last although exposed to many
hardships by living in a birch bark lodge
with an Indian husband. She died in her
28th year, fortunately leaving no children
bers arc all good, but what good does a
man's goodness do when it don’t do you any
good ? We have no doubt every -(me thinks
that all have paid except him, and as we
are a clever fellow, and his is a little
matter, it will make no difference. It would
not, if it were only confined to a dozen or a
hundred cases, but when the slow fever
seizes most all, the complaint is altogether
too general. As the bull frog said, ‘ its fun
for you, but it is death to us.”
i mourn the sad effects of an infatuated
matrimonial match.
On the 3d inst, three fugitive slaves
on their way from Kentucky to Canada,
were arrested by Sheriff Whitman, at De
troit, and lodged in jail- Tbs Sheriff made
the arrest by order Of a telegraphic dis
patch from Toledo.
Mmdssme Bishop is said to have netted,
. liar arrival from Europe, $1000,000,
includie* her tripe to Havana and Mexico.
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