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* « (I, L lUTMOKTi. 5*. ,mt; *• walked bom^T& ronab lhtrtm. W{ but I bought Ml ray •r£xa^.rsssi- . ** Thw »UD* art* ilnn tutting r tljwi «axla« buck »nfi loiurlt>7 mod, _A l <**• T 1 * ■ ,4 'l> **oJdrr; • nd 1 •!*«♦<* *»*« niwrn Jiut over uiy ngt,f a tint infer. I tinted abotil, and bade brr look- *• TO 5 01 •"prratuiona- w • Joked about that alilalofl look. Uriah! bait, and ak «,K„V jjj°k*d».hot, oh | I thought with rrao, i right 1 And Uka tha r And laaro III. f*Vi.r« n Unman a „ ''J** 1 tifokan mot,.. ‘ h boraa bright how-, t '* If hi ahn and lonitly. n moona," 1 told bar l - *>rlfht how-, too, aaah moon, Wlian otw my Hf hi ahonldfr. M AlMl to trnat la aaoh oaw light, A man ware nwonutruok auraly. A l®"?* 1 /'latifhad on (right; And than walkad onifeonirHy. * B 2 , _* ■ p, * Nl ' n,oon b'wlda. _ Tha old round out tha naw own ;*Mrbt, " Would ho)>a fulfill,,I ■i>l<fe, Bjilia avary change, Whal would aha aayf And took bar band u "Ah, lor* I” aha nlghM, aho aay f M —I aakad li LAFATErrK'S WATCII. nma- llai lcTrnrWIiiK r Malt a Cant Mr r. Waahlufftou Oor, V. V. oiobr. Many men hive tho foible of running flrecl li enn lo rarth. Homo aro Jiihaoc onpoataffo Ntacopa, Homo go for ol.l , Qeorgo flelwyo wiw not liaiinv 18)«aa ko wilnoaaod overy oieouUon tliat took plaoo. Your oorroopondont , ii foil ing la to play imatour iloUwllvo. In oonaoooonoo I bavo to rolalo tbo aiugti- lar aovontnroo -thick follow, all of whlok fbarring aomo fow okangoa of “£• n»'«t loaallt,) » r0 alrlotlj tnVo. lHtkJono laat, my voiigr- laiW . d, i P no r < "'p Of Muaaokn »tU. tatrodnood nlo tbo konao of rep- rawnUtirca a joint roaolnllon fnuonl- 4h« »PI*>P r lallng KHHI for }i'®,r r 5 h “° roaloratloo lo Uio t '* M * r 1 nl " <<« la-fa.rotto of tto watoh proaonloil to bim l.y Oonoral Waaklngton. and loot by Oonoral I. if ay- •tto during Ida laat rialtto tklaoounlry. In oonneotion with tbo roaolnllon waa a atatomenl that tbo watoh waa in ponnoe- aion of John It. Ward, Ban., of Triad, who had purchased it four years ago at * pawnbroker a aalo in Lnuisvillo for theaurnof $75 It bears tho inner Ip. tion, O Washington to Gilbert Mot- tiara do Lafayette, Lord Cornwallis’ S5£. J. *orkiown, October, J7, 1781. Tbo watoh ia of tbo shape known a* bull a eye,” wliiob was tbo fashion* •bio ono at that period, and in heavily double*cased with gold of high purity*. Tha exterior id ornamented with oliuisin derioc*. in high relief; an armed and 1) el motetl warrior presents a crown to a throned fomalo. The watch bears tho I'™"*** roftkr,r * “ E * Halifax, Lon don, 1700. “ According to the state ment of General lingers, of Tennessee, who waa oommnudor of tho body guard of General Lafnyotto during his visit to Nashville in 1B28, this watch wnsnlolon from its owne r at that tlmo and its fate waa unknown, although a large reward waa offered for ita roturu, until it turned up in tho way above described." This statement was vouched for by Gongress- msu Horace Maynard as being bistort* colly true ; tbo gcnuiuenoaa of tbo relic waa vouched for by treasury experts, tho only doubt being created by the i n . oorrrot spelling of Lafayette's pntro- nymie " Motior"—doubt qniokly dis pelled by Mom. O. P. Hoar and Gar Hold, who said that Washington's ortho graphy waa none of the best, and that even Ben. Franklin used to spoil soap “•opo." I no sooner read the aooonnt of this in the Congressional Record t han I was aeleed with an irrosistiblo desire to dis cover tha history of tlie watoh from the timo it was stolen, fully persuaded that qntto a roronnoo awaited me. After the adjournment of congress I proceeded to aoooompHah my purposo, Tho first thing to do was to got temporary pos session cf tho watch, which was in the oustody of tho state department. I found that it wonld require mo to get through moro rod tape than I could nn tangle in a year to roach it by regular approkohea; and, ns I only wanted it for a week, 4 determined to out the Gordian knot. But it is a secret loo dead to reveal oven to tho world how, by au ingenious combination of Imgger mugger, "influence," and trick, I at last found tho venerable jewel in mv bands. Venerablo, indeed ! It hail rested in O. W.’s fob, ovor bin epigas trium, In t hose sulphur-colored brooches with all liis beloved seals dangling be low it. It bad been preserved by La* fayotto through all the trials and perils of the Freuoli revolution. Even lhe jailers of Olmntr. had aparod It—to he oabbaged at lost bv a vulgar Nashville thief! But waa it taken by any vulgar thief? I was determined to aoitlo that question at onoo. But how? Tennessee had risen in 1825 in pursuit of the saorilegioua thief ami failed to natch him. Howards had been lavishly offered—all in rain. What could au amateur detective do fifty years later? It was easy to flud John B. Ward. Esq of Texas ; and through him, tbo Tjouis- ville pawnbroker; but bow much nearer would that bring me to the thief of two generations buck ? Not n atop. 1 knew an old German witard in Baltimore with a remarkably happy knack of revealing the hiding-places of stolen goods for n consideration. But here the goods were in hand, and it was tbo thief 1 wanted ; and it is part of the business of Undent* of stolen goods to'give immunity to thieves— an>» share tbo swag with them. In short, tbo bnsinesn three indicated (but vory faintly) a slender faculty of thought-reading, by aocming to anticipate in ontlinosomn of my own haay conjectures in regard to the theft, lint, beyond theso things, and an oraonlar solemnity and infinity of assurance common to all tho trade, nono of them wont: and. after full trial, I gave tip tho medium business in dis gust. returned tbo watoh to t!)0 depart ment, and sought another way of on- tranoo into the aoorot. I wrote to Mr. John R. Ward, of Texas, for information in regard to the pawnbroker at whose aalo ho had bought the relie, and, pending tbo receipt of tills, paid a brief visit to Nashville, and examined tbo reoords, nownpaper files, etc., contemporary with tho event. I found a good many of the circumstances sot forth in the proclamation of tho mayor of Nanhville. offering a reward for tho rooovory of the watch. G.*n. Rogers, who oommanded the body guard during tbo stay of tbo marquis, was long dead, bat I looked into tbo reoords to asoertain if there were not so.xo survivois still of tbo rauk and file. Tho watch had boon stolen from Lafayette’s room at the United Htates hotel at night, Tbo marquis hail re turned from a visit to tho Hcrmitago to attend a ball and renentinn given him bv I bo oitieeus of Nashville, Late at night ho had gone to bod, vory sleepy and fatigued. His valot, Pouobon, who undrosaed him, remembered distinctly winding tho watch up and placing it in a oaso inside the lid of one of tho* mar- |tiis trnnka. In tbo morning, or rather about n(Min, when tho marquis ro«o. the watch wan gone. Ono window of the room was partly open, anil it was c Jeotnred that tho thief, who had hi secreted either under tbo bod or in a closet, had osoapod by that way. II seemed certain that ho could not have gone out by tbo oorrl ’or, for, besides the foot that tho valet, Pottohon, slept in the anto-room, thoro was a company of tho guard of honor on duty at the hotel that night and a platoon watching the door of tho tnarquin' bodroorn all night to protect him from nil inti union. A Nashville paper of the mxt day, speaking of the oiroumatanooa, nays : Of course, when it ia known that company of tho gunrd on duty last night is composed of our first oitir.e men of birth, fortune, ami honor, suspicion can possibly Attach to them, 1 wo flies of the oompnny were on guard all night in room 79, opposite tbo state bod roorn, with their door open. Tin worn never less than three of these gi tleinnn doing sentiv duty at any tit “jrljjf Hio night. We give tho names of all of them, in Justine to tho entire guard of honor, against whoso integrity thoro liavo boon some ridiculous whis pers. But theso must Ikj instantly dis pelled when wo soy that these two flies of men, who alone oould hove had ooss to our venerated guest's room, that night consisted of Col. Marlin Killin ger, tho well-known Btone river planter, who was sergeant on duty; Benjamin Flornoy, Esq,, of the Columbia bar, corporal of the guard ; Rnfns Garland, of Ht, Mark's (Jimroll • Peter Maynard (of River street), Hon. Phillip Sargent, Judge Chandler, Chester H. Clarke, AqnTIla Flint. Hpatohford Davis. Abner Y. Orutohfiold, Joseph Moutunnri, Bush rod Kennedy, Johannes Klein, John Horn, jr., and Hynointho La Grosso, privates. Huoh gentlemen are worthy to ho a guard of honor oyon for tho von- rrablo Miuquis do Lafayette, wlio, wi» may soy incidentally, regrots as tnwoli tho disgrace of Nashville ns the loss of his treasured keepsake." Of tlie fifteen persons enumerated, I found thoro was not a single survivor, and, though I heard a good many in teresting aneodotes concerning nil of them. 1 oould learn nothing (hat would justify mo in directing particular in quires into tho history of any thorn, Mr. Ward, of Texas, oourtoou sworing my letter, anld ho oor tell me tho pawnbroker's name from ivluwo effects ho had bought tho watch ; but tho auctioneers who ooudnotod the sale were Benjamin W. Reynolds. Coo- ley k Go., from whom I oould doubtless obtain all tbo information neeesaary. I posted at onoo to Yjouisville, ami saw Messrs. Reynolds. They informed me that tho sale tn qucation hail been made by order of Isaac B tamp fly, a pawn broker of Momiihis, to whom fbov gave me a lotter. I went to Memphis and sawntampflv, a Swiss Jew, with a shrewd hut honest face. Ho ohji-otod at. first to giving me any information, fearing It might make oomplleations aud trouble, but, when I explained my motives and pressed him, said lie remembered tlie transaction puifeotly woll, amt corro borated it by taking down an old ledger aud opening to a partieular page, where bn showed mo the following entry : “Juno 18, 1808,—Miss Matilda Gar land, of Jackson, Madison oounty, do- |W8ita a watch (here follows a dsHorip- tion, ota, of the relic); $35 lent her on it for six months. Memorandum—As there are suspicious circumstances here she gives me Rev. Mark Tweedy, 1>. I)., and Major Bigleo as hor reforenoen I Teaches school iu Jackson, aud want vory little more than pay onr house-rent. Wo sold off onr books and furniture piooo by piooe, and I assure you wo wero ns poor an pw pi© oould woll bo, to live. At last, in 1808, wo liAd nothing left bosidca tho school room furniture, two ohairs, ono bed, and that secretary there, which mamma would not part with booms© it was papa's and bad been grandpa's. “ At laat, when wo wore half starved, I persuaded hor to soli tho secrotary. too, and I waa cleaning out tho old papers from tho drawers, and brushing tho dust and oobwebs out preparatory to sending it to tbo auction room, when this little soring hero," (sho had gone to tho dusk to show me) “flow back, thns opening this drawer and disclosing tho old watch snugly nestled away iijKin tho ootton ! I pounced upon ft as a treasure sent from heaven, and next day took it to Memphis and pawned it to old Htampfly. The money gave ns a little start, the school improved, aomo money oamo in from other souroes, and wo got along very well afterwards, until Paul hero carao after mo and insisted that I was not intended for a teacher. An ogrogiona insult I" “ But how did your grandfather oome by tho watch, do you suppose?" I asked. “ Was there nothing with it to show ?" “ Nothing I Till yon told mo the • note just now, I always imaginod*it was a present. But bo sure thoro is nothing criminal in grandpa’s oonnootion with “ It i« possible," said Mr. Do Ijong, “that Mr. Garland may have intended to explain. Ho died very suddenly, of an apoplexy." “ Maybe bo did explain, and con cealed liis statement, just as ho did the watoh,” I said. “ No." answered Mrs. Do Long, “after I found tho watch I senrohed closely for other secret drawers. Thorn aro none." “ Let rno examine tbo secretary," I suggtsted ; and I carefully and syste matically inspected tho antiquated piece of furniture. Almost immediately I called attention to tho fact thnt tho socrot drawer, in which tho wulnli had been concealed, had a false bottom, and this being easily removed, wo found within a draft for £150 on a London banking-house drawn in favor of Ilufus Garland and—the bis tory’of tbo stolen watch in Itev. Dr. Gar land’s handwriting: “ Nahiivxlt.b, Deo. 18, 1840.—This linn been a vory sad day to me. This forenoon came to me my old friend and comrade, Benjamin Plnmoy. of Colum bia, in great, distress of mind, and asked me to look tbo doors and bear him make a disgraceful confession. Then be laid before my nstoninhed eyes the long missing watch of Lafayette, the loss of which oausod such exoitomont. ' I stole It/ ho said : 4 1 stole it, Rufus and hid his face from me, and wept soalding tears. Presently, when I had comforted him, and ho grew more oalm, he said : 4 The dootor tolls mo I hnvn not long to live ; my heart is diseased. I desire you te make restitution for mo. Hero in all tho money neodod—tuko the so- cursed wedge of Aohan from iny sight —it Iiah tortured my whole life—restore it to tho heirs—without exposing have hod misery enough.’ And ho bowed bln white head—that bead honored—and wept. 4 How did this happen, Benjamin ?’ I asked. Maid ho: 4 That night, you remember, we wero nil upon gunrd. You and tho rest asleep, but Hpatoh Davis, L» guard for a spell again now V" I asked. Htampfly wout to bis desk and found a card. “ Hero sho iH ; 'Mrs. Paul Do Long, Grenada, Miss.’ Hho waa here not three months since on a bridal tour. Como to redeem the watch. Was much distressed that it was sold. Asked me to hunt it up, ami left that address in ease I should make any discoveries concerning it." I took the ours to Grenada, and had uo trouble in flmllog Do Long, a young and enterprising merchant. I obtained very oom- J Rn introduction to bim and asked bim, plicated, yet, an I promised to deal with !' 1h ? m,r wif « not a daughter of the it, as pimple as oould be. In short, 1 | Bov. Rufus Garland, who was rector of was persuaded that by resorting to the 1 Mark's church in Nashville about processes of modern thnumaturgv, i • tho year 1825?" • 4 No," said ho ; "she oould easily make n dark way plain. | » graud-dsughter." "Have you anv Omne fanotum pro mtryien. I had ; objections tn my asking her a few ques*- nover dealt in person with olairvovnnts. i Bona?" "None in tho world," ho said tbo spiritistn, the mediums, but 1 bad I had explained briefly mv object’ read much of their wonders, and I wan ' “and 1 do not doubt but mv wife will prepared to believe that all I had to do ! *>o glad to assist you iu anv way Uwt in wsa to oonsult a genuine ola’rvoyant | h* her power," medium in a state of ©entasis to get a 1 found Mrs. Do Long u very charm- dear and graphic retrovision over all ' "iR lady, with n handsome faoe and the evonte whfoli I waa stroking te bring winning manners, frank, ingenuous tonight, It was for this end th:.t 1 1 pleasing. As soon as t began to sneak obtained temporary posseMion «f the the watoli she burst out: "Oh, have w ^ ... ton found it ? I should so like to got it HOW began a bootless perquisition I back again 1 I have heard recently that among the 44 teat” mod (tuna, aa they call grandpa waa one of Lafayette's body themselves, probably on the principle j guard, and probably he gave it to him. of htcu4 a non tuomrto, because they R bihuus like sacrilege to part with snob will not bear testing. Mr. Gregory, iii « relio, but we were no poor I oould not his credulous book on "Animal Hague- think so; and then the uisoovei v seemed tism,” relates that a ring was given to *o providential." I gave her hu account one Alexis, a medium of this sort, when I of the rroent adventure of the watoh he at onoe identified it as having be- aud added, "but probably von were longed to Mary Queen of Boot* (whose j not swan* that it was stolen*from La- Watery the medium won totally ignorant fa.rettc ?" 44 Stolen 1" sho cried, turning of), and os having been given to Riezio, pula «*t the thought; "but how then did whose murder was graphically describ- it oome into grandpa's posaession—aud ed. This was precisely the sort of me- why did be retaiu it ?" " That remaiua dium I was iu search of, but have not to be cxplaiued," said I, rather gravel v fal fnniwl Tltla n-.a ma) /...I, ' .....I T ...» ) — It... • .. * * Grosso and I f two hours. We had all boon drink ing heavily—poor Hpatoh and Hyacinth** fell asleep on their post, and Iho devil was in me. I wanted something that liolonged to the marquis. I slolo into his room, past old I’otiohon, who was altering. H j tired and worn out the old nmrquiH looked I I opened the trunk, seeking a ribbon, a handkorohlof, or the like. The first thing I saw was tlx* wa'cli, and without thinking, I put it in m.Y pocket, raised tho window gently, nml crept like a thief as I was from tlx* room. As 1 crossed the threshold I heard tho old nmrquiH call out in his sleep : 4 Arretez vows, monsieur I No blesse oblige !' Htung to the quick I turned lmok to restore tho watch, but just then Pouobon roused, and I escap ed. I have never known a Imppy min ute since.' My poor friend ! I Oould look in his haggard fooo, and believe him. I told him, however, that 1 could iiBeut to deal with this matter in lentine way. There need bo no imhlioity about it, bet iu oommuniivit- ing with the marquis’ boirs I mu d give his name and tlx* circumstances. 1I« il and begged mo to defer the disclosure until after his death. 4 It will nut be long,’ he said, pathot- ioally. To this 1 assented, and so lx* left, after 1 Imd earnestly enjoined him k comfort and peace of mind by prostrating himself at tbo foot of that throno where mercy, peace, oom fort are refused to tho contrite and bum ble petitioner. I have drawn this state- up only as a guide for my heirs in if my death happening boforo that | of Flurnoy's." | “ Dootor Garland died just ono week boforo Major Flurnoy," said Mr. Do Long, "and that explains all tee oonfu- siou al>ont this matter." Mrs. DeLong snul nothing, but wept sympathetically. “This dead draft must bo transmitted to Major Flurnoy's heirs," added Do Long. How to Keep Snoot Potatoes. Many people who have no potatoes during tlx* winter, would have them if they only knew how to keep them. They have tried and failed, become disgtv ted and abandoned the effort. A successful potato-raiser and potato-keeper gave us the following plan tho other day. It is simple, inexpensive and, ho save, effec tual : Dig early in tlie morning and cont inue until as many have been ting as can be put away before night. Allow them to dry iu the sun during the day. provided the sun is not hot enough to burn them, which very rarely is the ease at potato digging time ; than, on a piece of ground so high thnt it will not become wot dur ing the wiuter, lny a thick coat of pine or other dry straw and build a bank of fifty or sixty bushels. Cover the bank with seven or eight inches of straw aud 'at" for two or tlyo ROYAL WRITlffOM. Documentary’ Tribute* from Historical 44 Olivia" writes to tho Philadelphia Pr* as from Washington : 44 Tho awful arohives of tho government, which have been banded down from the days of Louis XVL te the present republican dynjuity, aro being carefully laid out in boxes aud bagH prior to their romoval te tho grand mausoleum prepared for thorn by the groat architect Mullett, of publio building fafoe. A royal dust ascends from tbo crumbling manuscripts npon which kings, princes, and poten tates have stamped tlioir haughty seals. On a long, broad sheet of paper, tho color of a dhty meerschaum, the ill- fated husband of Mario Antoinette sign ed bis naroo in a bold, ronnd, school boy hand. Very procions to tho Amori- can heart is this fast crnmbling bit of nilkon tissue. Not because a royal band has pressed it. It came to tho bare footed boys of Volley Forgo, the first of tbo great powers of the earth to recog nize tbo ragged regimonta of the wilder ness, accredit ing tho first foreign m nis- tor te tho rennblic struggling for exist- onoo in the far-off western world. Then follow bis letters telling ns about tbo births, marriages, and deaths in his own family. Martyred Lonis G.ipet, whose blood was necessary to oxpiato tho sins of generations I This fast mouldering paper will become a pinch of dost,; but so long as kings and prinoes aro romom- berod by tbo American poople, Louis tho Sixteenth of Franoe will stand fore most on the list. Tho head of Louis has rolled fiom Iho block, and hero is a paper signed by Hiezes, president of tho national assembly. Only a fow words —pass it by quickly, for the nyo has caught sight of a paper signed by all tbo members of tho so called committee of publio safety. It bears tbo awful autographs of Robespierre, Carnot, Ilu- rero, aud all tho others. Tho faded ink has a strong resemblance te the tracings of blood. Is tho handwriting an index of character? Robespierre writes in flno cramped characters, bnt there is no trembling of tho fingers that yielded that pen. It in placed off to tho right alono by itsolf, as if bin solitary nature oolorod tho smallost actions of his life, lo tho left, the clean open writing of Carnot; and to judge from his signature sir." exclaimed the indignant Brazilian with great emphasis, 44 that little girl is my wife, air." The captain oollapscd. John Quincy Smith's Truo Love. Monday afternoon a yonng man named John Quincy Bmith. who works in a carriage factory, called upon Jnstioo Potter and asked his honor to appear at a certain bonne on Macomb street at a oertain hour that evening and weld two fond hearts together. "Thocourt” ■•id he’d bo on time, and he was, but ho found tho lover looking disconsolate and tho bride's mother flushed and an- oyed. " Isn't this t A Providential Man.—This title now justly belongs to a physician who has added te the list of medicines a new remedy, which appears te include all that is most valuable in the old pharma- copmia, and Dot to inclnde any of the drasbaoks with which so called specifics of the faculty are ohargeable. The providential man is Dr. Joseph Walker, of California, whoso Vinegar Bitters have achieved, in tho short apace of two years, a degree of popularity never be fore attained by any advertised prepara tion in this country. Wo have too much oonfldenco in tho shrewdness of tho American people te suppose that this sudden and surnasing celebrity ie the outgrowth of a uelusion. Indeed, wo have reason te know that it is found ed on innumerable and woll authenti cated cures of almost all tho bodily ills that flesh is heir to. Not te tho leo^t among the merits of the famous Tonic and Restorative, is its entire freedom from alcohol, as well as from all mineral drugs. It is composed exclusively cf rare vegetable extracts. TriRItF i»Io by all doalora. Go lo lUveml*I« W»t«i thing like leather shoe Tiv tlmrr through at the toes. Pc MARKET REPORTS. , WIO I tl * 1ft II « , . :1 to judge fro— ho must have been frank and fearless, with u will moulded and tempered like steel. In tho pictured flame of imagin ation he stands superbly roynl as a man, likoRaphael'sarUstiooreatiouHof Christ. This is tbo handwriting of Burere. It is flung upon tho paper with a lightning da«h of the pen. It repr. scuts the high est force below the infinite. Powoi ar rogated aud subjugated from A'mighty God. Blood I Blood I Blood I Stand upon youi feet I In one sense you are m the presence of Napoleon tho First. This is a letter from tlie great emperor —short, sharp, and direct to the point uh one of his own musket balls. Instead of writing bis nnino in the usual par allel way, ho turns tho paper sideways an 1 writes almost lengthwise tho one single name "Napoleon," and his signa ture is as hard to read as that of the Into oj *'i»t «f Hi" «l>»™i i’„ B In that li John W. Forney. Iho moat interesting Bonded • tho place where I was te come and unite two sympathetic souls?" inquired Mr. Potter in an anxious voice, thinking ho might havo made a mistake. "Yon see, I’ll tell yon how it is," explained the old lady. 44 Betsy Jane’s young and foolish, and she’s afraid some ono will niHke fun of her if she gits married I" nis honor thonglit it was rather straDge, and went off feeling about as blue as tho lover felt. Wednesday „ uu.u.um ,.*«> morning John Q'llnoy enUm.,1 J.mtio'o .nh . HH.VF.R TlWorrlilldr.n alloy again te tell Mr. Potter that he id oome up to tho house that even ing, and that there wouldn't bo any baoking out again. "It’s dead auro, is it?" asked his honor. You can bet on it," replied John Quincy—" bet a hundred te one." His honor wns on hand again at tlie appointed hour, and ho found tho lover and the mother looking al>out as sad aa before. Tho giil herself was oonoealed behind the door, aud as soon an Potter entered tho mother polled the door j hav-- baek so as to expose tho hider and ex- Sjttni claimed; " Now, then, judge, look ot her—look at tho big booby, and see what a fool 'in is making of lieraelf 1" Tho girl made a ak p and jumped under the centre table, and from thence shouted back : 4 1 liain't any moro of a fool than yon i, and yon know it I" ‘Then why don’t you come out and git married ?" aakod the parent. “I)o you h'boho I want to bo rondo fun of I" squeaked the daughter. After awhile tho justice put in iiik voice, telling the girl that it was tho lot of woman to marry; tha* slic’d live a happy life, and that it wouldn't take two minutes to tie tho knot. Betsy Jauo I " called tho HAOON—<7i«*r I WHXSXT—Onu CAUTION. On account of tbo popularity of the Wheeler «fc Wil-on Hewing Machines, parties hare largely been ongaged in purchasing old and eeconil hand machines of that tnako, and im posed upon tho publio by selling them as new machinea. Tbo Wheeler A Wilson Company tegs lo advise the | ublic that any ono desiring to buy their second-hand machines c*n be supplied by that Company direct, on bettor terms than others can afford them, ami bo ae- snrod of what they aio buying. Addrots WHRELKH A WILSON MT'G CO.. CM broad say. New York. DON’T BUY Dr. 4. Walker’s California Yiu- epar Hitters arn a purely Vegetable prepara, ion, nindo chiefly from tho na tive herbs found oil the lower ranges ot tlie Sierra Nevada mountains of Califor nio, the medicinal properties of which racted therefrom without tlio quest! ost lit AND LOW RESERVOIR ism rs his health. Tl 1 purifier and a life i perfect Renovator t' tho system. Novi Tht* properties of Dr. Walker's i lovo I" pleaded John mothc “O imo, my owi Quincy. “Oome, my dear girl I” ad led the justice, raising tho table-spread and ex tending his band. “ Oh, go awuy I" she sobbed, hands over her face, “go awuy ami leave mo hero to die I I can’t bear to think of gittin’ jined and leavin’ mother I" T.ioy coaxed ami pleaded ami scold- <m1, but Betsy Jane was firm, and she was still resting under tho table when his honor left. John Quincy put on Ida hut and walked down the stre t a piece, •nil when Potter remarked that he 1 there wouldn't bo any mariy- io tho young Aj we have liOOOU REASONS why thty will do yonr work QUICK and EASY, CHEAP and CLEAN. jljThry ore Chfapwl to boy. *"■ They nrr beat lo Die. (f) rbejr iiDKf evenly and qniekly. D fheir operation it perfect. Tliry always have a good draft. < fhry are made of the beat material They road perfectly. O TIiey require but little fuel. They arr very low priced, jjjlhry are rnily mnnaud. The art suited U* all lorallUet. LU Kvrry M<>' e nuarnnteed lo give lutivfac o pi Ala ha: Sold by Excelsior Manufg Co HT. LOUIS, r~ No Person ran fake the according to directions, and t unwell, provided their bones' stroyea by mineral poison e Hitters ‘main long iro not do or other '(1 beyond Hi lions. Heinllfenl and Infer* infttent lovers, which aro so preva lent in tho valleys of onr groat river* throughout tho United States, especially those of tho Mississippi, Ohio, M's^urf, Illinois, Tennessee, Cumberland. Arkan- llod, Colorado, Brazos. Rio Grando. ie, Savannah, Ito- Janies, and many others, with list tributaries, throughout onr wintry during tho Summer and Tho :1 olosc ^ iso of making a crop has luood to a minimum. Wo too largo a field nml travel y acres to produce ten bales < or a hundred bushels o out too much for lal>or tho result produced, ighl inedy must hr otliods, labor saving iiuplc yet found. This was not m.v fault aud I either, for I have consulted all tho best sotious of spiritistic »nd clairvoyant authorities iu M this oily. Now York. Bjstou, aud Chi- an eago. What I got wan mere emptiness, wife, oouplod indeed with some apjwHrnuceof b plausibility, such as might deceive n ‘t oredulons or on inexpart person. All tory of the watch the mediums gave me voluble descrip- connection with it." 1 her the aooonnt of the trail's- f oougreaa in reference to it. L*ng list cued very seriously, L when 1 waa through, turutnl to Ins w, Ti lie," said he, 44 regard- 'oqnoaoea we must see jus*ice w olr. exactly the bis- va you have any done. Oil but I will," said Mrs. DeLong, *ou must uot dream of such a thing impeding grandpa ot wrongdoing. tions of tho thief, which I took down with great appearnuoo of earnestness •nd satisfaction. The trouble was no two descriptions tallied in any essential He ....... particular, and it was hardly posaibln lie died snddeulr that this number of various individuals, ] jbmry and <to^k -all li old aud young, male and female, rich to mv poor father, who and poor, handsome and ugly, toll and Coin short, fair and dark, hud conspired for who the laroeuy of one poor watch. Some of j«n. the clairvoyants vrho had rood the lo- aud poor mamma days, takiug care to protect it agpfnst ram. Then cover thoroughly with earth sixteen <*r eighteen inches ihick, doing work iu the cool af the morning, re the sun baa warmed the earth or the potatoes. Cover all over, excluding all air. and shelter completely from rain. The reason for ooveriug in the cool of the morning is that the soil used for covering is cool and will uot heat the potatoes. And that the potatoes uot being exposed to the sun are also cool, aud being coolly covert d in this condi tion will uot subsequently heat and rot, having gone through a sweat before they were eovored with earth. Our iuform- aut told us that he had practiced tins method for a number of years, ways dag his potatoes when they * fit, no matter how hot the weather, had never lost a potato by nit. Ho ad ded that all potato houses are humbugs. —Aou/A* r;i fhrtncr. better trained labor and loss of it. Mow it Happened. With that indescribable grace i poetry of motion which only come gentle birth, aristooratio training i long familiarity with a yard-stick, hi placed his eye glasses astride of his nquilinn nose, twirled his cane nudtr his nrm, tilted his bat to one side, amt gracefully and lightly stepped right out of tin* car. At first ho tried to catch tho car by running after it back ward. Then lx* sought to balance him self on ouo foot, and tried to thtow his hat over tho post offioe, while lx* hop ped wildly down the grade. Then he put both his foot upon h level with the 1 > I’ top of the departing car, broke his oano and pounded tlu* firm, hard boul- *" dors with his head and eye-glasses, and ,e * w then ho tried to slido down the grade ' ' on his shoulder blades, with only par v tial Bucoess, aud finally caught hold of SA the track with his teeth and hands, to keep himself from flvii g to pieces. The four doctors who dressed the wounds of. Tf tlu* young man whose back was full of scrap iron and gravel, a d whoso claw. w ‘"' hammer coat was split from tail to col 11*'’ lar, and covered with Vine-street mud * and coal-tar, begged us uot te mention n*«i'.i bis name, aud we won't.—Cincinna/f Saturday Sight. That Little Girl. that «ver lived. J fro ^ 1847, leaving his i iug the Pa USB, rash youth, if you art* in the habit of removing the postage stamp your sweetheart's letter and p .. -Jx© uuder side of the stamp to \ _ hau to leave— lnw under the rapturous delusion ‘that geu’ti tlx* honeyed labials gave it adln siou to *‘ elope—oh, pause, for Wbliams, rristowu Herald, det-cted, ,q The jovial captain of one of the steamships now i u port tells a good lativeto the May and December I nl- : wsrrisgea so common in Brazil. A ro ! Hrazilian geutlomau, sppa i i fifty years of age, was a r ! tlu* vessel. He was aeoo two gills, one about fifteen younger. The gentlema: sick in the cabin aud the girls were on deck, whereupon the captain tried to amuse them, took them on hia knees and told thorn stories, while lie enjoyed communication of the group ia win announces his marriage with tho Arch- duchess Mario Lonl-o of Austria. How hard In* boars on tho pen, ami when ho finishes ho nukes a stroko underneath his name, ns though tho instrument in Ids hand had sudden'y become a sword. Now follows tho nows of tho birth of tlx* king of Romo. This ia done after 1 tho form of all such royal Announce- 1>r ! > monts. This autograph loses the fierce- j ness of its predecessor. It seems to say „fii * 1 ksvo a successor now ; there is noth- aim ing moro to bo desired.' And boro is 10,1 one from tho kingly Joromo, otherwise known as tho American Bonaparte. He writes to us. but inukes not tho slightest allusion to the beautiful M ns Patterson'; In ill of Baltimore, no nays bo has asoeuded j —... ~ tho throne of Westphalia, and lie wants «! rt | V l " airkm i-H wIdiom charKo Ids good friends iu the distant republic i ""mlGi to know it." Why Karmera are so Poor. It is believed that soven-tentlis of the planters and fanners of this oountrv, north and south alike,“aro staggering to tlioir fall under a load of debt mid mortgage. What is tlx* matter ? Asa clans, farmers aro not lazy. They are seldom idle. They work as hard asanv- body ought te wot k. They make, luk ing ono yonr with another, wha. may bn Considered, uuder tlx* present standard of agriculture, fair otoimi, and they get, as a rule, good prices for their surplus products they put into tho market; still they don't get rich—In fact, are pi tting poorer and poorer every year. Why ia it so ? To say nothing of a faulty system of cropping—all ootton, all wheat, all something else ; or of ere*,it, liens and interest, tlx* reason which wo had in mind with which to )>oint this paragraph ia, that it oosta too much to make our °rops. Wo grow poor, not so much be cause our inoomes are so small, ns be- ‘ our outgoes are so large. There ! strict method in onr operations STEINWAY Grand, Sjaarc ant Upwright Pianos, RUPTURES jjosrnmi cored. gend on tho watoh gave me fluent do •oriptions of soenes in Lafayette’s life, such as they hod read about. Two or During the \* ar my i donol in Cheatham’s killed iu battle—at Atl nd mole Idea We removed to Jackson and tr earn a living by tewing, but couldn i. ou penance ic I started an infant school, but it did [ young dreams. dins- of the Not nd a—• ! the post-o [ititle, | lady-love’s • stamp to 1 Ho perish e* tho other npphirt mohroan last lelt forever another of love'i WlAR AGE GUIDE, r,i iug, liia | you married MARRIAGE GUIDE; PbiiAAaiphU. Pa