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Volume Half-ivay Doin’s. Belubbed fellow trabelers ln holdin’ forth to-day, I doesn’t quote no special verse for what I has to say. De sermon will be berry short, and dis here am tho text: Dat half-way doin’s ain’t no ’count fcr dis worl' or de nex’. Dis worl’ dat we’s a-libbin’ in is like a cotton row, tVhar ebery cullud getleman haß got Ills lino t 6 hoc; And ebery time a lazy nigger steps 'to take a nap, De grasß keeps on a-growin’ for to smudder up his crap. • When Moses led the Jews across de waters ob de sea, Dey had to keep a-goin’, jes’ as fas’ as fas’ could be; Do you s’pose dat dey could ebber hab succeed ed in der wish, And reached dopiomised land at last—if dey had stopped to fish ? My frien’s, dar was a garden once, where Adam lived wid Eve, Wid no one roun’ to bodder dem, no neighbors for to thieve, And ebery day way was Christmas, and dey got their rations tree— And eberything belonged to dem except an ap ple tree. You all know ’bout de story —how de snake come snoopin’ roun’, — A stump-tail rusty moccasin, a-crawling on de groun’ — How Eve and Adam ate de fruit, and went and hid deir face. Till de angel observer he come an’ drove ’em off de place. Now, s’pese dat man and ’oman hadn't ’tempt ed for to shirk, But had gone about deir gardenin’, and ’tend ed to deir work, Dey wouldn’t hah. been loafin’ where they had no business to, And de debil nebber’d got a chance to tell ’em what to do. No half-way doin’s bredreil! It ’ll never do, I say ! Go at youi task and finish it, and den’s de time to play— For eben if de crap is good, de rain ’ll spile de bolls, Unless ycu kebpg a-pickin’ in de garden ob your souls. Keep a plowin’ and a hoe in' and a scraping ob de rows, And when de ginnin’s ober you can pay up what you owes; But if you quits a-workin’ ebery tiiae de sun is hot, De sheriff’s gwime to lobby upon everting yon’s got. Whateber ’tis you’s drillin’ at, be elibi'e Und di ive it through, And don’t let uuffin’ stop ybiij bvit do what you’s got to do ; For when you sees a nigger foolin’, den, as shore’s you’re btuu, You’s gwine to See him coinin’ Out de small tend ob de’ horn. I thanks you for de ’tention you has gib die afternoon— Sister Williams will oblige tis by a-raisin’ ob a tune— 1 I see dat Brudder Johnson’s ’bout to pass aroun’ tie hat. And don’t let’s bab no half-way cWin’s wHen It con. es to dat! Tlid True Honor of Man; The proper honor of man arises riot Irom those splendid actions, ami abilities which eftbite high admiration. ( outage and prowess, military renown, signal victories and conquests may render the man famous; without rendering his character truly honorable; To many men we look up with wonder, because w e have heard their praises sung. They stand, as it were, on an eminence above the rest of mankind. Their eminence, nevertheless, may not be ot that sort before which we bow with inward es teem and respect. Nothing more is wanted for that pfirpoße than the con quering arm and the totvefing rflind; The laurels of the Warrior must be dyed in blood; and bedewed with the tears of the widow hhd ofpliati. But if they have been stained by drunkenness and inhumanity; if Sordid avarice has marked his character, 1 or low and vile acts degraded his life; 'the great hei’O sinks into a little man. What at it dis - tance we admired bec'otfies mean; pet - ' haps odius, when examined mote close ly. Observations ot the sarfle kind hfay be applied to all the reputation derived from civil accomplishments—both' the refined politics of the statesman and the efforts of a literary career. These be stow, and within certain botfnds otfght to bestow, eminence and distinction on men. They are shining talents; and become highly valuable, when employed in advancing the good of mankind, But a distinction is to be made between fame and true honor. Instances are often found in bistofy,- either ancient or modern, of men whose lives have been famous, and yet the man himself is far from being honored. Hence it follows, that in order to dis cern where man's true honor lies, we must look, not to any single sparkling quality, bnt to what entitles him to rank high among that class of beings to which he belongs—we must look to the mind and the soul. A mind superior to fear, or selfish in teresi and corruption—governed by the principles of rectitude and integrity— the same in prosperity and adversity— which no bribe can seduce nor terror overawe—such is the mind which forms the distinction and eminence of man. One who, in no situation of life, is ashamed or afraid ot discharging his duty and acting his part with firmness and constancy ; true to the God whom he worships; true to the faith in which he professes to believe, and true to the cause he has espoused j faithful to his friends, generous to his enemies, warm with compassion to the unfortunate; self denying to liitle private interests and pleasures, but zealous for public in terest and happiness, magnanimous without being proud ; humble without being mean ; just without being harsh ; simple in manners, but manly in his feelings; on whose word we can entirely lyre; whose countenance never deceives us; whose professions of kindness are the effusions of his heart } in short, one in whom we can trust as a friend and love as a brother—this is the man, whom in our heart, above all others; we do, we must honor. Wliat it Pays to tlo; It pays to manage the farnl with econ omy, and this is biought about not so much by economizing in one important particular, as in many. It will pay to keep the fence comers clean, so that grass will grow in them, and so that your neighbor will not take oflense be cause of the thistle and other fowl seeds that you allow to mature and find their way Into his eieaiily kept fields. It will pay to build cheap gates, as they will save enough valuable liiiie in the busy season of the yea’ - , to pay expenses of constructing them many times over. It will always pay to have wood and water handy and near the kitchen. It will pay to build the dwelling house with the view of saving steps. In constructing and remoddeling their houses, farmers would do well to consult with their wives, for they wbuld suggest ideas by which the home could be made more convenient. It will pay to use! more paint, indoors and out. It will pay 'to encourage the chil dren. Give them an occasional day for recreation. Give the,boys a colt or calf to raise, and let them have the money when it is sold to invest iu seme way that meets your approval. It will pay to make home so attractive that it will always be pleasant for the man to think over his boyhood days. A plessaiifhome will make better boys and better meg. It will pay to supply the house with an abundance of good reading matter, such as agricultural papers etc., and as good a library as one can afford. It will pay to plant and cultivate fruit trees of all kinds. Plenty ot good fruit prohlotes health and longevity. Finally, it will pay to do all the things we have enumerated, and an hundred others that are now neglected, which many Of us would do. if we would nnlv iuKe tune to irnr.K. Shipment of JBarytes. For three days past, car load after car load of barytes stone has been passing through this city. It arrives on the Air Line Hailrnad, aud is iiei'e transferred to tbe Carohua Central. This stone is taken from the quarry near Wooten’s sta’ion, Gaston county, and is being Shipped to Bath, Maine. The third and fourth shipments that have ever been shipped ffom this mine, and now in traitsitii, the first havitfg passed through here about six weeks ago. Barytes is used in the manufacture of white lead, and is the heaviest of the earihs, its Specific gravity being four. Its weight very deC’feptiVe; and when 18,000 pounds are put in a car the floor is hardly more than covered. When the first Shipment was fnade; th’e train bands who were loading it on the Air Lino train put in 40,000 pounds to the car; under the im pression that they were [fitting in very small loads, arid the oorisecfuence was that several cars broke down. It is' said that barytes is also used iri the rriaritt factufe of granulated sugar. This is done in the land of vfmodeh nutmegs and kerosene and strychiiirfC whifky. — [Charlotte observer. Way Side Warnings, flon't let the treasures of this world hazard your prospects for'the next. Don't disregaid thb rights of others in trying to exercise what seems to be your own. Don t preach charity and leave some-, body else to practice it. Don't think it condescention to speak pleasantly to that form beneath those tattered garments. They may, per chance, cover a form as comely, or a heart as honest, as your own, into which might be reflected a ray of sunshine by even a pleasant look. Don't retard the progress of others because you tail to keep pace with them. Don't dwell too much on the great ness ot your ancestors,- test your hear ers think the stock has Sadly degenera ted. An exchange Says: All over th'6 land women are feeding their babies from nursing bottle with while rffbb'ef tops The preparation: used irf bleaching rub her is a horrible and deadly poison— white oxid of mercury and kindred drugs; and the constant mumbling and chewing rubber so prepared, | laces a child’s life in danger; Paralysis has been caused by it, and many a baby dies in consequence of its use. A trench mother or mn*Sc corvicted of putting one to a babe's lips is fined 20 francs or imprisonment 10 days; and to sell one is a grave misdemeanor. The Women’s Centennial ConWiittee, ot Cincinnati, has agreed to raise two thousand dollars toward paying Wagner for the grand march wherewith the ex hibition is to be opened. At best life is not very long,. A few more smiles, a few more tears, some joys and sorrows—then our little plane* will close. Is *it wortlj while to hale each other such a brief span ? - • P The Chicago Legal News wants wo men lawyers to take off their hats when they addiess the court.- CONYERS, GEORGIA.: THURSDAY, APRIL 137, 1876. A Point of Order. Diogones Sliute lived in one of the mountain towns. At town meetings he made big speeches, and in the village lyceum lie argued right lustily. At length Diogones reached tho sum mit of his great ambition. He was elected to tho State Legislature; and went dawn and took his seat. It was a stupendous advance. Only one thing remained : lie must exhibit bis powers of oratory. He believed he should sur prise the august assembly when he did so. By and’-by the occasion came. A bill was before the house for changing, or amending the pauper laws. Diogones thought he knew something about pau pers. He had been’ himself reared in poverty, and had fought his way out. Let others do as' he had done. It so happened that the bill had been offered by a political Opponent. Diogones had been elected on strictly party lines, and he ccfi/ld not properly support a measure originating with tho opposite party Finally Diogones. gained the floor. He spoke grandiloquently. He seemed a huge pair ot bellows, from which high sounding words were puffed in spreading terms; while his long arms gyrated like the sail yards of a windmill. In the midst of one of his most tempestuous outbreaks he stopped to take a drink of water. As he raised the glass to his lips a friend ot lliC tall, lank, elderly metttbef Started to’ Iris feet: ‘Mr. Speaker,-1 rise to a point of or der !’ The members wondered what the point could be. ‘The gentleman will state his point of order,-’ said the gpeaker.- ‘I think, sir,’ returned the member, pointing his long boriy finger toward our orator, ‘that it is entirely out of ovder, in a deliberative body, for a windmill to run itself by water!’ A Britannic Pomeroy.' William Gilbert Ilarrod, a boy only twelve years of age, was indicted at the London, England, assizes, for willfully murdering two boys, one ten years old Toward the elder of tne hoys he appears to ha'e entertained an ill-feeling for some time, and, according to a letter written by him whi'st in custody, lie and stakes. After beating him over the head, Harrod threw the body into a pond, where it was found the next day. Trie jury found him guilty of manslaugh ter, arid he received a sentence of fifteen years of penal servitude. Unfeeling Butterwick. HOW HE WANTED TO GO DOWN TO TIIE GRAVE WITHOUT BEING INSURED. When Benjamin P. Gunn, the life iir suranoe agent, called upon Mr. Butter wick, the following conversation ensued : Gunn—‘iir. Butlenvick, you have no insurance on your life, 1 believe ? I dropped in to see if I can't get you into our company. We offer unparalleled inducements, and— Butterwick—‘l don't want to insiire.’ Gumi—‘The cost is just nothing wor h speaking of—a there trifle. And then we pay enormous dividends, so that you have so much security at sucli a little outlay that you ban he perfectly comfort able and happy.’ Butterwick—‘Bat I don't want to be comfortable and happy. I'm trying to be miserable.’ Gunn—‘Now, look at this' thing in a practical light; You've goi to die some lime or other. That is a dreadful Cer tainly to which we must all look forward. It is tearful enough in any event, but how much more so when a man knows ihat he leaves nothing behind him 1 We all shrink from death, we all hate to think of it, the contemplation of it fills us with awful dread ;■ but reflect, What must be the feelings of a man who en ters the dark valley with the assurance that in a pecuniary sense hislife has been an utter failure 1 Think how ’ Butterwick—-dJon't scare me a bit. I want to die i been wanting to' die for years. Rather die than to live any time.’ Gunn —‘I say, think how wretched will he the condition of those dear ones whom you leave behind you. Will not the tears < f youi heart-'broken widow be made more bitter by the poverty in which she is suddenly plunged, and by the reflection that she is left to the ehrr ity of a cold and heartless world ? W ill not— , BtftterWick—‘l wouldn't leave her a cent if I had millions. It'll do the old woman good to skirmish around tor her living. Then she ll appreciate me.’ Gunn—‘Your poor little children,' 100. Fatherless,' orphaned, they will have no one to fill their famished mouths with bread, no one to protect them from harm. You die uninsured and they en ter a life of suffering from the keen pangS of poverty.- You insure in our company and they begin life with enough to feed and clothe them, and raise them above the reach of want.’ . Bulierwick—‘l don't want to false them above the reach of want. I want them to want. Best thing they can do is to tucker down to work as I did.’ Gunn—‘Oh, Mr. Butter wick ! try to take a higher view of the matter. When you are an angel and come back to revis it the scenes of earth, will it not fill you with sadness to see your dear ones ex posed to the Storm and the blast, to hun ger and cold V 3 jiutterwick—‘l'm no’ going to be an augel, and if I was I wouldn't come hack ’ Gunn—‘You are a poor man, now. How do you know that your family will have enough when you are gone to pay your funeral expenses, and to bury you decently *’ Butterwick—‘l don't want to bo butied.’ Gunn—‘Perhaps Mrs. Butterwick will be so indignant at your neglect that she will not mourn for you, that she will not shed a tear oyer your bier ’ Butlf.twick—‘l don‘t want a bier, and I‘d rather she wouldn't cry any.’ Gunn—‘Well, then, s'posen’ you go in on the endowment plan and take a poli cy tor $5,00 >, to be paid you when you reach the ago of 50 V Butterwick—‘i don't want $5,000 when I‘m fifty. I wouldn't take it if you were to fling it at mo and pay me to take it.’ Guun—‘l‘m afraid, then. I' have to say, ‘Good-morning.’ Butterwick—‘l don't want you to say good-morning ; you cau go without say iug it.’ Gunn—‘l‘U quit.’ Butterwick—‘Alia! now you've hit it! I do want you to quit, and as suddenly as you can.' f [Then Mr. Gunn left. He thinks he Will havdly insure Butterwick.—|_Plnla. Bulletin. A Baboon Mother. [Mr. Hazley’s African Lectures.] A woman belonging to a settlement of about 150 souls went one day to gather J some wood, and left her child on the 1 ground to lake care of itself. While the mother was gone a female baboon ap peared on tbe scene, and espying the child approached and began to fondle it. The Child was allowed to partake of the j baboon's milk, which deprived it of any j appetite for its mother's. When tho rfiothei' returned she noticed that the child was carefully covered with leaves and had lost its hunger. This was done for several days before the mother ascer tained \tfho' pefforrifed the unthankful act. When the mother did find out the doer she induced tho men of her tube to lie and wait for the baboon trie tiextjd.ay. The animal noticed the men raise then weapons to fire, and began to wave her hand, or paw, as it asking them not to kill her, and, at the same time pointed to a young one at her breast But iho na tive* kffjeti---, N.X unniwr had t.liev put ill its appearance, and, by a loud shout, summoned others of his tribe to tho spot. Then, in a body, the animals attacked the natives and forced them to flee fo therr hurts for safety. One ot the baboons tracked them to their settlement and the next day they were visited by about 500 baboons, who assaulted them with coooanuts and competed them to run away from their homes. flic animals kept a watch over the hilts for several days and prevented tho natives from re turning to their dwelli”gs. An Undying Flame, after thirty-hour years TWO DOWERS MEET BY CH.tftOE, AND CONSUMMATE A UNION projected INJTOUTII, A bedding of a very romantic chwac Ser occurred in this city yesterday morn ing. It was the denouement of a court ship of thirty four years ago—a happy consummation of youthful love—showing how incurable are the wounds invisible that Love's keen arrows make. Dr. Joseph It. Smith, now oil a visit to Louisville, is a wealthy merchant and influential citizen of Ely ton, Abba'ina. When quite a young man lie loved a, young lady in another State, arid in return received the most undying] as surances of her affection toward him. But fate intervened. Circumstances of a peculiar nature prevented their union, | and, after the first pangs of disappointed love Were passed, both werfe married and went their separate ways with their com panions.. A few years later they lost gight ot each other, but never forgot their youthful attachment. Die lady married a gentleman named Kilpatrick, with whom she moved t> Missouri., A tew years ago her husband died, and abcut two years ago Dr. Smith became a widower. A few weeks ago he resolved to take a trip North in search of his boyhood sweetheart, whose place of residence Was unknown to him. His first stopping place was Louisville. Arriving here in the part of last week he took a room at the Fifth' Avenue Hotel _ and commenced looking after some business among the merchants; Two days after his arriual, while look ing over the hotel Register, Dr. Smith, to his great Surprise, read the name of Mis. Kilpatrick from Missouri. lie sorfght an interview at once, and for the first time in thirty-four years beheld his old-time sweetheart. The rest of'the stor_v is of necessity brief aad already anticipated.' . At nine o’clock, yesterday morning, Dr. Smith and Mrs. Kilpatrick quietly left the hotel in a hack together, and drove to Chestnut street Methodist church, where they were married in the presence of a few friends, who had gath ered tln-re by invitation of the groom, Rev. pastor of the church per forming the ceramony. The parties then returned to the .hotel, where they will remain a few days and then return to their Southern home. A dog got into a hydraulic pipe in Nevada city recently, was forced through a five inch nozzle and landed against an embankment sever J hundred feet dis tant. The journal that records the fact adds: ‘ln bis canine flight a Chinaman was knocked into the current and both animals perished simultaneously.’ Huai Individuality. \ STKANGK NARRATIVE; Some years since a ship carpenter, at Sunderland, turned lecturer. His name was Anthony J. Oliver, and the subject of bis lectures was mesmariam. He was a great reader and an extraordinary mes mj'io operator, aid whan be made his first appearance in public,, bis nfaniiesta tion ot the odylio force astonished his audiences. llis progress through the towns ot the north of England was one continued harvest of shekels. Old and young, of both sexes—doctors, lawyers, clergymen and scientists wept to scoff at, hut was all spell-bound by his mesmeric power. Among others in Newcastle, Miss Jennie Hobson was a profound ad mirer of Mr. Oliver. So great was his influence over her fluid by the force of his will he could at t l, e distance of a mile or over induce the mesmeric sleep, and compel her to proceed to him. This extraordinary fact was demonstrated in the presence of a committee of scientific experts, when collusion was Cut of the question. On one of these occasions she climbed a garden wall sefeu feet in height, and fell head- foremost to' the ground. She was taken up senseless, and medical attendance was summoned, but in vain. She lay for six weeks in a condition bordering upon death. Just here it may be well 10 disgress for a mo ment. Mr. Oliver afterwards studied medicine. After the war ended in these United States, he, with a number of bis English friends, settled in Virginia. Every newspaper reader remembers his tragic end. He betrayed an aiistooratic Virginian‘s daughter and her father.shot Oliver in cold blood. Winn Miss Hob son recovered her consciousness she was blind and deaf, and she continued so for five or six weeks. The sense of hearing returned suddenly, birt Sight rt-tiffifed more gradually; bift iff the end perfectly. The ufoSt extraordinary feature of the case,- htfvfeter, was the fact that she had lost :fll former recollections of her for mer life. She did not know a letter of the alphabet, and she could not play an ■ air on the pianoforte. Her father and ! mother were strangers to her. Her pet dog was angrily thrust away. She was ignorant of the use of knives and fofkjr. She was simply anew born infant. With Ibis difference, that she oould acquire j v, .--'Ji -- ii-.. „4„ ! geography, French and music were ea- I gerly studied, and anew circle of friends wis gradually formed. Here again there was an abnormal fastidiousness. The friends ot her fbtm'er self weie ditaste ful, and a young gentleman who had loved her, and Whom she treated With cruel ridicule, suddenly becam'e hor prime favorite. It soon became known that Mr. George Henderson and Miss Jennie Hobson wero engaged. The young man's parents consulted Dr. Gibbs, the doctor consJited Dr. Forbes winglo'w, and the young people were urgently ad vised to postpone the nuptials. Parental opposition precipitated the uni m. A runaway match made them man and wife in May, 1850. At tho birth of their first son the poor mother remained uncon scious! for three weeks. Similar symp toms followed the binli of a daughter in 1860. One morning she awoke iu her foryier natural state without any intima tion from memory or consciousness that anything unusual had happened. The four years of married life were to her as though they had never been. She shrieked with rage when her hu-fb’aud approached. The house was strange to her. She did not recognize her own dresses or her own hand writing. She took up life again at the. precise point where she had left it when she fell into the mesmeric slumbers and tried to scale the garden wall. Existence with her husband was unendurable, and she was taken back to her mother. Parental interference resulted in a judicial separa tion between the husband and wife. Miss Jennie Hobson, as she again call ed herself, was annoyed by any reference to her abnormal individuality, and her parents yielded to her eutrea ies to leave the towy and reside in the rioutli of Eng land. Near Damnouih arid gained all her former health and spirits. Fossess ing a graceful fonn and pretty face, she soon became the focus of masculine ad miration, and finally a wealthy young farmer offered his hand. l’ere Robson, in spite of Jennie’s tears and entreaties, insisted that Fredrick Hood should he informed of her previous mental defange merit and marriage* The poor fellow was too deeply in love to fear consequen ces. Then anew obstacle arose in a ntvf form. Her husband heard of her intend de marriage,’ arid threatened Fredrick Hood and Jennie wilh ‘‘proceedings” if the match was consummated. Where upon Mr. Hood with Jennie enfigi ated to this country. Boon after the pair proceeded to Southern Minnesota and established themselves on a truilfu! farm. But, alas 1 misfortune overtook them. In August las. Mr. Hood was out driv ing with his wife in a buggy, when the horse ran away, the vehicle was upset, and Mrs. flood thrown violently to the ground, receiving a severe concussion bn the back of her head. She remained unconscious for two weeks. When she recovered consciousness it wa3 even as he feared. “She did not know me from Adam,” as he expressed it, “and I could uo more convince her that I was her hus- band than I eou.d stop the earth in its orbit,” Whenever he approached her she repulsed him with anget for spiriting her away from home. All the old affec- tion for her children and her former bus baud returned, and poor Hood had uo peace till he started with her on her Way back to England. The pair reached tins city from the West on Thursday last, Number 4:o* and a friend of Mr. Hood's who saw th'q pai\-, iiftorniecf the writer that tho coldest and most severe polite existed be tween the two whilonf rififfi and wife. No sign however can pfisuude the lady that she is not the Victim ot Hood’s machinations, and rrfemory revert ft back to Uie immediate circumstances gfdfceed ing tbe Wrtlf of hUf brtdy in iB6O. Sensation Proiri Vnfpif fitted Limbs. William Sol m, of Virgiffm City, Ne vada,had one of liis feet so badly crushed by an accident on tho Virginia and Truokee railroad some days ago as to require amputation. The operation was successfully performed, and one of the ‘loctars took liis todt home with him for dissection. While limit engaged 1 , * •bo'f arrived; and said that Wo mW p'otffe (of the foot, tliat Mf. Sold?! Wiflitedit. Tfdj loot was accordingly hilton away anil placed, in a bureau drawer in Solon’s room near his bed. The victim at once became very restless, suffered intense pain; and it'll' the Opiates administered failed to give him’ relied. lie said he tell as though bis toes were doubled ufndef bis feet, and that he was standing with liis whole weight on tjiat footalso* that there seemed to be a knife Slick Iff g in hUf leg. The doctor, who was by tins time at the patient’s side, went to the drawer, and, taking up the foot, fiuiid.the tbejf •doubled back, and sticking in it a gm’ifl hook-shaped instrument used in taking up arteries. The ins l foment was removed and the foot placed in an easy position, when Solon declared he was free from pain and felt quite easy f indeed, ,s>on fell into a sound sloop. This reiifarkable case is not without parallel’s, But jth'e phenomenon is a character that, while it lias been the suhjebt of much thought and investigation, is still a puzzler and without even an approximately sattiffcfo tory explanrftich. Mexico. Tho'troublcs in Mexico anti long tho Texan border are attracting much atten tion at Washington city, and a move-, merit for taking possession of that coun try would obtain strong stippcrfo A member of Congress femnfked, the other day, that he thought tho best thing the government could .do would be to call lor volunteers to place Mexico under the stars and stripes, and ho was satis twenty .dour hours. An M. C. from Texas thought a larger force than that wb’dKl bh required, for, said lie, those who havg Casti'ian blood in them; ate good fighters, and not j easily ri'vorfc’ome. We Could riot tort quer that country as easily as we did in i *847. , . Another Hit. C. also afffo'&fte'd tffOYe merit on Mexico. Why, said he, the cost of such an expedition would be repaid in a short time in the minerals we should take out. Now if you engage in ifdker miiiif/g )vt Mexico Ittft l make a hundred thousartd dollars, and the Mex ican Government find it out, they will take it riwa'y ffom you. It Grant had turned his attention to the acquisition of Mexico; it would have been a much more popular triovo tha'n this San Domingo or Cuban intrigues, or liie attempt to in volve this country iu war with Spain. Ou to Mexico 1 The Jockey. For a red hot speciality, yu hav got to hunt kreashun class to find an equal to the kuntry boss jockey. He is allwcfii ft man ov plesent tempermenf, vain ov hiz opinyuns, often ov more fancy than judg merit, and quick to deside, lie haz but little affekshun for a boss, and only luvs him ior the cheat that i in him. lie \t allwus reefery to trade for enny thing fum a yerling koll to" a kavalry hoss llfrft General Butler rode at the battle ov lirimdywine. lie never kndwd when he gfts cheated, and ertef thinks that the last nag he gdt Vk the best ortef he ever owned lie iff not bothered/ with too much koriswfe'/ice, and would aif soon' lay out a traveling preacher in :i Swap az hiz own father-in-law, and do lt without en ny malice; but jerft for the' IfOiior ov the profesli itrf. , . I don't kno whi it \z iftst a man lean trade kows aqd be pius, or swap oxeu and be a good dcakon; or even negosni ate dogs and be looked upan favorably ; hut when he goes irito the boss biziness enterprize,. if’be kant cheet, he haz miss ed his calling and ain’t happy. The boss Jockey iz suinlimes honest frond p/ollcy; but needs az much wotohing az a sworm ov b's doo who are just get ting readdy to sworna. Josh Billings. James C. Watson, of Michigan Uni versity, who accompanied one of thb' transit of Venus expeditions, reoentJy delivered a very interesting leoture, iff* .which he referred to the intense anxiety of his party as the transit, for which’ so much preparation had been 1 made, ap proached. He said that. his telescope had been adjusted so that it should bear upon the planet as the transit began. When the moment had come, to his great atarnV he found that the planet was not in sight, and he. was in great anxiety lest the instrument had been falsely ad justed. After a short time, which seem ed hours, Vends appeared, one minute and thirty seconds behind time in a cycle of 105 yews. Thotrfas Jefferson rode 6h hbnfebacfe' to’ Washington, hitched his hoftse to a rail fence and walked over and was in augurated, but it would't be safe fo try thul now, for while ho was being sworn' in, one ot his Cabinet officials might steal the horse.'