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• * iUtiSTd* HOME JOURNAL y f T. WATERMAN^ EVERY FRIDAY MOBS IIS AT PERRY, GA. .' ■#. r======^^^^- CAR HA T & CURDy ra .-rwAjp' Hardware, Iron & Steel, PAINTS, OILS, CLASS, \BY J. T. WATERMAN,, -•>■■-’•• f ADVANCES on GOTTON1 ?t£ &£'/* £ Oil <Ht3 r 0-fci I rlt ~ynl a? j4?bW«f i'j' BT A POB-T^r^ij £' -~r:* ri Z vUSifljL laneveEc^.t Savannah, jjept'.l-l 1871.. Cotton and Cora Sweeps, ^ Macon, mh3U-clm lieorjjia PLANTERS’ FOBT VALLEI, GA. MARSHALYILL|i.U§H 3, jLg WL R. PIXLEY,—Principal .... MaBSHALLVILPE GA. , , The ’■pring term of 1872 of this Academy—for Male mad Female—will open Jan. 22d, and close Julyttb. ■ . . ; An elegant and capacious house, surpassed by 4 none of its class int South West (ieorgja. just com pleted, a healthy location, a refined and moral so* , and experienced teacherfe in all the depart- a, invite a liberal share of public patrol of. Charles Outtenberger, an accompl musician and successful teacher will take charge of the musical department. . . .|ton^*l7jwmo«*U^ • i i . . a - »» Jl. xlAr Lxt, JlJU.g j Dec7 Sect While I nodded, JfTl: Gently came £.something creeping Up my back, like something seeping, Stepmgupvrart'-fibiri the floor; I: ■» 1 “ ’Tis a cooling! Jr^zeT^ Inigi '•^From^heVegions'neathohe floor- Only Authorized Capital, $200,000 UHDEB CEAETEK FE01I THE STATE. Receives Deposits, discounts Paper, buys and sells Exchange, also Gold and Silver. Collections made at all accessible points. 1:0;l C. P. GUILFORD & CO., MACON. GA.,: W. J. AxDEBSjJN, - - - W. E. Brew's, - - - - - President - - Cashier. DKECTpBS: W. J. Anderson, CoL Hugh L. Dennard, Wm. R. Brown, Dr. Wm. A. Mathews. Dr. W. H. Hollingsliead. jul20-9m F. A. JOBSON, GunsiAltli, PEBEY, GEORGIA. FIRE ARMS Of every description repaired or remodeled. Repairing of Sewing Machines, AND ALL KINDS OF BRASS, STEEL, COPPER, * LIGHT IRON, BRITTANIA, or SILVERWARE, Done with neatness and dispatch. TERMS STRICTLY CASH. jan'2G tt THE CHATTERBOX A Magazine for Children. Mmri. I’ott & Amsx give notice that they : 5' have made arraugementa for the sale of the monthly parts of this popular English Periodical. 'Vi- This Magazine baa’, in a short time, readied the -.-■ enormous circulation in England, of XG0,0 O O ! Hf t Ench number contains 32 printed pages, and is illustrated with teu full-page and a number of smaller DKAUTIFUlXY EXECUTED WOODCUTS. The printing in in that stylo which is *w attractive ‘3# to rhildreu. and which baa made several English ls nx-ij?azinert. and the Chatterbox in particular, such » favorites with children. JWce.Jl.5l) a year. | Adrcess POTT & AACEUY, and 13 Cooper Union. 3»ew York. MIX & K1RTLAND, Wholesale and Retail* Dealers in Boots and Shoes, No. 3, Cotton Avenue, and 60 Third St. MACON, GEORGIA. W OULD inform their friends-and all in want of Boots and Shoes of any kind, that - they have ou baud one of the largest and beat assort ments to be found in the state. They cordially invite their old customers, and all other* in want of anything in their line, usually kept in a first- class store, to call and examine. -They pledge themselves to sell at the LOWEST P OS SIELE PSICE S, Either at their old stand, No. 3 Cotton Avenue, or heir new store, 66 Third st novl6-3m ANDERSON & CROCKER, FORT VALLEY, GA., ^ Having leased the PLANTERS’ WAREHOUSE A Fire-proof Brick Building, will do a GENERAL Warehouse and Commission Business. Liberal-advances will be mode on-Cotton,' and all produce in store, ' They "are also prepared to fill orders for the best brands .of G-uano, at short notice. Geougia, Hocston-Counti': i; France C. Napier has ap plied for letters of administration on the estateof her husband, John T. Napier, late of this count}-, deceased; these are therefore to cite all persons interested, to be and appear before me, on or before the first Monday in February, 1872, to show cause, if any, why the application should not be granted. Given under my hand and official signature, this December 29th, 1871. W. T. SWIFT, O. H. C. Are State AgentsTor those Celebrated FLORENCE REVERSE-FEED SEWING HEM, .>«*> -L'Y fell, ; i: . ; . . it CORD, .-.-I.*;- ‘.Jr-. ; . - BRAID, ... • TU C K, ' QUILT, BIN«D, DARN, f* GATHER, And Gather and Sew on without Bast- . ing. 3 A A i J. D. MARTEN, Agent, Perry:. Also Agents for the . WOULD RENOWNED BELL-TREBLE ST. XaOUXS : IAINES BROTHERS 2.^: Ilfg- . jt C!J fjj Cj 1;/■.&* Wholesale and Retail Dealers in M U S I O P I A If O S Sold On InStALiyients! /VT LIBERAL DISCOUNT mctJLABs|,and PaicEjLosTSiSent free ton application;- " * ; '’ BSSUMHta? -i* ,-?i «J bjti'. G. P. GUILFORD Sc CO., 84 Mulberry St., - Macon Ga Ah! I distinctly I remember,— It was in that wet SfipteniJ>er, When the eard? ahd 'eveiy~mei ‘ Df creation that ifety>r$-j p-jy . f .- - Had for weeks and weeks been soaking In the meanest,.fiibst provoking f> ( i . '.J Foggy rains, that, without joking, 'Ve had-'eva' e4A hMire,' 3 Chid anT daidp^binith^tfie Soor— ^ . Very cqlddjenpith the floor., t, , So I sat rite,-nearly napping, 7 r- -J, - In the sunshine, stretching, gaping, And a-feehng gnit? defightpd, . With the breeze from’heath the floor; Till;l found me 'growing colder, ..... '1 And the stretchingfwasisg bolder; - And myself feeling older, Oiderthon I’d felt before; iy joints were stiffer ij arJL-ji. Ter than they’d been before. jAU along my baric the creeping As if countless "frozen demons Had conclnded to' explore All the cavities (the varmints 10 xx ’Twixt me and my nether garments, ’ rhrongh my t^*Jts’hit5^he^tyir;-i Then I felt myself a-shaking, Gently shaking more-and-more— Every moment more and more. Twtis Qt&kfcerf ahd it shtSdtriiiff--^ Into heavy lothes, and took me Shaking to the kitchenr-eveiy .- Place where there was warmth m store; dll the china raided, nit, covered with Bermuda gr 'ss:. Gf*itself it might not be 'specially no- ticed, terest to persons generally is, that here Z jTriim early life had been the home of Hon. AlexanderTL StejriieraGeorgia’! honored son, and one of America’s il- lustriqpgtnien.- j ;fn t^e rear -of- the. main dwelling are two rooms con nected with the body of the house. As you enter you find shelves filled with books and papers. This is you: find his living room. Here he sleeps, writes and lives. Feeble, afflict ed with rheumatism, "niakihg crutches ■necessary to him in walking, a great sufferer, froin.paiitf you will fin'd hint seated near tables covered with writing material, neara comfortable coal, fire. He rises early,” kitendif td his : tforres- ]>6ndence, reads the news of the day, and devotes the balance-of his time to entertaining friends or labor upon the work he may at the-time-have in -rihe hands of aISH i We doubt if the world furnishes an shaking, and with all my wanning, - Feding colder than before; Shaking rill it had exhausted AU ite poyrer to shake me more— Till it epuid not shako me more> Then it rested till the morrow, When it came with all the horror That it had the lace to borrow; j Shaking, viTmTcinfr ah And from that day in September— ' Day which I shall long remember— . It has made diurnal visits,' . Shaking, shaking, oh, so sore! Shaking off my boots, • And shaking ‘ Me to bed, if nothing more— Fully this, if nothing mm. {•e , .n% J. jnSl , tl-'l A « ; }X'7-I And to-day the swajlowp flitting Round my cottage, see me sitting Moodily within the sunshine, Just inside my cottage door, Waiting for the Ager, seeming Like a.i .Vnd the’sunlight < Sheds no shadow on the floor; For I am too thin and sallow To make shadows'on-the floor— Nary shadow any more! i U ta -j:j it! X •; . ,.:iur j > Soioutifie Notes. The black crust which fririfraupdot lamp-wicks should be removed before relighting, for purposes of economy as well as45fihfeatness. * JBCUis^hlfovtfed to remain, a larger portion of the oil hi’evapo: >qAen%|w^4ftl is properly trimmed. The occasional explosions of coal oil lamps;-frinn attempts- to -'extinguish fliemby.bjpudng gowp tJitJ.^clpmnpy, gfve value to the following suggestion' Give a sharp but rather prolonged’pnff at rijjht- japgfeS with” 1;he'”top rif-th^ chimngy,,* J ]^BugT^^&.^fl^M ; pgr^^ed draws the' flame' away-from the wiek and the lamp goes out. ^ ‘ ^ ' . . -V•.*! • r ' ' ' A; II Harris was' aTTested' agam m j Atjanih; pn-W?cb-esday. charge'd v .wsLth, approving a fraudulent account against •n litely Itliht ^doesnr’t It is i 'thepen- itentiary would recuperate-the worried patriot?.—ShenBriaftiiTetfiL?' 1 " *'' ' aai'iZ;^ . Z‘> i-UDSt; -i. .v;--! ; ters of government certain great pnn- ImpIesui^^^y^Jri^^bat^ues- jtm! a short time. r * ago, in a rumor that; the -money re-. # ceived from the late sale of the ex-Em- differently at different periods of a pj^’s jwds..has ; J>een r conyi^t^ to’ th “ the purchase of- 350,000 Chassepots, which were captured by the Prussians ^ * *'Tjde,,and^Pi^P.aSi^£.by some means were conveyed to the ists. The Paris letter giving tth^-YSohis Napoleon is selling proper- r fry to n large: exten t,^andMiiat these To Teachers, and the Trade gcnei^; way through. out France. Mrs. Partington entered the office of the Probate Judge (called “civil ian,”).-and. inquired .-in- her blandest tone: ‘■‘Do you said the Judge.' “Yes,” replied the afoStble pld lady.-'f'my toother died ideas of^oi detested, and foft three infidel chil- 1 ” dren, and I’m tribe their executioner; so I wai about it TRe .Sage of LibertyHxriL.. ■ ! 3aib'erty'Hril—well named, for ev- :X-' 'pia« -VSUU- i'AS ->7. ayionet i meets .with' .a hearty welcome and is made tor feel at. 'contend for. these principles as.long as - rivri W** 1 b4itvVl"i^ J Zxi 41-1 Q Anfol* nnvii K/,i Ltrtn J It is a neatly [painted residence, bu: after the olden 'style, sithated within "shaded lawn sober judg by the Ame Is THE WoBLD GnOWEfG BETTEB. The solicitude displayed^ by Queen Victoria during The illness' of her son, _ recalls (by the doctrine of- opposites) instapc^^>fia-puaifwho, ander -siipilar. fTHe conduct .of ;the ; Qheen. of-‘England circumstances, has accomplished so much hi the matter of mental labor as .fNP^" : age, he labors with the same constan cy and zeal That die always manifested; He: is engaged at present.in preparing a history "of the United States, desigh- for $ie.use to schools; bat in eyeiy way adapted to the minds of older persons. Nearly half of ; the volume has passed through the publisher’s hands. He has written to the' time of Mr. Taylor’s administration.. There: cannot be found a more proper person to 'do tins work than tie; 1 As a lawyer his career was brilliant, but, his wa^a mind constituted for a statesman. He early entered into political life, and for near three decades has been con nected with the United .States Gov ernment. He has emphatically spoken, acted andlived bistoiy.. He is full of knowledge, has never forgotten any thing, has ever been a close student, has no*prejndice Or bins. This history will," therefore, be truthful, impartial, fair, and-just... It should be . well re ceived, and will no doubt be a ! great Success. Who ever spends a day at his hospi table mansion- ’rill be- impressed with this wonderiuVppwer tie possesses. His thorough acquaintance with the prom inent characters his" day, their charac teristics, their abilities, and their pub’- lic acts makes his remarks upon them tainiug. When a member of TJongress ;he was h . w.orkingj ipember always ; at, this place,-to committee.or House,, ex~ foept-when pTrevented by sickness, 'and - ever jva.tchfnl and devoted .to his du ties. He soughtnotoffieeto enjoy, the hqnbr teflected'from’ the position,' but his desire ofostd hiake“^iq'offiee .tear pectuble. Entrusted by his constitu ency to reprusent'theni and their in-, terest, he never .neglected.th?™; Sq freedom from bigotry by acknowledg ing iniSte^es.'and when crises have aris- ■en- was always ready to advocate such principles as were suited to-the Times. ; Many- people whose minds were not of that character to graspiithese ques tions and to understand the bearing : of : great issues were ready ttf charge hi'm to a country. Those who never change with a change'of tidies,' ! and circum- cry of -‘inconsistency against tnem, and therefore hesitate tado.theitdnty as they know it. A man is not a de- ria w error when convinced. and be tween so X want to instilt the civil villian - ■ objects of Mr. Stephens' admi- acd love. Aw j this.reason' that he stands e advocate of those venerated 'orefathers and the oppo nent of centralization and aU other in novations wtiidr^Terid- to break down and.^ destroy .till, the good- that was in the Constitution of our country. In these d-iys,.-whien policy is the Order of ttie times, he is styled a “Bourbon. But whatever may be said pf- liim, he never : abtmdon his line. ^. Ha.rill rents, are again made np eople they ri)) be ■ A Mad Elephant.—A story cames ■from India of a - mad ' elephant, which Ifor many yeAM has-been'thA'-terror of. a tract in - the | ■‘Central-- Provinces. ” About Twenty years since the animal escaped, and -killed i in .that -period some.eighty-or>h hundred human til ings. Some of the carcasses, it is said' the j e!ephant- devoured, but; this is questionable,; as bciug contrary to the habite^fj creature. - > The, mopster,, was niore dreaded than, any ‘,‘man eat ing tigers, ’’^ince the houses of the na- tives lire no protection the elephant des troying houses to get at the inmates. The savage-beast- was--hunted:a*id- kill— 39> officially asserted that if the claims ediin Decemher.last hyariEnglishioffi- cerat the head of a-party of natives. The Goverbtiieid -tewart^ one - hun dred dollars, was divided among the natives. > r ' one hundred years ago, when her'eldest son- l^’ , -”‘dyin^ "-'at’Ciit^sfSr Castle.— Fredericlt Louis,, sop ptiG^o^ge ll; by Carolinel his wife, had for years been pt,daggers diawn ri*’) 1 his parents.— He was strongly-suspected of' plotting Hgainst bis father’s life, and the dislike of . either father or son was a sure pass port to the favor of other. A short time before his.d.eath,.his fond mother wrote to Lord -Hervey as follows: “My- dear 'Lord^ I will give it to you under- my hand r if yon are in any fear of- my relapsing, that my dear first-born is the greatest ass; the greatest liar, j and the greatest canaille, and the greatest beast in the world; and I heartily wish he was out of it'” When, shortly af terwards, he went but of-it, ttie joy eir hibited at'the Court of St. James was shameless. The contrast between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is a sharp one.—Chicago Tribune: ". Dead Heads.—This is a term that oftim.es is applied to editors and re porters. meaning that they ar e ndinit- tedri^the exhibition orAwliUteserit may be, for their looks, because they be long to the jytffiug profession, and ma ny jfthetitttbmkihg-totiew^ them, .to be a favored class of persons that have the rightto go-where they: may like, without coming- under the rtquire- meuts of “Other perso ns; -j u t! what,’ are the facts? Suppose an entertainment " was to be given (to illustrate), and that the editor is dead-headed.to the amount of four tickets! which sell at twenty-fiye cents a. piece, that is one; dollar. -The entertainment is to be puffed, and a: •jpon-must tie hirri: to;jvrite, .a compos-’ itor to set it, and' a proof reader to four tickets over four dollars. This is C fact, to say nothing~of the sp ace R occupies in the paper, which makes as much mora' gHepce|where p«ny • jone ! can get it for twenty five cents, he (because he is an editor), must pay about five dollars, and then, wear the beautiful title of dead head to boot.— It is a fine thing. O! -tiud;this is;dice?. :How we-iove tvidder—add the tieantifnl sdow— the rigrinff of berry bells-^ttie log icigles insistencies,:®pd -.cveri, : to |, on % corffices.—add, az r “Jacked” to le^Sons upon him. "Silt ’fidely eggzpresses id; “The frosd shower he never falter^, j Be. went straight forward to the worii before him. If his-conrictrbns’tifbughT' about-'a- sep5P)' bbsfc charbig, lovely and beautiful of all ration from old political associates, he bnrst the bonds which' borurd tbenr the seasods. Dode -ypu thig so? -Whad if .wudtiad a liddle r cold id iz’ head, so that- one’s doze is stobbed np. You caddot expect that this- worldwill have.dothing id, ffit budfuu caid you ? Do indeed! ' « Scandal for .Lariiex- :.w:i; ont. An.- ardent believer in leap ye ar, down in Connecticut-, visits her belov- ed. every, Sunday night, and goes home in the wee sms’ hoars. Gliistier, an aeronaut, says that the voice of a woman can tie heart!-in a balloon when at the-height-bf two miles while that of a man cannot be . heard when higher, than a mile.- Anew York paper has-nominated Powers’ “Greek Slave”- for the -Pres- -1 L -1. - . . e 'to the greatest number, are the idency, because she has three of the a fin ely chiseled’nose, .and a silent tongue.' Opelika, Ala., has created a new sensation by.the hew leap-year.' mode of eating philopenas in that place os reported by the editor of the Locomo tive. The young lady takes the al mond between her teeth and the young man bites it off. A Washington letter, of ttie 7th insteat, in tire Baltimore . .Gazette, 'say? 1 . B J .. : . ^ The position taken! by gentleman, closely connected with the administra tion of the Government is: That tti British High Commissioners perfectly' understood the views of the American High Commissioners, in the negotia tion 6i the Treaty- of ' Wakhingtbri; both from its terms and the ;; assertion in .the protocol,'and' that therefore onr' Government is altogether justified'to presenting the case as it lias-^-claini- ing consequential damages." to case ■the Board of Arbitrators 1 shall ' : n i rif awarff a’gress sum, to satisfaction -'of. the so-called Alabama- Claims; this: Government is willing to stand; by The decisiofi of t h e AEbittotors:; It is known that- the British Commissioners- had full power, they-frequently con sulted their. Home; Government, -and acted in accordance with ite,.,wishes in all they did. ; The great unknown—people who never'advertise; i Some people say there is no wit in a pitoJj it is a no pun. questio;;. -The. “cegsns,” it is said embraces seventeen million wo men. W h o wouldn’t boa census?” A ,cook advertises'-for. a situation, and added: ‘-‘No objection to dress ing children.” Horrible! William Shakespeare lives in Ala bama, and at the corner grocery he is celebrated as amellow-drammer. . The best way to improve the lot of woman Is to put a good house on it, afid si good man in ttie house. A clergyman forbade any further 'cbritributions Hnder five cents, saying thbt “the widow’s .mite business is played out heri,” Affairs in grease—fried oysters.— Autumn leaves—when winter comes for consequential damages, had not been presented; and was not to be pass ed upon, There might be a . .complaint by the .people of ThejUnited ^States, that provisions were.made for a partial .settlement only.pf the difference be tween,the two countries. Such -diaims were,' therefore, .presented ,for a- jftil settlement in the interest of peace and to preclude future dispute.. This Gov ernment has not yet received; the jtexti 'of, tire letter from Lorel ' Granvilie tri GenerarSbtiencb," and therefore, ’can not take official action upon it. ‘There is no probability whatever that our Grirttriuiirit trill rithdraw any part of its statement of the case, but will leave the British Government, to pur sue its otrii course, or the, tribunal of arbitrators to act in the premises ac cording to the treaty - stipulations. Nor is it likely that our council-,will take any action in order to ; accommo date-the-British Government; i. The correspondent of The Sun,, in' his dispatch ofrthe 8thsays the excite-, ment that continues to; London’ over ttie American case submitted-To-Ithe Geneva conference - is not 'responded to, at least in -Washington where all extraordinary interest >-to' The 1 matter, seems to have ceased from the fact- that the whole issue-is looked upon; as.- a question of the construction. of the, terms of the Treaty, and therefore a matter for the arbitrators to. decide. It is stated, by members of the Ca,b- inet that The claim for consequential damages, was placed, in. the.case for one reason, if for np. other,.to. order .to make it complete and not leave it open to the charge t)bat it. was ; prty>a-part^ai presentation of the text, of Earl Granville’s dispatch’re ex pected by mail. The tenor “o£j It is neither a demand for a. wiridrawal of the case her' a sriggestiohYor a niodi-' -fication of it: Vailh^efy'ii ’ statehient; It is belifeved - that ttie British' €hjv- erhmehTdid not : understandThat' the consequential claims were : tb be • sub mitted. . .-to -*• - the new apportionment bill, .ghfos prac- jSxtnres in the. composing room; From A 60’t& ‘70i persons 7 are'thresh out of employment by the disaster;—Ndsh- vtite Banner: to .to --tt- It seems that ttie Illinois Republic ans arc falling into line iritti the Tbwu and. Missouri Republicans, in opposi tion to Grant’s renomination, the pop ular tiranch of- the .General Assembly having, passed the ■ one-term . resolu tions, &iid denounced President Grant for sending troops to Chicago. A celebrated Frencli preacher, in a ■ , - -- - ' ' - .-- : who has been disobedient to her hus band, and in order to point tier out I will throw my breviary at-, her head.” He lified his Book and -every, female head instantly ducked. erto utterly unknown to the i of The country. He has been to watch, and to follow np day day, without ceasing, a paroqnek, some other strange bird until lie 1 secured his prize. Nets, bird to. traps, and robbeiy on the roost, wq^ ' the means employed by him in captri 1 ring his feathered treasures. And nev er were they known to fail r This protracted lifeinlhe woods and close association with the beasts and birds, gradually trails formed this A traveler writes home from Paris “The wordXhave stood most in need of since my arrival here is the French for dgmjL”; . An old lady thinks, the Bonds must ■be a-; family of .strong religions in stincts, because she hears of many of them being converted. “The roaring, rollicking, red-hot and recUeyed'rooster who edits the Ander son Herald,” called on another Indi ana editor last week.’ Another old lady has taken her first ride in the cate, and remarked when tire train ran off the track, “Yon fetch up rather.snddeii'; don’t ye?” Miss Anna Dickinson makes it ev ident that Joan bf Arc was not of the same family with Noah of Ark. In fact they had no'ah acquaintance. A lady .tells us that when she was a poor little girl, living in the country, she used toplant corn “in her bare feet- ” This imparts a new idea of the' origin of those troublesome things growing on our teies. Dr-. Greeley lately paid a visit to. Danbury, .Conn., and hearing that the villagers haul just made 8,000 pounds of cheese from sixteen cows, started im mediately for the slaughter house to witness the operation. To ML J. M.: We must decline to print your poem on “A drowned boy. ’’ Ip the first verse you speak of your subject-as “floating on the water,” and in.the second as “lying on bis bier.” Which is it water or bier. Molly, shut the door; it’s getting awful cold in here!” was the remark of an Albany' husband, as he hong his coat on 1 a hitching-post and prepared .to. retire on the curbstone, under the impression that he had arrived at home.. . !-a A man in D^bbnry discovered that powder , fried(in -lard was good for boUs,. JHe. tried ’it' \ The stoye^over is in. .^le ysecond stoty now, though most of the rest-of thesteve has been collected. He-was. deceived in his lard, he says. • ... There,is a girl in Boston wh-° bias tieep;-.'engaged, 7 at to£(e rea t i times to fifteen different men, , and calculates. The Chndhhaff'iEnquirerein.nofedingiLt^ti^b^^ 1 '^®! 0 ! kisses sherearired .frem-tlrent wo.nld ; amount to a. larger tical:figures showing.The changes that| ^toere qre dollars in the have Been .forte since -ldfOin the -;dis- tribahon of political .power are strik ing in the. extreme. - -In 1840. the efghp States of New^Yqrk, Maine, Pennsylva nia, New Hampshire, Yprjqont... .Con necticut, Virginia and.'V^est Virginia, and Massachusetts, had , 1ip ,elee,tos; the-. new-apijortiqwisri ;them only 112, -The eight States ofHlinois, Missouri, Wisconsin. Iowa, Michigan, Indiana, Minnesota, and Ohio had on ly 42! electors in 1840; now they have ill. Here are. nine Eastern States An: old Bachelor who sent a lock of bishair andhismome (as Miss Bettie rBrown) to ias Bdston clairvoyant, re ceived the fojlqwmg- “You will. mar ry a railroad conductor -.in less than a year, have , five children; and ;die . in cliild-bed of the sixth!”.. ,, Secretary Fisk- and President Grant 'wore ehjbyiiig^ll^tilk' together,: The; other day; 'when'-Fish volunteered to telPA’story, which he commenced as follows! “It is related”—“Is it?” in- wtitoe represe'qtatibrihakbeen'’edticed termpted'Giant. “We must look, up from lil fb iT2. ThiiTy ' years ' £t go' -’ r ' — J '- J - I ‘'t**-'— » - ” • they had a majority, lacking one,”' of” one hundred votes; -' ihfey-how hi majority of but one vote. -Westward the star of empire takesdteTiray.! ;-*i' -4i> In thc receut fire of the .Methodist A Kansas paper’s cow obituary was: “T&ereJ^nob a^fOrm' .wagon in the country that she has not stolen some- thiogirpfo; mat a- gate in'the town that ‘she.has.not opened; and The stones that hqve.heen. thrown at her would Publishing House in Nashville; ,on-i.the. md-P five miles of turnpike. 4th instant,:theJossiinfhfri stereotype)]; “-Atie^itiore ^inqdties dug up. A piciie; from the jar on which tlie door ..-i. >.... «r, wy* ~A s hnife 5 winch the man- cut ranee. It is estimated that from S10,(XX). stlck , dt h when the constable was af- to $lS00d was sustainedonthe type and. . '. ; K „ ran t, nt Biography of the man who by the fall of a shadow.— The crust of a magpie. A rafter from the roof 'of ttie-month. A little girl remarked to her mamma, on going to bed “I am not afraid of the dark.’ r “No, of course you are not.’.’repiied her mamma, “for it.ean’t the pantry to get a,tart.” “What were you afraid of?” asked her mamma. “I was afraid I could not find the tart.” a \~ 1 A newly-married couple went to sleep with a revolver under their pillows for fear of rats. In the night the husband, with the remark, “Yillian you shall never harm my Araminta,” blew Ar- erally.beiieved she has a glass eye,, of whore existence he had no previous intimation. or wild man and, strange to say, his very physical appearance underwent a change, and his natural taste and appe tites also. The writer has seen him with a pocket full of grate-hoppers, which he would eat like sugar plums or bon bons. Lizards, locusts, and even ser pents; were dispatched in the pm™ way. Indeed, among.his other silvan per- snits, the capture of snakes was a fa vorite pastime. Armed with a forked stick only,- we have seen this man crawl on all-fonrs through a covered ditch forty feet widefilled with ooze and slime, in quest of the deadly moccasin. When encountered, after pinning the reptile’s head to the earth, he wonld seize it by the neck, and inserting a coarse cloth into its month so 'as to cover the fangs, forcibly extract them with a sharp jerk. They were then carefully placed in his bosom for shel ter and safe keeping. We have seen him stand with the heads and forked longues of several huge serpents thus bestowed darting abont his cheek and face, with a broad grin upon his semi- barbarous countenance. But this was not aD;our carniverons biped wonld devour those writhing monsters, with horrible gusto, alive, and squirming as he tore the flesh with his teeth—scores of living witnesses will attest • this fact He was even tempted to make this diabolical tasta a matter of profit, and actually adver tised to eat living serpents in the cities of Charleston and Savannah, in the latter of which he was arrested for the brutality of-the performance. What way does the infant first take to? The milky way. Why is an old pocket handkerchief like on old ship? Because it has ex perienced many a hard blow. If the hair of a dog is good fox his bite, is not the sulphur which comes from Vesuvius, good for eruptions? What is the difference between the town clock and Governor Bullock?— One peals from the steeple and the other — . White negroes (Blafards) are occa sionally fonnd in all parts of ttie East Indies. They are true Albinos and are perfectly white; not like the Caucasian, race, but are . the color of muslin or ; paper, witn not a speck of red on any part of their bodies. They have per fectly white hair, crisp and curly, like that of the dark negroes. They are generally weak* and often imbecile.— Their eyes are weak and unable to stand a strong light Their features are of the ptrong negro cast. They are generally barren. The latest story is that William Morgan, who was always supposed to have been che victim of the great Free* masonry excitement, escaped to Texas and married an Indian girl, and that Cochise, is his son. The Radical factions are- with each other everywhere, and arc theas bitfer as they well can be. In Ne- braska is the latest squabble, where. Senate has declared ttie office of Gov ernor vacant, and ordered a new ela tion, The dissolution of the Radical party is inevitable, and the shove.ac tions are but shadows cast before tiio coming event. The unnumbered evils _ brought upon o nr country since in po w- The fools are not all deed The pro prietors of the Bussell Sonse. trait, were offered five hnndre. for the bedstead on which Alexis ' 5 bered, and the’ chamber-mn bribed in almost untold amoui fashionable dress maker sheets. She said she w up into handkerchiefs 311 —em to the bon ton. never nurtu utjr atiiuuutit, urew -ax- t tepaicu, X-— . . ,t- 3 annnta’s back hair out through the dignation;..‘tLhae a f 0 * - roof of her mouth. He pretends to be overwhelmed with grief, bnt it is gen- A Fifeshire man recently took child to the minister to be bap.: who asked him, “Are you prepares ret so solemn and imp 01 * 31 * 1 a n o ceas1011 . “Prepared,” be echoed, with some m- bakia’, two iianis, aU t , bess Highland wbuskry, an Iwat- token what better pep: ’-tion ; * r % * u * pock frae a man l re lit#?'’ •