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BY S. B. SANDEESVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 1852. VOL. YI--NO: 19. THE CENTRAL GEORGIAN IS PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY MORNING, TERMS : If paid strictly in advance, per year, $1 50 If not paid at the time of subscribing, $2 00 These terms will be strictly adhered TO, WITHOUT RESPECT TO PERSONS, AND ALL SUBSCRIPTIONS WILL BE REQUIRED TO BE SET TLED UP EVERY YEAR. Advertisements not exceeding twel /e lines, will be inserted at'orce dollar for the first in sertion, viTid fifty cents for each continuance. Advertisements not having the number of in sertions specified, will be published until for bid. Sales of Land and Negroes by Executors, Administrators and Guardians, are required by law to be advertised in a public gazette forty days previous to the day of sale. The sale of Personal Property must be ad vertised in like manner at least ten days. Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an es tate iz ust be published forty days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of ordinary for leave to sell Land and Negroes, must be published weekly for two aionths. Citations for letters of administration, must □e published thirty days—for dismission from ldministration, monthly for six months—for dis mission from Guardianship, forty days. Rules for foreclosure of Mortgage must be published monthly for four months—for estab lishing lost papers, for the full space of three months—for compelling titles from Executors or Administrators, where a bond has been giv en by the deceased, the full space of 3 months. Publications will always be continued ac cording to these, the legal requirements, unless otherwise ordered. All letters on business must be vost-paid POETRY. THE OL1> HOUSE. There’s a spot that I love, there’s a home that I prize Far better than any on earth ; It is bound to my heart by the holiest of ties; And I prize, oh ! how fondly, its worth— ’Tis not beauty nor splendor, endears it to me, Oh no ! for its grandeur hath flown ; But ’tis fondest affection that binds me to thee My old house—my dear happy home ! Oh ! home—what dear magic in that sweet sound : How closely it speaks to the heart; What a world of deep tenderness in thee is found; Oh ! who from such treasure could part ? Could barter the joys of a sweet home of love, For a patli in a strange world unknown; Could seek for vain pleasures and heartlessly rove, If they knew the real value of home l Some sigh to be wealthy, some seek to be great, Some envy what others ~an do ; But oh! I am content with my lowly estate, For the hearts all around me are true; And ties that are nearest and dearest to me, And hearts that are truly mine own, With fondest affection now bind me to thee, My old house—my dear happy home ! ’Zacfely So. The man that now a-days will write And not pre-pay his letter, Is worser than the heathens are, What don’t know any better,— And if you take a fine tooth comb, And rake down “all creation,” You couldn’t find a meaner man In this here mighty nation. MlSCELLANEO US. and the elephants was unharnessed, and the Car of Jugglenct was into a woodshed. I made up my mind right off, then, that the hull consarn was a humbug.’! “Was Barnum aware,” I asked, “thatyou were to be in town?” “Not as I know,” was the answer. “If he had known it,” added the Major, “he would doubtless have waited. But you visited the exhibition, I suppose?” “Of course; I was bound to do that, if it bust me. That was a bigger humbug than all the rest.” “How so!” “Why, in the first place, I expected to see Jenny Lind.” “Was she announced in the bills?” “I don’t know; I didn’t read ’em, but I axed the man that stuck up the pictures if she’d be there, and he said yes, and that she would sing the bird song standin’ on top of a cage of coccatoos and parrots. She wan’t there, and I never seen one side of her—and then I know’d the whole consarn was a darned humbug. “Well, then, I went round and took a look at the elephants—had hard work to get round, tu; there was mor’n a hundred thousand people in the tent. Finally I got where they was, and the folks was all feedin’ ’eni with apples and cakes and things. I had some doughnuts in my hat, so I held it out to one of the darned things, to see if he’d take one?” “Did he take one?” “He took ’em all, and the hat tit, stuck ’em in his nasty, peaked mouth, and begun eatin.’ I hollered to the keeper, and told him it was a bran new hat. He said never mind, he’d get it again.” “Did he get it?” “Yes, he got it, but a hat ain’t of much account after an elephant’s chawed it. Then, I’d a sworn the hull consarn was a humbug. Well, I took a look at Tom Thumb, and the Cevlong Chief, and the man that fiddled with his toes, and the feller that went with the lions. The wild animals was all well enough, but I didn’t see as they looked any different from anybody else’s. I expected Barnum’s lions, would be twice as big as any others. There was one thing, though, that was fust-rate; that was the wax statua- tary—especially the “intemperance family.” I told the man that tuk care of it, I wished everybody that ever drinked a drop of sper rits had to stand and look at that about a week—-they’d never want to drink again He said he wished so tu. “Take it all in all, though, I was mad; 1 didn’t see what I expected, and I didn’t like the idea of being humbugged, so I enquired of one of the men that was stirrin’ up the monkies where Barnum was, and he point ed him out to me, selling lemonade out of a wagon. I went up to him, and, thinks I, “I’ll give him a piece of my mind.” Sez I— “Mr. Barnum——” THE MAN THAT GOT HUMBUGGED. The stage in which I was a passenger had stopped to change horses, and “feed” the passengers, at a small town in Vermont, and dinner over, we were awaiting the ar rival of a stage upon an intersecting route, to proceed upon our journey. Cigars had been lighted, and, by way of passing our time, we had commenced a critical exami nation of the mammoth pictorial posters of Barnum’s Menageries, which covered the walls of the spacious bar-room, name opened a fruitful topic of conversa- 1 tion; every one present seemed stored with anecdotes of the “Napoleon of Showmen,” and the Wooily Horse, the Feejee Mermaid, and Joice Heth, were not forgotten in the discussion which followed. Suddenly a long, slab-sided individual, “Sixpence a glass,” sez he. “I looked at his lemonade; there was just one lone, solitary, second-handed slice of lemon in a whole wash-tub full of it, and he peddlin’ it out at sixpence a glass. That made me madder than all the rest, so says I, loud and audibly— “Mr. Barnum, I think your show’s a darned humbug.” “Young man,” sez he, “I s’pose you paid to come in?” “Supposin’ I did?” sez I. “Well,” sez he, “supposin’ you have; you have paid your quarter, and you’ve a perfect right to think just what you please.” “Why,” said the Major, after the sensa tion caused by the recital had somewhat subsided, “why did you not demand your money back? You certainly could have compelled them to refund your quarter.” “You see the truth is,” said Jonathan scratching his head, “I didn’t pay no quar ter—/ crawled in \under the canvass.— Spirit of the Times. Salt as a Laxative.—Here is what the “Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery’ Barnum’s I sa y S about common salt as a useful and mild laxative: “Without any experience in regard to the febrifuge powers of the chloride of sodi um, we can speak with great confidence of its efficacy, in habitual constipation. Of all the laxatives we have ever tried, we w havE found this to act most pieasantlv, uni- with an owl-like expression of wisdom and formly, and naturally. Where the only ob- V * * A 11 m l. n /l 1% A a tA 1 1 a m « v\ a. 4- a a 11 tt wa * i * i 1 1 * 1 J a. a 4 In a a A n f AtV fo At" I n A nA V XT _ {^CORRESPONDENCE OF THE BALT. SUN.] Escape of a Maryland Fugitive. Unworthy Evasion of the Fugitive Law New York, May 18. The first of the forewell concerts of Miss Jenny (Lind) Goldschmidt takes plaee to night, at the Metropolitan Hall, and from present indications there will be a large audience on the occasion. A most nefarious mancevre, on the part of sundry black and white abolitionists of this city, has just been made public, show ing how, through the aid of executive cle mency, a slave-owner of your State, Dr Allen Thomas, of Ellicott’s Mills, has been defrauded out of his rightful property in the person of a colored man, named Nicho las Dudley. Some three years since this slave ran away from his owner and came to this city, where, about a year afterwards he was arrested on the charge of robbery, In bis distress be thought of bis kind-hear ted master, and wrote to him, begging bis interference in his behalf. Dr. Thomas im mediately sent to New York and endeav ored to have the negro acquitted, in which he would doubtless have succeeded but lor the interference of an abolition lawyer, who pursuaded the negro to “plead guilty” to the charge, so that he might not go back to his master. The negro took his advice and wassentenced to the penitentiary for two years. Recently the master of that slave wrote to the Governor of this State to ascertain if the slave had been pardoned, and receiv ing a negative reply, immediately took the necessary legal steps to reclaim him on the expiration of his sentence, the 10th of the present month. One of the deputy mar shals, accompanied Dr. Thomas, arriving with the warrant at Sing Sing, two before the expiration of the convict’s time, greatly to their surprise they found that he had been pardoned and released that very morn ing, the abolitionists having procured pardon from the Governor as soon as they beard of the presence of Dr. Thomas in the city. The granting and execution of the pardon in such a secret and hasty manner, without any publication of the fact being made in any of the papers, as required by the law, would seem to leave the inference that his Excellency has lent himself a will ing tool to the nefarious efforts of the abo litionists to defraud the right owner of this slave out of his property and defeat the op erations of the fugitive slave law, but it may be that he was imposed on by the abolitionists. It is said that a speaker, at the abolition meeting held at the Taberna cle, in this city, a few days since, actually alluded to this affair, and boasted that Gov ernor Hunt had “freed the man from his enemies by pardoning him two days before his time was out.” dignity, who had been listening to our re marks with an evident desire to take a hand, broke out— “I s’pose you think that’s an all-fired big concern! Anybody would that hadn’t seen it.” “Then I suppose you have seen it?” said my legal friend. “Yeas, I seen it at Springfield,” was the replv; “it’s a darned humbug/” “Is it possible?” said the Major, seeing a prospect of fun. “Couldn’t you oblige us with a description of the “institution?” “Certainly,” answered Jonathan; “here’s the stage, and as soon as we get started, I’ll give you all the items. They can’t hum bug me very often, and when they do, I cal’late to advertise for ’em till I get square.” In a few minutes we were under head- . way, and our verdant friend commenced unbosoming himself. “Yer see, Barnum was a going to show his caravan down, to Springfield, Fourth - of July, and I thought there’d be a good chance to see the elephant and celebrate the day both atono’t. What I wanted to see more than all the rest was the Car of Jug- glenot, drawn by a string of elephants.” “Did it meet your expectations?” “I never seen one side of it. Before I got in-town, they’d got through paradin,” ject is the dislodge the contents of the bow els, it is all that physician or patient could de sire. Dysyeptics, sedentary persons, the subjects of the hemorrhoids, all in a word, who are troubled with costivness, will find the remedy a mild and sure cathartic, emp tying the bowels freely without nausea, ir ritation, or exhaustion. We direct it to be taken before breakfast, from two to three drachms, dissolved in two or three tumblers of cold water. The same dose continues to act from year to year, without diminution of effect.” jjggr A daring villain, entered the resi dence of Harvey Seymour, of Rochester, New York, while Mrs. Seymour was alone and engaged in ironing-in the kitchen. The lady saw him first by her side, with a large knife in his hand, with which he threatened to kill her, if she did not tell him where the money was kept. Retaining her presence of mind, she told him to wait till she could rock her babe, which the noise had awoke. The cradle stood beside a louqge and as she got to the lounge she drew a pistol, and told him to leave, or she would shoot him. He cried out, “Don’t shoot,” and jump ed out of the window.—Mrs. Seymour, on his departure, went into the next house, where her courage failed, and she fainted. “Scull your own Boat.” “When I see a young farmer, mechanic or professional man lounging away his time in a bar-room, or in places of fashionable resort, with a cigar in bis mouth, I think to myself-yoM had better be sculling your own boat! “When I see a young man talking loud ly about government and gin, colonels and cognac—corporals and cider—and giving evidence of his knowledge of them by abus : ing the former and frequently tasting the latter, I eannot help saying (to myself, of course,) if you have a boat, you had better scull it! “When I see a person'prying inquisitive ly into the affairs of others, guessing at what they do not know, and putting unfavorable constructions on the whole; I say, scull your own boat! “When I see a farmer at night patching up the fence by the side of his cornfields, and hear him the next morning driving his cattle from the same field, thinks I to my self, his boat won't stay sculled! “When I see a woman going about advo cating Woman’s Rights, with holes in the heels of her stockins, I cannot help saying, madam your, boat needs sculling, very much indeed! “When I see a young man mortgaging the whole or a part of his form, or other avail able property to get money to pay as boot in trading horses, or stakes lost gambling, lfeel very certain that some one else will scull his boat! “And when I see persons making a reg ular business of tattling, gossping, tale bearing, mischief-making, backbiting, scan dalizing, defaming and slandering their neighbors, in every possible manner, to such persons collectively and generally, and to each and every one individually and particularly, I say, scull your own boat!" jjgf*A gentleman recently from Afr ica while at one of the civilized colonies on the coast, met a young colored woman whom he had known in Old Virginia, who had ob tained her freedom for good conduct, and had emigrated to Liberia. “Where, are you traveling to, Mary?” said the gentleman. “I’m going down to the village on the sea shore. I’m tired of seeing niggar, niggar! I want to see some white folks?” “But are you doing well here?” “O, very well. I have four slaves who make palm leaf hats.” “Slaves, Mary! You emancipated, to have slaves in your own land?” “Oh, yes>” said she, with great simplicity,” must do as they do in Old Virginia.” Squeezing the wrist, the Philadelphia Dispatch affirms, is a certain remedy for hiccough. This mode of cure will be quite popular among the ladies, who will not belie vejthe cure efficacious unless the squeez ing is done by a gentleman. - Coronation of Emperor Soloque The New York Herald contains a detail ed account of the grand ceremony of the coronation of the sable Emperor of Hayti. It is represented to have been a most mag- nigeent affair, and was solemnized in the presence of the “dignity-rand wealth of the Eempire.” A correspondent of the N. Y. Express says: After the crowning of the Imperial hair, (wool lie should have said,) the solemn ben ediction and imposition of bauds, according to the rites of the Popish Church, the pro cession formed and moved towards the pal ace. The coronation of Napoleon was out shone in the cost and splender of the crown its jewels glittering like stars in the firma ment, and the number of nobles and mar shals far outnumbered those who danced attendance at St. Cloud; an I I am very doubtful ii Louis Napoleon’s coronationl wil exceed that of Soloque 1st. On the 25th, it is said that a new creation of nobilty will take place, to give the Emperor proper eclat. Business is entirely suspended, and will not resume until May 1st. The popu lation of the Island, you would imagine if here are congregated in this city, and over 20,000 persons are encamped outside. The Herald says:— As an appendix to this great coronation ceremony* we have heard on good authority, that the Emperor has already sanctioned the sending of an embasy to Lola montes, to solicit her hand for the prince bobo, whom she heretofore rejected. Preparations are being made on a grand scale, so that Lola will once more have the chance of play ing her favorite part in the character of Qeen. If Lola don’t pitch into the incorruptible editor of the Herald for that, then she’s not the woman we take her for. The editor con tinues in more sensible vein: The representation of this farce ought cer tainly to satisfy all creation that Hayti is a great EmTire—that Solopue and his dingy escort have proved themselves worthy of their royal bretheren in Europe; and that the negroes of San Domingo are good im itators of their more polished white breth ren living under imperial sway in Furope. The Havtiens are incapable of independant thougt or action, and merely burlesque the empty and meaning less parape of other natious. They are fast deteriorating in inteligence and civilization. The negroes of the British West India Islands are also tending towards the same poinr; and if their independauce were given to them by the English government they would soon have their Emperors, in the same way as Hayti.—African barbarism and European refiinement display such close similarity in these ridculous and silly exhibitions. Les extremes se touchent. A Temperance Joice.—Joe Harris was whole-souled merry fellow, and very fond of a glass. After living in New Orleans for many years, he came to the conclusion of visiting an old uncle, away up in Massachu setts, whom be had not seen for years. Now, Mr. Pick, you know the difference between New Orleans and Massachusetts, in regard to the use of ardent spirits, and when Joe arrived there and found all the people run mad about temperance, he felt bad, think ing with the ofd soug, that “keeping the spirits up by pouring the spirits down,” was one of the best ways to make time pass, and began to fear indeed that he was in a pickle. But on the morning of his arrival, the old man and his sons being out work, his aunt came to him and said— ‘Joe, you have been living in the South, and no doubt are in the habit of taking .a little something to drink about 11 o’clock. Now, I keep something for medicinal purpo ses, but let no one know it, as my husband wants to set the boys a good example. Joe promised thinking he would get no more that day, took, as he expressed it a “buster.” After that he walked out to the stable, and who should he meet but his un cle. "-v “Well Joe,” says he, “I expect you are accustomed* to drink something in New Orleans but you find us all temperance here, and for the sake of my sons. I don’t let them know I have any brandy about; but I just keep a little out here for my rheumatism. Will you accept a little?” Joe signified his readiness, and took a- nother big horn. Continuing his walk, he came to where the boys were mauling rails. After conversing awhile, one of his cousins said—-“Joe, I expect you would like to have a drink, and as the old folks are down on liquor we keep some out here to help us on with our work.” Out came the bottle, and down they sat, and he says by the time he went home to dinner, he was as tight as he could be, and all from visiting a temperance family. A Rich Case. Some years ago an Irishman was knock ed down and robbed. He accused a man of having committed the robbery ; in due time the case came up for trial. The Ir ishman being upon the stand, was cross-ex amined, after having sworn positively to the guilt of the prisoner, by one of .our keen lawyers, arid something like the fol lowing was the result: “You say that the prisoner at the bar was the man who assaulted and robbed you?” “Yes.” “Was it moonlight when the occurrence took place ?’, “Devil a bit of it.” “Was it starlight ?” “Nota whit; it was so dark that you could not have seen your hand before you.’ “Was there any light shining from any house near by ?” “Devil a bit iv house was there*any where about.” “Well, then, if there was no moon, no starlight and no light from any house & so dark that you couldn’t see even your hand before you how are you able to swear that the prisoner is the man ? How did you see him ?” “Well, your honor, when the spalpeen Interne (may the devil fly away wid him)the fire flew out of my eyes, so bright you might have seen to pick up a pin ; you could be jabers.” The court, jury, counsel and spectators, exploded with shouts at this quaint idea, and the prisoner was directly after declared not guilty. A Doctor as is a Doctor.—A country physician was called upon to visit a young man afflicted with the apploplexy. M. D. Bolus gazed long and hard, felt his pulse and pocket, looked at his tongue- and his wife, and finally gave vent to the following sublime opinion: “I think he’s a gone feller.” , “No, no 1” exclaimed the sorrowing wife “do not say that.” “Yes,” returned Bolus, lifting up his hat and eyes heavenward at the same time. ‘,Yes, I do say so ; there arn’t no hope not the leastest mite ; he’s got an attack of ni hill fit in his lost frontis ” “Where ?” cried the startled wife. “In his lost frontis, and he can’t be cured without some trouble and a great deal of pains. You see his whole planetory sys tem is deranged, fustly, his vox populi is pressin on his ad valorem; seconly his ca- facharpial cutaneous has swelled considera bly, if not more ; thirdly, and lastly his so lar ribs are in a concussed state, and he arn’t got any money, and consequently he is bound to die. Queer if True.—A correspondent in D— County, Ohio, relates the following iccident as occurring in a villagechurch in his neigh borhood: “At the close of the service, last Sunday the following announcement were made, with due solemitv by one of the fathers : “Prayer meeting at Brother Wood’s next Thursday evening, also, a ‘shooting match' at Brother Rahn’s on Christmas. We hope the lovers of the good cause, and good venison, will turn out generaly on both occasions. With respect to the latter we may remark: Brother Rahn is a worthy man, though poor, and any assistance in this wav will he thankfully received.’ “Annctual fact, without the slightest ex aggeration.’ The Pocket-Book' Scene First.—A young Gent discovered surrounded by bisiriends, who are jest ing with him, regarding his attentions to a certain young lady. Young Gent.—“Boys, I’ll just tell you how it is. You see I care nothing for the girl—it’s the old man’s pocket book that Pin after.” Chorus of Friends.—“Ha! ha! ha!” Scene Second.—A parlor. Time 11 o’clock, P. M. Young lady seated. Yotrag gent rising to depart. Hesitates as if bashful, and then slowly remarks: “Miss Matilda, excuse me, but you must be aware that my frequent visits—my at tentions—cannot have been without an ob ject—” Young Lady.—“Ah, yes, so I’ve heard, and shall only be too happy to grant what you desire. [ Takes from the table a paper parcel, and unfolding it displays a large old-fashioned, and empty morocco pocket- book.] This, I have been informed, is that object. Permit me to present it, and con gratulate you that you will in future, have no further occasion to renew these visits and attentions. Yqung Gent swoons. Does a Man own his Wife when she is Veadl—-A Curious case has been lately submitted to the civil tribunal of the Seine Ponis. M. Appert, a tradesman, demand ed that he should be declared entitled to the possession of the mortal remains of his wife, who died in 1827, and was buried in the Cemotry of Pere la Chaise. It was stated during the hearing, that though he had married a second time, he had made a point of annually visiting the tomb of the deceased wife, and that on going there on last All Soul’ Day, he was surprised to find the tomb demolished, and to learn that the coffin had been removed to the family vault of M. Legras, the deceased’s father. A good deal of learned argument was entered into as to whether the remains of a deceased female were the rightful proper ty of her husband or her father; the tribu nal finally decided in favor of the husband. It accordingly ordered that as it was desi rable not to disturb the repose of the dead. M. Appert should be declared proprietor of the uew tomb to which the remains of bis wile had been removed and that her father should be forbidden to have anything to do with it. It also condemned the father, M. Legras to the costs.—Exchange. Editor of the Washington Union.—A Washington letter says: Mr. Edmund Burke, of New Hampshire, formerly con nected with the Union, will, in all proba bility, become the editor and joint propri etor of that paper after the Presidential nominations; though General Armstrong objects to forming any new connection be fore that period. Mr. Burke is known throughout the country as the ablest polit ical writer on the Democratic side—a man who grapples with principles, and is able to argue his cause, instead of confini himself, as so many other partisan “ editors are wont to do, to a system of professional puffery of political friends, and malignant aspersions of political foes. He has never puffed a pigmy into a statesman, or enlarg ed upon the heroic virtues of a village Cae sar merely because that Caesar (God save the mark!) was a toady to his love. jSSP “John,” inquired a dominie of a hopeful pupil, “what is a nailor?” “A man who makes nails,” said John. “Very good. What is a tailer?” “One who make’s tails.” “O, you stupid fellow,” said the dominie, biting his lips, ,‘a man who makes tails.” “Yes, 1 master,” returned John, “if the The California Fugitive Slave Bill.— The bill which has passed the California Legislature in relation to fugitive slaves, provides for the surrender, to their original masters, of all colored people in California thus virtually repudiating the doctrine that California was a free territory by virtue of its old Mexican law, and that slaves could not be held there to service after the con quest. Mr. Van Buren, a member of the Legislature, who figured in New York at the last Presidential election as a free-soiler voted for it; while Mr. Broderick, formerly a New York hunker, bitterly opposed its pas sage. It is said there are no slaves in Cali fornia to which the bill will be applicable. The other day, while a fire was raging in tailor did not put tails to the coats he made j Detroit, a gentleman of prepossessing ap- they would be all-jackets!” j pearan.ee rushed for the Free Press office, - ■ " —“ j exclaiming in heart-rending tones to the gal- JES^An invincible wit and punster asked ■ lant firemen, “Gentlemen, for Heaven’s sake the captain oferaft, loaded wits boards, how j save the Bank—if that burns I am ruined; he managed to dinner on the passage. they have got my note locked up there.” “Why,” replied the seipper, “we always —— : — cook aboard” f An exchange tells of a- chap who “Cook a board, do you?”rejoined the wag j boasted that his father was a revolutionary “then T see you have beau well provided hero. It turned outthat the old gentleman with provisions this trip, at all events!” % had beenlong on the treadmill. Raising the Price of Board.-—At the time of General Taylor’s inauguration, a long tall, hungry, ungainly fellow, whose hands hung as low as his knees when he stood up- straight, made his appearance at Coleman’s and took lodgings. He sat pretty near the end of the table every day at dinner, and ate inordinately. Soup, fish, flesh, fowl, des ert, his enormous long arms kept sweeping round like the arms of a huge windmill, gathering in everything that fell within the arcs of a circle they described. His voracity and beastly gluttonny so disgusted'the other boarders, that, about a dozen of them went to Coleman and told him that he must get rid of the fellow or they would positivly quit the house. Coleman reflected a while, and finally thought he had hit upon a plan. So he took the fellow aside, and told him that, owing to the unusal crowd of people in the city, and plethora of every hoteKan board- ing-house, provisions bad become scarce and high, and he fond that he was loosing money, and should be compelled to raise the price of board, from two dollars and a half to three dollors a day. “Don’t” said the fellow, “don’t do it! I shall die if you do. It nearly kills me now to eat two dollars and a half’s worth and if you raise the price to th^ee dollars, I shall die in two please!” days. Don’t do it, if you I heard a good story the other day writes recently our friend and correspondent Carl Benson, from Paris, which may amuse you. The cure of Neverrnindwhere was called up in the middleof the night, to see a sick woman. “Well,ray good woman,” said he, “so you are verv ill, and require the consolations of religion? What can I do for you?” “No,’’replied the old lady, “l am not ve ry ill; I am only nervous, and can’t sleep.” “How can I help that?” asked the cure. “Oh, sir, you always put me to sleep so nicely when I go to church, that I thought if you would onlv preach a little for me '—?” They say that the cure swore; at any rate, he made “tracks” in less than no time. Lord North, during a severe sick ness, said to his physician, “I am obliged to you for introducing me to some old ac quaintances. “Who are they my lord?” inquired the doctor. “My ribs” replied his lordship, ’’which. I have not felt for many years until now.” They have got a machine for killing bed bugs, up in Coanecticut. It goes by steam one wheel catches them by the nose, anoth er draws their teeth, and a neat piston rod punch arsenic down their throats.' Green peas are plentiful at the South and the editors there delight to torment their Northern brethren with accounts of the delicate repasts, they have m ade upon the luxury. Here, as Patrick Henr y said, “gentleman may cry peas, peas but there is no pease- Yankee Blade.