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POETRY.
^j^jFECTINAJ STANZAS.
Bre-.t es there a m m w't i soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
VV Iiu uevex . . . . . j
When he had heedless hlfc J,g h ^ rP »
Or who, when shaving in
Hath gashed his chin with razor old
And could this powerful word withhold,
“Thunder !”
Or who, on ice or slippery stone, „
Hath fallen and jarred his -crazy hone,
And not exclaimed with
When one’s suspenders give away,
Whilst dancing brisk with Lulu* l.V*
the man that can help but say
“Thunder!”
Where is
’Tis a convenient interjection,
To use at news of lost election,
Depending on the Texian
Or when one’s notes or bills fa.l due,
And banks are hard and won t renew,
In saying there’s comfort true
“Thunder!”
Or when one’s bent on writing rhymes,-
And tries In vain a hundred times,
How well this word with anyxhim^-
In short when things have gone past bear
ing,
All into threads one’s patienee tearing,
Say this, ’tis better far
Prayer.
Prayer is the incense oft he soul
The odor of the flower,
And rises on the waters roll
To God’s controlling power . ^
Within the soul there would not De
This infinite desire ,
To whisper thoughts m prayer to Thee
Hadst Thou not Tit the hre.
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth
To Thee, whose love divine
Steals gently down like dew to soothe,
Or like the sunbeams shine;
For in the humblest soul that lives,
As in the lowliest flower;
The dew-drop back His image gives,
The soul reflects His power !
At night, when all is hushed and still,
And ’e’en soft echo sleeps,
A still small voice doth o’er me thrill,
And to each heart-throb leaps ;
It is the spirit-pulse which beats.
Forever deep and true;
The atom with its Author meets,
As sunlight greets the dew!
MISCELLANEO US.
MY FIRST FEE.
Seven long yearning years had now elap
sed since, with the budding anticipation of
youthful hope, I had assumed the lugubn
ous insignia of the bar. During that dread
ful time, each morn as old St. Giles tolled
the hour of nine, might I be seen insinua
ting my emaciated figure within the pene
tralia of the Parliament house, where be-
gowned and bewigged, and with the zeal of
a Powell or a Barclay, I paced about until
two^ These peripatetic practices had well
nigh ruined me in Wellingtons, and latter
ly. in shoes. Mv little Erskine was in pawn,
while my tailor and my ^landlady threw out
most damning hints of their long bills and
longer credit. I dared not understand them;
but consoled myself with the thought, that
the day would come when iny tailor would
cease fiis dunning and my landlady her
clamor.
I had gone the different circuits,: worn and
torn my gown, seated myself in awful con
templation on the side benches, maintained
angry arguments on legal points with some
more favored brother, within earshot of a
wily writer. In fine, I had resorted to ev
ery means that fancy could suggest, or ex
perience dictate; but as yet my eyes had
this was denied. I might be said to be, as
yet no barrister; for what is at; lawyer with
out a fee? A nonentity! a shadow! To my
grief, I seemed to be fast verging to the lat
ter; and I doubt much whether the “An!t-
toifiie vivantee” could have stood the com
parison—so much had feeless fast fed on
my flesh. I cannot divine the reason for
this neglect of my legal services. In my
own heart, I had vainly imagined the suffi
ciency of my tact and sublety in unraveling
a nice point; neither had I been wanting in
my attention to my studies; for heaven and
my landlady can bear witness that my con
sumption of coal and candle . would have
sufficed ally two ordinary readers. There
was not a book or treatise on law which I
had not dived into—I was insatiable in
literature ; but the world and writers seem
ed ignorant of my brain-belaboring system,
and sedulously determined that my feeling-
propensities should not be gratified. Never
did I meet an agent either in or out of
court, but my heart and hand felt a pleas-
ng glow of hope and of joy at the prospect
of pocketing a fee; but how often have
they turned their backs without even the
mortifying allusion to such a catastrophe !
How often have I turned round in whirling
ecstasy as I felt some seemingly patronising
palm tap gently on my shoulders, with such
a tap as writer’s clerks are wont to use; but,
oh, ye gods! a grinning wretch merely ask
ed me how 1 did, and passed on! Nor were
my legal friends more kind. There was
an old gentleman, who, I knew (for I had
made it my business to enquire) had some
thoughts of a law-plea. From him I re
ceived an invitation to dinner. Joyfully, as
at all times, but more so on this occasion,
was the summons obeyed. I had laid a
train to introduce the subject of his wrongs
at a time which might suit best, and with
this plan I commenced my machinations.
The old fox was too cunning even for me—
he too had his plot, and had hit upon the
expedient of obtaining my opinion without
a fee!—the skinflint! Long and doubtful
was the contest—hint succeeded hint, ques
tion after question was put, till at last my
entertainer was victorious, and I retired
crestfallen and feeless from the field! By
the soul of Erskine, had it not been for his
dinners, I should have cut him for ever 1
Still I grubbed with this one, cultivated an
acquaintance with that, but all to no pur
pose—no one pitied my position. My tor
ments were those of the damned ! Hope
(not the president) alone buoyed me up-
visions of future sovereigns, numerous as
those which appeared to Banquo of old, but
of a better and more useful kind, flitted be
fore my charmed imagination. Pride, pov
erty,.and starvation pushed me on. What,
Said 4,\shall it be hinted that I am likely
neither, to have a fee nor a feed?—tell it not
in the First Division—publish it not in the
Outerhouse!—All my thoughts were rive
ted to one object—to one object all my en
deavors were bent, and to accomplish this
seemed the ultimatum of bliss. Often have
I looked with envy upon the more favored
candidates for judicial fame—those who
never return to their domicile or their din
ner,,hut to find their tables groaning with
briefs? How different from my case! My
case? What case? I have no case!—Not
one fee to mock its own desolateness! Months
and months passed on—still success came
not! The hoped for event came not—res
olution died within me—I formed serious
intentions of being even with the profession.
As the profession had cut me, I intended to
have cut the profession. In my wants, I
would have robbed, but my hand was with
held by the thought, that the jesters of the
stove might taunt me thus—“He could not
live, so he died, by the law.” I have often
thought that there is great similarity be
tween the hangman and the want of a fee—
the one is the finisher of the law, and the
other of lawyers!
Pondering on my griefs, with my feet on
the expiring embers of a sea-coal fire, the
chair in that swinging position so much
practiced and approved in Yankee Land—
the seat destined for a clerk occupied by my
cat, for I love every thing of the feline spe-
cies—-my cogitations were disturbed by an
application for admittance at the outer-dpor.
It was not the rat-tat of the postman, nor
the rising and falling attack of the m anof
fashion, but a,compound of both, which ev
idently bespoke the knockee unaccustomed
to town. I am somewhat curious iu knocks
—-I admire the true principles of the art,
by which one may distinguish the peer from
the postman—the dun from the dilettante—
i the footman from .the furnisher. But there
was something in this knock which baffled
all my skill; yet sweet withal, thrilling
through my heart with a joy unfelt before;
Some spirit must have pbrished in the sound,
for it seemed to me the music of the
spheres.
A short time elapsed, and my landlady
“opened wide the infernal doors.” Now
hope cut capers—-(Lazenby, thou wert not
to blame, for of thy delicacies I dared not
even dream!)—now hope cut capers within
me! Heavy footsteps were heard in the
passage, and one of the lords of the creation
marched his calves into the apartment.
With alacrity I conveyed my corpus juris
to meet him! and with all civility, I request
«d him to be seated. My landlady with her
apron dusted the armchair (I purchased it
atasale'of Lord M——~&jffiecds -riot cau
ses—expecting to catch inspiration.) In
not be mistaken; a less keen glance than
mine might have discovered their import.
My joy was now beyond all bounds, testify
ing itself by sundry kickings and contortions
ofttiie body. 1 began to fear the worthy
The Struggle in Cuba..
The latest accounts received at New Or
inform us of the desperate- and ill-
efforts that are making by the
Spanish despotism iu Cuba, to crush the
man might think me mad, and repent him .revolutionary spirit among the people of
of his errand—I calmed myself, and sat
down. My guest thrust into my hands the
papers, and then proceeded to issue letters
of open doors against his dexter pocket.
His intentions were evident; with difficulty
could I retain myself. For some minutes
“he groped about the vast abyss,” during
which time my agitation increased so much,
that I could not have answered one_ ques
tion, even out of that favorite chapter of one
of our institutional writers, “On the Insti
tution of Fees.” But let me describe the
man to whom I owe so much.
He was a short, squat, farmer-looking be
ing, who might have rented some fifty acres
or so. Though stinted in his growth up
wards, Dame Nature seemed determined to
make him amends by an increase of dimen
sion in every other direction. His nose and
face spoke volumes—ay, libraries o
and ale; these potations had also made them
selves manifest lower down, by the magni
tude of the beliggerent powers. There was
in his phiz a cunning leer, in his figure a
knowing tournure, which was still further
heightened by his dress; this consisted of a
green coat, which'gave evident signs of its
utter incapability of ever being identified
United States District Court.
that isiatid. For a month past the New
York Courier & Enquirer and other papers
heretofore the Avowed enemies of the Cu
ban cause, have been filled with accounts
of the spontaneous movement no w goiug
on in that island, and which has for its ob
ject the overthrow of the tyrannical des
potism by which the Cuban people have
been so long outrageously oppeessed. The
history of these events has convinced even
the prejudiced minds of those who have
taken the lead in denouncing allmani testa
tions of sympathy in this country for the
Cubaps, of the legitimacy of their cause
and of their resolution to free themselves
from the rule of their oppressors. As usu
al, that government has used every means
in.its power to suppress the truth, but des
pite of its efforts,, enough has transpired to
show not only that an active determined
revolutionary sentiment pervades the is
land, but that the government itself, with
all its means of suppression—with its dun
geons, scaffolds, spies, and armed mercena
ries—is terrified at the prospect of its spee
dy overthrow. No one will now believe
the representations of irs hireling press that
“the people of Cuba are contented and
Effect of Climate on Cousuuip-
ri ?
;.Thd Medical Facuhv are beginning to The District Court of the United Slates,
question the opinion which has so long pre ; f° r \h® Northern District of Georgia, held
vailed amonw medical men, that a change of at this place^ the last week, by the Hon.
climate is beneficial to persons suffering with John O. Nicholl, United States District
the consumption. Sir James Clark, of I Judge, for the District of Georgia adjourn-
EnHand has assailed the doctrine, with led on Wednesday evening last to the next
cotisiderable force, and a French physician , re g’j'ar term.
namedCarriere has written gainst it; outj C, Mills, Esq., U. S. Maishal, for
the most, vigorous opponent of it is Dr. tlw District of Georgia, was in attendance.
Burgess, of Shorn a recent article in C/wm,! Gentlemen of the Barpresent, were Henry
Sera’ Bdenburgh Journal gives an account. I Williams U. S. District Attorney,
Dr. Burgess contends that climate has lit- j Hon R. M Charlton ot Savannah, J. W. H.
tie or nothing to do with the cure of con-; Underwood, Esq. of .Rome, \V W. Arnold,
sumption, and that if it had the enrrativej oJZjb«to». H. Green of the same pte«
effects, would be produced through the skin, j Hon. G... McDonald, A J. Hansell, Bsq,
and nit the lungi That a warm climate is' George D. Rice Rsq., and W. Bbjfelg.Jgj
notin itself beneficial, he shows from the of Marietta. Thecaseoftho
fact, that the disease exists in all latitudes.
with Stultz; cords and continuations encased tranquil, and that only the American pi-
the lower parts of his carcass; a belcher his
throat; while the whole was surmounted by
a castor of most preposterous breadth of
brim, and shallow capacity. But in this
man’s appearance there was a something
which pleased me—something of a nature
superior to other mortals. I might have
been prejudiced, but his face and figure
seemed to be more beautiful than morn
ing.
Never did I gaze with more complacent
benevolence on a breeeches’ pocket. At
last he succeeded in dragging from jts
depths a huge old stocking, through which
‘‘the yellow lettered Geordies keeked.”
With what raptures did I look on that old
stocking, the produce, I presumed, of the
stocking of his farm. It seemed to possess
the power of facination, for my eyes could
not quit it. Even when my client (for now
I calculated upon bin)—even when my cli
ent began to speak, my attention still wan
dered to the stocking. He told me of a dis
pute with his landlord, about some matters
relating to his farm, that he was wronged,
and would have the law of the land, though
he should spend his last shilling (here 1
looked with increased raptures at the stock
ing.) On the recommendation of the min
ister (good man!) he had sought me for ad
vice. He then opened wide the jaws of his
homely purse—he inserted his paw—now
my heart beat--he made a jingling noise
mv heart beat quicker still—he pulled forth
his two interesting fingers—Oh, ecstasy! he
pressed five guineas into my extended hand
—they touched the virgin palm, and oh!
ye gods! I was Feed !!!
Bargain Hunting.—If there is one thing
that women love more than another, it is
bargain hunting. Only make “the dear
souls” believe that you are “sacrificing”
cambrics and laces at- 50 per cent below
prime cost, and they will buy whole cart
loads of the trash, whether they want it or
not. There are men in town who have made
fortunes by just ruining themselves two or
three times a year, and by “selling off” their
entire stock by order of the assignees. In
deed it is an axiom with our dry goods men
that ladies will never enter a shop so long
a3 remunerating prices are asked. On the
contrary, only make “the angels” Relieve
that you are going to the dogs and that you
are giving away your goods, “in order to
close the store on the first of next month,
and down they will come upon you in
droves, and for the gratification of buying
a shilling apron for ninepence, will give
whatever you may ask for any thing else
yuu mav oiler. Like owls, women delight
to haunt “ruins”—a ruined haberdasher in
particular.
rates desire to disturb the present order of
things. The journals in this country that
reiterated this slander upon the Cubans and
their American friends now hold a different
language—they now admit the justness of
the Cuban cause, and are foremost in pro
claiming the existence of a bona Jida revo
lutionary sentiment and purpose in Cuba.
Hence it is that we see for the -first time,
the government of Cuba prohibiting the
circulation of American papers in the Is
land. While such papers as the New-York
Courier, Herald, Journal of Commerce, Ex
press, New Orleans Bulletin and True Del
ta, joined in denouncing the Cuban exiles
in this country as mercenary adventures,
and in warning their readers against them
us leaders of piratical expeditions against a
friendly, peaceful and contented govern
ment and people, we heard only of the pro
hibition of the papers in this country friend
ly to the Cuban cause. Now all American
papers are to be prohibitsd.
But as we have said, the true state of
things in Cuba can no longer be disguised,
the long smouldering volcano is heaving
from its depths, and the flashes which now
illuminate the darkness with which a bar
barous despotism has enshrouded that beau
tiful island, are but the precursors of the
terrific storm that is soon to burst forth,
and which will leave her political atmos
phere calm, serene, and bright without a
vestige of the wrong and oppression which
has so long darkened the horizen of her
hopes. In the words of the New York
Courier and Enquirer, “The struggle soon
er or later will come. We may invoke it
or not, or we may deprecate it; but it is a-
lilce inevitable.”
When it <£oes come, its result is alike cer
tain and. inevitable.—Sav. News.
In India and Africa, tropical climates, it
as frequent as in Europe or North America.
All the curative^resorts, now in fashin, are
more productive of consumption than any
locality of Great Britain. Naples, Florence,
Nice, Genoa, Venice, all generate more con
sumption than London, Liverpool, Edin
burgh, and Manchester. Madeira, the cho
sen paradise of pulmonary patients, is more
unfavorable to the disease than England.
Aix and Montpelier are no better, if not
worse. Pisa is worse than all; so that Ital
ian climate, for consumptive-cure, is pro
nounced an arrant “humbug.” Change of
air, in the same climate, is the sanative the
ory of Dr. Burgess, deduced from the most
expansive observations and industrious ex
periments in “climatology.” “Give me Ita
ly, or I perish,” “give us a warm- climate,”
which is now the fasionable cry of rich pa
tients, will soon be changed to “change of
air at home,” in the opinion of Dr. Burgess,
whoso new theory will bring consolation,
if not cure, to every poor person who-labors
under this afflictive malady and cannot take
a voyage to Italy
UnitedStatea
versus James K. Lockhart was continued,
and’Lockhart released on the recognisance
of his mother. The District Attorney adop
ted this course, in consequence of Lockhart
having fallen into a state of mental irabecU-.
ity approaching to idiocy, which rendered
a trial out of the question. William Bevis,
charged with unlawfully detaining a letter,
plead guilty. The offence inthe case hav
ing proceeded mainly from ignorance, find
involving a dismissal from office, the sen
tence of the Court was limited, in further
consideration of the small means of the de
fendant, an imprisonment for six hours, and
a fine of fifty dollars. In the indictments
against Thomas J. Hughes, charged with
obtaining a pension by false swearing, &c.,
the defendant’s counsel having pleaded .the
statute of limitations, and having also made
a showing for a continuance to the next
term, the District Attorney, in order to savp
the government a needless, expense, entered
a nolle pi'oscqui with the exception of one
case which stands continued. Several civ
il caies of importance were also argued and
disposed of, this being a District Court with
Circuit powers and jurisdiction.—Marietta
Advocate.
Methodist Church South.—From the
Seventh Annual report of this Society it ap
pears that the Methodist Church, South, has
a prominent mission, supported at consider
able expense. They have also ten missions
among the Germans, seven missionaries 332
members and’136 Sabbath School scholars.
In their Indian work they have 31 missions,
27 missionaries, 4447 members, 1261 schol
ars in schools, and 489 Sabbath School
scholars. There twenty missions in Cali
fornia, thus forming a conference. The.fol
lowing is the annual contributions from
1846 to the year 1852, inclusive: 1846,
$58,529; 1847, $73,697; 1848, $62,613;
1849, $65,495; 1850,-$85,973; 1851, $113,-
801; 1852, $120,000. From the foregoing
it will be. seen that the contributions, in the
space of seven years, havH*nearly doubled.
In the destitute portions of the regular work,
there are 136 missions; 106 missionaries,
22,578 white members! 1922 colored mem
bers; and 3089 Sunday School scholars
church
“ One” of the New Hampshire Girls.—A
correspondent of the Boston Journal relates
the following account of a New Hampshire
girl, Miss Bosina Delight Richardson, only
daughter oFMr. and Mrs. Richardson, of
Cheshire county, to whom he had an intro
duction a few. days since :
“Miss llosina is nineteen years of age, is
5 feet 3 1-4 inches in height, measures 5
feet 4 1-4 inches around the wast, 6 teet 2
inches around the hips, 22 inches around
tbe arm, above the elbow, 14 inches around
the arm below the elbow, and 2 feet 10
inches in a straight line across the should
ers. At birth she weighed 6 lbs.; at five
years, 148 lbs.; at ten years, 268 lbs.; at
fifteen years, 365 lbs.; and now, at nine
teen years of age, she weighs 478 lbs. On
estimating the quantity of cloth in her
clothing, when dressed for a ride on a win
ter’s day, we found it to contain 98 1-2
yards of three fourths yards wide cloth.
She has brown hair, dark blue eyes, is ot
fair complexion, and has what phrenologist
would call a well-balanced head, the per
ceptive organs predominating. She can
knit, spin, weave, make a shirt or a batch of
bread, is a gqod singer, and plays the piano
with taste and skill-—is considered one of
the best scholars in the town where she re
sides; is courteous and lively in conversa
tion, and evinces a general knowledge
which might raise a blush on the cheek of
our city belles.”
Captain Jewett's Speculation in Lobos
Guano.—A letter from Capt. James C.
Jewett to Mr. Webster dated August 16th,
contains a list of fifteen ships ot 900 tons
capacity, and six barks of 400 tons that
have been dispatched by him and others to
Lobos Islands in search of guano,- since
Mr. Webster’s first letter on the subject;
and Captain Jewett states that they were
sent on the stjenght of the opinion express
ed in that letter, and the protection prom
ised from our naval force. One ot these
.essels, the barque Sarah Chase, was more
over, armed previous to sailing, and had 50
men on board. Many other vessels were
directed by the same parties to be sent on
the same business, so there will probably
be, ere long, a very fleet of American ves
sels at the islands, to obtain cargoes of gu
ano. Capt. Jewett, in July, also dispatched
an agent into the Pacific, by way of Pana-
with instructions to charter vessels to
load guano at the islands. In his letter to
the supercargo of the armed vessel, he tells
him to use the utmost dispatch, take pos
session of all the available loading places in
both bays of the islands, and it anp resis
tance should be offered, to meet it with his
national flag flying upon his vessel. The
same letter states that a large number of
the vessels were chartered to take cargoes
of guano to English ports. Had the Uni
ted States Government continued in the po
sition first taken by Mr. Webster, the re
suit would have been that Captain Jewett
would have forestalled everybody, and roo
nopolized the business at once. As it is,
he himself is likely to be the chief sufferer
by the delusion.
Statistics of Muscular Power.—Man
has the power of imitating almost every
motion but that of flight. To effect these,,
he has iu maturity and health 60 bones in
his head, 60 in his thighs and legs, 62 in
his arms and hands, and 67 in his trunk.
He has also 434 muscles. His heart makes
64 pulsations in a minute; and therefore
3840 in an hour, 92,160 in a day. There
are also three complete circulations of his
blood in the short space of an hour. In
respect to the comparative speed ofanima-
ted beings, and of impelled bodies, it m*y
be remarked that size and construction
seem to have little influence, nor has com
parative strength, though one body giving
any quantity of motion to. another, is said
to lose so much of its own. The sloth, is by
no means a small animal, and yet it can
travel only fifty paces in a daya worm
crawls only five inches in fifty seconds; but
a lady-bird can fly twenty millions of times
its own length in less than an hour. An
elk can run a mile ard a half in seven-mm-
utes; an antelope a mile in a minute; the
wild mule of Tartary has a speed even
-greater than that; an eagle can fly 18
eagues in an hour ; and a Canary falcon
can even reach 250 leagues in the short
space of sixteen hours. A violent wind
travels 60 miles in an hour; sound, 1,142
English feet in a second.—Bucke.
this said chair my man ensconced his clay
I had commenced my survey of his person
wheu my eyes were attracted by a basilisk
like bunch of papers which the good soul
held in his hand. In ecstasy I gazed—char-
' ' which could
m a
SST Axi Irishmatfdieing
where the collection apparatus resembled
election boxes, on its being handed to him,
whispered in the carrier’s ear that he -wasn’<
naturalized and couldn’t vote.
A Dutchman, having a friend hung in
this country, wrote to his friends, inform
ing them that, after addressing a large
meeting of citizens, the scaffold on which
he stood gave way—-owing to which, he j
fell and broke his neck;/ r -
Life Saving Apparatus.— The recent
disasters of the steamer Henry Clay on the
Hudson, the Atlantic on Lake Erie, and the
still later explosion of the Reindeer at Sau-
gerties, has brought public attention to the
invention of appliances for saving life in
such emergencies. Life preserving chairs,
were first spoken of, then came life preser
ving trunks, and now we have announced
the°mvention of life preserving coats
The vestment is a water proof covering,
which may be worn at any time, to protect
the clothes from rain or dust. Iu the waist
of the coat is permanently fastened an air
tight tube, made exactly like the ordinary
life-preserver. The advantage is in having
the life preserver always ready to be infla
ted, a work of a few seconds only, and hav
ing a comfortable travelling-coat adapted to
alf the necessities and conveniences for
travelling. Ladies’ and! children’s travel-
lingjsacks could be made in the same man
ner,^land thus every individual have the
means of preserving life.
Two Kentuckians Killed.—A California
letter gives the following account of a trag
edy in which two Kentuckians were en
gaged: \
“A terrible tragedy was enacted on the
Plains, near Bear River. It occured between
two brothers-in law, Beasely and Beal. The
parties agreed on a separation, and Beasly
got the weaker team, and had a sick mania
his wagon. Immediately after the division,
he hitched up his team and proceeded on
his journey, leaving Beal at Gieen River.
In a few hours after, Beal started, and du
ring the day overtook Beasly on a hill where
he had stopped to rest his mules. The for
mer turned out of the road and passed by—
the latter asking him if it were his inten
tion to leave him (Beasly) with the sick. Up
on Eeal’s answer being given in the affirm
ative, Besly stepped to the front of his own
wagon, drew out his rifle, and deliberately
shot him down, killing him instantly. A
large train came up about this time, and
stopped and buried the murdered man.
Beasly was tried; found guilty, and shot the
next morning. Both were from Kentucky.”
Sister Mary.—“Why Charley, dear boy,
what’s the matter? You seem quite miser
able.”
Charley.— “Ah! aint I, just? Here’s
mother says I must wear turn down collars
until .Christmas, and there’s young Sydney
Bowler, who’s not half as tall as I am, has
had “«tickup’s” and white chokers for ever
so long.” ,
jBST “Hallo, there, how do you sell-
wood ?”
“By the cord.”
‘‘Pshaw ! how long has it been cut ?”
“Four feet.”
“How dumb! I mean how long has it
been since you, cut it?”
“No longer than it is now.”
“Go ahead engineer.”
An English paper states that a lage num
j her of kid gloves are made of rat skins.
Post Office Envelops.—The post-route
bill passed by Congress contains a provision
authorizing the post office department to
cause envelops to be made, with suitable
water marks on the paper, identifying them
as official, and with a printed stamp, for
single or double postage, with a suitable de
vice. These envelops are to be sold at all
the post-offices, at the price of the stamps
now sold—with the very small addition of
the actual cost of the envelops. This will
enable persons to deposit their letters, pre
paid, in the post-offices, at all hours, with
out trouble or inconvenience,, and without
the risk of Raving double , postage charged
on a letter, by reason of the stamp slipping
off, by the time the letter gets in the office,
if not before, as is too often the case now.
It will also admit of the-safe transmission of
letters by private hand, when preferred,
without a violation of the post office laws,
which after 1st of October will bq very strip
gent on the subject,
LaJoven Cuba.— Young Cuba.—This is
the title of a new organization of friends of
Cuba, which has been set on foot by some
young Cubans, now in New Orleans. It is a
good name, and, correctly pronounced, very
euphonions. The Belta says the number
of Cuban exiles in that city is increasing so
rapidly that by the time the final blow for
the ind-pendence of that island is to be
struck, there will be enough to make a reg
iment, and a gallant one we know it will be.
The Cubans who accompanied Gen. Lopez
in the gallant but unfortunate expedition,
were placed by him in the advance, and
fought with the utmost courage and.desper
ation. There are a goodly number of Cu
bans in this city, who, whenever the oppor
tunity is again presented, will be foremost
in the ranks of the liberators of their coun*
try .r—Sav. News.
ggT A man wrote to his friend in Greece,
begging him to purchase for him some books.
From negligence or avarice, he neglected to
execute the commission; but fearing that his
correspondent might be offended, he ex
claimed, when next they met, “My dear
friend, I never got the letter that you \
me about the books.” v >
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