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SAjVDIutiSVILLE, GEORGIA
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“I STIL.li LtVE!”
The Last Words of Daniel Webster.
BY MRS. L. H. SIGOURNEY.
*‘Still I Eire ! ' The leaves were falling
Round the mansion where he lay;
And autumnal voices, calling,
Warned the summer’s pride away;
While the eighing surge of ocean
In its crested beauty ran,
Breaking with a ceaseless motion,
Like the fleeting hopes of man.
“Still I Lice /” O, strong and glorious
Where those prophetic words of cheer;
For whether in truth victorious,
Greatness hath its worship here.
Patriot power its high ovation,
Eloquence its lofty birth;
He shall win from every nation,
An undying name on earth.
“ Still I LiveThe flesh was failing,
All in vain the healer’s skill,
Light in that deep eye was paling,
And that mighty heart grew stil 1 ;
Yet the soul, its God adorinar,
Clad in armor, firm and bright,
O’er the body’s ruin soaring,
Mingled with the Infinite.
Where he sleeps, that man of glory,
Marshfield’s mournful shade can say,
And his weeping country’s story,
Darkened on that funeral day;
But the love that deepest listened
Caught such balm as Heaven can give.
For an angel’s pinion glistened
At the echo—“Still I Live/”
HS(D3SILi3LiAH¥
“The Rule of Life.”
We are indebted to the kindness of the
author, Hon. R. M. Charlton, for the copy
of an address delivered by him at the re
quest of the Young Men’s Christian Asso
ciation, in the Lecture Room of the Smith
sonian Institution. Its theme is the Rule
of Life. We need hardly say that it is
characterized by a lofty religious tone which
pervades most of its author’s publications.
Strange as it may seem in a professed Chris
tian country, it demands no small measure
of moral heroism on the part of a Senator
or Representative, thrown amid the fash
ionable and political circles of Washington,
to enable him to appear before the Chris
tian Association, in advocacj 7 of the Chris
tian’s “rule of life.”
The following extract, with which the
lecture concludes, may be taken as a fair
indication of the tone and talent which it
exhibits.—Savannah Georgian.
“What rule of life shall we follow to in
sure our happiness ?” What is the rule ?
It belongs to no profession in particular;
the monarch upon his throne can secure it;
the captive in his loathsome cell may retain
it. There is no station, there is no condi
tion, where it is not to be found ; and it is
this; It is the faithful and conscientious
discharge of every duty which may be allot
ted to you, no matter how minute, for if the
little things of life are the terrible, they are
also the beautiful—the unwavering atten
tion to the suggestions of the monitor with
in your breast. No man, though surroun
ded by fame, by wealth, by science, by
love, can be happy, who feels that he has
turned a deaf ear to his bosom’s lord. No
one, however degraded, trodden down,
athirst, hungry, wounded, can be miserable
who knows that he has been earnest in his
search after truth, and unfaltering in his
devotion to principle
“Honor and shame from no condition rise;
Act well your part, there all the honor lies.”
It is the memory of our past life to which
we must look for comfort, or for reproach;
the present we are too busy with ; the fu
ture has too much of Hope’s brightest hues.
It is the stern reality of the past, that must
be our treasure house of grateful recollec
tions, or our charnel house of perished joys
and perverted hours. Memory is the most
prominent attribute of the mind, it is the
golden thread that connects the jewels to
gether, and if it breaks, the gems will fall
to the ground and lie scattered in useless
profusion, It is said, and I have no doubt
of it, that what we have once learned we can
never forget. The trifling incident of our
boyhood’s years, the passing event, which
seemed to float by upon the stream of time,
almost unobserved, will, in more mature
life, flash back upon our mental vision, with
a startling vividness; it may be, that we
cannot recall each scene at pleasure; but in
the lodgements of the brain they are hidden
and memory, when we least expect it, will
reproduce them, and oft times make our
cheek grow pale, or our brow crimson at
the unwished for recollection. And time
is like the skilful workman who is about to
take down some .ancient mansion, he begins
with the roof, and after he has demolished
that, then Ii3 takes down the higher story,
and so on in aD inverse order to their erec
tion, until he reaches the foundation, which
last of all he removes;-and such is Time’s
attack npon the memory. He begins upon
the last event, the topstone of our decaying
tabernacle. The old man, tottering in the
second childhood, will forget the scene that
he has just witnessed—-and yet remember
well the incident of a score of years ago;
and as he advances nearer and nearer to
the grave of all his faculties, and as a gloom
more horrible than death is settling upon
his worn out mind, whilst the present is
dark before him, his garrulous tongue will,
still prate to you of his childhood’s visions
and tell you truly, the events of his early
life What a warning does this give us ;
we are now laying up for ourselves blissful
dreams, or we are heaping up layers of
wrath; each/leed we now commit, each
thought we now harbor, whether it be ol
evil or good, we are putting up in store for
the retrospection of life’s last hours ! Oh
let us see to it, that when we draw nigh to
our final rest, that when the damps of death
are gathering upon our brow, and the hand
of the destroyer is uplifted to strike us down
we may look back upon the long avenues
of years through which we have trodden,
and see there the smiling countenances of
those whose hearts we have gladdened*
whose lives we have cheered, beaming up
on us in their gratitude ; and that we may
look fonyp-rd with joy and humble hope, to
those bright and beautiful mansions prepar
ed for us in Heaven, whose maker and build
er is God !
I have recently met with a little poem,
he author of which I am ignorant of, which
gives the rule, in a few practical words, and
with the recitation of which, I will conclude
this lecture:
There are three lessons I would write—
Three words, as with a burning pen,
In tracing of eternal light,
Upon the hearts of men.
“Have Hope l Tho’clouds environ now,
And gladness hides her face with scorn,
But thou the shadows from thy brow—
No night but hath its- morn.
“Have Faith! where’er thy bark is driven—
^ The calm’s disport—the tempest’s mirth—
Know this—God rules the hosts of Heaven,
Th’ inhabitants of earth.
“Have Love ! Not love alone for one,
But man, as man, thy brother call—
And scatter like the circling sun,
Thy charities on all.
•‘Thus grave these lessons on thy soul—
Hope, Faith, and Love —and thou shale find,
Strength, when life’s surges wildest roll—
Light, when tliou else wert blind !”
We may as well remark, in this connec
tion, continues the Savannah Georgian,
that the beautiful stanzas with which Judge
Charlton closed his address stating that he
was ignorant of their author—were written
if we rightly remember, by the late Willis
Gaylord Clark, for many years editor of the
Philadelphia Gazette, also a well known
contributor to the Knickerbocker Magazine,
and brother of the editor of that old and
meritorious monthly.
GOYJERiVOR COBB.
“We have the pleasure to day, (says the
Augusta Constitutionalist of the 26th,) of
presenting to our readers a letter from W.
Hope Hull, Esq., the warm ^personal and
confidential friend of Gov. Cobb, which
shows that the suspicions of the latter hav
ing secretly favored ‘The Tugalo Move
ment’ were unfounded, but that on the
cotrary, that ticket was brought out ‘a-
gainst his wishes and advices, and against
his earnest efforts to prevent it.
We make the following extract from Mr.
Hull’s letter.
“The writer of this, professes to be as
well informed as any other man, as to the
opinions, sentiments, and views of Gov.
Cobb, and I affirm that which was put up
after the Atlanta meeting was brought out
against his wishes and advice, and against
his earnest effortr to prevent it.
I know that he wrote urgent letters to
Judge Jas. Jackson, at Carnesville, where
Gen. Wofford was during Court, pressing
upon him to see Gen. Wofford, and en
deavor by every argument to induce him to
decline running on that ticket, and to ac
cept the place on the regular ticket, which
he was then advised,would be tendered to
him. So far from his ‘sympathy and secret
efforts,’ being for the “‘Tugalo Ticket’ he
disapproved of the movement from first to
last, and his friends knew it.
“It is true that Gov. Cobb was in favor
at Atlanta of a different course from the one
pnrsued. From the day when the Union
Electoral Ticket was nominated at Mill
edgevilie, he had labored to bring about
a compromise of ibe ticket on terms which
would secure cordiality and harmony
among all the friends of Pierce and King.
“The Atlanta meeting was called at his
suggestion, and for the purpose of promo
ting that object. Before it assembled it
had become obvious that our proposals of
compromise would not be responded to.
Gov. Cobb proposed in that case to nomi
nate a ticket composed of those gentlemen
of the other ticket, who had evinced a will
ingness to arrange the matter, and to fill
up the other places with the names of Union
Democrats, and call on the whole Democra
cy of the State to rebuke by their votes,
the spirit of proscription and persecution,
which had been manifested by some of our
Southern Rights brethren. This was bis
whole course in the matter. The Atlanta
meeting decided differently, and in their
decision Gov. Cobb acquiesced, and gave,
Pacific Railroad.—Mr. Gwinn’s grand i as i be f ore sa \ ( f no encouragement whatev
projet foi 5,115 miles of railroad westward j er to t i lose w ho did not.
is as follows:
From San Francisco, via Fulton, in
Arkansas, to Memphis
St. Louis branch from a point on main
trunk, 35 miles south of Santa Fe,
to St. Louis
Dubuque branch from a point on St.
Louis branch, where it intersects
Arkansas river, to Dubuque
Texas branch from source of Red riv
er, on southern bend of main trunk
to source of Colorado river, thence
to Matagorda bay, on the gulf
New Orleans route from Fulton to
New-Orleans
Oregon branch from San Francisco to
Fort Nisqually, in Oregon
Miles.
2,000
915
610
535
405
650
5,115
Total length of railroad to be c
tructed
The means proposed to construct this
railway and branches, is a grant from Con
gress of public land to the States of Louisi
ana, Missouri, Arkansas, Iowa, California,
and an appropriation for the construction of
the road through the Territories, of an ag
gregate quantity of 152,400 square miles,
or 97,536,000 acres; and this appropriation
is to meet the expenses of a Pacific railway
and branches of 4,400 miles, because from
the aggregate length of 5,115 miles is to be
deducted the Texas branch, inasmuch as the
Government of the United States has no
public lands to grant within the limits of
that State.
Excessive Politeness.—Mr. Rowland Hill
was always annoyed when there happened
to be any noise in the chapel, or when any
thing occurred to divert the attention of his
hearers from what he was saying. On one
occasion, about three years before his death,
he was preaching to one of the most crow
ded congregations that ever assembled to
hear him. In the middle of his discourse
he observed a great commotion in the gal
lery. For a time he took no notice of it,
but finding it increasing, he paused in his
sermon, and looking in the direction in
which the confusion prevailed, he said:
“What is the matter there?: The Devil
seems to have got among you!” A plain
country-looking man immediately started to
his feet, and addressing Mr. Hill in reply,
said: “No sir, it arn’t the Devil as is doing
on it; it’s a lady wot’s fainted; and she’s a
very fat un, sir, as don’t seem likely to come
to again in a hurry.” “Oh, that’s it, is it?”
observed Mr. Hill, drawing his hand across
his chin; “then I beg the lady’s pardon—
and the Devil's too.”—The Metropolitan
Pulpit.
Once upon a time, during a debate in th e
U. S. House of Representatives, in a bill fo*
increasing the number of hospitals, one o*
the Western members arose and observed:
‘Mr. Speaker, my opinion is that the gin-
erality of mankind—in gineral, are dispos
ed to take the advantage—of the ginerality
of mankind in gineral.'
‘Sit down,’—whispered Crockett, who sat
near him, ‘you are coming out of the same
hole you went in at.’
“Is it asked why he did not publicly an
nounce that disapprobation ? It would
have been policy in him to do so, but the
noble and generous heart of Howel Cobb
shrunk from striking a blow that would
wound his friends, even though he thought
them in the wrong. The list of names ad
vocating the movement included many who
were his best and nearest friends. They
stood by him through storm and sunshine,
and though his sense of duty prevented his
aiding them, he was not the man to life his
hand against them. He has patiently borne
all the vituperation and obloquy which
has been heaped upon him on that account
and still bears it.
“The time has come—now when the
election is over; now when the new ad
ministration is fully formed, and the sus
picion of seeking cabinet offices cau no long
er be aroused in the minds of the most un
charitable, that his friends owe it to him to
make his true position known. Gev. Cobb
now stands prepared to sustain the great
Democratic party to which he has always
belonged, and to fight, as a private in the
ranks, for the imperishable principles of
Jefferson, Jackson and Polk, and whieh he
hopes and believes will derive additional
strength and lustre from the administration
of Franklin Pierce. Respectfully,
“Wm. H. Hull.”
Excitement at the Census Office—Remov
al of Clerks, dec.—The vicinity of the Cen
sus Office in Washington, was the scene of
great excitement on Monday. In the first
place, upward of one hundred clerks were
removed, leaving seven or eight in the of
fice, and it was proposed to dispense with
the Eighth street and Seventh street offices
altogether; one office and a few picked
clerks being deemed sufficient to wind up
the business.
In the next'place, says a Washington des
patch, Mr. Kennedy, late superintendent of
the Census Bureau, sued out a writ of re
plevin on Mr. De Bow, his successor, by
virtue of which he entered the office with a
Deputy Marshal and removed two or three
cart loads of manuscripts and documents
claimed as private property, but embracing
a large quantity of manuscripts prepared by
clerks in the office, the records of the Cen
sus Board, numerous publications received
from public societies, &c. The documents
removed were appraised at $480, and Ken.
nedy has given bond in $4,000 for their
safety.
Mr. De Bow consulted the District Attor
ney, and there is no doubt that the most
prompt measures will be taken for the re
covery of such as are of public character. It
is understood that Mr. Kennedy had accu
mulated a large mass of manuscripts pre
paratory to an extended work on the resour
ces of the country, which he designed to
publish on his own account* as Congress
has declined to- publish the census returns
on the extensive scale proposed.
A Country newspaper, speaking of the
blind wood-sawyer, says, “although he can’t
see, he can saw.”
A good many years ago, a man stole a
cow from Morristown, N. J., and drove her
to Philadelphia for sale. She was a com
mon cow enough, except that she had lost
her tail but about six inches. The thief
fearing that by the shortness of her tail he
might be traced, had procured in some way
probably from a slaughter house another
cow’s tail which he fastened so ingenionsly
to the short tail, that it was not to be known
that it had not regularly grown there.
As soon as the Jersyman missed his cow,
he set off to Philadelphia, thinking she
would probably be carried there for sale,
and it happed that when he came to the
ferry, begot into the small boat that was
carrying over his cow, and the fellow who
stole her. As it was natural that he should
have his thoughts very much upon cows,
he soon began to look at this one with great
attention. She was, indeed, very much like
his cow, he thought. Her marks agreed
wonderfully, and she had exactly the same
expression of face, but when the expression
of her tail was so very different. It must
be supposed that the new owner of the cow
felt rather uncomfortable during the exam
ination, for he soon saw this was the person
whose property he had stolen, and he was
very uneasy lest he should take hold of her
tail, which he looked at so continually.
Upon the whole he thought it best to di
vert his attention in some way if possible,
and therefore, steps up to him * and says,
“Neighbor that is a fine cow of mine wont
you buy her? you seem to know what a good
cow is.” “Oh, dear me,” says the other,
“I’ve just had a cow stolen from me.”
“Well,” says the thief] “I’llsell off, and could
not better replace your loss than by buying
this cow; I’ll warrant she’s as good as yours!”
‘•Why,” says the Jersevman, “she was ex
actly like this one, only that she had no tail
to speak of, and if this one had not such a
long tail, I’d swear it was my cow.” Every,
body now began to look at the cow’s tail
but the thief stood nearer to it than any
body, and taking hold of it so as just to cov
er the splicing with his left hand and with a
jack-knife iu his right, pointing to the tail,
he said, “So if this cow’s tail, were only this
long you’d swear she was yours?” “That I
would, “say the other, who began to be
very much confused at the perfect resem
blance to his cow except iD this one particu
lar, when the thief with a sudden cut of his
knife, took off the tailjust about an inch a-
bove the splicing, and throwing it overboard
bloody as it was, turned to the other and
said, “now swear its your cow!” The be
wilderment of the poor man was now com
plete, but. as ho hud seen the tail cutoff*
and saw the blood trickling from it, he could
of course lay no claim to the animal from
the shortness of the tail; indeed, here was
proof positive that this was not his cow, so
the thief going over with him, sold the cow
without any further fear of detection.
“Put that Impudent Rascal out.”—While
the congregation were cellected at church,
on a certain occasion, an old, dark, hard
feautured skin and bone individual was seen
wending his way up the side and taking his
seat near the pulpit. The officiating minis
ter was one of that class who detested writ
ten sermons, and as for prayers be thought
that they ought to be the natural outpour
ings of the heart. After-the singing was
concluded, the house as usual was called to
prayer. The genius we have introduced,
did not, kneel but leaned his head devotion
ally on the back of his pew. Tho minister
began by saying.
“Father of all, in every age, by saint and
by savage adored.”—“Pope,” said in a low
but clear voice, near old hard features. The
minister after casting an indignant look in
the direction, of the voice continued—“whose
throne sitteth on the adamantine hill of
Paradise.” “Milton,” again interrupted
the voice. The ministers lips quivered for
a moment but recovering himself he began,
“we thank thee, most gracious father, that
we are permitted once more to assemble in
thy name, while others equally meritorious,
hut less favored, have been carried beyond
that bourne from whence no traveller re
turns,” “Shakespeareinterrupted the
voice, this was too much, “put that impu
dent rascal out,” shouted the minister. 'Orig
inal,” ejaculated the voice in the same calm
but provoking manner.
Division of
of California into three States, distinct and
separate, is now contemplated and pressed
there. A majority of the Legislature, as
we have the news, will order a State Con
vention, and upon that Convention will de
pend the mode, manner, and boundaries of
division.
The three States are to be named “Sier
ra, the mountain division, which has a-
bout 23,000 inhabitants, by the last census:
“California,” which has 2#7,388; and
Tulaare, the Southern State, including
Los Anglos and San Diego, which has 34^
140 inhabitants, and about seven and a
half million of taxable property. The South
ern btate of Tulare, in the division, it is
contemplared by many of the occupants to
make a slave state, and one of the Objects
pressing the division is to establish slavery
there.
The State debt of California is bout three
million of dollars; and this debt, divided a-
niong the new States, would give California
$2,333,333; Tulare $400,006; and Sierra
$266,667.
We should hope that it would be a long
while before California will be permitted
by Congress to be divided into three States
and to send six Senators to Congress, to off
set there in all legislative matters, three
such powerful commonwealths as N. York,
Ohio, and Pennsylvania. The old States
have already too freely shorn themselves of
power in adrqitfing to equal influence in
the Senate of the United States, such
scarcely settled States as Florida, Arkan
sas, and the like. California now has just
as much power in this Government—that
is, in one branch of the Government, with
out whose sanction there can be no legis
lation—as New York, though in the city of
New Y ork alone there are nearly two Cali-
fornias.
The prospect of new Senators in Con
gress, new Governors, new Judges, new
offices and patronage of all sorts, is so flat
tering to pride apd ambition, that we ex
pect to see it flourish in California.—-N. V.
Express.
Col. Craig's Murderers.—M San Diego,
Corporal Hays and private Condon, of the
U. S. Army, were executed for desertion
and the murder of Col. Craig. When they
were brought out for execution, Hays said :
Fellow-soldiers—It is the will of God that
I should suffer death; therefore, for the
love of God, I forgive all my enemies, and
ask their forgiveness in return. I hope
that God will forgive my having denied in
the court that I was a soldier, I am, and
was duly enlisted as such* but drew no pay.
I shot Col. Craig. I. should not have done
it—I should have obeyed- his orders. Let
no man pattern aftJr me. Obey yonr or
ders ; and let my melancholy example be a
warning to you all. I return thanks for all
the kindness shown me; and thank God for
having had so much time todo penance in,
and being permitted the consolations of a
Catholic priest. I hope we will all meet be.,
fore God, My love to all. Boys, good bye !
Exemption.—In answer to the many en
quiries, addressed io us upon this subject,
we give the following list of the property
exempt from levy and sale-, under various
Acts now in force in Georgia.
2 Beds, bedding, and common bedsteads.
1 spinning wheel, 2 pair of cards, and one
loom.
1 cow and calf] 1 horse or mule, not ex
ceeding $50 in value.
10 head of hogs, and $30 worth' of provi
sions.
Common- tools of trade—ordinary eook-
mg utensils.
Family Bible—Equipments of Militia
men, and trooper’s horse.
Wearing apparel.
50 acres of land in the country, with im
provements not exceeding $500 in value.
5 acres additional for each child under
15 years old.
$200 worth of real estate in a city or town
in lien of 50 acres in the country.—Madison
Family Visitor.
Snooks was advised to get his life insured,
“Won’t doit,” said he, “it would be just my
luck to live for ever, if I should.” Mrs.
Snooks merely said, “Well I wouldn’t, my
dear.”
American Colonization Society.—M r -
Charles Howard of Baltimore, has been
elected President of the Maryland Coloniza
tion Society, in place of J. II. B. Latrobe,
Esq, Mr. Howard has long been an active
member of the society. The society will
send out an expedition to Liberia on the
25th of April, of probably two hundred em
igrants.
The society has appointed Win. Cassell
governor of the Maryland colony, vice Doc
tor McGill, resigned. Cassell is an original
Baltimorean. He studied law in that city,
and emigrated to Liberia some years ago,
where he filled the office of chief justice.
“The Doctor.”—A doctor in Ohio writes
to his father as follows:—Dear daddy, I con
cluded Ide cum down and git grinded into
a doctur. I hardly dont think I was in more
than 3 hours, afore out I cum as slick a wun
as ever you seen.
Hale Culumbv, happy land.
It I aint a Dokture, I’ll be hange’d.
I pukes, I purges, and I swets era,
Then If tba di wi then I lets em.
I gits plenieof custom, because they
says they dize eezy. When you rite, dont
forgit to put docture afore my name.”
Somewhere in the West, a sable knight
of the lather and brush was performing the
operation of shaving a hoosier, with a very
dull razor. “Stop,” said the boosier, “that
won’t ck>.” “What’s the matter, boss!”
“That razor pulls.” Well, no matter for dat,
sah. If de handle of de razor don’t break,
the beard’s bound to come off.”
“I shall die happy,” said an expiring hus
band to his wife, who was weeping by the
bedside, “if you will only promise not to
marry that object of my unceasing jealousy,
your cousin Charles.” “Make yourself
quite easy, love,” sobbed the expectant wid
ow, “I am engaged to his brother.”
“What did you hang that Cat for, Isaac?”
asked the school-marm. The boy looked,
up, and with a grave look answered— 1 “For
mew-tiny, maria.” He had fifty marks im
mediately put down againsj^hisname.
“You have stolen my soul, divine one!”
exclaimed Mr. Sickly to hi3 adored. “Par
don me,” responded the lady, “I am not in
he habit of picking up little things.”
“Doctor, do you think tight lacing i> bad
for the consumption?”
“Not at all—it is what it lives upon.”
The doctor’s reply was wise as well as
witty.
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