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BY S. B. CRAITON.
SAIDERSVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1853.
VOL. VII—NO. 22.
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3P@E WSV
the LANTERN AN® itixts.
STOWE.
Professional and Business Cards.
bbvh&ktd, £ vasts.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Sandersville, Georgia.
WILL practice in the counties of Wash
ington Burke, Jefferson, Seriven, Emanuel
Laurens, Wilkinson and Hancock.
(Office in Court House on Lower Floor.)
Feb. 1, 1853. l—'ly
JA2VXES S. HO031,
attorney at law,
Sandersville, Georgia.
WILL PRACTICE IN THE COUNTIES OF
. . i Washington, Burke, Scriven
Middle-circuit. ^ j e g> erson and Emanuel.
Southern Circuit. J - - - - Laurens.
Ocmulgee Circuit j - - - r W ilkinson
next door to Warthen's store.]
The severest and most truthful criticism
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe and her British
admirers have yet received, is contained in
some eight verses of the New York Lan
tern, of the 21st ult., entitled “Marantha,”
and supposed to be sutig in chorus by the
aristocratic guests at Stafford House, Lon
don. We select a few of the stanzas:
Novv we never openly murder a peasant,
I ho’ thousands must starve to make one of
us lich;
They are not our slaves, and *tia ticklingly
pleasant,
To think they have freedom—to die in a
ditch!
Though down in our mines, naked women, like
cattle,
Must crawl on all-fours dragging coal to the
shaft,
Still we are the chiefs of Humanity’s battle,
And we are the crew of old Liberty’s craft!
Though Irishmen rot in the fever and famine,
Which we have created—we speak it with
pride—
That, if you will calmly and fairly examine,
You’ll find they were perfectly free—when
they died!
We only "‘asserted our right,” and the hovels
Wherein lay the sick, we tore down without
truth:
But no one would think of admiring the nov
els,
That told such domestic, detestable truth!
[Office
jan. 1, 1852.
51—ly
TNO.W. RUDISlhl.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Sandersville Georgia.
Jan. 25,1853 lv
R, Xi. WAMHEJT.
attorney at law,
Sandersville, Georgia.
feb. 17, 1853. 4 — lv
I, a. SAPFOLS, JA.
ATTORNEY - AND COUNSELLER AT WWV,
Sandersville, Georgia.
Will practice in the counties of Wash
ington, Montgomery, Tatnall Emanuel and
Jefferson of the Middle Circuit, also the
counties of Telfair and Irwin of the South
ern Circuit. Office in Sanders' ille.
February 22, 18
4—rtf
Z. GUAY.
WATCH MAKER, AND JEWELER,
Sandersville, Georgia.
May 10, 1853 * 15 ~ 1[ Y
IWCULFORD MARSH,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLER AT LAW,
Office, 175, Bay street, Savannah,Ga.
feb. 22, 1853. 4 ~
S B- CRAFrON.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Sandersville, Georgia.
Will also attend the Courts of Emanu
Laurens, and Jefferson, should business be eni
rtusted to his care, in either of those countie.'
feb. 11. 4 ~ tf
The seamstresses' fingers grow thin unrequit
ted,
That we to the Hottentots blankets may
give;
The promise of youth in its blossom is blight
ed,
And peasants are shot that our pheasants
may live!
The haggard mechanic may pine in his garret.
His daughter dishonored, his son in a jail;
But still we can proudly declare, a la parrot,
That happen what will, “Britons are not for
sale 1”
Altho' in rank*rooms, every night, without
number,
The old and the young, the debauched and
the pure,
Lie down on the same wisp of straw to their
slumber,
We cannot be blamed for their sins, we ire
sure.
Our rents must be paid, and the poor-house is
leady,
Where husbands and wives are divorced by
the law!
Perhaps if their skins were but blapk, and not
ruddy,
Some pity and cents from our purse the} 7
might draw.
Oh, right minded creature! what deep admira
tion
We feel for the “home scorn” your book
ha* confessed!
How happy are we, that our great rival nation
Has nourished a viper to sting its own
breast!
Then freely our penny subscriptions we offer,
Proceed in the path you have hitherto trod;
Like Arnold, each anti-American scoffer.
Detested at home, will be honored abroad.
HS0MILILiAM¥
7, B SAVSB.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Scarborough, Georgia.
Will attend promptly to all business en
trusted to his care in any of the Courts of the
.Middle or Eastern counties.
March 14, ?n!L_
M. & &• XWC JOHNSTON,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Sparta, Georgia.
Will practice in Hancock and the ad
joining counties, and the Supreme Court.
MARK JOHNSTON, J R. M. JOHNSTON.
March 22, 1853. 8—tf
W. L, HOLLIFIELD,
8VRGS0N 9BNTXST.
SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA
may 10,1852. 16—tf
Dr. William L. Jernigan,
n HAVING permanently located hhn-
self in Sandersville, respectfully offers
ML hi3 professional services to the citizens
of the Village, and county. When not oth
erwise engaged he may be found at his Office
at all times.
Sandersville, March 8,1853. 6—ly
«fcCO
GROCERS.
Savannah, Ga.
j Savannah.
S W. B. SCiANTON,
No. 19, Old Slip, N Yor
4—ly.
B. T. SCRANTON,
JOSEPH JOHNSTON.
fcb. >aa 1853.
The Atlanta Bank.
We bad an interview yesterday with
Mr. S. C Higginson, the President of this
Institution ; and having ^copied an article
on the 21st ult., from the*Chronicle & Sen
tinel, and heard many rumors tending to
excite distrust and prejudice against the
Bank and its managers, we felt it to be due
to the public as weil as to the corporators
of the Bank, to make such inquiries of Mr.
Higginson, as to its present condition and
future prospects, as would satisfy the public
confidence of the bona fide intention of the
D rectors, to manage its affairs in strict ac
coidance with its charter and the laws of
the State. It is due to Mr. Higginson to
sav that his conversation and answers to
our inquiries were unreserved. He gave
us every assurance that the affairs of the
Bank will be regulated according to the
best and strictest rules of banking, and with
reference to the public interests.
In addition to these assurances, Mr. Hig-
ginson exhibited to us a letter, of recent
date, from the cashier of one of the sound
est banking institutions of the city of New
York, to a bank officer in South Carolina,
in which the writer states that George
Smith, Esq., who is represented to be the
principal stockholder in the Atlanta Bank
is estimated to be one of the wealthiest
bankers in Chicago.
From these representations, as well as
from the known characters of the gentle
men in Georgia, who applied for and ob
tained the charter of this Bank from our
Legislature; we hardly think “there is a de
liberate design to use this Bank charter for
fraudulent purposes.”
Mr. Higginson informs us, that the di
rectors intend to pursue a legitimate bank
ing business at Atlanta, and to furnish the
business community of that place with all
reasonable monied facilities. If, however,
the business of that place will not require
all the circulation of the Bank, it is then
the intention of the directors, as it is their
right, and as all other Banks do, to send
their bills to Chicago; or to any other point
where they have credit and where theii cir
culation is likely to be wanted. The Chi
cago Banks are required by Law to deposit
State stocks, as security, for the amount ot
their circulation, and hence they attack the
issue of other institutions whose circulation
there is based upon the personal responsi
bility of the stockholders only—Mr. Hig-
ginsofl informs us further, that $111,000
of t he capital stock of the Atlanta bank
have been paid in, and that the balance of
the $300,000 capital, will be paid in as fast
as wanted. The bank has now in its vault’
So2,000 in specie, which perhaps exceeds
the amount of its circulation. As, however
a statement of the affairs of this institution
will shortly be published, we will not enter
into further particulars.
In concluding these statements, we may
be permitted to express the hope, that the
affairs of this institution may be managed
in such a manner, as not to reflect injuri
ously upon the character of Georgia. Her
Banking institutions never enjoyed, and
deservedly so, a higher credit, nor were
ever more sound and flourishing, than at
present. In former times the confidence
of our people has been abused and they
have been shamefully swindled by heart
less speculations in Bank charters. And no
matter for what cause, nor with how little
reason, the failure of o ie of our Banks casts
suspicions and distrusts over the minds of
the people, against all other banks, and
thus our solvent institutions are made inno
cent sufferers, on account of the misman
agement of banks, with which they had no
connexion.—Sav. Rep.
The War News*
The Augusta Constitutionalist of the
19th inst., says:
“Quite a number of persons called yester
day at our office to see the war news, as
they understood a despatch had been re
ceived at this office announcing that a war
iiad been positively determined on between
Mexico and Spain against the United States,
The apprehensions of the staid lovers of
peace and the hopes of the bellicose were
alike quieted when the real nature of the
despatch was scrutinized. We give it un
der the telegraphic head for what it is worth
We should judge that some gossipping let
ters have been written by the political Paul
Pry’s of Havana, in which they have orac
ularly interpreted the signs of the times in
to an alliance between the Spanish govern
ment and Santa Anna for the purpose of
making war with this country. We dismiss
the conjecture as absurd, though it is not
impossible some negotiation may be on
foot for nn affiance for mutual defence and
assistance between Spain and Mexico.
Still, the bare rumor of a war kindled a
mong our more youthful and adventurous
citizens quite aglow of excitement, and vis
ions of organized expeditions for the eman
cipation and annexation to this country of
the fair Queen of the Antelies rose up to
their imaginations. No appalling shadow
stood darkly in the background of an Amer
ican President issuing his Proclamation de
nouncing the expedition as one of piracy
and robbery.
A war with Spain is so naturally sugges
tive of the annexation of Cuba, that the tel
egraphic despatch caused the subject to be
fully discussed in all its bearings yesterday
with our sheets, partly in jest and partly in
earnest.
Santa Anna is not particularly admired
in the Southern States, and has but a few
friends. But if his folly and presumption
should result in giving this country its jus
tifiable ground for annexing Cuba, he will
become comparatively popular, and earn a
general vote of thanks from the fillibusters.
Organizing for the Campaign.—At a
meeting of the citizens of Richmond county,
held in Augusta, on the 7th inst., the Hon.
Andrew J. Miller offered the following res
olutions which were unanimously adopted:
Resolved. That the Constitutional Union
Partv of Richmond county still lives to
stand Gy and insist upon the platform of
the Georgia Convention of 1850; to insist
upon “a proper distribution of power be
tween the State and Federal authorities,”
and a faithful execution by each; to require
a devoted integrity and an observance of
rigid economy in all departments” of the
State aud National Governments; to aid in
the maintenance of honor abroad, and the
preservation of peace, law and order at
home ; to oppose any intervention in the af
fairs of foreign nations; to oppose all acqui
sitions of territory “through a grasping
spirit,” and to aid only in such enlargement
of territory as is of “national interest and
necessity,” and “entirely consistent with
the strictest observance of national faith.”
Resolved, That we will co operate with
our fellow-citizens of other counties enter
taining like opinions, and will send four
delegates to the Convention to be held at
Milledgeville, on the fourth Wednesday in
June, instant to nominate a candidate for
Governor, and four delegates to a Conven
tion to nominate a candidate for Repre
sentative to Congress from the Eighth
District.
Kwite Phunnygraphic.—The following
specimen advertisement is copied from the
Hartford Courant:
Rhine Phresh Phigs.—We have been so
phorlunate as to phetch in a. phew phresh
Phitrs which we warrant phiret rate and
phancy will sell phreshly, phairly, and
phinelv, to old and young pholks, phree
soilersj pliillibusters, or the phree men,
phriends, or phoes, that are proud ov phre-
quently pheasting on such phoddei and
phindingno phault. They are phirst rate
phruit, and would piiill the eye of a Phrenc
man or any other phoreigner. lhey can
be phound phor sale pbor a phew days at
Phullers, 19 Asyium street—phirst pliloor,
a phew pheet phrom phriend Pnay s phine
phancy round sign. Don’t phail to plietch
a phriend, if you have any pheelins phor a
phine phellow, and don’t phorget to phetch
the phunds, as there is no phear but that
you will pheast phio^gd^ WELL
Hotel Incident in St. Louis*
A gentleman, with a naturally nervous
temperament, and a dread of thieves and
iekpockets particularly, of an Illinois Bot
tom education, arrived in this city a tew
days since, and took lodgings at oue of our
most popular hotels. Our hero was on his
guard from the outstart, and cultivated no
acquaintances, nor stayed out after night
fall but with his hand on the breeches pock
et containing bis wallet he kept his'owu
counsel, and did defiance to ihe knighter
rants of the jimtney aud out sider with
whom he supposed the town to teem. He
retired at a reasonably early hour, but goi
up the next morning with the first crow of
the cock. The clera stood quietly yawning
himself awake behind the office counter,
when our friend, hatless, arrived in the
highest possible state of excitement to an
nounce that he had been robbed. “Oh no
1 reckon not,” said the clerk, in a tone of
inconceivable coolness. “Yes, sir, I have,”
said the other, pale anl trembling, “I have
been robbed of a thousand dollars. I placed
it under my pillow as I went to bed, and
now its gone. I shall hold you responsi
ble for it, sir—I look to you.” “That you
can’t do,” replied the clerk, this time actu
ally smiling with the most provoking bland
ness: “that you cant do; you did not depos
it your money with me; in fact, you said
nothing about having money—how could I,
then, secure you against its loss? Come,
stranger, ain’t you piling it on a leetle steep;
ain’t you playing some sly prairie game?
Come, now, it wou’t do,’ aud the clerk
smiled and jested, and pleasantly denied all
responsibility, and laughingly hoped that
the prodigal would return, and the bread
cast upon the waters would be found again,
until tbe^xcited stranger became still more
excited, aud canvassed in his mind the Di
lemma to wit: an assault and battery on the
clerk, or the arrest of the whole household
by the police.
After the interview had progressed for
some time, the office became tilled with boar
ders many of whom taking part in the dis
cussion, sided invariably with the clerk who,
having created euougb suspense in the stran
ger’s mind, produced a wallet from his desk,
and counted out to him $1,000 in bank
bills. As the other stared silently at him
in stupid astonishment and gratification,
the clerk remarked: “Stranger, let me give
you a piece of advice. The next time you
stop at a hotel, don’t hide your monev in
your boots for security, and then in a mo
ment of abstraction, s.t them out in the hall
to be blacked.” The thing had really oc
curred as thus explained. The stranger,
fearing always to be robbed, bethought
himself of his boots, as the place, of all the
world, the safest to conceal his money. Af
ter dismissing this greater care entirely from
his tnind, it occurred to him that he ought
to have bis boots blacked, and accordingly,
taking the self-same pair, paced them, mon
ey and'all, in the hall, and locking the door,
retired without another thought to disturb
his slumbers. The next morning, forget
ting himself, he felt pursuaded that he had
placed his wallet under his pillow, but hon
est “bools” had apprised the clerk of his
discovery, and deposited with him his find
ings.—St. Louis Republican.
An Old Negroe’s Logic*
A correspondent of the Richmond Chris
tian Advocate communicates the following:
A clergyman of our village, a short time
since, asked an old servant his reasons for
believing in the existence of a God.
Sir,’ said he, “I see one man get sick.
The Doctor comes to him, gives him med
icine ; the next day he is better; he gives
him another dose, it does him good; be
keeps on until he gets up and goes about
his business. Another man gets sick, just
like the doctor comes to see him ; he gives
him the same sort of medicine, until he dies.
Now that man’s time to die bad come, all
doctors in the world can’t save him.
“One year I work hard in the cornfield,
plow deep, dig up the grass, and make
nothing but nubbins. Next year I work
the same way; the ram and dew come, and
I make a good crop. If God don’t send
the rain, work won’t make the crop.
I have been here going on hard upon
fifty years. Every day since I have been
in this world I see the sun rise in the east
and set in the west—The north star stands
where it did the fust time I ever seen it;
the seven stars and Job’s coffin keeps on
the same path in the sky, and never turn
out. It ain’t so with man’s work.
He makes clocks and watches; they may
run for a while, bu t they get out of fix and
stand stock still. But the sun, and moon
and stars keep on the same way all the
while. There is a power which makes oue
sick man die, and another get well; that
sends the rain and keeps everything iu mo
tion.”
What a beautiful comment is here fur
nished by an unlettered African on the lan
guage of the Psalmist: “The heaven’s de
clare the glory of God, and the firmament
showeth His handiwork—day unto day
utereth speech, and night unto night show
eth knowledge.*
A young chap, one night came home
from church, fretting and crying at a great
rate about something, no one knew what.
The father asked what, was the matter ?
“The preacher says we must all be born
again, and I don’t like to, cos I’m fraid next
time I’ll be a gal!”
A little child hearing a sermon, and ob
serving the minister very vehement in bis
words and gestures, cried out, “Mother,
why don’t the people let the man out of
the box?”
[For the Central Georgian.]
LICENSE vs- LIQUOR.
“Look on this picture and then on that.”
Not many years since there appeared in
Georgia, a sect limited in number, who pro
claimed themselves the advocates for the
prohibition of the sale of wine and strong
drink, in any quantity under fifteen gallons
alleging that the sale of wines, as well as
the drinking of it as a beverage, was im
moral, pernicious to, and destructive of the
good order and well being of society. This
sect did not distinguish between the tern
perate and intemperate use of wine and
strong drink, but desired and attempted to
prohibit the temperate use as well as the
intemperate. This they did by circulatin
petitions in many parts of the State, to ob
tain the signatures of men, women, and
children, in sufficient numbers to command
respect before the Legislature. This at
tempt was promptly and indignantly re
buked by the people, whereupon this sect
changed their name and policy, they grad
ually metamorphosed themselves again in
name and policy, at.d organized secret lod
ges, invited all men of all Christian de
nominations, to become attached to them
Many unsuspecting and good men, and in
experienced youths were duped and allured
into these lodges, during the interim be
tween defeat in their first attempt to pro
hibit by law the temperate and intemperate
use of wine, until now, they concealed tbe
fact that they intended to ask laws to pro
hibit its sale and use, using specious argu
ment to allure and deceive the young and
unwary, until they conceived themselves
sufficiently strong to accomplish the origi
nal object, in the same way and by the same
means. We now see this sect assembling
in convention, and resolving to memorialise
the legislature to prohibit the whole traffic
or trade in wine and strong drink. Now as
hitherto making and allowing no distinc
tion between tbe virtue of temperance and
the vice of in temperance. Now reader, vo
ter, is it immoral to sell, and drink temper
ately, wine and strong drink ? Can it be
proven that it is moral aud in accordance
with the teachings of the Bible, to drink
temperately, and sell it ? It can and will
be whenever and wherever the writer may
be called upon to do so. The use and drink
ing temperately of wine is allowed and
commended by the following texts, to wit:
Melchizedeck, king of Salem, brought forth
bread and wine (eaten and drank by Abra
ham) and he was the priest of the most
high God.” (Gen. xiv, 18th verse.” Again
in the blessing pronounced by Isaac upon
his son, he said, “God give thee of the dew
of heaven and of the fatness of the earth,
and plenty of corn and wine.” (Gen. xx-
vn, 23, 28.y But the fanatics of our time
tell us that wine is a curse, instead of a
blessing, and that God does not give it, but
that it comes from the devil, which is cor
rect. Judge ye, again, God’s promise to
the chosen people, if they kept his com
mandments, was that be would “bless the
fruit of their land, their corn, their wine
and their oil.” (Deut. xviii, 4.) The chil
dren of Israel are commanded to use wine,
(Deut. xiv, 4,) and wine is provided for the
Priests, (Deut. xvm, 4.) The prophet Ne-
hemiab reproved the Jews for depriving
their brethren of their vineyards and their
wines, (Neh. v, 2.) In promising renewed
blessings to the chosen people, God says,
“Behold I will send you corn and wine and
oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith, and
the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats
shall overflow with wine and oil.” (Joel, xi,
19, 24.) You are refered to Judges xix, 9,
ix, 15., Hosea ix, 2, ii, 8, 9., Numbers xv,
5., 2 Sara, vii, 19., Hosea hi, 1, Daniel x,
1, 3., Isaiah xxv, 6., Songs of Solomon, i, 5 5
and these are not all which prove it to be
moial to drink wine. It will now be proven
from the same Book that it is moral to sell
wine and strong drink. “Ho every one
that thirstelb, come ye to the waters, and
he that hath uo money, come ye, buy wine
and milk without money and without price.”
(Isaiah lv, 1.)
Again, “And thou shalt bestow thy mon
ey for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for
wine or for strong drink, or for whatsoever
thy soul desireth, and thou shalt rejoice,
thou and thine household.” (Bent, xrv, 26.)
This is the language of Jehovah to the cho
sen people. Now here is Bible authority,
not only for the drinking of wine and strong
drink, but for its purchase and sale. What
would the 6ect among us have said in those
days, if thay had existed, is it not impious
to condemn what God has approved aud
blessed? What would this sect have said,
had they existed in the day the Saviour was
upon earth, would hot they have said as
1 did the hypocritical Pharisees, who they
*r.'.-:k r " ’
resemble, that the Saviunr was a wiue bib
ber. Tbe New Testament abounds with
proof texts which could be adduced, but it
is unnecessary, when there is already such
a cloud of testimony furnished. It is prov
en that it is not immoral to sell or drink
wine or strong drink, Ac. The Koran pro-
bibits the use ot wine, but the Christian’s
Bible does not. Choose ye, voter, whom
ye will serve, “if the Lord be God follow him
but if Baal, then follow him.” Who ii on
the Lords side ? Who ?
WILKINSON.
Irwinton, June 16, 1853.
A Wonderful Character.—It is reported
that there bow lives an old man down in
the swarnp of little Pee Dee, who never
owned but one pair of shoes in his life, and
he says they were so d—d hot he never
wore them but once. He never cultivated
tbe soil; nevertheless, he has accumulated
a considerable sum of money, which he de
posits in hollow trees in the most unfre
quented swamps. He affects extreme pov
erty, aud when applied to for the loan of
money, declares he has none; but if the
security and premium offered pleases him,
promises to repay in specie, be will appoint
a day when he will try to get a little, which
he never fails to do. He has made his for
tune by the sale of fish, the finest of which
he knows exactly where to fish for, and
honey which he raises in large quantities,
having bis bees hived in swamps foj" miles
around. No music is so charming to his
ears as the booing of bullfrogs and the bel
lowing of alligators, for these sang his lul
laby when in his cradle, and have been
harbingers of the bravest days, from his
boyhood to the present day. He never
uses any other weapon to kill snakes with
than his heels, and there never was but one
known to attempt to bite him, and that
one broke off his teeth without penetrating
the skin of the heel. He has never taken
any doctor’s stuff, nor let them come near
enough to feel his pulse or to look at his
tongue, and he is now seventy years of
age. Strange as it may seem that such a
character should fined a mate of similar
tastes and fancies, yet such is the case, on
ly that she is a little more like him than
be is like himself. Has any of our contem
poraries a similar character in their neigh
borhood ? If so, let’s hear about him.-—
Cheraw Gazette.
Sow the Old Fogy Did Him.—An
air using story is told of two lawj-ers in South
ern New York, who often met in bar-room
discussions, as well as iu tne braver battles
the Court room Oue of them is a
shrewd, rough tongued old chap, without
ranch learning or general information, but
with some wit, a good deal of assurance,
and a happy knack of getting out a tight
place by a coup dtat. The other, a young
man, something of a dandy, and rather pe
dantic, but a good scholar .and a smart de
bater. On one occasion, these parties (whom
for convenience, we shall call the old foggy
and the ‘young foggy’) were having a sharp
debate at the village inn, before a large and
admirable audience. Tbe question was one
of some magnitude, and having a histori
cal cast, the young foggy was altogether
too many’ for his adversary, and having
fairly headed him by running him into
deeper water than the old foggy could safe
ly wade in, he ‘swung ofF in an eloquent
peroration, in which he cited a host of his
torical authorities to clench the triumphant
argument. The listeners, who always look
ed to the old foggy as the better man, and
didn’t like his adversary, were astonished,
and their companion for a moment looked
to be nonplused, ‘Look at the example of
the ancient Republics,’ continued the glow
ing orator, ‘go to Athens, go to Rome—’
‘Go to h—11,’ growled the old foggy with
a look of scorn, finishing his opponent’s
oracular sentence in a manner so absurd and
incongruous even he felt vanquished in the
loud laugh which proclaimed the ‘old fog
gy’s’ triumph.—Boston Post.
A Blunder.—The New York Atlas,
speaking of a man of some note, lately de
ceased, undertook to say, “he subsequently
commenced life as a legal practitioner, but
was diverted f ora it by his love of letters.”
Tbe editor did not look at his proof, and on
Sunday morning he had the pleasure ot
reading :—“He subsequently commenced
life as a legal politician, but was diverted
from it bv bis love of bitters.”
How to Whisper Away Warts..—Punch
is a good doctor at times. He gives the
following for the benefit of wart-wearers:—•
“Put your mouth close to the wart, and tell
it in a whisper that if it will not go away
you will barn it out with caustic. If it .
does not take the hint be as good as your
word.”
A lecturer in Cincinnati, in illostrating
freedom of thought in this country ^men
tioned a minor of a contemplated conven
tion of the boys of the United States, who
were going to revise the ten commandments
particularly the fifth, proposing to amend
that by saying— 1 “parents obey your chil-.
dren.”
A couple of sons of the Emerald Isle met
near tbe Custom-house one day, when af
ter the usual salutations, one said to the
other, “Well, Patrick, poor Hprton is dead,
here; » _
year tfiat never
