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TfeOMASTON, GEORGIA:
Saturday Mwning, May 26, 1860-
Ut truer Iron Senator Iverson’s Speech
* at GrifTiii.
! Ik* ! ■< of Kansas to tlio South was the legitimate
and inevitable fruit of the ‘squatter sovereignty’ ele
ments of the Kansas-Ncbraska bill, os construed and
enforced by its Northern authors and friends
C (institutional Union Nominations.
FOR PRESIDENT,
TOXIN bell,
OF TENNESSEE.
VICE-PRESIDENT,
F.DWAIID EV ERETT,
• OF MASSACHUSETTS.
The Constitution of the Country ,
The Union of the States, and
The Enforcement of the Laws.
Apologetic.
1 n justice to the Post-Master here, we
will sny that the delay of the Pilot inreach
iur several Post Offices on hist Saturday,
as caused at this Office. After we had
made up and placed in the basket the sev
eral packages, by some unusual neglect,
the Devil in our absence failed to take the
“•nil t° the Post Office. If Homer some
i “ s nods, so our devil (who is generally
and d'-vil) will sometimes forget his
’ * ■!><•■> and brimstone. Between Uncle
> Udicials and the Devil however,
t’ i • > have a tough row to weed—but
Masters like the devil, should
•r dieir dues. We would not
more than the other, without
We like to sec things alike, stand
■•■ tme platform. They both belong
‘•ted race and too frequently are
> sins others alone have com
’ often say the Devil made us
• ‘ or the Post-Master did it,
-urselves were the guilty party.
• - r after being so much slandered
f, ne would set'vc in the capacity
■ • it her—but every one to his own taste,
as the old woman said when she kissed a
monkey.
Academy.
Among the other attractions at the
Chalybeate Spring, it will be seen .that
Prof. Duesberry will open a Dancing
Academy on the Ist of June. The Pro
fessor has given lessons in the Art of which
is a proficient, in almost every town and
vit.V in the State. He comes highly recom
mended not only as a Teacher, but as a
gentleman.
Wire, wire, limber lock,
Ten geese in a flock,
Some flew East, and some flew West,
And some flew over the cuckoo’s nest.
Old Nursery Rhymes.
Judging from the great number of let
> lately addressed to the Macon Tribu
. n Committee, we would declare that
about this time, the Democratic flock of
-use are an}” thing but “sound on the
question.” The leaders have lost
h course and distance and the whole
k are reeling and sailing around filling
with their hoarse quackings. Some
East, some West, some North and
’> S >uth. Carry—your—own—skillet,
h ms oints to the North, Tote—the
ney—bag, Cobb cocks his eye for the
uth, the great Hamilcar Toombs is in
for the West and clouds and darkness rest 1
w ’he vision of the renowned astronomer :
•s iiel <>r a fly has crossed his political
!• .-v j ■ and consequently there must be
•. rencral burst up. Even Joseph the Im
•laculate is called in and with all his pow
>■'> “t computation, lie cannst make the
vis accounts balance to a quarter of a
nt —th figures will turn wrong side up
—do as he may.
Now wh r is the country todo (to change
hen the ten Doctors called in
her as to the disease or
•y i ‘<* age of miracles is past and
Doctors when the patient is
’ may galvanize the body and
noiuent grin horribly a
<■ lu we think it would be
’ alone and perhaps from
■>g influences of the people, by
metempsychosis, the corpse in
ii assume new life, virtue anti
I'-Ctb and continue to exist for ages a
Mossing to the world.
W c prouict from the amount of paper
v in the prescriptions of these politi
cal Doctors to breathe life into a dead
body, that the Trunk-makers will reap a
ri< h harvest of money—thereby verifying
the old saying—“It is an ill wind, that
bletrs no good to anybody/ 5
The AIUhHM AM Ben
hett.
Oitt city coieinporary, tlie Atfeflta Xo
cwtotive, has changed ita schedule and is
now running a tilt against old Bennett of
the Herald. It says Its patrons and read
ers are “atnaied” at its attacks ! Well
we think all stich attacks are a mere waste
| of wood and machinery—for weexpect even
if old Bennett could see them, that he
! would regard them as little as a rhinoce
ros, the darting of a strdw against its bide.
Not satisfied with eating up old Bennett
it pitches in upon the dead. It says
\ “that Henry Clay turned out to be an en
emy to the vSouth, two or three years be
j fore his death, and rendered himself ob
noxious to his party friends who would
not have touched him with a forty lout
pole. The ignorant Zachary Taylor was
preferred to him, because at that time
Henry Clay was willing to sell the South
and all of her institutions for the sake of
the Presidency.”
This is news to us. We would advise
the Locomotive to stick to Grease, Rome
and Temperance and above all, apply the
brakes to its awful Southern articles or it
might break things to pieces and then
somebody would get hurt. It is never
safe, when we have too much steam aboard.
NEW-YORK CORRESPONDENCE
OF THE PILOT.
Calamities—The “Black and White List”
Swindle—The North and South—Ma
caulay’s Estate—The Harper's — Great
Eastern — Storm—Trade.
January was full of calamities. There
were more fires, more lives lost and more
deaths than for many years past during
the same month. The Elm street fire was
appalling; a six story building full of hu
man beings, fired below, leaving no meav
of escape but flying to the roof, or jump
ing out of the windows. Those who wen.
on the roof could not get off, there not be
ing a ladder in the city high enough to
reach them. Those who jumped out were
either killed or terribly mangled and bruis
ed. Several went down in the burning
flames, falling timbers and walls, and were
burned to ashes! Yet, several houses of
this class are full of tenants and ready for
a similar fate. The explosion of a boiler
in Brooklyn, hurried instantly seven more
into eternity. The engineer I knew, and
but two days before he was boasting what
a good place and fine engine he had! The
exceedingly rapid changes of weather car
ried off several hundreds more.
There has been nothing more false and
villainous than the pretended list of houses
in this city trading South, while it was
partly true, it was notoriously deficient
and false in detail, misrepresenting both
sides, and placing both on the wrong side,
making it wilfully mean or woefully stu
pid. All southern men can very easily and
correctly ascertain the character of the
houses or firms hero, by letters to their
friends, or inquiries when here if they wish,
and govern their purchases according to
their tastes —in politics as well as calicoes.
I have observed carefully the times for
twenty-four years past, and give it as my
opinion, that if there had been no “office
seekers” and no “spoils,” the country would
not have been troubled about “white” or
“black men.” We are a great and happy
people, so much so that we don’t know it.
The North is mad with the South b< -ctis”
the North is not hot enough f- •
i e. to make their labor pay ; n.
with the North because a white man w..u
his nose ten hours on the grindstone makes
more chips than a negro loitering his twelve
hours away. The way to get over this is
to “mind your own business,” North and
South ; make everything you can at home,
and buy what you must have and cannoi
make, from your neighbors. If nothing
from the North w ill do the South, why not
stop the “north wind;” wall it up, turn it
back, it is too cold for the South any way.
This would be as reasonable as not to wear
cotton shirts or eat slave sugar. What
would the South gain in the abolition sense
by going to England ? Let her firmly and
gradually build manufactories, patronize
her order, institutions and literature, let
politics alone comparatively, be liberal, and
she will soon stop agitation, invite co-ope
ration, and be at peace.
Macaulay, the great historian, is an ex
ception to the general rule among literary
men. He died rich, leaving eighty thou
sand pounds to his friends.
The Harper’s I see, are assailed South.
Whatever is found in their paper or maga
zine to justify it, there may be reason in,
but in nothing else. They are all as D
from “republicanism” or “Helperism” as
any sensible national men can possibly be,
and always have been. I know them, and
say this without their knowledge.
The Great Eastern —yes, where is she?
Her captain is now dead, and she seems to
be unlucky in all points.
The late wind storm was one of the most
unexpected, violent, and destructive known
here for years. Although no lives were
lo*t, an immense amount of damage has
been done to buildings and commerce.
Trade is backward and not brisk.
Yours, respectfully, E.
Matters out West.— The Charleston
failure has fallen like a bomb among the
Democracy of Missouri. The Douglas men
are frantic and insolent to a degree. They !
denounce the friends of the Administration
as “traitors” and “minions” and utterly
unworthy of association with the true, or
Squatter Sovereign Democracy. Thus we
g°-
We enjoy a clever joke, even though our
best friends are the victims, and can there
fore relish the following “streak :”
“The early sessions of the Charleston
Convention were opened with prayer, but
on Saturday, as the fight grew furious,
prayers were dispensed with, probably from
a consciousness that the Democratic party
was past preying for.”
• Hon. Jwlm Bell's Opinions.
Hon. John Belt on the Kansas Bilb
Extract froffi a debate irhthe Setmte.—
May 24th 1854, between Messrs. Bell,
To--mbs, and others.
.Aii lU.ll I is Vry wadi f*r f h** hnn
*-.a be ‘ttciMi or tr<>ui Georgia. (M i. T mbs.)
to proclaim now that he is n > legislating
• for any section ; he certainly ih uot going
for the South ! I think no S m'hrniqlnan
can show that the*Bouth has iv s r
ticular interest in this hill. !
not like the compromise • ’ ~4 ‘ !
Ni.W M’ Xi* ■ .: 1
l y •- ae * ’
slavery as it am.’ in,
that Territory was brougn
ion, Mr. Calhoun and sum.
bio Sena*-rs - •: .; 4 ’
ican : .q-,
•* c i -n ,h shiv, i . .}•
Seuators doubted <*n tlm e hon
orable . enator from M t Air.
Brown,) can, perhaps, exj miu me differ
ent doctrines which then were held in the
South on this subject. At all events, the
compromise acts of 1850 left the Territory
as it was when annexed, and allowed the
people to interdict or establish slavery, as
they pleased, when they should form their
State Constitution. That was the doctrine
of non-intervention then. What is it in
this bill ? I ‘Em in fevor of the principle
of non-intefYention. Such non-interven
tion as would have given to tlm South, Cu
ba as a slave State, should it ever be an
nexed to the United States ; such non-in
tervention as that, if there had been no
compact with regard to the admission of
! slave States to be carved out of T-x ;s.
would have secured to those slave S*:w s,
independent of the compact by which the
United States are bound to adtni- hem.—
Bur under the state of bb ,_-• ~ • due
led—under the feeling >t
S**U . -• O -> : • |l ‘■ ‘
i he Sou • li—l predict—uo, Iv, - .
W : t.
no
com. wit- • v <
out of T. x Tl.- ii. 11-..,
1850 was io in- .he Territories wi.
into the Utu >n as slave ierriton
ered slave u-rri orv until the mi...
determine, when iliey form a S-a •
tution, that shivery should be ah ! ;
and it it came in as a free terri ~ u
the inhabitants to restrict or ad.qr. i..ve
ry, at their discretion, when they form a
State constitution. But by this bill you
interpose to repeal the Missouri comprom
ise, which would restore the territory to
the condition of slave territory, as it was
when annexed; but not content with that,
you further interfere to make it free terri
tory. Youthen provide, without limita-,
tion of time or numbers, that the inhabi
tants shall decide in their Territorial Leg
islature to establish or prohibit slavery.—
Well, suppose the first Legislature shall
admit slavery, may not the next abolish it,
and thus keep up a perpetual struggle ;
while Cngfeß, the wnii •• .e. -rav Ih
ag a ted again by quenii tm .in .. in
tervention ? Yet this is a masm>- t ace
ito the country ! It is to give qu.. ; ail
agitation is to cease under it !
To the Self-Constetutecl M
Gents . :•
V n’>< •
illHt before,
ask, ‘n Ip ! * v
1 ’
also, ami kuied hi ms. ii
ought to be. jos. e. brown
and Judge Crook and the I> i* J .ia,.inan
of Habersham have also irven heir views
together wi h sundry othersol the great and
smali fry 1 like to have forgotten “Aleck” 1 )
and “Howell.” They all argue and dis
cuss and back down and fill up, and squirm
and wince as bad as they will when the
d—l gets them. I pity you and the bal
ance of the 100 thousand Douglas beggars
in the Union. You can’t come it, gentle
men! Your Squatter Douglas and vour
Squatter Stephens are nomin.-t ns n rj.
to be made. You may catty 1. Eighth.
District —but then you are no; *; li, .nd
of your row. This I doubt exceedingly,
however, until I see it done. You h -v<-
! your street corner and pot house trumpeters
all over the State, blowing Douglas’ h-n n,
and Stephens’ whistle —but you e?ir’ -one
it! The stccders were right — nf h.-v
will be sustained bv the jm o. I- G .
Mark that ! They were uml -. • . ~ n
—true to tin Smith —trm - 1
n- t.. •!, • • /• .’,/
r \ .!. ■ - —.,
C m •
der ui . .. r ■
icine Ot yonir- A-- : ..I ;. i
Douglas Doe is ! Douglas conn .
Georgia! nor any other man on hi*
form —not even the immaculate Ah x •
H. Stephens ! Mark that, too ! Tak •
back track gentlemen,—go to Milledgt-v il
—sustain your delegates and send tb- o
Richmond! You cannot with h. n —it
seems to me go to Baltimore, and beg for
admission back into a convention you left
with honor! and in disgust, if not in an
ger at the falsehood and treachery exhibi
ted by your sound (44 !) Northern Free
soil brethren !
You will excuse my prolixity, but the ;
magnitude of the subject must be my rea
son for trespassing on your valuable time.
I have the nonor to be,
Very respectfully, yourob’t srv’t,
Bpv. Brig. Gen. John A. B. C. Smith, |
Formerly of the “Coffin Regiment.” -
Pin.*} Knob, May 19th, 1860.
A ugusta. Chronicle rf* Sentinel.
Beau Brummel once had his pocket
picked. The pecuniary InSH he ll'-l.- WI : h
great equanimity, but declared h h
would hang, if he met with h •*.. n iin
gentlomanlv villians wh . ‘
rebutton the p.eke; .1 K :
casi*d him to walk th* e o
i with his pocket turned inside out !
frtM Ctfcief iuHtire O NeiUK
SpringFiEth, April 28, 1860,
Editors of the Newberry Rising iS'i/n— =
Gentlemen .-—What a stormy day. How
grateful might we to besot the gently de
scending rain !
When I look upon the loWefihg element
around, and reinember that the National
Democratic Convention, may be about
passing upon the last scene of its existence,
which is to be for our weal or woe, I can
no/ teel otherwise than anxious.
We are, I fear, in evil times, rashness
. ; s foo much in the ascendant. I had hop
. - Convention would act in harmony,
; a candidate would be selected
uld unite the whole Democracy,
••u hern, Eastern, Western, as well as
*’ hern. If that were done, the proph
-1 our eminent (Southern statesman
uid be fully realized, that at the end of
‘he next four years the Black Republican
party would be at an end.
My confidence and hope is in the merci
ful overruling of Divine Providence. God
has hitherto helped us, and I still believe
that he will over-rule the madness of men ,
and bring to us good, greater good than
we deserve !
How religious men can counsel violence
and good the people on the results which
may bring about a servile war, or array
section against section, is to me, strange —
passing llrange.
I'pretend to be no politician : I belong
to the country. I have grown up under
Its mild and fostering rule. I have been
blessed ; and I trust I have not been un
grateful. The star-spangled banner has
floated in glory and triumph over my head
from infancy.
I have looked to it as the protector of
my rights, everywhere, and iu the East,
South, West, and North, and in the pro
vinces of her Majesty, the Queen, I have
looked proudly to the stars and stripes,
and said, “these are the emblems of my
tree and happy home !” Are these to be
pulled down and trumplod in the dust by
mad and corrupt politicians ? God for
•id ! Freemen—descender)ts of the Pa
- sos ’76 —it is your duty to prevent
• .n a disastrous result !
Indy and firmly you must determine
our country shall live. Place the
r‘. mm purest men within your reach, at
u nead of your government! Purge your
Congress. Every corrupt, licentious, row
dy, gambling, drinking man should be sent
home. Then you may look for a reign of
honesty and virtue. Until that be done,
how can you expect the blessing of God P
; Are drunken, corrupt legislators to minis
ter for you at the altars of your country ?
If so, what results .are you to expect ?
“Scenes,” such as you have witnessed in
the past year. I have shuddered at read
ing the ribaldry and abuse in the House of
Representatives. It would disgrace a South
ern grog-shop. And yet, gentlemen, Rep
resentatives of the Free People of the Uni
ted States have uublushingly mingled in
it 1
0, my country, fearful must be thy fate
if these things are to continue !
But, as these lowering clouds, after
blessing the earth with the rain which it
so much needs, will dissolve, and the sun
will arise to give heat and strength to the
vegetableland animal kingdom, so let us
hope will vanish all our political clouds,
‘•d that the sun of righteousness, peace
y, will arise upon our distracted
Your friend,
JOHN BELTON O’NEALL.
THE PRESS.
ruiy eloquent clegyman, Rev. Dr.
-•■-it, of Baltimore, in a recent address
■ f the religious anniversaries in New
k, paid the following tribute to “the
iess:”
“Who can measure the power of the
press? An ounce of lead moulded into a
bullet, and put into a Minnie rifle, w T ith a
few grains of powder beneath it, will go
two miles, and do its errand in an efficient
manner, if it encounter no obstacles. But
that ounce of lead made nto types, and put
into one of Hoes lightning printing presses,
will go thousands of miles and do its er
rand effectively, not on one man merely 7,
but on millions, and though oceans, rivers
and mountains may intervene. A steam
printing press ! Did you ever go down in
one of the spacious vaults beneath your
sidewalks here and watch the monsters ?-
Why, my friends, I feel something like awe
in looking at them. I feel like taking my
hat off to the huge machine. [Laughter.] It
seems to me to be a living thing—one of
Ezekiei’s living creatures with “the hand
of a man, and the sound of many ‘ waters,
and the living eye in the wheel.”
He asks no nourishment, knows no wear
iness. How it strips itself to its work and
toils .on with a strength that mocks to
scorn the might of the giant, and with a
clamor as if it would shiver to pieces every
.-.ubstance in his grasp. And yet, with a
■i* licacy and precision unattainable by hu
nan muscles, it received a fabric so deli
cate that a rude touch would rend it, and
■ u prints upon it in the twinkling of an
ye that which it cost hours to compose.—
i tiiugs off sheet after sheet to entertain,
ustruct, regenerate and bless the earth.—
None of us have yet begun to begin to ap
preciate the influence of the press as an a
gentfor the diffusion of knowledge, wheth
er it be in volumes, pamphlets, or above
all, through the daily newspaper, the mor
al institution which has revolutionized not
only the literary, but the commercial and
political world. If you have read the Con
stitution, you will remember thatthere are
only two estates in Congress, the Senate
and House of Representatives ; but a third
estate has sprung up, occupying during the
session of Congress a seat higher than that
occupied by the Senators and Representa
tives themselves, and which continues in
session long after Congress adjourned, ev
erywhere and at all times. It is composed
of the Representatives of the press.”
The Best Thing of the Season.—
Senator Hale, in his speech, on Friday,
congratulated the Douglas Democrats up
being permitted to talk Black Repub
nism at Charleston, where avowed Re
, üb! loans are not permitted to go l— Sa- j
vannoh Republican . ‘
From Browntow’s Whig.
4 The Ptess and Dead Heads.
Railroads, Steamboats and Stage Coach
es complain of de*tH heading —that is to
say, of Preachers* Editors and brethren of
the craft, riding so much without pay.—
The newspaper press endures more of this
dead heading than all three of these modes
of conveyance combined. The Pulpit, the
Bar, and the Theatre; corporations, legis
lative assemblies, societies, religious, be
nevolent, agricultural, mercantile estab
lishments, venders of quack medicines, rail
road companies, stage lines, and every va
riety of individuals, including political par
ties, and politicians, draw* largely upon the
liberality of the press. The press is expect
ed to yield to all these interests ; it is re
’ quired to give strength to all weak institu
tions and enterprises; it is asked to puff small
; preachers into overshadowing pulpit ora-
I tors ; to puff small politicians and unprin
: cipled demagogues into great men and pa
triots; to magnify incompetent Railroad
officers into Railroad Kings ; it is expect
ed to herald abroad the fame of quacks, of
all classes, bolster up dull authors, immor
talize weak Congressional speeches ; it is
required to give sight to the blind, bread
to the hungry, talents to fools, and honor
to thieves and robbers; it is asked to cover
up the infirmatieß of the weak, to hide the
j faults of guilty men, and wink at the frau
’ dulent schemes of scoundrels; it is expect
ed to flatter the vain, to extol the merits
of those who deserve nothing but the scorn
and contempt of all good citizens; it is re
quired, in a word, of the newspaper press,
mat it become all things to all men ; and
if it look for pay or send out its bills for
subscriptions and advertising, is is denounc
ed as mean and sordid, and its conductors
as wanting iu liberality. There is no in
i terest on the face ot this green earth, that
is expected to give as much to society,
without pay or thanks, as the newspaper
press of the country 7 . The little-souled
man, who inserts in your columns a fifteen
shilling advertisement, expects you to write
him out at least five dollars worth of edi
torial notices. And the obscure and nig
gardly man you have written into a posi
tion of importance, far beyound his mer
its, considers that his name adorns your
columns, and gives circulation to your jour
nal !
The Secret of Taming Houses.—A
correspondent of the New York Express
submits the following method of horse ta
ming :
For the oil of Cummin, the horse lias an
instinctive passion, and when the horse
scents the odor he is instinctively 7 drawn
towards it. The oil of Rhodium possesses
peculiar properties. All animals cherish
a fondness for it, and it exercises a kind of
subduing influence over them.
To tame horses, procure some horse cas
tor and grate it line, also get some oil of
Rhodium, and oil of Cummin, and keep
the three seperate in air tight bottles. Rub
a little oil of Cummin in your hands and
approach the horse in the field on wind
ward side, so that he can smell the Cum
min. The horse will let you corne up to
him without trouble. Immediately rub
your hand gently on the horse’s nose, get
ting a littlb of the oil in it. You can then
lead him anywhere. Give him a little cas
tor on a piece of loaf sugar or apple. Put
eight drops of Rhodium into a lady’s sil
ver thimble; take the thimble between the
thumb and middle finger of y 7 our right
hand, with your forefiingers stopping the
mouth ot the thimble, to prevent the oil
from running out while you are opening
the horse’s mouth. As soon as you have
opened it, tip the thimble on his tongue
and he is your servant. He will follow you
like a pet dog. He is now your servant
and friend. You can teach him anything
if you are gentle and kind to him.
Freak of Lightning. —On Friday eve
ning last, during the thunder storm which
passed over this city between 8 and 9
o’clock, the electric fluid took possession of
the telegraph wires and entered the office
of the company in such quantities as to
burn holes through several thicknesses of
paper, used as non-conductors to protect
the delicate instruments, and melting sev
eral holes in the brass plates used to con
nect with the earth wires. The operator,
who having disconnected his batteries, sat;
watching the operation of the atmospheric
electricity, received a violent shock, which
paralyzed his arms for some minutes, and
from which he did not fully recover for
several hours. Every gas light in the build
ing, some 30 or 40, was extinguished by
the shock as the electricity passed to the
earth, leaving the Telegraph Office, Messrs.
Castleo & Yai’dell’s Drug Store, the Res
taurant and saloon of E. Isaacs & Bro.,
and the rooms of several occupants, in to
tal darkness, until relighted.— Macon Tel
egraph.
The Treasury. —A Washington letter
says:—A careful examination of the con
dition of the Treasury shows that there
will be a deficit of at least $8,000,000 at
the close of the fiscal year, on the 30th of
June, on the basis of Secretary Cobb’s re
ceipts, which must be supplied either from
a loan or Treasury notes. There is no dis
position to grant the latter in the House.-
Admitting Secretary Cobb’s estimates for
the present tariff to be correct, the revenue
is nearly $12,000,000 below the actual de
mands of the Treasury. A material mod
ification is absolutely necessary, or the
Government must be carried on by bor
rowing, as during the last three years.
How it was Done.— A short time ago
a tellow named Crandall escaped from the
Allegany county jail, and wrote back the
following note to his former custodians:
“I suppose it is a mystery to some how
I got away, and consequently I xvill give
you a brief history of my departure. The
modus opemndi was thus : I got out of
my cell by ingenuity, ran up stairs with
agility, crawled out of the hack window in
secresv, slid down the lightning rod with
rapidity, and am now basking in the sun
shine of pleasure and liberty.”
Arteniite **trn Alfeofttf life Spfli|v
Artemds Ward; the strtJfo&th, r^.,, •
visited Berliff Heights* and thus descriU
an interview with the splßts there as*.
bled:
| I will here observe that Mrs. Ward j
j invulnerable wummin—-dhe partner of r y
joys and the shairer of tny sorrer. l n n ;
absunce she watches my interest and tiling
with a Eagul Eye; and when I returns she
welcum ine in a affeeshuDate stile. Truly
it is with us as it is with Mr. and Mrs. Ini
omar in the play, to whit—
-2 soles with but a single thawt,
2 harts that beets as I.
My nabtirs indorsed me to attend a S- , r
retool Sirele at Squire Smith’s. I arrov
I found the west room full, includio all
the raades in the village and all the long
hared fellers a4sed. When i went in i wi
salooted with “hearcumsthebenitedman,”
“hear cums the liorey heded scoffer at
truth,” “hear cums the uubeleever,” etsa
tery, etsattery. Sez i, “my fiends, its tr
ime hear, and now 7 bring in your Bnerrets ”
The company then drawed around the ta
ble, and the Sirele commenst to go it.
i They asked me et there wus enny body in
| the Sperret land which i would like to talk
| with, & i sed if Bill Thompkin, which was
i wunst my partner in the show bizness wa>
J sober i should like to converse with bin.
I few periods. “Is the sperret of Willi.
Thompkins present ?” said i, and ther,
3 knox on the table. Sez i, “William,
goes it ?” He sed things was rati
Sez i, “air you in the show bizn* s .
! liatu,” and he sed he wus. He sed
John Bunion was travelin w 7 ith a>•
in conneckshun with Shakespeere, and
& Co.’s consolerdated menageryat. 1
He sed old Bun (meaning Mr. Bn.
stird up the anermils and ground I
gin while he tended door. Occaslm
Mr. Bunion sung a comic song. Tin
cus was doin middlin well. Billshaks,
had made a hit with “Old Bob Rid:-
and Ben Johnson was delitin the p<
by his trooly grate acts of horseman*!,
without saddul and bridul. Sez I, ‘ W
liam can you pay me that 18 dollars
owe me,” &he sed no, with one <*f
most tremenjus knox i ever experiens. „
then called my grand father, and t a
that he was meetin with fare success n.
peenut bizness. and liked it very well
tho the climate was rather warm.
When the sirele stopt they asked me
what i thawt of it. Sez, i “my fronds, iv,
bin in the show bizness cow goin on
years. You dowtless beleeve in the sj re
doctrine, while I think it mixt. Js .
soon as a man becomes a reglar <>u: & j
sperret rapper he quits of work, lets
hare grow all over his face & coni nit m
spongin his livin. He goes round scari
the wimmin folks & little children, amid
stroyin the piece of mind of every faniib
he enters, i must say the reglarprofeslinn
al sperret rappers-them as makes a bizis..
of it—are about the most ornaryest set i t
cusses I ever encountered in my life.” b<
stiyin, i put on my sirtoot and went home.
Genius and Sense. —Genius is a rare
and precious gem, of which few know tlie
worth. It is fitter for the cabinet of the
connoisseur than for the commerce of man
kind. Good sense is a bank bill, cOnvui
ient for exchange, negotiable at all times,
and current iu all places. It knows the
value of small things, and considers that
an aggregate of them makes up the sum
of human affairs. Good sense has not so
piercing an eye, but it has as clear a sight
it does not penetrate so deeply, but as far
as it docs see, it discerns distinctly. Good
sense is a judicious mechanic, who can pro
duce beauty and convenience out of suita
ble means ; but genius (I speak with rev
erence of the immeasurable distance) hears
some remote resemblance to the Divine
Architect, who produced perfection of
beauty without any visible material ; “who
spake, and it was created ;” whosaid, “Let
it be, and it was.”— ll. More.
The Mayor Wants to See The.e— A
young man, a nephew, had been to sea ;
and on his return, he was narrating to hi*
uncle an adventure which he had met !
board a ship.
“I was one night leaning over the ;
rail looking down into the mighty •
said the nephew, whom we w ill cali
ham, “when my gold watch fell b
fob and immediately sunk out of
The vessel was going ten knots
but nothing daunted, I sprung
rail; down down, and, after a long
found it, came up close under tin
and climbed back to the deck, with- •
one knowing I had been absent.”
“William,” said his uncle, slightly ••
vating his broad brim and opening his
to their widest capacity, “how fast did *
say the vessel was going P
“Ten knots.”
“And thee dove doivn into the
came up with the watch, and dim’ •
by the rudder chains ?”
“Yes.”
“And thee expects me to believe
story ?”
“Os course ! You wouldn’t dream oi - •
ing me a liar, would, you uncle ?’
“William,” replied the utlcle, guiv-i.
thee knows I never call anybody nai
but, William if the Mayor of the City “ “
to come to me and say, Joshua, lw >'t n
to find the biggest liar in allPhiladelj !’
I would come straight to thee, and !' l!
my hand on thy shoulder and say to tbr
“William the Mayor wants to see thee.
tar The best fencer in Paris is a b^ u ’
tiful young lady, of Polish origin, Md **
Linowska. At a soiree at the house ot
aristocratic widow in the Faubourg b
Monroe, who, it appears is fond of fenciogi
and has an apartment iu her house
ted to that sort of exercise, the
closed with a grand assault at arU , )3
Dressed in the handsome costume oi
country, Mille. Linoska held her sword
so much grace and precision, that uo
tleman present was able to touch her.
There is a manout West whose
ry is so short that it only reaches [ 0
knees, consequently he never pays R -
boots.