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THE COUNTRYMAN.
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-r“The Spanish journals relate an
alarming scene, at a recent bull light,
iti Saragossa. After three bulls, which
did not show much spirit, had been
disposed of by the toreador CuchareB,
A popular performer, a fourth was let
loose, and displayed great violence.
He tore into shieds the bandarillas
which were presented to him by the
pieadores, and then all at once leap-
ed over a palisade, at a spot where a
soldier was standing; and so injured
the man that he died shortly after.
A little later, the bull jumped over
the barrier, among the spectators.
Six thousand persons were assembled,
and with cries, and screams, all rush
ed to the issues to escape, causing a
scene of flightful confusion. The to*
reader, sWord in hand, attempted lo
hill the animal} and several soldiers,
on duty as sentinels, endeavored to
do the same, with their swords, and
bayonets; some of the spectators,
too, fired pistols at it, and in-so doing
wounded certain persons. At length
the toreador got in front of the bull,
and with a stab, Skillfully applied,
laid him dead at his feet. Tbe jour
nals do not say that any persons were
killed, or even injured, in the subse
quent confusion.”
Got.—“ The word got is often used
superfluously, and incorrectly, in fa
miliar expressions. When, in reply to
‘Lend me a shilling,' you say, ‘I've
got no money,’ you simply say what
you do not mean. Omit the got, and
youi meaning is rightly conveyed.
‘I’ve got n cold,’ is not bad English,
if you mean to convey the idea that
you have procured, or contracted, a
cqld somewhere : but if you merely
wish to say, as you probably do, that
you are suffering under a cold, ‘I have
a cold,’ is the proper expression. ‘She
has got a fair complexion.’ Here, got
is au interloper; tor you do not mean
to say that she has procured a fair
complexion, but, simply, that she has
one. ‘I’ve got to go to town, to-mor
row.’ Here, got is redundant, and in
correct. ‘I have to go,' expresses the
idea.”
Go Among Them.—“ ‘I suppose
you have learned, gentlemen,’ said our
great military chieftain, General Lee,
to two clergymen, who had called on
him... and. were conversing about the
best means of promoting the spiritual
interest of the soldiers, * that the way
to benefit the soldier, and make them
wilbug to receive religious instruction,
is to go among them, and- stay with
then?/*
A Noble Woman.—“Mrs. Judge I
Clarke, of Ohio, says the Montgom- |
ery Mail, was recently banished from
the United States, by order of the
yankee authorities, because of her
openly avowed sympathies for, and
generous assistance to the confederate
prisoners, and has arrived in Mobile.
Scarcely a confederate prisoner of
war, we imagine, confined in Camp
Chase, but remembers, with gratitude,
this noble lady, and reveres her mem
ory. We have heard many of them
speak of her in the highest terms of
praise, commending her heroism, and
devotion to their interests. She nev
er let an opportunity pass, without
contributing somewhat to the comfort
of,<the poor fellows who were so un
lucky as to find a lodgement in that
gloomy Bastile. She clothed them,
fed them, sent them money, wrote for
them to their families, and exerted
every endeavor to render their un
comfortable situation as agreeable as
the circumstances would permit. For
her zeal in this humane cause, she
has been exiled from her home, and
finds herself a wanderer among stran
gers. But they will not be strangers
long, we imagine, who have heard ot
her noble and generous sympathy for
their in prisoned friends, and we trust
that wherever she may journey
through the south, this estimable la
dy will meet a welcome a & cordial,
and kind as so sincere a frieud de->
serves.”
New Papers.—The Independent
Press is the title of a large, well filled
sheet, just issued in Eatonton, under
the editorial charge of J. A. Turner,
Esq., the first number of which has
been received. Mr. T. is a gentle
man of fine acquirements, and a vig
orous, and forcible writer. The pa
per promises to be democratic conserv
ative, a position we think the editor
will find it difficult to occupy, and
preserve his relations with his par
ty.
We have also received The South
ern Watchman, published at Athens,
.edited by J. H. Christy, Esq., late ed
itor of the Southern Herald. Mr. (’.
has experience, and capacity, and if
properly sustained by the conserva
tives of that section of the state, will
make an excellent journal.— Chroni
cle Sf Sentinel, 1854.
“Gen. Sherman has written a letter,
deuying the report that he was op
posed to changing the status of sla
very in the south, and saying that he
is iu favor of putting all the able-bod
ied negroes obtainable, in.the army.”
Laws for Cats and* Kittens.—
“Amongst the laws of Howell the
Good, one of the Prince# of Wales,
there was a singular law, regulating
the price of cats* The price of a kit
ten, before it could see, was to be a
p eun y_(be it remembered that a
penny, at that time, was a considera
ble sum)—till it caught a mouie, two
pence; and when it commenced
ratting, four pence. It was required
to be perfect in its sense of seeing,
and hearing—to be a good mouser,
and to have its claws whole. If it
failed in any of these qualities, the
seller was to forfeit to the buyer the
third of its value. If any one stole,
or killed the cat which guarded tho
Prince’s granary, he waB to forfeit
a milch ewe, its fleece, and lamb, or,
as much wheat as, when poured on a
cat suspended by its tail—the head
touching the ground—would form a
heap high enough to cover the tip of
the former.”
Buying Eofos.—Our friend Jones
was at the Richmond market, the oth
er day. His special object of pursuit,
was ‘ fresh eggs.’ After some little
search, he found the desired article,
outside. A Milesiau lady, with a
basket full of eggs, awaited purchas
ers. Jones stepped up to the Mile*
sian lady, examined tho ‘ new fruit,*
and asked the price.
‘ Fifteen dollars a dozen,’ was the
prompt reply.
‘ Isn’t that rather! high; ma’am 1*
suggested Jones.
‘ High ? Divil a' bit! Av you
wor a bin, Misther Jones, would ye
be willin’ to lay iggs for liss thin fif
teen dollars a dozen V I ax ye
now V
Jones looked rffftfective for a mo«
meut, and then allowed the force of
the argument. In view of its.effect
iveness, Jones bought out Milesian
female, and sent her home rejoicing*
The mother wit of the exotics from
the land of the shamrock, will-never
cease.—Richmond Courier.
“A clergyman, being deprived for non
conformity, said, ‘ It should, cost an hun
dred men their lives.’ This alarming
speech being reported, he was taken be
fore a magistrate, and Was examined,
when he explained himself, by Saying,
bis meaning was, that he intended to
practise physic. ”
“Mayor Gunther, of New York,
having refused to sign warrants for
the pay of the street scrapers, they
threatened his residence to sacb an
extent that it bad to be protected by
tbe police*”'