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THE UEEENESBORO WEEKLY GAZETTE. VOL.I-NO. 41. THE WEEKLY GAZETTE. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING BY WILLIAM M. JEFFERSON. TERffIS:-Si 50 a year in advance. Rates of Advertising l Square, (ten lines or less) Brst insertion $1 00 Each subsequent insertion 50 Professional or Business Gards, not ex ceeding six lines, per year, 5 00 Announcing candidates for office...... 3 Ou Standing Advertisements. 1 square one month, 2 50 1 square three months, “ 50 1 Equare, six months, 10 00 1 square; twelve months, 1” 1,1 2 square’s, “ “ 20 00 4 squares, “ “ “ 40 00 l-SpT Advertisements not marked with the number of insertions, will continued until foibid, and charged accordingly. Double column advertisements inserted and charged the regular rates per square. Druggists, and others, may contract for advertising by the year, on reason able terms. Legal Advertisements. Sale of Land or Negroes, by Administra tors, Executors, and Guardians per square, ® Sale of Personal Property, by Administra tors, Executors, and Guardians, per square, ® Notice to Debtors and Creditors,------- -3 ~o Notice for Leave to Sell, and 50 Citation for Letters of Administration, 2 <5 Citation lor Letters of Dismission from Administration, 5 50 Citation for Letters of Dismission from dianship, - J Legal Requirements. Sale of Land and Negroes, by Administrators, Executors, nr Guardians, are required by law to bu b. Id on (be first Tuesday in the month, be ’iwe n tie hours of ten in the forenoon and three in the afternoon, at the court-house in the bounty in which the property is situated. No tices of these stiles must be given in a public Gazette forty days preiious to the day of sale. ♦ , Notices for the sa’e of Personal Property uiuHt be given at least ten days previous to the day of sale. Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an Es-ate inust lie published forty days. . Notice that application will lie made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell 1 .and or Ne groes, must be published w ekly for two months. Citation for Letters of Administration must be published one month fur Dismission ftoni Administration, monthly , sit monehs— for Dis hi-ssion from Guardian-hip. forty days. Holes for Foreclosure of Mortgage must bo published monthly fO’ fair months - fur com pelling titles from Executors or Admimstiators, where a bond has been given by the d< ceased, the fall synce of three months. Publications will always be continued according t.o these, the legal requirements, un less otherwise oidered. Business €ftv&s. DELL MANN ATTORNEY AT LAW. (i REE S'ESP, O R O', GA. SHANNON & SNELLINGS, DEALEIIS IN FAMILY GUIOCSRIKS, GrcenesHoro’, Georgia. ("cep constantly on hand a good as: ortroent of Family Groceries, which will be sold low for Cash. July 11th, 1858-t.f. WILLIS’ H OTE L, ‘ GBEENESBORO’, t,.\, t glllE undersigned having purchased JseA I the above named House, is pre- fniirn pared at all times for the ,lAU Reception of visitors, Anrf, will spare no pains in contributing to the Comfort of those who may favor him with a call. Ilis table will bo supplied with the best the market affords. A. L. WILLIS, Aritchff, 1858—ts. Proprietor. JOHN OHAPPXiE, ROCK CUUTER & BUILDER, Grcenesbo.io', Ga. And agni for J. IN* Gow’ Marble WORKS. ” W. M JEFFERSON. .FUMN oM FANCY, Book auD 3ob printer, GREENESBORO’, GA. WOULD respectfully announce to his friends and the public, that lie is now prepared to do ail kinds of BOOK & JOB woik yvith neatness and dispatch, and at as reason ble terms as it can be done elsewhere. DR. IN. P. POWERS, Having determined to permanently locato here, respectfully offers his professional services to the citizens of Grcencsboro and vi cinity. His undivided attention will be given to the various branches of iiis profession. He can be found during the day, unless pro fessionally engaged, at his office, the one formerly qcctipicd by Dr. Rka, on Main Street below the Davis’ corner, near Mr. Griffin’s residence.— He can be found at night at the Rev. Mr. Hous ton’s, near the Rail Hoad Depot. NEW GOOD S! MEW GOODS!! JUST RECEIVING FROM -jvr .LV YORK. SOLD CHEAP B. F. GREENE Greeriesboro’, Oct. Ist, 1858*-Jm Intogtnktni Ittmtitl—gefottb to fume fitntfnrc, Agtiuifturt, Jktigit nub gontestit Beta, Slit, tSjtimor, t it. POETRY. Gentle Annie. Tlio wilt come no more, gentle Annie, Like allower thy spirit did depart; Thou art gone, alas ! like the many, That bloom in the summer of my heart. Chorus. —Shall wo never more behold thee; Never hear thy winning voice again When the spring-time comes, gentle Annie; When the wild flowers are scatered o’er the plain. We’have roamed and loved’mid the bowers When thy downy cheeks were in thcbloom Now I stand alone ’mid the flowers, [tomb. While they mingle thc.ir perfume o’er thy O/to. —Shall wc never more behold &c. Ah ! the hours grow sad while T ponder ’Neath the silent spot whore thou art laid, And my heart hows down when I wander By the stream and medow where wc stay’d. Cho. —Shall we never more behold See. MISCELLANEOUS, ttomojice aM HuMicc ; on TJe Vicisitisdes of an Inventor. SYERY man who lias labored to bring * into being some creation for the com \ men good of mankind, has been sub jeeted to unkind criticisms, opposi tion and derision. These remarks forcibly apply to Mr. Charles Goodyear, the inven tor of the numerous improvements in the manufacture of India Rubber. We subjoin extracts from the opinion of Mr. Holt, the commissioner of’ patents, on the application to extend Mr. Goodyear’s patent. They will amply repay the reader for their peru sal : . Upon the first point, tlie testimony alike of the applicant and of the contestants is concurrent and conclusive. From the first moment that, the conception entered his mind until ids complete success —embrac- ing a period of from sixteen to eighteen years —lie applied himself unceasingly and enthusiastically to its perfection, and to its introduction into use, in every form that iiis fruitful genius could devise. So intensely were his faculties concentrated upon it that ho seems to have been incapa ble of thought or of action upon any other subject. Ho had no other occupation, was inspired by no other hope, chcrrished no other ambition. He carried continually about his person a piece of India rubber, and into the ears of all who would listen he poured incessantly the story of iiis ex periii ents and the glowing of liis prophe cies. lie was, according to (lie witnesses, completely absorbed by it, both by day and night, pursuing it with untirng energy and with almost superhuman persevereance Not only were the powers of his mind and body thus ardently devoted to the invention and its introduction into use, hut every dollar lie possessed or could command through the resources of his credit, or the influence of friendship, was uncalculating east into that seething caldron of experi ment which was allowed to know no repose. The very bed on which iiis wife slept, and the linnen that covered his table, were seiz ed and sold to pay liis board, and wc see him with his stricken household following in the funeral of iiis child on foot, because he had no means with which to hire a car age. His family had to endure privations almost surpassing belief, being frequently without an article of food iu their house, or fuel in the coldest weather —and indeed it is said that they could not have lived throu’h the winter of 1839 but for the kind offices of a few charitable friends. They are rep resented as gathering sticks in tho woods and on the edges of the highways, with which to cook their meals, and digging the potatoes of their little garden before they were half grown, while one of iiis hungry children, in a spirit worthy of his father, is heard expressing his thanks that this mticli had been spared to them. We often find him incarcerated in the debtor’s prision, but even amid its gloom his visions of the future never grew dim, liis faith in his ulti mate triumph never faltered. Undismayed by discomfitures and sorrows which.might well have broken the stoutest spirit, his language everywhere, and under ali circum stances, was that of encouragement and of a profound conviction of final success. Not only in tho United Slates did he tints ex ert himself to establish and apply to every possible use his invention, but in England, France, and other countries of Europe, he zealously pursued tho same career. In 1855 he appeared at the World’s Fair in Haris, and the golden medal and the Grand Cross of tho Legion of Honor were award ed to him as the reprepenatWo of iiis coun try’s inventive genius. Fortune, however, while thus caressing him with one hand, was at the same time smiting him with the other; for wo learn from the testimony that these brilliant memorials passed from the Emperor and reached their horrid ro cipitent, then the occupant of a debtor's prison, among strangers and in a foreign land—thus adding yet anothortothat long, sad catalogue of public benefactors who have stood neglected and impoverished in the midst of the waving harvest of bless ings they had bestowed upon their race. Througheut all these scenes of trial, so vividly depicted by the evidence,he deriv ed no support from the sympathises of the public. While the community at large seem to have looked on him as one chas ing a phantom, thore were times when ev en his best friends turned away from him as an idle visionary, and ho was fated to encounter on every side sneers and ridicule to which each baffled experiment, and the pecuniary loss it inflicted, added yet a kee ner edge. The mercenary enough pro -1 nounced his expenditures, so freely made, culpably wasteful; the .-.elfishand narrow. GREENESBORO’, GA., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1858, minded greeted the expression of his en larged and fav-reacliing views as tho rav ings of an enthusiast; while it is far to in fer from depositions that not a few of the timid and plodding, who cling, tremblingly apprehensive of change, to the beaten paths of human thought and action, regarded him as wandering on the very brink of insani ty, if not already pursuing its wild and flick ering lights. Such in all times has been the fate of the greatest spirits that have appeared on the arena of human discovery, and such will probably continue to be the doom of all whose stalwart strides carry them in advance of the race to which they belong. With such a record of toil, of pri vation, of courage, and of perseverance in the midst of discouragements the most de pressing, it is safe to affirm that not only has the applicant used that due diligence en joined by law, but that his diligence has been, in degree and in merit, perhaps with out parallel in the annals of invention. # • * # * * Inventors and other men of high crea tive genius have ever been distinguished for a total want of what is called “ business habits. ” Completely engrossed by some favorite theory, and living in the dazzling dreams of their own imagination they scorn the counsels and restraints of woriiliy thrift, and fling from them the petty cares of the mere man of commerce, as the lion shakes a stinging insect from iiis mane. The law, in its wisdom, takes cognizance of human character, and deals with men and with classes of men as it finds them. It seems, in this instance, to have assumed, and just ly, that, if we would have the magnificent creations of genius, we must take them with all these infirmities, which seems as inseparable from them as the spots are from tire sun. • ****** Sulphorhad already been advantageous ly combined with India rubber by Hay ward, so that the discovery had been ap proached to its very verge. The step, however, which remained to be taken, short as it was, was indispensable, and without it all those which had preceded it would have beeu unavailing. Science could afford but little assistance in the inquiry, for, as the event proved, tho most potent element in the process was too subtle to be discli sed by the severest chemical analysis. The applicant liac, therefore, to pursue tho in vestigation gropingly ; but he persisted in it with an ardor and a courage which noth ing ‘Could abate or daunt. His aim was definite, his conviction as to its attainabili ty complete. As one who searches for a hidden treasure in a field where lie knows it is to be found, so pursued he his explora tions in quest of the secret. He sought it on the right hand and on the left, by day and by night, in the midst of ceaseless toil and lavish expenditure, and by the light of every form of experiment which liis most fertile genius and daring spirit could sug gest. He became completely master of ev erything known in regard to the properties of the material which it was liis ambition to improve, and so thoroughly was lie im bued with tho soul of his inquiry, and so intensely quickened was his vigilance, that no phenomenon, however minute, could meet his eye; no sound, however faint, could fall upon iiis ear without Ills at once detecting and appreciating its bearing upon the groat problem whose solution ho was seeking. From four to five years were passed in these unremitted labors, when an incident occured which at once revealed the long-sought truth. And it is a singular coincidence, that the spark of light yielded by this incident, was elicited by a collision, so to speak, the result of that intense zeal which, so far as health and fortune were concerned, had been the consuming fire of his life. In one of those animated conver sation so habitual to him, in reference to his experiments, a piece of India rubber com bined with sulpher, which ho held iu his hand as the text of all his discourses, was by a violent gesture thrown into a burning stove near which lie was standing When taken out, after having been subjected to a high degree of heat, he saw —what, it may be safely affirmed, would have escaped the notice of all others—that a complete trans formation had taken place, and that an en tirely new product—since so felicitously termed “ elastic metal”—was the Conse quence. When subjected to fuller tests, the thrilling conviction burst upon him that success had at length crowned his efforts, and that the mystery lie had so long woo ed, new stood unveiled before him. His history in this rospoct is altogether paralell with thac of the. greatest inventors and dis coverers who havo preceded him. The lamp had swung for centuries in the Cathe dral of Pisa, but, of the thronging mulitudes who worshiped there, none had heeded the lessons which it taught. It was reserved for tho profound and observant intellect of young Galileo to extract from its oscilla tions the true laws of tho pendulum, which led the creation of an infallible measure of time. The theory of universal gravitation loses nothing of its grandeur or value, be cause suggested by the falling of an apple from the tico. In all this lands, by teem ing millions, this phenomenon had beeu ob served, but to none had it imparted in struction—to none had it spoken of that wonderful secret which lurked beneath its simple features. At length its “still small voice” fell upon tho delicate and apprecia tive ear of one whom it startled into inqui ry. The light tints afforded, to which all had boon blind, was, indeed, dim and twink ling ; but following its guidance as one who traces back tho dawn, tho great Newton soon plunged into tho ‘"ull-orbed splendors of a discovery confessedly tho most brill iaut which has gilded and ennobled tho an nals of science. On all the hearthstones of the civilized world, for thousands of years the kettle had boiled and lifted its li l by the expansive power of its steam; yet for none had this seemingly trite and ever- recurring incident been significant —to nono had it announced that measureless power ot which it was the humble but distinct ex ponent. At length tho jnovement caught the eye of a lonely student of nature, then a prisoner in the Tower of Loudon, and in the soil of his prolific mind it proved the rapidly-expanding germ of that steam en gine whose triumphs have changed the so cial, political, and commercial aspects of the globe. So India-rubbc, in combination with sulphur, may by accident have been exposed to a high degree ol heat often be fore, without attracting the attentention of any ; and it is safe to allege that it might havo beep thus exposed a thousand times afterward without the world having been the wiser or wealthier for it. The thor ough self-culture and training of tho appli cant, and his unwearied researches, pre pared him at once to seize upon, to compre hend, and embody in a practical form, the truth ha sought the moment it presented itself, no matter how dimly, to him. This was iiis merit —-the same in kind with that of the most illustrious inventors who have appeared in the world, aud by that of but few of them surpassed in degree. It is a figure of speech—but an exalted mode of expression—which assigns to a man any part iu the work of creation. Iu his very best estate lie is but a ministering priest at hcr-altar, aud when he has reached the highest walk in the drama of intellectual power, to which his feeblo steps can ascend, he is still but an humble translator of the languages of nature It is a fact which singularly increases the credit due to this inventor, that the very path in which lie finally achieved success, was the one which the experience of the past had taught hint to shun. A low degree of heat had been applied to a combination of India-rub b'er and sulphur, and it had melted under it, so that tho heat —the increased intensity ofwhieh consumatcd the discovery—was tlie very clement which he had felt himself admonished to avoid, The discovery be ing made, the applicant soon thereafter ad ded white lead to tho combination, which reuderd it complete, and assuming that his mission was but began, he bravely bent himself to the task of surmounting the obsta cles which still frowned upon bin on every side. These obstacles, so graphically sketched in the testimony, Eeem to have beett almost unprecedented. Capitalists shrunk away from tlie discovery, so confi dently announced, as a chimera, aud man ufacturers who had suffered so deeply, by the India rubber buisness, denied it their confidence. Its practicability had to be demonstrated by a long series of illustra tions, which the total want of experience reuderd protracted, and often ruinously ex pensive. Every iueit occupied iu the en larging field of its usefulness, had to be con quered by many sacrifices, while of tho proteau-formed applications to which it was destined to attain, there was not one that did n“t involve an outlay of treasure, of toil, and high artistic skill 1 All these, from tho beginning to the present hour, havo been bestowod —nnceasiuly bestowed upon it, and tho fruits of all theso have been, and arc still being, reaped by the public, the applicant is entitled to remuneration for them. Has the applicant beeu remunerated for tlie time which lie has devoted to this inven tion, and to its introduction into use ? It is extremely difficult to estimate into the coin of dolars and cents the worth of eigh teen. years of the prime of human life—es pecially so when that life is one of lofty genius, of iudomitablo enterprise, and stain less virtues. It is, however, about that pe riod of presisely such a life that has been consecrated to tho pursuit and development of tliis discovery- -nor would a shorter pe riod of time have sufficed for the arilorotts and perplexing task. This declaration may be.made with the more emphasis, because, iu all the volumes of testimony filed, there is not one word found tending to its contra diction. Throughout those long and toil some years it is apparant that there has been no compromise with the snggostions of avarice, or with the claims to self indul gence and ease. It has been already’ fully shown that tho applicant’s fortune, his health, the comforts of his family, the fresh ness of his early,aud the patient energies of his latter manhood, have all been unhesita tingly melted down in the cueible of his inquiry, and ho is now seen tottering toward that grave which must soon openin his path with nothing left of the heroic and athletic man but what remains of tho maimed aud scarred soldier on the battle-field—a wreck which evor great and generous people have taken fondly’ to their bosom. The time of tho indolent, tho selfish, the disolute, and tho dull, is little worth to a world which thoy rather cumber than bless by their pres ence ; but the time of the gifted, tho brave, tho philanthropic,aud unconquerable sons of genius, has for mankind a value which we should but feebly express in the arithmatic of dollars. But while we may have no means by whcili to measure with unerring accura cy tho intrinsic worth of tho ingenuity and time which has been expended, aud cannot by any analysis weigh or compute their ingredients, there remains to us one standard by which a proximate estimate at least may’ bo reached—that is, the result which have been produced, What that time and ingenuity have yielded to the public is the test, of their value, alii.e to that public and to the inventor; for wliat the former havo received tlie hitter must, upon every principle of sound logic, be held to have parted with. What, then, havo been the results of the discovery and introduction into uso of tho vulcanizing process? The testi mony is very full upon the point. We learn that through this instrumentality a large foreign commerce has been created in the raw matcrals, and an inland trade in the rubber fabrics, amounting to between four aud five million;, of dollars annually; that extensive India rubber manufactures have, grown up, giving profitable investment to some seven millionof dollars of capital, and active employment to some ten thousand operatives; and that a large portion of these fabrics is intimately connected with human comfort and preservation of human life. Not enumerate more of the art : cles produce! by this process, it would be hazard ing nothing to say that the shoes and wear ing appeal'd perfected by it,and now cheap- 1 1 y and abundantly made, and almostuniver- ■ sally in use, have saved thousands from a ; premature death, and may save millions j in the ages which are to come. In the j presence of these vast and still expanding j achievements of this invention, tlie criti cism which has been made upon the appli cant’s accounts as though they were petty ] grocr’s bills, shrink into insignificance, and, ’ indeed, can scarsely be listened to without a blush. We have, however, a yet more definite basis on which to rest our jugment the testimony of Hayward and Haskins. Both have long been India-rubber manufac tures under the vulcanizing process, aud the | foraer made the valuable discovery of com- j bitting sulphur with the gum, for which a patent was granted to Him. Their deposi tions are marked by r frankness, aud leave no doubt of their perfect acquaintance with this great interest in all its raimiieations-and aspects. Hayward says that the vulcani zing process for the next seven years would be worth to the public one million of dolars; if so, it should have been worth two millions for the last fourteen years. Haskins dose not hesitate to estimate tho process at ‘many millions of dollars’. It should be ob- j served that the evidence of the contestants : does not reduce these estimates. It is not : possible to escape from the conclusion to j which statements so emphatic, and coming from sources so fully entitled to credit, lead us. If then, this process is worth two mil- j lions of dollars, the applicant has received j but a little more than one-fortieth part of tlie remuneration which he was entiled to claim. It lias been resumed, as a means of avoid ing the torco of these estimates, that the applicants is entitled to receive from the public, not what the invention is now worth, developed and established as it ;s, lout what it was worth when tlie patent issued. 1 h;s view has been urged with much presistence j and plausibility, but it has not impressed me us liberal or sound. IV lieu the invention came, timid and Stragling, into ex stenee, meeting in every quarter sc oils and distrust,. had it been offerd for sale in the market, it would probably havo commanded a tew thousand dollars—possibly less Bat to ; say what its value is to be worth, would be to determine what tlie character of the tree is to be judged rather by the green than by the ripe fruit found upon its branches. The present expanded and prosperous condition of the invention is mainly owing to the ge nius and unceasing strugies of the applicant and he may justly reap what lie has sown and so diligently cultivated. In the adjust ment of machinery to accomplish the ends so distinctly pointed out by tlie inventor, and in the manipulation oftheguin and treat nient of the fabrics in ti e various stages of their manfacture, it is udmited that many improvements have been made by skillful mechanics and operatives, and these have their utility and importance; but to allow such labors to rival or depricate the. claims of the applicant, would Le to rank the sim ple plowmau of tho fields with that sublime and beneficent Provider.se which creates alike tho soil out ofwhieh the harvest springs and the sunshine and the shower by which it isinurtured and matured. Another and most potent reason why this patent should be extended is found in the ; acknowledged fact that the public have, not kept the faith which they plighted with the ■ applicant when he covenanted to surrender to them a product which was in eScot, the concentrated essence of the physical and intellectual energies of his entire life, i’liat public .stipulated with him that ho should; peacfully enjoy for fourteen years the mon- j opoly created by his patent and, had he ; been pre mi tied to do so, lie would no it mbt, : long since have realized n:i ample reiuun eration; but, so fare from this having beeu tho case, no inventor probably has ever been so harrasscd,so trampled upon,so plun dered by that sordid and licentious class ol infringers known in the parlance ot tlie world, with no exaggeration ot phrase, as j “pirates.” The spoliations of their iucessent guerilla warfare upon Ins defenseless rights, ! have unquestionably amounted to millions. In tho very front rank of tins peuatory band stands one who sustains, in tins case, tho double and most convenient character t of contestant and witness ; and it ts but sub- j duett expression of my estimate ot the despo- j sition he lias loged, to say, that this i’.ir t Ilian shaft the last that he could hurl at an invention which he has so lung and so re nt orselesscly pursued—ts a fitting finale to that career which tire public justice of the j country lias so signally rebuked. Important as to the parties to this issue j tlie immediate consequences bound up with t it, they arc insignificant indeed as compard with the value to the public of the principle involved. From the very foundation of this goverment, it lias been its setjled pol icy to secure a just reward to all inventors, and it is to the inflexible ma nienance ot’ this policy that we are indepted for the tin paralleled advancement which, as a people, wo have made in the useful arts. All that is glorious in our past, of hopeful in the fu ture, is indissolubly liukod with that cause of human progress of which inventors are the perux chevaliers. It is no poetic trans lation of the abiding sentiment of the coun try to sa ;. that they are the true jewels of the nation to which they belong, and that a solicitude tor the pretention ot the irrigbts and interests should find a place in every throb of the heart. Sadly helpless as a TERMS- -11.50 class, and offering in the glittering creation of their own genius the strongest tempta tions to unscrupulous cupidity, thev, of nil men, have most need of the shelter of the public law, while, in view of their philan thropic labors, they are, of a!) nun, most entitled to claim it The schemes of tho politician and of the stale man may'subserve the purpose of the hour, and the teachings of the moralist may remain with the genarl action to which they are addresed, but all those must pass away', while the fruits of the inventor,s genius will endure as imper ishable meinoria’e, and snrvivcingthc wreck of creeds and systems, alike of politics, reli gion, and philosophy, will diffuse their blessings to all land.;, throughout all ages At the close of all his toils and sacrifices, and of the humiliation- he has been called on to endure, tills public-spirited inventor, whose life has been worn away in advan cing the best interests of mankind, is found to lie still poor, oppressed with debt, ami with the winter of age creeping upon Ida shatterd consitution. It is perfectly mani fest that this is in no degree the result of vice or of imprudence on his part, but is an inexorable consequence of the impover ishing experiments inseparable from the prosecution of bis great enterprise, and of that prolonged and exhausting strife in which unscrupulous men hav involved him. he now- begs of that country to which the energies of his manhood have been so freely and so faithfully given, that he may be. al lowed to enjoy for a few y'ears longer that precarious protection which our most feeble, and imperfect laws extend to the fruits of intellectual labor; and were the appeal de nied, 1 feel that 1 should be false to the generous spirit f the patent laws, and for getful of the exalted ends which it must ever be the crowning glory of those laws to accomplish The patent will, therefore, be extended for seven years from the loth June, lSdb. Snots on the Sun. — Tor the last eight or ten weeks there has been an unusual num ber of spots on the sun. Many of them have been large. At present, three groups are vi. ‘!•!>• with a telescope of moderate power. The iirst group is just passsing off on the western limb, and will hardly bo seen after a day or two, the second is pass ed about three quarters of the way across the disc, while the third, which consists of one large spot, with many small ones lying along to the east of it, has not yet reached the middle of the disc. Each dark spot is surrounded by a well defined lumin ous border, which is yet much larger than the other portions of the disc. The bor der is called the benumbra. So says an ex -1 change. distinguished editor was in Ins ! study. A long, thin, ghostly-visaged indi : vidtial was announced. With an asthmat ic voire, but in a t ae of stupid civility, \ for otherwise the editor would have as • suredly transfixed him with a fircry pur- I agraph the next morning—the stranger 1 said: Sir, vour Journal of yesterday contain ed fake information.’ ‘lmpossible, sir ; but what do you allude ’ to.’ ‘You said that Mr. M • had been ! tried.’ ! ‘True,’ i ‘Condemned.’ ‘Very true.’ : •] lung.’ ‘Yes.’ •Now, sir, I am the gentleman.’ ‘lmpossible. ’ •1 assure you it tsa fact, and now 1 hope you will contradict what you have alleged.’ •Bv no means.’ •You are deranged.’ •I will complain to a magistrate.’ ‘As you please, but 1 never retract.— The most I can do for you is to announce that the rope broke, and that you are iu perfect health I have my principles, I never retract.’ T# => A voting lady at a ball was asked by a lover of serious poetry whether she had seen Crabbe’s laics?’ ‘Why, ni',’ she answered, ‘I didn’t know that crabs had tails.’ Y beg your pardon, Miss,’ said he, T mean have you read Crabbe’s Tales?’ ‘And I assure you sir, l did not know that rod crabs, or any other crabs had tails?’ One of the hardest sort of people was asked to subscribe to some worthy object. “ 1 can’t,” lie replied, “I must bo jnst before L am generous.” “Well,” said the one who made the re quest, “let me know just before you are generous, and Twill try again.” Ti e/ have got a comity judge in Texas who is said to have three hands. How cm such an odd-handed judge be expected to administer even-handed justice ! ■ Three is an immense bear swamp in Le banon co., Pa. It is said to be a dense thicket, of miles in extent, where, the bears harbor, and whence it is impossible to dis lodge them. The Newcastle, Ind., Courier says that anew groggery in that place was “driei up” summarily and without any fuss, the other night, by the ingeueous process of boring holes through the floor and cunti i-* uing the boring no iv>?~ barrels.