Planters' weekly. (Greenesboro' [i.e. Greensboro], Ga.) 185?-18??, April 18, 1860, Image 1

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BY W.M. JEFFEJtSOX & CO. VOLUME 3. THE PLANTERS’ WEEKLY PUBLISHED AT GreenesboroL Ga. W. M. JEFFERSON,) ROLIN W. STEVENS. S Proprietors. FRED. €. FULLER. ) TERMS.—TWO DOLLARS A YEAR ; OR ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY / CENTS IN ADVANCE. 0 r Bates of Advertising. Advertisements inserted at the rate of one dollar per square of ten lines or less, for first and fifty cents fir each subsequent insertion, Those not m irked with the number of inser tions wll bo published until forbid and charg ed at these rates. Tue following are nor lowest contracting It \TES: 1 Sq’r Six months 87..0ne year 312 * 11.. “ 20 2.. • 16.. •* “ 28 column 6 mo., 20.. “ “ 35 £ • 6 •• 30.. “ “ 55 3 <• 6 * 40.. “ “ 70 { <• 6 “ 50.. “ “ 80 V-lvertiasinents from grangers and transient parsons *.nusl be paid for in advance. 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If subscribers remove to other places without informing the publisher, ami the news papers are sent t< the former direction, they ara held responsible. V The courts have decided that refusing to take,newspapers from the office, ur removing and leaving them uncalled for, is prima /acie •videnco of intention il fraud. 8. The United States Courts have also, re peatedly decided, that a Postmaster who neg lecti to perform his duty of giving reasonable notice, as required by the Post Office Depart ment, of the neglect of a person to take from tha office newspapers addressed to him, rend ers the Postmaster liable to the publisher for tha subscription p.ice. CARDS. = ** J 6 H N cT RE l i)7 ATTORNEY AT LAW, junel's9-ly. (ireenesboro, Georgia. KOLIN W. STEVENS. ATTORKKY AT LAW, Greensboro’ Georgia. WILL practice in the counties of Greene, Baldwin, Putnam, Morgan, Oglethorpe. Taliaforro and Hancock. [Feb. 2, 1H59-tf] UNITED STATES HOTEL, M No. 232. Broad Street, AUEFSTA, GEORGIA. DWELL & MOSIIER, Proprietors P. DWELL | 1. MOSHER Medical Card. THEREBY tender my thanks to the public for kind ly bellowing on me heretofore, a larger abare of patronage than I anticipated, and again offer my pro itiaionaT aerricea to any who may give me a call. When not professionally engaged, I may be found .at Wood'a Drug Store. Jan. 12. 1861) It, W L BETHEA. M. D ■J. 8. ftG E LATinEK, LUdNTISTS. VISIT White PUius, Mount Z:on, Fort Lamar, P.v.nel.vilit, Carnesville, Warrenton ami Ellier • Son—l’rineii'al oflS.e at Grteneaboro. D,c, IR. ’59. NOTICE. DP. N. F. POWERS, having been burnt out has had to get an office elsewhere.— Jl* is now staying in the Brick building below Wakefields’; but t.\p<cta soon to occupy the house now held by Dr. ( aum.r. Ir. P. so licits the patronagsAof th<-fce who m ty .*t,k tr, And who aic wilting to pa.’ for it. Greenestoro, Apni lltt, f FKEE TKtiifE SAILORS 7 RIGHTS ASIIAW c. r. erie-n*. at hi. Ware room., some • very tiaud'O.ic nrulture, aa Mlowi: SOFAS FBOSI 891 TO $39 t Bp* e, *l fair of Tete a-tetca, very hnndiome ; K'Vrral CSuaeu of Malmganv Chair#, >t different patter ns: some very haadMute Marble Top Centr> Table.; Side Table, Qisrte'tns, Tnt Hoys, Hat Rack., Towel Rtck*. Oak and Blaok Walnut Dining Chair*. Black Walnut a"d Cu>lrd Uaple Parlor Chair*; W.tck H'aU nui Bxtcnai m Table., elc., etc. Any of tb* above •metre t | he aotd Low *n tw* caaa. Madison, G„ Jan ISth. ISSo-lm. ■ DENTISTRY. DR. m?i. aifoiifij.v, Surgeon and Mechanical Dentist. Penfeld, Georgia, VIfODLD In loro, the c turn* of Green a tad ad v V j.uning eoaauae. that ba u prepared to perform •"7 operation pertaining In his profeaatoa. wilb neat naaa and diapateh. 3a will iMart from ona >0 an so vire Ml <tl teeth, which, tar heagty, darabllity, com f* and uia.tieatiag, will root pare wdk My, stNrer fa this eguniry or Rurop*. It labi* intanuou lopiaaea Ay iik from tha auujitry that may be toed*.ad hire wdl meat wdlh inmat attnailer |). .afere re Or. Jkil Muephy f Korea. - feh t*. Id> A Weekly Jeueaal—*Devetedi to Home Literatare, Agriculture, Foreign aad Domestic News, Wit, Humor, Ac, MIEGULAN ROBS. t A Dream. I wandered in fbe dreamland fair, Soft music fell upon mine ear, Sweet flowers of beauty rich and rare. All gave to me a mystic cheer. 1 strayed beside a streamlet bright, Where lillies bloomed in modest ease, I watched the fairest of the night Float gently on the perfumed breeze. While seated pn the brooklet’s side, I saw a fairy form glide past. And in her band, a wreath I spied, ’Twas held by richest jewels fast. She lightly tripped actrss the stream And waved her fairy hand to me ; But, ah! I woke.it was a dream Too bright for anglit of earth to be. Life in Heaven. BY MATTIE. Lile in Heaven, 0! ’tis a theme. Too grand for human Poets dream, To picture or portray— For in that life wo hath been told. We may forevermore behold, The. light of endless day. Alt, there, are seen no scenes of strife, pain—as iu the mortal life— To bow the spirit down, But. peace and joy and perfect health, Beside tho glorious dazzling wreath, Os an. immortal crown. We there can drink in calm repose— As from the throne of God there flows, The everlasting stream. There n>* to-morrow spreads its gloom, Ol darkness o’er a single tomb, For death is never soen. A life in Heaven, it hath uo tide To toss the voyager’s bark aside, A wreck upon the shore j Though countless years may roll along, We still may sing tho joyous long, Os life for evermore! Letter from Mr. Woodpile to the Hon. Lucius Q. €- Lamar of Mississippi. ’•So much for the great pathway on which the Senator’s argument hangs, that the labor of the South is all negro labor, and that the white man must there be degraded if he labors. The Senator hat himself raided in a Southern State, and therefore 1 say l be lieve him to be better informed before he spoke. I must suppose him to be as igno rant as.liis speech would indicate.” TEXAS VALLEY. f-'T Floyd co., Ga., March 25th, 1860. J Dear Lucius; Seeing tho above iu the Washington “Constitution,” which is an extract from the speech of Senator Browu of your State, in reply to Seward of New York, deliver ed recently iu the U. S. Senate, calls my attention to some events which occurred within ray knowledge, and as 1 might say under my nose. I’ll try and not make too long a story of it, but as a sketch of some of the parties concerned might not prove uninteresting, let me start at the beginning, and carry you back years ago to the Devil’s Half-acre, in Putnam county, when your nncle Billy was younger and better looking, and your aunt Polly a beauty, and not the old stowed monkey she is now. We had just married—Polly and me—and carried our duds to the Half acre on an old crosseared, hipsbod Indian fioncy. where we hungr out in a one per, og cabin, with a little patch of clearing m front about as big as a counterpane. We had a feather bed, two hide bottom chairs, som9 odd blue rjmmed plates, cups and saucers, which constituted about our world ly wealth. Just before the christmas of onr first winter there, Sam Perkins, a Massachusetts Yankee, came through the settlement with a greasy bundle on his back, peddling fire crackers. They were anew thing at that time with us, and went like hut cakes, and Sam sold out his whole cargo at the Half-acre without going fur ther. I had known him for more than a year in Putuam and Greene, where he had been tramping about the country, and pilfering from everybody in such a good u&tured, inoffensive way, as to render himself a general favorite. So when he announced his attention of opening a mart for the wholesale and retail dry goods and gro ceries, in Jim Spark’s old school house, I was rather pleased at the idea of Sam’s settling among us, and 1 beliere the other neighbors weie too. Not many weeks elapsed before Sam got his goods up from Augusta, swejtt out the old school-house, repaired the stick and dirt chimney and opened his store. My memory wont bear me out in making a schedule of his stock in-trade, but to thele?t of my recollection ft consisted mostly, if not entirely, of a bar rel ot whiskey, three shuck collars, and one solitary mackerel, slung by the tail to • nail ou the door- Rut if the assortment of goods was not extensive, there was fio lack of customers, and the way the ona pint tiu cup of the concern travelled about from hand to baud and mouth so mouth, kept it forever up to a state of blood heat. Times have changed since then, Lucius. The Half acre was then iu its glory;—we may hare lived hard according to more modern ideas, but we enjoyed life. We Rapt Christmas as long as eggsand whiskey lasted, and celebrated the fourth of Julw GREENESBORO’, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 18, 1860. in August, when crops were laid by, and then we went it with such a perfect loos eness that i oason not only ‘tottered on her throne,’ but sometimes so completely tell off, that when we found it necesary to re turn t. the sober realities of life again, we had frequently lost the. day of the week and month, and more than once entirely forgot the year of our Lord. Those were jolly times when we danced all night'on puncheon floors to the music of an old fid dle and half a dozen cow bells strung to a boe-handle, and tho lady who sported a pair of brogans wan the belle of tiro eve ning. The world, as you know Lucius, has prospered with me since. Young Billy— or as he styles himself William dc Wood pile, Jr., —he gets the de on Polly’s side who was a Doolittle—wears puuip soled boots made by Forr, smokes cigars at six ty dollars tbe thousand, autl has been to Paris—my oldest daughter'tried to elope with the clown iu Robinson & Eldred’s menagerie, and my whole family affect all the airs of aristocracy and fashion. My neighbors consider me about as licit as Charley Lamar’s bird manure, and the way your uncle Billy lives iu a big white house is a sight! But I regret those old times, and my memory never reverts to the past without feelings of emotion too big for utterance. ‘But to return’ as chief Justice Lumpkin said when, in announcing the judgment of the Court in a rape case, he slightly digressed to vindicate tbe doctrine ofinfaut baptism. Trade thrived so brisk ly with Sam, particularly in the Grocery liue that he found it expedient’ to enlarge his establishment by the addition of anoth er pint measure and barrel of whiskey—a Jerk also became necessary to assist in his arduous labors, tv take charge while he was out fishing by day, and guard the prop erty when be was coon hunting at night. Providence favored him by sending him a treasure in a young man from the State of New York, who had'just fizzled out in the school keeping line up iu tho Alexan der settlement. It happened in this way : Polly and 1 were sunning ourselves in our front door one morning, and I was greasing her heels with melted tallow, where they hud got cracked open from dancing ail night at Dave Custard’s, and walking back home three miles in the snow and sleet. I had just found where her shins had got pretty budly barked iu ecouing the creek on a hickory log. and was applying the grease when up comes a chap who looked for all world as it he wots out in search of journey work ns a scarecrow'. He w r as dress ed in ragged jeans trowserg and cotton shirt, and the latter as if not satisfied with the very soiled aspect it presented above, for the sole benefit and behoof of tbe pro prietor, made a little side show on its own account, through an aperture in the stern of bis trowsers, in a streamer about five or six inches long and even dirtier than the more respectable portion above. Good morning to you both, said he rais ing his old bog gkiu cap. Polly jerked down her coat tail in a jiffey and the tal low plasters on her shins went with it. I was equally polite and invited him in,— but he said that qs the sun was so pleasant he would prefer remaining outside, and took a seat on tire tence. ‘Can you tell me, if there is any want of a school teacher in this neighborhood I’ he enquired. 1 an swered, that ‘I thought not,-the last teach er they had here is now keeping Joe Stiles’ blind stallion, and the one before him had to give up the business from want of schol ars, and went to beating mobby at old Tom Lamar’s still house, and according to his account soaked up rather more low wines at night, than run from the still during the day. However he’s been converted, and is aright smart chunk of a preacher; can snuffle through his nose like an old hand at the bellows, and is now dealing out particular hell every Sunday, to an assort ed lot of souls down on Rooty creek, for two hundred dollars a year and found, or at about seventy-five cents a head, niggers and children half price. He’s my wife’s brother Zeke Doolittle—You’ve certainly heard ot him, lot me introduce you to uty wife Mrs. Woodpile—wh.it’s your name sir?’ Polly smiled sweetly on him, and bobbed so low that her frock almost hid her feet, evety toe of wag tied up in a separate cotton rag. He did’nt seem to think the formality of an introduction either necessary or desirable, but jumped Aowu from the fence, drawed in a nose about as thin and transparent as a piece of glue, until I could see nothing but the gristle, and exclaimed n>o6t scornfully, By the powers above! 1 wish I never had struck such a country. The very idea of an in structor of youth descending so low from of his profession as to beat mob by. and guzzle warm peach brandy from a still house spout, or what is still more de testable to loaf around the country* dis pensing a biiud piney-woods stud horse in broken doses, animates me with feelings of ,‘j.to most unmitigated disgust. See here Alt- sToodpil*—as that's your name—this couutrv ot j ours Is going regularly to per dition. the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah will overtake it anct that right soon. I have been laboring h*L re *'* months to arouse tbe people to their dan ger, to prevail on them to remodol their entire body politic, to pull off their social, efrl! end polities! breeches. inilitHtAtif extremities in anew pair. To talk about reforms in such a case is simply ar. absurdity ; putrefaction has set in and ihe whole thing is in a perfect dead horse state of decomposition, and nothing will answer now bat to spit on the slate, rub tho figures out and do the sum all over again, for there is a devil of a wrong calcu lation some where. You will perhaps be surprised to leant that yp to the present moment I have met with little or no suc cess, and I might go further and say with truth that my expedition has resulted in a most disastrous defeat. Where 1 fondly anticipated the most sympathy and co-op c-ration, I have absolutely met witlt deri sion and contempt. I refer sir to the col ored population—one of whom, Billy Gar rett’s Bob, has had the insolence to dub me Giddy-giddy-gont, an abbreviation of which appellation still clings to me. A more senseless set of asses I never before met with, and if ever I get back to Goshen, never confine my labors for the reclamation of mankind to the immediate vicinity of where grub and shelter is pro vided me, and select tnv savages uearer home. At any’ rate I will hurry away from this rotten concern and dodge out before tho trap falls and catches tne, for I’ve no notion of going on a pic-nic ex cursion to hell with any such a party. 1 shall toat the remnant of this carcass back to Goshen and keep'it there. I’ve been living so long on ash cake and ground pea coffee that thauk the Lord it wont be much of a load, and I shall therefore de cide to take it back a-fo.ot. -Be guided by tne my friend, and take that sore-toed wife of yours and join me, —or leave her be hind—just as you please—and if you have the means to defray our expenses I will make you prosperous and happy, among a free and enlightened people. I never had tpy feelings of compassion more excited in my life; —there stood the poor creature in the cold frosty morning air, with his ragged shirt-tail fluttering in the breeze, the upper leathers of his shoes had parted company from tho soles, and were tied togemei here and there with btick-skiu thongs, and botween peeped out from pach foot a bunch of rusty toes with nails like musket flints. There is no truer adage than that “republics are ungrateful,” ahd the poor wretch standing before me was a living exemplification of the fact. I stepped into the house to have something prepared f-,r him, but Polly was before me, and although it could not have been more than five minutes since she was at the door, when I reached the fire a pot of coffee was on the coals, anew hoe cake upon the grid dle, and Polly busy slicing up middling to fry. She is tho woman who hae a heart that responds to every call of distress : the orphans and widows are her peculiar weak ness, and ever find in her a parent aud friend. I dont think I ever knew her in dignation to bo move excited than against Judge Trinpe. Gtta had been con victed of killing his father and mother in one of his foolish freaks, and then setting the house ou fire and burning them both up in it. What, says the Judge, have you got to spy why sentence should not be passed on you I . Oh ! miy it please your Honor, replies Gus—l hope yottr Honor will take pity on a poor orphan.* But Judge Trippe, resisted the appeal, and sen tenced him to be bung, and bung he was, and Polly never forgave him for it. “Come in young man,” I said to him, “and take a seat by the fire while my wife prepares you some breakfast, and we can discuss the decline and fall of Georgia, and that trip to Goshen for tbe making of our fortuues at our leisure. If you did really conus oul here on a simon p?frc moral reform trip, and did’nt mix up au over dose of rascality with your nauseous philanthropic nostrum, you area great natural curiosity and Pin determined to get a good look at you, and with that object in view 1 intend to make Polly par boil you and scour you thoroughly in the big wash tub; for it is utterly impossible to see you at all through that terrapin shell coat of dirt. Lord! Polly, what a wind fall he’d have been to me if 1 had’nt just bought I bat lot of land from Henry Bran ham. Why I’d clear him up and plant him, and raise rutabaga tur.iipson him four-times tbe size of Sam Perkin’s half bushel mea -ure that holds little over a peck. Your conversation indicates that you have received a good education— which is far greater good fortune than ever befell Bill Woodpile. Why did you not when you came among us, use it to some purpose, shuck off your Yankee shirt, and put on the garb of an honest, well meaning Southern man, instoud of going ab >ut snarl tug nut! snapping'at every tbing you met with. From the plight you are in you must have rendered yourself asodimts as yon certainly are rvjtyifernus and were I dis posed to be censorious I should express the opinion that your moral reform idea was au af.er thought and that you only turned to it after a collapse in the swindling line. Excuse me if Ido yon injustice, but we have a good many Yankee adventurers among us and they are not so self-denying as to visit us with any other odject than to indulge their natural propensity for knave ry. When you reflect, are yon not struck with admiration at our long suffering and forbearance! You quarrel with your bread and butter while you are cramming it down yeur insatiate throats, i— to hc’l tha hand that sustains you, while you ever crave its favors, and t’is the case with, all of you ; yon curse us and cheat us, damn us, de nounce us and defraud us and prate about philanthropy while you pick our pockets. This with tbe efforts they are making to cheat us out of all the Missouri Territory, creates quite a warm cross fire upon us, and you are certainly right about one thing, we are in rather a blue way at tbe South.— As for any principle they have about slave ry or its extension, that’s all bosh, and got up to gull fools and get votqs. Why, there is not a man in Georgia, who will ever hire his slave to a Yankee when he can kelp it, and if lie does he’ll have to watch him right close if he dont want him beat to death. Last court week in Greene, when a par ty ol lawyers were discussing the admis sion of Missouri, I came out flat footed and told old Billy Crawford and Tom Cobb, that it was time for us to take our pots and skillets to ourselves and set up house keep ing on our own hook; for there is no denying the fact that they are a set of knaves and lunatics, and tbe sane, honest and conser vative portion of their people caut number strong enough to keep the rest iu order. However, sit down tiow and eat your breakfast, and when you get through, Pol ly shall get ready a pot ot hot water and we’ll indulge you in the luxury of a clean hide, but as tor those tots I see poking their noses out of your shoes, I wont promise so much for them but am rather inclined to think that I’ll have to knock them off with a cold chisel.’ He squatted to tho table and tfalkeUinffi th 6 provisions to an extent that rather alarmed me, and did Polly's soul good to behold: coffee, bacon, eggs, bread and milk, rolled down his skinny neck until lie became a perfect reservoir of eatables and drinkables. But he got through at last, and we commenced for a total renovation ot his outer man. We brought in the big wash tub and filled it with hot water and laid in a supply of corncobs fine sand and hard home-made soap, and although Polly was intensely interested in the operation her modesty would not allow her to officiate aud consequently the scouring process de volved ou me. After I had peeled off his rags and got him into the tub the‘impres sible conflict’ with free soil began, and a tough conflict it was; but. by soaking him’ well and pursuing the course practiced in scalding hogs, I succeeded in getting the bulk of the dirt off and had the pleasure of presenting him to Polly in about an hour’s time iy an entirely new charactar. He submitted to. tbe operation mere quietly than I anticipated, but the fact is be had laid in such a supply of provender and stuffed himself so that he got sleepy and finally snored outright, so that during four fifths of the .operation he was in a state of quiescent torpidity. But no entreaties or expostulations would induce him to have his clothes washed. I hauled out my rather scant wardrobe, and told him to rig himself out until Polly could wash and patch his own, but it was like singing psalms to a dead horse, or preach ing honesty to a free soil Congressman, and we had to give it up. No! exelnimpd he in a strain of pathetic eloquence which drew tears to Polly’s eyes, “tins shirt were it as futal as that of Nessus, should never leave me, and the trowsers erewhile adorn ed these shanks in free and happy Goshen; the incrustation upon their surface is a portion of my childhood’s home, my na tive soil; this—sticking his finger in tbe hole in the stern, through which the tail of his tunic again protruded—is the rent Bill Garrett’s envious nigger made.” After Polly and I bad cairied out the tub, and poured tho liquid free soil on our cabbage bed for manure? and she had raked his head with a fine-tooth comb, on tbe hearth, and swept the gross Eroceeds into tbe fire, and I had helped er to put things to rights and burn some rags to lake away the smell; I asked him to accompany me to my new ground clear ing, where 1 was chunking up log heaps, but he objected, and complained of being drowsy, so I left Polly to entertain him and went about my work. Well Lucius, your uncle Billy with his usual garrulity has spun out his letter to such a length that he finds he must close before getting through with a fourth of his story. However, if you want to hear the whole history say so, and you shall have it when I can find time to write you again, for I am very busy just now planting corn, and although these two old paws have raked up something of a pile for my cubs to squander, they are not too old to labor yet, Giddy Seward to the contrary notwith standing. Your friend. WM. WOODPILE. The Battle of New Orleans. — Mr. A. Grinevald. ot whom tho Mercury has al | ready favorably spoken, as a portrait pain ter, is now engaged in painting, from hit own conception, a representation of the Bat tle of New Orleans. The artist has chosen this great battle for his theme, aud that | moment when tbe British General was shot from his horse. We enjoyed the privilege cf seeing tbe sketch yesterday, which is to be painted in Distemper on a canvas twen ty ieet by ten. When completed, in tHre | oourse of a few weeks, U will be placed on pnMie Mhfbi'lon Terms—sl,so Always in Advance. “Cesspool Drains.” The arrangement proposed of carrying the house slops through the privy vault, would make an intolerable nuisance. I have tried it under very favorable circum stances—with a fall of some twenty ieet. Even if the solids were retained and pro tected by some deodorizing agent, the pas sage for the slops wonld soon become foul, and whenever warm water was passed into it, would send np a most offensive steam, keeping a reeking dampness about tha ■eats. After several experiments, I have at last succeeded iu unexceptionable pri v y arrange ment—-one entirely inoffensive. Under the apartment make a wailed and cemented cellar, say six feet deep, with a recess say five feet square, running out on the least exposed side of the building, aud cover their recess with a close battened door, lying flat, to < e raised when the callar requires cleaning. The bottom and sides of the vault should be thoroughly cemen ted, that there may be no eartb to become saturated with offensive matter. Before it is used, cover the bottom with wood or coal ashes, and make tbis the receptacle of all the ashes, —wood aud coal—that are made in tbe house. Empty no slops of any hind into the vault, and ordiuarily you will find the apartment as sweet as any room in your house. Shoul i there be ia summer a lack of ashes, a quart or two of’ flasler tlnowu in daily, will keep it right., t mny be cleaned nut ouce a year, and will afford a most valuable and easily hand ed addition to your compost heap. Tbisariangement will often make it prac ticable to place the privy in tha corner of a wood-house, or barn, or even in the kitch en wing of the dwelling house, and thus avoid tbe always unsightly building, spe cially appropriated.— Cor. of Country Gao tleman. Almost Uomr. —This is one of tbe most joyous expressions in the English language. Tho heart ot the long absent husband, father, or son. not only- home ward bound, but almost arrived, thrills with rapturous joy as he is on the point of re ceiving the embraces and greetings of the dear ones at home. So it is with the aged Christian, as, m the far advance, of his pilgrimage, he feels that he approaches the boundary line, and will soon crosß over to> the land of promise. Many of his beat) friends bare crossed over before him, and they hare long been beckoning him upward aud onward. They await his arrival with the joyful welcome of holy ones. An# as tokens multiply on either band that the land of Beulah is near, he feels that he is almost home. The ripe fruit of e long Christian life is able to be gathered into the heavenly garner. Few sights on earth are more pleasing than aged faithful Christians, strong iu the Lord, almost home. We have some such Among us, revered sad beloved, whose faces we love to see in the sanctuary, and whose prayers bring dewn blessings upon our heads. They speak of many friends, most of whom have preceded them, but the reunion will soon coins Blessings be upon the fathers and mother* in Zion; and may their mantles fall -n us. Thu Terrifying Surmise. —Nothing, save the essential troths of God’s word can give comfort and true peace, either living or dying. Whilst living, if men are not resting on the word of God, they car* at least have no rest iu denying it. The very fear lest the Bible be true is enough to mar all earthly enjoyment. A celebra ted infidel said one day to a friend of his who had imbibed the same principles. “There is one thing that ntars all tbs pleasures of my life.” “Indeed!” replied, his friend, “what is that?” He answered “l am afraid tbe Bible is true! If I could know certainly that death is an eternal sleep, l should be happy: my joy would be complete ! But here is the thorn that stings me. This is the sword that pierces my very soul. If the Bible is true, Pam lost forever!” Those Broadway Belles. — Atr: Those Evening Belles. Those Broadway belles, those Broadway belles, How sweet a talo my mem’ry tells Os hair chinois, and that dear time When bonnets small were in their prime.. But all those bats have passed away, And women now are most outre, Each bonnet now preposterous swells, And hides the pretty Broadway belie*. Jrw —I vish you take more care uitb> you miserable old brick; you ash spol mine bat a’most; vby didn’t you sbtav vere you vasb, on de island in de middle of de ocean t Paddy. —Bad luck to yon, and more of the same, sure if it had net been for the likes of yees, ve thievin’ race, the blessed’ Saviour wouia been alive to this day, end doin’ well. A pert young lawyer noe boasted k an old member of the bar, that he had ra ’ ceived two hundred dellare for speaking in a certain law-suit. “Pooh!” replied tbe other. “T received double that sum for keeping silent ia that very self-same #! NUMBER 16.