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£j£tedlcmeiMtß Setectfowa.
A DiV'Pt IMOM THE (OH'S.
Adolphus Sptigjjins of the Fifth Arsnue sod Wall
rtr „et, prided himself eonaidernbly on his seqiiamt
anre with the wavs of the town, but hie knowledge
of country matter* was limited. Mr. Spri ‘gins hav
ing rather outrun the constable, found himself one
auinmer not in a situation to undertake his usual
jaunt to Saratoga or Newport, and bethought himsell
of an invitation which he had formerly received from
his uncle, Van Brommel, the hearty old farmer, to
pay him a visit at Pumpkindalo. To Pmnpkindnle
Mr Spriggins accordingly repaired, with the express
resolution of astonishing the natives. This, with the
aid of his yellow kids, embroidered waistcoats, bril
liant nerk tics, patent leather, French phrases, and
fkshionablo airs, he certainly succeeded in doing.—
lie even made some impression by the attractions on
the feelings of Miss Roselia Kappleway, a young la
dy visitor, who had previously been on amiable
terms with fieri Van Brommel, the farmer’s oldest
son. Gcrt sulked and swore in private, but fear of
his father kept him from publicly showing his resent
ment. One day, however, an idea him,
which he turned to account for getting rid of his ri
val. Gert invited his cousin to go out with him pig
eon shooting, and Adolphus, though his tasto did not
He much in that way, consented to go, as a means of
killing time They set out accordingly w ith arms,
aruunition and provision for the day, which last were
carried by’ Gcrt in a small tin pail. About two miles
from the house, they came to a pasture field, liorder
ed by extensive woods. A score ofcowH —Van I.roin
tncl was a noted cattle breeder—were leading at one
side of the pasture.
‘•.See, Dolph,” said Gert, ‘ the pigeonb uru in the
woods yonder. Now if you will just stand awhile on
that fiat comer of the field so that 1 shall know
where you Hro, 1 will go into the woods and drive
the pigeons over to you and you can pop them ns
they rorne out. You keep tho pail, too, and we’ll
hnvo dinner there by and by.”
.Spriggins agreed to these terms, which exactly
suited his easy notions of sport, and while Gert piling- .
ed into the woods ho started for tho fiat rock which i
had been pointed out to him. No sooner had he
placid himself up'-n it than, to hisauiazciucnt, all the
cows in the pasture rushed frantically toward him,
lowing loudly, kicking up their heels, pushing one
another and behaving as though they had been sud
denly smitten with insanity. Adolphus stood purnl-1
yzed, expecting to be gored to death or trampled un- i
dor foot But instead of that, the cow s merely form -1
ed a circle round him, stamping, bellowing, shaking i
their horns, and glaring at him with their great eves j
in an unaccountable manner, lie shouted in terror
to Gert, but received no answer. He oared not leave
the rock, or even tiro his gun to attract his cousin’s
attention, for at tho slightest movement that be made,
them was a general stir among the cows, a shaking
of the formidable array of horns, and an impatient
stamp and murmur, as if preparatory to a rush.— ;
Spriggins was utterly bewildered. To do him jus-1
ticc, he would very likely have faced a loaded pistol!
at ten paces without flinching. But this novel dan- ■
ger was of such a strange and fruitful character that!
he was totally unnerved. 110 stood motionless, wait
ing for his cousin or somebody else to rescue him, i
and the cows with equal patience kept up the siege
till their wretched prisoner was ready to drop w ith
terror and exhaustion. At last, late in the afternoon, I
the burly form of old Van Brommel presented itself
to the delighted eyes of Adolphus. His undo camo
slowly through the field with a tin pail on his arm,
and no sooner did the cows get a glimpse of him than
they deserted and tore furiously towards his uncle,
who shouldered his way through them with the us.
most uneoueern.
“Goodness gwatious, uncle,” gasped poor Sprig
gins, “what’s the meaning of this exiwanrdinarv con
duct of these dwodfu! animals ?”
And he related vitii considerable agitation the his
tory of his capacity among them. His uncle roared
and shook his sides w ith laughter.
Haw . haw . haw . do tell now! You’ve hceu
standing on that ero stone all day, frightened by the
keows. Ho! ho! ho! Bless your aoul, Dolph, the
keows arc good critters. They wouldn't hurt u baby.
Thought you were coming to salt ’em. Haw! haw !
ban! Wal, now, if that ain’t tho best joke I’ve
heertd on, And again the stout old larnier laugh
ed till the tears poured down his cheeks.
Salt them ! exclaimed the mortified Spriggins.
“You don’t mean to say you salt your beasts alive!’’
“Yes I do, Dolph,’’ replied his uncle. “Look lu re,
and you’ll sec “
So saying, he dumped the salt out of his pail in ,
►mall parcels over the rock. There was i* general l
stamp and bellow, ami a simultaneous rush towards I
the savory < ondiment, which twenty tongues were >
soon buiily engaged in licking.
“I hu c, Dolplt, you know how kvsow* re wilted
‘alive now!” said old Van Bromine). You’d never 1
ha’ learned that in Wall street. Ho! hod ho!”
Sprippina returned to the house much Crest-fhllen.
. 1 he story of his adventure was soon about, and there
aas great joking and sniggering at the suppci table,
Xhe fair Rose)in herself not being able to refrain from 1
,„ t nin np in the fun. The next morning Spriggtna dis
’V'oveml that h. had urgent business in the city, and
e .e has never since been seen in PumpVitdato, though
ia cousin Gert cotdiallv invited him to his wedding
mt fall. Sprigginsnow is wont to speak of country
fv. as ‘ntwemUy vnlgaw,” ami on onu occasion
vben the sport of pigeon shooting had been es.ual
alluded to be went so far as to pronounce it “an
y ewoctous humbug.”
WELLING WORDS MORE THAN ONE WAY.
Hvveral year. .go. “when tho country was now,” !
.n.Nvmm Reynolds, of Wyoming county, eqjoy
-1 mm* a ropuut.cn a. a successful pettifogger. H. ‘
, antmv well posud up either in “hookUmin’ ”
J i ‘ ,h ” W relied princely on
iu r. own native tart and sWwdne*. w . ,
?” ‘-h haa not failed bun tn this day \V *** °*
u,“ri rr ‘* ted r H ; %nßct:Tc *>wr f „ r 1
.. sme occasion he was pitted aaain*. . ...
1 ” “ -'"lt ” well-dressed limb oflbe law’
l r “bo made considerable atmrt nfa^’
nWb Reyndldshad submitted to £
other things, that “ mU Uw
were required to he written in the English language,
and that the one under consideration, from its bad
spelling, and penmanship), ought in fairness, there
fore, be excluded.”
“GenTmcn of the jury,” said Reynolds, when he
“summed up"—and every word weighed a pound—
“the learned counsel on tho other side finds fault
with my ritin’ and spellin’, as though the merits of
the case depended on sirh matters I I’m agin lug
ging in any sich outside affairs, hut 1 will sty that a
man must boa fool that can’t spell a word more than
one way.” The jury sympatized with Judge R., and
rendered a decision in favor of his client.— OleuntN.
}".) Journal.
HOMO AND MARRIAGE.
n v washt v<; ton ir v ix.
I have speculated a great deal upon matrimony.
I have seen young and beautiful women, the pride of
gay circles, married- as the world says—well! Some
have moved into costly houses, and their friends have
all came and looked nt their costly furniture and their
splendid arrangements foi happiness, and they have
gone away ami committed them to their sunny hopes
cheerfully and without fear, ft is natural to be san
guine for the young, and ut such times 1 am carried
nr,-nr by similar feelings. I love to get unobserved
into a corner and watch the bride in her white attire,
and smiling face, and her soft eyes moving before
me in their pride of life, weave a waking dream of
her future happiness, and persuade invsetf that it
Will be true, i think haw they will sit on their lux
urious sofa as the Twilight fulls slid build gav hopes
and murmur in low tones the now forbidden tender
ness; and how thriliingly the allowed kiss, and the
beautiful endearment of wedded lite, will make even
their parting joyous, and how gladly coinc back from
the crowd and the mirth of the gay to each other’s
company. 1 picture to myself that young creature,
who blushes even now at his hesitating caress, lis
tening eagerly for his footsteps as the night steals on, j
and wishing that he might come; and when he en-1
ters at lust, and, with an affection as undying ns his!
pulse, folds her to his bosom, 1 can feel the very tide i
that goes flowi rig through his heart, and gaze with j
him on that graceful form ir flu moves about him
for the kind offices of affection, soothing nli his un
quiet cans, and making him forget even himself in
her young and nnshadowing beauty.
I go forward for years, ami see her luxuriant hair j
[nit soberly away from her brow and her girlish graces
ripen into dignity, mid her bright loveliness chaste fi
ts! with the gentle meekness of maternal affection.—
Her husband looks on her with a proud eve, and
allows her the same fervent love and delicate atten
i tions which first won her; anil fair children are grow
ing about them, and they go on full of honor and tin
troubled years, and arc remembered when thev die !
I say 1 love to dream thus when I go to give the
young bride joy. It is the natural tendency of feel-’
ing touched by loveliness, that fears nothing lor it
si U ; and il ever 1 yield to dark* nisi feelings, it is ho
enu-w the light of the picture is changed. T ani not
fond of dwelling upon such changes, and I will not :
minutely now. I allude to it only because I trust!
that my simple page will be read by *omo of the j
joiing and beautiful beings who daily move across
my path; and, 1 would whisper to them as they glide :
by joyously ami confidently, the secret of an uncloud-!
ed future.
The picture I have drawn above is not peculiar.
D is colored like the fancies of the bride ; and many,
oh! many an hour will she sit, with in-r rich jew-els
lying loosely in her lingers and dream such dreams
as these. Slit- believes them, too —and she goes on
for a while undeceived. The evening is not too long
while they talk of plans for happiness and the quiet
meal i’ still a pleasant and delightful novelty of mu
tual relianre and attentk n. There conies soon, how
ever, a linu- when personal topics become bare, wea
risome, and slight attentions will not alone keep up
the social excitement. Then- ate long intervals of
silence, and detected symptoms of weariness; and
the husband, first in his. manhood, breaks in upon
tho hours they were wont to spend together. I can
not follow it cirrtimstaiiimUy. There comes long
hours o! unhappy restlessness, and terrible misgiv
ings of inch other’s worth and affection till, by and
by, they can conceal their uneasiness no longer, and
I out separately to se. h relief, and lean upon the
hollow w orld for the support which one who as their
Mover and friend could not give them!
Hi ed th : s, ye who are winning by your innocent i
beauty, the aucction of high-minded and thinking!
beings Remember that he will give up the brother j
i>f his heart, with vhorn he has had even a fellowship i
of mind, the society of his contemporary runm rs in
( the rare of fame, who have held with him stern com
panionship: and, frequently, iu his passionate love,
he will break avrav from the arena of his burning
Ainnttton, t<> conu* to u to tlir J, voict* of hw chßftu*
, or.” It will bewilder him at first, but it w ill not last \
j lomr. And then, think vKu that an idle blandish-’
, went will change the nihid that has been used for',
, years, to an equal communion ’ Think you he will
I K've Up frr i weak dalliance the animating themes of 1
( men, and the search into the mysteries of knowledge?
Oh, no, ludyl believe me no! Trust not your influ- !
cnee to such light fetters Credit not the old sash
toned absurdity, that woman's 44 a seconds rv lot, min
istering to the necessities of tier lord and master.
If your immortality i- as complete, and your gift of
mind as capable as ours, I would put no wisdom of
; mine against Cod’s whit merit. I would charge you
1 1° water the undying blood and give it n health? cul
i turo, and open its beauty to the sun. and then you
, may hop* that when your life is bound with another
you will goon equally, and in a fellowship that shall
pWvado owrv earthly interest.
MISAPPREHENSION.
1 he loliow mg is related of a modest willow ladv of
Sew Jersey
Soon alter hoi husband paid ihe deb* of nature,
leaving her sole lege tee, a claim was brought against 1
i l ' 10 l ’ s,l * tv -’ by Ins brother, attd a pits ess was served
upon her l*j the Slwrill of tlw county, who happened
to be a widower of middle ago. Rcing uouacd, at
that thm, to the (brats of law, though in the pro
'.ixcwd law-suit which followed she had ample op
lKJTtunwv of acquiring experience, she was much
’ “ meeting, Ju „ after tUdapaiturt of th.
THE TEMPERANCE BANNER.
Sheriff, with a female friend, she exclaimed, with
much agitation :
“What do you think—Sheriff Ptrinc has been uf
ter me!”
“Well,” said the considerate lady appealed to, with
perfect eoolnrss, “he is a very tine man.”
“But he says he has an Attachment for me,” re
plied the widow.
“Well, I have long suspected he was attached to
you, my dear.”
“But you don’t understand me—he says 1 must
go to court.”
“Oh, that’s quite another affair, mv child. Don't
you go so far as that—it is his place to cornu and
court you.”
Cjjt Ctntjstrancf fanner.
PENFIELD, GEORGIA.
Saturday Morning. October 27, 1855.
THE ELECTION—KKSI’LT.
We are at length in possession of the full returns
of the late election, which, w ithout encumbering our
columns with the entire details, we present to our
readers in the following concise summary :
TOK OOVERNOR.
Johnson’s vote 54,461
Andrews’ “ 48,72!
Overby’s “ . 6,261
Total, 104,443
Johnson’s majority over Andrews, 10,737
Over Andrews and Overby, 4.-170
CONURESSIONAI. ELECTION.
Ist District. 2 d District.
Seward, C,d7iij iCrawford, 7,746
Varnadoe, 4,544: Hawkins 7,158
Majority, 1,635 1 Majority, 533
Hd District. 4th Dint rift.
Trippe, 6,ll2|lWarncr, 6,883
Smith 5,210 Hill, 6,815
Majority 896 Majority, 68
sth District. 6 th District.
Lumpkin 11,290;! Cobb 9,233
Tnmlin, 7,973'Franklin,. 5 227
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Majority, 3,317! Majority, 8,976
7th Dint r iri. Hth Dint riel.
Foster, 1,792; .Stephens, ... .... .5,808
Stephens, 4,580i Lamar, 3,079
Majority, 2121i Majority 2,729
I.KUISL ATCRE. —SENATE.
Know Nothings, 37|j Anti-Know Nothings,. .74
with a tie in Effingham county.
It OI SE.
Know Nothings, 5 tl|Auti-Know Nothings,. .93
and one old line Whig.
Anti-Know Nothing majority, on joint ballot,. .. .76
REMONAL OF SEAT OF GOVERNMENT.
No Removal, 49,707
Removal, to Atlanta,. : 29,847
Macon, 3,426
No place designated, 948
Scattering, for removal 678
Majority for no removal, 15,308
It will be Keen by the above that the Anti-Know
Nothing majority, computed by the Congressional
vote, which is perhaps the lairest manner of estima
ting the standing of the parties in the Stare, is 11,210.
By a comparison of the tables, we find the vote of
the State in this year 977 greater than for 1853. —
Johnson receives 6,823 votes more than in the form
er election, while Andrews’ vote is 1,407 less than
Jenkins’.
MELAYCITOLY OCCI RKKMK !
We regret to chronicle the death of one of the old
est and host citizens of our county, David Gker, who
committed suicide, by- hanging himself in his own
house, on Monday, the 22d of this month.
The deceased, although a man of extraordinarily
strong mind, had, for the past few months, been sub
ject to fits of the deepest gloom and despondency.—
He was a deacon of the Baptist Church; an intelli
gent and useful citizen; a high-minded, honorable
magnanimous gentleman, who heartily despised a
mean thing; an lmtnhle, conscientious, actively pi
ous, and devoted Christian; a man who led a con
sistent, upright life, who lived without enemies, and
has died, lamented by a large circle of mourning
friends.
••None knew him but to love
Nona named him but to praise.”
THE GEORGIA PROHIBITION’IST.
This paper, whielt has done good work in the no
ble cause of Prohibition, has been discontinued on
account of a want of patronage. This is a reproach
to the friends of IVohibition in Georgia, and ought
to remind thorn, that in allowing this paper to die,
they have testified to the world that faith and works
are very different things, and that they have been
derelict in duty, to the great cause which they pro
fess to love so much.
The question which occurred to our mind, when
we received the last number of the Prohibitionist,
was, who will go next? Tho Atlanta Republican
has bee* merged into a paper devoted to the advo
racy of the principles of the American Party. The
Prohibitionist is dead l>eyond the hope of resnrrec
: lion, and tho Temperance Banner —the pioneer in
the nohlo cause, is alone left to tell the storv of our
defeat —to throw to the breeze the banner of reform
and still defend and advocate the cause of Truth, of
Justice, and Humanity. Though defeated, we are
! not discouraged, though once more alow in the fight,
we arc not dismayed, and we are “doubly smied” in
the redaction, that our’s is a righteous cause and the
“gates of hed will not prevail against it,” If the
friends of Temperance and Reform will rally to our
standard, they shall still have an organ for their prin
! ciplea—a mouth-piece for the voice of humanity—a
herald, which will live to announce to the world the
‘glorious news of a bloodless victory achieved by the
| friends of Temperance, over the greatest evil that
lias ever cursed the human race!
ARTHIR’S HOME MAGAZINE
\Ye have received the November number of this
excellent monthly, and cordially recommend it to
the lorars of Magazine literature, as being unsur
ptt'sed by any magazines we receive. It is publish
by i. S. Arthur A Cos., Philadelphia, at $2 a year,
in advance.
GRAHAM’S MAfiAZI.YE.
This well-fHtahliahfd and popular monthly is on
our table. The publishers are offering great induce
ments for anothei year. The terms are: one copy,
one year, $2 ; two copies, $5; live copies, si", and
one to getter-up of the dub. All communications to
be addressed to Abralmm 11. See, 106 Chestnut-st.,
Philadelphia.
ABOUT HOOFS.
The habit of wearing hoops, which is about to be
revived among the fashionables of our country, had
its origin among the ladies of Elizabeth's court, who,
for the purpose of travestying the fashion which the
men bad adopted, of wearing trunk-hose or very
large breeches, introduced boop-petticosts or farth
ingales. \\ hat was intended as witty burlesque
of a ridiculous dress among men, became fashionable
among the women, and prevailed, notwithstanding
dignified essays were w ritten against this abomina
tion, and every sort of ridicule was employed to ren
der it odious.
The reason why this fashion should be revived,
after having la-en unfashionable so long, is, perhaps,
j not so of,vinos. Some have suggested, that as the
i ladies of the Court found their farthingales very con
venient for the display of jewelry, so the modern
fashionables hnve found the extensive surface pro
duct and by hoops, absolutely essential, to the proper
exhibition and full display of the large figures, that
now eh■<raeter ize dress mate! ial. Some crusty bach
elor, who has felt prunello, might say that the ladies
use ho- ps, for the same reason that barrels are hoop
ed, to keep them from bursting —with vanity. The
ladies might ‘-ay, they wear them for the purpose of
keeping the wearers of small clothes at a proper dis
tance. Someone t-’se might attribute it to that femi
nine- peculiarity, a fondness for extremes. Public
o[ in'fon would not allow the Bloomers to wear small
clothes, so thev have determined to “extend their
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borders,” and now wear large clothes.
\\ hat ever may be the reasons for tho revival of
this fashion, it certainly will prove very inconvenient
In the cities, double-tracks will be necessary for the!
locomotion of these fa-rhale trains, to prevent colli- i
sions which might result in broken bones, (particu
larly wkahhone ,) and spilt cologne. The ladies will
also find it necessary to have n “cow-catcher” in front,
to remove those sidewalk obstructions, dandies and
loaters. Young men who desire the company of the
“fair sex,” will have to resort to the amusement of
their youth, and will be seen “running after hoops.”
Every gallant attending his “bright particular” with
“circumference immense,” will be compelled to u fy
round extensively “ and will remind many old men of
the tobacco rollers, w ho used to roll their tobacco to
market in hogshead*. We hope, however, that the
holies’ hoops, in spite of the difficulties that attend
them, will be like Hood’s hoop, “an eternal round of:
pleasure,’ and expect th at we, with many others, i
w ill be found “running after hoops” on the sidewalk.!
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“LET ME DIE THE DEATH OF THE RIGHTEOUB.'’
These few words contain a petition which finds a;
ready and almost involuntary response in every hu-1
man heart—it is the universal prayer. However dis- i
ferent the views which men entertain of life—how- i
ev r various and diverse the paths they follow in pur-.
suit of happiness, they all look forward to the same j
happy termination the “death of the righteous."—-j
1 lie pleasure seeker, who leads a life of gaiety and!
revelry—who lias no higher aim than the short-lived i
gratifications of the hour, when the merry song is >
hushed, the giddy dance ended, the joyous voice of;
laughter stilled, and the terrible realities of the Fu- j
tore stand revealed in the light of the Present, mut- j
ters to himself, Let me die the death of the righte-1
ous. The miser, who has bowed the knee at “Mam- j
tnon’s dirty shrine,” would gladly give his shining j
heaps of gold, to die the death of the- righteous. The !
ambitious man who has explored every height of |
“Fame'’ dread mount,” and “sounded his name on j
the drum of the world’s car,” would willingly ex-1
change his life of renown and glory, and splendid i
deeds, for the calm, quiet, “hopeful death of the j
righteous.”
The poets have represented Death, ns a beautiful
winged cherub—the brother of Sleep, but the repre
sentation is false and untrue to nature. With Sleep
and Death alike come helplessness, and dread, si
lence, and awe-inspiring darkness, but the helpless
ness of Sleep invites not Decay, but renews the vigor
of the frame —its fearful stillness is not undisturbed,
like the silence of the tomb, for there is always some
“bird in the solitude singing,” and its solemn dark
ness is not like the rayless gloom of the grave, for
a thousand quiet stars still twinkle in the midnight
sky. With Sleep conies a laughing, dancing throng
of airy creatures —the sylphlike fairies of the mind,
that feast and revel in the chambers of the soul and
make merry and winged the slow-footed hours of
Darkness: with D ath comes the clammy death dew,
the icy coldness, the vermin fang,
“The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave,”
and w hile Sleep is beautiful with dreams, Death is
terrible with realities. In vain do our imaginations’
attempt to delude us with beautiful pictures of Death
—in vain do we adorn his hare brow with ivy and
rose wreaths, and cover bis skeleton form with fan
ciful drapery—in vain did ancient philosophers elab
orate theories and work out systems, to soothe their
fears —in vain did the heathen Epicureans quad'the
rosy wine of pleasure from cups made of human
skull-'—in vain have enthusiasts devoted their lives
to the d’seovery of an elixir vitu-, some fouutain of
unfading youth, whose waters would quench the fie
ry darts of Death —in vain have men in all ages hug
ged to their breasts the delusive Consolation, that
death is but the cessation of a tedious, sorrpwful life,
an e‘- real sleep that know no waking, the grim and
surly porter of the First an gates—in vain—all in
vain! Represent him as wv may, he is ever present
at our fvsi-ts to mar our joy—a grim, relentless, p -
mors, less, soulless skeh ton—a; and ice shrink hack in
terrori.n l dread, from tho cold contact of the uni
versal int my.
And :s there no remedy? no weapon with which’
man can extract the “sting of death?” no courage 1
that can achieve a victory over the insatiate grave?
no way of escape from the King of Terrors? There
is a way there is hope, and the hope of
hangs on the answer to the praver—“ Tst , ■
death of the righteous.” There is a death and
beautiful, and that death is the “death ofd,,, ■ ,
isms.” The grim messenger of death come/m
righteous, hut he is the welcome bearer of hone
promise, and good news. To the righteous man’ h ,
grave M the place of that rest and repose which mT
him for a nobler flight—its gloom the darkness t! ia ,
precedes and heralds a glorious dawn. Ho w*,
through the valley of death, and fears no evil f or i ?
gloom and terror arc dispersed and dissipated’by th”
glorious beams of the Sun of Righteousness ]
stands undismayed and unterrifled by the ‘olenu
shore of death’s sluggish stream, sees the fl m !lf
phantom boats moving silently from the shore
is unmoved, for far beyond the “swelling flood •• )lt ,
secs “sweet rivers of redeeming love”— he cross.'■
the cold Jordan of death and enters the bright
naan of eternal life-quits the dusty highway of
earth and “walks the golden streets”—forsakes* the
failing, unsatisfying streams of this world and slakes
his thirst in the perennial, ever-gushing watets that
lave th- “city of God’’—exchanges the roars.- h.MI.
inients of earth for a “rohe the Saviour wrought”
the laurel wreath fora crown of glory, an d enters
upon the enjoyment of that state of eternal bliss ,„!
happiness, prepared for those alone who “die the
death of tho righteous
GAITER BOOTS,
Robin Rattlebrain, A. M., thus expatiates cm Gai
ter Boots, in the Knickerbocker :
0 dainty foot!
O gaiter boot!
To piety you’re shocking;
I only know
Os one thing worse,
And that’s a snow-white stocking.
So neat and clean.
Together seen,
E'en stoics must agree
To you to vote,
What Gray once wrote,
A handsome L-E-G.
The lasting theme
Os midnight dream,
The very soul of song;
Man wants you little
Here below,
And never wants you long.
By Plato ne’er
Sent tripping here;
By Pluto rather given,
To lead poor man
(An easy plan)
To any place but Heaven.
Yet still I vow
There’s magic now
About a woman's foot,
And cunning was
The wizard hand
That made a gaiter-booL
For while the knave
The gaiters gave
To mortals to ensnare them,
Mankind he hoaxed
And even coaxed
Tho angels down to wear them.
For the Banner.
THERE IS A RIVER.
There is a river in whose flow
No melody is hoard;
No flower is seen upon its banks,
Nor sweetly singing bird.
The cypress and the willow tree
There cast a gloomy shade;
And all that’s beautiful of earth
Must wither there and fade.
Our eyes behold friend after friend
Approach that fearful shore ;
‘Ye’ve wept—but oh, have we not seen
Our friends cross smoothly o’er! 1
Beyond that river faith beholds
The New Jerusalem;
Loved ones are there and soon we’ll cross,
And ever be with them!
Beyond that river all is bright
To those that are forgiven ;
Beyond are pleasures evermore—
Beyond—bej’ondis heaven!
P. H. B.
Sutailee, Oct. 8,3855.
An ungallant youth, aged seven, recently un
dertook in l lira to drown a little girl of three.—
That young gentleman will be heard of again.
fW At an idiot asylum in the north of England
seven out of ten of the patients are the children of
parents related to each other by the laws of consan
guinity.
BTSe vor, perhaps, since the first settlement of
the Western country, has the Ague, and Chills and
Fever prevailed to such an extent as at the preseat
time throughout the Southwest.
iar The British government has withdraw n its
annual grant of a thousand pounds to the Royal So
ciety for the Encduagoment of Scicuce, on the plea
of great war expenses.
At a ia'e election in California, in Saguenny
county, having 12,000 in habitants, 18,000 votes were
polled. In one parish, containing but 400 inhabi
tants, the inspectors returned 4,000 votes!
A Puris correspondent of the New York Tri
bune. says the cholera has ap}ared in that city,
and that at Hotel Dieu there were about one hundred
deaths during the month just passed, and almost an
equal number at each of the other large hospitals.—
The government is endeavoring to suppress the fact
of its appearance.
|-gF” An Englishman has taken out a patent for an
ingenious method of transferring the designs of
graining on choice wood, such as mahogany, rose
wood, yew, Ac. from engraved me tali c heated rollers
October