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gajjj&oji aalrchln Journal, Publishad Every Friday. E. & J. E. CHRISTIAN EDITORS AND PUBLISHERS. TtSRJtS— Strictly in .Idrance. Three mouths $1 00 Six months.. b’i Ot) Ou« year.... $8 00 Hal at of ./ifwr/lslng : One dollar per square of ten lines for the Bret insertion, and Seventy-five Cents per square for each subsequent insertion, not ex ceeding three. ODe square three months $ 8 00 One square six months 12 00 One squ ire one year 20 00 Two squares three months 12 00 fuo squares six months 18 00 Two squares one year 30 00 fourth of a column three moths; SO 00 fourth of a column six months 60 00 Half column three moths 45 00 Half column six months 7000 One column three mouths 70 00 One column six months 100 00 Job lt~ork of every description evo cutedwith neatness and dispatch, at moderate rates. • WOOTEN & lIOY L-, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, !My Dawson, Ga. F. M. lIAKPEK, ATTORNEY AT LAW Dawson, Terrell to., Ga. 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JSTiCAVAKT. attousev at law, Culhbert, tidolph Cos., Ga., All Purines! entrusted to his enre will be faithfidlj attended to. June 1 eT L. DOUCLASG, Alt orney at Law, June 1 C UTIt It I'. KT, G . J. E. HIGGINBOTHAM, ATTOR'tEV AT LAW, Morgan, Calhoun Cos., Ga., Will practice in all the Courts of the South' I western and Pafanla Circuits, June 1 E. H. SHACKELFORD, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CAMILLA, MUclioll Cos., «a., AO EXT so. purthaxe and sale o LAND. ' Jane 1, 1866. DR. S. G. 1108 Li RSON, SURGEON DENTIST M«j4 Cuthhert, Georgia. J C Is. martin general insurance agent and :lxchanue dealer, C CC.I (1. ,/ ,11 ah tt mrt Represents s psid Capita! in A ?Co. 1 Companies, of #22,000.000 lakes s r *’ ®. n ' an< h Rieer, Marine, Life, snd Acci dent risks. Losses prompt!,!tadjusted snd P al< h ’ spr 27-]t. THE DAWSON JOURNAL Vol. I. A Tldßßlßf.il ADVE.VTURR in Ix'vlitud. Mount Hods, on tho Island of Ice land, is slightly under a milo in height. It has throe punks a little elevated above its body, and along its sides ore numerous craters, tbc soit9 of fenner eruptions. The crater of tho principal peak is about a hundred feet in (1 j.?h. It is compos and cbiofly of basalt and la. vn, Lut slag sand and aslrcs cover a groat part of its surface, and obsidian is among its most remarkable piolucts There havo been forty-threo erii| - tiocs ot Mount Her la recorded within the last thousand years, five "f which have been simultaneous with Ycsuvi.ms fi ur with those of Etna, and one with, those of In tb. The list eruption begin September 2, 1845, and lasted until April G, 1840. On the 23d of November, the torrent of lava, two miles from tho crater, was a mile in width, and from forty to fifty feet in depth. Mr. Call B‘einman vi red Ht-clu just previous to this terific eruption, and had one of the narrowest escapes from a horrible death, that ever befell ad venturous man. We give his narrative iu aim' st bis own words : ‘On the next morning after my ar rival at the snail villiage at the foot c f the volcano, L engaged a guide, a faith ful, honest fellow, and bet out for a visit to the noted crater. ‘•From the very first, it seemed as if I had passed the confines, and was en tering anew world, so entirely diff r ent was the scenery. “As you press upward toward the focus of all this horror of burning stuff, you find the peri l , dreariness and de.-o laticn increase, until its a« fulness be comes sublime; and at length, when you stand on the topmost point of this burning world, ofeba s, you instinct ively >aise jour heart to God, wiih a shudder el terror, to restore you to the great living world that you have left be hind yon. “For six mortal hours, three on horsubick ard three on foo*—had I been clambering upward from the low er world, and now among the eicuds aid nils', that rd ei around mo I s'ox! in a world of lava mountains, ice and snow, tin' lava as Hack tfi ink. the snow of its dazzling whiteness,-- and not iu all tho region, tie slightest brush, shrub, plan', or living creature, exe p the guide and myself. l As fur as tho eye could discern, when the sweeping ckuds afforded a view, was a succession of dark hills, glisten*'ng glati'rs, snow-capped peaks, and a fr- zen s'roitn, a world devoid of life, the awful solitude of solitude it self—tilled with gaping caverns, terific ..Ty-sc'S, and Styrgian eaves, which echoed only the sullen rtvorhrtions of thunder or the groaning* of tho trou bled earth beneath. “So impressive was the rceno that I felt a strange chid creep in? over me, and I shou’ed again to break the hor rible stillness, which was mere awe-in spiring than the thunders of a thousand Nhgras. I frequently fonnd myself imagining that I was dreaming, and I was only reassured by pinching myself or conversing with n.y gu'dn * Drawing tny blanket around me to protect me from the chilling a'm< s phtre, and cau'iously puncturing the ground with my sharp pointed stick be fore me, to make sure of my footsteps, [ began to pick my way over piles and heaps of lava, and pitehfalls and pa'ch cs of ice an and smw, my guide keeping near urn, and oft. n warning me when heimapired my ‘ootstrps were leaiing me into clangor. “Occasionally I struck fragtneMa of Uva that rslhd down behind rat, bnt as yet discovered no signs of the crat.-r, which eighty ye rs bes ire bad vaulted forth its kemred 'Us volume of melted black Mt:d. At length however 1 reached the s-.mmi l , tnl Yoked down into a sort of basin,optn at the b wer s do, snd having several deep seams or chasms in its center, into which the melted suosv and ice on its side, were ruuning in small streams. A. repulsive odor in the shape of a thin, smoky vapor, came r.p and I fan cied I heard a deep rumbling noise that sounded far down in the earth. “I turned to my guide, find was abjut to speak, when I noticed that be was trembling, and w_s as pale as death ‘‘What is the matter?” I asked , you se;m frightened. ‘‘Oh my God 1 ho gasped, ‘there's (joing to he another eruption. ’ ’ “How do you know that ?” Have you ever been here before? “Yes. but I never saw it lcok so be fore AVhon I wag here last, there Was no hollow there, but ODly a level piece of snow and ice. “Indeed 1 ’ I exclaimed with intense interest; and you judge that fact to be decisive as regards an eruption ?" ‘ Oh my mac-t’r, said he in the great est iigor.y, what else could h ive cau-ed this change? You see the ice is nearly gone, and whit is left is fast melting, and will soon begone. I observed at this poiut that my feet had a sensation of warmth, and stoop ing down found ihe ground quite hot. “How is this? I enquired. ‘All wrong; there’s trouble brew ing master; you had belter leave. I recalled tha; the last eruption of Hecla occurred eighty years before, long before Ihe birth of my guide, and con sequently he could know as little of that as I did. This foolish thought pre vented me from putting tie faith in his words that 1 ought to have done. “There is no hurry I replied ; I have been so long in finding my way to tho top, that I am hardly disposed to leavo until I have seen more of the volcano. “I observed his paleness and tremb ling increase if possible, but still felt DAWSON, OA., JANUARY IN, 1807. a reluctance to retreat so ignori miously ' alter toiling so hard to make the sum-! mil. ILestod a moment in silence, and then ventured again ; “Lotus go while there is time. I am afrdd so remain here. We may be overwhelmed at any moment. Hold on ! said I, sensible of a cu rious iaseination, such as sometimes comes over one when on the brink of mo t appalling peril. It is true that the ice has melted away, 1 ur it hi s done s> very gradually. 1 have spent a great deal of time, and when 1 started, it was with the resolve to see llecla. “Ile-avoii knows'l have s-en to much already kcroplid; more than has ev er been seen hv mortal man. “How do you know that ? said I some what annoyed at the dogmatical man ner of my guide. “At least, I think j®. “And I think youffre mistaken. I cannot consent to go back until l In ve descended into tin* brsin, aid lock'd down into one < f those chasms. “Jilt me hose ch you do not! It will be the death of yon. “If you are afraid you can return, said I with an unfeeling tone for which there was no justification. “Uh no my master, I will not leave you. “All I ask is that you will mere ly vx nit for me.” 1 1 had no right even to ask that, and consider my guide a simpleton because he acceded to my r.que t. 1 will wait, he replied, but remem ber when you go down that I kept en trertiug you not do so. I hold y u blameless whatever should recur, s> have no apprehensions upon thatscore. “The crater was about twen'y yards in depth, with riles that si mped 6<i gently that it could be descended easi ly, if ordinary care was exercised. “i first felt the lava, and found it quite hot, but not uncomfortably'so, and using my stick with great precau in, I begun the dt pc ut. I observed the tempraiure of the lava 1 eoesth my tert constantly increasing, hut I had on fthick shoes and knew that they would ha unharmed. I noticed a'si a thick, sulpburioas odor, but considerel this nothing unus ual, although it left a thick, dis agreeable tasm on ray mouth and give an unploasent twinge to my olfacto ries. The rill of water made by th e melt ing ice fl lived hissing down, and ws hgt to view in tho daik chasm from which came puff* of h■ t air, accompa nied by a rumbling and trembling of the ground. The phee, the scene, an] withal the some of dcng r connected with i‘, hell me there by a sort of magnetic faseina tion, and I soon found myself strongly templed to throw myself into the awful ah;s'. Gnsci’ us that rea?<n some time* I oses her power at such tini s. If reed n y elf brcl.ward a tew f >et, bet si i 1 remained tea fu’dy near the o; ening, Leer}L ss of tho earnest entteat h sos my guide. Giving no heed therefore to his ear nest solicitatio - s, I now resolved if pas sible to sound tho chasm b fare me, and then proceed to examine the oilier. Fur tins purpose I broke off a small pi ee of lava, and s'epriug to the very edgo of the precipice, dropped it down, and listen dto the hollow reverbera tions, as it wnt bounding from side to side, long after it was lost to the eye Tho and [th was ; o immense that. I heard k for fully a minute, and then the sound seemed ruber to die out than ti era e beoau-o of the block having reached its <1 stination. It was a tei r fie d-q th, snd as I drew back wi‘h a shudder, a gust, of hot sulphurious air pniY-d upward, fc,)!..wed immedinti ly by a steam like vap'r, cnl a heavy, h.llow boom, as if a pi- coos ordinance hod discharged fir down in the bowels of tho nn u .twin I’y tl.k time I had regained mj com mon fen-:e and became impressed with the danger that hung over me. I turn ed to fly, when all at once there came a rumbling crash, and the ground heav ing, shaking, and rolling under me, be gan so crumble off into the dread abyss. I was thrown down and on my hands and was scrambling onward and upward, when two blocks rolling togeth er, caught my feet and Igs between them, aril without actually crushing, held them eh in a vice. Then came another crash and crumble, tho lava sli 1 away from behind me, and I was left on the vi ry verge ot that awful gulf, now widened some fifteen or twen ty feet, down into which I look and with horror-strained eyes, only to see dark ness and death below, ur;d breath the almost suffocating vaperi, that rushed up from that seemingly bittern loss pit. “Oti, tho horrors of that awful reali-! zation ! '.V hat pen or tongue cun por- i tray them ? There, over the nmu h ofi a black and heated abyss, 1 was held suspended, a helpless nr>d cofmcams pris mor to tie hurled dc wnwatd bv tiie next great throe of trei.tb iug nu- 1 ture. ‘‘Help! help ! help ! —for the love of God, help !’’ I shrieked, in tho very agony of my despaii. ‘T looked up and around to catch ! sight of my guide, but be, with a com mendable prudence, l could but admit in my dire extremity, bad sought his 1 own safety in tii rht “I bad nothing to re’y on but the mercy of h aven and I prayed to God as I never prayed before for a forgive no sos my sins, that they nvght not fo'low mo to judgement. “It might be a second, it might be a minute, it might he an Lour, that, I should have to undorgi a liviug death ; but be i*>e timo long or shor, 1 felt that there was m escape from a doom which even now makes mo grow pale uud shudder when I think of it. “Above mo was a clear blue sky— beneath me a black and horrible abyss, aronnd mo sickening vapori that made my brain grow dizzy. Humbling and his-ing sounds warned mo that another couvuisinu might occur at any moment, and anothir would bo tho last of me. Home and friends I shou'd never sec again, and my tomb would be the vol cuuio llecla ! ‘ I strove with the madness of desper ation to dbengrgc my imprisoned limps, hut I might as well have attempted to move the mountain itself. There I was fixed and fistened for the terrible death I was awaiting. Oh, God of heaven ! what a fate ! All at once I hoard a shout, and, looking ar und, 1 beheld with feelings that cannot be described, my faithful guide, battening down the sides of the crater to my relief. He had fled in ter ror at the first ominous demonstration, hut had nobly returned to save mo, if possible, by risking; his life for mine. “I warned you, master,’ said be, as he came up, hi* eyes stalling, and his coun tenance expressive of commiseration and terror. “You did .'You did!’ cried I, but forgive and save me, for I am perishing. “I will save you if I can, or perish with you.’ “The noble fellow instantly set to work with his iron-pointed stick to break the lava around my limbs, but tad scarcely made any progress when again tho earth trembled, and tho blocks par ted, one of them rolled down the chasm with a dull, booming souDd. “I spreng forward—l siezed a hand of the guide—wo both struggled des perately, and the next moment we had bh fallen, locked in each others arms, upon the solid earth above. I was free but still upon the verge of the pi s , and avy moment might see us both hurh J to destruction. “Quich ! quick,—ther ’s not a moment to lose !’ cried the guide. Up, up, and run for your life !’ ‘I staggered to my feet, with a wild cry of hope and fe ir, and half carried by n y faithful companion, hurried up the si ping sides of the crater. “As we reached the ridge above, the ground shook with heavy explosion, and looking back, 1 saw with a horror which no pen can depict the dark, smoking pit where we had so lately stood. Without j waiting to teo more, 1 turn and and fled >ver the rough ground as fast as my ! brui md limbs wouid permit. “We reached our horses in safty, | and hurrying down the mountain, gave the alarm to the villagers, who joined us ia our flight across the e untry till a safe distance nas gai ed ‘A f w days late-, when the mighty and long extinct llecla was convulsing the island, aid pouring tourth its tre mendous volume of melted lava, I was far out u[in the Atlantic, on my way home, whrr: I dev mtly thank God again and sgitii that I had lived to tell my wonderful e-cipe from a death ia its burning caatoj. ASHLEY. What the sun is to earth, Douglass Welch was to me; and no night was ever so dark and gloomly as was my life when I shut his face away Stern, re erved, and even harsh as he sometimes seemed to others, he was the soul of gentleness to me, loving me with the whole of his strong, man ly heart, and caring for me with the must devoted tenderness. Nothing is so sweet to a lonely wo man ns to feel herself beloved like this ; and nothing would have been so sweet to me as to have looked into his pleading eyes, and said, “Yes, I will be your wifebut too well I knew that such words, if ever they came from my lips, must not be said to such as bo Our positions were too fur apart, end onr s'utions too separate, to be ever bridged by' human love; and I knew, long before he asked me to bo h s, that, when the question did come, we must meet eo more. It would have been useless for me to have tried not to love him. I did not try. All was his that my poor heart had to give. 1 nupix'se he knew it. ft was little matter if he did, since he also knew that my pride was equal to my love, and that I could no more be moved from my purpose never to call him mine, than the tills could be moved l orn their places on God’s un yie'ding earth. 1 But I aril certain that you love me, Beth,” he said calmly, after I had told him of my determination. “Be just as certain thit l shall leave you,” 1 answered. “You are stiong, I know; but, af ter nl', you are human, and must have love " “I have had it,” I replied unflich ingly; “and I can now give it up, when 1 know that I must.” “Y r ou wi : l not take it always?” llis tones were tender and beseech ing ;so ter and r that it seemed worso than death for me to turn away, and never listen ti his dear voice again. He sa v that I wavered, and he was quick to improve it. “I have been kind to you, Beth.” NVliat a temtation it was! “And I have a pleasant home await ing you,” he went on more cheerfully. “We should be so hnpp»y 1” . 1 felt the color die out of my cheeks and lips, hut answered steadily,— “Nevertheless 1 cannot bo yi urs.— Tho world shall never throw contempt upon you for my sake ” 1 have an indistinct remembrance cf our parting; but I was myself in a few hours aft rward and then I hastily made arrangements to leave the place. Away ! away from Douglass Welch ! That would be my only salvation, if half the world lay out between us, all tho better for both. Hut how dreary the world looks to me after all! It is such a weary thing fora woman to face the world nil alone! It is so much easier to shut one’s eyes, and slip out of life, and bo done forever with all its aches and pains ! J went to A-hwood as governess A year I had been there, I think, when Mrs Parkes’ sister came down to spend the holidays. She was a handsome woman, stately as a queen ; and yet with all her statulines, she was gentle and kind as any angel could be. For a wonder, I liked Ur. She talk ed to me as friend speaKs to friend, and seemed entirely to ignore the fact that I was not her acknowledged equal. Bhc was to bo married the en suing spring, so she told me; und I remember so well bow lustrous her eyes grow as she spoke of it I thought then bow happy must be tho man who had won her loving heurt. There wero to he many gneste nn Chri trims Eve, and then Gertrude’s lover was coming. I did not care about going down among the crow 1; but Mrs. Parke* insisted upon it, and Gertrude laughing'y said that she would not sllow me to see her lover it 1 did not; so at last I consented to take my share in the gaieties. Tow ards tho middle of the evening, and when tho parlors wero getting crowded, I saw Gertrude enter the and or, leaning upon a gentleman's arm. I knew it was her lover; but until that moment, God help me! I did not know that her lover was Douglass Welch. Tho room grow dark before me; and I think 1 should havo given way had not Mrs Parkcs called nw to my senses by coining at that instant, and a-iked me to play. I did not wait for a second bidding. Perhaps, after all, I had been de ceived. It might not be Douglass 1 Welch I cou'd not think that it could be; it was such a cruel thing to be ! lieve ! | I dared not take another look ; but cros-iug tho room quickly, I sat down at the piano, and took up some music I Something I played—l never could tsll what—intil I heard Gertru le’s voice close beside me. “Let some ono take your place,” she said. “Douglass has come.” I cou'd have struck the smiling wo man as stie wh'spered the name in my ear. Her Douglass! I rose. “This is Mr. Welch—” She began a formal introduction ; but he interrupted hei. [ “Hath!” he gasped out I had had time to collect myself a little, and therefore had tho advantage of bin 1 knew my face was white, Gertrude must see that, —but my voice was steady and clear as I looked op, and said,— “Ilow do you do. Mr. Welch ?” Then turning to Gertrude, I add ed, — “Mr. Welch and I have met be fore.” She was too proud and kind to no tice our c infusion, singular as it must have seemed to her, and said at once, “I am so glad you are acquainted. It will be v ry pleasant for us.” I doubted it somen hat, but said nothing in reply. She in'roduced him toothers stand ing near, ansi I turned again to the piano. I watched him thei'est of the even ing, but without seeming to do so,— lie hail not changed. His face was as handsome as ever, and ho seemed, I thought, a little less reserv ed than usual to the crowd. Once only, our eyes met I cculri have cried out in Very agony. I clutch ed :ny hands together, until the nails cut into the flesh, and shut my teeth lightly, lest some of the storm that was raging within should ecape mo. That be was also suffering, I well knew. Every expression of his face I understood ; and, looking into that, I cou'd see that there was agouy ii his soul as we'l as in mine. The night that followed was a 1 ng one to me. As soon as the faintest in dications of dawn began to appear, I dressed hurriedly, and went down in to the library. A dim light was burn ing; and in a large chair before the tire, his face hurried in his hands, sat Douglass Welchr I had quite crossed the room before I saw him ; then I turned quickly, and was hastening back, when he sprang up, rushed past me, slammed to the door before me, and stood against it. “So.” he said, looking at me steadi ly with his great wide-open eyes,—“so you cannot sb p either I” “I had better go,” I said. “You are not going now, Beth,” he replied deternvnedly. “Gertrude 1” I err. and wildly. “Oh ! think of ner. It would kill her to doubt you Let me out.” ile look my hand in his, and, forc ing me into a chair, took another and sit down in it beside be. ‘•What do you ineau ?” ‘AY hat should I mean ?” I retorted. “I don’t think thatiitherof us know quite what we uro talking of. First, how long have you lee i here ?” “A year.” “I never knew it.” “Os course not.” “You are uot ' A tired of your life ?” Hush 1” I had risen from my cha r. “I will not hear such words.” Ile took my arm roughly. “Vou shall hear them. Sit down ” He was not in a rnood to be trifled with. Neither was I. “If you detain me sgainEt my will, you are no gentlcmao.” “Gentleman or no gentleman, you No. ID. w ill, remain; and, as sure as God reigns, you shall be my promised wife before either of us go out of yonder door." I laughed in bis face. “I am not a Mormon yet.” His eyes flusned. “Ho weary of your words.” I hen, if you like it better, I am not in the hubit of promising to marry a mail \\ ho lias another betrothed to liiiD.” lie grasped my arm again. “It is a lie.” “You nro bound to Gertrude Heath.” “Is that what you mean ?” a sudden recognition of tho truth coming to him. “My brothor is engaged toiler; not I.” He gntherod me in hi* arms with out another wi rd ; und I was only too glad to throw down all my pride and all my fears, and give him the required promise. That morning, Gertrude’s real lov er came, the mistake was explained, and Douglass presented to them his promised wife. VN hen the next springtime came, there was a double wedding at Ashley ; and Gertrude and I have lor manv years spent the holidays at the dear old place. General Dix’s Reception by the JEnipcror iHapolcon. A cable dispatch, dated Pars, Decem ber 24, says : The Emperor Napoleon accorded an Rudianco yesterday to the Hon Mr. Higelow, cx Minister of the United Slates, who had the honor of presenting to his Magesty Major General John A. D'X, his successor in the representation of the American Goveruwout, near the Court of the Tuillcrics. General Dix on prisjnting his cre dentials to the Emperor, made a few remarks in the course of which he refer red to the long standing anoieut inter national amity which existed between the people and the Government of h ranee ai.d the people and Executive of the Unit and States, as well as the many historical reminisconec3 which tended to pirpotuate the friendship exiting be tween them. Iho General expressed iu the name of tho United ( Statcs G ivern ment, hie sincere wish that the good un derstanding at present existing botwcecn the two countries would become perpet ual. The emp ror Nap ikon replied, thank ing General Dix for the agreeable man ner in which he had opened his mission to the French couit. IPs Majesty said : “The historical reminiscences to which you allude as having existed from ear ly date between Franco and the United States constitute a sure guarantee that no niisunders'andiog will disturb the friendly relations which prevail between the the two oountriep. Tho continuance of a loyal and lincero understanding be tween the Governments will be a great advantage to the industry and commerce of both count.ics, the inhabitants of which already astonish the other por tions of the world by the marvels of their enterprise. Such an understanding will do much to cusure and guarantee popular progress, and the march of civ ilization. Your presence in Paris, sir, cannot bu' contribute to this happy re sult by upholding in your official char acter these g of relations, to which I attach the hightest value. Planet in a Itluzc—lt is our Turn Next. To the Editor of the Hardford Times : The belief that this earth is evcn'unl ly to be destroyed by fire is jubstintia ted by the discovery that plane s ex celling the earth in size have been sub. jt'Ote l to heat so intense as to entirely annihilate them from the firinnment. Tho keen eye of the tebeonpe, gathering rays from the planets wich are visible and fixed, has offjrcd to the astronomer stitnciert light for him to assert that nearly two thousand of these s'ars have disappearead from tho firmament, with in the last four centuries. A f> w evenings since, while watching tho firmament, with the moon at her full, my attention was attracted to a large star which stood a few degrees above the eastern horizon, anitapnrcnt lv on fire. It r.’presented very nearly a revolving beacon light alternating in color—first its faco presents a bright crimson color, then followed a pale blush tint, then it would rt lapse into i’s natu ral whileaess—presenting all the ph<- nomena of a large confl igration when acted upoa by astrjrg wind. I am of the opinion that the star was being con sumed bv fire. Rev. W(deter Mills. Lebannon, Cran., D.c. 1, ISG6- A llourible Sensation. —The fol -1 wing tear a,‘ion story is told in a Bos ton and spateh of December 31 : “A mys terious and diabolical affair has just come to light Ou Fiiday a box was shipped as merchandise at Philadelphia for this port on the s f tain9r Saxon, and marked Edward Mason, Portland Maine. Tho shipper said it wruld he claimed at Boston. Tho box was accidentr.lly bro ken opCD here, and on examination was found to contain there der-d bodies, two men and a woman, apparently aged about thirty-five ycais. The throat ot of the woman and one of the men had br6n cut, hut no marks of violence were discovered on the oiher. The public believo they were all murdered. A dis patch to Edward Mason, of Portland, Maine, basnet been answered. At present the matter is wrapped in tnys- Lry.” A mac in Orange county wns found one night in a lulling mil , trying to climb the overshot wheel. When usk ed what he wuh doing, he said lie wag trying to get up to bed, somehow or other, the stairs wouldn't bold still The Teuton’* Tribulation. Mine Cot! Mine Cot I vot language dat, I cannot English sprakeo, For shust so sure I speak him right, So Bure I bees mistaken. For ten I say I want* mo beer, I mean that l»ger fixen ; * Bier means dem tings folks ride Yen (’ey go dead as blixen, Meat means-dem tings data coot to eat, Meet also means tings proper; 'Tie only mete to measure tings, Yen steamboats meet dey stopper. Shust de same words means ev ry tlnga ! It makes no business whether You spell him dia or tother way, Yon sounds shoost like de tother. Mine Cot ! Mine Cot Iso sure I knows, I cannot English sprakeo ; For ven I nose I speak him right, By tam I I gits mistaken. 1 w ish X wni a Printer. I wish I was a printer, I really do indeed; It seems to me thst printers Have everj tiling they need— (Except money.) They get the largest and the beat Os everything that grows. And get free Into circuses And other kinds of shows— (By giving an equivalent.) A Good Story. A vry eminent lawyer in Nsw York receiving a Bevere reprimand from s wit* ness on the stand, whom he was trying to brow beat. It was an important is sue, and in order to save his cause from defeat, it was necessary that Mr. A should impeach the witness. He «i --deavered to do it on tho ground of sg*. ensued : Lawyer—llow old are you T Witness—Seventy-two years. Lawyer—Your memory of oours*, ia not so brillicnt and vivid as it was twen ty years ago, is it ? Witness—ldo not know but it is. Lawyer—Stale some eircumstanoes that occurred, say some twelve years ago, and wo shill bo able to see how well you can remember. Wieness— l-appeal to your honor if I am to be interrogated iu this manner ; it is insolent. Yes, sir, state it. Witness—Well, sir, if you compel me to doit I will. About twelve years ago you studied in Judge B’s office, did you not ? Lawyer -Yes. Well, sir, I remember your father coming to my office and saying to me: Mr. D., my son is to be examined soon and i wish you wouid lend me #ls te buy him a suit ofclothes.” I remember, also, sir that from tl at day to this, he has never paid me that sum. That sir, I remember, as though it had been but yesterday. Lawyer—(Considerably abashed,) That will do, sir. Wi ness—l presume it will. Novel Mode of Committing Sui cide. Tbe following extraordinary account of a datermined attempt, at suicide is grave ly related by the Epoea of madrid; but as neither the name of the pazty nor tbe locality is mentioned, we must suppose that the whole statemeut is in tended as apiece ol pleasantry: “Tho individual in question being tired of life, resolved to take such meas ures as must infallible insure his death. To that end he started for the sea shore provided with a ladder, a rope a loaded pistol, a bottle of poison, and a box of matches. Having some time before discovered a post standing a little way out in the water, he fixed his ladder against it, and ascending, fastened one end of the cord to the top and passed a slip knot an ur.d his neck, swallowed the poison, and striking a light, set Hire to his clothes, then placing the pistol to to his ear, kicked away the ladder; but in doing so his band swerved, and he fire 1 the same moment, the bulllet. in stead of penetrating his brain, divided the rope, and he fell into the sea, extin gui hing his burning garments ; also, • quantity of salt water he swallowod caused him to throw up the poison be bad taken, so that he scrambled to the shore, convinced that h:s time bad not yet c jDio, Bonnets —A marked change is at tbii moment taking pluei in the form of the fashionable chappcau. Tbe re« versed pattern has seen its day, and chapeaux of the style known as tho em pire are about to assert tbeir reign. Thus does fashion, as wll as history, repeat itself. Toe coming mode in this nspect resembles that strange looking beadger which our grandniamas used to wear in the beydey of their youth and beauty—the smallest possible crown, and almost tbe narrowest possible tim, well scooped out behind to admit the “chignon” being worn in the prevail ing mode, namely almost at the top in stead of at the back of the head. The centra ot the linked States is ono hundred miles west ol Fort Rily, Kansas. Only men who are decidedly ill bred take silt with their finger* or peas with a knif.e A New York engineer is about to build a steel steamer, whioh will make a epecd cf thirty miles an hour. Why can persons occupied in canning fruit s ow away morn of it than any body else ? Because they can. What trees increase and multiply and bear most fruit after they are cut Qown ? Christmas trees. Tt is reported that a Cuban filibuster movement is on foot in New York. There are only fifteen pawnbrokers in Cincinnati. To maintain its dirty streets cost New York 8257,400. Russia is perparing her krife and fork with a view to devouring Turkey. Tobacco is mnoh talked about. | t j g in almost every body's mouth 1 rentier. If a man addresses you dogmatically answer him catego: icically— frentiee. L *