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gatosim jomal, Publifhcd Every Friday. E. & J. E. '• CHRISTIAN EDITORS AND PUBLISHERS. STE fl.lf S— Strictly in .hi fa nee. Three mouths $1 00 Si* m0nth5....... ti 00 Oa» year.. >a $3 00 tlaies or.ldrertinlng : One dollar per square ot ten lines lor the Bret insertion, and Seventy-five Cents per square for each subsequent iuseilion, not ex ceeding three. One square three months $ 8 00 floe square six months 12 00 One square one year 20 00 Two squares three months 12 00 Two squares six months 18 00 Two squares one year 30 00 Fourth of ft column three m0th5...... 80 Os? Fourth of a column six months 50 00 Half column three moths 45 00 Half column six months ~70 00 One column three mnnthß 70 00 j One column six months 100 00 Joh of every description exe cutedwith neatness and dispatch, at moderate rates. HO VL & SIMMONS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. ik*w «;.r, - - ot ontit.i. l c. noYt. jan2s Iy. n f simmons. WOOTEN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, 21y Dawson, Oa. DR.C. A. CHEATHAM, DAWSON, CiEOKCIA, Office, South West earner PulUc square. CtONTINUF.3 the practice of Medicine in ) all its branches. He pays special attention to the treatment of al! chronic affections of either sex; and makes Womb and Secrc' Diseases a speciality. Ho may be consulted by letter. Charges moderate. Terms Cash. Janl-1807. ALLEN, WATCH REPAIRER ixjfciJi JEWELER. Dawson, G-a., IS prepared to do any work in his line in the very beta etyle. feh23 ts J. 6. S. SAIITII, (JUN BMITH and Machinist, t t Georgia. Rep airs alt kinds of Guns, Pistols, Sewing Maninee, etc., etc. 2 lv. I* AW CAIID. f IMIE hate D day entered 1 into a copartnership to9the practice of Ltw in the Superior Court3 ot the South western ami P .taula Circuits. Business en tr n»ted to their care will be promptly attend ed to. J. J. Sc ait n itoc G ii, AmtriciH, 0. T. Goodk, Ga. G. Tarks, Dawson, Ga. jls * c. w. WARWICK. .11 ormg al hate and Solicitor in Mguity. j.ninsi'ihhh . . . Gro., 1\ ’ ILL practice in Lee, Sumter, Terrel! v t and Weha.er. J A. W NO TJCE 11 MORGAN will practice in all the 1 • courts of thf* South western, in Irwin of tho Southern, Coffee and Appling of the Bum wick, and most of thecouits ol the Pa taula CircuitP. Office on Washington Stree f , opposite the Ex . r S3 office, Albany, Ga. may 1 1 ly (AWirAKIh r R undersigned will attend to any legal J. business entrusted to hiacare, in South western Georgia.- Office at Cu ? bert, Uindolph co., Ga. may 11,1 y E. 11. PLATT ToT RANDOLPH HARDEN, Allorncy «t Law, jui.fim vi teiHi.nr. o.i. r jr~ li. STEWART, HTTORXEV AT LAW, C it.l Sheri, ndolph Cos., Oa., A!! business entrusted to his care will be faithfully *ffrd“d to. June 1 E L. D3IJ'£SLAS3 t Jk.ti orney at I , Jane 1 C f TOT it TANARUS, 0 ./. J. E. HIGGINBOTHAM, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Morgan, Calhoun Cos., Ca., Will practice in all the Courts of the Souths western and Pataula Circuits, June 1 E. K. SHAGKELFORD, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CAMILLA, IMitrlicll Cos., «a., AGENT for purchase and sale o LAND. June 1, 1806. DR. S. G. lIOBhUSON, SURGEON DENTIST Mey 4 Cuthherl, Georgia. J C L. MARTIN GENERAL INSURANCE AGENT AND EXCHANGE DEALER, E r ; F.< C1..1 s : lahum a Represents s paid Capital in A No. 1 Companies, of $1212,000,000. Takes Fire, Inland, River, Marine, Life, and Acci dent risks. Losses promptly adjusted and pah). apr 2T-ly. •D. ANDiaSON. W. WOODS. JOSEPH DAT,. Special Part. ANDERSON &. WOODS, COMMISSION MERCHANTS AND DEALERS IN STAPLE DRY GOODS, GROCER IES and COMMERCIAL-FERTIL IZERS, tuittn st. .n.ico.r, g.i. oct26 .Im. y <>i. ii. THEFATCLIENT; Or, The ittfal, The !7l;ti<l<n and the Millioimric. (being a chapter from the legal ex periences of erastus belmore, esq., attorney-at-law.) BY KENWARD HENRY PIHLTP. Dead broke! It is ungramatical, butexpte'-sive Ii Orestes, who is so demonstrative of his affection for Pylades, on the stage, has with harrowing frequency refused 10 lend that worthy a dollar in the giren-room, the bond of sympathy between persons in social life who nei ther entertain nor prof ss an exaggera ted affection for each other viewed from pecuniary standpoint, must be very silght indeed- The tendency of hu man nature is to show very slender re spect to a man who is “dead broke;” but herein the world is wrong, for im pecunious people are, socially, the best follows in it. There is a coitain pleasure in being “dead broke” which, if not carried far enough to be monotonous, is sufficient ly exciting to experience. There is n variety of the comp'aiiit, I understand, which is called “flat broke,” and an other, variety known as “strapped but in what essential particulars they differ from “dead broken” I have not been able to learn Personal experi ence teaches me that there is a melan cholly sameneqjaboiit all three. The worst part of the business, bow ever, is not the simple matter of being without money ;it is the necessity— the dire necessity, of keeping up ap pearances under the ufflic'ion. To slap and be slapped on the back, when you would rather dolefully rub your empty stomach, ns the clowns do so ludie rous'y at the c rcus ; to laugh and joke upronriously when you ought to be stea thily laying your plans for the next day’s dinner ; to cry “Ha ! ha !’’ “by -Jingo 1” and so on, when them ret natural exclamation would be, “Dear r.e; what an awful state of things!” The man who can do this success fully—he who can bat his hat over his eyes and simultaneously smother his feelings—is a prince among men : that is, among such. me3 as are “dead broke ” All this, you will please to under stand, I have been told by various per sons. (It’s a funny su’jee‘, and one worth inquiring into.) ts I al owed you to suppose for one moment that I am, or ever was, or am ever likely to be “dead brokeif I were w i ling tins in a garret in Centre street wth » iVr Ling rush for a light, and vv'th no prospect ol dining to-morrow, instead of willing in an elegant apartment in Astor place, with a cheerful fire in the room, heavy green curta ns across the windows, a box of cabanas on the ta ble, and Mrs. i\ looking over my shoulder—if all that instead of nl! this, why then you would not read tins sketch to the end. It's the way of the world. This is not egotistic ; it’s s'mply ex planatorv. Impecu i shy is a kale idoSen pic study Try your haul at it. It’s charming, I assure you : so I’m told lias Ddinore told me, for one. We always cull him “Has,’’ because he's always “dead broke.” You think that is a non sequitur, but it isn’t; if he al-" ways had plenty of money, we ihould certainly call him “Mr. Erastus ” You never heard Baron Rothschild's dear est child speak of him as 1 Rothsy,” yet lhat is what they called his grand father, when he sold nuts on the steps of the Kursaal. A few dollars more or less make all the difference—espec ially a fes less. lias Belmore was called by crurte y an attorney-at-law ;to use his own words, be was an at:orney de jure t but a walking gentleman de facto. His le gal business was e-NOR-rnous; si 11 ge, in fact, that to study it out thoroughly tie was generally obiig and to %.eep in the office. Ras would oxplain that this was re ally a matter of considerable moment to him ; he was always on hand, you see, in case any of his numerous clients wanted to consult him tit the dead of night. The office was in Park Row, on somewhere about the fifth floor, within easy distance ot half a dozen car routes, all the newspaper offices, Crook & Eos’s, and the principle places of amusement. It was a bar ren little room, with very little furni ture, but a large number of aggres sive-'ooking legal books, rolls of red tape, blotter.-, peas, and reams of legal paper. At the desk in the middle of the room, on a fine day in last Fall, sat Mr. Erastus Beltnore, deeply in thought. What intricate point in civil law could he bo thinking out ? What new principle which was to burst upon the world like a clap of thunder? Hush 1 Let iue describe him. A tall youug man, with dark hair and bright brown eyes, generally lull of good humor and reckless lun, but now rather doleful in expression. A sanely cut mouth—“chiselled,” I be* lieve, ii the orthodox word for the nose —and an animated face. As to Ras Belmore’s form, it was precisely at that peiiod of transition known to tender mothers as “just fill ing up but Ras stood small chance of being filled up in nis present circum stances, unless some kindly disposed person stepped in and did it for him “Confound it,” he muttered, “I must really retrench.” W hat he was going to retr nch on was not so clear, seeing that at that moment he was in tho last stages of pecuniary consumption. But this was DAWSON, FRIDAY, FEDHIJ^RY T IR, an exhilaraing pastime w ith him— the making of goood resolutions. i “11 iliai ! here’s som body coining! up,” he muttered, as the sound of a person a-cending the stairs interrupt ed his inward laments In a moment more the door opened/ and Charley Wraxall appeared He was a particular friend of lias, and a promising youth not altogether strange to pecuniary vicissitudes “Has! By thunder, I must have 85 till Saturday,” he cried, walking up to his friend, and shaking him lustily by ttie shoulder. lias looked at him earnestly for a moment “Indeed !” ho said, in an accent nice ly balanced between, sympathy and surprise. “Yes; its a matter of moment, too.” “Well, tny dear fellow,” raid Has, “I am afraid it will be a matter of sev eral moments if you expect to get it from me!” “But I’m broke 1” “So arn I.” “Completely flat broke !” “Strapped.” “What’s to be done.” “I don’t know anybody.” “Don’t be a fool, Ras I” “Certainly not, my dear fellow ; but I assure you I should uncommonly like to borrow $5 myself just now.” “Well, I suppose we shall not dine to-d:iy, eh ?” “Perish the*thought,” cried Ras, striking a theatrical attitude. “See the providence witn which* I have guarded ourselves against so lamenta tile a catastrophe.” He rose and walked towards his solitary escritoire Wraxal: looked with all his eyes he expected at least a fairy in short clothes to appear and instantly con vert the musty legal desk into a dain tily spread dinner table Young Belmore walked with a tragic air to the drawer, opened it, flourished his hand, affecti nately blew his nose, and brought forth a paper bag “My dearest friend—my solitary comtoittr.” he cried, apos rophiz ng the bag, “to you I fly once more.— Friend of my earliest che—ildhood, consoler ot my rising youth, faithful in my budding manhood, come and con sole us once more !” “What on eailh is it ?” said Wras all, eagerly “Hush ! not a word.” With that Has placed the bag on the desk, and motioned to his friend to c me and sec. “Behold !” Charley advanced, carefully took iioll of the paper edges, opened them and— “ This is too much, Has,” be cried while the other was bursting with laug' ter. “A | aper ol pop corn !” “What do I tear? Slave, do you refuse my hospitality?" 1 Oh, pshaw ! I m devilish hard up, I tell you the delicacie- of the season, and you thrust my hosp'tal ly in my face. Man alive, pop born is re:om mended ly the faculty' !” “Curse the faculty,” growled Wras all 1 It is highly nutritious, too ” 4 Doubtl ss.” “A man can travel a ’eng way s£>n pop-corn ” ‘ Thank yoii.” “It is t ue that to 1 much of it is ’n diges ihle. but there's no fear of that in our case ” “Not the slightest in mine, T a sure you. for I don’t inlen 1 to touch it.” ‘ Charles, my boy,” said his friend, assuming an unnatural gravity, “II you were in my case you might com plain. That pop-corn has grown tr be my daily friend. It is true it is a low diet, but then, think of Hannibal, and Socrates, and Faistaff, and all the other ancient Greeks, who only ate enough to support life.” Mr Charles Wraxall, with a flip pancy which was highly reprehensible murmured “Pick'es ! ’ “No, my dear friend,” advancing and taking him effectionately by the hand, “not even the healthy beet.” “Do you intend this as a personal remark ?” “Charles l” “Pop corn may be very good in its way, but isn’t it rather monotonous?’’ “Well, there’s a refreshir g certain ty about what you are going to have for dinner when you’ve get u bag of it by you.” “I should think so ” “Indeed, Charles, it is an invalua ble friend. No family should be wi fl out it. Children cry for it. (See ad* vertiseinent ’’) Has took up a handfull as he ypoke, and commenced to eat it with every outward sign of infinite relish, while Wraxall loosed on in apparent despair at the prospect ol DeVor g tting the five dollars Suddenly a heavy step was heard on the stnirs “Look out, Charley,” cried Ras, bo'tiug the pop-corn, aDd turning Yery red in consequence. “Take a seat; there’s a g od fel low.” Charley complied, and someone rapped at the do.,r. ••Come in ” And in walked, accordingly, a very fat old gentleman, evidently exhaust ed with tho labor of getting up five flights of stairs. Os course the two friends were seated Ras at his desk, in the nttitude of an attentive adviser, and Wraxall in a chair in the attitude of a contid ntial client “Take a seat, Sir,” said Ras, look ing up from a manuscript and hastily looking down again. “ \\ ell, that is as tho matter stands,” said he, turning to Charley. “I’m afraid a commission de lunaliec is the ion’y resort!” The ol 1 gentleman looked rather alarmed, and then looked round for a scat, but couldn’t see one. | “Oh, a thousand pardons, 'said Has, getlin r up ;*“the fact is, aim-chair just stepped out for a moment to lunch —in. no, 1 mean—here, take mine, Sir!” I With that Has nodded and winked to Charley in a most mysterious man ner, meaning that lie should get up and accommodate the gentleman with I Ins chair. ' Chari y however, had not fovgotton itlifl pop-c rn, and “enuldn’t see it.” I Has accidently kicked lis worst corn , for him, and handed the cld gentleman j his own chair | Os course, his revenge bting gratified j Wraxall immediately arose, ami said,. ; while Has toi k bis chair: j “Well, Mr. Bjlin >re, I wilt leave the matter in your hands, and shall probably see you again soon—(it Crook & F ix’s I ’) —lie whispered. “Good morning !” Charley vra* jus; walking easily to the door, chuckling over lias's annoy ance at »he want of another chair, when that gentleman, putting on his blandest smile, said : “Oh, h’m! Mr. Williamson, I’m afraid you hsve overlooked a trifling little matter l” “Eh? What’s that?” asked Charley as he caught a glimmering of the joke. “There's a small fee usual in such cases, you see,” rejoined Ras with a most persuasive smile. “In the pres en' instanoe, say five dollars l” Charles gasped, and stammered, and grew red and white alternately, but at last a bright idea struck him. “I believe, Mr. Belmore, there is a little accou t yet unsettled between us, for some pop-corn which 1 supplied you with at your earnest r quest!” The tat old gentlemau looked from one to t) e other in utter bewilderment, and the two friends could stand it no long r. “Hal ha I ha!" roared Ras, leaning back in his chair and shaking all over with laughter. “He! he! he! ho! ho! ho!” gasp ed Charley, holding his sides in ecsta ciei of delight The fat old gentleman grew visibly nervous, and broke into a profuse per spiration. What with the strange con duct of the young men, their mysteri ous illusions to c immissions de lunati co and pop-corn, and the thought that be was up five flights of stairs, and very fat, aid so completely at their mercy, his tenor grew ludicrously evident, j “P r G id’s sake !”—be began. “Haifa! ha I” shouted Kes, with r doubled vigor, and alunst beside bim i s -If with laughter. ! “ITo, dear! Oh, Lord ! Oh, Lord," \ join and in Charley ; ha! La! ha! Oh, ] Led ! Oh, Lord!” The fst old g> nt'cmsn grew preter ! naturally calm. lie evidently to ught ■ dial he was in tho power <f a couple of ni dmrn, and determined, after a hasty I prayer, .o ..wait devcl , poinent<». 1 The two fiiotids, left to themselves, I soon exhausted ti.o r mirth, aud in a j few minu'e Charley left, j The old gcnfl-man wi'h a fearful 1 [glance around him, immediately made a : msh for the door. “Stop ! sL-p !” cried Ra=, in alarm at the pro- poet of 1 > ing a client and jtfce prospective five dollars. 'I ha old gentleman bethought him— I self ih .t he was very fat, while the ! young man was siitn,nr,d he gave it up iin despair. Ob ! Low he longed f r his a h etij youth ! Just as ho strpped, btiwever, Ras hurst out laughing sixain, and it was not until hr prroeived the fat old gentle man was s ealthily trying to flank him that he could compose bis countenance. “My di ar sir, pray take a seat.” The fat old gentleman looked dubi ously at B dmoro and then at the chair, and hesitated. “Well, the fact is,” he said, “I was rather—that i: —” “Oh, my deer sii! never mind about that. A mere joke, I assure you, ai thovgh it is one for which I must offer yoi a thousand apolegies.' Ris lud a pleasant reassuring way with him, and the fat old gentleaian, be ginning to be reassured took a chair. “You needn’t sit so far away, Sir. ‘Hs! HJ ha!’ and off he flew again in another uneotrehit le fit of laughter. The fat old gentleman began to edge away, with some misgivings. Ris iook ed at him again with swimingeyes and aching sides, ands It very much in clined to laugh, but this time he did not After some more ap>ologie«, and an other laugh or two, the fi»t old gentle man stated uis business It timed out the fat old man’s name was Burgess; that he was very rich, an) lived on Twenty-fourth street) that his own lawyer had recently lied, and that wanting some little advice on a tenant question, he had seen lias’s name on the doorway below, and had come up to Hub’s room accordingly. He was quite a jolly old man, and before he Went away was quite capti vated with the young lawyer. Tne business, however, could not be settled in one day, and lias toll the old fat gentleman that he neeu not trouble himself to come down town agaifi, but that if Mr. Burgess woul l give him his address, he (lias) would oall upon him. This Mr. Burgess did and having confidentially placed a 810 dollar bill in Has’ hand, was with great solicitude, shown to the door by that delighted practitioner, Ten minut s after, B< lmore end Wrax all ware dining togother at Orcok k, Fox’s, the former having munificently buried the past, and nobly loaaad bis frfcsJ! a $5 bill. —* It is my impression that Has di la’* study law any more that day. I may be mistaken, but 1 certainly thought I caught a glimpse of him i.i tuo parquet fit Nibln’* in the ewiiirg The next day, howiter, Rax Was in his usual Condi tier,—“dead br lie.” It yet wanted three days of Saturday, when tin 85 was to be returned, and its return evt n then was extrim dy prob lematical. R's began to cast about him for moans of'fi'ling up’ the interim At bout 3 o'clock a letter came ad dressed, in a 1.-dy’s hand, to Erastus 11 lmore, E q., Dark Row N. Y.’ lb s wondered who it possibly cruld come from. lle at that moment had no lady friends who were likely to write to him. There had been, certainly, a young la dy ever in Jersey City whom he used to visit., on such days of the week as he could sport a clean collar and get his hair curled, but she—ah ! I will drop the curtain over that mrlencholly epi sode. Suffice it that the other day he heard from a confidential source that Blower, the butcher of Jersoy City, was in the habit of beating his wife, and he didn’t feel very sorry after all. So, after pondering for some time, a bright thought struck him. Asa last resort he would open it.! There’s a ehanco for a sensation ! The fratitie eagerness to open the letter, the sudden start, the wild glaring of the eye, the demoniac laughter, and the ter rible thrusting hack of the hair over the heated forehead 1 Miss Bad ’un would doit; why shouldn’t I ? Well, the fact is, all this din’t oecur. Ris opened the letter very coolly, and read, in ft very pretty Italian hand writing, ss f .Hows : “West 24th Street, Aug. 18. 18G6. Mr and Mis. Burgess present their compliments to Mr. Belmore, and beg the favor of his company to dinner on Thursday evening.’ That was ill. ’Dear mo,’ thougt Ras, ‘that’s very strango. He was a very fat old gentle man, and unless he has a very young wife, he must have a very pretty daugh ter.’ The more he thought of it the more he was convinced of it, and so he de teimined to go at all hazards. But his clothes ? They were dreadfully seedy. The coat Lad been ‘revived’ by an ingenu ous process so <f en that it was doubt ful whether it would look well again His boots were in such a stale that thty would not bear trifling with, and his pantaloons were singularly frayed about toe rdgas. He set to work at onco, however, to “rejuvenate” them, as ho had d.nc on an emergency often btf re. The coat call and loudly f r attention. So, taking it off, he sots about inking the scams, and giving it generally an extra polish. Then the pantlo ms, the fiayrd edges of which he cut rff with the sei-ors. ‘There,’ he s-i 1, having revived thus.- garments.’ ‘I think thay will pass mus t.r by gaslight. Bit the bo its were the worst. J]y wearing his pan;loons very low be could conceal the dilapidated state of the beds, but cn the right baot, just at tbo side, there whs an unßiisUkablo tisrere, xbieh show,d the stocking beneath. This was a prtzler ; lias had tried ihe inking pr ei ss before,bat bud been horr fi and to find th t tbo exertion <1 waltfng made the st'-ekiog shift from it« orgiml {Lee, and ihus be had spoil ed I is hose and di-played it too. ‘l’ve got. it,’ be said, at last. ‘lts beautiful weather, but I'll just get a dab of mud, and put if on the si le of the boot. Its better than ink, and a deal more natural. At this moment Charley Wraxall came running up stairs, and into tie room with his usual velocity. •Ilello, Ras! Been reviving them again? was his first exclamation, accompanied by a hearty laugh ‘Mr. Wraxall,’ answered Ras, wi h sudden hauteur, and swelling with tho secret km wlcdge of tho invitation. Mr. Wraxall, I fail to understand you.’ ‘lla 1 ha ! ha !’ ‘ln what sense am I to interpret that rediculous exclamation, Sir ?’ ‘Any sense you please, if you have any loft,’ rej ioed Mr. Wraxall. ‘Sir 1’ ‘Well, you’ro nit in the best of tem per to-day, Ras, so i’ll leave you (id fellow, 'i ake care of the coat, and the pant- will take care ot themselves. ‘ln ta 1’ shaking his hand. ‘Ta, ta 1 indeed,* said Ras, in a rage ‘Ho’ll catch a Tar tar if he dnnt rniud. You see I am not responsiple for hts jokes, and besides, be was in such a bad humor. Ras wee up with unatOJt-t lined alac rity on the next morning, and dressed with cinsidcrable care. Ho was now firmly conv nced there was a daughter in the case, and was pondering whether, if there was not, an action would ‘lie’ for obtaining a l.gal visit uuder false pre tenses. Which it certainly would. In the afternoon of that day, at about 6 o’clock, two horses might have been seen, drawing a neat 10. king cabriolet borrowed up Twenty.fourth street. From that cabriolet, at the door of a large house, deccndcd a Joung man of prepossesing appearance, who, bavi g whimpered something mysterious to the driver— ‘Now drive off, and kick up an infer nal row, so as to attract their atbn tion”--walked up to the door and rang the bell. R»s was shown into a hansomely fur nished drawing renm, where Mr. Bur gess was waiting to receive him. There was a good-humored twinkle in the fat old geoleman’s eye, and an honest pres sure in the fat old, man’s hand which quite put Bu at ease. Presently Mr. Burgess—if it is not ' TVo. f*. scan datum magnntum to say so—also a rather fat old lady, and Recorded him a most gracious reception. Half nn hour passed in pleasant chit chat, aud Has was beginning to despair of there being a danghter in the case; when the door suddenly opened, and Miss Burgess ap peared . ‘Good heavens !’ thouffbt Ras ; ‘what a lov. ly girl I‘ He didn’t say go, however, but bow ed with emprCssement. Miss Burgess was of medium height, and a blonde. Her hair was of a beau tiful liqmd color, somewhat rssembl’ng thut very fine sherry which the fat old gentleman keeps in his cellar. Her comp’exion was of that mix n d whi'e and red—the purest type of womanly beau ty, wliiob poets have to long depietod in song, and her hands delicately white. She was dressed completely in white, the day being warm, and on her right hand repos and a handsome bracelet, which served to sLow the cl gant -teurnure of her wrist. I don’t worder, for my part, that Ras fell ever head and ears in love w th h r on that spot she was so aroh, and vet so simple : so rtetiiiy spoken, and, withal, so reserved ; in fact, Miss Bur gess was a beautiful young lady. Rat soon foand himself in a conver sation with the mother and daughter, while the fat old gentleman occasional ly put in a word of commendation or acquiescence. The fit old gentleman was not a fat old gentleman ot any great conversational powers. , “Well,, my dear,” said Mrs. Burgess looting at h f watch ; ‘I think we will* not wait for Charley. H’s always be hind time when he comes.’ ‘AI ce,’ thought Has what a sweetly pretty name! •‘Charley,’ troubled him through ; he didn’t like the idea of there being a Charley in the case. Perhaps it was only her brother ? At any rate, Mr. Bslm -re gave Alice Burgess Lis arm, and the fat old gentle man escorted Mrs. Burgess and the four went in to dinner. They were scarcely seated when a ring at the door was heard, aud a moment after a man’s footsteps were heard en tering the dinitag room. “Ha ! you are here at last!’ said the fat old gentleman. ‘Always late,’ said Mrs. Burgess. Alice did not §nj anything, but smil ed, “Well,l rvil’y was detained by bu siness to day ’ R s started like a racket. Good heav ens! It was Charley Wraxall ! He felt himself turning very red, but of eoutse he did not speak. That scat left for Charley was imme diately opposite his, aud as lie came to the table he bowed very coolly to Mr. Belmoce, as though he was a perfect stranger. ‘Oeunfound his impudence,’ muttered Ras to himself. The dinri r pasted rff pleasantly enough, o herwise • the fat old gentle man iv s in high go and humor • and the fat old lady seem and to enjoy something or (thor nni’ zmgly, while more tuan no R ■ OiUght ttejbright tyoa of Mis Alice fixed with a protokingly comical ex;rnsi >n upon him. Wi en itinner was conc’ud and, R hastily walk, and r und to Miss Burgess to i (lor her his arm, but Char! y was bes re him, and 11 s lad to couteut himself with 18 pounds, avoirdupois, of mate rial affection. When they arrive! ia the drawing room, the gas wa, lighted, and Ras felt very dubious about the looks of bis o-vat but the fa' oil gentleman relieved him by calling him to a corner of the room, and asking bis opinion ou a letter he had that day received on the tenflut bu siness; Happening to 1 »ok u->, however, Ris actually diseoverel Miss Alice in the very act of laugl ing at him, while Charley was evidently giving her a de verting account of the coat, &c. “This is outrageous !’ be c.ied in a past-i n ; and, walking up to Charley, he immediately demanded an explana tion. ‘Ha ! ha ! ha !’ laughed Charley. Ras wan'g m[i xplanation ! 11a ! ha ! ha I Somehow, everybody seemed to he vastly fiekeled with such an idee,much to Ras’s indignation. As for the fat old gentlemen, be in augurated such a scries of ucc'Uca chuckles, that Mrs. Burgess had to slap him ou the back to prevent bis choking and Alice was obliged to jn‘ a key down bis back to prevent a risk of blood to the head. It was all a plot—a dastardly diabol ical plo\ Charley was a nephew ol the fit old gentleman’s, and a cousin cl Alice’s(but not her suiter, he being al ready engaged.) The fat old gentle man’s lawyer having lately died, Char- ! ley so earnestly recommended Rag, that Mr Burgess took a special journey down j town to see him, and, finding him a gen-1 tlcmati, despite his poverty and the 1 roughness of their first, meetiDgsoon after entered into terms with him. lias was to be married in the Bpring,' I understand, and be assures me he has quite forgotten the taste of pop-born. A countryman not long ago, on h’s first sight of a locomotive, declared he thought it was the devil on wheels ‘Faith and ye’e worse than myself,’ said an Lbbnian bystander, ‘for the first time that I ever saw the creathur, I thought it was a steamboat hunting for wather.’ Don’t think to get ri 1 of tbo blue devils by getting blue yourself. The winter of the year comes to us every twelvemonths—the winter of life but onee. Iteiiii uiber the Poor. Remember the poor ! It tear fully snoweth, And Utterly Liovreth ; Thou eoitldftt not endure The‘empest’a will power Through night’s dreary hour : Then pitj the poor ! Ri member the poor! The father is ljlirjf In that hovel, dying With sickness ol heart; No voice cheers his dwelling, Os Jesus’love telling, Ere life shall deptr'. Rrniomher the poor! The widow is eighing The orphans are cryiup, Half starving for bread; With eagerness spe.'d ye To unpcor the needy ; Their helper is dead. Remember the poor! The biby is slipping. Is cheeks wet with weeping On its mother’s hreaet; Whose cough, deep and hollow* Foretells she'll soon follow Her husband to lestl Remember the poor ! ‘ To him who aid lendotb, Whatever he spendeth The Lord will repft' - , And sweet thoughts shall cbe«r him, And God’s love be near him Iu his dying day t " iTTf ii. WBITTKS DT JOHN n. SURRATT IS A JMSO'M ALBUM. My youthful tears have all been abed, Those April drops which flow Like springVts from the mountain’s head And in the sunshine glow. The tears of youth have ceased to gush, Like nectar from mine eye*. And bitter ones instead I brush Away with sad surprise. The currents of my life grow deep, As down the stream I float, And all its torrents widely sweep* Around my fragile boat: Like some fair bird that wings its flight Far up the azure sky, My spirit soars with loud delight, More glowii g lights to try. Then round mv soul are quickly throwii Clouds black with sorrow’s gloom, And suddenly the winds do moan Around some loved o’ e s tomb. My heart is draped in darkest night* Mv little birk is tossed, Till in my faithlessness sod fright I cry, “I sink ! I’m lost 1” Ghost at Arlington.— The residence of Rabt. E L- e has 16,000 white soldieis burn and on one side, and the bodies of 1,600 negro soldies on the other. The negroes win live in that, v>- cinity frighten their children by telling them the most f.ightful ghost stones abmr there and • and bodies. They say that, every night at midnight, (he ghost et hez3 1,000 negro soldiers rise from their graves, ami dance a ' irginia break down on the graves of tl eir 1,600 white comrades, and thatt.be ghosts of the lat ter, thus unciremonioasly disturbed, arise likewise, and attack tbo black gl.orts, that the fight then rages between the bLck and wl ito ghost till 1 A. ■ M when the black ghost prevail (one black ghost being more than a match for ten white ones, aud drive the wbi’e ghosts I owliug to their sepulchers ; when they finish th«i break down, unlthcn vanish in their own graves, Bitovf.rßS or Josh Biu.inus. '‘H'd' min nalur is thesame .all over the world, ‘('.opt in New Kirg'aud and thcr it ii ac cording to ssr 'um-tuners. 4 4 ‘ Rum is good in its place, and hel. ifi the place for it.“ “If I had a bry w'n 1 d.dn't lie qure Well i niff to sui( me, I would set. him to t reding a retail dry goods st re.“ “When a fellow tr"s a goin down hill, it du* seem as thu’ everything hud been greased f>r the ok as uun. ‘He who kan were n shurt volhe wetk an 1 keep it klc-aii, ain’t fit for en nything else.’ ‘I never knu a foi l who hadu t c good voice.’ ‘There z n ul’iMides of people fcbo means \v 11 eruff, but how like the devil they act.’ A barkrupt returning home one night said to his noble wife— ‘My deer, lam rni' ed, everything we have is in the hands of the sheriff. Af er r few moments of silence, the Wife looked calmly into his face and said,— ‘Will the Sheriff sell you ?’ ‘Oh, no!’ ‘Will the Sheriff sell me ? ‘Oh, no! ‘Will the Sheriff sell cur children? ‘Oh ! no!’ ‘Then do not say we have lost every thing All that is most valuable re mains to us, manhood, womanhood, and childhood. We have lost but the result of our skill and industry. We can make another f rtuno if our hearts and Lands are left us.’ Sly native city has treated me badly,’ said a drunken vagabond, but I love her ’still.' ‘Probablyreplied a gentleman, ‘her still is all you do love.’ A man lately enquired for letters at a country post ffic 1 , and was told there was none ; upon which he asked if there was not another postoffiee in the plaoe. The Chicago sculptor Volk has gone to lowa t.o investigate the reported difr* covery of marble. There is a man in tho moon, and a mau aud a woman iu the honeymoon. Lawyer*’ mouths, like turnpiks gates, open for pay. The young lady who was driven tg distraction, had to walk baekj