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Among the scores of dauntle&B nnd intrepid spirits called fourth by the perilous times of of the early settlements in the West, that of Wiliam Kenuan stands prominent Though, perhaps, uot so generally kn wd at this day as Ken ton, Booue, aud the Whetzel brothers, yet the exploits performed by him arc iulerior in m respect to the mot-t oele* brated coca of the latter. Oo St. Clair’s unfortunate expedition against tho Wtstern Indians, William Kennan, the hero of our sketch, accom panied the army. Like his brother Ken tan, he was di gust id aidohaguned a’ the delay ot the commanding general, and iike a ranger, he did not scruple to express his feelings. “The idea of crawling through the woods like this —plodding along so as to give tbe vartni its all the time they want to get ready 1 We’ll catch it be fore long, my word for it,” Still he was under ofdcrs of his su periors, and he did not consider that the right of desertion belonged to him, no matter how palpable the blunders of his geueal might be. KeDoan wa, noted throughout the army for his activity and fleetness. During the march he had frequent op portunities ofdispalying his skill in this direction, and it was universally conced ed that he was, by all odds, the swiftest run Der in the army. More than one trial of skill took place, and on no occa sion did he fait to distance all competi tors with the greatest ease. On the evening preceding tho action his corps was advanced in front of tbe first lioe of the infantry, their duty be iog to watch tho Indians and give sea sonable warning of their approach. He maintained this position all through the night, so close to the savages that in spite ol thier stealth and caution, be detected their presence and movements. Still, as they did not attempt to advance he did not deem it best to alarm the camp, although he admonished his com panions that their pet il was imminent, and au assault might be made at uuy noitii. nfc. Tho night wore gradually away, and as the day dawm-d he caught sight of his enemies. The second glimrse show ed about thirty Indians, within a bund red yrrds of of the guard-fire, advanc ing steadily toward the spot where he stood, in company with about twenty ptbrr rangeis, the rest being cotititera bly in the rear. Here was an accasion which the ran ger could not allow to pass unimproved, lie believed that they were members i 1 a party, or were rather a small party, de'auhed from the main body, seeking acoll.sion with lis own band. The' disparity of numbers was notgteat, and he coueluded at once that a “brush” was to take piece between the two. Instead of Kennan sprung forward several yards, so as to secure the the shelter of a spot if peculiarly i tank grass, Here he di.-charged his gun at the f icnoit «avngo t and dop ped ti.t upon Lis face iu order to re load. D Diver occuir dto the ranger that bi-c ms anions would refuse to s’and tint - ground, and, consequently, he did uot look behind him to see what they were anding; but, as it proved, the In dians poured forward ia such over w helming numbe s the men th ught it the part of discretion* to ttvoid an cl ccuuter, and they accordingly turned and ran. Still young Kennan was in total igno ranee of tLiir fight, and he would assur edly have been slain had not tbe cap tan Cf the company observed the di lemma in which he had unconciously placed himself. This latter, as he turned to flee, shouted : ‘Run, KeunaD, or you are a dead man P The ranger instantly sprang to Lis feet, and beheld the ludians within fiive yards of him, while the nearest member of bis compnny was several hundred feet away, and speeding for dear life. Ee was tb*s placed between two fires so close to the enemies that a si ‘gle b mnd , f_ n i of them would hive trough the two into collision bal he wai'ed a single second longer Rut ho did not hesitate the second. Making one tremendous leap, lie sprang toward his companions, while a dozen Indians, with exultant, yells, fol lowed hard after him. Now was the chance to display his fleetness ; now was the time to show his activity ; here was an opportunity for a test of skill, for his li’e depended upon his success. It nnd not be said that Kennan did h : s u mist. He exerted nis strengh as; he had never done before, and ran as does the frightened antelope when pur sued by the huDters. Over brush and fallen trees and stones he went with the spe j d of the wind, while close behind him, with blandished tomahawks, came tho wl ole yelling pack. Some of tho meet extraordiry runners in tbe world are found among the Amur ic<d Indians. Brought up from intan— o? to the chase, their h ghost ambiTn being to excel as a warrior and a hutttei —lithe and muscu ar—it could not be otherwise tbao that they should attaiau great pci fiction in this particular. Kennan was not long m fioding that he had worthy oompetors, nor were the savages long in discovering that they were in pursuit of no ordinary charac ter, and very likely that was the reason why they redoubled th-ir exertions. It was no child’s play, and Kennan never for a second forgot that the stake for which he wrs running was his life. He sped straight toward the ford ol the stream which lay between him and the army , but as he did so, numerous In dians sprang up in front af him, contin ually diverting his course, until, seeing that unless he was careful be woulld find himself inextricably entangled DAWSON, GA., FRIDAA, APRIL 13, 1807. among bis foes, ho made a sharp turn to the right, in tho hope of throwing all behind him. In this he succeeded, but by uo means placed himself beyond danger. Indians sprung lip in every diriction, as if cast up by the very earth. At any moment they could have brought him down by means of a shot from their guns but they evidently thought him a prize anil considered him sure to be captured, they bent all their est trts at doing so. K'-noan saw that his great speed was throwing him in advance ot all bis foes, with the exception of a single Indian, who showed the same marvelous swift ness and perseverance as himself to the best tension, Kenoan could not increaso nor, on tbe other hand, cculd the sav age diminish it. The astonishing velocity of these two soon threw the others out of the ring, and the contest became one of speed be tween the two. As the o her pursuers drew off they were left alone, and each threw his whole soul in tho iff rt. Aa tho Indian ran he held his toma hawk aloft, ready to hurl it so soon as he should think best, and the fugative kept continually glancing back, so as to be ready to dodge the dreaded missile. Finding at leDgth that they wore removed so far frm the others that there was a chance of settling the matter without fear of disturbance, Kennan concluded to give his adversay a taste of his met.t'e. Accordingly he slackened his pace and reached down to draw his knife, to his astonishment it was gone. He was without a weapon of any kind ! Kennan’s hair fairly rose on end when he made this staitling discoveiy, and he saw that his only chance lay in distancing his pursuer. The cessation of speed ceased by his feeling fir his knife lessened the distance between the two, and the Indian was almost on Lint but the sudden shock of the discovery gave such an impetus to his flight that he bounded forward with sti’l greater speed opening tbe space a ya*d or more. It aga n settled into a dead run, lut the rang r bad the duty of watching he action of his pursuer that he might be prepared for tbe tomahawk when it should be sent whizzing after him. In this manner he followed tbe fashion of the renowned Capt. John Smith, who paid more heed to his pursuers than be did to Lis footsteps And it thushappenel that all at once he 1 und himself in front of a large tree wlLch had been blown down, and upon wh en brush and other impediments wi re Leaped to a height of some'eigbt i or ten feet. The Indian, who had heretofore mantained the giim silenaeof inevita- I ble fate, now gave uterance to several j sharp yells for he wav sure of his vio- Itim. A turn to the r'ght i r left would i proiipitate a collision, while the obstruc ! tion iu ft out, was too great for anV liv ! iog man to think of cl ar ng. Kennan did not think he could do it, but there was no escaping tie tiial i Summoning all that vest reserve of , strength which we sometimes find at our jcomm. ndin the moment of dire pcr.l, j he bounded into the air, and clearing ! trunk, roots, limbs and aligkt [ed in perfiot safty on the otbtr iide. A shout ts auriEemcut burst front ; thu wbi 11 b&Ld of pursuers, . who bad wi uesse'd the astnni.-hing feat, and not one t f them attempted to repeat ic. Ketinrn had achieved a great feat but he was given little opportunity to enjoy Lis triutnph. Runt.iug dowu the high bank of the creek, he hurtiedly ascendtd i', until he reached a shallow portion, when he plungod in and dashed acrosi. Taking a circuitous route, he reached tbe camp, panting and exhaust ed, for his remarkable race, by means of doublings and turnings to which he bad been compelled to resort, bed ex tended about a quarter of a mile. He Lad hardly reached camp, when tbe uLarp c ack of musketry and the shouts ot the Indians acuoneed the com mencement of battle. In a few min ute? it rrged along the line, and contin ued wiih unahating fury fer over three hours. When defeat was insured and St. Glair ordered a retreat, Kennan fund himself attached to Major Clark’s bat talion, to which was assigned the dan gerous duty of protreing the rear of the fl cing army. The reteat had hard- Iv begun, when M»j'r Claik was rec ognized by several Indians, who riddled him with bal's. His fall became in stantly known to the whole ba’talion, and a panic was the re ult. They whose duty it was to remaiu calm and unmov ed duting the dreadful tumult, became crazy with fear, and each man turned to shift for himself. The natural result followed. The ex ulting ludians dashed in among them, and raged without cposiiion. There wire individual acts of heroism, Lut they could avail nothing und.r the cir cumstances. Tbe savages were a com pact and ovirwhelmir.g mass, led by the renowned Lit'le Turtle, and they main tained their organization intact, and fol lowed up their assault with such amsz iug fen city, that the 9flVighicd Ameri cans had uo time to rec ver fiora their surprise. An tflieir bad hardly to draw Lis sworl above bis bead and give the rallying word, when the Indiau sharp-shooters descried hi n, and pierc ed Lim through and through with their bullet?. The men having bad ibcii at tention drawn to their leaders, and then seeing ;hem shot down, were hopelessly stricken with panic, beyond all possi bility of saving. As we have already remarked, the jetreat turned into a rout, and tbe rout very speedily beoarao a general massacre. When tbe mas.-acre began, and every maD saw that under heaven, Lis only ■ chance of safety lay in bis individual ' prowess, Kennan found himself in the j rear of bis battalion, directly in tbe midst of danger. He saw his only chance lay in bis flectness, aud ho again resorted to flight. In a few min utes he placed Li es If at :bc hea 1 of the battalion, his great speed enabling him to pass several horsemen iu his tfight. He was running along iu this man ner, when he heard his name called, and turning his head, saw an intimate friend lying upon the ground badly wounded. ‘What is tbe matter be asked,’ paus ing a momeut. ‘Why and Jii,t you get up and run ?’ ‘Oh, Keunan, my thigh is broken,and I eaunot stand ! Do not leave me here to be butchered.’ ‘What can I do V ‘Take me on your baok, and (ben you can outrun any of us.’ ‘Well, I will do the best I can.’ He helped the poor fellow up, aud throwing Lis arms around bis neck, ho started off again. Unt wtunatcly it happened at this juncture that .be pur suit, from some cause „i other, rcoeived an ext a rd'lnary impetus, aud K tit aq found biutseif putsued by ba'f i-d z n inliaus, who had situ;led him out as their special prey. NotwiiUtanningi.il this, Kennan rau 8 \oral h jndred yards with bis burden, wl on bes und be had undertaken an imp ..-siblo task. His foes’was gaining steadily upon him, and tbe matter resolved itscTi into the simple question, whether ho should let his friend go aul s. ve himself, or perish with him? Under any circum stances the wounded so'dier was doomed and Keunan therefore told bim tc un - loose his grasp unon l i n, that he might have a chance of saving himself ; but ths maD, with the iustict of self-pr.ser vation,-cling only the more tenaciously. Kenuan again besought him to let go, hut be held ou more convul-.iv.ly than ever, until tbe Lun'cr, tiuding bis peril increasing each moment, drov Lis knife and cut bis finger. The poor fillow rolled Le.’p’.es->lyJto the ground, and was tomahawkid ere Kennan b:.d gone th-rty yards. The latter relnved of bis burden, darted ahead with renew id velocity, aud soon again placed Lin • 8 If in the van. Some distance further on Kennan saw a subaltern, rale and exhausted, sitling upon a log and calmly awaiting the ap proach of death. Gur hero hasti’y ac costed him and irquired the cause of his delay. He pointed to a wouud which wis bleeding profusely, and rep lied that he was unable to walk furthtr and bad ni horse. Kennan instantly darted off to a spot where he stw a horse grazing, caught him without difficulty, and assisted his friend upon bim. lie then ran beside him until he was beyond all and. nger.— Shortly after tbe Indians withdrew to devote themselves to the plunder of the camp, and the two effected their escape, but Kennan never recovered from the terrible exertioos be was c moelled to use upon this occss’ou. The effect! last ed until the day of his death. The young nt m saved through Ken nan’s kitfdncsH, elterwards became goi enor Malison, of Kentucky. Never did he forget his friend in need, and when opposed, with cares of tsta'e, ho was glad to take tho honest old hunter by the hand, and give him aright warm wolcomc to his house and fireside. sat Lcrcngootl wu Mu; Puritan Yankee. Powerful ot:ary stock, George, pow erful onary. Tbe rale pure, Puritan Yankee ba by has a naik like a gourd, a foot like a g’ut, ar a belly like a mikLw's drum bead lie gits his eyes open at five days, while other purps Lev to wate nine days, and be.'ore that time be learns to listen ova nite for his mam’s snorin’when he steals in tu suek in tbe sly, not that he’s hungry, for bo's got the usual mess of biied starch, but because stolen milk is sweet even .bis early, to the blue, bline scrawny young traprnaker. He has cheated bis main, without eyes, so 1 guess he'll make an average Yankee, sble to keep up.the family name, and perhaps invent a cod hook or a clothes pin. From tha' nite on, the varmint’s whole life is a string of cheats—strait along, never restin,’ never missin,’ ontil the clock wore out and broke. As the ding vom'ts, as the mir.k sucks blood, us the snail slimes, as the jossnm shuns death, so does the Yankee cheat, “for every var mint has his gif.” He believes in schools and colleges us a barber does in strops and hones, as bein’ good tu sharpen razors on He’ft sing jtitus and pray prayers for you, and may he gtv a dime; but cf you di u’t 6oon flr.e yourstlf set beck five miles on yer road tu heaven, and j ninety cents loser by his zeal and char ity, you may shut my eyes out with , cow-slop, and I won t even 6ay phew l ll:s long, cold, flat back is tho color uv a mulutter gal’s head, ji t after hits been close shaved, and hits stucK ail I over from the scrag to the tail, wif his sins l.ke revenoo stamps on a law suit, an’ef you’d examine ’em close you will find a cheat of some sort in tho last darn one. If he sins among the shes, there’s a cheat either in money or expectashuns. If he sins a cussit,’ that’- a cheat in the words, he’d try to smuggle in G—d d—n under where in sham of “guul darn.” It ho sins a stealin chi ikens, he’ll sted back at daybreak an’ crow jist to make the ole devil think hi a cock is still on tho roost. II he sellsyou tin apple sot a cent, arter smellin the copper, he’ll try to si p a peach onto you, tven if it’s ov the Sdine price, jist for the sake ot sticker, a cheat into the trade. He scalds his leather tnout dippin’ it into your soup, he’ll offer a wooden nut meg for enough of the skimmins to grease the burn. He’ll eat a codfish und try to cheat himself into believing it’s beef, and he’ll listen to the chirpin’ if the cricket hi hi? fit e jam, and tell his children hit says “chout, cheat', cheat.” His big limber foot is n cheat for its shape and size makes you think hit must have guts in it, when hit ain’t got one. If you cut his throat, you’ll find a cheat, for instead of wnrm red blood a stream of sky bluo will run, so cold thut it’ll freeze tho Lluck ants wh.it git i.vertmked by tho phlad, anil when the devil gits Lim he’ll be cheat ed, for he won’t burn as good as eult jed raw hide. What he wore ever undo for is a pesterin’ me, unless it i war to maik us Lev a better opinion of polecats, possums and cotton mouths or as livin surnpils tu skeer us out uv the road to hell I reckon hit wou’d be a tolerable safe rule to do nuthiii tho Yankees doe-t, and do most any thing what ho lets alone. I kin sorter bare ‘he idee ov my be in’ a nateral horned darn and fool, the ; surly busbies., si ter Sal’s onlawful b ihy. evryth'ng, ev n the las’ war of , nun). St. veils—but for the life ov ine 1 1 cun t rbkonstrufct myself on tho ideer :ov the Mayflower. What cud our Maker bo thinkin that ho forgot to lay ' the fingers on her rotion snout, and turn her down its the solt sea, wif her pestiferous load of caution cheats an moral diseases The wus thut cud hap pern'll wud a bin the pisening ova shoal or two ov sharks and ktllin the cord where tho ole tub lay. 1 m mnil at the i' jins, too, for they did not doo thar do.ity to ’em arter they did bin. Es they’d circumcised the-hel ov the last darn’d one, burnt that- dose, packed thar carcusses head an’ tails, berrin fashion in the ole ship, sat the sails and pluted her snout, the wa Ward's ilucks went, hey’d deserv ed terbaeker and whiskey, wile woods grow or wat r runs Hpose they’d a strung three hundred nnd one scalps oil a w illow switch for buit and went a mackerul fi.-Lin. We’d have no mack rn! now, 1 reckon, but a general blcssin it wild a bin to the whole yearth —the is’es of the sea-witchers aul aggers Wouldn’t them injens had a savory smell in iny snout, in spite of their grubw'orm odor, and wouldn’t I rise of a midnight, or any other night, to call ’em blessed, in spite of their roastin my gran daddy. No wooden locks, horn and gun fllir.ts, nure lie r law ; no Millerism, Mormon ism, nor free In ve. No abolitionism, spirit lupins, rtur crowin liens. No Bloomer, but briehes I mean to say ; no Greeley, no Sumner. Un !my gra shits; hits too good to think about.— Durn them thar leather injins; they, let the best chance si p ever injiqs had to give e verlaslin comfort to a continent, and to sat hell back at least five hun dred years. I’so powerful afeard I hint reconitructed on the inj n question either. George, pass the jug, the g lbject ja overpowering me, and I ain’t quite un buzumoii myself yet. Thai’s powerful re whin whiskey of yourn Well, everything the Yankey does arn a cheat in some waj. ’The word cheat covers his whole character as perfectly an comp.utely as an young tumble bug, and like tho bug he loves on hit, rolls hit, and at last he’s buried in it. Thar may be a iron coffin and silver tassels, tlmr may bja grave s one from Italy, the side ol his lace may be cut iDto rock, ands uck agin the wall in his church, and they may call their truttin’ horses, cod boats and blue babies atter turn, yet still un der that black v e ’vet kiverlid, nnd in side ..hat iron eofiin, atwixt the fine linin, and that shriviled hide ov his’n s that bu'l ov dirt. He couldn’t live wi hout hit, and lie inu'd never bo without it unt 1 the Sheriff Angel ut the door of the last supreme court shells him outen it with a kick afore he slings’m naked into the |ri oner’s box whar lrom his fits', squall, and the coa'rl nirsmmt, up to that orlul kickiri out on judgment and y, he’ll stun 1 only on his rale merits—a Yankee wif a window in his breast, like one of his own hemlock clocks, showing all of his inside, springs, traps and triggeis Then we’ll rea ly see for the fti t time what he is, and |>erhaps we ll find ou . what he was made for, if he war made at all, or on'y jist happened like rtal Simps'ill's baby did. Now wo jist know that he is a cu?3 to the yoarth, an’ a pest to every woman on hit like fleas and lice, and war made as a cuss and kept n'ive as a cuss. Then ve’ll know it all, l>ut whether it will pay them to know it is mightily mixed wil he doubts. Sayings of Josh Billings-—Com mon sense iz most ginernily dtspized ed by those wbo ain’t got it. If I waz asked wliieu wnz the brrt way in tbeze daze of temptaslmn tu bring up u boy, I snould say—bring bim up the back way. It don’t require any edukasiun tu te’l the truth, but tu tell lizo it duz We are told an nonest man iz the noblest work of God—but the demand for the work has besm so limited that i have thought a largo share oi the fust edition must be still in the author's hands Men don’t seem never tu git tired cf talking about themsulfs, but i have heard them when i th; ught they show edssfi f ns of wejkness. Ruin folks are olwa/. tricing to see thru a m Istun edgeways, when, ts they vottld only turn : t over on the flat side, '.hey cc t]li look rite thru the hole. Buty is like a ranebow—full ov prom ise Lut short-lived. It ain't best to swap with your rc lushnns, unless yu kau afford to give them the but end ov ihe trade. Among the blu lots of Konneticut (w'n : sh tire cbiulute.) are this: “No man shall ebaw terbuker on Sunday, unless he swallers the spit.” ‘‘Give me Ifberfy Or give n.e deth" —but of tbe “ i jitef r tho libe-ty. No. 10. A Pbkaciier IK a Fix —Few per 83us, unaccustomed to publio speaking, can have any idea of the embarrassment which overtaket one who is unfortunate iu lacking an important word, or be comos conscious that ho has made a grave error in pronunciation, in the bight of his discourse Words ore such treacherous thing' that they will not al ways come “right side up with care hut,on tho contrary, whon tho spoaker’s fancy is pluming i's'lf for a lofty flight, a necessary word will sitnelimos present its»lf hods upward?, and before the rop’d speaker can place it on its feet ho finds himself floundering upon all fours, h'elinsr very ridiculous, and locking suf fijiently silly. Tho Kev. Mr. Turnip was a peculiar man in his address. A voice stgdlarly sharp, ami a delivery awkward to clown ishness, unhappily marred the effects of discourses were really superior in their composition. On ono occasion he was referring to the Bibliotd inoident of the sale of Esau’s birthright The illustra tion was a happy one, and the quid pro quo of the fainting hunter was intended by the speaker to rrce v? particular em phasis Coming to the point with great fervor, he exclaimed: “Artti Esau, hun gry and worn, bartered these inestima ble privileges—and for what ? Duly a pot oj message /*’ Consaiou? of a mis take, and seeing on the faces ol his aud ience something akin to a smile, ho raised himself on tiptoe, and vociferated: “Yes ! he sold these divinely guaranteed promises for a moss of pottage /” Tho smilo deepened, and the preacher red dened ; but, still determined to right himself he threw over his congregation a glance somowhat defiant, and in a still more emphatic manner, with extended hand describing a curve of solemn dig nity. from the zenith to the nadir, shriek ed forth: “Is ty, brethren, that all these blessings were bartered away for an insignificant pass of mettage ! * Hu man nature could con'ain no longer : The audience lautphed, and tho preacher subsided in despair.— Scott's Monthly, No Mother !—Sho has no mother! What a volume of sorrowful truth is \ comprised in that single sentence—no mother ! We must go down the bard rough paths of life, and become mured to care and sorrow in their sternest form?, before we can take home to our own ex perience the dread reality—no mother without a struggle and a tear. But when it ib S’id of a frail young girl, just passing from childhood toward the life of a woman, how sad is the story summed up in that one short sentence. Who tow shall cheek the wayward fancios—who now shall hear with the errors and failings cf the motherless girl? Deal gently with the child. Let not the cup of sorrow be overfilled by the harshness of your bearing, or your sym pathizing coldness. Is she In eiless cf her doings? Jh she carders in her movements? ItemunSer, oh, remem ber, “she has do mother I” When her young companions are gay and joyous, docs she &its irrjwiiig ? Dues she Dass with a downcast eye an! lauguil step when you would faiu witness tbe gush ing aud ovetflowing gladness es ycu b? Chide her uot, for she is motherlss, and the great soirow comes down upon her soul like au iDcubus. Can you gain her confidence, cau you win her love?— Come then to the motbcrloss wi'h the boon of your tendercst care, and by tho memory of your owu mother, already perhaps passed away—by tbe fullness of your own remembered sorrows—by the p issibility that yeur own child may b) motherless—contribute ns far as you may, to relieve the loss of that fair, trail child, who is written Motherless. — Ladies' Illustrate, J Journal. Wliat Hope Did. It stole on its j initios to the bed o: dis ease j tho euff'r’s frowu became a smile -Mbc emblem of peace and love. It went to the House of moutoing, and ftom the tips of sorrow there came sweet and cheerful songs. It I.id its head upon the arm of tho p'or which stretc-hcd forth at the com mand of unholy impulse?, and saved him from dbgtace and ruin. It dwilla like a living thing in the bosom of tho mother, wb'se son tarried ling after the prornis and time ol hia com ing, and saved her from desolation and ‘care (hat killed).' It boverel about tho youth, who had bcccrns the Ishmael <fs>c!ety, and led him on to works wLich eveu his ene mies praised. It snatched tho maiden from the jaws of death, ami went with an oil man to Heaven. No tope 1 My good brother I Ilavo it—keep it always wi h you. Wrcstb with it, that it may not depart. It may repay your paius. Life is hard enough at best; but hope shall lead you over its mountain', and sustain you au id its sor rows. Pan wi b all beside, but keep thy Lipe. Two young lawyers —Archy Brown anil Thomas Jones—were fond of drop) ing into Mr. Rinith’s pari ir and spen ding au hour or t«o with his only daughter, Mary. O- e evening, when Brown :.n i Mary had discussed aim >st every topic, Brown suddenly, in h s sweetest tunas, struck out as tullowrs : “Do you think, Maty, y u could leave father and mother, this pleasant home with all is ease and comforts, and go to the far West with a young lawyer, who had little besides bis pro fession to depend upon, an I with h ; nt search out anew home, whiuh it sh uld be your jyjnt duty to beautify ar.d make happy like this?” Dropping her head softiy on his shoulder, she w hispered, ‘ I think I cou'd Archy.” ‘AV >ll,’ sad ho “there is Tom Jones who is going to emigrate, and wants to get a wife; I wi'l mention it lot him,” Fun, Fact and Fancy. How long did Cum hate hit brother f As long as he was Able. How much does a fool generally weigh ? A simple ton. Tbo man who takes things ea«y—tbe expert pickpocket. Why is tho Ivindorpest like a mouse? Because the cat’ll catch it. Looking glasses won’t lie, bat they tel! some awfu' plain truths, now and then. A man may goneral'y expect a da~ tnestic “breeze” when bis wifo b«giui to put on “airs.” John W. Forney has joined tbe Son* of Temperance. Hard on the Rons. An editor heads his list of births— marriages and deaths thus .—Hatched, matched and dispatched. Women guilty of tbe folly of tight lacing, dress to kilt. Fred D mglas? is writing tbe life of old John Browo. \N e havo three hundred female phy sicians iu this country. The Uuitariansof Springfield, Mass., are erieffog a SIOO,OOO ehurch.’ Numerous shinrecks are reported ea the KngLjh and Irish coasts. The New York Legislature have ptss ed a law making eight hours a 1 gal .day’s wont. Tho let cos above) New Orleans are breaking away, and the lower valley ex p. ots to be inundated. Josh Billings says there is nothing more touching in this Hie than to sea poor, but virtuous young man strug -1 ng with a moustache. A man being awakened by the cap tain of a passenger-boat with the an nouncement that he must not occupy his benh with his boots on, very con siderately replied : “Oh, the bugs won’t hurt ’em, I guess ; they’re un o'd pair.” “Husband I hope you have no ob jection to my being weiged.” Certain ly not, my dear, but why do you ask the question ?” “Only to see, love, if I you would let me have my weigh 1 once.” A spirit merchant in Killarney, Ire land, has announced that he has still on sale a small quantity of whiskey which was drank by the Prince of Wales when Inst ut Killarney. Plutarch says, in hitvlife of Alexan • der, that the Babylonians used, du ring dog and ys to sleep on skins filled with water.. In these days many men sleep on skins tilled wiih whiskey. An impatient boy waiting for tho grist, said to the miller: “I could eat the meal as fust as the mill grinds it.” “How long cou'd you do so?” in quired the miller. “Till I starved to death,” was the sarcastic repiv. Mrs. Whiggles expressed her disap pointment tbe other day on taking up the paper thus : “Lor’ sakes ! there ain’t a single living person dead that I know. It seems to me there ain’t no newk in this ’ere paper.’* An old lady once triumphantly poiot ed to the “Epistle to the Roman?,” and a-k' and where one could be found address ed to the Protestants ? This was equialed by an old negro Baptist at the South who said to hia master, a Methodist: “You’ve read the Bible, 1 ’sposo?” “Yes ’* “Well, you’ve read in it of one John tbe Baptist haia’t you ? ’ “Yes.’’ “Well, you never saw nothing atout no John the Methodist, did you ?” “No.’ “Well, deD, you see dere’s a Baptist in de Bible, but dere ain’t no Matho— I dist, so you see dat de Bible’s on iny side.” The fo’lowing qtie r epitaph may ba found ia St. Paul’s Churchyard, Cork ; 1 reland : R"pent ! repent! I while you have time; Here 1 lie cut off in my prime, Tom Taylor, A Siilor, Aged 7D. Oae would think Sailer Tayl r was rather past his prime at 79. The Lynchburg Republican gives tbe following dream of a “friend iu Bedford county :’* Iu his sleep it appeared to him that he was under a brilliant moonlit, cloud has sky, in which all the s ars were shin ing Suddenly the moon changed t(f a big turkey gobbler, and the stars to grains ol orn. Then the turkey walk ed hurriedly across ihe entire heavens and devoured the stars, to tie very smallest specimen Our friend woke, thoroughly satisfied that Congress would soon provide for tbe stealing of all Southern property, «nd lives in daily expectation of being “g ibblel ’ A good- r or notbing looking wretoh was brought up oharged with drunken— urir. 1 was a clear case. The testi mony showed that he had been on a spree f>r a Week. He was asked a bat be had to say for himself “Well, your honor,” said he; “me and my old w man never did live easy to gether.” ‘•Tha’s no excuse for your getting drunk,” said the court, “You are right your honor, and so it ain’t. We used to fight like oa sand dogs together.” “But drioking only made it worse,” put in the oourt. “That’s true. She direouraged the life out of ms, and kept me poor until last week, when———” “Well, what did she do last week f*’ “She died, your honor. * “And you have boon drunk [since?” I “Ye*, ycr honor. T *• ” . - uvwt could bear ptosperity." ~
