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by THOMAS A. BURKE, PROPRIETOR.
VOL. VII.
rrMIE Cassvillk Standard, is
cm JL published every Friday.—Ot
HkST Ml s i ce > north-east corner of the pub
|g|® Af lie square. — Terms, Two Dollars
rKTpglF .a-year if paid in advance, two and
a half after three months, or three
dollars at the end of the year.
Xo paper discontinued until all arrearages are
paid, except at the option of the publisher.
Miscellaneous advertisements inserted at. §>l
per square (twelve Lines,) for the first insertion,
£„d 50 cents for each weekly continuance.
Legal advertisements published at the usual
* Advertisements not marked will be published
i,util forbid, and charged accordingly.
Letters on business m ust be pre-putu, and ad
dressed to the i'roiu’ictor.
Jksiiie&S _
(Alt VWFORD A CRAWFORD, Attorney* at
J Law, Cassville, Ga.—As a firm under the
rhore namc Jo'hn A. A M. J. Crawford will
•iromptly and faithfully attend to all business
intrusted to their care in any of the counties ot
Dio Cherokee or Blue Ridge Circuits. M. J. Craw
ford wffl give particular attention to the collec
ting of alf claims and debts, and will spare no
mins’to put clients in speedy possession ot their
money. u 'b *
1?’ W.-CHASTAIN, Attorney at Law, Mor
ganton, Ga.—Practices in all the coun
ties af the Cherokee circuit. Jan 5
T WIF.S MILNER, Attorney at Law, Cass
villa, Geo. Practises in'the counties of the
Cherokee circuit. ni h 4.
80. CRAWFORD, Attorney at 7jiw,‘('-m
----• houn, Geo.—Practice in the counties of
die Cherokee circuit. il l> 1 ’
v > ]l. TATUM. Attorney dt Law, Trenton,
l\ Ga.—Business entrusted to hs carv in any
of the counties of the Cherokee circuit, will meet
with prompt attention. • Nov. 21.
Q ’WEIL , Attorney at Law, Canton, Geor
‘|M- iria. Business entrusted to his care in
unvofthecountiesoftbe Blue Ridge circuit, will
-meet with faithful attention.
Refers to Hon. David Irwin and Ex-Gov.
“McDonald, ‘Marietta; Col. Joseph E. Drown,
-Canton; Capt W. T. Wofford,. Cassville; Col.
‘Geo. X. Lester, Gumming.
Feb 10, 1855—ts
J. FAIN, Attorney at Law, Calhoun, Ga.
T* Will practice in sill ihe counties of the
Cherokee circuit. Particular attention will be
paiil tvi the collecting business. nih 9.
WT. WOFFORD, Attorney at Law, Cass
• ville, Ga.—Practices in all the counties J
of the Cherokee circuit, anil will attend faithful- j
ly to all business entrusted to bis care. Office ,
■east ol the court house. uug 18 —ts I
T TOOPER & RICE, Attorneys at. Law, Cass- j
IX ville. Geo.—Practice in the counties of 1
C a-.-, Cobb, Chattooga, Catoosa, Cherokee, Dade j
Flovd, Gordon, Gilmer, Murray, Pickens, \V alk-1
it a.iil-Wiilttield. Jons 11. Rick will, as here- ;
Uofore, continue to give his personal and almost
exclusive attention to the collecting business,
april 25, lSftt.
( \ L. BARBOUR. Attorney at Law, Allan,
\ • to, Georgia.—Will practice in the Affer
ent Courts of Fulton and contiguous counties.
Particular attention given to the execution yf
Interrogatories, and draughting legal instru
ments, Claims in the city of Atlanta will be
‘proW.jWlv attended to. Office in the Holland
‘House, vq, stair*. —Entrance first door above
Whitney 4 Ifuht. Feb 16, ’ss—ly
WIKLE k W Ikl.L Dealers in Dry Goods,
Groceries, Ac. kn. South west -corner
of Public Square, Cartersville, Ga.
Jan. 26, 1854.
T P. CARPENTEfCtraiIer in fancy, Staple
e) • and domestic dry goods, sugar, coffee, mo
:lasses, Ac.; hardware, cutlery, &c., at Erwin’s
■old stand, Cassville, Ga. Jan 1.
FAY. HOOPER AGO., Dealers in Stapleaml
• Fancv Goods, Groceries, Iron, Tlats, Caps,
Boots and fchoes, Ac., Ac., at, the Brick store,
Cassrille, Ga. Feb 2, 1854.
HIRSCIIBERG A DAVIDSON, Ca-yrith,
Go. —Manufacturers of clothing, and ‘deal
ers in Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, Gentlemen s
Furnishing Goods, Fancy Goods, and Jewelry,
Wholesale and Retail, at Patton’s olb stand
Cassrille, Ga. June 23 1854.
f OCRETT < A SXELLIXGS, -'Factors and
1 j General Commission Merchants, will attend
strictly to Receiving, and Forwarding and
Eel ling everything sent to our address,
sept 9—6ni-
WM. M. PEEPLES, Dealer in Dry Goods.
Groceries, Iron, Hardware, Saddlery,,
Roots, Shoes, Drugs, Medicines, Ac., Ac. Cal
houn, Ga-
May 5,1854. —1 y
O G COURT KN A Y.TcoT Ah: 3, It mad
it • Street, Charleston, South t'arollna. Books,
Stationery, Fancy Articles, Magazines, and
Newspapers.
The most extensive stock of Novels, Roman
ces, Ac., in the Southern'Country.
Near the Post Office. nih 16
S. a. COCRTKXAT. W. A. COUIITK.VAr.
HYATT McBURNEY A CO., Direct Im
porters and Wholesale Dealers in Foreign
and Domestic l)rv Goods, No. 87 Hayne Street,
Charleston, S. C - . Jan 12, 1855 —49—ly
WARD & BURCHARD, AugustToT,
would inform their friends and the pub
lic generally, that-anticipating a change in their
business, the coming season, they ate disposed
to make huge cone issions from their former low
scales of prices, in order to reduce their stock to
the lowest possible point. The attention of
wholesale dealers as well as customers, is res
pectfully solicited.
Augusta, Dec 22
“T) AUK & McKENZIE. —Factors andComniis”
X sion Merchants, and Dealers in Groceries!
‘reduce and Merchandise generally, Atlanta*
da,
Particular attention given to consignments ot
‘Cotton, Grain, Bacon, and all kinds of Produce.
J. PARK. , E. MCKENZIE,
uug. 11.—ly.
W INSHIPS IRON WORKS—The subscri
ber is now prepared to receive and exe
orders for any kind of Castings, or Ma
chine work, and all persons favoring him with
orders may rely upon having them executed in
the best, manner, and* with despatch. Orders
■or S.ish-bliuds and doors promptly attended “to
at his Car Establishment. Cash paid for old
Copper, Brass and Iron Castings,
. , JOSEPH WINSnIP.
Atlanta, Ga., June 30, I‘'s4,
A X3LACKSM [THING.—The Subscriber
# £vj XX.ia prepared to do all kinds of work
V^ in his line, suph as Ironing Carriages,
making and repairing Farming imple
‘t, edge-tools, horse-shoeing, Ac. in the best
■uuier, and on the most reasonable terms.—
solieded * Wa,Tanted- A share T 018
Ga., Feb. 10,1855.—2—1 y.’
A®. store, a. j.
ou hanri V /, } ’ bdeball Street, keeps always
l v Miu , full of Iron, brails, Cut
mine> r ja. Springs, Axles, Carriage Trim
and Prl ° r Stoves, Mechanic’s
Was cM K loo'*.I oo '*. Ac., which will be sold as
Atlaiff , r h,, r ” ht any market.
Atlanta, G a> July 14> 13^
BObcHLsehieiits.
CARRIAGE and Buggy Making Establish
ment at Cartersville Cass county Georgia,
! .yjyy y. “WE would solicit a continuance of
I the patronage heretofore enjoyed.—.
We are doing good work, and at reasonable pri
ces. We keep on hand a good selection of
Stock, and have employed a fine assortment of
firstrate Mechanics, who know what they are
ibout. We warrant our work not to fail. Give
ns a call before purchasing elsewhere. Our
motto is Honesty arid Indus try.
’ JONES & GREENWOOD.
Cartersville, Ga, July 8, 1854.
NEW Tailoring establi slim elk, at Cartersville
Georgia, Shop at S. H. 1 atillo’s old stand.
tThe subscriber has lately opened in
the town of Cartersville a New Tai
loring Establishment, where he .s pre
pared to do any work in his line in the
best and im •Rishionable manner. lie guar
antees all woik turned out of bis shop to fit in
the most unexceptionable manner. Particular
ly attention paid to cutting and fitting jobs for
ladies. He leepcctfuHy solicits a fair trial, as
he is confident of success,
SILAS O’SIIIELDS.
sept 9 —ly
rro FARMERS AM) PLANTERS. A. & ,T.
X L. Hill, are now receiving a superior lot
of Negro Shoes, Negro Blankets and” Kersevs,
Osnaburgs, Shirtings, Trunks, &c., for the fall
and winter trade, which they are offering Low
far (lash, or on short time. ‘ Farmers or others
wishing to purchase such articles will do well
to give us a call and examine prices, for we will
have them on hand and intend to sell. All that
we ask is that you will call and examine for
yourselves', east of the court house.
Cassville, Oct 27
i /’ f FORGE YOGT’S Piano and
\ T Music Store, Ah. 148 Arch
y J J| B | Street, I‘hHetdelphm. Constantly
u on hand Pianos, Melodeons, Musi
cal .Merchandize of every description, Sheet Mu
sic, Ac. Ac.
Yoot’s Piaxos are pronounced superior to
all others in sweetness, power and beauty of
tone and unequalled workmanship. Persons
wishing a Piano of the first class and undoubt
ed excellence, at. a very moderate price, will do
well to give them a trial. sept I—l
-vrOtTcE TO LAYd o'WNEitsi'"'ThiTmidiw
- x signed having removed from Albany to
Truunville, Lowndes county, Ga.
Will in addition to the practice of Law examine
and report, the value of land in the counties of
Thomas, howndes, Clinch, Ware, Appaling and
Irwin, lie will, when requested, examine
Lands personally, and give full information as
to ’ Hue, location and probability of immediate
sal— Having no connection whatever with
land 4pecnlation he will engage to act as agent,
.in the sale or purchase of lands, in anv of the
aforesaid counties for a fee often per cent, up
on ihe amount received or paid out. Ills char
ges for examining land will be five dollars per
lot, for lands in the 12th district of Lowndas, in
all the other districts, he will charge ten dol
lars. Additional will be charged for an exami
nation of title upon record.
EPHRTAM IT. PLATT,
Attorney ar Law,
TroupviHe, Lowndes Cos. Ga.
Nov 17—ly
J'lA.Xos, SHEET MUSIC, Jv. ,fv/
THE undersigned is pre
fW?~pared to furnish’ Tout's
j® Pianos, at short notice,
u g and on as good terms as
y they can be had anywhere
at the South. These in
slrurnerfts arc warranted to be equal in point of
tone, durability and workmanship, to any man
uFactured in the world. Every Piano warranted
for five years. Any instrument failing to meet
the expectations of the purchaser, mav be re
turned at any time within six months, and an
other will be given in its stead. Having a
brother (a Professor of Music) in “Philadelphia,
who selects every Piano sent out, purchasers
may rest assured that none but perfect instru
melits, in, every respect, will be sold.
A large lot of Sheet Music, of the latest and
most fashionable issues, constantly on'hand
and for sale at Publisher’s prices.
WM. SCITERZER.
•Professor of Music in Cassville
Dec. 8,1654 —ly Female College.
A CLAYTON, Waiik-
X House axo Commission Mer
e~- ‘ Augusta , Ga, —Continue the
business in all its branches, and will give
their personal attention to the sale of COTTON
and other produce. Cash advances made when
required. Bagging, Rope, and family supplies
purchased at the lowest market rates. Com
mission for selling Cotton 25 cents per bale.
augIS
OLD SOLDIERS.—By a recent Act of
■ Congress, all persons who have served in
any War since 1790, are entitled to 160 acres of
Land—and those who have received Warrants
for a less number, are entitled to a sufficient
number of acres to make that amount. The
undersigned will attend to the collection of
such claims. WM. T. WOFFORD.
Cassville, mh B—ts
\ GIiNCY AT WASHINGTON.—The un
-IY. dersigned prosecutes all manner of claims
against the United States, before Congress, be
fore Commissioners, and before all the Public
Departments, and especially claims for bounty
land under the act of Congress just passed, poll
sions, back-pay, half-pay, adjustment of amounts
of disbursing officers, settlement of post mas
ters and contractors accounts, and every other
business requiring the prompt and efficient ser
vices of an attorney or agent.
A residence of twenty years at the scat of the
Federal Government, with a thorough and fa
miliar acquaintance with all the routine of the
public business at the different offices, added to
his free access to consul* die ablest legal advi
sers, if needed, justifies the subscriber in pledg
-1 ing the fullest satisfaction and utmost dispatch
•to those who may entrust their business to his
’ care.
Being well known to the greater portion of
the citizens of Washington, as well as to many
gentlemen who have been members of both
i Houses of Congress in the last fifteen years, it
is deemed unnecessary to extend-this notice, by
\ special references. A full power of attorney
! should accompany all cases. Communications
. must be pre-paid in all cases. Fees regulated
by nature and extent of the business, but al
! ways moderate.
‘ . . 5- C. SPALDING, Aftornev.
Washington, D. C. m |, \
BOUM\ LANDS.—The undersigned hav
ing long been engaged in the prosecution
of Revolutionary Pension Claims, Invalid Pen
sion Claims, Bounty Land Claims Ac., against
the General Government, now tenders bis ser
vices to all such-claimants, especially to Bounty
bind Claimants for the procurements of their
Claims, as there are many such Claims under
the late law of Congress, which gives an addi
tional Bounty of Land to the soldiers of all the
wars in whicn the United States has engaged
since 1790, who have not received as much as
1 hi) acres. ELISHA KING.
•Adairsville Ga. mh 22 —2m
SELLING off at Cost fop Cash, As the under
signed is closing up the business of the liriri
of Leake A Howard, be ho# determined U>
sell off at cost for cash.
Come all that wunt good bargaina and com*
quick or you will miss them,
CartersVillc, Dec I—ts1 —ts W. W. LEAKE,
Ready-made clothing, Panti, stuff,
Chamhrav, and a fine assortment of Jew
elry, at * LEVY’S CASH STORE,
apr 26—ts
f) £;ihiiiy lichisjaipel-—TjcboicO to tffjj'oiwl quO State politic?, fiteh|t#te, life Madieis,-l:orei;ji] Di)d Domestic 11 etas, kt.
CASSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1855.
Cjjnirt }bttfrif.
For the Cassville Standard.
Ifefiiolries.
I may not say, I love thee yet.
For what can words, like these avail,
I dare not say I’ll kneel again,
For pride, and, manhood, check the tale.
Yet wildly o’er my wayward soul,
Rush feelings that I cannot stay,
And all the sternness of control,
Is swept from my-weak heart away.
Ob ! memory of the madd’ning past
Ob ! mournful fate, that, still must be,
All—all, alike are viiin—the fast
Is still to love, to worship, Thee:
SHANA.
Cassville May 21st 1855.
liTtisings*
Speak gen t v
My name, when I rest with the dead;
Tread lightly
The turf that lies over my head
Plant flowers
To bloom o’er tlieplav where I sleep,
And willows
“Whose branches shall over me weep.
Oh, come there
“When Spring’s, gentle breezes do play,
And sing there— .**
Sing o’er me, a low, mournful lay.
At evening,
When fragrance floats soft on the air,
Then kneel there,
And offer a deep, fervent prayer.
Let me die
When flie sun sinks slowly to rest;
Wheii 1m beams
Brightly play round his home in the west >
As softly
As faded daylight's last tjembling ray,
So gently
My spirit would then pass away.
Cjjnire ftlisrrllnmj.
fetches of §oi!%h) Xl^bcL
Number 1.
TOCOPA FALLS.
“ A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”
Mr. Editor . — I noticed sometime a
o-o, in a Philadelphia paper, a remark
like, the following : %
“ Two of the greatest natural curiosities
j in (he world lie entirely out of the route
|of modern travel, aud of them little
is known. Both of them are at the South;
the first Tuccoa Falls is in Habersham
Cos., Georgia—the other is.a remarkable
precipice iu South Carolina.”
These may not be the exact toords of
the paragraph quoted ff>r 1 have not the
paper by me; the substance of the re
mark however is given, and it is very
true, hut so little did tho writer know a
; bout the objects he was describing, that
I lie failed even in spelling tire name of
! the falls correctly. lie should have
written it Toccoa , which is an Indian
word meaning, “ Beautiful.”
Having visited these falls a summer
or two since in company with a party of
friends, I have thought that perhaps a
faint description of them (for my pen is
inadequate lo the task of painting their
exceeding beauty) might uot .be whol
ly devoid of interest to the northern rea
ders.
They are indeed, situated out of the
lino of modem travel—so far out, and so
imnasgable are the roads and so thinly
inhabited the coitntiv, that most people
when they go tliither, take with them
seivauts, carriages, provisions, baggage,
and tents, so that they can camp out,
like the roving Bedouins of the desert,
and live independent of the resources of
the country, through which they pass.
The scenery throughout the whole
country is variegated and wild, abound
ing itfhigh hills and deep gorges, and the
soil is barren, and fit for little but graz
ing. We had in oirr company a physi
cian—a man of some travel and varied
information, but who was an invalid and
has since died of consumption —-his wife
—a gentleman who acted as guide —
a beautiful girl from Loubana and my
self..
Having been reared among the high
hills of New England, the scenery did
not at first strike me as being anything
very remarkable, but my Louisana
friend, who bad never seen anything like
it, when we came in sight of the first
high mountain, clapped her pretty
white hands and.shouted like a creature !
half wild; but when after a day or two’s j
fatiguing travel we reached tlm falls, and
she sat down among the rocks at their
base, and gazed up, up nearly two hun
dred feet at the tremendous pile of rock,
and at the white, changing and-misty
veil floating over them, she grew as
hushed as an awe-struck child.
We were all mute —surprised —I for
one grew breathless. The stream is
scarcely wider than a New England riv
ulet —one could easily pass it at a bound
—it flows on over a ro#ky bed, murmur
ing and gurgling and looking as if en
jjrely unsuspecting of the tremendous
plunge which it is soon to make. By
and-by, all of a sudden, it reaches the
i sharp edge of a perpendicular shelve of
i rock, nearly two hundred feet high, and
| is instantly broken ink) a veil of silvery,
and rainbow spanned mist, which comes
floating down, down, looking more like
a vast bridal veil, than anything l could
think of. It falls at last, making rain
like music in the deep basin below, and
then it resumes its rivulet flow, and bab
bles on, as noteless and insignificant as
before. The rocks, which come around
in the shape of an amphitheater, are
[covered with woods, and there iu utter
“PRINCIPLES NOT MEN.”
solitude, this wild elfin thing, plays on.
When did it begin its fairv dance ? Jt
is wholly and exquisitely “ Beautiful.”—
The Indian, had lie sought all lan
guages through could have found no.pth
er word so appropriate. At the first
i glance lie took in the whole spirit of the
j scene, and christened it aright, “ Toccaa
the Beautiful /” We however atkkd
* to the name before we left and called it,
the “ Bride of the Woods.” These falls
are higher than Niagaia —they are the
! highest in America, and with the ex
; ception of some in Switzerland, the high
est in the world. If the volume of wa
ter was greater, the scene would be grand
—as it is, it is only beautiful. Green
mosses grow and hang trailing from the
crevices of the rocks, and when the
; wind shifts for a moment the spray, they
are seen looking green and luxuriant,
from being kept continually moist. In
the basin below, the bottom of which
has never been discovered, are found fish
of variovs kinds, eels, horny heads, Arc.
Now and then a rftttle snake sticks his
flat head out from among the rocks, and
shakes his ominious rattles—wild deer
run through the dense old woods, and
sometimes come down and drink out of
the basin—their thrist quenched, they
, stare up for a moment at the “ tiling of
! beauty” shifting about over their heads,
and then bound away, as free and un
chained as the wind.
There is an Indian legend about, this
place, it is said that a white woman
long ago decoyed a party of red men,
who had sworn to kill her husband, to
the brink,’ in a pretended search after
him, and in darkness of night, managed
tq plunge them over, and they were
dashed in pieces on the rocks below. I
do not know how true the tale is, but as
l stood there, one bright morning, with
the hot August sun lighting up the fearful
gorge below, the thought made me sick.
It might easily have been accomplished,
1 should suppose, bad the Indians been
ignorant of the face of the country, for no
one above the falls would suspect its ex
istence.
If these falls were on any of the routes
of modern travel, they would become to
all lovers of Nature, a Mecca shrine. As
it. is the poet anrbT.be artist some times
find them. . T. Addison Richards, an ar
ti tof some distinction in New York,-made
a sketch of them, which afterwards ap
peared in Harper’s Magazine and in
‘‘Georgia Illustrated,” but. his. picture
hardlv conveys any idea of the original.
W. C. Richards, his brother, now also of
New York, but at that time editor of the j
Southern Literary Gazette, wrote a pret
ty poem about the spot: J have not his ]
l.i e ; by me, else I would send them to
you. As for myself I should as soon
think of painting the soft beauty of a
moonbeam, or of sketching with an ugly
black crayon the blue air above. I tried
to embody a few ideas in verse, but threw
the scrap of paper away on which they
were written. They were so unsatisfac
tory. But I must close.
Yours truly, c, w. n.
Greensboro’, Geo.
ffelusjKtjk’i's.
glass of whiskey is manufactured
from perhaps a dozen grains of mashed
corn, the value of which is too small to
be estimated. A pint of this mixture
sells at retail for one shilling, and if cf a
good braud, it is considered by its consu
mers well wotth the money. It is drank
oft’ in a minute or two—it fires the brain
—rouses the passions—sharpens the ap
petite—deranges and weakens the phy
sical system; it is gone—and swollen eves
parched lips, and an aching head are its
followers.
On the same sideboard upon which
this is served, lies a newspaper ; the new
white paper of which cost three fourths
of a cent —the composition for the whole
edition costing from ten to fifteen dol
lars per day. It is covered with half a
a million of types; it brings intelligence
from the four quarters of the globe —it
tells you the state of the market; gives
accounts of the last elopement; the exe
cution of the last murderer; and the la
test steamboat explosion or railroad dis
aster —and yet for all this the newspa*-
por costs less than the glass of grog—
the juice of a few grains of corn. It is
no less strange than true, that there is a
large portion of the community who
think the corn juice cheap and the
newspaper dear, and the pr'nter has
hard work to collect his dimfs , when
the liquor dealers are paid cheerfully.
llow is this ? Is the body a better pay
master than the head, and are things of
eternity ? Is the transient tickling of
the stomach of more consequdfi&o than
the improvement of the soul, and the in
formation that is essential to rational
being? If this had its real value, would
not the newspaper bo worth many pints
of whiskey ?—Forest City.
• Spriugfied Republican says the
know nothing who would not use the
word Patriot because it began with pat ,
has concluded to emigrate somewhere,
because lie was at length found out tliat
“ American was discoveied by a cussed
I foreigner.”
“ Nimrod, can you tell who was the
first man?” /‘Adam Somebody. His
father wasn’t nobody, and ho never had
a mother, on account of the scarcity of
women and the pressuro of the times,”
“Ts fte W
A GHOST STORY.
One of the most remarkable cases of
sudden cure of disease of long standing
was that of a rheumatic invalid, with
which is connected an amusing ghost
story. There were a couple, who were
in the habit of stealing sheep and robbing
churchyards of the burial clothes of the
dead. There was a public road, leading
by a meeting-house where there was a
grave-yard, and not far oft’ on the road a
tavern. EaHy one moonlight night,
while one of ilie thieves was engaged in
robbing a grave, the other went off to
steal a sheep. The first one, having ac
complished his business, wrapped the
shroud around him and took his seat
in the meeting-house door, awaiting the
coming of his companion. A man on
foot, passing along the road towards the
tavern, took him for a ghost, and, alarm
ed almost to death,'ran as his feet could
carry him to the tavern which he reach
ed out of breath. As soon as he could
sneak he declared that he had seen a
ghost robed in white, and sitting in the
church door. But nobody would believe
him. He then declared that if any of
them would go with him, he would cer
tainly go hack, and they might be con
vinced. But, incredulous as all were, no
one could he found who had tho courage
to go. At length a man, who was so af
flicted with rheumatism that lie could
not walk, declared he would go with
him if be could only walk or get there.
The man then proposed to carry him on
his hack took him up and off they went.
When they got in sight, sure enough
there it was as lie had said. Wishing
to satisfy themselves well, and to get as
near J u*vie,jy of his ghostship as they could
in the dim light, they kept venturing up
nearer. The man with the shroud round
him, took them to be his Companion
with a sheep on his back ; and asked, in
a low tone of voice.
Ms he fat?”
Meeting with no reply he repeated his
question, raising his voice higher.
“ Is he fat ?”
No reply ng’ain when lie exclaimed iu
a vehement tone:
“ Is he fin ?”
This was enough. The man with the
other on his back replied :
“ Fat or lean, you may have him
and dropping the invalid, traveled back
to the tavern as fast as his feet could
carry him. But he had scarcely gotten
there when here came the invalid, on
foot too ! r J he sudden fright had cur
ed Tiim of lbs rheumatism; ancf from
that time forward he was a well man !
This is said to have been a real occur
rence. And it is not the only case of
such cures of which I have heard. I
once heard of an old woman, who had
been bed-ridden, I think, for twenty
years; and who, upon the house taking
fire, made her escape upon her feet, and
was never so confined by tbe disease af
terwards.
iUilfif Ctffl fije Cto?
Why they can play oh the piano, curl
their hair in papers, and lie in bed all
day reading a novel, while the process of
curling and bleaching is going on. —
Wonderful. Can they do no more?—
Yes, they, can spend extravagant sums
of money, in preparing for parties, and
then assemble to spend the hours in sil
ly coxcombs. Disgraceful. Is there
nothing else ? We are proud to say
yes, much that they may do, which does
honor to the sex. There are many no
ble examples of what girls often perform,
when poverty holds its meagre mantle
over them,of which the following is an
instance :
A Cincinnati press states that three
years ago a poor orphan girl applied and
was admitted to set type for that paper.
She worked two years during which time
she earned besides her board, about two ‘
hundred dollars; and availing herself of
the facilities which the printing office af
forded, acquired a good education. She
is now an editress of a popular paper,
and engaged to bo married to one of the
smartest lawyers iYi Ohio. Such a girl
is bound to shine and eclipse tens of thou
sands who are educated in the lap of
luxury, and taught all the accomplish
ments of the boarding school. Such a
wife will be a jewel to her husband, and
an ornament to society, and an honor to
her sex and country.
Etiquette. —The National Intelligen
cer has a correspondent who Ims writ-,
ten a series of letters to that paper on
this subject. He makes three points,
viz:
1. Before you bow. to a lady in the
street permit her to decide whether you
may do so or not by at least a look of
recognition.
2. “Excuse my glove,’’ is an unneces
sary apology, for the glove should not be
withdrawn to shako hands.
3. When your companion bows to a
lady, you should do the same. When
a gentleman bows to a lady in your com
pany, always bow in return.
If our Maker thought it wrong for
Adam to livo single when there was not
a woman on earth, how criminally guil
ty are the old bachelors with the world
full pretty girls. Let voting men think
of this.
. \ *|
TWO DOLLARS A-YEAR, IN ADVANCE.
bijt gi] ifoncat ifeqlrf to JjLobe
tip'll*
BY HEUMINE.
Nothing! and what more would you
have, young girl, when that is all, in
deed, and the rest hut little less than
nothing? Smile on now, in quiet happi
ness, for with that blest assurance you
may look with hope upon the future hap
piness, for with that blest assurance you
may look with hope upon the future;
there will be ills, and griefs, and heart
aches, but still will throb an honest man’s
heart to love you.
Nothing ! Are the pure devoted love
of an honest heart, the generous impul
ses of a noble soul, the virtues which in
sure your future happiness to be counted
nothing? Ah! rather let prayer arise
on high to Him who has given you so
much of happiness. How many as
young, as good, as lovely, bend the knee
to ask Almighty God the precious boon
of an honest heart to love them.
A time must come when youth, and
grace and loveliness will fadeaway, when
hopes and dreams, and yearnings change
to quiet ail trust in Providence, when
earth’s surface will seem void of dazzling
roses, and life’s sky unlit by glorious
sunbeams, when friends, and relatives,
and loveliness will pass before you tothe
grave; but still will bloom sweet flow
ers of lnippiuers along life’s way, and sof
tened holier sunlight flood the sky; ifon
the desert land there throbs an honest
heart to love you.
Nothing! There will be an hour in
which earth, with its pomp and showy
wealth with its pleasures and delight,
and beauty, with its charms and power,
will seem to you like nothing; while the
memory of a love that blest your mai
denhood and cheered you mid the storms
of life, that went before you and gave
your spirit strength to follow* that crush
ed the thorns of affliction placed upon
your brow and culled each flower that
blossomed on life’s way will rise in pleas
antness before you ; and while your spir
it quiet and serene, awaits death’s smn-_
mons from this world, remember that,
the peace, the crown, the happiness is
yourc, because of the virtue, truth and
blight example of the honest heart that
loved you.
2. Good T?^voh>h)ji)t'tjjioo.
“ Please sir don't you want a cabin
boy ?”
“I do want, a cabin boy, my lad; but
wlmt’s that to you ? A little chap like
you ain’t fit for the berth.”
“ Oh, sir, I’m real strong. I can do
a great deal of work if I ain’t so very
old.”
“But what, are you here for? You
don’t look like a city boy. Run away
from home, hey ?”
“ Oh, no, indeed, sir, my father died,
and my mother is very poor, and l want
to do something to help her. She let
me come.’’
“ Well sonny; where are your letters
of recommendation. Can’t Like any boy
without those.”
Here was a damper. Willie had nev
er though of its being necessary to have
letters from his minister, or teachers, or
from some proper person, to prove to
strangers that he was an honest, good
boy. Now what should he do. lie
stood in deep thought, the captain mean
while curiously watching life workings
of his expressive face.. At length lie put
his hand into Ids bosom and drew out
his little Bible and without one word
put itjiuo the captain’s hand. Thy cap
tain opened to the blank leaf and
read:
“ WILLIE GRAHAM.'’
“ Presented as a reward for regular
and punctual attendance at Sabbath
School, and for his blameless conduct
there and elsewhere. Front his Sunday
School Teacher.”
Capt. McLeod was not a pious man,
but he oould not consider the case before
him w’th a heart unmoved. The little
fatherless child, standing humbly before
him, referring him to the testimony of
the Sunday School Teacher, as it was
given in his little Bible, touched a ten
der spot in the breast of tho noble sea
men, and clapping Willie heartily on the
shoulder, slid :
“ Y'ou arc the lad for me; you shall sail
. witlume, and if you are as good a lad as
I think you are, your pockets shan't bo
empty when you go back to your good
mother.”
The foreign correspondent of the Boa
ton Post, lately came athwart tlnr haw
ser of Hutch brig, with the following pon
derous liamo upon its stern : flmk&'tttw
held (tan de holderlatuhcho /fundcl Afar
atschaajipy.” Wouldu’t that be a roar
er coming through a speaking trumpet
off Capo Horn ?
This is a very striking remark of Do
Qpinooy, in one of his essays: Russia a
mighty power as respects the simple
grandeur of magnitude, builds her pow
er upon sterility.* She has it in her
power to seduce an invading foe into
vast circles of starvation, of which tho
radii measure a thousand leagues!
Crispin says there is no danger of hard
times among the shoemakers, because
every shoe is sol'd before it efin get. ready
•for .market.
NO. 17.
ft tjii BSrot|i)d.
The “ Bizarre” tells the following good
story; A person, who wore a suit of
homespun clothes, stepped into a house
in this city, on some business, where sev
eral ladies and gentleman were assem
bled in an inner room —One of the com
pany remarked, (in n low tone, though
sufficiently loud to be overheard by the
stranger) that a countryman was waiting
and agreed to make some fun. The fol
lowing table talk ensued :
“ You’re from the country, I sup
pose ?”
“ Yes, I’m from the country.”
“ Well/sir, what do you think of the
City?”
“ It’s got a darned sight o’kouses in
it.”
u I expect there are a great many la
dies whore you came from ?”
“ Wall, yes, a powerful sight, jest for
all the world like them there,” (pointing
to <the ladies.)
I “ And yon are quite a beau among
them, no doubt ?”
“ Wall, l ’scort ’.em to meetin’ and .a
aboid.”
“ Maybe the gentleman will take a
glass of wine,” said one of the compa
ny.
“ Wall, don’t care if I do.‘”
‘‘l cats toast what Aunt Debby, makes
j but as to drinkin, it I never seed the
like”
“ O, you must, drink their health ?”
“ Wi’ all mv heart.”
“ Ladies and gentlemen, permit me to
wish you health and happiness, with
| every other blessing this earth can af
! ford, and advise you to bear in mind
1 that we are often deceived by appearan
ces. Y r ou mistook me, by my dress, for
a country booby; I from the same
cause thought these men to be gernle
! men ; the deception is mutual—l wish
you a good evening.— Saturday Courir_
cr.
Jtye Jlwo sexeg.
There is much truth in the following,
t-which we clip from the Syracuse Stan
dard, When a raking youth goes a
i'sir.ay, friends gather around him in or
der to restore him to the paths of virtue.
Gentleness and kindness are lavished up
on him to win him back to innocence
aud peace. No oue would suspect that
he had ever sinned. But when a poor,
confiding girl is betrayed, she receives
the brand of society, and is henceforth
driven from the ways of virtue. Thebe
trayer is honored, jespected and esteem
ed; but the ruined, heart-broken victim
knows there is no peace for her this side
of the grave. Society has no helping
hand for her, no smile of comfort, no
voice of forgiveness. These are earthly
moralities unknown to heaven. There
is a deep wrong in them, and fearful are
1 the consequences.
In order to give tone to the stomach,
it is recommended to swallow the dinner
bell.
“ Have you Blasted Hopes ?” asked a
! lady of a greet) librarian, whose face
was much swollen by the toothache.—
“No ma’am,” replied the youth, “ but
Iv’e got a blasted toothache.”
Come, Bill, it’s ten o’clock, and 1
think we had better be going for it’s
time for honest men were at home.”
“ Well, yes,” was the answer, 4 ’l must
be off, but you needn’t hurry on that ac
count.'’
“Johnny,” said a three-year-old to an
elder brother of six, Johnny, why can’t
we see the sun go back where it rises?”
“ Why Jim, you Httlo goosy, Realise it
would he ashamed to be seen going
down hast.'*
The N. V. Picayune says, a \ r ankee
designing to emigrate to Kanzas, adver
tises his property for sale, heading it—
“ Hot for the West!”
We fancy that he will head his next
advertisement, warningly directed to his
fellow emigrants/thus—
“ Lijj for the KustT”
A well know n penurious character in
vited a friend to dinner, and provided
two mutton chops. On removing the
cover, he said, “ My friend, you see your
dinner which his friend, immediately
with his knife and fork took to himself,
S remarking, 1 ouly wish I could see
! yours.”
I ■ - ‘
Joitt's stepped up to a gentleman who
1 was eiy*aged in conversation with about
j a dozen others, aud said:
I “It seems .to me I have seen your
physiognomy ‘somewhere, betoro but I
cannot imagine where.”
1 “Very likely, 1 have been the keeper
1 of a prison for upwards of twenty years!”
| Madam’ has your piano an seohan at
tachment ? asked Sum, the other night,
t ot’ the wife of a tuan who appeared to
i livo up to, if not beyond his income.
Hush ! whispered Seth in his ear, it
has a sheriff’s attachment J
Sam dropped the subject.
“Tom. what are you laughing at?”
, said a mother to her son, who was ris-
I ing greatness itself, as he sat ’ shaking
his sides. “ Nothing/ roared Tom,-~
“ Nothing ?” exclaimed she; “ Thomas,
my son, I did not think you were so fool
ish as to laugh at nothing.” “ Why,
mother, I couldn’t tthinik of anything to
laugh at, so I laughed causf f could
fnof.”