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by THOMAS A. BURKE, PROPRIETOR. VOL. VII. rpHR Cassville Standard, is ra JL published every Friday flee, north-east corner of the pub Esgiy|f He square.— Terms, Two Dollars a-vear if paid in advance, two and a half after three months, or three dollarsat the end of the year. No paper discontinued until all arrearages are paid, except at the option of the publisher. 1 Miscellaneous advertisements inserted at, $1 per square (twelve lines,') for the first insertion, n<l 50 cents for each weekly continuance. Legal advertisements published at the usual Advertisements not marked will be published until forbid, and charged accordingly. betters on business m>L*t be p re-paid, and ad dressed to the Froprlctor. Business Bimetal*!). (CRAWFORD & CRAWFORD, Attorney* at i Law, Cassville, Ga.—As a firm under the above name John A. & M. J. Crawford will promptly and faithfully attend to all business Intrusted to their care in any of the counties of the Cherokee or Blue Ridge Circuits. M. J. Craw ford will give particular attention to the collec t ng of all claims and debts, and will spare no pains to put clients in speedy possession of their money. mil 1 ly EW. CHASTAIN, Attorney at Law, Mor * ganton, Ga. —Practices in all the coun ties of the Cherokee circuit. Jan 5 TAMES MIIiNER, Attorney at Law, Cass ville, Geo. Practises in the counties of the Cherokee circuit. mh 4. 80. CRAWEORD, Attorney at Law, Cai • houn, Geo.—Practice in the counties of ♦he Cherokee circuit. apr *24. I) IT. TATUM. Attorney at Law, Trenton, V Ga. —Business entrusted to his care in any of the counties of the Cherokee circuit, will meet with prompt attention. Nov. *2l. SWEIL, Attorney at Law, Canton, Geor • gia. Business entrusted to his care in anv of the counties of the Blue Ridge circuit, will meet with faithful attention. Refers to Hon. David Irwin and Ex-Gov. McDonald, Marietta; Col. Joseph E. Brown, Canton; Cupt. W. T. Wofford, Cassville; Col. Geo. N. Lester, Camming. Feb 1 *>, 1 855 —ts p J. FAIN, Attorney at Law, Calhoun, On. \X M ill practice in all the counties of the Cherokee circuit. Particular attention will be paid to the collecting business. mh l*. WT. WOFFORD, Attorney at Law, Cass • ville, Ga.—Practices in all the counties of the Cherokee circuit, and will attend faithful ly to all business entrusted to his care. Office cast ol the court house. aug 18—ts nOOPEK & RICE, Attorney* at Law, Cass ville, Geo.— Practice in the counties of Cass, Cobb, Chattooga, Catoosa, Cherokee, Dade Floyd, Gordon, Gilmer, Murray, Pickens, Walk er .and Whitfield. John 11. Rice will, as here tofore, continue to give his personal and almost exclusive attention to the collecting business, april 20, 1854. f \ L. BARBOUR, Attorney at Law, Allan- V ‘• t>, Georgia.—Wil! practice in tlie iliffc>r- , cnt Courts of P~’‘ *u and e wniffU*. Interrogatories, and draughting legal instru ments. Claims in the city of Atlanta will be promptly attended to. Office in the Holland House, up stairs.—Entrance first door above Whitney A Hunt. Feb i*>, ’ss—lv WMvLE & AVIKLK. Dealers in Dry Goods, Groceries, Ac. Ac. South west corner of Public Square, Cartersville, Ga. Jan. 26, 1*54. rl). CARPENTER, Dealer in fancy, staple • and domestic dry goods, sugar, coffee, mo lasses, Ac.; hardware, cutlery, Ac., at Erwin’s old stand, Cassville, Ga. Jan 1. TW. HOOPER A CO., Dealers in Staple and • Fancy Goods, Groceries, Iron, Hats, Caps, Roots and Shoes, Ac., Ac., at tin; Rrick store, Cassville, Ga. Feb 2, 1854. nIKSCHRERG A DAVIDSON, Camr.HJs, o‘i. —M inufacturers of clothing, and deal ers in Roots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, Gentlemen's Furnishing Goods, Fancy Goods, and Jewelry, Wholesale and Retail, at l’atton’s olb stand Cassville, Ga. June 28 1854. IOCKETT A SNELLTNGS, Factor* nnd _j General t ■‘iiitinixxton iferrha nt*, will attend strictly to Receiving and Forwarding aud Selling everything sent to our address, sept y—dm* WM. M. PEEPLES, Dealer in Dry Goods. Groceries, Iron, Hardware, Saddlery,, Roots, Shoes. Drugs, Medicines, Ac., Ac. Cal houn, Go. May 5,1854. —1 y O G. COURTENAY, A CO. X<>. \ It road i ; Street , CharUstu/t, South t'arolin-a. Books, Stationery, Fancy A Hides, Magazines, and Newspapers. The most extensive stock of Novels, Roman ces, Ac., in the Southern country. Near the Post Office. mh 16 S. 0. COCKTEXAT. W. A. COt'KTKXAV. HYATT McUURNEY a CO., Direct Im porters and Wholesale Dealers in Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods, No. 37 Hayne Street, Charleston, S. C. Jan 12, 1855—48 —iy WARD A RURCHARD, Augusta Ga., woulcFinfonn their friends und the pub lic generally, that anticipating a change in their , Smsiness, the coming season, tliey are disposed Ho make large concessions from tlieir former low i 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 PARR A McKENZlE.—Factors andCommis* j si*i Merchants, and Dealers in Groceries, ‘ Produce aud Morohaadhse generally, Atlanta, Ga. Particular attention given to consignments of, CutfsHi, Grain, Bacoti, and all kinds of Produce, ; L. J. PARK. B- MCKKXZIE. 1 aug. 11.—ly. W INSHIPS IRON WORKS.—The subscri ber is now prepared hi receive and exe cute orders for any kind of Castings, or Ma chine work, and all persons favoring him with . •orders may rely upon having them executed in j the best manner, and with despatch. Orders j for Sash-blinds and doors promptly attended to •at his Car Establishment. Cash paid for old Copper, Brass and Iron Castings. JOSEPH WINSIiIP. Atlanta, Ga., June 30, P's 4. A T>IiACKSMITHING.—The Subscriber 1) is prepared to do all kinds of work yyr in his line, such ns Ironing Carriages, making and repairing Farming imple ! meats, edge-tools, horse-shoeing, Ac. in the best manner, and on the most reasonable terms.— Edge tends warranted. A share of patronage is solicited. L. GIUFFIN. Cassville, Ga., Feb. 16,1855.8 —ly. - | Atlanta, hard-ware store, a. j. BRADY, Whitehall Street, keeps ulwayi J"’ hand a full assortment of Iron, Nails, Cut-! lu L v > Mill Irons, Springs, Axles, Carriage Trim-! nnngs, Cooking and Parlor Stoves, Mechanic's mid Farmers’ Tools, Ac., which will be sold as dow as can be bought in any market. •Atlanta, Ga., July 14, 1854. ie mmm simn __ SdbettLsctycots. CARRIAGE and Buggy Making Establish ment at Cartersville Cass county Georgia, i 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 about. We warrant our work not to fail. Give , us a call before purchasing elsewhere. Out motto is Honesty and Jndvstry. JONES & GREENWOOD. Cartersville, Ga., July S, 1854. VTEW Tailoring establishment, at CartersviMe jL x Georgia, Shop at S. H. I atillo’s old stand. vffa The subscriber has lately opened in #4 the town of Cartersville a New Tai |fj|f Loaiwo Establishment, where he is pre pared to do any work in his line in the best and most fashionable manner. He guar antees all wotk turned out of his shop to fit in unexceptionable manner. Particular bßattention paid to cutting and fitting jobs for ladies. lie lwtpectfully solicits a fair trial, as he is confident of success. SILAS O’SHIELDS. sept 9—ly rpo FARMERS AND PLANTERS. A. & J. 1 L. Hill, are now receiving a superior lot of Negro Shoes, Negro Blankets and Kersevs, ! Osnabnrgs, Shirtings, Trunks, &c., for the fall; and winter trade, which they are offering Lear I for Cash, or on short time. Farmers or others wishing to pu~chase 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 wc ask is that you will call and examine for yourselves, east of the court house. Cassville, Oct 27 p EORGE TOGT’S Piano and -A-bA \ X Music Store, LTo. 148 Arch IJ jj y ff J Street, Philadelphia-. Constantly on hand Pianos, Melodeons, Musi cal Merchandize of every description, Sheet Mu sic, Ac. &c. Voc.t’s Pianos 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 IyOTICE TO LA xFOWNERS ! ~The under- j It signed having removed from Albany to Troupville. Lowndes county, Ga. Will in addition to the practice of Law examine ! and report the value of land in the counties of Thomas, Lowndes, Clinch, Ware, Appaling and Irwin. He will, when requested, examine Lands personally, and give full information as to -alue, location and probability of immediate sal 3. Having no connection whatever with land speculation he will engage to act as agent, in the sale or purchase of lauds, in any of the aforesaid counties for a fee of ten per cent, up on the amount received or paid out, His char ges for examining land will be five dollars per lot, for lands in the 12th district of Lowndes, in all the other districts, he will charge ten dol lars. Additional will be charged for an exami nation of title upon record. ETHRTAM 11. PLATT, Attorney at Law, TronpviHv, Lowndes Cos. Ga. Nov 17—ly | PTAX'6^JIt f m- j/WV, <(vT rfv. •Vfr— v THE undersigned is pre- P MU ‘d to furnish Vogt’s j Diana*, at short notice, j Cl w V mid on as good terms as | 1 they can be had anywhere j at the South. These in- j struments are warranted to he equal in point of] tone, durability and workmanship, to anv man ) ufaetnred in the world. Every Piano warranted j for live years. Any instrument failing to meet i the expectations of the purchaser, may be re- j turned at any time within six months, and an-! other will be given in its stead. Having a j brother (a Professor of Music) in Philadelphia, ‘ who selects every Piano sent out, purchasers ; may rest assured that none hut perfect instru | ments, in etery r expert, will he sold. A large lot of Sheet Maxi*-, of the latest and : most fashionable issues, constantly on hand j and for sale at Publisher’s prices. WM. SCHERZER. ! Professor ot Music in Cassville j Dec. 8, 1854 —ly Female College. v—--yoniMZY a clayton, Wauk-I *• Hoi se and Commission’ Mek- | JU CHAXTS> Anqvxta, Ga. —Continue the ; business in all its branches, and will give I their personal attention to the sale of COTTON j and other produce. Cash advances made when required. Ragging, Rope, and family supplies j purchased at the lowest market rates. Com- i mission for selling Cotton 25 cents per bale, auglß OLD SOLDIERS.—By a recent Act of Congress, till persons who have served in any War since IT I ."*, 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 j undersigned will attend to the collection of such claims. WM. T. WOFFORD. Cassville, mh B—ts Agency at Washington.—The un . dersigned prosecutes all manner of claims against the United States, before Congress, be- i fore Commissioners, and before all the Public Departments, and es]>ecially claims for bounty land under the act of Congress just passed, pen 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 seat of the I Federal Government, with a thorough and fa miliar acquaintance with all the routine of the i public business at the different offices, added to nis free access to consul’ die ablest legal advi- j sers, if needed, justifies the subscriber in pledg-1 ing the fullest satisfaction nnd 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 j gentlemen who have been members of both j Houses of Congress in the last fifteen years, it, is deemed unnecessary to ex fend this notice by j special references. A full power of attorney j ! should accompany all cases. Communications j ; must be pre-pnid in all cases. Fees regulated | bv nature and extent of the business, but al-: ways moderate. 11. C. SPALDING, Attorney. Washington, D. C. mh 15^— BOUNTY LANDS.—The undersigned hav ing long been engaged in the prosecution , of Kevolutioruir}’ Pension Claims, Invalid Pen sion Claims, Bounty Land Claims Ac., against the General Government, now tenders his ser vices to all such claimants, especially to Bounty /dial Claimants for the procurements of their Claims, as there arc 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 1780, who have not received as much ns ! 160 acres. ELISHA KING. Adairsville Ga. uih 22 —2tn SELLING off at Cost for Cash, As the under signed is closing up the business of the firm iof Leake A Howard, he has determined to I sell off at cost for cash. Cotne all that want good bargains and corns quick or you will miss them. i Cartersville, Dec I—ts W. W. LEAKE. READY-MADE CLOTHING, Pantl. Stuff, C’hambrav, and a fine assortment of Jew* ! dry, at LEVY’S CASH STORE. > -apr 26—ts . • l\ Zaloik) ifetospuper—Jjebofed io ftutioiwl st)o Bfqfe politic?, £ikh|fi|i-e, il)e Jjoiiiesiic Ketos, &c. CASSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY, JIJNE 7, 1855. Cjioire Soiflcj ftotye. BY FRANCIS BROWN. Wc said that the days were evil, We felt that they might be few, For low was our fortune’s level, And heavy the winter grew; I But one who had no possession Looked up to the azure dome, And said in his simple fashion, “Dear friends, we afe going home!” This world is the same old dull market That wearied its earliest sage; The times to the wise are dark yet, But so hath been many an age. And rich grow the toiling nations, And red grow the battle spears, And dreary with desolations Roll onward the laden years. What need of the changeless story Which time has so often told, The spectre that follows glory, Tlie canker that comes with gold,— That wisdom, and strength, and honor Must fade like the far sea foam, And Death is the only winner, — But, friends, we are going home! j The homes we had hoped to rest in Wore open to sin and strife, j The dreams that our youth was blest in Were not tor the wear of life; For care can darken the cottage, As well as the palace hearth, And birthrights are sold for pottage, But never redeemed on earth. The springs have gone by in sorrow, The summers were grieved away, And ever we feared to-morrow, And ever we blamed to-day. ! In depths which the searchers sounded, On hills which the high heart dumb, Have trouble and toil abounded— But, friends, we are going home! Onr faith was the bravest builder, But found not a stone of trust.; Our love was the fairest gilder, But lavished its wreath on dust, And time hath the fabric shaken, And fortune the clay hath shown, For much they have changed and taken, But nothing was our own. The light that to us made baser The paths which so mam- choose, The gifts there was found ho place for, The riches we could not use; The heart that when life was wintry Found summer in strain and tone, With these to our kin and country— Dear friends, we are going home! Clrnirc Riisrtllnntj. of §oi(llKh) lh|(0. Number IT. TALLULAH FALLS. “ STP*?aWpl*Shing oVrTrWWky-bv.-d-’’ j We left Toceoa on a cloudy, dark j Sabbath morning. The Louisatm belle I ands, both exjiostulated against the j movement. In the first place we had j religious scruples, about continuing a journey on God’s holy, consecrated day. True, there was no temple of worship near—no glistening spire, no pealing or gan, no band of worshippers there in the •solitude of Nature’s wilds, but we would fain have gone up, and paid adoration to the great Creator, in the* presence of! lone of his noblest works —we would | have kneeled with subdued hearts, and ; worshipped that day, in the presence of’ I “ The Beautiful .’’ lint the guide eyed the threatening j clouds and shook his head—the Doctor j coughed and rematked in his calm, quiet ! way, that if it rained, the torrents would i [ come rushing down the gorge upou eve- ! ry side of us, and that the tent would be j wet and for what he knew washed away; j his wife looked anxiously at her hus- j band, and breathed a fear that we had • already stayed in that damp atmosphere j too long for the Doctor’s good—*l myself; | knew that all this was true, aud so the i belle and I yielded our point. But be fore we started we went once more up the grass-grown pathway, and sat down to take a last, lingering look, at what had charmed us so much. There were no rainbows there then, for the sun would not shim*, and it seemed to me that the dense elotids came down, as if to kiss the wild elfin thing, and resting i upon the edge of the ledge, above, frown- I cd down upon us in gloomy majesty. “ I do not believe that I can go a- 1 way,” said my Louisana friend ; “ I could I stay here forever. Shall we ever see it ■ again ?” * Never until the roads are better I fear,” I said. ‘lpoine away.” But be fore we got half way down the track, we went back to look at it once more — ‘ j and then again we turned and finally : we went backwards, until a sharp point !of rock shut it out of sight—l am al j most afraid, forever. In the sultry summer days, I never think of that wild, beautiful fall, playing away there in the deep old woods, with out a pang of regret— a longing to be a wav, and to dwell there always. When wo got back the tent was down i ! —the servants had everything packed j up —the carriages were ready and the company was preparing to start. Six teen miles brought us to another Fall— a place scarcely less remarkable than ; Toceoa, but entirely dissuniliar in char ! actor, The Indians called this place [“Tallulah —Tiik Terrible.” Somo ! where on the road however that day, we j passed a tree called the “ Notched Oak.” ! In times of Indian warfare, a powerful ! Sachem made upon its trunk a notch ev ery time he took a white man's scalp. — The numerous scars gave melancholy evidence of his prowess in arms. I do not remember bow many be killed* — This tree I believe has recently been .blown, or cut down .; I aur sorry that it “PRINCIPLES NOT MEN.” could not have been left, as a relic of other days. These Falls are also in the lovely count y of Habersham, on the Terrors river. Here the stream is large, but viewed from the banks, which in many places are more than a thou sand feet above the water, it looks much sinal ler than it real ally is. The Falls consist of a succession of cataracts none‘of them very high, or in themselves very remarkable. But the banks are “Terrible.” Anybody must see them, and clamber up and down to the water’s edge, 10-know what they are. I went down twice, and the last time came near fainting through fa tigue, I never hazarded the experiment again. But one could ramble here fora mouth upon the banks and find some thing grand, new and striking every hour. But great cave must be taken— one mis step and the drama of life would bo euded. A crushed and shapeless mass of flesh and bones would be all that would he left of you, and the eagle wheeling about over your head would get even that. Accideuts often occur here. A gentleman came near falling off of the banks a day or two befote our arrival.— He caught by a twig and hnng there until rescued by his party. A few years ago, a Presbyterian minister from Ire land, went into the river for the purpose of bathing above the Ilorse-shoe fall— j lie was swept over and perished. The ! lit tie pine tree on which he hung his -watch and clothes still stands, and is called “ The Hawthorne pine?’ The clergy man’s name was Hawthorne. — , we gathered some bark from its trunk as a keepsake. Rattlesnake abound here. The camper often kills them almost at his tent door. While clambering about among these d.uk frowning masses of rock, 1 found something one day, which made my breath come quickly, and my heart flut ter. It was a hemlock tree —the first and only one I have seen since planting my foot oil southern soil. The Louisana belle clapped her hands at sight of a | mountain, but I experienced a wilder | thrill of delight at the sight of that sim ple evergreen. The Present faded away —away —away. I did not see the aw ful chasm at my feet—the frowning rocks over my head. The carriages and the tent in the distance—the guide—my beautiful companion—my invalid friend ; and protector —his anxious wife—the I snowy cotton fields —all the scenes in j which I had been mingling through bu sy and crowded years faded away. In ; tlieir places came up the old south woods 1 before my father’s door. It was winter —the beautiful greeu hemlocks were there, each wearing a corona! of snow. L was a child again, wearing gingham aprons, and studying Peter Parley’s ge ography. In the ample fire place Maz ed the ruddy fire; the fore-stick glowed I like a yule log. My sire, who has slept | for long years on the banks of the Deei* I field, was there bending over me with i his thin, white hair. I saw inv brother’s j coasting sled and ruddy school-boy face, j I caught my mother’s gentle smile. Ob, ■ what memories that hemlock stirred. “Ifyou do not mind you will fall, i Miss B.” said the guide. “There may | be snake* under that ledge too, you had j better corre away.” J Alas, the charm was broken, I was : standing more than fifteen hundred miles ! from the old yellow cottage, and the dark ! south woods. The hemlock, it is true, | was there, but how the snow wreaths would have melted away beneath that burning August sun. “ What were you thinking about ?” said the belle with a smile. “ You came near falling.” “ I was thinking about what, perhaps, you would have thought of, hail you found a stalk of sugar-cane growing the rock yonder, my koine. ’ *’ What is that curious looking tree ?” | she asked, eyeing it closely. “ It is a hemlock,” I said. “I never saw one before” she replied, i“lt is ratlutr pretty. Not to be compar : ed however with a sycamore, or persim- i I mon, or dogwood, when it is in full bios-: som.” She did not see that hemlock with rnv eyes—that was certain. So I wise ly kept all of my fine raptures to my- I self. Now and then an Indian with his keen, black eyes, and his leathern moc casins, here crosses the traveller’s path. There is the remnant of a tribe not far from this point, but the few who are found about here, are generally those who have been to the “ Indian Nation,” and returned or those who refused to go ! with their tribes at the time of their re ; moral. I One red inau familiarly called Injin ! John lives here and raises chickens to sell to those who come to see tlie Falls. He had a pretty white gill for a wife and one or two children, lie married his wife iu the “ Nation,” or rather she went there and married bun. It was a romance story, and the woman who kept the rude inn on the hill, would have told us all übout it, but I did not care to listeu to the tale. If the pretty, blue eyed girl fancied a dirty Indian, I had no objec tion to her going to the end of the earth after him. Yet it was a strange fancy —there is no denying it. But I am at the end of my letter. Yours truly, C. W. B. ■ ’ ftbegd: ol* ILob. i afiO 1 “ The Critter loves me : I know she loves me !” said Jonathan Dobikius, as he sat on the corn-field fence, medita | j ting the course of true love, that was ’ j running—just as Mr. Shakespeare said lit did—rather roughly. “If Sake Pea ! body has taken a shine to that gawky, j long shanked, stammerin’, shy critter, | Gussett, just because lie’s a city feller, she ain’t the gall I took her for, that's sartin. No, it’s the old folks, darn their ugly pieters. Old Mrs. Peabody was al ters a hifalutin critter full of stuck up uo- I tions. And the old man’s a regular soft head, driven by his wife, just as our old ; one-eyed rooster is driven about by cur < cant ankerous five-toed Dorkin’ ben.— | But isl don’t spile his fun, my name aint; I Jonathan. I’m going* down to the citv 1 by the railroad, next week, and when I j come back, wake snakes! that’s all.” The above soliloquy may serve to give | the reader some slight idea of the lav of i the land in the pleasant village where ; the speaker resided. ; Mr. Jonathan Dobikius was a young j farmer, well-to-do in the world, and look ! ing out for a wife, and had been paying J his addresses to Miss Susan Peabody the | only child of Deacon Elderberry Pea -1 body of that ilk, with a fair prospect of ! success, when a city acquaintance of Mr. Peabody’s —one Mr. Cornelius Gussett, who kept, a dry-goods shop in Hanover street. Boston, suddenly made his appear ance in the field, and began the cutting 1 out game. Dazzled with the prospect of becoming a gentleman’s wife, and .pestered with the importunity of her as piring mamma, the village beauty began to waver when her old lover determined on a last, and bold stroke to foil bis ri val. Tie went to the city and returned; of his business there he said nothing— not even to a pumping old ma'den aunt who kept house for him. Tie went not near PeahMv’s but labored in his corn field, awaiting the result of his machi nations. The next dav Mr. Gussett was seated with the old folks and their daughter, in j the best room of Mr. Peabody’s mansion, chatting pleasantly as possible when the I door opened, and in rushed a very dirty ! Irish woman. * “ Is it there ye are, Mr. Cornelius Gus sett! Come out of that before I fetch ve, ve spalpeen ! Is that what ye prom ! iscd me before the praste. ye heathen, jye narer! Running awav from me and • the chillier—forsakin’ yer lawful wedded 1 | wife, and rur.nin’ after the Yankee gals, j ye infidel P’ i “ Woman there must l>e some mistake i her*',” stammered Gussett, taken all a- I back by this charge. ! “ Divil a bit of mistake, ye snrpint ! j Olj wirra, wirra. was it, for the likes of j ye I sacked my little Dennis McCarthy, i i who loved the very ground l trod on,l and all bekase ve promised to make a ! ladv of me. ve black, dirty tliafe of the ! world ! Will ve come on to the railroad station where I left little Patrick, bekase lie was too sick with the small pox, to come anv further, or will ye wait till I ’ drag ye ?” “Go—go along, go and I’ll follow von,” gasped Gussett. lie thought it best to temporise. “ I give von ten minutes,” said the vir ago; “ If ye aint there, its me cousin, I Mr. Tlinddy Mulgrudery, will be after ye, ye thafe!” And away went the unbidden guest. | Mr. Gussett. was then engaged in stain- J mering out a denial of all knowledge of: ! the virago, when the parlor door again j i opened, a little Mack eyed, hatchet-faced | i woman, in a flashy silk gown, and a cap of many ribbons perched on the top | of her head, invaded the sanctity of the parlor. “Is he here ?” she cried in a very de cided French accent. Then she added with a scream, “ Ah, mon Dieu ! voila ! Zere lie i-! Traitre, monger! Vat for you runs awav from me? Dis two tree years T nevair see you—nevair, and my heart broke very bad entirely.” “ Who are you ?” cried Gussett, bis eyes starting out of his head, and shiver ing from head to foot. “He asks me who I am. Oh, you very respectab’e old geutlehornme, vou hear whaflfPc asks. Who am I— -perfide ! I am your wife!” “T never see you ’fore, so help me Bob,” cried Gussett, energetically. “ Don’t you swear !” said old Deacon Peabodv; “if you do. I’ll kick yo into j fits—won’t have no profane or vulgar j language in inv bouse.” “ Oh, bless vou, bless you, respectable old man ; tell him he must come wiz me; tell him I have speak to ze consta ble —tell him—” sobs interrupted her utterance. “ It’s a pesky bad business,” said the Deacon, chafing with unwonted ire.— “ Gussett, you are a rascal.” “Take re, deacon Peabody, takei care,” said the unfortunate shopkeep- 1 er. “I remark* 1 *! you was a rascal, Gus set t. You have gone and married two j wives, nnd that ere’s fiat berglary es I! know anything about the Revised Sta toots.” “Two vise !” shrieked the French wo man. “Haifa dozen, for aught I know to the contrary,” said the deacon. “Now TWO DOLLARS A-YEAR, IN ADVANCE. you get out of mv house ; go away to the station and clear out to Boston ; I want nothing more to do with you.” “ But deacon hear me!” “I don’t want to hear you, you sar pint,” cried the deacon stopping his ears with his hands ; “ marryin’ two wives md cornin’ courtin’ a third. Go along; dear out.” Even Mrs. Peabody, who was inclined to put in a word for the culprit, was silenced. Susan turned from him in disdain—he fled to the railway sta tion, hotly pursued by the clamorous and indignant French woman. That afternoon as Miss Susan Peabody was walking towards Hie village, she was overtaken bv Mr. Jonathan Dobikius, dressed in bis best, and driving his fast-going horse, before his Sunday-go to-meeting gig. lie reined up and ac I costed her — “ Hello, Suke—get in and take a ride ?” “ Don’t keer es I do, Jonathan,” re plied the young lady, accepting the prof-; sered seat. “ ] say, you,” said Jonathan, grinning, j “thatere city fellers turned out poorly.j aint he ?” “ It’s dreadful, if it's true,” said Susan. “ You had a narrow escape didn’t ye,” ; pursued the old lover. “ lint, lie warn’t j never of any account nohow. What do j the old folks think of it ? ’ “They hain’t said a work since he j cleared out.” “ Forgot that night, 1 role you home , from the singing school ?” asked Jona than suddenly branching off. “No, I hain’t, returned the young la dy blushing and smiling at the same j time. “ Remember them apples T gin ye ?” “Oh, yes.” “ Well, they was good wasn’t they ?” j “ First rate, Jonathan.” “ Got a hull orchard full o’ them kind of fruit,” said Jonathan suggest jve ,y-. Susan was silent. “Glang!” exclaimed Jonathan put-j ting the braid on the old black horse. — . “ llave you anv idea where we’re going, , Suke?” “I’m going to the village.” “ No, you aint —you are going along with me/’ “ Where to ?” “Providence, and you don’t come back till you’re Mrs. Dobikins, no how can you fix it ?” “llow you talk Jonathan.” “ Darn the old folks, said Jonathan, I putting oil the string again; “es 1 was to i leave vou with them much longer, they would be tradin you off to some city feller, with some half a dojfen wives al ready.” ; The next day, as Mr. and Mrs. Dobi- J kins were returning home, said Jonathan, j confidentially “ May as well tell you now, Sukc— j for I aint any secret from you —tlm*, i Gussett never saw them women afore j they stepped into your house and blow- j ed him up. 1 had, though. Cost me j ten dollars —thunder ! I touched them i what to sav, and l expect they done it , well. Old Gussett may be a shopkeep er, but if lie expects to get ahead of Jon athan Dobikms, be must get up a plage sight ailier of morion s ! ’ Bwltee If 1(h)O'. Stopping at a village inn, there came up a severe thunder storm, and Captain Hall,surprised that anew country should have reached such pei feci ion in these j metercological manufactures, said to a ; bystander— “ Whv, vou have verv heave thunder, here?” * : “ Well, yes,” replied the man, “ wo du, considerin’ the number of inhabit ants.” Here is another story, which a stage j driver once told me: A wagon tin* out- j side of tlie coach called to a man by the j roadside who was fencing some very j poor land— “l say, mister, what are you ten* ing that pasture for t It would lake forty acres on’t to starve a middle-sized cow!” | “ Jesso; and I’m fencing of it to kc*-p eotir kettle eout.” Now, in the “ forty acre” part of the story, we have an instance of what is called American exaggeration,and which I take to be the symptom of mo-t prom ise in Yankee fun. For it. marks tnar desire for intensity ot expression which is the phase of imagination. Indeed, | many of those sayings are purely imag inative —as where a man said of a pain- • ter he knew, that “ho painted a shingle so exactly like marble, that when it fell into the river it sank.” A man told mo once that the people I of a certain country town were so uni versally dishonest that they had to ; take in tlieir stone walls at night.” In . some of these stories, imagination ap ‘ pears yet more s r >nglv, and in that contradictory union with the understand ing which lies at the root of the highest ‘ humor. For example, a coachman driv ing up some mountains in Vermont, was j asked if they were as steep on the other side also? “Steep! chain-lightning couldn’t go down ’em ’thout the brceeh iu’ on !” I believo that there is more latent humor among the American peo ple than in any other, and it will one day develop itself. INTO. 18. I^alitinil. tutyt, £iiil)i|sMc Wceiijog.— §pcccl)Cs of lessi'S. lootybs, IMt)3?. An immense concourse of our citizens assembled on Monday evening at the City Hall to hear an address from the I lion. A. 11. Stephens. Notwithstand ing the shortness of the notice, it being announced only on that day, by placards at public places, theie being no papers issued Monday morning, that Mr. Stepli i ns would address his fellow citizens, the people turned out, cn masse, to hear their ‘distinguished and patriotic Representa tive. The Hall was crowed to suffoca tion, and hundreds were standing out side, unable to get in, and clamorous for Mr. Stephens to come out on the steps, this being suggested to the speaker short ly after he opened his address, Mr. Steph* ens said he would acquiesce cheerfully jin the general wish, and proceeded to j the northern portal of the Ilall. Here our citizens, to the number of two thou sand, were compelled to stand on the ; damp ground, for want of a suitable platform. Thanks are due, for this ad : vantage, we suppose, to our Know Noth ; ing Council, who have thus carried out | tins Know Nothing principle of stifling I discussion. We have never seen an or ! a*or speak under such disagreeable cir | ciimstances but we have yet to see a more partient and attentive audience. —* i Mr. Stephens commenced his remarks by ! expessing bis regret at being compelled | to speak in the dark, for it was always his | pleasure when lie spoke, to look the peo ple in the eve. lie said lliat he had travelled over more than half the State, in order to meet the people of Augusta 10-night. Since his communication to Mr. Thom as had been published, it had been said that the re s nos his retirement from the canvass in the district, was his fear ot being beaten. For himself be was a fraid of nothing —of nothing under or above the earth, but to do wrong. Os that he was afraid ; but of being beaten he would’nt give a fig for a man who was not willing to be beaten in de fence of what he bd.evid ‘to le light. He had come there then, he said in response to vari*. us calls, to announce that he was again a candidate for Con gress from this District.’ Nominated, said he, not by any two thirds rule, but hereupon this stand I nominate myself tor Congress from the Bili Congressional | District. j Mr. Stephens was here interrupted by ja deep and enthusiastic shout of appro’ 11 ion from the groat cio.vd he was ad j dressing. lie continued, that this Know I Nothing order had been created, it was isa and, for the purpose of putting down j dnnag* gues, small men, tricksters. For ! himself Tie was no trickster. Tricksters never walk in open day. They skulk in hiding places, and he warned the people |to beware of leadeis who resorted to the dark in order to concoct their 1 schemes. It had been said by some who had commented upon his letter, but none of whom had had the boldness to come out, by those who were shooting at him iu tlie dark, that David and his adherents : formed a secret organization, and that Samuel Adams and others formed a se cret clique for the purpose of striking a blow for American liberty. This object, said lie, was revolution, and the object of the Know Nothings was revolution. It is to overthrow the Constitution of the country ; to create a religious test when the Const it ition said t! at there should be no religious test. The Know Noth ings knew that their object was revolu tion ; they knew that they had taken an oath not to support any Catholic, for office. They might deny it, and explain away the denial by some casuistical, slip pery, Know Nothing const ruction, but there was a monitor within, which told them they had taken it. Mr. Stephens continued for sometime in an eloquent, strain, on tin? sublimity of truth the foundation of all honor and integrity among men ; a want of which, as bad as the Know No liings charged the Catholics to le. could not be preferr ed ngaiiint them ; and then introduced a beautiful passage of sacred history : “ It was after Judas had betrayed Christ with a kiss, ami I’eter denied him thrice, that our Lord asked, what is truth ?’’ lie called upon all Know Nothings, but es |>“endlv all Minister* of the Gospel, who might have j ine*? the order, to n pont in sack-clotli and ashes, and to go about and preach from the pulpit on that tejet, “ wl.at is truth !” He here eloquently appealed to Know Nothings to burst assmider these oaths, which bound theip down as with cords, and abandon this spirit of prevarication which they had adopted for the purpose of violating the Constitution of the coun try 1 He poured so lh glowing, patrio‘- ie and forcible’appeal* iu behalf of* the principles laid down in his late letter a gainsl Know Nothingism. He depicted in masterly style, the corrupting and dis astrous influences to result to society tron* the deceitful equivocating and frau dulent. practices of Know Nothingism— thi; anti-American—anti-Uepublican and unmanly character of its secret, organi zation—the danger to liberty, to the peace of (immunities, and to social or-