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4 THE TIMES & SENTINEL. XENHEHT LOMAX & BOSWELL ELLIS, EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS. IHE TRI-WEEKLY TIMES A SENTINEL published E VERY WEDXESDA Tand FRIDAY MO HJf- JJYO and SATURDAY EVEXIXG. THE WEEKLY TIMES A SENTINEL. Ip published ereiy TUESDA Y MORXIXG. Office on Randolph Street, opposite the Post Office. TERMS: TRI-WEEKLY, Fit* Dollars per annum, in advance.; WEEKLY, T.wo Dollars per annum, in advance. £7* Advertisements conspicuously inserted at One Dollar square, for the first insertion, and fifty cents for every sub Sequent insertion. Liberal deduction will be made for yearly advertisements. [WRITTEN FOR THE TIMES & SENTINEL.] A Scrap from Aunt Patty’s Scrap Bag. THE PURPLEJSATIN DRESS. By Caroline Lee Hants. “Now, tell me, Aunt Patty, about the piece of purple satin,” said Estelle, while she plied her Ibusy needle, in manufacturing a cap for her aged relative. “You promised me, you know, •when you related the history of the pea-green silk taffeta. It seems to me there must be some thing very interesting connected with this. It has such a rich, beautiful color, and is so thick and glossy.” “Let me look at it, child,” said Aunt Patty, putting on her spectacles and stretching out her hand, in which Estelle laid the shining morcean. “I can always remember any thing better, when I look at it. Yes, this is fine, and it belonged to a fine lady—and she lived in a grand house, \ the grandest in the whole town. When I was a young girl, I used to stay week after week, in that house, and the merry times they had there, I could not begin to tell,” “You, Aunt Patty! How came you to be in such a grand house, and with such fine folks ?” “Why, you know we always kept the best of company, and though we had no pomp or finery ourselves, we had more chances than one to see it in others. Mrs. Delville used to come to our house and take a great deal of notice of me, and call me her poor lame Patty, so kindly, it warm ed my heart to hear her. I never expected any one to take notice of me, and when they did, I felt as you do, when the sun shines out on a cloudy day. Once Mrs. Delville sent fer me, to make her a long visit, because, she said, she was lone ly and wanted some pleasant company, as if I could entertain such a fine lady as she was, “Well, I hadn’t been with her more than a day or two, when there came three young ladies from the city to see her, and three prettier crea tures I never set eyes on. Their name was Morrison. The oldest was Cornelia, but every body called her Neely—and the second was Margaret, and the third Grace. One looked hardly older than the other, and it was hard to tell which was the handsomest. They all look ed like so many pictures, and I, who always loved to look on beautiful things, never was tired with gazing at them. I really believe, I’ve sat for hours together, looking first at one and then at the other, watching their eyes sparkle and thinking of the stars twinkling way up in the sky. Grace had a kind of innocent, childish turn, that the others hadn’t, and she seemed to take to me more than the rest. Mrs. Delville invited all the young company in the neighbor hood to meet them, hut I always staid by my self, in spite of all they could say and do. I never complained that the Lord didn’t make me as pretty as most people, and when at home and among friends, I never thought of my looks.— Provided, they treated me kindly, I was satisfied and happy. But I never could bear to go among strangers, and have them stare at me, and ask who that homely, lame young person was —and then to set myself by the side of those beautiful creatures, all dressed in muslin and laces, I never could do it.” “You always tell me, Aunt Patty,” said Es telle, raising her deep blue eyes suddenly to Aunt Patty’s face, while a smile played upon her lips—“that it was no matter how we look, if we are only good and amiable—“handsome is, that handsome does,” you say. According to that, you must be beautiful, x\unt Patty.” “That’s true, my darling, but young men al ways will be looking after pretty faces, though they are often sorry enough for it in the end. There was one young man who used to come every evening to Mrs. Delville’s, and the oftener he came, the gladder they always were to see him. He was an officer in the Army, and his name was Captain Lynmore. I never went into the parlor at night, but I could see the company walking about the garden of a moonlight evening, \ all in pairs, and the white dresses of the ladies j fluttered about among the green trees and flow- j ers, looking like so many fairies. Captain Lyn more was a tall, stately looking man; tall enough to make my neck ache to reach up to him, so as to see his face. The ladies praised him to the skies, and seemed to think there was nobody in the world like him. Mrs. Delville said she j would like of all things, to know which was his I favorite, but for her life she couldn’t tell. She believed for her part, that he was in love with them all. I noticed that though Grace praised him least of all, she always blushed when they talked about him, and pretended not to listen. Some times she made believe to find fault with him, and said she didn’t see any thing in him to take on about, but one could see that this was all put on. “They were always getting up some kind of | frolic or other, for Mrs. Delville was a merry lady and never was so happy as when she saw smiling faces around her. She had passed sev eral years in Europe and had brought home the greatest quantity of finery you ever saw. She was presented at Court, while she was there, and there were four or five dresses hanging in her wardrobe, that she wore, when she went to the Palace of the King. There was a crimson silk velvet, all trimmed with gold frogs and golden fringe; and a green silk velvet with sil ver frogs and silver fringe, and a beautiful pur ple satin, trimmed all round w’ith ermine as white as the drifted snow.” “Ah \ Pm so glad you’ve come to the purple s&tin. Please don’t lose sight of it again.” “One night,” continued Aunt Patty, smooth ing the scraps on her right knee, “Mrs. Delville took her fine court dresses out of the wardrobe and spreading them out on the bed, told the girls she was going to get up a kind of little masquerade, and they must put on her royal robes for the occasion. Mr. Delville had a court dress of black silk velvet trimmed with gold lace, that Captain Lynmore was to wear, and would you believe it, Mrs. Delville tried to make me dress up and pretend to he somebody.— But T told her, they ought to have somebody to look on, and I promised to slide into a corner ofthe|parlor wherein the shade of the dark green curtains, I could peep at what was going on. I wish I could describe to you, the magnificent figures theJhree girls made in their glittering dresses, with the long trains sweeping behind them. Grace wore the purple satin with the ermine border, and it fitted her like a glove. Mrs. Delville made her put on some pearl orna ments of hers too, but the prettiest ornament of the whole was a white rose bud, she had twisted carelessly in her shining dark hair. This was all done for a frolic, you know, for there was nobody invited but what was staying in the house already. As I sat in my corner 1 could see every thing that was going on, and 1 thought I knew more than some who were in the midst of the game. “Capt. Lynmore looked like a Prince,and though there were other gentlemen in the room, the young girls had eyes for none but him, he made the rest seem so insignificant. You know some people have naturally a royal way with them, and he was just such a one. Nelly, the eldest sister, who wore the crimson velvet robe, with something grand and shining on her head in the shape of a half moon, walked as if she was a King’s wife and he not good enough for her; she kept the Captain Lynmore close to her the greatest part of the evening, though I could not help thinking that he would have liked to talke to [somebody else. But she had a way of fastening people to her, whether they wanted to or not, so that it was very hard to get away from her. Margaret did not seem to care about any one in particular, but laughed and talked with all, looking in her beautiful green velvet, like a pink bursting into bloom. Grace did not look gay or lively like the rest, she was pale and sometimes a sadness would steal over her that she tried to shake off and could not. Once in a while, her eyes, (and they were the softest, brightest eyes that ever shone in a mortal head,) would follow Captain Lynmore and her sister, as they swept up and down the room, playing state, with such a grace, and then she would turn away with a sigh. I heard somebody say to her “what a handsome couple your sister and Captain Lynmore would make ! I don t wonder they are in love with each other.’’ Grace drew a quick short breath and came and sot down by me. “ Patty,” says she “I envy vou, from the bot tom of my heart, you dear, good creature.” “What in the world can you envy me for?” says I, thinking maybe, that she was making fun of me, because I was left to myself as it were. “Oh!” says she, laughing and blushing togeth er. “I don’t believe you were ever in love, were you!” “No,indeed,” says I, quite scandalized, “I think it a disgrace for a girl to fall in love, without being asked. I would as soon cut off my right hand.” I wish you could have seen her, Estelle; when I said that, her cheeks turned the color of scarlet and her eyes flashed up, like a fire light on the wintry hearth. Says she, “Patty, I hope you do not mean any reflection on me, by that remark.” “I don’t mean nothing wrong,” said 1, “and I never thought you would take it to yourself, I am sure. lam sorry if I hurt your feelings.” She looked at me right hard as I spoke and her eyes softened till they looked like velvet.— Laying her beautiful white hand on my arm, she said; “I don’t believe you would intentionally wound the feelings of any one. I did not mean to speak so quickly. Come in Mrs. Delville’s room with me, will you ? I see they are prepar ing for a dance and I do not wish to join in it.” With that she put her arm round me and sort of drew me coaxingly out of the room. “There, Patty,” says she, “sit down iu that rocking chair and tell me vhat you think of me.” I looked up iu astonishment at those words, but when I saw her right opposite in her splen did dress, with her veil of white gossamer lace thrown back from her face, looking so fair and beautiful, I could not help saying: “1 think you are the prettiest creature 1 ever saw in my life, but you have no right to be proud of it, for you and I both are as the Lord made us.” “Oh! Patty,you don’t say I’m pretty,” says she, catching me round the neck and kissing me, with her own sweet lips; “if it were not for one person, I would not care how I looked. ’ Then changing her voice she added: ‘ Do you think Captain Lynmore loves sister Neely ? Do you really think so ?” “I don’t know enough about love,” says I, feel ing ashamed, though 1 don’t know why I did, “to know what its signs are, you know better than I.” “Oh!” says she, clasping her hands tight to gether and lifting them up a little, “if I thought it were really so, I should be wicked enough to wish to die. Patty, pity me; I am the most foolish, the most inconsistent being in the world, and the most unhappy. Don’t think strange of me, but it is such a comfort to have someone, to whom I can open my heart, and you look so good.” Just at thi3 moment, Mrs. Delville burst into the room calling on Grace, to come immediate- j ly and make up the dance, that they could not do without her. “Is sister Neely going to dance ?” asked she quickly. “Yes, she is standing up with Capt. Lynmore of course,” says Mrs. Delville, significantly. “Yes, yes, let us haste to the dance,” says Grace gaily, holding up her train and showing her white satin skirt underneath. I didn’t know what to make of her, she seemed so sad before, and there brightened up so suddenly, but I follow ed her in,and slid down in my little shaded corner. (To be Continued .) Security of Slave Property in New York.—We notice that a movement has been already made in the New York Legislature to wards the restoration of the old law, repealed a few years ago, which recognized and secured slave property when brought there by the own er, while intransitu through the State. H D. B. Taylor, of New York city, who takes the initiative in this matter, the Albany Argus is ot opinion, will be sustained in the effort to revive a law which, though eminently just, and in en tire the spirit, if not the ltter ot the Constitution, the fierce spirit of abolitionism expunged from the statute book during the e ward dynasty. COLUMBUS. GA. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JAN. 19, 1853 The English in Central America. The late discussions in the Senate in reference to the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, have directed the public mind to the history of British encroachments, by which the Belize fell under the dominion of the British Flag. The following details will show that for two hundred years, the pirates, people and Government, have steadily persisted in the determination to annex this important naval sta tion to the British Empire, The islands in question are very important in a mili tary point of view. The power that holds them, if strong enough in ships, controls the Spanish Main. Ac cordingly in 1642 the English buccaneers seized them. The Spaniards reasserted their dominion and drove the buccaneers out. In 1742 the forces of the British Gov ernment again took possession. A war ensued with Spain, at the end of which England agreed to abandon the islands ; but it was not done, and in 1780 Spain again declared war. The English were now forcibly expelled from Ruatan, and in 1783 made another trea ty, agreeing to quit the whole coast, except a certain place (the present British Honduras or Belize) where they were allowed to cut dye-woods. In 1786 still another and more stringent treaty was made and the English now really abandoned the coast. Ten years later, during another war, they again occupied Ruatan, but on May 17, 1797, the Spanish expelled them. In 1814 the last treaty was made between Spain and Eng land, containing the same stipulations with regard to this coast as that of 1783. * * * * From 1797 forward the islands of Ruatau, Bonaca, Utilla, Barbarette, Helena and Mcrat remained in the possession of Spain until the revolution of 1821, when they passed over to Honduras. la 1830 the Superin tendent at Belize seized Ruatan, but his act was disa vowed by the British Government and the islands sur rendered to their lawful owner. In 1841 Col. Macdon ald, then Superintendent at Belize, again seized them, ■ending off a platoon of Honduras troops he found there and hauling down the flag of the Republic. The in habitants of the island preferred to remain as citizens of Honduras, but he overawed them. This time the British Government did not disavow the act, but in 1843 directed Mr. Chatfield, their Representative in Central America, to say to Honduras, weak and pro testing at the robbery, that it had been performed by orders from London ! Still nothing was done toward organizing any English authority on the islands. Some liberated slaves from the Cayman Islands (British) w r ere established there, but suffered to manage their own affairs, till August, 1851, a year after the Clayton and Bulvver Treaty, when they were subjected to a British magistrate, as a dependency of the “Settlement of Belize,’’ and finally in July last, were made into an independent colony, as above stated. Slavery in New York. When the constitution of the United States was adopted, New York was a slaveholding State. In 1795 the work of abolition began ; but the eminent states men of that day who had assisted in laying the corner stone of our liberties, had too much respect for the rights of the federated States, to interfere with tlieir ! social relations. Accordingly a statute was allowed, to remain in force in the State which gave permission to slaveholders to retain their right to slaves for nine months after their removal into the State. In 1841 the arch-demagogue and abolitionist, William 11. Seward, procured its repeal. The vote iu the Senate stood yeas 11, noes 8. Not a Democrat voted in the affirma tive, and but one Whig voted in the negative ; his name was John W. Taylor. Mr. Daniel B. Taylor, a Democratic representa tive from the city of New York, has lately offered a bill before the Legislature of New York re-establishing the old law which was repealed under Seward’s influ ence. The Lemmon outrage is no doubt the cause of this re-aetion in Northern sentiment. It is thought, however, that the bill will not pass. Whether this movement is bona fide or a mere ruse to allay the excitement which the foul wrong perpetrat ed upon Mr. Lemmon has produced in Maryland and Virginia, wc have no means of determining for the present. We will, however, keep an eye upon the movement and report progress. A correspondent j of the New York Tribune, in referring to this bill J (January 10.) says : “Dan Taylor’s Slave transit movement will be kicked ! out ot the House almost before it gets into it. Mr. Ely, of j Broome, as you will remember, is anxious to be associated : with Taylor in this new effort to save the Union, and brought in a set of resolutions cutting so low to Slavery as i even to disgust the Dough-faces. This double bid for ; Southern smiles disgusted Champlin, a progressive Demo- j erat of Alleghany, and he brought in a counter resolution this morniug availing liimself of the occasion to show that i there was one Loco-Foco at least who would refuse to ‘ make concession to our task-masters. The House seemed to be with him, for when Littlejohn, of Oswego, with an ; expression of contempt for the whole thing, moved its refer- ; ence to the Judiciary Committee,it was sent there by an al most unanimous Aye. Your Mr. D. B. Taylor will find 1 his bill very summarily snubbed by the Representatives from the rural districts.” Facts for the School Journal. Over 22,000 children are attending the public schools in Boston, where they have a law to punish truants. Pennsylvania. —We learn from the school repoit just made to the Pa. legislature, that there are in that State 9,699 common schools, with 7,860 inale and 3,853 female teachers, and 267,0'9 male and 213,719 female scholars. The average cost of teaching each scholar is 42 cents per month, and the total cost of in struction $743,546. The whole amount of school tax levied last year was $982,196, besides the sum of $158,- 958 appropriated by the legislature. How many schools are there in Georgia ? How many men and women who cannot read or write ? Our friend, the Rev. Mr. Scott, will soon inform sn in his “School Journal.” The information will astonish and shock many of the enlightened citizens of the “Em pire State of the South,” Senator from Alabama. —Benjamin Fitzpatrick has been appointed by the Governor Senator, to fill the va cancy in the Senate occasioned by the resignation of William R. King. Mr. F. left Montgomery on Satur day last, for Washington, The Arrival of the Isabel. —The Commissiorrrs sent to Mexico to investigate the Gardiner claim, return ed to the United States in this vessel, and report that alleged mines have no existence. They have brought witnesses with them who will prove that the claim is a grand humbug. Key West. —We find in the Charleston Courier the following interesting tables of the trade, wrecks, and salvages of this very interesting locality. No. of vessels. I Nations. Ships 2 J American 19 Barques 9 English 2 Brigs 9 Spanish 1 Schooners 3 Belgium 1 Total 23 Total 23 Amount of salvages paid $80,112 Amount of expenses paid 82,558- 162,700 Value of vessels and cargoes $66C,800 Number of vessels wrecked on Florida Reef 10 “ of vessels in distress 13 Trade of Key West during the year 1852. Number of arrivals 110 “ of tons 25,915 “ of crew * 1,369 Value of imports $40,000 Vessels nearly daily pass through the North-west passage of this harbor, and those that make this port for a harbor during head winds, &c., &c., or cargoes carried to Havana per steamer Isabel , not included. We have commenced the new year bravely ; up to this date, we have five wrecks, viz,: Brig Lucy from Thomaston—Salvage SSOO ; ex pense S2OO. Barque, George Thomas 5 Ship Wood side, New York—Salvage $750 ; Schooner Eliza, New Bedford—Salvage $6,000 ; Barque Edward Everett, Boston. Louisiana Senator. Quite a stir has been produced by the supposed discov ery, that the Election of Benjamin as Senator by the last Legislature of La., is rendered void by the adoption ot the new constitution. The new law of the State on this subject is in these words : Be it further enacted, Sfc., That on the first Monday following the’ meeting of the Legislature, in the session thereof, commencing in the year in which the term, of office of any Senator or Senators chosen to represent the State in the Congress of the United States of America , shall expire, or in case there is no session of the Legislature in such year, then in the next preceding such year, the two Houses shall meet in the Hall of the house of Representa tives, and proceed to a choice of a Senator or Senators to represent the State in the Congrers of the United States, in place of the Senator or Senators going out of office ; and the person or persons having the greater number of votes, shall be declared duly elected Senator or Senators: Pro vided such number be a majority of all the members present. Senator Downs, term does not expire until the 4th March, next. Now it is evident that at the time of Benjamin’s election there was not any vacancy. It is thought that the next Legislature, which will convene on Monday next, 24th inst,, will elect another Sena tor. The Senate will be compelled in that event to de cide who is entitled to the seat. It will be a sad mis chance if Senator Benjamin is thus summarily deprived of his blushing honors before they have budded. “The best laid schemes of mice and men, gang aft aglee.” The Cholera.— The Brig Zebra, from New Orleans, bound for Liberia with emigrants, put into the river yesterday and is now at anchor in Coekspur Roads. She sailed on the Ist inst. with 110 negroes, who were shipped under the auspices of the Colonization Society. On the third day out the Cholera made its appearance on board in a most malignant form. The Captain and twenty?seven of the negroes have died, and others of the officers, crew and passengers are seriously ill. We presume, of course, that the authorities will take imme diate measures to have them landed on some of the ad jacent islands and properly cared for.— Sav. Courier , Jan. 16. Cholera at the Bay— The Apalachicola Commer cial Advertiser, of the 6th inst., makes the gratifying announoenaent that the cholera has nearly, if not en tirely, subsided in that city. The Advertiser adds : But one case has happened in the last eight or ten days, and the clear, cold weather and the improved state of the atmosphere bid fair that it has winged its flight from our midst. The reports circulated in refer ence to it have from the first been exaggerated, but this might be expected, as all diseases are reported worse than they really are. —— A New Democratic Organ. —A correspondent of the Tribune says: A negotiation is in progress and will probably be closed to-morrow, for the sale of The Republic news paper establishment to certain disaffected Democrats. The Union is decidedly too Old-llunkerish to suit the tastes of a large portion of the “fierce Democracie,” and they want an organ which will try to unite both extremes of the party, and treat all alike, only j Young America a little more so. The Republic , I i understand, is quits willing to sell. Gen. Lamar. —We are gratified to announce the ar rival by the steamship Texas, this morning, of Gen. M. B. Lamar, ex President of Texas, who has now been absent from this State for several years. His lady arrived some short time since on a visit to her relatives and many friends in this city. Gen. Lamar appears to be in very good health, which we should judge had Improved daring his absence. — Galveston News. Massachusetts Legislature.—Boston, Jan. 12. The Legislature to .day filled vacancies in the representation, giving the whigs a majority of 43 votes on joint ballot. They then proceeded to the election ofGov ernor, when John H. Clifford was chosen for that office. Delaware Senator.—Baltimore, Jan. 12.—The Legislature of Delaware has to-day elected John M. Clays ton United States Senator for six years,, in place of Presley Spruance, whose term expires with the present Congress. The Wetumpka State Guard proposes Col. A. J. Pickett, author of the “History of Alabama,” for Govern* or of the State. The Montgomery Advertiser savs, “well and good,” M e have no objections to make, for our part; the Colom el may run if he likes, but is it gallant for a Colonel to run. — Sav. Journal. Georgia Military Institute.—The Marietta Adva cate of the 13th instant says ; “The exercises in the In stitute were resumed on Monday the 10th instant. About one hundred Cadets were present. The corps of Instruc o tors is composed of Maj. Brumby, Capt. Robertson, Professors Green and Rogers, and M. Marchais, Teacher of French. Hon. Win. H. Forward has been elected Judge of the Eastern circuit of Florida, in the place of Judge Thos Douglass. A memorial is in circulation in Delaware, praying the Legislature to repeal the marriage license law. Cast iron pavements are being laid in Boston, as an experiment, at the expense of the inventor. On the 3d instant, nine slaves were sold in Lynch burg, Va., for an average of $1,049,44 each. The Whig Review, published in New York, has sold out to Putnam’s Monthly. The value of land in the centre of the city of Lon don, is £400,000 per acre. Miska Hauser, the violinist, sailed from New York yesterday, for California, on a professional tour. The Senate of New Hampshire on Wednesday pass ed resolutions deprecating the religious test in the con stitution. An elderly lady asked Tompkins what sort of a tree the tree of liberty was. “A popular tree, ma’am,” was the immediate reply of our sagacious friend. COMMUNICATED. Temperance Meeting. All persons friendly to the repeal of the present Li cense System for the sale of Spirituous Liquors the in State of Georgia & to leaving the subject to the voters of each county to say, whether intoxicating drinks shall be sold in the county or not, are requested to meet at Tem perance Hall, in this city, at 7 o’clock, Friday night, the 21st inst, to hear the addresses on the subject and to appoint delegates to a meeting to be held at Atlanta 22d February next, to promote this object throughout the State. The public generally are also invited to at tend. Supreme Court.—Minute of points decided by the Supreme Court of the State of Georgia, at its session on Tuesday : No. 2.—Geo. W. Persons, Pl’ff. in error, ) Assumpsit from vs. > Columbia Supe- Gabriel Jones, Def’t. in error. ) lior Court. 1. The doctrine, that a party who transfers a promissory note for value, warrants, by impli cation, that it is genuine and free from defect which would make it worthless, reaffirmed. 2. In a case where the statute of limitations is pleaded, and fraud is proved by the plaintiff, the statute only begins to run from the time when the fraud is discovered. 3. Although the record of another case between the plaintiff and the maker of the note transfer red, be given in evidence by the plaintiff—held that the statement in the plea of usury, that the plaintiffknew of the usury, when he received the note, was no evidence of such knowledge. Judgment below reversed. E. H. Pottle for plaintiff in error—A. J. Mil ler for defendant in error. We learn that the concluding argument iu the case of Cody, pl’t’f., vs. Quartenan, Execu tor, deft, in error, will be made this morning by the Hon. John M. Berrien for plaintiff. The Court adjourned to 10 o’clock this morn ing. Later from the Alabama. —lt gives us plea i sure to state, that the steamship Alabama re ceived no injury whatever during the late terri ble gale. She arrived at New York F-ftTay night—all well. A letter to the agents here ■jsfts?Ate .vwuffd*h* pjo w 1 her regular day, (Saturday,) but for ffetentionm discharging her cargo. She was to sail Mon day afternoon at 3 o’clock lor this place, and will leave here on Saturday next as usual.— Sav. Paper. Maine. —The legislature assembled at Au gusta on the sth inst. Louis O. Cowan, whig, was elected clerk. No choice of president, the democrats refusing to vote until the vacancies are filled. John C. Talbot, democrat, was cho sen speaker of the house. Positives and Comparatives.— A miser is a “close , ’man, but a railway colisioH is a “closer.” (Too often for life.) A bigot is a “narrow” minded individual, but a dealer in cross-bows is “a n-arrower.” (Hem.) A pretty girl with winning eyes is an “arch” creature, but Cupid with his bewitching quiver is an “archer.” General Scott is a “fine” fellow in every sense of the word, but a purifier of inetals, (a Califor nia gold seeker for instance,) is a “finer.” A pretty sylph-like flirt is a “light” girl, but a ponderously laden barge is considered a “Ugh ter” Avery spare man is a “thin” fellow, but a hair-cutter is frequently a “thinner” The blow of a schoolmaster’s cane is a “whack,” but the schoolmaster himself is a “whacker.” A warm individual is a “hot man,” but there is a certain animal called by the Cockneys a “(h) otter.” A man about town is a “fast” man, but a Catholic priest is often a “faster.” Teacher. —How many points of the compass are there ? Boy. —Two, east and west; there used to he four, but as Mr. Webster said he didn't know no north nor south, I suppose there isn't any. oWhy is a dinner like spring? Because a single swallow never makes it. O Why is a blacksmith like a counterfeiter ? Because he makes a living by forging. All round my hat. —A dentist presen ted a bill for the tenth time to a rich skinflint. “It strikes me,” said the latter, “that this is a pretty round hill.” “Yes,” replied the dentist, “Present it around often enough to make it appear so, and I have called now to get it squared.” O^T 5 * The Smile.—A man of uncommonly grotesque countenance boasts oi having receiv ed his infant heir’s first smile. A friend observes that it was not wonderful the child should only smile, where no one else could look without laughter. How can a man swallow a door f . By bolting it. Why is the tail of your coat like the letter V t Because it comes after U.