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HARRIS & HARRIS.
Ivrrson L. Harris, I Ciiari.es J. Harris,
Milledgeville, Ga. | Thomasville, Ga.
■arch 31 w ts
Wt'tbl. S. Birch A William Mclcndoii,
A1 TORN FA'S AT LAW,
TItOMASI'/U. f.. (’F.ORGIA
oetH 1!> , 1 way
IIAKIvK A BKWHI,
A T TORN E Y S AT LAW,
Troup rifle, Lowndes Cos., do. :
sept 15 w ‘ . ts
smm . SPEMKK,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
TIIOMASVILLK. GEORGIA..
WTLL give bin #Mitirp attfiitiim to tin* of
Law, in the (JoiintW of tlur Smitht*rn i-ircuit. —
Office nn tho mpcou 1 fl'or of D. &. K, MoLoaif*
; ■ bri<*k VuilUi)ir. (jmi^Ooy
MORGAN
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
SASnni.lsE,* r.EOKGIA.
WILL practice fit thnoountios* f tlto Smithrrn Cir
rnit,ninl tlioVotihtifH of Dooly,Worth Mini looigh
ortr of the Coffi’t*, Clinch nnd W arc
of the HrunMvyiok CircnitH.
Flat CLt . (>rt. 7. __ ts
j. bi . Ij i \ s-: b\i (at ,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law.
and Solicitor in chancery,
7 L(OMMI lleL /:, (iECfttaiA.
WllaTj practice hi in the Courts of
South-wcsfeni (ie*i g’uL aiwl >p*ciftll> iu the countiws
f LowndiM, Thomas, Decatur hihl Raker.
D—ts • , - ‘
DrT \vn .ft. IIA Isis,
TFNDKRS bin P.rofeHßional *t*rviciK to the citizcnn
of Thoimtfville and vicinity—Residence, the bonne
farroe h-y A. 11. llatitM'll —Office, next
door below. [ajr2‘J ]
(lleform Practice.)
V. s. ROWIIR, HI. Dm
OFFERS his Professional services ti> tile citizens ot
Thomasville ami vicinity. Calls at all hours
promptly attended to. ‘ (fcbdtf
Drs H. 11. A E. O. AR\OLD,
BIS] ©IMT (©.SMTJSiTB,
THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA.
WE have purchased the Resi<l‘ricc
of X)jL_lv. J. Hruee where one ot u*
nlwayH be found. Tooth Pow
der* And Wanh, atWti* on [jnhT. r >-tf
ilarriasos. Busi;ies and lVa?<ms.
MANI FACTI HI.I) TO ORDER, IIY
JOSR^’'PWI3 V SO* * iw*.,
AT THE HOUSTON CARRIAGE FACTOET,
Houston Ceniity, (icoigia.
tyAU work fully guaranteed.
] 18 A At 1 Agent.
C. G. ffIcLUVDOA,
LICENSED AUCTIONEER.
THOM A S VII. I. K, GEORG lAfP* /
WILL SELL on every Saturday, and on the first
Tuesday in every month, GOODS of every de
scription, entrusted to hiut for ssle.
July *1 _J ] oy
~ c. M. HARRIS,
Gcnoral Commission Merchant.
Foot of Monk Street Brunswick, Ga.
dec* w ~ t f
Adams House.
THIS establishment is now perma- ‘
nently opened for the Hcconnnoda riRBEIL
->t'un of the public. Every convenience jI i j llju
has been provided tor boarders and tran- 11
sient customers: and the proprietor flu t -
ter* himself that, he is now able to give the utmost
satisfaction. * GODliOLl), Proprietor.
Thomasville, Oft.. March 24, 1K57. ts
Land Office.
HAVING opened ail Office in Thomasville, Ga.,
wc w ill buy any Lauds in Southern Georgia, at
Reasonable prices, or qpll Lands for the owners on
commission. We will also report the value of Lands
owned by persons at a distance for a fair conipcnsa
■on. Burch & McLendon*
Rout. S. Burcii, ) Thomasvirle. Ga. •
Wm. McLendon, j May 26, 1856. 6m
Bank Agency.
THE subscriber has been spp.oj nka Agent for tlu
- Bank of Savannah at this place, and is propos
ed to disemmt Bills of Exchange, Drafts, arc?;-
■sod has for sale Checks on New York. /
jul yti) EDWARD REYyNGTON.
Bendy I*la4c Clothiiip. Ac. ‘
TJfAVING jitat received anew and elegant -JU
11 assortment Os Fauts, Vests, Dress and lj
Frook Coats, ghirts, &.C., &., &c., all of tho Jtf.
latest faahions;-together with Cloths, Cashmeres,
Vettings, Ac., the undersigned is prepared to furnish
all who wish to purchase such articles, as low as
the market will afford. Garments cut and made to
order;’ Call and see for voni selves.
JOHN P ARNOLD, Merchant Taylr
Tfcomas’ iUP, Nov 27, I ‘d’di ts
Select Ipoetrp.
From the Southern Monitor.
RORt’B KDSING.
<T .
BY MAC.
’Bout a kiss do ye usk ? It’s me that can tell;,
For, ould as I’m now, I am minding it well
When a salpeen of three, with how much delight
My milhcr kissed Rory and hid him good night.
But my mither she died and left Rory behind,
And the lasses I met brought her so to niv mind,
That at hosing I went, first one and nnither.
Becnuse they woae bonnets and looked like my mitli
er.
At last, would you think it, swate Bridget o,’Fliim
Had scarcely been kissed w hen she kissed me again,
And tould me a praest, away down in the city,
Would sny, if We’d ask him, a bit of a ditty.
u A ditty, swate Bridget, and what might it be?”
“ Ne’er mind, my dear Rory,but comojust vid me !”
We trudged to the city, and sure as my life.
He said a short ditty andj;alled her me wife. •
We got a wee cottage, a pig and a spade :
Bridget sickened; we hired her sister for maid •,
The maid I was kissing, when, trim as ye’r there,
I felt the ould devil a pulling my huir.
“ Begone, ye ould varmint!” 1 yelled in affright,
And sort o’ turned arouud to bo getting u sight.;—
oWUat did I diskiver ? Instead of an elf,
Swate Bridget O’Flarherty there jist herself.
D *■ W-~ • r
“ O Rory !” *he blubbered, still pulling sway,
“ But sick aB iny heart wid yer conduct, to-day ;
A kissing my sister while I’m in uiy bed.
Nor able to raise from the pillow my head !’’
“ Troth !my Bridget,” says I, “ perhaps ye c'an mind
When yr to the kissing were greatly,inclined.
Ye kissedimt and kissed nie at Domiy brook fair,
And now by the jailers ye’re fmlling my hair. .
Begone ! ye ould fool, wid a rumpus like this,
I’nil/tily a laming ycr sister to kiss !”
SPEAK NO ILL.
Nay, s[nak_i:o ill—a kindly word
Can never leave a sting behind.
Ami oh! to breathe euelUtHle wev’e heard
Is far beneath a treble mind.
Bull oft a better seed is sown,
Hy (hooking thus the kinder plan,
For if but little good be known,
btil! let uc speak the h.sstr-we ettßv
Give ere the hem t that fain would hide—
Would fain arsEothor’s faults efface,
llow can it fileusure liuiliau |iride
To prove humanity hut base ?
No, let us reach a higher mood,
A nobler!estimate of man:
Be earnest in the search for good,
And speak of all tlre b*url~*ve~oatt.
* *
Then speak no ill —but lenient be,
To others ns yout ,. *
If you’re the first a fault to see,
Be not the first to make it known.
For life is but a passing day,
No lip may tell how brief its span;
But oh-! the little time we stay,
Let's speak of all t he best we can.
Oinniimuvitljrnim.
Work.
There is a perennial nobleness and even
saerrditess in work. -Were lie never so
benighted, forgetful of his ‘high calling,
there is always hope in a nwb that actually
and earnestly works. In. idleness atone there
is perpetual despair. Work, never so Mam
monish, mean, is in communication with Na
turo ; the real desire to get work done will it ,
self lead one more and more to truth, to Na
ture’s appointments and regulations, which
are truth.
Consider holy, even in the meanest sorts of
labor, the whole soul of a man composed into
a kind of real harmony the instant lie_sets
himself at work. .Doubt, desire, sorrow re
morse; indignation, despair’ itself, all these,
y u b"-’ ••"‘Vg g| lie beleaguering thesoul of the
poor day-worker, as of every man ; but IfK,
bends himself with free valor against his
task, and all thesh are stilled—all these shrink
murmuring far off into their cave.
Blessed is he who has found his work; let
him askjgno other blessedness.— Car!pie.
Life’s Irritabilities.
-J£- . Y.
What is the use of it ? Ro ymt worry
yourself to death of what other people may
of .you, as long as you know that it is not
true. Take care of the truth ; that is
your buisness. All falsehoods go to the bo
som oft heir father,the devil, and their framers
soon follow. So much as to l'alsohoods of
of you. As to falsehoods to you, and as to
every tale the most remotely prejudicial to
another, treat it and the narrator with the
utmost indifference, until you hear the story
of the other party ; ’this’only is just, and wise,
and kind
Poisonous Whiskey.
The Lebanon Star records the (leatli
of four men from drinking whiskey with
strychnine in it. We suppose this only in
cludes the sudden deaths from drinking whis
key, in that place. From the quantity of
strychnine that is used in the manufacture
of whiskey, we doubt not that thousands die
in this country annually from the effects of
poison taken info their system hy drinking
this noxious liqnor. To such an extenU ? is
this deadly poison used in the manufacture
of whiskey, it is said that it kills all the fish
’ih the streams below the distilleries, in some
instances the mill-races are being literally
choked wilb them. p:f
A bevy of little children were feliijig their
father what they got at school. The eldest,
reading, spelling and definitions. “And what
do you get, my little son!” said the father to
a rosy-cheekedjJittle fellow, who was at that
time slyly driving a tenpeny nail into the
door panne). *'Me,J —Oh, I gets reading
apd st>anklin.” |
J3c Inst ntt& .fenr Noi; Cet all tljc Gfnbs tljon ‘Ximest at be fljn (Conntrn’o, tljn oob s anil- i£rutl)'o.
THOMAHVILLE, GEORGIA, OCTOEBEIM3, 1857.
The Funsral of Washington.
The following from the Ulster count} 7 Ga
zette of Jan. 4, 1800, gives a brief account
of the funeral of Washington :
Georgetown, December 20tb.
On Wednesday last the mortal part of
Washington —the father of his country and
friend of man —was consigned to the tomb
with solemn honors, and with funeral pomp.
A multitude of persons assembled from
many miles around Mount Yer non,the choice
abode and last residence of the illustrious
chief. There were the groves—the sjiacious
avenues —the beautiful and sublime scenes—
the noble mansion—but
habitant was now no more. That great
soul gone. Ilis mortal part was tfrdrc, in
deed ! but oh 1 how affecting ! lfow awful
the spectacle of worth and oreatuess, thus
to mortal eyes fallen—yes, fallen ! fallen !
In the long and lofty portico, where oh
the hero walked in all his glory now lay the
shrouded corpse. The countenance still
composed and serene, seemed to express the
( ignity of the spirit lately dwelt in
that lifeless form. There, those who paid
the last sad honors to the benefactor of his.
country took an impressive and a farewell
view. „
On the ornament of the head of tlje coffin
was inscribed “ Surge ad. Jmlicum”—about
the middle of tlie coffin, Deo”—and
on th@ silver plate. —
GE N ERA I,
GEORGE WASHINGTON .
Departed this life on the 14th December,
1799, Mt GB.
Between three and four o’clock the sound
of artillery from a vessel in the river filling
minute guns awoke afresh our solemn sor
row—the corpse was moved —a band of mu
sic, with mournful melody, melted the ten
derness of woe. ... ..
The procession was formed, and moved “in
the following order : Cavalry; infantry and
guard, with arms reversed; music ; clergy ;
the General’s with his saddle, holsters
and pistols; Cols.Siws Uamsayvrnd I'avnc,
pall-bearers. The; corpse, Cols. Gilpin,
Marsleller and Little, pall-bearers; mourn
ers ; masonic brethren ; citizens.
WJ.cn the procession had arrived at th™
bottom of the elevated lawn, on the banks
of the I’otomac, where the family vault is
placed,the cavalry halted,the infantry march
ed towards the mount and formed their liues ;
the clergy, masonic brotheis and citizens de
scended to the vault, and tin; funeral service
of the jjiurch was then perfoniisd. The fir
ing was repcatedTrom the vessel in the riv
er, atid tho sounds echoed from the woods
and hills around.
Three geiieral discharges by the infantry,
tl>e“cavalry and 11 pieces of artillery, which
lined the banks of the Potomac back of the
vault, paid the last tribute to tlie entombed
commander Os the armies of the United
.Status and to the departed hero.
The sun was now setting. Alas! thesuri
of glory was set forever. No—the name of
Washington, the American President and
General, will triumph over death ! The luv
clouded brightness of his glory will illutnin
ale the future ages !
Memory of Brutes
One of the Debuqiic“papers gives tire-fol
lowing interesting ~narrative in relation to
Herr Driesbaejr, the-“ lion-tamer
“ Last evening we, with two companions,
walked up street with a very worthy farmer
from w ithin one mile of Potosi, Wisconsin,
w.lio talkerhabout Iris ‘ pigs, geese and ducks,’ I
and w ith'w hat success lie*tilled his farm.—
As an instance of his successful till he stat
ed.that he sohl the product of from fifty met
square of his farm of which lie kept an ac
count, foivforty-tliree dollars. Hence it may
he se*n that this farmer, Herr Driesbnch, lias
some skill as well as~pride in his farming.—
Our.chief object in taking the walk.was that
Herr desired us to witness a meeting between
himself and old pets of the menagerie,which
he had not seen for more than a year, and
which of course, we were most anxious to
witness, to see whether time, travel and
change had obliterated from their recollec
tions their old master. On entering the can
vass, which was before the audience began
to collect, llerr desired us to stand before
the cage of the Bengal ‘Piger, lie remaining”
•at the door the while. This tiger, from some
old sore, had just as old a grudge against
hiin. nnd in days of yore managed to give a
marked demonstration of the This
cage was selected for the first test ..of recog
nition. While we w’ere stationed immedi
ately in front, llerr came sauntering along
carlessly, habited in a farmer’s-costuinc, and
as lie neaped the cage the tiget’s eyes began
to glisten with great brilliancy as they bore,
directly upon him mid at the samd time, a
low guttural grpwl began to raise in his throat
which burst out in a ferocious howl as lie
leaped at the bars to get at him when he pass
ed by. Tliid experiment was .tried several
times .with the same rosnlt, and when at
length Herr spoke to him, his rage knew no
bonnds, leaping at the bars, lie dashed his
paw’s out to tear him, and only ceased when
his old master w'alked out of his sight**
“'file next place we were.desired to re
move to was the largo cage containing a
large lion, tjvo leopards and a lioness. We
mention therij'tbus as it is the order they
stand in the cage, it being divided into apart
ments. As Herr apjiroached this cage the
lioness caught sight of him, and her eyes
beamed with pleasure, while her tail wagged
a glad recognitioti. On his coir itig up to her
and presenting his face to the cage,she kissed
him, aild placed her paw in his hand with all
the air of an intense affection.
-~i “ Indeed while lie was in her presence she
d;d not know how to control herself, but
would Ijck his hand while, ho attempted to
pat her, roll over, reach out her paws to him
and press her nosu between the bars as
though she would like to have had a closer
presence. While Herr was talking to the
lioness,old lion in the other end of the
cage bqPr to get jealous and gronibled, for
“be too had recognized his wid friend. Herr
stud to nitn, ‘ Billy getting jealous !’ and then
walked up to (uni when the creature crowd
ed against the bars to get closer to him if it
were possible, and kissed his face and licked
his hands with as great demonstrations of de
light as the other. The leopards too, iu the
same-cage,knew their old master, and watch
ed him as the} 7 lay with their noses to
the bars of their cage with evident pleasure,
and seemed highly pleased as lie spoke to
them. In all our days wo do not recollect
any exhibition that gave us so much satisfac
tion as did this meeting of old friends, and
while we watched.them in their congratula
tions, we could not make up our mind which
was the most delighted, Driesbach, to know
that he was not forgotten by these affection
ate creatures, or that they were once jncire
in his presence. While we were watching
llerr and his old companions, the crowd be- ,
gan to gather iu, and our companions and
self departed highly gratified at the resiilt.
Character of Aaron Burr.
BY WILLIAM WALLACE.
If Blaunerhusse.tt had been the only per
son ruined by BuiWi chaKty -woiiltI 7 (i'^eSrW“’
burial of our remembrance, of the Exile’s,
desolation. But the victim* of Burr are to
lie numbered by hundreds. The base and
the peaks iJ’ socTTity, alike, .show the scathing
“mark's of bis fiery visitation.
He cherished no friendship jhe returned
unlionore.d the drafts of Gratitude; he kin
dled the flame of lusts at the very fireside of
hospitality, and felt little pleasure in bidding
adieu to tho Lare\ of his host until the dear
est objects that flourished under their sacred
influence was sacrificed. Biit for the deep
affection which he manifested towards his
daughter, 1 its sole merits seem to have been
coolness a'lul courage; and yet, clustering as
were tlie lau'rels which they bhowered on
his. brow, his baser passions.so predominated
that he held it more glorious to seduce a
woman than to shine in the field nfJefters,
to settle the steeps of philosophy, or to wave
a bnpnci victoriously in battle
lie courted the man his wife—
the .statesman to profit by his iufkicnce-r-the
millioiiiare to .obtain li:s money—and the
world to gratify his 7 desjrfis! He was the
more dangerous from the possession of an •
intellect massive, piercing and brilliant, uni
ted to a form at once handsome and vigor
ous. Ilis mind was but the keen weapon
with which he hewed a path to conquest. — 1
That--weapon was protean. If the victim
tally came under the gaze of an eye whose
sharp light resembled lightning imprisoned
and forever playing in a cloud as black as
death—she “as forever lost. Burr’s conver
sation was iiresislahly fascinating—for his
hands swept every chord of the human
heart. | lie strewed the rosy paths of the
happy with (lowers ,of a still brighter hue;
he arched the troubled sky of tlie despon
ding. oitli tlie rainbow of hope ; he conjur
ed up before, the rapt vision of the avaricious,
golden Golcondas ; and to the aspiring he
pointed out the illuminated vistas of Glory.
! Tims he’ st.dod : gifted and unprincipled,
ruthless and terrible. The want of great
fortune, alone prevented his presenting, in
one. vast Alpine mass, that evil which he ac-‘
eoiuplished Imt too successfully in many de
tails. (’litince confined to valleys, compara
tively humble, the stupendous giacicrs'wliich
only needed the rays of the sun of the for
tune to devastate continents.
It may be asked : 4 ‘ Is not his valor on
the battle-fields of his country to be remem
bered !*’, Yes! Thatr was a redeeming”
: thing. No matter from what motive his mil-
I itary talents were exercised, our land reaped
some benefit. Brit we arc forced to doubt
‘the patriotism of tfhe who w;m w 5 ready to
ffirswe.ii his allegiance; who trampled on so
imsch that men hold sacred, and wno regard
ed ins exploits against royal tyrany less glo*
lions tinin the moral ’destruction of a human
being:
Age is expected to subdue ; but with
Burr, tlie winter of,tune brought no snow to
cool the lava of passion. At four-score and
six the charter wore a glow as ardent, as at
twenty ! His faculties mocked at a century.
Age. should bri 1135. the r soot-hing calin of re
l:g)on to prepare tempest-tost bark for
its entrance into another and final Sea ; Burr
died as he had lived—a practical Atheist.—
Age should bring respect. Burr expired as
he had existed, without the regard of the
good. His hoary hairs went down to the
grave, floating on the breeze of infant^’.
In cuipiing, an lago ; in lust, a tarquin{
in patience, a Catalitie; in pleasure, a Syba
rite ; iregratitude, a Malay,'aiul iu ambition
a Napoleon, he affords (lie world an awful
(xample of powerful intellect destitute of
virtue. Jfis portrait would fitly appear iri a
circle of Cante’s Inferno. _
Let no one accfise tlie speaker of stepping
with sandalled feet through flic soleym se
pulchre. Aaron Burr belongs to History.—
duett teas the tot he elude. >
a calm blue-eyed self-composed, and self
possessed young lady in a vilage “down cast,”
received a long call,thq other day,from a pry
ing old spinster, who,after prolonging her stay
beyond even bev own conception of the young
lady’s endurance, tamo to the main question
whiclr'%broug!it her thither: —-“I’ve been ask
ed a good many Mimes it you was engaged to
Dr. C- . Now, if folks inquire again
whether you bo or not, what shall I tell, ’em
I. think!”— them,” answered the young
lady, fixing her calm blue eyes in unblushing
steadiness upon tlie inquisitive features of
her interrogator, “tell them that you think
you don’t know, and you ai <i sure it is none
of yuag business.”
Daniel Webster penned the following beau
tiful sentiment:
If we work upon marble it will perish; if
upon brass it will efface; if wo rear temples
they crumble into dust; but ifjvojvork upfin
our iuTmiotal souls—if we imbue..them with
princijdfes, with the just fear of God, aud our
fellow men, we engrave on those tablets
something which will brighten to eternity.
,— i —- ■ ■’ t
Laziness travels so slow, that poverty soon
Overtakes her.
A Sonnet by Daniel Webster.
The N. Y. Courier is indebted to the kind
ness of a lady for the privilege of publishing
the following lines by Mr. Webster written
in the Album of an American friend while
on his visit to England. Our readers, we
iH'liever-wijl agree with us in thinking it a
happy idea, linpily expressed. ‘
THE KEXOST OF THE HEART
ts stores of dry aud learned lore we gain,
Close we keep them.in the memory of tlu< brain;
Names, things, and facts—ivhate'er we knowledge
call,
There is the common lodger for them ill;
And images on this cold surface traced,
Make alight impressions, aud are soon effaced.
But w e're a page more glowing end more bright,
On which our friendship, and our lute to w rite.
That these may never from the soul depart.
We trust them to the memory of the heart
There is no dimming—no efface men t beret
Each new pulsation keeps the record dear;
Warm golden letters on tho tablet fill,
Nor lose their lustre tilt the heart stands still.
--London, Nov. 19,183 ft
Sat Lovengood's Shirt.
B\ SS U OFTKNN.
The first person I met was “Sut” fafter
crossing the Hiawsssee,) “ waviug aud mov
ing along” in his usual rambling, uncertain
gait. His appearance at once satisfied, me
thit something was wrong. Ho had been
sick, whipped iri free fighfor was just outgrow
ing one of his big drunks. But upon this point
I was soon enlightened.
“ Why, Sut, what’s wrong now t”
* Heap’s wrong; durn roe skin if I stint
mosts ded. Lite off that boss, George, an’
take a hrirn,.while I take two (shaking that
everlasting flask of his at me), an’ plant
yerself on that ar log, an’ I’ll tell ye es I ken,
but it’s most beyond teilin.’ 1 recken I’m
the danidest, fool out eti Utaw scept my dad,
for he acted boss, an’ 1 hant that yet—allots
in some trap that cudent kech a sheep, I’ll
drown myself sum day, see es I don’t, just
to stop a family dispersition to makd ‘di—d
fools on themselves.”
. y‘ How is it, Sut, have yon been beat play
ing cards, or drinking, which is it I”
“ Nara one; that can’t be did in these
parts; but seiu’ it’s you, George, I’ll tell
you; but I swar I’tn ’shamed, sick sbrry,
and—and—road— I atn.
“ Jfe know I boards with Carr, at bis oab
iu on the mountain, aud pays for sich as I
gets when i bev money, an’ when I beverit
any why hctakeson-tbirdoutenmeincussin’;
and she that’s his wife, Bets, takcstot.her two
thirds with the battliu stick, and the intrust
with her tongue, and the intrust’s inoro’n the
princi’!—a heap more. She’s the eussedes
’oiuan I ever seed eny Low, for jaw, breed
in’and pride. She can scold a blister into a
bull’s face right on the euil in two minits.
She outbreeds uv’rything on tlie riv er—and
pattern arter every fashion she hears tell on,
from husshels to britches. Oh ! she’s one on
’em’ and sometimes site’s two or three, Well
you se.% I got some home-made cotton truck
to make anew shirt outen, and coaxod Bets
to make it and about the time it were dun,
here comes lawyer Johnson along aud axed
lor bicakfus—l wish it had pizened him, durn
his hide, and I wonder it didn’t for she cooks
awful mixings when she tries. I’m pizen
proof, myself (holding up his flask and peep
ing through it), “ or I’d,been dead language.
- “ Well, while he were eaten, she spied
out {hat his shirt was_stiff an’ mfty slick ; so
she got a few particulars about the proceed
ings onten him hy ’Oman’s arts —l don’t know
liowjdie did it, perhaps lie docs Arter he left,
sue. set in aud Idled a big pot of paste —nigh
onto a peck of it an’ soused in me sheet an’
let soak awliite, then she tuck iri arid
iroficd it out flat and dry, and sot it up on its
jiidgc agin the cabin in the sun. Thar it
stood as stiff as n dry boss hide, an’ it rat
tled like a sheet; of irpn, it did. It wero
pasted together all over. When I cum lo
dinner nothin’ wud do hut I must put it on.
Well, Bets an’ me got the thing open alter
some hard work she pulling at one of the
tailsnud meat the {other, an’ 1 got into it.
Durn the everlasting new fangled shert, I
say; It felt like i had ciawled into an
old Lee gutn an’hit full of piss-ants ; but it
were liko lawyer Johnson’s and I stud it
like a man. aud weut to wok powerful hard
and swot like a boss, and when the sheet
got wet it quit its hurlin’.
“ I got dun I took about four fingers
of and crawled up into the cabin
loft to snuze.
“ Well when I waked up I thought I was
ded, had the Celery,, for all the joints I could
move wer my ankles, wrists knee—could’nt
even move my head, and skaSoly wink niv
eyes—the cussed short was pasted fast 7 onto
me all over my years. It sot to me as close
as a poor co,w does to her hide in March. I
pqnirmcd and strained till I sorter got it broke
at the shoulders aud elbows, and then I done
the darndest foolish thing ever did in these
mountains. I shuffled my britches off tore
loose from my hide about two iOches of the
tail afound, in much pain and tribulatiou
-Oil, but it did hurt ! Then I took up a plank
onten the loft arid hug ray legs down through
the hole and- nailed the edge of the front
tail to the floor before me, and the hind tail
to the plank wot I sofoir. I unbotteued the
eolar and rishniuls, r*od my hands away
abqve my head shut my eyes, said gruce aud
jumped through to the ground florc.”
Here But remarked sadly;
“George, I'm a durnder fool than ever dad
was, hoss; hornets and all.’ I’ll drown my-,
self sum of these days, see es I don’t.”
“ Well go,on,Sut; did the shirt come off?”
“ I—t-h-i-n-k—it—d-i-d. I hoard a
noise softer like tearing of a shingle off ot a
house at onst, and felt like my bones were
all that readied the floi e. I staggered to my
feet and took a look at my shirt. The nails
hud all hild their hold, and darit were hang
ing, arms down, inside out, aud as still as
ever. looks like the map of Mexico jnst
i arter one of the first battles—a patch uv my
hide about the size of a dollar and hautf hill
here ; a hunch of sav. har, about the size of a
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bird’s nest thar : then some more h; H .
some paste; then a little more bar’ than
skin, and so on all over the Anr~itd* m> ,
fangled, everlasting, infernal cum ot a ahM.
It was a picture to look at—an’ so vaa I.
The iiide, har and paste were about equally
divided ft ween me and hit. Wonder what
Beta darn her, thort when she com Imise and
found me missing. Bpecfs she thinltaj crawl
ed’ into a thicket and died of y wounds.
It must have scared her good, fori tell jm
it looked like the akin of some wild beast teas
off alive, or a bag what bad kmriad a load
ov fresh beef from a shooting match, r p~-
“Now, George, if ever f ketch that law
yer Johnson out I'll shoot him, an ifemraa’
’“man talks to me abont ttat’n'.n* a abort for it
darn my everlastin’ pictures I don’t flatten
her. Its ritribution sartin, the biggaet kiad
of a preacher’s ritributton. Do tninanakai
jay driving of dad through that hernet'a
Tiest, and then raciug of him Inter the kreek f”
•’ Yea,” *
“Well, tiiis is what cornea of K. I'll
drown myself some of these days, see of I
don’t—es I don’t die from thatawfal] shert
Ike a horn, and don’t you try a sticky
shert as long as you live.
When the French Academy defined aCmb
as ‘a small red fish, which walks backward,’
and triumphantly appealed to Caviar to
applaud the .brevity and felicity of the des
cription, that eminent natural}* replied: ‘Per
fect, gentlemen : only,’ if yon will glee me
leave, I will make one observation: tbeerab
is not a fish ; it is not red; it do not walk
backward!’ A slight removal of ’premises!’
Cuvier was a good deal of a war. Jffe dldn.t
believe in the existence of spirits,* sad was
wholly free from timidity. Some wagon 000
occasion planned an attaempt to frighten him
One oftheir. number, dressed himself la hide,
boots, and horns, after the most approved
fashions in which his Satanic Majerty Is por
trayed, met him during his evening walk w
his garden. ‘Who are you V asked Cuvier.
‘ The Devil ? ’ answered a • sepulchral voice
proceeding from the ‘Presepce.’ ‘ WelL
wliat do you want with me T * I have *nrott
to cat you up-!* Cnvier stepped back a few
paces, eyed the Figure ftom bead to foot a
moment; then said, slowly and meditatively ;
‘Umph: horns—hoofs—gramiuiverous; it
can't t>e done l ’ And, lie quietly resumed
his walk, while the Devil made the best of
his way out of tho garden.
” What ha t brought you here V ’ said a
lone woman, who was quite “ flnstrated,” the
other morning, by an early call from e bache
lor neighbor who lived opposite .and whmA aka
regarded with peculiar I came to
borrow matches.”—” Matches! that’aalikely
story ! Why don’t you make a match your
self? I know whatyou come for,” cried the
exasperated old virgin, as she backed the
bachelor in the cornrir; “yon came hereto
kiss me almost to death! But you shan't,
without you are the strongest, and the Lord
knows yon are !
A Dutchman was relating his marvelous
escape from drnwniog when 1 3 of his com
panions were lost by the upsetting of a boat,
and he alone was saved. “ And how .Hid
you escape their fate?” asked one of fus
lieaiers. “ I tid not eo in te tam pote {” was
the Dutchman's placid answer.
An editor got shaved in a barber shop
lately, and offered the darkey a dine, which
was refused, because, said he, “ I understand
you is an editor.” “Well what. of that?”
“Ye never charge editors mrffin!” “Brit
such liberality will ruin you.” “Oh, nrib
ber mind, we make it up off the grmmm /”
“ What aterwages here?” asked laborer of
a hoy.—” I don’t know, sir.”—“ What doffs
your lather get on Saturday nigh ?”— •* Get?”
said the boy ; •• why, he gets as tight as I
brick.”
“ Pa? wlmt. is the interest of a kiss f*‘ ask
ed a sweet sixteen of her sire.—“Well,
really, 1 don't know. Why do you ark r**
“ Because John borrowed a kiss of me, last
night, and Said he’d pay it back with interest,’
after wc w'ere married.”
A Pedlar calling on an old lady to dispose
of somegoods, inquired of her if she could
tell him of any. road on which no pedUr had
ever traveled. •Yes,” said she, “I know,
one, and the only one, and that’s the road of
heaven.”
I It wont do for a man to bump Ids head
against an iron post, even with a brisk iqJ&la
hat, unless he conscientiously belives ISM
, his head is the hardest. . >rt
The cautious woman writes her promises
; on a slate. The seusible woman uever
■ makes any. . . , V£ ry
:r■ . ■ i
A knavish attorney asked a vary worthy
i gentleman wbat was honesty. “ What ia
that to yon /” said he ; “ meddle with those
things that concern you most.” - X
Groom signifies one who servesrn an infe*
I rior station. The name of bridcgThom Vrtfe
formerly given to the new married, because
it was customary for lym to wait at table oh
his bride and friends, on bis wcdulng-day.
Hkalth in Youth.— Late hours, irregu
lar habits, and want of attention to are
common errors with most yofmg men, and
those gradually, and at first imperceptibly,
undermine the health, and lay the foundation
for various fbrrns of disease hi after life. It
1 is a very difficult thiag to make young people
s believetbis. Indeed,nearly all the shattered
constitutions with which too many are eanM
> are the result of a disregard tp tbo plainest
precepts of health in early life-
If poison should ha swallowed accidental
ly, take two tablo-spooiifuls of ground mns
-1 tard, mixed in warm water. ft will operate
as an instantantanous emetic. v