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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
Law Notice,
THE undersigned will give prompt attention
to all business entrusted to his care in the
counties of Sumter, Clay, Randolph, Early, De
catur, Bnker, Calhoun, Dougherty and Lee, in
this Circuit. JOHN LYON,
Solicitor General, S. W. C.
Newton, March 18,1854 —ly
13 IVES &T IIOBBSL
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Albany, Ca.
YTSRACTICE in the counties of Dooly, Worth,
•*- Sumter, Lee Dougherty, Calhoun, Randolph,
Baker, Clay, Early, Decatur, Thomas, Lowndes,
Cliflclo and {/win. In )lie U. S. Circuit Court for
Souflio;:; District of Georgia, and in any coun
ty in the State by special agreement
X J nSTO^IEOZES.
•r.B’llD undersigned (as will appear by the above
Card,) lias associated Mr. Richard Hobbs
with bi n in the practice at Albany, and takes
this method of informing his friends of the
change, and rhe joint services of the new
firm tor the prompt transaction of any business
entrusted to them in this section of the .state.
R. K. lii.N’ES.
Albany, January 4,18 cl.
it. XV. PIS A AI .'.I *>’ & KIMKUtIIC.II.
ATVOHSSYS ATT LAW.
ST A RKV] LLB GEORG IA.
February 4,1854.—1 y
KSE.YBY C. ALEXANDER,
ATTORN BY AT LAW,
Albany, Dougherty Caaaty, Georgia.
tVEIiL give prompt attention to all business
entrusted to his care.
Oiticc tip-lairs, over J. C. Davis’ Store.
Albany, January 28. 1354—1 y
STKOZIfeK & SLA.UgStEK
Attorneys at Law,
ALBANY, GEOSIGiII.
YYfIEE practice in the South-Western Cir
’ * o.iiit. Having opened offices both at Alba
ny and Newton, they may he consulted at the
latter place during tlie first and third weeks o!
each month of die present year.
Albany, Jan. 7, 1854. s—ly.
DOUGLASS <Jt DOUGLASS,
Attorneys at Law.
Cuthbcrt. Ga.
ELL praciice in the South .Western Cir
’ * cu t, and in Stewart coumv.
eugbsius t.. Douglass. | jiaiiclllus douglass
Dec. 17. 1853—1 y
WARREN & WARREN.
ATTORNEYS AT TAW,
ALBANY, CRORGIA.
My ILL practice in tiie following Counties:—
* * Sumter, B iker, Early, Thomas, Lee, Ran
dolph, Decatur and Lowndes.
LOTT* WARREN, L. P. D. WARREN.
and une 17, 1853 —ly
k. s. Warren,
ATTORNEY A T L A \V,
Starkville, Georgia.
July 1,1853—1 y
II EX B Y lOUGA X ,
ATTORNEY AT LUV,
ALBANY, GEORGIA.
XA/TLL practice in the Courts of the South
* \ Western and Southern Circuits.
vfffice up stairs in the old Franklin Hall, next
dnur to the‘Georgia Courier.
June 17, ISs3—tf
THOMAS C. SPICEII,
Attorney -A. A Law,
ALBANY, GEORGIA.
July 23, 1853—1 y
WILLIAM E. SMITH,
Attorney at Law,
ALBANY, GEORGIA.
WILL attend to professional business in the
Superior Courts of Sumter, Lee, Ilandoiph,
JJaker, Early, Decatur and Lowndes; and in the
Inferior Courts of Baker and Lee counties.
ALSO, in the several Courts of Ordinary of
Baker county.
Office, up stairs, one door West of J. C. Davis’
Store, Oct 8,1853—ts
ti i o*l as ,r . i> u\ \
Attorney at Law,
Jasper, Calhoun county, Ga.
V/t/TLL attend to professional business in the
* ’ Superior Courts of Sumter, Randolph, Ear
ly, Clay, Decatur, Baker, Calhoun, Dougherty
and Lee counties.—May 6, 1851—ly.
A. A. DAIFORTH,
DRUGGIST & APOTHECARY;
ALBANY, GEORGIA.
May 6, 1854. 22—1 y
MEDICAL.
TARS. JENNINGS &LUNDAY having formed
■*-’ a co-partnership, tender their professional
services to the citizens of Albany and vicinity.
February 10, 1854. 10—ly.
2!)c (ffikorjto Courier.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Mr. Hourcicaull’s Sketches of Eu
ropean Society.
THE LONDON MERCHANT
John Oakhcart and Son are Baltic
merchants. Youfig John entered his
father’s ofiice as a clerk at S3OO a
year, of which he paid his mother
S2OO for his board, lodging and wash
ing, and clothed himself with the odd
SIOO. Do not imagine that Mr. Oak
heart’s establishment required this as
sistance. The old gentleman desired
to make his son feel independent—lie
was a mart, he earned his own liveli
hood, and should feel that he support
ed himself. At 25years of age, young
Oakhcart marries, receiving with his
wife a moderate sum of money. He
wants to make a purchase in his fas
ther’s business: they cannot come to
terms. Young John can make a hot
ter bargain with a rival house in the
trade. The old man hesitates he likes
the sound of J. Oakheart and Son, but
business is business. Ilad his son mar
ried a peniless girl the father would
h< ve given him what he now refuses
to sell ; but now buiness is business*
and as a calculation, he can’t do it.
So young John becomes chief partner
:n a rival firm to that which one day
must be his, and trades against the
old man, whose only aim is to lay up
wealth for his son.
b-very day at one o’clock, leaning
against a particular corner on change,
stands the elder merchant, his hands
sunk deep!) into his dog’s eared
pocket.
“ Feel inclined to a discount for
1,200 at lohg date ?”
“ What name ?” asked old John.
“ My own. I will give 4 percent.”
“ I should want more than that, as
money goes—say 4 5-S.”
“ The brokers only ask 4 1-2 re
plies the young man.”
“Then give it.” And they sepa
rate with an indifferent nod. That was
father and son.
Every Sundayyoung John and his
wile dine at llussell Square, in the
same house where old Oakheart has
iived for thirty years. His name has
been cleaned out of the brass platoon
the do Hj Tliis house yoqr!£ John still
looks"upon, and speaks of as his home.
AH the associations of his childhood
are there, —every piece of furniture is
an old friend, —every object is sacred
in his eyes, from his own picture, ta
ken at four years old, with its chubby
face and fat legs, to tile smoke-dried
print of General Abercrombie. They
form the architecture of that temple
of bis heait—bis home.
After dinner the ladies have retired.
The crimson curtains are comfortably
closed. The crackling fire glows with
satisfaction, and old John pushes the
bottle across to his sou, for if old John
has a weakness it is for tawney port.
“ Jack my boy,” says he, *• what do
you want with $6,000 ?” “Well sir,
replies young John, il there is a piece
of ground next to my villa at BriXton,
and they threaten to build upon it—
if so they will spoil our view. Emily,”
meaning his wife, “ has often begged
me to buy it” and inclose it in our
garden. Next Wednesday is her birth
day, and I wish to gratify her with a
surprise ; but I have reconsidered the
matter —I ought not to afford it —-so I
have given it up. ’
“ Quite right Jack,” responded the
old man, “ it would have been a piece
of extravagance”—and the subject
drops.
Next Wednesday, on Emily’s birth
day, the old couple dine with the
young folks, and just before dinner,
Old John takes hits daughter— in—law !
aside, and places in her hands a parch- |
ment —it is the deed of the little plot
of gronnd she coveted.—He stops her
thanks With a kiss and hurries away.
Ere the ladies retire frtim the table
Emily finds, time to wKjsper tho se
cret to her husband. And the father
and son are alone. Watch the old
man’s eyes fixed on the fire, for he has
detected this piece of affectionate
treachery, and is almost ashamed of
His act, because he ddes not know
how to receive his sons thanks. In a
few moments a deep, gentle feeling,
broods upon the young man’s heart,
he has no words’—it is a prayer sylla
bled in emotions that makes his lip
tremble, he Jays his hand upon his
father’s arm their eyes meet.
Tut, Jack, Sir ! pooh ! it must all
come to you some day. God bless
you, my boy, and make you as happy
at my age as lam now. In silence
the souls of these men embrace. But
who is that seraph that gathers them
beneath her outspread angel wings.
I have seen her at the fireside flutter
ing like a dove from bosom to bosom.
I have seen her linking distant hearts,
parted by the whole world. She is the
good genius of the Anglo Saxon fam
ily. And her name is home.
The Washington Star says that Mr. Sickles
return to the United States was preceded bv his
resignation. Glad to hear it.
ALBANY, DOUGHERTY’ COUiYTY, GEORGIA, JANUARY 18, 1855.
Oardeu work for January and
February.
Everything for the success of the
garden must be done in these two
short months. There is no time to be
lost in the application of manures, if
those manures are expected to feed,
and nourish plants, instead of burning
and withering. There is a great di
versity of opinion in relation to the
kind of manure suitable for the garden.
Manures do not act on all soils alike,
; and the cultivator must exercise his
common sense in their application.—
Some writer has beautifully said, that
A lichen, fastening upon the barren
rock, hy its absorptionr from the at
mosphere and shedding its decompos
ing parts, would in time make a fruit
ful soil. This is the way that nature
renovates the earth. And we contend
tlmt a garden, to he fruitful, must
abound in vegetable matter. A gar
den that is already rich in hnmus, may
be stimulated to an astonishing pro
ductiveness by the application of gu
ano, but where there is one abounding
in humus, there arc ten without it.—
And here the cultivator must bring in
his common sense. If the soil is light
and dry, it needs that kind of manure,
which, in its decomposition, generates
and retains moisture, such as the well
rotted scrap ngs of the horse lot and
stable, the scrapings of the cow pen,
rotted leaves and straw, leached ash
es. &c. Or if it be a heavy cold soil,
fresh stahle manure, guano or any of
the heating manures may be applied.
But as we have before said, we look
upon guano as a dangerous manure
use it with caution.
The practice of manuring vegeta
bles in the drill, we most heartily con
demn, for, if this would answer all the
purposes of feeding the plant, a quar
ter of an acre garden would be equal
to an acre manured broad cast. It is
true, the tap rooted plants, like beets,
carrots, parsnips, salsify, Ac., run
down a long ways in search of food
and moisture. So, it is also true, that
they send out innumerable fibres from
the sides, coursing near the surface in
pursuit of that food which gives th :in
their best edible qualities; hence the
space, between the rows, should be as
rich as immediately uiuhir the plant.
Whatever manures are Supplied, put
on broad cast, and ssffn Ahem deeply
under. Deep, Deep trenching, is the
great secret of success ifi garden cul
ture_.
To those who have prepared the hot
bed, we would say plant early cab
bages, lettuce, radishes, spinach,cress,
Ac. South of us, they may he plant
ed in the open ground, with English
peas, salsify, carrots, celery, onions,
leeks, mustard, turnips, kale, cauliflow
er, and all half hardy vegetables.—
Next month, all the above may he
planted in this latitude. Soulh of ns,
tender plants, such as egg plants, to
matoes, cucumbers, melons, squashes,
Ac., may now he started in the hot
bed, and the same may he done here
next month. To have cabbage head
in the spring, they must be planted
early, so that they can commence
heading before the not weather comes
on. Manure a piece of ground with
fresh s able manure on the south side
of a building or fenee, on which plant
the seed ; have some straw conven
ient. to cover over on cold nights, and
with a little care and attention, you
may have cabbage fit to transqlant as
soon as the season will permit them
to stand alone. Eettuce may also be
started the same way ; and the ten
derer plants next mouth.
All of the onion tribe may now be
planted, both through this, and the next
month. The soil for onions should be
very rich and mellow. This vegeta
ble fully exemplifies the principles of
broad cast manuring. Planted eigh
teen ineheis apart in the rows, when
half manured, their roots will lock
across the row, and the cultivator
should use the hoe with caution, as
every rofit cut, or fibre mutilated, is a
check to /the growth of the plant.—
The button or top onion, and the small
set, mature a bulb in May and June,
if put out this or the next month.—
The black seed will mature fine bulbs,
by June and July, which will keep
longer than those produced any other
way.
Those, about making new aspara
gus beds, should lose no time now in
doing so. As asparagus is almost en
tirely an artificial production it must
have rich ground. There has been
so much mystery and fuss about its
culture, that many have been deterred
from attempting if. But it is exceed
ingly simple. A bed 4 feet by 20.
will supply a large family with dainty
cuttings for six weeks, with a more
delicious and abundant supply of
healthy food, than ten times the
amount of ground will produce in any
thing else in the year. Make the
ground rich and trench it deep ; plant
one or two year old roots, about ten
inches apart, all over the bed. As the
weeds and grass begin to grow, dress
the beds with salt. Asparagus is a
marine plant and wiH be none the
worse for salt, but the weeds will siok
en and die. We notice an article go
ing the rounds of the horticultural
press proving that asparagus is not a
marine plant, because it is found wild
in inlandjjlocalitics. This proves no
thing ; the seeds are carried by birds
great distance* and as it adapts it
self to any neijrrich soil, might seem
to be indsgenioiis there. At any fate,
it loves salt. The bed planted out af
ter the above banner, will be fit to
cut from the sfcond year, and may be
cut from tVVehly years afterwards.
In starting cabbages, those who have
not the means fur a hot-bed, may dig
a slight trench, put some good manure
in the bottom ind plant the seeds ;
have a plank at band to cover over
in very cold Weather. Anything may
be started in that way, that is to
be transplanted ; and English peas
may be planted permanently in
trench. Nexf month is emphatically
the great gardening month of the
South, and vet nine-tenths of the
seeds put in tfic ground will be killed
by cold or fronts. But never mind try
again. You will never learn to gar
den until you have been bit a few
times. Soil nj the South
Kb'iik’ to Sonic Purpose.
Miss Frederica Bremer; communi
cates the following story to Sartain’S
Magazine, for the truth of which she
is ready to vouch.
In the Univarsity of Upsain, Swe
deu, lived a young student, a lonely
youth, with great love for studies, but
without means for pursuing them, lie
was poor and without connections
Still ho studied; living in great pover
ty, keeping a cheerful heart; and try
ing not to look at tho future, which
looked so grimly at him. His good
humor and gOi*d qualities made him
beloved by hisyoung comrades. Once
lie was standing with some of them in
the great square oi Upsalft, passing
away an hour of leisure, when the at
tention of the young men became ar
rested by a very young and elegant
lady, who at the side of an elderly
one, walked slowly over the place.
It was the daughter o( Upland living
in the city, and the lady with lief was
her governess. She- was generally
known for lier beauty and for her
<j<*odnesß asm geiitlel't-ss of character,
and was looked upon with great ad
miration by the students. As the
young men now st ,od gazing at her as
she passed on like a grateful vision,
one of them exclaimed:
Well, it would be worth some
thing to have a kiss from such a
mouth.”
The poor student, the hero of our
story, who was looking intently on
that pure and angelic lace, exclaimed
as if by inspiration, “ Well I think 1
could have it.”
*• What!” cried his companions in
a chorus, *• are you crazy ! Do you
know her ?”
‘• Not at all,” lie answered, “ but I
think slio would kiss me now, if I ask
ed her.”
*• What in this place, before all our
eyes.”
“ In this place L - m ini, all our eyes.”
“ Freely >” w "f
“ F.eely.” J
“ Well, if she will give you a kiss
in that manner, 1 will give you a thou,
sand dollars, exclaimed one of the
party.
“ And I! And I!” cried three or four
others; for it sp happened that several
rich young men were in the group,
and bets ran high on so improbable an
event; and the challenge was made
and received in less time than we take
to relate it.
Our hero—(my authority tells not
whether he was handsome or plain.—
1 have my peculiar reason for believ
ing that he was rather plain but sin
gularly good looking at the same time)
—our hero immediately walked off to
meet the young lady, aWJ said.- (mfn
frofeetb) my ferine is ifi your hand.
She locked at him in astonishment, but
arrested her steps. He proceeded to j
state his name and condition, his as- j
piration, and related simply and truly
what had just passed between him
and his Companions. The young lady
listened attentively, and when he
ceased to speak she said blushing, but
with great sweetness: ‘-If by so little
a thing so much good can be effecled,
it would be foolish in me to refuse
your request, ’* and she kissed the
young man in the open square.
Next day the student was sent for
by the governor, lie wanted to sec
the man who dared to ask a kiss from
his daughter in that way, and whom
j she had consented to kiss so. He re
! ceived him withy severe and scruti
. nizing brow, but after ail hour’s con
versation was so pleased with hint that
he offered him to dine on his table du
ring his studies in Upsala.
Our young friend now pursued his
studies in a manner which soon made
him regarded as the most promising
scholar at the University. Three
I years were now passed after the first
kiss when the young man was allowed
to give a second one to the daughter
of the Governor, as his intended bride.
lie became later, one of the great
est scholars in Sweden, as much re
spected far his learning as for his
character. His work will endure lor
ever among the works of science ; and
from this happy union spraYig a fam
ily well known in Sweden in the
present day, and whose wealth offor
tune and high position in society are
regarded as small tilings, compared
with its wealth of goodness and love.
[Correspondence ot the Biliimne Sun ]
Tlie New ‘Csitriff IVojeci.
Washington, Jan 7, 1855.
On Tuesday next the committee of
ways and means will introduce its
new tariff laws, adopting the “revenue
standard.” Want that standard, in
this transition period of commerce,
manufactures and credit, is, cannot
easily be ascertained. The revenue
is certainly falling off rapidly, and al
most in the same proportion the ex
penditures of the government are in
creasing; thus rapidly doing for the
treasury what the new revenue bill is
expected to do by a change in the ex
isting laws.
The present Congress has already,;
during its first session, increased tlie
compensation of postmasters—it has
raised the salaries of clerks and other j
employees SO percent.; it, has added j
six ships to our steam navy, and it has i
increased the pay of our soldiers and ;
sailors. Congress at its present ses
sion will probably further increase the :
navy, ami it will add four new regi- 1
meats to our army, (whether it will
make a great many new staff officers !
and increase, their pay is somewhat i
doubtful.) Then there is a resolution j
pending doubling tlie Compensation !
of members and senators; there may ;
be money wanted for the purchase of
one or two islands in the Gulf, or the
Pacific ; for the building of postoffices
and t : . S. Courts in some ofour Atlan
tic cities, and for fire-proof buildings
for the State, war and navy depart
ments.
All these things joined to the fact
that the revenue from customs, owing
to thu general stagnation of trade,
want of public confidence, and the war
now going on in Europe, is rapidly
falling off, must convince every unso
phisticated political economist ihcU
the ‘revenue standard” of the tariff
will come of its own accord, without
precipitating the catastrophe.
A Merited Rebuke.
Tile English papers have ulterd the
most dolorous complaints about the
barbarity ol the Russians in firingjUpon
their own cavalry, as well as ‘upon
that of the allies at the battle of BaN
aklava According; to the national
morality of John Bull, an act so atro
cious should disgrace Russia in the
eyes ol all good people, forever and
ever, ilie Boston Courier gives them
a brief extract from history,which may
possibly correct the tone of th'* British
press, and teach them a useful lesson.
The Courier says :
ll'any of the advocates of the Allies
and denouncers of Russia will turn to
the third chapter of the life of Gener
al Nathaniel Greene, by W. Gilmore
Simms, they will find that at the bat
tle of Guilford, which was fought be
tween Greetp and Cornwall's, when
the British Guards were in full retreat
before the American cavalry, and the
battle was nearly won, Lord Corn
wallis. saw that there was but one
thing he could do to save the day and
hurrying on the hill on which McLoud
had bosted his artillery, he gave the
terrible order to repel the progress of
the American.cavalry; b}’ pouring out
torrents of grape upon the field. Mis
own guard must feel the storm as
heavily as their adversaries. -Nev
ertheless he gave the--order. “It. is de
■stroving euiwc/n:s,* said O’Hara.
“ Tt;t is true,” said Cornwallis, ‘‘but
it is unavoidable “ ‘The expedient
was fatally successful. It repelled the
American cavalry, and it rescued the
victory ft’orri their clutches. About
one half of the splendid battalion of
the Guards was swept to ruin in the
storm, cut to pieces in the open day
by the guns of their own army.
Southern <'on volition.
New Orleans, Jan. 11.
The convention to-day discussed the
subject of a railroad to the Pacific.—
Albert Pike,'of Arkansas, offered res
olutions similar to those he advocated
at the Charleston convention in April
last. Resolutions ere also offered
—asking Congress for an appropria
tion to aid in the construction of a
railroad across the peninsula of Flor
ida, and asking liberal appropriations
for the same object from the States
bordering on the Atlantic and the Gull
of Mexico. In favor of a material
modification of tin tariff:—Recom
mending to Southern men to vote for
the entire abolition of the duty on rail
road iron :—ln favor of the navy yard
at Memphis—all of which were refer
red to tlie general committee, and then
the convention adjourned-
Mystery of the “ Hard Times.”
One of the editors < f the Hon e
Journal lately addressed a note to a
lady in the highest social posit ioh in
New York, to ascertain “ for vvh t
sum a lady can clothe herself during
tlie year, without attracting observa
tion either for extravagance or par
simony, and move in the highest la.-h
----ionable circles.”
To it the lady replied (in part) as
follows :—“ As to what it Costs to
i dress a lady, now a-days (your ques
tion), differant persbhs* would answer
very differently. I should think the
least, lor the mer dress of one who
goes out a great deal, might be a
thousand dollars a year, and that spent
very carefully. Two thousand is near
er lhe average, probably, though even
i this is without including furs and Jew
elry. Russian sables and diamonds
i are bought, of course, hut once m
a lifetime, and yet there afe other
! adornments upon which a uoirian wlni
: drfesses at all thoughtlessly, rriav eas
ily spend three or lour thousand.”
Again :
It is reported, says a Poston paper,
“that a lady in this city has spent,
during the year l-35f,at a lace and
embroidery store, the, sum Os tfjj.ouo,
! arid that several ladies have each con
; traded bills at the dry goods stores
; varying from 55.000 lo SO,OOO each ”
i Floyd Grand Jury vs. Tlie XVild
Cats;
j We take great pleasure ifi laying
before our readers the followihg * < x
’ tract from the Presentments ot tin
! very intelligent Grand Jury of Flo\d
£ounty:
1 We also feel it our duty to call the,
! attention of the eitizens'ot theemm
j ty, to the great financial fraud at -
; tempted to he placed upon them, by
the circulation amongst them of cer
tain Bank Bills commonly known as
“ Wild Cat,” or One Horse banks of
the State, such as the Merchant's
Bank of Macon, Atlanta Bank.
Planters’ and Mechanics’ Bank of
Dalton, Bank of Milledgeville and a
Bank at Columbus. These institu
tions are all controlled and stock o ti
ed by a few speculators in the North
and West where they have managed
to give them a circulation alino.t in
credible. These bills are itffused ov
all the Banks in good standing in the
State. Yet we know that they are
gradually obtaining a circulation in
orr midst which will ultimately (ifnm
discontinued) result, in loss not only
to the holders blit to the comimmi v at •
large.”
This is a well-aimed Mow from ilia
right quarter and in the proper diree
(ion. The Grand Jurors coin pose the
grand inquest of the country, for t e
conservation oflhe public morals and
the good order and peace of society.
It is eminently proper, therefore, that
they should take into consideration
and present the Wild Cat ‘Swindling
Shops. We thank the Jurors of Fb>\d
tor their patriotic.conservative course
and sincerely hope every intelligent,
jury in the State will do likewise.—
Chron. ar.d Sent.
The Mail Difficulties.—The Sa
vannah Republican, of the 1 Oth ins!.,
says : By reference to our telegraphic
despatch from Charleston, it will he
seen that the Post Office Department
and the South Carolina Raildroad have
at last come to terms and an arrange
ment has been Completed Which we
are Sure will be entirely satisfactory
to the public—There will in future
be two mail trains each day over the
South Carolina Railroad, and letters
and papers from the North which
have been compelled, for the past
year, to rertiain at Wilmington twelve
hours (if they arrived there in the
wrong train.) will now come directly
on to their destination.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOUTH BUN Con
vention.—NewOri.eans, Jan.!) —The
Southern Convention was perma
nently organized by the election of
Gen. Lamar of Texas as President
and tWo vice-Presidents from each
state represented. There Ure ten
States represented by 1 tiO delegates,
including 83 from Louisiana. Reso
lutions were offered for the improve
ment of Galveston harbor and bar,
and the establishment of* a Marine
Hospital at that port. Tlie conven
tion then adjournid.
According to the London Medical
Circular, the campaign in the East
lias in point of sickness and mortality,
been one of the most disastrous on re
cord. More than 10,030 men have
disappeared from the ranks since the
army landed in the Crimea. Many of
them are only sic.f, it is true, an I
will soon again appear on the scene.
The Russians, the poor soldiers say
universally, are nothing to the cholera
and diarrhoea.
“ Dear sir,” lisped a great lady, in a
watered silk, at the World's Fair,
“ have the goodness to inform me if
there are noblemen in the U. States/
“ Yes, ma’am,” answered a full fed
Jonathan, “ I am one of them.”
J&O. 7.