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VOL: 3. CfiORIA COURIER. F. A. DUmT^Proprietorsl JL. If. SHEttMA N—Editor. F. A. DUVAL-Associate. _ ■ t.’ i ‘-- q TERMS s Two Dollars per annum, (strictly tn ad rsace,) or|3 00, If tV . To club* MtniUing $lO in advance , Six Copies will db sent one year • . A . 4 , Any aabscriber failing to give notice of his desire lo his subscription at the expiration of the time for whieh It has been paid, will be considered as wishing to continue it, and held liable accordingly. No paper discontinued until all arrearages are paid, ex- RATES OF AVB(tTjß|^Gt One Dollar per square for the first Insertion, and Fifty cents for each subsequent insertion. A square is twelve lines, or less. Advertisements handeA-ln without having the number of insertions specified, will be published until forbidden. Liberal contracts made with those who advertise by the quarter or year. Leftl advertisements inserted at the usual rates. Sales of land and negroes by E.xecutots, Administrators ; and Guardians are required by law to be advertised forty j days previous to the day of sale; and the sales must be held i at the door of the Court-House in the county in which the property is situated between 10 o'clock a. m. and 3 j>. m. on the first Tuesday in the month- Sales of personal property and notice to debtors and cred itors of an estate must be advertised forty days: notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell land and negroes, must be published two months . Sheriff 1 * sale*, under executions must be advertised thirty digs; *ncer mortgage executions, sixty,days. Citations for Letters of Administrator’s sale must be pub lished thirty days; for Dismission from Administration monthly six months; for Dismission from Guardianship forty days. Applications for foreclosure of Mortgages must be pub lished monthly six months; for establishing lost papers week ly threo months. on business to ensure attention, must be post paid. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. ~tv ij'7l s '~r-,“ ~ rTtrr ■’ ■ “ = Professional and ucln£Ss ‘i‘fn can have their cards in aerted under this head, for one year, at the rates of $5 for a card of not more than six lines, and seventy-five cents for each additional line. LAW & CONNELLY, Attorneys at JLaiq, Albany, Oa. Will practice in the South-Western Circuit, and in the Counties of Macon, Dooly and Worth of the Macon Circuit. ■ EtIRT M LAW WILLIAM C. COtISELLY January 18, 1855 If , ISTotiCO. THE undersigned will give prompt attention to all business entrusted to his carp in the counties of Sumter, Clay, Randolph, Marly, De catur/ Biker, Caihonii, Dougherty nod “in this Circuit. JOHN LYON, Solicitoi General, S. W. C. Newton, March 18,1851 —ly H. \V. pfc.VlttllAN -*■ . KI >1 It ROUGH. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. STARKVILLE GEORGIA. . February 4,1854. —1 y HENRY C. ALEXANDER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Albany, Dougherty County, Georgia. WILL give prompt attention to all business entrusted to bis care. Office up stairs, over J. C. Davis’ Store. Albany, January 28, 1834—1 y STROZIEII &SLAIIGIITEK Attorneys at Law,’ Albany, oloroia; YATTLt practice in the South-Western Cir ** cuit. llarirtg opened offices both at Alba ny and Newton, they may be consulted at the fatter place during the first and third weeks of each month of the present year. Albany, Jan. 7, 1854. s—ly. warren: <v warren. ATTORNEYS AT TAW, ALBANY, GEORGIA. . WILL practice in the following Counties:-- * “ Sumter, Raker, Early, Thomas, Lee, Ran dolph, Decatur and Lowndes. t.OTT WARREN, * ‘ 1 ‘ * L. P. D. WARREN, tune 17, 1853—1 y K. J. WARREN, ATTORNEY AT LA W, , . Starkville, Georgia. July 1,1853 —1 y HENRY MOROAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, . -, , Albany, Georgia. TIT’ILU practice in-tfie Courts of the Sotijii- Western and Southern Circuits. Office up stairs* in the old Franklip Hall; nest Aoor to the‘Georgia Courier. June 17, 1853—if THOMAS C. SPICER, Attorney at 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, Randolph, Baker, 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 THOMAS J. I)l\\ A TTORNE Y AT LA fV • Jasper, Calhoun county, Gla. “YAfIEL 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. MEDICAL. TNRS. JENNINGS &LUNDAY having formed a co-partnership, tender their professional •erviees to the citizens of Albany and vicinity. February 10, 1851. 10—ly. £l)c (Georgia Courier. axpagißtro - TDe Cricket. The cricket he dwells in the cold, cold ground,- At the root o{ the old ok tree, Alid all through the lengthened autumn night A mefry song tings he. He whistles a clear and merry tune By the sober light of the silver moon. The winds may moan With tjjpllotvtone All through of the rustling tree; ThtfSfudsjrury fly • Ttirojfih ‘{he Jeep blue sky, * The flowers-'ih^d the brooklet sigh, t But neveal&g cares he. All through.tne ienjjUiened autumn night, And never a fig cares he. . ; There’s a tiny cricket within thy hea<t, And a pleasant sqpir sings lie: He sings of the rafifeies and good ness of (3cd That hourly falJGpon thee: . .- Let him whi.-tie Icud and clear, i> Never drown him tear; - There’s darkness Mough oneifffh, I trowi Without the gloci#ol e gloomy brow ; Darkness enough | the home of the poor That never coineyo thy lofty door. Forth wBLa smile, Thejr wfifto beguile^ Forth to figbicn tl#flieavy gloom, * Forth to bright#. clouded home; Cheer up the soultbftt is shrouded in night, Tell it in tonesof love, Os hope on earth, arid a land all bright— The land of Lilt and Love. And never fret, That yot cannot get Just what you wait while you travel here ; This is nut your listing spiiete ; Trials, vexations, •Are but temptations; Use them aright, aid they’ll help you along lo the narrow road Thatjeaes to God. Use them aright, aud they’ll help you along. Never frit, You’ll cuiqiier yet. Then let him whistle loud and clear, Never drown him in a tear-; But all through the length of trouble’s night, Let him sing his merry song. The Tri-weekly Selma (Ala.,) Reporter has picked up the following doleful dftiy : “ l*oor Old Maids.” Three score and ten of us, Poor old maids! Three score and ten of us, Not a soul to give a buss ; What uill becomeot us? Poor old maids! Long time we’ve tar-ri ed, Soon shall we be bu-ri ed, Oti ! tr.iH r.o were n..;r ti edl Poor old maids ! Dress’d in yellow, pink and blue, Poor old maids! Dress’d in yellow, pink and blue, With tacos of a chalken hue, Is there more that we can do,? Poor old maids ! A'l alone >we go to bod, Poor old maids! All alone we go to bod, Put our night caps on our heads, liut not a word lo us is said— Poor old maids! p-— —————— Awful flxMmioii.—lu Metre. ‘iTlie engine groaned, The wheels did creak, The steam did whistle, And the boiler did leak; The boiler was examined, Tltey found it was rusted, And all of a sudden The old thing busted ! A Model Dim. An Editor “out west” thus talks to his non paying subscribers and patrons ! If his appeal does not bring the “pewter,” we think he need never try agiin: “Friends, Patrons, Subscribers and Ad vertisers-: —Hear us for our debts, and get ready that you may pay; trust us, wa are in need, and have regard for cur need, for you have been long trusted ; acknowledge your indebted ness, and dive into your pockets, that you may promptly fork over. If Iberp be any among you one single patron that don’t owe us something then to him we say—step aside ; consider your self a gentleman. If the rest wish to know why we dun them, this.is our answer: Not that we care about cash ourselves, but our creditors do. Woul 1 you rather that we go to jail, and fPee'tiftn you pay your debt-, and we all keep ‘moving ? As we agreed we have Worked for yo->,’ as wd contracted we have furnished our paper to you; as we promised, we have waited upon you, but as you don’t pay, we dun you ! Here are agreements for job work ; contracts for sub scription ; promises for long credits ; aaid duns for deferred payment. Who is there so mean that he don’t take a paper ? If any, he seedn’t to speak—we don’t mean him. Who is there so green that he don’t advertise ? If any, let him slide—he aint the chap either. Who is there so bad that he don’t pay the printer ? ff any, let him shout—for he’s the man we’re after. His name is Legion, and he’s been owing us for one, two, three, four, five, six, seven and eight years ; long'enough to make us poor, and himself rich at our expense. If the above appeal to his con science does not awake him to a sense of justice, we shall have to try the law and see what virtue there is in writs and constables. •The Rehersal. —The furious and blind on slaught of the Johnson press in Georgia upon the Know Nothings, forcibly reminds us of Long street’s “Lincoln Rehersal.” After exhausting himself with blows and oaths, bites and cuffs, kicks and gouges, upon an imaginary foe, the heroof that ludicrous scene, in reply to the Judge’s remonstrance against his pugnacious conduct, cooly remarked-—“ You needn’t kick before you’re spurr’d ; there an’t nobody there, nor liasn’l been nuther, 1 was just seein’ tiowr I could a fout.” Wc greatly enjoy these valiant rehearsals.— Let them be coutinucd by all means.—Southern Recorder. Albany, dougherty county, Georgia, april s, jsss. Ffom the Detroit Daily Advertiser. Doesticks in Love. New York, Jan. 29, 1855. —Previous to last Wednesday nrgli*, I had never been in love.— Save an occasional fit of cholera morbus, I had never experienced any tiling even remotely ap’ proaching the tender passion, Put on the eve-, ning of the eventful Wednesday. Sandie invited me to go with Tihn and see his sister.— Now my friend Sandie is not a scholarly person, and has never received that questionable blessing, a college education. He always says “codfish” instead of “bouaflde,” and palls “tempus fugit” “pork and beans;’’ the only ‘ Jupiter” he knows iMjwWe^e-itleman; and his onlv idea of “Venus’’ is a'colortu WSsnerwoman, who in early life got up his hebdumadel linen. But his sister is emi nently classic; she stoops fashionably, with the “Grecian” bend—has a Roman nose, and her name is Calantlie Maria. I went to see that sister—l saw that sister—l “ caved.” That seraphic sister—to attempt a description of her would lie insanity itself. I will only mention her hair, and when I have said that this was sublime, and divine, I wish it distinctly un derstood that I use these feeble terms, because the poverty of our language does not afford ad jectives of adequate force. The instance.! saw her my presence of mind deseyted me. 1 felt bashful—l was conscious that 1 looked like a fool in the face, and my ap parel. (on which I had prided myself,) seemed us unworthy to be seen in Iter presence,as if it had been bought second-handed in Chatham street. Beneath the glance of Iter brilliant eyes, my feet seemed to grow too short, and my legs too long —my coat too big and my collar limpsy. I dis covered a grease spql on my vest, and seemed lo become mysteriously conscious of a hole in my pantaloons. Never had I been so shamefaced in the feminine presence before,and my bashlul ncss only temporarily deserted me, When, after much tribulation, I achieved a seat on a clumsy looking foot stool, which I understood was called an Whether it had any connection with Turk, turkies and Turksgiving, I failed to discover. Left alone a short time, I had leisure to recov er n-yself, and to bote the individual charms of my f lir enslaver. A partial inventory or her vis ible apptfrel, is inefficeably stamped upon my mine, A silk dress, of a pattern which seemed to hwe been designed for a. gigantic checker friurq, made with a train to do scavenger duly, and sleeves with lace curtains underneath —lieftneck and shoul Jers hidden from view by a thiu t-i-Ai.f lace, of a putijffi outgo edly made to attract attention—beneatli which couid he seen , hut particulars are omitted. Suffice it to say that she was dressed as the pre vailing fashion seems lo demand. 1 essayed to speak to iter, but my timidity returned upon me with double force, while turning over her music —praised every tiling in the wrong place, and when site sung a false note I exclaimed, “deli cious.” She made a two-handed discord, which I pronounced “enchanting,” and when at last, from excess of agitation she broke flit down, I enthusiastically declared tint 1 was “never morel delighted in the whole course of my life.” Asked her to play a waltz, and handed her a choir-book - opened at “Corinth” and “Silver Street”—| found I was wrong, and turned over the leaf to “Sinners turn, why will ye die?”—discovered that all was not right yet, and then requested her to play some sacred music, and in anxiety to get the right notes this time, placed before her the “Jenny Lind Polka,” which she at once began to play—l attempting to sing the words of “Old Hundred,” which didn’t seem to jibe. We tried to dance, but my confusion still con tinued—l “chassey’d” myself across a (able, and into a music rack—“promenaded” my partner over the stove—“balanced” her into a sideboard, and eventually attempted to seat her iti a mirror where I saw a sofa. Then I essayed conversation, and I am confi dent I talked the most absurd nonsense for the rest of my call—distinctly remember speaking of Noah Webster’s beautiful play of “Evangeline” —eulogizing Shakspear’s “Robinson CrOsoe”— Thackeray’s generalship at Waterloo—attempt ing’ to explain the difficulties which attended Henry Ward Beecher’s attempts to get his opera of “Bohemian Gir!,” before the public—telling who had the blackest eye when President Pierce and Joan of Arc fought their celebrated prize fight in the Crystal Palace in New York, in 1793 and at fast, breaking down in trying lo explain why Admiral Elihu liurritl, and his right hand man Xerxes the Great, did in taking Sebastopol in a month, according to contract. When 1 bade her “good night,” she took my hand and set me crazy by the touch of her fairy taper fingers—dreamed all night about “Calan the”—got up in the morning, called I lie waiter “Calanlhe,” and said “my darling” lo him, as he handed me my coffee—gave my tailor an-order fur anew coat and two pairs of pantaloons, and told him to charge them lo “Calanthe”—got a box of cigars and a demijohn of Spanish whiskey, and signed the drayman’s receipt “Calanthe”— all the signs read “Calanthe”—every street was “Calanthe” street—all the stages belonged to the “Calanthe” line, and were going to “Calan the” ferry—the ship “Calanthe” had arrived—the steamboat “Calanthe” had bursfher boiler—the brig “Calanthe” had teen seen bottom upwards, with her rudeer gone. I saw, heard, dreamed, thought and talked nothing but “Calanthe,” and cannibal that I am, I verily believe I ate nothing but “Calanthe” for a month. The day after I saw her first I felt so exceed ingly amiable, that I bought something of every peddler who came into the store—laid in a stock of matches, pencils, shoe brushes, suspenders, boot jacks, and blacking, which will last me a short life-time—bought so much candy that the office boy had the colic every afternoon for a week—and called tho opple woman “my own jyeet love ;” and said “thank you, darling,” when nte gave me pewter dimes in chr.ngc. \Yrote spasmodic poetry about “Calanlhe’s’’ pair—a sonnet to her glossy hair—lines to her raven, tresses—stanzas to her locks of jet—rhymes so her black hair, and commenced a poem in sev enteen cantos, lo her ebony topped head, but on reflection I was led to doubt the propriety of the comparison. I called to see her every evening victuals didn’t agree with me—a v-ind word from her was a good breakfast—a ten ter glance has served me for a dinner many a ime, and when she pressed my hand I couldn’t ‘at any tiling for a fortnight but crargee, cream Ep-:dy,atid Wg wxl'4 to tlwrtltfl-, wire, endured the negro minstrels, and braved the liorrors of a second rate Italian Opera Company t —in fact, everywhere, where there was anything In be seen, or there were Culanthe Maria nd tier devoted P/iilander. , . For a month I forgot my debts, neglected busi iess, ignored entirely this mundane sphere, and ived in a rainbow colored serial castle, of the lost elegant finish—surrounded bv roses, attend d by Cupids, and big enough for Calantlie Ma :a, and the subscriber. Iti that happy place here was ro dans, no tailor’s bills, no debts, no Citing up early cold mornings, no tight boots, o bad segars; nothing but love, luxury and Ca- Unthe Maria. I came down occasionally out of l iy sir mansion, to speak a few words of compas sjioii to my companions in the office, who hadn’t got any Calantlie, but went right back again as quick as I could to that rose colored dreamland where love and Calantlie were “boss and all hands.” At last, one fatal evening I was undeceived, y/ewere waltzing, and through some clumsiness ott ntv part, her hair caught in a gas fixture, some mysterious string broke, and those glossy ring letts, the object of my adoration, ‘came off,’ leav ing Iter headtts bald as a brickbat. Relating this scrape of the locks to a friend, he informed me that the rest of iter charms would not bear minute inspection, for she wore false teeth’, and bought Iter complexion at Phalon’s; and that her graceful form was the result of a sin fW combination of cotton and whalebone. This was too much. While 1 thought Calantlie a woman I loved her, but discovery of the ‘fisliey’ el ement excited a prejudice—as a ‘female,’ she had my-affections, and I contemplated matrimony as a land mermaid, 1 had no desire to swindle Bdrnum and become her proprietor. Coming as I did from a section of the country where they have human women,'and witerc they *tteinptjp deceive masculine mankind with Prefcch milliner’s strategy, I was unprepared for o ounterfeits, and had been easily deluded- by a spurious article. But I find that in New Y’ork, perambulating bundles of dry goods net unfre iqiently pass current as women—and the millin- I ?rs now put their eccentric inventions upon these locomotive shams, to the great neglect of those revolving waxen ladies v/ho used to perform their perpetual gyrations in the show windows. As an advertising. medium they possess facilities for publicity, bey end any of the newspapers, having a city circulation, which is unattainable by any thing dumb and unpetticoated. The great staple of the Soutli lias not only ‘made’ some of our first men, but has been discovered to enter largely into ‘die composition of many of our ladies. My madness was now over—the speil was bro ken—the blind fiend was exorcised- reason got back to her old bunk, and “Richard was himself “pain.” Yours, convalescent and thankful, Q. K. Philander Doesticks, P. B. • Mr. Stun tor Seward and Secret So eiet ies. I In his place in the Senate of the United States, (not long ago, Wm. 11. Seward, of New York, (took occasion, while virulently deriding the new (American movement, to declare that he had nev er belonged to any society but the Christian fclureh and the Whig parly ; and especially re pudiated the idea of having belonged to any se cet organization. Til's statement, the N. York Express assevera'es,he knew to be untrue when h> uttered it, and we, says the Express, know it l< be untrue. When Governor of the State, he oficiated as the presiding officer of.a secret organ isation. He initiated members into the signs and s/mbols of a secret order. He administered ob ligations and pledges to secrecy, lie had pre viously gone through the same forms and cere nfonials himself, and then led others into, the’body of Yhich he was a most prominent member. So s|ys the Express. And yet, Mr. Seward, in the Senate, Seward men in the Legislature, including the whole body o: pledge breakers there, and the State paper, which knows of all these inferior secret organi zations, have *he effrontery to denounce secret societies. The motive is a cheat, the act a fraud, tnd the anticipated res.ult a private advantage trough such instruments of duplicity as we have iere recorded. J. P.. Lowell, at the close of a recent lecture on Milton, said : The noise of those old warfares is hushed ; the sing of Cavalier and the fierce psalm of Puritan are silent now ; the hands of his episcopal adver saries no longer hold pen or crozier; they and their works are dust; but he who loved truth more lhan life, who was faithful to the other world while tie did his work in this ; his seat is i.i that great cathedral whose far echoing aisles are the Ages, whispering with the blessed feet of the saints, marirys, and confissors of every clime and every creed ; whose bells sound only cenlutial hours; about whoso spire, crowned with the constellation of the crons, meaner birds than missioned angels haver ; whoso organic mu sic is the various stops of endless changes breath ed through by endless good ; whose choristers are elect spirits of all time, that sing serene and shining as morning stars, the ever renewed mys tery of Creativo Power. A Movement among tlic Big Fish. All the world, including “the rest of mankind,” have been famous for parly organizations, secret conclaves or public, demonstrations, whenever a great crisis was at hand, or 6ome petty end was to be achieved by unitv of action. This amono n j the men, (and some women, also,) lint whoever heard of the “inhabitants of the sea” taking up’ the custom, and in general convention making known tlie hardships which they are heirs to ? From the following account, which we find in the March Number of the Knickerbocker, it that such a meeting lias really been held, and from the tone of the orincipal spea rs, we infer thaf the h@e-settlers of the Nftrlh, are not only Suckers whose “ constitutional rights,” have been invaded ; nor, (if there are as good fiali in the sea as out of it,) the black fish ol.the South are not the only ones entitled to the sym pathies of the fin-atic. As we find the account in no other journal, the conclusion is legitimate that the Knickerbocker received it by the Submarine telegraph, a rather scaly mode of communication, to be’ sure; hut nevertheless as reliable as many o'hers, and vve give the documents accordingly :—Col. Enquirer. All the big fish and 9maU fry lately met in convention, to take into consideration the con duct of the ocean, and also of mankind in getter at. The Whale was ex-officio President, and from his greatness might be termed the Prince of Whales. He opened the convention by stating that he did not wish to make a speech; he would take up as little room and he no longer than pos sible., The Shark whispered to the sword fish that it was riot possible for the Whale to be much longer, for he was eighty feet now ; in his opin ion lie only wanted a chance to spout, and he con sidered him a regular blower. The Whale con tinued that, notwithstanding his great size, (he might add tears,), he was not exempt from suffer ing. lie had been grossly insulted by man ; lie would say lampooned ; not that lie would pun up on the use made of his lat, as be did not wish.to make light of such a matter. He had been har pooned at least. Some of his fellow whales had been very much cut up, and exceedingly tried lie had lately learned that a substitute for oil had been invented, which might lessen the pros ecution of whales; but Ire feared it was all gas. The Whale alluded to a harpoon which had lately hit him ;it had made a great impression on him, and he feared had affected him deeply. Here Iris feelings overpowered him, and lie sat down (on the Shark,) amid a general blubber. The Shark rose with some difficulty, and re ■ marked that tin toil df ‘.hi Whale !..■! Vioved him ;in fact it was very spiking. His own sit uation was far from pleasant. lie was by p-oles ! sion a lawyer, and he flattered himself one of the I deep kind ; but business was.bad, and he had I been obliged to take in a few pupils. He had I lately presented a fine opening for a young man who fell overboard, but was afterwards obliged to reject his suit as indigestible. Unless he had more cases, he should leave the law, and open as a dentist, as he was well acquainted with the art of setting teetii. lie then held up one flu, as a signal that he had finished. s . The Sea Serpent did not r. ish to intrude upon the convention, as he did not know whether lie properly belonged to the fish tribe or j not, and he would not appear officious. All he wgs not to be classed with the Eel, vvlioni he consid ered a slippery character. J.ately, ltd was quiet ly passing a certain species of the eel| when hap pening to touch him, lie win so shocked thafhe had hardly recovered. The eel rosejand said he was electrified at these remarks. . It was evident to him that the serpent was more than halfseas over, and if lie was not careful, would get him self into a regular coil. As for his being a “slip pery character,” he thanked Neptune he uid’nt belong to such a scaly set as the Serpent. The Whale called the E -1 tn order, and the Eel call ed the Whale,a confounded swell-head, and was then put out of the convention. The Turtle was suffering from a slight indis., posit ion. He was we Iking ashore, a short time since, when he met a party of jolly sailors. result was that he was laid flat on his back, and was unable to move for some lime, and since he has no* felt as lively as usual. There was one thing to which lie would call the attention of the convention, lie prided himself upon the purity of his political principles ;he was the A'derman’s best Mend. The Shark had Ir-iely insuhed him by calling him “regular hard-slieii.” Here the Shark interrupted him, by asking if that was not his case ! ffhe-Turtie replied that he should say nothing more at present, but should have some thing to lay before the convention. The Shark, contemptuously, “Yes, a few eggs, probably.” The Porpoise did not exac'ty understand the purpose of Uie convention, nor whether all the members were present. The Secretary should call the ,-o!!. The Whale called him to erder, and was sorrv to see him reeling about, in that disgraceful condition. His motion was entirely out of order, and he appeared to be getting up a revolution. The Porpoise assured the conven tion that his motion proceeded entirely, from the motion of the waves, but still he would wave his motion. The President remarked that he should he hap py to hear from some of the small lry,thp Oyster, Lobster, and others, who, if not the“bono and sinsw”ofthe tribe, were at least Muscles. The Oyster proceeded to open his case, which was a hard one. He was continually in trouble, and always in some stew or broil. He had family troubles alsohis half brother the Clam was a disgrace to the family, always in liquor, and gen erally considered a “ squirt.” Some of his fam ily were very lazy, and spent most of their time in their beds. There had also been some rakes among them, creating a great disturbance. Ho was most respectable himvelf, his father was quite distinguished, and his maternal ancester was “Mother-of-Pearl,’’ lie went in for bis rights> and did not care w •. er they got theirs or not. The Jew-Fish remarked that“dat vosh very sel fish.” The Oyster continued ; there was one of his neighbors—he would not call any names— who was very surly and crabbed ; that he was a one-sided individual, and no one approved of his motion. The crab protested against this abase, and said the rest took advantage of him because he was “soft ” Here the Cod Fisli entered, and apologized for his lateness, as he had been to visit a school. He thought the W hale was badly off, since men took his oil to-make lights of. His own case was the - reverse of this; they took his lights, (and liver too, fpr that matter,) to make oil of. This might be very good lo>-consumption,, but H was con fourded bad for him. The most alarming kind he ever heard of was the consumption of cod-fish. It might be very good fun for men to cut him open aud salt him down, but to hang him up af terwards, was rather too dry a joke. The Her ring said there had been a disposition manifested to play tricks of this kind in iiis school, and that lately some of his companions had been badly smoked. The Shad, too, in his spring migrations up the rivers, had been greatly persecuted, particularly by the members of the Legislature. Men had greatly nettled him, and had nearly driven him insane. .lie was not a superstitious fish, but a most unlucky day to him was fry-day. Howev er, be thought his enemies had suffered some what in the wan-.e, and,had found his tail a regular bonypart. (Tl;e Flat-fish was not par ticularly flattering in reply to the Shad; for he did not believe that there was a shafow oftruth in his remarks.) The Salmon, had liis troubles. He was an aristocrat, not.of the cod ti.-h kind either, and did not associate with the small-fry. He spent most of his time in travel, and, in summer, went up inland rivers, and took his family to the n 2 s Falls. lie had been lately much afflicted and grossly maltreated at the South. Passing up the Savannah River, his family had been surrottnded by a party of infamous kidnap pers, and some of his children had been “hooked.” It was his intention to inform Uncles Torn and Sam of this oufrage, and the Union would be dissolved immediately. Here there was a regulaf row ampng the small-fry. The Trout called the Salmon a Northern fish, with Northern prin ciples, who had no business poking iiis qose up Southern rivers. lie considered the ctory of the Salmon all gammon, and got up for political ele ct. lie was a small fish himself, but any in sult to hjs native stream he would not brook. The fly- g fish flew into a tremendous passion, and appealed to the Black-fi-di if he w3 not as well trealod as any, white bait. The Black fi >h ‘hanked Neptune that, though liis back was black, his belly was white. Just then there was a great disturbance, also, among sundry* others of the small-fry, who had evidently been drinking. There was a l of suckers who were very much inebriated ;and one small fish sung out at the top of his gills, that he was “a folly cld Sole ;” and amid the general row,.there was such a din and noise that Felix and I coucluded that it was (lie ship’s dinner gong, as indeed it w4s. Canting a “Devil oat of Church. We are indebted to our friend, J. M. Eilis, of. Ohio, for the following graphic sketch. W’e are assured that the facts transpired substantially as narrated : “ A Methodist clergyman who lias been labor ing in this vicinity, was nqt long since, preaching to his people on the miraculous power the Apostles over the demoniac spirits of their day. As he was pursuing his theme, the audience were suddenly startled by a voice from someone. in the congregation, demanding in a half querrel ous half authoritative tone. Why don’t preach ers do such things now-a-days? .In an. instant every eye in the.house was turned upon the in dividual who had the effrontery thus to invade the sacredness of their sanctuary. The speaker pi used for a moment, and fixed his penetrating gaze full upon the face of the questioner. Thera was an interval of inten-e silence broken at last by the speaker in resuming his subject. He had not proceeded far with hi* remarks, before he was again interrupted by the same impertinent inquiry. Again lie paused for a time, aud again resumed his subject. Not content with a silent rebuke, our redoubtable questioner demanded again‘Why don’t the preachers do such things .tio\vm*duyS, and curling hi- lips with a’ sneer ot j seif-complaceney, drew himself up pompously iu ; his seat. i, r . ~ “ Our reverend friend, ‘who by the way, is a young man of great muscular power,) calmly left the desk, and walked deliberately to the pew> where the interrogator sat, and fastening one , hand firmly upon the collar of his coat, the other on the waistband of his unmentionables, lifted him square out of his seat, and bore him down the aiste to the entrance. Pausing for a memetit there, lie turned his eyes upon his audieuce,and in a clear full voice said, “and they cast out the devil in the form of a distiller,” and suiting the action to the word, out went the knight of tho mash tub, ala leap frog fashion ’ntc the street. “ The good pastor quietly returned to the desk, and completed his discourse. After closing die services, as he was passing out of the church, the out-cast distiller, with an officer of the law, escorted pur clerical friend to the office of a mag istrate, to answer for an assault upon the person of said distiller. After hearing the case the mag istrate dismissed the clergyman, and after round ly reprimanding the complainant, fined him for molesting the services of the sanctnary. , “ Since that day we believe ho has never for a momeni doubted the power of Methodist preach es to cast out devils, at least within tne limits nf the Ohio Conference. Up jumped our ‘Devil’ in a rage, And set two lines to till this page. NO. 18.