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frteiKi ToUie bridal was hurried :
|Wa wit discharged his farewell shot,
jjpfjpK the-bachelor was going to be married.
laWe married him quickly, to save his fright,
i§?§|| Our heads from the sad sight turning ;
Ifmnd we sighed,as we stood by the lamp’s dim
Hi fight)
gpf To think him no more discerning.
M To think that a bachelor free and bright,
‘Sf'And sh) (it the girls as we tumid twin.
•'Should there at he altar, at dead uftiiglu,
B<’Xsuttht 111 tilr Siintr tin tainiid i.ini
IMS and sliprt were ihe w ord- w -n ri,
Tlunig-ti we tie irtity ate at Oie cake',
, Titan at-coned him Define firoin the sia ne of
. T'She-xi. ’ ‘ •
t WMepna aw luily st.j.keN^
5 We tlxnijht, as we f>oll<itvt4 lowly bed—■
■a The lieecli, ttie tmcli, and U-n willow—
” How the shovel and .broomstick would fjgeak
on his head,
‘Of the tears lie won kb shed on‘his juthuv.
•
tSftyslie, ‘* ft tee will talk of their Iriend wlm
lias gone,
And every old 1 Ba'cli’ will upbraid me—
JBut matting I’>l reck, if they’lJ let me sleep on,
’.Neath the coverlid,just as tiiey’re laid m■
But halfmur brutherly task was dbn- .
Etc (ire clock Odd the lioiii*of morning; .
j- *■■■* - ieO “••'t , i the rope tha 1 n,,/ (*-,• !,. ! )U -j
Slowly and -mb', wr ;; *r. he.! dmvii
From tlie ip oi- tl-e p-rm s
And we never Itav- ’• • • ‘ ■ ‘
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W-ITCIfCRApT IN PE\NsVi.VANIA he
tll.i'mflers , >urg k\ <,i he I T i,i i t -t..
■sats !t corre.-pendent, Wii ing (Voir
I Fulton county, inform.* ua of a vitiati
iar cashed’ .supposed w itchcraft drat
occurred neav sidting Hill There is
a certain religious sect :n that neigh
borhood calling themselves the, < In is
t.ian Church. A lady, one of the
membets, was taken sick and lay lot
some time, until she finally imagined
liersell'hew itched, and a sister in the
Church was settled upon as the witch.
A meeting of the session Was called in
due season, ait which the minister pre
sided, and charge of witchcraft
Ik was preferred against the
■Lady. Bdrng a new’ case, and we pre-
Bme, for in thedisoij line,
HF ‘ vas puzzled as to the
jad|raj®aniter to proceed in the case.
■ it was proposed that she
fee asked to step over a brnorii
■ had been said that :i witch
ftdo so ; but Ihe accused got
apparent difficulty. Af
ifier a consultation it was thpii agreed
■ that sh 4 should then he tried in a pair
gqpf weiglV, scales with a hible to bal-
her. and if she was a witch the
ftble would be too heavy for her. Ac-
M-dingly she was taken to a mill, and
JHkexperiment tried, but she proved
■heavy for the hible. It was then
jfcated that ncohabh her clothing
■Hjjyented a faik test, and a half bushel
was pm rft the scales with the
■ft 1 10 baiawje the clothing; hut
Y too heavy, and the
jl&illy dismissccT
BHffijll atuhes. —The cdb
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Inequality of Property.
In our country with our laws of dis
tribution and our customs and habits,
it is impossible that property should
be long accumulated in a single fami-
Jy. At death, if there is no will, the
estate of the ileceased is ecu&lTy di
vided among the children. If a will
is made, the customs and opinions of
society so imperatively demand an
equal partition of the property of the
testator, that favoritism is very sel
| dom seen.
Large estates, being tubs divided,
are usually reduced to moderate di
mensions ; but there is another cause
*"T l !.icn'o!!r7T-c^TAfi?rwiTrr’sT?il more
powerful force,ihtfiis reduction. The
sons of the rich are generally extrav
agant and wasteful,'idle and improvi
dent. Their Wealth has been easily
obtained aqd it is as easily scctrered.
j Care, anxiety, industry and toil have
! not been exerted to gather it, and
they are not used to preserve it.
Thus it seldom Tia'ppens that a fam
ily remains rich for more than one or
two generauons. In England, the
laws of primogeniture and prejudices
of society bring about a very different
result. .But there is no doubt lint
onr plan of distribution is bet tv. i.i
1 the happiness of the people, and bet
ter also- towards the production of
wealth.
This distribution is Pot, however,
i yet carried .ar enough. The , very
j poor and the very rich tire often found
jin out land and the inequality he
tween them is immense. The one
have more than they need—the,others
less. To the one, their wealth is a
care ami a buiden —to the others
(jjjeifi'pttverty is a cause of sickness
: and suffering and crime. It is
the duty ’.of the rich, by foundations of
charity and benevolence, by enterpri
ses of public utility, h} t c encourage
ment, of works of internal improve
ments and manufactories of eveiy
kind and by developing the. resources
ol their neighborhood, to use their
wealth so.that it will advance the
public good It is the duty ol the
very poor, to apply themselves ■to
their trade or business -with energy,
j industry end fterseverance. and to
ic iV off hSsfe ‘evil h til) ft which ‘con
sume their daily earnings, and thus,
by virtue and industry elevate their
copdit ion.
But there are sorrie whose lot can
not be ‘bettered in this way. The sick,
the maimed, the blind, the idiot trod
j the insane, if they are poor, cm not. la
! bur so ns to improve their position in
society. It is the duty of tire rich and
of alf who have any means, to aid
ilics-tjpersons and supply th ir neces
j sit ies.
The widow and the orphan are of
| ten also in a sad condition. The un-
I timely death of the husband and fath
er has lelt poor, perhaps destitute.—
But yesterday, till their wants were
supplied ; to-day. they have neither a
home ro shelter them or bread to
nourish them. But yesterday, they
had all the comforts of life; to-day,
i lliey have so little that the mother has
to ply her needle to keep her children
lat school or to supply them with de
cent. clothing. Their income from the
labor of the father has suddenly ceas
ed. He was a physician and had a
large practice ; or he was a clerk
and received a handsome salary ; or
lie was a merchant and made exten
sive sales ; or he was a mechanic and
earned good wages ; hut the hand of
dea.h has interposed and all these
sources ot supply have ceased.
This inequality modern science and
philanthropy have remedied by this
system of Life Insurance. And it be
comes every one, who has not accu
mulated enough to support his widow
and educate his orphan children, to
j embrace this method of equalizing
i their present and future condition, by
investing every year, a small portion
of his savings in a policy on his life
for the benefit of his surviving family.
—Madison Family Visitor.
There are three thousand two linn
kdred and twenty-eight McDonne Is
land McDonalds in the county of
Canada, among to al
! population of only seventeen thou
sand. Rode’s Directory of New York
! City for 1*52-’53, has the places of
[ business ol upwards of one bundled
and fifty members ol this numerous
! Celtic family.
Shooting in a Ball-Room.— At Old
town. Me., on Tuesday evening, while
a parly w ere dancing at Grey’s tavern
a young lady discharged both barrels
of a double-barrelled pistol at a man
named William Bowman, of Upper
Stillwater One of the halls entered
Bowman’s shoulder, and the young
lady with whom he was dancing had
her face burned by the powder. The
lady who fired the shots went fionje
■without being arrested. Eubiic sym
pathy is strongly in her favor, as Bow
man had inflicted upon her an.irrepar- j
able wrong, and then refused mar
riage.
LUMPKIN, STEWART COUNTY, GEORGIA, MARCH 25, 1853.
A Facetious Sheriff.
Nearl y half a century’ ago. (say's the
editor ol the IVushington News, who
well remembers the “time, place, and
j scene.) there, dwelt in the town of ,
in old England, a remarkable oddity,
in the person of an attorney-at-law,
who, although not fair to look upon,
(for he was in truth one of the homli
est specimens of humanity ever beheld j
by mortal man,) was withal a person j
of sound judgement, great benevo-!
| lence, various learning, a poet, a
! painter, and a wit
It so happened that the aforesaid
gent leiyfur ir*
appointed M>gii sheriff of the town of
had a kind heart, a< many a poor pris
j oner could testify, who partook of the
good cheer with which the prisoners ,
: were liberally supplied from the pri
-1 vate purse of the worthy Sheriff.
It was of course the duty of the
| High Sheriff to summon a grand and
| petit jury, to attend at tile quarter ses
sions, of which the Recorder, Mayor,
j am| Aldermen of the borough, com
posed the court. In tile performance
of his official duty', in summoning the
petit jury, our High Sheriff indulged
in some of the strangest and drollest
freaks, that have probabl ever been
her rd of in any other town or county.
I In the first place, he summoned for t.hc (
October court, a ju<y consisting of
twelve ol the fattest men he could (irftl
m ihe borough, and when they came
to the book to be sworn, it appeared
that only nine juror* couldeit comfort
ably within the box I After a great
<ieal of sweating, squeezing, and scold
-1 Rig, ‘he pannel was literally jammed
into the box. and when seated, they
presented to the eye of the court, iho
barristers, and audience, “ the tightest
fit” of a jury that, was ever seen in any
court room. Literally they became!
| much to the amusement of the court
| and its robed advocates, a “packed ju
! ry,” and no mistake !
For the. January term, our facetious
High Sheriff (in consequence, it was
| said, ot some hint form the Recoider.
J th; t there should be no more fat pari
| riels summoned to his court) went in
to !he opposite extreme. He sjunmon
ed twelve of the hast and tallest men
he could find in the borough, and when
they trek iheir seats in the box, it ap
\ peared comparatively empty —there
i was indeed loom enough for twelve
i more ol the same sort and dimensions.
For the April term of the court, qur
humorous functionary summoned a
jury cons is ing of twelve barbers !
Now it so happened that among the
latter were the very perruquiers who
dressed the Recorder’s and barristers’
: wigs, and some of the latter, arriving
late at tiie bar, had to appear that
morning in court with their wigs un
dressed or half dressed, so as to cut a
very ridiculous figure, amidst the
! smiles and half-suppressed laughter of
tile by slanders Ihe High Sheriff of
course enjoyed tile fun amazingly, hut
j looked “grave as a judge,” while lie
j tried to keep silence in the court-room.
But the crowning joke of this wag
gish officer occurred at the summon
ing of his fourth and hist jury at the
July session. For ihat term of the
court, the High Sheriffnot having the
fear of the Recoider, the Mayor, and
the Aldermen before bis eyes actually
summoned a squinting jury!—twelve
as queer looking bipeds as ever took
their seats in a jury-box—a jury that
was probably more looked at and
laughed at, than any of the appointed
twelve that ever were sworn to *• well
and truly try, and true deliverance
make, between their sovereign lord
the King, arid the prisoner at the bar.”
But the scene was so irresistibly droll,
that the learned Recorder could not
maintain his gravity. The Mayor and
Aldermen followed suit. The barris
ters laughed while their wigs became
bald and pcwderless; nay, even the
poor prisoners in the clock, who were
to be put upon their trials, and some of
; them undergo transportation, could
I not refrain from joining in the general
cachination ! And when the Recorder
commanded the High Sheriff to bring
tile court room to order, and intimated,
with a half-suppressed laugh, that the
latter ought to be ashamed of himself;
for summoning such, a jury , tile droll
ery of the court scene was heightened j
considerably by the quick, ready', and
sonorous response of the High Sheriff,
j who looked at the same time waggish
ly at the squinting jury, exjaimed
j “All good lawful men your honor!”
But our humorous functionary has
long since “shuffled off this mortal
coil.”
“ Where he your gibes now ? your j
gambols? your songs'? your flushes of!
merriment that were wont to set the
table in a roar? —quite chapfallen!”
Fidgetty-—Womerri at all times—
when they are young, because they
fear they will be old maids, and when
they are old maids, because ‘the men
stare so.’
Have the courage to keep your pro
mise, no matter what it may cost.
Georgia liitetnai Improvement*.
The following extracts are from a
letter we find in the Raleigh Standard,
credited to the New York Express.—
i'he Standard says it was dated South
western Georgia, January 24.
“Great confidence seems to he felt
in whatever Georgia lays her hand to.
1 have often heard it wondered how’
the citizens of Georgia had succeeded
so in bull sing railroads, keeping out of
do it, and making i heir roads pay well, j
Great, caution and prudence were
in requiring a good liberal
fide, subscription beforesfuttingM
i.'Wi;-., •! taring on “irr ■'• rngv”
oH-ellmg boras ci the comp Aral a
ruinous discount; and then th ■ most
watchful economy in the expenditure ,
of the money^t his characterized the j
‘fna ly beginning and progress of Geor- !
gia Railroads.
.Such things are not perhaps gener
ally looked for “down Soutti,” but it
h is heeh true of the past, an l a coil- j
trary practice even now, with the
Calilortjia and Australian mines .show
ering gold, would be one more honored
in tliedjreacli than the observai,
The first great private ent .use,
tlie hiiilding of the Central lie JUO
j miles long, was Commenced . i 1831,
when the times were hard a • J m, ney
! scarce. At the time of in ~ -npleiion.
[it was the longest single rend in the
|l. tiied States; it has. b. :: a sort of
: model or example h.-r <> e:s. The
: peisonel ot this road had ouch to do
with us success.# As ex hi (suing this
and snowing with what caution and
; economy they proceeded, i may .state
j that William VV. Gordon, Esq., a dis
| tinguisbed member of the {savannah
j bar, at the time a nn mberoflhe State
; !Se ate, possessing hugely iho public
! ccTiifidenoe, a most practical thorough
igotng man, was elected President.
j My.’Gordon applied to a gentleman of
j high reputation at the North, as Civil
’ Engineer, to survey and locate the
troVd; his salary, 1 think, was to he
’ gftQMO a came* and rather
! uir xpectedly. brought with him some
tvfmty assisuyir. engineers. Harness
; 1 1” six mules t(i a carriage, with his
! baskets he pro
■ vi. iii .mips
■in the field. The cautimistrnd astute
j President looktjd on in utter conster
; nation, and finally said to him, “Sir,
j you have mistaken us entirely, we are
j poor, we look to our subscribers
| through the country to doolie grading,
| or to contribute the means lor it as
j they are able, while we hope to raise
a much money from the citizens of
j {Savannah, as a ill in time enable us to
; buy the iron, and erect a superstruc
ture : but we cannot afford the expense
j of your numerous corps ot engineers
foi a single year.” The result was
that they were paid off, the mat tin
! satisfactorily arranged, and they left
j the work.
! Among tin’ assistant engineers was
| F. P. Holcomb, a voting man barely
i at majority, hut with considerable ex
; perience, and had attracted the atten
; lion ol Mr. Cordon, and Mr L. O. Rey
j nolds the latter now the able and ef
ficient President, of the South-Western
j road. It was arranged that Mr Rey
| nolds should take the chiefship. and he
\ gave to Mr. Holcomb the location o!
j the road. Upwards of four years were
j occupied by him with Ins single small
j corps in this survey, the road passing
| through a country of difficult topo
; graphy, a great partof it a ‘vilderness,
and ntersected by immense swamps,
I the corps living in their tents summer
1 and winter, sleeping in their blankets
in the absence of mat trasses, and the
annual expense of the whole engaged
probably not equalling the salary of
the former Chief Engineer i may
remark, as showing the good judgment
of Messrs. Gordon and Reynolds, that
from the admirable location Mr. Hol
comb was universally conceded to
have made of this road, he was rec
ommended by the Chevalier Bodisco,
the Russian Minister, to his govern
ment, as an engineer of high capacity
and established reputation. Mr.
did not go to Russia, but lias
located the youth-western, the C
bus branch, the Wayncsborougfi
Augusta, and is now engaged •
corps in a prelimiary survey oi the
Savannah and Pensacola cub Tuese
roads all have connect .Y the
Central, in most, of then it is directly
interns ed ; their length woe, :om
ple.ed including the Ce a will he
some 700 rn les.
Reception of Mr- Fillmore at Rich
mono. —Tlmei .zeiis o. Hiciunodd, Va.,
without regard to party, hold a meet
ing last night to make aroangements
to receive Ex-President Fillmore, who,
accompanied by Messrs. Kenedy and
Conrad, two of his late Secretaries, is
expected to arrive there this evening
in a special train.
A woman abandons her opinion the
moment her husband o lopts it; even
in church the woman sings an octavo
higher than the men, in order not to
agree with them in anything.
SWemlng (it of tint; Tlce'Pfts*|frut.
The N. 0. Picayune has fern per
mitted to publish the following extract
of a private letter from Mataezas. re
ceived in stew-Orleans by the Cres
cent City:
For the first time in thd history of
the Republic has the man chosen by
the people for the second post iff honor
taken the oath of office in a foreign
land. William Rufus King yas. on
the 4th instant, sworn in as V ce Pie
sident -of the United States at the
Ctimbre, near Matauz.is. a J
, “ —-i - nfni -1 m */,+ J’ ‘.y
fll * clear blue sky oi the trojilcf over !
our heads, the eiLeiai'd carpet of Cuba
beneath our feet, and the delicious sea
breeze of these latitudes spiinklirii is 1
coolness over all of us. Early in the
morning. Consul Rodney, deputed bv
judge Sharkey to administer tile oath, 1
left town on horseback fertile Cumbre, i
accompanied by several American
gentlemen. A pleasant ride of three
miles brought us to the estate where
Mr. King was residing, called La
Cumbre, (the peak) from its situation
on the culminating point of the hills
that immediately surround Matanzas.
The view from here is one of the most
| beautiful the eye ever looked upon.
: Far as the vision could reach in this
j clear blue expanse.the beautiful valley
1 of the Yumuri extended with its wind
i ing river, its varying fields cf green
j and gold, dotted here and there with
j sparkling buildings that looked like
i pearls set upon emerald,and the brown
j hills stretching far, far away in the
distance. No more lovely or more
•t
; impressive spot could have been found
in tlie whole world fir the ceremony,
and the Solemn grandeur of the act.
and of the sc* ne shed its spirit over us.
“The oath was administered by
Consul Rodney to the Vice President,
who was ready and wai'i lg our arri
val. The volatile was brought, up to
the door, and Mr King stepped into it,
in order to ride into Matanzas before
tiie sun should he too high to make it
pleasant. The whole cavalcade, con
-ist ing of some twelve or fifteen Amer
ican gentlemen, immediately mount
ing, and forming as an scor around
j ihe carriage, accompanied die Vice
j Fresidi nt to town.
j •• *he Creoles who had gathered on
| tiie lawn round the house, uncovet^d,
| and many a heart lelt Vitya vl. con
j Idiot (God be with you) broke from
i their lips as they rode away. On. the
* road to town the natives, wherever
j we met them, silently uncovered as
w approached, and as we passed sped
; after us the s me universal salutation.
; A lew Spaniards, standing in gloomy
! ire at. the doors of their shops, viewed
I us in silence, or muttered a sullen ajo
I as the dust, from our horses’ l'cet flew
j in their faces.
“Mr. King left Matanzas on the
j same day for the estate of Mr. Char
! train, in the patrido of Limonar, about
’ eighteen miles irom In re His health
is very poor, and no one accu-totm-d
to see patients with pulmonary disease
in this climate, hut knows he cannot
survive very long lie may five for
months in this mild climate, but he can
never be better. > lie old statesman
views his coming late with calmness,
as one who has fought the good light,
| and will lay’ hold oi eternal life.”
Hail Storm. —On Wednesday evert
ing last, March 10th. a terrible hail
j storm swept over mtr citv, and during
j the space of 10 minutes, did irninen.se
j damage. Almost every hou-e in the
, city was injured. The Warehouses
| of Mr. Rankin. Guiihy, Daniel & Cos.
i arid 11. S. Smiih A- Cos., were all par
tially blown down and unroolrd. Six
i or eight stoie houses about Rankin's
corner had their front, walls entirely
prostrated. Many private residences
were partially unrooted. Almost eve
ry chimney in the city is down and
our shade trees cumber the streets
with their lallesi trunks and broken
branches. Taylor & t o’s Gin facto
ry was unroofed and incalculable in
jury done to a large number of Gins
already finished, and to the tools and
machinery used in the manufacture
it is reported that the bridge in Girard
was blown down, and a waggon, dri
ver and team preciptated into the
depths below.
No lives were lost in our city.
Ii is useless to grieve over unavoid
able calamiiys.—lndustry and energy
will repair if, and we are. happy to
see that even before the storm had
abated. > any of our energetic citizens
were, busily engaged in removing flie
wreck and repairing the damage it
has caused. —The damage Is immense,
but in the confusion cotisequ nt upon
so great a calamity, it is impossible
to estimate it. — Tunes and Sentinel.
‘You are writing my bill on very
rough paper,’ said a client to his attor
nery. ‘Never mind,’ said the lawyer,
it, has to be filed before it come to
court.’
Have tl e courage to let a man know
that you will not lend him money, and
not that von can’t.
I* atal Comsat.- —ln the ‘Memoirs
ot the Baroness dObeeritirch” w
find the following interesting and cu
rinus statement:—“On the n os of the
Cathedral at Cokf".r. there had been
placed a wheel, laid crosswise, as an
inducement to the storks to build their
*• sts there. This is a custom the- ’.h -
out Alsace, it being a not a hr- opinion
in that pert of the country ti t th'c.-e
birds ace harbingers off eh’: luck.-
The storks b;.,i not fitted set come,
tmd fiotn the windows of on. inn w.
saw ,tie sombre prof;: a p ; .;ais.
the evening t,ky, then ‘ reddened by
li e setting Mm A bro and of young
storks was grouped mound the pa
rent. that stood upright upon i sgVeat.
claws. None in the nest slept. It
was evident that liiev await ed an ab
sen’ one. some straggler perhaps, and
from time to time tvs heard their wild
and disagreeable cry. At ieng hwe
perceived, on the vage oi’th-- hors
z ‘ii. a stoik, wi , ou : * •<’!
! cleaving the a:r y.;;fi arij&Avy ; -•••*-,
ness, and closely a bird of
i prey of prodigious ‘ izr—-pi i-banly ft
vulture Irum ‘lfn* neighboring nionn
j tains. The stork was frighteued—
j wounded perhaps—and the cries of
! those in the nest responded to the pr.-
j rent’s cry. \Vo..saw “the poor frigh
} teried bird ht'rive straight over its
’ nest,.and fa'l ‘there, fexliausted either
j by fafiguc or pain.
l ire other .stork then took her com-
I pHnaon’s piece, and sprang towaids
I the enemy. A fierce combat com*
i menced ; the two champions rushed
| upon one another, uttering teriifio
| cries. Jbit the glorious instinct of
j pAternitydisplayed itself with incredi
| Lie strength and energy in the stork.
S M ifilst...defending herself, or attacking
! her gigantic adversary, she never for
;-.n instant lost sight of her little ones
that laid trembling ami l*rifled in the
j nest beneath, but tried continually to|
cover then with her wings. At last,*!
100 weak to sustain an unequal com
bat, by a desperate, effort she ap
pro.idled her bi ;mch-formed nest,
where lay her expiring mate and the
: .She caught tin: m .-t in her hill, shook
; it forcibly, and turned it over, dashing
j Irom the top ot’ the tower the objects
] <>i her affection, rather than see them
j fid! a prey to their enemy. Then, de*
! voting herself singly, a resigned vic
i tint, she fell upon the wheel, where,
with a blow oi his beak, the vulture
1 terminated her existence. YVe were
| all touched to the heart by the sight of
j this combat and this defenc *. To use
! an expression then in fashion, it was
j a real family tragedy. The Count du
; Nord especially seemed as much in
j terested and excited as if lie had been
; looking on a stride between two rnail
j clad warriors.”
; A\ Interesting Argument. —Have
I you not, reader, heard upon what or*
\ gument .lames Harper, the great
j bibiispole of America, based his de
fence vvlcn lie was waited upon by r„
i committee of the female members of
his church, for the purpose, ol remontf
j Ira ing with him cm the subject of do
I nouncing certain books froiii the liar
per press as exceedingly wi ked ■■ nd
j iieirinient.al to the can e o 1 ’ -dlgion
! and good morals. The wo;tby pub
lisher begged t< know “a I.’ 1 .’ varks of
! his publication came u ,;er the *■ cen
sorship Ihe fema cominiite • nr..;-
: ed Bttiu er’s nova I
“ Well.” S lid the eldc:’ Harpsf,
’ “ hete is a large variety of rfieoAgi
cal. liistoi ica!, soiernifie ii.e.-aty and
rniscellanei us tn.t er embcachig v y
agos, 1 1 awls, ike . which at - such ex
cellent quality that they may m i-.e
j amends for the evil publication com
plained of. Have you read any of
| tiles- ?”
“I'll no—we liiive read none of
■ them.”
Well, how have you a-certn’.-.ed
tdieevii elm tact - • . ■ • s vv., .-A
I lave you >;■ . t; :ea t tf'.-’ir
character or ; tve you read i; >m ?
■J’o ptiss j .: on a ’ ■ it. is
necessary to be pc ic/tally conversant
with it.”
They said they Were well posted up
about Uulwer’s writings; they had
read every one of them, and they
I wished to know why he persisted in
publishing such works ?’’
i “ Why,” said Janies Harper in his
blandest and most pleasant style,
“ for the gratification of such ladies
as you who will read nothing rise.”
There was precious little space lelt
for any urther argument on the part
of the committee. We do not know
wh .t report they made to the .-ociety.
bin James llarpc retains a very High
1 position in the church of which the
committee are members. — Er.
Give the devil Ins due. Certainly
says a cotemporary; but it is better
to have no dealings with the devil,
and then there will bo nothing due to
him.
nST Look at this line ‘will you ! H f
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