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JOHN HENRY SEALS, ) and > Editors, L, LINCOLN VEAZEY, S SEW SERIES, VOL. I. THPlttfl (SUMS. published EVERY SATURDAY, EXCEPT TWO, IN THE YEAR, BY JOHN IT. SEALS. TERMS : SI,OO, in advance; or $2,00 at tha end of the year. RATES OF ADVERTISING. 1 square (twelve lines or less) first insertion,. .$1 GO Each continuance, 50 iVofersiottal or Business Cards, not exceeding six lines, per year, 5 00 Announcing Candidates for Office. 3 00 ST A XOINO ADYE3TISKMENTB. 1 square, three month?,. 5 00 1 sou arc, six months, 7 00 1 square, twelvemonths, • —-12 00 2 squares, “ “ 18 00 8 squs.ro?, “ “ 21 00 4 squares, “ “ ......25 00 Advertisements not marked with the number of insertions, will bo continued until forbid, and charged accordingly. lercnsnts, Druggists, and others, may con tract for advertising by the year, on reasonable terms. LEG VL ADVERTISEMENTS. Sale of L*n or Negroes, by Administrators. Execute--?, and Guardians, per square,— 5 00 ■Sale of Personal Property, bv Administrators, Exeeut -rc. .. a J Q urdsans, per square,... 825 Notice to Debtors and Creditors, 8 25 Nonce for Leave to Se I ], 4- 00 Citation fur Letters >1 Administration,. 2 75 Citation for Letters of Dismission from Adci’n. 5 00 Citation for Letters of Dismission from Guardi anship 8 25 LEGAL KEQHREALENTfL Solos of Land and Negroes, by Administrators. Executors, or Guardians, are required by law to be held on the first Tuesday in the month, between the hours of ten in the forenoon and three in the after noon, at the Court House ii. ..he County in which the property is situate. Notices of these sales must be given in a public, gazette forty Jays previous to the day of sale. t Notices for the sale of Personal Property must be give a at least tea days previous to the day of sale. Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an Estate must bo published forty days. 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If subscribers neglect or refuse to take their newspapers from the offices to which they arc di rected, they are held responsible nntH they hpve set tled the bills and ordered them discontinued. 4. If subscribers remove to other places without informing the publishers, aud the newspapers are sent to the former direction, they are held responsi ble. 5. The Courts have decided that refusing to take newspapers from the office, or removing and leaving them uncalled for, is prima facie evidence of inten tional fraud. G. The United States Coarts have also repeatedly deckled, that a Postmaster w ho neglects to perform his duty f giving reasonable notice, as required by the Post Usice Department, of the neglect of a per son to take from the office newspapers addressed to him, renders the Postmaster liable to the publisher for the subscription price. JOB PRINTING-, of every description, done w ; th neatness and dispatch, at this office, and at rea••.enable prices for cash. All orders, in this department, must be addressed to J. T. BLAIN. V IS © S it? E i’ T l M OF THE TEMPERANCE 010)11 [quondam] TEMPERANCE BANNER. A OTU VTSi> by a conscientious desire to further _/ \ tue cause of Temperance, and experiencing groat dn ulvantaga in being too narrowly limited in space, by the smallncAS of cur paper, for the publica tion of Reform irgumenfcs and Passionate Appeals, wc have determined to enlarge it to a more conve nient and acceptable size. And being conscious of the fact that mere are existing in the minds ot a iarue portion of the present readers of the Banner and its former patrons, prejudices and difUnities which can never be removed so long as it retains the I, j c- c venture also to a change -n that nai ticular. It will henceforth bo called, “THE TEM PER ANCE CRUSADER.” This oid pionoer oi the Temperance cause is des tined vet to chronicle the tr uraph of its principles. It has’stood the test —passed through the “hery f :r - like the “Hebrew children,” re-appeared unscorched. It has survived t:.e ft&tAS’pwpfir f&wiuc wi-.oii has caused, and Is st>'U causing many excel lent journals, and periodicals to sink, like “bright ex halations in the evcn : r.r,” u “isc no more, and it has c- n heralded the “death struggles of many contoui pora os, laboring for the same great end. with itself! ft “ Ht in hves.” and “waxing bolder as it grows older/ ic now waging an eternal “Crusade” against the “in fernal L-quor Traffic,” standing like the “High Priest” of the Israelites, who stood between the people and the plague that threatened destruction. We entreat the friends of the Temperance Cause to eive us their influence in extending the usefulness of the paper. We intend presenting to the public a sheet worthy of all attention and a liberal patronage; for while it is strictly, a Temperance Journal, we shall endeavor to keep its readers posted ou all the current events throughout the country. iay"Piicafks heretofore, sl, strictly in advance. JUHS T H. SEALS, Editor and Proprietor. Pecfiald, G&-, Deo. 8,1856. fttottii to Canptrmct, |starjt% S’iltnttare, feral ftrttlligettce, Jletas,. fe. Who’s to Blame! A SHORT STORY TOR MARRIED LADIES. One evening, the fastidious Henry Went woith, on coming home tired and depress ed, found his wife in the parlor, dressed in a soiled morning gown, and wearing a pair of si : ppers down at the heel. To increase his vexation she was sitting in vn easy chair with one leg crossed over the other, read ing a trashy novel. ‘‘Why. Fanny !” he exclaimed in amaze ment. for they laid been married only a iew months, and hitherto he had thought her the pick of neatness. ‘Well, what is it?’ she asked looking up. Then noticing the direction of his eyes, she assumed a more becoming position. ‘You don’t like my dress, perhaps,’ she continu ed : “but really, I was too tired to change it.” ‘What have you been doing all day V said Harry. ‘Oh, reading this,’ she replied ; she col ored ns she held up the book, and added, ‘and then it has been so warm !’ Now her husband had been hard at work all through the sulty summer day, and had. us was usual with him when busy, dined .at i his office. Yet his attire was neat, and even his hair newiv brushed ; for he had gone to his chamber to do th ; s before corning into the parlor. It may be supposed, therefore, that he was annoyed at the slovenliness of his wife, the more so, as, on looking at the novel, he found >1 quite a worthless affair. He said nothing however, except. ‘At least change, your slippers, my dear. You don’t know how I dislike to see a lady slipshod.’ Do you ! how odd I’ said his wife, with a silly laugh, stooping to pull up the heels of her shoes. ‘There, that will do, I think I really can’t walk so far as the chamber this warm evening. I wish you would ring for tea, the hell is just by you, as I want to finish this chapter.’ Her husband sighed, but did as he was bid. The tea came up, and he took his seat, but the chapter was not yet conclu ded, and so he was compelled to wait.— When, at last, Mrs. Wentworth came to the table the tea was cold The meal under those circumstances, was a dull one, and the husband, after tea was over, finding his wife absorbed in her book, lay down on the sofa and finally Went to sleep. Airs. Wentworth had been the belle of the town before her marriage. Her spright.- l’ness and beauty had been the th- me of constant admiration. But these qualities would hav.e failed to have won Harry Went worth’s heart, if they'had not been sustain ed by a most exquisite taste in dress. See Fanny when you would, she was always carefully attired ; and as Harry Wentworth was particularly fastidious on this point, he thought himself the happiest of men, when Fanny, one bright summer morning prom ised to be his. But unfortunately the bride had no real habits of neatness, but only a love of admi ration. It was vanity that had indu ed her while single to be careful of her dress; but now that she was married she gradually gave way to her natural indolence. The first occasion on which she did this to any very glaring extent, was the evening on which our story opens ; but it was soon fol lowed up by other exhibitions of slovenli ness. *1 do wish. Fanny, that you would dress more neatly,’ said Mr. Wentworth in a vex ed voice, some months later still. “Night after n ght I come home and find you in that atrocious wro pper.” ‘You used to think me pretty enough in any dress,’ retorted Mrs. Wentworth, tes tily. ‘But I never saw you in one like that be fore we were married/ replied her hus band. ‘To be sure not/ said’ Mrs. Wentworth, and she laughed ironically. ‘I always dres sed for the company then, and I do so now.’ What could Mr. Wentworth say? If his w fe did not think it necessary to be neat in his presence—did not cons : der him as worthy of pleasing as the comparative stran gers whom she called company—it was use less to argue with her; so after tea, the slipshod heels still annoyed him, with a per ceptible hole in the stocking to increase that annoyance, he moodily took his hat and left the house. At first Mr. Wentworth walked up and down the street, but at last fatigued with this, he stopped into a debating room at tached to u tavern. Here he met several acquaintances, and gradually failing into conversation, the evening passed rapidly a way. When he went home Mrs. Wentworth, looking very sleepy, and a little out of hu mor, accosted him with—Where in the world have you been ? I finished my novel an hour ago, and have had nobody to talk to ever since. I am moped to death. There was a time, she added, poutingly, “when nothing in the world could’ have induced you to spend .an evening away from me.’ Her h usband was on the point of replying in a similar upbraiding style, but he recol lected that he had expostulated too often and too vainly* and so he said nothing. It was a week before Mr. Wentworth spent another evening out. He tried sin cerely to stay at home ; but his annoyance at his wife's sloveliness was too great, and PENFIELD, GA., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1850 • UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA LIBRARY , at last he left her again to her novel and her slipshod shoes. Mr. Wentworth has now become a con firmed visitor of the debating room, the members of which are chiefly married men; and if the full truth were known, it would appear, we believe, that most of them, if not all, have wives resembling Mrs. Went worth. Sometimes there is an unduequan titv of brandy and water drunk at these meetings, so that some members, and Mr. Wentworth among them, * * * ecetera de* sunt. Courting in the Eight Style. ‘Git eout, you nasty pup—let me alone or I’ll tell your ina!’ cried out Sally ro her lever Jake , who sat about ten feet pulling dirt from the chimney jam. ‘I aru’t techin’ on you, Sai,’ responded Jake. ‘Well, perhaps you don’t mean to, nuth or— go yer V ‘Cause why, you’re too tarnal skearry, you long-legged, lantern jawd, slab sided, pigeon-toed, gangled-kneed old owl—you hain’t got a tarnal bit of sense; git along home with von.’ ‘Now Sal, I love vou. and vou can’t help kn owin’ it, and of you don’t let me stay and court yon, my daddy will sue yourn for tiie cow he sold him t’other day. By Jingo, he said he’d do ir.’ ‘Well, look here, Jake—es you want to court (ne, you bad been do as a white man r, oes that thing—not setoff there as es you thort I was *pizfcn.’ ‘How on aiith is that, Sal V ‘Why saddle right np here an 1 hug and kiss me, as es you had some of tile ‘bone and sinner’ of a man about you. Do von spose a woman’s only made to look at you tool you ? No—they’re made for practicle results, as Kossuth says—to hug and kiss, aud sich like.’ ‘Well,’ said Jake, drawing a long breath, if I must, I will, for I do love you, Sal.’ And so Jake commenced sliding up to her, like a male porker going to battle.— Laying hia arm gently upon Sal’s skoul del*, wo thought we could bear Sal say— ‘That’s the way to doit, old boss—that is acting like a white man oner.’ ‘Oh, Jerusalem and pancakes ! exclaim ed Jake : ‘ef this ain’t better than enny ap ple sass inarm made, a darned sight.— Buckwheat slapjacks and lasses ain’t no whar ‘long side o’ you Sal—oh, how I love you ! Triumphs of the Traffio. We clip the following item from the Cin cinnati Times : Two Appeals.—Ja the Police Court, yesterday, a woman with care, plainly marked upon her brow, thinly and poorly clad, appeared as a witness. She coin planned ageinst a man aud his wife, whom siie charged with constantly alluring her husband into the debasing habit of intoxi cation. “I love my husband,” was the substance of ber statements, “and though I have suf fered much, I am willing to suffer more, if I can only cause his reform. He is a good, kind man, when sober, and I am confident would not drink, if not influenced by im proper persons. Ho is ;i tailor, and so is this man. He (the accused) and his wife, are both addicted to intemperance, and seem to take great pleasure in making my husband a drunkard. They offer him work, he accepts it, and as sure as he enters their shop, he never leaves it sober. What becomes of his earnings, I do not know.— I get none of them. lie works for them, drinks with them, and is fast going to rum. If I call for him, I am insulted and abus ed. That woman has struck me several times, and her husband has also attempt ed it. Can I not have some protection as ■i wife? Will not the law force them to leave my husband alone? That is all I want, and all I ask.” Her request was complied with a6 far as it could be under the law. This morning a woman some forty-five \ . are of age, was among the prisoners at. the Police Court. The witness against her was an honest-looking Irishman, her hus band. His appeal was about as follows : “She is my wife, and the source ot great annoyance to me. Five times have I al ready complained of her, and ns many times has she been sent to jail. I have eight children, all of w hom I honestly support, though I receive but a dollar a day for my labor. My wife is constantly drunk whe ; out of jail. She came, home last night af ter dark, and immediately commenced beating the poor children. She drove us all out of the house, broke up the furni ture, and threatened to fire the building. There seems to be no hope of her reform, and she gets drunk the moment she is re leased from prison. I ask all the protec tion the law can give to myself and chil dren.” The degraded wife and mother was com mitted to prison under the provisions of the liquor law. ■ ———- fSgT ’‘Pat., you have dated your letter a week ahead. It month by one week, you spalpanc/ “Troth, boy indade an’ it’s jist mesilf what is wanting swat© Kathleen to get it in udya-Nce of the mail. Sure I’ll not care if she gets it three days afore it is written, me darliut.” A Thrilling Adventure. A merchant, who, wishing to celebrate hie daughter’s wedding, collected a party of her young companions. They were cir cled round her, wishing much happiness to the youthful bride and her chosen one. Her father gazed proudly on his lovely child, aud hoped that as bright prospects for the future might open for the rest of his children who were playing among the guests. Passing through the hail of the basement be met a servant who was carry ing a lighted candle in her hand, without the candlestick. He blamed her for snob conduct, and went into the kitchen to see about the supper. The girl soon returned hut without the candle. The merchant im mediately recollected that several barrels of gunpowder had been placed in the cel lar during the day, and one had been open ed. ‘Where is your candle ?’ he enquired with the utmost alarm. ‘1 could’nt bring it np with me, for my arms are full of wood,’ said the girl. ‘Where did you put it V ‘Well, I’d no candlestick, so I stuck it in some black sand that’s in the small bar rul.’ Her master dashed clown the stairs ; the passage was long and dark; his knees threatened to give way under him; his breath was choked , his flesh St-emod ury and parched, as if he had already felt the suffocating blas s os death. A t the end of the cellar under rhe very room where his children aud their friends were reveling in felicity, be saw the open barrel of powder, full at the top; the candle stuck loosely in the grains, with a lona red snuff of burnt wick ; this sight seemed to wither all his powers; the laughter of the company struck upon his ear like the knell of death. He stood a moment unable to move. The music commenced above, the feet of the dancers responded with vivacity ; the floor shook, and the loose bottles in’ the cellar gingled with the motion. He fancied the candle moved, was falling! with desper ate energy he sprang forward. But how to remove it! the slightest touch would cause the red hot wick to fall into the pow der. With unequalled presence of mind he placed a hand on each side of the can die pointed to the object of his care, which as his hands met, was secured in the clasp ing of his fingers, and safely moved away from its dangerous position. When be reached the head of the stairs ho smiled at his previous alarm, but the reaction was too powerful, and he fell into fits of the most violent laughter. Ho was conveyed to his bed senseless, and many weeks elaps ed ere bis nerves recovered sufficient tone to allow him to resume business. Testimony from tho Bench. The Judges of England are now uniting in the most startling testimony against the Liquor Traffic. The following impressive passage is from a charge to the Grand Jn ry. by the Recorder of War ren, Esq. The same gentleman is more widely known as the author of “Ten Thou sand a Year.” In all that celebrated fic tion there is no passage of such painful in terest as the following statement of facts. “Intemperance and ignorance were, he urged, the two mighty evils at the root of all social evils.” He continued as follows: “W uld that a holy crusade would bd set on foot—a national movement —against these two inveterate and deadly foes of mankind! I was never heard to speak a syllable with levity or disrespect to the Temperance movement, as it is called— for, to me the sight of a man especially in humble life, who voluntarily abstains from a pleasure and excitement, which he has iound to lead him astray from virtue, peace and happiness, is very noble and affecting as an act of self-denial, which must be ac ceptable to Almighty God. Geutlemen, to the best >f my belief, no Temperance man ever stood at tho oar to receive judg ment from this seat, in my time at least, while I tremble to express iny belief, that seven out of every ten who have done so, have been brought here bv intoxicating li quor: 1 have talked with them alter wards in prison, and they have owned it with tears of agony.”— Prohibitionist. Mormon Husbands. —One of the Mor mon women who was in the company of the late crowd which has passed through our town for Salt Lake, we learn lad no less than four husbands. She is said to h°ve been an intelligent looking individu al. She contended that women have as good a right to have a number of husbands, as a man had to have as many wives as he wished, provided the men were all members of the Mormon Church. There is nothing like making circumstances suit occasions, and these Mormons appear to have a peculiar faculty for such transac tions.—Rock Islander. Washington Irving in his beauti ful Affections of the Dead, says: “Go to the grave of buried Love, aud meditate. There settle the account with thy conscience for every past benefit unre qnited, every past endearment unregard ed. Console thyself if thou canst by this time unavailing sorrow for the dead, and henceforward be more faithful aud affec tionate in the discharge of thy duties to the living!” Refinements of Language. Among all the improvements of the age, none, perhaps, are more striking than those which have recently been made, and, in deed. are at present making, in the lan guage of ordinary life. Who, in these davs ever reads of boarding-schools They are transformed into academies for boys and seminaries fo r girls; the higher classes are ‘ establishments.” A coachmaker s shop T a repository for carriages ; a milliner’s shop ; a depot; a thread-seller’s, an epipowurn.— One buys drugs at a medic.d hall, wines oi a company, and shoes at a mart. Blacking is dispensed from an institution; and meat from a purveyor. One wouid imagine thal the word shop had become not only con temptible, but had been discovered not to belong to the English language. Now-a days, all the shops are w arehouses or “pla ces of business,” and you will hardly find a tradesman having the honest hardihood to call himself a shopkeeper. There is now also, no sodli word as that of tailor —thn. is to say among speakei a polite. C!oh:er has been discovered to be more elegant, al though the term tailor is every bit as respec table. Instead of reading that, after a bail the company did not go away till daylight, we .catold. that the joyful gioups continued tripping on the light fantastic toe, nil Sol g ive them the warning to deparfo If one of the company happened to stumble into a ditch, we hculci be informed that his foot supped and he was immersed into the li quid element. A good breakfast is describ ed as making “the table groan with every delicacy of the season/’ A crowd of brief less, Hzy lawyers, unbeneficed clergymen and half-pay officers, arc enumerated a “host of fashion” at a watering place, where we are informed that ladies, instead of ta king a dip before breakfast, plunge them selves into the bo-;om of Neptune. A sheep killed by lightning is a thing unheard—tht anirnal may be desmoyed by the electric flu id, but even then we should not be told tha< it was dead ; we should he informed that the vital spark had fled forever. All little girls, lie their faces ever so plain, pittied or pitiable, if they appear at a public office to complain of robbery or ill treatment, are invariably “intelligent or in teresting.” If they have proceeded very far in crime, they are called unfortunate fe males. Child-murder is elegantly’termer 1 infanticide, and when it is punished capi tally, we hear not that the wicked mother was hanged, but the unfortunate culprit un derwent the last sentence of the law, and was launched into eternity. No person reads in a newspaper that a house has been burn ed down; he perhaps will find that the house fell a sacrifice to die flames. In an account ol a launch, not that the ship went off the slips without an accident, but that she glided securely and majestically into her native element; the said “native element” being one in which the said ship never was before. To send for a surgeon, if one’s leg is broken, is out of the quest on; a man in deed may be despatched for medical aid.— There are now no public singers at tavern dinners; and actors are all professors ol the histrionic art. Widows are scarce, they are all “interesting relicts,” and as for nur sery maids, thev are notv-a-days, univer sally transformed into “young persons, who superintend the junior branches of the fam ily.” Another Church paying for Skirts. — Some years ago, when she narrow * skirts were in fashion, certain good people built a church up town. In order to get as ma ny seats as possible, tho slips were made pretty narrow. This has occasioned great inconvenience of late : 1-ut was got along with as well as possible, until a few week> since, when four ladies, wearing those huge whalebone skirts, became wedged in one of those slips, and were drawn out with great difficulty. The trustees had a meet ing and at once, resolved to come up tu the ago, and workmen are now engaged iu remodelling the building, so that, a sim ilar accident will not be likely to occur again.— JST. id Times. A Judge Baffled. —It is related of Thos. F. Marshall, that s Judge having once fined him thirty dollars for contempt of Court, he arose and asked the Judge to loan him the money, as he hadn’t it, and there was no friend present to whom he could so well ap ply as to his honor. This was a stumper. The Judge looked at Tom and then at the Clerk, and finally said: “Clerk, remit Mr. Marshall’s fine-~ the State is better able to lose thirty dol lars than I am.” Anecdote of Judge Bates. —The Judge recently called at the Village store, design ing to make the purchase of a. mackerel.— Several friends were in who knew that the Judge had become a good Temperance man, and were willing to run him a little. Tuc storekeeper joined in the sport, and begged the Jujige to take a little some thing. ‘ Yhat will you have, Judge ? Take any thing you like.’ The Judge looked around, as If in doubt what to choose, and replied : ‘ Ibelieve I will take a mackerel!’ Helping himself, he gravely walked out of the etore, and was not invited to take anything there again. C TERMS: SI.OO TN ADVANCE. ) JAMES T. BLAIN, V. PRINTER. VOL. XXH.-NUMBEE 37. Rottenness of Hireling Ccvniunities. We are pleated to learn that Professor Vv rn. A. Smith has been lecturiag in por tion* of Eastern Virginia on the subject of slaveryespecially pleased that he de fends slavery on principle—contends that the slave relation is the normal and natural condition of society—and that slavery is a necessary social and political institution. This involrns the necessity of maintaining that society, without this patriarchal ment, every where proves a failure in the long run This, we learn, he does with bold ness and great ability. Slavery can only be defended by showing that even the com paratively partial and shortlived experi ments in Western Europe to dispense with it, has been a failure, and has placed the emancipated laborer in a worse condition than if he were a slave in law as well as fret. No one cm doubt this fact who will examine history and statistics. Systems formed on such opposite principles as Sla very and universal liberty, cannot both be right— cannot both endure. It ha? boen less titan three years since the utter rottenness of hireling society was first announced in the South. The announce ment has met with no contradiction, much iess with any seiious attempt at refutation —and now, one of our ablest Professors and most gifted Lecturers, openly maintains and promulges the doctrines in public advlrescos. The North evades and shirks the ques tion, but w. 11 not be able to oersist in eva ding it much longer. It so happens that an equivalent assertion had been made by all the Abolitionists, who a’ e all Soc alists and as ruch, in favor of the ■ubverslon and reconstruction of society. It is true they include slave society m their schemes of re ;orm, and insist that it is also a failure. But their admissions are good evidence only against themselves. Their testimony as against us is altogether hearsay, and utter ly invalid and worthless. —Richmond Ex aminer. A Knotty Case.—' ‘ls the Squire at home?’ enquired Pat of the lawyer’s lady, who ■pened the door at his summons. He was answered negatively. ‘Maybe then yourself can give me the necessary information well as th.e Squire, •tern you are his wife. The lady promised to do so, if, on learn ng the nature of the difficulties, she lound it in her power, and the other proceeded to state his case as follows : ‘S’pose you were an old white mare, and I should borrow you to go to mill, with a turn of grist on your back, and we should get no farder than the first bill, when all it once 3 ou should back up, and pitch up, mu Kneel backwards, and break your darn old neck, wboM pay for ye? Not I, darn me if I would.’ The lady smilingly told him as she clo sed the door as he had himself passed the sentence on the case, advice would be en tirely superfluous. fan Dieman's Land . —A magistrate of that region announces himself a half Maine Law man. We quote from the Cornwall, (V. H. L.) Chronicle: “While sentencing the prisoners tried at the last sitting of the Quarter Sessions, on Thursday last, Mr. Rone, the Chairman of the Quarter Sessions, remarked that altho’ he was not an advocate for the Maine Li quor Law, still he would like to see one half of the places where men got drunk, closed. Re would implore every one not to drink to excess, not to indulge in the heavily-stinging, soul-destroying vice of in temperance. He said that drunkenness was the greatest calamity ever introduced into the colony. He was prepared to say that mne-tenths of the crime committed in Van, Dieman’s Land were consequent on drunk enness. It was from thirty years’ experi ence he was speaking, and he wished eve ry publicity to be given to the opinion of the Court. 8S1F” A little Galveston boy, only eight years old v now on a visit abroad, and wri ting home to his mother, 6ays : “If you and > not receive this letter, tell father that I wrote it any how, for I want him to know that I keep iny promise.” This is like Pat, who, in writing to his better half, said : “When yon call at the post for this, if the post-master tells you it is not there, tell him he lies, the baste, for sure, Biddy, be I not writing at this present moment intirely — ■"■■■ ■ Echo. —The shadow of a sound— a voice without a mouth aud woids —without a tongue. Echo, though represented as a female, never speaks until she .is spoken to; ana at every repetiou of what she has heard, continues to make it leo3, instead of more; an example recommended to the special attention of tattlers aud scandal mongers. A Happy Man. —A Doctor returned a coat to a tailor because it did not suit him. The tailor seeing the doctor at the funeral of one of his patients, said : *Ab, doctor, you are a happy man.* ‘Why so’ asked the doctor. ‘Because,’ said the tailor, ‘yon never have any of your bad work returned on your hands.’