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noon, at the Court House in the County in which the
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I> 111 E C T O II Y.
W. KINO & SONS,
Factors * CorasuiMion .Uercliants. an<l For
warding Agents.
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
W. K.INO, SR. | KCL. KIXO. | W. KINO, JR.
Nov. 22, 1856. 4fi
WE SEABBOOK LAWTON,
(4ftto,ooo Cash Advances on Produce.)
UPLAND AND SEA ISLASD COTTON, FLOUR AND GRAIN
F A C T OR,
FOR WARD LX G t COMMISSION MERCHANT,
No. 38, Fast Huj, Charleston, *. C.
Feb. 10 _ 8
I>. MI. SANDERS,
A TT O R N E Y A T L A W ,
ALBANY, GEORGIA,
Will practice in the counties of Dougherty, Sumter,
Lee, Randolph, Calhoun, Early, Baker,
Decatur and Worth.
Jan. 1 ly 1
WHIT G. JOHNSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Acc.csta, Ga.
WILL promptly attend to all business entrusted
to his professional management in Richmond and the
adjoining counties. Office on Mclntosh Street, three
doors below Constitutionalist office.
Reference—Thos. R. R. Cobb, Athens, Ga.
June 14—ly
JAMES BROWN.
f TTO ft.VJE V .1 T IF.
FANCY niLL, MURRY CO., GA.
April 30th, 1867.
W itt. GIBSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
.After fifteen years’ practice, has permanently loca
ted in
AITIFSTA, UA.
Will attend the Courts in Richmond, Warren, Co
lumbia, Burke, Jefferson and Lincoln counties,
ffiyoffice corner Campbell and Broad-streets.
May 24, 1856. 20
PHILLIP B. KOBINSON,
ATT O RN E Y A T L A TF,
GREENESBORO’, G EOKGIA.
Will practice in the eounties of Greene, Morgan,
Putnam, Oglethorpe, Taliaferro, Hancock,
Wilkes and Warren.
July 5, 1850. ly 25
ROGER L. WTIIGfIAJtt,
A TTO li N E V A T L A W,
Louisville , Jefferson eo., Ga.
WILL give prompt attention to any business en
trusted to his care, in the following counties:
Jefferson, Burke, Richmond, Columbia,
Warren, Washington. Emanuel,
Montgomery, Tat nail and
Semen.
April 26. 1856.—tt
LEONARD T. DOYAL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDONOUGII, HENRY CO., GA.
Will practice Law in the following counties, to-uit;
IJenrv, Spaulding, Butts, Newton, Fayette, Fulton,
DeKalb, Pike and Monroe; Feb 2—4
H. T. PERKINS,
A TTO RN E Y AT LAW ,
OREENESBORo’, GEORGIA,
Will practico in the counties of Greene, Morgan,
Putnam, Oglethorpe, Taliaferro, Hancock,
Wilkes and Warren.
Feb. 12 ly 7
Thon art Growinr Old, My Mother.
Thou art growing old, rny n other,
And thy brow is marked with care,
All furrowed is thine aged cheek,
Once beautiful and fair.
Thy soft brown locks are sadly changed,
Chill frosts have settled there.
And touched with many a freezing kiss
Thy gently flowing hair.
Thou ait growing old, my mother,
As I catch the half-drawn sigh,
Well I know that years of sorrow
Have bedimmed thy melting eye ;
But with gentle light it beameth,
Beatneth on me even yet,
While a love that never changeth *
Till the sun of life is set.
Thou art growing old, my mother,
Many of our household band
Have before thee journeyed onward,
To the far off “better land,”
But thy voice in tender accents
Still is falling on my ear,
Sweetly brightening my pathway,
Which without thee were so drear.
Thou art growing old, my mother,
And around thy youngest born,
Shadows gather—darkly* gather—
Even in life’s early inom.
But the blessed Savior spareth
Thee, to still protect thy child,
While the storms of sorrow hover,
Hover o’er me dark and wild!
Thou art growing old, my mother,
Soon I feel that thou will rest
In the “land of the hereafter:”
In the regions of i;>e blest.
Who will iovc me then, rny mother,
When the last life cord is riven ?
Let us pray that both together
God will take us sale to heaven.
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Dressing Before the Girls.
The Philadelphia Sunday Transcript is respon
sible for the following rather hard story :
‘‘ The other day, ari up-river young ‘un f who is
about to forsake father and mother mid cleave mi
to Nancy Ann, came down to view the city and
get his new suit, and, as a matter of course, found
his way into one of the large clothing stores which
abound in Market-street. He did not stagger in
with that easy, don’t-care air cf a townbred
searcher of cheap clothing, for the verdant tint
was tolerably fresh cn him yet, and lie stopper!
and knocked at the door. Ho was at once ad
mitted, and became perfectly bewildered with the
cordial reception be met with. The proprietor
was iearly to forward him a ‘suit* at once, if he
saw lit, or they would take his measure and furn
ish him to order. Nehemiah, running his large
gray eyes over the ‘piles ol coats, vests, nnd trow
sere that lined each side and center of the store,
lit on a nice blue coat, a vest of green, and a
lengthy pair of pantaloons, real blazers, with wide
yellow stripes running each wav. He snaked
them out in a twinkling. lie was particularly do
lighted with the Dowsers—they were long, re 1 low.
just the thing, and he proceeded at once to put
them on. i lie store had a corner curtained off
for the purpose, and Nehemiah was speedi'v clos
eted therein.
‘•The pants had straps, nnd the straps were but
toned. Aow, Nehemiah had scon straps before,
but the art of managing them was a mystery.—
On consideration, he decided that the boots must
go on first. He then mounted a chair, elevated
his puli Is at a proper angle, and endeavored to
coax his legs into them. ‘ He had a time of it,—
His boots were none of the smallest, and the pants
were none of the widest; the chair, too, was rick
ety, and bothered him; but bending his energy
to the task, he succeeded in inducing one leg into
the ‘ pesky things.’ He was straddled like the
Colossus of Rhodes, and just in the act of raising
the other foot, when a whispering and giggiiro
in hi* immediate vicinity made him alive” to the
appalling fact that nothing but a chintz curtain
separated turn from twenty or thirty of the pretti
est and wick.(list girls that were ever caged in
one shop.
“Nehemiah was a bushful youth, ami would
have made a circumbendibus of a mile any day,
rather than meet those girl*, even if lie had been
in full dress ; as it was, his mou.h was much ajnr
at the bare possibility oi making his ftpp6'irHij- ,i G
among them in his present dishabille. What if
there was a hole in the curtain! What if he
should fill { It wouldn’t bear thinking f “ a r,d
plunging the foot into the vacant leg with a sort
ot frantic loosness, he brought on the very catas
tfophe lie was so anxious to avoid. The chair
collapsed with a sudden scrouch, pitch in* Nehe
niiah heels over head through the curtain, and he
made a grand entrance among the stiching divini
ties, on all fours, like a fettered rhinoceros. Per
haps Keller and his troup. never exhibited a more
striking tableau vivant than was here displayed.
Nehemiah whs a perfect ‘model,’ every inch of him
and, though not exactly revolving on a pedestal*
lie was going through that movement on his back
—kicking, plunging, in short, personifying in thir
ty seconds all the attitudes ever chiseled ! As for
the girls, they screened, of course, jumped upon
chairs and cutting boards, threw their hands over
their faces, peeped through their fingers—scream
ed again, and declared they should die they
knew they should !
“ ‘Oh, dear!’ bawled the distressed young man ;
‘don’t gals, don’t! I didn’t mean tew,’ I declare to
man I d’thi’t —its all ow ing to the trowsers—every
mile on’t; ask your boss, he will tell you how it
was. O, dear! won’t nobody kiver mo up? O;
Moses! what will Nancy say ?”
He managed to raise himself pri'his feet, and
made a buid plunge toward the door, but the en
tangled alliance tripped him up agsm, and he fell
kerslap upon the goose of the preesman. This
was the “kindest cut of all.” The goose bad been
heated expressly for thick seams, aid tli way it
hissed in the seat of the new “trowsers” was af
flicting to the wearer. Nehemiah tiz in an instant
and seizing the source of all his troubles by the
slack, he tore himsc’f from all save the straps and
9ome fragments that hung about his ankles* and
dashed through the store at a two-forty rate and
made tracks tor home.
PENFIELD, GA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1857,
Adulteration of Liquors Receipts for
their Manufacture.
Thu extent to which the business of counterfeit
ing liquors is now carried almost exceeds belief.—
Rev. Dr. Nott, of New York, said, some time since.
I had ft friend who had been once a wine dealer, and
having read tlm startling statements made public in
relation to the brewing of wines, and the adultera
tions of other liquois generally, I inquired of that
friend as to the verity of those statements. His re
. ply was, “God forgive what has passed in my own
| cellar, but the statements made are true, and all true,
I assure yon.” A correspondent of the Boston Trav-.
! oiler has lately obtained access to a book published’
for the use of liquor manufacturers. It is a republi
cation of a French work, in a volume of three hun
dred and eight pages, and is entitled “The Manufac
ture of Liquors, Wines, etc., without the aid of dis
tillation.” A'so, the manufacturer of effervescing
beverages and syrups, vinegar and bitters. It was
printed by R. Craighead, in New York, 1853, but as
it was not exposed to sale, and only circulated pri
vately among the liquor dealers, who had subscribed
for copies, it has heretofore escaped public observa
tion. A great deal of bad liquor has doubtless been
made according to its receipts. Now, however, since
the preparation and sale of “the oils,” as the mix
tures are called, by which diluted alcohol is flavored
to imitate almost any liquor, the processes explained
in this book arcTikoly to go out of use as too slow
and troublesome. Some of them are worth copying,
nevertheless, to show what stuff men drink under
the names of their favorite beverages. The preface
of the book states that “thousands have acquired
wealth by a knowledge of this business,” and it
might with equal truth have said that tens of thou
sands have been ruined in mind, body and estate by
the same business. Here are several of the valua
ble recipes:
To convert common gjn into Schiedam schnapps:
Common gat, thirty gallons ; clear water, two gal
lons ; sulphuric acid, one ounce; sweet spirits of ni
tre, vigil t ounces; spirits of nitric ether, three ounces;
acetic ether, Uo ounces; oii of wintergreen, ten
drops, dissolved in the acetic ether.
Receipt to make aromatic schiMam schnapps :
Neutral spirits, five gallons; honey, four pints; or
ange-flower water, tvyo pints; English oil of juniper,
thirty drops. Dissolve the honey in the orange
flower water, and the oil in two ounces of hot alco
hol : then add and shake u,. well; then add, finely
powdered, four drachms each of alum and dried pot
ash for finings.
Sweet Malaga wine: damaged raisins, fifteen
pounds; water, one hundred gallons; honey, four
gallons; of bruised ginger, five ounces; cassia, three
ounces; boil forty minutes, then strain into clean
pipes ior market; add four grains tincture of para
dise, two gallons of ruin, and five ounces of bruised
bitter almonds.
Cheap champagne: water, fifty gallons; biuised
ginger, tire ounces; ground mustard, five ounces;
boil the mass for thirty minntes, and, when cool,’add
a quart cf yeast; feimcnt for ten to fourteen days,
first add six ounces of bitter almonds, bruised, spir
it and grains of paradise, tincture to suit conveni
ence. For coloring, use cochineal. A fine aroma
is added to tile champagne by adding live drops of
spirit of orris root, or three drops of essence of ev
ergreen, or vanilla, four drops, or dissolve five grains
of ambergris in half a glass of pure alcohol.
Imitation claret: boiled cider, five gallons; spirit, ;
two gallons; clear water five gallons; catechu, pow-!
dered, two ounces ; color with red beets and tine- [
ture of logwood to suit taste. When this is not euf- f
ficienflv acid, add from one to two drops-ofßulp.hu-1
l ie acid to the gallon, to suit the taste.
Imitation ol red wine; water, one gallon; sulphu
ric acid, to the strength Os weak vinegar ; honey,
one pint, powdered alum, one half ounce; one sliced
red boot; one Half pint strong tincture of logwood ;
uni drop of oil of wiutergreen, dissolved in a wine
glass full of alcohol, and one half grain of ambergris,
rubbed up in sugar ; one pint of tincture of grains
of paradise. This wine, when prepared bn a large
scale, cn be made at a very low price, as the honey 1
is the only article that is of value—the tincture of!
the grains of paradise bring substituted for spirit,
and any quantity of it can be prepared at the short
est notice; the coloring is kept prepared in barrels
for use.
The following articles are used for giving strength
and body to beer and ale : quassia,'two pounds; gen
tian, bruised, two pounds; aloes, one pound; water,
ten gallons, and boil to five gallons; then add coppe
ras one pound, and boil to four gallons; add to suit
taste.
Another recipe for th'c same; quassia, raspel, two
pounds; liquor ce root, two pounds; sulphate of iron,
one pound; boil for two hours in six gallons of wa
ter, or until l educed to four gallons ‘J he quantity
of this fluid necessary for impart tug a false strength
to beer, must be regulated by the palate.
From the Scientific American, August 2i.
Tlie Great Transatlantic Telegraph—
Will it Succeed?
* * * Hut our hopes of its present complete
success have been weakened by the several latest
devefopements, until they have reached a condirion
of extreme tenuity. The construction and laying
of the cable is an enterprise of immense magni
tude, and either in consequence of too much or
too little brains, and the presence of too many or
too few advisers, the preparations do not seem to
have been made in a manner which insp : res us
with much confidence. There are foremen of
foundries in our large mechanical establishments,
who, when a mould for a larye and intricate
casting is approaching completion, examine all
the parts and the condition ot all the materials
over and over again with a cnrtj.ilness which to
the uninitiated seems to border on foolishness;
then, when the moment for pouring arrives, with
the glowing reservoirs filled with the burning
metal, they suind cool, firm, slightly pale, but with
every faculty nl command, and with tools for eve
ry conceivable emergency in their proper places,
conscious that, so for as ordinary foresight could
provide, they aro ready for the crisis. There are
engineers who appreciate the importance of the
mammoth bridges they build, and builders who
understand the vessels they construct;_ but, judg
ing, by the past, the art of constructing suomn
-rino telegraphs has rarely as j’et fallen into the
hands of t tie of this ciasa of earnest tium. and in
the pfeparaiiqns for laying this mammoth tele
graph in particular, one of the simplest and most
puerile blunders seems to, have be. n committed,
and allowed to exist undetected until the whu’e
was finished.
We allude to the fact that the two halves of
the cable, having been made by two rival manu
facturers at distant localities, are twisted in oppo
site directions, so that at and near the point of
juncture, the tendency of the necessarily great
.-train incident to laying it will bo. to induce tho
untwisting of both. In censcqw-nco of this or
some other considerations not yet distinctly ox
plained, the plan of commencing in mid-ocean
aqd stretching the line in each direction, therefrom
has, after some wavering, been finally abandoned,
and at last accounts the whole fleet was to sail in
company from the coast of Ireland on the 3d or
4tji of August, laying the cabld as they move
along.
It was ever important to avoid the possibility 0f
mischance in consequence of the vessels becoming
as also to avoid the possibility of delay
in uniting the ends and of compelling the slender
thread to hold its weight for n considerable time
in mid ocean as also to avoid the possibility of
shocks and jerks in changing from one vessel to
another, aii of which the original scheme seemed
to provide for, we see no good cause why those
reasons do not now exist with the same force.—
The economy of time in laying the line of two
vessels iustead of one is certainly as important
now as it ever was, for the season bns advanced
further than was intended before the laying was
commenced.
It was reported soon weeks ago that there was
a possibility that the effort might be postponed
till next season on account qj the fear of autnmn
storms, and the adoption of this slower system of
laying seems very feebly adapted to diminish the
liability that the job may extend into September.
The gentlemen at the office of the company in this
city estimate that the laying w’ll occupy only eigh
teen or twenty days, so that the fleet should arrive i
on the coast of Newfoundland by the 23rd.
The reverse twist is a single point which leads j
us to believe that the whole affair lies been and j
vi ill continue to be hunglingly managed. Means
have been provided for loading the junction of the
two parts in such manner as to provide against
untwisting in its descent, but fears is expressed that j
the mach nery for paving out the cable is too
stout and not sufficiently sensative to slight strains
so that the degree of tension on the delicate cord
will be but feebly indicated.
We hope to record the triumph of this experi
ment,; we_b<Ajj£,- hi ...common with-die millions
around us, to enjoy the luxury of foreign news
received the same day, and even apparently some
hours before the events which it reports,take place
but our hope strongly partakes of the character
with which wo hope for the success of a flying j
machine. It is possible but not probable. If sue- j
cessful in extending across and conveying signals, j
we.shall not cavil at the question of its durability, j
but consider it a triumph worthy of immortali- j
zing the names of the parties whose wealth and j
enterprise have carried it forward.
From the Independent Kxarafner.
The Hvil of Intemperance.
It h sad, indeed, to look around upon the com
munity, and observe the desolating ravages of in
j temperance in all i*s deadly and hideous forms—
i No state of society has been able to withstand its
j baneful influences, or escape the awful consequence*, i
i it is sure to bring upon the young, the gay the
middle-aged ; and those in tho decline of life are
al ke led onward by its deceptive allurements to
that vortex of degradation and ruin from which
there is no return From the higher ranks in ihe
it often takes its victims. Men of genius, of ed
ucation, of talents; possessed of all that makes
life desirable, honorable and happy, are seized by
its fata! grasp, and led down to the.most loath
| some Hate of existence, with no hope of relief but
the relief of death. Men are led into gambling
saloons, where the wine cup, with its glittering
contents, is presented to them with an invitation
to drink. From the brilliantly-lighted saloon to
the grog-shop the moderate drinker becomes a
drunkard, and homes are made desolate ; hearts
that once heat true to the noble impulse of af
fection and love, are forever made unhappy by this
heartless demon ; the sacred associations of home
the fond abodo of happiness, of contentment and
virtue, are destroyed, by its leaving nothing but
the painful recollections of its destructive power.—
Ah\s ! that the influence of a base appetite should
ruin all the higher aspirations in the nature of
man, and consign to irretrievable destruction such
a large portion of the race, to whom God has given
reason and intellect, to be useful in the nation and
promote happiness to their fellow men.
.■
The Sacredness of Tears. —There is a sacred
ness in tears. They are not the marks of weak
ness, but of power. They speak more eloquently
than ten thousand tongues. They are the messen
gers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, of
unspeakable love. If there were wanting any
argument to prove that man is not mortal, I would
look for it in the strong convulsive emotion of the
breast, when the soul has been agitated, when the
fountain of feeling is rising, and when tears are
gushing forth in crystal streams. Oh, speak not
harshly of the stricken one weeping in silence !
Break not the solemnity by rude laughter, or in
trusive footsteps. Despise not a womrnfs tears—
they are what make her an angel. Scoff not if
the stern heart of manhood is sometimes melted
to sympathy; they are what helps to elevate him
above the brute. I love to see tears of affection.
They are painful tokens, but still most holy. —
Th-rv is pleasure in tears —-an awful pleasure!—
If there were none on earth to shed a tear for me,
I should bs loth to live; and if no one might weep
over my grave, I could never die in peace.— Dr.
John sun. A ‘ |
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Rum- Selling JJrinys Sorrow. —A tavern keep
er in Rensselaer county had abandoned the traffic
in Alcohol after having been sovcfhl years engag
ed in it. Whenever the subject of his selling li
quor whs referred to, he was observed to feel deep
regret and sorrow. A friend one day inquired the
cause. “ I will tell you,” said he, and opening his
account book, he said, “ here are forty-four names
of men who have all been my customers, most of
them for years. Thirty-two of these men to my
certain knowledge now lie in the drunkard’s
grave; ten of the remaining twelve are now living
confirmed sots!!” These are the fruits of this
Rising in the World.
You should bear constantly in miud that nine
tenths of us are, from the very nature and neces
sities of the world, born t@ gain our livelihood by
the sweat of the brow. What reason have we,
then, to presume that our children are not to do
the same ? If they bo, as now and then or: r:
be, endowed wi ! h extraordinary powers of mi;. I,
those powers may liave an opportunity, the barm
is not very great to us or to them. Nordi -.s >t
hence follow that the descendants of laborers are
always to be laborers. The path upward is steep
and long, to he sure. Industry, care, skill, excel
lence, in the present parent, lay the foundation of
a rise, under more favorable circumstances, for the
children. The children of these take another rise,
and by and by the descendants of the present la
borer become gentlemen. This is the natural pro
gress. It is by attempting to reach the top at a
single leap that so much misery is produced in tlu
world; and the propensity to make such An at
tempt lias been cherished and encouraged by the
strange projects that we have witnessed of late
years for making the laborers virtuous and happy
by giving them what is called education. The
education which I speak of consists in bringing
up children to labor with steadines, wilh care, and
with skill; to show them how to do as many use
ful things as possible; to teach tncra to do all in
the best manner; to set them an example in in
dustry, sobriety, cleanliness and neatness; to make
ill these habitual to them, so that they never
shall be liable to fall into the contrary, to let them
always see a good living proceeding from labor,
and thus remove from them the temptations to
get at the goods of others by violent or fraudu
lent means’ —William Connirrr.
Who is a Gentleman.
A. gentleman is not merely a person acquainted |
with --ertain forms and the etiquette of life-easy, j
self possessed in society, able to speak, act and :
move in the world without awkwardness, and free
from habits which are vulgar arid in bad taste. A
gent'eman is something much beyond this; all
that which lies at the root of all his ease, and re-!
fineinetit, and tact, nnd power of pleasing, is the
same spirit which lies at the root of e7ery Chris
tian virtue.
It is the thoughtful desire of doing, in every
instance, es lie would that others should do unto
him. lie is constantly thinking, not how he may
give pleasure to others, or the more sense of
pleasing, but how he can show respect to nth
era—how to avoid hurting their feelings. When
he is in society, he scrupulously ascertains the
position and relation of every one with whom hu
is brought in contact, that he may give to each
his due honor, bis proper position. He studies
how he may avoid tfiouching in conversation up-1
on any subject which may needle-sly hurt their
feelings; how he may abstain from any allusion
which may call up a disagreeable or offensive as
sociation. A gentleman never alludes to, never
even appears conscious of any personal defect, or
reputation, in the person iu whoso society he is
placed, lie never assumes any superiority for
himself—he never ridicules, neve’r sneers, never
boasts, never makes a display of his own power,
or rark, or advantages —such as is implied in
ridicule, sarcasm, or abuse—is he never indulg
es in habits or tricks or inclinations which may
be offensive to others.
Romance in Real Life.
Some time since six young gentlemen bid fare
well to the ladies who had won their hearts amid
Scotia’s blooming heather, and sought the shores
of America, in hope of being enabled the better
to prepare for wedded life, they located at Chica
go, where the remembrance of their “bonnie Lau
ries” inspired them to unusual and preserving exer
tions, till fortune so favored them that they were
now anxious to see their betrothed, and accompa
nied the messages with a goodly remittance to pay
their passage. The girls, for mutual protection
and society, came over in the same vessel and ar
rived in safety at Quebec. Thence they embarked
with several hundred other emigrants on a river
steamer to continue their journey down to St. Law
rence. That steamer was the ill-fated Montreal,
and of the six betrothed maidens five found either
fiery or watery graves. The sixth—Miss Jeannet'..e
Pettigrew —was taken up for dead, and only hv
faithful and persistent attention was her life raved.
All her worldly possessions were gone, but hie -
hearted women at Montreal supplied her abun
dantly when they heard her affecting story, —
Eventually she reached her destination, and in a
late number of the Chicago Tribune there is chron
icled the marriage of Mr Adam Tate of Chicago,
to Miss Jeannette Pettigrew. He alone reaped the
reward of his long exertions ; atid at the wedding
there were present two of the other five young men,
whose feelings, when they contrasted the happi
ness of their friend with the : r own bereaved con
dition, must have been sad indeed.— Western Pa
per.
Got Dot Ni<f<jcr. —‘Mister ITigginbottoni, line
gwine to pop a question to you, an 1 wants you
to answer it wid out any circumference, es you
kin git it out of your wool.
Wall Mister Dimity, just out wid it for Im need
in salt to lighten some niggers underpinin.
Now dis is do grato question; What makes 1
you so much like de grate Wizzard of the Nort ?’
Golly, parin me to de big white folks? I will j
dissolve dat composition right away; Cause,!
cause—l gibs it rite strato up.”
You run agin a sprout when you come t dis j
chile wid dem <lnr comblundrums. —Now, jist you j
tell me whot makes you an de Wizzard so much I
alike.
C>h. dunno; conclude.
Cause you boat'like to play slight of ban arter
dTk! lie ah I ya! ya! Unjinted de niggers
big toe dat time.
The rule by which diamonds are valued, is j
to multiply the square of the weight in carats, by I
forty dollars. A carat is equivalent to four grains, 1
Troy weight. A diamond, by. this rule, weighing \
three hundred carats, and about as large as a small |
hen’s egg, would be worth in the market s3djQfL£K)£j
C TERMS:
1 $1 in advance; or, $2 at tbe end of the year.
< oo
) JOHN H. SEALS
V. I'ROPBIETOR.
VQL. XXIII.-NUMBER 30.
WIT AND SENTIMENT.
P£T* An Irishman caught a hornet in his hand,
but droped it, and exclaimed.
“ Be jabets, what kind of teeth do your birds have
■ in Amcriky ?”
j To make hens lay perpetually—hit them a
’ well-directed blow on the head.
tjfcSF” “ Holloa, there! what’s your hurry ; wheTe
i are you a going V”
I “Going? I’m running for an office.”
“What office?”
| “ The Sqnire’s office ; darn it I’m sued.”
! The verdict of a Coroner’s jury on a man
1 who died in a state of inebriation was ‘death by
| hanging—round a rum shop.’
SST” Mankind may be divided into three classes
j —those who do what is right from principles; those
j who set from appearances, and those who act from
j impulse.
; jgf 0 To kill bed bugs—tie them by the hind legs
! and then make mouths at them until you get them
into convulsions, after which crawl around on the
j blind side and stone them to death.
£3?“ Why is a mushroom like a dandy ? Because
I it is rapid in its growth, slim in its trunk, and thick
j in its head.
83F~ Vermont produces four staples, namely; men
! women, maple sugar and horses.
The first are strong, the last are fleet,
The second and third are exceedingly sweet
And all are uncommonly hard to beat.
Punch says a man who goes to church to
chew tobacco, and spits upon the floor, ought to be
taken by the head and heels, and scrubed upon tho
soiled snot until it is clean. This is no joke.
tw° Nothing was so much dreaded in our school
days as to bo punished by sitting between two girls.
Ah, the force of education. In after years.we learn
ed to submit to such indignities’ without sheding a
tear.
53F“ The man who made an impression on tho
heart of a coquette, has taken out a patent for stone
cutting.
Better be upright with poverty than wicked
with plenty.
&3gF“’“Are you fond of Hogg’s Talcs?” said a rath
er verdant young lady to a shepherd.
“Yes, I likes ’em roasted \vi’ salt on cm,” was the
response,
‘No—but I mean have you read Hogg’s Tales?’
“No,” said the bumpkin, our hogs are all white or
black ; I don’t think there is a red one among ’em.”
pgPHobbs, the locksmith, has picked one of Ban
quo’.s gory locks. lie did it with a pickax. lie is
now at Work on a wed lock.
r-F-A backwoodsman anu his sweetheart, the
other day, happened to be in a drug store when a
party of gents called for and drank soda-water.—
Backwoods didn’t know what it was, but made up
his mind to try it, and after drinking a glass of the
cooling fluid, he turned to the lady and remarked.
“Sal, that’s dern’d good; why don’t you buy some?'’
Don’t you think iny execution of Othello a
capital performance?” asked a celebrated tragedian
of a friend. “I*isin my line, is it not?” “Why,
yes,” was the reply; “all executions may be consid
ered capital performances, and your performance of
Othello is certainly one of that class; foryou execute
him in your line so effectually that as soon rs you
lay hands on him ho is no Moot!”
j£lf“ “ Fellow-Citizens,” said a stump orator. “We
have the best country in the world, and the best
government. What people on the face of the earth
enjov more privileges than we do? Here we have
the liberty to speak, and the liberty of the pr6ss,
without onerous despotism. What, fcllow-citizeng,
is more desirous than this ? Do you want any more,
my countrymen?” “ Yes, sir-ee!” sang out a red
faced loafer; “this is dry work. I want a suck out
of that flask sticking out of your coat pocket.”
Auove Stealing,— “Billy, how did you lose your
finger?”
“ Easily enough,” said Billy.
“ I suppose so, but how?”
“ I guessed you’d lost your’n if it had been where
mine was.”
“ Well, if you must know,” said Billy, I had to cut
it off, or else steal the trap.”
Llff..—Carlyle says that each rnan carries under
his hat a “ private theatre,” whereon a greater dra
ma than is ever performed on the mimic stage, is
acted, beginning and ending in eternity.
Don't Worry. —When Bulstrode Whitelock was
embarked as Cromwell’s envoy to Sweden, in 1758,
he was much disturbed in mind as he rested in Har
wick on the preceding night, which was very stormy,
while he reflected on the distracted state of the na
tion. It happened that a confidential servant slept
in an adjacent bed, who, finding that his master could
not sleep, said: _ -
“Pray, sir, will you give me leave to ask you a
question?”
“Certainly.”
“Pray, sir, don’t you think God governed the
world very well before you came into it?”
“Undoubtedly.”
“Pray, sir, don't you think that He will govern it
quite as well when you are gone out of it?”
“Certainly.”
“Then, sir, pray excuse mo; but don’t you think
you may as well trust Him to govern it as long as
you live ?”
To this question Whitelock had nothing to reply;
but turning about soon fell asleep, till he was sum
moned to embark.
gg§T* We cannot forbear publishing tho following,
as indicating the deplorable effects of the tender pas
sion. The author must have been in an awful way:
For thee I’d climb Parnassus high,
And there I’d scan the weather—
I’d wrench the rainbow from the sky,
And tie both onds together.
For thee I’d apple dumplings make,
And stuff’em full of plums;
For thee I would castor oil take,
And then I’d lick my thumbs.
For thee I would my boozum tear,
And wallow in the dirt;
For thee I would pull out my hair,
And even— tear my shirt!
pgr* A poor Bachelor, after coming out at the
small end of the horn in all hjs matrimonial at
tempts, pathetically exclaims:
“ When 1 remember all
The girls I’ve met together,
1 feel like a rooster in the fall,
Exposed to every weather;
I feel like one who treads alone
Some barn yard all deserted,