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(iniW--* “ ir-Ti“rT T‘i i — •* - . - -- .■ ■ u *.•! * ‘C-> 4im t 1 1 him ii m jim (Irani soss h inninn. in mu uni if imm h jiiiiii. JOHN If. SEALS, \ EDITOR & PROPRIETOR ( NEW SERIES, VOL. 11, TIFERXiI CRIIMIH j PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY, EXCEPT TWO, IN THE YEAR, j BY JOITNJT. SEALS. TKRMS : f 1,00, in advance; or $2,00 at the end of the year. bates of advertising. 1 gqnare (twelve lines or less) first insertion,. -$1 00 Each continuance, - - - - Professional or Business Cards, not exceeding six lines, per year, .- ® JJjj Announcing Candidates for Office, OJ STANDING ADVERTISES!ENTS. 1 square, three months, 5 00 1 square, six months, 7 00 1 square, twelvemonths, 12 00 2 squares, “ “ 3 squares, “ “ 00 4 squares, “ “ 25 00 Advertisements not marked with the number of insertions, will be continued until forbid, and charged accordingly. Druggists, and others, may con tract for advertising by the year, on reasonable terms. LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. Sale of Land or Negroes, by Administrators, Executors, and Guardians, per square,... 5 00 Bale of Personal Property, by Administrators, Executors, and Guardians, per square,— 3 25 Notice to Debtors and Creditors, 3 25 Notice for Leave to Sell, 4 00 j Citation for Letters of Administration, *2 75 i Citation for Letters of Dismission from Adm’n. 5 00 j Citation for Letters of Dismission from Guardi anship, 8 25 LEGAL REQUIREMENTS. Sales 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 often in the forenoon and three in the alter noon, at the Court House in the County in which the property is situate. Notices of these sales must be given in a public gazette forty days previous to the day of sale. Notices for the sale of Personal Property must bo given at least ten days previous to the clay of sale. Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an Estate must be published forty days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell Land or Negroes, must be published weekly for two months. Citations for Letters of Administration must be published thirty days— for Dismission from Admin istration, monthly , six months —for Dismission from Guardianship, forty days. Rules for Foreclosure) of Mortgage must be pub lished monthly for four months —for compelling titles from Executors or Administrators, where a bond has been given by the deceased, the full space of three months. will always be continued accord ing to these, the legal requirements, unless otherwise ordered. 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. •-* -- —a • Vo- 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 ‘ | ,_ - <1 i<|i J|| 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,