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The Fishern.au.
, 15Y JOHN' IS. SAXIV'
Then.* lived an hOiicst Ijsijotamn,
1 know him {Kissing well,
Wlm dwelt linnl by a little pond,
Within ft little doll.
A grave and quiet man was Its,
Who lin ed his hook and rod ;
■is' (*t. ran his line of life,
llis neighbors thought it odd.
Tot science and for books, he said
Ho never had n wish,
No school with hyu tv..s worth a fig,
Fxeept a •‘school oftlsh. 1 '
The sitiglc*min<li>>t fishermau
A dohllo calling had—
To t*nd his(..'( k in winter time;
In summer fish for shad.
in s’aoit, litis honest fisherman
All other toils Ibrsook,
Aid though no vaerant matt was he,
Ho l;v»d by "hook and rroo.t."
All dav that fisherman would sit
* S
l* pun an ancient log,
Ard gaze into tiie water, like
Some sedeutary fr. g.
A cunning lishern'.nn tvas he,
Ilis angles were nil right.
And when he scvatclK-vl his aged poll,
You’d know he’d cot a !»/<■-.
To charm the fish he never spoke,
Although his voice was line. t
lie found the most convenient way
Was just to * drop a line.”
And many a •‘gudgeon" of the pond.
If made to speak to-day,
Would own, With grief this angler had
A mighty •• taking way.”
’One day. while fishing on a log.
lie mourned his want of luck,
• When suddenly ho foil a bite,
.Ami ierkin.g—caught a m.;,V.
Alas! that day the fisherman
Had taken too much pro;,
And being but a landsman, too,
lie c tuldu't •* keep the by."
In vain he strove with all his might,
And tried to reach the shore;
Down, down he went, to feed the fish
lie'd bated oft before!
The Moral of this mournful tale
To all is plain and clear;
A .«:r,g!e *• drop too much ” of rum
Hay make a watery Her.
And lie who will not ‘‘sign the pledge,"
And keep the promise, fast
Vtay be, in spite ol fate, a ft if
Crld waterman at last!
IJi AA—l JJ 11
lllisccllancfuis.
Support 1 *>??„•* < ISerh an irs.
Hkere is no truth more undeniable
than that it is the bomideiTlutv of eve
They area worthy and indispensable
• las.-: (if mett avid wo find no town or
village flourDhiyig without their aid.
!niicod thoir prtosenc■ or absence is,
dwavs a true tndofc of the eoi»tlhio,n of
is place—whether it is advancing in
sya!th and impoAtnce, or sinking in
i-- ay. Vhr-nererßve pass throng!) a
••illape and hear the frequent sound ot
the carpenter’s hamjner, the clink of i
•he blacksmith's aaw that, village we ,
say to ours-, 'ves, ;.<f]qf ijshing. It can
not lie otherwise, for the producers are
actively employed, aup outnumber tiro :
• 'Tisumers V.TieuevJfraftd wherever
bo" is the ease the nbople are
. Tc-vtung wealthy, and%tt thesame time
training up the rlTugL-eneratiun to in*
Jus-try and mo'aiity.g Wher as. if a ci
ty or village pursues tlie opposite of this i
<•our.se —neglects its. mechanics and
- epports those of .-((pie foreign town — j
no • who can wiiM.e compelled to go;
1 some oiin-r pjßee, and ticie who?;
or compelled by tin force ofieircuin
i'anccv-to lvmauj, will become idle and j
profligate—the.V " ill e-.-aveJjfo produce •
And. is- consumers—in a f wT< ars tin y
i ecome beggars, and tljeiyjphildren ig
norant and vicious. ar
If there is any truth inithe assertion
that we 4 C*i:ghl a&unaiiAii Jo give the .
preference to doMWfic nmmifactun s, i
die lacs is equally jroe with regard to ;
’ lie community; both are sustain* and by j
’lie same arguments. * Jf a merchant {
would luive r. round hiipi substantial cus- j
-Corners, let him by ••yl'ry means in his I
P'avi r, support and foA'r the mechanics |
••I ins village, and A tliyy become |
m< re weaHy their cufcjmh will increase |
"cialiy in these artiefk/; on wltieh hr ;
makes the greatest profits, for it is m>
• mutable, that as men* ecome more
wealthy, they also become more luxu
; >n:s. and no indrdndpFvill a- nv that
• rt : - r f lur.nr
yrc *'e-:t profits. of import
:;;g large quantities of elicit and half
mad'* articles of eompetititmr&iih uiir
rila c. mechanics is short siglilhl find
wrong, both as regards the in%lk'inie
fchd consumer: and if the rnenUiant j
would look father into the operation i
• f things, lie would find iliat h e j
*d the path of his own interest by ii>-!
trig so. Let the merchant bring ilk’ 1
case to his own door, and he perhajlik
may better und-t stand it: supposed It®
every individual who ] osseseg fhtSl
rv* an.?, and who ns« s in his fuiritTva
four or five'llumlivd dollars worth of
v-oodsperaiiimin should in,-lead of buygj
;ug of him at']< tad goto some eityi
• lioiesale establishment arid piirehasdj
li> '('ear’s supply—-v/miM he riot in j
idttcrftcfs condemn shell an illiberal”
course, and would |ic not say to him
with truth that he Was warring nguimsy
his own interest, by destroying
business (if his town and giving jjrto
Another; and that his littleness .jjgnild
re-act upon him (in double fjjjpPby tin*
deeree'-e c»f his j.-roperty busiuwss?
*o, in the ca.se,- could
•i... anio t<» the mer.
ohar.t. \\hrr;a yjsSm let all elasstts slip
•>ort cadi by faiitua! ex
-4 hanges,. kegP thaf wealth T home
which if ug^ssa r*i f« expended' abroad
tends toJptroy ! is • M u.simss of your
neighbor find whief in turn destroys
your own, /
A FoV’ 4Tr$T-™ A"' occur
red a .few years.since aka vnhig e
Vov.b trg, N. Y.. which set the good
folic of tlie quiet placMhtterlv agog
jThe name of the village shall be name
, less. Suffice it to say" the major part
of its inhabitants eons’sted orth;;t.staid,
idbus sect of religionists called (bta
• kefs. The excellent broad brimmed
; people were not without their delight,
j i huge, phen uupainted meeting house,
i Inly hud olfwitliin into tw<)'.sections, —
j the one, where were the benches for
i duakt j s. t’i ■ w re were
f hose (>f'{!i Quaker-■■-■and containing
j it tin* eqd farthest from the doors the
] tsua! rats and scut -f • and : oral
' md fbsnale. . O.te Saturday some of
the young scapegraces of the town
h id caught a fox, and intent on sport,
•lb r the meeting-house was open the
next morning, and before'- the prim,
niiolfending Friends had gathered for
worship, tin v 1 and Hevnard along tin
-‘re- t, trailed in.o one door, all aroued
he interior, out at the oilier door, and
: o off, Soon afterwards the Friends
; regau to gather. They had sat tor a
ill hour, soberly looking into th-ir
; .ps ami twirling their tliumbs—-the
; 'douce meanwhile had setth and down
dee a northern winter, when -tin*
voting scoundrels, who had a large
■vick of hounds, s t them loose and put
| them upon the trail.
| Away they went with a yelp—yelp—
cip —following tlie trad, with their
i loses to the ground—and. if there is
■ nythifig that can get up a racket, it is
i pack of hounds in full cry. Away
j in v went strait for the meeting house,
ml in they tumbl 'd, p< 11 mell among
j the quiet, unoffending Quakers. —
: i\dp~veip-yeip-\vlp, resounded and
1 ehoed within tlie plain walls, and
among the unpainted benches, to the
a na/em nt of the broad-brims, and the
drab bonnets. Yelp—yelp—yelp —
yelp, away they went, following the
trail up one aisle and down the other,
ami upon the raised seats, and over
i and under, and among the-logs of tlie
| astonished elders, through, into and
round the female part of the house and
so out at the oth r door, their cies
growing less and less distinct in the dis
tance. It is needless to say that the
meeting was frightened from its pro
priety and adjourned witli ill-disgused
indignation. The friend who tells the
story says that the leader of that hunt
ting party was sent by his “paternal”
! on a sea voyage to mend his manners.
ICahY'iritia Pioneer.
Dux'r Spay Long. —“ Don't stay
: lorn:, husband,” said a young wife in
| our pr sence one evening, as her h r -' : -
haml was preparing to go’ out. The
i words themselves were ins gu!i -ant,
but the look of melting fondness with
which they were accompanied spoke
volum s. It told all the whole depths
of her woman’s love—of h r happi
ness when with her husband—of her
grief when tlie light of his smil ■. the
source of all her joy, beamed not up
on her.
“Don’t stav long, husband,-" and
o-jraiu 1 thought 1 could see the young
wife, rocking herself nervously in -tin
great armchair, am! weeping as though
her loving heart- would break, as her
thoughtless “lord and master” prolong
ed his stay a wearisome length of tine.
0. ye that have wives who saw
“don’t stay long, win u you go forth,
think of them kindly when von are
mingling in the busy hive of Ilf-, and
try, just a little, to make their hour's
and hearts happy, for they are gems
too seldom lound, and when lost too
seldom r» placed —you cannot find amid
the pleasures ot jii 1 world, the p--nee
and joy that, a quiet home, bless and
with such woman's presence, will af
ford.
“Don’t stav long, husband,'’ —and
the young wife’s look seemed to say.--
‘•for here in your own sweet home is a
1 wing heart, whose music is hushed
when you are absent—here is a soft
breast to lay yourh ad upon,'-and here
are piir>* lips, vinsoihd lay sin, that will
pav vou in kisses lor your coming
back.
Think of it young men, when your
wives sav to von, “Don’t stav long, ’
ami O. don’t jet the kind words pass
uni.'.cded as of little value; for though
.thev nmy not be much to you, the cljsap
pontim nt or the fulfillment of their
simple loving wish, brings grief or joy
to tehni. If you have an hour to spare,
bestow it upon them and Ihe pure l n’c,
gushing (Voin their gentle, grateful
hearts, will be a sweet reward.— Ah’.
Talfount says of the effects of an
imaginative literature: “The world is
not. in danger of being too romantic, —
The gold 'll threads of poesy are not
100 close! v interwoven with the ordin
ary web of existence. Sympathy is
tly first great lesson which man should
learn. It will be ill for him if lm.pro
ceed no further; if his emotions are
but’excited to roll back on hia heart,
and to be lost red in luxurious quiet,.
Hut unless lie learns to led for tilings
in which he has no personal interest
ho can achieve nothing g th r >us or no
ble. * * The soul will not be
Worse for thinking too \vi II of its kind,
or believing that the, highest, excellence
is within r-.ach of its exertions.”
Tn v. Sriurri AL Shtxgu; Machinm.
L—'Tlie Painter (Mas .) Journal deserilt-
I's tli<> operation ol the shingle riving
Ituaeliine said to have been invented
Ipv thuTpii’ils, ami construeted ly Mr.
L\. 0. Uillings, of Palmer. It is a
meatly finished, strongly built iruiehine,
#nd it, walks into tin* blocks, which
mre (bd in Troth both sides, like a huge
giant. It does the work admirably,
splitting the blocks into pieces o tiny
thickness desired for shaving. If is
s:ud to be capable of. riving thirty-live
thousand shingles p r day .--Xnrjnlh
Pain/ X' //*•■?.
TfIr’KATY with Dominica-A j\Va»h
higton defipateh to the .New York
Courier and Enquirer says that Gen.
.Cflsse,ne;\u If' 8 negotiated a. treaty
with Doiiiinica, by which that Re
public' cedes to the ITnited Stifles the
port of Samaria for a naval station.
groom.
A genthman who shall be irwio
lea-:,, went across the lake one tige day
last week, for the *ery purpose of per
]).'trating matrimony, '(’lie lady of his
choice was, and is still for that matter,
th-* very embodiment of loveliness,
| and the joy of the bridegroom" wfis uu-'
I 'obunde-i. Be it premia <l, however,,
; tliat the lair one was neither a maid
Uor exactly a widow. She had form r-
Iv been the victim of an unhappy mar
ring', and luuf'successfully apple and to
the laws for- the severatiVie of a tie
j which’ proved anything but silken.
! Now, under the laws of Louisiana, a
| divorce must he consummated a ci r-
I tain number <fi years liefore the parties
j are at liberty to marry again, and as
the prescribed time, in the. present in
i stance, had not yet expired, our hero
i and heroine sduglit the torch of Hy
men among the pit icy retreats of a Mis
sissippi watering place. They went to
| a Justice of the Peace, who, hearing
that the marriage was barred by the
laws of Louisiana, had doubts whether
I the, Mississippi laws would sanction it.
; That m Vor, however, was satisfaetori
! ! y settled by the legal advice of a mem
ber of the bar, and the ceremony was
about to proceed, when the bride took
herwaiting swain aside, and told him
that if, under thecireumstanees.the mar
riage knot was tied, he must not ex*
poet- all of a husband’s priviliges until
the years of probation, according to
the laws of Louisiana., were complet
ed in hercase. Net dwe add that the
gallant, bridegroom promptly agreed
to the arrangement, and “they twain
! became one flesh.”
The scene now changes to the
hotel. It is night, and married folks
had generally retired to rest. The
bride had also sought her chamber,
I “to sleep—perchance to dream.” Tim
bridegroom approached and tapped
si ig tl von the chamber door—-so slight
ly, indeed, as almost to warrant the
supposition that it was a “spirit rap
ping.” All softly and gently the bride
op'tied the door and asked her dear
| husband what he wanted.
“Only to go to bed, iny love,” was
! the husband's reply
“And have you already forgotten
! that all of a husband’s privileges were
not to be granted to you until after
the expiration of a certain period?'
asked the blushing bride.
“Aye, but the priviliges reserved
were legal priviliges,” was the answer.
“No indeed!” said the bride, as she
j kissed the rosy tips of her fingers with
her rosy lips, bad: lion good night in
the mo t musical of voices, and shut
tlie door.
The husband A thoughts on r- tiring
to his own lonely couch, may be bet*
1 r imagined than described. Gossips
sav that he swore —mentally —but M
he did. nobody heard him.
On the following moruine- h: went
!o a barber's shop, and the li st thing
that saluted his ears was a crusty badt
]or reading a comic aictscnary. 1 i'-is
dieiionarv defined marriage to lx “an
insane (I -sire on the part of a man to
pav a lady’s board.” The bridegroom
left unshared !
And for die rest, will it not be writ
ten in the Like Shore chronicle?
j .V. <>. PrU'i.
Yah k of r.ii k Lx :> rv 11 >:- ai .. —E e.• f >
mar. oceupi - an oncma.l position. —
Ev-.tv great ITt coums straigiit to him.
Every aj>j> nl of iut \ niii-i run : trom.h
tim alembic •>f i.'s i -.'ason, hi couser nc
and iiis w.i . IT • cop. <fi iT '.tv i
l.mrsts abo\a. him, the unfa!noni'- l
d' jitiis open beneath him, the myste
ri: sos God and imuinriality come
stivamingin with tiicir awful splendors,
and truths that have confounded the
loftiest intellects, truths that in ullages
have roused up the soul froth its
foundations, and babtized it with re
verence and kind! and it with low, en
viron him as intuns T v as if he were the
lirst-born of men, s't face to face with
fresh and unresolved problems,
[Chapin.
“Sin in a fiddle, —When a violin
was first iut roduis and into the choir of the
church, the innovation gave great of
fence to some of the worthy parish
ioners. Especially was the player of
the bass viol exercised wth sorrow and
indignation, when the frivolous and
profame fiddle first took its place in
the house of God,, by the side of Iris
sedate and portly instrument. He ac
cordingly laid the case before the par
son, who, after listening soberly folds
complaints’replied: Tt may be as you
sav, sir; I don’t know; but if you are
right, it strikes me the greater the fiddle,
the greater the sin!' ’file hero of the
“big fiddle was untuned.”
Sambo’s Criticism.—d’fie pompous
epitaph of a close fisted citizen, closed
with tin* following passage of scrip
ture. He that givctli to the poor, leu
deth to the Lord.”
‘Dat may be so,” soliloquized Sam
bo, “but when dat man died, do Lord
did'nt owe 'im a red cent !"
Mankind are an odd style of people.
There’s Mrs. Ojeechum insists upon it
that going to church improves her ap
pearace; while Mr. Malafly tikes
‘plain soda’every morning under the
impression that it ‘sweetens his litor
als:’ Queer what wrinkles get into,
folks' heads.
Thelajdy who sent a note saying
that she had determined to separate
from her husband because he looked so
ugly, now requests us to state that he
has given her anew bonnet, and when
she wears it she thinks lie is a beauty.
No divorce will be applied for as long
as the-ribbons are bright.
•w— •—•—•- —
“ Ma, has your tongue got legs?”
- “ Got whltt, child ?”
“ Got legs, ma.”
“ Certainly not—-but why do you
ask t hat silly question ?”
“ Ob, notliiug-~orily 1 heard pa say
vour tongue wp running from mor
ning till night.”
Jenny JLitotVs Kindness of
Heart.
A firortv FROM I) Alt SUM'S ,\U I'OmOORAIMIV.
I\Lr, Bhrnum has furnished for pub
lication in the New York Evening
Post the following passage from his
forth-coming litcray work, which is< x
pcctcil to milk" its appearance-in De
cember. We understand thaf, unlike
other authors, tin* great showman has
been chiefly embarrassed by the mul
tiplicity of publishers who have OIF red
to issue his Autobiography :
In Havana, the house occupied by
Jenny Lind and those vvl ' accompani
ed her from Europe, as well as m\
daughter and myself, was pleasantly
situated near the Tacon r l heat re, just,
outside the Walls. Signor Vivalia the
little Italian juggler And plate-dancer
who, in forim r days, ha<t perforuied
under my auspices, ctilled on tnc lre
j quentlv. He was m great distress,
; having lOstt.he use of one liis limbs on
j the loft side of his body from paralysis',
i He was thus unable to earn a Itveli-
I hood, although he still kept a pet'fbrrn
; ingdog, which turned a spiv.ning-wlieci
; and porlbnned sotric curious tricks. —
j One day, as I was passing him out of
I the front gate, Miss Lind inquired of
Jme who lie was. I briefly recounted
to her his history. She expressed
deep interest in his case, and said some
thing should life flit apart for him in
the “ benefit’' which she was about to
give for charity. Accordingly when
the benefit came off, Miss Lind appro
priated SSOO to him ; and I made the
necessary arrangements to have him re
turn to his friends in Italy. At the
same benefits4,ooo was distributed be
tween two humane hospitals and a con
vent. A couple of mornings after the
benefit our bell was rung, and the ser
vant announced that L was wanted. I
went to the door and found a large
procession of children, neatly dressed
and bearing banners, attended by ten
or twelve priests, dressed in their rich
and flowing robes. I inquired their
business and was informed that they
had come to see Miss Laid and thank
her in person for her benevolence. I
took their message and informed Miss
Lind that the leading prieits of the
convent had come in great state to see
and thank her. “. 1 will not see them,”
she replied ;“ they have nothing to
thank me lor. HT have done good
it is no more than mv duty, and it is
my pleasure. I do not deserve their
thanks. I will not see t cm.” I re
turned her answer, and the leaders of
the grand procession turned away in
disappointment.
The same day Vivalia called aid
brought her a basket of the most, lus
cious fruit that he could procure. —
j The little fllmv tv as very happy and
exticiiielv grateful. Miss Lmd had
! gone out for a ride.
•• God bless uu ! I am so hapj y ; she
is such a good lady. 1 shall see mv
brothers and sisters again. Oh, die is
.1 Very good hulv, ’ said poor V ivalla,
i overcome by his feelings. II 1 begged
me to thank her for him, and give ner
i the fruit. As he was passing out of
j the door he hesitated a moment, and
then said : “Mr. Barnum, I should
like so much to have the good lady s- <
111 v dog turn a wheel; it is very nice,
he an spin verv good. Shall 1 bri; g
the dog and wheel for her? She is
such a good la lv, l Wise to pi. a.-: in i'
verv rich.” 1 .-.mil' el, and told him
sh would Mot cere :<>!' t lie (tog J t hat
he was quite welcome So tUe ill'll; V,
and dui! she refused n sec Hie priests
from the convent that morning, be
cause s- • i v ;• n eeived ihanks for fa
vors.
When Jenny came in I gave her
the fruit, and laughingly told her that
Vivalia wished to show ln r how his
performing dog could turn a spinning
wheel,
“ Poor man, poor man, do let him
come, it is all the good creature can do
for me,” exclaimed Jennv and the tears
flowed thick and fast down her
cheeks.
“I like that, 1 like that,” the con
tinued, “do let the poor ere dure come
and bring his dog. It will make him
so liappv.” I confess it made me hap
pv. and 1 exclaimed for my heart was
lull, “God blessyou, it will make him
cry for joy; he shall come to-morrow.”
I saw V ivaiia the same evening, and
delighted him with the intelligence
that Jenny would see his dog perform
the next day, at four o’clock precisely.
'“I will be punctual,” said Vivalia, in
a voice trembling with emotion, “but
I was sure she would like to see my
aog perform.”
For full half an hour before the time
appointed did Jenny Lind sit in her
v indow on the second floor, and watch
for Vivalia and his dog. A
few minutes befc re the appointed hour
she saw him coming. “ Ah, here he
comes,” she exclaimed in delight, as
she ran down stairs and opened thedoor
to admit him. A negro boy was bring
ing the small spinning wheel, while
Vivalia led the dog, and handing the
bov a silver coin, she motioned him away
and taking the wheel in her arms she
said, “ This is a very kind of you, to
come with your dog ; follow me, 1 will
carry tlie wheel up stairs;” her serve at
offered to take the wheel, but no, she
would let no one carry it but herself;
she called us all up to the parlor, and
for one full hour she did devote her
self to the happy Italian. She went
down on her knees to pet the dog and
to ask Vivalia all sorts of questions
about his performances, his former
course of life, his friends in Italy and
his present hopes and determinations.
Then she sang and played for him,
gave him some refreshments and final
ly insisted on carrying his wheel to the
door, from whence her servant accom
panied Vivalia to his boarding house.
Poor Vivalia! He was probably
never so happy before, but his enjoy
ment did not exceed that of Miss Lind.
That scene alone would have paid me
for all rny labors and -ring the whole
musical campaign.
A New Orleans editor, recording
the career of a inad dog, says: ‘We are
grieved to say that the rabid animal,
before he could be killed, severely bit
Dr, Hurt and several other dogs. j
pEUSQpAL APPEARANCE OF MaKIE
Aa'TOI 11< t precocious beau*
ty"eclipsed that,of Madame flu Hairy,
tii of fa thorite 4>i‘ Louis >A r - am the
modern Bl.ry n<\- r -But the beauty of
Miulafn du Barfy was that of A courtc*
fa'll; the beauty of Marie Antoinette
was that of a Brine.•*>•.-Nature had
adorned her with all the gilts that
made her, as a woman, an object of
admiration, and as a queen ah object of
adoration ; in shape tall, h -v movements
were swanlike in carriage and deport
rrv nt ; in elegance such as to lose noth
ing of her maj sly ; her hair was blon
de and silken ; and its warm tints re
minded the beholder of the wavy tress
es of Titian ; a lofty oval forehead like.
to those of-the fairy daughter of tlie
Danube; eves of liquid azure, in which
the calm and the tempest of the soul
made the look bv turns sleep or undu
late ; the nose sleiglillyacpiir.no : the
mouth Austrian, by her family, that is,
mingling of pride and of a smile, the
chin turned up ; her color heighlend
by the chill climate of the north : an
irresistable grace shed like a vouthful
vapor over all In r features, and which
did not allow her to be viewed but
through an atmosphere of fire or of
! inebrat ion.— L<ini>,rtnn's History of the
| Constitutional Assembly.
I
| A Good Maxim. —The more quiet
ly and peaceably we get on, the bet
ter for us, the better for our neighbors.
In nine cases out of ten the best poli
cy is, if a man cheats you, quit dealing
with him; if he is abusive quit his
company; if he slanders you, conduct
i yourself so that nobody will believe
I him. No matter who he is, or how he
misuses you, the wisest way is general
ly to h t him alone, for therein nothing
better than this cool, calm, quiet way
of dealing with the wrong we meet
with.
—
A Calumny in Blackwood. —
The high reputation of Blackwood
among the Foreign Reviews induces
us to notice the following in order to
refute it:
“ In the suburbs of Mobile* or wan
dering through its streets, you will see
the remnant of the Choctaw tribe,
covered with nothing hut blankets, and
living in hark tents, scarcely a degree
advanced above the beasts in the field." —
1854, Blackwood, page 1(50.
]f it is intended to mean, by “ rem
nant of the Choctaw tribe" the now ex
isting descendants of the Choctaws of'
Mississippi, it isbutjust ro a most mer
itorious and highly civilized race of
Indians, that a prompt disclaimer of
the calumny should be made. The
writer is ignorant of the tribe and its
location. We will tell him that, with
the exception of a small body in Misis
sippi, the “remnant of the Choctaw
| tribe ” reside on our Northern border,
■ live under a government, divided into
! ti c usual departments of legislative,
Judicial •nd executive ; have printing
; r.-ss- s, n u spapers and schools, and
area \v< i! informed, sober and industri
ous people. As much order, peace,
' and probably moo happim-ss, exist
j among th- “ remnam of the Ci-.oet.tw
! tribe,than in anv community of our
' transatlantic neighbors. —Austir t Tc.--
' a s') (lazettc.
Dull Shooting Extka<iri.mNary.
A feat which if eq allied, p'maps has
not 'celt ex?’, lied m the sp-•rtiug worid,
; was pert* mined by .Mr. B- gg (sports
i man to Mrs. Power, oiGurteti ) on the
j 31st ultimo. lie w.-nt out fo>* the pur
pose of shooting a buck, and ha\ •mg
! sent some men intoa plantation to beat
I about, he lay down in the jrushwood
!at the end. In a few minutes two fine
i deer came bouncing out, and after run
ning about 150 yards they leaped into
a ditch and turned round to take a view
of their disturbers. Mr. Bcgg instant
ly levelled his rifle, and kept it to his
shoulder, until one of the deer
brought his head in a line with the
neck of the other, bang went the rifle,
and down went the deer ; both shot
dead with a single ball, one through
the eye, and the other through the
neck. They being brought to G urteeti
lodge, lie proceeded to draw a second
cover, when perceiving the antlers of a
buck above the underwood he calcula
ted where the head ought to be fired,
and the ball pierced the head of a no
ble animal between the antler and the
ear. Os this we have been informed
by an eye-witness, and in whose credi
bility we place the utmost confidence.
[ Tipperary Free Press.
“ The ‘Liberal Press’ of Madrid re
cently celebrated the triumph of their
principles bv a banquet, to which they
invited Mr. Soule. He excused him
self from attending on tin* score of
health, but s(>nt a letter, in which he
not only makes himself a hot partisan
with them, but denounces the opposite
party in terms little short of abusive.—
Thus, in the midst of a bitter struggle
between factions, in which everything
is in turmoil and jeopardy, the Ameri
can Minister, to whose hands have
been entrusted the most delicate and
important,questions, and whose course
should have been one of conciliation
and moderation towards all, has acted
in this imprudent unbecoming man
ner. Is it the business, we would ask,
of a foreign representative to take
sides in the domestic revolutions which
distract the Government to which lie is
accredited? Is it c insistent with his
position and duties to permit his ideas
of liberty so to control his conduct
as to betray him into a step which
makes him odious to one-half of the
people and involves his own country
in the consequences of his hasty zeal ?
Such a course is as contrary to all the
maxims of diplomatic prudence as it is
opposed to the whole current of Amer
ican foreign policy. If we compre
hend that system, it is one of strict
non-intervention in European affairs.
And surely thus far the country has
seen no cause to regret or change'it.— j
The democratic! eff >rts in Europe have
all signally failed, and as much, too,
from their own inherent incapacity anil
rottenness as from the formidable j
with which they have had to contend
We do not regard the revolution in
Spain as by any means successfully
achieved. Mr. Soule’s conduct theH
rore, so tar .is we can judge, haS not the
argument which success holds out to
justify it. His advent in Spain was fore
shadowed by circumstances favorable
neither to himself nor his ministerial
duties. Ills Speech before the Cuban
Junto in New York on the eve of his
departure, prejudiced him in the minds
of the Spanish Court and embarrassed
him in his simplest official acts. T his
last st p only complicates the more his
relations with that unfortunate coun
try. v — Ch. Mercury.
| A serious and most alarming acci
dent happened on the 19th to a pas
si ngcr train conveying from two to
three hundred passengers, on the
Leeds Northern Railway, while it was
passing through the Bramhope tunnel,
consisting of thirteen carriages. The
tunnel is about two miles in length,
and when the train was about half way
through, the arch suddenly fell in, with
agreat mass of superincumbent earth,
severing the train in two and crushing
! the two foremost of the carriages.—
I 'fhe engine passed through, the carriag
! es, with the exception of those that
were covered by the false arch, ran
back, the line being on an ascend
ing grade, until they cam in contact
with a truck of Irish reapers. One
person only, however, was seriously
injured, and on extricating those who
were buried in the tunnel it was
found that, with the exception of a la
dy who had a leg broken, no one suf
fered severely except from fright, A
great quantity of earth and stone, how
ever, had fallen, leaving aeh as over
the arch twenty feet in height, and it
was supposed that some weeks, if not
months, would elapse before the travel
could be resumed.
The complexion of the next, or 34th,
Congress may perhaps be judged of by
the members who have been already
elected—l 9of whom are friendly to
the Administration, and 07 opposed.—
In the present Congress the States that
have thus far chosen their members, are
represented by 48 democrats and 38
Whigs—showing a gain to the opposi
tion in 84 members elected, of 58.
Mr. Soule, our Minister to Spain,
who has recently been on a visit to
France, complains of having been very
closely scrutinized by t e authorities
of that country. An honest man will
bear watching, and not only will not
suffer thereby, but will, in consequence,
j appear to better advantage.
I ***
| Great Suffering. —Recent ac
counts from Hong Kong mention that
I the shi]) lly geia had been wrecked and
| completely lost on a shoal in the Chi
| neso Sea. She had on board five hun-
I (lred Chinese passing ts, who landed
'upon a.small Island where they could
I obtain neither wood nor wat r. and for
I tw lily-three days had no other means
if •ustabiiiig life than by eating grass
and roots. The sufferings of these
poor people can seam iy be imagined,
i The Unit' and States Surveying brig Por*
i poise was and spafehed to the wreck, and
] succeeded in taking them all off, and
conveying them safely to Hong Kong,
I except four men who died on the is
j land, and one who perished imindiate
! 1 v after gettingon board the Porpoise.—
The lattter was so crowded with this
throng of passengers that her crew had
actually to sleep in her tops.
Poetry As is Poetry. —lt is refresh
ing to come across a gem like the fob
owing: •
The first bird of spring
Attempted to snip
But ere lie had rounded a note,
He fell from the limb—
All, a dead bird was him,
The music had friz in his throat.
A Spiritual Manifestationist writes
to ask us two questions:
1. \\ hether we do up the Leader in
spiritual wrappers; to which we replv,
no, but we do up the spiritual rappers
in the [.coder.
2. \\ hether there is not some mis
take in the popular (and biblical) idea,
that the future state is one where there
is no variableness or shadow of turn
tng\ to which we reply that our spirit
ual correspondent (Tom Hood) ha not.
informed us.— lb.
A wag proposes to publish anew pa
per to be called The Comet, with an or
iginal tale every weew.
If exercise promotes health, tbo-w
--who collect old bills for printers should
be so healthy they would have to quit
the business when their time came to
die. 'file sons of St. Cl ispin have tew
better patrons than our collectors
Abov having complained to hisfath
cr that Bill had thrown the Bible at
him, and hurt him on the head, the
father replied—“ Well you are the on
ly member of my family on whom the
bible ever made the least impression.”
Florida ELkc i ox.— Sufficient re
turns have been received from Floi -
da, to show that Maxwell (Dem) has
elected to Congress irom that
Suite.
1 lie growU; of commerce in Cincin
nati exceeds anything recorded of com
niercial progress. In 182 b the entire
Value of her exports did not exceed four
millions. In 1854 the value of the
leading articles of exports and imports
exceed one hundred and ten mi lions:
and if un,‘numerated articles could be
included, would probably reach one
hundred and fifty millions.
Cai'sk of Ciiouekv.—A London
letter, alluding to the mortality of chol
era in that in. troplis, says that, it has
been especially great in a purt'.culai
locality, where the sufferers from the
plague 200 years ago were buried in
a pit, the site ol which has lately been
disturbed in making sewers,
HN PRESS.
“ Without Fear, Favor or Affretio*.),
EATONTON, Q A .
SATURDAY MORHIN&, NOV. 4i 1854
Keep It Before The People
That he who advertises most is n 1(>l j
successful in his business:
That he who advertises has m ore
customers than he who docs not, mi)
consequently does business cheap r :
That if you want to save part ol'v ( , Ur
money* you must patronize those why
advertise.
Prosperity in Zdolnmbu .
\Ye are glad to see the columns of
brother Lomax so crowd, and with adver
tisements, Us lie himself announces, that
he cannot indulge in long editorials up
on his pet idea. No doubt tins i<>
more profitable, for there is something
practical in it, (which is not the case
with his idea,) arid we rejoice in in
prosperity and that of the good pec-'
pie of Columbus, as indicated by sd
much advertising.
Having .show'll our brdth r’s itPi to
be in opposition to that of the repo!.,,
bean fathers, and that nearly ail his as
sertions were arrayed against the facts
of history, we have no disposition to
still pursue him, until he makes abet
ter showing than he does in his article
on “ Primary allegiance—State Sover
eignty.’’
There is one point, however, which;
we cannot let pass, and that is when
he charges us with u navaite —a word,
by the way, not to b nt t with up
on the classic page, or in any of tin?
lexicons which contain the polite lan
guages of modern Europe, and which
we are constrained to think he must
I have picked up from sorn • remnant of
the Creeks who still linger around the
hunting-grounds and graves of their fa
thers.
But to the point: Says our c-otein
porary, “The Independent /V.« asks
with anoraiYetliat is astonishing, ‘why
was not the constitution equally as ex
plicit as to the power of the State to vt
i to, as to that of the sident to veto ?’ ’’
land makes us guilty of the absurdity of
I intimating that the States derive their
rights from the Federal Government—
j a thing we do not, and would not be
lieve, under penalty of bciieveing as
I absurd things as appear clustered
around our cotemporary’s idea. The
I Times d' /Sentinel quotes {.art of our
! language and leaves out part.
I Why ? Beeaece leaving out a part
| makes us appear very differently lr in.
j what we would appeal were the
| whole quoted : and this would not.
j serve our cotemporarv’s purpose; foi
| its intention is to m.-.ke us appear
j “ navaite .” T his is our whole lan.
! guage in this connection : “ Our co
| temporary places the power of a State
j to veto a. federal law, along with the
power of the president to veto one. —
Why was not the constitution, then
equally as explicit as to the power of
the State to veto,as to that of the pres;
idea tto veto?” And even in the part
of our language quoted by the Tones
<{• Sentinel, that paper leaves out the
word “ then," because that would show
it had left out something preceding its
extract and which should have been
quoted along with it.
It is true then, that we asked the
above question, correctly quoted, but
it was with the impression upon our
mind, as we distinctly stated, that ourco
ttniporarv placed the right of a State
to veto a federal law, upon the same
basis that it did the right of the presi
dent to Veto a bill which had passed
both houses of Congress; in other
words that it believed that nullifica
tion was constitutional. That this im
pression was a legitimate one, wo prove
to any appreciative and candid mind
by the following extract f.iom our co*
temporary’s editorial ot 10th uit.
“ And why is it so absurd that a
sovereign Slate shall have tLie power
to stay the action of the Federal Gov
ernment ? Does it not seem equally
absurd that one man shall have the
power to control the action of the Sen
ate and the House of K pivsentativcft t
i"et such is the natureot the \eto pow
er conferred upon the President. Does
j it not seem equally absurd that a nm-
Ijority of one of the Judges ot the Su
promo Court may control the action
of both Houses of Congress and of the
chief magistrate of the United States?
Vet suon is the power conferred by
the constitution of the United States
upon the Supreme Court. Unless this
veto power is conceded to a State,
what is the meaning of that clause of
the constiution which declares that
“all powers not delegated to the Uni
ted States, nor prohibited to the States
are reserved to the States respectively
or to the people,” and how arc the
rights reserved to be def aided '
We repeat, then, that this language
would have induced anyone capable
of drawing just inferences, to conclude
that our cotemporary derived the pow
er of a State 16 nullify, from the same
source it did the power of the pres:?