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BY J. A* TURNER.}
VOLUME 11.
1 n etrjj.
The Frog-
Os *ll the funny thing* that live
Tn wood laud marsh or bog,
That creep the ground, or fly the air
The funuieet thing's the frog.
The frog—the adentificest
Os nature’s-hamliwork —
The frog that neither walks nor runs,
But goes it with a jerk.
With pants and coat of bottle green,
And yellow fancy vest,
He plunges into mud and mire
All in his Sunday best;
When he sits down he’s standing up,
A* Pat O'Kiu u once said;
And for convenience sake he wears
His eyes on top his head.
You see him sitting on a log,
Above the “vasty deep,”
You feel iucliued to say “Old chap,
Just look before you le ipl”
You raise your cane to hit him on
Ills ugly looking mug;
But ere you get it half way up,
Adown he goes kerchug »
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The danger of Musical Titles:
OR, “ONE KISS AT PARTING.”
A lady of fashion (the well known
Marchioness of Finsbury) had been
loitering for nearly an hour in a fash*
ionable music shop. She had pur
chased a copy of nearly every piece of
music that had a sentimental tale. She
had sent into her carriage a whole
Canterbury full of love going through
every mode of the feelings, past, pres
ent or future, and was following then
example, when she paused upon the
step, as if meditating whether she should
take it, or some other step that was
evidently turning itself over in her
mind. The shopman, who had been
somewhat moved by the tender tone j
of voice in which she had asked him, j
‘Wilt thou love me then as now?’
watched her with anxiety that betray
ed itself too plainly in the adjustment
of his collar and the arrangement of
his hair. Suddenly the marchioness,
pale, her auburn ringlets fluttering in
the wind, stood once more before the
admiring shopman.
“I had nearly forgotten,” she said
ih a voice that seemed to veil her
blushing words—“dear, dear! I cannot
tell where my head is to-day, I have
come back to ask you if by chance
here she paused, as if to take new
courage, whilst the trembling shopman
placed his two thumbs elegantly on the
mahogany counter, and leant his body
inquiringly forward, “to ask you to be
kind enough to give me one kiss be
fore parting?”
“Ma-a-a-a-d-a-m!” exclaimed the as
tonished shopman.
“I want you,” repeated the march
ioness, to let me have one kiss before
parting—one will do, if you please.”
She raised her beautiful blue eyes
full upon his, and met them boldly,
.unblushingly. She then, without be
traying any emotion, repeated her
question, adding as calmly as possible,
“If you cannot give it me now, I will
call some other time.”
lie could doubt no longer l Spring
ing over the counter, he seized hold of
the marchioness’s fair form, and,
then and there, gave the kiss she so
.earnestly begged'for previous to de
parture.* To his great astonishment,
the only return the marchioness made
was to give a him a tremendous box on
the ears! This was followed by a vol
ley of blows dealt by her parasol over
his head, which were accompanioned
with an equal number of shrieks
that never terminated till the police
.came into the shop. The affair was
carried to Bow street, but was soon
dismissed, upon its being explained
that “One Kiss Before Parting” was
the title of a song, which the unsophis
ticated shopman, blissfully green from
:his native fields, had never heard of
'before.
It was a favorite joke with the old
*duke ter ask the marchioness, whenever
she was at the piano, if she would
mind giving him just “One Kiss Be
fore Parting ?”
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Electricity. — Tne following re
markable story is related in a recent
number of the Courier de t Europe:
“A gentleman employed in one of
the telegraph offices in France, acci
ifently brought his arm in contact with
one oi’ the wires while the electric cur
rent was passing through it. So vio
lent was the shock that he was raised
from his chair and thrown with great
force through an open window into the
adjoining garden. When he recover
ed his senses, he had no recollection
of what had happened, and could onl y be
convinced of it by finding that Ins hair
and beard, which were previously of
a jet black;'had become in various
places as white as snow. It devolves
on men of science to explain this phe
nomenon, which will form a;i epoch m
the history of electricity."
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FROM THE COURIER AND ENQUIRES.
The Central American Republic.
The expedition of Colonel Kinney
and his command to the Mosquito Ter*
ritory for the establishment of anew
Central American Republic is an event
of no small mark. It will tell upon
history. There is not a shadow of a
doubt* that the expedition will be
made, and a colony formed; and there
is strong reason to believe that its en
tire plan will be successfully consum
mated. The scheme, it is known, lias
been for a long while in contemplation.
Many years since a grant of the greater
portion of the Mosquito Territory was
made by the King of the Mosquitoes
to Samuel Shepherd and two associates,
for a pecuniar} r consideration, amount
ing to about thirty thousand pounds,
and it is under a transfer of that title,
which, we understand, Mr. Webster
pronounced to be perfectly valid, that
the present company, consisting of
some thirty gentlemen, among whom
are Senator Cooper, of Pennsylvania,
and William Cost Johnson, of Mary
land. Col. Kinney goes out as the
agent and representative of this corn
pan}'. lie is well known as the lead
er of the Texan Rangers in the Texan
struggle, and is noted for his. resolu
tion and energy. The members of
the expedition will number about a
thousand, and each will receive, on
landing, a certain allotment of land
from the company’s possessions. The
enterprise is in no sense iillibustering.
It involves, as we understand it, no in
vasion of foreign territory, or occupa
tion of other people’s soil. It is fa
vored not only by the Mosquito au
thorities, but by those of all the Cen
tral American Republics, and has the
countenance of both the American and
the English governments.
The design is to found a new' inde
dependent republic on the Mosquito
coast; then to take measures for a
Convention from the republics of Nic
araugua, Honduras, San Salvador,
Costa Rica, Yeragua and New Grana
da, ia order to adopt a Federal Con
stitution, and establish a government
analogous to that of the North Amer- ;
ican Union. It is stated that the
most enlighted men in these various
countries are decidedly in favor of the
undertaking and have confidence in
its practicability. The lesson of Tex
an prosperity, and the very marked
imp ulse given to the improvement of
Central America by the influx of
American population, consequent upon
the opening of the various routes
across the isthmus, have completely
broken down the old prejudice against
the American character and influence,
and have implanted a positive respect
and confidence. It is calculated, and
we think reasonably enough, that the
American colony or republic will spee
dily acquire a moral force which will
put new' life and energy into ever y
State of the Federation ; and that a se -
curity and a stability and a symmetry
will be given to the whole civil and ju
dicial system of the country, which
wil Inot only have the happiest effects
upon Central America itself, but will
afford every South American re
public an example from which they
may derive immense advantage. It
will have the valuable effect of remov
ing a most troublesome subject of vari
ance between the United States and
Great Britain. The Mosquito dispute
would be at once wiped out of exis
tence. It does not at all enter into the
plan to annex any part of the country
to the United States, or to form any
more intimate political connection with
it than any other nation. The moral
bond which will unite the two Federa
tions would be enough fin itself to
satisfy the largest desires of eith
er.
The land ceded to this company
comprises about thirty millions of acres.
The entire Federal Union would ex
tend over an area of nearly five hun
dred thousand square miles, an area
more than ten times as large as New
York. It is a region, as all the world
knows, of remarkable, conformation.
High mountain ranges, isolated volca
nic peaks, elevated table lands, deep
valleys, broad fertile plains and exten
sive alluvions are here grouped togeth
er, relieved by large and beautiful
lakes and majestic rivers, the whole
teeming with animal and vegutable life,
and possessing every variety of climate
from torred heats to the cool and bra
cing temperature of an eternal spring
—The country is very rich in mines,
and has abundant agricultural resour*
ses. With ports on the Atlantic and
the Pacific opening to Europe and Af
rica on one hand, and to Asia and Poly
nesia and Australia npon the other, no
country can be more favorably situated
for commerce. The people ‘ generally
though made up of a variety of races,
are well-disposed and peaceful, and are
in great measures free from political
passions and social crimes. It is very
true that the different governments
have been sujebet to disorders and rev
olutions from the date of indepenence.,
from Spanish rule, but there has beep
a decided and most pal able, progress;
and the lessons which hard experience
has brought have not been in vain.
An energetic, enlightened, law-res
pectihgr ordor-looking American re
public, placed in their midst, and wor
king out before their very eyes the tr.e-
EATONTON, CIA., SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1855,
mendous power which is inherent in
genuine American principles, must, in
tlm very nature of things, give an im
pulse to the whole region, such as no
other agency could accomplish. The
managers of the present expedition
are sanguine of success. Perhaps they
are too sanguine. We think it cer
tain that they will require eminent sa
gacity and produce to overcome. It
is fixed that the policy of the colony
shall be a purely peaceful one: but it
is often hard to preserve such a policy
in dealing with an inferior race, when
force so often promises to be more ex
peditious and effectual than reasoning
or bargaining. Yet it is certan that no
such union of the different republics
as that proposed can bo effected by co
ercion or intimation. The bond of
union must consist in confidence, and
confidence can only come from friendly
action. The first law of the colony
should be the strict observance of that
justice which finds its sanction in the
breast of all men everywhere, whatev
er be their political or social condi
tion. The colony will find its chief el
ement of success in its moral force ; if
it lose that, its history will be a contin
ual struggle. The character of those
who engaged in the enterprise, as well
as the personal interests at stake, in
spire us with a trust the colony will
acquit itself worthily of its high re
sponsibilities, and present to the world
another proof that there is that in the
blood of the countrymen of Washing
ton which can not only perpetuate its
own life, but can freshen, quicken, and
irevitalize even the dullest foreign life
it touches.
Death of Crockett.
The following is a graphic sketch of
the last moments of a brave man :
“ Colonel Crockett, wounded and
closely pursued by a number of the
enemy, retreated into the church, fell
ing them as they approached. He
stationed himself in a ninche, in the
corner; determined to face the foe to
the last and sell his life dearly; with
his rifle and a superabundance of side
arms, he hewed and shot them down
with the same awful certainty that was
wont to characterize his indomitable
spirit. His position rendered access to
him’utterly impossible, except by a
direct and close approach in front; af
ter some eight or ten of them were
laid before him, a feeling of awe seem
ed to seize hold of the assailants. One
of them who could speak a little bro
ken English, probably preferring to
have the signal honor of capturing so
noble a specimen of American valor to
present to his “dear master,” said to
Crockett, “surrender! senor.” A flash
of the most sovereign scorned darted
from the fiery eye, and as it pierced
that of the enemy, he seemed to be
transfixed. In a voice of thunder
Crockett answered, surrender! No!
lam an American, and as he spoke
he sent a ball through the heart of the
paralyzed foe. He appeared for a mo
ment like a wounded tiger, strength
ened and buoyed by each additional
wound; now hewing them down with
his well-tried sword, next dealing death
with his fire-arms. His person was lit
erally drenched with bis own blood ;
his strength must soon yield to its loss.
Yet such physical power wrought to
the highest degree of excitement -can
perform incredible procliges. This was
the last concentrated energy of a pow
erful man, aroused,. animated, and
guided by one of the noblest attributes
of man—love of liberty. He knew
for what his life was about to be sac
rificed; that devastation and butchery
woulcl follow the footsteps of his heart
less foes, that women would be sacri
ficed to satiate the desires of the con
queror ; and, feeling the holy inspira
tion of a dying patriot, he fought man
fully til! the loss of blood and ap
proacii of death stayed his up raised
arm ; his rifle was broke to pieces, his
pistols fell to the floor, and nothing'but
his faithful sword was left. In the
agony of death, with a terrible grasp,
he brought his last weapon upon the
head of the nearest assailant, and fell
victoriously across his body in the
arms of death. In this.corner of. the
church there twenty-six dead Mexi
cans, and no other American having
fought or fallen ,at that point, it is con
sidered beyond all reasonable doubt,
that all of them fell by the hand of
Tennessee’s favorite son ! All were
now dead, not a man left to relate the
wonderful deeds of this illustrious
bapdof heroes! Not a companion left
to rear a monument to their memory !
But,"ah !no monument is required to
perpetuate their lame. So long as free
dom has an abiding place in America,
will their heroic deeds and proud
names be hela sacred.
The skeleton of the mastodon dug
up at Newburgh, a few years ago, is in
the possession of Dr. Warren,,of Bos
ton, who has erected a fire-proof build
ing for its preservation, at
of about ten thousand dollars It is
twelve feet high, and weighs twenty
two thousand pounds.
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Happiness is a. butterfly, which when
pursued, is always just beyond your
grasp, but which, if you will sit down
quietly, may alight upon you.
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Tombstone Poetry.
-There are some singular epitaphs to
be found scattered over the multitudin
ous tombstones of English graveyards.
Rural bards, who attempted in vain to
immortalize themselves by a dignified
occupation of the “Poet s Corner,” in
village Magazine or County Chronicle,
have at length attained the summit of
their ambition, by having their ver
sicle recorded on enduring stone. In
cognito to the rest of the world, but
the pride of their own family, and the
wonder of a small circle of ignorant
admirers, they exult in their local re
nown, and regard with supreme scorn
any daring critic who should seek -to
quench the fire of their genius.
St. Philip’s churchyard, Birming
ham, contains the following happy
specimen of what may be termed the
Hibernian sentimental:
Oh ! cruel death, how could you be so unkind*
To take him before, and leave me behind ?
You should have taken both of us, it either,
Which would have hem more phasing to the sur
vivor !
One Ann Collins had the misfortune
to fall into a cask of beer in the neigh
borhood of the village of Kirig Stant
ley, and the coroner’s jury having
brought in of found drown
ed, the village poet—some despairing
lover, perhaps—thus records upon her
tomb the sad story of her fate :
’Twas as she tripped from cask to cask,
In at a bung-hole quickly fell:
Suffocation was her task, —
“She liad no time to say farewell.”
There are two points in this painful
pathetic epitaph, which strike us as
apocryphal. Frist that the. unhappy
lady should have fallen through a
bung-hole, and secondly, that she
should have it “her task ” to suffocate
when we should have thought it her
duty to scramble out. The faking
through the bung-hole may possibly
have been true —we say “possibly,”
because the story is rather hard of cre
dence, but as we recollect having once
seen written upon a goodly cask ex
posed in front of a store, the words,
“For sail,” and underneath in a differ
ent hand, “For freight and passage
enquire at the bung-hole,” it was quite
-as possible for Ann Collins to fall
through the bung-hole, and get drown
ed as for ah individual to respond from
a bung-hole, in answer to some anx
ious emigrants enquiring for freight
and passage. It is a question for the
casuists, and to them we leave it.
. ’Tis true I led a single life,
I nare was married in my life ;
For of that sex I nare had none— *
It is the Lord; Ilis will be done.
Asa counterpart to the above, Step
ney church-yard contains the coarse
effusion of a man who certainly had
been married. Whether his deceased
spouse had been the “cream” of one
“Tarter,” and the “salt,” of another,
is now unknown to the world, but
the widower expresses himself as if
greatly relieved. Whatever she may
have been, her epitaph stamps him an
irreligious brute. But here it is:—
My wife she’s dead, and here she lies;
Nobody laughs, and nobody cries ;
Where she’s gone, and how she fares,
Nobody knows, and nobody cares.
Our next is one which was formerly
to be found in Ashburton churchyard.
But the bitter sarcasm it flung in the
face of the vicar and the gentry, has
led to its removal:
Here Hie al the chancel door;
Hero I lie, because Tm poor;
The farther in the more you pay !
Here lie I as warm as they.
Diogenes might have written that.
It is wholly in his cynical and sarcas
tic vein.
To the next we lift our beaver with
reverence and with it we appropriate
ly close this article. It may yet be found
in Portsea cemelry:
What was she ?
What every good woman ought to be,
That was she.
The Animated Stalk. —The fol
lowing is taken from. a recent work,
entitled “Platt’s Book of Curiosities:”
“This very remarkable animal was
found by Mr. Ives, at Cuddalore ; and
he mentions several kinds of it; some,
appearing like dry straws tied togeth
er ; others like grass; some have
bodies much larger than others, with
the addition of : two scaly imperfect
wings; their neck is no bigger than
a pin, and twice as long as their body ;
their heads are like those of a hare,
and their eyes vertical and very brisk.
They live upon flies, and catch these
insects very dexteriously with their
two fore feet which they keep doubled
up in three parts, close to the head,
and dart out very quick on the .ap
proach of then- prey ; and when .they
have caught it, they cat it very vo
raciously, holding it in the same man
ner as a squirrel does its food. On
the outer joints of the fore feet are
several very sharp hooks, for the easier
catching and holding of their prey
while with the other feet, which are
four in number, they take hold of trees,
or any other thing, the. fetter to sur
prise whatever t|j.ey lie in wait for.-
They drink like a horse, putting their
mouth into the water.” JL
Value of a Manuscript.
The original manuscript of Gray’s
Elegy was lately sold at auction in
London. There was.really a “scene”
in the auction room. Imagine a strang
er entering in the midst of a sale ‘of
some rusty looking old books. The
auctioneer produces two small half
sheets of paper, written over, torn and
mutilated. He calls it a most ‘interest
ing article,’ and apologizes for its con
dition. Pickering bids £l.O ! Rodds,
loss, Thorpe. Bolin, Hoi way, arid
some few amateurs quietly remark,
twelve, twenty, twenty-five, thirty,
and so on, till there is a pause at sixty
three pounds. The hammer strikes.
“Hold!” says Mr. Foss.
“It is mine,” says the amateur.
“No, I bid .sixty-five in time.”
“Then I bid seventy.”
“Seventy-five says Mr. Foss; and
fives are repeated again, until the two
bits of paper are knocked down,
amidst a general cheer, to Payen and
Foss, for one hundred pounds sterling!
On these, bits of paper are written the
first drafts of the Elegy in a couritry
church yard, by Thomas Gray, inclu
ding five verses which were ommitted
in publication, and with, the poet’s inter
linear corrections’and alterations—cer
tainly an “interesting article.;” several
persons supposed it would call forth a
ten pound note, perhaps even twenty.
Spirit Rapping in Olden Times.
—The following is an extract from the
“Chronicles of Florence of Worcester,”
anew book recently published in
England. It affords another proof
“that there is nothing new under
the sun:”—A. D. 1273. An evil
Spirit caused much alarm at village
called Tronville, in the district ot Rou
en, by audibly rapping with hammers
on the walls and doors. He spoke
with a human voice, although he was
never visible, and his name he said
was William Ardent. He frequented
the house of a certain worthy man, to
whom he did much mischief, as well
as to his wife and family; and tfie
sign of the cross and the sprinkling of
holy water failed to drive him away.
Moreover when the priests conjured
him, in the name of the Lord, to quit
the.place, he answered : “ I shall not
depart; nay, more, if I please, I shall
kill you all.. The cross I know well
enough, and as. for your holy water, I
have no fear of that.” This spirit
haunted the manor and mansion of all
the persons just mentioned, from the
feast of All Saints (Ist November) un
til after the pacification, (2d February,)
uttering many lascivious and scoffing
speeches. At last lie went away at
Septuagesima, saying he should return
again at Easter, which he never did.
Iron Batteries.
The iron floating batteries which
are being constructed in England, for
battering the walls of Sevastopol and
Cornstadt, it seems, are of American
origin. About thirty years ago,
Robert L. Stevens, of Hoboken, made
some experiments, which proved con
clusively that shot could be effectually
arrested by a -thickness of wrought
iron proportioned to the diameter of
the ball. Some time in the year 1840-
’42, Mr. Stevens proposed to build a
Floating /Steam .Battery of iron, as a
protection, in the, event of a war, to
the harbor of New York. By order
of the Government experiments were
made to test the correctness of this
theory, under the supervision of a
Board of Nav}' and Army officers.-
The result proved four-and-a-half in
ches in thickness of wrought iron to
be a perfect defence against a sixty
four pound solid shot, fired at ten
yards distance from the target.
Upon their report of these facts,
Congress directed the. Secretary of. the
Navy to enter into a contract with
Robert L. Stevens for building a Steam
Battery upon this plan, for the de
fence of the harbor of New York.—
After the execution of this agreement,
Mr. Stevens constructed a dry dock
capable of containing a vessel of the
size required by the contract, together
with stops, steam engines, furnaces,
tools, &e., necessary to the construction
of such a vessel.
About two years ago, at the earnest
solicitation, of Com. Stockton, then a
member of the U. -S, Senate, Congress
-again directed the Secretary of the
Navy tu proceed with the vessel under
the contract. This iron battery is
now, with tide exception of a few ribs,
completely in frame, and about one
third planked up with heavy iron
plates. From the difficulty of pro
curing funds during the severe pres
sure iri the money market, he was re
luctantly .compelled, two weeks ago,
to discharge, out of the four hundred
and seventy men engaged in her con
struction, -one hundred ,and forty of
those, woidviiig by thy day in the yard
.atHoboken. ” ' U
The appropriation for this iron steam
battery, whose sides are to be six dr
more inches ih thickness,, and whose
length on the water line-is now 400
feet, was two hundred -and fifty thous
and dollars. - ’ 1
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A rich sod will produce‘good crops
.without manure, but it with soon
Recapture of David Wright—State
ment of Robert Simons.
Some two weeks ago, Mr. Brooks,
Sheriff of Muscogee County, received
information that David Wright, who
had been indicted for the murder of
Deputy Sheriff Robinson, and had es
caped from the jail of the county, was
at St, Andrew’s Bay, at the house of a
fugitive from justice, named Angus
Best, or Bess. He employed Mr. Rob
ert Siufons of this city to go.in pursuit
of him. On his way to the Bay, Mr-
Sirnons Avas joined by Mr. Harrison,
of Marianna, Fla. Arrived at St.
Andrew’s Bay, they learned that both
Wright and Best had left, and were
probably on their way to Pensacola.
They followed their track for about
two days and a half. They were join
ed at Euoheanna by Mr. Munroe, Sher
iff of Walton county, and a posse com
itatus of near a dozen men. Just be
fore reaching the village of Atuque, on
Christmas day, they came in sight of
Wright and Best. They Avere jogging
along in a one horse waggon. The
posse immediately surrounded the AA'ag
gon. At sight of Simons, Wright at
tempted to get a gun, but iailirig, drew
a revolver and fired just as Simons
was dismounting; Simons then pre
sented a double-barrel gun-and snap
ped a cap at Wright; Wright again
fired at Simons' another barrel of his
revolver; Simons this time succeeded
in firing the other barrel. of his gun,
loaded Avith buck shot, a few of which
took effect in the lips and cheek of
Wright, Avho made off to a thicket
close by ; he was headed by Mr. Mun
roe: Wright then fired another barrel
of his revolver; the shot took effect
in the thigh of Mr, Munroe, but the
wound a\ as not mo rtal. A dog be
longing to one of the posse now rush
ed upon Wright, and as he was about
to seize upon him, the. bold outlaw
shot him through the left shoulder and
disabled the brute. Simons then call
ed out to' Wright to surrender, Avhen
he threw up his pistol and exclaimed,
“I give up.” The Sheriff now rode
up and Wright delivered to him his
pistol, and suffered himself to be bound.
During this Best had got out
a grn from the Avaggon, and Avas ad
vancing in the direction of Wright,
Avith the intention of aiding him in his
unequal conflict. His movement was
discovered by one of the posse,w ho rush
ed upon him and Avrenched the gun from
his hands. After Wright Avas secured,-
the indignant crowd took Best into
the woods, tied him to a tree, and gave
him fifty-six lashes upon his back.
He Avas then turned loose and warned
that if he ever put his foot over the
line of Walton again, the penalty
would be doubled. *
Indignant at the wound received by
the Sheriff in the discharge of his du
ty, it was with great difficulty that the
crowd were restrained from swinging
Wright to a limb, but more prudent
counsels happily prevailed, and he Avas
turned over to Mr. Simons, Avho, with
the aid of a gentleman from Walton,
found no difficulty in bringing him
home. David Wright is again in pri
son, Avhere, it is hoped, he will remain
until he is taken from thence by the
sentence of the Court,
We learn from Mr. Simons that the
conduct of the Sheriff of Walton and
of the posse comitatus, and indeed eve
ry person with vrirom he came in con
tact, was Avorthy of all praise. The
desire to see the Laws executed was
universal, and every facility was afford
ed him by officers and people in his
bold arid hazardous enterprise.
Mr. Simons arrived in the city on
Saturday, the 30th inst,, and immedi
ately surrendered his prisoner to the
Sheriff. By his bold and patriotic ser
vice, Mr. Simons is entitled to the
thanks of every member of the com
munity Avho desires to see crime pun
ished and the law upheld.— limes dr
Sentinel.
Hard Hitting.
If personality could ever be re
deemed by good-tempered but hard hu
mor, we have seen no stronger instance
of it than in a late passage between
two Eastern editors, in which one of
them rejoins as follows. We suppress
the location, as we would not give
offence to either party :
“ You next touch upon my personal
habits, but do not inform vour readers
that you have often joined me in the
occasional practice Os the worst of the
bad habits you-impute to me. 1 mean
that one which,you say tends to give
me the odor of ardent spirits. As you
have not scrupled -to drink copiously
at my ’ expense, pray be reasonably
just, and'say that you have done so in
encouragement of good company, and
the propriety o| having a frequent
‘ free blow out/ which you know, you
excruciatingly bibacipus rogue, you
relish better than any man I know.
In connection with this habit of drink
ing, (to which your ‘jolly red nose’
shows you to be so freely addicted,)
together with tobacco smolcmg, you
accuse me of having an unpaid rum
bill, a ‘ large sum/ at one of the hotels
irj C —.- In this, Edmund, you
lie; and the lie was made up for the
occasion. I defy you and all your
jackalls to prove that 1 ever owed a
bill of any kind, which was not readi
ly prild when due* But, if it were
j TT* 3E3 »* ME 9
) $2.00 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE.
NUMBER 2.
true, it would be mean aud contempti
ble in you to twit me of failing to pay
a liquor bill which you helped to run
up; for I never had a bill for liquor
in this city which you did not help
me to incur.”
Finale of John Mitchel —Dreadful
News for the Allies.
Misfortunes never come singly ; si
multaneously with the loss of life be
fore Sebastopol, it is announced that
John MLeft el the Irish refugee, is go
ing to Kussia, We are dying to know
how Aberdeen and Louis Napoleon
will like that. Valiant John will be
a host in himself. His military expe
rience, gained during the potatoe field
campaign in Ireland, will be of the
greatest value to the Czar; he will
teach the Russians a thing or two,
such as the. use of vitriol and similar
weapons. Mr. Mitchel may be expect
ed to rank as field marshal in the Rus
sian army before a rribnth is out.
It is, we are told, the hideous growth
of Know Nothingism which has driv
en Mr. Mitchell to this second expa
triation. “Rather,” says he, “than
submit to the smallest shadow of a
distinction in civil dignity or capacity,
I would go and settle in Russia,” &c.
And elsewhere he insinuates that lie
has been “ cheated ” by the Americans.
Let us humor Mr. Mitchell awhile, and
look into this. Such men as he can
not be lost without some notice.
We need not allude to the circum
stances under which Mr. Mitchell
came here; they are notorious. Well,
he came, and was offered the hand of
friendship on every side. The first
thiftg he did was to ally himself with
a parcel of petty politicians and make
speeches against the United State gov
ernment. This, to say the least, was
not becoming or wise in a mere refu
gee. Then he founded a paper, whose
sole objects have been, first, to keep
alive a distinction between the Irish
and all other races in this country, and
next to strive to embroil the United
States in trouble with other nations
and especially England. This was too
much for human patience to bear. Be
cause he, John Mitchell, looked to the
Irish for support in his personal
schemes, therefore he must prevent
their becoming good citizenswbf the
United States, and band them into
cliques and clans of their own, cotm
distinguised from and opposed to the
sons pf the soil ; and because he, John
Mitchel, had a private feud with Eng
land for having tried and exiled him
as a felon, therefore the United States
must be persuaded to quarrel with
their best customers and the whole
world embroiled. The day Mr. Mitch*
•el took this ground, he was voted a
nuisance by ths intelligent masses, and
his downfall was certain. It nas come.
He can no longer endure the scorn
and contempt inio which he has fallen,
and is off to Russia.
It will suit him in many, respects
better than the United States. There
he can gratify his hatred of England
by throwing vitriol bottle at her sol
diers. There he can easily procure a
lot of serfs, to whom he can adminis
ter the knout in his idle moments. He
can abuse the Roman Catholic Church
all the better from the fact that there
will be no Archbishop to rap him over
the knuckles. He will need, it is true,
to practice more discretion in speaking
of liberty or the Czar’s government
than he possessed here, or lie will find
his way to Siberia, a somewhat tighter
place than Australia: but he has
learnt a lesson, and will not be likely
to repeat these bluders again.
Poor John! there is a vigor in him
at times worthy of a sounder head.
When he is at Moscow commanding
the Preobajenskis, or at Cronstadt su
perintending the vitriol bottles, we
shall often regret him.— ■JV. Y. Herald.
A Rare Chance.— The following
advertisement appears in a New York
paper under the head of matrimonial:«?
“A young widow lady of prepossess
ing appearance is desirous of forming
a matrimonial alliance with a gentle
man. He must be well educated, of
good disposition, and not over live
feet ten inches in height. Money no.
object, as she has SBO,OOO at her own
disposal, and no parents. She is sin
cere Jn this advertisement. Commu
nications addressed to Amy, Union
Square post office, will receive atten
tion.”
With money at two per cent per
month, and hard to get at that, it she
is not suddenly snatched up by some
desperate fellow, “not over five feet
ten inches,” then there is no honesty
in what men say under the pressure of
what Maeawber calls “pecuniary em
barrassments.”
De Balzac was lying awake in bed,
when he saw a mian enter his room
cautiously, and attempt to pick the
lock of a writing desk. The rogue
was not a little disconcerted at hearing
a loud laugh from the occupant of the
apartment, whoiu he supposed asleep.
“ Why do you laugh?” asked the thief.
“I am laughing, my good fellow,” said
M. de Balzac, “to think what pains
you are taking and what a risk you
run, in hope of finding money by night
in a desk where the owner can never
find any by day/ Tlio thief evacua
ted Fladders at once,
