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PROFESSIONS.
What A mistaken estimate of the trne nobility
of? profession that man makes who abandons
the culture of the soil for the pursuit of
trade, or for any of the "learned professions."
All honest toil is honorable and dignified, just
in proportion as it answers the necessities of
man, and adds to human comfort and imlepen
dence. The tiller of the soil, therefore, ranks
first?b? is the king of laborers?for the soil
provides for the first and greatest necessities,
food and raiment. The farmer standing in his
furrow, is more substantially a king, than lie
who sits on a legal throne a? d depends for his
daily bread on the tiller of the soil. The first
is independent he creates lor hitnself; the latter
is dependent for all he eats, drinks or wears.
Next to.the cultivator of the soil in essential
nobility are the mechanic, and artizan?me nun
whose brown hands build houses and ships,
furnish the endless appliances of every day
life. Who does most to bless mankind i?the
shoemaker. who keeps our feet from the damp
&nd cold; the man who covers our heads and
fashions our garments ; or he who, without creating
for us a single comfor', calls himself a king
and is a tyrant?consumer of the sweat and
blood of nations f Does it need arguing to answer
a simple question ? Surely not. We
ran see at once that he is most noble in bis
pursuit who most relieves the necessities ami
advances the comforts of mankind. What
man on the broad earth so imperial as the possessor
of acres from which his own toil can
draw a supply for every need. He is not forced
to do homage to any being less than Clod,
nor to depend upon any chances for livelihood.
Tlie yonng man who leaves the cornfield for
the merchant's desk, or the lawyer's or doc-tor's
office, thinking to dignify or ennoble his
toil makes a sad mistake. He passed by that
step from independence 10 vassalage. He barters
a natural for an artificial pursuit, and lie
most be the slave of the caprice of customers
and the chicane of trade either to support himself
or acquire fortune. 'Hie more artificial a
mau's pursuit, the;more debasing is it morally
and physically. 'To test it contrast the merchant's
clerk with the plougliboy. The former
may have the most exterior polish, but the latter
onder his rough outside,- possesses the truer
stamina. He is the freer, franker, happier and
nobler man. Would that v?nng men might
judge of the dignity of labor , by its usefulness
and manliness, rather than by the superficial
glosses it wears. Therefore, we never see a
man's nobility io his.kid gloves and toilet adornmeut,
but in that sinewy arm, whose out lines
browned by the sun, betoken a hardy, honest
toiler under whose farmer or mechanic's vest
a kingliest heart may beat.?New Yorker.
More Anticipated Secession* to Rome.?We
have good reason for believing that before many
Weeks have elapsed, the public will be star,
tied by fresh announcements, in fargreaternumhers
than before, secessions from the Church of
England to the Church of Rome. We have
iteard the number mentioned, as likely sooner
or. later to secede, through the influence of
Archdeacon Manning, at not less than 300.?
Among those who are expected to undergo the
process of transformation "from Protestantism
to Popery, are a number of clergymen, ami several
persons of high standing in society.
Mr. Wegg Prosser, tbe member for the county
of Hereford assures us thatthere is no foundation
for tbe report which has been current for
some days, that he has joined the Church of
Rome.?London Morning Adoerturr.
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Ttub Grkatnks*.?Those who are themselves
conscious of desert are the last to claim
that praise which belongs to others, and those
who fill a capacity to acquire reputation, are
even the most liberal in according it to others.
It is only little stinted minds that are anxious
to claim that glory which they only can gain
by jdefraudiug their associates. Liberal iniuds
re not afraid even to resign what they can so
easily acquire.
A Btxn of Drspkradoes broken up ?
The Detroit papers of the 21st instant detail
tbe particulars of one of the most villainous
plots, just discovered there, ever heard of in
this country. A gang of thirty or forty scoundrels,
it seems, had associated together for the
avowed purpose of counterfeiting, horse stealing,
incendiarism, burglary, robbery?in short,
from the capital crimes down to tue pettiest lar
eetiy. The organization lias been in operation
for some eighteen months, and is only discovered
now by a person who succeeded in getting
the confidence of the banditti. At Lcona,
Centre, and Jackson, Michigan, on Friday last,
no fewer than thirty-three of the scoundrels
were arrested?among whom are three justices
of the peace, five doctors, one judge, and four
constables! Among other schemes of villainy
to carry out, wa9 one to blow up the Michigan
Central railroad track and cars, by means ot an
ingeniously contrived torpedo. The prisoners
were arrested on a writ from the United States
Court, for stopping the mail, counterfeiting,
dec., and will probably be detained until the
next session of the court for rhat district.
New York Express.
Boston, April 25.?T|ie fcee-soilers held a !
meeting last uight, in State street, and noisily
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rejoiceu over ui? tiwuun ui ???,.
Cheer# for Mr. Webster were moved and yiven. j
Henry Wilson and others spoke denouncing
the compromise and urging the free soilers to
vote for Mr. Rantoul for Congress. Rockets
were fired, trom the otiice of the Common J
wealth. Bonfires were kindled in the streets,
cannons fired, and every demonstration of rejoicing
made by the successful party. Many
adjoining towns were illuminated and a salute
of 100 gans fired to-day by the freesoilers on
Boston Common*
An attorney in Dublin having died exceedingly
poor, a shilling subscription was set on
font to pay the expence of his funeral. Most ul
the attorneys and barristers having subscribed,
one of them applied to Toler, afterwards Lord
Chief Justice .Nor bury, expressing bis hope that
k* woq|d also subscribe bis shilling. "Only a
phjljing," said Tolen, "only n shilling to bury
an attorney! Here ii a guinea; go and bury one?ll4-t\veui
v of then\.
TllE C LB A EXPEDITION.
The Savannah Morning News of Monday
says:
For several days past the city has been rife
with minors about the expedition against Cuba,
supposed to be on foot, and the government
officials have exhibited a great amount of zeal
in their efforts to ferret out the actors in the business,
and to preserve the neutrality of the nation.
The steamer Welalia, Capt. Blankensliip,
was chartered yesterday, and sailed last
night for the south with W. H. C Mills, Depu
ty L. S. Marshall, and other officials on board,
in nursuit of the expedition, which it is reported,
is concentrating somewhere on the coast.
U e will not now mention the rumors that are
current in the city.
MississrPt.?The Southern Standard, a new
paper issued at Columbus, (Lowndes Co.) Miss,
gives the following encouraging news from the
adjoining county,^.wonroej wnose coumj iomh,
Aberdeen, lias been considered a strong bold
of the suhmissionists in that quarter.
There is a fine state of feeling in the county
of .Monroe. The cause of Southern rights is
advocated there by the ablest men in the county.
Speeches are made nearly every evening to
large and respectable crowds, and we feel assured
(for we know the people) that a most
thorough revolution is going on in public opinion.
The Union meeting held at Aberdeen on
Tuesday last, was considered a failure by the
submissionists. The failure is attempted to be
excused on the (ileal that the " people did
know the time" it was to be held. It had
been advertised for several weeks and announ< ?d
in various other wavs ?vet the people did |
not "know tlie time." The joke is a good
one."
Shttcking Cruelty. ? A few days, since Mr.
E. Willets, who resides at Birmingham, Oakland
county, who was on his way from the Utica
insane asylum, having in charge his son, a
lad of 18 years, who had lately been discharged
from that institution as incurable, stepped out
at a station on the central line of railroad
through New York, to obtain some refreshments
for the lad, leaving him sitting quietly on
his seat.
On returning. Mr. Willets found the train in
motion and got into a car behind the one
which he left; here he found an acquaintance,
with whom he conversed for a minute or two,
and then passed on to the cars in which he had
lett his soil. On reaching it he tunnel the seat
vacant and the poor hoy gpne.
On making inquiry, the conductor told him
that he had put a young man off the train, some
distance back who would not pay his fare
nor give an account of himself
The anxious father stopped at the next station,
returned and found the mangled body of
his son lying on the track.
He had paid his own fare, and that of his
son to Buffalo!?Detroit Journal.
Free Soilers in Ohl T<un}nnny.?From New
York we learn that, after a very warmh contested
struggle, the Barnburners have succeeded
iu defeating the Old Hunkers, and getting
possession of Tammany Hall. This is
what they have been aiming ax ior years, mm
they have succeeded at List, so that John \ an
Bnren can go into the wigwam once ni"re. In
the election of Sachems, on Monday night, they ;
elecled their whole ticket with the exception of
one candidate. j
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Taxing Bachelors?In the Pennsylvania j
House, Hr. Walker has presented a petition
asking that unmuried men may lie taxed one
dollar j?er head, for school purposes, to be devoted
to the education of illegitimate children.
The petition was read and teferred to a com- '
niittee of bachelors over thirty years old, with ,
Mr. Fritz as chairman.
Count mi i" kit Goi.d Dollar*.?We learn j
from a very respectable baua clerk that therea
are quite a large nninher of counterfeit gold!
dollars in circulation in this city, which are
executed with so much mechanical skill as to '
render detection extremely difficult, to those i
familiar with gold coin. By resorting to the 1
means of a chemical process, or the infallible '
test offered by the most cor. ect gold ballanees, 1
any one may bo secured from imposition. Lot'
storekeepers. busni*s men generally, and the
police especially, look sharp.? tultimore Hun.
The Joint Special Committee of the Massa-!
chusetts Legislature on the subject of Capital t
punishment, reported, on Thursday, a hill for
the abolition of the death penally, and providing
that the offences punishable by death under
the present code, shall be puni-hed by im- j
prisouinent in the State Prison for life.
The Richmond Whig, and some otlrer discoverers
of mares' nosts, have been agitated and
aggravated at a storv of their own manufac- j
lure, iliat Sir Henry tlulwer, the British minister,
had gone to South Carolina to negotiate a
treaty of alliance with her.
It turns out that instead of doing that, lie
has been engaged in a conspiracy, or compromise,
with a set of jovial Scotch..*,en in Now
York, to appropriate and divide the fish, flesh, I
fowl, fruits, pastries, and wines of that lnxuri
ons city.
It is evident that Sir Henry, instead of forming
an alliance with South Carolina, is aiming t
to strengthen the British empire by a union with
the North, well knowing that a Southern confederacy,
controlling l^ie cotton crops and the
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minibor of shirts ami loaves of broad that John
Bull consumes. Sir Henry has therefore gone
to New York, to see how far old England can
rely on the Northern States for supplies, and
he has very naturally tested the quality of her
productions at a grand dinner.
We ho}>e neither Great Britain nor the North
will be alarmed. The South will permit both
of them to live. She wants Great Britain to
do her finer manufactures, and the North the
oarser. She will want to use them both, and
will treat both of them well if they behave themselves.?
Southern I'rrss.
I (?r There are those always ready to give
advice, but never willing <0 receive it.
THE CAMDEN JOURNAL,
THO. J. WARREN, Editor.
FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 2, 1831.
telegraphic" intelligence.
Seven Days Later from Europe.
ARRIVAL OF THE NIAGARA
COTTON AGAIN DECLINED !
Sales 25,000 hales.
New Yokk, April 30.
The British Steamer Niagara arrived at
Halifax last nigh, from Liverpool, which port ;
she left on the 19th inst.
We learn from her advices that the Arctic !
and Franklin had arrived out.
Cotton was very dull and had declined an 1
eighth, and even at that reduction was very dif- |
lie.ult of sale, it being nearly impossible to effect
anv negotiations at all in it, as in consequenuce
of the advices brought by the Arctic,
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anticipated, public opinion is decidedly ;igainst
the market. The sales of the week were over
25,000 hales. The stock on hand umonnts to
527,000 hales.
Our Cotton Market.
Since the news by the Africa, we are obliged to
quote from 5 1-2 to 9 3-4?
VALEDICTORY.
O It is with some regret, that we bid a tempo*
rary"Good bye" to the Editorial chair, and yield
into the able hands of our copartner the lettered
reins of the Journal. For several reasons, we feel
as if .shutout from having a friendly and social talk j
with our readers each week, as heretofore, and j
for a time, we will be severed from a body of Gentlemen,
as pure and exaited as any that can be
found,?we mean the Editors in South Carolina.
Yet, we are soothed by the reflection that in one
short months we will again enter the arena, to do
battle in the cause of Southern Rights, as Editor
of the "Southern Republic," Camden S. C. Until
then, a friend y good bye to all, hoping that we
wi I all be connected as Editor and Patron again.
CHARLES A. PRICE.
From the above, it will be seen that I have purchased
from Mr. Price, his interest in the Camden
Journal, and hereafter, will be charged solely with
its management and control. Feeling grateful to
our numerous friends for their patronage so kindly
extended to the late firm, I hope to merit a
continuance of the same, by discharging to the
best of iny ability, the duties which are expected
of me. As I intend to devote my time almost entirely
to the paper, I hope to be able to make it
acceptable to my friends and patrons, I shall spare
no pains to accomplish this end.
THOS. J. WARREN*.
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Vocal Music. .
It will-be seen by his advertisement, in another
column, ttat?Vjr. Simiul, who has been for some
time engaged in Columbia in teaching Vocal Music
with ranch success, is now in onr town forth
purpose of forming a class or classes. Mr. S. is
a South Carolinian and is prepared to exhibit the
most satisfactory references. His ^Vstelu is represented
by competent judges, to be ''simple, and
gradually progressive, combining good practice
with the development of the theory of his pleasing
art." His introductory Lecture, explanatory
of his mode of teaching, will be given this evening
the Presbyterian Lecture Room.
0*a\Vhen certain persons abuse us, let us ask J
ourselves what description of character it is that 1
?i ?1? VA*? tliiun run* rnn. I
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solatory question." For example, when Brownlow, J
tln? Uorse Jockey, Whig Kdilor, or any one else
fcbu-.es the Camden Journal, we have only to
Ephylosophize after this fashion, recollecting that,
the praise of such would he equivalent to scandal
in the eyes of truth and justice. Our shield is impervious
to the darts of malignant envy of those
whom we can never fear nor resj>eet.
All a Hoax.
The "intercepted despatch" of her Britanic
Majesty's Minister, Mr. Bulwer, is pronounced by
Mr. Matthew, the British Consul at Charleston,
as**a mere fabrication." Thus this mysterious
matter has been set at rest, and the Boston Celt,
we suppose will remain silent en the subject.?
Our opinion is, that they are getting too smart entirely
in Busting.
The Weather and the CropaFrom
many quarters, we hear unfavorabl accounts
of the weather, and prospects for planting.
We are aware of the fact, that in our own section,
the cold weather which we have recently had,
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will prove very unpropmous ior me truprs. ?,c
hear from planters in this and the adjoining Dis
tricts, that the prospects are truly discouraging
In many instances, crops have been, and will be
required to be planted over. We append the following
extracts, which we find copied in our exchanges
:
The New Orleans Picayune of the 24th snvs:
"We have been for several days under the iniluence
of cold, disagreeable weather, and accounts
from all parts of the country tell the
same story. The weather has been very unpropiluous
for the crops over a wide region, j
We have telegraphic accounts from Tennessee i
of frost there night before last. The Georgia
papers last received says that there wero cold
rains there early last week, and similar accounts
reach lis from Alabama. The Hayncvillc
Chronicle (Lowndes county Ala.) says
that since the 7th tho heavy rains have been 1
doing much injury in that region. On the!
nights of the 8th and 15th there were slight
frosts followed by north winds, doing as much
injuiv as a killing frost. The youngcotton.it
was understood, was dying, and it was apprehended
a good stand was out out of the ques
tion. The seed that had not come up, in eousequcce
of the packing of the earth front the
rains, would, it was feared, rot in the ground.
We are fearful that we shall receive had ac*
it
counts of the effects of the recent cold smp
from the upper parts of our own State, Mississippi
and iron) Arkansas.'''
Extract of a letter receive! in Savannah
from Dnuiclton, So. Ca, dated April 23d, 1851.
" The cool nights, owillow of our cotton
lands, the large frost on yesterday morning, together
with the great scarcity of seed, rendering
our present prospects for the Crop very discouraging.
Cotton seed cannot he had in this (
neighborhood for one dollar per hushel. fn I
fact, I do not think enough could be obtained
at any price to plant four hundred acres."
I
gTThe following is ft good and pious senlU j
meat, but unfortunately, the wish is but seldom j
regarded. ' May our principal men, be men ol '
principle.
The Methodist Church Suit.?This much :
talked of case, a result of the separation of the j
church, has finally been set down for a hearing
in the United States Court in New York city,
on the 13th of May next. Counsel for the complainants,
the Methodist Episcopal Church 1
South, are Daniel Lord, of New York, Revei dy
Johnson, of Maryland, and Daniel Webster, of i
Massachusetts. For the defence, the Metlio- j
dist Episcopal Church, E. L. I'rancher, and j
Geoige Wood, of New York, and Rufus Cho- j
ate. of Massachusetts.
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Tlio New York Courier gives the proceeds
of an invoice of goods shipped by a firm of that
city to California, the prime cost of which.wis ;
?120. The sum realized on it was 3.333,50. i
about 400 per cent. The charge, however,
for freight, storage, auction duties, &e. amounted
to ?533,30, leaving a balance due on the
original shipment of 14 cents, which, with 30
cents more, were used up in paying the postage
from San Francisco on the letter conveying
an account of the transaction.
03~The receipts for . toll on the throe miles
now completed of the Hamburg and Edgefield
plank roard, is stated by the Hamburg Rryublicun
to be at the rate of ten per cent, per
annum.
Thx *s.?The Yietorio Advocate of 18th ult,
says : the late rains, taken in connection with
the genial weoteer, have had a favorable iiiiluence
upon the crops in this region. We feell
confident our planters can boast a better stand
of both cotton and corn, than lias ever before
been knowntiu Texas.
Wo have
heard it mmorod that his Honor Judge Evans,
intends resigning his seat on the Bench at the
next session of the Legislature.
Stale Rights Republican.
Dirkct Import itio\.?The Richmond Republican
of some days back states that all the
principal mercantile houses of Richmond were
about to send out agents to Enro|>e, for the purpose
of obtaining their goods direct from foreign
countries. The Virginia merchants seem
by this, to be somewhat in advance of Virginia
politicians, and may possibly aid the latter to
remember that they have a country of their
| own, which, as tilings go, is not exactly the
Federal Union.
We learn that the principal importing merchants
of Charleston will this summer goto
Europe and lay in their stocks for the coming
j season to be imported direct. It is a ?.ood
| beginning, and will we doubt not find imita!
tors in the merchants of other. Southern cities,
as well as meet the sympathy and support of
the Southern people.?Mercury.
PERSONAL.
One or two of" the submission organs of
(leorgia have recently indulged in certain strictures,
pointing at one ol'tlie editors of this Journal,
on account of his not being a citizen of this
State, which he lias liith?.to treated with the
contempt they deserved; but the Sm'hrrn I'u'riot
of (ireeuville, having deemed fit to strike
a note on the same key, i:i justice to hiitisell
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he respecttuiiy asus uie juieiiiuni ui mo icauno
of this Journal to the following brief remarks:
The I'titriul of the 25th nit., in an article entitled
"Who are urging on the State to secession
T* says:
"In some instances foreigners?unnaiuraJizril
forcir.nem?have dared to dictate to nativehorn
Carolinians, and preach to them honor and
patriotism in destroying their government, and
unsettiug the principle of liberty!'"
Now, the associate editor of this journal is
as is well known to his cotemnoraries through,
out the State, an Englishman by birth ?an
Irishman by descent Nor lias lie made any
concealment of the fact. It is true, that his
resilience in tliis country lias not entitled him
to the boon of naturalization, but the preliminary
notice has long since been given by him#
to the proper authorities in this town, of his intention
to apply for it at the legal period, and
he ardently awaits the time, when, what late
denied him at his birth, the usages of his adopted
State will grant him?the lights and privilege"
of a citizen of a free country.
For years connected with the literary profession,
on his arrival in this State, the only one
he has visited, he naturally sought similar employment.
Success crowned his efforts in pur,
suit of it, and he found himselt associated with
the editorial department of this office, in which
I he had invariably exerted himself to the utmost
extent of his feeble ability, to do bis duty con*
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scienuousiy. nau ne, ......
a free expression of his opinions would have
been denied him in South Carolina, to other
shores would he have directed his steps, inasmuch
as he prizes "the liberty to know, to utter
and to argue freely, aeccording to conscience,
above all other liberties."
Painfully aware of the wrongs llie birthplace
of his forefathers?the green soil of Erin
?was and is now enduring at the hands of an
unscrupulous consolidated power, which knows
no control, he sympathized with the condition
in which he found his adopted State, and felt a
pride that his pen?feeble though it ho?was
permitted to ho wielded against her oppressors?but
in the dischrge of his functions as a
Journalist, it is his hoast to say, he is independent;
and where he deems it necesary, he claims
it as a light?nay, a duty ?to suggest: a
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mouse once liberated a lion. Yet his own
Con: ciousness of the inferiority of his (towers, J*
apart from that sense of propriety, from which, .M
he trusts, he never has nor ever shall deviate, ."..M,
forbids him to approximate even to the verge '* 1
of diclalion. The opinions he expresses are I
those of a mujoiity of I lie citizen* of the State, \ |
and vplwl I, not "unsettle the principles ofitberty."
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Finally, his home is now in South-Carolina,
and there, in all probability, will be hisgrave.
With her prosperity aire his interests identified, %
and should the time come that she should require
his oundile services o.i the field, they will
be cheerfully tendered even unto death; ui the /
meantime, he respectfully claims, as the inwtienable
right of every white man, the privilege of
expressing bis opinions freel}* ot? all points, so
Inmr ?ia thiiV al'tilT t?nf lm rlnfnmAnt.il 1a *J?a
honor or liberty of Ids adopted State.
Palmetto State Banner>
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From the- Drvibcratic Reifirv.
Among tlio many improvements in the niemtir
of coinmunication which have been probe c*k<i
in tiie last lefr years, Plank roads are assuming
a very important rank. A little work by SEIF* r
Kingsfoul, of the Hudson River Rail Road, Uy ;
of great interest, and should be'well circulated-;,
throughout the country. It appears 'that flijr
first Plank Road in Canada was laid down in . .
1830, and in New York, in 1847, but it is onlywithin
the last ibur years that they have Iggfs**'
much prosecuted. There now exists asfdtOT'fi gt
plank koaps in opkhvho.n. bt ?
i No. of Reads. Average com per mile.. Tptal- ^
r- ?. i i., or evi tUHin i
V." York I'J 2 JoC Tt333
Very, nearly four millions of dollstrs^lytva
been impended in Sew York npon thiesd roads
The roads have all been stfts&befcJfor bj
dividual^, and all pay bnndsonie tfivid<*hcte. " Far
instance, tlie Troy and Lansiuburg Roadpoys ,
10 per cent semi-annual; the l/tiea and Burting
on 20 per cent and we believe none in
operation pay 1fV|rn rfrWtfrTI1 T"'
of the stocks ohii be bought in the market
The imjiortance of Blank Roads in farming
regions becomes self evident, when it is stated
: that on the Snli.m Road a two horse team'drew
I six tons of iron t'tvrfve "rrfifes without unusual
! strain. Four and a half toils is art ordinary
I load and a team will travel wirfrft eight boors ,
| |?er day, four miles an lionr, day after day.?
A farmer in a heavy country stated,that the
tolls paid saved themselves iulupor of cleaning
horses. In all localities wlwre tl^se irpatU^are
in openition, land rise^ greatty In value. On
the Saline Road, farm land rose frraWto
Eloper acre; on xlic Syracuse Road,'^increase
was S i 0 per acre. It will be observed,
that an amount of property equal to ?4,00ft00()
| bearing a high rate of iutayeg^ hashes c^Rted ^
and that property has added iu addition, fevernl
millions to the value of the land through wjjich
it runs, and that all this property is tjiere saving J
iroin the old cost of transportslion, x .. ^
ThcJta*! D<v> Story.?Mr. Luke Morton, of ' |
South Eighth drect, keeps a Mug calfeM L%,Vegn,
an ill-favored, fierce-eyed brute, udiose tin tidy
habits arid cross-^rjiinwl ten?|>er ttitABpKi to fl
lie held in destination by the faiihSy^ir-^tieraI,
and by Mrs. Morton, bis mrstress^ln .partieu1m
r. La Vega, however, is a grcatfeyprite
wit!i his master. About a week agio, Mrs.
Morton became fXft?|>ei?|cj opof
some unendurable offence coihmifte3 by La I
Vega, and privately bargained witlHur old col- 1
lector of soap-fat, Abe^ Wrtlket?^ifcl^-'for a 1
dollar fee, agreed to take thedojjf tjfTATrHt "rcn- 3
der him up" into tallow, or othe<wis<}.,reiiove ^
: Mrs. Morton from the annoyance of ai? pres- 4
j Mr Horton, on coming home to.dinner in
j quired mr ivi > ega, ana \va? cw^wni>wiui ?
j the information tint his troublesmiie jwt had j
; absconded. For soihe days ^te^iseMce ot Le
1 Vega gave occasitW for jnrtch rejoicing ih the
I household, and even the grief of Mr, Hbrton
| for his loss was made dm sabiect %?. many a
sly joke in his domestic calb\i)Lduneut.v/^l rs.
H. congratulated "herself eXoessively on' that ,
lucky thought of hers, which eh ared the house
of that odioiisc hrute; and though s lady who
thinks a good deal of h dollar, she did notgradge
the money, since it gained her objecf 80 'effectually.
In the mean time La Vega vrasfdetahN
ed a close prisoner in the cellar of the saop
factory - amusing himself by sua ping at the
rats which coursed about the premtses/andsustained
himself like Napoleo? at Klbt^ wim tlie
belief that the objects of Lis destinpy wow not
yet accomplished.
KinMiiiin If.. Ilitrliui nnnparrd a
| \/ll MtrnU'lJ IIIWMM.Ig 4?... -r| # _
! at tlie breakfast table with a beaming counten- 1
j ance. "Well, my dear, good newsPr said be fl
to Mrs. H. "What is 'it {" asked the lady, 9 fl
l^villi some secret misgiving. "I v? got La Ve- 1
ga back again ! Advertised for lririii hi the Led* fl
ger, offered a reward for his recovery, this e fl
morningbe'was brought home by Abe Walker," fl
"Heavens!" ejaculated Mrs. Horton; "whatdid
you have to pay for him?" "Only eleven dol? H
lars," replied Horton, "one for the advertise- Hj
merit, and ten to old Abo for bringing him b(iek." H
"Merciful goodness!" replied the unsympatbizing
wife. "Kleven dollars, (enough to buy *
silk dress,) for the recovery of such $ nasty
cur! and to tliink that I gave the black rascal ? V
dollar for1 taking liim off!" This inadverbnt V
confession cause amutriiunnial duel; the report * flj
of which we omit ae it might appear stale .and fl
common place to some of our mafried.ratu}era,
By this little canine speculation, all parties; fl
u-nrn nuimipa \)?. Walker, the eUllllillg d<M'-. M
I ky, gained ten dollars; the advertising sheet 'J
j gained one, and Mr. and Mrs. Horton gained(
; some valuable experience,. which will teach
them the importance of mutual confidence be*. JB
tween wedded parties.? Sandusky Democrat.
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GETTING INTO BED WITH A CORPSE- I
A few months since, a son of 8Sty?b?ut J
nine o'clock one evening, called at*if nftfPitrv
inn, in the western part of Pent^hnStfl!!, and V
demanded lodgings for the nigh& "I*w?sevi- a
dently from his appearance and actions that he 9
rn liquor had been quite jolly companions
throughout tr e day. The landlord was a last, 9
good-natitred soul, and had imhib<?d free
ly that day himself. a