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Communications. post paid, will be promt ly and strictiv attended to. JOSEPH ABNEY ATTORNEY AT LAI. W~-~ 'IL, be round in his office at Eagefield Court Houseu, adjoiaing Bryan's Brick Store,.on .Satutdays, Saledays, and Court% He will attenid promptly and strictly to busi nesa in hisprofession. January 10, if . 51 0.D. TILLAIAN ATTORNEY AT LAW ANID SOLICITOR iN EQUITY. 0FFICE next door to Mr. Compty's-Ho tel, dg'ilield C. H. - Ja'niary 24 1849, $in - A N Di A TES. 9FOR SHERIFF. ofidis ofWESLEY BODIE, Esgr., inf as a candidate for the uitce of t at the ensuing election. e.to announce Capt. OULW RE; as a Canf t the ensuing .election riends of Col. JOH N HILL an kniA 6ka candidate for Sheriff of Edg Disitict-at the next election. _We l authorized to announce T. J. 'ITAER. as t bandidate for the Office Jein , at the ensning election. JTbe Friend6 of ALFRED MAY, ounouneC him eb a Candidate fur Sherif, t ensuing election. FOR TAX COLLECTOR. e We are authoriZed 1 t. announce LITTLET'ON A. BROOKS, as a Can Ohdate for Trax Collector, at the ensuing eleetinnm ' We are anutorized to announce ROBERT CLOY, as a Car.didate for Tax Collector, at the ensuing eleeion. The Friends of Maj. ISAAC BOLES, announce him as a Candidate foi the office of Tax Collector, at the ensuing election. We are authorized to announce Capt. B. F. GOUEDY, as a bandidate for the Office of Tax Collector; at the ensuing election. Jon. 2 The Friends of Maj. F. W. BURT, an nounce him as a candidate for-Tax Collec tor, at the ensulog election. The friends of Col. J. QUATTLEBUM, announce him as a candidate for Tax Coi lecor, at the ensuing election. . . We are authorized to announce WM. L. rARKS as a Candidate for Ta%.Collec tor, the next election. FOR ORI)INARY. The Friends of VIRG iL M. WH ITE annouire-him as a Candidate for the -office of Orditnary at the ensuitng election, We are authorized tu announce EDWA R D PRESLEY, as a Candidate for the Office of Ordinsry at the ensning election. We are authorized to announce Col. WILLIAM H. MOSS, as a Candidate for the ontce of Ordiinary at the ensuing eletiqu. 87The friendi of H ENRY T.'WRIGH T Esqr., announce hinm a a cnndidate for the of. fioe of Ordiuary erfthis.Di)strict at-thie ensuing election. ...-. We are authorized to announcee Ma.. W. L~. COLEMAN, as a .candidate fur Ordinary at the'enssing election.2 The friends of~HUGH A. NIXON, Esq., respectfully announce him as a Candidate for the -office of Ordiuary, -at tbe ueil -Election. FOR CLERK. gf We are -muthorised to annune WM. 1M.-JOHNSON, Esq., a candidate for Clerk of the District Court of Edgefleld at the ensuing election... g7 The friends of PETER.QUA/'TLEd BUM, Esgr.. announce him its a candtdate. for the Office of Clerk of the Court of Conmmon Plea., of this District, at the enenumg electirn We are authorized to announce THOS. G. BACON, a candidate for re-eleetion as: lerk of the Court, for Edlgefield District. The friends of E. PENN. announce him as a Candidate for the Office of Clerk at the ensuing election. FINAL NOTICE. COIRCUMSTANCES requiring-that the bu siness of G. L &. E. Penn should be set'. tied-up without delay. Notice itt hereby given, that all Notes and Accounts not settled during Court, wiH be giyen out to an Officer for eel. let.- E. PENN, Agent. e.2 189.tf6 . . From the Tennissee Baptist. SOUTHERN BAPTIST -CONVENTION. Bao-i HEOGRAVEs :-The place of the approacliRg meeting for this bod'y, I am very sorry to inform our readers, is changed from Nashville to Charleston, S. C. Fre quent -letters were received in -this city,. expt'essltrg apprehensions that the realrs of Cholera- here, would prev'e't our brethren from -attetiding. The Secretary of -the Foreign Board wrote two weeks. ago, and proposed a change in-the place of meeting. The pastor and 'hiembers 'of the Pirst Church, replied to all These letters, -uni formly stating (what i-he fact) that there is almost no cholera .in the city, aid that we did not thinc 'there could he-any special danger-in our friends visiting- us to a tiend the rrre4ing. Two or-three days ago the follo'Wing -lotter was received from the President of the Couveution. EDGEFTIELD, Court Hopse, S. C.. April 3, 1849. REv. DR. HOWELL My bear Brother:-The papers bring us sad tidings of the presence and ravages or cholera in N.ew Orleans, and also at Nallshile. The effect is, that some of us have concludcd that we'cannot go to Nash ville on the 2nd May, to attend the S. B. Convention. And th.e 'rethren of Char lestot, ofitbis State have offered me the hospitalities. of that city. for the teeting, They propose to make an exchange with yo' t. Let. them have the meeting notw to prevent disappointment, and you have it three year. h'ence, when your all-'road wbl. he completed.. Should the increase orcholera forbid the meeting with you this year, tisevre i no way of getting another by constitutional provision', but by an extra call. Such a. calli am authorized to make sI.ith the.ap probation of any one of the Boards of. the Convention. Now if you.should at once bay that tue neeting is in all Orobability likely to be prevented at Nashvil.le this year, and recommand its being held else where, I can write to one or both Boards,.. giving the information, ani p'r'np'o'sing to their a probAtion an extra call in Char lesion, on Wednesday.23rd. of May. We should have ample time for my circula'r to ;ive the necessary information through the ringrs.and then we s~foul h1I2 a~ fP kir ~eitilcgiul Iille .'Such is the panic on tis sid0 of 'the thodtlaius, that i urn persuaded you will have but few of us to be with you in May. I am very anx ious when we go to the West, that we go in large numbers to get. acquainted with rou all there. With much alfection and egard, I remain your brother in Christ. WILLIAM B. JOHNSON. I imthediately called together a -large number or brethren, as many as I coui ollect, for consultation. who, upon re letion, concluded that al-though there is as we-all believe, no. danger in visiting Nashville, our hiethien think tle-e is, and possibly will n-t come. The probability was that if we insisted upon retaining it, the meeting must prove a -failure, which we should all regret very much. .They. therefore, thought it best, and codsented that the approaching session should be held in Clarleatoo, on condition however, that the nexu meeting. which. will occur in 1852, %hall be held witlh the First Church in this city, and we have so wriiten to Dr. bhnson. Get ready, therefore, twet4tren to go to Charleston now, ltstead of coming to Nashville. . Let as many of us. go as possibly can. It is hoped the meeting.will be full and efficient... - Yours, &e. - R. B. -C. HOWELL, P. S.-Exchanges will please insert 1ie above; - YANKEE TatcK.--During tite exhibition of a tmenagerie itr a country vtleagn in Maine, a Yatnkee was on the ground; with aftet rible- triclking to "see ihe ele phant," bat had not' the desid -rated -quartei-." Havingrnmade up his .min'd o.go in ."any how," iWe stationed him self near th~e ejitrante, and wdit. untif the rush was. ove.r. Th~en assuming .a paiencealmost-eihausted . tone, and with the fote -finger of his right hand placed on the right corner of his iouth, he exclaimed. rFor God's sake, Mister, stnt ye gojn' io give' miemy change I" 'aees! .my. 'chtanigeT[. gin~ ye a dol lar as mtucht as a half an hour ago, and haint got any chatnge.yet." . Tho door keeper banded aver three. quat ters to change, and in walked the Yankee -"in nnd." - Tom Dibdin, th6~ auathor and cele brated punster, had .a horse wiiich Ito calle.'.Graphy,' and gave his reason for critening hitm as follows: "When I made up my mind to buy a horse,.. said Ill by o graphy; -when'! mounted him, I-was top o graph y;-when I want ed htim to ranter, I sa-id ge o graphy; wen I wielt him *to sitnd still and he won't I say you au to graphy; .and threfore I think -'Graphty' is -a vety proper name. A gentleman sent a lad with a letter to she P6st Offide, and money to pay (he, postage. IUaving returned with tha money, he said, "Guess I've done Ite thing slick ; I've seen *a good manty folks putin' letters in the Post Office- through a hdle, and so I wvatched my chuinceg and got mine in for nothting." [BY IREQUEST.] QUESTIONS FOR. LIQUOR 'DEALERS. President Wayla'nd, of Brown's Uni versity, is one of the ablest moral phi losophers.of the age; and is, therefore, apart from' a conside'ration of his'high moral and religious character, entitled to. the 'attention and. respect. of all. fle puts to the conscience of each one who continues, either by wholesale or re(l, 'to beengaged it the traffic of intoxica ting-diinks; or who in any way furnishes the same for the'use of his fellow' men, the following pointed questions.' Let every such one read attentively, and then spriously ask himself-- Is IT niCIn-r?'. ist. Ci'n it.be. right for me to derive my living front that which is spreading disease nnd prcmiture death through my neighborhood ? How would it be in any siailar case t Would it be right forIne to derive my li'ving froffi s6lhmng poison, or front propogating plague and leprosy around me ? d. Can it be right for me to derive my living from that which i.5. debasing the minds dnd ruining the souls of my neiglibors?- low would it be in tiny other case? Would it be right for me to derive my living from the sale of a drug which produced- misery or mad ness ; which exalted the passions or bru. talized the mind, and ruined the souls of my fello~v men ? 3d. Can it be riglit for me to derive my living 'from that which de-troys fort tver the happiness of the domestic cir :le-wliich is filling the land with- wo mnen and children in a. condition far ore diplorable .than that of'Widows tnd o phans ? 4th. Can it be right for me to. derive by living from that Which is known to e the cause .of nine- tenths of all the rimes which are perpetrated against ocietyt 5th. Can'it be ight for me to derive ill these at once, and which it does with mut ceasing ? 6,b. Do you say thatyou do not know hat the.liquor -you- are selling will pro iuce ihese results? Do you not know hat nine htndred and ninety-nine gal Ons will produce' these effec:s for one vhich it used innocently? I ask then 7th. Would it be right for me to sell, ioison on the ground that there w as one :hance in a thousand that the purchaser vould not die of it ? Sth. Do you say you are not respon ,ible for ihe acts of your neighborb ? Is his clearly so I If these things be so, nd that they are so who can dispute, I isk yod, my respected fellow -citizens' &hat is to be done1 Let me ask, is not hit trade altogether 'vrong? Why, hen, should we not altogether abandon t? If any man think othet wise, and boose to continue it, I have but one word to say: My brother, when you or ier a cargo of intoxicating drinks, think ow much misery you are importing into the comnunity. As you stoe it up, hink how niany curses yon are heaping together against yourself. As yoa roll it out of ydur warehouse; think how ma gy families. each cask will ruin' Let your thoughts then revert to your own fireside; g'our wife, your little ones; look up'to Him, who judgeth righteously, and ask yourself, my brother, is it tight ? H E IS ONiLY'A MECH-ANIC ! H'owv often is hdiard this expre'ssion, amoiig the ignorarit and heartless, whoni Fortune may haire favored tempuramity, or in thatt tlass of society iihio iank to wards or anmong the ar'istderacy- of this country I We very well remember sonme yeats ago) ad ihstanc of this klnd,which ocurred in our city, and wye, recolleet the painful .impi-essio'n it made sit the time upon oar. mind. A man~vwho had chanced to get along in the world -very rapidly, and - whose speculations were always foriunate, had a very pretty family of children-'all daughters. One of the father's apprerd tices was a very likely j'oung 'nan, and had punctually . anid' horiorabli served out his time with his.employer, who be gan .the world a nmonyless meccanic, but who, by. dint of hard labor, constant pplicationtand. untiring industry hade as we have said; atmassed some-means. The wife was unfortimately-and illir. erate woman1 and 'over elated with her husbad's ptosperity's she~ ladnched oat into, every specie of_ e.travagance, and aped the customs and mode of living adopted by -ber more iiealthry neighborsa. The humble apprentice grew up .with the daughiter of his. employer, -and- he conceived a' f-nney for- her.' -The 'girl fivored his address, and frnally mention ed it to her mother. "What !" exclaimeA the wonian, with a sneer, "listen' io him?1 I'm 'stouded Hoc's only a met~shanio !" "But, mother," responded the good |irl,. in he innonc-" wan'n fthne a mechanic, when you married him V ".Let me' hear nothing more of this,' said the cold'hearted and ignorant wo man-and the match was instantly bro ken f. I , The daugliter pined in sadness, awhile, but at lengtht she yielded to the repeated urging of hqr mother, and wedded that mother's choice, the son of a merchant at that timel s'prosperous circumstances. Within a yeai, the son-in.law's - father died. His.'state was bankrupt, and in less thtan theo.years, a s.eparation took place betweenthe newly married pair, the fashionable young husband having proved himself a heartless knave. The man who was "only a mechanic" then-out-lived the smart which was caused by hisfirst feelings of disappoint ment, and he! is now surr.munded by a happy family.still "only a mechanic" hut masteroil,4is business, in theenjoy mer.t of an ai'nple competency, the fauit of his own exeitions. He married a mechanic's daughter, too. - The Hon. adoc Pratt, in a lecture lately, upon ihis bubject, remarks very truly that "iniathe circles of false refine ment, or Mhfe true reflhnnment never dwells, you inay -hear the expression sometimes a d as if in derision or com miseration: 451 he is only a mechanic 1' Why, I rein ber there was a certain man called F#ix in the Scriptures; what his pedigree s I do not know, but his countrymen. Ore a proud race, and hated t1/Pe janics, but one of these despised 'me jnics a tent maker, made this same F ,tremble. 'Only a me chanic !'-W* , Noah was a shipwright -Solomon..' .architect. And who. built the pyriaid I who the ancient cities, whose ruins vl the histo-rians, phiiloso phers; and le bed men of modern times are unable to Plain ? The great tem, pies oftite iiy City, Tyre arid Sydon, Balbec Pers'olis, Babylon, Palmyra, and other i,'iments of the East, whose magnificenb ~modern art car excel who built 'Oh, is was onlti i "In aistierkplace, atd on a differeht occasion, I alluded to the impulse given to modern irnprovement, and the change wrought upon the face of the whole world, by the invention of Faust, who gave light an4 knowledge to all mankind, the discoveries of Columbus, the science of Franklin, the ingenuity of Arkright, the genius of Fulton, all, ay, 'nothing but mechanics.' I need not attempt to say that we owe-what this nation owes -what the civilized world owes, to these great men. All the kings and emperors that ever lived-all the artists, poets, philosophers-all lte statesmen, you may pile up in one scale, and they are veighed down by the discoveries of Fausi, Fulton, and Whitney. And yet these men were 'only mechanics! HOW TO WIN HIM. Any one who 'is cool towards you, may be von over much more easily by your receiving a kindness from hii,than by your doing him one. We have known avery successful'electioheer, who said th-st one chew of tobacco beggel, gained him 'nioip favoi than tes chews given. Doctor Fraiiklin well knew thiis trait in human nature; and once avail td, himself of .it io good purpose. It was when lie was tather young ; and was just elected 'lerk to the Pennsylvania Hnluse af Buirgessss, or Representatives, before'the Revolution. Party spirit was very high, between .the Preprietaries, who were asistocratic,and-thy fienda of popular rights. Franklin was of - the latter party; and his election had been. strenuously opp'osed by theo foramer. Amnong his waimest 'oppondnts was a member, whom lie knew to lbe a gentle man of high character, and muelh more desirable as a criend than as an eniemy. This member prteserved t'owar ds Fr ank in a peculiarly cold and haughty bat.. mng. Our hero happening to hear that the gentleman Jhad a rare and curious book, wrote~a poi.ite none,.abiking tihe loan of ii for a few days, The book was sent: andl the very next morning, when they. met in'thie House, the gentlemia's muan ner was visibly ,-more civil. Fr anklin read the book, and punctually returned it, in good order, neatly .wrapped up ; with a note of tlianks, containinig also some simple, y.et .striking remark, such as no man better knew how to make, up on the character of the wvork. The icy barfier ivas noi .'entirely broken down. T. gentleman repieatetdly enterdd into conversation with our philosopher;i and, like all others who gave his wonderful colloquial powers fair -play, soon) felt their ipagic. .In no very hong time he was one of Franklin's wvarrnest and fir mnest friend s.'-Banaer of Temperance. Can anyV charitable 'mortal afford ini formation whether the fine-" Oh Hes perus ! thour bringest all-'good things !" includes any California Gold, -orno THE YANKEE-FOX SKIN. BY YANKEE DIL.L. 'Mornin, Squire!' said 'down east,' giving a nod and wink to Lyman and Towle, as these gents stood -in t.heir store one morning, 'up add dressed,'ior business. 'How are you. Sir I' said the mer chants, 'Pooty well, con-siderin the state of things in generawl. I say, yeou sell skins here don't yeou ?' 'We do, occasionally,' was the re. sponse. . 'Well so, I'calkelated; buy Fox Skins teon I reikon' 'Sometimes. Why, have you got some for sale ' 'Some. Ye-s, guess I hav one, its some teou, I tell yeon.' 'Let's look at it' says one of the merchants. The' owner of the skin tugged at the capacious pocket of hiis 'yaller over cut,' a few minntes, and out came a pretty considerable, sizeable bang-up of a venerablo reynard. 'There it is, a perfect bewty it is too. Aint it 1' 'Seen many fner ones,? says Towle. 'Praps yeou hev, and praps yeou haint ; but I deou think it is a rare bew ty-slirk and shiny as a bran new hat.' . 'When did you get this skin?' says the merchant. 'When did I get it. Why, when I killed the darn'd critter, of course.' 'Yes, we know, but was it in the fall, or summer or when ?' 'Oh ! ye-s; well, I reckon, 't rar'nt fur from 4th July, any way, fur I'd jest clean'd up my old shootin piece, for p'rade on -the glorius uiniversity, and along comes the old critter, and I jest give him a rip in the gizzprd that settled his hash, mighty sudden I tell yeou.' 'Fox skins,' said the merchants, 'are not very good when taken in hot weath er, the fir and haiu is thin; and net fit for much in summer.' to think it over, 'twar'nt hot weather, when .1 shot the ciitter; no I wiH be dar ned ef it was; made a thunderin mis take 'beout that, fur 'twas nigh on to Christmas, was by golly, fur I and Seth Peurkins was goin to a froli'. I re member it like a book, cold as sixty, snon in awful, 'was, by ginger! 'Well, says the .nerchants-was the Fox, very fat ?' 'Fa-4 ! 0 ! Molly, warnt it fat I Never did see such a fat feller in all my beorn days. - Why yeou, the fa-t came clean throogh the critter's hide, run down his legs, 'ull the eirth was greasy where the darned varmint crawled a reound. Did by Peunkains!' 'Too fat then we guess,' said Towle. 'Fat skins, sir, -aire not as good as those taken from an animal not more than or dinary fat. 'Vell, I guess- wai'nt- so darn'd fat notihe; conie to think on it, it was annther Fox onr Siah shot last fa!); this old critter wa'nt so darn'd fat, not overly fat-fact, I guess it rey-ther poor;- kind of lean, treemenjus lean; poor old var mant was abeout iodie of pure starva tion; never see such a darn'd' etetnal, lean lank, famished live critter, on lurd's yearth before !' 'Very poor, eh ?'said Lyman. 'Very poor? I guess it was; so al mighty poor that the old critter's bones stitck clean eour, almost through his. skin, had'nt killed him jest when I did, it 'vou-ld died'a fore it got ten rods further along. Fact ! by golly.' 'Al h ! well,' says the mnerch~ants, 'we see the skin is poor, very pool; the fur is thin and loose, and would not suit us.' 'Wont suit yeou ? Neow look ahere yeou,' saysthe Yankee, folding up fils versatile skin, '1 dunt kind o' like. sich .dealing as that, no heow, apd. I'll be darri'd to darnation, ef .you catcb me a treadin' Fox skins with yeou, again, thers aini~ no luikber in the State of Maine !' And the holder of the skin vamnosed.-Azuprg Borealis. 'ArNEcDoT E oF Gs EN Ac~soN.--In con versing with a young gentlaman . from Tennessee (he other day, wvith whom Gen. Jacksori was something ~of a favorite~. he related to u' tihe following anecdote of- the late Ex-President, which wve-pre sume our friend will pardon us for pub lishing: . Towards the latter part of his life,;Gen. Jackgon became a member of the Christian church. TPhe. clergyman "ho performeti the cereiionies on the cceasion of hid .ad. mission, feeling sone doubt as t'o the sin cerity of tbe old Generte repentanco, qtiedlistoed .rim rather clearly concerning his spiritual conditiord. "Have- you forgiven your enemies?" asked the minister. .. '1have," answereJ the Ger.eral., "Have you forgiven U-enty Clay ?" "Yes.' -"And have ypu pardoned Seba Smith, the author of Major Dowvning's letter. '1" "No! (raising his hickory) by the Etern al, and I never will !" responded thc old he~ro with charaateristic- piet y. THRIFT OF THE YANKEE. In perfectly good humor, the Tusca' loosa- Monitor, ef- he 14th ult., has .id. en the following sketch, which, in itself, is the highest encomium on the indomi: table perseverance w1h6. iiaaks. oir countrymen : "A mountain of granite appears rather - a tough subje'e to deil with, yet a Yan. kee will burrow into its bowels, and -0 - the grailte becomes gobl in the vaults of the Commonweahh Bank in Boston. A pond of ice presents'a cheerles' and chilly prospect to the eye, but the Yah kee, nothing daunted, will heave up thi crystal masses, and straightway the ice glitters in dianontds upon the bosom of his rosy cheeked spouse. Wherever the Yankee layeth down his hand, gold springeth. Into what so'il soever he thrusteth his spade, gold sproutethI there from. In dim twilight by his chimney 'corner, liesitteth meditating and thoughts chase one another through his brain, which thoughts are gold. Various they are, it may be, in Yotm* and seeming' One is but a gridiron, another a -baby juipe'r, and a third a st'eam engine, but he nwrieth 'hei ail down in the paten office at Washington, and then putteti - them in his pocket in good golde'neaglei' from the iniint at Philadel phia. "But your genuine Yankee 'coineth not merely his own sagacious conceits tho follies, the fears, and the errors,- f otherat are moreover all gold to-him. J% fabricateth imermaids and sea serpents; and locketh up in his.irdn che't, heapi of golden credulity. lHe manufabturetib a pill of chialk and wheaten bread, ivhcft he warranted to cure asthma, hydroce - 14. phalus, epilepsy, and ycllow fever, and presently buildeth him a great house 04 the banks of the Hudson. When a sud den delirium seizeth all the Wi"10i#t pr6mpting them to emigiate in floods nowhere, lie quietly mustereth his fieet of transports for that destiinatln; or buildeth a railroad in that direction ..re pu iel: neye l oce. He erecteth to himself no hasiles iths air, but he diligently aid'eth his neighboF to do the same, and odi of the proceeds grow up to him presently castles ,ppon the earti. Such is the rui6d'ern Mdi -the Midas without the hlng ears-ihe cool. acute, sagacious, calculating Yati kee." THEY MADE A MIISTAKE.-Our friends P-and S-one evenhing met it the hotime of an acqu.sinlance, to see sonie yotung ladies, for whom -both genIlI.Itien n-.r tained tender feelings. In a spirit of frol'c one of the young ladies blew out thelainp; and our two friends, thinking it. a favorable moni&nt to make know. the state of their feelings to the fair ob. ject of their regard, moved seats at th'6 same instant, and placed themselves as they supposed by the lady's side; but ihe had also moved, ahd the kentlemad" were in realily seated neit to edch other. As our friends could not whisper withoti: betraying their whereabotiis, they botH gently took, as they thought, the soft liutle hand of the charmer; 4nd lhen af. ter a while they ventured to give, a ten der preisire, baah ,Wa ebtaptured id fin'd it returned with an unmistakeabls squeeze. It may well be imaginbd AiR. the moments flew rapidly, in thr silent intercharge of muittial affection. Butt the rest wondering at ibe unusual silenceaf shegentlemani, one of them noiselessly slipped out and. soddenly returned witli a light-there sat our friends-P. and $ .most Invingly squeezing hac~h -otherit hand-and snpreme delight hearning Ird theii eyes. Theht .co.tei-nation und the ecstacy of thec ladios ipay be im agiraed, bot not described. -Both gentie,. men solped, and P. wasafterwards-heard . to say that, he -il.tiought all the while. S ----'d hand felt hard .-Gloucestei' News. MUTUAL FEELNG.-"Willyou pag Iid my bill, *sir !" said a tailor in Charles street to a vaggish.-fellow slio hal k6t into himi ahoout a feet.. -"Do you owe anybody anythiid si:1" asked the wag. "No, sir." said the .tadlor. a "Thecn goni en aff'otd uWait!" and, he walked off *A day or tiro aftdriards, .the ailbor called again. Our 14ag was nut ac His - wv~zs end yet; so thrning on -his creditor he says.. *"Ara y'ou in debi io anybody 1' "Yes, sir," says the tailor. "Wellt why (he devil don''you payl1' "Because I can't gai the money." "That's just rmy.cpis, sir, I'm glad to see yoir c~nn nppreeit my condition give us your hend !". A negro, iindercoing an examinatioth at Northampton, Mass., when asked if his mauster was a Christian, replied, "No, sir, he's a member of Congress l'~ 1;Itarcr to live well than l'tn.