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to MlTt? A MMTTlVf * CHAINED TO NO PARTY'S WE CLEAVE TO TRUTH, WHERE'ER T\T A A AT/^TT* ^ JLJLXA, JtAll ?1 U lTJ-e ARBITRARY SWAY, SHE LEADS THE WAY." li\ AJLJ V i\i>l LyJjJ NEUTRAL IN POLITICS?DEVOTED TO LITERARY, COMMERCIAL AGRICULTURAL, SCIENTIFIC, GENERAL AND LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. 1 VOLUME II. LANCASTER, C. H., SOUTH CAROLINA WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY27,1853. NUMBER 25 R. 8. BAILEl , | note asking him to call upon her. St. | "Paul," snid she. when she had miTAD i\m nnnnniiimrv^ , Oor...?In ; ' jai/ixun Ail v murium UK. TEKiis : Tns "Ledger" is published every Wednesday morning, nt the low price of TWO DOLLARS per Annum, if paid IN ADVANCE ; Two dollars and a half, if pa), ment be delayed three months, and THREE DOLLARS at the end of aix months. AD VE RT IS IH 0. Advertisements will be inserted at sev enty-five cents per square for the first inser tion, and thirty-seven and a half cents per square for each additional insertion. Single insertion, one dollar per square. $>p lert ell CiiIps. thu n it v v v A 11 U t( U U 1'i 11 ?or? SPADES. CIIAITEK I. Tiiuhk w?? high plav one night in Sfc Petersburg at tluo quarters of Lieutenant Naroumort an officer in tlie imperial horse guards. A long winter night had slipped .away without any one being aware of it, and it was five o'clock in the morning when supper was announced. The winners sat down to it with excellent appetite, wrhile the losers gazed vacantly upon their empty plates, lly degrees, however, and the champagne lending its aid, conversation flowed, and became general. "What have you done to night, Sourino 1" inquired the master of the house of one of his friends. uLoat, as usual," was the replv. **I Un't ?u. j:-l>? -v * * ?-? * ?*> wijjiiicm, ciinnce. I always back tb? color ami always lose." "Whai 1 liavn't you nut down ..nee on the r?d this evening I Well, your tirmn ?<. . surprise* me." "IliW ?r?jr?W| ?M??, ?Sv? oH O.K. ?" **ke>l another, addressing a young officer of engineer*. u You havn't touclie.1 a card, or put down a single stake, and yet you have remained looking on till five in the morning." "The game interests me," said 11 eruiann, coldly ; "hut I feel no desire to risk the ncceainry in order to win the superfluous.** "Herman is a German?he is ch*? ; that's the whole secret," cried l'rince Paul Totnski; "but 1 enn tell you a {tersoti more extraordinary than he, and that is my grandmother, the Countess Ann Fedo* tovna." "What about lier," demanded his friends. "lluve you never remarked," replied Tomski, "that she never plays." "A woman," said Naro'iinotf, "who is over eighty years of age, and doesn't play, is certainly a phenomenon." "You dou't know the reason !" "No: has she any reason f" "You shall hear. Al>out sixty years ago Qiy grandmother went to Paris, where ahe was all the rage. Every one crowded to* see the Muscovite Venus, as she was called. The Duke de Kichelieu was violently in love with her, and my grandmother says her severity nearly made him blow out his brains. In those days all the wouien played at faro. One evening, at court, she lost a large sum upon her word of honor to tlio Duke of Orleans.? When site came home, my grandmother took off her patches and her hoop, and in thia tragic costume went to my grandfather, to tell him of her misfortune, aud ask for the money to put it right. "My grandfather waa a sort of stewart to his wife, and stood generally in awe of her; but the sura alie named frightened him from his propriety. lie flew into a passion, began at once to reckon, and proved to my grandmother that in six L .L- -t. - L-J . L_?* Ml! .t luunuis mid iiiwj uprm uhii h iiiiiihih ui H? tflW b*r plainly that Hm v?!l?fM And governments of Moscow and Baratoff nere not et Paris; that the money was not to be bed ; end, finally, that she must do without it. Her indignation was excessive: she replied by a box on the ear; and from that night forward they Lad separate rooms. Next day she returned to the charge. For the first lime in her life she condescended to reason and explain?but it was in vain that she attempted to show her husband that there ars two sorts of debts?and that a prince cannot be treaed like a coach maker.? Her eloauence wee all thrown away : mv grandfather waa inflexible, and my grandmother wm at her wita* tod to know what to do. Luckily abe remembered that aire knew a man who at that time waa very celebrated. Thia waa the Oounte de St Oermain, of wbont many marveloua storiea were told; #!m? gaffe hitnaelf out for a kind of wandering Jew?the poeeemor of die Eliihr of Life and the Pfcikwopher'a Stone. By some be waa looked upon aa I a charlatan, while others set kirn down for a apjr; but whatever he waa, notwithstanding kia myaterious mode of H4*, ke mind ia the beataociety, and wm in reali tf a rmj agpis?a nw. i? mm any my gnmUmotlif prwervei a strong sffaciion for liiro, m4 mt Umptr it always rufflsd wbea U? is aoi spoken of with raspssL? !l MfwA ksr ih?t bo might hart it m his pawner to adseaee bor tho mowsy of whish abe stood ?ti want, sod she dispatched a fijEus n * iu.u.cumu!ij came to uer liotel, "a where lie found bcr in despair. In two sni words she explained her case to him, rela- Jti ting her misfortune, and her husband's a cruelty, and adding that she had no hope To left save in his friendship and kindness. ra< "After a few moments' reflection," the ; count said, 44I could easily advance you to the money you require, but I know that Ivi you never would be easy until you paid me, and I do not wish that you should extricate yourself from one embarrassment to involve yourself in another. There is another wny of getting out of this difficulty?'-win the money back again." yo "Hut my dear count," replu-d my grandmother, "I have already told you that I bu havn't another pistole left." "There is no occasion for money," re- he tuaned St. Germain, "only listen to me." m? "lie then whispered a secret to her of which every one of you, I am sure, would ' I give a good deal to know." gn All the young officers Intoned attentively to Ton ski, who stop|?cd to light his nci pipe, and then contiuuvd : no "The same evening my grandmother ens went to Versailles, and played at the 1 queen's table, where the Duke of Orleans rot kept the hank. She invented some excuse lik for not immediately acquitting herself of ( her debt, and then began to play. She sia chose three cards: she won on the first; for; doubled her stake on the second ; doubled ' that again on the third; and finally car- 1 i ried off an immense sum wlii. K ? - ...V ? vnnwiui IVfl her to psy the duke, and still be * great Na dinner. wjt "It wm all luck !" said one of the young nui oflloers. , "What a strange story!" exclaimed |ieI Hermann. " . ( "They were marked cards !" observed a it. third. ^ "I am not of that opinion," gravely -?m answered Tomski. "The deuce!" cried Naroiimoff, "you ^ have a grandmother who knows three jt winning cards, and havn't yet got her to *.ii r i.ivl* iiiey are: "Ah, there's the trouble of it!" replied . . Tomski. "She had four sons, one of whom Jr!' was my father. Three of them wore de ' r1' termiued gamblers, and neither of thein aW could win the secret from her, though it would have done them a good deal of ">*1 good, and me also. Hut listen to what *mi my uncle, Count Ivan 1 Hitch, told me?1 have his word of honor for the truth of the story. Tchaplitzki?you know who 1 c^' menu ; he who died in extreme want af- sor tor having spent millions?well, once, when he was a very young man, lie lost "Hi three hundred thousand roubles at play 111 ! with Zoritch. lie was in de-p.iir. My * grandmother, who was seldom indulgent r?|' to the faults of youth, made?I know not ' why?an exception in favor of Tehnplitxk. the She gave him three earils t.? |> av. one af- to ' ter the other, exacting from him hi- word Of honor never to play again in his life.? 'KK: Tchnpliuki promised, and then went to Zortich, and asked for his revenge, lie w * put fifty thousand roubles on the first card hor ?won; doubled his stake; and at the H" third cmtn, roj?eated inv grandmother's ^ luck. Hut there's six o'clock striking: its *'>? time to go to bed." Kvery one emptied his glass, and the ,4'f party broke up. l'r' on The old Countess Ann Fedotovna was i'ig seated before a glass in her dressing room. Three waiting-mauls surrounded her ; one loo oflfered a j?ot of rouge, another a ls?x of ' black pins, a third held an enormous lace I a citp with fianie colored ribbons. The countess had no longer the pretension to ha< beauty, but she preserved all the habits th< of her youth, Irwssed in the fashion of fifty vpiitk U?fnriL anil rravn Ia hou ??1I time and i-eremony bestowed upon it by a pttitf maitrtiu of the last century. Iler tec demoittlU dt compo>jnie sat working in tlie I*' recess of window. W "Good morning, grandmamma," said a tin young officer, entering tlie room, "flood dr< morning, Mademoiselle Lise. Grandmamma, I have a reotiest to make." "y "What ia it, Paul r* dn "Will you allow me to preeont one of m? my friends to you, and ask you also for is i an invitation fur him to your Itall!" "Bring him to the ball; you can pres ch; ent him them. Bid you go yesterday to vvi the I'rinceae Dolgorouski'a t" "Of course. It was delightful! We ab danced till daylight Mademoiselle EleU- frij Id waa charming." ho "Upon my word, my dear, you are not wi difficult to nlease. If you speak of beau- wl ty, you ought to aee her grandmother, the Princess Daria Petrovna. But tell me, ell . l _ r?_: i\ r>.. . ? wio i nncru i/ium i cirvvn* must D9 ffriling old, 1 m.^7 !" pa "What do you mean by old I" exclaim- as ed Totmki, hastily ; "she baa been dead ae these seven year*. sti The demoiselle de compagnie raised sti her head, and made a sign to the^rouug uj officer, lie then recollected that it was re an understood thing always to conceal oo from the countess the death of any of her ca contemporaries. He bit hie lips; but the in countess did not appear to take the newt hi of the death of her moat intimate friend sti much to heart, for she replied, "Dead, is w< she! I had never beard of it We were H appointed maids of honor on the saioe w day; and when we were presented, the p< empress"? And here the old oounteae ct related fbr the hundredth time an aoec- w dote (4 her jrwrth. cr me to rise. Lisanka, where is my uff-box ?" and followed by her three nmea de chambre, she hobbled off behind large screen to complete her toilet? mski remained tete-a-tete with the de>isellc de compagnie. "Who ia the gentleman whom you wish present to inadame ?" asked Lizabeta snovna in a low voice. "Naroumoff. Do you know him I" "No. Is he an officer!" "Yes." "In the engineers?" "No; in thehoree-guards. "Whatmade \t think he was in the engineers ?" The demoiselle de compagnie smiled, t did not answer. "Paul," cried the countess from behind < r screen, "send me a new romance?no itter what, provided it is not in the tiste the present day." i "What kind of one would you like, j indmamma ?" i "A romance in which the hero strangles ther his father ncr mother, and with I drowned |>cople in it. Nothing fright- j t me so much as drowned people." i "I don't know where I can get such a 1 nance as you wish for. Would you 1 e to have a Russian one ?" "What! are there such tilings as Hua- 1 n romances ? Well, send me one; don't < get it." j "I will not fail. Adieu, grandmamma ; I am in a great hurry. Adieu, Lizabeta < inovna. What made you suppose that ] xoumoff was in the engineers ?" And t h these words Prince Paul Tomski 1 t+A tliA sno?**"*' ? ?vv. ?IIV ni'niiiiiuill, I Lizabeta Ivanovnn, left alone, resumed ' tapestry-work,and seated herself again 1 the recess of the window. Immediate- 1 a young officer appeared in the street ' he comer of one of the opposite houses. ' 0 demoiselle de compagnie blushed up ' llie eyes the moment she saw him ; she 1 it her head down, and almost concealed * in her work At that moment the * . a J /..II I 4. 'Lisanka," she said, "desire them to " ig the carriage rouud; we will take a 4 ve." LiznWta rose, and I Kigali to put ay her t*i*?stry. 'What is the matter 1" exclaimed the | lady. "Are you deaf? Tell '.hem , Mediately to bring the carriage !" , '1 am going," replied the demoiselle de npagnic as she hastened into the ants < mi her. A servant entered, bringing . ne books Ironi Prince Paul. Many thanks," said the countess.? i sanka ! Lisanka ! Where has she gone . inch a hurry f" < 'I was going to dress, madanie," she , lied returning. ( There's no time for that. II?re, take t first volume of this romance, and read t re." r I'he demoiselle dc compagnie took the j >k and read a few lines. 'Louder !" said the eouttcsa. "What , he matter with you to-day I Are yon ( ime ? Stay, put that footstool nearer. . at will do?go on." Liza beta read two or three pages, and 1 countess began to yawn. Put down that stupid book," said sho; . is wretched trash. Send it back to nee Paul, with many thanks. Where earth is the carriage I Is it never com;t" ' It is at the door," replied Lizabeta, ' king out of the window. "Well, ami you are not dressed ! Must lwajs be kept waiting f" I.izalieta ran to her chamber, but she d hardly been two minutes thero before j countess rang with all her might.? ir three feinmes de chamhre entered by e door, and the vallct by another. "Nobody hears me, it seems I" vociferaI the old lady. "Go and tell Lizaliela inovna that I am wailing for her."? bile sho was speaking, Lizabeta entered j room in her bonnet and walking 5M. "So, mademoiselle," said the countess, on are come at last! What sort of a sss have vou got on t What's tho uining of this f What kind of weather it f It is cold and windy, I think." "No, your eicelleney," said tho valet de ambre; "it is very fine, and there is no nd." "You don't know what you are talking out I Open lite vuumtat?I said so; a ghtful wind, and icy cold! Let the rses be put up. Lisnnka, ma pttite% we II not go oat; it was scarcely worth lile to make yourself so smart. "What a life !" murmured the demoise de compagnio under her breatli. One morning, about two days after the >rty at Narouinoff's, Lizabeta was seated, usual, at work near her window, when cidentally turning her eves towards the reet, the saw a young ofrfcer of engineers (tiding quite still, with his eyes fixed ion her. She cast her eyes down, and sumed her work attentively ; but, in the ur?e of a few minutes, again methanilly raising them, she saw the officer still the same position. Not being in the ibit of paying attention to such demon rations, she oneo mora went on with her orlr, ind for two hoars she never stirred, sing than celled swey to dinner, she m obliged to rise, end, on doing so, wowse'lthat the Tonno officer bed newer ranged hie attitude. When dinner wee rat, she drew neer the window With a isisin ^ It ? ? IMS4 elkA ?A ? tniTi Wa llnOT gTTlOiT(*Ti, l UV nil v ?wu iiv ivn^vi viivi?| aim 5UC CCRfiCQ 10 think of him. Two days afterwards, just as she was following the countess into her carriage, she again saw hira planted before tho door, his face half hidden by the fur collar of his cloak, but bis dark eyes sparkling visibly. Lizabeta felt afraid, she scarcely knew why, and seated herself, trembling, in the carriage. When she returned home, she ran to the window with a beating heart; the officer was at his old place, fixing upon her earnest and ardent glances. She instantly drew back, but burning with curiosity, and experiencing for the first time in her life a sentiment of a strange nature. From that tiino not a day passed without the young man coining beneath her window. A kind of mute acquaintance at last sprung up between them. While sentcd at her work, the felt that lie was Eresent, and every time she raised her ead, she looked at him more steadfastly. 1'he officer seemed full of gratitude for this innocent favor, and with the quick glance of youth, she saw that the color mounted in his pale checks whenever their eyes met. At the end of a week she I liad learned even to smile upon him. On the occasion when Tomski asked liis grandmother's permission to present pne of his friends to her, the poor young girl's heart beat strongly ; hut when she earned that Naroumotf was in the Horse j'.iarrs, she deeply repented having compromised her secret l?y making it known 0 one so thoughtless as Prince Paul. Herman was the son of a German esablished in Russia, who, dying, had left dm a small capital. Firmly resolved to 1 preserve his independence, he hsd made a "solution not to touch his income, but to . ive on his pay, without allowing himself he slightest indulgence. He was ambi 1 Pons, but reserved, and under a calm ex- ' erior concealed violent passions and inor- 1 linalc longings; but he was always mas- j er of himself, and aJiKpf from the it heart a gamester, he had never toucYietl 1 1 card, Ikecause he felt (as he said to him- 1 elf,) that he must not sacrifice the r.eccslarv to acquire the superfluous; and yet lo passed night after night at the playtablo, watching the ttuctations ot' the game with an anxiety as feverish as if his whole fate was involved in the result. The anecdote of the three cards of the [Jount do St. Germain had strongly impressed his imagination, and he could do lothing but think of it "Suppose," said te to himself, "I could get the old couness to tell me her secret. Oh, if she would >nly tell me the three winning cards 1 I nust get myself presented, pay my court 0 her, an<l win her confidence: but in he meantime she is eighty-seven years >ld, and may die this week, even to-moruff, Besides, can tiiero he any truth n the story ? No : economy, temperance ind labor?these are my winning cards ; villi them I shall double my capital, and svenlually increase it tenfold. It is to .hem I must look for independence and lappiness." Musing in this fashion, he strolled along ill he found himself before a Inrgo house n one of the principal streets of St. Petersburg. The street was tilled with carriages, which passed one by one beneath 1 facade splendidly illumiuated, and the company who entered were the elite of the city. Herman stopped, and seeing a watchman in his box close by. asked him whose house that wss. He learned that it belonged to the Countess Anna Fedotovnn. Hermann started. The story of the three cards returned vividly to his memory ; ho wandered round the bouse, thinking of its owner, of her riches, and of hor mysterious power. When he went home to b?*d, u was long before he could get to sleep ; and when sleep at last took possession of his senses, his dreams were of the gaming-table, of cards, and piles of ducats and bank notes. He beheld liiinec-if making paroli after paroll, always winning; filling his pockets with gold, and stuffing notes into his pocket-book.? When he awoke, he sighed to o.at his fantastic wealth had melted away ; and, to amuse Inmseir, set out to walk through the city, lie waa toon opposite the house of the old countess: an invincible attraction drew him thither, lie stopped, and looked up at the windows. Behind one of them he perceived tho head of a young woman with due dark hair. She waa reading, he thought, or else at work. Presently she raised her head, and he saw a charming countenance with large black eyes. That moment decided bis fate. [coxixroED in oue vxxt.] T Tt. _ l!L_ HtiCKINO to thk 1mt.-1do uorary of a clergyman lately due? ul in England wu valued at ?1, while bia wine waa estimated to be worth ?300. Some one observed that he muat have thought aa an apoatlo did, that "the letter killoth, but the apirit gireth life." B3T A dying Wert India planter, groaning to his favorite negro nervant, ighed out, "Ah, Sambo, Tm going a long, long journey." "Nfber mind mas* aa, said Sambo, consoling him, "hhh all de war down hill, and yen toon panels the end.* ?>rniintg linking Servamts of God in joyful lays, Sing ye the Lord Jehovah's praise. Montgomery. - r From the Due- West Telescojie. a Idleness. " The Turks have a proverb which they often repeat?it is this: The devil tempts n all other men, but the idle man tempts b the devil. I hope none of my little rea- rj ders will be idle; it is indeed now getting a to bo a common thing for children to do T nothing. In old times children used to p, help their parents in the afternoons and 0i on SttlnwUvo 1%..* ? 1 M ' ? uuv uuw many ciwuren p, spend all tlieir time in the woods fishing [? and hunting. IIow much better would it g he for them if they would help their par- jr onts, and work in the garden or in tho S( field, or spend their time reading some good books. You never hear of a lazy *< man becoming a great man. I know C| some little boys who do not liko to get tl themselves a drink of water. They would Sf think it a disgrace to bring a pitcher of a water, or to cut a stick of wood, or make tl; a lire. They consider work of any kind jn too low for them. Some of those little 01 boys when they are grown will find it very a) hard to have to work for a living. And, ai instead of getting into some business they g( will try an easier plan, and go to the bil- fo iard table and win enough in that way? tl if not successful in that they will steal. y, IIow much better would it be for chil- ei dren to loam to work and to love it. The rc Lord requires it of you, dear children, and si you must give an account of every idle ei hour you spend. When you lie down at ai night ask yourself how you have spent w the day. What have you done for your- cc self or for those around you ? Do not let idle boys tempt you to go astray. Remember time is flying. Strive to improve e.v_r_ nv?u? auCr iou*. torwara .o ]><? uiing great. Be ashamed of nothing but is sin. Remember your parents are hoping you will be an honour to them?disap- til point them not. Those of you that are la poor should never be idle, for if you do tc you will be a burden to your parent-'.? i? Help them all vou can and God will help w you. Those of you that are rich, work o; hard. Set a good example for the poor a to follow ; it is good for soul and body.? ti Who knows what station you may have b; to fill ? Then he prepared by industry to it fill any situation. In this land of liberty ri all are equals?then don't l?e idle. Slum *\ the boy who is ashamed of hard work? j. Learn how to do every thing, and be al- xl ways willing to assist in any thing, that w may come in your way ; 110 body loves b an idle boy. It was the custom of the .?) l'arthinns not to give their children any meat in the morning before they saw the tl sweat on their faces from some Inbor. If p; that was tried liere I fear there would be e; many little children that would go with- di out meat. There is not a more worthless n, being than a young man who does notli- ti ing for a living. Annn-: Fkrn. ei A Word to Boy?. Who is respected 1 It is the boy who K conducts himself well, who is honest, dili- . gent, and obedient in all things. It is the ^ boy who is making an effort continually c to respect his father, and to obey him in c. whatever ho may direct to be done. It is the boy who is kind to other little boys, |s who respects age, and who never gets into i ' difficulties, and quarrels with his com pan- ^ ions. It is tho boy who leaves no effort . untried to improve him<olf in knowledge ' and wisdom every dsy, who is busy in en- e dcavoring to do a good set towards oth- J' ers. Show me a l?oy who obeys his psr- 1 ents, who is diligent, who has respect for 8' ace. who alwavshasa friendlv di?r*wiiinn 1' who applies himself diligently to got wis- j dom, and to do good towards others, and j n if he i9 not raspected and beloved by eve- c ry body, then there is no such thing as truth in the world. Keiusraber this, little | boys, and you will be respected by others, a and you will grow up and become useful men. ^ A Truthful Allegory. A traveller was pursued by a Unicorn, and in his affright he fell, and as n falling man, caught whatever was in his way in his grasp lie found the branches of a tree; he looked below him and saw an awfi I precipice; he looked hack and saw an awful precipice; he looked back and saw the unicorn ready to destroy him ; he looked again below and saw a hideous dragon with graping jaws ready to re ceive him, he loosed to the roots of the , tree and saw two rats, one black and the other white, nawing alternately at the roots of the tree ; he looked among the branches of the t*ee, and saw it filled with poisonous a*pa, ready to sling him, but from their lips dropped honey, regardless of surrounding dangers he caught the honey, ate and pemhed. Ob, reader! oh man I see here thyself I The ires is life, the unicorn death, the precipice eternity, the dragon thy destroyer, the rats day and night numbering the hours of thy Stay onr earth, the aape thy own had pas sions, the honey pleasures of which raoa partake* to thy eternal win. ? k $tollfltl?0tt!5. Local and Confidential. "Town Woys," are proverbially smart; nd now that lapse of time will bar any ccountabilit.y, we put upon record two dodges" of our boys during the last ear? Several shows bad been along, and tore were coming, but some of the boys eing hard up, were put to their wits to use the wind?this was soon done. An bandoned toll-house stood on the Valley umpike near Staunton, with its gate osts apparently still "in force"?thither ur youthful "financiers" would daily reair, and gravely sally from the house to ivy black-mail on every wayfaring "straner." Quite a thriving business was done I i this way before it was found out and opped by tho "proper authorities." It is a pleasant and healthful custom ] ith the fair ladies of Staunton to prom- i iadv! daily on the plank walk leading to > le Deaf Mute Asylum. One evening * >me young ladies thus recreating, espied very handsome young fellow sitting near ' le walk fondling a young hare, and hold s g it to their view ; supposing him to be ' ic of the mutes they clustered around, : - * - .i* grcai, auir.irauoil lor Ll 1 111 id the bare, soon spelled upon their tinere the ijuestion "What would he take ! r it ?" The question was answered in i le same language, "A kiss from each of ou !" The bargain was struck, the prop ty delivered, and the pay given and :ceived with a hearty good will on both des, when unable to contain himself long , the young scamp laughed out for joy, id ran off exulting, to join his comrades ho were sitting in sight to see the suc ss of the experiment.?Staunton Sjxc. f M ^ i Singular Coincidence. ( a r." urn x uwxi xxeraiu, respoVnuVleTbr the follow ing : j A marriage took place on the uiglit of f ie 15th ult., at tho Nevada Hotel?a < aIv not known to the California public, i > a gentleman from Kentucky now a cit:en of this State, he being the fifth upon horn she had conferred llymenial hours, and the third whose heads arc yet bove the sod. lly a strange concatenaon of circumstances, her two last bus- ' atnls, between whom and herself all maral duties had ceased to exist by the opeition of the divorce law, had put up at ie Nevada House ou the same evening pioraut of the fact that their former caraitosn had rested under the same roof nth themselves, and also that they had oth, in farmer years, been wedded to the line lady. Next morning they occupied seats at ie breakfast table opposite the bridal arty. Their eyes met with mute, but ipressive astonishment. Tho lady bride id not faint, but bravely informed her < ewlv acquired lord of her singular situa- i on, and who their guests were. Influ- < need by the nobleness of his nature and ie happy impulses of his heart, he sumloned his predecessors to his bridal eliainer, and the warmest greetings and conratulations were interchanged between tie four in the most unreserved and friond? manner. The two ex-lords frankly dclared that they ever found in the lady an xecllent and faithful companion, and that ley were the authors of the difficulties diich produced their separation, the cause eing traceable to a too frequent indulenco in the use of intoxicating drinks. O " j 'lie legal lord and master declared that ' is affection for his brido was strengthen-1 d by the coincidence, and that his hapincss was increased, if possible, by what ad occurred. After a few presents of [>ecimens from their well filled purses, the arties separated?the two ex-husbands >r the Atlantic states, with the kindest fgards of the lady, for the future welfare f her former husbands. Not the least singular circumstance attending the above, is that the three were II married on the 16th of December. Dr. Rkii>, a traveler through the slands of Peru, is said to have found late j f, in tho Desert of Alaoama, the dried emains of an assemblage of beings, fire >r six hundred in number, men, women md children, seated in a semicircle as vhen nhve, staring into the burning waste >efore them. They had not been buried; ife had not departed before they thus lat around ; but hope waagone, the Spansh invaders were at band, and no escape ?eing left, they had come hither to die.? They still sat immovable in that dreary desert, dried like mummies by the effect of the hot air ; they still kept their poai lion, Hitting up in solemn council, while over that dread Areopagus silence broods everlastingly. "What boxes govern the world f" asked a New York paper. It anRwera the question thus: "The catridge box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the band box. A DtaTivouiamrtTwnter says:?There is but one passage in the Bible where the girls are commanded to kiss the men, and that is the twelfth vere^ of 4jbe sereoth chapter of Matthew. Wanted, by a young lady, some one? ??Springfield Post. Can't she get the man of the Post? Exchange. Our **! wouldn't they cut a ?, was the ! of all jt-r?".? Cayuga Chief. The cjise is without a H, and our devil says the man who would refuse her don't live in this { of country, and if ho did he (the Devil) would f him and ...... himself to the hymetiial altar, in 4 the time it has taken us to indite this IT.? ? Oadenburgh Sentinel. If that ? is on the ]] now, wo will have a Jt-rf in ; at least let us have a || case and we will?off.?Syracuse Star. Such a display of bieroglyhical erudition pains our I I so that we can hardly C. llut we remark that our devil says, if the said-^s terminate in anything serious lie hopes you will ? on to this $ and he will W. Don't hold your ?Wto the *s and utter !!s of horror at this proposition K.TJ. lie also says he made ?n attempt ?*? a young lady once, when she made a ? at him and struck him ?uch a blow with her J?" between the I I that laid him II with the floor, wheu lie arose and bid farewell to that } and since then it's been like a | to his heart to think how r*iit made her.? Cheraw Gazette. Our Devil suggests that if the aforesaid juuug muy actually wisnes is 13 -^Kl, will 01 Jy pass through this},he can assuro her she may rest E E A on that. for although his lOdcr passion is DKed, there are many who would not; a ' 2 the opportunity of -^ing her.?J^ea<jer. Worked to Death, The New York Times says that 16 prions, and the Tribune says thirty-five, died n New York on Wednesday last, from >ver work and exhaustion. The Day " Suppose we should hear of 86, or even he smaller number of 16 negroes in the South dying suddenly from exhaustion or aver work. Suppose the New Orleans papers should auuounee that ten negroes had been worked to death by their masters in the hot sun, ? What a tremendous hue and cry there w ould he raised about it all through the North? Every abolition paper north of Mason and Dixon's line would nave food for six months, and th? whole world would resound with the cry of cruelty to the negroes and the inhumanity of slaveholders. Anothor Unele Tom's Cabin would be written, and the authoress would travel with her baboons and receive the distinguished homage of the English nobility. But such a thing cannot be.? No owner of slaves would permit thein to work themselves to death in the hot sun. It is only the fice laborer, working for his daily bread, who is pressed on to extremes. A man whose wife and children at home, are waiting with hunger for the proceeds of his daily toil, in his desperation takes iho risk, pushes on, and dies with over eiertion." Our Litany. Fiiom all bores, backbiters, busy people tell tales, hollow-hearted evil-doers, deliver us. From long-winded prosy essays, liar- . angues, and hail storms, from high winds of adversity, and rich relations, deliver us. From whimsical wives, pet dogs, and fashionable daughters, and one hundreddollar shawls, deliver us. From rheumatism and lumbago, quack doctors, drugs, pills and potAtions, deliver us. From smoking chimneys, scolding wires and wash days, deliver us. From amateur poets, and lore sonnets, dancing inastois and fish hooks, deliver us. From Bogus money delinquent subscri-* bers and protested notes, deliver us. From horse jockies, Yankee pedlars,street broke-s* and undertakers, dehvfr V-?.. From all king craft and priest craft, good Lord deliver us.?Lewitmlle Herald. ?W Dip the Atlantic dry with a teaspoon, twist your heel into the toe of your' boot, make postmasters or tailors perform their promises, and subscribers pay the printer : send up fishing hooks with balloons and fish for stars, get astride of a flrnesainer and chase a comet, remember where you left your umbrella, when the rain is coming down like the cataract of Niagara ; choke a inusnuito with a brickbat?in short, prove all things hitherto considered impossible to be possible* but never attempt to coax a woman to pay she will when she has made up her mind to say she won't. ?W A week or two ago a traveller <? | the Aberdeen Railway, in popping oOl Mb head at ono of the carriage win> lows, fit hia hat carried off by the wind. M8topr atop?guard," cried he, atop the train till1 I get my hat, or I ahall die with cold*"? MYou bad bettor not," replied the gnardT, "for recollect at preeent yon arc travelling at the rate of Id a mile, and if yon dieyotr will be chargedj>ne ahfiling that being the mM for corp?M*,^^ < 4, JQTMr. Wm?, the wroent, thinks tb?t with an expenditure of tS6,OVO? h^cta eenetruct a l>aUoon with whieh he c?o eroM the Atlantic in 4t boon. ' '; <??&?