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y. ** lite Lancaster CeDger. volume xiv. Lancaster c. h., s. c., Feb., 7, ihgg. number 22. H3ninarons. An Unlucky Dutchman. Those food of m little life history, are frquested to read tLe following by "Brick'' 1'omeroj. Wo rather imagine that Mr. Sr.iuksnacker ia not tbtf only gentleman w|*o might ting that aong? %'Who'a pin here since Ieh pin gone 7" Uiliflicker Soicksnacker, a Teutonic Vender of aour krout, wooden eoinb?, /avail taakha ? v-.vua^c, niniuni, cotton ' -ftutpender*. Hinl such dings," with true patriotic real, lull hit home in La Orotoe at the commencement of the war, aud enlisted as a slop gfocefy keeper l>?-* hind a sutler's tent on the Potomac. When he went away it was with the in tention of making sortie moblth, if it took ail summer, and nobly did he light it out oti hit line Mow he done it in best told at be related it to us cn bit return last week t ' 4,Vou ?ee, Mr. Bumroy,der trum pentt, und der call coomet to go to wart mil s arnr.t. tte be bstroilsu much ar Shtnei* al Washburn, or Shenerai Curti?t, or Rheneral lititler, or RlveU?#?l Bangs, or ..I .1 CJ1 I - ? . w<* t>i unu ouen?rr?it TO I llTes IO Cottle liomo ureal men. So I puye iom< little ilinu* and get* eoine bade re from de war coin niit tee, and in it ter poja tor pe bVrote, and ?e'l my little dinge and in kf *? me m tniab. I kiss my trow fi*e, n ntleeo dime and g<>ee niit de war. 1 goes ter S'i.?iiil>ersbiirgh, tied make* much inonUb. I'n day I poke mine window out un mine head to beer der aerair.de, and ilink of enmediugt, when 1 a?e dat Shtonewall Sbacfceoo rnit hie droop* *n.d der pig praaa pai d coining down der elrt-ei playing like der tyfil on tier prnee pand, ' "Wfeu'epia here #luce l*h pta gone?" * Dat Shtonewall Sliackton is ter t) fil rd!t fiirhiine- uml I i>ui? n.i?? t-l- - iAine bockei uml mioe liula baper* in Olio* p?j. UnJ I e? <j-iick as never vaah to G?ll)bui?. Led dw? I upon* soma more sbuire unJ sella aoree inure Utile ill ?^s. AikI von day I beara men rldin down ter ahtreet like dunder, uod deo I poke* ter winder under miue bead uod looks myself up tar ahtreet, und dere goomee dally fil, Slii<>o e 1 ?!l Shackaon p ayiag dat same odder tUue aa I beard 1 before, "Who's pia here since I-*h pin jeno *" r? _ t ?t. !_ > i/>M t m i are mine 11toriit11 gum#* inter i.iiit bockoii?, und uiaket mine pag gome Inter mine Sapere, unJ but* mm* sign on , t?r pit rblore on J?r corner, *o I lore* j tiior* good* mi ( had not got, and dink* I goto Wisconsin lo mi mine vrow a* ( baiot reen in de?? two ye*'*, *b toug lime * never v*th. l>*n I goouiet home, und knokt und | dvr door, und my vrow the mak* talk, Uu<i tell* me ** Whose dar !** l>eo I ?ay "IMllbkvr Snickaracker," und the know* d?t i* mine nauie, und *he tonka* herself gome cut or ler bouee, and give* me nine, aeven time* kit* on lofctw face so *oo<J a* never vaab. 'l'tti Mr. Hutnroy, I look* mit mine und I tee* soma diog*l And to I ' ask mine vrow if aha'* bin married since ; I go off to be batriot, und if the no gat married, why she make* so much grow, 't/ben I be gone milter war* f und gM* mad as d? tyfil, und den I link* of dal tamo Stieneral Sliackton, uud bi* pig bfa?* pand, a lid 1 sing*? "11%/# pin here since /<1 pingtiuf* Uad now, Mr. Bumroy, soompody tnaka trooble* mil roe, for I*e been gone two years, und I know some dings, und i ?.- - - - i jjorn Dues inn cer war, una I sings del la inn Hlitonewall 8backaon aoog all ter . *ay "? Iai (Jrout J) t wot rat. During ilia prevalence of the lata are nhlar eclipse, an enthusiastic colored ia dividual became greatly elated. "Braee da Lord," said be, "nigger'a tinea hab com* at las?he's free, and now we gwiee to'bab a black inn." The road from tba city of tfeiieo to i Vera Crus is Iia4 on aaeh side with corpses I Krtry gurrilla is bang as soon as eaugbt: 1 I ami the mere fact of a maa'a having a i k auepicioua appearance is sufficient to eaui i tie smnnv.ry rvceutiou. I r 1 The Showman on the Woodchuck. Reported verba turn el lileratum from the Showman's speech at a mettegerie In Rngland. It was particularly edifyiflg to his auditors, and may ba to ihany of out readers I This ladies and gentleman, is the dis? tinguished hanimal tich is known as the Ilamerican Voodchtick, first discovered by Gen. Christopher Columbus, on his first voyage to tho woods of llameriky.; Christonhar saw him nnistlr ? I , 1 .' ?I a bank gf clover, a viewing the setting > eun and a vondering vol vould become of it. This ere ia Ore of the descendants of the same voodchiick, as may he seen by bis genetal happearance, rich is most beautiful and striking. Lie is a solitary creechur, and is called voodchuck because he lives in the ro<>a and the bnya chuck stones at him. lie has hair upon his back and upon his belly, and his tail is much the same. IIia eyes are at the op. poaite end of the laxly, and assist him in the amusing occupation of seeing, vich he can see in the dark as veil as in the light, helve be vould n't live in oles hunJer the ground. Like inoat hanitnated tiling*, he is fond of enjoying himtels, vich he does in a very amiable vay. lie chides along up on the ground, ten nobody ia looking, vatches the birds in the trees, and tries to sing like them, vich he has never sue ceeded it. d ting ; but this is not his fault because Le hasn't got any fathers. The voodchuck li*a* a g?u?d vile. My huncle ad von vat lived sometime, but finally died ; though there is no telling how long he vould ave lived if it vasn't for that re haccident. liowing to ilia <j'iiet life vich the voodchuck henjoya, I are sometimes viche 1 I was a voo<lchuck my??f. Hut then there's not hexcitemenl enough I'i il for a ilio*U!<D, ibyugh ( can sav, a* j IItilari<ier rainaikt*d to iiioircnea, bu:f I ! vara not a (bowman, I vould ba a rood uliui-k !" liar*, ladiwa attd gantlwwvrw, it tha wary oaa on vich tha Duka of Vallantina law tha Lord Napolaou Buonaparte !? Stir him up Johu and maka him kick a bit P A Wonderful Comet. There i? one of these eccentric *n<] mysterious mep?bers of ib? solar system that requires five hundred nnd seventy two year* in wbicb to make its revolution ih iu *ery eliptical orbit around the auu. The drat acctiunl of ita appearance oh record ia 1,707 y&* before (Jurist, wben some took it to be the p'anet Venus, changing ita appearance and course. It was aaan tbe second time 1 193 years before Chris', and a^ain 1 1 JO vara I in ter. This last was 43 It. C., the year after Julius Casiar was killed in the U > Q ?- * * mi a u onnaio. il Ktl certainly teen A. j IJ. 530, the fifth year of '.he Roman 1 Emperor Justinian. The aoruuBt it tliMt * remarkable coinel waaaeen twenty daya in lite month of September, ami that for aoma tint? after , the aun appeared pale. It vat due again , in A. I). 1105, and early in the following year it wna teen. Ita laat appearance i waa in 1680, Sir Itaac Newton and othera give an inlercating account of ita ve- < lociiy, heat, dec. Tn'ia comet has been gone one hundreJ and eighty fire yeara, and will reijuRe about one hundreJ and i two yeara before it reaclu-a the fartheal , point of ita orbit, and iu gr-a^eat distance from the aun. It will be due bere again in lit* ye*r j 0. This wonderful comet, as we have said was seen 1,707 years 11. C\, and it must I Lav* appeared 675 years before that, | wbicb would bave bean 2 340 B. (J., or i ail days after ike flood in the days of i < Noab. Ita previous vjiit to our system ' most hare been 2.917 II. C, and before 1 that, according to our chronology, was I the creation, Tina lacks sixty two years i of tbe time requisite for tbe comet to \ make a complete revolution??o that at | tbe Creatioa it might hare been placed at a distance from the sun equal to what I it could hava moved in sixty three yearaIt is probably now making the eleventh 1 revolution in ita orbit. IIow great and raarvalious are the works of the Almigh' Jl * I Great Men of the Past A correspondent of a Chicago journal, who has lately rifled the national capital, pay a an eloquent tribute to the three great men whose presence and influence are now eo sadly missed in the halls of Congress. We can easily imagine the emotions of au old visitor of the Capitol, who, alter many years, comes liack to that niagniGcent structure, but niisees that which was its chief glory, the illut trious statesmen, whose broad, Atlantean shoulders were tilted to bear the burthens of empire. Aichitectural skill may raise a more gorgeous editlce than that of the simpler davs of the ltenuhlio t.?? is tlie 1'roiuetliKan spark that *>limII re I lunte the light of those fires of genius which once made it the glory of the earth } The casket inay he more spleodid, hut the gems which gave it its chief valun have ceas?d to shine. There was something even in the pen onal presence of Webster, Calhoun and Clay which attracted the observation of a stranger. The massive form of Webster, the imperial brow, the solemn 'repose of the classic features, 1 i* up by those lustrous, cavernous eyes ; the iron phv?i que of Calhoun ; the graceful, spirited, chivalric person of Clay, challenged the attention of strangers visiting the Senate. It needed no one to point them out to those who diJ not know them. The hand of Nature bad stamped upon each the ugjpistakable mark of inuu born to lead and command. When they grap pled each other in debate, it wait a war of giaal* Yat, it is a remarkable fact tliat these, *.ne three greatext Americana that have lived in the modern days of lb? Republic, were never elevated to tbe Presidency. If they were ambitious to obtain the h igheat bouora of tbe Kepub lie?aud no one bad a belter ri^bt to in* Julys auch aspirations?'bey went down to the grave disappoints I men, and, ao far aa their personal elevation to the highest otbcial dignities waa concerned, might ae well have been subjects of a European monarchy as citizens of tbe American Republic. Undoubtedly, the career which each ran, long ao brilliant in fame and indu euce, was sadly darksned towards its close. The sun, which has risen so nu apiciomdy, ami traveled in such might atid splendor through the firmament, went down ab?rn of its bright Uass and enveloped by melancholy clouds. Kultt uraa the disappointment of a deeper and nobler paaaton than personal ambit on tbat darkened the Uat day a of the moat illuatrioua patriota of a former era. Their prophetic viaioti beheld the calamine* which were impending over their coun try, and whoever efae tuay have been blind to the aigna of the coming atorm, no one can deubt that the experienced ma> rinera who had ao long airoggled to avert felt, with a pang aa keen as that of J death, that the labor of their lives wae mn/4 lLa I liaia 1 J! ..... ? luncrai Uirgee would scarce have ceased before (be abip of State would go to piecea, and tba roar ! of the breakers aing a nation's requiem. If tbeae great and patriotic Americana could once more re viait the scenes of their ancient renown, how would they struggle to bind up tbe wounds which the war has trade, and to build that Union which Hieir lives illustrated upon fnunda lions which tbe vicissitudes and convul liona of tima could never change. What *t Cosre to Slap a Neoro ? Time?Yesterday morning. Scene? j Butcher *nd darkey in Fifth street mar kst bouse. Butcher hired darkey, who ! got I art end aaucj. Butcher told darkey j to do something?he refused.?Butcher drove inm off. tie came hack?butcher ilapped him. Darkey aaul, MI)at'll coet you sumtbin,n and weot oft Returned by aod by with e musket and a negro attached to it?seised butcher, who drop* ( pad his cleaver, put soins money ir bis picket And "fell toto line." Freedmea's Bureau?butcher before it?darkey told . bis wrongs?hureaa smiled?butcher looked meat aces?didn't do no good ? lift and costs?dismissed tba case. Butcher likee negroes?negroes liks butchers?bureau likes both. t ? jAurvrrffft uemocrat. # What Young People Should Know. The bast inheritance which parent* can give their cfdldren is the ability to help j and take care of themselves. This is bet* | jr ter than a hundred thousand dollars a> | tl piece. In any trouble or difficulty, they c< hare two excellent servants in the shape H of two hands. Tlwaae who can do nothinjr, "I'd have to l>e waited upon, are . help'est and easily disheartened in the Hl misfortunes of life. Those who are ac- m live and hardy meet troubles with h ? cheerful face, and easily surmount tbun. |c (.uf r/.tinr* txAMivU ' -- ' - * * jvu..s iiinrnuiv, lb<(rn lO (1(1 0( a? many things as possible. tl K?ery^Lov should know, sooner or 0 later? t| 1. To dress himself, Mack his own j, boots, cut Iiis brother's hair, wiud a watch, sew on a button, make a bed, and keep e the clothes in order. w 2. To harness a horse, grease a wagon B( and harness a team. , | 3. To cartre fowls and meatj and wait ^ on the table. B, 4. To milk the cows, shear the sheep j? and dress a real or mutton. j 5. To reckon money and kesp accounts correctly, aud according to book-keeping e rules. I, 0. To write a neat and appropriate f( briefly expressed business letter in a good hand, fold and supersenbt it properly, w and write Contracts. 7. To plow, sow grain and jgrase, drive ? a mowing machine, build a neat slack u and pitch liar. ,j 8. To nut up a package, build a fi'e, ,, mend a broken tool, whitewash a wall tl and regulate a clock. Kvery girl should kuow Low? tl 1. To tew ami knit. ii 2. To mend clotLea neatly. ll 3. To make Led*. 4. To dress bar own hair. L 5. To waali the distiee and sweep the n carpels. n G. To make good bread and perform ti plain cookirg. n tl 7. To keep her room, drawers and c< closeu in order. ? 8. To work a tewing machine. w 9. To make good butter and cheese. ' w 10. To make a dress and children's : is clothing. j 11. To keep aceoueta and calculate in- ! '' i ^ (crest. 12 To write, fold and superscribe letters properly. 13. To nurse the tick effectually, and 1 not to f?inl at the eight of a drop bf j blood. 14. To be ready to render efficient aid J to thote in trouble, and in an uiiotleiila-1 ! ,r tiout war. Ol 15- To receive and entertain visitors in i the absence or atchnct* of her mother. A young lady who can do all thece thing* well, and who ia aiways ready to a render aid to the atHicled and militate th* perplexities of thove around Iter, will ! *' bring more comlort to other* aiid happi | nes* to herself, and he more esteemed, C< than if *he k uew how to dance, simper, ! ing sod play on the piaaa. , An army chaplin relates the following ! ' story : Seeing a dirtyifaced buttefnul J archin at the fence in front of a house, | the preacher stopped and said t "Is your K father at home!" "Not he's gone to ! ^ church." "Is your mother in f ' "No; 1 she's gone too." "The* you're sll by ' *1 yourselt}" "No; brother Sam's in tliar 141 huggia' the nigger gal." "That's bad'.", m "Yes it's bad, but it's the boat he can k do r , |, m at A Ricn 1 >ai.k ar Oottok ?Many at cotton bales arriving in New York have at to b? overhauled, d rt and stained cotlyn M thrown out, sud tbeo rebated. The other ! in dav, two laborers, in the dischsrge of | w tiii* rliaftv f/?a??/l ? i- -1 - - ' " >uau<l, > Ull? U1 |U> U?l(?, 1 1(1 $'27,000 iu gold. One of then) propped ' t>< to tbo otber to divide nod ke*p mum, but . in tho other mid bo would report to the | l>< "bo to." The purchaser of tho roll on I y. claimed tbe gold, and tbo ?ollor eUunrd In it, becauee tbo cotloo woo not delivered, *i and for other reMiae; and probably tbo to court will docido to whom this ricb mino hi belong*. Tbo purchaser goto (ho two w laborer* $100 each in greenbacks. li Singular Case of Trance. A lady residing within sixteen miles of .aleigh, who has besn in delicate health nee she lost her husband in 1663, died isl Friday (as was supposed) and friend^ i the neighborhood proceeded to take te steps usual on such occasions. The oil!n was ordered, the corpse shrouded nd laid od?, and all needful preparations msummaled for the funeral ceremonies i&t Sabhath. Strange a6 it may appear is said that while the watches in an djoining room were indulging in hilarity nd hot cotfea, a noise w?s heard m the part.nent where the remains ??f the he, >?eJ departed reposal. Supposing a cat r rat was paying pranks therein, a genOman w?ot to atop the revelry. On pelting the door he whs horrified to find iu lady standing in the floor, the very iCHriiHlion ol perplexity. The brave illow hastily retreated, hit demonstrations xcited the rest of the party, and the hole crew, shrieking and trembling, de? rrting the house for a season. An elderr negress, more courageous than others, ent into the dwelling, ascertained the late of afl'airs, and with Christian heroin ministered to the necessities of the ead live one. Search wa* then made for the retreat r?, who being found at a neighbor's, re irned to the domicil they had so shaino illy abandoned. I>r. Hell, formerly of O'eenville, S. C., ho has attended the lady during the ast six months, assures us that these are nvHrnished facta and present no new uihs to the medical profession. !t was iiijhj a ca*a oi trance or suspended aniinlion. Ttie only remarkable circuin lance, perhaps, is the duration of the pall, though after Iter presumed decease, 1a absence of that perfect icy ties* which > peculiar to '.ha d?ad waa remarked by li? physician aa wall aa her friend*. Tha lady is now able to ait up, and emg in tha lsst stages of consumption, i aa well as alia will aver bis. She re ieml>era very little of the hours of her ranee, but expeiieiiced an almost painful i nrst iu tha first moments of returning | anaciouanese. Altogether it is a remarkb'e event to the people not acquainted itii medical history. A doctor, to whom a made mention of the affair has prora cd to furnish us for publication, at an srly day, a statement of h far more ex aordinaiy esse, which happened in rrwiiviilu county a few years since. Raleigh Progrett. j Losses by Uoligion. Near London there dwelt an old couple, 1 early life they had been poor, hut the ushnttd hefHMfl a Christian, and God leaaed their industry, and they vera Itv I ig in a comfortable retirement, when | t-e day a stranger called on them to ask ' leir subscription to a charity. The old ! dy had leas religion than her husband, j nd still hankered after the Sabbath' uskinga and easy shillings which Thoin | t had forfeited from regard to the law of! od. So when the visitor asked their intributious, she interposed, and said : M\Voy, sir, we have lost a deal by region since we first began ; ray husband nows that very w?IL Liave we not, I boinas I" After * colemn pause, Thomas answei* 1 : "Yes, Mary, we have, before 1 . ot religion, Wary, I had an o!d slouched at, a tattered coal, and mended shoes j rid stockings ; hut I have loallbem long 1 go. And, Mary, yon know that, poor i I was, I had a habit of getting drunk nd quarreling with you, aid that you' now I havo lost. And then, 1 had a ardened conscience and wicked ho art, ; mi ten thousand guilty fears; but all re lost, completely lost, and like a tuill one cast into the deepest sea. And, lary, you have bean a loeer, too, though jt ?o great a loser as myself, before ? got religion, Mary, you had a wa?h ig 'ray, in which you waflied for hire; 1 ill since then you have lost your wash* ' ?T traV. An.I von t.?.t ? ?? -- 1 r, ~ - >nnet much the worse for ?e?r; but j?i have lost them long ago. And yot? 1 &.1 many an aching heart concerning me L times; but these you happily have! *t. And I ecu Id even wish that >ou ad loel as much as I hnve lost; for. hat we lose for religion witP^be arwever itting gain." Interceding for Mr. Davis. The Fortress Mouroe correspondent of tiie Hostou Traveler writes : 4 One of the privates of the 20th Maine regiment, who settled in North Carolina afier the close of the rebellion, has reach* ed here on his way to Washington to in tercede for ll.e pardon of Jeff. Davis, having traveled on foot to Norfolk, it seems '.hat he was found in the rebel lines, captured, carried to the rebel headi quarters, tried and convieted of being a spy, and sentenced to be huog. lie asked to be allowed to write to Mr. Davis, anil the request was granted. Having some doubts, however, ef the intention of his captors, he bribed the rebel waiter to take another letter, and through a eer? vant of the household of the rebel President, it reached him. The rertilt wai that a messenger was dispatched with an order for the Yankee soldier to be taken immediately to the President's house.? Upon his arrival the guard was dismissed with an order to return. It seeius that while Jeff and wife tarried at Portland, previous to the war, this soldier rendered Mr. D., some service, which he acquitted by saving the life of the soldier. Now the latter is on his way to intercede for his deliverer. Tiik following racy examination of a candidate for admission to tLe bar is taken from lh? Wtit tern Imio Journal, and it decidedly a good bit: The examination commences with : "1 >o you smoke, air!" "I do, air." "Ilnre you a spare cigar f" "Yes, sir," (extending a abort six.) "Now, sir, what is the first duty of a lawyer I" "To collect fees." "Kight. What ia the second t" "To increaso the number of liis clients." % "When does your position toward your client change ?" "When making a bill of cost." "Explaiu." "\Y? tbea occupy the autagonist'o position ; I assume lb* plaintiff, and be becomes defend ant." "A suit decided, how do yon stand with the lawyer conducting the other bill r "Cheek by jowl." "Enough, sir ; you promise to become nn ornament to your profession, and I wish you success. Now, are you aware of the duty you owe me }" "Perfectly/* "Describe it/* "It is to insite you to drink." "But, suppose, I decline?" (Caudidaie, scratching bis bead.) "There is 1.0 insianc? i?f ili? lr?n/i n? record in books. I cannot anawer the question." "Vou are right; and the confidence with which you make the assertion show# that you have read the law attentively. Let's take a drink, and I will sign your certificate." Who's Hit f?The Columbus (Ga.) San aaya ; All of our citizen* who take the oh'.Ii of allegiance are required to state their political opinions in 1800. On the books in the commandant's office the Union signer* largely predominate. Capt. Gohle, ?o the *lory ruua, wa? looking over the list, when he would *ee for a whole page the name* of secessionist* as scarce m I innit 1.?.'. ?- ?W_ U-J >>? n? U?l? ICOUli i\M y uuu 1 91' claimed be. after reading awhile, "if these fow ' e(e?h* caused us all this trouble for the past four years, what couldn't they have done if all these Union men had joined them.'* We give the story as we heard it. ? HIO ? Tiik Fmer Bwilic Kvkr Printed.? In the royal library of Berlin is a copy of th? tiral Bible that was ever printed, a venerable aud ready magnificent book. It is printed on parchment, is aboet equal iu s'te to the largest pulpit Bibles which am now pr.nted, and is said to be the tiisi book iu which moveable t) pea were Used. "i>o you like codfish bells, Mr. Wig* / gin r Mr. Wiggin, hesitatingly?"I really don't know, Miss, I never recollect attending one "