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The Girl with the Calico Dress. BV UOUKHT 40&.?kl.YN. A P; fur your up|Vir h-n KirN, With tlx it velvets uni sn I in-* ntul lilCl'8. Their dluuioiut* and rubles hihI pearls, And their milliner hh<1 faces; 1?? i- * i >n-> 111.iv siimu 111 it pnri v or nail, Kiublazouod with halfthey possess, Hut give mi' in place of tlu-m all, My giil with the calico ilross. She is plump ns a partridge, ami f.iir /f An tho rose in it*earliest bloom, / Her tooth will with ivory compare, gS And her breath with the clover perfume. Her step is as free and as lij<ht As the fawn's whom the hunter* hard press, And her eye is a-iMift ami as bright, My girl with the calico tlroM. i our uuiKiics nnu iopnngs may sneer. At her simple ami modest attire, I'ut the charms she permits to appear, Wolrtd set a whole icuburg mi tiro ! Sim can dance, but did never allows Tho hugging, tlio njuc?'z?? end'carcM, She is saving all t!??. ** fur lift spouso, ity girl with tho calico dress. She in cheerful, warm-hearted ami true, And kind to hor father ami mother, Shu studies how much she can do For hursweut little sisters and brother, Jf vouwnnt a companion for life, To comfort, enliven and bless, Sho is just tho right sort for a wife, My girl with the calico dress. The Government of the Tongue. ny HKV. B. C. JONKS. " IIo that linth knowledge simrotl) bis wctrtl*." 11ot? nclivo ngfrit ftir guuil hi pvil Is j (ho tongue, and how rarely do we I. el the* j importance of its management as a lever of J action. Some there ere to whom any ad- | vice on such n theme would be looked upon ! as superfluous and unreasonable. They j have always been chn icterized by volubili* I ty, and wilh them speaking is the essential condition of existence. Indeed the great mass of 6eotient and responsible beings speak loo much. To be garrulous is not the index and type of advancing aire. It appertains to humanity in the abstract. The i tongue has its circuit through which it must revolve, if it conforms to the exactions of conventional usngp. Thnt circuit is on extensive one. It takes in the survey of the j business and the domestic privacies of our i acquaintances, sweeps the Hold of legalized | (' caudal, pnsses its vetoes on Scriptural j truths, inveighs against the doings of states- j mnnship, canvasses the heights and depths j /if <1 Iruncnnn^p/tlnl nlnli?cn?\)\tr airirl iKnn I ?? ?" ?? - , ?..v. ll'Cil 1 having completed a revolution which often 1 has in it inoie of the malignant influence of | a baleful comet than ihe genial light and heat of the solar orb, erases from its labors ! till it is roused into activity with the dawn. ! Now we do not belong to those who censure | a freedom in the discussion of ordinary and ; recurring topics of interest, and we fully re- ' alize the fact that a creninl flow of wnn?s- as ! well nspleasant *.milo!?, impart ft warmth nncl j glow, and zest lo the humanities of social being. We know that to chain up the cur- j rent of speech as such would be to t runs form j Paradise into the Arctic zone. As well as | liomer, the blind old bard of Scio, we fully appreciate the advantage and the moral power, and the winning influence of "wing rd words." Those words may have heal ing on their wing*. And it is just because I vn- nuum linic llivill su III.II IVf pell IIH'SI! lines. We believe thai the ordinary topics ' of social converse could he sublimated and tinned. We believe tint whera two or three are met together, they may and ought to separate with a higher tone of motal feeling, a keener appreciation of their relative duties, a more brotherly regard for their kind, and a little wiser in some points of practical information. Society has no right to expect me to spend my bourn of i social fellow ship in the vapid and spiritless ' delp.il of bum-drum gossip. If its lone is so low, lei rae try to elevate it cither by the opportune introduction of some sensible reniaik, or by thai silent rebuke which intimates n spit it of disapproval. There is such a thing as gracefully turning the tide of remark, which is still u bet- I t?-r plan. Wlu-n a person has the tact and 1 skill, he can often divert the current into ; healthful channels. One little, sngncious : remark may thus lend a company into high- j er regions of thought and fanfer. ami IpmiI in I <-? cj t j* ' | ihe development of intellectual activities ; hitherto undreamed of, because latent and unexercised. -There is n higher motive,how- j ever,to the proper government of the tongue ! that demands our notice, ll is not founded ' upon mere social utility. It derives all its force from the higher enactions of the revenled will of the Almighty. Persons may say, as did the ungodly in David's time, " Our lips are our own." but this does not alter the relation in which we stand to God. I ' Iiy thy words lb >u shnlt be justified, and J by thy words kbou shall be condemned." j Such is fho statute of the Saviour, and he never repea \ an iota of what lie utters. " Swift to hear, slow to speak," is the apostolic maxim. And again, says St. James, "who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you ? Let him show out of a good conversation his woiks with meekness or wiedom. Here let us observe that a good conversation constitutes works. That words, however apparently fleeting, like tho down of flowers, pass into the air to germinate afresh, that they are veritable deeds in their issues for weft! or woe, that the talking j mnn is f n<? acting man, r.wu mere iiii-mcioncy in simple utterance, that profit or disadvantage makes its nest in vyllables and sentences. Oh, with what ft sublime and majestic dignity are words invested ns they march from the portals of our lips. Let tht-m not rush out, then, like the mixed mul titudes thatcame from Egypt, but in thecalm and menstiied dignity of Spartan chiefs. Let not our Hps* l?o the porch of Venus or Bacchus, whence lewd and obscene and vulgar slar.g shoots out un'ohishingly, as if to court i a laugh at table or bo regarded as a jovial boon companion, was something for which propriety should bo sacrificed and modesty Htruck dead. "lief, no corrupt cotnmunication procccd out ol your moutii but that ! which is good to the use of edifv ing, inaiso it may minister grace unto the hearers."? How exalted the position and how blessed the consciousness of that mat) who from whatever company lie departs has let fall no inadvertant expresMon to wound tho feelings, to lower the moral tor.e of sentiment, j u> derogate From the honest claims of his fellow nu n, to augment his personal vanity, (o gloss over vice, or diminish the inherent leverenco for virtue. Speech is a ministration, a service, for the Aposile in tin* verse just quoted lolls us that it can minister grace, or prove n gracious service when our words nre liUe co ment to write in old affinity some "long disunited hearts. The words of the peacemaker aie till balm and honey. They mollify and he.il and bloss. It is a gracious service when our woid i become tho deep well of practical wisdom, from whence the poor and feeble and unlettered draw daily and hourly counsel and guidance in tho intricate affairs of life. Then thn lins nf ji man art- like the shrine of Podona, and without "any tripod the man drops pearls of truth and asks no money fot the payment. It is a gracious scrvice when our words fall cheerfully on disheartened bosoms, when they comfort the mourner under a deep and bitter sense of his bereavement, and sweetly direct him to the tnd and object of adversity. It is a gracious service when the j miiu mi pi vooiuic nfitri 01 children is made tlu Held in which our words are sown, as the good and productive seed of the kingdom of righteousness and truth. It is a ifraciou- service when hv iivnnoHntlv humor. Oils nai rative, or harmless passing j *st, we divciVify the diy details of hackneyed life, and tnus enliven a.t ?ull ub ii'iott uci, srn>'Gll; iny into a genial laugh the corrugated brow ?f him who, in the dust and whirl of business, almost forgets that he ever had a boyhood of gushing fun and heartiness,and sportive games. It is n gracious service when we g- nily point out the pitfall and the snare to the misdirected, and open up to them a way of escape fiom the toils of the tempter of souls. There are cases where speech becomes the crowning grace of man, where i??uyuttwt: is Uiu vunicie 01 ueauiilul truth, where the lips drop as the honey comb; if such be thy appreciation of the value of speech, my brother, then open the portals wide. By thy word, thou shalt never be condemned. Those winged words shall have the plumage of a Seraph's pinion, and as thy scniences pass upwari to the Throne, measured by the golden reed of the Sanctunry, they shall not be found wanting, and amid the commendations bestowed upon ihec in that august day when Jehovah's stewards must exhibit their respective accounts, not the least shall be that in an age when most were talking at random that thou didst recollect that the tongue was an unruly member, and subjected accordingly to the stringent rules of Heaven, the wholesome regulations of thy God. A Mexican Wur Incident IIY KICIIAHD KV8RKTT. The blocdy field of Molino del Rey was 1 finished, and the American arms were again j victorious. But it proved a dear bought victory. The bailie field was red with Anglo S-?xon blood, for never did ihe Aztec army make a more desperate defence. Those who participated in that glorious batlle will never forget its eventful circumstances ; how Ml ?h.> f.rnl -r - I ? ' ......v uanu Ul Illy' 11, W (IVII 151C siars looked sweetly upon the earth, our hi my moved slowly into its position, coips after corps, nilillery, infantry and cavalry ; the muttered word of command; llie rumbling of wheels and the muffled tramp, tramp, tramp of the devoted storming party, which pioneered the main force. It was not five o'clock in the mcrning when the battle commenced. With \ thunder which shook the earth, the heavy guns of Iluger'fl bnltery j belched forth the lust signal of attack. Then the stormers, carrying their ladders and t'nscines, started forward, cheering as they ran, and were soon lost amid the thick smoke which lolled from the Mexican cannon.? I N >w nn<I then a broad Hash of fire showed our gallant fellows fighting hand lo hand j with th.e enemy's cannoniers. On pressing] the centre of our line, and like a rushing j tornado, swept the enemy from their guns, i but bravely they rallied, and in turn our j troops were driven hack. Here the oarnago | was dreadful. Of tho fourteen officers of i the storming party eleven were killed or wounded in less than fifteen minute*. Meantime unon ei??li win? ilw. I n h"V" gressed with great fury, and the ditches in front of Molino del ftey and Casa de M'.ta were rapidly filling up with dead and wounded. In front of these defenses the carnage wh.4 terrific. The gallant Mcintosh was ! shot while cheering on his men. Lieut. I ?Scott ft-ll in tho fiont rank, and noble Wane i sank under a mortal wound. Among the I Mexicans there was a heavy loss of gallant j officeig. Old General Leon, grey-haired ' but full of fire; Delderez Muerta and Meoleos, all accomplished ofKcers, fought their last fight upon the ramparts of Uasa de Matu. Hut direful was the coined; no powor could htav the Saxon'* r?>i! r!*rUt orm r*?? brokep ground, gaping ditches and bloody rampart, in tho face of tire nnd Ml eel tbe American troops pressed forward, trampling the dead bodies of friend and foe beneath their feet, until covered with the stains of battle they stood triumphnntly upon the Mexican fortifications. Oh ! it was a g'orious moment when, as the smoke rolled nway, tho stars and stripes were seen waving from the Mexican flag staff, proud emblems of American valor. IJut we did not intend to describe the battle of Molinodel Rev at 'ont/tli. Hl.iwlu I O 4 " "/ | the scattered remnants 01 the Amuricnit force retired from the hard earned field, and ; upon the Ninth Regiment devolved that most painful of all duties, burying the dead .ind picking up the wounded ! About sunset the labor commenced. Some six hundred men, divided into small parties, pursued the mcianchoiy duty. Day faded, but the moon, soon rising, shed a pale sepulchral light over the seen?, winch no man could contemplate without a thrill of horror. Over a large expanse of ground tho bodies of the dead and vounded men were thickly strewn. In some places a hundred corpses might bo counted within the space of a few squaro yards, wiide tho sandy soil >vas wet with human gor?j. Largo pils wove dug and friend and foo found a soldier's grave together. Doath had abolished all distinction. American and Mexican who a few hours before wero striking for each other's lives, now lay peacefully side by side, their animosity subdued. Ambulances and wagons rolled away to the temporary hospitals tiiied with woundod men, whose gronoa of anguish were awful to hear. It was while tho work of burial progressed that a lieutenant, in charge of n smnll party, came to n ravine not fur moved from the main lino of attnck. Many wounded men crowded lo the banks of this stream to slake that terrible thirst which a severe wound alVvavR induces. Astlir- nnri.> collecting such injured soldiers as would bear removing, the wail of an infant suddenly attracted the lieutenant's attention. He listened again and the sound came faintly upon his ear, so plain, however, that there was no mistaking its source. Search was instantly made along tlie margin of the brook, and in a few moments a si^ht was disolo.-ed at which the most hardened heart grew faint. Two dead bodies lay on the smut a lew reet from the WAiur'? ?dge, One, a young Mexican artillery-man, whose head was badly crushed, apparently by a lar^e shot; the othor, n young and very beautiful Mexican girl, from whose neck a rivulet of j dark blood was yet oozing, for ? nmsket I ball bad peneirated to the jugular vein.?The young man lay upon his back, apparently just as h'i fell, while the posiiion of the woman indicated that she received the fatal ball while kneeling at his side. But this is nol all. Nuked and dabbled over with the blood of its parents, an infant, evidently about three months old, was lying upon the breast of its mother, wailing and grasping wiili his little hands her long black hair, which was damp with cold nij/lu dew. Oh, it was a picture which made the heart swell with nmnlinns nf nifu trw. nn.m - -- ? ? rys MVVii for utterance?that helpless, innocent infant, stained with its mother's blood. Often have we thought of the dreadful scene, for it was a scene never lo be forgotten. That gloomy battle-field, strewn with dead and dying; the brook murmuring gleefully along, unmindful of its bloody ripples ; the groups of soldiers standing with their spades and picks around those dead parents and the living babe, and over ?U the moon gleaming with ehostlv plate, formed n strikinrr v, V ^ C ? ? * fc> scene for the dread panorama of war. Tho man had probably met his death while in search of waler, as n leather bucket, such as is generally attached to an artillery carriage, was lying near by ; the woma.i must have received h chance shot while bending over her husbands body, for the Mexican women, with heroic devotion, often follow their husbands or lovers hlto battle. The lieutenant, giving orders that the two should be interred in one grave, wrapped the babe in a blanket, and in company with two of his men started in search of an ambulance, intending to send the little orphan lo the Mexican camp. lie had not proceeded far when a couple of Mexican friars were discovered prowling, as was their cuutom, among the dead bodies in search of plunder. Ordeiing them to desist, the officer related lhe scene he had just witnessed, and in conclusion, offeied one of the priests a liberal reward if ho would t.nUi> tli? KuK?> - ... to the camp of his countrymen. The priest assented with alacrity, and receiving his reward, look the infant and turned away.? With a consciousness of having fulfilled the dictates of humanity, the lieutenant prepared to join his party again. He h<ul taken but a few stops, however, when an exclamation of horror from one of his companions caused him to turn quickly, and as he didsu, they hounded from his side in pursuit of the two priests, who were running rapidly towards the Mexican lines. A sudden simnir.inn r?f lineriV>l.? inmn'i - ?i? ."ir'/i* glanced through the officer's mind in an instant, and calling on his men to fire on the fugitives if they did not slop, he looked earnestly along their tracks, and soon discovered the reason of his companion's conduct; for thrown down amidst a heap of corpses, was the dead infant, with a bayonet driven completely through its body! The inhuman wretch to whom the officer consigned his little charge, had not proceeded tt dozen yards, before committing the atrocious deed. The pursuit was successful, and in a few muiuuiiiH ooiu mars were brought back trembling, and in broken ICngli&h begging for mercy. Hut justice was quick nnd sure. A file of men were noon on the ground.? " Five minutes for prayers," said the lieutenant, looking at his wafch?five minutes, you bloody scoundrels! Sergeant, lie their hands. Men, form fifteen paces front."? There O'ders were quickly obeyed, the victims meanwhile begging for their lives. " Your time is up," said the officer. " It is no use ; a man who would murder un infant i desertn worse than death." "Are you rowdy, s?rgeanl?" "Yes, sir," wna the reply. "Then God have mercy on the souls of those villains. Platoon ! ready, aim, kikk t" A sharp report rang out upon the still nig'b? air, and the two friars were dead men. Knolish Rjctrkmks and Aukrican Midoj.inqh.? We have marked two passagoa in diftoren(|papers: 1. "An English nobleman said of us, that lie had seen, in America, ?! J i-i- 1 - icoa rinncrjf will! fr? IHippiVCSS HlftH in pOy | other country of the world." 2. (A. great writer says of England) : u Nine hundred and ninety-nine children of tbe same com* mon Kathur suffer from destitution that the thousandth DiHy revel in superfluities. A thousand eoltagea shrink into meanness and want to swell tlio dimensions of a dingle palaco. The tables of a thousand families of tho industrious poor WASte away into drought and barrenness, that ono board may bo lndon with surfeits." Ho content, oh middling Yankee! Bain Drops. 1'uttiring, dropping uteadily down, C'vmoHi llii) gentle rain, Upon the earth bo bare and brown, To mnko it gmen again. And rainbow tints in tlto tiny drops Of tho gentle ouminer showers, Renew their liu?-s in Iho fr?i<n-nnt ciiVi'i Oftho sweet up-springing flowers. , It muketh a music ps soft mid now As the delicate tints of tho flow'ret's hue; And wt'uiy ones,by the conch of pain, Kejoica in the sound of tlio summer ruin. ] Wearily, drearily, gloomily down, Fallctb tho autumn rain, And the stricken earlli, so bare and brown, Huvivolhnot again. i 1 When summer perfumes and flowers aro dead, It bringeth no joying then, j But mournfully falicih, like teat-drops shed Over tho hopes of men. , It tclleth us oft, in sorrowing tone, Oftho summer light that froni life hath flown; mil wnen youtiiiui joys mid lieart-liglit wane, j i Thcru'a music fur us in the notiuno rain. i A Short Patent Sormon. nv WOW, JR. ! My text lo-day i? as follows And thus it sting, with tinkling tongue; That rippling shadowy river? " Youth's brightest day will fade away, Forever and forever!" * # * # And thus it sung, with tuneful tongue, 1 That bird beside tho rive*? wncn youtli is gone, true lovo shines oti, [ , Forever And forever!" My Ilcarers: Time, that soems to us old fogies, to hum and whirr upon patridge-liko pinion!), nails noiselessly by the silken wings u> the lmppy, unheeding youtb. Well, youth is too busy with its own affairs to mark whoihor. tl10 old geutleman with the bushscythe, glass utitl fWoIock hobbles upon crn.tchoR, gons by steam, W t^lorrrnnh or propels himself with, thoso antiquated pinions upon his shoulders. Youth "lakes iio note of liino," but receives the pure gold in regular daily inst dlments, and fondly imagines he is thus pensioned for life, lie knows and cares nothingabout'Miard times," except when Ik i> sent for chips on a frosty morning, or gets- his earn boxed for not minding his tuotiier. llis hours aro cach as long as a day at the summer's solstice ; his days are weeks?his weeks months? his months, years?aud his years, oh, my brethren ! his years aro just about fiveeights of an eternity. Whilo busily gathering his flowers, sailing his shingle ship, caging hop toads, shooting marblos, playI ing horno, extorting molasses from verdant grasshoppers, fishing with pin-hooks, and building?not ensiles in thoair, but stables for corn-cob cattle?ho thinks of nothing but of the far distant tino when he shall I have outgrown his spensei and become a [ man, with tho same blossoms of youth still garlanding his heart, and money enough in bis pocket to carry out bis incipient ideas of happiness approaching to perfect bliss. Whilo my friends, tho youth is culling beautiful flowers upon tho river bank, and is delighted with tho sparkling sheen of | that rippling, shadowy river, ho is unaware [ that it is tilling liim with h tinkling tongue, ! that youth's brightest day will fada away, | forever and forever!' Forever and forever!? | how truthfully, solemnly expressive the scn' tcuoe! As that silvery, gleesomo river losI os its lustre as it approaches its eternal ocean-home, so forever lado away man's ; early joys as he outers upon tho dull lowlands of life, where for him tho vioJet buds and the henthbell blooms in vain. Fade 1 away forever I?thus do these fragrant posies which children gather upon tho river's brink. Little recks the blithesome lad of I their doom ; and less heeds their warning ; that thus away shall fade tho flowers uf! youth, forever and forever! Ah! my dear friends, they do fade away?imperceptibly fade, droop nod decay. You grow up to mauhood, and sometimes imagine, as you pick your wny amid the briars, thorns and thistles of lift), that they still bloom in nil the original freshness?wholly unlike those that bloomed "at Beltane, in winter to fade." And so they do ; but where matured, melancholy mortals, do they blossom for you ? As my friend Tom Moore says, it is nowhere olse but " in memory's waste"?the old ploughe '-out field of tho past- Oh that dry, sn Jy soil of memory 1 what lovely amaranthine flowers it is capable of produc ing; and yet you can do nothing more than grieve to think that you aro not permitted vv ivniu miu IUIU1 illUUIIg IUUII! Will) llie same body, brooches, soul and spirit as in days now eternally numbered with the past. My brethren: I suppose you expect mo to tell you what kind of bird that w.is which sat besido tho rivor, uiddy-uodded Inn In ad, wigwagged his tail, and of true lovo so tunefully sang. It couldn't have beon a iogfishor?for, instead of being tuneful, ho grates out a noi?o something similar to that attending tbo winding up of a marino clock. Was it a fish hawk? I novor heard the follow sing or say a word in my lify; and yet ho may keep up a most musical thinking about love for tho little finny creation. By no merits juld it havo been a lean shitpoke, who without a single poetio utterance, silontly?uuliko foatnorless poets? broods over starvation to tho last. Nor S3 il likuly it was tho spindle-shanked toetortail, that so plaintively peeps of love forsaken forovor and forever. Ah-ha I my friends, mclhinks I behold the lit'le medodist. It is the reewinged black bird, swinging upon the willows, and sweetly singing true lovo, thf>t "shinei on, forevsr and forever," when the fires of passion hav? ceased to flume or smcruld?r.-? There he sits, from dewy morn to shadowy ewe, still sinuing that old tune?"John Anderson, my jo John," while his old eara ipousa in, perhaps, sedentarily performing her last mnternal duties. He singelh, too * how thnt i Ivor?Although hastening onward to its bay of everlasting rest?still forever bears upon its rippling bosom love's silvery sheen. lie singelh, also, of that platonic love, which find:) its emblem in the plAtid lake?of that love which, like wine,improves <??..? ? 1-" ? - * ? i > imivFi, jjnin.i in inuuoiunesB nna increases in strength ins it advances in years. Of social love, my brethren, that bird beside the Sflcrr.metiio or Feather river, i "might, could, would or should have sung" ~ t*t -J.'/iL. -T *?? -' " t>f the linking of souls in friendship's golden slinin?of that pnrentHi, filial, brotherly and j "islorly lovo, which, like tho sun in the eternal heavens, although clouds occasionally intercept nnd dim its hlessod rnys, Will shines an, forever and forever?not ornilting to mention llic love I bear for you nil in generil.nnd ibe women gendoriu particular; nnd ivbicl) grows in lustre in propoilioo as the limes como rolling in, with tuneful, "linking tongue." So mote it be. GaKHOTINO NOT '80 IIAD akteh All The deni/ttns of Gotham have been living ll dl'Pftd of ?nrrol(>rs f.ir qftmolimu r?i?ct Uut if the case mentioned below be correct, it is not such a lorriblo prouess us ninny would have us believe. An exchange in forms us llint ft young lady of Worcester, Mass., was publicly gnrrotod in one of the streets of that town last week, by A voting man from Germany. Strange to say, the younsj lady neither fainted nor died from fl ight, as the reader will perceive. It seems Ihnt they were lovers in the "faderlands," hut hlivinrr ?!?*I'll Iiinionlu " ()> > Cl JUU<|g IUOU wns sent 011 some business by hi? father, to n place many hundred miles distant, where ho wns dul.iined for six months, and when be returned, found to bis sorrow, that the love of his heart had been borne away by her parents to America. The young man resolved to emigrate thither, also, and came ovet in tho last packet ship. lie look the enrs from New York to Worcester, and in looking about tlic city for employment, ac- | cidentnlly fell in with his lady love. Their meeting whs affecting it) the extreme, and the garroting sho rather seemed to like, uttering not a word of compliant, nor offering the least resistance. A n*t.ifohn!a Lion Kiu.f.d.?Last Sun day meaning, says tlio CalumT.i* Mr. Massingale, living neftr VaUecito, no- | ticed that some wild benst was among his j hogs. Tnkinir his irun. hn mntli* m,.' _ ^ o ? J,M,4 W''1 1 and following the animal by* bis tracks, the ground being soft, bo uime upon n bop weighing one bundrud pounds, about threefourths of a mile from bis houso, which the lion, for sucb tbe depredator proved to be, j bad carried tbero and partially buried in ! tbe ground, lie tben put the dogs on tbe trail, and pursued tbe animal ns fast as be could on foot, lie bad not pioceeded far, however, before the do^s brought the lion lo bav. and Mr 0 ' ? *?|^l j killed him thu first (i-> with a litle. The lion weighed, af(ei bving dressed, 140 pounds, r.nd measured eleven fret and two inches from the tij) of the nose lo the tip of the. tail. Mu. Mookr, or Major Moore was travelling through Texas, and leaving the main road, drove his sulk)', to avoid the mud, by a side path, tlvat brought him out near a log cabin. Being in doubt as to his course, and seeing a youngster near, he called out 10 mm : " t scy, my son, can you tell me if this is the right road to Leona ?" " \ our son!" said the urchin. " You'ro the second man that's called mo his son to-day, and I should like to know which of them is my father!" The Major was so much pleased with tlio hoyAnswer thut he threw him a quarter. The lad picked it up and wied out: " I believe you're my dad, for you're the first man that ever gave mo a quarter. Won't, you step in and see my maiui ' The Major 'bought it time to be on his way, und waited for no other instructions. My wife tolls the trutli three times a day, remarked a jocose old fellow, at the same I timecastincra vcrv mi.v.hievoua orlan^o at li?r I ( ,W , ^ , o "* "'V' I Before rtsing in tho morning she says?"O I dear, [ must get up, but I don't want to." | After breakfast, she adds?" Well, I suppose I must go to work, but I don't want to and she goes to bod saying?" There, I have beon fussing all day, and haven't dutio anything." A w- ? 1 * jt\ ktkr a cnmteniug at a cburch in South wark, while the rainUter was making out tho certiticHtf, he happened to Bny, " Let me see, this is the thirtieth ?" "Thirtieth!" exclaimed the indignant mother, "indeed it is only the eleventh/" Tho minister whs alluding to the day of the month. Natolkon, seeing a short man among hid grenadiers, said, ' Thou art very small for a gronadicr." Tho soldior instantly roplied, ''If they took generals fur their size you would not ho ono !" .??. ^ In' the mouths of many men ioft words are like roses that soldiers pul into the muzzles of their muskets on holidays. "NVk often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of funalicisn) to the more ardent zeal of others. A "single man," advertising for employment, a maiden lady wrote to inform him mai u no could find nothing bettor to do, iio might, conic ann mnrry her. He did so, ..<id touched twenty thousand dollars. A torn jacket is Soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of ft child. Civility is ft kind of charm that attracts the lovo of all men. ?i?j?i?i? ?;g- - ? S\ate of South Carolina, in equity ?pickkkb. WeAloy Phillip., Adm'r. \ m fof discovcryi ac. Peter R. ChlsUin. et. al } Couut and M tr appearing to my sali 'action thfat Peter R. Uhastuin, ono of the defendants to this bill of complaint, residua wilhonUho limit* of thin State: on motion of Townca A Campbell, complainant's solicitors, it ia ordered tlmt the aid defendant do .iopeur, plead, anawnror demur to tho said bill 01 ComMaint v) thin case, within thieo months from loo publication liwcof, or an order pro confctto will bo taken a? to him. HODT. A, THOMPSON", t>.n.p.n, ComVa Offlco, March 21,185*7. 8m Temper " nee Celebration. rwiv. * * " . .... . .vi>vu?<ii><> icmpio, nu. i oi meurdiir of I Modern Knights' Templars, will moot find march in procession lit I'iokonavillo, on Friday the first of May. Wh?ro tliQfe will b? aeverul popu|*? lectures delivered, on the subject of temperance and sobriety. Luotures to cornucnce half past 10 o'clock, a. 11. A general and cordiai invitation Is extended to all?come, fricuds, and hear Prince Alfohol get his dues! April 6, 1857 3 THE TEMPLE, NEW STORE & NEW GOODS! A'S" rrij[E diibsciibi-r is receiving unci opening I al bis NJ'JW STUHJS, on Mniii-blrectj Wnlliulla, a largo assortment of bpienaia flew ifooao, Consisting, in part, of 1>KKS8 (JOODS for Ladica and Cientlpmun'o Wear; Hats ami (tap, IJool.8 and Shoes, n largo ami fine Alock; Heady Made Clothing, a very complete asBortmon'.?under and over dross; (iil'OCCI'iC*. Of all description*, fresh and for frnle very low for cash only ; Segars, Chewing and Smoking Tobacco, of tlx* lu-iil onnliliiv<: Together with a great number of article* not enumerated, all of which havo been so-leoted with great care, and will bo sold on the most accommodating terms for cash; ^ PRODUQE token in exchange for Goodsat cash rates. Give mo n trial ! J. II. UO l J'^UUlU'l* . Nov. 13, 1850 10 tf WINDOW SASHES OK all kinds, manufactured by ICasley A; Davis, superior for their exactness #nd durability, already painted and glazed, \ffih the best American and Kronen Window tilass. Always on hand and for sale at WalItalia by JOHN KKUSK. 85 R LLKV W KCOiVI PAI* Y, I'uro Zinc and American White Lead, for which lhe highest premium was awarded at the World's Fair, N. Y. Salo Agents lor South Carolina, Cu^malt it Uriggs, in Chai lesion. For sal? at Walhalla hy JOHN KllUSE. iviXHOW ^r,A.ss, j Haw nnd boiled Lomond Oil, Spirits Turpontine, l'utty, nil kinds of Painte, diy and also ground in Oil, Glue, l'aint Ijrushes, j nnd all Articles in this line. For salo at tbo lowest figuroa for i-nsli by JOHN KRUSE. WalliKllft. 1'Vh. 12. 18f>8 .11 tf J. v. iiaitrisom. j. w\ xokrih, jk. 7.. C. fui.liam. IIAUltisON, NORMS & PULLIAM, Attoi'iicyn at Liuv, \y ILL Attend promptly to nil business cnlrueTT tv<l to tliotr care. Air. Pi;i.i.um ciui nhvnys DC lOIIIXI III till! OttlCO. OFFICF, AT IMCKENS C. II., S. C. sppt.fi. iRfto o tr NOTICK. rPIIE undersigned will make ft final thonionfc< 1 of the estate of Lewis \V. lleeder, depensud,. in the Ordinary's Ofiice, nt Pickens C, 11. oil Mom tlay tho 0th day of July next. All persons indebted to tlio estate, therefore, must make payment ; and those having demands against the enmo* will render tliein in legnllv attested liv that time. S. 0. RKKDKK. J . , 11. P. RREDEIt. [ , _ApriJjM8S7 88_ j 8ttV k24 k.' * ? * Ainm ?n isuniij t.'iroilll.'l, rlCXUS DISTRICT?IN TUK COURT OK COMMON I'l.KArV Scott ?fc Prntbur \ F?ci{tn A,,a()m?lL Anson Uftnfts .t Co. f Nurrls 4 A ITli ERICAS; tlio plaint ifft did, on Htu 18lli day iV of Dccontber, 1 8jt>, file their declaration a- J giiinst the defendant.-*, w.lw (us it in t-aid)nre ahneht Ironi and without the limits of thie JStntc.nml (' I have neither wife nor attorney known ivithin thi? 'j I Jttme, npor. whom a copy of tho tuiid declaration j might ho served: It l?ordered, therefoie, that tlu- / J said defendants Jo appear and plead to the mi id | declaration on or before the lttth clay of December, 1857, otherwise final and absolute judgment will then be trivet) and awarded n^Hin-it them, ! Dec. 18. t8fifl. J. K. HAOrtOli n. W. K. BA8LBY. 16 A AO WICK I.IKKK, J " EASLEY & WIOSJSPE, Attorneys at Law. * ! lM^irr .ji - ? " Vii ii,ij uiu'iui punctually to nil bipinoM ru. i trusted to tlu ir care in tlio Courts uf tlio . Western Circuit. , 'k OFFICE AT PICKENS (\ II., 8. C, Sopt. 8.).J 855 18 tt ffoilce, A ALL porsons indebted to tlm E?tnt? of William Murphreu, deceased, will make payment mul (hose having demand* against mid estate will mi I tier them in legally attested on or heforo tho ? 2ftth day of Jnno next, as on thnt tlnv a fmal settlement of said p.itute will bo made in the Ordii nary'a Ofliee, at 1'iekena (J. 11. MARY A LEX A Nl") fin, ) F.x'trix. J. M. MVlirilUKE. J Uxor. J/hrcU 21.J8B7 86 iltn a,> n *%.' ? * r nil :iii llli' & IV U'jt VLL person* indebted to the Kstato ??f Joint A. Cliil<ler?, deceased,uro requested to make payment, and those having demand* against said bstnto will render them tome, legally ntteste.d, [ on or before Monday the 18th day of Mav next; a?, on that day, a final settlement of sauf Estate will bt> made in the Ordinary's office, nt PickeQH Court House. WM. D, C1IILDKH3, Adm'r. Feb. 12. 1857 30 td KST/ITI: iVVtice. VLL persona havinfj demands against the Estate of Frances Freeman, deceased, will render them in legally attested, niicl those indebted will make payment; ?9. after the expiration of the legal length of tlmo from thn publication of this notice, the undersigned will mako a final soltlement of said Estate In tho Ordinary's office. NATIJVN O UNION, Adm'r. J j Feb. 20. 1857 89 Siry M LOOK OUT ! Q A R. W. THROWN aro JUK'P TtEPF.lvivn kJ* ltOOO flltckaof Suit in PoandeB?bagn, Large lot of GKOCKHIEft of all kinds, vie: Sugar, Coffee, Iron, Hacon, itc., ?bc., carefully 84* lected for the Full Trade. ALSO 6,000 lbs. Iiaeon Si;lea, SO coils Ilrpe, 10 bales Bulging. leather and Kujsett Brogans, leading articles in Hardware, Hbovels, Air.. Cell at the old ata.id, at ANDERSON C. H. S. O r.ud we'll do what's right I S. A. E. W. JOkOWR Scpf. 2fi __12_ L tf LOTS FOR SALE. T)ERSONS dcRiVonft of rmrohnsTng LOTHt 1 in tile toWn of Walhalla, oan have thcift on tho usual condition*. Applv to J. U. OSTENDORFF, Ag'l. Nov. ft. 18r? t fft II " v?. GUN & BLASTING POWDER MY'FOWpRR AHM>8 being now in nctivo operation, UVX AND poUr. I)KR can be furni*hi!d to dealers nnil others ?V low ratoa, All orders addressed to 1). Bikmann^ Wulhfclla, will Ixj attended to. <w JOHN A. WAOENF.n. Sept. 30, \856 12 tf