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"Toa satt me anyhow, and you know it well, you witch I" cried Charles, gas ing with n smile, at tho pretty face puck ered up in its affectation of demureness. JJUt jC was uO? lv b? uitVOii fiv?? um point, as ho resumed gravely, after. a pt|fi?~**Tho timo has come, Susy; when 1 feel I have a right to demand an ex plicit answer to my ' suit./You have trifled with my earnest feelings long enough. I have grown restless under my fetters." VMJIA "Shake them ?lf, then Charley !" In "tcjTupted the saucy girl, with a delimit toss of her head, which said j "I defy you .."J. ca :-^ot, Susy, and you know it," replied the hapless lover im patiently. -That being the ease," said Susy "take my advice?wear them gracefully and don't pull and jerk so, it only makes ?theui hurt you." The young man turned away, and Valkc: up and down the room, evidently -trotting au^ faming internally. Susy, ?meantime, looked -out of the window and .yawned. Churivs continued his moody vralk. - ??Oh l what a beautiful bird is on the eilao tree^I" cried Susy, suddenly. "Do .you 00111?*. and see it." .Charten ?mechanically opproacUed the wiud^ lilB^lfe out. ? ^- li-i^tti you ifciirk, ^Charley," said Susy <s>j*itfg her hand on his arm, and looking tip eagerly in his face ; - don't you thitik . you could manage to--"? SSWS*JWXL asked Charles, all his tenderness awakened by her manner. ??What r ."Drop.a pinch of salt on hia back!" returned the provoking girl, with an af fectation of simplicity ; for then, y-iu khow, you could easily catch it ?" Hia answer wa- to turn angrily away. His walk this time was longer thau before, and his cogitations were more earnest f for he did not-weed a-uy of Susy's ?artfully artless 'devices to allure his no tice. At hut he stepped abruptly before her, arcd said : - "S?sy, for three long years without either confessiou of lovew promise of mjurittgo on your part." Often as I have demanded to know your seavt-imouts to wards me, you have always ooquett-bbly refWeStf tM an answer. This state of ? things must cease. I love you better than my life; but I will no longer be your plaything. To-morrow you are going away, to be' absent for months, and if .you can net; this very day, throw aside jour cujuetry, and give me an txtrr ? yes' for an answer, I shall oon ?nider that I "Stave received a 'no' and act ?accordingly." ' And how would that be? What tfrdttld you do V asked MHai Susy, eu . Tiouiwy.^ ? ?,. "Begin by tearing your false, worth 0 -ssfatage from my heart-!" oricd Chrrles, furiously. "It would be a curious piece of ?busi ness, Charley ; and yon would not suo ?deed either," said Susy. sMf l should and would succeed," said *0haricB, - as you will res, if you wish, *rud, heartless girl 1" "But I don't wish, Charley, dear?I ?fove -dw.'ly 'to have you love me," said ?Susy. ^?wTiy^'then," crie? tho/ooJish .youth, ?quite won ovoragain, "why-then,-dearest ?Susy, will .you not consent ??" "?#*pe*rbsf, I ?aid I liked to be lldVed," replied Busy ; I did not any nny ?fhing about loving. Hut (pr*y, how lung, ?did.you say you had becu courting me, rin that pretty little speech of yours?" "Three long years," replied Charles. '?Nearly and accurately quoted, Char dcy. But.you know my cousin Kachel ?was only won after ftve years' courtship, tyou dou**. suppose I am going to rate tayttlf sny cheaper fthau she did, do .you ? Suppeae we drop thU tiresome subjeot for two years; .perIxtpa by 'flme be wble to Work myself up to ifhe 'IWlhugio-"lone :point?there is po ^j|(j%iifl? Vbat f".?uit>r3 time may effect."" '?If you are not, iu love now, you ucvcr will be," returned C. sturdily ; "and I will have my answer uow or never." \ ''Never, then," lunched Susy. -BuV she had gone a 8tcp too far. Her often severely tried lover was now too much in earnest to bear trifling any longer. ''Never be it. then I" ho criod; aud aeiitng his hut he strode from the room. : Susy listened to his reccediug" foot* steps with dismay. Had she, indeed, by hor incorrigible love coquetty, lost him ? It smote hor to the soul to think so. An she heard him open the front door, im pelled by a feeling of despair, she raised the window sash, aud, leaning forward, 'Charley. Charley I you will be at the boat to-morrow to bid mo good bye, won't you '( Surely we are still friends." ' Ab ahe spoke she tore a rose from her ! huso in and threw it to him. It lodged on his arm, but bo brushed it away as though i: bud been poison, and patwed on without looking up. Susy spent the remainder of the day iu tears. Early the next day the bustle of departure began. Susy was going to accompany her widowed invalid mother on a trip for her health. As they reach ml the wharf und descended fromj the carriage, Susy's eyes made them selves busy searching for a wished-for face ; but it was nowhere to bo seen. The steamboat lay panting and puffing, seemingly impatient to be let loose. Susy's mother, aided by the servant man who accompanied thorn had already crossed the gangway which lay bet we n the wharf aud the boat, aud Susy was reluctantly following, wheu the sound ot a voieu behind her?the very voice she , j hud hinged to hear?startled her. She i turued to look ronnd, and missing her footstep, fell into the water. Another instant aud Charles hud thrown off his coat, and calling out loudly, "Toll the captain tint to allow the ttheei tu stir, and to lower wo a rope '." he sprung iuto the wutcr. Hut of her whom.he wts^njklua bjsjySa to save. he. waa unable to perceive any truce. j Judging that the current of the river j might have curried her a little furwaid. I he swam around the wheel but still he saw her not, mid despair aeiced his heart as he conjectured that she might be un ' der the bout, lie strained his eyes to ! tee through the water, aud at length dis cerned, far below the surface, what seemed the cud of a floatiug garment lodged between, the wheel and the round ed bottom of the boat. If this were indeed the case of the un fortunate girl, the least movement of the wheel must inevitably crush hor, aud Charles, in his terror, faik-led it was already beginning to turn.' He divod and clutched at the garment, but missed a. Ho rose panting and al I most ok ha usted ; but scarcely waiting to got 'brenttfc., fee again plunged below. I Thh time his effort* were rewarded with ?enceoss, at least so far that he was able to bring Susy's form to the surface of the water ? but she seemed totally life less. Charles was now so nearby ex hausted that he had only sufficient pre* nence of mind left to clasp Susy convul sively to him whilo he kept himself afloat by holding on to the wheel. But this, bis lust hope of support, seemed also to fail him, soou he per ceived that it was really beginning to turn slowly round. By a desperate ef fort he struck bis foot against one of the paddles so as to puA himself as far from the danger ss possible. As bo did so, something touched his head, and bis hand grasped a rope. New life soomed uow infused into him. He gathered all his energies, and fastened the rope round Susy's waist?consciousness entirely for sook him. In the meantime the wit nesses of the scene, after giving Charles' instruction to the Captain, had watched his struggles and exertions vith breath less interest. The friendly rope had boon flung to him again and again, but in the excitement of hi* feelings, and his send seraihility, he bud been iuoapable of availing himsolf <of the proffered aid. At last, .perceiving that ho was quite exhausted, and must inevitably soon let go his hoid on the wheel, sod tkeu prob hly sink to *iso no more, the captain judged it best to run the risk of moving off, ao that a small boat could be ?*mt to the rescue. The result of this hueard ous experiment was successful. Susy was raised by means of the rope, and a boat reached 0. in time to rave him also. ??*??** *? .ft fiofh sufferers were taken or. 'board ttht sfte&nrboat, wbieh now moved off to make up for lost time. a I jPfl^n\uS iw%tin^nifi^?gained his oonsciousuees ho found himself many uSilca from home. Of course his first? anxious iuquiry w?s for Susy, and when ioformcd that she was recovering, his happiness seomed complete. He showed his couteutnieut by falling into a deep quiet sleep. About sunset a message came to him that Miss B- ilcairod to sec htm. He found her lying ou a sofa iu the captain's state-room, which had been given up to her. She looked very pale, aud some what Buffering, but she held out her baud to him very gratefully, while the tears stood in her eyes. "Charles," said she, without offering a word of thanks. I want to sec a clergy man. Is there one on board ?" "I will go and seo," said Charles, moving to the door; but a drcndfnl thought striking him, he turned, ex claiming, "Susy, you do not think that "That I am going to die ?" sai 1 she, anticipating him. "No, Charles; but I waut to see a clergyman." Charles went, and soon returned, ac companied by a minister. "I tliunk you, sir, for comiug to me," said she to the bitter us he cstercd. "I have a strange request to make of you. Would you object, sir, in the presence, sud with the consent of my mother, to unite nie to that gentleman ?" 11 the minister was astonished at this request, Charles was infinitely more so. "What did yon s?y. Susy?" said he. "Did I hear aright ?" "I believe, so," said Susy, smiling at his eager amazement. "Docs the scheme meet yuGr approval ?" "It was heaven-inspired," erieu tho poor fellow, frantic with joy?but a shade coming over his radiaut face, he udded, gravely, "But, Susy, have you consider- ( ed ? Remember 1 w*nt your love, *iot your gratitude. I will not be satisfied with nothing lees." "Do not be concerned about that. dear Charles," replied Susy, gazing at him very tenderly through her tears; "be as sured you have them both, and had the first long, long before the last." "But, Susy, you said only yesterday o "Never mind what I said yesterday," interrupted Susy, with some of her old spirit breaking out. "Just mind what I say today. If I was a fool once, isthat any reason 1 luustbc one always '(" But. indeed, diaries," she added, more softly, "I have aAways meant to be your wife? the ouly scruple I have is that I am not good enough for you." It is needless *? wry how the discus sion ended The reader has already di vined that 0. continued his journey ; and thus in the course of one eventful day he risked a life, saved a life and made an impromptu marriage, and set oat on a moot unexpected wedding trip. Two SitAftr.?An ?rteeTTprising busi ness man of this city rurrs"H.wo branches of trade, to-wit: a grocery and a fish market. The grocery he runs himself, the fish market by a deputy, and every night the latter makes returns of the proceeds of tho day's business to the propriotor. A day or two since the grocer found in his fish market returns a counterfeit five dollar bill. He didn't liko to lose it, and he didn't quite want to 'take tho chances of trying to pass it. "So he call ed an old darkey who was hanging about the premises, nnd said to him : "Sam, hero's a fivo dollar bill that's a little doubtful. If you will tako it and pass it, I'll give you a dollar out of the change." n "Very well," said Sa?, and he took the bill and went off. iotcr in the day be returned, having ac-"nplisfred tlje feat, and handed over four dollars in good money to the groeer. That night the grocer, in couuting over the cash returns from his market was more surprised- than delighted to tinu no identical five in the pilo. "Look hero," said he, sharply to his market clerk, "here's a counterfeit bill? who did you take it of ? Didn't you know 'twas bad ?" Clerk took it and looked si it for a moment. "Oh, yea'," said he, "I remember now; I took it of Sam, the darkey. I thought it was a little doubtful, and wasn't going tie take it, but. he said he got <it tff you, so I thonght it wsa all right," Further ex plannt'ma wan nn necessary. ?Hartford i'inst. ' A '? Yankco Btory," heard by us some two years, ago iu Kngkml, may uot be now to our readers, sint? the ''texture" eeetns tu show the ois~/*sjSantec loom. Iu cur opinion, however, j^?r so good thut wo are tempted to give it ut the risk of its being a repetitio?-ir?aa.?o An American?a veritable "Dowu Easter," and not to be mistaken for any other stripe?was riding in an English railway carriage, his sole companion be ing an Englishman, equally unmistaka ble as a typical "John Bull." They were strangers to one another, and had traveled some five mile; or more without a word passing between them. "The ' whistle" was heard,- interrupt ing their unsociable meditations* when the Yankco, whose curiosity could not any longer be kept, inj restraint, asked what it was for. uAw?aw !" yuwued the British.? "Signal we are gawing to stop at a sta tion.'* I i Jonathan craned his ucck out of the window, but could see no signs of a station. lie said to his traveling com panion. "I don't seo it." "Of course youcawn't see it," Was the reply. "It's more than five mile miles from heaw. Our railways make such speed, it is absolutely necessary to sound the signal live miles off, to give the en gineer time to stop off his steam, put on the bftenk. andsuspend the motion. I pwesume you dou't ntuko such speed on ? th - other side of the Atwantic Y" "Wnll, airanger," somewhat tartly re joined Jenathun, seeing that his nation ality waf discovered, ''we make consid erable time t'other side too.' 'Wo tried the whistle, but it wouldn't do nohow. I deestinctly remember travelin' on a train atwecu Bostiug and the Green Mountings of Yarinoy Von which Was a conductor who depended on his whistle. Wal, as we were streaking along, we seed 'bout ten miles ahead a team of oxen and a wagon with their driver whippin' 'em acrosst the rails. Our conductor ordurcd the loudest kind of a screech put on the whistle ; and that wnr the last thing I heard 'ccptii.' a all fired smash, that knocked sound out of my oars, and day-light out of -my eyes. 1 reckon I mns' a been de.td for more'n five minute-." ''When I kim to my senses agin, 1 seed the wagon lyin' eni the railway track broke up into spokes, the oxen knocked into squash, and the driver lyin' dead on the top of 'em. And besides the hoi of the railway cars war oft" tho track ; the passengers crushed ? and squirming and the conductor lyin' close by the ongine, looking oh if ho had been drawn and quartered. Jest at that minute tho whistle he'd ordered to be Bounded 'bout ten miles hack came past; but it came too lute. Yes, stranger; we tried th*? thing iu tho States. It wouldn't do. It wa'n't quick enough ; and we are now using electric lights." .lohn Hull, who as a matter of course was provided with a Times newspaper, uiade no rejoindor; but unfolding the broad sheet, and raising it so as to hide his ruddy face, remained absorbed in its contents during the rest of the journey. Pt'T A Hole Timoron It.?One night Gen.-was out on tho line He observed a light on the mountain opposite. Thinking it was a signal light of the enemy, told his artillery offi cer that a hole could easily bo put through it. Whereupon .the officer, turned to the corporal iu charge of the gun, said : "Corporal, dc you see that light ?" "Yes, sir !" ?'Put a hole through it." The corporal sighted the gun, and, when all was ready, be looked up nd said : ?Genel "Don'? Kroui-h it, anyway Sion Charleston, says: A man wh farm Innd ho notier, in ort A mats farm was r. He replie ^prioe of ing in th the puoj before h Jos!? HiUisrn on Blie?, t- j *4 . ? I j_. A>\ ?tjl ..?.?? ?i i: ' ?i.D.;?) IfflfmisSM Biles Are the sorest things ov their size on reokord, and az kross tow tho touch az a setting hen, or a dog with a fresh, bone. Biles alwas pick out tho handyest place ou yourc boddy to bild their nest, and if you undertake to brake them up, it only makes them mad and takes them longer to hatch out. There aint no suteh thing az coaxing, nor driving them away. Tbey are like an impudent, bed bug, they won't move, till they hav got their fill. Biles are az old az religion. Job, the profit, was the fust eluimpion ov biles, nud be is currently reported tew have more biles, and more pashuneo to the squaro iucb, than enny one, two very rare things to be found in eutiy man. Biles arc very sassy; sumtiuies when ycr go to set dowu tbey will get betweeu ycr aud the chair; that iz one evidence of their ill breeding, and I had one once plant herself ou the frout end ov mi uoze, which baz a most remarkable piece ov bad mauuers, for there is uo room ou mi nose ennywbare for a bile, for wheu it is ebb tide with my noze, it covers half of my face. Biles arc sed tew be bclthy, aud I guess they am, for I hov sccn sum helthy old biles, as big as a hornet's nest and as full ov stings. J always want to be healthy?I am willing tew pay the highest market price for a good deal of helthy?but if I bad to have 2 biles on me, awl the time, in order to be helthy, I should think that I was bulling the market. There is one more smart thing about biles ; they arc like twins ; tbey hardly over kum singly, and I hav known them throw double sixes. What! twelve biles on one man at a timo ':' This is wus than fighting bumble bees with your summer clothes on. Biles are sed, by t ho. educated and correct spellers of the laud, to be an opcrushuu of nacber to get rid of sum thing wich she wants to spare. This is so. without doubt, but it don't striko uio as being a very polite thing in uncher to shuv oph her bile onto-othcr folks. I ssy, let everybody take care of their own biles. There is a time in their career wheu t ha konscntratc aul tho pathos ov joy that a man has OB;hand to spare, and that iz?when they bust 1 This is the calm after tho storm ; the wedding day of patience and joy; this iz the christen ing of hope, the mibtick hen that lays 2 eggs a day; this is butter on your sassnges. Exit biles. RdESPONMBJLITY. ? A young man iu Virginia had become sadly intemperate. He was a man of great capacity, fascina tion, and power, but he had a passion for brandy which nothing could control. Often in his walks a friend remonstrated with bin iu vain ; as often in turn would he urge his lYiond* to take the social glass. Ou one occasion tho latter ugreod to yield to him. aud as they walked up to the bar together, tho bar-keeper said : ' Oontlemon,'what will you have?" "Wine, n\r." The glasses were filled, and the friends stood ready) to pledge each other in4 re newed and eternal friendship, whon he paused and said to his intcmpeiato friend: "Now if 1 drink this glas? and become a drunkard, will you take the responsi bility ?" The drunkard looked at him with so verity, aud said : "Set down that glass ' It was set down and the two walkt.t: away without saying a word. Oh ! the drunkard kr.ows tho awful consequences of the, first glass. Even in his own madn.ess for liquor, he is not willing U) assume tho responsibility of another's becoming a druukard. NY bat if the questiou were put to ?>very dealer, as he asks for hia licepse and pays money : "Aro you willing to naautno the responsibility ?" How many would say, if tho love aud gain of money did not rule, "Take baok your license ?" I!xii i urn Nu Calves.-?Now that tho strong-minded women propose so serious ly to wear trowsors or pantaloons, fashion is socAiugto revive for men's wear, in England, fba style of dtoeebreeohes. Not a bad idea Toy vetl-Hiftbeftgsriifohieo, but what ?re' tho spindle shanked to do, unless they take lessons in paOding from the ladies of the "nude drums?'' In that case, calf-dressing will ens be cvofined, as an art, to the veal butchers. It Kr?v gav "< if. a TLqkt ljjUJMftnlP P'1'*"^ Tuaouwi --m^J^4W W fUto-wV, Gnu..?A few nights ago, a lady, while taking a pleasure walk with her infant child along Jefferson street, lost a valu able diamond ring from her finger in I some unaccountable way. l>ili*g?n4**Mcb} extensive search was made throughout the neighborhood, but without^any clew to the ring, and the lady gave it up as gone "for good and all." Before day light tho following morning the lady was" surprised by the calls of her nurse, a small negro girl. On being admitted to her mistress, the girl, who had not beard of the ring being lost, said she had just had a dream, in which she was apprised when, where aud how the jewel bad been lost, and that if allowed she felt S ire she could find it. She thou described the plaee and man nor in which the ring disappeared, and begged her mistress to go with her and tost the dream. This strange e'reumstance was made known to the house hold, but all treated it with the utmost incredulity. Tt was afterward coucluded W humor the girl, however, and she and several white members of the family proceeded to the. designated spot, more than 100 yards from the house. Here the dreamer told her mis tress that as directed in her dream, she must drop another ring, and it would roll as a guide tc the missing oun. A plain gold ring was hauded the girl;she let it fall, aud sure enough it rolled and stopped within two inches of the lost diamond ring, which had got into a crevice between two bricks of the pave ment. It may be imagined that the ring huuters were somewhat astounded at the miracle. They did not pause to inquire whether or not the girl was influenced by the anticipated eclipse, but she obviously eclipsed all thu little niggers they bad seen. Her own astonishment was greater than that of all the rest. Oor informant avows that there is not tho least fiction about this curious dream and its lucky result.? L?tiisn'tf> Cmm't-r Journal. Mmm_ The Dance.?What a strange thing this dancing is. after all, when you look | at it from a philosophical, or, if yon please, unsophisticated point of view. | The other day, Insulanus asked a lady how it came to pass that the entrance upon tho floor of the ball-room made such a wonderful change in her usual manners and habits. She asked him what he meant, as she did not understand He asked her. "Suppose I'introduced you to a friend of mine, a stranger, and' he would not only take your hand, but put his arm around you, what would you do?" You may imagine her look and answer. What would she do? All our lady readers know what they would do, aud what the father, hu-band, or brother of such a lady would do.?"But,' said IoBulnnns, "as soon as you enter tho room of the "hop' or ball, you permit a stranger who is introduced to you at the time, not only to take your hand, but to put his arm around your waist, and to sail around the room with you in the giddy mates of the dance, and your father, brother, and husband think it all right !" Triplets to a Youthful'Mother. A correspondent of the Savannah Re publican, writing from Scriven county, gives the following: A good lady acquuiutau.ee of mine Mrs. B., of this eouuty, gavo birth a few days ago to thr<je fine, healthy boys which up to this time, are doing finely, and gi ,e every promise of being raised, '..ml possibly growiug into great men. The fact that tho good lady is ouly some HO uu summers old, and this being the first time she has given birth, aud that her mother gave birth at alike tender ago, may be considered remarkable and to the seientitic men interesting. A wag gish friend suggests thut with this un usual arrival in Soriven, there is certain ly something ahead, probably Ripiall*. I'dltK from a bukbpei, or corn The Country Oentlotnnn.saysthat an ex perimenter, J. B. Lewis, obtained I mi pounds of -pork from seven bushels of corn, or one pound of pork from 4J pounds corn; the grain was ground and moistened with water before feed tag? Nathan A. Morgan, of Union Springs, by wetting his meal with five times its weight of hot water, and letting ? it stand twelve to eighteau hours before feeding, obtained I penned of pork from 2} pounds of corn. Doubtless different re salt* would be obtuinsd from different breeds of swine. Ii iMfprfi of the BIM?. c; ?; ?Mftta? ?rt V ? ahajr??i New Testaments is taken freak change***^!**) ?M99t dt****?**, tg ont <iw^ KlpHiiiPttim ls*i?4pr?A *?di Books in the l&H Testatnxsntfui ?dl ?itttft ii? ri^HPsVW8?w?w ???? ? wtfil f uIi j?3ftro4 Verses. 23.214 WoHn..17?.. 592,439 4ffr?...y.^^^ Books' Int!?* !Hw^fctltot^..?!f^?,af^1 C h spteta j'XtttX AM. .1* i frVI fR^ifa. a? * lfit#r*d Verses,, . .ijscft... n ^immr^^S^?Uq WQ&nth feto *r ? irr v?***M 1&WW?ot G0S1 WhoI?^YaAfrTOf'w^*^ W^^tUN,' " 8.718,00ftr *?? * ? iuttJSJiMNBi ?tt ?launn *?? I The middle^**?,*?*&frkH#A+**i The middle verse is the 8th of Psalm . lit'"" 'V ^ *,,rvs* ?v?a:P- b tr Ji i***?1fl fWwW'^nfr''^^^ Test4medt%l#^tltlii' asc^fsif U*<* The sarqe in the Ne^~ Teataownt ab? : occur* lO.e^?tigje^t, * b** jwtVf 4*1 T> word Jehovah occurs 6855 tiires. The middle book of tbe Old Testa The middle chapter h Job 29*^1,*Jli**? The rtiddle>*trtW>ls "2* Okental**, chapter 20, 17th wrse. a --.'a .mt'tkasitimiii j The least verso is 1st Chronicles, chap ter 1, a lid.1st yorso^ ^. *f -JM The middle book in the New Testa ment is'2d T^m?^ Nj The niiddle'chh^fbrtf are Kornaus 13 and 14.?' ''r?s>| l*hl? ,nsitssai9>*f #ti ks> Asia The middlo verse is Acts 17, l*th verse. ^ -?*t?f hn?* ?rurr-^** The least vcr.se is John,9, 35th verse. Tbe 21st verso, chapter f, ffi Kara^* ^ has all the letters of the alphabet. The 39th chapter of 2d Kings, and chapter 37 of Isaiah, are both alike. ?:- w w -~ mm III - A Young Man Takes a Two Yeaus Nap, A\v.\ kens. anu Asks, ' Is Bueak fast Beady?"?We arc informed that a young man living iu the lower part of : this County was taken sick about two years'ago, aud tell into ? deep sleep, from which be only awoke about two weeks since. The first expression be made use ofou mining to, was, "Is break fast ready?" just as though be had been ai>lccp but one night. A physician bad been attending on him all tbe time, and happened in just after he awoke. On walking up to tbe bed. he called the pa tient by name, remarking that "Yon must f e'. better, as your checks have more color ;" tb which he replied, by asking, "Who are you?" On Wagd informed that he was. a physieian who had been attending hi in constantly for two years, be could hardly believe his senses During . bis sleep ho was fed regularly with spoon victuals, as though be was conscious: lie is now up, enjoy ing good health, and busily engaged iu ? trying to get tho events of the last two years posted up iu his mind, that he may unite them with the past and present. He has a distinct recollection of every thing- up to tho time of his going to sleep. We have heard no explanation of this case of Rip Van Winklriisan* ^avif A TT f. .V. VT e!> 8 ?J10! i?E.?A TOSTl TiS?jed iNif Miasisens* ssjHitifeMH Price, from Greene oounty, Va , attempt ed suie'ule at the Crrcenbrior White Suf phur Spring-*, a few days ago, uy ?rutiiug his throat with a razor on the lawn. An account in the Alexandria Gazette says : There were a number of persons in full view, 'but tbe* atUfflMtf^r ^flft'1 Wise was first attracted to what two - man ?was really attempting. Oeo. U. L. Waiker and others at once ran to him and snatched the razor from his hand. His throat was very seriously lacerated, but it is not thought that doatb will re sult. Tbe unhappy' man^kad brrVnfcht' here for exhibition a-stone with"tjle t>#tot of a ek41d'ii'iftw^itt it,:found sowiotiin?, ago iu Madisonoouuty. But as few per sons had suflieicnt curiosity to see it to pay for the privilege, (he adventure was unprofitable/ Wte disappointment, with perhaps ??known oansus bestJa*, led to the desatiup ?tMMgtuiadtf U>s?>raV\ A young girl nsn*d Ih?ly, a?**^ years, of ago was, raped in Bcnton County, Indiana, several days ago and died from the effects of tier injuries "T?s1* nan, whose name onr exchange d-> g; subsef|iwiHy sWoWwd, ny uking poMow, upon hoarmg oi th* death ot ? ?-> ? poor girl he bad crully outraged.