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^ __ _ __ -zrrrr-_ .. _ ????^-rrrr^a^? ???.^?? i ? ?? jno.L.milleb&co.,proprietor..! An Independent Journal: For the Promotion of the Political, Social, Agricultural and Commercial Interests of the South. jlewish. grist,pnbu.h?. VOL. 3. YORKVILLE, S. C., THTJBSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1857. IsTO. 41. Selects |)octrD. WHAT's TRUMPS 1 There nre so r ny c ircis to piny, So :: iny w ..v: to choose. In Love ami Pr'tics and war, That forwarding onr views With ladies fair, with statesmen wise Or men of lesser bumps, B fore we lead ir strongest suit 'Tig well to know what's trumps. Once, worshiping at beauty's 9hrine I knelt in bondage sweet, Aud breathed my vows with eagerness, And offered at her fec; My soul, well stored with Cupid's w alth? A love cemented lnmp: A king of dianv'uds won the trick; My heart was not ? trump. Raving to see mv rival win Upon a single reb, As he played the df.ece with me, I followed with a cleb. Two days within a station house Reflecting on my sin, t ao nthoca mat liuvp clnrie. Clubs very seldom win. Grown wise by sad experience, I ceased to deal with maids; I shitfled youthful follies off, And turned tip Jack of Spades, Yet still I find as dust is scarce And smaller grow the lump9, That though the Spade's an honest card, It is not always trumps. But in a world of outside show. Where mammon rules the throng : To ease the little jolts of life. And smoothly pass along; To find an antidote for care, And stern misfortune's thumps, One card is very sure to win;' Diamonds are always trumps! 31 radical Jstonr. UP." CHAPTER I. 'Anything over, Hen ?' <Xot a dollar; I have just paid the Jour nal's bill for advertising, wmcn nas preciy | much cleaned me out.' ?ITow much V Forty-two dollars and twenty-fivocents.' I 'Ben, I don't like to tell you that you are j the biggest fool on the street, but you are.' 'Wait, Joe, and see,' returned the uther, with a confident smile. 'Forty-two dollars for advertising!' The applicant for 'anything over,' gave a peculiar whistle, to define the length, depth, and breadth of his astonishment. This conversation occurred in the store of Benjamin Weston, a young and enterprising merchant, who had just comraencee business on his own account. The other person, who, to use his own classical expression, was bang up,' and wanted to borrow fifty dollars to make up the amount of a note due that day, was Joseph Weston a cousin of the other. They had been playmates in youth, and staunch friends in maturity. Though there wa^ a great diversity of opinion on many topics, a strong sympathy existed between them. They had commenced business at about tl>e same time, and under the same circumstances, both being obliged, for th" want of sufficient capital, to mortgage th. stock in the' r respective tores. ' ' - > 11 o...l mv\c_ 1 Ous iai ley iuiu uuuk nm, ?uu pect was that both would become distinguished merchants. They had married sisters, and occupied tenements in the same block. Their houses were furnished in substantially tin same style, and with no material difference of expenditure. Both had been brought up to business habits, and educated in the principles of rigid economy. 'And if I had money to spare, [ would spend double that sum,' replied Benjamin. 'What benefit do you expect to realize from it ?' 'You are behind the times, Joe. Benefit! What a questiou ! I expect to make a fortune by it.' 'Humph.' 'Look at Brandcth aud Swain.' 'Both humbugs.' 'No matter for that; if these fellows have been able to make princely fortunes by ad- i vertising humbugs, how much more so will he who deals in substantial realities!' 'All gammon.' 'We differ; time will tell who is in the right.' 'Seriously, Ben, you will ruin yourself if you go in this manner. Forty-two dollars a quarter for advertising !' t 1 " 3 ~ nnwf miqrtnr y ! 'i snail speuu u umiuicu m?: uva>>|u?4>vi. I 'Don't do it, Ben.' 'Row does it happen, Joe, that you are in i the street borrowing money ? I never did ; such a thing since I commenced business.' ; 'How does it happen, Ben, that you havn't! got any mouey to lend ?' asked Joe. with a j smile. 'Because I spent it in advertising.' 'Better have spent it for operas and 2:40's ' 1 'Wait, Joe, wait.' 'I spent nothing for advertising, but I'll j bet you the oysters now my sales for the last quarter are as large as yours.' 'I will take you upon the next quarter.' j 'Why not the last V < Vflvertisinir is somewhat like planting | potatoes ; you must wait for the crops." 'Don't believe in it, Ben. When I have : a fifty spot that I dou't know what to do ' with, I shall put it into my family. Buy a i library, a new sofa, or something of the sort. I should rather go to the White Mountains j with it than throw it away on newspapers.' j 'You don't know your own interests, Joe.' 'Don't I. Some kinds of business might! thrive on advertising j ours, never. Do you ) believe the women look in the newspaper be- j fore they go shopping ?' Well, there was a lady in here just now who said she saw such goods adv? -tised by me.' 'Pshaw ! and ou the strength of that y.?u iuteud to spend fifty dollars more in advertising ! Ben, you are crazy;' and Joseph Weston turned upon his heel and left the j store, assured in his own mind that his friend | was going to ruin. In his estimation, such loose principles wonld eventually bring him to bankruptcy. ! Bnf Ben was his friend, and he deeply coraI misacrated him because he clung to such j weak and pernicious doctrines. CHAPTER II. Business prospered with the young men. By prudent and careful management, each had not only made a living, but had been abio to pay a small portion of the mortgage on the stock, at the end of the first year. Joseph had the advantage of his friend in 1 furniture. Mrs. Weston's little parlor looked exceedingly pleasant and comfortable.? i Besides, it looked as though her husband 1 was prospering in business. It was so very nice that the young wife could not bear the idea of having the parlor shut up so no one could see it till the furni- 1 ture had grown rusty; consequently she made up her mind that they must have a 1 party. Their friends had parties; why should not j they? It looked stingy not to have one.? Mrs Weston was an eloquent debater, and she gained the day in the matter. It's true the party was not a very extravagant affair, ^ but it cost Joe some fifty dollars. In the meantime, Ben had paid quite as much for advertising as his friend had for new furni- ^ ture and the party. Joseph laughed at him, j and finally come to believe that he was insane, and would certainly come to ruin in J another year. Mrs. Ben Weston, too, felt decidedly un- ( pleasant about the improvements which had ? been going on in her sister's house. t fWhy cau't we have a rosewood table and a set of stuffed chairs, Benjamin?' asked g she, pouting her pretty lips in a very una- s .- ui UJ1HU1C JJUMUUII. 'Simply, my dear, because I can't afford , it,' replied the philosophical merchant. 'How can Joe afford it ?' 'I presume he knows his own business r best.' c 'He has put over a hundred dollars into f his house.' Ben whistled "T'other side of Jordan,' ^ and made no reply. 'Do, Ben, buy some chairs.' a 'Can't afford it.' t 'Yes you can.' 'No I can't.' s 'You can afford it as well as Joe.' 'Perhaps f can.' a 'Do buy some.' 'I should be very glad to gratify you, but f I can't take the monty from the business.? < A year hence, if business has prospered with me, you shall have them.' 'A year hence,' pouted the wife. c <1 must spend a hundred dollars in adver- j rising the next quarter.' 'How foolish !' j 'Very foolish, my dear, but it must be t done.' 'That's the way you throw your money ^ away?you don't catch Joe doing such a thing as that.' 'True, but though he has the advantage a of a corner store, I paid three hundred dol- t lars more on my mortgage than he did.' Then you surely can afford the table and r chairs.' 'Nay. my dear, T will Dot spend a dollar a for superfluities while T aui in debt/ Mrs. lien Weston felt very badly about j it, but her husband was firm, and she was forced to content herself with the plain fur- s niture. Mrs. Joe Weston enjoyed her nice parlor till the novelty wore away, and then she dis- c covered that there was a great many other f articles wauted to make things look uniform. v The two windows must have drapery curtains, a pier-glass was needed, and some pictures < were wanting to relieve the walls. Her husband, who had once exceeded the limits of his means, found no great difficulty in doing t so again, and the things were bought. f But Joe had some scruples about it. His 0 notes began to be troublesome, and every day he was in the street borrowing money. His business, too, had not met his expectations. Instead of increasing in the ratio of last year's experience, it hardly held its own, and the poor fellow began to have some serious misgivings about the future. Before the year had half expired, he was obliged to introduce a rigid system of retrenchment into his family and business affairs, in order to keep his expenses within { his income. . a CnAPTER nr. Another year had passed away in the business experience of the young merchants. The books were balanced, and the result, in j j black and white, stood before them. Ben had followed up his system of ad- j, vertising through the year. He had expend ed large sums, but he made the outlay with \1 judgment and discretion. i ^ The result had exceeded his most sanguine ! expectations. His store was crowded with j ^ customers ; with genuine, bona fide custom- i i ers: and with but a small proportion of | gadders and fancy shoppers. The papers j, had borne to the best families in the city and j country full descriptions of his stock. His j name was as familiar as'household words' in ' r the dwellings of the rich and poor, of the t farmer, mechanic and laborer. t 'Truly, the harvest was abundant; and i Ben rubbed his hands with delight as he p cast his eyes over the figures which convey- p ed to him the pleasing result of his year's \ operations. He had the means of not only t clearing himself of debt, but also of grati- s fying his wife with all the new furniture she a required, besides some little surplus with t which to iucrease his business. 1 The furniture was bought and set up, eve- t ry debt discharged, and the importers and 1 jobbers wore eager to give him unlimited 1 credit t One day while he was running upon this a pleasant state of things, Joe Weston entered a the store. For some months past the intercourse between the young merchants had not been as cordial as formerly. Joe's nice things had rather set him up ; some of the upper ten had condescended to visit him, and he attended the Almack parties with his wife. Under this encouraging aspect he ventured to expend another hundred dollars id addition to his furniture, which his wife insisted was absolutely necessary for their comfort and happiness. The house had been too plainly furnished for this progressive age, in his estimation. She was behind some of her friends who, she was sure, were doing no better than her husband. Joe was a little obstinate at first; bat then there was something so decidedly comfortable in a set of stuffed chairs nod a lounge. He was doing well, and the expenditure would not embarrass him. With a nice new Brussels carpet, a nd now possessing a better location, though bis rent was somewhat higher, the difference was more than compensated by the increased facilities it had afforded him. If his business increased as it had done, he would be enabled to clear himself of debt in another pear. He was getting along fast in hi3 own es:imation, and cherished a supreme contempt, for the slow motion of his friend. But in :he middle of the year, when he found himself running down hill, and discovered that Ben's store was crowded with Bhoppers, while lis own was empty, a feeling of envy took josseesion of him. Ben must be widerseling, he concluded, and sooner or later the lonsequences would appear. The prosperms merchant could not but notice the sad ind dejected mein of his friend, as he enered the store. 'IIpw are you, Joe ? You are almost a itranger lately. Where do you keep yourielf?' said Ben. 'Business, Ben, business,' replied Joe, de nureiy. 'Good ! Business before pleasure.' 'Anything over to-day?' asked Jce ; but he query was not put in the buoyant and tlassic tone which had distinguished him in 'ormer times. 'A trifle: how much do you want?' reurned Ben, promptly. 'To tell the truth, I'm 'bang up.' I have . note of four hundred to pay, and I have lot raised the first dollar towards it.' 'You are late: it is half-past one now,' aid Ben, consulting his watch. 'Ben, I am in a tight place,' said Joe, in low, solemn tone. , 'Indeed ! I am sorry to hear it, and Ben's ace wore an expression of sincere pity.? Nothing serious, I hope ?' 'I'm afraid so.' 'What can I do for you?' and the merhant took down his check-book and exanrned the state of his bank account. 'I can give you a check for three hundred, f that will do any good,' continued Ben, aking up his pen to fill out the blank. Thank you Ben; you are very kind, but I lon't know as I ought to take it.' 'Not take it! why not ?' 'If I should pay this note, there is hardly possibility that I could get through with he month.' 'So bad as that ? 'Pon my soul I'm sory to hear it. t ..j..;? ? ?.1-- __ -OUJll'U UUU Kt UUW WUV13C LUC IU lUUttC <X U ssignuient.' 'How does it happen ? T thought you were loiug well.' 'Business has been very dull for the last ix luonths. Havn't you found it so ?' 'Well, no; it has been thriving with me.' Joe knew it had; his present visit was lot to borrow money, but to prepurc his riend for the smash, which was now unaoidable. My sales have been light,' continued he; I can't account for it.' 'I can ; look here Joe.' Ben took down the ledger and pointed to he account 'charges' where the sums paid or advertising had beeu entered. On a slip if paper he had them footed up. 'Five hundred and sixty-five dollars for dvertising, Joe! that's what did the busiiess.' Joe was astonished. Itwasquitoasmuch s he had paid out for fine things in his house nd for parties and the opera; but the in'estment had beeu vastly more profitable, nasmueh as, taken in connection with his lareful management of business, and his couomical manner of living, it had been he foundation of his future fortune. It lad given him a good start in business, and frond start is half the hat tie. n""- ? Joe Wcstou failed, and only p id twenty cuts on the dollar. His fine furniture was 11 sold, and he was obliged to board out.? >ut in his extremity Hen was his true friend. ;Ic received hiru into his house, and when I lis business was settled up, took him iuto inrtnership. The firm is now one of the most respectade and prosperous in the city. Joe ever ince his 'bang up,' believes in advertising; nd any one who opens the Journal, or inIced any of the city papers, cannot fail to ictice the conspicuous advertisement of Weston & Co.' A Tragedy.?The. history of Sweden ecords a very extraordinary incident, which ook place at the representation of the Mysery of the Passion, under King John 11., n 1513. The actor who performed the >art of Loginus, the soldier who was to tierce the Christ on the cross in the side, vas so transported with the spirit of his acion, that he really killed the man who peronatcd our Lord j who, falling suddenly,! ,.:iL l _:?i ii a? __ ! ,uu wim great viuicuue, uvunurew iuu uuress who represented the Holy Mother.? ?ing John, who was present at this specaclc, was so enraged against Loginus, he eaped on the stage and struck off his head, [he spectators who had been delighted with he too violent actor, became infuriated igainst their king, fell upon him in a throng md killed him.? Curiosity of History. miscellaneous From the Marion American. THE PALMETTOES IN MEXICO. BY ONE OF THE TWO HUNDRED. NEW SEB1ES?NO. VI. Adieu! adieu! my native shore .Fades o'er the waters blue The night winds sigh, the breakers roar And shrieks the wild sea mew. Yon sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight Farewell a while to him, and thee My native land?good night! On the 28tb of January the Palmettoes embaikcd from Mobile for an unknown destination. Major Gladden, with three companies embarked on the ship Ellerslie on the 26th of January; on 28th Lieut.Col. Dickenson with three companies embarked on the ship Oregor, and on the same evening Col. Butlerand the remaining fourcompanies embarked on the old Alhambra. The Oregon and Aihambra laid that night inMobile Bay. Early on the morning of the 29th under a bright sky, and a stiff freshening breeze, we weighed anchor, unfurled our sails, and soon were far out on the stormy bosom of the Gulf of Mexico. I will not attempt to describe the swelling emotions of our hearts as we stood with st-^dfast eyes, gazing on the faint, blue crest of our native land as it faded into indistinctness, and finally sank beneath the watery horizon. We were now out on the wide and stormy Gulf; beneath us only the blue waves?above us only the blue skies, and around us a waste of waters?the sun went down in a bed of crimson glory, the stars came out from the quiet sky, we bade our native land "good night," and retired to our first sleep upon the bosom of the deep, if the thronging, fond memories of home, and friends and native land, and the strange, wild, forebeding visions of the future permitted us to sleep. We were going, we knew not where.? We had embarked under sealed orders, which ? A- 1_ - 1 l!l A - A were not to De opened until we were out at sea. When opened we were informed that Vera Cruz was our destination, and we knew that in a few days we would havestern work to do. We started with the old Alhambra as our companion, but the greater speed of the Oregon, in a few hours left the slow, lumbering old Albambra, lost in the distance.? The sun of the second day rose clear and bright, and with a favoring breeze we sped ga:ly on. We passed the mouth of the Mississippi, which freshens the gulf for a hundred miles with its turbid wafers. It will not mingle with the waters of the gulf. At the distance of sixty miles from its mouth, I could have put my finger on the line of distinctness and separation between the salt blue of the gulf water, and the I muddy green of the Mississippi. All was well, until the evening of the third day, when a fierce, terrific norther came upon us with a suddenness which almost snapped the masts, and capsized the vessel. Through the speaking trumpet the captain gave his quick, prompt, telegraphic commands, the sailors merrily climbed the masts, and with every rag of sail taken down, under bare poles, the ship was prepared to ride out the fury of the storm. A chilling rain drove us below deck, wherein darkness, and gloom and terror, amid noise and confusion indescribable, in a sickening, fetid, loathsome, pent up air, we passed a night of suffering whose horrors no language can portray. All nf ?<j were suffering t,he first throes and qualms of sea sickness, whose heaving* responded to the heaving waves. The howling winds kept fit music to that night of horrors. Our stomachs were churned to gall, our heads almost bursting with sea-sick agony, as wc tossed, and turned that night upon our hard beds, wooing a sleep which came not, as a brief respite to our sufferings. The morning came, but it brought little mitigation of uur sufferings. The mountain waves, still dashed with terribly fury against our ship, she tossed, and heaved and pitched, while every timber creaked and groaned with the shocks, and the waves dashed over her brow, ! and swept down her decks. It was a fearful and an awful scene. We could not stand on j deck without imminent danger of being | thrown overboard, and the few who braved it, were seen hugging the masts, and clingj ing on to the ropes, to save them from being dashed to death against the vessels sides, or thrown over into the gulf. Another night of horror came and the storm still raged in its fury- Two or three times the vessel caught on fire. So reckless bad I become that when at night the cry was heard, that the ship was on fire, I never rose from my bed Let it burn was my answer, for death will be relief to us. Such is the desperation or sea-sickness. It makes men pray for death, and I believe the veriest coward, under violent sea-sickness would welcome death. For three days and nights the storm spent its fury upon us without abatement, after which it gradually subsided, and the fourth dowhrnlro rtn lie AS Pillni. AS fllliet 8S an in fant's slumber. It was a dead calm. Not a breeze stirred, the sails hung drooping with their weight, and the bosom of the gulf was placid and waveloss as the blue sky above us. Such was the scene on the Oregon. From the narrative, of a brother soldier, who was on the Alharabra, I will give a description of the storm, and its effects on the Alhambra. " The Regiment embarked under sealed orders, to be opened at sea, the purpose being to prevent newspaper publication concerning the object of the expedition. All were eager to learn their destination, and as soon as the distant traces of the land had disappeared, and the deep blue water was reached, the seals were broken,?their destination was known?their hopes were realized?they were bound for Vera Cruz and the Halls of the Montezumas; and the three transport ships, bearing their cargoes of living souls, orowded all sail and bore away across the stormy gulf for the little isle of Lobos. Not the least difficult and dangerous part of the long transit to the field of operations was this voyage. Most of the men were from the rural districts of the State, and unused to the water. They were all huddled together?two or three hundred in number, in small merchant ships, which had been engaged in great haste for the occasion, and were unsuited, both in structure and preparation, for the transport of troops. Many of the vessels employd by the Government as transports were nturly unsafe and others were commanded by men who scarcely knew the rudiments of scientific navigation. The n..ic _< at : l e ii? VJUii ui luexiuu, swept as it is iieijueutijr; indeed almost periodically, by the terrible northers, which poor themselves "'own from the frozen peaks of the Oordille.as. is considered more stormy and dangerous than the dreaded "Bay of Biscay. Memory calls to mind more than one fearful night, when ! amidst the roaring of the storm the hatches were nailed down upon suffocating, sea-sick soldiers, who tumbled together in a common 1 pile with barrels of mess pork and pilot 1 bread, were rolled from side to side in confusion, darkness and appalling uncertainty. On deck; the horses ?broken from their stalls, and frantic with fright, were ouly 1 saved from trampling each other to death," 1 by being swept together into the deep.? Captain Wilson and his motley crew stood 1 aghast, and the old Alhambra, cracking in ! all her joints, threatened with every leelurch 1 to go down to the bottom." The Alhambra narrowly escaped ship- ' wreck. She was blown upon the Mexican ( coast, near enough to see it distinctly. Thesteamer Ondiaka, having on board a- ' bout 800 iucn of the Lnuifiana Regiment 1 n .1 iv ? j..-:.? i ; uuuci v w. i fv itupacjf ? ?rirhirtij uui 111^ this norther, on the Mexican coast. They 1 were soon discovered by a large body of ( Mexicans under lieu. Cos, and summoned to ( surrender immediately. Tlicy had lost their ' guns in the wreck, and were at the mercy ' of the Mexicans, yet the brave and witty ' Col. Pe Rnssey effected by stratagem what, 1 under other circumstances, he would have * effected by force. ? He drew up his men in the order of battle, * as if awaiting an attack, and declined the summons to surrender, by replying that he ' would think of it, and answer that evening. 1 Having thus gained time, until late in the 1 evening, he had camp fires lighted, and other 1 apparent preparation for passing the night. ( TTic Mexicans have no fancy for night at- ? tacks, and postponed the attack until morn- s ing. Availing himself of the darknes of 1 the night, Col. De Russey leaving his camp- 1 fires burning brightly, formed hi3 men and a drew off silently and stealthily. By a rapid ; march he reached Tampico in safety, with- a out the loss of a man. This was the coolest, and most brilliant c and masterly act performed during the war., , Who but Be Russey, when assailed by a force three times as large as his own, without 1' a munl-rt in his battalion, unarmed, aud j defenceless, and far from help, on an unknown coast, would for a moment have % s hesitated to surrender, or thought of such ... r anapparcnt impossibility as escape? Yet j he did srll the Mexican General most ele- ^ gantly. Who will not throw up his cap, and . say three cheers for Col. De Russey, as we ^ the Pulmettoes did, when we heard the par- j. ticulars of his gallant action ? I presume that few of the Palmettoes have fnrcntten . I Col. Butler's speech on the moon-light ^ night, on Lobos, when the news reached us of Col. Be Russey's escape. I delight to perpetuate the name of such a man as De ' Russey. It deserves to be imraortnl. The point of rendezvous for the army was the little Islet of Lobos, lying between Vera Cruz and Tampico, about 130 miles from the former; about half that distance from j tha latter, and about twelve miles from the c cost of Mexico. ^ From the Chester Standard. _ v THE MILITARY SYSTEM. e We, the undersigned sufferers, complain v of the loss of time?the inconveniences and Y hard service which the military system im- d poses upon us, as peaceable citizens of a t free country. 1st. Because we live eight \ miles from our Company's meeting place, ten c miles from our battalion parade ground, and s eighteen miles from our regimental muster I ground. 2nd. Because the majority of us b are'mechanics who do not keep horses to d ride. 3rd Because we are engaged in me- v chanical work for the public, such as mend- v ing Wagons, Carriages, and various other v kinds of work, with funeral out-fits, &c.? t! 4th. Because we have families to support, a whose demands require our whole time and ii attention. 5th. Because our military servi- ? ces do no good?neither are our neighbers, g nor the District, or State, or United States, si benefited by our troubles and loss of time. And, in a general sense, tne military system is one of the veriest impositions ever U submitted to by a free and republican people, tl The manner in which it is observed is a d sham kind of mock royalty, a cause of hu- si miliation, rather than an honor to our State, f The State House question, and the Rabun ri Gap project are trival considerations com- ri pared to the tax, or worse than any rcasona- s< ble tax, which our military system requires fi at our hands. Practically, each man that g docs military duty would save by paying 810. ft annually, to bo freed from that duty; and b supposing that there are 54,000 in the State, s< liable to do military duty, the amount would be 8540,000 annually. This would, in a (; short time, amount to enough to build all It the Rail Roads of our State, besides accom- si plishing many other praiseworthy and be- r< nevolent purposes. This enormous amount tt of money?money's worth (time)?under a the military system, is worse than thrown ci away?the morals of the people are corrup- ci ted by the system forcing them to leave their ti daily avocations to go to places of rendez- tl vous, where their superior officers, with a b company of men called candidates, encour- a age them to drink liquor and hereby cheer their spirits to do acts of rioting and bloodshed, in times of peace and quietness, the sequels to all of which are rehearsed at the Court House, and the whipping post and gallows, are the quite frequent results. Hiram Steele, W. F. Burnett, M. T. Dawkins, J. B. Frey, S. A. McLeduff, John Swan, W. C. -Hawkins, Eli Dawkins, I. D. C. ("Madden, Thomas Dewett, Jr., Samuel Brown. HEBB DBIESCACH AND HIS LION. The (raleDa (111.) Courier publishes a letter from a correspondent in Potosi, Wis., who says :?"Tired of this intinerant aud Benedick life, about, three years since, the Herr took to himself one of the most intelligent and amiable of the Buckeye daughters. and removed to this Dlaee. where he had purchased himself a beautiful farm, and where he has retired to cultivate the earth and make for himself a pleasaut home. Since that the Lion Tanierhas visited Dubuque; and the editor of the Espre** of that city gives the following interesting recognition *: , "Last evening we, with two companions, walked up street with a worthy farmer from within one mile of Potosi, Wisconsin, who talked about his 'pigs, geese, and ducks/ and with what success he tilled his farm.? As an iustance of his successful till, he stated that he sold the product froui titty feet square of his farm, of which he kept an account, for forty-three dollars. Hence it maybe seen that this farmer, Herr Driesbach, has mine skill as well as pride about his farming. Our chief object in taking this walk was that the Herr desired us to witness a meeting between himself and the old pets of the menagerie, which he had not seen formorethan i year, and which, of eoursc, we were most mxious to witness, to see whether time, travel and change had obliterated from their recollections their old master. On enteriug :hc canvnss, which was before the audience cegan to collect, Herr desired us to stand nefore the cage of the Bengal tiger, he renainiug at the door the while This tiger, ?rom some old sore, had just as old a grudge igainst him, as in days of yore, and managed ;o give a marked demonstration of the fact, rhis cage was selected for the first test of ecognition. While we were stationed imliediately in front, Herr came sauntering tlong earelessly, habited in a farmer's cosume, and as he neared the cage the tiger's :yes began to glisten with great brilliancy ts they bore directly upon him, and at the same time, a low guttural growl began to aise in his throat, which burst out in a ferocious howl as he leaped at the bars to get it him as he passed by. This experiment vas tried several times with the same result, md when at length Herr spoke to him, his age knew no bounds, leaping at the bars, ie dashed his paws out to tear him, and only leased when his old master walked out of lis sight. "The next place we were desired to renove to, was the large cage containing a O rr?n ll/ttl TT7 A 1 A/\rvO %?/J n n n J n nnn TIT#* nun; inu iuu|juiu.i auu u uuiicso. tt c nention them thus as it is the order they tand in the cage, it beiDg divided into apartncDts. As Herr approached this cage the ioness caught sight of him, and her eyes learned with pleasure, while her tail wagged n glad recognition. On "his coming up to ler she appeared frantic with joy, and when ic spoke to her and presented his face to he cage, she kissed him, and placed her paw n his hand with all the air of an intense afectiou. "Indeed, while he was in her presence, he did not know how to control herself, but rould lick his hands while he attempted to tat her, roll over, reach out her paws to him nd press her nose between the bars as hough she would like to have had a closer iresence. While Herr was talking to the ioness, the old lion in the other end of the age began to get jealous and grumbled, for te too had recognized his old friend. Herr aid to hiui 'Billy getting jealous ?' and then ralked up to him, when the creature crowdd against the bars to get closer to him if it rerc possible, and kissed his face and licked lis hands with as great demonstrations of lelight as the other. The leopards, too, in he same cage knew their old master, and. patched him as they lay with their noses lose to the bars with evident, nlensnre and r eemed highly pleased as he spoke to them, n all our days we do Dot recollect any exhi- : ition that gave us so much satisfaction as lid this meeting of old friends, and while re watched them in their congratulations, ; re could not make up in our mind which ras the most delighted, Driesbach, to know hat he was not forgotten by these affection- ' te creatures, or that they were once more ' a his presence. While we were watching 1 Ierr and his old companions the crowd be- ' an to gather in, and our companions and 1 elf departed highly gratified at the result." J < A Regular Jack Sheppard.?An in- 1 ensely laughable robbery was perpetrated at i be Jarrett House, St. Anthony, on Thurs- c ay uight, which, in boldness, eclipses any i imilar enterprise of modern times. Col. 1. Wiltse, hearing somebody knocking a- j aund in the hall near his room at an un- t easonable hour, and suspecting it might be jme villain who meant to rob him, rose roui his bid, fixed the door of his room open, C ot his brace of pistols and prepared them ^ >r "an emergency," then sat down on the ? ed to wait for the anticipated scamp to pre?nt bimslf. In this position he fell asleep! ^ -and, while eojoyiDg a perpendicular dream . nrobablv of a robber writhiner with a bul- . r~7?.* ? - ? Ij ;t in his throax,) the ungrateful and inconiderate vagabond aforesaid walked into the ^ )om through the open door, helped himself ' ) new dress coat, two pairs of pantaloons, d a vest, pocketed six dollars and fifty u ents in money, deliberrtely became an ac- a omplice of Procrastination (the thief of i me) by stealing a valuable gold watch, took f ie gold studs out of the shirt of the slumerer, and reluctantly departed 1 Mr. W. woke just in time to find his "riotim" f vamosed, and himself minus property to the ( amount of 8200 or 8300. In faot, almost everything in the room had "gone off' except his faithful pistole, which were firmly grasped in either hand, ready capped and cocked ! The funny gentleman of the dark lantern has not been seen or heard of since. Rescue op three of the Central America Passengers.?The bark Brr. men arrived at New York, on the 5th instant with Tice, second engineer of the Central America; Alexander Grant, fireman, do., and G. W. Dawson, a passeDger, who were rescued by the "British brig Mary, bound from Cardenas to Queenstown, but transferred to the Bremen. Mr. Tice drifted about on a plank seventy hours after the Central America went down. On the fourth morning he drifted to a boat of the lost vessel, and succeeded in getting into it. Ob the fifth day he drifted across Grant, who swam to him from part of the hurricane deck, on which he had floated, and got into the boat. They t?'?en both pulled to the hurricane deck and took off* Dawson. There had been ten others on the deck, bat they all died. Among them were : Geo. Baddington, 3d engineer y John Banks, coal heaver; and Patrick Card, do.?the other six were passengers.? Ticc, Grant, and Dawson, were eight days without food or water, with the sea breaking over them. The secoud day after the disaster, they saw a number of the passengers on pieces of wreck, but could uot assist them. The rescued arc in a sad condition, being badly bruised and covered with boils. Subscribing for Papers.?We wish to express it as a mature conviction of our own mind, that one of the best protections for our children against the temptations of city and village life, is the habitual of a wellconducted family newspaper or periodical. If you want a child to take an interest in a paper, let it be hi* paper, sent to his address. In a reasonable time be will get to look for its coming, and feel the want of it, if it does not arrive at the usual time. Soon it will be a kind of necessity, and rather than be without it, he becomes willing to make sacrifices and self-denials for the sake of saving any stray dime or half-dime which may happen to come into his possession. Peanuts and gingerbread, monkey-shows and firecrackers, arc vetoed, and the increment of a nnnrter of a dollar to a half, and so on. to 1 ' the subscription price, is watched with an interest and a pleasure which few would imagine; and lo! the germs of an economy and self-denial are planted before we are aware of it, which will grow to health, and wealth, and position.?Journal of Health. BANE SUSPENSIONS. The New York crrespondent of the Evening Aers, mentions the fact that the total number of banks which have suspended in various parts of the country since the commencement of the financial pressure is one hundred and thirty-eight, of which twentyeight were in N. York State, twenty-nine in Pennsylvania, eighteen in Maryland, eleven in Maine, three in Vermont, eight in Rhode Island, seven in Ohio, three in Indiana, one in the District of Columbia, two in Michigan, two in New Hampshire, three in Massachusetts, eight in Connecticut, seven in New Jersey, two in Tennessee, five in Illinois, eight in Virginia, and three in Wisconsin. This, of course does not include the private hanking houses, many of which have gone by the board. The South stands in an enviable position, and as we are now on the eve of large cotton receipts no difficulty is expected from this quarter. JST* Before you undertake to borrow money from a man, get him good natured.? Sparkle, the other day, told old Pinchback -that "that joke of his'n" had been quoted \ by the Beeswax Herald, as one of the rich- \ est pieces of facetiae that it had met with in \ a year. What was the effect ? Why \ Sparkle effected a loan of twenty dollars from Pinchback, on no other security than his individual due bill! Don't think, however, that this indicates generosity on the part of Pinohback. Not at all. Only a week before, be refused to giro ten shillings towards getting "his cousin Jim" out of the watch-house. It was not magnanimity which make Pinchback " come out," but a little soft sawder. Recollect the receipt, and act accordingly. Singular Interposition.?A lady had a tame bird, which she was in the habit of letting out of its cage every day. One morning, as it was picking crumbs of bread off the carpet, her cat, who, always before showed great kindness for the bird, seized it on a sudden and jumped with it in her mouth upen the table. The lady was much alarmed for the safety of her favorite, and turning ibout, instantly discovered the cause. The loor had been left open, and a strange cat Dad just come into the room. After turning t out, her own cat came down from her place >f safety, and dropped the bird, without dong it the smallest injury.?Salem Register. A Dodge.?A constable in Cazenovia, laving been continually foiled in his efforts o obtain admission to house of a oertain nan whose property he wished to seize for lebt, adopted the ruse of getting a brother lonstablc, whose face was unknown, to ef'ect an admission and accomplish the seizure, rhe scheme appeared to answer; constable ;ot in; asked for property; wife said she'd how him up stairs; constable passed hrough a door as requested?and found limself in the street, and the door locked fter him. He should have looked ere he eaped.? Utica Herald. W-The financial panic has had its effect ipon the boot and shoe dealers in New York nd the eastern markets, and quite a decline n prices has resulted. Leather and manu* actured goods have considerably declined. Rigid Justice.?Juror on a murder oase ait asleep. r