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A REFLEX OF POPULAR EVENTS.
Denoted to Progress, % tJig!)te of Jlje 53ouil), onb the Diffusion of XXsefuL Unoujlcbgc among oil Classes of Working Jiten.
I VOLUME IV. GREENVILLE. SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 5.1857. NUMBER 36.
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It I8SUBD BVBRY THURSDAY MORNING,
BY PRICE & McJUNKIN.
WILLIAM P. PRICE,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
C. M. M'JUNKIN,
PRINTER.
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able.
ACJENTS.
W. W. Walk**, Jr., Columbia, S. C.
Prra* Straolky, Kaq., Flat Rock, N. C.
A. M. Panax, Fairview P. O., Greenville Dint
William C. Uaiut, Pleasant Orove, Greenville.
Cast. R. Q. Akdrrs-ix, Enoree, 8partanburg.
Hard Times"
ILird Times" is now on every lip,
And breathed from every tongue;
The banks are cursed by one and all,
The aged and the young.
The merchant has to close his doors,
And throw hi6 ledger by;
Such times, he vows, were never seen
By any mortal eye. .
The shopmen quit the counter's side,
For customers are few ;
The tiinea are now so very " tight,"
It makes tbem all look " blue."
The citizen in vain essays
To make more than nis bread,
A pound of which, he now declares,
Won't weigh a pound of lead.
There's not a day but some one fails,
Some house that goea to smash ;
And names that once stood high on 'Change,
Are out for want of cash.
J IIWC WIIUIII iiiuuglll wurc Ul 14IIUU ill ICS,
| And rich in share* and Mocks,
' Their "million heirs" now disappoint?
They fall, and leave no " rocks."
I '* Hard times! hard times 1 Was ever seen
Such times, as hard as those t"
This is the cry from morn til) night,
in which each one agrees.
A remedy, we think, we've found,
Say, how do you think 'twill dol
u Pull off your coat, roll up your sleeves.
And work these hard limes through I"
Jfiisrrilontona tolling.
An Hour's Struggle with Poison.
I was spending a few days, not many
years ago, in a beautiful little country village,
and in a family that had more than
common attractions to one who loves domestic
life as well as myself. The little circle
had in it more of real interest than I have
often seen developed in the saroo number oi
persons.
The father of the family?almost too
young to feel yet that he was entitled to
that honorable appellation?was a fine,
frank-hearted yonftg mechanic, with a wide
world of life koundinor in his veins, an en
orgy that, when fully aroused, drove everything
violently before him, and a warmth
of disposition that won him more friendship
than it had then given him the goods ol
this world.
Ilis wife, to whom he had been married
some four years, was singularly beautiful.
They bad two children?I be one a laughing,
brown eyed and brown-haired little
fairy of three years. Her name was Eveleen
The second was a crowing, laughing, blue
eyed, plump little beauty, of lees than a year
promising to have all the charms of the old
er at her age.
I was sitting one afternoon in a quiet lit
tie room, with my feet upon two chairs
reading s pleasant little book, in a state be
tween asleep sod awake?my host awsy al
bis shop, a nundred yards off, and my pret
tv little boeteea enr acred in her household
labor*?when I wu thrown out of my in
doloooe by * scream that brought me to mj
feet like en electric shock. Ft was a wo
man's voice, and bad in it an excess o
agony that caonot be indicated in words?
so loud that it rung over that quiet litth
village, and brought every one forth to as
oertain the eaueo.
I sprang to the door that separated tin
silting room from the dining apartments
and saw the whole at a glance. Theyounj
mother stood at the door with her first-born
our darling Rveleen* in her arms, dying.?
A brief and hurried word from the scrvan
told me the sad story. The little girl ba<
accompanied a child uncle up stair*, am
whiles the aUeatloa of the older ohild ??
for a, moment turned away, she seized a bot
tie of eorrostve sublimate la alcohol, and hat
taken enough to hare taken away twenty
such lives. The little thing had tottered
down stairs, and the mother met her at the
landing with the empty bottle in her hand,
and the poison oozing from her mouth, aud
the child all unconscious of the thing she
had done. Was it ar.y wonder that a terrible
shriek rang out over the quiet village,
and that already the occupants of every
house near were rushing towards the spot
where the mother stood f
But a few moments could possibly have
elapsed since the poison was taken, and yet
the effect was already fearful. After the
first sbiiek of terror, the mother had quieted
to a calm despair for the moment, and
stood with the child in her arms, making no
effort for its relief; and, indeed, it seemed
hopeless, for already the subtle poison seemD/1
(fltffiie/ul ikf/vu/vK *1%^. ^ '' " 1
wi u>u??vu tuiuu^n ma imiiitt; me i?rown
eyes bad lost their lustre, the face was biack- ,
ened as is after death, aud the teeth were ,
tightly set in a cuCvuWv? that cvi- (
dently would not pass awny> I examined (
the little lost darling for a moment, ??
that it was hopeless, and then turned away,
unable to bear that mother's agony. The j
little door was already half-filled with villagers,
and sobs and moans and laments |
tions over the fate of the dying child wero ,
heard in every direction, mingled with j
quick and hurried questions as to the manner
of its occurrence, and vain attempts at
answering, which added an oppressing confusion
to the sadness of the scene.
The little play-fellow's uncle, who bad '
been up stairs with the child, had run in J
stantly to call the father, and but a few mo
menls elapsed before he sprang into the
middle of the group. He had been told (
all and asked no questions. 1 had time to '
remark that bis eye was very stern and I
that his lip was firmly compressed. Others,
too, remarked it, and I knew afterwards
that a murmur ran round the eirclo of how
strange it was that he betrayed no feeling.
lie reached out his hands and took the
child from its mother. Its eyes were now
closed, snd a white ooze coming from be- i
tween tbe blackened lips. Was ever death
more assured f I saw him open tbe eye
nun, nnu ueura 111m give n sign ot relief.?
He told me afterwards that the eye was not
shrunken, and so death had not begun. He
then attempted to open the mouth, but the
teeth were tight set, and they resisted his
effort*. But with a force that seemed almost
brutal, he wrenched the teeth apart
and opened the mouth.
" Shame !" cried one of the bystanders.
The father did not heed it, but motioned
to a neighbor to take the child in his arms.
He did so.
"Bring roe the egg baske't?" he spoke
very sternly, almost without opening his
teeth, to the servant.
" What do you want of it P " What
can you do with it f" " He's crazy 1" and
many such remarks followed, but the basket
was there in a moment.
lie seized one of the eggs, broke it, inserted
his fingers again between the teeth,
and wrenched them open by force, though
they shut with so convulsive a motion a?
to tear the flesh from his fingers, and poured
the albumen into the throat. There was
a slight struggle, nothing more, and the
spectators were horrified at the action.
" Don't 1 the child is dying f' said one.
" Please don't hurt the little thing; it
r can't live P the mother found voi<;e to say,
laying her hand upon his aim.
" Mary, be still l" he answered sternly,
while his teeth were relaxing from their
clenching, and his face as hard as if he
were entering a battle; 44 and don't any of
you meddle with me. Keep off!"
The bystanders involuntarily obeyed,
with many harsh remarks upon his cruelty:
but he did not heed them, and went on.?
r Another and another egg was broken, and
still there was no sign of life. Then the
whole body of bystanders broke ont into a
loud murmur, and cries of ** The brute J**?
' 14 Let the child die in peace I" " lie Is cr%r.y,
take the child away from him 1" were
1 heard around him.
He desisted for a moment from his ef
fort*, and turned with a fierceness which
1 had before been altogether foreign to his
nature, but no one who saw him afterwards
forgot it. u Pool* I" be hissed, ,4 mind your
- own business, and leave ine to mine. Take
i her away, will you I Try it 1" And he
- went on emptying egg after egg down the
t apparently lifeless throat.
The mother could stand this no longer.
I Her first born was being tortured to death
' before her eyes, and she imploringly flung
1 herself on her knees before her husband's
- fttlllAF whn kiul tH?t inmr.,nl
f M O, father, do atop kiui P the gasped;
- " he will obey you ; do atop him. lie is
? torturing that poor, dying child."
The grandfather started forward a step to
interfere, for he, loo, thought the proceeding
i an outrageous one; but he stopped and said.
i " Mary, let him alone. The child will die If
j he does not go on. It cannot do more than
, die if bo does. I would not sav a word to
. him for the world. The child is his; let
t him use it at his pleasure."
1 There wae a silence then. In a moment
1 more there wae a quiver of the eyelids, a
eonvuisive movement of the cbeel, and the
- teeth lost their tension. The father seized
1 his ehildl turned her Usee downward, and
f the poison began to flow from her mouth.
Again and again, aa the retching ceased, he
repeated the experiment; the life returned
still more, the face losing its black color tverv
instant. More than twenty times albumen
had been administered, and more than
half those times followed by the expulsion <
of the poison; when the eyes opened, the
father desisted, the little sufferer lay just
alive in his arms, exhausted, its little life
terribly shattered, but saved 1
Then, when the necessity for exertion and
determination were over?when the physician
had been summoned, and they knew
that darling little Eveleen might live, after
many weeks of struggle between life and
death ; when the relieved frionds had nc- '
knowledged they had wronged him first;
when the beautiful and sorrowful wife had
blessed him through her kisses and tears; 1
and all knew that, under God, only such an 1
almost fierce determination could have saved
the child?then the father sat down, un- 1
nerved, and wept like a child. 1
Not as in " Little Sister Eveleen " did the !
poison do its fearful office. Eveleen is aiive
Lo-day, and her brown eyes are opened upon
i womanhood. But there is no hour in my
lite that brings so thrilling a recollection as <
that of the young father's struggle for the !
life of his child.
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xne Aomo or Aaron.
Far to the north, where the broad valley
jf the Arabah melted into mint, lay something
bluo and shining, reflecting the sky.
rhere waa no mistaking it. It was the
Dead Lako of bitterness, that entomlw the
cursed cities on the plain. On its left are i
the ever fertile cliffs of salt?on its right tho
gioonty mountains of Mono. These objects,
however, were in the far horizon.
We passed over a heap of ruins, once per ,
haps a convent when Petra was a bishoprick ,
and along by the fallen walls of an inclosure |
that may have been a garden and ascending
by a reservoir whose arched covering is
still perfect, climbed to the extreme summit
by steps cut in the rock. Here we stood on
the undisputed locality of the last scene in
the life of the great High Priest of Israel.
Hero he stood on this very rock, .where
we are standing, and surveyed tho same desolate
scene that now lies before us. Behind
rise tho bald swelling ridges of Mount Seir,
the impassible land of Edom; in front, reaching
out to a wide horizon, the grcntand terrible
wilderness. In that desolate region he
had accompanied his people in their wanderings
of forty years. Below lies the broad
valley of the Arabah, then swarming with
the tents of the hosts of Israel. And yonder,
peihaps, where that sand cloud is just
now rising from the desert, the pillar of
cloud rested immovable over the sacred cur
tains of the tabernacle. In view of the
migntv mumtuue no can make atonement
for no longer; in view just of the borders of
the Promised Land, to liitn forbidden, and
underneath this clear blue canopy of lieAven,
Aaron calmly put off hia sacerdotal robes
and surrendered his oOico and his life together.
A small, plain building covers the summit.
It is vaulted within, and covcrod by a flat
roof, one of which is a dome. Christian
feet are not allowed to enter the building.
We looked in through a small aperture in
the door and saw only an altar shaped tomb
covered with a pall, like the ordinary
mosque tombs at Cairo. This building is
erected on the ruins of former structures.?
We found round it small fragments of mar
ble and alabaster, evidently the remains of
sotne more sumptuous construction, perhaps
of the early Christian, or even of Jewish
times. The claim of this snot to be the last
resting place of the great high priest has
the strongest evidence in its favor. The
mountain corresponds to the locality given
in the narrative, and some monument to record
the fact has been perpetuated from the
earliest times. The tomb of Aaron has been
revered alike by Christian, Musselman, and
Jew, and his very dust, it is not at all improbable
to believe, still reposes in its mountain
sanctuary.
A Vine Mind Destroyed.
Tf > fate of the gifted Haskell of Tennersee,
should be a warning to all young men.
lie passed through Louisville last week, in
charge of friends, on his way to the Lunatic
Asylum at Lexington. WJple on the Frankfort
cars he arose, and in the moat eloquent
and pathetic terms appealed to the gallant
Kenluckiana, among whom he was, to proL!
# at 1 a t 1
lect I*iin irom me wenuess enomies ne lro
ngined were pursuing him. lie became so
excited and violent tbnt bis friends bod to
confine biro. Tbe career of tbis gifted but
unfortunate son of genius should be known
for tbe lesson which it teaches. From his
earliest boyhood, (says the Nashville Banner.)
be has shown hwnself possessed of tbe
highest order of talent. While at College
he distinguished himself as a poet and an
orator, llis graduating speech is spoken of
by those who heard it as worthy of the immortal
Prentiss in his palmieet days. He
served hie country on the battle field and in
tbe balls of Congress. It was hia reaidsnce
at Washington that confirmed upon him
those unfortunate habits which finally blasted
his inteHeet Hs at once broke the fiery
serpent from hie heads, sod dashed it to the
oarth. To make hfa own reformation com
S>lcte, and aid in lifting op others who had
alien, liko himself he went through the
Stntes lecturing on temperance. The toui
was an eminently successful nnd hriltinnl
one, hit lectures being fully equal to lho??
of Oough, whose eloquence has electrified
thousands in this country nnd England.?
But his old linbilH gained the mastery o!
him again, and his subsequent life has beer
but a fearful struggle between bis appetitet
and his ambition?in which it must be con
fenced, his appetites bavo generally triumph'
ed. So great, indeed, was his craving f??i
artificial stimulants that even while delivering
his temperance lectures be made use ol
drugs, sufficient in quantity and potency to
burn out the vitals of an ordinary man.?
There was no subject whether ancient 01
modern, grave or gay, upon which he did
not converse with fluency and eloquence.?
Me passed with the most Careless eRse, from
ihe profoundest disquisition upon the doctrines
of the Bible, the religion of Confucius,
or the Baconian philosophy, to the lightest
literature of the day.
IIow to Get Rid or Rats.?There is a
public house on the 8t. John called Rat Tavern.
The name originated thus : An Amcr
ican was traveling up the river during s
thaw in winter, when snow and water were
very nearly knee deep. Late in the after
noon he came to this tavern, cold, wet and
hungry, and called for dinner. He was told
rather roughly by the landlord that the diu
ner Jiour hud passed, and he must wait til
tea. lie tber. asked for a cold lunch, as In
was fast and hungry. After come grum
Ming, this was brought in. The strangei
ate, and asked for his bill. " Fifty cents,T
was the reply, in a growling tone. " Din
nor is a quarter, but lunch is out of teAson
and you must pay fifty cents." The travel
er paid the bill and sat down to dry h in. self
Soon a choose was brought in by the maid
very much mutilated by the rats. Th?
whole race of rats received a volley of abu*<
from the enraged landlord. 44 And why dt
you keep ratal" said the Yankee. 44 I car
give you a receipt that I can warrant yoi
will keep every rat away." 44 Ah 1 and how
much will you charge?" 44 O, about fifty
cents." The landlord, somewhat compla
cent, returned the hnlf dollar; 44and now,'
said he, 44 for the receipt." 44 Well, sir,'
said the Yankee, 44 w henever a rat comes U
your house cold, wet and hungry, give lriir
a cold lunch and charge him half a dollar
and I'll be bound he'll not come agnin."
[Eaitern Star.
Thr Muses.?The Muses arc described ii
Mythology as daughters of Jupiter am
Mnemosyne. They were believed to presidi
over poetry, music, nnd all the liberal art
and sciences, and were generally allowed t<
be nine in number.
Calliope presided over epic poetry and el
oqnence, nnd is represented as holding i
close-rolled parchment, and sometimes i
trumpet,
Clio was the goddess of history, and i
represented holding a half-open scroll.
Melpomene, the inventres* and goddess c
tragedy, represented as holding a tragi
mask, or bowl and dagger.
Erato presided over lyric, tender, and sm
uruus iMrir^r. ouc m repre??nieu MB crown
ed with roses and myrtle, holding a lyre ii
her hand.
Terpsichore was the goddess of dancing
and is represented crowned with laurel, an*
holding a musical instrument.
Urania, the muse of astronomy, is repre
sented as holding a globe and a rod, will
which alio points out objects.
Thalia was tho patroness of comedy.?
She was called " The Blooming One," witl
fair flowing hair, and generally holds a com
ic mask.
Polymnia, the ninth muse, presided ove
singing and rhetoric. She was represent*
vailed in while, holding a scepter in her lei
hand, and with her right raised, as if read
to harrangue.
Slayrry versus Salary.?A novel lai
suit was recently tried at Cherryfield, M<
It was bfoughuhy a minister of the Gospt
> recover from a prominent and wealth
citisen, the amount of his subscription it
wards paying the former for his clerical set
vices at a certain church. The defence t
the suit was, that when the clergyman wa
engaged, it was upon the specific undei
standing that he was not to preach politics
This understanding, it was afledgod, ho ba<
violated, by pronouncing an anti slavery dh
course, and bad thereby forfeited his claic
to the amount which he (the defendant) ha*
o conditionally subscribed towards bis sals
ry. The matter has not yet been fully d?
cidcd, but is still in litigation on an appea
The Haiti more American very judicious!
remarks that toe idea is a good one, an<
will afford the solid and conservative mci
of the North the means of restraining, t
some extent, the rnmpart political anti
slaveryiam which threatens to invade all th
Eulpits in that section. It will place in th
ands of the common sense eonlribulini
members of many eburebee a rein by whtel
they can cheek the oapcra of certain of th
clergy when they begin any of their freeao
pranks. If ministers will* preaeh politic
cut then* off from th?rfr ialaries. The rem
edy will operate to a ehonu.
Ij Cofiious Facts.?Bee* Are geometrician*.
' | The cell* are no count meted an, with the
rj least qnantity of matciial, to have the Inr*
?; gest sized space* and the leant possible loss i
! l of interentice. The mole in a meteorologist.
I The bird called a nine-killer in an arithtneli
cian; an also the crow, the wild turkey, and ,
f nomo other birds. The torpedo, lite ray
1 and electric eel, are electricinna. Thenanti?
las is a navigator. lie raises and lowers bin
sails, cants and weighs anchor, and performs
other nautical acts. Whole tribes of birds
' are musicians. The beaver in an architect,
builder, and wood cutter. lie cuts down
F trees, and erectn houses and dams. Hie
' marmot is a civil engineer, ne does not
only build houses, but constructs aqueducts
' and drains to keep them dry. The ants
I maintain a regular army of soldiers.?
Wasps are paper manufacturers. Caterpillars
are silk spinners. The squirrel 19 a ferryman.
With a chip or a piece of bark for
i a boat, and his tail for a sail, he crosses a
. 1 at .fill in t ^nr.u wnllfAB - ? <r ?? ? ?
o?ivn?M, "VMCT, javanin, nil VI IIJHIIJ
others, are hunters. The black bear and
heron are fishermen- The ants have regu
> lar day laborers. The monkey is a rope
dancer.
- " ???
i A gentleman, conversing with a lady>
friend a short time since, claimed that he
. could parodise on the hoop question any
I verse she might choose to repeat. She acI
cordingly rehearsed the following verse from
the Old Sexton :
I Nigh to a grave that was newly made
? Leaned a sexton old on his earth-worn spade,
, His work was done, and he paused to wait
The funeral train through the open gate;
J A relio of by-gone days was he,
And his locks were as white as the foamy sea;
- And these words came from his lips so tliin,
" I gather them in, 1 gather them in."
"Whereupon the gracelets fellow took his
'. pencil and thus wrote on a scrap of a news,
paper lying by :
! Nigh to a chnrch that was newly made,
> Stood a lady fair, and thus she said?
Too bad, too bad?1 here must wait
While they measure the breadth of this open gate;
1 Ah ! 'tis only nine by star, I see I
I Too narrow, too narrow, alls! for me ;
r And she sighed from her quivering lips so thin?
r " I can't get in?1 can't get in!"
' iMl'nOVED CULTURE OK TrBES. M. Mil
' lot Brule, watching the phenomena of that
> wonderful partnership established by the
i All-Wise between insect and vegetable life,
, lias discovered that the bifuraction of trees
is affected by caterpillars and other leaf-cat
<i.- v....!., ik..nni. .i-~ ??? ii
V?CT V <?l? 11^ UIV UUUO lUIUII^II UJG ICIll I Of U O
found, further, that fruit might be dead
i within the same way as the wood, and that
] by the intersection of buds, two or four may
a bo made out of one, and the fruit-branches
s multiplied. In the place of those assiduous
> pruners and intersectors, the insects, he usos
his penknife or a bit of stiff paper, and " ar
ranges the trees in a way at once the most
n picturesque and fantastic. Under his fins
gers the obedient branches assume the most
varied and elegant forms : he incieases the
a fructification and develops the formation of
buds according to hit with."
c Tiik Foon Bor.?Don't be ashamed, mv
good lad, if you have a patch on your eli
how. It is no mark cf disgrace. It apeaks
* we"J for your industrious mother. For our
n part, we would rather see a dozen patches
on your jacket, than hear one profane or
vulgar word escape from your lips, or smell
d the fumes of tobacco in your breath. No
good boy will shun you because you cannot
>- dress as well as your companions, and if a
ii bad boy sometimes laugh at yonr Appearance,
say nothing, my good lad, but walk
- on. We know many a lich and good man
Ii who was once as poor ?a yon. Fear God,
i- my boy, and if you arepoor, but honest, you
will l>e respected?a great deal more than
ir if yon were the son of a rich man, and were
ii addicted to bad habits.
y A ScaK ItKMKDY FOR A Fk.LOW. It is
said by somebody, who pretends to know
all about it, that the following is a sure rem#
edy for the felon :
" Take a pint of common soft soap, and
*' stir it in air-slacked lime t:ll it is of the
y consistency of glaziers pultv. Makealeaih'
er thimble, fill it with ibis composition, inr*
sert the finger therein, and change the cotn?
position once in twenty minutes, and a cure
* is certain."
We happen to know that the above is a
.* certain remedy, ami recommend it to any
who may be troubled with that disagreeable
1 ailment.?Buffalo Advocate.
it ~
k. Tiik Baltimoro Ameiicnn argues {bat reh
cent events have sufficiently demonstrated
I that " it was never designed by a wise l*rovv
idenee that everybody should live in a four
j story brown-stone house, with forty-five feet
n frontand that it is now absolutely certain
0 that all classes in the community cannot
wear moire antique and drink Moet's cnbie
net champagne and drire 2.40 horses and
e smoke Cuban cigars.
h Frowaas have bloomed in our piaine*
e and passed away from age to age, unseen by
il man, and mul'.itudea of virtues havo been
i, acted out in obscure places without note or
i- admiration. The sweatees* ef both has gone
tfj to fceavuo. *
U ! L. "f
A Column of Small Thing*. ^
Those who He unon roues while young,
are apt to lie upon thorns when old.
Wit converse with those we love through
flowers?whh those we worship through the
star*. 4|
Some one says of a certain congregation,
that they pmv on their Knee* Sundays, and
on their neighbors the rest of the wees.
Pckcii says thai experience is like a flair*
ncl waistcoat, that we do not think of putting
on until we have caught cold. ^
44 You are writing Jny bill on very rough
paper," said a client to his attorney.
44 Never mind," said the lawyer, 44 it has
to be filed before it comes into court."
True poutkskbs may be cherished in the
hovel as well as in the palace, and the roost
tattered drapery cannot conceal its winning
charms.
A ropotsn writer, speaking of the proposed
oceanic telegraph, wonders whether
tbo news transmitted through salt water
would be fresh.
A Domestic Pevolutiok.?14 Mntrimo
ny," said a modern Benedict, tho other day,
,4 produces remarkable revolutions : here am
I, for instance, in ten short month*, changed
from a sighing lover to a loving sire."
What NkXtT-h-A cowhiding scrane took
place in Richmond, Va., on Tuesday last, in
which, according to the Dispatch, " a female
walked into the affections of a young man,
to the tone of twenty five,"
How want fond mothers and .. ngal housewives
keep their preiiy daughters and preserves
for some extra occasion, or some 4 big
bug* or other, until both torn sour ( This
seems to us marvelously p >or economy.
We once heard of a young lady who wa?
requested by a bachelor, somewliHt advanced
in years, to take a seal on his knee, whil?
in a crowded sleigh ;
44 No, thank you," said she ; 44 I'm afraid
such an old seat would break down with
me."
Sift ThoHas Moons had only daughters
At first, and his wife payed constantly for a
boy. At last she bad a boy, which being
grown to a man, turned oul to be very dull
and simple. Sir Thomas said to his' wife,
44 You prayed so long for a boy, tbat be will
be a boy all his life."
A divine informed a sailor tbat the devil
was chained up.
M Ilnur Innnr 5* tl*a
MWX ivraig 13 (UC ivprj V
" Oh." tva* the dignified reply, "it extends
over the whole world"
** Does it, though," rejoined .Tack, u if so,
the old fellow might as well be loose/'
Onto Electtion.?The official returns
from 46 counties show a majority of 1,917
for Chase, Republican. All the Republican
State ticket is chosen, excepting Blackcndcrfer,
for the Board of Control of Public
; Works. The Legislature is largely Democratic.
Jt'dok Brown's Jf ajorjtt.?We under*
stand that the official returns from all the
counties have been received at Milledgeville,
and Joseph E. Brown is elected Governor of
Georgia by a majority of eleven thousand
and fifty-seven voles over his competitor*
Benjamin 11. Hill, K*q.
New Orleans, Oct 26.?Arrival of the
Tennetee.?The Tennessee, from Vera Crux,
arrived hers yesterday with $50,000 in specie*
A new Cabinet was formed in Mexiea
| Yocatan is in the possession of the Revo*
Unionists. The War of races is violently
conducted. i
I Laurcn-stille Fkwalk Cot.i-f.oe.?We
learn from (he Herald that the Trustees of
the Laurenaville Female College, on Saturday
last, elected the following Faculty : Rev,
E. T. Duist, D. D., President; Rev. David
Wilis and Z. L. Holmes, Professors; and
Mrs. C. M. Vernon, Instructress ift the En-?
glisli Department.
It is said of Father Mahillion, who throughout
his youth and early manhood, was noted
fc? Ida stupidity, at the age of tw. nty-sis ha
i pitched against a staircase, fractured hi* sknll,
I was trepanned, and afterwards possessed a
| luminous uuderstending. Perhaps other
stupid fellows might as well try the experi'
merit. At any rate, no groat hartti could ber
I .1
Further from Sait LAKK.~-The St. Jo->
aeph correspondent of the St. Louis RepublieRn
mentions having aeen a letter Mating
that Wat. H. WiLon, referred to in the
Washington dispatch relative to the Mormon
outrage*, after having a rope tied
around hie ueok and a pistol prevented aft ?
hit head, escaped front hie eaptora at Salt
Lake City.
M II aulo, there, how do you sell wood I"
44 Ry the aerd."
44 Pahaw I How long haa it been cut 1"
" Four feet."
M How dumb! I mean how long has ft
been siwee you cut ii f"
44 No longer than it is now."
" See bare, old fellow, you are too Uigh;
to live long
1 44 Can't help it \ it's eater."