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' J % Vol. 13 .COJi '?jje IBorrq IHsjiatrl) T BLUBS DAY MORNING, AT COXWATSOAO'. 8. % BY GULBKBT A PARR. * * r r rms. ^ 9lfO DOLLAE1 IwrwrioMr In *4t???o. will bo Ml out of tfco Muriel, wilkonrnnionitr tbo order. PHtMimnrilA ctn<lkltlM or trwol?or puffing oihihiM* *?- ?? *? ? ? Marring** OKiitiarr notieM o?er u? lines, will h? charged at advertising rates. SELECTED STORY. PHINEA8 FOSTER. 1ITS NARROW KflCAMC FROM i BEIITTI AJ? OI.D BACHELOR. * . ??:0: .... 'And what is it you're thinking of, IMiiueas, my lad, all this long afternoon thai you're not opened your mouth once ? 'Tia time you were thinking of a wife, I should say. Little did your father need, when be waa your Age, to hare hte mother tell him, aa 1 now do you, that she would hare no old bnchelora round the house. No, l'hineaa, lad, oti|*bachel op do not belong to our family, and, * HI would be my lurk to be bringiog in the first. I/O ok round, a^) T?u find the right one, brinmmher home here to me, to the old bomcateta None of the new- fashioned jmaaa, their silka | fine airs and delfttiiWHy*, but think of me when I waa a girl ; and aak her aa your father did me, could I milk the > cow? could ( scrub and sand the floor? | and wan I a busybody I,<1 * gadder- i about V And while, her braath being ex- I haustcd, the speaker looked up from the j stocking the wan darning tQ^g what I effect her words had upou IMiine^p, mv : Jad, (for she had such a habit of saying | my lad when she spoke to her am that , it secincd like his surname,) we will i look at hiin too. I'hineas Foster, the J hero of our story, is not much of a ! sight as ho aits there patching an old ! shoe? for ho is s farmer in summer, 1 cobhicr in winter. He is tall and thin, | with that extremely diffident appearance which white hair, scry red face, and ( falling, stooping shoulders giro to any man ; but Phinea* suffered not onlv J from these personal defeeta, but his eye* j being extremely weak were protected 1 from the light by a pair of silver-bowed, | blue glass spectacles. Ilia bluo cotton! frowsers having at some former liuie ' given out at the knee, his careful mother ! had taken out the weak part and sewed the rest together again, giving-by ' such an abridgement a view of ankle and no forth, decidedly unbecoming to tlie stylo of figure of our friend Thincs*. The tout rnsemWe, though striking, was , anything but agreeable,and l'hineas look- j ed much more like a candidate for old bscbcinrxliip rii<I one corner of hie ( mother's fireplace, than for inulrimony [ and it* care*. Vet there was one in whose estimation I l'hineas Foster was the one perfect, and ! she, sitting in a distant corner binding | the shoes which he wi?a to sole, waited j as impatiently as we do for his repiy to I, his mother. Now l'hineas was not gwiltj of ranch thinking, and *rheo he finaind bis mother's eye was upon biin, said, additional shade of rod in his i hit timid eyes over in the tm farther corner wer# lifted, but Phioees hi. did not seek to meet their gsse.. little KT did either mother or son know that she ZL who wm to be their light and joy, and to {* an re l'hineas from bachelorship was the I aoa penniless orphan, without home or ami friends that fortune had thrown npon | her the hands of Mm. Foster. If I'hinea* I would not look ahont him, look into that *bo lifilsitturl Hwl that'* not telling mo where to ShJ took, mother Them e Maggie WaUon, S,m but ftwas only the other night oat on cans tho green, when tbev thoaali IM -O B***'? A nome, I heard beT Mk, 'Whit does Phineas seem liksT and when she mud 'i goit' they laughed will, IbwH ibfm. fev \ Who winti any of them for a wife? Thai's what I wae thinking of.' Whet 'Phineas, my lad, go to the minister; ;n^ ^ ho will help yon. Oo to the minister and fu* jM inquire for acme wortbyubody.' wif4( This idea seemed as brilliant to the abrup son as the erigioator of it, and bs an- onr h< swered, with u^asoal haste : .pr 'I'll go this night, mother, for I must, I ran' itor | "IIOWLIMJ IS VOVUL, AID rWAYBPBO,> ? ktft wifr. The iiwir we're ?I1 Nitied down bain the baiter.' Neither m the two netiosd that it tbaee words tin poor arpban, who bod an* m q?Mj peienjag bar irkaaaa? task, left tkaai ahne * Evening mm, mm with It appeared Phieeae, baring dispensed with the aforementioned dia^siahed article ot wearing apparel aad downed his Sunday's b?a| before the wioiatar'e door 9 reble friend, Mr. S. 9M fl preliminaries for hlnll^B^^^^^^^PI we should luppoae, wy most gratefully accepted. Anna P. was about bestowing her affection? on another individual, when the offer of our bashful friend aeuee In her through her raueh jeepeeted friend the minister. There seemed to Bar to be a want of tome element in tb* new aepirant'a character.. -11- ?- -* *- - ' W WW mo niittin m prat/ M en Ml t(- I fair; Mill trusting to the superior wisdor. i??! idrtDtM year* of Mr. N., she | bade adieu to her former satellite and accepted tbe ministerial proposal. All meat on monthly, and the wedding day i drew near. * 1 I said^all went on smoothly, * bat 1 there waa ono change in tho qoiet house- 1 bold. 8be who had made herself so useful 1 in that loocly house, Priaeilla, tbe orphan, { 1 had gone to a ^wjwh boring .pillage to i ' drown amid the ewa'of a Hltle school, ' ' her sorrow*. | 1 Phineea leaves the paternal mansion < on hhrBfat jo urney with a gloomy heart, j ' and painfully conacioua of baring in his I < pome anion a marriage certificate, and in 1 his carpet-bag a new suit of clothes, j j tarts for the notne of his beloved, for tbe weddiog day haa come. As he , ' rasses by the village whero now lives ; * 'riscilla, he thinks how much ploasanter ; < it would be if be were onming to take j I her homo again to that little corner of , the sitting-room, which she had made ; 1 her own, instead of going in search of all new fane. lie never li*.! ?nn<l?r.ul ?' *ho had went tl til. ^ It is difficult for as in this ago and U region of weddings to believe that * 1 person could have been in oxi*truco as 1 long aa Phineaa had, and never been to .1 1 wedding; yet so it was. Thero was lit- 1 ' tie marrying and giving in marriago in , 1 the retired place of his houM, and he \ c had slighted even his few opportunities. J * Ho kne* there was a minister and a cer- ' tificate, but there his knowledge ended. I r So having arrived at hia destination some, t what after tho promised hour on account ! > of various accidents, be thought to save ! time, he would go to the clergyman himself and that being aecooiphiahed go and ? greet his wife. Ho happened to have a ; r tneasage form Mr. N. to a brother minis- ' ' (er in thia town, and, armed with cert'u^' flonte and carpet-bag, he hastens to put f f his bright thought into execution; finds 1 the person whom he aeeks at bom<^ and * having delivered the message, announce* * the fact that be wisbes to be married. 0 'I should be moat happy to officiate on the occasion.' Encouraged by this remark, l'hineaa , ??? >- JfiwLmtu*i" who, looking own, """ , P '-jsTiErt ?.1; . ., -r- .Uo, ninco 1 W.? .. e?g.p- f *en~h?ch will preoont m, I . in* you.' ?? ihAtii Phinem, growing dcspcndj^U|^|||||M it will hin? ju*1 V hermit, w? win *0 hii misfortunes dra warns backjBIW^^^^P? seme bis dismay when be found that ' i beloved, all tkisgs being rowdy, eier- *''' man waiting, eooTpeny assembled, hoar . it, and no bridegroom at band, had, >n>< owing biw only through a third per- *?' i, supposed him false, and bad then *7" I there aaatored her lore nod give?| 'J*6, hand to ber fnraoer loeer, who had Wl shod sneb a state of calmness as to be 00P*' at to set u groomsman on the ocew- " P 1 of her marriage to I'hineas. The ?TV ipse wbieh she had of her almost hueI, as he made his sudden exit, did not e her to regret the exohsnge. . a our bero was returning unoomfor 7 hni?? * W?fC ??i > vrroN to him expedient noon op and tee l'riscilla, thinking that a AOtea. kind words from her would prepare the di better to meet bis expectant mother. raen t a poor Prieeilke mm him approaeh- DOtes. ee home, she thought he hod come p9r> u sr to fo and waleome his new-fo??d over ? and little was she prepared for tbo M thot t, yet to her, welcome greeting of i bad mi meet IMuoet*. nonaoti iecilla, wont yon go home with me ? all de I t go home without any wife, and the old JM , ^ 9 m SBHg? . LI 1.UTHS VMM IS THI ROYAL .T1 - . ' 1 r=::-^S 3. C., THXJItSJ why wool you do u wellf for you kno the wot* of the houae, and we eng al MUle dm.' Had Priscilla trer read a novel* ah would bare expected aome falling noi the knees, or at leaat one kite, but afe would have waited in ruin. Vi^ia never kissed hb mother, wby shoes h hb wife f Should anv desire to know IbMt |k of our bumblo friend PkM Hat from and after the firetds^fl next, and during the exiatenee W the blockade of any of the porta of tbt Confederate States of America, by the Government of the United Sates, it shall not be lawfal for any peraon to export any raw ootton or oetton yarn from tb? Confederate States of Ajnerica, except through the seaport* of the said Con fed erate Stetea ; and it ahall be the daty of all the Marshall# and the revenue officers of the said Confederate Stales to nravent *11 -ifJatio?* ?f this sot. Sao. 2. If any poroon shall violate, or ittompt to riolato or evade, the provision of tbo foregoing Motion, bo shall forfeit ill tbo Cotton or Cotton Yarn thus attempted to be illegally exported, for the tioo of tbo Confederate States; and in sddition thereto, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, ihall be fined in a sum not exceeding 5vo thousand dollars, or else imprisoned n tome public jail or penitentiary, for t period not exceeding six month*, at the liocrction of the Court, after a aunvicion upon trial by a court of competent arindiction. Sec. 3. Any person Informing ss to a notation or attempt to violste the provilions of thfa Act, shall be entitled to >ne half the proceeds of tho article forfeited by reason of his information. Sec. 4. Any justice of tho l'eare on ((formation under oath from anj person, if a violation or attempt to violate this \ct, may issue liia warrant, and cam# Im Oawc^ur cwtiw-j?rff^i|P#Tr be affidavit, to be seized ana retained nttil pit investigation ran be h44 before bdyCourti of tbo Confederate State*. Sen, 6. Kvery ateuinboat or railroad car vbich aball be used with the consent of he owner or person having the aaino in hargc, for tbe purpose of violating this Vet, shall be forfeited injiko niaaucr to bo use of the Confederate States^ But totbing in this Act shall be oouatibed aa n prohibit tho exportation of Colon to iieaieo, through its coterminna flintier. Congress, (;. 8. A., May 21, 1H01. I, J. J. lloeper, Secretary of the Con;reea of the Confederate States of Araeica, do hereby certify that the foregong is a true and correct copy of an Act To prohiSit the exportation of Cotton ram tbo Confederate States, except hrougb tbe seaports of the said States, iii*i iu puniBii |ir[nuiin uncnaing incrvin, rhich passed Congress, ami was approved n tbe 21st day May, 1801. J. J. HOOPER, Secretary. flitrrn iiu*i?*ei> Frbk Coi*orko klkm im Armh.?On Monday night a Meting of some two thousand men, 'roiresenting,' says tho 1'ioayuno, 'the flower f the free, colored population of New Or -n* ' wm held, to take into consider*to? comroilHM ,ublitb?l 1* oilj r-P?" "''f ^/oity u lions the free oolored men of the : J ffcr their eerricee to the municipal homi-, ? *" temy ; end, if aUnwedtorMm|L as readj to perform militar^^Ky. c rir etock hae not degenerated, andlney I fight as faitfrfaHy as their father* with JscksdJHiRff the time of the * irrection of the slaves of Haint Homin- tl the free colored moat earnest I jr tend their services for its suppression t w authorities They were doubted ant di r aid rejected. Had they been ac- Tl ?d, tba negroes would bare not tri- in bed. Most of the whites who eacn- in with life, were saved by the exertions i th< e free colored., J p? 1 w - la As nonskmab ?w-11 * _ \>unre, Mid j *B< gy mau to bit colored servant, 'what ( the voo doing in the meeting this after* j ym :' 'Doing, mease J I was taking \ it; ' 'Yon taking notes!' exclaimed leas vine. 'Sartin, masse; all dc gem* [ yon ake notes.'* 'Well let me see your the Coffee produced his a beet of pa- h? nd his Master found it serawlsd all The ith ail aorta of marks and lines, whs tgh a dooen spiders, dipped in tnk, boyi srebed over it. 'Why, this ft all The] es, Coffee !' 'Dat'a what I theqght Moo time yon presetting masse,' said aro c negro, with perfeet innocence. i ueigl W' f xbqhh upov which shh sits, >a.Y mloixszin ? Victory or Doath. " When Ike French Republic VH threatened with invsaian, mid tUo aafets * of tbe State proclaimed in danger, all mtisens rushed to tbe Cffiudard of tb* * eouotry. Impelled bv patriotic (error, * end tbo inspiring words of tbe Mareeil* laiae, tbe frontiere were epeedily crowded by impetoowe, impulsive and impatient f warriom. Tbe greet difficulty wee te ' direct tbe eeger maaa. Tbe number ol | ^aperieeeed officers wee eery smelLand 1 be mertyie then deeterdr^^^^^^^^ Tbo effeot of tbo energetic policy, vigorously panned, wee reel and instantaneous. The invaders were epeedily exa,peJled from Her anil by the invincible lemons of Fsaweo, end names nevir before heard, flllbil the tramp of fstoe. We are in e situation snmewflat similar. At tbe firet ery of invaaion, oar population have rushed to erma?all anxious to share in tbe ?lory and the peril of routing tbe iavsding foe With the exoeption of a few officers of the late United State* army, wbn have rallied to our standard, practical war ia a thing unknown to our eitixen soldiers. Th#? | Tut majority of our officers are, there(-fore, and necessarily unknown mrn.? < Theyjiavo to be tried, and upon the suej ceaa of the trial will depcod the lives of { our people fcnd the aafcty of the State. ! To adopt tho stern rule of the French | oowtmittee, and exact immolation or vie1 tory might not aecord with the manners j or the feelings ofcur age. Hut the next { most rigorous exaction should be strenuously insisted on. Dismissal from the I aarvicc, instant and without regard to ' circumstances, should follow every failure. Success is the highest?the | greatest?tho owo pre-eminent and in' dispensable, self-softie icnt and all-saffi| cient virtue in an oflieer. With it all ! ! things may bo accomplished : without it, I nothing. Our officrri^tnust learn to 1 command that talisman, or they must J cm?fl to pDOiiasiyl a mumos!'* ?? <! ? ' i our people, luia anowtd oOtindi' rstood st once, as the fixed and irrevocable law. It is ! demanded by the lives nt our soldiers? ! 1 by the va<t interests at stake?the safety ; of the Common wealth ?the freedom and i the independence of the Confederacy.? Kichtnond Whig. a n? ~ o .... " ] a vivwiiir.li tn.-r.su U* TIIK U(>.\1> TO . WA8IT1NOTON.?Wliilo the New Vork ' Seventy-first were at the Junction, be- ' l tweeo Annapolis and Washington, a very dilapidated darkey, whose garment* were of all imaginable hues and a perfect labyrinth of rags, had come into camp to sell a few eggs ; while he was there another ebony hucd individual came in, vastly j important in his demeanor attired in clean, checked shirt, blue jacket and jean pants, with cowhide shoes and felt hat, , and in every rc?pcct a perfect tnrvey top in deportment. Stan' back you free nigger,' said the ( last coiner; Me gemma* don't w%nt nuffin out ob dat baskit; why don't yon 1 poor free niggers work anil make suffin /"(tnidM lnv ili> Khil. -in'* ?nff .1? i " r' ]' I " Soldier.?'Arc you a >l*.teT' . Darkey (with a broad grin) \ **> b?"f? 1 ain't nnffin cl?! N??r ? f""| ?* a .:ch c|<>ae* as dem on, yah, %?> *ml ho jorkod back tliolaplnl ?f b? blao ; jar! M.koplon.y moo.j now m..g J? I I H W^^o*waT ? gl ? "g ?n d aelH^WWJ^P ib your'n?1 knows you're hungry.' j n Characteristic A.NKcnorr. or Wn.- } '* on'8 Zouave*.?A correspondent tells | * lis rather adamantine story: % I 14 The other day a Methodist clergyman \ "r cut to exhort tbetn. Hilly Wilson j -cw hia men up and called 'attention !' J be parson then gave there a very edifyg and appropriate discourse, to which, *' obedicnoe to the Colonel's command, ? ? ey listened attentively. When the rson had finished Hilly gave the 'boys' abort talk, somewhat in this wise: ^ , !>ys, I want you to remember what ' CVt, i parson has told you. It is all for tj,ei irgood: take hia advice, and following for tbore ia t?o knowing but what I , .?? _ | com i?M six moth* every J?<1 ono of j faT0 will bo in b?II!' Here a voice from j dec| ranks called out, 'Three cheer* for <> II!' and they were given with a will, pastor, astonished and angry, aaked rnlg| t it moant. 'Oh/ aays liilly, 'the fl i don't know much about Scripture. j think h?II is somewhere between 0< tgomcry and New Orleans, and they advii 1?d anxious to get down in that insert ^iborboodl* when 'a , % iptei AN XNTHROHND MONARCH.** - - -j. j O, J "try 35 2Q; 1 An Exciting Incident. i Years ago, when I wag a youngster, ' became an a?*iiUot of Doeter H , th I superintendent of a pnblieUMp xsrluu i Some of the patients were ?Ee?W and trai , table, aud bad the frwlon of the higl waflcd garden, while others, being wiolec I and dangerous in their madnamfwere cor i had to their rooms. Sometimes oee c > tne last nafuedgenU^men would got Imm ' a feet whieh he nemallj announced b breaking thingi generally, npon whic I announcement the doctor v^nM repair t Hhrnwot at whieh be eg *%Rewtiog th ^^U7,m and adraoeiug upon hie I mareM^I B^raToont^HBHI B ^^WBTat oaeb end; and ono of tin ^HF^^eqairing fixing once upon a time PBnrpcfiter was engaged upon it, wht^i it itredfed Mr. Jones, and quietly possessed ' himself of a long sharp ehiscl. When th< i carpeuter looke<l around, the madmat 1 gave a griu and poke of tho chisel II : hitfi; whereupon the terrified roan ol chips soutiled out and locked the door? l.n ?u:i- .? L"' i hisii, iue ?u?m; wii Miwnng ivaj ! at it, he rushed around and locked tkt I door at the other end. Having thus caged J one*, be gave the i alarm ; and I supposing it was an-ordinary i case whieh 1 could oootrol, unlocked the | door and entered boldly, whereupon he ; mttdo a rush for tne, and I incontinently bolted. Tho doctor was sent for. lie ' came. Ileconnoitering through the key' "hole and ascertaining that the enemy was nt the other end of the mom, he opened the I door nnd saw at once that he could dc ; nothing with the loose tnaninc. Here was apparently a dilemma. A i i raiy man, ns strong aa a bull, perfectly uncontrollable, and armed with a weapon. To capture hi in by foree was difficult snd dsngcrous, and 'o starve hira out would be a tedious affair. The doctor did not : hesitate long. 'Alfred/ said lie, 'go down into tlic surgery, fill the largest syringe with hartshorn, and bring it up.' I caught the idea, rushed down and brought back a ?juart syringe filled with hartshorn, diluted?for I didn't want to kill the man. Then the doctor, the carpenter, nnd myself, formed an army o( I IM?aa4a?a? ^ A tkaussw nsaasa entered in the following battlo array. I b? ing tlio shortest of the three, uinrched in first, holding a chair in front of mo by the back, so that the legs might keep ofl a rush if our popgun dashed in the pan. Then caiue the carpenter, with the syringe resting on my shoulder, like a piece ot artillery. Finally, in tho rear, in tho aafo>t place, like all groat generals, caiue | Doctor 11. The lunatic sat at the other end of the hall on a chair, eyeing in keenly and savagely. Slowly, very slowly, we advanced towards him. The nearer we cot the moro wickod that chisel looked, %od the handle seemed to increase, until it wns very long. When we got within a few feet of hiin lie jumped up and sprang towards me. Whiz '. spatter ! splash I went the<|iiart of hartshorn bang into hia countenance? down he went like a dog?it would have ' knocked down a battalion ; and while lie was catching his breath wo caught hint " Tnr. Blunders ok Liyot.v. ? llj ! talking of coercion Mr. Liuflgju kept up ! a continual fever in the iiptflf enabled i the Montgomery (tovernnwm fo eoneenj trate its energies on military preparation, I and forced the bonier States into hnstilij tj to the Union. Were coercion actually i i.i~ ?i.:- 1 i i mi'Mii u#vc uecn | VV'rhl'.' 'bV,t".t.-g -or,U do not t.k? tsr??. arss fcrs ?r??K8 U|k"?,rd, Kort Sumter ilwlf. " " , fca '' - * ? ?' ' '? M ' r??/?? jMj ^ Ibrilliant viurotf^^Hfl ^^M^^Wnit a mortifying ro^|H ^Monduct of the Southern t iovernmentT ?t| on the contrary, been marked by loderatiM.i and good sense. They clung ' * no fictions, and were hampered by no ' gal ignorance of plain facta. They , 1 anted to leave the Cnion and they left They wanted to take Fort Sumter , I itl they took it. They wished the bor> I T State* to joio them, and, by preeinf | * ling a collision, they Me%/pilMP<rgnt ? em?unless, indeed, snm? gctod sense ^ Washington prevent tl%H at. the vonth hour.? London Chronicle, of ly 4th. 0f - . i St V young man from the country, aroin? i 1 >jtI' /> * "? ? - n -r> m??mi young ladies the oth?-r I : ning, w?h told thnt h? must auk ' m to sing, and should they refuse he bt to press them. Accordingly he w" me need by requesting Miss Mary to lul t him With a song. She gently incd, said she had a had cold, &c. Veil, then, inith,' said our hero, 'tfcnp I aqucese you, don't you think you fP* it thing V * Ul jo girl fainted immediately. J??1 v>tj Aiivicr. ? A down east editor ' tuth ee renders, if they wish to get teeth I PiM led fltaiis, to go an<^ steal fruit hul i b hie watch-dog ia on guard. I you' % t % 7 i L. ^ SGX. CNTo. 10. "Dont Tell Father!" 1 There it many a good mother who i? plena the rain of the ehild abe dearly i. lovec - leeching it the first laaaooe of >- wrong-doing, by simply saying, 'Now i- don't tall your father. Barely mothers ?t do it thoaghpeoalj, ignorsntly, not coni niduriog thst it is the first lesson in deif ceptiou. Not et nil strange that gam?, biers, and liar a, and thieves, sod hypo V | crites, and distrustfol evil-minded proh , pie so abound, whew weak, loving rnotho era, with honeyed words ew^eeresse^^^ 0 sweeten the little teaoh<Mfl| n ripewiab^^m^mgfl 1 b->dy 1 bhd been fed on candy, almost entirel^^^^m ? [ fretted for more whenever her mouth t | wasn't filled. Even* the nourishment t nature provided didn't wholly satisfy it, f' for it wasn't as sweet as candy. 1 . thought it was no .wonder, if children f< were taught even in babyhood that papa > was bad and ugly and uokiud, that in youth they should call him a 'snob' and i j the 'old man ;' and the mother, whom r tilly had learned bv experience, had no i j stability of character, and was capable of > , deception, not strange they should so - little respect her as to call her the 'old i ' woman.' I shudJtr when I hear the frequent t words drop from young lip*, *0 1 Snust i ; not let father know that !' The father > may be a stern man, rigid in his way of briuging up hivobildrou, but he has a lovk ing heart somewhere?ond surely, truthful, honest, loving words from his own child I will find that warm place. 80 it is best [ | never to drcei\p hiiu in anything, but 1 I keep his coufideuco whole aud unshaken, ; I and tho witneaa of the soul unstained by : that loathsome sin, deception. 1 I 'Father don't allow mc to read novels,' 1 ! said a young lady to inc lately, 'hut : mother does, and so we two read all wo I , can get, and ho never knows it.' And 1 ' she giggled as though they wcro very 1 1 cunning aud worthy of praise, for so completely deceiving p*?or, good father. r I My soul sickened mi the idea of n wife j l JmAmm i* iMUbm ?? *i a..?, their father?-of the daughter, vaiu and | unprincipled, with such n mother to I teach and guide her. Hotter for tho rl world had she never been born. ? ?- ? I A Ooon Word f<>r tiik Ladies ? 1 Some of tho paper* are lecturing women i upon their extravagance in dress, and i advises thein to" retrench, especially , during thu present fiuancinl difficulty. 1 iHiubtles* there are many cases of unwarrantable oxtravagauce in this way ; [ hi^io people ever consider that two or , j three glasses of brandy and half a dozen , ; regalias indulged in daily by tnan, to , | say nothing of five and ton dollar dinners, amount to more in a year than would he required to dress a woman up ! t?? the .full requirements of fashion '! Much of this talk about the extravagance of women i\nonsense. They arc almost universally careful, and many a trader , would to-day havo been safe and sound, it he had li>tened to tho prudent counsel* of hia wife, rather than to reckless promptings of his own ambition. It is naturrfi for nu>n a.mi. -l.'.f. .... ? v ?W w??ww??vi mi null v HIC i responsibility of their fnlly to other shoulders, bat it in rather too much to ' charge * commercial revulsion like this upon one's wife and daughter. ?- ? j Music in a Family.?Music in a family M a menus of domestic cheerful; ties*. A musical family, in spite of cares, perplexities, or evenoftriah^^^tf be a cheerful fsn^L^^dfl tneau ,%lk ? e.il n.tuwTISjSSIB thousand ways, and in thn t ,in>*? M wel ?s * 1 i. fam,b Mn>**M will promote good na^V *Vthi"K >ri~d, Who en ?f nasic f?or fret and acoid will m 1 - ?* falling npoo bit ?i?"h ' P wnr .nd ,?u, ra, ? *?P :zZ'naoJ hi,n ' ? A I)lMi:iTU) Til Iter?Tbe editor ' ? ncwupnper in one of the Western atca, while recently traveling, h?d his tllet abstracted from his pocket, by an roit pick pocket, while indulging in * ort nap. The thief was so di*gtj?ted ih the result of his exploit, that he re-nod the plunder by express to the iress written inside of the wallet with i following note : You miserable skunk heara your ket^book. I *-? _ Mcrp no ?ieh. a ffWn drcst as well m you, to go nd with a wallet with Quthiu' in it a lot of newspaper scraps, a iirj i comb, two newspaper stomps and for a rale road director, is a oontcmtilupursiiion on the publio. As I hear? r? a edilur 1 return your? trash.'