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I ^ * as?- ?i.?-111 ..xi "IDEA. IS A SHADOW 'I VOL. l. J W. L. T. PRINOIS. J. B. MALLOT. ( PRINCE St MALLOT, Editors and propribtors ( 4 % TERlfit , Tki Pal Dti Hmalu l? published every Tomat, it $8 1 par jpa>, micrtT at *or wa. I ADVERTINEMKNT? Of fifteen iUm, .tr tea, which U ? mj'tu*. will b* laacttod 1 MP no# dollar, fbr a sin*!* Itiartton; one equate continued. Beventy-flv* craU N the llret, wvt fifty font# (be each Mbwqeent lo**rtfcn Renewal or rtiauge twenty omite I Hr equate. AdewrUaconnU InswrtoJ a .ntbly or quarterly, onwdolUr ' pePnquare, wMl monthly, ewreaty fire con La per equate. ( Tbt Mtowingdoductiorn will bo made In favor of Handing wdvei lint moat*: 1 Owe eqoen for three month*. 04 60 . 4n for alx mohim, 7 40 ' ih (br one roar, JO OO Two equal**, for three month*, 7 AO ik kft do 13 OO , do ft>r one year, t 8 OO ( fhm junto. for three month#, t I (>p do It* aii de 18 OO < do fcr on? year. 84 OO . A Pewr equina. tor thine months, 14 OO , ' H do tor ?i* d? 82 OO do tor one year, 35 OO | * fire nuare*. for one rear, to OO Nofceeioeel and bailnrw Cwi?, 8 00 per lautiin. W All draft-MOinnW for Im? than twiii rfoNTiu CAhH, ) otlwra *o?r b* f?to rot ?NTHtr. If nil ?mim ?f loMrtVm* If oot ?p*cl?iol, m wimxu, ' drertlxt'MiiU win U winiuw Ull virtunsi out, and I ( ohaud irmawsntr. No idTerUaMnanU, iiawtrn mu, will In ODtuidorrd * UN IUI WJttor*. j fjjfrsrellancijus. | DREAM OF 8UT LOVENGOOD'S. , ?Y S ? .L, or TENNK88KE. I ' Well, Hut, what wu jour dream ?? c Tell us? if eter you dreamed anything * smart, your friends ought to know it fur c the benefit of yuur car-ae-ter, for cuss me J if you even thought anything smart awake." " Thus bantcro i, Sut leaned against the u rough board counter of the doggery, with c a tumbler of whiskey in one band, while 41 the other aounued foi tiio bottom of a hole \ 5 in bis breochco, by courtesy called a j ' pocket?took a email sip, and began to j * tell h'u dneatn. (fear biui, reader, speak 1 for himself: * * Qentle-iin n ! I drcampt au unpussibili- 1 ty last uite. I srur in Washington City, * au I know I never will be thar unless they 4 tike idc thar tu hang ur crucify me lar h drinkin more nur my sheer ov 'the people's 1' drink,' old rut gut Hut in my dieam 1 ~ was thar, and no mistake?snrtln-surc? c nt n thundering big tavern, tvhnr they 9 rung little bells tu keep fruru bollsriu art 11 e? the niirt'er?. au makiu a noise : and whar 11 *? r thev called vu to vur mush bv ratlin on a 1 L ? ? -y r w" " big atill bottom ju.-l Jur the aake uv the " noise j an whar they took thirty dime* a ? day far doiu notliin fur jit; and wli..r they gia you cnuf tu make you (it* (at t home) sfur nutbio ai all. Darn the teat i or government! Darn the legs no hotly ov j a government!?an darn every body, I s ay." j "Tell your dream before you get drunk, 1 yotl long-legged euaa you, jr let noinebody 1 tell it for you.'* I k ^ inu reproved, Sut sheered iuto the t channel again : a " Well, arter supper awhile I noeei on a it) X got inter a room whar I seed a lite, I a and thar act three fellcra a ploying ov old li f '' y aledge." a I * Old What r . a " Seven-up, you drotted weaxelskinncd, frog legged son or a kangaroo." a [This was addressed to young specimen l< of the order intent** Ainreiattknt) Kxtti e JFtjpcatUme wtWfcaWmus, who abone re a splendent from?ligiile, amall cane e end watch-iiboon, and had a laudable dc- y aim to learn something of the bidden mya- a Icries of ** old sledge.." ? He pUjed only a eo an asthmatic trombone and ? aehoee " g when in the " aeity."] v "They wnr e playin seven up with bran a mm m m>w, >pu? ?pwn ww, id hu ?vnj ftller fur hfo mM oaeoiiogly. No*, s ptllMMi I MWi? 1 mmM to*!*, of a itoj ar in laotlvi! M fer .? fruai b#r? to thm Dprmg, ur be* th<> da*U did 1 happen fl t* bitw Uwtftfoo* wW flpnMn* for] 1 ? gvifto on ? dot tbtr I did go by in- a otfftk, I Oaokift, Iba fchioo feOtrt war J |*taly ?ft yeartb but fcook-oannoo, flU-, I . jteat* *wS Vimo*mt> Wf war * pl^fe d 11 ' V ? ^ |#y ,> . . pA,. ^ * ?. ' Itf 1 L ?I J JL 'HAT DEP^RTETH, SPEECH II CHEF 3V tbeui an thon tother. Thon he'd tiptoe ?n try to poop into Buck's hand. But the old feller hilt it under tho ahaddur ov the table, and sorter looked at it sideways hit* self, and was a watobin the peepin feller, too, all the while rite olo*t. His name was Sea-ward or HolUward, u?- sum thin ov hat sort, no matter which. Now. gentlemen, I kin play old sledge myself rite peart, and wheu I seed that it war a game jv two pluck one, and that Buck-oaunou van bound tu ho skinned of his hide didn't gru* fast onto his bones, I got as mad as > bee in swaruiin time, an I just thought mind I aed nuthin) that I'd like tu nook snuf off ov that chap's skull tu make a jullit ladlo, of I dared tu. He is a darn'd make in the grass, sure. ?< Well, artor they had played out tliar lauds, Mister Bock-cannon sez, a bowiu tiitv purlite, *1 believe, gentle.men, I undo high, jack, an that has sot tnu six, if I aint mistaken." Then both on coi, Fillmore and Freeraonnt, spread all o' liuok'a tricks out onlor the table till they taw his ace ov trumps an the jack of ramps which lie had ootch from Filltnore nth the king, tod then they agreed that 10 was six. Sea-ward aed, ?Yw, he re:oned that vraj the state of tho game.'? Mllmoro thou, as incdwt u a fifteen year Id gal, set?, ?I made low; you kotch my uice with yer old ace, Mister Buck-can. io.n ; and that sets me three." All agreed HI that count, an Freuicunt leaning his beer back whispurcd behind his hand tu nc, 'an d-d low it was too, dou'tyu think o ?' an hie black muettuch-ue twisted up ike onto two ccrck ecrews ; but ell agreed hat Fillmore was three, an no mistake.? '""remount then sed, I made irimc, an that ot iuc six with you, Mister Back-cannon.' luck bowed again tu that, but Fillmore aid, 'Sbr-r, I'll count game with yon; 11 is is n t adxaotlv accord in to our under. _ - / " (andin, Si r r -t an fur the fust ti.no bo ookcd like he uiought be made to fito.? I*- ?rj tV.?n<wl a'h.yit Ilia Uoart atnir. d. and sweated luightly. Fremount did o too, an ail at old Fillmore, but it warn't 10 u>c, count gaiue lie \ on Id ; and Fro* nunnt beat him one. So that sot the pine?iluck six, Fremont six, and Fill, nore three?an Book's, deal, an Fre* nount'fl beg or stand. " Buck licked his thumb an dclt cui nity slow and keorful. 1 looked at Pill, nore's kords as he got em from the deal, ind it like tu hooked me down. Thar raa the ace, the king, the queen, the ack, the ten an the juice ov trumps !? [lliiik 1. O Ixirdv I an then T l<wik?rl at inn, and thnr tho old feller not, lib body iiverin the cheer alt over, nnd nearly out 0 his knees, ns solemn, on big, an bout s wise as an ole Iiatch squire a trjiu ov 1 cane with good proof agin the person.-^* tell ye, boys, he looked just like ho had lis fust big boiti or whisky for the aito, o felt in his boots. I tho't 0 Lordy! gin'< But never turned up his hand, bat xed Fremoont what be coent tu do He soked at hil kerds, sorted oru, then look* d at cm again, then up at the lamp, then t Buck, scratched bia ycai> shot up bts yes, an vary slowly sed?I b.e.g By tbe umpin Jehoaaphat 1 Buck run em quick, n 1 that it no htrni tu f>V m aimikar t old Fill. He fotch at low uolikj $oi\ ot runt, and then ho blowad. 1 swar, the rind come oaten hie none, mouth, ?roe, ud year*, an like to put tko lamp mil. J < I dodged and Ink a peep into Frc aoauit'a hand, and I now airsir, that nhen i man'* aix on a big.game qt ?even up, I ever aeed jiet aidh kerda* He hilt to(ether three oc?a, bound to be high let that would eum? *n out-anouf Preaident it that thinks I, O Lord/, Buok 1 O jncrlpy jnilptore ! sad watched to ace what ait wee tg taakc the President oaten that turned navfe eatfe Fr? mount?whoa thara ra ae aothlo in hell ef Back didn't turn Mk jtst ae ?tay ee el thar'd Uen ftft/ two Mfe . UtiafmhI IBM oivjj 1c?m4 *?3t WU H*?k4 Umd for a ** r?i ' W?k?f4? yuUa eh** ' < - T" ' - '-MlIff 1 3 FLEETING AS THE WIND 1 rmnrr?aw>i in iahw? iwwi i ? tAW, S. C., N < op towards his oyc, he brayed like mul ao at one jump kivered old Fill as he la nnd then net in tu bitin a cbokin and mauMn ov him like tbo Devil beatio bora ny. This sort of exoitement fotch the ol feller tu, an as aooo ca he felt all the huri in that wee a gwinc on r!1 over bim, inrit and out, he wit rito in tu fitin tu liko a old boss, and thar they hed it. I lookc at Hucb, ("who still hilt the Verda in h ' hand with the jack turned up on the top, | as much aa to say; <8ball I part them , lie nhook his.head, and I put my band in my pocket* aud kept outen thar way.They fit aonie by this time, I tel! ye-?hai wool fur-an feathers flew sorter like gir uin cotton, Sea ward cut dirt as soon a that awful jack was turned, locked the doc on the outa'de, and went strait tu a prai j mcetinig in North street, wbar I reoko he is jet. Well, tliar thny fitnn granted find every now and then Frcmuunt woul bray liko ou to a inulc, nn Fillmore woul ; grunt out sotnetbin about somebody's bo and 'fusion * Now ef fusion meuns mrsci* they war fu*cd. about as well us two pint of baldface in a quart fluak on a bard trot tin boss An ov all the darned noises j ever did bear, they shook that big taver I tu the gronne., An I waked oil over swefc, and then jist turned over in tbe bo ' an cried like a baby." <? What fur, 5ut ?" Case I wakod up afore cither hollorod and I never will know whioh whipped.? ( Old Buck knows,-on if over I set eyes n hi tu, I'll hx iut. 'ii\e us another born , old Less. IwHKftt All:. ThtC IJOlvV WO *IKN Y j Tbis ia a quertlon wbh?h occurred to u . more than wuCO at iiic last. wet* J when we were |i> <.!. ? crowd?ow ?ng to the narrowness of tbe passages; faujt we hope the Committee of Arrange menus will oorrect next, your wo intend t be there every day?.iifor the <iwu) to paaa. Now wc coul^ cot look up witl the impudont eye of a connoisseur of beau ty at the tiors of female elegance, to Be whether they were made up of lotmlin?* as well; it isu't our naicr to stare a wguuii in tbe face,inucb Ices five hundred wouicn but wc plead guilty there bo?to lookinj ' ltucii&uau wise, (that u? out of the comer of our ejrc9?the way ho looked when h tempted Clay,) at thu.u sometime*. ]<u have you ever tried it ? or rather, havn' you?when you wedged in a crowd, wher t ladies are passing in or out, and sea aoni ' particular point of vancanoy which yoi wish to contemplate, are you to turn awa< your gate because the ladies will be thru sting their faces across your line of vision That's a piece of Turkish tyranny wbicl wo could not think of beginning to subuti to. Weil, aa the ladles passed, our eye were da at led arid nttr brain Was bewildcmd our ga&e wnverad from its fixed point ii | r^p.v.. V. l*h9J W lt?% Ull ft IQl seconds, if only to prepue itself for taking in another draught of loveliness. Tne? oomes an ugly on#, thought we; but wuei she catue nenr, lttr&?4Wtte fhdcd in come j Uucm, *nd, in otic cr two instances- On woman, part the tmJdlo age, wo though was ugly aura cooogh; hot n< aba came on attended by two or throa daughters?am not very handsome daughters either?w could not help translating the expresaioi of bar fao# into M my giri* ara not aboolh U\y bsatifbl; but 1 know they era good too good, indeed, for awybody a? wo thought ah# was one of tha boat look iog ladies on the ground. Thus were w again <Haapoiitt*d-%he ugly women war not out. ' y ? -/V* - *yi ? Nov, feaialo agffo**a v a* old kurtUu tioo, ?u4 ought not to be allowed to flj iiH* ttcgl?ct. WUo Waamfl ehoie KfMimewe rf $ in tba aiUaa, braeekto . o* . W * bait WHKJ ,x w* v i ''y'rJ9r\ )cc I ' ?? i 9 -READING IS AN UNREMEMBE] gas. =mKxxmamx3s*mjmat*am**zKmt*s**=o*s*B*-aai. ?l u\ mum* srm )VENBEfi 25, TRUTH SOMEWHAT COLORED, v, An Knglish tourist in America gives ii Colburn'sLonuon Mega sine some aketchc il- of what he"observed and soiue hits at faults Id which, though a little colored, possess uiucl t- troth. He was in Washington during tlx tr. strtigglo for tlio Speakership, and apeaki in as follows of what lie saw. What lieaafi d of oar filthy habit of spitting is very little is if at all, exaggerated J ,) ? If a debate springs up it srems to b< - a game of cross qcetions and crooked an Is swere. A member is making a speech - when a question i* put to him. His answei r- suggests other quesy*p?, and, while u<un. t menting on the replies, the questioner ir iH turn is questioned by some one else, and ?r so or. When a member appeals to b< r' uttering the last sentenco of liis speeel n half a dotcu or more members arc on thoii I, legs, calling out 'Mr. Clerk! Mr. Clerkl <1 amid tho shunts from all parts of the hall, d 'Call the roll! Cull the roll.' You will x often hare no small difficulty to haar what i, ! is said or understand whar is going on ? < froirflhe incessant noise and buatla.^Theri Si - is a constant S><arp striking of letters and I papers on the desk?a mode the tueutbcri n have of summoning tho pages to take a their documents to the post-hot. Youars d amascd too at the picturesque attitudes ol some of the members. You are quit* tight in remarking that this is a Dtinocrc. I, tic assembly. Is not that elegant posture - now of tho honorable gentleman in tb< n out :r rage of scats If hie has dung out over the dork in fronthth?j heel of hii boot dipping in the ink bottlo, and, while his chair is tilted buck and his other ley " i flung over one arui of it, be chews hu quid, picks bis teeth, and squirts lus to. * bacco juice at his ncghbor's spittoon, t which ha missoa. ibis is the Yankco waj ' of "taking it easy." A *Tn? Americana seem to bavp an unconf querablc propensity to kick up tbvir hneli o ?not behind but before. I bare gone in ? ' to the reading room of the ?onng Men's l? Christian Association, on the avenue, and * found, of four men reading, thiee with 0 their feet on the table And the fourth bakiug * his is; the orec of the stove. Oa more n than ouo occasion, while sitting in the 1 l>illiirip? ill Pi.nnr^^ 1 - , 0 ...... A li?f ?: ICVOITU II [5 poke at the back of uiy head, and, turning round, havo discovered in close proximity e not anybody's elbow or bat, but a pair ol t boots with fool in ihetn resting on the h bauk of my seat, on an elevation witb the e chair of the owner. But mure a dieagrneo able thing that) that b the chewing and j spitting. Id Congress the carets in the V galleries are eoturated, and the stair case - walla filthily.discolored with tobacco juice. ? Id tho streets, when the know was on the It ground, it looked as if people hod been t walking all over the city with leaky cam of molassea."-, MKCIIAMCS, 11 They are the palaee-bailders of th< * world. Not a atiok u hewa, not a atom ? shaped, in ali the lordly dwellings wth< ' rich, that does not owe its beauty and fit B t noaa to the mechanic's elcilt. 'Abo towen iog spirts, that re be their giddy heighti e among the cloud*, depend* upon (he tnr 1 oheulo'e art for their strength end aymet ' ry ; the thousand* of noble ship# the! corei 1 the eeei of the world; the magnificent 4 steamers that plough the northern Iskes u end western rivers; the swilt looowotirt '* that traverse the land from State to Bute ' with the repiditp of lightning?are ell th< * ooontr action of the uoblt*' of beingey tb( Mrcbaeio ! KoC 8P edifice for devotion 4 fur business, IB* comfort, but beer* th< t imprest of tbetr heodi-work. Up* exalt od b their celling?>iow sublime It theii * av onion Who dates to *n?et at f?ob > b fraternity bf honorable,'ttoble MmH 4 biol %'lut dares to east m-. v gr/**: tw ^ r V itili RED -PASTIME; BtJT A WRITING 1 856, ? Jj^ricuUuval. < BEST METHOD OF USING GUA ? I * NO ON CORN. t In the year 18G4,1 used guano upon 8 ' Corn land >w follows/viz : ^ 1st Experiment. I sowed the guano ^ I broad cast, turned it in with a two-hone ? I plow, then laid off the rows 5 feet, and n dropt the corn 2 feet apart and covered t'i ( it with the harrow. 2nd Experiment. Flushed the land, ^ , laid off the rowa as above, sowed the * guano in the row, dropt the corn and 11 j covered as before. I1 3d Experiment. Flushed the land, !s and planted the corn with no guano, at f the same distance as in the other two I! lots. (I As soon as the corn got large enough 0< , ; to wood, I ran the little dagant plow as ? (i close as I could to the corn and turuod u P the dirt from it, following with the hoes, ii t thinning and putting a little dirt to the q corn. As soon a* I got over I turned <jj ,! back where I firiit commenced throwing q , | the dirt off, and threw one trip to tho u , corn. When I got to the lot that had : Ii . up guano, I sowed the same quantity M , broadcast that I had previously eo^ecLj,! , on tho other lots, before tbi owifiar tHo 11\ , dirt to the corn, following with the plow ?i throwing tho dirt to the cw immediT j * ately after sowing the guanof As soon c< r mm I goi over with on?' furrow, I turned tv back atnl plowed out tho whole row.?- fl| I done no more work to 1:. It all had ai , the samo work and tiic same chance k every way. But tho last lot that had ? , the guuno applied when throwing tue n I dirt back, made more corn than both tl iof the other* together. p, Whon I commenced throwing tho dirt g, | to the corn, I thought that the first two w ,4 lot* that had been guanoed would make h four tiinca tho corn- to eitltur lot that tl , could be made on tho othor Thestulk 01 looked large and thrifty, whik the corn- g ? that had no guano U? to chat Ume waa tl small and yellow. -* ^ , Bo* tho firV? lot* began to give lack I just c? the ear wts making. 01 While the^other lot that hud the gua- f< , no last, wa* at that timo in & rapid li , growth, aiid had larger ear* at gather- lj ing time the first two lots had nothing j| , but nubbins. ^ . ?< , I tried the sumo experiment last year, g , and tho result War the' eame I would j c recommend sowing the. guano on the j u corn broad-cast, whort laying it by, as ; i, *V? V... ?-il.~ ) ..r'?i--? ? * tup w?i iq?Hiuu ui ur'-iig u, 11 lnaKti p a good crop of com, and J?dp? the ct y> ? I of i^heat oloo., { s(* f, * t .* C<H ft*pondfti^Southcm Planter, r* ?-??< I TKANSPLAhTtffO TIIKK& f Our MomI, 3ft$- Frct^ of the &?rai*Q? ? town Tclejnph/ ? aiir?y? glfing U? prift* ( 8 tlcol agrtofcltura! advioo. Ho ?a^r renihiio#" p bis Monde wt to orffluok lie present opjH Ttauity for plin continue to be done until the fr<*t jei?d*rs I J ^ it iuipreoticuble Ho mm it nbaaM Ua '* remembered tbst the best time in suiwwh ' to transplant fneit end oft . umentsl trees ? (except CTerfcreetwi) is & toon u the ' is done growi*#, by the * it A ) I IS ETERNAL ,,~*<WWL. ?.'nv^'W. "'Hl" VCr 1 ' '$1 IkAHSmfflF ' .UU."'l "?"l U. II if I OlMll. Plant no tree deeper tbaftu ?t4a ;ho nursery. After planting let the be firmly staked end bouud with >r cloth of some kind to pre tent in<i barking. A fork full oriwc of etet. nanurc well placed or or the root*, w'0I aid' rerv moth to protect the tree against Wv? ire front the first winter; end In the spring, ej the Int of May, this should be repeatid as e mulching to ptotect the tree against he heat, and drought. When Uie soil is clayey 1 am, Hej foW, end is disposed tar * wet or beer;*, spring planting is to be referred. But where the soil in' <trr, lOroos, partaking of a eilicioua netttft, atAd ot subject to undue moisture, umo is generally approved, especial\f be transplantation of large )trewh|< BVfUC*f/ reens ehouhl never be moved in autumn. \r f these Bhort end simple practical r dlnao $f/f ons arev followed ^and they should ho , reserved for reference) there will 0' [Philadelphia 8mn. SEEING THE EUSPHAJfT. ' < M'lti A friend tplle ue of i rich incident thai ccurved the utber day ip tb? ogwi-rotn t Frank fort, in which the proverbial ftt'actions of the elephant are very forcibly t lustraUd.. It eeouis tbnt on the day ueetion, a menagerie was expected in the ity, and the people were naturally on the 'b ut vv'ee fur the ifpp.'oechiog aighta?-art i] itewt in which, ae j,he sequel aWwtf; lis lienor the Judge Itcenly participated*; j iottritbstandiog, jbo court eae held u? let dap, though not exactly *> usual. Ip le . progress of t he ruortthig'e buain^m"> . 5, |v i?t < f jutitiiiuuiiov aruee, which tho J ad^ ae evident!j nut inolinod to 9UUt n.uiur, fedutrd, ga*.nb* Julolj ith dnsfa\ or. Thy 1 a wye* m ig ttr^'ed hi* plea with ulj the JtJpf1 command, l? meuagWi a^dHsWiir J And ti* hamt tcouhi'ticint 'Jic rt'tNtr/ATho f-atidn was big with relief. ith hopo, top Wily laW\wP ?w |^B 'Jra'v 7^. iujsolf ap deferentially , auJ, std^issiag?0 Court, **id : ? M?J v r, L have this moment levtteu thud tbi. V goio? of 6 ais L %n?n' <i b?4- '"^S auntciittwc at cn? rotoxad in< C-Jiu 11 [E?t t r*Qfr'fc? wrtwfMrd