VOI.I fHU .1.1. NEW SERIES. F iii?iifi 1\ .•! .uuud pon<*tn*T v AnJ efttfullr to t*l! oper&lious in. i . , tr ;• i li> Us :■*■ Te-*IU U i, j! r ■ A*., Ami I : I ini*inU\ mid ft'.' * t*~ TYrins INVARIABLY CASH. tfclW on Cm<l Y A street, Bedford, Pn. I IIR. F. I . REAMER r> ESPKCTFI LLY- begs leave to tender hi> Professional Services to the Citizens 0/ Bedford and vicinity. ICF* Office in Julianna Street, at the Drug and Bixik Store. Feb. 17, I8:>f. Hr. 11. V. Harry Rf>ri:<"rn;i.i.v tenders his professional ser vices-to the citizens of Bedford and vicinity. Otfice and residence 011 Pitt-Street, in th building foririerlv occupied by Dr. John Hofius. June *24, |S:>3. LAW PARTNERSHIP JOB MANN. G. H. SPANG. Thk umlersigned tiave associated themselves in the Practice of the Law, and will attend promptly to all biisin*-s entrusted to their care in Bedlord and ait joininj; counties. \fir Office on Julianna Street, three doors south of '-.Mt iieel Hou.-e," ojiposite the residence ot Maj. Tate. .1015 MANX, .lune 2. IS.II. C. 11. SPANG. WW. P. SCHELL, ATTORNEY AT LAW. lit ILL attend laithlullv toall legal business V f enti listed io his care in the Counties of till font unit Cult on. Bedford, Nov. J. 1847. John I\ Itrrri. Aftornpy at Law. Bedford, PennsGvania It-sprr! folly If niters his set rites to the. Public ;rr oihee second door North ot the M engel House. Bedford, Feb. -0. 185*2. Cessna <V shasißioii, UA VF. formed a Paitnership in the Practice _of the Law. {TP" Office nearly opposite the (jtizpffe Office, u In re one or the other may at nil times Ire found. Bedford, Oct. *2f>. 1819. LAW MOWCK. W J. BAER, Attorney at Law: 1 WILL practice regularly in tile Courts of | Bedford County hereafter, lie may, during Court Weeks, he consulted at his room at tlrrj Washmgldon H"tel. \..v. *23, LSfio. jr/a i rjfrrttJfsrtrrct v . i.mn!. r;. \v. bkm-okd. r. r. mkykrs. BAER, BENFORO 8C MEYERS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, tiEOFORD, PENN'A. U II I. punctually attend to all liusine?s entrusted to ilu-ir iaf. &y Mr. Uaer will be in regular attteiul arn-e at Court. Otfiee on Juliana street, same a? t'or reerlv occupied by Win, M. Hall, F.sq. [juii '.IS. TO !U 11,REUS. The suSjscriber is lolly preprred to brinish any quantity or quality of Building Lumbei and Plastering Laths. Oid-rs directed to S:. t latrsvtile, Bedford County, will he promptly attended to, by giving a reasonable notice. F. D. BEEGLE. WW. FOSTER, WITH lULDW!.\, LLYDERM.LY <S" CO. Importers and Dealers in Hosiery, (Jloves, Tituuiuugs, ( ottiiis, Brushes, fancy Goods, Looking Glasses, B.c. No 84- North Third St., Philadelphia. Ail orders solicited and piotnpt-" Iv attended to. Sept. f), 18.">H TIIK MENDEL IIOISE. Valentine Steckman, Proprietor. iO^"Boarders taken by the day, week, month or year, on moderate terms. May 9, 1856. Spectacles! The subscriber has just received a splendid variety of Gold, Silver Mounted, and Steel Spectacles, with the finest Scotch Pebbles, su perior in clearness, ami designed to suit person* of ail ages—wananted never to FAIL—to which he invites the attention of all who are in need ol the article. He has also just received an elegant assortment oi JE\VELK\—ail ot which he will sell on reasonable terms-. DANIEL BORDER. Bedford, 22,1857. AMERICAN HOUSE, CUMBERLAND MD., A DJOIXIXG THE DEPOT, JOHN C. RIFFLE, PROPRIETOR. (CP"Coaches from Bedford, Greensburg and Washington, stop at tlift"House. p.-rsousgjoing to Cumberland will find advantages, by stopj ing :it the "American House," over that ol any other in the place. (may 14, "SS-Iy.| l>. K. WI'NDKULICH. B. f. NKAt> Wunderlu lft Si \eaiK Jormariling Commission fllcicljants, Kuilh Second Street, opposite llm Cumberland Valley Kail Road Depot, CHAMBERSBURG. tjy They are at all times prepared to rarry al kn .Is of Produce to. and Merchandise, &e., front Philadelphia and lialtimore, at the shortest notice. * " They will also purchase I-lour, Giatii, Ate., at ft:atket price. .. ( OAL, LUMBER, SALT, FISH, I.UANO, and PI.ASTER 011 hand and for sale low. June 10, 1&33. PURE CASTOR OIL, at Or. Hntry'* Drug and Book Store. (July 30, 'f>S.J THE BEDFORD GAZETTE IS PUBLISH F.l> F.VKRY Kill BAY MORNING BY MKYKRS A B F.N FOR B, At the following terms, to wit: sl.su per annum, CASH, in advance. $2.00 " if paid within the year. $2.50 " " it not paid within the year. subscription taken for less than six mouths. CT'Xo paper discontinued until all arrearages are paid, unless at the opt ion of the publishers. It has been decided by the United States Courts, that the stoppage of a newspaper without the payment of ar rearages, is prima fuctr evidence ol fraud ami is a criminal offence. HF"The comts have decided that persons are ac countable for the subscription price of newspapers, if they take them from the post office, whether they subsetibe for them, or not. " 9'oi:tii v. THE DOG-DAYS. BY JOHN U. SAXK. t-Jfui'—hoi'—all hotV — CITY C HIES. Heaven help us ali in these terrific days' 'J he burning sun upon the earth is pelting With his ilirectest, fiercest, hottest lays, And everything is melting! Fat men, infatuated, fan the stagnant air, in ra-h essay to cool their inward glowing, While with each >trokc. in dolorous despair, They feel the fever growing ! The lean and lathy find a fate as hard, For, alia—dry, they burn like any tinder fleneatli I tie solar hla/.e, till withered, chaired And cri-ped away to cinder! F.ven .-loirs now are in the melting mood. And vestal cheeks are most unseemly florid; The very zone that giitlis the (rigid prude, Is now inten-ly torrid! The dogs lie lolling in the deepest shade; The pig- are at! a-w allow ir. the nutter*. And not a household creature —cat or maid, Hut ijneiulou-ly mutters ! '< "Tis dreadful, dreadful hotl'Vxelaims each one Unto his sweating, sweltering, reading tieighbui Then mops his brow, and sighs, a- he had done A quite Herculean labor! The friends who pas- each other in the town. Say no good morrows when they come together But only mutter, with a dismal Irown, '•What horrid, horrid weather!" While piuderit mortals curb with stride,t care All vagiant curs.it seems the queerest puzzle The dog star lages, rapid, through the air, Without the slightest muzzle! But Jove is wise and equal in his sway, However it seems to clash w ilh human reason, His fiery dogs will soon have had their day. And men shall have a season! ill isc 11 iane ou in I From the Leavenworth "Moccasin Herald.'"] BOBTAIL'S GREAT PRIZE STORY ! THE DOOMED MONARCH, ot: * THE ITEM) CODFISH BY K. K. BOUT All.. CHaCTEB I. It was night, nowhere, and nowhere was as dark as a bottle of ink in a barrel of pitch at the bottom of a well, and forty lour thousand times darker than the concentrated darkness of lorty thousand midnights, when uj on athioneof pe trified tuit!.* soup, stood the mighty Gengulphus, monarch of the Fe Kt> Ei Kum Islands, eating a slice of Loitered beeswax, occasionally wetting his lips by drinking fiuidical wrought iron sheet authors fluke foremost. Around him stood eighty two thousand nine hundred and eighty seven and a hall Cour tiers ! !! forth the whangdoodle and place it on the hewgag !' exclaimed lie in a ten itic voice, at the same time cutting oil* a courtier's head with the sharp edge of an illuminated cotton bale. cHArTcr. 11. The whangdoodle was placed upon the hew £ag but befoie we go further, let us take a "lance at the [wlitical state of America at the date our story opens. We were involved in a war with Mexico, and Gen. Scott was carrying our victorious flag through the halls ol the Monte-locsers. Gen. Washington, comman ding the home ai my, hadjformed a Junction with Christopher Columbus at Nauvou and defeated the combined forces of England, France, and Hindoostan in a sanguinary retreat on Bung town heights. John C. Fremont, President of the United States, had appointed James Bu chanan Governor of Cape Cod; and Na|>oleon Bonapartr, as Mayor of Bunker Hill, assisted by Lieutenant Genera! Barney O'Twigger, of Ire land, was preparing for a descent upon the to ries at Cerro Gordo whilst Dr. Jayne, U. S. Surgeon,Jvvas constructing a strong foil at Cairo armed with a chain pump and one hundred bot tles o litis Carminative Balsam. Under these tremendous circumstances no wonder the men and women of the 19th centu ry were highly intellectual, and generally speak i ing, born when they were young. Turn we again to our story. CHATTER til. The whangdoodle was placed upon the hew gag. Dismay and terror sat upon the count-*- nances ol (he nohililv. Lord De Monzo to vol untarily clutched Prince Blowhushy's coat tail, and the Countess of Fizlum disappeared hyster ically within her foxips, whilst boh! Count de Scratch, hitherto the bravest of the brave, threw himself at the fool of the throne and elevated one leg as a signal of distress. But the mighty Cengulphns was unmoved. Drawing a golden wire safety fuse from his bosom, he was in the act of attaching one end ol it to the whan gdoodle when— Oh ' Horror of horrors! ! He beheld in one corner of the room his beloved Selleh locked in the arms of Fee tile Sw-asf l Bosky, Envoy Extraordinary from the Isle of Wight ! ! ! CHAPTER IV. To say thai Cengulphus was angry would be hut an indifferent statement of the truth. He was in rage. He couldn't contain himself, ami consequent I v boiled over in torrents that formed puddles of wrath at his leet. lie foamed, raved, lipped and tore—stamped, rolled, kicked and roared. At last, seizing a battering ram by the horns, he made a furious push at the guilty pair. CHAPTER V. '•Die siniek-'d Cleugulphus, as he twirled the feaiful instrument above (heir heads—hut a!a-' in its swift descent it came in contact with Boron de Boosey's pipe, and, glancing at right angles, clove asunder the massive door hading to the Koyal Menagerie! Brimstone and tor pedoes' thundered Cengulphus—but lie was too late. Ere he could again laise the huge wea pon, a fierce demoniacal howl ran tlnougli the rooms, and '.lie next moment an infuriated griz zlv Cod fist i tan madly forth from the demolish ed door and buried its deadly fangs in tlm seat of Cengulphus' inexpressibles! lie uttered a sharp cry of pain made one desperate Hibrt to shake oil* the monster—and then fell to the lloor, as dead as a June bug in January. CAAPTKIi Vr. But little more remains to be told. Stlleh soon after the death ol C ngulphus stabbed her self witli a bed wrench, and her paramour, Fee ti !e Swash Bosky, becoming stricken with re morse, buried himself in a pot of poiter —heels up. The countess of Filz Fuin eloped with an Egvplian mummy, in a good slate of prwivn tion, and the count de Scratch, having lost the whole of his fortune in placing 'Simon says wig wag' \\ 1 1la Lord de M'inZ'i, he was forced to emigrate West, w here he enlisted as o.derly sergeant to a lime kiln, and was shortly alter waids killed by the accidental bursting of a cab bage head. THE .11 DILIALCANDIDATES. Some months since the Democratic party of Pennsylvania nominated Hon. William A Por ter as its candidate for Justice of the Supreme Court of this Commonwealth. Within the pas! week tile Mulatto Conven'inn placed b- fore tin people the Hon. John M. H ad tor the same rtosition. The Straight out Americans have yet made no nomination, though a large number of the members of that party are strongly in favor of Judge Allison's nomination lor this high ami honorable judicial -.tation. Judge Porter is the Democratic candidate, nominated as such by a Convention composed of the most attached, experienced and tru-ty mem bers of the party. He thus received party 011- doisement with reference to his standing as a Democrat, w tiich endorsement is based upon the well known (act that Judge Porter lias ever been a consistent, staunch and unwavering par ty man, wedded to its principles from hones! 1 conviction, and upholding and sustaining those principles on all occasions. In addition to this William A. Potter has legal learning and a hilities of a very high order : he possesses stern i independt rice, and most |alnnt and untiring indust iy, while his standing and influence a mong the l>gal profession show his integrity and uprightness of purpose to be beyond carvil or question, Since lie has been upon tlie Supreme Bench by viitue of an apjKiintment from Gover nor Packer, Judge Porter has sustained himself with entire satisfaction to the Bar, and added to to his already high character in all sections of the State. The same cool, calm, steady course whii h marks Judge Porter's course in piivate' life and in tlie fieln of State and National poli tics, he carried with him into the judicial JH> siii'.m which lie now holds, ami that constitute! the strongest point in his judicial character.— He is not led astray by paasion, or blinded by prejudice. He is not enamored with one opin ion or fancy to-day, and divorced from it to-mor row. In politics his opinions are the result of of investigation. They are not lightly taker up—nor discarded from caprice, nor given in at the promptings ol ambition, or but the keel spur of disappointed hopes or expectations.— He is the strong n an standing upon a rock, not the child blowing bubbles in the air. In fact, a fair review of the political course of Willian A. Potter will show that he possesses all tho<e elements of study, reflection and steadfastness o principles which are absolutely essential in mi king up the character of a man who is fit (o occupy a place upon the Supreme Bench of tlis Freedom of Thought and Opinion. BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 20, 1858. : or any other State. He has been constant and unwavering in his political course, he will be firm, honest and consistent upon the Bench. But what has been the political history of Hon. John M. Read, the nominee of the Mulatto Convention for tlie same high and important position T Mr. Read i unquestionably a gentle man ol fine talents, high character, and long experience at the Bar. But his political history is the reverse of that which marks a man of mind, of solid, safe judgment. He is weak, vacillating and uncertain. His opinions are formed horn one-sided views of all questions, and changed almost as soon as formed. He has been consistent in nothing save his inconsisten cies. Once a Federalist, he left that party and j fined the Democrats, with whom he acted long enough to receive many marks of their regard many substantial tokens of their power and influence. But, on the appearance of the Wil mot Proviso, Air. Read followed that will-o'- the-wisp into the ramp of the enemy, and be came at once tile bitter antagonist of the very principles which but a few months previous he had maintained were necessary to uphold the f uion, and secure to (tie several States all those rights u Inch are guaranteed to them by the Constitution. Since that time each turn of the political wheel lias changed the political posi tion ol John M. Read, until at last he appears as t he nominee of a Convention composed of the debris of all political parties, and bound to gether by hatiee of the Democratic party, and eager longing for the spoils of public ollice. In these several changes, Mr. Read has not gone astiay from want of intelligence. The rock on I whicli tie split was on uncertain judgment, j irresoluteness of purpose, and an over estimate j of the rewards which should have been bestowed : upon his personal services in the part*. He j was for change, the new, the novel, the i untried, and hence the eagerness with which J he en.bracd the newest political opinion, and j the readiness with win h the change was made | when the gloss was worn off the old love, or 1 some later pnject had caught his fancy, and tickled his ambition. We have sketched the political characters of John :M Read, and \\ illiam A. Porter, in order ; o t<-rve as a mitror, in which the public can trace their fitness or unfitness for a judicial posi tion. If a man be unsteady and uncertain on one great subject, he is soon all. If, on the ! contrary, every action of a man's life shows that ! he is moving and acting in obedience lo certain j ut II digi sled and fully understood principles : ! if in judgment he be cool, calm and careful, in 1 action steady, prompt and resolute, the public may rely upon it that such a man w ill fill with i entire satisfaction the duties devolving upon | any public station, be they ever so delicate, j responsible or exacting. Will the public lest I John M. Read and Wiliam A. Porter by this' standard, and vote accordingly ?— Pennsytvam- \ ETHAN SPIKE'S EXPERIENCE AS A .11 HUH. Ethan Spike, ol Hornby, Maine, thus nar- ; talcs, iri a letter to a Portland paper how his j services wee refused on a jury, after being sum- j inoried on a murder trial, just because he was •in favor of hanging a nigger anyhow,' and his 'sacred person' was atterwards 'snaked out' by two constables. 'Dul you ever git drawed on a jury ? I was iliaw'ti out of a box last fall and sworn to sup port the constitootion according to the statoot. Beyond a general idea that jewrymen was bound to go foi the country, right or wrong, which country they is, I knowed jist nothing of the supernuomry rlewties pertaining to such funk shonaris. VVal—fust thing I knowed I was summoned to Portland to try a Jarmon and a nigger for murdering Mr. Albon Cooper, on the high sea. 1 never could see why the tarm 'high sea' was used ill such a case. I spose it means floodtide, and 1 know that poik killed one time ot the tide haint the same as when killed at another time of the tide is—likewise beans pulled on a j full moon don't bile so well as when the moon is gibberish, (he means gibbous:) but it a feller mortal critter is slewed, it don't stand to reason that it makes any difference whether he was slewed at high water or low. Its murder any way. Them's my idees ol the law on that (lint. •VVal, I felt rather proud that my fust sarvice to my country as juryman was one ol life and death; and when I thought ol them cussed pie rates, I felt as though ef 1 had my way 1 d hang every Jarmin and nigger that I could get hold on. In this here patriotic and Christian frame I went to the court house. I found a small chance of brother jewrymen thar, and pretty soon the clark began to question fust one and then another, til! at last they kirn to me. 'Mr. Spike,' said the clerk, 'have you any conshienshous scruples agin hanging, said he. AVal,'said I,'that depends on surcumstan ces. Ef it w-ar the fust person singular, agree in to nomilive me, mascular gender, compery tive rnootf—that war to be hung—l hev. Rut ef it war ye, you or them, future tense, and in dycative mood, not a darn scruple,' said f. 'Hev you formed any opinion for or agin the prisoner,' said he. 'Not particular agin the Jarmin,' said I, 'but I hate niggeis as a general principle—and shall go for hanging this ere old white-wooled cuss, whether he killed Mr. Cooper or not,' says I. 'Do you know the nature of an oath.'' the clark eyed me. 'I orter,' says I, 'for I've used enough of'em. I began to swear when I was only about 'That'll do,' said the clark. 'You kin go home,' says he, 'you won't he wanted in this ere case,' says the clark, says he. 'What,' says I, 'ain't I to try this nigger at all.' 'No,' says the clark. 'But I am a jewryman,' says I, 'an you can't hang the nigger unless I've sot on him;' says I. 'Pass on,' says the clark, speaking very cross. 'But,' says 1, 'you mister, you don't mean as you say; I am a regular jewryman, you know. Draweil out of the box by the select men,' says I. 'l've oilers had a hankerin to hang a nigger, and now, when a merciful dispensashon seems to have provided one for me, you say I shan't sit on him ? Are this our free institoolions ? Is this the nineteenth sentry ? And this our boasted s —here somebody hollered, 'silence in the Court.' 'The Court be d—' I didn't finish this re mark, for a couple of Constables had holtofine, and in the twinklin of a bed post I was hustled down stairs into '.he street. Now, Mr. Editor, let me ask what are we comin to, when jewrymen—legal, lawful jew rymen can be tossed about in this way ? Talk about Kansers, Mormons, Spiritualism, Free Love and Panics—whar ar they in comparison? Here's a great pi inciple upsot! As an itider vidooal peihaps Fin of no great account—taint for me to say, but when as an enlightened jevv ryman 1 was tuck and carried down stairs by prrfane hands, just lor assertin my right to sit on a nigger—wy it seems to me the pillows ol society were shook: that In my sacred person the whole State itself was, figgeralivels speak in, kicked down stairs! If thars law in tEe land, I'll have this case brought up under a writ of hebeas Corpus or ixy Dicksit. A SPREAD EAGLE TOAST- At Prentiss Centre, Mo., on the sth, the foll owing: w as the second regular sentiment: D 3 Oi'R NATlON —Begotten amidst the storms of the sixteenth century, its infantile movements were dim and indistinctly seen on board the May Flower; on the rock of Plymouth, at Ja mestown, on the plains of Monongahela, and on the heights of Abraham : the 'capricious squaiis' of its infancy were heard in the tea-party of Boston, Faneuil Hall, on the plains of Concord, Lexington and Bunker Hill —in Ins boyhood he ran barefooted and bareheaded over tlie fields of Saiatoga, Trenton,Princeton, Monmouth and Yorktown, whipping his mother and turning her out'of doors ; in his youth he strode over the prairies of the boundless West, and called them his own, paid tribute to the despots of Barbary in powder and ball, spit in his father's face from behind cotton bale? at New Orleans, whip ped the mistress of the ocean, revelled in the halls of Montezuma, straddled the Rocky Moun tains and with one loot upon the golden sand and the other upon codfish and lumber, defied the world : in his manhood, clothed in purple and fine linen, he rides over a continent in cushioned cars, rides over the ocean in palace steamers, sends his thoughts on wings of light ning to the world around, thunders at the doors of the Celestial Empire and at the portals of distant Japan, slaps his poor old decrepit father in the lace, and tells him to be careful how he pecks into any of hisjiickaroons, and threatens to make a sheep pasture of all the lands that join him. What he Will do in old age, God only knows. May he live ten thousand years, 'and his shadow never be less. AN AMUSING ANECDOTE. —DanieI Webster had an anecdote of old Father Searl, the minister ol his boyhood, which is to good to be lost, it was customary then to wear buckskin breeches in cool weather. One Sunday morning in the autumn, Father Searl brought his down from the 'arret ; but the wasps had taken possession during the summer, anJ were having a nice time of it in them. By dint of an eflfut he gat out the intruders and dressed lor meeting.— But while reading the Scriptures to the congre gation, he felt a dagger from one of the enra ged small-waisted lellows, and jumped around the pulpit, slapping his thighs. But the more he siapped and danced the more they stung.— The people thought him crazy, and were in commotion as to w hat to do ; but he explained the matter bv saying : "Brethren don't be alar med : the word of ike Lord is in my mouth, but the Devil is in my breeches Webster always told it with treat glee to the ministers. AN old ladv possessing a fine fortune, and noted for her penchant fui the use of figurative expressions, one day assembled tier grandchii ren when the following conversation took place: "My children," said the old lady, "I am the root and ye are the branches." "Grandma," said one ?" "What, my child 1" t .[ was thinking how much better the bran ches would llonrish, if the root was under the •: round. WHOM: \i nin: K >^ll. DREAM OF A QUAKER LADT. —There w a beaotiflit story told of a pious quaker lady, who was addicted lo smoking tobacco. She had in dulged herself ki this habit until it bad increas ed so upon her. that he not only smoked her pipe a large portion of the day but frequently sat up in bed for this purpose during the night. Alter one of these nocturnal entertainments, she fell asleep, and dreamed that she died and approached heaven. Meeting an angel, she ask ed him ii her name was written in the book of life. He disappeared; but replied on returning, that be could not find it. "Oh," said she 'do look again; it must be there." He disappeared again, but returned with a sorrowful face, say ing it was not there! "Ob," said she in agony, "it must be there! I have an assurance that it is there! Do look once more"' The angel was mo ved to tears by her entreaties, and again left to renew his search. After a long absence he came back, his face radiant with joy, and exclaimed, "we have found it! but it was clouded with to bacco smoke, that we could hardly see it." The good woman upon waking, immediately threw away her pipe, and never indulged in smoking again. GOOD ANECDOTE. —Some few days ago I strolled into a counting-roomol a friend. He be ing absent, I commenced achat with his clerk, when a good looking "cuilered pusson" enter ed, doffed his castor and said : 'Mas' Bab, can you len' me a quarter till this afternoon, and I will pay you sartin ?" Mas' Bub applied his dexter to his vest pock et, but it made'no sign.' I turned. 'Well, Buck, you look tolerably honest, but, I don't know you, if you will give me security, I'll lend you the quarter.' His eyes brighten ed as he asked— •Yes,' replied Bob. I forked over. Some time afterwards, wen ding the same way, as I was about to enter the office, th" identical Buck stood belore me. 'Buck, where's my quarter 1 You didn,t pay as you promised.' 'No, sah, I gift you s'curity.' Well, but I want you to pay me—l lent you the quarter. 'Dats true, sah, but it am the custom down here to 'zaust de s'curity fust. I left. ANECDOTE OF SHELLY. —--An old shop keeper, a grocer, living near the poet's residence, re membered him and "hoped his children did not take after him, for he was a very bad man: "but on being interrogated as to the poet's bad ac tions, he explained that Shelley had not been guilty of any bad actions that he knew of—on the contrary, he was uncommonly good to the poor—but then he did not believe in the devil!" The grocer's wile also bore testimony to Shel ley's want of orthodoxy in this respect. The poet had christened his boat the Vaga, and she related with much apparent satisfaction, how a wag had on one occasion added the letters "bond" to the name painted on the stern, re marking—"Mr. Shrllev was not offended ; he oniv laughed ; for you see he did not believe in the devil, and so he thought there could be nothing wrong."— Life of Shelley. A POLITE BOY. —The other clay we were rr ding in a crowded car. At one end of tire sta tion an old gentlemen entered and was look ing around him lor a seat when a lad ten or twelve vears of age rose up and said, "Take mv seat sir." The oflVr was accepted, and the infirm old man sat down. "Why did you give me vour seat 1 he inquired of the boy, "Be cause you are old, sir, and I am a boy," was the quick reply. The passengers were very much pleased and gratified. For my part, I wanted to seizp hold of the little fellow and press him to my bosom. It was a respect for age, which is always praiseworthy. [Cr"An old lady residing not far from Exe ter was perhaps one of the most brilliant exam-* pies of conjugal tenderness that the last centu ry produced. Her husband had been Kong dy ing, and at length, on the clergyman of the parish making one of his daily visits, he found him dead. The disconsolate widow, in giving him an account of her spouse's last moments, told him her "poor dear man kept groaning and wroaning, but he could not die: at last," said she, "I lecollected I had got a piece of new tape in the drawer, so I took some ot that and tied it as tight as 1 could around hrs neck, and then I stopped his nose with my thumb and fin ger, and, poor dear ! he went off like a lamb ! " NON-PAYI no subscribers are thus talked toby a Southern editor ; "Wagons cannot run without wheels, boats without steam, bull frogs jump without legs, or newspapers be carried on everlastingly with out money, no more than a dog can wag his tail when he ain't got none.—Our subscribers are all good, but what good does a man's goodness do when it don't do any good. We have no doubt every one thinks that all have paid ex cept him, and as we are a clever fellow and his is a little matter, it will make no difference. A lady, the other day, asked a young gentle man. : "Sir, is your wife as pretty as you are ?" Not caring to be Complimented at the ex pense of his wife, he, byway of gentle reproof, blnshingly replied "1 cannot s.iv about that, Miss, but she has pretty manners!" The ladv quietly vamosed—no further inter rogatories propounded. "Mfss JULIA, allow me to close the blind, the heat of the sun must be oppressive." "You are very kind, sir, but I would rather have a little son than no heir at all. "Jim did you ever double the Cape of Good Hope ?" "I expect I have." "When V' Last night, when I put my arm around the cape that belonged to the dress of a young lady, that I have good hopes of making Mrs. Dusen bury." VOL % NO. 3.
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