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For the Bedford fiazette.
INDIAN SUMMER.
••The melancholy days hive come,
t he saddest of the year."
Sad Autumn with its chilly frost,
Hatii on the gale the leaflets tossed,
And strewn decay along the ground,
And spread a desolation "round :
And ail is ruin—all is blight ;
And yet, how beautifully bright !
But 'tis the loveliness of those,
In whom Consumption's hectic glows—
Life's fairest, but its latest, spark,
Kre it departs, and all is dark!
"i'is Autumn—but not Autumn's breath
I - this, that fans the cheek of death.
And seems as tho' it tain would strive
To bid the dying year revive;
The sun is led, as if with blood,
■M-rene the earth, and calm the flood ;
And bluer seem the distant mountains,
*iore darkly deep the stilly fountains;
And ail is sott in this sweet lime—
Known only to the Western Clime—
Which thus redeems to season past,
One genial ray from wintry blast;
And smiles too brief lor augiit so bland,
I he ••Indian Summer" of our land !
' i is summer—-but without its flowers,
Bale monitors ol fleeting hours;
l i> .-timnier —but tire leaves are sere.
The hoaiv hairs of aged year:—
"Vet beau'y— tho' in other guise;
For beauty changes, never dies; —
Delights us still with charms anew—
V ariety of glorious hue ;
And gives to earth the lovely dyes,
i'hat make the rain-bow ot the skies'
O earth ! whv unto thee were given
The beauty and the light of heaven 1
That man should mar, with deeds of ill.
The loveliness, whieh is so, still;
That be—an insect on thy breast—
Fhoald make thee cursed, when thou art
And soil the green of thy lair plains [blessed.
With murder's lark and gory stains ;
And trace his path w :h sorrow's blight
Leave ruin where he lottnd delight,
And turn thee to a home of death—
'l hou that sustain'st Ms fleeting breath!
iw\v TO EAT.
We have long considered eating an impor
tant [ art of our daily pleasure arid duty. I here
are rules to b- obsei ved, which physiologically
considered, are intimately connected with health
and lite, and h nee, with our success and char
acter. We should eat at regular times, eat
wholesome food, eat slowly, masticate well, he
cfceerful while we eat, drink but little while
eating, eat to live and not to kill ourselves.
but the thought on our mind just now , is
relatively to the proprieties ol the table. 1 here
are many little courtesies and refinements n
inong well-bred people at the table, which
many regaid with indifference, that just now
seem to us pai ticulai ly appropriate and becom
ing. We say just now, oecause we had occa
sion a few days since, to feed some Indians,
fresh from the forest. Their manner of eating
was so hoggish, greedy, gonnandish, as to be
absolutely repulsive, not to say loathsome.—
That human beings could eat so like brutes, we
had not before dreamed. We had heard before
. I "bolting lood," "roughing it," "taking it the
natural way," &c., but we bad no real concep
tion of the coarseness and brutality of savage eat
ing. We saw then the beauty of the icfine
■merits ol the civilized table, as we had never
seen it before. We palized sensibly the im-
port a nee of cultivating a chaste and proper;
manner of eating, a refinement of table etiquette j
♦hat shall be at once graceful and agreeable.
There are lew places in which one's breed- !
iter shows i'sell more cleatlv than at the table, j
A low bred man will generally be ill-.i.aoDcred >
and coarse at the table. A selfish man will j
usnallv show his selfishness as soon at the fes- 1
tal board as elsewhere. An awkward man will ;
be sure to be doubly awkward at the table.— [
\ bashlul man is most bashful when fie eats in ,
company of others. A mean man will be es
pecially m'an at bis own table. <>n the con- ;
t'arv a gentleman is especially a gentleman at I
(■is meats. The generous here shows his gen
erosity; the polite man his politeness; the well
bred man his good manners; the graceful man
hi? polish; the dignified man his digrvty.
With the American people, table etiquette is
too much neglected. More attention to good
manners to a graceful and easy style of eating,
to table politeness anil courtesy, would do much
to polish our people, and make their common
behavior more agreeable and satisfactory to them
selves. Our example and instruction before
our children arrPimporfant to them. There is
such a thing as excessive politeness, as an exqui
site mannerism at the table, which is to be a
voided, but we are more likely to offend with
our coarseness.
obliges not to mistrust a man;
prudence no', to trust him before we know him.
POLITICA L. .
,
From the New York Journal of Commerce, Oct. oth.
LETTER FROM GOVERNOR DENVER.
I he New York Tribune having published an
' article on Kansas affairs, September '2O, which
; contained several gross misstatements as to the
j "action of Governor Denver and President Bu
j chanan, the Governor addressed the following
; courteous I 'tier to the editor of the 'Tribune
correcting sti errors, but it had not the
fairness to print it. I mffr these circumstan
j ces, the gentleman to whom it was sent for
transmission to the / ribune, has handed it to us.
! and we cheerfully lay it before our readers :
LECOMPTOX, K. T., Sept. 30, 1858.
| To the Editors of the .\\w York Tribune.
GENTLEMAN : .My attention has been called
j to an article in reference to Kansas affairs pub
i lished in your daiiv of the 20th irislant, and
| I ri-weekly of (he 21st, in which you suggest
; that I bad probably been compelled by the i
; Administialion to resign the post I have held ;
j here for some months past, and on that supposi
j Don you proceed to make some serious charges j
against .Mr. Buchanan and his Administration, 1
I for all of which there is not the slightest founda- .
lion. It is true that I have resigned the oiiice !
|of (Governor of Kansas, but it was an act of my j
own free will. The President desired me to re- '
main, but the condition of my private affairs I
would not permit me to do so longer. Ju June
last i sent up mv resignation to take eff ct in j
August, but while in Washington in July, a; ,
the urgent solicitations of many persons iuteres- |
ted in Kansas, and also at lite request of the'
President, I then withdrew it for the time being. j
Those who are conversant with the facts know '
that it har been with extreme reluctance thai I I
have remained here fiom the fust, and that I
have always declared my intention to resign '
tile otiice of Governor, as soon as it could be j
done with safety to the public interests. I have :
received the most ample assurance of (tie cordial :
approval of my course in this !IW--iar Oioinet, j,
and here I inn>t be permitted to say that in all | i
mv conversation with the President about Kan- j
sas affairs, he has always manifested the deepest ! i
concern for the peace and happiness of the coun- j
try, and a determination that the people of the j
Territory should have 3 fair opportunity at the :
ballot box, to settle questions at is?ue before [
them in their own way, and without any ex- j
traneous influences. Such has been the charac- :
ter of all his communications to me, whether'
verbal or written, and while endeavoring to j
carry them out in good laith, I have met with
no opposition from the moderate men of the ,
Territory, nor from those who have been classed .
as proslavory rr.cn.
The frauds perpetrated al the election in [
January last, were committed by the violent j
j and unscrupulous men of all parties, and the;
investigation of tin ;n was partisan and partial. ,
| Such acts as the forging of the returns from!,
Delaware Crossing were paraded before tbe
public with great gusto, while the destruction!
of the ballot box and the ballots al Sugn ftl >urid,
by Capt. Montgomery, was passed by in silence, i
The actors iu ail these transactions ought to |
have been severely punished, but there were no j
laws that would reach them, and the late Legisla- j
tive A*mblv, which was all Free State, made;
no sufficient jaws to meet such cas.- sin tlie fu- ;
ttire, but endeavored to paralyze the powers of j
ihe Circuit Courts and invest the Probate Courts ;
with powers they could not pxercise. Vou ad- ,
! mit that tilings have goneon here quietly under J
my administration. This is not exactly correct, j
! There have been some disturbances in Doniphan,
Leavenworth, Linn and Bourbon count its, and ;
j in every case the disturbances have been produ- j
iced by persons calling themselves Free State
| men. In Doniphan county an effort was made
j IO assassinate the gentlemen who weie eh fled
j to the Legislature on the first Monday in Janua
iry last, and, although they escaped with their
i lives, they were plundered of their property,
! aud their houses burned. No steps have been
' taken to punish the perpetrators, and yet all the
icountv officers were Free State men. The
I troubles in Leavenworth city continued neatly
! all winter, and if the mayor, and other city offi
j cersclid not encourage them, they certainly took
ino measures to have them suppressed. In Linn
! and Bourbon counties ail was quiet ur.til
' Montgomery and his band commenced plunder
i ing, and driving off the people who differed
with them in political sentiments, in the course
of which they committed some outrageous acts,
! one of which was to drive a farmer awav from
his home, on pain of death, and then to take the
i ladies of his family, strip off'all their clothing,
and in that condition compel them to walk
backwards and forwards'for their amusement.
I passed through the counties where these outra
ges were perpetrated, and fo r some 30 miles it
presented such a scene of desolation as I never
I expected to have seen, and hope never again to
see in a country inhabited by American citi
j ' zens. Is it any wonder that the people on
i ! whom such outrages were perpetrated, should
- become exasperated Some three hundred fami-
i lies were thus robbed of their property, driven
i awav Irom their homes, and compelled to fly
- from the Territory. About two-thirds of them
- from Linn county, where every local officer
i ' was and is a Free State man, after providing
j places of security foi their families, some of the
men, maddened and desperate wpth the treat
; ! ment they had received, returned to seek re
. I venge, and perpetrated the bloody and unjustifia-
BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MOKNG, OCTOBER 29, 1858.
| ble act of the Mara is des Cygoes. This was
| followed on the part ol Montgomery, by setting
j fire to the town of Foil Scott, in the middle of
the night, while the people were all asleep:
. and then pouring in volleys of rifle balls to pre
) vent the people from extinguishing the flames.
Although no serious consequences resulted from
, this act though several persons escaped very
narrowly, yet its conception, I know of nothing
worse in the whole ii'sto-y of Kansas. If such
j an act had been commii'ed by a band of hostile
• Indians, it would have serrt a thrill ot horror
j throughout the whole country. Such have
j been some of the troubles in th.s Territory, and
I yet the perpetrators are running at large with
| out an effort to arrest them, in counties where
the Free State men have all the local officers,
: upheld by a portion of those calling them."' 'ves
1 Free Slate rr.cn, among the most active of
| whom havp been the hired reporters of the
, Eastern newspaper press. If any further distur
| ban ces occur in this Territory, these arp the
| people who will b* justly responsible for if.—
i The Free State party have a majority in every
county in the Territory, and tbev have the
i sheiifl and all other local officers in all but two
I or throe ol the counties, and there is no county
; in which the sheriffcannot preserve peace if he
desires In do so.
You make another complaint against the
President, that he has twice postponed the
sites of I lie public lands. If I mistake not, last
Spring you complained because the sales were
ordered for July. The first postponement was
made at the urgent solicitation of tbe people
in all parts of the Territory, and so anxious
were they to have it done, that they sent on a
committee of three to see the President on the :
subject, and the result of their interview was
published by you. The second postponement
was more necessary than the first, for money
had become more scarce in the Territory, lli'e :
rates of interest had gone up to 5 and 10 per
cent, per month, and there was a good deal of
sic. ss throughout the whole country. Be
adhering to the second order for the sales to take
place iu November, tbe settler would be j4aced
at the mercy oi the money lender, when to
postpone it the settler would have another yt m
within which toobtain Hie means to secure a
home, without having to give one-half of his
land lor the money with which to enter (he !
other bail. No good government would know
ingly impose such terms on her citizens, and
hence the second postponement of the land sales j
until July next. It was a measure demanded '
by the condi/inr, r.i'.,(i.:... i> —i. i I
iv'eie determined to be dissatisfied wit!?trnvunrcg
Hid everything tr.e Administration might do, j
ind a few money-lenders whose percentage has j
aeen gi.atlv reduced by it.
By giving publicity to this, you w ill correct
some erroneous impressions conveyed in th
irticb- alluded to, and oblige yours, respectfully, I
J. W. DENVER. j
.3 B L.ICK REPUBLIC.!. V.
Moses Perkins was a man who had no syn.- j
pathy fbi lhe "suffering Africans," and didn't I
like to hear anything about the abolition oi sla- '<
J . . . . I
very. IF- didn't think the "suffering African s i
troubles were anything to him, and was not |
disposed to bottler about them. He bad a broth- j
er-in-law who was of a different stupe, and
hero is told the way he served liin :
"I had a brother-in-law," said Mose, "who j
was one of the raveiiist, maddes', reddest, hottest ;
Abolitionists vou ever seed. 1 liked the pesky ;
critter well enough, and should have been very j
glad to see him come and spend a day, fetching ;
my sister to see itie and my wile, it he hadn't j
"low ed his tongue to run so 'bout niggeis and j
slavery,and the equality of tile races, and the |
duty ot overflowing the Constitution of the I -i
rnted Slates, and a lot of other things, some of j
which made me ma t, arid the best part ol "em i
right sick. 1 puzzled mv brains a good deal
to think how I could make him shut up his noi- j
sy head "bout Abolitionism.
"Well, one time, when brother-inlaw came j
over to stay, an idea struck me. J hired a nig- j
ger to help me through tiie haying time. He j
was the biggest, strongest, greasiest nigger 1
ever seed. Black ! tie was blacker than a stack
ot black cats, and just as shi ney as a new bea
ver bat. I spoke to him."
"Jake," sez I, 'when von hear the breakfast
bell ring, don't say a word, but you come into!
the parlor and set right down among the fulki
and at your breakfast.'
The nigger's eyes stuck out ot his head 'bou
a leet.
'You're jokin", n assa,' sez he.
'Jokin,' sez 1, 'l'm sober as a decon.'
'But,' sez he, '1 shau't have time to wash my
self and change my shirt.'
'So much Die better,' sez I.
'Well breakfast came on, so did Jake, and IH
sat down 'long side my brother-in-law.' Ht
started, but he didn't say a word. There warn'!
no mistake'bout it. Shut ycur eyes and yoi
would know it for he was loud I tell you.—
There was a first rate chance to talk Abolition
ism, but my brother-in-law never opened trii
i mouth.
'Jake,' says If you be on hand at dinner time
! and he was. He had been working ill th'
! mediffr all the forenoon—it was hot as hickory
| aiul billti' pitch, and—but I will leave the res
|to your imagination. Wall, in the alteruooi
brother-in-law came up to me madder than i
j short-tailed bull in boniet time.
'Moses,' sez he, '1 want to speak to you.'
'Sing it out,' sez I.
'I haven't but a few words to say,' sez liq
'but it that ere confounded nigger comes to tin
ta'de while I'm stoppiu' here, I'll clear out.'
'Jake ate his supper that night in the kitchir,
| but Irom that day to this I never heard m'
brother-in-law open his mouth about Abolition
ism. When the fugitive slave bill was passed
■ j I thought he'd let out some, but he didn't fit
| he knowed that Jake was still w-orking on tfr
■ i farm.'
Freedom of Thougland Opinion.
i THRILLLVG IJfCIDEJVT. t
Oiriday last, a man named Wilson made
an esnsion from the Fair ground at Centralis,
111., a balloon, belonging to Brooks, the
.Groat. He descended about eighteen miles
dista, at the farm of Mr. Harvey. After the
grajJng iron had been made fast, Harvey, to
aniu his children, one a boy of four years, and
the her a girl of eight years, placed them in .
theisket car, and permitted them to ascend
sevi! times as high as the rope would allow.
Unpectedly the grappling iron slipped from
thejther's hand, and the balloon with its pre
cioofreight was wafted out of sight. Thedis
tre.ofthe parent knew no bounds. The per
| iloh is children he considered imminent, for
uftt assurance had he that they would not be \
: Ime into some dense forest, where they would
{ overtaken with hunger before they could be
find, or perhaps descend into some lake or
stall and be drowned ? As soon as it was
|S3ioie an Extra was issued at Centralia, and
fe whuff neighboring country placed on the
art to waf h tor the balloon and children.
| .xaturdav morning at day break, a farmer
! air New Cartage, forty-three miles distant
> fro* Mr. Harvey's place, discovered the bal
! 100 suspended in the air, attached by thegrap
! plig rope to a tree io h? yard. He linme-
I lively hauled the balloon down, and found the
j vungest child asleep in the {rottom of the bas
! kt, and the eldest carelully waiching ovei her
. tille brother. They had been walD'd a!>out by
j dferent cut rents of air throughout the whole
fight, and had come to a halt but a little while
j blore they were relieved.
Tiie story the gii I told was that, as the bal
lon ascended she cried piteouslv to her father
tcpull it down. She said siie passed over a
kirn where she saw a great many people to
vhom she Ilk, wise appealed at the top of
h r voi- e. Thi< place was Centralia. The bal
loon was seen to pass over there, but the peo
ple little imagined it carried two persons in
sicti danger. Her little brother cried with
ciid, and the heroic girl took off her aprcn,
covered him and got him to sleep. In hand
dug the ropes she happened to pull one which
had the effect of biinging the balloon down,
■ind although not aiudeistanding the philosophy
of the movement, she was content to keep the
valve open, so long as by so doing, she found
•she approached the earth.
The young serial voyagers were in the bal
loon about tint teen hours and a quarter. It may
xAi'.'Agih imagined that among the neighbors
mind and loving consi"deral , iSrf l!^ cls ol much
may well entitle hei to ... ;y--AAce ot
the incident itself \va s of.such
acter that we opine it will not aoonm<' lor
£otten in that section.
The boy and girl were conveyed home as
soon as practicable, and it is needless to say
were received with outstretched arms.
IIYM.Y OF THE M.JRSEILL. lISE.
i'ijc Marseillaise was inspire".! hv genius, pa- j
tiiotisin, youth, beauty and champagne. Roll
get de Lisle was an officer of the garrison at
Stra.sburg, and a native of Mount Jura, lie
was an unknown poet and composer. He had
a pleasant friend, named Dietrick, whose wile
and daughters were the only critics and admi
rers of tbe soidier poet's song. One night he ,
was at supper with his friend's family, and they
bail onlv coarse bread and a few slices of ham.
Dietrick, looking sorrow fully at De Lisle, said,
"Plenty is not our i ast, but we have the cour
age of a soldier's heart I have still one bottle
left in the cellar—bring it, my daughter, and let
us drink to liberty and our country !"
The young gii l brought the bottle; it was
soon exhausted, and De Lisle went staggering
to bed ; lie could not sleep for cold, but his heart
was warm and full ofliie beating of genius and i
patriotism. He took a small clavicord and
tried to compose a song : sometimes the woids j
were composed fiist—sometimes tfie air. Di
rectly he fell asleep over the instrument, and
waking al daylight, he wrote down what he
had conceived in the delirium ot the night.— |
Then he woke the family, and sang his produc
tion; at first the women turned pale, then they j
wept, then burst forth into a cry of enthusiasm.
It w as the song of the nation and of terror.
Two months afterwards, Dietrick went to i
the scaffold, listening to the sell same music,
compos-d under his own rool and by the inspi- ,
iat ion of his last Lottie ot wine. Ihe people,
sang it everywhere; it flew Irom city to city,
to every public oi chest ra. Marseilles adopted
the song at the opening and close of its clubs
—hence the name. "Hymn ot the Marseil
laise;" then it spread all over France. They
sung it in their houses, in public assemblies, and
in tbe stormy street convocations. De Lisle's
mother heard it and said to her son, " M fiat is
this revolutionary hvmn, sung by bands ol bri
gands, and will) which your name is mingled ! '
De Lisle heard it and shuddered as it sounded
through the streets of Paris, rung from the Al
pine passes, u hile lie, a royalist, fled from the
infuriated people, frenzied by bis own words.
France was a great amphitheatre ol anarchy
and blood, and De Lisle s song was the battle
cry.
There is no national air that will compare
with the Marseillaise in sublimity and power,
it embraces the sott cadences full ot tbe peas
ant's home, and the stormy clangor of silver
and steel when an empire is overthrown it
endures the memory of the vine dressei's cot
tage, and makes the Frenchman, in his exile,
cry "La belie France!" forgetful of the torch,
and sword, and guillotine, which have made
! bis country a spectre of blood in the e)es of na
: tions. Nor can the foreigner listen to it, sung
! by a company of exiles, or executed by a band
of musicians, without feeling that it is the pi
■■ broch ol battle and war.
If vou wish to be certain ot what you g p '
never marry a girl named Ann ; 'an is an in
' definite strticle.
LITTLE MITT IE.
BV LI N A BELLE.
"Room, gentle flowers,
My child would pass to Heaven."
"Tired, little one?"
"Yes, Aunt Mittie, oh, so tired! And the
little hands push back the damp hair from the
pure white lorehead, as the head sinks into its
favorite resting place—my lap.
What a picture of beauty ! So child-like and
yet so unlike most children. 1 gaze and yearn
for the gilt to transfer its angelic sweetness to
canvas. The pure, blue-veined forehead, arched
by those delicate, dark brown, almost b'ack,
brows, though the hair is a light golden hue,
the long fringe-like eye lashes, so long and
dark that they throw a rayed shadow on the
dove grey eves, the little dimpled mouth,
wreathed with a quiet smile ot content, the
rose white, pink cheek, (not the purple pink, so
common in children, but the true rose hue,)
all Ihese might be painted. But could that
spiritual expression,that shadow ot something
holy, that painters have so essayed to do in pic
tures of the Christ-child ? Vain the attempt}
it is the spirit shadow that goes home with the
soul to Heaven.
"It was so warm, but I thought I would not
put it off any longer" And tbe pure eyes gave
me one of those confiding, loving looks that al
ways sent a thrill to my heart.
"What was the task that could not be put off,
Pet, that you must tire yourself walking in the
hot sun to do it"
"I have been over to the cemetery to fix Vir
gie's grave. Something told me I must do it to
day. That selfish myrtle had crawled all over
it, and almost smothered my sweet violets.—
I had trained it up around the fence anu over
the post, but it would come down and crawl
all over the grass and near iy covered up the vi
olets I planted round dear VYrgie's head. I've
got it all nice now Aunt Mittie, and you shall
go with me to-morrow to see it."' That "to
morrow" never came.
White as the pillow on which she lies, the
long dark lashes drooping oil marble cheeks,
one ot which is pillowed on a little hand, while
the other lies like a snow Hake on the coverlet,
so small and wasted t hat the little circles of gold
that used to clasp the slender finger is now
slipping from it. Quiet, yet so quiet, but not
sleeping, for there is that expression, so sweet
yet so holy. I gazed spell-bound. The large
eyes open slowly but so calmly. "Aunt Mit
tie, is mamma gone 1" Yes, pet. "I he doctor
told her I must die. lam sorry for mamma
and father and Tinie and you, but I am not sor
ry for myself, I think it will be so nice to be in
graven and never have to die again. Heaven
funeral and don't let every" ooliy HlVftJX' J. l . 1 " 9'
violets. Virgie loved them so." And then
those soft eyes look deep, deep into uy soul and
seea wall of partition that had never been throw'n
down, as the sweet voice murmered, "I know
how vou love Papa and Tinie : give all the love
vou had for me to mamma." One hard stru g
gie and the sweet voice was sealed with a kiss
as siie diopped her tiny ring in in) hand.
"God gives us ministers of love,
Which we regard not being near,
Death takes them from us, then we feel.
That angets have been with us here."
7/Otl" TO EQUIP FOR A KAXSAS TRIP.
A traveler in Kansas, w-ho has evidently
"bush-whacked" before, for he talks like an old
Western pioneer, or a modern gold-miner, thus
advises all who intend making a Kansas tour:
Mv advice to all travelers is to take along a
sack of cooked provisions, a good bottle of bran
dy to mix with the water, for it is so different,
sometimes free-stone, sometimes limestone,
brook, branch, creek, river and spring, that
you'll have thunder and lightning below, in
twenty-four hours without it. Also a buffalo
robe or big blanket, with a box of matches, and
with your gun get your meat, camp out, have
a little bag of ground coffee and a tin cup:
with these, you can travel from Jericho to Je
rusalem, and avoid the taverns, and other annoy
ances, otherwise encountered in traveling in new
countries. Boil or fry your meat on the coals,
use bark for a plate*, if you have flour make up
the dough in a piece ol bark off a tree, tw Lt it
round a bending stick, stick one end in the
ground, while tbe dough end hangs over the
fire; when one sid * is baked tuin the other to
the fire until baked, and you have a sweet bis
cuit. A little bag will cairy along all articles
necessary to be used, and you can squat down
any where, at any time, turn out your team to
crass, and become in reality "a squatter sover
eign."
LIFE SAVED BY BEING JILTED. —A gentle
man of Cincinnati has been "dying bv inches
of rheumatism, and after tiavelling for some
time he came home almost dead, lie had ben
engaged to Le married, and says the Cincinnati
Enquirer:
"Weary of physicians, attempted cures ami
lite itself, he came home to dip, and again went
to the Spencer House, thinking he would there
receive from the kindly proprietress all the
attendance he could at any place, not in ever)
sense a home. He was carried Irom tbe boat
to the hotel, and more dead than alive, placed
! in the comiortable apartment be had before
occupied. On the sixth day alter bis leturn,
he learned that his betrothed —thinking he
could not survive, and wishing probably to
lose no time in her connubial relations —had
been married the day previous to another pei
son. more wealthy, if less meritorious than lie.
All the friends ot" the diseased lover thought
that this would prove fatal at once, in his then
state of health, but instead of their anticipations
being realized, an a week irom the day of the
reception of the unsuspected news, he arose
from his bed and rapidly recovered, and in
less than a month was as well as ever."
more polished r-ciety is the less for
mality there is in it.
WHOLE .W TIBER 3821.
VOL 2, NO. 13.
A GOOD ARGUMENT.
It has been customary, for some time, when
a man is arraigned before a court of justice,
for his counsel to put in a plea of insanity on
behall of the accused. Recently an old negro
man applied to us (says the Louisville Demo
crat) for instruction how to proceed against one
iof his own race whom he charged with pur
loining a dollar from him. He told us that be
had placed three silver dollars in a small but
strong bos, which he kept in his room ; that
a few days ago, Handy Andy (we will call him)
broke the box open, took a dollar therefrom and
decamped. We told him that it was useless to
prosecute Andy, unless he had proof to sub
stantiate the charge, and then, probably, the
accused would be acquitted on the plea of in
sanity, as no sane man would take one dollar
and leave two behind.
Then the old man exclaimed, with great em
phasis :
"Massa, I tell you dat nigger ain't crazy ; he
broke my box open and took de dollar out.—
\ow, if lie had broke de box open and put in a
dollar, den 1 say he's crazy."
LADIES SHOULD READ .YEHS
PAPERS.
Tt is one great mistake in female education to
keep a young lady's time and attention devoted
to only the fashionable literature of the day. If
you would qualify her for conversation, you
must give her something to talk about—give
her education with this actual world and its
transpiring events. Urge her to read newspa
pers, and become familiar with the present
character and improvements of our race. His
tory is or some importance, but the past world
is dead, and we have nothing to do with it.—
Our thoughts and cur concerns should be for the
present world, to know what it is, and im
prove the condition ol it. Let her have au in
telligent opinion, and be able to sustain an in
telligent conversation conceiving the mental,
moral, political and religious improvements of
our times. Let the gilded annals arid poems on
the centre-table, be kept a part ot the time cov
ered with weekly and daily journals. Let the
whole family—men, women and children—
read the newspapers.
OLD BACHELORS.
An exchange says :
*•11 our maker thought it wrong for Adam to
live single, when there was not a woman upon
tue eaiui how criminally guilty are old oactie
lors, with the world lull ol pretty girts."
The Savannah .News meets the railing accusa
tion:
We protest against If."* IftA4*nft.oJd1 f tA4*nft.oJ d bachelors
ence between Adain and the old bachelors of
our day. Adam could afford to marry—many
bachelors now a days cannot. What with
crinoline, five hundred dollar shawls, diamond
oracelets, and pin money, it is no small underta
king at this age of the world. Eve had no
choice —it was Adam or nobody. She had no
chance to get up a flirtation, for there was no
one to tlirt with. Seeing no other means of
tantalizing her husband—a feminine peculiari
ty from that day to this—she got hiin in a scrape
by eating the forbidden fruit. "Old bachelors
are criminally guilty," are they? Give 'old
bachelors" the same chance Adam had, and our
word lor it, a majority of them would put on
matrimony in no time."
And then the Columbus Enquirer clinches
the matter :
"Thems our sentiments, to a fraction. And
it is our opinion, lurther, that if some married
men were restricted to the same attractions
and temptations that Adam had, there would
be fewer applications to put offmalrimony when
once assumed. O, lor tne good old days of Ad
am and Eve."
C\ IBB~IGE D DITTO.
We have just now heard a cabbage story
winch we will cook up lor our laughter loving
readers :
"Oh! I loves you like anything," said'a
young countryman to his sweetheart, warmly
pressing her hand.
"Ditto," said she, gently returning the pres
sure.
The ardent lover, not happening to be over
and above learned, was sorely puzzled to under
stand the meaning ol ditto—nut was ashamed to
expose his ignorance by asking the girl. He
went home, and the next day being at work in
cabbage patch with his lather, he epoke out—
"Daduy, what's the meaning of ditto?"
"Why," said the old mar., "this here is one
cabbage head,ain't it?"
"Yes, daddy."
"Well, that ore's ditto."
"Rot that good-for-nothin' gal!" ejaculated
the indignant sonj "she called me cabbage
bead, and I'll be darned il ever I go to see her
again."
iT/~"Do you know Mr ?" asked one
It lend ol another, referring to an old gentleman
wh > was famous for his fondness of the extract
of hops.
" Yes sir, I know him very '.veil."
" What kind of a man is he?"
" Why, in the morning, when he gets up,
he is a beer barrel, and in the evening, when ha
goes to bed, he is a barrel of beer.
"Whatare they talking about?" said a mem
ber, during a debate on the money question.
"Theology," was the reply. The'ology! Why
I thought it was the money question." "Well,
money is their deity, and they are discoursing
about that."
If a journeyman dyer can earn two dollars a
day by dyeing what should it cost him to
livel