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I’d ’■>• a virus which betrjS r-, liiuj.tii’Ut and- oU)orist ■•■ at, nail himj-s cutanijjgop. uv.na;, audcensigningtotii ! lutmr to health,ft, i. 1 ,': " 'J'lf human dircasee n f!»> yyetem, drawing ft, n a fi '.v years of fllflnba ?t .!.atio\s fiie Nervousnj «!«rgie» of iife, Canada tfjJti. ■ proper development Of tta ?•:. iixieti, business, »64*u ■ nifb-rcr wrecked in w* Mnpfiun ami a train®fl*3i itself. With the c -victims of Self-Abnsa rtS ■a be f flcetod, and wlthtK c Liv jmti-jnts. call berMtopa I.inst tile use of Patent Me* .-•■iiiijus smircs In the ■ iraii.l ;ob the unwarviSf, • i;=titui.oub rained (grille ~. or the eju.Oly poisonom .■tomes.-’ i have carefnllT Patent. .Medicines end fljgd r.jiTcsiv,' f-'iibllmate, vhbfh ins of mercury and aJdrat]. ;: a the disease disable* (ha ’ttuois now'in use ere.pet til rersohs, WU6 do nbfnn mdrria inedica, BaHttts b ‘W of tlie human system, ad that to make money re- f- of males and female* i f twenty years ofpis* of the most remarkah# litas sent, to any pairt'ol ■ iat ienbt communicating • corrtspondencc strttSy.l IMEKVILUB, M.JJ, '• ’ -V'- 100? Mote Tteelflh, ya/y23,’«T-15.r iATION, Pag. 1-i special endowment ruled, affected urWiffy. ■ 'ml PUeaseSgSnche* AWT' j Gonorrhoea, (fleet, J •'/ Abner, «ft, - of the day. l‘ /st free in a seal^dea *-• postage stomp* to Dr , New Tork City; ' i- ‘ -IMKH FAS&- Mvichacl Tailor, latejof i l .' citizens ofAltqpß* ib? building twtfdoot* il out door SotlthcTK*" ■ '■>•! is now rewiring m» h:r goods, " : rices, Plain fed Fwfer i . *iik,Satin VMvfeMif' niir Vestings, Id-twin. ' <;U of which' be srih • u on the moot reaton*- ■ he thinks, will enf ■ him with their fefcW- or.\n r .--Tinß i f) ft New Map of Bhrff urvers. conUislneaU ‘he actual localiUM.df r ' rehip, School HotOM, i -, b tores. Form How t Villages, a Tahleof r - giving the name fed ; engraved on the mar> ill: scale eons to m*k* ch will be colredfeo '-.red to subscriber* *t SAMUEL OEIL, ";‘ ISAAC O.FBKBD. . 0 AZETT334- I ’hod Criminal* Niff ' iilafcd throoghirtff • Trial*, Criminal tire- some, logcthervMtr 2-t to bo found B* fel T fur six month*, to ■))M write their name* ibe; - reside pUtolyd ATSEI.L A CO* ■li) I’iillcc Gazette, .V- I- York dig. ( BEST p:ro- Li AGAINST THOSE C -Ms, and other, Affcc- I)' exp' 'M ftAte'Of to* I" inual rhaue*« ofoSU fon p y iL gUt ta Ule thW story «M*atton’s Hall, at o'clock COUNTY OFFICERS Judges cf the Ontrlt. —President, lion. George Tavlor.— Associstes, J. Penn Jones, David Caldwell. /VcCAonotary—-Joseph Baldridge. Register and Recorder— Hugh A. Caldwell. Sheriff— Gcorge Port. Doputv—John McClure. ■ District Attorney— Be-oj. I-. Hewit. County Coinmiscioners —Jmncs llutchisoa, David M. Con fer, J. U. McFarlane. Treasurer —9. Hoover., .Imfiiors-J. tv. Tippeiy, 8. Morrow, A. C. McCartney. Shiver ** J **B»rd IHU byrw^l^aned. wa- PURE WHITE LEAD asd zEo Pftlnt, tlw Chrome, Gicon. pew. n »• o^gcauafaollat m* OILS, COLOGNES, PO3L BhaTlDg Toflet Bmp,, fur ~ 0. W. KBBSU#. f LEHR’S STORE. Isln «c«, i 0 North wLS/^ LAItG®- AND HfJfd liitfrg. ffertopd where thoauahodikelvy. Climbodover the meadow bon, - And watched aw the youngnight crinkled The tkywlth. her crewo-like star* The cloTerwaaredbeueath us—- ' The air hod o emell pf June— f The cricket chirped in tue grosses, And the soft ray* of the moon. Drew oor shadows oat on the meadow, \' Distorted, lank and tell; I Hi* shadow wag kissing my shadow— That wag the all, My heart leaped up as he whispered, j “ I Jove you, Mtrgery ioe,” . Tor. then ode arm of Ida shadow -j Went round the shadow of me. 6 00 “I lure.yon, Margery, darling, Became yon are yonng and fair; Por your leyos’ bewUdering blueness, And tiu gold of your ending hair. No qne«n has hands that are whiter, No lark ha* a voice so sweet. And your ripe young Ups arc rodder Than the clover at oarfeet. “My.heart wiU break with its Like a clond o’erebargod with rain; 0 tell me, Margery, darling, Mow long X must love in vain?” frith biuahesand smiles i answered— (l will not tell what}—Jmt then 1 saw that hU saucy shadow Was kissing my shadow again. J Ho promised to love mo only— Ipromlsi-d to lovo bat him— Till the muon fell out of the beacons ‘ Ami the stars with ag6 grew dim. Oh, the strength of man’s devotion! Oh, the raws a woman speaks) ’Tis.ycars since that blush of rapture Broke redly over my cheeks. He found a gold that was brighter Than that of my floating curls, And married a cross eyed widow. With a dozen grown np girls. And I—-Ukl 1 pine and languish? Bid I weep my him ejes^ore? Or break my heart, do yon fancy, For love that was mine np more? U 30 A. 51. 8 00 A. 51. « 15 P.M. 800 “ 8 35 A. 51 12 08 P. 51 700 « I stand to-night in the meadow Whore Harry and I stood then. And the moon has drawn two shadows Out over the grass again. Ar.d i low voice keeps repeating— -81 close to my startled ear, That the shadows melt together— “l love yon, Margery, dear. ’Tla not for yenr cheek*’ rich crlmaon, Anil not. for yonr eye*’ soft blne. But because your heart to tender. And noble and pure and true.” The voice la dearer than Harry’*; And so lam glad, yon fe v ‘ He married the erdfeuyed widow— In*lead of Margery Dee. Sclctt THE SHERIFF’S STOST. i In the summer of 184-4, while travel ling on bitsiness in the wilderness of Nor thern Maine, we stopped one afternoon in the little village pf P—, which nestles cozily in the shade of Saddeiibaok moun tain. 4-fter supper, while enjoying bur cigar Upon the “ porch,” we noticed a pe culiar looking scar upon the cheek. Jhinking ‘ thereby hangs a tale,’ we adeed him to iuferm us of.the cause of so unusual a mark. He professed h ’mseif perfectly willing to relate the sto y, and drawing a chair close to our side com menced: '.ln my .younger days I was a sheriff in the county in .which 1 resided. In the spring of 1839 a murder was committed in a neighboring .town, under .circum stancea of unusual atrocity. The deed was done by a Frenchman, whose name was Liste. He, witli his wife, lived, ib a log cabin in the woods, Some ten miles from where the deed was committed, and had long been suspected as being a thief and secreter of stolen goods- 1 was sent W secure him, and you may be sure I did not relish the job much, but go I miist. As I had ten miles to ride, I started early, and arrived at the cabin about noon. Tying my to a tree, T went jip to the door and knocked ; after' considerable delay in u^astehingjoore than wwfnecessary, .the door was i opened by his wife, who de manded, in no very pleasant tone, what I wanted: v * ‘ls your husband at home ? I asked. * No, he hiw gone to the village/and will notibo back till night/ she answered. Then I will wait till he comes honie/ said I> and without, giving her time to re ply, stepped into the room. One glance around convinced me that the murderer was at home. A rifle stood in the corner of the room, which he had been cleaning, as I rode up, for the water was even drip ping from the tube. T said nothing, how ever, but sat down, and began to take a survey of the room. He could not hate left, While I stood at the'door, without my seeing hipa; so that he must either have left before l .camc, or else, which I con sidered more likely, was concealed about the cabin. My eye /ell upon a rag mat, ¥”8 on 4ll e floor, and taking thatWp, the mTOtery was explained. A trap door was underneath, Which jwohably fed to the hole, or cellar in Whidh he was coabeaki. 11 ABUT AND JL ■x rosin js. aunt. BY WILL TRACY. ALTOONA, PA,, THURSDAY, lB5B. .L ir. I lifted the door op, and was looking for some means of descending, when a pash trom the i ‘ gude wife * sent mo down with out the use of a ladder, and the door was suddenly shot. I tell you, sir, I was in no enviable position, in a dark cellar with awmrderer—for he was there, as I soon after loupdout- Thinking I heard him move, I took a step in tlm direction of the sound. In an anstant tee was a flash, a loud report, and I felt a burning pain in my cheek. I saw him by the flash of the pistol, crouch ed in the further corner of the cellar. My blood was up, and I made a spring and closed with him. We had a Sharp tussle, for a few moments, but at length I man aged to get the; bracelets on his wrists, and then it was all over. Meanwhile his wife was above, standing on the door, and ask ing every now and then— ‘Have you fixed him, Jem?’ . Putting any bund upon the man’s mouth, and imitating hia voice, as near as I could, I told her 1 had, and ordered her to lead the sheriff’s horse into the shed. My ruse succeeded perfectly, and as, she left the room, 1 ordered him up the ladder, and by using the argument of a pistol persua ded him td go. Once up, the rest was easy. His with was somewhat astonished when she pamo in, but seeing I was well armed made no resistance. The man was sullen, and refused to speak, but 1 did not care for that, il put him on the horse, and led the horse two—miles .through the wopds, to the nearest neighbors. Scou ring the assistance of one of the ‘men folk,’ 1 had him securely lodged in jail that nighty and; he is now in the State Pris on serving his sentence, imprisonment for life. But that was the hardest fight I ev er had; and I shall carry a mark of it to my grave. So ends the sheriff ’s story. SnAK.tNfo Hands.—The mere offer of the hand is the readiest sign of voluntary courtesy or forgiveness, and its non com pliance the most civil yet meaning of re pulses. Shaking hands is u mode of get ting, the origin 'of which is lost in obscuri ty. Individuals display character in their mode of so i doing. Who cannot feel at once the antagonism between the touch of a prude and the cordial grasp of a Triend ? Who knows hot the sailor’s grip of candid heartiness from the conventional ‘ giving of bunds V , How perfectly does the grad-, uated or lingering pressure cause the mer cury in- love's barometer to rise or fall by the scale of hope! What sympathies and antipathies are demonstrated by the vari-, Ous degrees of kindly, irresolute, vivacious careless, fund, or earnest manner of sha king hands ! It is this relation between temperament, .feeling, consideration, and the instinctive action of the hand, which has given i“ise to those theories which pro fess to read 1 the; predominant impulses of character in the traits of one’s hondwri ting. A Smart People.—Not long ago, an attorney with considerable ‘'swell,’ but not much brains, came to C-- , Ohio, to lo cate. One day‘when the post office was full, awaiting'the distribution of the mail, a half-witted fellow stepped up to him in the crowd, and said: ' ‘Mr. S-U- Tin told you have come here to practice law.’ ‘Yes, I have.; ‘Well, you will find it a first rate loca tion, I had hot lived here four months before I bald; Been sued ten times.’ ‘ Well, it seems to mo I could live here fur years without being sued at all.' ‘ I presume yipu could,’ said our half witted friend, ‘people herd are pretty darned smart,'they don't sue a fellow with out bp’s good for the costs I" - A Laugh.-— dlow much of character lies in a laugh !iltis in fact'the cypher key oftentimes, we decipher a man. As a late writer observes: ‘You know no injati, until you have beard him laugh.’ There are occasions—there are humors —when a man with whom you have long been familiar, will quite startle us by breaking out into a laugh, which comes manifestly right from the heart* and yet which wc have never heard before. And in many a heart q sweet angel slumbers unseen, until some happy moment ajwa kens it. ! ■ ’ ' M 3&. A couple of* idle fellows strolled into .a colqi at Hartford, a few eveninga ftbeeip enjoy the fan j bat when the colored minister rose to preaCh, before announcing ihe text, he leaned forward on the jagd looked slowly arouiid ph the congregation. 'Brethren/ says bent length,mhy de jLor’ have mercy on all de scoffers/ (Long pause.) ‘ May de Lor’ have mercy oh afi de laughers/ (Solemn pause.) ‘ May de Lor* hare mercy on de two pea-nut edicts down by db aopr/-r The two young men did not wait for the benediction. r > , : ; B&» Travel is good to take the conceit out of a man j tq spake out his ideas, arid enlarge the bounds of his mental visions. It makes mjep wise, but seldom happier. After all, homo is the place for comfort, we are always happiest where the-heart is. As Holmes'says “the world has a millioh roosts for a man, hut only one nest/' : • [INDEPENDENT IN KVBayTHINO.] Arkansas! the State of all the South ern confederacy worst ridden by dema gogues and politicians. Rich in her boil and mineral wealth, and poorest in every thing like internal improvements and com mercial facilities of all kinds. Her pub lic roads are pigmires, and her rjvers in nocent of any improvement save those af forded by nature: .Jogging along over one of these self-same roads, I broke my buggy trying to drive round a suspicious spot, where some philanthropist had erec ted a hickory sapling bearing the ominous words: Delayed and benighted, 1 at last reached a log house, whose blazing fire-light thro’ the open door promised comfort and if I guessed aright spine half dozen horses hitched at the gate indicated that ‘ some thing was going on.’ I hailed : ‘ Halloo, who lives here V ‘ Me, Bob Woods. What do you want ?’ ‘ Supper and lodging, if you can accom modate me.’ This brought Bob Woods to the gate, where he proceeded to inform me that his darter Melindy was ‘ about getting ’ mar ried, but he’d as leif make a dollar as not, ef I’d feed my horse myself and sleep on a corn-husk shake-down afore the fire.’ — I jumped at the offer and out of my bug gy, fed ‘ Lightning’ and a better supper than that 1 never had in my life before, washed my, hands, and went in to see the fun. 1 was made at home in a moment. The idea of an ‘ Orleen feller ’ currying and feeding his own horse, was something entirely new, and I was u favorite instan ter, guaranteed by a prominent invitation to ‘liquor.’ The parson imbided drew an enormous red bandanna across bis lips, and announced that ‘ he was ready to talk when the rest was.’ This brought forth the happy couple. The groom was a lanky specimen,in home-spun, and led his bride by the hand. She was a bouncing, rosy cheeked damsel, following a step or two behind, feeling evidently in a novel posi tion. ‘ You Melindy, take your finger out of your mouth.’ Melindy, cast a de fiant look at her maternal relative, with drew the offending member, wiped it on her apron and quickened her pace. The young parson, after some little rauged jthem to his satisfaction and pro ceeded. ‘John Stribner, do you tafte Melindy Woods, in the presence of these witnesses, to he your lawful wedded wife V ‘ That’s wot I’m here for,’ answered Mr. Stribner, craming his hands into his breeches pockets. ‘ You will please answer, ‘ Yes or no.’. ‘ Yes or no,’ promptly returned the gen tleman. 4 .No, no ! says yes.’ ‘ Y-a-a-s, then !’ casting a sheepish look around him. ‘ Mefindy Woods.* ‘ Y-a-a-s !’ .‘Wait a moment, please, Melindy Woods, do you take John 'Stribner, in the presence of these witnesses, to be your lawful wedded hushaud V 4 1 reckip.’ ‘ Then in the presence of the witnesses spoken of, Ido declare you man an’ wife, 'cording to the laws of Arkansaw an’ the Goxpi/l; an’ wet’s thus jiued let no man put in sunder.’ The parson turned away, flushed and excited, but wais recalled by a query from Mr.Stribner. Johq didn’t argue the point, hut sidled up to the grinning group where I was standing, and proposed that ‘ us boys should take Some ‘ bust bead,’ (whiskey.) Mean while I heard Mclindy’s triumphant voice among some of her companions. ‘ Kiss ! humph! Jawn’s turned fool, I bTieve.’ I slept on the corn-shuck shake-down afore the'fire soundly that night, being separa ted, from the bridal by a cur tain ex temporized for the occasion. From behind its folds I heard ‘ Jawn’s’ remon strating voice followed by a host of loving apologies from. Melindy for the refused kiss. I'll take my ‘ affydavy’ that he re ceived that one a hundred fold, with in terest. Rats.—An eminent agricultural writer estimates that every rat cats and destroys on an average, one pint of grain or its equivalent in other food, per week. A farmer who has been troubled with tikis species of vermin, calculated that oh an average, every farmer in the State of Penn sylvania 1 (taking this State as a sample) supporis 10 rata oh his premises. Ten rats, at a pint each per week, Would con sume eight bushels of grain per y ear or taking 120,000 as the number of farmers in the State,' 976,000 bushels annually, to support the Tats oif Fennsylvania ! j a very considerable contribution towards tbemaii£ tenanc'o jof a nuisance. B®* The editor of an ezchauge says ho never saw but one ghost,andthat was the ghost of a signer who died pav ing for bis paper. ’Twainhorrible bb look upon. AH: Arkansas Wedding. 4t NO BOTTOM HERE.” ‘ Mus I kiss her now, George ?’ ‘ As you please, John; she’s yours now.* ‘ Hold up yer mouf, Melindy.’ ‘Shan’t do It! Right here afore folks.’ A-J'\ Tne Trout. In some remarks made; before the Far mers’ Club in New York, by Robert H. Pell, Esq., we find the following interest ing information concerning this highly esteemed fish: “ The trout is the only fish jthat comes in and goes out of the season with the deer; he grows rapidly, midi dies early after he reaches hia full growth. The fe male spawns in October —at S different time from all other fish; after which both male and female become Imm, and un wholesome eating, and, if examined close ly, will be found covered with a species of clove-shaped insects, which appear to suck their substance from them; and they con tinue sick until the Warm .weather, When they rub the insects off pn the gravel, and immediately grow strong. The female is the best for the table. She may be known by her small head and deep body. Fish are always in season when their heads are so small as to be disproportipned to the size of the body. The trout is . less oily and rich than the salmon; the female is. much more bright and more beautiful than the male; they swim rapidly, and often leap, like the salmon, to a great height, when ascending streams. When I first stocked my trout pond 1 placed fifteen hundred in it, and was accustomed to feed them with angle worms, rosei-hiigs, crick ets, grasshoppers, &c., which they attacked with great voracity, to the amusement of those looking on. They grpw.pinch more rapidly in ponds than in their native streams, from the fact that they are befter fed and not compelled to exercise. Trput are the only fish known to me that possess a voice, which is perceived by pressing them, when they emit a marmurring sound, and trem ble all over. Thoughts of God.—Suppose two per sons equally desirous to gain your affec tions; one far distant, and not; expecting to sec you for a long time; the other al ways present with you, and-at liberty to use all means to win your love> able to flatter and gratify you in a thousand ways. Still the absent one; and that you may keep him in remembtxmce, you often retire by yourself to think of his love to you, and view again the memen toes of bis affection, to read his letters and pour oat your heart in return.: Such is now your case; v the world ia always before you, to flatter, promise, and phase. But if you really prefer to love God, you will fix your thoughts on him, offeo retire for meditation and prayer, iand recount the, pleasure gifts of his providence,' and espe cially his infinite mercy to yojir; soul;-you will read frequently His holy ‘Word, which is the letter he has sent you a$ Really as if it were directed to you by name.— Payson. The Man in Love. —Thackery says that ‘ When a man is in love with any wo man in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connec ted with it. He ingratiates himself with the maids; he is bland with the butler, he interests himself with the footman; he runs on errands for the daughter: he gives and lends money-To the young son at col lege ; he pats little dogs which he would kick otherwise; he smiles at ‘old stories which would make him break putin yawns were they uttered by any onepbnt pappa; he bears with the old maiden aunt; he beats time when darling little? Fanny pef fo.rnis her piece on the piainp,and smiles when wicked, lively little Bobby. upsets the coffee over his shirt.’ I \ A Costly Bible. —There is still in ex istence a copy of the Bible, K printed on vellum, which has been sold; as high as $2,500. It is one of the few remaining copies of the first printed edition ef the Bible. Tt may not ho generally known that the Bible was the first biPok printed after the discovery of the art jpf printing. It was a book of about one thousand three hundred pages, and consisted pf-iwo large folio volumes. A vast emoiiniof tiUie and labor was required, to prinjt it ; and the fact that .it was not written' wi|h d pen, as other copies had been, was fo*-q long time concealed. This work was dope about the year 1445 —more than 400 yearsago’. tStA babe is a mother’s anchor. She can not go fiir from her mootings, And yet a true mother never live 4 4o little in the present as when by thelside of the cradle; : Her thoughts follow the imagined fixture of her child. The babe is thebold est of pilots,and guides her fearless thoughts down, through scenes of coming years.— The pld ark mover made such a Voyage as the cradle daily makes. . Hind words arc the brightest flow ers of earth—use them, and especially found the fireside circle, for they make a paradise of the humblest hOmel They are jewels beyond price, and more precious to heal the wounded heart and make the downcast spirit glad, than all other bles sings earth can give. jA WORD WITH Kr- Rack.—When a maa-geta tp the top of the hill honestly, to he taken by the'neck and hoi»Adown agoan, if he’s ashamed to tunf aß'Odf addloofc at the low ly road along whiohrhe oWO tjfaVolled. JBtoona irimm, w*y i Didn’t ouu^r. v._; \ , . I often think that I had a vtiy good reason for not getting married. It was a ‘‘ lovely moon-light night" in the “ bafaa* month of May," that 1 walked alone wi'tn Lettic—the fascinating and beautiful Lit* x tie. : Lore, welling up from her heart’s deep fount, beamed from her countenance and sparkled in her eye. . Happiness always surrounded her as the lighter noon, and smiles of “unearthly sweetness" playedjtauntingly upon her Ups cherry lips." She would toss tne “ golden ringlets" from her “ nobly arched brow," and her large, “bnstrous eyes’* would “ beam softly” upon me with snob “ tenderness of affection" that almost en tranced me* Her “alabaster arms," her “ hearing bosom," the “ beautiful symme try" of her form and graceful air and de meanor—all were “ faultless" to my inex perienced eye. As sooa might I attempt to paint a son-beam or daguerreotype a summer breeze, as to describe that “en chanting being.” When my heart came within range of the powerful. artillery which she had at command, it succumbed to its influence. It wee captured 1 and I was desperately in lore I As an “flnthink ing horse rushes into battle/’ so did I plunge headlong into confession of my lore, making a proposal and plighting my heart. 1 Was So completely bewildered by tbedovelinesafof the “ fluttering" creature which I held in my embrace, that I must hare made a “botch” of the ceremony of “popping the question." She also talked of lore, and expressed her ettaohment for me in glowing terms; in such eloquent strains did she discourse of “ happiness.’* of “lore," of (t conndbial bliss, thUMI thought she was giving. rent to the pent up feelings of her loving Ifsart—feelings which had herer before found an out-let that permitted them to burst forth, and now came mingling into mine. We pledged our bauds to the assistance of each other, dnr hearts to love bach othjnv*- in a word, we pledged to the Support of each other “ our Fives, our fortunes; and our sacred hpnprs.” j Before wc could particularife a d«r upon which we should be “fofover ohi, I tad to return home to attend tobnsiaees of importance which woold require my im mediate attention only for a short time We appointed a day just six months foom that time upon which I should return. I reluctantly tore myself front the “Chang ing presence” of Lattie. I “ tenderly em braced her" and “snatched a kiss"-—(oh how delicious D and left. Upon arming at home, I gave her an account of my trip, the joy the thoughts of her gate me and anou the hopes which were enkindled within me as 1 thought of her as mind, mine only, the chosen of: my heart. She replied in the tenderest language, and I thought that her lore for me thrilled through her as the life-blood through her veins.' At the expiration of five weekt->- Just one week before the day appointed for iuy,retunir—l started to visit “ my" Lattid. While hastening over the iron rails to my “ loved one’s side," in the sound of the rumbling oars and' in the shrill sthistid of the engine I heard a music never netibed before, to which my heart kept «ttnned, and every jar seemed a note that added to it beauty and melody . The iron horse hreught me almost tp the dopr of Lattie’s residence. I met her in the veranda, just three days before the expiration of the six months, and when she seemed to have not' been looking for me. ; ’ After the usUal Salutations, (the "em« brace” arid “kiss” u|ion thiri occasion being omitted;) I ventured to speak of pur future course, the: best means of pur* suing it arid the fidelity with which we had kept bur vows, but had riot proceeded far, when, with an expression of earnests nesaupon her countenance, yet with an appearance pf timidity, she interrupted me by remarking; “ Don’t concern youwblf albntpiy future, fbf / on* going to y# m«!rrie# to-morjow to four old rival , {tarry Bell?*' I'left instanter, and in less than twenty-four hours she did many him. That’s tKe reason why / didn’t get mar ried. Yours, salted and cured, PURSER HaNSTOBHOT. Genuine Fools. —He who wipes his nose on a nutmeg grater, and picks his teeth with a razor. L She who says *no * to tie proposal gentleman when she has reached the age of thirty. fie who gets so drank at night, that he puts his clothes to bed and hangs himself on the back of a chair. She who rubs her cheeks with brickbat* in order to give them a color. . He whopute on his hat, takes np his oand. and starts out in pursuit of an honest nod disinterested politician. . She who .pinches and slaps a njtld to make it quit bawling. I I®* A city girl whobeen with h« . beau to & maple in try,writes home that “the funniest thidg £. saw was Charley dear trying wax with bis moustaches «taf» turkey dating thin dough id w oomparf, son.’* ' EDITORS XND PROPRIETORS. '»>• • . % X : $ 'i ♦ NO. 20.