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The Democratioillatchman,
B EL L EFO NT E, PA
THE OUTCAST
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loss this dark night and this wintry storm:
This sleet beide on my head quite merrily;
ens eold—but hell, tips preachers say, is
E!M!MSI
Slob was I once, and very, very fair;
A petted, wanton child of luxury
'flow sleet le crusted on my tangled hair;
Wall, it Is only me.
Ile
And. mid he loved me better than his life,
ofton held ma on his manly knee•
Now he is happy, with his Nabes and wi le,
And no one carom for me.
Poor Robert Stone I ha almost broke his heart
When I grew ead beneath my miser?:
It killed him, and I saw all hope depart,
For no one else loved me.
I loved my babe, and It would laugh and crow 1,
Bo smart, and, hke Ito father, full of glee ;
Ws been In heaven live year., o month ago—
Hut that's no plado for me.
Once, when I passed him with his pretty wife,
M wicked heart 'cursed her, oh, bitterly ;
Then y
it teemed cloven with a red-hot knife—
She turned to smile on me.
I never dared to hate her any more;
Today Daze her with her children three,
I wonder If her heart is ever sore—
'Tie always so with me.
,hod knows I have so few things now to love
That I would love her, but her purity
Would be all blotted If she took the loss
'Of a bad one like me.
I hear • watchman noosing up the street.
I'll step Into this door, where he cart see
Md rase —this stone step Is too good • seat
For fallen ones Ilkt me.
bly clothes have frozen to the step—l'll stay—
bty heed turns round—where am 1 t Wk t I
see
M child—light! light! I Whst uunshiny day!
Lord /—it—u—only—ets /
A STORY OF THE LOBBY
There are two sorts of process through
which freudulentlegistation is perfected.
One is called the "ring" which means a
combination of rogues for some one pur
pose ; and the other is called the "lob
by," and designates agents living here,
And employed by rings and individuals
to pus& their evil schemes through Con
gress
w *
was turning this over in my mind
the other day, while I sat on a sofa in
the liouse of Representagves and listen
ed to the winds that blow to and fro
about rne, when I happened to cast my
eyes into the ladies' gallery above, and
out of the gloom saw a Memory come,
in the shape of a fair face
I was so disturbed and haunted by my
memory, that I left my seat and saun
tered into the gallery and seated myself
near my fair !Heed, and without rudely
starting I found my memory gradually
Lathering up the disjointed fragments of
the past, unit the fair face wag 'framed
in and located. It was a very sweet
face, not so young as it once was • but
with a prevailing expression of
child
like innocence Add to this a manner
of great refinement, set oft and adorned
in The extreme or the fashion, but sub
d the best taste, and the most ar
tistic (miring -if colors, and we
have our old acquaintance before us
Although I looked my fair friend In the
face, 1 saw that either she had furgUtten
me, or was not disposed to renew the ac
quaintance She was talking in a quiet.
easy manner, to a well known member
of Congress, and I considerately with
drew, as if I had been looking in the
face of an utter stranger, instead of oue
well known to me in times gone by. An
hour after I happened to be upon the
Senate Chamber, where the multitude
of marble steps seemed to run out and
flow dawn, when my fair friend Cattle
out, accompanied by her Congressional
escort, late of the gallery, and almost
brushing me with her dress as she passed
the two descended. I saw a neat pri
vate carriage, drawn by a handsome pair
of bays, and driven by a coachman in
livery, roll up My friend of the law
making power helped the lady in with
a bow, the door swung to with a bang,
and the fair lady drove away, while the
Solon came up the steps, humming st tune
to himself and snapping his law making
Angers, as if especially' 'pleased with
himself. Having a speaking ac9uaiii-
Lance, I begged perdon for my curiosity,
and asked Solou the nate of his friend
"Mrs. —, of New York," was the
quiet response.
The whole of the surroundings were
so entirely different, and apparently so
byte-long and respectable from those that
I believed formerly hedged in the lady,
that I was in doubt But, no, the lon
ger I thought upon the matter the more
I felt satisfied of the identity. And the
remembrance was singular. While de
tained in Washington, during the war,
awaiting orders, I was invited by a
brother officer to a wine supper. The
people giving the entertainment were
strangers, but, taking toy friend's Word
for it that I would be weloome I went
with him. The house 'was a plain, um.
pretending affair, but offered a display
of upholstery rather uncommon about
Washington, and I learned that the
house and furniture toelonged to a "so
-00ah" family, that haa hastily left the
city before the battle of Bull Run, put
ting their property in the hands of
y friends. The friends auembled on thie
ocession were questionable. The par
lors were in a Waite of light, and under
the glass globes about the glass jets were
some very pretty women, and a number
of young mina In and out of uniform.—
The bare necks and arms of the women
indieated a party; but
,my friend told
me that this sort of thing weneon every
night. We bad a rich repast, garnish
ed with choice wines and the lively Bow
of talk the last named generally brings
out. I was particularly struck with two
of the gneets—one a slender youth, with
dark, large eyes, and bread, thoughtful
forehead, whom hook for an Italian pr
Frenchman; the other a beaUtiful wo
man, of twenty, in fact, but much
younger in apparent». I found this
young lady exceedingly charming, as
ehe was not only loving In person, but
lively in mind.
We broke up at a We hour of the
night or rather an early hour in the
morning, and being ordered away a few
nights after the wino supper, and the
merry people there assembled soon
Fussed from my..mind, in the hurried,
eventfbil life of the camp. They were
destined to return. Could the future
have been anticipated, death wcorld have
'Or, at our board.that night, Ord phan-
PM visions of dreadful events dimm
ed the glittering lights, and settled in
horrible gloom on thX:countenauces of
the abSClTlbled guests.
To one Death would have said: "I
will claim yttu at Obanceltorville."
To another: "I will come to your re
lief in the liespital at Cumberland."
To another,: "We will meet at night,
and I vitt save you from the gallows."
Of that little assembly in that sup
per-rocim, two only survive, and
another.
It was shortly after the welsh:Wien
that a friend sent me the photograph of
Wilkes Booth, and I recognized in It
the young man I had mistap.,,that
night for a foreigner. _
When.we were in command at Balti
more, And after Col. Fisk got his diffi
culty with Baker, so that I had, for a
time, immediate control of the Provost
Marlibel's office, I received a card, at the
White House, from a lady waiting to
see me in the public parlor. On repair
ing to that reception room I found my
fair friend of the wine supper in Wash
ington. So far as her beauty went she
remained the same, but her wardrobe
evidenced straitened circumstances, if
not poverty. She gave me a long ac-
Count of her trotlbles, and wound up by
offering to go to Richmond, In the em
ploy of the Government and return with
all the information she could gather up,
for the use of the War Department in
Washington. I at once engaged her,
but did not send so suspicious an agent
Into the enemy's country, until after I
had given her a fair trial in Baltimore.
She proved the most adroit, self-possess
ed, cunning detective I ever saw or read
of She afterward made two successful
trips to Richmond, returning with valu
able information; although Mr. Stanton
had no piestioil but that she carried to
the confederates as much as she brought
away
—.R.l:ehrwie
I left the army, and saw and heard no
more of my pretty little detective uhtil
the day I saw her in the ladies' gallery
so elegantly gotten up and surrounded.
Thetis, if It were really the same.
MI doubt on this subject was removed
the next day by a note I received invi
ting me to an interview of the fair wo
man's lodgings. I found her framed in
by elegant upholstery, and yet more fas
cinating in the delicate morning robe
that so 'dohs a beautiful woman by the
concealed etim tto reveal A tall, square
built, iron-gray man, of an intensely
respectable look, was introduced as her
husband, and so long as he was present
no allusion whatever was made to the
past, other than the few words of intro
duction as an old and valued friend
Soon as be left; however, she turned and
said :
"How kind of you not to recognize
me 3e4terday. My poor beet was in
my mouth when I saw ymi approach.
But you have such a tact—you haVe
such a kind heart. I was relieved in a
minute when I saw that you stared as if
only attracted by my charms."
-Why, woulan't your husband put
up with the part you arc, I suppose,
concealing from him ?
“My husband"—and she gave a silve
ry little laugh—"my husband, that fel
low I Why, he isn't my husband. NV('
only make believe. But if tke Hon.
you paw mb with yesterday were
to suspect fur a moment I would be
ruined
“Come, now, this is interesting; tell
me about it. Whet little game are you
up to 7 Believe me, 1 won't betray
you ”
"That's clever, you never have, and
I (nn't add to the risk by telling you
Well, I am no longer a detective—a
spy ; lam a lobby agent It is my bus
iness to pursuade honorable members to
vote for our bill "
"What is your bill?"
"The one I am employed to worry
through "
"Well, does it require a sham hus
band, a handsome carriage, and all
this sort of thing to set up a lobby
agent'?"
"Certainly without a husband I would
not be respectable ; without a carriage,
and nll this evidence of wealth, I would
not be attactive. It pays, however. I
could retire now on a hundred thousand
But lam horribly ambitious I wants
million—only think of it, I must have a
million. I have sold myself for money,
and I want a good price "
"And do none of the honorable Rep
resentative' knosi who you are?"
"Why, you goose? I thought you
knew better than that. Why, the ring
always reaches into the House and Sen
ate, and some .of our directors are the
most pious and respectable men itr Con
grAss There is one—the most benevo
lent, pious, philanthropic Individual in
the world. He is so intensely pious that
he never speaks to mo--nevertleless he
pays me heavily. Here is another, a
most respectable gentleman, wko bows
to me most profoundly, Ia tho gallery
and on the avenue, and presents me to
his family with a lofty air,..who would
look at ilia with intense utoniahmeht if
I were to thank him for my clothes,
carriages and servants. Yet he con
tributtv "
"Why, this la so' ,damnable I can
scarcely credit IL"
"Yes, it's very wicked, and I'd rather
you wouldn't believe It. But after the
schooling you gave me In decelviag, you
ought not to wonder."
"You mean that for a hit—forgetting
that that service wiu in behalf of ;our
beloved country, and this"—
"L in behalf of my beloved self."
"But do you mean to say that mesi 4 in
high position connive at this wicked
ness?"
"Look about you ; sae the enormous
fortunes realized by officials, and you
,will find that mine is not the only car
riage rolling about Washington thatts a
(randy sad I am but one among the host of
the wicked:lX& MO too much a man
of tit. wol911; Colonel , to be aetpni.eleed
at finding good deal erseectimonfous
respectibii ty covering rastalitt. It is
the &caplet Mask to get, and the mutest
to wesr.o
"And how do you inflow's thee' So
lon'?"
' , Sometimes one way, sometimes
another; but always in being very quiet
and exclusive. The game We play for,
is cautious and cunning. The men
bought eheaply are the men not worth
buying. Ity business is among sibs
-
higher sort, that will not stoop to com
mon carrion, and carry with them great
moral character that not only covers
themaelvd, but aU the 111th roves who
rots with them."
q.,..laad you often fail V'
"Sometimes ; not Often. You re
member the temptation of at. *An
thony."
.N all the devils under the skies
Posit, wieltod, or doviloArlse,
Devileehort, or devils tall,
pretty woman with liparkling'sros
lathe greatest devil of them all "
"My minion IS to capture the leader's.
The lesser lights art left to coarser
means. Some surrender to delicious lit
tle suppers---Bthers to persuasion—others
again to love. There is General —,
proud, sensitive, and suspicious—be
comes to me with all his griefs, and I
listen. You'd be astonished to know
how little the tongue and much the ear
has to do., with this business. Then
there is Mr. —, who begun life with a
homely, unrefined wife and is now
ashamed of her. Poor man, he is really
in love with me "
. . -
"And will all the money you make
pay you for the degradation you suffer
in return 1 You are a woinan - uf tine
intellect—en intellect that approaches
genius ; you can command admiration,
respect—even wealth, by devoting your
gifts to an honorable pursuit."
Iler face flushed for a second, and
then starting to her feet and pacing tho
floor in some excitement, she exclaim.
ed .
"I learned my power when-it was too
late But your are the last man to up
braid me. Doyou know when I discov
ered my powers as an actress*/ I will
tell you. Under your tuition while in
Baltimore I came to you starving, and
you sent me iLto private families to
Norm out their secrets and betray their
intentions "
"There you go again. That was in
the service of your country, and the peo
ple possessed of those secrets were our
enemies "
What is the difference, so far as my
character went? But I dopot regret—
I -have nothing to regret. 1 have no
friends, no relatives, no country. I nev
er knew, a man who did not either insult
me or cheat me. I never knew a woman
who had not a stony heart and claws
like a cat. I hate them all. I despise
them all. They would hunt' me down,
and so I hunt them down, when I
can ' •
"But} ouhavemademonev enough , w
not leave the the horriblelusiness, and
from this out—try and possess your soul
in peace You are young yet—you can
have many years'of happiness before
you "
You want me to desist," she said,
interrupting me "I have two good
reasons for going . on. It is not avarice,
although, having sold myself to the
dead, I am• right In getting the best
price for my poor soul. But let me
shhw yoti my too reasons for going
on"
She walked into an arched recess,and
pulling aside a heavy curtain,
showed
me, playing on too floor, two beautiful
cialaren.
"There," she continued, dropping the
curtain again, "these are my two rea
sons , I cannot give Thy children 11 good
name, but 1 will give them that which
is more precious than a good namn in
Alas mean, wicked world of ours---I will
give thern:ralth, and twill try to teach
them to be anything un earth but what
their unfortunate mother was , so,
now, if you betray me, you betray
them "
"I left the detective business when I
quit Baltimore I try moral suason
now "
And au I took My leave, and I give
this imperfect sketch as a specimen of
the way laws are made, through the
lobby, in our beloved capital.—C'incin
eats Commerctal D P,
A Precocious Chap
John Smith—you've heard of him—is
very bashful—is too bashful, in truth
Ile was born and raised in the country
His father gave him a good education
and allows him plenty of money But
John with his other attainments, never
could accustom himself to the society of
females ; not because he didn't like the
girls, but because, hisshy nature would
not permit him to associate with the fair
sex It once happened, not very long
ago, either, that John's father had some
very important business to transact in
the city. lie also had some very par
ticular - affairs to attend to at home,
which demanded bis personal attention,
and not possessing the power of übiqui
ty, ho delegated his son John to trans
act that In the city
John, being thus commissioned, Im
mediately proceeded to the city - and to
the residence of his father's old friend,
whom he found to be a very nice old
gentleman, with • beautiful daughter,
and gold spectacles.
John was ushered into the parlor,
(a new thing to him,) and motioned
to a seat—nu 1 .-11, sofa, (another new
tting.)
But we must use his own language :
"I took my seat and made observations.
Everything was fine I Fine carpets, fine
sofas, fine tables, fine curtains, lino
books, fine pianos, fine everything, and
especially a fine young lady who was
dressed in fine silk, fineeatin, and who
had fine curls, and a fine appearance
generally.
After chatting with the old gentle
man a few minute'', he took down his
hat, told me to make myself at home for
an hour or two, andleft—me alone with
his daughter and a small miecbievowi
boy, the younglady's brother. !didn't
relish the situati.in at all. The idea of
my keeping a city belle engaged in con
versation for two hours—perdition I—
fillepce reigned in the parlor for • short
time, you may bet. I amused myself as
much as possible with the boy—that is,
loaned him my knife and watch key,
and watched him cut bolesdn the carpet
with one and spoil the other-4 didn't
know what I would have done had it
not been for that boy, he was sosood to
attract one's attenthp, you know.
It is trtad be asked mi.pie very start
ling questio4 occasionally such as this
for instance: "Are you going to court
sister Emily ?" but such things must be
expected under such circumstances.
Miss Emily, thinking no doubt, that
to be a good hostess, she must keep her
guest engaged in conversation, asked me
"hoer I liked the country life," eta.
She said that "It must be a beautiful
sight to see the laborers, bath male and
female, romping on the new-mown hay of
Newyearis day ; that she always did
think fiat she would like to goad a
Cl=l4lll'6 in the seentry a sat past-
Sag with the village lads ; that it always
had been a mysterNe Arl`r how they got
the eggs off the trees without breaking
them, etc.
In return I thought to keep up my part
of the conversation, it was necessary for
me to quote poetry and the like„ which
I did. Among Wm. quotations, I un
fortunately repeated the Well-known
lines of Shattspeare :
"There Is a divinity that aimpen our end,
Rough hew them solve will'
At this juncture, the boy, who had
perched himself upon my kimes, looked
up very eArnestly into my face and said:
"Divinity shaped the end of your nose
mighty curious." I'm curtain that I
bluskied n little; I am very certain that
I wished somebody would yank 'tine of
his—, well, we talked'of hills, moun
tains, vales, cataracts—l believe I said
of water falls, when the boy spoke up
and said : "Why sister's got a trunk
full of them up stairs—pap says they are
made out'en hoss hair."
This revelation struck terror into me
and 611191111M0 the cheeks of my fair
companion.
It came to be ,very apparent to inc
that I must be very guarded in what 1.
said, lest said boy might slip in his re
marks at uncalled for places. In feet I
turned all conversation to him told
him he ought to go home with me, and
seeovhat nice chickens we had in the
country. Unluckily I mentioned a yoke
of calves that my little brothers owned.
The word calves ruined all. The little
fellow looked up and said :
"Sister's got n dozen of 'em but she
don't wear 'em only when she goes up in
town o' windy days "
"Leave the room, you unmannerly
little wretch l" exclaimed M ,
"leave immediately."
"I know what you want me to leave
for," replied he; "you can't fool me—
you want to set in that man's lap end
kiss him like you did Bill Salomon, the
other day—you can't fool me I'll just
tell you. Gemmc some candy like he
did, then I'll go You think because
you've„got tho Grecian Bond thatyeu'ro
smart. Guess I know a thing or two.
I'm nuid at you, anyhow, because pap
would is give me a new top yesterdas , if
it had'nt n been for n get' in' them iSurls
you've got, doggone ye' You need'nt
torn so red in your face, 'cause I can t
see it for the paint."
WE' ARE GROWING OLD
Wgaro growing old—how the thought will rise
When a glance Is backward out,
On some long-rernembeied spot that lies
lo the silence of the past;
It may be the shrine of early rows,
Or the tomb °Pearly tears,
But it seems liken far-off isle to us,
In the stormy see of years,
Oh I wide and wild are the weves that pert
Our !deps from its greenness nauf,
And we ml.B the )ny of many a Krug,
And the light of many a brow ;
For deep o'er !ironya stately hark
Have the whelming billows roiled
That steered with us from that early nakrk—
Oh, friends! we are growing old,
old to the dimneßN of the duet
Of our daily tolls and cures—
Old In the wreeks of I.ve and trust
Which our burthened memory bears.
Each form rimy wear to the passing gate
The bloom of lire's freshness yet,
And beams may brighten our latter days
•
Which the morning never met.
Rut, oh I the changes we have seen,
In the far and winding way,
The g in our paths that have grown green
And the locks that have grown gray I
The winters still on our own may spare
The sable or the gold!
But we see their snows upon brighter halt,
And, friends, we aro growing old
We have gained the world's cold wisdom now,
We hate learned to praise and fear,
But where are the living founts whose Bow
Was a joy of heart to bear?
We have won the wealth of many a dims!,
And th• lore of many a page,
But where is the hope that sew in time
But ite lionndless heritage/
Will It come again when the violet wakes,
And th• woods their yobth renew 1
We have stood In the light of sunny brakes,
Where the blopm lv deep and blue,
And our souls might Joy in epring.time them,
But the joy was faint and cold,
For It never gives us the youth again
(if hearts that are grownig old
A Trifle from Persia
The following story is related by Per
sians, intending to show the smartness
.of their favorite poet, Sheik Saadi:
Saadi was taking his evening' stroll
towards the gardens outside of Shiraz,
when tint attention was drawn to a plot
of clover, which had ben eaten all
around, the centre left Seeing.. by the
footprints that it bad been a clime! gra
zing, he commenced thinking why It
had not eaten into the centre. He at
last came to the conclusion. that the
camel must have been blind in one eye.
On going round to the corner of the plot
he found it had there been unloaded
Noticing where the animal had kneeled
while his load was removed, ho saw on
one side a lot of "maggus," large flies,
and on the other a lot of smaller ones,
"pasha." After thinking for some time
what could be the cause of these two
sort of flies accumulating, he concluded
th one side of the load had been meat
an the other side sugar. Seeing near
the spot the imprints of a woman's
shoes, and also seeing the, marks of her
hands, ho concluded that slui had been
a stoat woman, mid had put her hands
on the ground to assist her In rising.
With this he moved on. Preitunly he
was overtaken by a man ,
who inquired
if he had seen p camel Saadi asked :
"Had It only oae eye?"
The man answered :
"By the beard of tlscprophet you are
right."
"And was it loaded with part meat
and part-sugar ?"
"As I am your sacrifice . you are
right."
"And had it a stout women with it ?"
"By the holy Kebla, it had."
"Well," said Saadi, "I have seen
nothing of your camel." •
At which the felluw got into a clarion
and beat Saadi with a stick,' asked him
how It was possible to describe the cam
el and its appUrtenance• so correctly If
ho-had not seen it. Ever after this,
Sheik Saadi advised lila friends not to
wvaricate, as they might get thrashed
for their pains. It is also 'a standard
saying, used in, the follovflng manner:
If a person wishes smother to keep a se
cret, he asks him,.. "Have you seen my
camel?" If the person intends to say
nothing about what be knows, he an
swers, "I hare not even seen its foot,
print."
—A gontleirnu" ' An Bt. Louts, Mo., a day or
tgo &Luce, lost 111,000,115 r reoovery of which
be oared • reward of $5OO. On the subsequent
day he rotelved through 'the Post-01110e tho
awn he had lost, mlnusdhe reward. No name
or note nenemponned the budoettre,
Whom db Groat Men Marry?
Women, of course. But they show
the wino diversity of taste that is seen
in lower ranks, and on the whole make
worse, mistake.. They, however, gener
ally show ' , the same sense in . ' choosing
wives that they show in managing other
poople's.affajrs, whether it bo good or
bad.
Hobert Burns married a farm girl
with whom he fell In love while they
worked together in the plow-field. He,
too, was irregular in his life, and com
mitted the most serious mistakes in con
ducting his domestic affairs.
Milton married the daughter of a
country squire, but lived with her but
n short time. He was an austere, exact
ing, literary recluse; while she was n
rosy, romping country lass that could
not endure the restraint imposed upon
her, and so they separated. Hubse
, quently, however, she returned, and
, they lived tolernbly happy.
queen Victoria and 'Prince Albert
were cousins", grid about the only exam
ple in the long line of English monarch.
wherein kbo marital vows were sacredly
' ohmerved Lied sincere affection existed.
Washington married a widow with
two children, It is enough, to say of
laor that she was worthy of him, and
that they lived as married folio; should
in perfect Mini m). John Adams mar
ried thu daughter of a Presbyterian
clergyman. Her father objected on ac
count of John's being a lawyer ; ho had
a b a d 4.pinion of the morals of the pro
fession.
Thomirs Jefferson married Mrs Mar
tini Skelton, a childless widow, but 1,11(1
light 111111 IL large fortune rn real es
tate After the ceremony she mounted
the h0r.,0 behind him and they rude
home together. It was late in the even
ing, and They fmind the tire out. Hut
ti.- great statesman hustled around and
rebuilt it, N 4 hile she seized the broom
and soon put things in order. It is
needless to soy that they were happy,
though Jefferson died a poor on
account of his extreme liberali • and
hospitality.
John qowurd, the great phila Otto
pist, married his nurse. Mho al
together beneath him in social I o and
intellectual ( opacity, and besides this,
was fifty -two years old while he was but
twenty-(lye Ile would not takt "No"
for an answer, and they were married,
and lived happily together until her
death, which occurred two years after
ward.
Peter the Great of linania, married
liewiant She made an excellent
wife and n .tigueious emprei4 Hum
both married a poor girl beeauso he
loved her course they were happy.
Shakspeare loved and wed a farmer's
daughter She wlw faithful to her vt/w9,
but we 1 . 1111111 hardly any the Fame of the
great bard himself. Like most of the
great pouts, he uhowed too little diserim
mation 11t be*towing his affection on the
sex
My um 'Harrill." MiRN 11111Ibank to gr.l
n:r,nry to low 1111 &ht. It turned out
a bad •Inft
kunjniniA Frau in married thn Girl
who stood in her father's door and
laughed at him as he wandered through
the streets of Philadelphia with rolls of
bread U11 , 14.a his arms and his pockets
filled with dirty clothes She had ("era
sion to be happy when she found herself
the wife of such a great and good man
It is not generally known that Aii
dll'W Jackson married a lady whose
husband was still hvinG Sho was an
uneducated but amiable woman, and
Was mo•tdeuotedly attached to the old
warrior and statesman.
John C. Calhoun married his cousin,
and their children fortunately were
neither ile,eamd nor idiotic, but they do
not evince the talent of the great
"States' righui" advocate
Edward Lytton linlaw, the English
statesman and novelist, married n girl
much hi, inferior in imedtion, iind got a
shrew fur n Wire She ifl now inPune,
—ErcAanqa
The Origin of the Mocking Bird
The young and beautiful l'rineessNe
royah lovl4l the brave warrior, Tone
ka, but the tribes to which they respec
tively belonged weni bitterly hostile;
therefore, the secret nreetingt,Oa s the
young lovers had to be conducted in the
moetedrort unddisguised manner For
tunately, Tonaka was endowed by the
Great Spirit (who ever distributes hie
wondrous benefactions, with an ell 11C1.-
Ing eye, to the future requirements of
the recipient) with a singular power of
mimier?.. So gifted was he that, with
but slight effort, be could imitate airy
known bird in p ninwl under the sun
Often, in tio...idino, of the midnight
hoyr, .Neroyah, itrum the preconeer
ter.] signal, a oil Irmo her couch
of leopard skim and seek the vast depths
of the forest, u here .lie would find her
beloved waiting her with 1111110U1 impa
tience. &vacuities the signal would be
the shrill cry of the panther or wild
cat; again, the barking of a dog; but
moreirequently the exquisite notes of
some forest night bird
This bliss endured fur many moons
when, nothwithstanding their extreme
caution, their attachment became known,
and the two tribes then at war resolved
that they should be put to death. The
decree was unknown to either; and
when they were both ti4l to the fatal
stake, and the grim and painted warri
ors around ahem, the faggots piled
ready for the fire, and "all the imple ,
ments of torture displayed *ith cruel
significance, each woe busy imploring
the Great Spirit Nebo sat in the clouds
above and gazed down on the scene,
to preserve the life add happiness of the
other.
The heart of their god was touched at
this iron tenderness of devotion ; his
compass deigned to avert the wrath of
their Iseriteeutors, and he caused a strong
whirlwind, to blow around each, which
Shed the eye* of the astonished war
riors with dust aid when the whirl
winds passed, the eaptives cceild not be
Sound.
The Great Spirit, however, did not
forgeto that the lovers, absorbed in their
devotion to each other" for many lonk
,fmonths, and in the oontrivance of thoso
ret meeting, which had gladdened
their lives, had neglected the ceremonies
of devotion due to him, and thereon,
would not grant them the (mediate union
they coveted in this world, and were
impious enough to prize above the joys
to be sought in the happy hunting
grounds of the flames &stance.
He changed the yoang warrior to a
mocking bird,tand the princess to a
beautiful and wondrous btrd,. of rare
plumage, who should have no mate, but
should wander alone, the sole type Oiler
species on earth, until the mocking bird
succeeded in producing a weird 111111 Shl
gulnr• note of exquisite and difficult har
mony, which alone line the power of
calling her to his side.
By this note alone can they Ith ow
each other. !dine° then she has wander
•ed over the world unrecognized, but
still existent, and Tonsika, who still re
tains the power of imititting, sings,
imi
tating every sound he hears, even to the
wail of the infant, and, forming every
possible combination of his own contri
ving, hoping _to discover Ills lost and
loved Neroyah.
liis lonely and loving heart promos
him to make night melodious with ht .
music, and often the nightingale joins
bins the sad refrain ; lie sings softly,
bends MR head, listens—it is not th„
voice of his lost love, and with a des
pairing cry, he soars away into the vast
unknown.
This, That and the Other
—The man who nhowod hin grit if an In il i a
nand paper line.
—k New Hampshire lady of PA in cutting her
third set of teeth
toinporato in dial our lod, parents
ate themnolvm out of home and hon.
—Wade Ifampfon refunen to be Prennlnto
of the South Carolina Itsllrond Cornpnny
—E x• ['ranWent Pleren ig gradually cunr►
lesclng
of raini In llftoPn Ininntno, esuth drink filling
lurnl,lfYtwo-lbirtln full
- The l'opn works, from nine to ton hour'
daily
—A min with an evil habit fined in hag rot]
is an badly WI an a nOt with a warm in its ker
M.?
—llonry Ward lirechar niacin plow lass
)car of which St 2,41(I0 wan rondo by pri aching,
and $2N,000 otherwire
—A Wl.ennsin mneldnixt, caught him long
and luxuriant beard In Romer tnaehinnry last
week, and had It torn out by the root.
—ln, good society we are required to do
obliging things to Ono another, In genteel so
del) , we are required only to limy them
—Forrest refined n New Orleans engngerm•nt
liftellllSo one of the eonditions was that is
should play Sunday night.
—Thiri young girl Ilstaling, who was fooml
d) mg in It sleigh at Midway, hew loth, the
other night, is kown to have taken (no drudil
—The New York Board of Health has order
nd the universal vaccination of all on nu chia
led persons.
—Candidatea for collector at Havana aro Ll
ready appearing• Cuban wino:a/ion boing to
garde(' an a probability
—Kaneas howdy that tta milt 'lmma are to
az hatuidiblo, ■nd produce tho parent null Ii tm
obtained in the United Staten
—Two fellows In Dubois manly, Indians, r
eently swapped wl•es, one pitying the stlu
three bushels of corn "to hoot "
—A New ()Hamm lintel ham fora tablu wad",
a German prince, and tin In no bottom a wet
than a peaaant would be
—Tho aloranxin of D'Arry ldcflnn with
at midnight In thn prinon yard Vihro ht,
if. found that aho could not got hiss hod.y, latr
I anKuage wax deilidsctly not chotre
—One of the family eleven peraons are
dMttnlly polsoned In Brooklyn, by tho u
arsenic for saleratos by the servant, I-. It
and some others are in a erilieal eondltion
—A piing w( man wrot, an artlele Inv
temperance paper, and quoted.
a rot in tho volley I love," which app4 art
me a sot In the fellow I lore "
—A lady with the'Greentn Ilene eonsi,
nd herself Red when she was told, r
aley• Ago, that rheumetie liniment would
store her shape
—A ahowrnan ad vertireii that ainoug litti
other oririonitios is the eelebrateil •••lor, riot ,
which liar rn nflan been split by bargain mak
era 110 payn his has both - halves of it
—lke'. lard trick wan to throw IVIrA Parlme
ton'. old gaiter In the Alley, nod eel'
Indy down from the third [lwr to sett no bile)
gaiter
—Tho Des Moines Ilegiorm sort tho gr.to ,
hoppere retrofit ly ate up half an m•rn
eo for a man near that illuve. and when tn.
owner went out to look at it they sat oit LL
fence and squirted tobacco fun o in his in
—.l don't want mother to marry again" at
a little boy one day at break fast ' %Shy Doi
was asked with sonic surprise .11e4
said he, "I've lost ono father and don t sant
the trouble of getting avonainted a Ith an Ali. •
—A country magistrate, being railed on 1 ,
marry a couple, raid ' I prom:woe you man
and wife, and may bbsl hare mercy cm
„ yr/
souls. Anien l"
—,, A <loony wtehing to be witty, accontod ILI
old rag man WI tOiloWn
"You take all worts of rubbish In your rut
don't you r
"Yea—Jump In, pimp In I"
—At Lynn, Man, a nrhoni tnarher a4kris
litho girl who thin hod man wan Mhn itirlee•
ed that she did not know The trilirsthm as
lut to the next, an Irtnli child. who mow red
oudly "Adam, sir," with apparent natlnfeetton.
• Law," said the lint scholar, you needn't (re I
so proud about it, he wasn't an Irishman
—A newly arrlred family were litioly gazing
at • shop window In Rockford. 11l Little irrl
)h,-mamma lis that a 'en 7 nt.mm. -Vo
my rhild, that is a howl'' In,
and daughter, that Is not au nor
howl hut It In a lirogle, the iirtnblorn 4,1 uig
blurotell eouula}::
-- Young Ludy (to Fred, s
I uhssy. ',lnd,. your cutirniro, I trror
%slur') 1 tirb•L Lod 1 . )., 4,0 you lust
Mara to rs.tsne.n" Fred 410
ins), "Oh don't my dear Why do day
that ?" Young lady—" Why, any man hat ,
ago who ran trust Itiroself long at u Wan ua
such legs, as yours"
I=l
While Renee their inertly pare.. aprmtd.
And fops Around them nutter.
MI he content with Anna ItroAl,
And won't have any but Ayr.
—A gentleman In Valex, who was 1.01.1
of the antiquity of hie family, which he tow..
back to Nosh, woe told that wait a morn mule,
room nompared to another family whose pod/
preen filled five hale akin. of parchment, nrtr
the middle of which wax A note in,theAkOado•
, .
"About thin time tip world was created."
—The origin of tile phnum "In spite of Your
teetgiC in as follows King john, of Knitted.
once demanded of a Jew ten thousand marks.
on the refugial of whigh he ordered one of the
Jew's teeth to be drawn every day till ho con
/merited. lie lost seven and then paid Old re
guired corn. Renee the phrase.
—One of the boye.—"Where wore you Char
ley,r In the garden, ma." "No—you blot
been awimming,—yptt know 1 cautioned Yo
about going to thetreek I will hare incur
reef yqu. Look at your hair how wot It
"Oh, nb, ma, This is not,water, it Is streak
"Ah, rarley, I hare emightiou fibbing. ygor
shirt ri wrong side out."—Boy,
—"0, did that Just now, ma, olimbing the
flower
—"Don'tyen know me r' said an llHoar
soldier to his former oomrnao4er, -
"No, my friend, 1 don't."
"Why, sir, you Once saved my life."
"Ah, how was thatl"
"Why, sir, 1 nerved ander you at the bias
of Fort Donelion, and when ,you run away el
OM , beginning of the fight, I ran offer To
otles I might have been killed. • God bless yoe.
my preserver, and my beuefactor
—A good story is toldoca captain who well
into a grocery where there were I lot or loun4"
ars, and no one offered him a mat. Knowis.
every thing about the grocery he went behind
the counter, and seising a keg marked Lowdo r,
threw it upon the Are, exclaiming. "tie° t t
men, Its my opinion that we have lived loos
enough." The way they ran out of the store
was a caution to ground and Lofty turublick
Of eourse, the keg was empty.