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I htoxrapker. l-Jheaahai-jj, Nov. 14, 1S67. ri K E A T B AIIGAINS! J. M. PIRCHEPi, wmm mm & tailgh. IS CELLING U?'F Ills ENTIRE OF GLGTimiG At tJ;tJuced Irlccs, , D WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO rSTIL MAY lt, 1G, -. " OLDER TO MAKE ROOM FOR A Vi:KT LA"GE ETi CK or rilllCG AND CULll5lF.il GOODS, lJO:.'i' I'OKuKT THE PLACE. ":-tgon-iery Sired, belcw Elair St., Aivf Door to Masonic Hull, j:vi:ii"iT tiik MEiioiiY of v J-'JtJEXDS DEPARTED! -ONUtfENTS, TOMBSTONES, &c. t . Wriher Kti'l conti'ies to manufacture o: '.he be-t u:r.teridl and in the most workmanlike manner, at the oretto Islarble Works, .1 kind of MONUMENTS AND TOMB L 7" :;EC, as well a TA1JLE and BUREAU ' :t'. and ell other v.ork in his lice. None . , Ti e bet American and Italian Marble J. and perfect eatkfactiou guaranteed tj , ; c.'s at prices as low lis like work can . "V .-.ined in the iitis or elsewhere. Call : ffc-j Bpecimens and judge for yourselves o the merits ch-r.pr.eba .t n;y work. J A ME3 WILKINSON. Lcrttto, MarcU 12, 1868. ly. 4irYIl-IG"liT, Agent"; ' 0 At Johnstown, Pa., for m AND m INSURANCE. vf.ee w'th C. L. rersbing, Esq., Frak- li i Stret, tear Main, (up-talr.) Ctrr.panU Represented Mutual Lb Tn-n-anc-iCo. of New York, $"5,000,000; On c'.icrt NBral L'fs of Hartford, $18,000,-1-:.3 , il jtn Fire lDsuran Co. of New lla--n,G.nn., $1 ,000,000 ;'Pufnam Fire Ins. -: liartfor.T, Cono., $800,000. feb20-tf. -- CHrSRTEIX, JOHN A. ETDER, '' -" ELaCK, WM..D. GES1MILL.. ), McSO!VALD, WITH CRESS WELL 8l CO., JrnjKlcrr and JMttrg of fA'iOYA.ND STAPLE DRY GOODS, Xo. Qll Market tret, v XS7.-ly. rmLADELFJLLi. i I fFroai CassellV Magazine. DEAD IX THE STKCCT. a cm iNtirtsT. UiuUr the lamplight, JeaJ a the utrcet, Delicate, fair, and oaly tweuty : TLtre ehe lira, Fa.e to tin kieu. Starve ! to death in a city of plenty : Spurned by all that is pure and sweet, J'aHced by busy and eaieles fet Humlrecia bent uon folly aul pleasure, Hiiiidreils with plenty, and time, aud leisure : Leisure to epeod Chrisi's cission below. To te.ich the erring and raise the lowly Plenty, in charity's name, to show ThLt lite has ioinethiujj diviae and holy. Poiisted charms classical brow, Delicate leatnrea loDk at thein row. iiOOlc at her lips : once they could hiai'e ; Es well, never more they shall beguile ; Never more, never more word of hers A blu.-h shall bring to fhc naintlieit face. Sk has found, let u-j hope and tru.-t, 1'ence in a higher and better place; And yet, despite of all ill, 1 ween, Joy of aoiae heart she must have been, Some fond mother, proud of the task, II is ptooped to finger each dainty curl : Sou.e vain father lma bowed to ask A bleising for her, his darling irirl. Hard to think, as we look at her there. Of all the tenderness, lore, and e.ire, Lonely watching and no re hcirt ache, All the iiconv, burning tears, Joys and sorrows, and hoes and fears, i!reathed and suffered for h-r taeet sake. Fancy will picture a hoine afir. Out whero tiie itiisiea and buttercup? are, Out where the life-giving breztM blow. Far hum these Euddcn tkieetr, touieome and low. Fancy will picture a lonely heMrth, And au cged couple dead to ipinl. An aged couple, broken and gr;sy. Kneeling beside a bed tv pray ; Or ljinu awake o i.ighta to hark Fcr a thing that sniy coue in i'na ria and the d.uk I A hollow eyed woman wi.h weary feet. Better they ncer know She whom elierislie.1 l,ies this iiihf, loi;o uiid low, L-t-id in the etrcet. ilAiiain 13 ARB- Fr.;ia the Metropolitan (Campaign) Record. D A R D Y B o n n Ccgo, May 20, 1SGS. J c u:tal,yS1c-ii auhiyMB. ip the trouly loil mind. With a carpcl-bag tto.vcd away in otio nf cryj;!3 of memory. T !. :,x.-.t.,.t . by thinij which have recently eventuated, j Under the !t ;nd freel governtucr.t i t!:e wur'd has ever ec-ea. Wherefore I peak of them. At the present tima the trooly loil mind is not m what on uiigut call a he .1. condition. Shakcpearc, one of the LeKi conunilrtim rr.cra of Li time, iuked hii wife this ques tion : caped V And hc anpwered lain : "Nary one." But I digress. I h-avc some thinga to unfold, and brief ly Lnll they be rolled out. We had h caucus last night. Ivlr. iSrniflk'S presided and made some remarks. fcays he : 'Oentlemcn: 'Whither arii we drift- ing ?' No response. Then pays he : ilAre we in the midst of a revoloo uhun V The t?ilence was most impressive. Then Fays ho again ; " Let hate do its wust, Ourcau.-e it ia just. And triumph we must." Which sentiment evoked some checrB from an obscure man in a comer. Mr. SmifTks resumed : "Treason most foul is in our camp. What ehall we do with itl" "Make it odyus," said one of the dedc gatea from Georgia. "As to which way !" said Mr. Smifiles, darting a chain-lighting glance at the del egate. And the delegate answered him thus : 1 "By adoptin some resolottfhuna." "We have been betrayed," continued Mr. Smifiles ; "we have been infamously sold out ; but trooly loil blood won't stand it. Ihe brother from Georgia may read hi refcolooshun." It was as follows : "Resolved, That the base and wicked Sen ators who have betrayed the party that e'ected them deserye the contempt and loathing of the trooly loil men of th nation, and tha execration of an indignant and out raged people." Abraham Wiggins thought that reso looshun would not reach the case, lie would offer a substitute. Mr. Wiggiue was in the substitute bus iness during the war. He read his resoloo&hun. "Resolved, That a committee be appointed by this meeting to investigate those Senators who have sold themselves to A. Johnson, and that the committee be authorised to Bend for members of Congress and papers, and Bit to the day of judgment, if necessary." This waa adopted by all the delegates who were able to vote. Most of them were 6ick. The treason in Washington had a aeri ous effect on their ttomachs as well as their minds. A delegate from Virginia then got up and naid he hold in Lis hand a copy of the Bluctoivn Bugkblaet, containing an article that be thought the meetirjg should hear. might read it, which he did. It began thus : "Freemen, arise ! Put on yor armor, for the enemy is at your gates ! Infamous Sen ators have betrayed you ! Johnson gloats in triumph in the White House! Shall this be thus? Freedom crushed under his furious heel ehrieks to j'ou to rally to her rescue ! Treason is abroad ! .Tho aban doned wretch who still calls himself Presi dent leads the host ! See what awaits you ! Davis aud Lee, reeking with the blood of slaughtered patriots, will be taken into the Cabinet ! The loyal millions of the South will aain feel the clank of chains upon their limbs! Horror upon horror's head will rap idly accumu! ate ! Arise, and peak in thunder-tones! Let your voices sweep over the Blue R,i.lgo and the Alleghanies! From the shores of Passnmoquoddy to the snow-capped peaks of the Yo Semite, let tho tones of an indignant nation roll and reverberate, until treasou shrinks affrighted to its lair, and traiturs crouch in terror in their dons!" The article continued in this patriotic drain, and was loudly applauded. When the reading was concluded, it wue resolved to Bend Borne telegrams to Washington. Abraham Wiggins sent this : "Hon. Chas. Sumner : "South Carolina is true to progress. He move the Obstacle. Cnvict him on th other ten articles. Tieason must he made odious. Can you spare ten dollars? Abraham Wigoinb." This was Bi n. by a delegate from Ala bama : "Mori. Henry Willson: "The fate of unborn millions depends on the conviction of the traitor. Kick him out. Do you want any one to look after the renegadci before the next vote is taken? Simon Stasmsh." And this by a delegate from Georgia : lion. Ben Wale: "Don't let him stick. We can't afibrd to give tip the ship. If he resists, thu loyal millions of Georgia will flock to the support of Congres". Let me know when the substi tute business gets bii-k. II KzrEiAii Fabkim." This from a Louisiana delegate: ' Hon. Ben F. Bulkr-. "Oct him out some way, no matter how. Don't epare the Luisiana fund. If the traitor mays, we must go. Get some one to kep an eye ou the renegade. Where's Con over ? The party imiKt and shall be pre served. EcSSTZitt SWILLKTS." A delegate from Arkansas sent this : TJtad. Stevens : "tlet up more art dei.ee I know fconie idea. If you want evi mtn can be had cheap. Will go to Washington myself if you say s. F.ve hundred and board and mileage wi 1 uo TciEoeiiiLO" IUtuhwkll, Late of Lowell." Further proceeding of this kind were interrupted by an incident. An infamous Copperhead insult. It was this : Some unmitigated pcoondrel had push ed a boy in through one of the windows while the despatches were being written, and before any one had. a chance to put him out. the young rascal had scattered a lot of circulars through the room. He threw one at me, and I read it. It said : The under?igncd wo ild respectfully in- ' ' foiui strangers and others th it he h;is ou -: baud a large and varied assortment of : C A It PET BAG.V, ; which he offers at low prices. The; attea- ' ' tion of SOUTHERN DELEGATES - to the Convention is particularly called to ' my Dew carpel bag with compartments for SPOONS, NAPKINS, ETC. : '. This is the mo! useful article of the kind yet made, and should be in the hands of ' 1TI.BT TltJOLY LOIL MAS. ' A liberal di-count to gentlemen who will ' distribute my cards in tne Soiuh. ' Each man that loves hi- country well And in his t oul reveres her fl ig, ; ; "Will come where Joseph Smith doth dwell, : ; Aud buy from him a carpet bag. Joceph Smith, Mr. SmitTles ordered the sergcant-at-nrm to arrest the boy. Which he did n't. lie made a grab' at the boy, but the young scamp gave him a butt in the stom ach with his head and then ran out Mr. Smifiles said the sergeant-at-arms did n't know his business. To which that gentleman responded that it was a d d lie. Mr. SmifftVs then got mad He picked up a bench and let it fly at the sergeant-at-arms. Who pent it back to him. Then Mr. SiniftLs swore something and made a rush at his enemy. The enemy hit him on the forehead and showed him tome stars. There was some prospect of a row. The delegates sprang to their feet and two of them aimed blows at the enemy He went into them pretty quick, and took the fight out of them. Then there teas a row. All the delegates rushed at him, but he took up a bench and knocked them down just as fast as they came, And when tiiey got up they made for the door and left. In about ten minutes the enemy had Sir. Smifiles told cleared the room of all but himself and me. Looking at me fiercely and brandishing the bench, he said, says lis : "Who the divil are you ?" 'A boy from Kilkenny,' says I. "More power to ye !" says ho. You were pretty hard on those chaps," eays I; 'Begorra I gave them enough," says he, "and if they want any more they Know wnere to get it. Bad luck to the blatherin spalpeens ! nure there's no divaf shin in powdherin tbraneens like them at all." The man wa3 a Fenian Copperhead. Mr. Smifiles told me to-day that he did not know anything about his politics when he employed him as sergeant-at- arms. lie was the janitor ot the build ing, and Mr. Smifiles never suspected that he was a traitor until ho felt it in his bones. I left the sergcant-at-arms and went to my hotel. Some delegations had arrived. I spoke to one of the delegates from Iowa. "How is Grimes?" says I. . "Grimes is dead," says ho. Then I met a delegate from Maine and asked him if he had seen Fessenden. "Fep?enden is dead," says be. The next delegate 1 met was from Illinois, so I asked him how Trumbull waa getting on. "Trumbull is dead," says he. A delegate trom 3lissouri then came :, and 1 6DOke to him about Ilender- alon; son. " Henderson in dead," says he. The next delegate I saw was from Ivan eas, and I asked him if he had seen Ross. "Ross is dead," says he. Then I went up to a delegate from Tennessee and mentioned Fowler. 4 'Fowler is dead," says he. A delegate from West Virginia came in and I inquired for Van Winkle. "Van Winkle is dead," says he. I wa? getting tired of thif, so I asked the next delegate that came in how was the party. And he said he thought the party was dead too. Much depressed in pirit, I made my way up stairs, and when I got near my room I saw a light in it. I opened the door and walked in, and one of ihe Southern delegates was Bitting there with his carpet bag. He said he had not been able to find a boaaiir.g-hous3 anywhere and the rooms in the hotel were all engaged, so he would be very much obliged if 1 would let him sleep with me. I told him he might, if he would first go down stairs an i take a bath. lie said something about money, so I gave him fifty eent. . In half an hour he returned and we went to "bed. When I woke up this morning he was absent. So were the sheets and pillow cases. And his carpet bag. I sleep pretty sound, but I n?ver thought the sheets and pillow cases could to taken from under me without my knowledge. But they were. I am not sure who took them, but I have a suspicion. If that delegate comes to me again, I think he'll get himself in trouble. The Convention has not met yet. It is to meet in Crosby's Opera House. That was won in a lottery. There will be a lot o' rye consumed be fore it adjournR. And some Bourbon. I understand that Yates is expected. The market for codfish is lively. Also, pork. And there is an active demand for beans. All of which shows that the Eastern States still exercise a powerful influence in domestic afiairs. But I must get ready to attend the Convention. You will hear from me again, if things work rizht. Dakbt. DoiD. Tai.i. Ccssin'g A South Carolina pa per tells the fol'owing anecdote of one John M., a humorist of Talbot county, Georgia : He was in the bureau office of Butler, last fall, looking over some old tax books, when a negro who had some difficulty with his employer, entered and inquired if "he was de buro !" "Yes," said he, "I am the man." "Well, boss, I come to see' bout a fus3 I had wid the man I worked wid, Mr. B. You see, boss, I axed him two weeks ago how much money and tilings I eot in de store, and he told me Si 30 Well las' week I goes to twn and buy three or lour dollars wuf of things, and den he says I owe him $250 ; and when 1 told him dat can't be so, he cussed ." "Wliat ! did he cuss you ?" asked M. excitedly, turning over the leaves of the tax book. "Yes, boss, he cussed me twice." "Well," said M , hurriedly snatching up a pen, and making some marks on the book, "I fine him nine' dollars for that." "ixjok-a-here, boss," said the negro eagerly, "does dey have to pay for cussin' us?" ' Yes, four dol lars and fifty cents for every time they cuss you." "Den," said the colored in dividual, rising solemnly, and putting his hat carefully on the table, "for God, boss, he done cuss his whole crop out, and I'se gwine home to collect my money." The nejzro made shell-road time back to his employer's, told the negroes ot their good fortune, and the result was that every one of them went to Butler the next day to know about this "cuss mor.cy." B had some trouble in convincing the newly made, enlightened voters that "cussing" was not taxable. New nam9 for a seamstress Bliss Be w and Sew. THE HOP SCOTCH CLUB. BT JOHX QCILL. "But Mr. Wilkins. just listen " '-I say that you shan't join any such organization as long as you are a wife of mine. It's perfectly ridiculous, any way, for a lot of women like you and old Mrs. Smith to start out and try to get up a Hop Scotch Club. Who ever heard of a female playing such a game as that t It ain't decent, I tell you. It's a good enough game for one legged man, and if you choose to have a leg sAwed off you can dance round as much as you've a mind to, but you ban't do it until you're a cripple, if you shall, I'm a Dutchman." "Wilkins, you know I ,, "A pretty looking spectacle you'll make ot yourself standing on one of those old fourteen inch feet " "Wilkins, I'll break" Standing on one of those hoofs, kicking around after an oyster shell, and putting your toe on the line and getting out, and having to go baek and pitch for your place. Whose going to pay for the old boots you scuff out I'd like to know ? I want you to understand I ain't. I'm not going to go round every week buying shoes to cover those feet and creating a panic in the leather market. Not if 1 know myself I ain't." "If you will only let mo explain, Mr. Wilk " "You can't hop anyhow. You couldn't stand on one leg to save your life, and even if you could, do you suppose I want my wife to go waltzing round through this hemispheie like a turkey with a sore toe 1 Hop T Why you couldn't hop any more than a cameleopard could turn a back somersault ; no, you couldn't. You just might as well try to split a log of wood with a slice of watermelon as for you to endeavor to hop. If vou're so fond of hopping, I'll get a hopper, and have you mashed up to atoms. I wish to gracious that could be done." "Ain't you ashamed to talk in that " "The next I expect yim'll want to be sauntering around this land of the free and the home of the bravj, playing match ! games, and having jour name published j in the new-p spots r.3 the- pieit Hop Scon h i woman, and bring disgrace and misery on your family. But it shan't be done with my consent. If you go flipping around at any of these games hang wo if 1 don't get the first policeman I can find to grab you as a maniac, and put you in a straight jacket, if I can buy one b'g enough to fit you. It's too scandalous for anything " "Mr. Wdkins, yon hehavo like a per fect" "And you're just the kind of woman to go to work and try to be at the head of the business and lay yourself out to win the champion's belt, and to 'go around challenging other teeole-mindea women, and spreading yourself on matches. Why, it's ridiculous. I'd like to know what you'd do with the belt if you got it, any how ? No ldt, you know, is going to reach around that waist." "Mr. Wilkins, what do you mean ? I'll" "You might jost as well try to buckle a skate strap around a church steeple ; yes you might. Y'ou pomg to try for the champion's belt! Well, that is amusing. And then I suppose, if you win the stakes you'll come home here and spend tho whole of the money on spring bonnets, and teach your neglected cinldron vanity and pride. But I "Wilkins, you're so silly." "But I just want you to bear in mind that 1 put up no cash for you. I won't shell out any money for stakes. In my opinion you'd better a plagued sight stay at home and cook steaks for your family. When ycu die I'll drive a stake into your cold and silent grave to hold you down. That's" "You shan't talk in that scandalous " "That's all the stake you get out-of me, unless you carry on your tomfoolery so long that I'll be obliged to drive a stake into tho back-yard, and tie you to it by yonr Htp Scotch hg like some old hen to keep you from wandering off. And that's just what it's going to come to in my opin ion, let me tell you." "You know I never thought of such a" "And I don't want you to go practicing out here in the street with the boys in the afternoon cither, just reio lect that, will you ? If you must Hop Scotch, go down in the cellar, out of decent society, and you can Hop Scotch or Iiish or High Dutch, or any other way you want to, but keep out of the Btreets ; I don't want this community to see ao old pullet like you "' "Wilkins, 1 11 scratch " "Like y oo bouncing around over the pavement among a parcel of boys, creat ing a first class earthquake every time you hop, and very likely getting the city au thorities down on mo for breaking the culverts in ; and you'd a good deal better stamp around somewhere where they want tin cobble st nes rammed, enly you'd very likely drive them half way through to China every time you cama down on them with tho.'e number nines." "If you only give me a chance, Mr. Wilkins, I'll tell you that' "I don't want to give you a chance, or you will hop oil with all the decency and propriety in the family- " "That I never thought of such a thing as joining a Hop Scotch Club" "What f ' "I never thought of such a thing in all my born days." "The mischief you didn't ? Then what do you mean by having the Constitution and Bye-Laws for the George Washington Hop Scotch Club in your drawer, eay ?" "Breckinridge Augustus put them there." "Well, why in the name of common sense didu'l you say so before, and not give m) the trouble and annoyance I've had t" "Because you wouldn't let mo speak." "My gracious woman ! your tongue has been going like a pendulum. I haven't had a chance to get a word in edgeways, or any other ways, for a week." "What an awful story I I haven't ut tered a sentence." "h-e-w! There, woman, after that you'd better get out of bed and say your prayers over again. That's the toughest one you've told within an hour. And now stop your chatter, I'm tired of hear ing your cackle." And Wilkins closed up. But when I gazed upon the ponderous form of Mrs. Wilkens next morning, I thought to my self that she would not have been an orna mental object if bhft engaged in the game of Hop Scotch. A Bit of Romance Bump Water and Love. Dr. E. O. Gucrraot, a gal lant officer who served in the Confederate army as Adjutant General, in Western Virginia, was married on the 12th inst. to Miss Mary J. Duvalt, of Leesburg, Tenn. The Doctor and his fair bride are now stopping at the Louisville Hotel, be ing en. route to their future home in Mt. Sterling, Ky. In connection with thid marriage a comrade in arms of the doctor" relates the following p'easiDg little ro mance : In the mldt of a ferrifie battle near Leesburg, in which the shot and shell were flying through the air like a hail storm, the doctor and Captain .., his compan ion, rode up to a house on tho roadside and called for a drink of wafer, being al most famished with thirst. A charming young lady furni-hed tho cooling beverage from a pump in the yard, and with one of her sweeiefct smi'e, tpoka a few words of good cheer to the war-worn soldiers, battling in th cause of the South. It was not until the following day that Captain J. ascertained that h:s- friend, the doctor, had been seriously wounded in the region of the heart. That smiling face, and those cheering words spoken by the lovely maiden who fare them the drink of water, sent a dart from Cupid's bow, mora potent than a live years' courtship, into the tender-loin ot the doctor's affec tions. He told Caj tain J. that if ho lived "until this cruel war was over," he would go back to that house by the roadside and get another drink of water, even at the cost of entering the ranks of the "Benedicts." It is unnecessary to add that he kept his word. Not satisfied with the Good Templar's drink, however,' he robbed Tennessee of one of her m ist iascinatin" and accomplished daughters, who is now his wife, as above intimated. FiRfct Tkmpek anck Society. Captain C , who had been around the wot Id twelve times, formed tha first temperance society in Madagascar. The natives are hard drinkers, and will imbibe anything which has alcohol in it. A chief board ed the vessel one day, as he was taking a little "pain killer," a pint bottle of which stood on a table. Thinking it rum, the chief eagerly asked for some, and would not believe the captain's assertion that it was medicine. Knowing his man, Cap tain C , leaving the bottle, went to another part of the cabin. The tempta tion was not to be resisted by the chief, and, seizing (lie bottle, he drained a pint of the "pain killer" at one draught. The captain, returning, resumed the conversa tion, pretending not to notice the chief, who turned pale as his tawny complexion would admit, and kept up a rubbing of his abdominal regions. He twisted and turn ed in his seat a few moments, and then giving a yell, ruflied out of the cabin, jtimbed overboard, and swam for the shore. When next year Captain C revifitcd that harbor, not a drop would the chief touch, "i'ain killer" had cured him ; he was the first and only member of the firtt temperance society in Mad agascar. Br Moonlight. A lady correspond ent of a Milwaukee paper, who, writing under a nom de plume, had received a note from a gentleman admirer, recently, in which the writer said a lady who could put uch beautiful thoughts to paper must be equally gifted in person, etc., and want ed to meet her by moonlight alone, to which sho wrote a consent. She came to the rendezvous veiled. They walked, he talked, he made love, nd finally gained consent to take a little kiss : Ihe veil was rais'd for the purpose and tho love-stricken gentleman gazed upon the comely features of his own wife. A Slight Mistakk. Bretty girl to Charles : "Charley, how far is it round the woiU ? Isn't it twenty-four thousand ." Charles (who adores pretty girl, ! put both arms around her) "That's all a mistake, my love ; its only about twenty four inches." She was all tho world to him, "Dear Charley," Till: OtTAX BOTTO.1I. Mr. Green, the famous diver, tells sin gular stories of his adventures, when mak ing search, in the deep waters ot the ocean. He gives some new sketches of what he saw at the 4 Silver Bank," near Hayti : "The banks of coral on which my diving were made are about forty miles in length, and from ten to twenty in breadth. On this bank of coral is presented to the diver one of the most beautiful and sublime scenes the eye ever beheld. The water varies from ten to one hundred feet in depth, and so clear that the diver can see from two to three hundred feet when sub merged with but little obstruction to tho sight. The bottom of the ocean in many places is as smooth as a marble floor ; in others it is ttudoed with Coral columns, from ten to one hundred feet in hight, and from one to eighty feet in diameter. The tops of those more lofty support a myriad of pyramidal pendants, each forming a myriad more, giving reality to the ima ginary abode of eome water r.ympb. In other places the pendants form urch after arch, and as the diver stands on the bot tom of tho ocean, and gares thro' in tiie deep winding avenuee, he flnda that they fill him with as sacred an awe as if ha were in Eome old catheJral which has long been buried beneath old ocean's wave. Here and there tha choral extends even to the surface of tho water, as if the loftiest columns wero towers belonging to those, stately temples that are now in ruin?. There wero countless varieties of trees, shrubs and plants in every crevice of the corals whero the water had deposited the earth. They were all of a fait.t hue, ow ing to the pale light they received, al though of every shade, and entirely dif ferent from plants that vegetate upon dry land. O.'ia in particular attracted my attention ; it rc.-.embLs a Eea fan of im mense size, of variegated colors, and the most brilliant hua. The fi,h which in habit these "Silver Banks" I found as different in kind as the scenery was varicd. They wero of ull forms, colors and sizes from .the symmetrical goby to the r'ube like Bor.fish ; from t!;3 dullest hue to ths changeable dolphin; from the spots of tha leopard to tiie huo of the sunbeam ; fiom the harmless minnow to the oraioua shark. Some had heads like squirrels, others like cat3 and dog3 ; some of trnall size resembled the bull tcnier. Soma darted through tho water like mctcciv-, while others could scarcely be seen to move. To enumerate and explain ail the various kinds of fl-h I beheld while diving on these banks wouli, were I enough of a naturalist so to do, req-iire more than my limits allow, for I am convinced that most of the kinds offish which inhabit the trop ical sea3 can be found there. Tha sun fish, star fish, white shark and blue cr shovel nose shark wero often seen. There were also fish which resembled plants, and remained as fixed in their position as a shrub; the only power they possessed was to open and shut when in dauber. Some of thcta resembled the rose when in full bloom and were of all hues. There were the ribbou fisti, from four or five in ches to throe foot in length ; their eyes aro very largo and protrude like those of a frog. Another fih is spotted like a leop ard, from three to ten feet in leDgth. They build their houses like beavers, in which they spawn, and the male or female watch es the egg until it hatches. 1 saw many specimens of the green turtle, some five feet long, which I should think woul-J weigh four or five hundred pounds." A Witness. A Yankee, having told an Englishman that he shot, on one par ticular occasion, nine hundred and ninety nine snipe, his interlocutor asked him why he didn't make it a thousand at ence. "No," 6uid he ; "not likely I'm going to tell a lie for one snipa." Whereupon the Englishman rather "riled," and determined not to be outdone, began to tell a long story of a man having swam from Liverpool to Boston. "Did you see him V asked the Yankee. "Well, of course I did. I was coming across, and our vessel passed him a inilo out of Boston harbor." "Well, I'm gkd ye saw him, 6t ranger, 'cos ycr a witness I did it. That was me." A good story is told concerning tha writing of Mr. J. W. Biooks, the great railroad manager. He had written a let ter to a man on the Central Koute, noti fying him that, under the penalty of pro secution, he must remove a barn which iu some manner incommoded the road. Tha threatened individual was unable to read any part of the letter but the signature, but took it to be a free pass on the road, and used it for a couple of years as uch, none of the conductors being able to dis pute Lis interpretation of the document. A eot was sent by his mother to saw some Etovo wosd out of old railroad ties. Going out doers shortly after, she found, the youth sitting on the saw hcrse, with head dorn. The mother asked her hopeful son why he was cat-t down and why he didn't keep at hi3 work. The boy replied thus : "My dear mother, 1 flad it hard, vsry hard, to sever old tics." A man lost his wife. His neighbor ca'led upon hitn to offer consolation, and he came into the house all covered with dirt and water. "Why, Mr. Brown, what have'ycu been doing ?" "'Aly wi' dying ao, male it a brokp" J--r bd I tiiocftl I wo.. my well"
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