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HOFFER, DENTIST. - .- OFFICE, Front Street 4th door Irma Locust. over ts•nylor & McDonald', hook more Columbia. Pa. irrEsdrance, same n, Jolley', Pho tograph Gallery. [A togcsi 21, ISIS. - - THOMAS WELSH, TUSTICE OF TILE PEACE, Columbia, Pa. t ip OFFICE, in Whippeig New Budding. beton Elack`a Hotel. ' , rota street. irrrrompt attention given to nil ',name,: entrivited to ht. eare. November 2S, 1557. H. M. NORTH., A TTOII.VEY AND COUNSELLOR AT Ltl. Columbin.Pn. Calteeagas .prnmptly Inatle .1 a La nvazste I uud Vail Itwauea. Colikinbta,ntrry 4,18&9. r. W. PiSifii., Attorney and Counsellor at Law, ILi /I S. Atlee Bockius, D. D. S. - DRAoricEti Me Operative. Sum ieal and Mechem 'mil Department:. of Demist rt e OFFICE LOCIII.I et reel, howet n be Frauldiu line r unit Poet ()thee, Columbia, l'a May 7 1859. Harrison's Coumbian Ink f MCI! 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T I I 1: best for Pies, PutiOnig, :to —a .fresh .apply at II c•L"t'ir.% 11's Grocery Store, Corner rropitdail Uoion Nov. 19. 1059. SHA ICER CORN. J UST recri,nal, a fls -I a au jot Cora I, SUYI).I GrOV,,y SLOW. Coriwr En/111011d UlllOll .1. Nov. I -al QPALDING'S PREPARED GLIM-I'llc wool or IL, -uch 1111:, lele I. lell to eVerylTllly, iii 110 W al Veil he elipplled; in ‘ ss. , the, i. uoihm~ %Vit. leave lbw.' II 1,015)) it) tillflg to.my i. .0 , which have eit fur mum You (till ui the i.t o,litA 1 - .1111.1" s-rort 1:. 41.2i1MP STII3EIL J`lll l Rl- - ..b.cr.1 , r. ha": rot Lark:, 11 :Stc,ck 0 , 1 toll kin 4ift•-..tr BAR !RUN ANI) STEEL! Th,ty tire roll-11.111y ,titytt..l with 11/111k br.tmli 1.11-tti, , ..11,11 C,,,, lu.u.h It in ea. ottpir• 11l s arge. or .0.1,41 ito:1 , 111111 . $01 (OP. .1 Il 15111.. r, k SON:. Lora , ' ..ireet lit low St col.‘lo.:ttluuttbit, 4,1,0 ARTI:TN COLORS. A genrral assortment nl COfrr , lll tube% AI n a varwly ut Art!. al Ott “I ,l4 te‘l M,lroo . 1,7,4 LIMO ITTER'S Componad Syrup of Tar and W,1,1 ry, for rough,. 401 , 41- 1t e. l'or :I he Co'dcit Ic) rm. I rron [Jr,r: - - YEWS Compound Courrniruted Extract, sar.titylkrilla for the cure of rolul;t ot I , Ati I. oral w 1 .eroculnit. ntreettott, received a nd (Or ,t 1 Icy R. ‘VII.LAMS.. FI 0111 it , Colunthia, et. It=s9. FOR SAL E. 200 GROSS Friction very ln.v for rn.h. .14.ite 25.'59. It. Wlld.i %1•4 DRIED FRUIT. FORDriedrruit—Applel. Noche., Clorror, r..— She bet-1m the market, go to II :47 V Ir.t Grocery Store, Corner rm.' mod IL`ointt Dutch Herring! ANY one fond of a g ood Herrin g ean be supplted at F .N0v.19, ism Grocery ssore, No, 71 Loci...! .a._ LYON'S PORE 01110 CATAWBA BRANDY and PURI.: WLlsll.ll-1, eeper tally for Medicines ua t.4aerti purpo.e.. fbe Jan,2l3. FAMILY 1‘1111:11CINKS1011,1'.. -MICE RAISINS for 8 cts. per pound, are to be bad only at. EDER LEIN'S oroeely Store, March 10, IS6O. So. 71 Loco.' street. GMBN SEEDS.--Freak Garden Seeds, war runled pure, or sill k;ntlx, ja-1 i eerwril EBERLE:D.OS thocery Store, March 10,1860. No 71 Loact4 fired. POCKET BOOKS AND PURSES. A LARCE: lot of Finc and Common Porker Books pod Parlee, at from 15 cents to Iwo deelmse cod. Ile Idquustensand News Drpot. ,Colutalda e pril 14.1 lie, A. EBW more of those beautiful Prints lett, which wall be Fold cheap, u t SAYLOR di Mt.:DONALD'S Co/iambic Pa. April J 4 .Tnet Received and For Sale 1500 SACKS Ground Alum Salt, in large or mat; quanutlef, at APTOLD'S 'arehnure MI lin•in. _ J net received a new lot or Tamarinds, p.t the Golden Mortar Drug Store. my 5, 1850. . C OLD CREAM OF GLICSISE.—For th e cure and prevention fa chipped bond, For vle six the • GOLDEN MORTAR DRIP: bYfORK Pec.3.185D. Franc lover. Columbia. Turkish Prunes! - FM a first rate article of Prunes you rue* eo to La. F. 1-113/:ICL IFU V N0v.19,11349. Grocery Store, No 71 Locum GOLD PENS, GOLD PENS. 3. 4lB TSFOrived a large and fine aerorirocat or Gold Pene.alNewton and Gemarald , . mnnuineture, at SA VLOS & AtcDONALOS anon Siore. Agril From nirect, above Locu-t. gfifttigio. The Thomp - sons OR, d LONDON roa. SI 50 As the evenings became, long, and. the country dull, my friend Thompson yielded to the entreaties of his wile and daughter that they should give an evening party; •and once enlisted in the undertaking, he deter mined that it should be done well, fur in pleasure, as in business, he liked to do the right thing; he therefore willingly under took the execution of a number of commis sions in town from a copious list furnished by Mrs. T. Thompson is a London merchant, head of the great indigo house of Thompson, Sun S. Co., of Blue Lane, and too sensible a man to live in the smoke and dirt of the great city; his neat and well appointed villa, about twelve miles from the Northwestern line, and within a short drive of a convenient station,. is the very beau ideal of what the residence of a well-to-do city gentleman ought t) be. On leaving home on the morning of the day of the party, Thompson, of course, re ceived strict injunctions from his wife backed by the rest of the female portion of his fam ily, to be surd to come home early, which he readily promised to do, if possible; and after making some remarks about the claims of business, laughingly bade them not forget the standing direction to dispatch the ve• hide (he would not allow either himself or wife or daughter to call his handsome equipage •`the carriage") by the turnpike road to meet him, if by any chance he should not return by the last train. He fully in tended, however, to be home an hour or two earlier than usual, so as to take down with him the ices, game, extra wines, and other requisites for a first-rate "sit down" supper, and to be able to decant the wine himself, and generally assist Mrs. T. in tho final arrangements before his guests should ar rive. But it so happened that on reaching the city, Mr. Thompson found an unusual mass of things demanding his attention.— Ile soon gave up all idea of getting away early, but managed to execute his commis sion., which he sent off by the train he had hoped to go by. Bat even the hour of what he called his own train passed before he could get through the unexpeetisl pressure of business, and there was, nothing for it but to wait fur the last—the last, that is, that stopped at_this station—which left London at 9 o'clock.— This was annoying, and the waiting would have been it Itsmno but that he occupied himself in fetching up sumo arrears of coo• respondence, and in other business matters, and, finally, sending for a Ilansam cab, he started in e tpital time for Euston Square, nut so much vexed at his detention as those who are not "business men" might imagine. The day had been dark and snowy, and with the night came a sharp frost and fug, which latter got thicker and thicker as they drove up to Holborn. At length, just as they entered one of the squares, the "ion don peculiar" became so dense that it was difficult for the driver to take his bearings eren by the aid of the lamps, which had dwindled into mere speaks of light, visible occasionally here and there. The Jehu of the high wheeled cab was reduced to walk, and even at that cautious pace made some very unfortunate speculations as to his course, now grating, against the railings of the enclosure in the centre of the square, and now getting on the foot pavement. •Push on, cabby," said Thompson, coax ingly, during one of the numerous stoppages that occurred. "Easy said, sir," replied cabby: "but while my wheel is locked in these railinp, I don't see where I can push to, unless its down the hairy." Just then the Ihg cleared off a little, and exhibited to both fare and driver the curious fact that they had been going back, the horse's head being turnel toward l/olborn. The true state of affairs, however, being thus ascertained, cabby wheeled about, and was going at a spankhing space to make up fur lost time, when another dense mass of fog loomed over, and all was again in total obscurity. This was most provoking, for the time was getting on; yet to advance be. yond a walk was impossible. "Pray, push on, cabby," said Thompson, again popping out his head, "ur we shall be too Tate for the train, after all: push on, and I'll see if I can't find an extra half crown for von." Thompson had a strong conviction that. half crowns in number suited to the occa sion could do anything. and cabby, by his increased efforts, proved the influence of the stimulus. But it woult: not do; the old difficulties recurred, and, finally, while Thompson, getting desperate, watalternate ly persuading, thre..tening, and hinting at erzn a lditional half cron-ns, St. Pancras clock struck nine. It was all over; the last tr.iin was start ing. What would Mrs. Thompson say?— What would his visitors think? and what was to be done? But Thompson was never long in a dilemma; he was a man of busi ness; he was not an individual to be beaten by a fog; and so, relying that his "vehicle" would come to meet him, when it was found that he did not. arrive by the 9 o'clock train, ho agreed with cabby to drive him toward Harrow-en-the Hill as fast as he could.— Between the cab and the "vehicle" the dis tance might ho managed, he reckoned, in • . . • ~. 0 • • . ~.. . . . . . ENTERTAINMENT,"ND' IS SO CHE/t.? AS READING, NOR ANY PLEASURE SO LA:STING." .. . .. . . COLMIBrA, rENXSYi;VANIA, SATURDAX_MORNING,,OCT.OBEjt V, 1860. abotit hobr nod a cpiatter; or Say an - hour and - twenty minutes (business men, es pecially those who travel by railway, always calculate to a nicety,) so that he would still get home -befOre supper; and the bargain, fur two shillings a mile, and a glass of broil dy and water by way of an extra fillip, was at-once concluded. The Harrow road was reached in less time than could have been hoped; and Thompson suggested to cabby the proba bility of even a second glass of brandy and water, if that pace were kept up. But as they came upon the country road, it was so extremely slippery that such a pace was dangerous, and at the foot of the hill at liensal Green they were once more reduced to a walk. lip that steep bit of road; glazed with a layer of frozen snow, there was no hold fur the horse's feet; and the fog, driven by a keen east wind', was rapidly enveloping the northwestern suburbs, and even the country beyond, where mingling with a thick white mist, caused by the sudden frost in a choice atmosphoi e, it became even more dense than it was in London. This greatly increased the difficulty of getting up the bill; and the horse, at last, after slip ping, straining and plunging, lost his foot ing and fell. "Whip him up," cried Thompson, who, though not a cruel man, looked upon the matter from a purely business point of view, in .which the fall appeared a kind of breach of contract that ought to be dealt with in a summary manner. Without designing a reply, cabby jumped down and proceeded to loosen by a hole or two some of the har ness, to lift the shafts a little, so as to take the weight from the shoulder, and' in other ways to assist the fallen horse. But noth , ing would avail; there was no hold for his feet on that sloping sheet of ice. After each effort the struggling aillmal toll again, and at last gave up the :ttiodipt and lay per fectly still. Thompson, who was not a man to stand by and do nothing, let himself out; and groping his way round to the driver, whom ho could not see in the fog, put the search ing question, "what he m,ant to do?" "''here's only one thing as'll over get that Koss ttp again this blessed night," said I cabby. "And what's that?" "Why, something as we haven't got." "Well what is it?" repeated Thompson. "Why, a hose-cloth," replied cabby, "or a blanket; or any ways, if it wasn't a blanket, just n great coat; you haven't a great coat to spare, have you, sir." "Well, it's nut exactly the night to lend a horse a great coat," said TOmpson. '•l3ut what is it fur?" 1 "Why, you sec. if I could put summer of that sort down under his fore feet he'd get a hold, don't you see—he'd get a hold, and he'd be up in a twinkling." Now Thompson's great coat was a good one; but the affair with him was merely a matter of business. Was the result worth the damage likely to be done? was the pithy question he put to himself. By a rapid pro cess of mental arithmetic he assessed the probable injury, estimated the advantage to be derived per contra, and with his usual business-like celerty. decided that it was.— In another minute cabby was spreading Thompson's great emit under the feet of his prostrate steed, and both together were hold ing it tightly down to the ground like a bedside carpet. With this luxurious assistance, which gave the fore feet a secure bearing. n plunge and a struggle brought the poor beast on his legs again; but he was so irritated by his previous failures and so startled by his sudden success, that before cabby could seize the reins he was off, sliding and scram bling over the slippery road like an awk ward lad contending with his first pair of skates, but yet at a speed that soon left both driver and fare far behind. Cabby darted after his horse; and in an instant nothing could be heard or seen of cab or driver but a dull rumble of wheels and a voice as if wrapt up in a blanket, shouting, Wo-ho, tvo ho:" which grew fainter and fainter every moment. Thompson's first impulse was to follow at once, as fast as the fog and his thirteen stone of solid flesh would allow; and he could not, in the darkness, lay -his hand upon his great coat. lie had started back to SWIM little distance when the horse strug gled up and plunged forward, and ho could not for the life of hint find the place again; nothing but the cold frozen snow met and benumbed his fingers. Quick decision of purpose was becoming necessary; if he pur sued his seemingly hopeless hunt after the coat, it was clear that he could never over take the cab. Ms decision was instantly made; it would not pay to continuo the search, and buttoning up his body coat, he started in pursuit at s good round pace, but puffing and blowing as though he bad not "trained" sufficiently for a pedestrian feat of that nature. Ile could still hear faintly the rumbling of the wheels and cabby's useless "Wo-ho, wo-ho!" and if he had not walked into the hedge so often. and not found such difficulty in extricating himself from the thorns and brambles, he must soon have overtaken the object of his pursuit. But one provoking impediment or other always prevented his consummating his hopes just as be deemed himself upou the point of doing so. Yet on and on he went, and on and on again, after conquering each fresh obstacle. It seemed to him that he had thus struggled along for miles in the thick darkness, with the Will. n'-the-wisp" Wo-ho. wo-ho!" only just tihend ;f him. In vain he shouted; he could hear no ans wer but the distant "Wo-ho, wo.ho.?'• He got irritated, and, as a natural consequence, was (exactly in the ratio of kis increasing irritation) just so much. the ofteaer,in the hedge ur the ditch, and each time just so much the longer getting out again. He actually began to disbelieve in many of liis most strongly-rooted convictions connected with half crowns and other matters; and.his good solid common sense was beginning to waver and wander. Could it be really him self—Thompson, the eminent indigo mer chant of Blue Lane—who was thus allow• ing himself to be lured after a strange dull sound of "Wo-ho, wo-ho!" in a thick fog, for miles and miles along a dark Slippery road, till ho•wns ready to drop with fatigue? He was beginning to doubt his own identity, and might have decided against it, but that just then ho thought he perceived the gUm mea of a light. lie was not mistaken, and immediately scrambled towards it, but evi dently not by the proper road, as he passed through a deep ditch and up a steep bank, breaking his way through some • rotton gar den pailings. At last he argued at a light ed candle, apparently held close to a wo man's face, in which he recognized indis tinctly the features of the Kenton carrier's wife, who lived at the roadside, not more than five miles from his own residence.— That was encouraging; and whatever be came of the cab, he should at all events soon meet his own "vehicle." But that hope was speedily dispelled, for Mrs. Parcels informed him that his coachman had boon here about two hours, and as the fog was so think he thought it dangerous to go (4.1 . and so, feeling sure that hi* master would not attempt to come throagld it, he had turned back again. And the cab? Mrs. Parcels had heard something rum ble by about ten minutes before, and heard somebody crying "Wo-hul" but had seen nothing. This was rather depressing, but Thomp son bad identified Monett again; the con versation with Nlrs. Parcels bad brought his wandering imagination back from the dreams of that sea of fog which had seemed peopled with hoarse.voiecd syrens singing "Wo-ho, vro-ho!" to lure him on to destruc tion. lie felt again that he was Thompson —Me Thompson of Blue Court; and being guided by Mr. Parcels into the road, by way of the garden gate instead of through the fearful gap ho had just made in the old paling, he resumed the chase lle had got his second wind, and was getting up to his work; so away he went at a pace worthy of the "Barclay match"—for ho had no end of pluck—and after a long run, he W.I.S evi dently gaining upon cabby. He beard' "Wo ho, wu ho!" to ire distinctly, and could even catch the rumbling of wheels once ECM At that moment, however, a dull grating sound seemed suddenly to eztinAu sh the rumbling; and then all was perfectly still, and he experienced the oppressive, suffoca ting sensation produced by total darkness undisturbed by the slightest sound. Ile stepped more slowly and cautiously, and, in spite of himself and his strong common sense, felt vague and ridiculous fears creep ing over him. A sound as of breathing seemed ,;lose to him, though unseen, and in another instant something like an arm flung itself across Thompson's throat. "Garotte, garotte!" cried the strong-mind. ed man of business, for a moment taken off his guard. "What, sir?" "What, cabman?" "Well, glad you've come up, sir; I was beginning so be frightened like." "And where's your cab?" "0, it's all right now; it's in the ditch— ono wheel locked in the ice and mud; I heard it grind in." "Which ditch?" "Alt, that's what I want to come at. I've been groping about on t'uther side, and now I'm going to try this." "Which side is this side?" asked Thomp• son; and as he spoke he heard by the breath ing that cabby was moving off. Ile endea vored to catch hold of him, but he was gone and there was a silence and stillness for some seconds, when the voice of cabby was again calling out triumphantly: "All right—all right, sir! Here you are —all right!" "Not quite," cried Thompson;struggling to get out of the ditch, into which he had walked in his hasty endeavors to follow up the track of cabby. "Nut quite," he said. "But where are you?" "Here, sir." "Where's that?" "llere:' "I can't tell where 'here' is." "Well, sir, I'll drive towards you, and you follow the sound of the wheels." But as Thompson advanced accordingly, he thought the sound of the wheels and cab by's voice, too, grew fainter. Ile must have walked the wrong way after he got out of the ditch; so like skilful tactician, he turned in the opposite direction immediately; and feeling that he was on the crisp frozen turf by the side of the road, where it was less slippery, he began to run again, rejoicing that he was not encumbered with his great coat, and quite proud in the midst of all [ drawbacks of the powers of locomotion which the stimulus of passing events had shown him to be so unexpectedly master of. Ile was making way famously in recovery of lost ground when suddenly what seemed a hillock rose into the air beneath his feet. carrying him up with it-and projecting him through the fog to a considerable distance. As he again reached the earth iiddy, be wildered and stupid, he had an indistinct idea of hearing a doll, rushing sound, as he afterwards said in his forcible-way like a charge of cavalry; and then his senses and consciousness abandoned him al togerher,and the great Thompson lay senseless and sprawl ing-on the snow-covered turf, where he re mained for a term of which though not very long he never knew the exact duration. The explanation of the mystery is very simple. Ile Lad trodden upon an old cart horse that had been turned out to pick a lit tle of the long, winter grass at the roadside during the day and to find a bed undershel. ter of the hedge at night. The poor crea ture, in its fright at being jumped upon during its peaceful slumbers, had suddenly sprung to its feet, and so pr ejected Thomp son into the air as described. . When he recJvcred from the shock, he found himself sound in limb and wind, hut somewhat bewildered and confmed; and was much annoyed to feel such sensations, for he had the 'greatest antipathy to anything like confusion. He spent some time in try ing to decide which way he should go; for though it seemed to him that the fog was less dense, it was still too thick for bins to discover any land-marks fur his guidance. Everything was perfectly still no sound of any kind broke the intense silence. At last, shivering with cold, he started off rath er from the necessity of exereibe to clear his brain and circulate his blood than item any very definite choice of direction. After walking some time he gradually recover. his self-possession, warns crept over his num bed limbs; and persistent efforts were reward ed by the appearance of light dimly glimmer ing though the fog, which he hailed at once as that of his harbor of refuge; the lamp of his cab. Pushing on with a proud sense of eventual conquest over almost unheard of difficulties, he soon reached, not the cab, but the cottage of the Kenton carrier from the window of which twinkle% the light, he had 1111111 This was a terrible blow; but, as I have said Thompson was pluck to the backbone; there was no shirking in him. The flg was evidently beginning to clear, the hedges on each side hod be tome sufficient't visible to enable him to steer his course safely along the middle of the road, and he at once, still undaunted, prdceoded to retrace his steps. A spanking walk of an hour and a half brought him to his own gates through whieb he could clearly distinguish the exit of two carriages—carriages that he knew—the headed phaeton of the Jenkinse nod the clor-a-bane of the Taihnegs. They were the last of the departing guests it was two o 'clock in the morning. Ile net Mrs. Thompson in the hall, who neither screamed with joy, nor threw her. self upon his neck, nor did any of those things w hich .scoker.minded woman would have done. She merely said: "My dearest Thompson, how excessively late you nu•! And there is your man with his cal) and horse in the stable yard, who wants twenty four shillings as his charge for tuelve miles, at two shillings pet• mile, nod Iwo halrerowns extra; and he has listd three glasses orbrandy and water whielthe says you promised him in addition." At that moment the Misses Joinima. and Jannette Thomson came running out of the now empty ball-room, and begged their dear papa not to be vexed at his delay. they had a delightful evening and a beautiful supper as the ice: and phea.ants, and game pies, and truffles, and champagne came down all safely. The cothe-lempsr bad not been of the slightest consequence. And Thompson, though for a moment rather taken aback by this extremely cool view of the case, perceived the next mo ment that it was the true "business" view after all. From the Cotohill 111nrizine Hints on Marriage Proposals. I=l Most women allow that in the course of their lives they have gone through at bast once the ordeal of n "proposal," but then they feel bound in honor not to diclose ctr cumstances and particulars. Alen naturally enough utterly refuse to detail their experi ences on this subject. Their Edith or Geor gians sits at the head of their table, and the mystical words used to induce her to accept that happy position, whether inspired by the feelings of the moment, or guided by the light of numerous previous failures, we are never allowed to know. I, therefore, as an elderly matron, hope for some gratitude from the rising generation, if I offer n few sug gestions and write down such information on this mysterious subject as I have stored up in the course of a long life. In the first place, then:—Avoid too much baste in matrimonial matters. A clever writer in the Saturday Review recommend. no man to marry till he has seen his beloved with a cold in her head. IE his affection will stand this test, nothing, he thinks, can chill it; but this writer, I gather front in• ternal evidence in his own article, is young and a bachelor, and has evidently never made a sea voyage. However, his theory is good. PO far as it goes. and might, if gen erally acted up3n, prevent some of the con $1;50" PER YEAR IN-ADVANCE; $2,00 IF NOT IN ADVANCE tretemps arising from hasty offers of mar riage. Ono such occurs to me at this mo ment. A proposal was written and sent by by the post in the days when letters trav eled quietly at the rate of ten miles an hour on the mail conch. The anxious lover for the first week breathlessly expected the re ply, but it did not come. The next week he pined, and was:sleepless, still no answer.— The third week he became indignant. "A civil acknowledgement was Lis due. She was heartless and a flirt." The next week he despised her, and congratulated himself on his escape; and, when at the end of it, he received his own letter buck from the Dead Letter Office, because he had, in his agitation, forgotten to direct it, he had so completely outlived his love that he never proposed to that lady at all. In the second place:—Always deal with principals. If a girl is too young to know her own mind, you had better wait till she is older; and if she is too undecided to judge 'of her own feelings, why not choose sonic one n little wiser? I know a fine disposi tion which was soured, and the course of two lives materially darkened, by a churl ish old father, who never told his daughter of the declaration of attachment he had re ceived fur her, because he considered the income offered to be insultielent. She thought her feelings bad been trifled :with, and the man a beat tless flirt. Many years afterward she found out, by accident, how much she had misjudged hint, but it was then too late. Let me recommend young girls to shun ; the man who is, even when making love, wrapped up in himself and his own pursuits, iastcad of being able to throw his mind into their occupations, or to sympathize with I their feelings. Se,li a man is e tier nnt- row-minded or narrow hearted. I once saw a middle aged invalid making love to a young girl. After making great efforts to secure an opportunity of meeting her, he drew his chair close to hers, looked into her I fuce, sighed heavily, drew his chair still closer, and, while she looked at him in as-1 tonishntent, and I, in the distance, strained my ears to hear whist tender remark fol lowed all this preparation, I heard him whisper with great emphasis, "Who is YOUR doctor?" I need hardly say that the Fore sal tailed which followed this well judged commencement. A more pardonable case of man's absorption in his own per-nits was I that of a very shy lover, ahose one idea nes ; horses. Ile never found courage to propose 'till he had persuaded the lady to go into the stable and look at his favorite horse.— There he spoke, and there she answered y But this was 'latentl and pardonable: a shy man may need the —g.ound, and, feeling his own inferiority in the drawing• room, may yet be aware of his superior power in the stable, where his horse is his throne, and he himself a king. ninlly.—Never express strong determi , nations on the subject of marriage unless you mean to break them. I have seldom heard an old bachelor declare that he had quite decided not to marry, without feeling sure that the subject was en4ros:dtig a good deal of his thoughts, and soon afterward seeing his marriage announced in the papers. If a man assures you he could never marry n widow, or a fast young lady, or a girl who is fat, be is sure to do it; toad when the young girls who honor me with their coedit. dence assure me they never could marry man who is short, or who can't ride across a ientry, or who wears a beard, or who has only five hundred pounds sterling a year, or it country squire who rides without straps, or forgets to wear gloves, I cunsider that their doom is sealed, and that their husbands will be the opposite of their youth ful blest in these exact particulars. But people fall generally du cote on 1' ac penche, and the penchant of this generation is cer- Wilily net. to idolize too much. Warning. therefore, on this head is, perhaps, unneces sary. Rather, I remind them that imagi nation is, as Schlegel tell us, is garden of E len within us, which man ought to dress and keep within bounds, not ruthlessly fell. I plead, therefore, that a little romance be still left around the proposal, even in this money-making and money seeking age. Let the words be spoken at a time and in n place which imagination may love to dwell upon, and beware of the example of Sir 0. P.—, a well-known physician. Ile is said to have rolled the note in which he asked fur toe Duchess of --'s hand, round a phiul of medicine. She accepted the bitter 'draught, but refused the man. I have also heard that a beautiful and accomplished lady, who bud become au enthusiast in farming, with the view c f benefitting her tenants and dependents, was "proposed to" in a new pig sty bean emineut agriculturist, while they were discussing the various arrangements and • improvements which might he made in the building. !fere an engrossing pursuit in common had assisted the denouement; but such similurity of taste may be but temporary, and is a frail fee nda tion for lasting onion. A north country gentleman, a master of hounds, and a man of much character and originality, bat shy and peculiar in society. was, by great similarity of taste, thrown much in the way of a lady who redo well.— My elderly cheeks tingle with to blush, while I write that, the gentleman, not improving the opportunities given him of declaring his sentiments, w hen riding home with the lady after hunting, she took a step which, ne am presenting the different aspects and e ir cumstances of proposals, I feel bound, bow. [WHOLE NUMBER 1,575 ever unwillingly, to relate:—"Why should we not marry, Sir John?" she said, "Ah.!" said Sir John, "I had often thought of it."— And married they were! There are fatalities whiefi seem to attend upon some lovers—strange events, unexpect ed meetings, which sometimes promote, sometimes prevent proposals. A marriage took place not many years ago, in the great w.rld, where the two lovers (long attached. but separated by the dc:dre of their parents) met under en archway while each taking refuge in London from a sadden shower of rain. /Neither of them had the least idea of the neighborhood of the ether, when tho sud den meeting occurred which decided the course of their future lives. In another ea,e the engagement was broken off on ac count of limited means, and the gentleman went abroad. Returning after some years' absence, be arrived late on the railway platform, and rushed into the first carriage Le reached, just as the train was in motion. hi it he found (with her mother) the lady he had been so long vainly endeavoring to forget, and the meeting ended in one of th. , happiest of marriages. In matrimony, as in other affairs, it is all important to put the critical question in th•o way hest adapted to the character and dis position of the person concerned. A gen tleman who had several sisters—agreeable sensible, and, some of them, fined, o'ting women—was one day asked hay it hap pened that they all reached middle age un m uric 1. "I will explain," he replied.— “Pr.vosals without attentions, attentions without proposals; and this is the clue of my sisters' single life,” To take an opposite example. A friend of mine with a warm heart and quick impulses, is much in firs habit of decidedly negativing any proposi tion when first made to her, merely on no count of its novelty. One day, while refer • ring to her marriage. I inqaired how it hap• petted, with her dislike 4o new suggestions, that she did not say no, when her husband proposed to her. "All:" she said, "I did; but he knew my habit, and put the question in such a way that siiving, no meant yes." Lastly.—Always secure your retreat in love as in war. This is n precaution never to be neglected. Mr. A—, brother to the late Lord Z—, whose proud and haughty temper was proverbial, proposed to a lady in Portman Square Gardens. After being refused, the rejected lover turned aWay from her in great indignation, but, finding the ' gate of the garden locked, was obliged t•i return to the. lady to petition for the key.— Another case still more trying, was that of a gentleman traveling i r "the No'rth of America, who, after being hospitably re ceived in the It of an ()Meer high in command there. proposed to his host's daugh ter the evening before hit intended depart ure, and was refused. A deep fall of 'snow came on in the night; the roads hecatnelim mrssable; and the poor man, to his ttnspeak • able mortification, was detained for a week in the house with the lady who had rejected • him. Such are some of the incidents relating to proposals which occur to the at this moment Stranger awl more varied cases will proba bly ri.e up to the memory of most of my readers. surrounded, in some instances, by sad and softening recollections; imbittered in others by long and unsmiling regrets. Pouse, then, and prosper, my young read er. Heir with you on your pathway the elderly chaperon's best wihhes for your hap py entrance into this land of promise. Re member the Italian proverb: ^3lczzo arniato CJrc dibrtcre doer l c num:o," anl belizvo that a inarriage based on mutu al esteem, built up by lastin,: affection, and crowned with Ileareti'm blessing, is the fair remnant :eft us on earth of the 111StitIlli0L13 of P.tralise. Reasons for Short Sermons -ks elmpare 1 with other public addresses, sermons ern more frequent and regular in their recurrence; their topics ore already more familiar, and partake more of general similarity; there is greater diversityrin the audience, comprising the old and the young, the cultivated and the rude, the strong end the infirm; nod more time is allowed the speaker for preparation, and therefore for condensation al.o. Thep , circumstances, e.peeially tJo pn•s,.acc of inta/ids and chil idren, should if. J icatc a half or a third of 01.! 1,21q.-,th of address that might otherwise he required or allowed. A. to the weight et precedents in this department. we acknow ledge that in the early days of New En;,• hind, and in the mother country also, espe cially Scotland, down to a later date, when no exception was taken if the hourglass was turned only once, venerable names enough may be quoted by the most prolix modern preachers. But "we live in other times," when, to say nothing of less credit able differences, public addresses, as well as books and papers, of all kinds, are marvel ously multiplied, and hence require abbre viation. We doubt, too, whether the fathers were as wise as they might have been in this very particular, especially since wo hare heard men speak of the wearisome and repuhdve associations they bad formed with the Sabbath from their early years in Scot land, when, seated on a bench too high for their feet to touch the iloor, they were com pelled to bear and survive both sermons and prayers that seemed to them almost inter , minable. Bo this as it may, better exam ples arc found in the greater part of the last century, and early in the present. John
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