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Adrertisements not marked with'the number of insertions desired, will be continued till forbid ehirred according to theie terms. J. II. LARRIMER. eMTiaariis its" DEKTAL CARD. AM. SMITH offeri hii professional icrvicei . to the l-adies ind ieiitlemen of Clear aid and vicinity. All operation! performed with neatneii na despatch. Being familiar witb all the late (inprovmenta, he ii prepared to mitt Artificial Teeth in the belt uiaoucr. OfUce in Shaw'i new row, Sept. Nth, 185S. lyj. " DR. R. V. WILSON. HAVING removed his office to the new dwel ling on Second itreet, will promptly anawei profs lional oalli ai heretofore. jAt, a. lAnnmra. ' " IAKl(lMi:it b TEST, Attorney! at Law j Clearfield, Pa., will attelid promptly to Col. Uioni, Lund Agencies, Ao., Ac, in Clearfield, Centre and Elk counties. July 30. y JOHN TROUTMAN STILL continuoi the business of Chiiir Making, and House, Sign and Ornuiuout.il Painting, ut the shop formerly occupied by Troutinsn A Rowe, it tli en"t end of Market itreet, a abort distance west of Liu' Foundry. Juno 13, 1855. THOMPSON, 1IAKTSOCK N CO. Iron founder. Curwensville. An extensive assortment of Caatinga niado to order lice. VI, lfcil. L. JACKSON CRANS , ATTOIIXKY AT LAW. office adjoining I if rtaiilencu nil Second Ptreut, -'leu-l i.i, la. Juno 1. IS54. II. P. THOMPSON, T s.it-lull . mav be found either at his office I ut bcofield's hotel, Curwoiisville, !nn I i,rirpM.iunallv nWcM. I'ec. 2'J, IS 5 1 FREDERICK ARNOLD, Merchant and Produce Dealer, Lulhers burg Cloarliold couuty, Pa. April 17.1852. ELLIS IRWIN & SONS, 4 T the mouth of Lick Iiun, live milei Iron, V Clearllold. MERCHANTS, and extensive Manufacturer of Lumber, July 211, 1852. J. D. THOMPSON, Blacksmith, Wagon, Buggies, Ac., Ac, Ironed on short notice, and the very best style, nthii ml stand in the borough of Curwensville. Dee. 29, 1863. DH. M. WOOD, having changed his loci tion from Curwomville to Clearfield, res pectfully offers his professional services to the tituens of the latter place and vicinity. Residence on second street, opposite ti it or J. Crans, Esq. my " U. P. W. BARRETT, TERC1TAXT, PRODUCE AND LUMBER Ll DEALER. AND JUSTICE OF THE PKACE, Luthersburg, Clearfield Co., Pa. J. L. CUTTLE, 4 ttor ruey at Law and Land Agent, offi i adjoining hii residence, on iiinrnei itree March.1, 1853. tiearlleld. A. R SHAW, RETAILER of Foreign and Domestie Merch andiie. Shawsville. Clearfield county, Pa. Suswsville, August 15, 1855. D. O. CROUCH, IIIYSICUN Office in Curwensville. May WM. P. CHAMBERS. sARRIES on Chairmaking, Wheelwright, and house and Sign painting at Curwensville, ClearVvId en. AH orden promptly attended to Jan. i, 1868. ROIlEttT J. WALLACE, Arroitsar at Law, Clearfield, Pa., Office in 6baw' Row, op- posit the Journal office. dee, 1, 1818. tf. JOSEril PETERS, Jvttict of V Peace, Curweruville, Penna. ON'B door east of Monteliui A Ten Eyok ' Store. AH business entrusted to him will be promptly attended to, and all instrumonti 0 f "riling jone on short notioe. arch, SI, 1858.-y. PLASTI'.RIXG. The subscriber, having located himself in the borough of Clearfield ould Inform the publio that he is prepared to to Work in th ihnvi line, from nlain to urnimnB. l of any description in a workmanlike manner. I io whitewashing and repairing done in a neat BBr and on reasonable terms. EDWIN COOPER. Cleardeld, April 17, ISST. 'j. r wrt TPPTrr I'0 egt ifpuoifau: (V If 1 lCli M M-j Lj m ii, Duke Constantino was last here this alii TAKE CARE OF THEM! I ', ance was talked over. His Highness' in- "y. A. M. IIILLft, deslrei to announce to; "ue,n0J WM ,won ,n ,fav?r Jne rrince J hii friend and patron, that he ii now de- nd in compliance with the wishes expres all of hii time to operations In Dontlstry. sed at Turin its action was brought to bear ose deilrin k; ...!.. ;n AA kin. - Ik. Vinn -t uiuiuin v nil mm .innM a, . iiihm. "?! on Fridays and Saturdays, no leu to th contrary be given in th town pa 5 to week previous. J - . - . - - -j - B. All work warranted to be satisfactory, ;: ertiH, p,. Bwf. 7&d, 99. - LIKES. Tin memory of Margaret B. Carlisle, of Cham, beriburg, Pa, who died Auguit 12th, 1848. r ainRiiT t. ait(. I do not, eannot think thee dead, My rouiin, young and fair; llow oould the duws of earth be ibed Upon thy sunny hair? By memory' .light I see the till. And Life with all iti Joys, Ii sparkling in thin eye the while I mark the sweetness of thy nolle, The kindness of thy voice lhey my that voice and imile are fled, And yet I cannot fool thee doad, W parted when the April'i ihoweri llad roused her infant train, Witb many a leneme to past the hour When wo would meet again ; llow we would hear the echoes ring, And cull the forest's woalth, And for our wreaths the bloiaomi bring, While the glad wind would o'er ui iug, And fan thy brow to health In skies io bright, what eye eould 10 The shadow! o'er our destiny t I little droam'd, ere summer wreathi Had bent the forest bough, A hand, "far mightier than the breeie," Would rest upon (Ay brow And flowers that withered not, nor smiled In thy pale grasp or mine, Would shod their leaves and fragrance wild Above a heart is young and mild, Ai young and true ai ihi no Would bloom above thy quiet clay, Pani'd with the beautiful away. I feel, beneath the starlight pale Of yon unclouded Hue, As though a breath uiijht part the veil That hides hir from my view Tie gloriel of that City bright I fuin would hear her tell Ah, would she lo k on earth to-uight, Whoso ejej hnvo caught their flmniug light From the luvuible .' Or proffer nn undlng hand To guide us to the spirit lund. Sweet is the th'Cgbt of human lorn, WI oko precious ciiairi ij riven, Thou evji y link uoites above , To draw our heurts to heaven Our voyage soon il, end -our uight, A tew short years 11 1 most, When day bus put the .shades t) Qiht, He loo shall huil the luiid iu sight, And Dour upou tho coaat, W itch her frail bark and lighter oar Had gained a little tiuio bui'ure. The Princess Clotilde of Savoy. The names of the brido of his Imperial Highness 1'rineo Napoleon aro a follows: Clutildo Mario Thercie Louise. She is the dau liter of the King of Sardinia, Victor Emanuel II, and tho Archduchess Adele of Austria. The Princess is only sixteen years old, having been born on the 2d of March. 1843, not remarkably beautiful, but grace- tilul I'rince.-s in Europe. How TUB rilINCE9S WAS WoOED AND WoN fill Mrwl o 11 iitlitlorl 1 1 ,.1 1lnrul llii.hnaaa . n c i 11 ? .1 owners, r-.-r tho purpose of bring- is tall She bears a resemblance o the her hnck ',0 the vom mostfla tered portraits of Maria I heresa tarti howevpr tw0 ,J j geialt!men -ho,e descendant she is. The mother ol u tll0 M the A h- the Princess was considered the most beau- , . .1 , r,, ' ,i,;i . ,: The first proposalsof marriage of Prince Mayor, however, doclined to "put hi foot Napoleon with the Princess Clotilde came in it."' hut stated the probability of his in last year from tho Tuileries, but were not terference in case the peace wai broken by received altogether with fuvor j but this either party. The conference with the vear the gravity of circumstances a seri- Mayor was not satisfactory, and the legal ousneaa that is at present extreme clear- ed away every intervening obstacle. The solo condition imposed by King Victor Emanuel bus been, tnatthe future bride- groom una bruie should nrst see ana bo- come acquainted with each other. Hence the coming oi the 1'rince to lurin. A Paris letter savs: "iNotwiihstanding the hopes of some future aggrandizement in Italy, the influence of the E nperor of the French, and tho attractioi.s of his intended son-in-law, it is atlinned that the Kinc of Sardinia did not give his con- sent to the marriage of his daughter with- out much hesitation and some difliulty. When the matter was lust broken to him, Victor Emanuel was as much taken bv surprise as the public has been on learning that it was concluded, i he ancient lino-, age of the one and the recent rise of the other may have had some weight with the descendant of the old and glorious house ; 1 1 1:1 1 U - :u . t:.: 1 , free and easy as he may be in familiar in- termors?, for tho nreiudices of race never! are really eradicated. Tho objections, how- ever, aro said not to have been confined exclusively to that. Tho uncertainty of af fairs in ranee, the possibility ot tuture changes for nothing is impossible and the convenience that might arise to Sar dinia, owing to a variety of causes too nu merous to bedotailod, wore urged. 1 sup- pose the parties to whom they wero ofl'er- ea did their best to remove them not successfully, however, as it would seem, for it required the direct intervention of a third party to induce Victor Emmanuel fl've his consent. When the grand I$r It is the opinion of a western editor , that wood goes hither when left out of j doors than when well housed. lie sayi fome er bis went unit mire. "EXCELSIOR." CLEARFIELD, PA. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1859. The Coolie Trade. Mr. William Breck, reaiilont of Bang kok, 8mm, linn published a document il lustrating the Coolie traJo, from facta guin ea from the ollicers and crew of a Dutch bark, which Lad been taken from that vessel and carried to Singapore. This bark waa employed in the Coolie trade, anil among the papers found on board was the original contract between tho Coolies and the Spanish agents at Macao. This paper shows the Coolio contract scheme to be fully cm a par with tlm African slave trade in all particulars, for not one out of a t l.lun..l .vf .1.. P II . """"I"" "i inn noor UMIOWH who nr windlfd into this contract will ever live 10 sen tue end of it, w Inlo thoir servitude in uie meantime will be or the most ab ject and degrading character. Tho Coolies agree to work on the islund of Cuba, for 1110 term 01 eigtu years, at every descrip tion of labor, the working hours to be fixed by their musters, no restriction as to tho length of the luboring hours, they agree to submit to such corrections aj their musters or their agents may seo proper to inflict, and in no ease nor uider any cir cumstances to attempt to escape from con trol, no matter how tyrannical and op pressive that control may be. The con sideration is to be $4 per month, and daily rations of eight ounces of suit meat and two and a hull pounds of Loniitlos, or any other kind of flesh. The apparel stipula ted for in the agreement consists of one suit of clothing, a woollen shirt and a blunket each year. These are tho main feature of the Coolie contract system, which tho hypocritical pretenders of Eu rope are engaged in, while, at tho same time, protesting most vehemently against the system of domestic mrvittule in the United .Stales, which at least 1ms the mer it or being under the control of law, and subject to the discipline of wi-r, just and impartial judges. But what protection has the Coolies w hen they are landed upon the soil of Cuba or any other Ulund ? They I are entitled to the mercy of their masters, I who may, with impunity, decline or re- fuse to keep their part 'of the contract, ; while exacting from their r.ervnnfs tho Iet- ler of the bond, the pound of flesh. The I whole trallic in Coolies is a mere trick to ; ojitain the lubor of these men at the same, I if not lower rates than sluve labor can be , procured, yet leave room fur Exeter Hall ! orations and kindred exhibitions of maud ' Ii" sontiiiienlnlisin. But such facts as those set forth by Mr. ISrerk, will show tho true ! "true of f-t !ingin Europe upon theques. : ti'-.n nl obtaining cheap labor, and exhibit I fid s.'if-constiiuted reformers in tiieir Hue . light. Daily 1'eniityh'ahian, A Runaway Stkamboat Goino it on VVonpES Cri.lXDDR Headi. The steamboat Wenona being in trouble at Pittsburgh, some of the owners soized her nnd she was laid up. But the captain and crew, not liking to be idle, got a pair of wooden cylindiv heads, (to rephico the iron onos, which had been taken awav to nrevent her slipping off to another State,) and iook advantage ot a dark, night to glide silently down the Ohio. The Pittsburgh Diipatch thus recounts the rest of her ad ventures! On Friday last, as wo have stated, tho Wenona whs hard aground at White's rip ple, Capt. Florer on board, apparently tak ing things easy. We have also staled the fact of tho chartering of the steam tua If 1 . t 1 it-ii 1 ., .. 0 uuwKcye, apt, jane u.111, Dy tne tnree- to prevert bloodshed in the anticipated grand onslaught upon the Wenona. The gentlemen left, fhey were joined by two gentlemen connected with the Central road, noted for the "pluck," and "some on H'O muscle," backed by at least thirty en, consisting 01 firoymen, truckmen, Portc, c-i bearing handspikes, dray pins, -c. ah neingin reaumoss, me iiawkeye proceeded on ner journey. Old Capt. Florer, happening out on the guarasoi the Wenona, observed the Hawk, approaching, and anticipating her ar rival, had not neen idle. He drummed up mo twenty-five men, aiming the greater portion of them with old flint muskets, ome of them with no locks; others were armeu wim old rusty saores. uipt f. gave orders lor every man to take a state-room ,nd not to show himself until the signal " given. J"o Hawkeye came up close, and the leader of the formidable party on board 8ung out, "We have come to pull this hnnt. ntTnnrl latrA hnr l.ArL- In Pit lulxif r.1. " 'Capt. F. "All right; what assistance I can give will be at your disposal." The Wenona was soon afloat, lines were aU tached, and all was in readiness for a trip back to the city. Capt. F. stepped down to the boiler deck, and with two strokes of the hatchet severed the line. Simulta neous with this, the men rushed from the state-rooms of the Wenona, and with pointed guns and drawn sabres overawed the Hawkeye party, who took refuge in the hold, cook-houso and water-closets, each seeming extremely anxious to put lumsuit outot siL'ht, The Wenona dropped quietly down the Uhio, and mot with no further molesta tion. The last heard from hor, she was at Wellsville, and having been provided with cylinder heads of boiler iron, was making her way to Cincinnati, which port she has probably reached ere this fj3yA friend at our elbow say there Is a piece of road not two miles from here so narrow, that when two toamt meet they have both to set over tho feooe be- tore enner can pas vr vaitav . u,i,,hj,iiii , III UUM.il U IS WUllUC Hints to Episcopalians. Bishop Do Lancy, now on a visit to Eu rope, says in one of his letters: "I have attended five or six services in England, and am struck with tho follow ing particulars s 1st. The general and audible responses. d. The congregational singing. VTlie ,eudin8 of" tho lessons by the members of tho congregation in their Li mes in me pews. 4th. The pause after the benediction. 5th. Tho very little looking m,,,i ,i staring at each other by the congregation, anu tne apparent devout attention exhibi- ted. - In another letter (Deo. 20th) Bishop VoU, speuks thus of the weekly service held the night before in St. Paul's Cut he dral, London: "It was a most impressive service; more than threo thousand pres. ent, notwithstanding the rain. A choir of more than fivo bundled volunhxr sing, ers chanted and sung. The sermon was by the Rev. Dr. Hook extemporaneous, animated and impressive, end fixed the attent.on of the great multitude for forty minutes. The voices of tho people almobt overpowered the immense orgun. It was a majestic sound Such an amen I never heard. It was the Fall of Niagara rever berating th praises of God. It carried me forw-wd to what St. John says: 'A voice came out of tho Throne, saying, Praise our God, all yo His servants, und j o that fear Him, both small and great; and I heard as it were, tho voico oi a great multitude, as tho voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thundcrings, saying. Alle lulaj for the Lord God Omnipotent reign- " All about us, so far as wo could see or hear, responded and sung, but no indi vidual voice, male or female, could be dis tinguished in tho overpowering and har monious mass of sound. There wero no long preludes or interlude! by the organ. "When the hymn alter the sermon was finished, all bent down and the pieacher pronounced the benediction, to which the organ, choir and congregation responded a most solemn and impressive amen ; und all was silent as the grave, for private pray er to God for his blessing on the service a silence overpowering silence that could bo felt. The immense flock thuu quiu'.lv dispersed." Harder of a "Missionary in Orcjon. Among the documents sent to tho Sen ate by the War Depart men t, on Tuesday, wits one pnrpoi ting to be an authentic ac count of the murder of tiie Mjtlm.li.u Missionary, Dr. Klitnmn, who crossed the plains in tho year ltUS. and settled in the valley of the Walla -Walla, where he soon had around him all the ooml'orts of rural life, and where, with his interesting fami ly, ho commenced hi etlorts to instruct and enlighten tho savages of that region. ihe small pox having broken out aniona the Indians, spread with great rapidity, hundreds of their number fulling victims to the disease. The family of the mis sionary did all in their power to mitigate and assuage the suUcrings of these suvuges by nursing and distributing nied o nes. The fumily of the missionary not being afflicted with the pestilence created a sus picion in the minds of the Indiuns Unit the pestilence had been brought for the purpose of destroying tin: red race and obtaining their lands. With a view to test practically tho truth two Indians were j sent over to tho mission furm that had ! not been afflicted with tho malady, in or der that tho missionary might prescribe for them, which wits kindly done, and the red patients returned to their fiiendsto await tho issue. I3y some strange latality ; were a very important portion of her both of those Indians died, which confirm- i trade, and gave to this colony of Massa ed in the minds of those savages tho truth chusetts its early leading position in com of the suspicion, and the next step was incrce. But i. our fisheries relied now up revenge. A stalwart savage was selected 1 on the foreign demand, its products lor me moody deed, who stole into tho would be hard or sale. The town of Glou chamber of the sleeping family, ud bu- cester alone, could nearly supply every nod his tomahawk in the brain of the missionary and that of his wife, and then other Indians rushed in, and helpless children, male and female employees, wero butchered, the house razed to the ground, iences destroyed, and every vestige of a nsh were shipped rrom the United States once happy homo disappeared. j to foreign ports, and 30,000 barrels mack- i crel, and other pickled fish, such as salm Yankee Locomotives in Born. On tho on, herring, alewives, shad, &o. The great railroad between Alexandria (Egypt) and niaikets at e(.'uba, Hay ti, Guiana and Por Suez, recontly finished, there are four lo- Kino Cuba nnd Hay ti being the largest, comotives two of them of Eng.ish manti- Those places take five-sixths of the total facture, and the other two were built at expoits. Boston is the greit exporting the Taunton Works, in Massachusetts. It Pr- shipping more than two-thirds of the seems that the Pasha's ears aro open to ! emout.t. New York ranks next, flattery, and the English engineers, Wlt'1 over one-third Iheshipments of Bos through their consul, use every means to j ton then comes Gloucester, with genor getrltlofthe American engineers. They ia"y one-third of the exports of Boston. were tola by the railroad company that i -i - ,. ., -1.. tne engines would not be used, and their services would not bo needed. The ex cuso for hauling them up was that they were not strong enough to haul tho heavy trains. Ono of the American engineers, getting an opportunity to speak with the Pasha, told him he would haul as many loaded cars as would reach from one end of the read to the other. Accordingly, seventy-' nve neavny loaded cars (which was all they could muster,) were put in a train, the Pasha's own car attached, and Mio whole were taken through to Suez, a dis , , . . , - i tan ee of 200 miles, in twelve hours, ma king stopages for fuel and water. The Pasha exclaimed, in Egyptian, "God is great, but a Yankee is very near perfec- tion i ira nil return, ne uiscnargea the hnglisli engine drivers, and now uses the launton engines altogether. Thi "William ad Maky Collecb" De- STROTED BT F:re -Petersburg, Vu., Feb. 8. The William and Mary College building, at Williamsburg, including thelibrarv and labratory, was distroyed by fire at three o.clock this morning. This is one of the oldest institution in this country. Ihe students all escaped. There ts an J insurance at it.y w on toe jwfiporty. A Gang of Torfen. The Ilunuville (Texas) Item, of the 5th int., relate thn a-windling deeds there of four lelio.ii . a ling themselves Alfretl, AI bert and Augustus WUson, and Samuel lM ton, who settled down there, commen ced business, passed of drafts on New York to some amount, and then suddenly left. The drafts came back from New York protested, nnd it was discoverod that tne tour were forgers. They had be fore swindled the people of Imiianola out of J 10(10, nnd various other property; at Hempstead, out of a horse and buggy ; at Waco, out of saddles and horses, besides passing more forged notes. Alfred was accidentally recognized in his true character, by a person who hap pened to be present, just as articles of agreement wero about to be sigued be tween Alfied and Mr. Edmonds, hotel keeper at Puiis, Lamar county, and Ed munds was on the point of paving over 52,000 to his new partner in the" soap bu siness. Alfred confessed to all his rasculittes, and was put in jail. Albert and Augus tus wero overhauled ut Montgomery. Ala . where they await the requisition of the viovernor 01 1 exas. Samuel Morton i at il I t tn. $2,000 ottered for his arrest by New York er, on whom he had forged to the amount of 80,000. Ho is suspected to be the same leiiow who recently passed off on Mr. W. E. Hnnddy, of Louisville, a forged check for $10,000 on the Citizens' Bank of New Orleuns, A Mouel Biudui. The Davenport (Io wa) Uuzctle contains a translation from the Temesvar (Hungary) Gazette, which gives a description of one of the finest luidtfes in the world. The translation is by Mr. Clemens Mirschl, of Davenport, and a student of the Lawrence Scientific School, Cambridge. We take from the description the following paragraphs: 'Eight iron arches, each 130 feet span, restiu: upon seven cast iron pet and two stone abutments, constitute this in its present completion, majestic appearing structure. The abutment on the Szegi d in, viz: the right vide of the Theisz is cnn timied by a stono viaduct of seven arches: six of these have ach sixteen feet, and ;he seventh thirty feet span, because the road to the old depot goe' through it. The lowest and middle portion of the via duct is composed of white freestone, whilst the arciie are built of c.ddned and variegated stone-. The eight iron arches as well as the cast iron piers, are painted with a silver grey oil color, which gives the whole a very solid appearance, and at the same time protect the iron from the etlects of weather. The rail is thirty live feet above the highest water mark, which leaves twenty one feet below the middle of tiie arches for steamboats to go under; the present water mark is about 45 feet below them. Each pier consists of two iron cylinders. each ten feet in diameter, which were dri ven forty two feet below low water mark nto the bed of the river by means of com- pressed air. Pilos were driven down in the inside of these cylinders, whose points reuch sixty feet beiow low water mark, and whoso tops cut off several fathoms be low the river bed. surmort the concrete and innsotiry with which the inside of tho cylinders are filled." Exports of Fifth to Foreign Ports. In early days of New England the ex ports o'' the products of her fisheries to S.iitin, France, Portugal, and West Indies. quintal of fish that is shipped abroad from tho United States each year, and everv barrel of maokerel and piokeled fish, and ' then have 30.000 barrels for homo market, ; Last year 1G1.000 qulntails of domestic WI P10"'" nsn, uosion snips irom ono- .l.:...l. l.lr -f iL- l. -1 thud to one-half or the whole amount, liuyti taking tho largest number of bar rels, about 10,000 annually. By the these statements it will be seen" that our home market is thegreatest for the fisheries, and this demand is constantly increasing. The sources of supply for this immense demand are almost declining in extent with each succeeding vear, and concen- trating moieat severul leading places, such " 'uceier, im;n me ihsi year iurmsu aione one-imn ot ino mackerel lor home "ml foreign consumption. We see noth- i - i it. i ing to hindor the constant riso of fish in the markets of the United States, Amu Mr. Prescott had finished his first groat work, o little was ho inspired with a fervid ambition, or anything likean inordi nate distinction, that he said to his futher that he had had the gratification of writing the work, and thatheshould place iton his shell' ana leave it for those who snould oome after him. He was dissuaded from so doing, and was enoouraged to give it to the world by his father. tSTlf you wish to offer your hand to a lady, chooce your oppor'.nity. The best timo to do it is whon tho is getting out of an omnibus. TERMS-ll M per Annum NKWSKIUES-VOL. IV.-NO 7. A Conning Device. Tho Chart ,l. t ii 1 ' ""veriuer reia'es the following :A nice, respected lady, not a thousand miles away, had long no ticed, to her dismay, that her "worser half was growinir foolishlir .nnin... jealous of her. She resolved to tearh Kin. a lesson. Some evenings since, as ho was leaving she told him he need not tarry back, she would not be lonely ; she want ed her ducky to enjoy himself, 4c. Ben. edict felt a veritable "mice" under that hypocrisy, and resolved to bo avenged. About eight o'clock, an "indiwidual" about his size might hav been seen cau tiously creeping along to the door, and noiselessly. Benedict peepod in. Just a he expeclod, there they were a pair of boots, a coat on the black chair, and a hat on the table. Benedict shivered like aa aspen leaf, as he stooped, pulled off big boots, and drew a pistol from his coat pocket. With "resolution flashing from his eye," he made tracks for tl. 1,,Im There he wag kneeling at the bedside, coat and vest off, and head on the pillow, 4Uisriu10 vuuan ma time has come. "Say your prayerg villian, your time is short -and a flash and a report told that the bullet had sped on its fatal mission. 'Help nmrderl watch J oh, is that you!" Jand madame popped her little head up from the foot of the bed. Bene diet seized the body as it was a miscella neous collection of old coats, rests, pil lows, hankerchiefg and the like, made up for the occasion. "1 say, dear, what does all this mean T" exclaimed the husband, with a Hank, sheepish look. "Well dar," replied the wife, "I did get lonely! after all, and just amused myself by dress ing up that puppet, nnd making be hove you were at homo. I'm sure I didn't think you'd suspect" "There, there," said the chagrined husband, "say no more about it ; I thought it was a robber ; dear creatui e, I'm so glad it didnt hit you." Benodiot repeated "Now I lay me," etc.. and went to bed resolved not to watch any more at present. A "Romance in Politics. One of Texas' distinguished citizen, name not given, who has fiVurrl L.n.i. in public Lfe. first as a lawyer, then as a so.dier in the Mexican and Indian warg, and then as a leading politician, has the luiiowing reiatea ot him in a sketch ot hw life by the New Orleans Christian Advocate. II9 had been put up by his party in 1857 to succeed Gen. Houston ia the (Jnithd States Senate; but foolitt called to the ministry, and distrusting his own ability to resist the temptations of Washington life, was unwilling to accept the nomination. He laid the case before his wife, leaving to her the choice between the Unitod States Senate and deatruo tion to his morals, and the pulpit and saU vation : "Taking the letters and papers from all part of the State, giving him assurance of election, he went to his wife and said: "I can go to the United States Senate. Here are the evidences. If you wish it, I will go. But if I go, hell is my doom. I shall dio a drunkard as certain as I go to Wash iagton. I can yet escape. If I pas this point, I never can. I can enter the min istry, which I ought to have done long ago and save myself from a drunkard's grave, and my soul from bell. But you shall de cide.' His poor wife, unwilling to relin quish the glittering prize in viow, re plied, weeping, that she could notaeewhy he could not bo a great man and a Chris tiantoo. uut after prayerful reflection, sho would not iucur tho fearful responsi bility of docidiug against hie conscience, and told hiin to go into the itinoracy and she would go with him. To the astonish ment of the whole State, a letter from him appeared in the paperg, just before the meeting of the Legislature, declining the oflioo, and announcing his retire ment from political life. The next thing that wag heard of him was that he was preaching." Mrs. Partinotoxs Visit to thi Tt ed Field. "Did the guard present arms to you, Mrs. Partington," asked a com missary, as ho mot hor at the entrance of the marquee. "You moan the century? (said she smi ling.) I have heard so much about the tainted fiold. that I believe I ooal.l U. ploro an attachment into line mvaelf. .nt secure them as well as an officer. You asked me if the guard presented arms. 11 fl..Hi l... . - , . ... u,u" mile man witn an ep ilepsy on his shoulder and a smile on but face, did, and asked me if I wouldn't n into his tent and smile. I told him that W3 could both smile outside, when h nn. litely touched his chateau and left me." The commissary presented a hard r.wt. en stool upon which she reposed herself. " 1 his is one or the seats of war, I sup pose? (said she.) Oh what a hard lot a soldier is objected to I I don't wonder a mite at the hardening influence of a anlrli. er's life. What is that for. fasked shit mm the noise of a cannon saluted her ear. I I hope they aint firing on sir account." There was a aolicituda in her tone aa she spoke, and she was informed it waa only the Goveitior, who had just arrived upon the field. "Door me, (said she,) how cru el it is to make tho old gentleman cooi) away down here, when he i so feeble he hag to take hi stafJ with him wherever be goes." She was so affected at tho idea that ghe had to take a few drops of whit wino to restore her equilibrium, and to counteraot tne dust from the I tainted field. DottoA PotU B Gentleman and ladies." aairl thm showman, "here you have a magnifieonl pain ting of Daniel in the lion's den. Dan iel can easily be distinguished from th lions by the green cotton ambrlla undo his arm. -A.
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