11l CDT eturiter. GrtznAL . CAse.--"The Washington oorrespon den t of the Columbian South Carolinian, writing of a great dinner recently given in Washington to the members of Congress and others, by the Venerable Gen. Case, says : One peeuliarity of General Cass' dinners is that .4• dues nut ever take hie seat at his own sump : Annus board. His son•ia-law, Ledyard, does -the honors of the table, and General Cass dines l en a crust of cracker. He pursues this abeam i- One course as necessary to preserve his health at his advanced age. Cetera! Ones' house is filled With antique built* and statues. Among o there, 'Win original of "Soipio Africanus," and if you want to know exactly the shape, ram hoed and brow of Scipio, the next time yon happen to see Senator Hammond, of South Carolina, look close ly' et him, end you will have the information al ibid. &MX eon Cones.—lf "A Poor Cripple" will take a lemon, out off a piece, then nick it so no to lit In the toe with the corn, the pulp next the corn this on at night so that it cannot move—be Will find next morning that, with a blunt knife, the corn will come away to a great extent. Two or three applications of this will make "A Poor •Cripple ° happy for life; and I shall be glad to L bear the result.—'London A IIODOTA 01 GENBRAL jetsam-4n the midst of a batik contest, when Clay, Calhoun and Webster were making the Senate Chamber ring with their donunoiation of General Jaokson, and 'his Administration was on the verge of plunging into a war with Louis Phillippe, the Presbyterian eeneral Assembly was being rent in twain by the New and Old &boot cudarrel. The Rev. Dr. 'Stiles Sly, an cetentations leader in the New •eohool party, and admirer of Jackson, visited .the White House to tender spiritual consolation to his surely-tried chieftain. With a sympa this ring look and tone he asked, squeezing the hell. band fervently: "General, of all queetlene now coninlaing the -eonntry, wbieb gives yen the meet anxiety?" The old hero, who had a. ankle of Calvinism and iron in hie oompoeition,-promptly replied: "The goarrels in the Presbyterian Church, •1Dootor." A RAPID and emphatic) reoltil•ofitile following is said to be an infallible owe for lisping :—Hobbs meets Snobbe sod Nobbs; Hobbs bobs to Snobbs and Nobbs Hobbs nobs with NOW: and robe Nohbs' fobs. That Is, says Hobbs, tibe worst for !Hobbs' jobs, and Snobs' sobs." Govnexisait MoDrug, while the surgeons were amputating hip leg, observed his servant stand ing by, weeping. "Tim," said Mr. Morris, 'why are you °tying there? It is rank hypooraey— 'you ought to laugh; as is future you'll have but .one shoe to clean, instead of two:". • A Penitential( who lately visited Holland says • that there all the fish taken are killed, and ron . deed, in consequence, much superior In fineness and flares. The Hollanders aye thak allowing the 11. h slowly to expire in tormen t acts•upon them is a diseuse would aot4 softening the dash and 41pfeeting them with principles of dissolution. I,l'hey are killed in Holland by making an inci- Alen under the tail, or by thfusting a sharp nee dle In the head. "Ir you marry," said a Roman consul to his eon, "let It bee woman who has judgment end industry enough to cook a meal for you, taste enough to dress neatly, pride enough to wash be fore breakfast, and sense enough to hold her tongue." ts..lt is a historical fact that the notes of fhe Bank of England olroulated for sixty-five years without any attempt to counterfeit them. In the year 1758 a linen draper of London noun- Aerfeited a note, for the 'first time, by cutting it .into sa.many •pieses ns there were pictures and words