GeNIIE3 SOlng
TOW AND A:
tidturbap Monti no, than d, 1851
Original Vattrq.. ,
For the Bradfbrd Reporter:
MIDNIGHT REFLECTIONS.
Night's sable mantle peacefully is flung
Oyer a drowsy world. rail . Luna from
Behind the eastern hills, her disc displays,
Ad glancing from the broad and polished
Surface of the stream, reflects her tmage •
In a thousand ways. The feathered warbler's •
Songs are hushed, and all is calm and still.
Save the low moaning of the night -wind's Meath . ;
Gently fanning beauty's cheek to calm repose,
Or playing with the tiny waves, briskly chasing
Each other to the shore. Here, at this midnight
Hour, freed from the oppressive care of active
Dal, within the quiet stillness of my room.
Musing I pensive sit.
Fond memory hovers
Round the heart, in fail, clicks ne'er to be
Erased. and oft on recollection's airy wings
hie me back to youthful days, where
Wandering 'Death the old oak's shade, 'mid gay
Companions roe plucked the meek blue violet
To place within the May queen's flowery coronet,
tl;'neath the fond protection of a sister's care,
Toe gathered shells from off the sandy shore,
And wondered what it was within those secret
Depths. that spoke so plainly of the coming storm.
And when foe seen the tear-drops trickling down
Its Mother's cheek. ploughing their furrows o'er her
Cart-worn brew, Toe asked ter why she wept,
When all was bright and beautiful.
Alas! that changes time has wrought
rye seen a Mother's sacred form beneath the cold
Turf lam. just as the fair and rich
Gliauon of .Autumn's fruitage was
Droppiug to decay, fit emblerns of the lost.
And q , 01:1 the same stern hand of Death.
Had placed his iron fingers on my Father's brow,
Au,i he, too, gassed away.
O, Childhood ! why so fleet !
Why not remain, and gild the thorny paths
Of 4fe with rain-bow colorings 1 'Tis but as'
te:terdar, since I beheld thy lovely picture,
?Late,3 by nature's artist whose easel was
The sky ; and coloring. clouds - gilded by the
Dcturing bronze of Sot's last rays, just
(eli,wing into twilight.
Et,r. Pa
JAPAN.
LETTER PROM DAFT. IT. D. PORTER
the tolit l iring letter, which we copy from the
•iicxisl inteltigencer, certain facts and statements
:h will be read with interest at this time, and
to the mind of the reaJers a new importance
the expedition which our government is about to
' out to the Empire of Japan
.ter Su-rost—As any thing which
ta;iti w Japan at ;he present time may- be interest
fend you the following concise sketch of that
^;..OM
1: ZS eal;ed by i r Efellatiees Niphoa, and was form
' about firy tire years before Chrtsr, by SIMMI3.
S:nzik in there appears to have been
ie Emperors After this period in the year
chanze took place. From this time a
.t , .echr0n010 , ..7 commences; inctuding the remits
L'le Deana. , and Cubes. The Dearios were mih
otl-ers and at one period completely usurped
power of the Emperors; but a genera!, by the
of Jerenmo, being crowned, succeeeed in
matt :he Deakins of all military power. At the
tee, the kins,cdom of Japan is goverird hf
ii , e-or with fall military powers, a Dearios
,:-.ysers and a Cubo or prime ministers
aminnry over certain cities, their Parlia
k
The litn_ .. etictr. of Japan consists of the three large
i...„ny or fort smaller islands, situated off the
mac of China The largest of these islands is
the next Jesso. On the island of Bongo,
Tonsa is the city of Nangasehl, and
:Ix city is the little artificial island of Diana,
*S-rth a Dr.tth factory is built.
cr Yeddo, the capital of the whole empire
to the mida of a fine plain, in the pro'.
Mame. It is blab in 'the Wm of a eresr
rd thterseord almost in every street by ca:
ter: hrtts being planted with rows of bean.
as The city is not surromaded, as most
cites are, by a wall, but has a strong easz
, `m,,l it. The - river Tongag waters it, and
axle ditch ; and, being divided into
has a bridge over each. The public
Ce on a miguiticent teals. The lave
s fcrreed by three eincnirft, or eimmlar
%;: kilns, and enclosing many streets,
w - mmery4, pin - dlions,gnani-bones, gates,
gardens, canals, Sm. In it reside the
ht .mrtr, the royal domestics, tribe
:met a d their retinnat, the 3 Tinivets: o l
7 -r-T other orbc' ers of government and ,a
. L. 'at The waits of this magnificent pal
ts".l:l st=e, without cement, and the
large. The whole pile was OZ.
x r a 'Elizt gilt titles, which give it a
traz•rfril appearance. Many of these
1 :'-arth - -evs are formed and altered at pleas
lac,reacie screens. The principal apart.
Lte Hail of Attendance, the Council's
. Hail of of a thousand Mats, itc.
14, 3' is coder the rule of two governors,
rl ' e 4 Yev er.
:211 a:zest ocy is Mace°. It is also a roy
ri s a st:mr.d on a lake near the middle
1 -td of Nipheo : , and trerrounded by mount
pre a remarkable and delightful pros.
utto:e • the 6,,uu l litA4S ee-try De
e.:y ad the mountains- is tore/ell/Alt
6 Fr'": l ;t4'irrs, B:e., and is embeashed with
orrhartis, groves, amides and Pad'
Pattie estwiderable rivers water this
Lud unite their streams n the centre
mere a ma= bridge faeili
rwm raw= bet s h e lifrerent parts
` 4 5'5 A strati; =Lytle dehnuls the town
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thy the other full of water. This ipllndid city is
twenty miles long and nine wide within the suburb
which are as well populated as the city. The run&
her of the inhabitants of the city proper is supps
ed to be 529,000. , The universities, colleges, mil:
pies, &c., are almost incredible in number and mag
nificence. it oontains twelve capital or principal
muse% in the centre of whibli are the royal palaces
built of rharble, and adorned with gardens, otehards
pillions, terraces, groves, &c.
The next principal town is Ozeaco. It is deem
ed the chief of seaport, is •ery populous, and has
an army of 70,000 men always ready at the dispo.
al and catumand of the Emperor. It is Oar fifteen
miles in circumference.
The city of leangasicke is the Japanessrnaval de
pot ; but as they have not yet found any use for a
navy, their vessels are duly in the Pugh material,
end stored away for emergencies.
The kokansa or risen . is here. The name
means, in the Japanese, he ll; it has one hundred
dungeons and cages. The history of these few
cities gives a fair outline of the whole empire.—
Their private dwellings are small but neat, and or
namented with small ganlens - ; in this they sleet,
as they are the very hest of hortioulturisti. A few
feet of ground are tamed to the best advantages; id
the Japanese understand perfectly the art of dwarf-,
lug plants, trees, fruits and flowers. They use
neither tables, bedsteads nor chairs, but sit, eat, and
sleep, like most eastern nations, on mats.
Almost the first accomplishment learned by them
is the art and grace of suicide ; the child in the
nursery stabs itself with its finger or stick, and tails
hack in imitative death ; the lover cuts out his bean
before his obdurate mistress, and the latter poets
out her heart's blotd in the face of her faithless tot
er ; the criminal executes himself, and in fact, the
whole nation, from early youth, revels in the luxu
ry of suicide.
Their trade is, at present under great restrictions
as they only trade with the Chinese and Dutch. The
latter hate always fostered, cherished and increas
ed the prejudices of tee Japanese against all other
nations, particularly the French, English and Por
tuguese.
The mechanics and manufacturers of Japan ex
cel in their different branches, and are even far su
perior to the Chinese. Their silks and cotton are
excellent, and their Japan ware and porcelain un
equalled. Their exports are raw and manufactur
ed silks, iron, steel, artificial metals, frog, fess, fine
as the Chinese, Japan ware, gold, silver, copper,
gums, medicinal herbs, roots, diamond; pearls,
coral, shells, ambergrise-, &c. Whatever goods the
Japanese want titer pay l for either in. gold or in
silver.
ANDRE-ILS..
The Japanese worship - the principal two gods,
Xaca and Amida. At Mao; there isa newly tem
ple, built to one of these gods ; it is of fieestone, as
large as St Paul's, with an limbed roof; supported
by heavy pillars, in which stands an idol of copper
which reaches as high as the roof; and, according
to a description giver. by Sir Thomas Herbert, his
chair ii seventy feet high and eighty feet long ;
- the bead is big enough to bold fifteen men, and the
thumb , -forty inches in circumference.. There is an
other gamete, called atter the god Dubio, made of
copper, twenty feet high, in ja sitting posture. This
shows that the Japanese understand the art of work
ing in bronze, and they are far ahead of Chrtian
nations in this particular. They allow polygamy,
and they often strangle their female children, bat
never the males The nobility extract the two front
teeth, and supply them with two of gold.
The principal rivers are the Unjtogava and Aska
gays ; the former so rapid and wide that a bridge
cannot be built over it, the latter remarkable for its
depth and - perpetual fluctuations. The chief lake
is called Citz, is one hundred miles long and twen
ty-ane wide. A large valley exists in the interior,
filled with carbonic gas, and called the valley of
Upas. 1t is covered with the skeletons of names.
oes wild and tame beasts and birds. The Emper
or, it is said, often sent criminals to the valley to
lemons
bring away a ' " gemixt inestimable value,
and the bones men also whiten its deadly sides.
Acidulated lak and thermal springs are common
throughout several of the islandli
Theii great sources of opulence are their mines
of gold and silver, bat they have no antimony, cal
amine, sal amoniac, borax, or cinnebar, (quick-eil
ver.) These articles are in demand, and bring a
high price. Birds and every kind of ducks and
poultry are plenty ; camphor trees are abundant,
and - the cedars are the finest in the world. Few
countries open so fair as the, islands of Japan for
botanical and geological iesearch. his not neces
sary here to enter into a detailed statistical account
of the commerce of Japan. A direct trade to that
empire would increase the commerce of this coun
try about two hundred millions of dollars annually
if not move.
It has always beers in contemplation with this
country to make an effort to open a direct trade
with Japan. Commodore Neer, as tar bark as
'ts, addressed a letter to Mr. Meows on the sub
ject. It was in:ended to fit out a fratet and two
slooye-01-war and place them under his command,
tat subsequently events prevented the =mamma
lion of the dmn rr. but a has been revived from
time to time, without hems milled trot; hot a few
years ago the andersned drew e attention of the
Hoe. J. T. Macon to the subject by the reeonunea
dation of a steam lute - o China with a view of inci:
Centalevatusercial intercourse, and finally direct
trade to Japan . It wouid requite but mall efforts
to accompleb edaintestial intercourse with inch
shrewd people as the Japanese, who ate alive to
commercial kftErigs. A steam Hoe direct from
New Tort to the Isthmus being already in exist:
ewe it is an easy matter to' tontines it to the Gal
lipagom, whiett islarO.s attend in eclat tbente to
the Marquesas, and as to FY-well or Jeddo.
W. D. POWS1:11.
A Dreams being aided rep for a tome,
" Here ism de heroes who fight, plememi tie gut
le pale of Pooker 01 stoma am tromP
PUBLISHED. BYERY SATURDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY B. O'HARA GOODRICH,
ItEGARDLESS OF DEAUNCL&FIOII- FILO It ART QtriTiTilL"
ivory aid US Ai*Hardens.
The Chinese, from time immemorial have beer'
celebrated for their excellence in the fabrication of
ornamental articles in ivory ; and, strange to say,
up to our own time their productions are still unriv
aired. - European eats have never bucceeded in
cutting ivory after the manner of these people, nor,
to all appearance, it it likely they ever will. Noth
ing can't% Marif ir.tplisititely beautiful than the
delicate' lace-work of a Chinese fan, or the elabor
ate.-carving of their miniature junks, Chess:pieces,
and concentric balls : their models of templea,pa
goftui, end other pieces of architecture are likewise
skillfully constructed ; and yet three thousand years
ago such monuments of art wets executed with the
very same grace and fidelity !
Ivory was known to the Egyptians as an article
both of use and =anent. They manufactured it
into combs, rinv., and a variety of similar things.—
The processions on the walls of their palaces and
tombs would seem to indicate the fact of its having
been obtained from India, and also from Ethiopia
Or Central Africa. 'There is every reason to be.
lieve also that the harder and more accessible ivory
of the hippopotamus was extensively used by them
Colonel Hamilton Smith has seen a specimen of
what appeared to be a sword-handle of ancient
Egyptian workmanship, which has been recogniz.
ed by the dentists as belonging to this class of
ivory.
Ivory was extensively used by the Jews. It is
frequently spoken of in scriptures as being obtained
from Tarshisb—an indiscriminate term for various
places-in the lands of the Gentiles, but probably re
ferring in this case to some part of India or Eastern
Africa.
Wardrobes were made of ivory, or at least inlaid
with it ; the splendid throne olSolorron was form
ed of this material, overlaid with gold ; Ahab built
an ivory palace ; and beds or couches of the same
material were common among the wealthy Israel
ites. The Phoenicians of Tyre—those merehant
princes of antiquity—were so prolate of this valua
ble article of their luxurious commerce as to pro
vide ivory benches for the rowers of their galleys:
Assyria—whose records and history are only now
beginning to be unfolded--possessed magnificent
articles of ivory. Mr. Layard, in
.his excavations
at Nineveh, found " in the rubbish near the bottom
of a chamber, several ivory ornaments upon which
were traces of gilding ; ;among them was the figure
of a man in long robes, carrying in one hand the
Egyptian crux onsofe—part of a crouching sphinx=
and flowers designed with the greatest of taste and
elegunee.'i
The Oreekis--who were acquainted with it at
least as early as the time of Romer—gradually in
troduced ivory as a material for sculpture. In cer
tain forms of combination with gold, it gave origin
tottered of ark/Aunt/Ile sculpture, so called from
the Greek primitives, gold and ivory. This art,
which was perhaps more luxurious than tasteful,
was introduced about six hundred years before the
Christian era ; and it was mach admired for its
smgritar beauty. It was not, however, till the days
of Phidias that it attained to its fall splendor. Two
of the masterpieces of this sculptor—the colossal
statutes of Minerva in the Pathernon at Athens arid
the Olympian Jove in his temple=were formed of
gold and silver. The Minerva was forty feet high
and the Olympian Jupiter was one of the wonders
of the world. In the latter of these the exposed
parts of the figure were of ivory, and the drapery
of gold. It was seat l ed on a throne elaborately
formed of gold, ivory and cedar wood ; it was
adorned with precious stones ; and in his hand the
god sustained an emblematic figure of Victory,
made of the same materials.
The Romans used ivory as a symbol of power ;
bat they applied it practically to an infinite varie
ty of porpoises. Their kings and magistrates sat on
ivory throned of rich and elaborate constinetion=
an idea received from the Etruscans. The amok
chairs of ivory and gold that belonged to the office
of consul together with the sceptres and:other
eles of similar description, *ere all of Etruscan ori
gin. The tiltri dpAccatis were tablets of ivory, on
which were registered the transactions of the sen
ate and magistrate ii\ the births, marriages, and
deaths of the people; their rank, clan, and occu
pation with other things pertaining to the census.—
The Romans also applied this material to the mill
dam= of musical instruments, combs, conches,
harnesses of horses, sword-hilts, girdles- They
were acquainted wah the arts of dyeing and incrust
ing ivory, and they also possessed some splendid
specimens of chrysteiphantine statuary. Ancient
writers, indeed, mention no fewer than one hund
red statutes of gold and ivory ; bat they furnish as
with no particulars of the mode of esecenn these
colossal monuments of an in a substance which
could only be obtained in small pieces. A head,
smaller than the us-sal size, a statue tibon;eight
ia
ches in height, and a bastefief, are the may sped.
wens that exist in the present day.
After the fall of the Roman Empire the taste for
ivory ornament became almost extinct There were
some periods, however, in the early part of mediae
val history when this material was not for. gn, uen :
When the caliphs of the east fanned of it some of
the beautiful ornaments of their palaces; when the
Arabian alchemOuisobjecied it to the crucible, and
so produced the pigment ivory black ; when a Da
nish knight killed an elephant in the boxy wars, and
established an order of knighthood which still ex
ists ; when ebarterna g ne the emperor of the West,
bad ivory ornaments of rare and anions earvin.—
It is., however, at a period subsequent to the return
of the -en:faders that we mast date the ecnumeece
mem of a general revival of the =se in Europe
IS would be interesting to trace the slept by val(erth
ivory regained Its plate in the er and enonmeme
of nations. ; but on this point we aunt nut finer.—
From the low countries it spread to the by North.
Its relations wish art and beauty soon became wide
ly recognized ; the grierieg luxury of the Roman
pontificate eneouttned - iis applications ;and toward s
the end of the fifteenth century , it Ull2l extensively
employed se an ankle otortuUneid and decoration
in every country and mkt of Europe. The Porte
goose werethe first to revives traffic with Africa
which had been dotmant for upwards of 1000 years
It was originally confined to the immense Mimes of
ivory which the natives had, accumulated for the
purpose of their superstition ; but these soon be
came exhausted, and the inexorable demands of
European commerce ones more prompted the des
truction of the mighty and docile inhabitant of the
wilderness. Elephant-hunting became a trade;
and a terrible havoc was Commenced which has
bietif unremittingly putsued down to the present
time.
Ba+rt.r. FIELD or New Oarsairs.—Titi surface
of the country in the vicinity of Jackson's lines, on
the Bth of January, 1815, has undergone less change
says the Delta, than the scene of any battle-field in
the United States. Is true, there is great monotony
in the features of the whole narrow strip of land on
the left bank of the Mississippi, below the city.—
The fields are all laid off in the satire direction—
the ditches run the same way—the lands are culti
vated to the same distance towardetheiwamp—the
houses are built and the gardens are ornamented in
the same style. But little change has passed over
this country since 1815. It produced as much then
as it does now; sugar was the chief product then as
it is bow. The bulwark, thrown op by the Brattish
on the 28th of January 18i-1, was made chiefly
with Sugar barrels, toll of sugar taken from the sn
gar-houSe of Mr. Chalmette and other planters.—
The place where the battle was fought can be easi
ly designated. The old chateau, in which Jackson
had his quarters, still remains. The spot where
Packenham fell, can be pointed out. Near it if a
pecan tree, under which it is said, he breathed his
last—whose fruit it is an old Creole superstition,
has been red ever since. There, too, are the gnarl
ed old oaks in the centre of the field, still scarred
and marked with the prints of cannon balls. And
there, too, in the ne4hborhood, you may find azi
old negro who can amuse you by the hoar with
reminiscences of the battle. and at the close of his
story drive a profitable trade with you, in sundry
musket-balls--peradventure, in some of Safitte's
alias Dominique You's chain-shot, which reined
such destruction into the Brifa mkt
Attuning or IVAstuscros.—lt has often been
remarked of Washington, that no one was ever in
his presence, without being &coney impressed by
reverence tor his dignity. Bat it seems by the fol
lowing anecdote, that at least there was one escep•
tier/ :
When the President was procuring the ground
for the city which was to be the seat of government
he had but link difficulty in obtaining the necessa:
ry releases ; except in one instance. Mr. James
Byrnes was the owner of a lot or tract, which it was
advisable should be included in the plan. The Ge
neral had various con imams with Mr. B. who was
especially obstinate, and resisted all the reasoning
and persitastmt of the great'mae. Indignant at be
ing thus opposed, Washington turned upon him with
indignation, and said with great severity, " Mr.
James Byrn, what would your land have been
worth, if I had not placed this city upon the Poto
mac r Byrnes was undismayed, and coolly turn
ed to him anti said, " George Washington, what
would you have been worth, if you had not married
the widow Custii?"
bltsica► or ins AMCRICAN Lizzs.-I,ake Erie
is only sixty or seventy feet deep, but the bottom of
Lake Ontarie, which is 452 feet deep, is 230 feet
below the tide-level of the ocean, or as low as most
pans of the Gulf of St. Lawrence ; and the boncims
of Lake Huron, Michigan, and Superior—;although
their sarfaw is so thach higher—are all, from their
vast depth, on a level with the bottom of Lake On
tario. Now, as the ditchange through the river
Detroit, alter allowing for the lull profitable portion
carried off by evaporation, does not appear by any
means equal to the quantity of water which the
three Upper great lakes receive, it has been eon
jecured that a subterranean river may run from
Lake Superior to Huron, and from Huron to Lake
Ontario. This conjecture by no means improb
able, and accounts for the single fact that salmon
and herring are caught in all the lakes COMM:111i
g with the St. Lawrence, bat in no caber& As
Fall of Niagara must have alwayselisted, it would
puzzle the naturalists to say hoer those fish got into
the upper lakes Without some such Subterranean
river ; moreover, any periodical obstruction of this
river would famish a not improbable solution of the
mysterious flax and tr-Bux of the lakes.
A Tars SroaT.—A lady inmate "Ear,fin• wes, ,
was with her husband awakened on the night of
their arrival in the city of Fenn by the alarm of
fire, and the yens of severe! companies of fireman,
u they dashed alcmg the xreets.
" Hasixnxi ! husband F' she cried, shaking her
worser half into comeicumeu, " oniy hear the In
jtms! Why. this !heal all the =tip dances I ever
heard r'
c-tF,nseese," growled the gesidemancomprion
himself to steep--"t There is no InJima in nib,.
delphia.
" No Inns indeed r she replied, ad if I did not
know . a war-hoop, when I heard one r The n...rt
morning, on &ending to breakfast, they were sa
luted with the inqnry of=
Diti you - bear the engines lasi night? What
anise they made
Generally veali=r, professional men are
nototicimiy deficient qtateies. As an
illmitration or this, the tortateinz pod story was told
of Sir brtac 'Newton : A Irr.ed foreizner ha in
vented a mithernaatal ITlStrvrien:, of which the
great Newton entertained a high optmice, and szild
fnrstiedgteat at?er.,atioritt. The Royal Society re
ecived one as a p went, and Sir Icin=tt, hearing of
b art-cal, horried down to the custom tictie to se
nine it and take itaway. The dozy was to imptess
the engem tact otrxtem with the .rift that its val
ue was immense," and its wenh " absoklely
iricalcrdahle." tparithi-g t theycharred him a good
I rocnd frt, a good deal more than the so
A Gaseraiaus riding op to a politic house in the eiety tho=ht it was worth.
,Thrareses, lethal was
coootty,asked:" Who is the maserof this bowel" paid . ; hat the royal Sociey Coot may good ewe
"I me, sir," relied the lioXerd, "tey'vrilehas that the veal taktulatet sbituld news aketianuis
bast deal :haat three weeks." transact their art= Lorre -tatttinints.
Ttrthin to her hwshand with aa air of triumph,
the lady said—;
a There, I told yam' they west
a itcu.,litss," said a krriOtt of the birchen rod,
" earlynct derline a kiss I" a yes, sir," said the
rhcppin a perpleteti cconneT, " li can, but I
rancid railer Dot?
THE VILLAGE COVETSUIP.
at CIIAZLICS SWAIN;
Tapping at the window •
Peeping o'er the blin d;
'rts really niost stirprising..
He never learns to mini!
'Ties only yester evening, •
As in the dark we sat,
My mother asked me, sharply=
" Pray Plary,•wha id that I"
Who's that, indeed'—you're certain
How much she made me start.
Men seem to loie their wisdom.
When e'er they lose their heart.
Yes: there he is—l see him!
The lamp his shadow throws
Across the curtained windo , v--;
He's stepping on his toes!
He'll never think of tapping,
Or ) making any din ;
A knock u though even the lightest;
Is worse than looking in !
Tap ! tap ! would any think it!
He never learns to mind.
'Tis surely most surprising—
He thinks my mother blind.
'is plain I must go to him ;
Its no use now to cough ;--%
I'll ope the dour just softly,
If but to send him off! -
'Tie well if from the door step
He be not shortly horn—
Oh, man, there ne'er was trouble,
'Till be came in the world !
Tapping at the window,
And peeping o'er the blind;
Oh, man! but you 're a trouble,
And that we maidens find!
Yankee Inquisitiveness.
A gentleman riding in a Eastern railroad ctu,
which was rather sparsely supplied with passengers
observed in the sett before him a lean slabeided
Yankee, every feature of u hose face seemed to ask
a question ; and a little circumstance soon proved
that he possessed a most " inquiring mind." Before
him, =aping the entire seat, sat a lady dressed
in deep black ; and after shifting his position sever.
al tunes, and vnanieuvering to get an opponnnity
to look her in the face, tie at length caught her eye
He nodded familiarly to her, and asked, with a nasai
twang latterly incapable of being imitated :
" In affliction I"
" Yes sir," replied the lady.
" Parents—father or mother!"
"No air."
"Child perhaps buy or zirli"
"No sir—not a chill I have no children."
"Husband r
r: Yes. rr
" Hem : cholera a tradin-man e'be?"
" My husband 1t421... a sea-taring man—the captain
of a vessel. He didn't die of the cholera; he was
drowned."
"O, drown-ea, eh l" pursV the inquisitEr, i(rs
itating for an instant. " Save his chist 7" he inquir
ed.
" Yes the vessel was saved and my husband's
effects."
" Wai they !" asked the Yankee, his eyes bright
ening op.
" Pious man r' he continued.
41e was ; a member of the Mediu:is: church."
The nett qaestioli was a retie delayed; but it
came.
" Don't you think you're great cause lo be thank
ful that be was a'pions man, and saved his dust!"
" I do," said the widow,abrupdy coming . ber.bead
to took out of the ear window.
The indefattabte" pump" chanzed his positi6n,
held the w.dow by his glittering eye owe more,
and propounded one more query, in a lower tone,
wilt; his head slightly inclined over the back 'Ed the
seat.
" Woe ys• o3lcrdatinz to get married cg:ia?"
"Sir paid the widow iailigaant!y, " jon are
imceritnent!"
And she len her seat, and_ took er.oilter on the
opronsiti side of the car. •
"'Pears to be a time holly.!” said the boreal:m
ing to oar narrator; behind him. " She needn't be
mad; I didn't want to hurt her teelizq's. What did
they make you pay for that amberel you've got in
yam hand! It's a real panty one r'
GOOD Foss Bruce—During the " .Ihinplar4ef'
days, a well known French barber, in Washingiori
issued certain finely bit nowt, which purported on
the face to be redeemable in specie, at sight, when
presented in sums no less than fire dollars; or sin
gly good for a share at his establishment One day
while occupied in lathering down a customer,.- he
was wectsed by a boy who merely held out to him
two of his own noes.
" Vat Son vam--eh I" inquired Monsieur.
"SI per ay I'm to get a shilling for these notes
EDE
'A siest'incl Par,lieu ! cannot yam maker mad?
Does be not :now vat the notes say ' payable cen
prmtentel tn toms not tees can fire dollars. Go you
back to yam' masse-, ani tell hi-n to read c.' .
A the boy van:shed, the ti lie barber laoked after
him and exclaimed—
" I dor.lziok zat he war came bark. Ze note
say " in seines of fire do:fats—anti I dAI cot only
isatatefiar aced, anis !'
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11ScEL1;A Eots.
TIM SON OF AN ED1T0N....41r. /Malay, theed:
itor of the Paducah (Ky.) Journal, has fine ion
some sir weeks of age. la a late number of bit
journal, the 'prOod lather thus speaks of his wig.
614444 f
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"McCarty, Jr., doei — gift mit med m in
tics, and is silent upon most vexed !bingo of the
dajc bet from indicafioni we ire thinf
he is not for Scott. In fact, After we filled kw hint
the Mip of whiskey toddy, which he emptied with
024 and deiterity, he epcked rtp his etc, and said
as plainly as youth could say, 4 Rimer!): "
Ma. CLAY AID TEM GONF.—AIMONi everybody itl
Washington City remembers an old he goat which
formerly inhabited Naylo'ni-stibfe, oa Pen*lvi
nia avenue; this animal was; in all probability, the
most independent citizen in the metropolis; he be;
longed t&fto flirty, though he frequently gave pu.
Unger* "s sfikinin proof of bill adhesion to the
levellineirinciple; for wheneter a person iitirp
ped anyiliere in his vicinage, Hilly was sure to
make at him, flans and all. The boys took great
delight in initating uhia long bearded gentleman,.
and frequently annoyed hint do, that ht , ! . would make
against lamp posts and trees, to their great amuse-
Men t.
One day, the luminary of the West, Henry Clay,
Was passing along' the Avenue, and seeing the boyi
intent on worrying Billy into a fever, with his chit
ranteribtic humanity, eipostilated drith tfiet i IF*
their cruelty. Tee brie Ilitened in silent awe to
the elogrient tippeal of the great statesman ; but it
was all Cherokee to Billy, who--the ungrateful
esnimarcise majestically on his hinder figs, and
made a desperate plunge at td Mend and advo
cate. Btr. Clay, although be had not " slain
bfexican," proved himself a match for his homed
assailant; he sejied hold of both horts of the di
lernma, and then "-was the tog of war"—for GrA
had met Greek. The stra,gl• e was long and doubt
ful.
" Flab !" exclaimed the statesman, "I hate got
you fast, you rascal ! teach you better manners.
But boys," continued be, turning in the laughing
urchins, , g whit shall I do now ?" .
" Why ! trip up his feet, Mr. Frei," said they.
Mr. Clay did ai he sae loft!, and,' after nit - n 1
sere efforts, broht Billy down on his side Wire
he fooled a the boys imploringly,' seeming lo say;
" i never was in seri a fix before."
The combatants were nearly eihansted ; goaty
had the advanfage, foi he was gifining strength sL
the while that the Al - fteiiiiiialPtias losing it.
" Boys," exclaimed be, Puffing and blowint;
"this is rather an awkward business. What am 1
to do new ?"
" Wny—don't you knots?" =lid a li de (At m:,
making preparations to run as be spoke—A all yoii
'ye got to do is to let go tin 3 run like blazes !"
A Torso] an recently tan away from home, and
went to a tavern, where be was bond by a friend
with a cigar in his month... What mule you leave
home ?" said the friend. " Oh:" said he, " father
and mother were no saucy that I couldn't stand ft.;
SO I gnu 'em."
THAT Cll.lll3allil tiTiS birh to a goof many
queer tacts. friend inks-ma us for instance, that
it is impciiible to glow the common turnip in any
part of the country—the soil being so impregnated
with gold dose, char 'Me yeller Suites through,' and
converts them all into rota bagas.
lv Yon wish to look pile and cynical, alorayi
walk in the shade. There is a spirit of piousness
about sunshine, as Caul to the dumps to ' an alabas
ter neck.' Nine-tenths of our suicides are comuul
ted af..er dark.
A Lain thought it sould took intimincing to faint
sway at a party, the other e v ening. ;One of the
company began bathing her temples and head watt
bay rum, when she Fos Efeaven'a
sake, put ncr.hirq, on that relli change the Corot at
my hair r
. , _
flaw) of Salim* =Joe who is an inayed,
ulouti dog, was listening to a wonderful story told
by old in which his daughter Mary bore it
conspicuous part. Joe looked wise and dostid a '
" If pia don't believe it, you may go to the house
and ask Mary, and take it from /ter owri lips"
Joe took him at his word ; the &Id man followed
on .to see the result, and fccull Joe kissing Mail
very swewly.
" What on arm you ato:lt r
" Oh, taking that awful toogb limy foamier oats
lips—but I am sated now!"
" I Gar," said a &and* to .in Intelligent mechanic;
" I have got an idea in my head."
" Well,' replied the other, " if you do not che
rish it with great owe, it will die for were of coal-
panions
Wasteo—A titer and i drummer to beat time
63e the march of intellect ; a pais of snuffers totrim
•he lizht of other ears ; 1 a ring Thal will fit the fin.
ger of acorn a loose pulley to 6:1 oo the shaft of
envy ; a new taco for the seat of gorretmemat.
As limentits, beg cin a shill to same relitiies
a linte more poled tin hirryilf, was requested,
on acing, to lyt.d ? to be eatilal to murraiginie% the
; vi-as obliged to a the' meaou2g of the
word : is-hen he was toil to pat it out_ Re treamr
ed op she term, it Me dal- when he was
tothe in Itts Mbia with his trisi, enjoying his
Fr-ries 2mA hole:milk on the pig onceremonioosh
sralkizi2 vt , he said, (proud of his bit of tearuirm'„)
U Jody, my dear, will you extinguish the pig
A crab, then, Pa, hmey, what do you mane r
inquired Jody. " Stosha, then, yon ignorant era
tore," miried Pat, PI manes pw him oar, to he
.gre "7
Tot bet hit' ever made at an impropriety
lady's dritg.. Was male by Talleyraed. -
the revels:Eon,. when asked by a hey big opinion
mr her fires. ; he repiie.l gal •' too toe and
ended too socn." . .
A LATE Imam speakin says I
hes vstlS the bait Not a tad t
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