Br lIENRY J. STABLE 37T" YEAR. OF - ATTE COMPILER TER Tlae Republicau Crunpiler is published ever y 3londay morning, b r y 1.1. i xay J. STmii.E., at•:' , .1.,7 5 per annum if halal zn ridrance---::.' , 2,(1) p , r annum if not paid in advance. No sub scription discontinued, unless at the option of th e publisher, - until all arrearages are paid. ADVEirfisiMENTS inserted at the usual rates. Oyu Wo RIC done, neatly, clwaply, and, with dispatch ; ,...irOtlice on South Baltimore street, direct ly_opposite Wampler's Tinning Establishment, one and a half squares from the Court Ilonse. Q. l ,l)oice poetri). Ug"We have published. the &Alm% big befele: but a.; it 15 rather ou the fact than fauey.order. :Lid cuutaiw boule wlielesthee tiuthb, its repetitien eau 'lo nu harm THE MISCHIEF-MAKER. 0! could there in the world he found Ile tiokt .put of Happy groom Where village Idea , une , might go iound Intlimit the village tattling; ble,t that phive euuld be, ,IVlsele all might Elwell iu liberty, FLee from the, hittor misery (if gosFip' endle,-; inuttling, Tf .nch n spot were redly knwn, Duane' l'eaee it :L lie r own, An.l in it ' , lie_ tip her throne Fiirover ouul foNver. There liLc :1 queeu ,might reign and live, While every (ine weak! ,iieu !lA-give The little slight they iiiight receive, Ind be °trended ite‘er. 'Ti► mischief-m:IIM., that remove • Par from our heart , the warmth of love, And Iea•1 , n-; all to di ...approve What — dyes another pleasure; They seem to take ooe's part—but when They're heao our e.tres, up]: Maly then . They noon retail them all ag.dm Ui''d with the poi,oneus Measure. And then they've such a cunning way Of telling their ill-ineant tiles. they say, “llon't mention ulna 1 said, 1 pray, it would not tell anotherr" Straight to your neighbor's hone they go, Narrating everything they know. And break the pe:lvt• :Ilk low, Wife, husband,- friend awl brother. O! that the mischief-making crew, Were all, reduced to one or two, And they were printet red or Hue. That every ono :night know then:! The::" would our yilhigei.s torget . _ To raze awl quarrel. fume and fret, And tall into an angry pet, With things so much below thetn. Fee •tii a sad. degratle , l part To make another I.M. , um u:irt, Anl plant a dagzer in the heart We anzht to Itoiud ei10,171 TllO.l let u. 4 evermore ho f.,nut In quielnes; With all areun4, While friendship: jn'y and peace abound, And anzyy feelingl perkli ,cicct Illiscellam). THE ONE CALICO DRESS. BY CAROL'S F. A. SOULE. "Iron. were not here yesterday," said the gentle teacher of a little village school, as she placed her hand very kindly on the curly head of one of her pupils.- It was recess time, but the little girl addressed had not goiie out to frolic away the ten minutes, nor even left her seat, but sat absorbed in what seemed a fruit less attempt to make herseli mistress of a sum in long division. Her and neck crimsoned at the remark of her teacher, but looking. up, she seemed somewhat re-assured by the kind glance that met her. and answered, "No, na'am, I was not, but sister Nellie was." "I remember there was a little girl who Called herself Nellie (lay, came . in yesterday, but I did trot know that she was your sister. But why did you not come? You sum to love to study vei y much." "It wasn't because I didn't want to," was the earnest reply, and then she paused, and the deep rose flush again tinted the fair brow, ‘.but—but," continued she, itfter a moment of painful embarrassment, "mother cannot spare both of us conveniently, and so we are going to take turns. lam coming to school one day, and sister the next, and to-night I ant to teach Nellie all I have learned to•rlav, and to-morrow night she will teach toe all that she learns 'while...tem ; It is the only way we can think of getting along, and we both want to study very much, so as to some tittle keep school ourselves, to take. care of mother, for she-has to work very hard to take care of us." • With genuine delicacy Miss M— forehore to question the child any further, but sat down beside her, and in a moment explained a rule over which she was puzzling her young brain, so that the difficult sum was easily finished. "You had better go out now in the air a mo ment—you have studied very bard to-day," said the teacher, as the little girl put aside her slate. "I_ had rather not—l might tear my dress. I'll stand at the window and watch the rest." There was such a peculiar tone in the voice of her pupil, as she said, 4'f might tear my dress," that Miss M. was lett, instinctively to notice it. It was nothing but a ninepenny print of a deep pink hue, bur it was very neat ly made, and had never yet been washed. Arid while looking at it she reuv.an bered tha t. durio:r the whole previous fortnight Mary Gay 1.;o1 attended school regularly, she had never <evil her wear but one dress. "Shels a thowsdittul little girl," said she to herself, —and (I,ics not want to taake her poor mother any trouble. 1 wish I had more such srholars." • On the next morning Mary was abqent, but her sister Nellie occupied her seat. There was something so interesting in the two little sis ters, one eleven, and the other eighteen months younger n urceing to attend school by turns, that 31istar. could not forbear observing them very closely:- -They were pretty-faced chil dren, of delicate thrills, fairy-like hands and feet—the elder with dark lustrous eves and chestnut curls—the younger with orbs like the sky of June, her white neck veiled by a wreath of golden ringlets. the observed in both the same close attention to their studies, and as Mary-ha{l4 a rried-w-itl e did Nellie : and upon speaking to her as she had to her sister. she received, too, the same answer, "1 might tear icy (!re." The reply caused Miss 31 to notice the garb of the sister. She saw at once, it was off thf, same piece as Mary's. and upon scrutinizing it very closely, she Ipecaine cemain it was the same di ess, It did not ti quite SO prettily on Nellie. and Was too lung for hei , too, and was evidently ill at ease whenever Sher the teacherlooking at the bright pink 11(,.veis that were4.et. so thickly on the ‘v hi te got% n. The . discovery wit; one lVhiCil 1011. - interest a heart no truly benevolent ,famill 3 : l .timpurr----Druntrh to Tunas, 33riniitur, iCitrrnfnrr, 3rts finh 3thirlirts, ni Eninutir 3burrtising, (3itiusruirut, • that winch nulsateu, in the bosom of the teacher Ito; They do. Things in France. - of that little village seboiil.' She ascirtained The fol.'owing anecdote. which we translate the residence of their mother, and though sore- t frOm the Paris correspondent of the Courier des ly shortened by a narrow purse,, the same Etats Dais, besides Irving amusing, suggests a night, having found at the Only store in the contrast by which it would be weltif we could place a few yards of the same toaterial,. pug-; pro fi t: chaz,ed a dress for little Ntllie. and sent it to 4 After a' recent accident on a railroad near her in such a ‘"vay that the donor could_ not Paris, the Ph ectors took immediate measnres Iv be detected. DEM Very bright and happy looked Mary Clay on iday morning, as she en: erect the schobl room at an early hour. She waited only to place her books in neat order on her .desk, ere she ap proached Miss M., and whispered in a VOICC that laughed in spiteof all her cfMrts to make it low 'and deferential—" After this week Nel lie is 'coming to school every day, and L am so glad." - .•Tha t is very good news," replied the teach er, kindly. "Nellie is fond of her hooks, I see, and I atn happy to know that she can have an opportunity to study her books every day." Then she continued, a little good natured mis chief encircling her eyes and dimpling her sweet lips.--But can mother spare you ?" "Oh yes: ma'am, she can. now. Something happened that slit did not expect, and she is as glad to have ns come -as we are to do so." She hesitated a moment, but her young heart was filled to . the brim with joy, and when a child is happy. it is as natural to tell the cause,. as it is for a bird to warble when the slit) shines.—So, out of.the fullness of her heart she spoke, and told her teacher this little story. _ She and her sister were the only children,_ of a very pour widow, I,vhose health Was so deli- I cate that it was almost impossible to support I herself and little daughters. She was.obliged , to keep them out of school all winter, because they had no clothes to wear. but she told them that if they could earn enough by doing odd chores for the neighbors to buy. each of them a dress, they might. go in the spring. Very earnestly had the little girls improved their stray chances, and very carefully hoarded the copper coins which usually repaid them. They had each enough to buy a calico dress, when Nellie was taken sick, and as the mother had no money b6forehand, her own little treasure had to be expended for the purchase of medi cine. - "Oh. T did feel so bad when school opened and Nellie could not go, because she had no dress. I told mother I world not go either, but she said I had better. for I could teach her some, and that would be - better than no school ing. I stood it for a fortnight, but Ncllie's little face seemed all the time looking at me on the way to school, and I couldn't be happy a bit ; so I finally thought of a way by Which we could'both go, and T told mother I would come one day, and the next I would lend Nel lie my dress, and she might come, and that is the way we have done this week. But last night, don't you think somebody sent sister a dress just like mine., and now she can come too. Oh, if I only, knew who it was, I would get down on my knees and thank them, and so would Nellie. But we don't know, and su we've done all we could for them—we've prayed for them, and oh, Miss M.—, we are so glad. Ain't you too ?" 'indeed I am," was the emphatic answer.— And when, on the following Monday,. little 'Nellie, in the new pink di ess, entered the school room, her face radiant as a rose in sunshine, and t,pproaching the teacher's table, exclaimed in tones as musical as those of a freed fountain, "I am coming to school every day, and oh, I am so glad'!" Miss M felt as she had never done before, that it is indeed more blessed to give than to receive, and no million aire. when he saw his name in the public prints landed for his thousand dolk i rcha r ;ti cs , was ever so happy as was the poor school teacher, who wore her gloves half a summer longer than she ought to, and there!)v Saved enough' to buy that little fatherless gill a eali do dress. "Nobody but a Printer, Anyhow." ' Such was the sneering remark of a Person residing not a thousand miles from the. door of our sanctum, in,referring to. the r.rofession we follow in pride. "Nobody but a printer," in sooth ! It makes our blood run rampant through our veins, to hear such expressions fall from the lips of those nursed on repul)lican soil. "Nobody but a printer, anyhow !" Who was Benjamin Franklin ? ' "Nobody but a printer !" Who was William Caxton, one of the fathers of literature ? "Nobody but a printer!" Who was Earl Stanhope ? "No body but a printer !" Who vas Governor Artostron" of Massachusetts? "Nobody but a printer !" Who are governor Pittler,nf Pennsylvania. and GOVCI'7IOI' Bigler, of Calnrnia ? "Nobody but printers !" George P. Morris, N. P. Willis, -Joseph Gales, Charles Iticluardson, Jan:es ITapper, Ilorn.ce Greely. Bayard Taylor. Robert Sears, and Senators Dix. Cameron and Niles—who are they ? "Nolm , lv but printers. anyhow ?" One thing is evident; every per :on that chooses can't be a printer. Brains are necessary.—Ex. Don't Hide Your 1,51.;tht Barnum, in • his atitol)ing-raphy, gives the filloiving advice to our busines.; inen : Do nut hide your lirtht under a bushel. Whatever your owittpat ion or ea ni n! , may 1,(•, if it itc(-,d~ support from the nuhlic. advertise it the , roughlv and elle:cut:Ally, in some shape or other, that wtll arrest public rit:euti , ,a. I freely confess. that what sucrTsc 1 have had in my In utay b, fairly at!rilanecl more to the public press than to neatly all other causes cionl)ined. There may be, p05 , :i1,1 3 , , , nutty'. tinits that do not requite ativertit-ing, but I cannot well conceive what they are. I.:11 in business will so t n e ti me ,-.; tell ynn that they have tried advertisin , , and that -it (lid not pay. This is only when advertis:ngis done spat ingly and ;. , ,rudgingly. ibunikliathic (loses of advertising will no . , herbal --it is like a half potion of physit_, malting the pati ent sick: lint effectint- nut hirer. Admini,ter liberally, and the cure will be sure and per manent. Tf there is heaven on earth, it is on a soft conch by •ciiir own tire-iiide. with your wire on one side. a stnilin_ halo. - on the other. a clear I:4miscience, a dozen ciiizar:. and a kilow lerize that you are out Of del v a. and don't fear the tailor. sheriff. or the devil. tc:t nrd. for time. in writer. !'l! rts• ‘l;:lter hk 't.t.n a ()Liu. GETTYSBITIM, PA.: 'MONDAY, MARCI . I 5, - 18,55. :affair. although the road was not in the least to blame in the matter, _as it was one of those occurrences which no prudence can avoid. The tra%ellers had - been tal:en tii_their destination with the greatest deSpatch. goad 'carriages the woundel and bruised Iluid received all im agin'al,le attention. and a compensation in mon ey was at Once made to all who demanded it, %vitt - tont anv dispute as to their clainis. The Directors thought they had arranged every thing, when a gentleman of respectable posi 'don in die Parisian world, a man of note and wealth, whose name is well known, presented himself at the office of the company, and ad d,s ing himself to the clerk, whose business it was to attend to such ,claims, said, with a smile and in an easy way— " Sir. I was in the cars at the time of the ac cident." "All, you were in the cars ?" "I was, sir : here is my ticket.". "And you have come to claim damages ?" "Of course I have." • "You were wounded ?" "Not at all." "Bruised ?" "Nut in the least, thank God." • -- Then.,_w a t claim have you on the co m - panv ?" • " - The fact is Lwas neither wounded norhruis ed, but Lwlis compelled to stand in the open air for a whole hour during a very cold night, while they put things to rights, and I caught cold a :ievt:re cold" —(coughs.) • see ; and you claim damages for your cold ?" “Yes, sir.” ‘.Very good. What do you charge for you] cold ?" ' "Well, T think forty francs would" be none too much." "Agreed—forty francs. Ts that all ?" . "No., my spLetacles were : 1 )1.0:0n in my poci•:- et by the shock ; they cost me eighteen francs: it is fair that you should pay that." "Very well. Fully and eighteen make fifty eight." -Exactly." '‘ls t here anything else ?" "Yes. When I came to Paris I was natur ally anxious to set my friends at ease about my safety. I took a-cab, which I kept seven hours—l have a large circle of friends—at two francs an hour." "That is fourteen francs : fourteen and fifty eight ai•e seventy-two. Is that all ?" ''That's all." The cashier counted out the seventy-two francs, the Ltentleman took the money. gave a receipt, and &parted perfectly satisfied. On Thursday afternoon, one of those Haien: lOUs exhibitions, styled satirically, "a hostile meeting." took place between two voting men of this city, - 011e a boarder at Jones' I Jot el. anti the other a sojourner at the United States. We suppress the names out of pity for the par ties. The two young gentlemen had a quarrel on Thursday 'morning, in the course of which one of the parties called the other a "coward." Hereupon the gentleman to whom the epithet wtes applied felt called upon to send a challenge Lo —ptstols and coffee." The challeme accepted and a mecing was arranged to take place somewhere in the pit inity of tiira:d lege. But this was considered dangerous e rouna, and the scene was changed to a glove near Caman. The seconds had resolved to treat the affair as a juke. and Ilte.pistols wet e loaded ac , ord- • without any missile that could create a call for the surgeon. The belligerents were escorted to the ground 'before mentioned, and the mdint.ry preparations made for the fight. In the meantime the young gentleman who had applied the epithet of coward, began to think that the affair had gone just far enough. and. Acres•like, win; indisposed to ••face the music." Ile was seized with a shiver and I his courage left - hint at every pore. But the t rctra. 'dolts vvot ds - one." - Iwo," spoken "three" was about to the pronounced, when our trembling friend dropped the -p-141+1- anti took to his heels. 11e river stopped . until he was safe on board the ferry-boat, and tinder the protection of the captain. —Surl4 Allerrican, Jcnur« CeNscti.NcE 'Tam Tin:sr.—An exchange payer says: w.l man in a certain vil lage, with triton' we are acquainted, havi , ig hail sanded sugar sold to -hint, inserted in the weekly paper the following: -.No - fr.. pur-hased of a grocer in tins vil lage a quantity sugar, fi ant I Obtained (Me Pr/071,/ of Stirld! If the rascal who cheat ed Inc will send to my addle-S. s, yen pmp', of gnod swz;:tr, (S;riptinl..• ni(.:l,lir's of re:,tito ion.) I will be satislied ; if net, I shall expose hint." ( ilict.fol!owitig day, niw•ceven-pwin , l pad< - flat! It It ;Li i!cc. Irmo 10;ttly to It :•:-oti nit (.11,1(:(1 ! ! ‘,V):v •"::11 . ! I:l , res frantir:Ctly I),•foie strinr,q.rs ? Vay enn't rt in:ln vi-qt. ‘i - ithotit th brush, in tin:guise ! cars it itat.pen tliat.whetteveryoti elm nee to stop ot:t. Tate , u i gym. von r retirement as fl tiiet- I \.• as pos-tilile. every ti , ,or ten tittles ris inu rt, :15 4 n iiuil. told the stairs • c , ..0 oil like parks of artillerv•--Di•iL-eurs. r . ----- /v j a ii ll ... ; _ wa s yon ever in war ?" ~Y ,, u 'd Eoener belleve it. I dn,Linglii,hed int - se'!f at the hat tie of .N(w ()rleuns, 1. dui." ..V(o. ‘Ed !" ‘ , l ri:(1:4 - t do not 'him'''. clse—l furnished Gen- ;IC.:-0:1 WI! 1 IWO :L (IS Oil t fat 6C.Ca5;4,11. 'What altk bete_ they What were then. name r MB •I)er irltne,; ?'' "I'c.., de willies of dem aids." , •\1" , .. 1 .1. den. If der n;;.:ger must knew—day wa . ; Now you got qlc partien -, L 1,1 eonr ine , h, or .I.li case your head in wid de door mat.- r( r , , Ti _,, ni MIMI ME BEM %Or(' 11 , :11( dAit ••11•3:1 Il7Vai Mill zuult. tub A Duel in the Quaker City. Cr l / 4 , •!e a zit:11(1(11 ~ Ta•uy. this town. xtretueiy nice iu her notions of le :lrv. that she tun - R•o.' hiT wa.her wenw.e Ale put hor cloth vs in th e v t ali tty.r::e ul a yvitti.; luau: TRUTH LS MIGHTY, AND WILL PREVAIL." _ .. iii-n - Taking in• a Native. Swepin - Miehtan. '— . Several years ago there dwelt—and for aught A eorresponthmt in Ottawa county, ',Nrield- I know there still dwells—an old Dwelt:flan, g op the line of the Erie canal, very illiterate, 'lives us the tidlowing."Seene in the Mayor s but very fond of money. and. by some ehanec Court at (gaud Rapids," Mayor-Church vpre• or other, pretty well supplied with it. It was' '''ting• Witness called up to be sworn by the rumored. however. that he was not ov e r scru p . 1 del k :. uloos, at times, how he made it : and the fol- I Clerk--"Nott do Solemnly swear- 7 " - -• •- , -0...., ! Thn ivit. There came to.his house. one day, an awk ward looking, individual, betraying, in every turn and gestm e, that he Bailed from whence wooden nutinegs mid other Yankee commodi ties are brought into market. —How ‘lO. Squire ?'" was Jonathan's ' S alnta lion, squirting a gill of tobareo jhiee inside the door, by way of a more definite announcement that he was round. In stalked Jonathan. peeking On all sides, and finally settling his six feet--be the sante more or less—of flesh and bones in a chair by the chimney corner. 4quire." said he after a pause, producing a jack-knife, and chipping off a piece from the boot-jaek that lay behind him : a notion, somehow or tAnher, to he arter gwine to the far,west ; but. darn uty picter. if it ain't a long tliar, and kinder guess I'm on the wtong track." And he went on whit fling, eyeing the Dutchman occasionally from beneath the half disjointed front piece to his plush cap. "You goesh vest, eh ?" exclaimed Mynhcer yon islt on de right mat. my &lent - ; halve. you got a license to go vest ?" "License !" cried Jonathan, suspending his whittling: "I ain't got the first one, and what's more, Cap'n,.l, ain't never hearn of the cussed thing afore., nigher." "Veil. veil," said - the Dutchman, "dat von't do at all. You 'misfit 'have a lichenSe to go vest, for becagse they vbn't let 'you sheaf° out there Nvithout von. "How you talk !" was the Yankee's-ejacula tion, deeply concerned at this piece of intelli gence. _ "Dal is de truth. mine frient," pursued the Dutchman "but I have lichenses to shell— don't you vant to buy von ?" "Can't dodge it no way. can 1 ?" replied the raw one. "How much'll the carnation critter conic to ?" he asked, producing a weazel skin in an alarming state of depletion. "Only two toilers, dat'sh all, mine Boot fricnt," said the operator, rubbing his hands and, rising to receive the fee. "Wall, 1 suppose I've got to do it, any bow, Cap'n," !marked -Jonathan, "shellinr , out the pewter," piece by piece, until he had corinted out into the Dutchman's greedy palm two halves and four quarters, leaving a balance in the "weazel" of three "York shillings," a dime ' and two "reds." • , i 1) own with the docriments,, 'Sgnire," he cried, rhoving the skin into his breeches pock et, and rising. mind good yeller," said Patchy, "T ain't got my sPectachis, and you writes, don't EMI "Jest like a school-maim, old chap," replied- Jonathan. "Vel, den. you writes von," said Mynheer, ..foryour:se]f. putt i o , down your name, for to go vest and shettle there, and shin it.— Come op to the table, misther, and f shall gives you pen and paper." The writing materials were procured ; .Jona than threw his plush cap on the floor, seized the old grey goose quill in the inkhorn, tried its point on his thumb-nail, and crop thing his head until his right ear almost touched the paper. he drew his tongue out its whole length zi;11 wrote. When he had closed the scroll. he threw himself back in his chair to scan the production and see if it was all right. "That's the talk," he cried at length. “These ar presents is to inform all it may con cern as how Jeddydiar Doosenherry is hereby and herein entitled to go to the far west, be the same more or less, and squat thereupon, tOr having paid toe in hand the sum of two dollars, lawful currency, as license for so swine west and squatting thnr." - exelnimetl the Ihttehman. “Wal, Squire," cried the Yankee. —putyour fist. char." The license man did as he requested. and signed his name to the writing. • "Jeddydiar," as he called fiiruself, took the paper, folded it very carefully, as boys fold up a puzzle. and deposited it in his vest pocket, among an assortment of old ‘.chn ws" of tobac co, gnn•flints, matches -arid other articles too• ninnerons to mention. Then rising, he ex claimed : T'm much ohlecgcd to ye for this ore pieeo of eotinsol. It takos lip es to keep track of the new kinks that writs up in the law. Good.bye to ye." "boot-ityo, snot-bye," cried the Dutchman. tin(' tire victim went u . ll . whistling "Yankee Doodle." A week had elapsecl after the transaction we have jnit chronicled, and our Dutch acquaint an,.te had a hoot fi)ll2(.lt Leo it, when a merchant of the cill.r c called upon him. savitp4: "Mr, S. if it k convenient., I should like the amount of the or': which you stela Inc the other day, and wntci, 1 paid tt man by the name o f I Ir o~enhi rry "An 01 ter 7 . cried the Dutchman, utterly up‘al by the demand, "I never gm cs an ortel: to noTtoflV-7' —got. hire it is," eontinueil prodiwitig orgli.; duly ,i!,ricd., relpic , ting him 1-1) "ioidyfilar 1301,011)erTy" v.% enly-tive dolkirs iii go4pis. Dutch's - saw at a ghnee lie was irretrievably paid up like a man, ue‘er operated in licenses :,ince. The fr i llo‘ving Itr,tuiifnl (!t:traCt frotn Phtl %Vl ecl,Ortatul entitl , 11 Lite "Carpcitter i s a (:,,,tuplitni_lit to uteri:mite,: • , ‘Virit have they rlllnt ? --Have they not 0r,, , 11 ,1 the -e(aet rhatu ,-,, ro; , :lity deep, and extrae...eil 111 nealopt,. a. (I ttr,tde the ra: , - it whteit thay ride 4,11 a carricil not the cleinents of fire : . oal tt titer (liannn - (1 lo c; :ink, awl at the th ,, c h a „ - i,., Li,l,liu r.:0wp( 1 .1..d :.o thin it? lave not ineollanic., open, d the liowek - of the earth, awl taa.l(... it, co:nril.ote to our %yaws? Tl, c fo:',:ed lightning i, their plaything. awl 'h : triumphantly on the tving-: of the toi , ghtv thi•v are flood-aic:, (I f Ln atc , i,e, awl Ning , awl 1,1oe(11.. av e th•r ! . oratol hr .1!;*•11" handiwork. Ile who wade the no vet,e n a: a git , at ineehaow. —Valk in, mine frient,"said the Dtitcliman Tlechanics a Alan brain; MI OM e a wan Ihiai ISMI giv iv(' ' givc . a ht.:, 4.1. IJU/ EMI , v i riche., Anil IC I, a11(1. t /L MEI Mal ness will hold np his right hand." Clerk—“ The man has no right hand, your Honor." _Mayor (with some asperity)—"Let, hun hold up his /efi hand then." Cleric— Cllr has -hod the misfortune to lose his left hand also, as ybur honor will perceive." :Mayor (savagely )--Tell him to hold up his I right leer then n man cannot he sworn in this Court Without firddi”g np sontrihing. l Silenoe, gentlemen ! Our dignity must be preserved !'' (Witness sworn on one leg.) ''nun lineK.Ev Dtws.."--- - A young, damsel who is engaged, and will shortly be united to a gallant son of Neptune, lately visited the Mari ner's Church. During the sermon, the Parson discoursed eloquently and with much 'earnest ness of the dangers and temptations of the sail or. lle concluded by asking the following '•ls there any one who thinks. any thing of him who 11 ears a tartilthlin hat and blot , jacket, or a pair of trousers made of duck ? In short, is there any one who cares. aught, tin. a poor sailor ?" A little girl, sister -of the danisel, jumped up. and looking archly-at her sister„ said. lout] enough for every one to hear, —Yes, Beekey• does !" [t7"A Western editor conwlaining that be could not sleep one night. summed .np the causes. A wailing babe seventeen months old —dog howling ender the window--=.4 'cat in the alley—colored serenade at the shanty over the way —a toothache, and a pig trying ,to get in at the back door. Poor fellow ! r".t'A girl 14 years old, being on her way from school in Raynham. the wind blew her veil ofr and landed it on the river, pnrsning it the ice gave way and she was thrown into the river where it was ten fceldeep : then keeping herself afloat by pieces of ice, she let the cur rent drift her down to the bridge,. against the stone pier: clinging to this, she drew herself out of the water and regained the- highway without aid, and boon Icached home.. Mb; was one of the severest days of the winter.— llurra for the Yankee school girl. EVILS OF SA LAOtATETS—Dr.,AIcott, n, (14,1111- guished Physician of Boston. attributes to the free use of snhnratus in cooking. many of the diseases to - which childrenure subject. —To the use of this deleterious substance, Dr. A. at tributes the deaths of one' hundred thousand persons out of the three hundred thousand un der ten years of ago who annually die in the l;nited States. If such an alarming result can be substriated. salteratus may be regarded as worse than either intemperance or war in its ,effects upon the human race. , CLEAN SitomiNu.—"lsaw a Russian on one knee in the act of taking. aim, the muzzle or his firelnek resting un a forked stick . . Ile was dead ; the side of his head had been knocked 011 by a cannon shot. llis death was so, stul den and quick that he was not knocked down : and the remaining part of his face still- looked stet my along the tirelock. It was an astonish , ing eight ; and every one who could,'caute to look at, Wm."— War bgter. A Goon EXAM.PU.--It is very well finr men to be rich when they possess large Gen. Robert' Ilalsey, of Ithaca, 'N. Y.,- bas•re: cently been doing a very handsome thing. lie requests the tax gatherer of the town - in which he reside, to pass over all cases where taxes have Leen levied upon individuali; who cannot pay them without. depriving 'themselves. or their dependent families, of the necessaries of life, or means of comfortable subsistence, and the t4ciinc h) him for payment, fr7.Many persons complain of being pester , ed by bedbugs—it is easy to avoid the ineon• venience. On going to bed, i p off your shirt. and ciiVery7inrself from head to feet with boil ed molasses. Let every part of your body be thickly covered with it. On coming to bite yon the bugs Will stick for in .the tholasses, - and you can kin theta in the morning.— tr)--A seven thousand dollar. bed has been made in Paris fur a Turkish gentleman of for tune. , rffleven 'horses and three dogs were gored to death in Madrid on Christunts day, at a hull fight. 1; According to the census of St. Louis, juSt (dim, the population of the city now amounts to (.17,543. r - 7 (;nod lunnor ig the bine sky of the soot in which every star of talent will shine more cleallv• The daily delivery of wntet• to London /luring the List fi•x • bas been little 111U1 t of 100,000,000 g:dlous. r - Prudence n quality incempntible With vice, and can never be effectively enlisted in its eause.—Burke. 'r:, -, •Vit rue is a rock, from which rebound all the at t ows shot against it. —Kuz /ay. •^":,- - Agaipst the malignity of the discnment• ed, the turbulent and the rieloll, nn alhilitieS. CX('111011;•:, nor the integrity are any safeguard.-- GV4,61,1 4lon. a - 'lf it is true in the literal sense. that all the wisdom of the world is folly in the sight of Heaven, is it worth a luau's while to live to :-.eventy —Go the. r7l"t is the nature of man to displeased with everything that dit,apnoints a favorite hope or flattering project : and it is the folly of too many ofthem to condemn without inveAi ga ting ei reu instal It;l S.—WI/86;7/4/ I M. Can a watch. fitted with a second-hand, be called a second-hand watch ? pop ar writer. spec sing 0 le T.ean telegraph, wonders wilt:the-I -I.IIIIIA Illi ed through the salt water will he fresh. ::iThe sensitive netbr, who couldn't stay in the room w itica tea urn, on account ut its hiss ing, has just been killed by a burs! of applause. Than who %rte.: lately struck' with a 11(•IV hofigh 1.. " 11:1s Child ticd to overi4jok t h e ;wt . , it being the first time, anti there is little r of a repetition of the oiletiee. s have it I=l 'lf ;Lc' pith i„ ... Ott- ' 1411,.1 ilk w.. i• U JAP-II MITI EIS EOM ME We fear I Wi 01 • ll•L) . , TWO DOLLARS A-YEAR. -Too Good to be Lost ! Mn. Envr,on : It appears that our :worthy friend. the proprietor of the WestminAer IMel, is forming 'an aviary of native birds. , lie has a pair of benntiful Pheasants and a covey. of Partridges' that are objects of great interest. They have become quite tawe, and no one who sees them ; can fail. to admire them. 'A gent entan rota tie country cent to this collection, a 11.. w -days since. a rate spe cimen of the native When our worthy host received his Owlship - anti w a s !t w i t t o cage - him, it happened that lln.hv. the Scotch Ditcher, (who, by the way, is" a very clever, fellow,) chanced to drop in. and, being -.sur prised to !meet Mr. Owl in so public a place, the following colloquy ensued: Billy.—Och! an' what queer bird hare you there Mine 110t.—This, Billy, is a Scotch Pheas ant" Billy.—We'l.nt you're mistaken there.--Tho Scotch Pheasant is no stranger to me, and ho. wears no' the likes of this bird. llfine'Llbat.—What, then, would you call,. this? • 13111,y .—Sure v an' this is the'King if llec Know. Nutleings ! Democratic Convention of lowa. We have received a fa'. teport of the, pro ceedings of -the Democratic State ecnrvention a! Town City on the 24th ultimo. The objects of this Convention were. in the language of the call, "the m.mination of n State ticket and Ibo more thorough orgnnizatfon of the pemocratlo party;:" An acceptable ticket Vtusttotninated, and n set of admirable resolutions onanintents ly adopted. We make room fir the following : "Reim/tied, That there has' nevee been a pe riod in the history of our country 'when we could with more confidence proclaim to - the world our entire adherence to, and approval of, the old land butrkaof the democratic party., "Resolved, That the temporary success of our foes being the result of an abandonment of prineiples nee, their part. and of the agglega tion of discordant elements brought together for mercenary ends. allbrds no ground for alarm; lint that: confident of the correctness , of emir Principles: and of the integrity of the masses, we appeal to the stober second thought- of the people with no fears as to the verdict they may render. "limp!red, That the liberal principles bodied by 'Jefferson in the Declaration of In , dependence, . and fin net toned in - the, constitution, WhiCh make ours the land of 'liberty and: the asylum of the oppressed . of every nation; haVe ever been-cardinal , principles in th& democrat ic faith and • every attempt to :abridge the , right of becoMing 'citizens, and-the' owners, of soil among us. ought' to be resisted with the Same spirit which swept the alien andadition laws from the statute;boolt. "Resaved,, That we adhere to ' Ow doctrine of an unrestrained religious liberty .as estab lished by the constitution of the Unjtell Sin his, and sustained by all democratic administra- "'Resolved, Thnt we fully endorse the nd rninish•htion of Franklin Pierce as sound in principle; discreet in policy, and true - to the country." • RARE Co,NSISTIOIOI - .-- 1 -Ikl T. Baliewell. :late e,litor of the Shepherd Or the Valley; dec'd, the paper .w hi eh boasted, editorially. that when:,the Roman Catholics in the United States-became, 'sufficiently numerous they would, put an end to religious .toleration—is now writing Know- . Nothing articlts for the St. Lois intelligenceri a-Whig K. N. print I! ! ! • . . , • , DRCTSION IN THE GATIDINEU 0104114114011 ;Morsel!, of the Cirenit , Conit - at Washington, has decided that the estate, of the late.Georgw A. Gardiner is indebted to the -United States and has made - a 'decree _to the effect -that • the . awards were obtained by said George Gar: diner by, means of false swearing. forgery, and. fraud, and Were therefore, null and. void.; that the estate is indebted to the' United'Statesin. the stun of $428,750.'with interest trom the' 16th of May :that Corcoran & Riggs' should bring into court on the fourth 'N.lntiday of'March next, the stocks and:securities in their hands. ainonnting to $89,0( 1 0, being part of the fundi obtained by Gardiner under said awards. and also an admitted balance in cash at' $5,737 46; and that the enuse be referred .to Walter S. Cox, as special auditor. to state an account of 'said Corcoran & Riggs of dividends collected by them. Tun SLAVH Brims —Mr. Grimes. ,who has of late been engaged in Boston. in. the-collec tion of money .for the purpose of purchasing the slave Anthony Burns from lu owner; has succeeded in hit, endeavors, and the necessary amount, $l3OO, has been contributed. Mr. t;ritnes left, on Friday. for the South, with the finals. The U. S. District Attorney and the U. S. Marshal, each contributed ENcoußAGromsT 4s ot , -I(iluctr I,Tra E. —A hill has passed one branch of the Legisla ture proposing. in order to encourage the for mation of Agricultural Societies, to giant to each county forming suet) associa non tho soli of :;.-.'loo for each t" , :300 subset ihed by by them. provided the whole amount should not, exceed iz.:100 in any one year. 77 - --A private watC. l ituan was found asleep in S.►ciaiuento, when son►e of the f•ca boys at !ached twelve dozen assorted Chinese fire i:raeliers to him by a fish-hook, and touched them Or Awaking suddenly he thought the world was coining to an coil,-told dashed niadly fin• the river, where, like Cassius, he •`plunged in.,, .77-Mrs. t - ,;4.eni turns everything to =mint. She buti•s tough beef for a roast : this goes into a friease for next morning's breakfast. After that, it re-appears in a soup. and finall3- hid; faiewell to the boarders in the shape c;f a mince pie. Fa r-4,eeing, woman, that Mrs. Use ful—see a "roast"- through a' whole week. APOLEON S tie course uf a feu• years Russia will have COnstautinople, die greatest part of Turkey, and all Gretee; England and Prussia united cannot prevent it. (I'D — Mr. Newcomer. of Natchez. MiQs., with a rifle having an improvement of his own in vention. at the distance of-.'20 yards, placid fi v e successive halls ‘vithut the civic of which the radius was less than an inch. Fr - NV v are the United States colors like the star,: in ilvaveh ? lleenlicte tlivr mrt. nitwit to pull than MEE From the bevnnd the rimer of down Ffiß
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