II! i IDDott& to jpolitics, literature, C&gviculture, Semite, itloraliti), anb mural 3fatclligcncc V0LIS. STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA. NOVEMBER IT, SS50. NO. 46 Published by Theodore Sehoch. TERMS. Two dollars per annum in advance Two dollars nnd :i quarter, half yearly and if not paid be fore the end of the vear, Two dollars and a null. No papery discontinued until all arrearages are paid, fcxccpl at the option of th( Editor. ID Advertisements of one square (ten lines) or less, One or three insertions. $1 00. Each additional inser tion, 2j cents. Longer ones in proportion. JOB PRffiYTEEG. liavins a general asimmvuc m i.hki jmuim .mu w- liamcntat Typo, we are prepared to execute every de riPtuW &&M& S?Smfn. "'Sir, W UCliX'lOt I A "MtVI U -( ............ - T J ' 'I at nils cinr.e. Q. DUCKWORTH. JOHN HAYN. DUCKWORTH & HAYN, WHOLRSALK DEALERS IN frnric Prnvi? mis I !fiiiftr Ro. ' J nad b--e oroe hours 00 our waJ whiI these trecs 1 Hba11 deePlJ deplore tbo in V Ce.l i raliSfCI1fTjl A "?IS)&C,inota hor,eor mule could be hired till f-tuatioo, and believe that these giants AJn Pfl Div Ktrpnt Nhw Ynrk. I . . t i i , I :i-l ,! No. 80 Dey street, New York. June 16, 1859. ly To The Inventors of Beds. If he who first invented .-leep, Be blessed by San ho Pnza, Then he who first invented beds Deserves at leat a ttanza. Let those who will prai?e early hours, And laud the sun's uprising; I'd rather be an hour in bed Indeed it's not surprising. Jfto pillow ever yet could fail To calm my deeper! sorrow; And when I'm on my bed, I drop All cares until the morrow. t, i x i j i j ' ! rn o nn; tn nirnc nn a intra l nil rwmciC And every way butstaudiug; But rest is only found iu bed, So truly re.t commanding. Then, hail I inventor of the bed That bear us up in troul le, .May earth iiiiuiortaiie thy name, And may thy blessings double. A burlesque on Moneyed JXen One of the most amusing letter, pur-J porting to cojue from Mahouiiued Pasha,! published iu tho Evening Post, has the j following hit at the "Merchant Princes"! of New York : j Ho was torn at Iluddletion, Connecti-j cut, in tho year inuu. ijy iiie time tie was ten years old, (aud very old, indeed, be was at that time of life.) he had made one huudred and sixty-fi e Largains, bar i i- t . . . . xer ana uicsr-rs in suoe airiugs, peg up8 - j -i. i i i . . a .!.,. ailU jaC& UUU UJU UUidSDUU cue sum of five dollars and fifty three ceuts. At the age of eleven, he entered the tore of Grab & Ketch urn, in his native towu, and remained therein ss a clerk uuti the j Hrt fail iu a fctoiiinjiton sloop ror iev. York, and with his entire possesions lan ded at Fuitoa Market in the year 1S17. Since then he passed through the Ftv eral professions of vegetable purve)or,fi-h vender, ccneral merchant, bank Prcsi- dent and solid man. and is now consider- v r-. ed a magnate and a jtiillionairc. He nev er was indicted for stcaiiug, or aecused of infidelity, fie was ucver trouDlcd with an unselfish a-piration, never went out of bis way to do a charitable act. uever bothered bimjelf with romanoo, sentiment or act, never rpoke two consecutive en- tences in a grammatical mauiicr, neer looked at tho stars over his head or the flowers uudcr bis feet. lie rs some jixty fire years of age. bald, -billious, and not epecial!y amiabb. He has just built bimself a large briek house, veneered with broan stone, and furni-hed it with Patin wood and brocatellc, and bung the , wans wun paintings, eviocniiy uy wrji age oi uhuuu auu u-uu.a.c. iu,jeeply? for fiye jj wben it enters anJ Soipio a or in Alexander's time, and that on professional aid. sum outro Dunureu anu -uu u.e uo,.ar j jn a siht depression or valley, near- there is no kuown meaus of propagating at length aui iumj.ii.. limwmuji iu, a-j,y on the .op of tLls particular mountain, their kind; and j deeply regret that there ublo. Hi;, first (s old and indeed, quite rcpid marteia, sheltered aud tranquil, though several , We left the Big Trees a little after 10 and set up a carnage, He Ltd achieved of tbese tTee6 haVt) mnt)ie.tlj falltjn with. fl TelVtTn,d t CluFk'ri and fed and a fine social position and i. now cocid- in lhc preseut century. Unquestionably, then .truek for Mariposas, where wo ar ercd a most desirable match for any vir-;they arc pa8t tieir primef though to none rived a little before 0 p m.-I alone so giu in Acw lori. ! raoro thau to tbem is applicable the com- covered with boils, caused immediately The following amusing aonccdote comes (o as true : A-man bavinir rather a larre family!.. found it rather hard to keep uptbc table, i and has adopted tbe following plan: At evening just before supper, he calls! bis children "around him, aud addresses them thus . "Who'll take a cent and do without his supper!" j au" an recorded measurements of par- "I! 1 1 1 1" exclaim the children, eager ! tief. UD,d.eJ" 00 obligatious to preserve a to get the priie. jjudicial impartiality. But I believe a Tbe old man pulls out his pocket book ' ir measurement of the largest trees full of red cents which be keeps for the standluS ,,u tbss Krove would tubke tbem occasion, and after giving tbem one apiece, not tbau oae, hundred in cirouoifer sends tbem off to bed. ;cnco- and over th,rt ,n dmmeter, at a Kext morning they look like starved 1 b,bt of ? feot fr0UJ thfir respective ba Arabs. The old man calls them around, seP and that several of tbem have an 1 nd with an air of gravity asks- !ude of '"ore lbao tbree feet. "Who'll give a cent for a nice, wara j 1 bel,ee tbo ODe tbat waa ,ast uprooted biscuit for breakfast I" ' measures a little over three hundred. It is needless to say that the cents arc! But thei-e relics of a more bounteous forthcoming. Good plan. j and niagnifitcDt would teem destined to TTr'A little sirl said, "Mother, is Tom a good cat!" n,Yes." "Well he'll go to wrenching of their roots by the blasts that matters of purely personal and private' heaven! won't he ?" "I suppose so, but sweep througb their tops. These malign concern; but there are ciroumstauces in if yon're not a better girl you will never influences they might withstand for ages, the caso of Col, F. which seem to justify get there." "Oh," said the little girl, however, were it not for the damage they a departure from the general usago, "I'll bold on to Tom's tail." have already tustaiued, and are in dan- Chosen three or four years ejnee tbe ger of hereafter sustaining, through tho standard-bearer of. a new political or- OT'Joe, what is the cause of that bell devastating agency of fire. For tbeso ganization in an exoiting contest, and ex ringing!' enquired Peter. 'Why,' replied glorious evergreen forests, though tho posed, because of that ohoieo, to a torrent Joe witb great gravity, 'it's my deliberate ground bpneath tbem is but thinly cov- of personal defamation which not merely opinion that some one has pulled the ered with inQamable matter, are yet sub- impanelled his integrity as a man and bis ropel" jeet to be overrun every second or third fidelity as a public servant, but sought to AN OVERLAID JOURNEY XXX California The Big Trees. . Steamboat Cornelia on the ) San Joaquin, Aug. 15 '59. $ Ou reaching Clark's ranclie, on the South Fork of the Merced, at I OA p. in. of Friday, we were to happy as to meet - - . - trj the llcv. 0. C Wheeler, Secretary of the State Agricultural Society, and his asso- ,ntM JtUn Vi.itin(( nn, mitfP, of iht fi nn Tnnr nf nWrinn now on a tour of observation " - J I through various regions of the State. r We had 'e had agreed at Sacramento to make the trip to the Poseruitc together, but some umhap bad detained them fourteen miles back of Bear Valley during the ; night of Wednesday last; and when at leneth they reached Mariposas. mv par- nest morning, to replace tueir jaded uags, ft .1? i , 1 I ! wno?e immouiHce procoeaings on so rousu a trip was out ot the que.-tion. So they ihalt'd, perforce, till nest morning, and ! were only going up to the Yo.-cruite wheu we were coming down, as aforesaid. j But they hnd just returned to Clark's from tho Big Trees of Mariposas, bavipg i visited those of Calaveras two or three jdavs before. The general impression ;fee"tu to be that the Calaveras trees arc the larger and finer; but .Mr. Wheeler, having just iited each, was very deoi- ;doi in bis preference for those of Maripo- 'sbs, and I understood all his associates to concur in this verdict. They found the j Calaveras trees in far better eoudition, in I of the Bi Trees is nearer allied to that personally houtile to him, have been , the charge of a keeper, and approached 1 of certain Pines than to tho Cedar's. swelled to no less than $16,000 per an ! by abroad over which a light carriage The lark of the Big Trees is very thick num bis taxe3, remember, on an estate 'may readily be driven up to the very ; Theae are no light ad- ! vantages, bat they asj?ured us on the oth- er hand, that the Mariposas trees arc con- j siderally tijora numerous (-ome 250 to 3Uv ), aud really lar,-fr and finer epeci- mena of thtirkiud. Mr. Wheeler found by careful measurement the diam-ter of ! one of these trees 100 feet above the j crounJ to be twenty feet, while its first i limb, whioh put off at that bight, had a ! no counterparts out ol California, diameter of six feet. Ju.-t think of a twig j They are of course not all of extrcor sis feel through at that elevation ! lie ! dinary fize, yet I eannot remember one obtained thise results by, measuring the j tbat would girth so little as twenty feet tree's shadow, which I need hardly re- i t hight of two yards from the earth's mark wa trobablv narrower thau the tree itself. lie had s-everal tape-line j izontal mea-urement. Hardly one is en- euergic-stoitsimprovementand renovation. meaurcments of Mariposas trees over tirely free from the marks of firo nt its In the spirit of thatetermiuation he has one hundred feet in circumference; but j root, while several have be-n burned at since lived and labored, rising , with the one of the Calavera trees is clamed to least have half through, and are so hoi- lark, and striving to obtain a complete be, 1 think, nearly one-fourth largcr.than lowed by fire that a Ireo eight feet iu di- ! knowledge aud mastery ot the entire bus this. No matter those of either Countv ; ameter would probably find ample room iness, taking more and more labor and h(r fa e e went up to the Mariposas Trees early next moruing. Tho trail crosses a meadow of most luxuriant wild grass, Inpn fcfr!!ro pnctirnnl nn In I It; nnd rijfcC3 aa!0st fiteajjy, but iu the main not quietly nestled for 1 dure not say how many thou- -and years. That th-y wt-re of verysub- ta!itia! size when David danced before the Ark, when Solomon laid the found a- tions of the Temple, wben Theseus ruled in Athens, when -diueas fled from tho buruing vtrcck of vanquished Troy, when Sc?o5tris led his victorious Egyptians iu- to the heart of Asia, I have no manner of doubt. The big Trees of course, do not stand aloue. I apprehend that they could not so stand at present, iu view of the verv raojeratl, depth at which they arc anchor- c lQ tfae onrth IJat tb,.v stood on an un- lfcBCiteroj mouutaio-top, "or even an ex- po5Cj MUnle, they would have doubt- bepu pro,trated as I prosumc thou- sauri., like them were prostrntod, by the ,lirr;Ranp., of PnnturinN l.nfnr ni.rit. nrl- vent. But the locality of these, though - probabjy 5(J0 fcet aUvo lhe gQU"th M.rMil. nm enmo J nnil l.n iL -no Iplimcntary characterization of "a green old age , J M. K. "3 . Let me try to give as clear an idea of ' e,8C T IT " C3D' g 1 ' k,l0W that Wlil be but a P00r- ooe : ! Iu "leasunns tres, it is ko easy to ex- ! aggerate by running your line around tho roois ruiuer man me real noay, tnat l i I place little depi ndeuco on the reported speedy extinction. I deem them generally enfeebled by aye and the racking and year by fire. For the earth; to a depth of heveral feet, eveu, is dry as ou ash-heap, from July to October, and the hills are so steep that fire ascends them with wonderful facility. And th Big Trees arc scarred, and gouged and hol lowed out at the root and upward, as the effects of successive Ores, one of which o- riginating far southward, "ran through this a locality so late as last Autumn, burning one of the forest kings so that it has since fallen, half de.strouim another already DYOStratO. through the hollow of which pYostrate, through two horseineu (not G. P. R. James, I trust,) were accustomed to ride abreast for a dUtanco of fully one buodred feet, and doinji serious damage to very many others. If the village of mariposas, the County, or the State of California, docs not immediately provide for the safety of nngui, uavc ueeu mure uappuy iucaiu. 'IM. Dt TurtAj nfn i.cunllvv n nAAnnf y accounted -LUU 1J,& au uiuuiiji Redwood, but have strong resemblance to the Uedar iatuily, 0 that my intelli- get guide plausibly insisted that they arc identical iu species with their probable cotoraporaricf, the famou3 Cedars of Leb- anon. The larger Cedars in their viein- iJ bear a decided resemblance to tho ' smallest of them; and yet there aro quite ' obvious differences between them. The Cedar's limbs arc by far the more nu- morous, aud cooio far down tho trunks; they aro also relatively smaller. The ; Cedar's bark is the more deeply creased ' up and down tho trunk, while the folliago m eome intance-, over two Feet and is of a dry, light qualtty, resembling cork: hence the fatal facility of daiatuage by running fires. The wood of tho Big Trees is of a light red color, seeming de- oid alike of sap and resin, and to burn about as freely whiie the tree lives as a y-':ir or more after its death. Unless in in the Cedars of Lebanon, I suspect thto mammoths of the vegetable world have surface, whioh is the proper point for hor- iu its cavity. Auu, whilo many are still halo aud thrifty, i did not perceive a sin- gle young one coming forward to take tho place of the decaying patriarchs. I bo- H.Vfi thl'SO treeH now ho:ir rin Kfirt.nnn or nut, whatever they may have done in is not, though starting a tree t&at would come to its maturity in not less than four thousand years would seem rather slow business to tho fa-t age in which it is our fortune to live. Possibly, the Big Trees are a relic of some by gone world some past geologic period cotemporanes of the jcigentic, luxuriant ferns whereof our Mineral Coal is the residuum. I am sure they will be more prized and treasured a thousand years hence than now should they, by extremo oaro and caution, bo preserved so Ion, and that thousands will theu visit them, over smooth and spa- cious roads, for every one who now toils over the rugged bridle-path by whioh I readied them. Meautime, it is a com- fort to know that the Vandals who bored down with pump augors tho largest of the Calaveras trees, in order to make their fortunes bv exhibiting a. snntinn nf it w bark at the ICast, have beeu heavy losers by their villainous speculation. by horseback exercise, as to make riding in any way a torturo. iuy triend who naa tauen me up to uussey s in tiis oar- mg PW 00 baud 00 mJ ro' turn. tbougb h bad bet5U a bundrcfl nio assured that I could not possibly be back at the time appointed. We had a gath- ermg auu a win in tuunposa in me eve nioij, and i tuon rodo over to linar Val ley, which we rcacod a little before mid night. Next eveiiing wo ran down so far as the Tuolumne on our return, and to day caoifl on to Stockton, where wo took tho steamboat for San Fcaneisoo, which we hope to reach a little after midnight. Col. Fremont's Llines. I have alroody stated that I spent most of Wednesday in an examination under Col. Fremout's guidance, of the mines ho is working in Bear Valley, aud of the mills io which ho reduces the rook and separates the gold, I usually observe carefully the rule which enjoins reserve wheu addressing tho public respecting divest him at ouce of his name, hi- reli- viatcs all necessity for dead-work save ini A Costly "War. gious faith, and even of his native land, I sinking shafts and running up adits; the I The next Congress will be called upon believe there are many thousands of Bo- principal work is rather quarryinn than to pay the expenses of the war waged publicans who cherish for Col. Fromont mining; and there can be no apprehen- ajrainst a few Indians in Oregon and a personal' regard and affection which sion that the vein will give out or grow Washington Territories, in 1856. The render them profoundly solicitous with poor, because it has already been te.ted cost of this war is fct down at something respect to his good or evil fortune. It is at its various outcrops to a depth of fif- like eight million of dollars, which it is for this class only that I write the follow- teen hundred feet, and is richer at the contemplated to abstract from the United ing: bottom than near the cop, where it has States Treasury. This amount is to pay The public are generally aware that mainly been worked to this time. I have volunteer soldiers, most of whom were en Col. F. purchased from a Mexioau at an no doubt that there are 810,000,000 in rolled and mustered into service without early day a large tract or grant of wild this mine .above water level that is tho authority of law. The expenses attend mountain land lying among the foot hills level of the Merced and that, though ing these Indian hunts in tho West aro of the Sierra Nevada, called by the Mex- the yield of gold thus far has fallen rath- becoming sufficiently large to attract pub icons Los Maripoaasa (the Butterfly), af- er below 20 per tun, it may even at lie attention; and a few rejections by Con ter a wild flower known to abound hero, that rate be mined at a net proGt of at gress of bill claimed for services will go It is known also that this tract was some least one-fourth of the gross product. ,far towards Kuppresting them in feature. years after discovered or presumed to be Col. F. is confident that his present works j rich in gold the first piuce of rice vein- do not separate half the gold contained' Double-Headed Girl. stone having been taken out by the"pro- prietor's own hand. It is further known that 'all manner of difficulties- and ob- struotiona were ioterpo&ed to defeat the confirmation of the grant under which j Col. F. holds his title, and that a pro - ; tractod anu most cxpenaive litigation was J thus forced upon him. Meantime tho j property was wholly unproduotivc that is, to its owner and the most inviting ; portions of it were clutched by squatters, who claimed, as they Mill claim, a right : to digits soil into utterly worthless cbaums end heaps in quet of Gold, to cut down its timber and feed off sts grass at their own Qiscrction, leaving to the fortunata owner only the privilege of paying the taxes, which, under the management of public affairs by officers politically and which every body used or wasted as they saw fit, and whioh was yielding hira no mcorao whatever. Lor the feeble offorts at quarts mining made in his behalf in his years of absence in the absence, too, of all successful experience id such min- ing only served to involve him still more deeply in debt, which was further swelled by unfortunate agencies and bus- iness conuoctions, until tho aggregate of his liabilitius on account of this property can hardly have fallen short of half a million dollars. Such wore the circumstancos under which be determined, in 1857, to return to his California estate, and here, and .apply responsibility ou his own shoulders as he felt himself able to bear it, until be is now Manager, Chief Engineer, Cashier, Accountant, and at the head of every ntlinr flflnnrhnpnf. hiif. hhnf. nf Ti-w fnr which ho finds it necessary still to rely And his mines are becoming productive and profit- team) mill, near fin dwelling, juns eight stamps night and day; his second (water) mill, three miles distant, on the Merced, at the north end of his estato, runs twelve stamps, also constantly; and tho two arc producing gold at the rate cf at least S'250,000 per annum, at an absolute cost, I am confi- ( deut, of not more than $150,000. Of j courso ho needs all the profits, if not more, to extend nnd perfect his ,work9, having already a much larger water-mill , nearly ready to go into oporition beside that on the Merced, in which he cxpect9, I I believe, to run fiftv-six stomns. and he 1 hopes to have one hundred in nil running j before the closo of 1860. With that number, I believe ho would bo" able, by ' giving his constant personal attontion to tho business, aidod by faithful and capa- j bio ussitants, to realize a net profit of nt 1 lsK ftl 0 ()()() nr rrnplr wl.mh mnnlit ;. t - ft - I ry soon clear him of debt and jcave him unincumbered in the owucr-hip of per haps tho fineat Miniog property iu the world. Still, the Spanish provorb, "It takes a mine to "work a mine,'" is exemplified In his case as in others. A largo addi tional invostmont is needod to render his J property as productive as it miht be. ! For instance; but has just contracted for tbe transportation of 30,000 tuns of vein- stone from his great mine to bis mill A 1 the Merced ( barely a mile nnd a half! uown niti; lor mi,uuu. une nnir 01 tuis SUIll WOUld construct a railroad from tho .1 nn inn " i l r . . heart of the mine down to the floor of tho mill, and take down this amount of rock, leaving the railroad and SH0.000 olear gain. , But he must have tho rock at once, whilo the railroad would require lime, and a heavy outlay of ready cash. A Rothschild would build the road forth- with, and save $40,000; but Col. L , not being yet a llotbschild, whatover ho may in timo become, must bido bis tune. His groat mine, though not the richest, is probably tho most capacious of any in California. Its thickness vsries from eight to thirty. eight feet I believe it is 1 in ouc piaee sixty icei w.iuu. n ia iu fact a oliff or pyramid of gold-bearing quartz incloscdin a mountain of slate a mouutain deeply gashed and seamed in. various direction by the watercourses which run down it to tho Merced. Thee ravines, this river, aided by proper en gineering, obviote all tbo usually heavy, often ruinous, expense of pumping; the mine, properly opened, will not only clear itself of water, but tho veinstone may be oasily run out on inclined tramroads in iustead of being lioisled to the surfaee througb ahufts by arj enormous outlay qf Tlmn the width of tho vein ob- Then the width of tho vein ob- in the rock, and that, by the usp of the new amalgamates be is about to apply, he will double his weekly product with - oat an increase of cost. This conviction is founded on ohemical experiments and i tests which seem to leave no doubt of the , lact tuat the additional gold is in the rook, , but whether the means of extracting it , bavo yet been discovered remains to be ' seen. At all events, I feel sure that the productiveness of theao works will in - j crease much faster than their -expenses so long as Col. F. ehall devote himnelf ' to their management so entirely a he is j now doing. In the hands of agents and j attorneys, they would probably become again what they once were, and what all quartz-mining works managed aE second hand havo been. Horace.Greeley. Extraordinary Case of Voluntary Starva tion. Mr. George W. Jones of llonlyn, writ ing tn The ITaitinrf: (Ihrcmiclp (rive fhn f . . Bevere countenance aud a melBnobolIy; wag of his caudal stump. Tj- jkf ' greeted with roars of laughter, and Tom iii u i: ii ii tence. Turning toward the intruding animal, ho waved his band courteously, Haying: "Como, one at a time, if you please." Tho terrier retired a few pa ces, and glanced quizzically at the speak particulars of an extraordinary case of . fcU. "" u luu uuau' uu,c uw uow uaiu". votuotary atarvation. under religious es. ; wbout suppuration, and the scars are oitcment. Tho subject was a German- i sca"e1 vuxhl' e attributes his very Canadian woman, of 62 years of age. recovery to Lis strictly abstemious Dr. Jones say,: "On the 29th of Au-ih!blts throuii life- His friends say, gust I found her fully resolved on starv-1 w,th tbffc u maD? of b,s receDt ing herself to death. I interrogated her: conversations he has given stronger rea- as to what had induce'd her to "arrive at 9003 or a be!,ef that hc 18 IDSane thaD such an absurd decision. She replied ever beforc that it was tho will of the Lord that she "lledpnth," in his reminiscences of should terminate her earthly existence by tfl insurrectionist, published in tho such means; and also it bad been divine- i Boston Bee, gives the following aDcedoto ly revealed to her that she would never , of "v sawatomie Brown." obtain peace and pardon without first ab-j "In bis camp he permitted no profani staining entirely from food. I conversed ' tjj no man of loose morals was suffered with her, and endeavored to era-e pucb to dtoy there, unless, indeed, as prisoners erroneous ideas from her mind, but all to ' of war. I would rather have the small no purpose; she obstinately refused to Vost yellow fever a'nd cholera nil togeth take nourishment of any kind, with tbe er in my camp, than a man without prin exception of a little suar dissolved in ciplc.' This he said to the present writer water." On the 27tb of September and when speaking of some ruffianly recruits not until then the worn a u died, having' 'bom a well known leader had recently been HO days without food, except about introduced. 'It's a mistake, sir,' be eon-three-quartcra of a pound of sugar. tinued, ,that our people make when they think that bullies are the best fighters, or jWbile Tom Corwin WM address-! tbat;be-v are lbc.fit men t0 PP" tbse ing a larue meeting at Springfield, Ohio,! Southerner. Give me men of good pnn not long since, and was soaring into thej pIe-6od.fearing men-men who re higher regions of political eloquence, a Pt tbcmselve-, and, w;th a dozen of Hack, middle-aged and morose-looking lbcm 1 PP0?e h"d bull-terricr mounted tho platform, and , n as the;e Border ruffians.' His whole taking bis place beside the speaker, ur-, 5 ,aracter w Por.traJ heje words. veyed the assembled sovereigns withaIle wa5 ? nt'u :?T tbe Cromwellian , anrtiA nf flirt rrnrr! I I u f rtiaf ai! T i er, when Corwin advanced to the edge of miles for that purpose. They were from tho stand, and said to tbe people, in a vo-1 Kentucky, and when they arrived atGal ry confidential tone: "I do believo bo latin, were out of money, and perjeetly intends to leave the other dogs and join destitute, not having a cent to pay for the Republican partyl" This palpable their liceuse. Tho magistrate married hit was received with a tempest of ap. them gratis, and the young men of Galla plaus;o, in tho rnidxt of which his dogship jtin gave them a sufficient sum to pay trotted out of the ball with his tail at an angle of intense disgust. tonff or Short Sweetening". Two young officers were travelling in the Far West, when they stoppod to take , supper at a small roadside tavern, kept by a very rouh Yankoe woman. Thei landlady, in a calico sun bonnet and bare j feet, stood at tho head of tho table to' pour out. oho inquired of her guests it they chose long sweetening or Bbort sweet- creasing the size and weight of yourpack eniu?I The first officer, suonosinsi that ones," said one of the post office clerks. 1 ' J ( ''Jong sweetening" meant a large portion Infrhfl nrtinln ahnsn nennrdinjlv. What - .-. , a J . n r 1 was his dismay when ho naw their host- threw down several huge packages' con ess dip her finiier dep down into an ear- taining Harding's Bibles and Webster's then jar of honey tbat eteod near her and then stirred the fingor round in tho, coffee. Hi companion seeing ibis, pre- ferrcd "abort sweetening," upon which the woman picked up a largo lump of ma-j pie 8ugar that lay in a brown paper on . the floor beside her, and biting off a pieoo, Dut it into the cup. Both of the geotle- men dispensed with cotieo that ovening. . JjWillkins Really, this is not to be me. Who are you, air! and wbo was you your father! Homebred-Who was my rather, My, father was the first inventor of thrashing machines; lam tho first of his mako, and oan be hCt in operation at a very lit- tly expense and at the shortest notice. ('Sara, was youeber io lub!" "No,! Julius; you havo been, 1 understand, " "Ye-, sir How did, you feel, oh?" Why I felt, as if I was a big turnel. and a train ob cars was comin' in at both ends. ' There is a double headed girl in Ken- tucky who is thus des-cribed: ' Mcd'lle Christina Milly is now in her ninth vear. and oossesscs the extraordi- nary appendages of two fine beads four armB and four legs, all concentrated in one perfect body. She has two pretty and intelligent faces, denoting vivacity of life and genuine-mirthfulncss. She sings sweetly many of the most popular songs and ballads of the day,-and can converse with two persons at the same lime on one or different subjects. The movements of her body arc easy and quick, enabling her to dance, walk or run with as much ntyle and rapidity as any child of her age. ftot the least deformity will bo found in limb, body or features. Upon looking at her, one would suppose there were two bodies fastened together, after the fashion of the Siames Twins, but such is not the case. There is but one body. . , Brown's wounds, excepting one out on iun i t. r . i. i j t ii i ij , , . . "u anu Kepi in powcer ury. rrayers were I ofIer?d UP io bis, caluP cver u,rcio and grace first asked on it. M Marrying Under BiSculties. A couple wero married in Gallatin, Tennessee, who had walked one hundred their expenses home. - JjTA. father winding his watch, said to his little girl Lt me wind up your. 'No,' said the child, 'I don't want mJ n030 woaod upj for j don.t wonfc jt run ajj day.' Mail Matter. "You'll want to send a horse by mail soon, u you keep on m . . ... ' petulently, as iMalvin entered the "dis- tributin;' room" in the rjost-nffifln nnrl Quarto. "Well," said Malvin, in reply, "if I wanted to send a horse, and pre-paid him I'd have a perfect right to do so." "Upon what grounds I" queried the olerk, looking omewhat puzzled. "Simply," replied tho wngi.-h gentle. man, "because a horse is mule, matter An Irishman who had lain MckaaIon& timo wq3 ouc day WPl by tlje -?h . wncn the followinc? eonvnr-nfion tL- place: a - - w ..WoHf pBu'l6lc I am glad have recovered-but wero you not afraid to to meet, your God!" s ..ijou ... ,nnr r;varpn(,p :t wfla olher chup j afraid nv p Shod With Gold. There was lately on exhibitioVat S ney, Australia, a j-et of hotse shees mVdo of unlive cold. : weh?hinw twnnt ounces, aud worth-about S5U0U; 4?e were :uad for a favorite panv in New onrr South Wales.
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