-- Wtvottp to politics, literature, Agriculture, Science, illoralitu, anb eneral intelligence. VOL 18. SJROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA. JANUARY 5, ES60. no LClJ.iljXJj.ijjl1jjjLnj1jMjj. Published by Theodore Schoch TERMS. Two dollars per annum in advance Two dollars and quarter, half yearly and if not paid be- fore the end of the vcar. Two dollars and a half. No paocrsdiseon-nned until all arrearages arc paid, except at the option of the Editor. IO Advertisements of oncsquare (ten lines) or Ipsf, one or three insertions, $ 1 00 Each additional inser- ton,-25 cents. Longer ones in proportion. " - r " ,-. :. . JOB PRISnSG. Having a general assortment of large, plain and or- tiatnenUlTypc, wc are prepared to execute every de scription of , n -y-,,-?-ic? tt Tin v.' v , MliKSE. Justices. Legal and other (Hanks, Pamphlets. &c. prins ted witli neatness and despatch, on roasonblc term' at this office. .... ..I..JJI..I.III..I,. ... : .- ; -T M. Q. duckwortu. john hayn T Country iCIcrS. DUCKWORTH & HAYN,' WHOLTtSALE dealers in Groceries Previsions, LfquorSj&el flfl Hpv strops iViv York. No. 80 Hey street, Now York. June 16, 1859. ly. ffew Year's Address by the Carrier of H1 14 W. TTHTPfT'TnT? QOTuT A TXT J. J. Ii I I XJ J J. J. JiJ-OK VJ" J. .JUJL.A.U. January 1, 1860. .Kind Patrons all, again I come Ere New Year's day To-wish you all the happiness That wishes can convey : For i am happy tind would see You all as happy now as me. To-day another old year dies, And full of days; His months have been alloted hiuv And meekly he obeys : Like all his predecessors he lias done his work acceptably. Have you and I ns well fulfilled Our mission too 1 Have we done all required of us "The old year through J JVhi much I fear was wrongly done, Whilst much required was not begun! "'TIS now too late to make amends For moments lost, But wc may here resolve to-day, What'er the cost, That all the future shall unfold A better life as wu grow old. How greatly we are blessed to-day! Who shall our blessings all portray J Through all the dangers of the year We've safely passed and now are here To retrospect the past to-day And note the year's departing ray ! And what the retrospect we view, Of joys and sorrows which we knew! Which in its picture most convene The lights or shades that paint the scene 1 Ah ! some we know will, weeping, say, The year has borne from them away The dearest idol of the heart And left them life's severest smart! How many hearts in deepest gloom, To-day weep o'er some loved one's tomb Whose presence but one year ago Withheld the borrows now they know ! If t4ie old year with us has passed And not those darker shadows cast, Oh ! how should ve to day rejoice, With grateful heart and thankful voice! .These woes which have on others fell Are waiting up, and who shall tell But this New Year shall soon disclose To us the depth of human woes. Our Country broad, from sea to sea, Demands a humble note from me; And glad am I to find it yet A Union whole though strifes beset, And feelings hard 'twixt South and North Have called harsh thoughtsand feelings forth. These local interests, from local view, Their seeds of discord madly strew, .And patriotism is displaced Our humble Country is disgraced By sectional and party schemes Which were not in our fathers dreams; And we seem drifting swift to be Wrecked like those of antiquity ! O, Heaven forbid, with all it cost, Our Country's hopes should yet be lost ; That we who have been lauded high Should yet see freedom droop and die ! This need not be, and we will pray That while Time lasts it never may. We will not think it, Heaven, spare A fate so terrible to bear; For if we sink the truth is plain That Freedom shall not rise again ! But we -cannot, will not despair Whilst martyrs to the truth there are; Whilst there are hearts and hands to be True to man's rights, to liberty ! And whilst improvements averywhere To Yankee progress witness bear; Whilst all our institutions grow Or those that should and plainly show That light is spreading, the new man, With his new means, as best he can, Is working out that problem here Which all before him failed to clear ; Whilst heaven is furnishing so free The means to exalt us gloriously, We fctill will hope and pray to be A nation of grand destiny ! Oar Town deserves a passing thought, For it is with our interest fraught; And it contains our homes iind hearts And what the bctt of life imparts. Wc ,ove our homes' we love our town And iL sIia'1 ol,r ambition crown, aj everv hone and wish elate v ,u t-vl-ry llDPe anu u,8n eiait, To see them growing good rind great, t t- t 1 mprovemunt everywhere we see, mi . i t J - fruits ol honest industry ; The hand of taste exerts its skill To make our town more pleasant still; ' 7 .And happy faces on the street, j . , . ' Uotli grace and beauty, we can meet. -I- crowd, We're of our town and ladies proud ! . 1 Yes, here our family is small And we can know and love them all I Then let us all go hand in hand And truly feel and understand (That every citizen should aim , To bear a worthy part and name. TWOn T , n , . . , "oor 0!" Ju'in Crown has run Ins race, . I Uut short bv botirthern views, And Southern cotton, Southern hands Pred the fatal noose ! If of enthusiasm there can be Too much in a good cause, Then poor Old John was criminal And just Virginia's laws ! r. But whether this was so or not Is not for us to say, The reckonings of the future world To each will justice pay! We have the confidence, at least, In Brown's plain honesty To think he aimed at human rights, To set the captives free ! He did not hunt for blood or wrong, His borrowed wisdom failed, And blood the consequence, and then 'Twas Southern ire prevailed ! He was defeated, not his cause, Was killed but he to-day Speaks through our land in thunder tones Not soon to die away ! His influence lives and he is heard By all, the bond and free, And ever will be felt and heard Till none in bonds there be! Now I'll conclude, and here's my plea, Or how you'll best remember me", And this the way ; By showing with a generous hand From all the "pewter" you command What you will pay ! You know how I the whole year round lave always at my post been found With local news, And news from other points outside To bles you round your own fireside With liberal views! But now I, greeting, come to say I am a "Young America," And always aim With what I do to "make it pay," And this I work for day by day, Don't yot; the same 1 So by the "draws" I make to-day I'll calculate in fair array Each Patron's part, And who gives largest you may find Raised up i ho highest in my mind And deepest in mv heart! Another kind of a Cat. A gentleman doing business on Main street, was presented with a beautiful kit ten. Yesterday, a couph of young la- dies, one of them named Julia, happened iuto the store, aud of course kitty, an kit- tens and babies always do. came in for an immense quantity of endearmentB and caresses. "Ot-r myl what a sweet, darling little kittyl What is its name?" "It has not been named yet." "Oh, the dear little thing! Do call it Julia won't you?" ,.r ,, , , T -J I should be very happy to do so, said ., . , . . ... . T J our gahant friend-" it isn t tluit kind J ' - Kitty was deposited on the floor in a inkling, and a couple of young ladies twin were seen looking round for a good place to faint. jjg"Wifo, wife, what has become of of th grapes?" "I suppose, my dear, the beni have picked them off," was her moderate re- ply. "dens heus, some two legged hens, I guess," saia ncr nusoana, wun come im- petuosity. lo which she calmly re plied "My dear, did you ever see any other kindl" . A little plant is found upon the prai- riesor Texas, called the" compass flower," which, under all circumstances of climate, obanges of weather, rain, frost, or sun- shine, invariably turns it leaves and flow- :er towards tho north, tbus affording an to establish tho belief in tho minds of report of that Department in 1 855, a dif junerring guide to tho traveller, who, un- men, in this reading ami thinking age of ferent state of things. The number of adicd by the needle, seeks to explore those vast plains alone. Forensic Eloquence. "May it please thc honorable court and gentlemen of the jury, thc defendant in this case wilfully and maliciously, with all tho fury of a fiend jest emerged from the wild wilderness with all the terrible frenty of a roaring lion, and with bis gi- eantic -trength. did then mid there seize mv inoffensive client bv the collar, and remorselessly tore his shirtV The "Irrepressible Conflict" and the Threats of "Disunion." William II Seward delivered a a population of 3,097;393, while Virgin speech in Rochester on the 25tb of Octo- ia had only 1,421,661; less than halt t-v ber, 1859, in which ho compared the sys- number in Nev York. In 1791 the ex tern of Free labor with that of Slave la- ports of Viriuia were worth $325,400 bor in the Uuited Stated, and gave reas- more than New York ; in li52 the ex OD3 why these two systems were antago- ports of New York were estimated ot nistical, stating, also, that they were "con- 687,484,450; those of Virginia at only tinually coming into closer contact," and 2,724,657; being less than they were in that collis.-ion resulted. He forther said: '91, and less than New York by S9 1,759,- "Shall I tell you what this collision means 799. In 1850 the value of real aud per They who think that it is accidental, unne- sonal property iu the State of Virginia, cessary, the work of interested or fanatical iD0ludiUg negroes, was $391 ,646,438. In agitators, and therefore ephemeral, mistake 185B the real and nerval estate in the me case auogemer. m is an irrepresswie . conflict bclrccen opposing and enduiing for- ces, and it means that the United States must I and will, sooner or later become entirely a j Slaveholding nation, or entirely a Free la- ! bor nation." Seldom has auy truth been Uttered in At the period of the war of independence, this nation which has funk deeper iuto the oommerce of Virginia was four times tho heart of men. than that there ia an larger than that of New York; now it ia "irrepressible conflict" between Freedom not to he compared with it. and Slavery, aud he who contradicts tuch Again, let ua look at the States of a statement must certainly have neglected Ma-sachusetas and North Carolina; the to read the plainest les.-ons in the history area of the latter being more than seven of notions. But this was uttered as a times larger than tho former. In 1790 eimple, nuked truth) one entirely dicon- North Carolina had 15,000 moreinhabi nected from the tenets of any political tauta tbaD Massaebusett- ; in 1850 Map party, nor tvas it made in anticipation of sachusetts had 125,000 more than North becoming a cardinal point in any politi- Carolina. Iu 1850 the products of man cal creed. It has nothing to do with par- ufaetures, mining and the mechanic arts ty platforms. It i- a truth which no one in Massachusetts were worth 8142.000, can gainsay or disprove. i 000 more than the same products in North But to the expression there has been Carolina; and in 1856 these products of attached an undue importance, simply be- Massachusetts bud increased to 238,000, cause it wa- spoken by Mr Seward. Hia 000, more than twice the value of the en political opponents, who doubtless have . tire cotton crop of all the Southern StatesI read, thought upon and dmitted the truth In 150, Massachusetts (where all are of the declaration scores of times, just now (free) had real and personal estate to the discover its applicability to political ccon- value of more than S573,000,000; the omy, and because Mr. Seward is a tnetn- .value of the same in North Caroliua, iu ber of the party called Republican, they cluuinji negroes, was only $226,000,000. burn to stamp upon it the brand cfhere-fIn 1856 Boston alone possessed real and sy, and charge that .party with treachery ! personal estate amounting to within a to the Constitution and the Union. This fraction of $250,000,000, thus showing charge is as fallacious as it ia unjunt. lhere exist no arguments to prove, no facts to maintain it. No intelligent man will deny that this conflict has always existed wherever Free dom and Slavery have approached each other. History point to no period of time when Freedom and Slavery agreed to "dwell together in unity;" when the oppressed embraced his chains, and nev er desired to belong exclusively to him self; or when one ot these elements did not strive to outreach and prostrate the other; and ns the world grows older the antajiouism of the two force will increase until one be finally eradicated. The struggle fairly begun in our coon - try at the adoption of Constitution, when a part of the original thirteen States de cided that all men within their limits should be free, aud tho remainder re solved that some of their inhabitants should be held iu slavery. Of the work ings of tho two systems we shall speak hereafter. The direct supporters of the Slave la bor system the slaveholders appear to have adopted the stratagem which was devised to manufacture politicul capital in the North, aud join in condemnation of what they term a "political principle." Out of their own mouths let thorn be judged. The Richmond Enquirer, which has never advocated any sentiment contrary to the "humauiziof aud christainizing in- fluence of Slavery," iu 1850 gave utter-: 000,000 of copies ; in South Carolina on ance to precisely the same fact for which jly 46 newspapers, circulating but 7,150, Mr Seward is now denounced. It said :' 01)0 copies. So much for Freedom and 'rPun nnnncifn n iwt ri flint i i rr -i-ro rl o Qlnrtt? m f It u n .Qt'itnu j ciety cannot, among civilized men, co-exist and endure. The one must give way and jl. w w;uoi 1. V UIIU UWIIIIIWllll 111 11 IO Ml EJ- cease to exist the other Decotnes universal If free society be unnatural, immoral and unchristian, it must fall and give way to slave society a social system old as the world, and as universal as man." Let those who are the loudest in the denunciation of, and, therefore presumed to be the most competent to pa-s judg - . , .... i.: tAr...t.: -f n. UUUU IIII3 Kit UU IMC wtm.. S . ,., VI C.'IIUIC bUUUIUl tuu.ic wuu iiuuuuc u frorthn n)aI for a truthf Vint vind!ttff a nfion nf thn Smifli fnr . fc out dif. tb bushel measure products of the Union 6 ju the JJf formajin ,850, tho North had a balnnoo in her of words submitted for their consideration We freely confess that our powers of dih- .'n value worth nearly 45 millions of dol crimination are not acute enough to dis- lars mo iin ir tlie South. Of pound ceru any di-tinction, and we believe measure product raised in the United that all attempts to do so will bo futile. States in 1S50, the figures -bo x a balance We leave our readers to judge of the truth in favor of the North of 24.539,000,000 of the latter clause of the extract, which twenty -four billions five hundred and thir- society has been tbo "unnatural, immoral ami unchristian," that of Free or Slave eocietv. ' Ah to the senioritv of the two eystems, we think Freedom can justly claim the title. But fu our own country what have been the practical workmen of the two bvs- terns? s the experiments have been pretty thoroughly tested during thc sev- enty-two year since the adoption of the Constitution, some safe conduion8 may bo formed as to benefits and defects of each. Tbeorv ha- never vet been able thc world, that tho presumption that all men are by nature their own masters, is either unnatural, immoral or unchristian, or that it must ever "fall and give way to slave society. Fa-l-, too, array them- selves on the side of Freedom. Let ua examine a few of them. The State of Virginia wag settled by th- English in 1607 The State of Now York was settled by the Dutch in 1614. 1" 1790, when the first census was taken, New York had 340.120 inhabitants; at : the same time the population of Virgiuia was 748,303, more than twice the number of New York. In 1850 New York had rv v i i i or a,.one J""" $51l' 4()'491 So the C,tJ of cw York alone could buy up the whole State of Virginia, and have more mon1 than one I hundred and twenty millions of dollars left tnac mis single city couiu nuy up me State of North North Carolina and have over seventy five millions of dollars surplus. In 1850 there were in Massaobubetts 1, S61 native white and free colored persons over 20 yearn of age who could not read and write; at the same time in North Car olina, excluding slaves, there were 80, 083. But, again, let us look at tho States of Pennsylvania and South Carolina, and see which side of the "irrepressible con flict" we find the gainer in thin compari son. South Carolina was settled in the year 1670, Pennsylvania in 1682. In 1850 the cash value of all the farms, far- iniing utensils and machinery in Pennsyl- vania was worth more by fci.j.irjjiJUiyHJU than the same kiud of property in South Caroliua. At the same time the value of ail property iu Pennsylvania was greater by S441, 000,000 than all the property in South Carolina, including the value of negroes, estimated at that time as worth $288,000,000. The City of Philadelphia alone is worth more in real and personal estate than the State of South Carolina by at least fifty millions of dollars. The cause of educatiou make- no better show for the Southern State The annual in come of publio phools in Pennsylvania in 1850 was over $1,200,000 more than in South Carolina. In the former State there were in 1850 363 libraries other than private; in the latter 26; in Penn sylvania 310 newspapers circulating 84,- . IJIU I V.1 Jl 1 U V I w w VJbUbUU I With a few general -tatistics wo this branch of our article. Let it close ho re roombered that tho-e statistics are chiefly compiled from the last United States Cen sus report, and are to be implicitly relied upon. Tho value of the hay crop in the North ern States, in 1850, connistiug of 12.690, : uaJ t0Iq nt &1 1 Per ton. was worth fiioi-p hv S3. 500 000 than all tho cotton. J " tobacco rice hav hemn and surrar cane in U ' J. o the entire South Where is Southern ag- Iriculture. and where "King Cotton? Of avr of nearly 17 millions of bushels; nine millions) of pound; which, valued m do.iars ana cents, is worm ou,uuu,uuu naore man me pouna proaucn oi iuu , South. So we could go on in n htion to j domestic animals, revenue, expeudi- tures, tonnage, exports and imports . manufactures, canals, railroads, hank capital, schools, libraries, newspapers, churche. patents issued, etc., and they would all be found to be very largely in favor of tho Freedom side of the -'irre- presi-ible conflict." But we pauue nt the Post Office oppcrations. and find from a "tamps hold in wie ionn uuring mat yr amounted to Sl,0.r2,968 more than tl South; the total postage collected e Nrtl1 was ;V l75:17 n0 tn.an n he South; but the cost of transporting the mails in the South for that year was only 232,342 less : than that of the North, We have carried these figures to a greater extent than a newspaper article will often warrant, Compared with what every American cittzun should kuow ol the condition ot tho Free and Slave aeotlons of our coun- try, tbise statistic are far too m.'aKre. But. notwithstanding Northern Cities out- weib Southern Stntes in everything, (ex- ceptinjf the value of human flesh) the South docs not hcitate to assume airs of dicta- tion whenever tho "peculiar institution" fails, or is like to fail in its unjust de- mands. The Richmond Whig says : "We could only stale that we firmly and religiously believe, that the Southern Stuti-s will not submit to the inauguration 0f Sew- ard as President of the United Ststes. We go further, and say that the Southern Stales wdl not stibmil to the inauguration of auy black Rejmblican President whatever that is to any man elected by the Republican parly, as such in its capacity of a separate and disli7ict nolitinal and spr.iinal m;. zalion. In such an event, we believe utl the addit5n to all this, tho lad? xras ad Guft' States, with one accord, and at the sa'me mirably graceful; she rode, danced, and moment, will go out of the Union, and i-et up moved with an elegant ease, and sang fbr themselves, and that thc other Southern and played on the harpsichord very States. Virginia included, will ultimately, if sweetly. Add still to these accomplish not immediately, take precisely the same ' mcnt3 the pos?e(!,ion of excellent good 8 " 'sense, very con-iderable cultivation, a Will not submit" i a phra9e which Wftrm loving heart, and last, though not nas been iu voguo iu the South "lo! these least, notable talents for house-keeping, many years ;" the rod held over the backs aDd it will not be difficult to understand of Northern dough-faces to compel tbem how the youthful Mr. Jefferson came to to do penance to tin ir Southern masters; visit very frcouently at the lady's reai nnd the very threat which frightens the deuce, in the couuty of Charles City. It timid men among thirteen mil!iou of . was caiLd "The Forest," and tho name free people (!) and makes them give ut- 0f the lady was Mrs. Martha Skelton. terance to the cry of "the Union forever, She was a daughter of John Waylcs, an though it bo at tho expense of our honor, , eminent lawyer, and bad married, in her our ngbts, our freedom !" Thirteen mil- seventeenth year, Mr. Bathurat Skelton, hons of freemen versus a squad of three WUo, dying in seventeen hundred and hundred and fifty thousand slave-holders! I hixty-eight, left his young wife a widow Thus far the howl of "dissolution" has ' at uineteeo. As the three years of mourn been pretty effectual in placing power in ; ing began to expire, the beautiful lady the handu of Southern men and slavehol- , fnml Iirn1f he;rrn t "Tt,n throat" ders. It has placed slaveholders in the Presidential ohair 48 out of 72 years ! It has given 5 Justices of the Supreme Court to the Slave States and 4 to the Free States 1 It has given tho office of Secretary of State to Southern men and slave-holders 40 years out of 67 -fourteen appointments from tbo Slave states, eight from the Free ! It has furnished the House of Representatives with 14 Speakers out of 25 43 years out of 63 ! It has furnished 15 Attorney Generals from the Sdutb out of 25 42 years out of 67 I It has monopolized the control of the Navy for the la-t sixteen years with an interval of two years 1 It has kept Northern men out of the post of Socreta- Jefferson; and on the first day of Janua ry of War for the last ten years I It has rv. seventeen liniidrpd W, onfr.f:n given slave holders 80 out of 134 For- there wan a irreat festival at "The For eign Ministers ! It has giveu up North-: cat.'-' Friend- and kindred assembled ern Territory without a struggle, when from far and near. There was frolickino- we had an "indisputable right" to it; and 8nd dancing after the abundant old fash- created an expen-ive and unjust war to iou; and we fjnti froai tuo bridegroom's acquire Southern Territory to which we uote book'tbat the servants and fiddlers had no right I It has repealed the Mis- received fees from his especial pocket. souri Compromise, established the Dred lt snowed without, but within all was Scott decision, with the avowal by the luirth and enjoyment, in the light and President that Kansas is as fully slave warmth of the great log fires, roann" in territory as Georgia and South Carolina; nonor 0f n9 occat.lon. Soon afteAhe made Northern men slave-catchers, un- performance of the ceremony, the bride- der a penalty of a fine and imprisonment; gr0om and hi-, bride set out in their car- and, as if all these insults to Northern riage for "Monticello," where Mr Jeffer- intelligcnce were not enough; it demands son bad commenced building in seventeen thc purchase of Cuba at the cost of onchun hundred and sixty-nine, just before the dred and twenty millions; Congressional destruction by fire of hi patrimonial 2Jrotcctionfor Slavery in the Territories and bouse of "Shaktrell.' The journey was the re opening of the African Slave Trade not to end without adventuros. As tbey Great God 1 bow valuable this Union has advanced to-ward the mountains the been and is like to te to the free North sncw increased in depth, and finally they working under such a rytem I were compelled to leave the carriage and We i-incorely hope the time will never proceed upon their way on horseback. come when the sun shall shine upon our Stopping to rest at "Blenheim," the seat State lessened by a single one, but, if of Colonel Cart-r, where tbey found, how- the only price of Union must ha an eter- cver, no one but an overseer, they loft it ual yielding to the clamors of Slave-hold- at sun-et, re-olutely bent upon reaching crs, tho continued disregard of all North- Monticello before night. hr was eight , ern int. rests when conflicting with the miles distant, aud the road, which was 1 demands of the South, the revival of a rather a mountain bridle path than an traffic which even half-oivilizcd nations bouet highway, was encumbered with contemplate with horror, the Federal sn0w three teet deep. It was late when protection in our terrritory of a curse they arrived, and a cheerless reception a- which han blasted the energies, impover- waited them or rather, there was no ro- ished the soil and reudered infamou one- ception at all. The firos wer all out, the half of the Republic, the perpetuation of servants bad gone to bed, and the place laws which would compel men (if they was darfe and silent. Conducting his could) to stifle all the nobler feelings of, wife to the little pavilion, which was tho the bcart to minister to the demands of only part of the bouse habitable at tho buyers and st-Ucrsof flesh and blood, and time, Mr. Jefferson proceeded to do the hich prohibit the cxprea-ion of thoughts honors. On a shelf behind some books, . and gag the press if, again say we, U- part of a bottle of wine was discovered; nion is to bo purchased at buch a price j and this formed the supper of the bride- in tho nsmc of all that is ju-t and holy groom aud tho bride. Far from being let the South get out of the Union with- annoyed or discomfited bv their rocontiotT. out delay, and let the day be celebrated up on which dawns a nobler aud hetillhier, freedom for the North ! Wo think the North would bo found self-sustaining. As a late writer has said : ' "She has no niggers to run away, that can becnught only by means of the Union, no insurrections that can be quelled only by t.hc armies nf the Union, tin mulls to be supported out of the purse of the Union, no first lami lies that would starve lo death ifthny had not the offices and purse of the Unoin to full back on. If the South, which is supported by the Union and lives on the Union, aud , fattens on the Union, as a worm fattens on an apple core, to its own great comfort but to the groat detriment of the fruit, chooses to ! dissolve the Union, let her do so. lt would : be like a pauper dissolving the union between 1 himself and the poor house; but if the North i is peopled with men let us not be frightened from our propriety and be driven to folly and wickedness by such ridiculous threats." This "irrepressible conflict" will go on in spite of such threats, aud in the year I860, a glorious victory will ce guinea ny the free North. Let it move on 1 To this subject wo invite attention, thought and discussion. jgQrlt is said that "red is all the rage" with the ladies of Buffalo this winter. They are wearing red heeled shoo., red. stockiugs, and red petticoats, JEFxEESOH'S WEDDDTG. The following pleain pio.ure ia froR tho Earl Days of Jefferson, Jn that New York Century. "Belinda!'' Jefferson's first love had been married many ycara, and hr old admirer was approaching thirty when he caet with a young lady of twenty-two, w.ho P''" a strong imprcsMOU upon n'm- She was a little above the medium bviiiht, slender, but -legautly formed. A fair complexion with a delicate tint of the roa ; lare hazel eyes, full of life and feeling, and luxuriant hair of a rich, soft auburn, formed a combination of atlrac liou which tferc eminently calculated to """" 7,mc" wur u CU"UUJ movc thc bcart of a youthful behlor.- " by numerous visitor. Of these, throe were favorites with the fair . rs. Skelton, of whom Mr. Thomas Jefferson was one. It is said that the pretensions of the ri vals were decided either by the musical accomplishments of the counsellor, or by the fears of his opponent; that the un fortunate gentlemen encountered each other on Mrs. Skelion's doorstep, but, hearing Mr. Jefferson's violin and voice accompanying the lady in a pathetic song, gave up the contest thenceforth, and re tired without entering, convinced that the affair was beyond their control. Howev- ! er this may t e, it is certain that thc beau tiful widow consented to become Mrs. it only served afterwards as a topio of jest and laughter. Wife Wanted Peter CowJes, of Amher-t, Mass., wants a wife, and advertises for one aftor tho following patttern: "I would like a woman that has a sort of brunette complexion, dark flowing hair, a little mite curling, dimples on her cheeks, mild, gentlo, slow, with pleasant eyes looking out of her head. I don't want a glas.oycd or a lantern jawed wo man, ons that is as cross aa blaxes. and gads about, gosipping and making mis chief all over the town." They have got a new plan in operation "Dowu East," for tho demolition of hed biii'S. It is done by steam. One wheel catches them by the nose another draws their teeth while a neat little pi-ton rod punches three graiua of srsenio down their Croats ' CA young tyro in dcclamation-in a neighboring seminary, who bad been told by hi teacher that be must gesture ac cording to the scn3o, in coameccing a pitce with ' "Tho comcfe lifts it?: fiery tale" lifted, his coat tail to a. bonQuiojgngj. tiou.
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