THE JEFFERRONTAN s HlcDotctr ta politic, literature, Agriculture, Science, Jttoralitg, ani eueral intelligence. VOL. 24. STEGUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA JUNE 1, 1865, NO.lii Published by Theodore Schoclu TCRAtsS Two dollars a. year in advance and if no paid before the end of the yeaj, two dollars and filfy 'ctsvill'ie charged. , No. paper discontinued until all arreaiagcs are paid, -except at the option of the Editor. r3 Advertisements of one square of (eight lines) or Jess, one or three insertions $1 50. Each additional tnscrtion, 50 cents. Longer ones in proportion. JOB PRBiWIWG, OF ALL KINDS. Bioctited in the highest ttyle of the Arl.andonthe iiiosi rcasorriulc terms. EDWARD'S TEMPTATION. BY IIOllATIC ALGER. JR. It was six o'clock in the afternoon. At this time the great wholesale ware house of Messrs. Hubbard & Son was wont to close, unless the pressure of bus iness compelled the partners to keep open until later. The duty of closing usually devolved upon Edward Jones, a boy of fourteeu, who had lately been engaged to perform a few slight duties for which he received the sum of fifty dollars aunually. He was the "boy," but if he behaved himself so as to win the approbation of his em ployers his chance of promotion was good. Yet there were sonic things thatrcn- dercu ttijs small salary a hard trial to him circumstances with which his em ployers were unacquainted. His mother was 3 widow. The sudden death of Mr. Jones had thrown the entire family upon their own resources, and these were in deed but slender. There was an elder sister who assisted her mother to sew, and this, with Ed ward's salary, constituted the entire in come of the family. Yet by means of un tiring industry, they had continued thus far to live, using strict economy, of course. Yet they had wanted none of the abso lute uccessaries of life. But Mary Jones Edward's sister gieWsiek. She had taken a severe cold wn;cn terminated m lever, i ms not on ly cut off the income arising from her own labor, bualso preventing her moth er from accomplishing as much as she would otherwise have been able to do. On the morning of the Iay ou which our story commences, Mary had express ed a longing for an orange. In her fever it would have been most grateful to her. It is hard indeed, when wc are obliged to ucjv ti!'3C wc k're that which u vuu Do a refreshment and benefit, to them. Mrs. Jones felt this, and so did Ed ward. "I ouly wish I could buy you one, Ma ry," said Edward, just as he set out for the store. "-Next year I shall receive a larger salary, and then we shan t have to "Never mind, Edward," said Mary, smiling faintly. "I ought not to have asked for it knowing how hard you and mother find it to get along without me." "Don't trouble yourself about that, Mary," said Mrs. Jones, soothingly, though her heart sank within her at the thought of her empty larder. '-Only get well, and we shall get ou well enough af terwards." It was with the memory of this scene that Edward went to the store iu the morning. All around him were boxes of rich goods representing thousands of dollars in mancy. "Oh," thought he. "if I only had the value of one of these boxes how much good it would do poor Mary," and Ed ward siirhei. The long day wore away at last, and Edward was about to close the warehouse. But as he passed the desk of his em ployer his attention was drawn to a bit of paper lying on the floor beneath. lie picked it up, and to his great joy found it to be a ten dollar bill. The first thought that flashed 'upon him was. "How much good this will do Mary. I can buy her the oranges she wants, and she shall have some every day. And perhaps she would like a chicken. But a moment later his countenance fell. "It isn't mine," he sighed. "It must he Mr. Hubbard's. ' This is his desk and he must have dropped it. "Still," urged the tempter, "he will never know it; and after all what are ten dollars to him ? He is worth a hundred thousand." Still Edward was not satisfied. Wheth er Mr. Hubbard could snare it or not was not the ouestion. It was rightfully He determined to go to Mr Hubbard's uelore h went home. The sight or his sister might perhaps weaken his resolu tion, and this must never be. He must preserve his integrity at all hazards. He knew where Mr. Hubbard lived. It wns n ljrrn finf looking hoUSC On a o rj fashionable street. He had passed it sev eral times and woudered whether a' man snist not feel happy who was able to live ia such style. Without any unneoessary delay, there fore, he went to the house, ascended the fctcps and rang the bell. A man servant came to the door. "Well?" he. said. "Is Mr. Hubbard at home?" "Yes, but he has only just come in, and I don't think he can see you," was ihc rather supercilious reply. "I am in his employ," said Edward, "and I have just come from the store. I think 'He will sec mo if you mention this to him?7 7T,,, . ,uc Su Ly . v I of mother and daughter as they heard ms ; thc rcafc Mississippi to navigation, and -Id go right to his house , and give it, mrricd storyi and Mrs. Jones thanked I drove flic enemy from the larger part of to him this very night, said Edward. , 0(J(1 for be8towinS upon her son whose j tho State of Mississippi. . "vtii - "-uw vw r good principles UUU muuui mem cmo it," " t i:r "Very well, you can come in." Edward was left standing in the hall, while Mr. Hubbard was sought by the servant "Well?" he asked anything happened ?" inquiringly, "has "No sir," said Edward, "but I picked up this bill near your desk, and supposed you dropped it. I thought I had better bring it here directly." "You have done well," said Mr. Hub bard, "and I will remember it. Honesty is a very valuable quality in a boy just commencing a business career. Hereaf ter I shall have perfect confidence in vour honesty." Edward was gratified by his assurance, yet, as the door closed behind him, and he walked out into the street, the thought of his sick sister at home again intruded upon him, and he thought regretfully how much good could have been done with ten dollars. Nut that he had re gretted that he had been honest. There was a satisfaction in doing right. Airs. Jones brought some toast-to her daughter's bedside, but Mary motioned it away. "I thank you for taking the trouble to make it, mother," said she, "but I don't think I can nossiblv eat it." "Is there anything that you can relish? Alary V ' "No," said she, hesitatingly, nothing that we can get." Mrs. Jones sighed, a sigh which Ed ward echoed. It was with a heavy heart that Edward started for the warehouse next morning. He had never felt the craving for wealth which now took possession of him. He set about his duties as usual. A bout two hours after he had arrived at the warehouse- Mr. Hubbard entered. He did not at first appear to notice Ed ward, but in about half an hour summon ed him to the office, which was partitioned on Irom the remainder of the spacious rooms in which goods were stored. He smiled pleasantly as Edwerd en tered his presence. "Tell me frankly," he said, "did you not feel an impulse to keen the bill which you found last night ?" " I hope you will not be offended with me, Mr. Hubbard," said Edward, "if I say that I did." "TeU me all about it," said Mr. Hub bard, with interest. "What was it that withheld you. I should never have known it." "I knew that," said Edward. "Theu what withheld you from taking it?" "First, I will tell you what tempted me," said Edward. "My mother and sis ter are obliged to depend upon sewing for a living, aud we live but poorly at the best. But a fortnight since Mary became eick, and since then we have had a hard time. Mary's appetite is poor, and does uot rel ish food, but we are able to get her noth ing better. When I picked Up that bill I could not help thinking how much I might buy with it for her." "And yet you did not take it ?" "Mo, sir, it would have been wrong, and I could not have looked you in the face after it." Edward spoke in a tone of modest con fidence. Mr. Hubbard went to the desk aud wrote a check. "How much do I pay you now ?" he asked. 'Fifty dollars a year." said Edward. "Henceforth your duties will be in creased, and I will pay you two huudrcd. Will flmr. nlpnvfi vnn "Two hundred dollars a year!" exclaim ed Edward, his eyes sparkling with de light. "Yes, and at the end of the year that will be increased, if, as I have no doubt, you continue to merit my confi dence." "Oh, sir, how can I thank you ?" said Edward, full of gratitude. "By preserving your integrity. As I presume you are in present need of mon ey, I will pay you one quarter in advance. Here is a check for fifty dollars which t 1 it I 1 4 1 ; you can get casnea at me oauK. aou, j by the way, you may have the rest of the day to yourself." j Edward flew to the bank, and: with his suddeu riches hastened to the market i where he purchased a supply of provis ! ions such as he knew would be welcome at home, aud then made haste home to announce his good fortune. A weight seemed to tali off the hearts And Mr, Uubbara siept none cue worse that night that at a slight pecuniary rifice he had done a kind action con firm - cd a boy in his integrity, and gladdened i 1 T I" . 1 It f hA rn MTfWfL TO ffi employers as considerate as he, i mmu . would be fewer dishonest clerks. tV clergyman was lately depicting before a deeply interested audience, the alarm iug tractal)le mountains, and partly to the ! Schmidt for short. He left a wife who increase ofintcmpcrancc.whcu he astonish-iwanfc 0f stiH iu the pursuit exhibited by j was rather good-looking, quite industri ed his hearers by exclaiming : "A young ' nn fwn nf i,:fi chnrdinatos. But oflous. verv frugal, and childless. Time woman in my ncigiinornooa aieu very suddenly in a last Sabbath, while I was r ' . , preaching thc gospel in a state of beastly intoxication !" Moral ; mind your stops, and how you construct you sentences. iTroni Alabama. Alabama has beeu divided into three internal revenue districts, but no appoint ments of assessors or collectors haye yet . bocii niada: xhe Character Of Gen. Grant. It has doubtless occurred to many of our readers as a singular and what some would call a Providential occurrence, that ln tins great war of the people against an aristocracy conspicuously boastful of Its blood' birth and wntlfi hrnnrlinor f.hn popular side has been conducted to a sue- vVwwk vv cesstui issue by leaders who themselves Deiong to what Mr. .Lincoln called the "plain people," and what Englishmen writing about us ignorantly call the "peas ant class." We have no peasant class in the free States; 'but Mr. Lincoln and General Grant are both the sons of "plain people ;" both arose foom humble circum stances ; both, in their youth at least, la bored with their hands for bread, and neither had any of those advantages of birth, or powerful family influence, or Kreui, estate, wmcn in tne ooutn, as m Europe, served men as a lever for their personal aggrandizement. General Grant, who entered the war as a colonel of an Illinois regiment, has shown, in every position which he has held, genuine greatness of character, as well us extraordinary military genius. He became colonel of a regiment which was about ta disband because the men could uot agree with their officers : but in less than a month he had made this regiment the best in point of disci pline aud character which the State of Illinois has sent out. His nnnh- trusivc but marked ability caused his promotion to the grade of brigadier-gen eral ; and after the battle of Belmont, which served its purpose iu preventing the reinforcement of Price in Southern Missouri by troops from Columbus, he conceived the first of those brilliant cam paigns of which military historians will write with delight. The rebels held Columbus on the Mis sissippi, aud .bowling Green, m Central Kentucky, and from these points threa tened at once St. Louis and Cincinnati. Grant quietly aud secretly collected a strong force near Stnithiand,"and suddenly pounced down first upon Fort Henry and then upon Fort Donclson. In these two places he captured a rebel army, with all its artillery aud, material but this was the least of the fruits of his well-considered strategy, for the capture of Fort Douelson produced the precipitate evacua tion of Kentucky and half of Tennessee by the enemy, who did not stop until he reached Corinth, retreating a distance of over three hundred miles without an other battle. Next came the great battle of Shiloh. In that Sherman was Grant's chief Lieu tenant, aud the two men tested each other's qualities in the most extreme trial to which cither had been exposed. The battle was one of the "turning points" of the war. It, has been told us that Grant came into headquarters tent on the evening of the first day's battle, when to any but the most heroic spirits fortune seemed to have deserted us, and said quietly, "Well, gentlemen, it was tough work to-day, but we'll beat them to-morrow" Displaced by B.uel, Grant uttered no word of complaint ; no newspaper corres pondent even complained for him, but he went quietly on in his appointed place. We may suppose that the slow, timid and unmilitary policy which marked the long siege of Coriuth must often have chafed his spirit, yet one of his merits is to sub mit to his superiors, cheerfully doing his own work without stopping to question or rectify the work of others ; and even while iguorance or malice traduced his character and belitted his services, giving his best ability to the furtherauce of the plans of the hour. Fortunately wo had in the War Department a man of insight and decisiveness, who very soon saw the value of Grant, and put it to use. The long and almost impracticable campaign against Yicksburg was submitted to his direction, and led to as brilliant a series of operations as the greatest General of modern days ever conceived or executed. Yicksburg was .the second of Graut's fruitful victories. A rebel army, with all its arms and materials, surrendered to him ; but this material gain was the least of the fruits of his success, for, as the capture of Fort Dcnelson expelled the re bel forces, without another blow, from all Kentucky and the greater part of Ten nessee, from a region of country nearly as great as the Island of Great Britain, and a third greater than Eugland alone, of Yicksburg rc-opencd. Chattanooga came next. "Hold fast , An rrirrn 11 n nii'iffiiinnfrn iP irnn srnrijn " I i . . i so uiu cauiuru h(j tel hed to General Thomas, whose sac-jsufferilf g army Bragg looked down from ' fc . htfi it as hia certain proy . . . batte . d w d fch CUn -J and relieved Chattanooga, and i"ku T) . r T.,t ii nivi' ii iiiii, fii i'JiItmj Tennessee into Georgia. He did not this time capture tun Pm-pna nf i.lm nnnmv. owm?' mrtlv to 1 , ,i:fim,H .,r,irrt nP rmrsuit and the in- lliJlr V- wiiw w- the jjatties fought on Lookout Mountain ' i "Rulfrn liicforv records no i paranell for sublimity of daring and pic- ( Jurcsqucness of effect, which were the- j division of the Confederacy into two parts, were lnestimaoie in nieir jmpuimuu. At last Grant was drawn eastward, to command all the armies of the nation. Wc haye uot forgot thc misgivings with which "the public heard of this transfer to a more comprehensive field' of duty,' . II " it. - I.. : and more exacting trials. Would he I prove adequate to the enormous labor ? tie not be spoiled by promotion, or ruined as so many before have been, by the dif- uculties or operations in Virginia ! Above , all, would he not be sacrificed by the bickerings of tliPi Pnfnmrifi rrfmnrnlfi ? Such were the questions asked on every I . 1 www. j hand. The Lieutenant-General, howev er, heeded them not, and went on his way as taciturn, as silent, as self-concen trated, as tcnacions and as indomitable as the brigadier and major-general had been. He made no speeches on his way to the east ; he did not address the troops lying in winter quarters at Culpepper ; but he took hold of his work at ouce and by the handle. Under his eyes the campaign which began last May has been uninterruptedly successtul. His hrst blow at Lee, m those prodigious and terrible battles of the Wilderness, so cripled the principal army of the rebels that it could do noth ing for eleven months afterwards butlie in strong works, and maintain the defensive. By this masterly stroke Sherman and Thomas were furnished with the oppor tunity of action which they well knew how to improve. All the while the dear old Army of the Potomac, which had been so often battered and broken, but never overcome, was assigned to the dis agreeable and seemingly inglorious func tion of holding Lee still before Peters burg; but the General-in-Chief shared their burden, aud left to his distant lieu tenants the more promising and satisfac tory task of active movement and battle. Sherman and Sheridan and Thomas were allowed to reap a very harvest of laurels. But the. moment at length came for which Grant had waited so many weary months, enduring the taunts of the whole semi-rebel press at home and abroad, which denounced him as Butcher Grant, and demonstrated triumphantly that his game was blocked, and that. he was forc ed to lie idle by the superior prowess and strategy of Lee. He sent forth on the 2Gth of March the potent command to move. One mighty week of battle com pelled the surrender of a third army of the rebels, and with it the fall of Rich mond, the capitol of the confederacy, the dispersion of the government, and the termination of the struggle as an organiz ed and vital contest. JY. Y. Evening Post. Now and Then. The Ncio Yor7c Atlas is a journal griev ously addicted to awkward reminiscences. One of its latest has the following : On the 16th of November last more than a week after Mr. Lincoln's re-elec tion, and when there was no excuse for such an outbreak the Tammany Hall Committee held a meeting over which Wm. M. Tweed presided, and, on motion of George H. Purser, licsoIvedjThatvce condemn and denounce the administration of Abraham Lincoln as imbecile, extravagant aud corrupt, and believe that a persistence in its injudicious and partisan conduct of the war, and its notorious faithlessness to thc letter and spirit of the Constitution and laws, will contribute tp ombittcr and prolong the existing struggle, increase the sacrifice of human life, and the ruinous burden of the public debt, justly invoke suspicion in the North, and repel rather than in vite returning loyalty on the part of the rebellious States of the South." On thc 15th day of April, 1865' -not quite five months afterward that same Democratic General Committee held an other meeting, and this time, "Resolved, That believing Abraham Lincoln, as a ruler, to have been governed by patriotic motives, honesty of purpose, and an elevated appreciation of the grave and responsible duties imposed upon him in the greatest crisis of our country's his tory commanding in so great a degree tho confidence of the loyal people of the nation and exhibiting in the recent events which had terminated in the down fall of the rebellion, a wise forebcaring and magnanimous statesmanship, tho ex ercies of which gave such hopeful pro mise of a speedy and perfect restoration of thc national Uniou in thc spirit and on the principles upon which it was founded, wc regard his sad end and un timely decease a great misfortune to tho whole country." There's progress ! If neither of those resolves means much, it . is certain that the latter, so far as it means anything, is far tho truer. Whoever shall hereafter read that tho Democratic General Commit tee gravely resolves thus or so" Should wait five mouths or so to ascertain how much of it is earnest aud how much merely "Buncombe." Tribune. An Enoch Arden of the Day. An Iowa paper has the following story, which recalls the incidents of Tennyson's poem : "Thirty months ago, a German, living on White street, in Dubuqo. Iowa, ! volunteered with the 5Jst Iowa luiantrv. and went to the war. We shall call him - i mj J- rolled on, and Schmidt, says the Dubuque Times, went with his regiment to Vicks burg. There he was shot one day, and was'left for dead on the field. The sad intelligence was sent to his wife by his captain, and she immediately obtained the assistance of a lawyer, and secured his back pav aud a widow's pension; Sho drew the latter regularly, aud, with what she earned, managed to live comlortably. In a few mouths- she' attracted the- atton- tion of one Schones a miller by oc cupation. Jlc wooed and won, and for him she gave up the pension. They were married last summer. The course of true love ran smooth witlr them until last er applications, several ladies called upon baturday morning, when, just after they j the Provost Marshal of the Western Dig had finished breakfast, Mr. Schmidt, thejtrict and unfolded a horrible story of suft first husband opened the door and walked jfcring and woe. The gallant General in! "Here was a fix ! Mrs. what would 7 zu'.niA . her name be in such r i ouiitRvu , ii jjiic au uugageu some remarK was maae Mr. Schones turned pale and trembled, about the termination of war. Wherff for Schmidt looked vengeance after he nnnn onfinPt.rtn i:nrnr;nn nnnlUnio Had suryeyed the scene a moment and tn ken all- its meaning m. ' After several minutes of silence, Schones revived, and you kill all the men, and then, we wo--boldly asked, "What is to be Si- ' - chmidt sat down and told his story He was wounded, not severely, near Vicks - burg, and taken prisoner, and the rebels gui nary oration, delivered - withall the oarried him -away with them. From time' venom of a southortf beggar, quite ap t6 time he had been in Southern prisons ! palled the General, who auietlv tnro n until three weeks since when he was ex- changed. He came to Dubuaue as soon as he could, and hastened to his home. He received no intimation of- his wife's marriage until he entered the house that morning, iis ne concluded his storv. his eenngs overcame him; and he wept, and she wept also. But it all ended in the second husband's refusal to give the wife up. She, we are informed, refused to express a prelerence, and said the two men might settle the matter between hemsel.vcs. For four days both men kept .very close to the house, and had many ardent discussions over the difficul- Lut the matter ended on Wednes day last. " The returned husband offered Schones twentv-five dollars to evacuate the premises aud leave him in possession of 'Annie.' Schones accepted the offer, pocketed the money, and left. Schmidt is now with his wife." The Emperor and the Actor. The following anecdote is new, and ex hibits the late Emperor of llussla in a new character, as well as records one of the most happy escapes from an awkward position that wit and presence of mind might afford. Some years ago there was a very celebrated comic actor at St. Pe tersburg named Martinoff. He had most extraordinary powers of imitation, and was pq great a favorite with the public as sometimes to venture interpolations of his own, instead of following the advice of Hamlet to the players, to "speak no more than is set down to them " The empe ror at the same time had a high cham berlain, or personage filling a similar of fice, named Poloffsky. Whether for fun or malice, Martinoff, while performing, contrived to let fly some puns against this great man, which were warmly received by the audience. The consequence was, as soon as the play was over, the actor found himself in the custody of a guard of soldiers, who took him to prison, where he was iold he was to bo confined for a j fortnight. Not contented with- this, Po loffsky either told the emperor himself, or contrived that it should come to his ears, that the player had actually had the presumption to indulge in imitations of His Imperial Majesty. On his' liberation, Martinoff went to court to pay his respects as usual, and the emperor told him of this accusation, which he denied. "Well," said the em peror, "if you never did so, let me have an intimation of myself now. We know you can do' so if you choose." This was an awkward and dangerous position' for the poor actor, who felt he should get in to trouble for cither falling short of or o verdoing the character. Still the auto crat was determined ; there was no escape. Suddenly a bright thought struck the' player and drawing himself up, he as sumed the exact bearing and manner of thc emncror. and in a voice so like that it made every one present start, said Poloffsky, give Martinoff (himself) a thousand silver roubles. "Stop," said the emperor, "I have heard quite enough. The imitation is admirable, but the enter tainment promises to be too expensive. Give him the roubles, lolousky; and now mind, sir, let this be thc last time you ev er dare to mimic me here or elsewhere." It is, of course, 'unnecessary to say Martinoff was too glad to pocket the money and es cape so well. A Sheriff Badly Sold. The following incident took place in thc court of B county, Ohio, Judge McF presiding : A new Sheriff had just been elected, and the Judge wishingto have everything done in order, called thc newly elected official into his room to instruct him in his dnt.ips. and finding said otl'ciaf deci- dedly verdant as to the proper manner of opening court, wrote out the entire proc- lamatiou aim gave nun an uic neuu&aiuy instructions in relation thereto. Now it so happened that F , of P Coun ty, a iun-lovmg attorney, was sitting by at th'e time, aud seeing a chance for fun ahead, prepared another proclamation, and by a little legerdemain succeeded in sub- stituting it in the shonu s nat lor the onoj friven him bv the Judge. Eleven o'clock . i m i n . v cnnie and so did the Order from Judge McF : Sheriff, opeu court. Draw - ing his instructions deliberately from his liat he commencad in a steutoriau voice "Hcaryo! hear ye! hear ye I, The lion orable District Court of the County of B is wound up and all ready to grind. AIL hnvincr rrriuts mnv nitoh in .and their! grists shall be ground !" Thc laugh that caiiic in cau only he appreciated by Wcs- tofumon: w&Sm Secesh Ghosts Foreshadowed. When General Sherman's army occupi ed Savannah, the citizens nWriPrl itarvai ' tion and asked to be fed. Amongest oth- B imnressed with the Lilrv tidnfaA' i himself to write the order for supplies: wi,:i i i- " - 1 nnnnrl nnnn Min (I i "This war won't ha tormht nf;i I " " 11... J VU) CUV. u JUU JV111 ail JL us it won't be ended then, fnr wo'll nnmo; lback ns trhnat tn lidnnUnn" fi,;a the order he was writtinc. savinir : "If such be the case, I thinkyou might as well die of starvation, as then vour ! ghosts mav be too weak to come back andr haunt us." And he coolly but politely i bowed the ladv mendicants into tho street. A French Story. An amusing story is told of a vonnrr Parisian artist, who lately painted a por-! trait of a duchess, with which her friends were not satisfied, declaring that it .was totally unlike her. The painter, how- ever, was convinced that he had succeed i -c ed admirably, and proposed that the ques-' tion or resemblance or no resemblance should be left to a little dog belonging to' the duchess, which was agreed to. Ae cordingly the picture was sent to the ho tel of the lady the next day, and a large' party assembled to witness the test. The dog was called in ; and no sooner did ho see the portrait than he sprang upon it,' licked it all over and showed every de monstration of the greatest joy. The' triumph of the painter was complete ; and. all present insisted that the picture had been retouthed during the night; which: was actually so, the artist having rubbed it over with a thin coating of lard ! The: dogs's nose was sharper than the critics" eyes. A Combination. Somcr thirty years ago, in Washington county, N. Yv before ready made shoes' came in vogue, a venerable shoemaker,' old Phoenix, was in the habit of going', from house to house, and there making up boots and shoes for the families under' his jurisdiction. Among thc rest of his customers, he visited the family of one" Mr. Parish, and shod" old and young. One of the boys was endowed with a big pair of stogy boots, and on the succeed. ing Sabbath went to church much more occupied with the boots than the sermon At' thc noon intermission, when good old' Dr. Proudfit came around, as was his cus tom, to catechise thc youngsters, the" boy's thoughts still ran downward. The old doctor coming up to the boy, in hi3 turn, inqured of him : "John, who made you ?" "Daddy found the leather, and' Old Phoenix did the work ?" was tho natural but unexpected reply. - m ii A Frightful Fashion. An observant correspondent of the5 Chambershurg Repository writing from' the city of New York, thus describes one of the prevailing fashions in that town "One sees on the street some queer styles of hair dressing, among which tho. ugliest is the waterfall. It is a matter of surprise to the uninitiated how thc wo men can-raise so much hair; but if those same innocents would only notice the store windows, they would see enormous rolls of horse hair, etc., for the purpose of filling out the thin hair of the fair sex; and waterfalls ready made, to bo pinned' on thc occiput. What a set of humbugs' we arc ! A favorite style of wearing tho' hair can readily be imitated by our bright cheeked country girls thus : Comb out their hair carefully, then tangle it all" they know how; rub it full of burrs, and. sleep in it without a cap for a fortnight. This will be a sufficiently close imitation to pass on Broadway. If it should not; however, be quite the thing, an attempt to got through a very large rose bush1,' head foremost, would mako the similitude4 perfect." Apt Eeply. A veteratf relates thc following I had happened that a mule driver wan eugaged in leading an unruly mule for a short distance, which job proved as much ! as he could do, and gave full employment j for both of his hands. As ho was thus; engaged, a newly appointed brigadier general rode by near him, in all the conse quential radianoy of his starlight, when5 the mule driver hailed him as folows : "I say, I wish you would send a couplo of men down here to help mo manage thi3 ere mule." The baigadier, indignant at being so familiarly addressed, sternly replied "Do y'ou know what I am sir ?" I I Ji .1 1 . . . n -acs, was tuo rcpiy -jou arc uen. I believe." "Then why do you not saluto rno.-be ; fore addressing mo I lmquired the bng- adier. ''I will," responded thc M. D., I you will get off and hold thc mule." Thc brigadier retired in good order." "The last ditch" ill which Jeff. J)a3 proposed to make hia fiual stau'd" , haa been discovered. It was" his' wilejset Ui'coat. '
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