THE JEFFERSONIAN 1. 93 S)cootc& to plitttB, literature, gricititare, Stunti, Jitorcdirn, auo eitcral 3xttctiigcrir. VOL. 24. STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA AUGUST 24, 1865. NO. 25 Published by Theodore Schoch. , TERlS-T o dollars a year in advancc-nnd if no )4id before the end of the yCaj, two dollars and fitfy ets. will bo charged. , ,, N paper discontinued until all arrearages arc paid, except at the option of the Editor, i E7.vavertisemcnts of one square of (eight lines) or iitt.ononr three insertions $1 50. Each additional Jaiertion, 50 cents. Longer ones in propoitton. JOB PRINTING, OF ALL KIND8, fcscaited ia the highest style of the Art, and on the must reasonable terms. EGYPTIAN SERENADE. BY GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS. Sing again the song you sung When we were together young When there were but you and I Underneath the summer sky. Sing the same song o'er and o'er, Though I knew thai never more Will it seem the song you sung When we were together young. Xs there a heart that never sighed ! ts there a tongue that never lied! !s there an eye that never blinked 3 Is there a man that never drinked ? Is there a womm that never fainted! Or is there one that never painted 1 If so, then heart and tongue and eye Must tell a most confounded lie. funeral cf a Bee. ! A correspondent of tins Glasgow Herald is the voucher fur the following : "On Sunday morning last whiie'walking with a friend in a garden near Falkirk, we observed two bees issuing from one of the hives, bearing betwixt them the bodj of a defunct comrade, with which ihey flew for a distance often yards. We followed them closely and noted the care with which they selected a conve nient hole at the side of the gravel walk, the tenderness with which they committed the bod, head downwards to the earth, and the solicitude with which they afterwards push ed against it two stones, doubtless 'in memo- riam. Their task being, ended, they paused for about a minute, perhaps to drop over the grave of their friend a sympathizing tear, and they flew away." Our Hair. Dr. Dio Lewis has the following suggestion in relation to preseving the hair: God covered the skul! with hair, some peo ple shave it off. MUcbievous practice. It exposes the throat and lungs the c-yes like wise, say wise phyesiologists. Men become bald. Why! Because they wear close hats and caps. Women are never bald except by disease. They do not wear close hats and caps. Men never lose a hair below where the hat touches the head, noi if they have been bal-J twenty years The close ' hat holds the heat and perspiration. Thereby ' the air glands become weak; the hair tails off. What will restore it! Nothing after ihe scalp becomes shiny. But in process of falling out, or recently lost, the following is the tfest : Wash the head with soft cold ( water freely once or twice a day. Wear a j thoroughly ventilated hat. This is the best ' means to arrest the los, and restore what is susceptible o'f restoration. .c3 C. S. A., the boaettbd initials oftlie late so called "Confederate States of America," : i: . t.: ' i:i:urfiiiiLr iji ;Liriit i r.i mil. .ilqi . -f i(- vlineum Skirtum Absqualulalum.1' It is now evident that " C. S. A.," the name of Jeff. Davis's wished-for Confedera cy, means Can,t Secede Again. Manv rebels residing abroad are applying t T!..;..i Sf, -vi;;t,.r ml Honsuls to ; take the oath of allegiance. The number of freight cars on the Eric Road exceeds 12,000 andihe number of loco motives 350. Hnn Rimnn Hnmeron has recived the de from the University of, !0"om, of h Xf sVsPcPdf af,IarS w J j ic-knife. and had in his leather belt a gree of " L. L. D. Lewisburg, Pa Philadelphia furnished 93,323 men to put ; down the rebellion, at an expense o8,000 000. A women in Rochester tied a stone to her child's neck, threw it into the canal and watched it struggle and drown. Fifteen thousand Polish exiles afc making j arrangements with the Swiss Government for transportation to the United States; A woman is in prison in England for burn ing her child's eye out with a'red hot skew- er. There are over 150 applicants for a share of the reward offered for the capture of Booth and his assoiatcs; Oregon yielded duet last year. eight millions of gold The easiest tiling dark. a negro to do keep Gen. Burnsidc has gone into business in Rhode Island. Nine persons are In Luzerne county. jail for homicide in In sixteen years emigrants to this country have tent home $65100,000. DEAF SMITH, THE TESAN SPY. About two years after the Mexican rev olution, a difficulty occurred between the new government aud a portion of the peo ple, which threatened the inost serious consequences even the bloodshed and horrors of civil war. Briefly, the cause of this : The constitution had fixed the city of Austiu as the permanent capital wnere tue public archives were kept, with the reservation, however, of a power in the JL'residcnt to order their tempora ry removal, in case of danger from the inroads of a foreign enemy, or the of a sudden insurrection. force Conceiving that the exceptional emer gency had arrived, as the Uamanches fre quently committed ravages within sight of the capital itself, lloustou, who theu resided at Washington, on the Brazos, dispatched an order commanding lu3 sub ordinate functionaries to send the State records to the latter place, which he de clared to be pro temporo, the scat of Gov ernment. It is impossible to describe the stormy 'excitement which lollowed the promulga tion of this fiat raised in Austin. The j keepers of hotels, boarding-houses, groce I lies and faro banks were thunderstruck, ! maddened io frenzy, for the measure j would be a death-blow to their prosperity in business, and accordingly, they dctcr- ta'ncd at once to take the necessary steps to avert the danger, by opposing the ex ecution ol Houston s mandate. They called a mass meeting of the citizens and farmers of the circumjacent country, who were ail more or less interested in the question ; and after many fiery speeches against the asserted tyranny of the admin istration, it was unanimously resolved to prevent the removal of the archives by open and armed resistance. To that end they organized four hundred men, one moiety of whom, relieving the other at regular periods of duty, should keep con stant guard around the State house until the peril passed by. The commander of this force was one Col. Morton, who had achieved considerable renown iu the war for independence, aud had still more re cently displayed desperate bravery in two desperate duels, in both of which he near- ; 1 cut-his antagonists to pieces with the ' bowie-knife. Indeed, from the notoriety I of his character for revenge, as well as . for courage, it was thought that Presi dent lloustou would renounce his pur : pose touching the archicves, so soon as lie should learn who was the leader of , the opposition. ' Morton, on his part, whose vauity fully equalled his personal prowess, encouraged auu justmcu uic prevailing opinion dj his boastful threats. lie swore that if ' i i iw r k I h him v 1 1 1'f 'I'i'i i in nni fin n ir it. u j:j i ; . rnr,, . nf nn nvnrnn c.. i.A ,..m i, i.:,r.ip i:iiu luitu, h uuiu uivu iiiuisuu uuuu him"down like a wolf, and shoot with lit- tie ceremony, or stab hiui in his bed, or wa3'lay him iu his walks of recreation. I lie even wrote the hero of San Jacinto ' to the effect. The latter replied iu a note , of laconic brevity : j "If the people of Austin do not send the archives, I shall certainly come and take them ; and if Col. 'Morton can kill me he is welcome to my ear-cap !" j On the reception of this answer the ruard was doubled around the State house. ' Chosen sentinels were stationed along the ! -li l . l ri-l . 1. I ; au leading to me capuoi, me military paraded tti streets from morning till ni'-lit, and select caucus held pernia- uctit session in the cit' hall. In short, mnrvlli!nrr linfnl-nifl ?1 nnillinrr f Pirmocr. One day, while matters were in this precarious condition, the caucus at the , city hall was surprised by the sudden ap- , f ! entering was as extraordinary as his looks I J and dress, lie uiu not kdock at, ine cios- i ed door; he did not seek admission there at all ; but climbing unseen a small bushy ' topped oak, which grew beside the wall, , he leaped without sound or warning through a lofty window, lie was clothed altogether in buckskin, carried a long and heavy rifle in his hand, wore at the couple of pistols half the length of his gun. He was tall, straight as an arrow, active as a panther in his movements, with dark complexion, and luxuriant jet ty hair, with a severe, iron countenance, that Eccnied never to have smiled, and the eyes of inteusc vivid black, wild and rolling, and piercing as the point of a dag ger. His strange advent inspired a thrill of involuntary fear aud many present un consciously grasped the handles of their side-arms. "Who are you, that you thus presume to intrude amongst gentlemen without invitation V demanded Col. Morton fero ciously, essaying to cow down the stran with his eye. The latter returned his stare with com pound interest, and laid his long bony finger on his lip as a sign but of what the spectators could not imagine. "Who are you (" "SpeaK or j. win mir. nn answer out of vour heart ! shout cd Morton, almost distracted with rage by the cool, sneering gaze of the other, who now removed his finger from his lip and laid it on the hilt of his monstrous knife. The fiery colonel then drew his char ger aud was in the act of advancing upon the strauger, when several caught aud held him back, remonstrating. "Let hiui alone, Morton, for God s. sake. Do you not perceive he is crazy ? At the moment Judge Webb, a man of shrewd intellect and courteous manners stepped forward dhd addressed the intru der in the most respectful matinrir : "My good friend, I presume you have made" a mistake in the house. This is a private meeting, were none but member's arc admitted." The strariger did not appear to com prehend the mild and depreciatory man ner. His rigid features relaxed) and mo ving to a table in the center of the hall, where there Were materials for writing, he seized a pen and traced one line : "I am deaf." lie then held it up before the spectators, as a sort of apology for his own want of politeness. Judge Webb took this paper and wrote a question : "Dear sir Will you be so obliging as to inform us what is your bus iness with the present meeting?" The other responded by delivering a letter iuscribed on the back. "To the citizens of Austin." They broke the seal and read it aloud. It was from Houston and showed the usual terse brevity of his style : "Fellow Citizens: Though in error, and deceived by the arts of traitors, I will give you three more days to decide wheth er you will surrender the public archives. it the end of that time you will please let me know your decision." Sam Houston. After reading, the deaf man waited a few seconds, as if for a reply, and then turned to leave the hall, when Colonel Morton interposed and sternly beckoned him back to the table. The stranger o beyed, and Morton wrote : "You were brave enough to insult me by your threat- ing looks ten minutes ago ; are you brave enough now to give me satisfaction?" The stranger penned his reply : "I am at your service !" Morton wrote again : "Who will be your second !" The stranger replied : "I am too gen erous to seek an advautage, and too brave to fear auy on the part of others ; there fore, I never need the aid of a second." Morton penned "Name your terms." The stranger peuncd without a mo ment's hesitation : "Time, sunset this evening; place, the left bank of the Col orado, opposite Austin ; weapons, rifles ; and distance, a hundred yards. Do not fail to be in time !" He took three steps across the room, and disappeared through the window, as he had entered. "What!" exclaimed Judge Webb, -'is it possible, Colonel Morton, that you in tend to fight that man ? He is a mute if not a maniac. Such a meeting I fear would tarnish your laurels." "You are mistaken," replied Morton, with a smile ; "that mute is a hero, whose fame stands in the records of a dozen bat- es ant a eas' half as many bloody du els. xesiaes ne is ine iavome emissary and bosom friend of Houston. If I have the good fortune to kill him I think it wH1 tcmP.fc the l'idcnt to "tract his vows against venturing any more on the field of honor." "You know the man then. Who is he? Who is he ?" asked twenty voices togeth- , cr. "Deaf Smith," answered Morton coolly. "Why, no, that cannot be. Deaf Smith was slain at San Jacinto, remark ; cd J udgc Webb. ' "Then, again, your honor is mistaken," 1 said Morton. "The story of Deaf Smith's ' death was a mere fiction, got up by Hous ton to save the life of his favorite from the sworn vengeance of certain Texans, on whose conduct he had acted as a spy. I fathomed the article twelve months since. "If what you say be true; you are a mad man yourself ?" exclaimed Webb. "Deaf Smith was never known to miss his mark. He has often brought down ra- vens in their most rapid flight, and killed ' Camunchcs and Mexicans at a distance of two hundred and fifty yards !" "Say no more," answered Colonel Mor ton, in tones of deep determination ; "the thing is already settled. I have agreed to meet him. There can be no disgrace in falling before such a shot, and if I suc ceed my triumph will confer the greater glory !" Such was the general habit of thought aud feeling prevalent throughout Texas at that period. Towards evening a vast crowd assem bled at the place appointed to witness the hostile meeting; and so great was the popular recklessness as to affairs of the sort, that a numerous and considerable sums were wagered on the result. At length the red orb of summer touched the curved rim of the western horizen, covering it all with crimson and gold, aud filling the air with a flood of burning fire ; and then the two mortal an tagonists, armed with long ponderous ri fles, took their stations back to back, and , , , i - -..: np at a preconcerted signal 'the waving ot a white handkerchief walked slowly and j steadily on in opposite directions, count- j ing their steps until each had fifty. They ( both completed the given number about the same instant and then tlicy wneeied, and as the distance was great, both paused for some moments long enough for the holders to flash their eyes from one to an other, and mark the contrast betwixt them. The face of Col. Morton was calm and smiling, but the smile it bore had a most murderous meaning. On the con trary, the countenance of Deaf Smith was stern aud passionless as ever. A side view of his features might-have been mis taken for a profile done in cast iron. The one too, was" dressed in the richest cloth, lif nth(v in fii'noke-tintcd leather. But that made no difference in- Texas then ; for the heirs of heroic courage were con sidered peers the class of inferiors em braced none but cowards. Presently two rifles exploded with sim ultaneous rdars". Col. Moftoti gave a pro digious bound upwards, and dropped to the earth a corpse. Deaf Smith stood e rect, and immediately began to reload his rifle; and then having finished his brief task, he hastened away into the adjacent forest. Three days afterwards, Gen. Houston, accompanied by Deaf Smith aud ten more men, appeared in Austin, aud without further opposition removed the State pa pers. The history of the hero of the forego ing anecdote, was one of the most extra ordinary ever known in the West. He made his advent iu Texas at an early pe riod, and continued to reside there until his death, which happened some two years ago, but though he had warm per sonal friends, no one could ever learn ei ther the land of his birth or a gleam, of his previous biography. single When questioned on the subject, he laid his fin ger on his lip ; and if pressed more ur gently his brow writhed, and his dark eye seemed to shoot sparks of livid firo. He could write with astonishing correct ness and facility, considering his situa tion; and although denied the exquisite and priceless advantage of the sense of hearing, nature had given him ample compensation, by an eye quick an farsee ing as an eagle's, and a smell keen and incredible as that of a raven. He could discover objects moving miles away in the far off prairies, when others could per ceive nothing but earth and sky ; and the Rangers used to declare that he could catch the scent of a Mexican or Indian at as great a distance as a buzzard could dis tinguish the odor of a dead carcass. It was these qualities which fitted him so well for a spy, in which capacity he rendered invaluable service to Houston s army during the war of Independence. He always went alone, and generally ob tained the information desired. His hab its in private life were equally singular. He never could be persuaded to sleep un der the roof of a house, or to use a tent cloth. Wrapped in his blanket, he loved to lie out in the open air, under the blue canopy of pure ether, and count the stars or gaze with a yearning look at the me lancholy moon. When not employad as a spy or guide, he subisted by hunting, being often absent months together in the wilderness. He was a genuine son of nature, a grown up child of the woods and prairie, which he worshipped as a sort of Pagan adoration. Excluded by his infirmities from a cordial fellowship with his kind, he made the inanimate thiugs of the earth his friends, and en tered by the heart's own adoption into brotherhood with the luminaries of heav en. Wherever there was laud or water barren mountains or tangled brakers of wild waving cane, there was Deaf Smith's home, and there bo was happy ; but in the streets of grand cities, in all the great thoroughfares of men, wherever there was flattery or fawning, base, cunning or craven fear, there was Deaf Smith an alien and an exile. Strange soul ! he hath departed on the long journey, away among those high bright stars which were his night lamp ; and he has cither solved or ceased to ponder the deep mystery of the magic word "life." He is dead therefore let his errors rest iu oblivion and his virtues be remembered with hope. ,o- Curious Predictions'. In 1853 a pamphelt was published in Germany, purporting to be a series of prophesies made by Mademoiselle Len ormand, in whose predictions the first Napoleon placed great reliance. They were 1st, that in 1853 a war would break out -between England and France on the one part, and llussia ; 2d, that when peace was restored, a war would follow between England and India ; 3d, that a great migration would then take place from Germany to the United States; 4th, that a civil war would rage four years in the United States, to be succeed ed by an era of remarkable prosperity ; 5th, that about the time of its close, a fearful sickness, commencing in Russia, would extend across tho Baltic, desolate Germany, cause immense mortality in England, and thence simultaneously spread to the east and to the west. So far all has come true, and the unfulfilled seems hastening. On the day of the President's funeral a bronzed and weather-beaten soldier,- anxious to obtain a better view of the procession, hap pened to step before a party of ladies and gctleman. One of the gentlemen nudged mill Oil UIU bibuw, ai uiu oairn; iiuiu uuairi vuig , . . , . front "Excuse me, sir, you are right m us." Bowing handsomely in return, the sol dier replied, "That is nothing remarkable for me, sir; I've been in front of you for four years." The Provost Marshal of Lynchburg, Va.," compels the butchers to bring the hides and horns of the animals they kill for market, and expose them at their stalls along with the meat. This is done in order lhat cattfc or sheep which have been stolen from the rightful owners, and sold to them, may be identified and the thief traced. Some people think that the beast with ten horns, in Bcvclations. is intended to ' represent the sin' of drunkenness. j , :, A Rich Marriage Ceremony. The following description of a marria" r fi -rV'' y V v aPV? .Justice of the Peace, who is southing ol a wag, is taken (says the Jersey City Times,) : tii:: u i t .- verbatim from a letter written to a friend in this city. He says : Having been appointed to the desir able "posish" of J ustice of the Peace, I was accosted on the 5th day of July, by a sleek-looking young man, and in sil very tones, requested to proceed to a was a "sauelcher. 1 anytmng ot tne kind, Had no books or JL lorms ; yet I was determined to do things , . . 4 T -r---w .-.jyiww. j-uuuxv.ru; set aoouc acnievinz neighboring hotel, as, he wished to enter ( the longest, liberty pole in Berks, out of rf into the holy bonds of matrimony. Hero straight hundred and sixty feet mora nr up strong, and m a legal manner, so I with a hatchet; he. up-onded tho long hay proceeded to the hotel, bearing in my t ladder against the pine, scrambled in arms one copy of the Revised Statutes, among the lower branches, and began, one ditto Webster's Unabridged Dictou-' cutting his course upwards, trimming: ary, one copy large size Bible, a small; close to the trunk every knot and br'anoh copy of the creed and articles of Faith of as he progressed. the Congregational Church, one copy of! Having cut his way to the. tip-top.oX r i-'BBaj uu iuau, auu a auvMuuai part of the map where the victim lived. Having placed a table in the middle of the room, and seated myself behind it, I, in trumpet tones, called the case. With that the young man and woman, with great alacity, stepped up before me Hav ing sworn them on the dictionary to ans wer well and truly all the questions I was about to ask, I proceeded. I told the young man that, being an entire stranger, I should have to ask him to give bail for the costs.- Having heard this so fre quently in Court, I thought it indispens-j able. He answered if I meant the fee for performing the ceremony, he would deposit it then and there. As I did not know exactly what I did mean, I mag nanimously waived that portion of the ceremony. I then told him it would be necessary to give bail to keep the peace. This he said he was willing to do when he arrived at home, and I then waived that point; also. Having established to my satisfaction that they wanted to get married, and that they were old enough to enter into thTTt blessed state, I proceeded to tic the knot. I asked him if he was willing to take that woman to be his wife. He said he was. I told him that I did not require haste in the answer, that he might reflect for a few minutes if he wished. I told him she looked like a girl, and I had no doubt she was, but if the sequel proved that he had been taken in, I did not want to be held responsible. I said he must love, honor and obey her as long as he lived. He must not be "snappy' arouud the house, nor spit tobacco juice on the floor, all of which he promised faithfully to heed. "Now," said T, "Georgiana," (her name was Georgiana,) "you hear what Humph rey says. Do you accept the invitation to become his wife ; will you be lenient towards his faults, and cherish his virtue; will you never be guilty of throwing furniture at his head for slight offences, and will you get three meals a day with out grumbling?" She said she would. I asked tbeni if they believed in the comraandmeuts, and they said they did. Having read the creed and articles of faith, as aforesaid, I exclaimed, "Hum phrey, take her, she is yours ; I cannot withold my consent." "Georgiana, when safe in the the arms of your Humphrey, you can dety tne scons anu jeers 01 ine world." I then read a little from the "Essay on Man," including that passage, "Man wants but little here below, but wants that little long." As a finale to the scene, I delivered the following exorium; "Go in! peace', sin no niorc." The generous Humphrey having placed a fifty cent check in my unwilling palm, I bade the happy pair a final adieu. Give the ChiKireri "Fresh Air. Some parents make the great mistake of keeping their children indoors duriug cold weather. Such a practice is perni cious in many respects. It enfeebles the bodies of children, and renders them pe culiarly liable to be attacked by colds aud coughs. A child should have its feet well shod with socks and boots, its body well wrapped in warm clothing, its head and cars securely protected from the cold; and then be let loose to play in the keen, bracing, winter air. By this meancs its body will become robust, and its spirits be kept bright and cheerful ; whereas, if a child be shut up in the house, it will become fretful and feverish, and perhaps wind up with a severe attack of illness. . Remarkable March of a Cow. A cow belonging to Gen. Sherman's mess, went with Sherman's army all the way from Atlanta to oavannan ; mou in finlflshoro. ItaleiL'h. llichmoud, and to i vv v j O I ' Wnshinpton where she' now is at the ib I of(S.0,diers' lIomc:t D2nl?itfH TSt , . I she gave a gallon of milk a day. JLunw r XT Nov. number oi nines iravoiuu s.i.v-c 1G, 1864, to May 19, 1,220. She is now ; in excellent condition, and . gives one and gis fi -One quarter .gallons rich milk a day. The . 1 , ' National llcpublican says : "It is per- baps nceuioss to auu ura. uiiu uiau bovine "bummer and her lacteal pro- ducts will be welt cared for and apprecia-, ted at the Soldiers Home. ! . An old fellow out iu Wayne County, who has "advertised" his wife six or sev- en times, had the assurance; recently, to ask the genial editor of the Lyons Be- publican to print the customary adver- tisemeut for half price, in consideration of his beiug "a regular customer," Up A Tree.' Artcmus Aristottle's natriotism hroko- i Pi out demonstratively upon his receipt of the news of the fall of Richmond. . He'd' Jlave the biggest star-spaqglcd banne t and the tallest flag-Btaff in Berks County that's, what he would, and he told Aunt Hannah so. So Arte rushed down to Philadelphia by express train, purchased a forty feet flag, and rushed home again by next ex press, l ben Arte set about achieving. had never doudlnss nlno tree, stnndino- nn n Irnnll htdr of the house. With the big r - , -- bunting: lashed about his shoulders, and armed me tail pine, iiriC IIUHg niS UajT 10 lUQ breeze, lashed it hard and fast to the staff, hurrahed lustily for Grant, "tigered'f for Sheridan, and then made the disco-' very that he had cut off his retreat. There he was, a hundred and fifty feet up" in the air, and every individual thing that ho could have clinibei down by, cut off smooth. Arte's enthusiasm collapsed in1 a second, and he hailed the house. "Hannah ! 0 Hannah ! Ijsay Han- nah ! Come out here." Out came Hannah, and seeing herhus-' band humped up into a ball, away up there under the "flag of the free," tho old lady piped out at him in key major "Why, sakes o'me ! What is it, Arte?" "Dod dern it, Hannah ! I'm up a tree Can't ye take that are musket and shoot my dinner up here ?" "Why, dear me, Arte, how will yoti1 ever get down from there V "Dunno, Hannah, 'less ye git some body to chop the derned tree down,. and that would eeriamost kill me. Dod blast' the luck ?" , Arte clung to his percli about as long" as he could, and then clasping legs and' arms about the trunk, he began to slide? down stern foremost like a bear, ripping,' scraping, and tearing over the rough sur face in a way that by the time he touch ed terra firnia, it was about an even ques tion which had iost the most bark Ar temus or the tree. "I'll be ded blamed ! if ever I go cut another tree into a, flag-staff, I'll be gin at the upper end." Arte swore, as5 Aunt Hannah led him away ragged and bleeding. A Knotty Point Promptly Cut The Morris Jerseyman, by way of flus' trating the utter emptiness of the "princi ples of the Democratic party," relates the following veritable incident : Some years ago, when the Lecompton! question was a matter of discussion, and the Democracy were divided into adhe rents of Douglas and Buchanan, two well known members of the party, one an ei-" Whig and former member of Assembly and from Middlesex, and the other an ex editor and ex-Legislator from "Camden' who afterwards found refuge in'Pen'nsylva'-, nia, were quarrelling in the bar-room of the Trenton House as to what "the eter nal principles of the Democratic party were" the one loudly insisting that, sla very had a Constitutional right to have "free course and be glorified" over alT our territories and the other as stoutly declaring for "Squatter Sovereignty."- In the height of the argument, the well'-" kn'own features of Judge Narr were re cognized in the father end of the room and he was instantly broughtjby the friends of both into the presence of the anxious" disputants. The decision of the questiori was submitted to him. Here was a quan dary. He tried to escape, but stalwart hands kept him up to the mark. The" True American was just then on bothj sides, and the expression of a decided! opinion might do immense damage to ther prospects. The Judge, however, on a moment's reflection, proved himself equal to the occasion. Taking a cigar from his" mouth, and turning to the crowd of inter ested listeners (of whom w6 confess to have been one,) he said : "Gentlemen; as I understand the eternal principles 6ff the Democratic party, they ar6 to keep your d "d mouths stmt wnen you aon c know what yott are talking about f and retired in a blaze of glory: It was welf said ; and suspect that the party haver changed but little frtfm that day of tins'; Harried By Proxy. One of the members of the 103d Uni- lC(1 &tatcs colored was to havc beeni ,., . , married recently to a blooming colored flAltifinl CJ 1. I... I. L-- Ilillll.-Ml III 11.1 i It II Mil II inn. I1INL tiw r nn ti rangemonta for the nuptials were nearly i .. -i l- : t . i j completed, -hi ... '.i his regiment was ordered to tw p,.i!.L-t n,,i ti,., ,.nni.nf t.MJk': , d ' . . . informing her that he was' a soldier to stay Dcnina, ana that therefore a postponement was un- ! - avoidable. Shortly after he sent anottief fc. f tho f Blatj thafc ft r , ; , , . t- P. , attcnJ por80miliy to the matrimonial af- fair, and that on the whole, as the pre- parations might not keep, and should not be wasted, he would delegate his grooms.-' mau to represent him iu the ceremonf reserving to himself the right to cliltfai her as his wife when ho returned to Savannah. The wedding came off asdie suggested. JSuvuiinu7e Jlcntiii,
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