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L been refitted and lurnished in the latent style.
Every attention will be given to the eomfort and
euuveaience of those who patronize the House.
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Tunkhannock, Pa., June 17, 1963 —v7ii44.
BOLTON HOUSE.
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" IiUEHLEK HOUSE " property, has already com
menced such alterations and improvements as will
render this old and popular House equal, if not supe
rior, to any Hotel in the City of Harrisburg.
A continuance of the public patronage is refpect
fnlly solicited.
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TU N'kll ANNOCK, WYOMING CO., PA.
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The MEANS HOTEL, is one of tho LARGEST
ni REST ARRANGED Houses in tho country—lt
is fitted up in the most modern and improved style
Md no pains are spared to make it a pleasantand
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tteii&tely and save cost.
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TUNKHANNOCK, WYOMING CO., PA. -WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 30, 1868.
Latest JV*ews.
Late arrival of New Goods.
Great Bargains at the New Store of
C. Detriclt,
in S. Stark's Brbk Block,
AT TUNKHANNOCK. PENN'A.
Having just returned from the City, X am now
opening an entiro New Stock of
FALL GOODS,
and ono of the lorgest and richest assortments ever
offered in this community. Con-isting of
RICH AND FANCY COL'ItD DRESS
SILKS,
FRENCH AND ENGLISH MERINOS,
EMPRESS AND PRINCESS CLOTHS,
POPLINS, PAREMKTTOS,
BLACK AND COLORED
ALPACCAS WOOL, ARMURE, PEKIN
AND MOUSELIEU DELAIN3, INPOKTED
AND DOMESTIC GINGHAMS, PRINTS
of Best Manufactures and Latest Styles,
Ladies Cloths and Sacqueings, Cloths,
Cassimores, Vestings,
Satenetts, Tweeds,
Jeans, Cottonades,
Drills, Denims,
Ticks, Chocks,
Stripes,
Sheetings
Shirtings, Bleached
k Brown. Shawls,
Sontags, Hoods.
Furs, Ladies' Reticules, Shopping Bags and Baskets.
TRUNKS. VALISES, and TRAVELING
BAGS,
:o:
Latest Styles,
Kid, Silk, Lisle Thread, Cotton
Gloves, Hosiery, Notions,
Toilet and Fancy
GOODS,
FANCY SOAPS, PERFUMERY,
tfC; AI
Black and Colored Velvets,
Ribbons,
Ruffles,
Frills,
Fringes,
Braids,
Beads, Ball and Bugle Trimmings
A Large quantity LATEST STYLE HOOP SKIRTS,
and CORSKTT3, direct from Manufacturers, at
greatly reduced prices,
FLANNELS all Colors and QuDlities.
READY MADE
Clothing;?
AyD GENTS
Furnishing Goods.
HATS AND CAPS
of Latest Styles,
CALF, KIP, and HEAVY, .BOOTS A SnOES.
Ladies'. Misses', and Children's Kid Prunelle Mo
rocco and Calf Gaiters, Shoes, and Slippers,
Wall and Window Paper. Window
Curtains. & Curtain Fix
tures, Carpets &
O it -
Cloths. China,
Glass, and Stone Ware,
Tinware,—made expressly for this
Trade, ar.d warranted to give satisfaction,
20 per cent. Cheaper than the usual rates in btis
section,
Nails,
Spikes,
Iron.
Steel,
Horse Shoes.
Horso Shoe Nails,
Nail Rods.
Paints,
Paint Oils,
Paintert
Material, Putty, Window Glass, Kerosene Oil'.
Hall, Parlor, Stand, and Hand
Lamps,
Lanterns, Lamp Chimnies, Shades,
and Humers.
COAL,
ASH TON, TURK ISLAND, if DDL. SALT
FLOUR,
FEED,
MEAL,
BUTTER,
CHEESE,
LARD,
PORK,
HAMS,
and FISH.
SUGAR,
TEA,
COFFEE
SPICES,
SYRUP, A
MOLASSES,
WOOD ic WILLOW WARE,
ROPES,
CORDAGE,
BASKETS,
BROOMS,
PAILS,
TUBS,
WASH BOARDS,
CARPET
SWEEPERS,
BRUSHES, ot all kinds,
PATENT MEDICINES, DRUGS, and DYES
FLAVORING EXTRACTS, Ac., Ac,
These goods have been selected j
with great care to suit the wants ot.
this community, and will be sold as
heretofore, at the lowest living rates
for cash or exchanged for country
produce at market prices. Thankful
for the past liberal patronage, I shall!
endeavor by strict attention to my j
business, to merit a continuance of !
the same, and will try to make the [
future still more attractive and ben- ;
eficial to customers.
C. DBTBIGK. |
Our System of Government.
"Union or Unity"—Which shall it be ?
i The following is an extract from the
•I speech of Hon. George H. Pendleton, de
| livered at Bangor, Maine, August 20th, 68:
The men of 1787 were self-denying men.
They feared consolidation of power. They
put behind them the allurements of impe
rial pomp. They denied themselves the
I fascinations of a strong Government. They
contented themselves with simplicity of
j confederation. They committed to the
j Federal Government interstate and inter
j national affairs. All the rest they reserved
|to the States themselves. Within this nar
I row sphere they made the Federal Gov
ernment supreme. All beyond remains to
the unimpaired sovereignty of the several
States. If you seek to know our Federal
system, to deteimine what are the powers
of the Federal Government, go to the plain
provisions of the Constitutions If you
would desire to know what are the powers
of the States, go to that vast reserve of
power which by the laws of enlightened
civilization is lodged in every sovereign
community. Massachusetts understood
this system of government well in the be
ginning. She knew that the rights of her
people were safe in her hands; that their
lives, liberty, and property were best pre
served under her guardianship, and there
fore, lirst of all the States, at the very in
stant of her adoption of the Federal Con
stitution, she proposed that amendment
which decided that all the power not giv
en by the Constitution to the United
States nor prohibited to the States, re
mained to the States and people respective
ly Unfortunately, in these latter days,
Massachusetts has wandered froin the
faith, but she will return to it with renewed
zeal when power shall have passed into
another section, and she feels the doom of
isolation. Wise men of 1787, purified in
the trials of the Revolution, experienced in
the lessons of the confederation, virtuous
themselves and upheld in the practice cf
virtue by the public sentiment of an extra
ordinary people—they laid so strong foun
dations of the Government, which can
alone accomplish this result, that neither
force, nor time, nor the progress of the age
can shake them. They will endure until
the degeneracy of our race shall call from
indignant Heaven a denial of such bless
ings as punishment for our manifold sins.
Gentlemen, the pbylosopby of Govern
ment will dictate to roe the subject upon
which I shall speak to you.
Ido not understand your local politics;
Ido not propose to take part in them. I
shall confine myself lo those matters which
concern us all alike. I shall speak with no
partisan bitterness. Not accustomed my
self to yield anything to harsh words, I
seek not to apply them to others. Confi
dent in the purity of my motives and the
sincerity of my convictions, 1 am ready
to admit the same integrity of purpose in
all my fellow-citizens. I shall not dispar
age the ability or character of our oppo
nents. I would not, if I could, pluck one
leaf from the laurals of General Grant;
whatever may be his ability as a soldier lie
stood the test of success, and so far as I
have known be has borne himself with
moderation an magnanimity in his high
office. I have known Mr. Colfax well for
many years. I have seen him in possession
of great power. lie is an amiable and es
timable gentleman, and would perform
with dignity the duties of the high office
| to which he aspires.
I have had pleasant associations with the
members of Congress from your State, and
I remember with satisfaction that we
passed through many years of service in !
that body, interchanging those courtesies
which soften the asperities of political ex
citement. Indeed, gentlemen, my observa
tion of such has led me to expect the most
erroneous opinions coupled with the purest
motives, and the most destructive policy as
sociated with the loftiest aspirations for the
public good. Ido not, therefore, deal here
or at any. other time with the personal
character, with the motives, or with the in
telligence of men. I deal with their opin
ions and their actions, and their party as
an organization.
I have described to you in the briefest
possible terms the philosophy of our sys
tem of government. It is a union not a
unity. It is a union of States, not of mu
nicipal corporations —of States, sovereign,
except in so far as they delegated the ex
ercise of some powers and have contracted
to abate the exercise of others—indepen
dent, except in so far as they have united
themselves by the terms of the Constitu- !
tion. This system of government has i
solved the great problem. It has recon
ciled vastness of territory and strength of
government with liberty. It has made it
possible that we should be one people, and
this is the crowning glory of our matchless
| Constitution—( great applause ) —a free
people. It has assured strength to the j
Federal head, and health and vigor to the
constituent parts. The States have grown
in numbers, in population, in power. They
have developed every local interest, they
have secured to their citizens such inten- ;
tions and such measures of liberty as they
desired for themselves. The genera! fea
tures of the State governments have, of
coursp, a striking simularity, but the diver-I
sity of their policy is wonderful. The pol-,
icy of each is adapted to the interests, the j
tastes, the habits of the people.
The manufacturing States, the commer
cial States, the agricultural States, have
their respective systems and adapt their
laws to their material interests. Laws
which are popular in New England could
not he passed, could not bo enforced, in
the West. Many of the customs tran- |
planted by the people who have built np j
our thriving towns and cultivated our fer- J
"To Speak his Thoughts is Every Freeman's Right. "
i tile prairies would shock the feelings of
I your people, lias not this system of gov
, eminent proven beneficial to all ? Has it
j not proven beneficial to you in Maine ?
I Have you not enjoyed liberty and pros
i perity at borne, protection ftom all your
. enemies abroad ? Have you not directed
your local affairs in your own way?—
I Have not your relations with your sister
I btatcs been agreeable and useful ? Have
| you not been represented with dignity and
| power and splendor in the great family o(
, nations ? And yet, my fellow-citizens, the
j Republican party desire to change this
government and substitute one of their
own creation. They hate this system. —
They hate this diversity. They hate the
doctrine of States' rights. They hate the
Constitution as the lathers made it. They
have deliberately conspired for its over
throw. They prefer a consolidated gov
ernment. They prefer a stronger govern
ment. They prefer to break down the
barriers which the States, with the.r re
served rights, can interpose, to create a
government so sensitive that it will feel
the least impulse of popular will and so
strong that it will execute that will.—
They believe this will be a better and
freer government. They believe that
rather then have the limitation imposed
by the Constitution, they ought to have
the limitations imposed only by the un
bridled will of an irresponsible majority.—
Twice since the elose of the war they have
used all the power which the possession
of the governments, both State and Fed
eral, has given ibem to amend the Consti
tution ; and in each case the amendment
has been in derogation of the substantial,
important, recognized lights of the States.
By the lirst of lhoe amendments the pow- (
erofihe States over slavery within its j
limits was abolished. Bv tiie second, cit- i
izen-iiin in the Stat: is to depend upon j
the will, not of the States, but of Congress;!
and the exclusion of negroes from the rule
of suffrage is punished by the loss of rep
resentation. Not satisfied with this attack
upon the States themselves, with the true
spirit of revolutionary leaders, they have
turned upon the Government itself. The
Constitution has vested in tlie ['resident \
the powers of a department, and tn .de j
him responsible for the management of;
tiie army and for the execution ot the laws.'
The Republican lias stripped him of his
patronage, taken away from him the so- ;
lection of his Cabinet and the appointment ;
of officers. It was chiefly owing to the in
domitable firmness of one of your own !
Senators that it did not dispose hint Iruin i
office and put its own leader in iiis place. |
[At this point. Gen. Roberts proposed
tliiee cheers for {lie Hon. Win. l'ilt Fes-;
senden, the Senator alluded to, and these !
were given with great enthusiasm, the ;ui
dience rising |
The State governments were in full
vigor and operation before and during and
after the war. During the war the State
government of Virginia was called upon to
give its assent to the creation of West Vir
ginia, and members of Congress were ad
mitted from Louisiana, as soon as Federal
troops obtained foothold in that State.—
After the war, the States of the South
were invited to ratify, and did ratify, the
fourteenth constitutional amendment, and
it derives its validity from their assent.— j
The Republican party, by the reconstruc- ;
tion acts, abolished these governments, ;
and created in their stead military govern- j
inents, which no man will pretend was j
within the constitutional powers of Con
gress. By the aid of the array they have j
built up other governments not according j
to the will of the people, but according to
the w ill of Congress, and they have founded :
them upon the exclusion of the intelligence
and wealth and virtue of the white race j
from the right of suffrage, and upon the I
admission of every negro to that right; 1
and tluy have made these negtoes buy
their exemption from the interference of
the army and their recognition as States
by the ratification of the Fourteenth Con
stitutional amendment, and a pledge that
they will never change the rule of suffrage.
Do not their own acts convict them of the
charge that I have made? Arc they not
surely and rapidly, even though silently,
sapping the foundations of the government
and changing its form and nature? Arc
they not accumulating power in the Fed
eral Government and taking it away from
the States? Do they not declare openly,
and make it the basis of their creed, that
Congress lias the power over the right of
suffrage in ten States which it has not
over the same subject in the other States?
Why is it they build up these govern
ments upon the basis of the negro vote
alone ? My friends, divest yourselves of
passion ; look at this work steadily. Is
not the stupid ignorance of enfranchised
slaves too narrow a basis for a prosperous j
State possessing equal powers with the |
State of Maine ? Why is it insisted on?
The reason, the sole reason, is that they j
believe they can conttol the negro vote;!
that by this vote they can secure the elcc- i
tion of a President and Senators and:
Members of tho House and Governors and ;
Legislators and Judges, and so wield long- 1
er the powers of the Government. I!
know many of these men well. They are ]
men of intellect and daring, They are
men of firm resolve and lofty purpose.—
They are not actuated by low greed of
gain, nor love of the emoluments and lion- j
ors of office. They have the true spirit
of fanatical reformers, and they seek power
that they may overturn this system of gov
ernmeut and build up another in its stead.
My friends, wo are engaged in no scramble 1
for office. We are stimulated by no lust
for office. This struggle touches the life j
of our confederated system. It touches j
the question of union and unity. It will'
decide in the far off future the destiDy of j
our country. If our opponents succeed,
we will have first Unity, and then Despot
ism, and then Revolution, and then Sepa
ration, and then whatever God in bis
wrath may inflict. If they fail, we will
have the Constitution obeyed, the Union
maintained, liberty enjoyed, prosperity
abounding, peace everywhere, and all the
glories of our past will be but as the early
bud compared with the blooming beauties
of the full blown flowers. this supreme
hour of our fate I beg you fo pause and
weigh well your duty to the country, as
in the hour of death you would weigh
your duty to God.
The Privileged Classes
The Cincinnati Inquirer sums up the
following as comprising some of the priv
ileged classes under the present Radical
dispensation.
1. The bondholder. He is exempted
from all State and local taxation. He re
ceives his interest on his bonds in gold,
while everybody else has to tako his in le
gal tenders.
2. The Southern Negro, who has a
Freedmen's Bureau to look after his in
terests, and to feed and clothe him if he
don't choose to work.
3. The New England Manufacturer, who
receives an immense bonus in the protect
ion to Izis fabrics, all of which comes out
of the pockets of the laboring classes, who
are compelled to buy them.
1 The Railroad Monopolists, to whom
Congress has granted tracts of land
enough for empires, out of which they can
build their roads and have a great deal to
spare ! A few favored men have thus
voted lo theui, free of expense, a great
railroad.
5. The Congressmen and Legislators
who sustain these privileged classes in their
rascalities upon the people, and who are
made partners on that account in the
robberies.
C. The immense artnv of Office-holders
who live upon the unclean, dripplingsof
the Treasury
It is the party opposed to tiie Democ
racy which, by the act of its leaders, has
brought into being these privileged classes,
and upon which they mainly rely for
tiieir continued existence. It is no won
der that, with such immense interests
f i tened upon the body politic, and draw
ing its heart's blood, the country has ceas
ed to flourish, and its great resources are
being dried up.
The great issue now is, whether the
people have intelligence enough—whether
they sufficiently appreciate their own in
terests—to rise in their might 5t the com
ing elections, and put an end to these
privileged classes and conditions of men.
The latter are struggling desperately to
maintain themselves, and are resorting to
all the appliances of corruption for that
purpose. Where there *is venal press
they obtain it; where there is a speaker
or writer of purchasable materia! they are
sure to have his aid.
The acts of Congress and many of the
high officers of the Government show that
they are mortgaged, body and soul, to
these privileged classes aud conditions of
men. They are powerfully entrenched in
all the political strongholds of the coun
try,, But they can be beaten if the peo
ple so will it —if they are not led astray
by demagogues who fire their party pre
judices and inflame their party passions,
in order that they may not recognize their
true interests, and continue to he here
after, as they arc now, the vassals of those
who aie so grievously oppressing them.
NEGRO CANDIDATES FOR CONGRESS.—
We clip the following from the telegraphic
column of that "truly loil" sheet the Har
risburg State Guard :
"The negro Bradley is out as an inde
pendent candidate for Congress from the
First (Georgia)district against ('lift the
regular nominee and the present represen
tative to Congress. It is believed that
Bradley will be elected if he runs. Turn
er. negro, is spoken of for Congress in the
fourth."
Those are signs of the Radical politi
cian inilleniiiin which is to come if Grant
should he elected. "Let us have peace."
SPLINTERS.—The most disagreeable of
ices—Sacrifices.
Uncomfortable feet—Surfeit.
It was suggested to a miser that if he
could take his gold with him when he died
it would most likely melt.
The men who flatter women do not
know them sufficiently; and the men who
otilv abuse them do not know them at all.
Belter to give than receive—Clapping
a kiss on a pretty girl's lips when she is
yearning for something sweet and good.
It is an old saying and a true one that
God helps those who help themselves. In
an immense majority of cases the circum
stances by which men suffer themselves to
be overcome might be controlled and sur
mounted by vigorous effort.
Butler niust not be regarded as a suc
ccs'or to Cataline, although his voice is
still for war.
Summer resort for Grant—Rye Beach.
A few days since seventy-two
maimed soldiers of the late war stepped
into the office of the pension agent of
Canandaigna, N. Y., to draw their pension
money. Afterwards, these patriotic sol
diers held an election for the Presidency
in the Pension agi nt's office, and with the
following result : For Seymour and
B!a : r, 71 ; lor Grant and Colfax, 1. YY e
know this to be a true statement of fact
If anv one doubts it, let him write to the
agent in whose office this very remarkable
and significant expression took place,—
Wash, Union.
Ink Drops
What party raised flour from $7 a bar
rel to sl2 and §ls ? Answer: the "loil"
robber of the party of protected bondhol
ders. Answer: that the rich might gel
richer and the poor poorer.
The price of "loilty" is eternal taxation!
The victory of the "loilty" is gold for the
rich, and groans for the poor ! The end
of "loilty" is grinding slavery, or the—
gallows !
Inflation is the bondholding lord's life
blood; and fluctuation in prices, the pulsa
tions of his heart, and chills the poor man's
pocket !
The sick man's stomach is taxed in the
medicine which he takes. Behold the
stamp on the pill box ! This is put on ns
receipt to the sick man that he is "loil"
and pays his taxes to the opulent bondhol
der !
Before abolitionism and New England
"loity gained sway in the country, the peo
pie were at peace, were prosperous and
happy. Gold, silver and stable, converti
ble bank Botes were the currency and a
dollar meant 10U cent. The $5 bought
what it now takes sls to buy in money
worthless and hard to get.
Each farmer, no matter how much he
may need clothing and comforts for his
wife and children, pays yearly out of his
crops in taxes to tho government, large
sums to support lazy and shiftless Southern
niggers in food, fuel and transportation.
As long as the farmer is willing, the nig
ger ought to ba content.— Exchange.
GENERAL GRANT'S MAGNANIMITY.—He
refused to exchange prisoners, and allowed
Union soldiers to starve in Andersonville
and Libby. He slaughtered 3-5,000 men in
the wilderness, and laid at Petersburg un
til the war ended, for want of men and
means in the rebel army.
"More Blood Letting."
Galusha A. Grow, a notorious mongrel
stumper, and leader in the radical party,
in a late speech threatened another war, it
Seymour and Blair should be elected. If
these fanatical fools undertake that job, we
think they will wish themselves out of it
before tbey advance very far. Such men
as Grow would be found among the mis
sing in an event. They would not venture
within the lines, and no agency but the
prospect of plunder, or the scent of blood
hounds, would be able to draw them from
their hiding places. — Jtjfersonian.
The Gospel of Hate.
Our appeal is to you, Christian men of
Pennsylvania !
You profess to be followers of the moek
and lowly Nazarene, in whose humility
was veiled the majesty of deity.
You would scorn to be numbered with
Pagans, who believe in the brutal doctrine
of "an eye for an eye and a tooth fur a
tooth.'
You would resist, with indignation, even
an insinuation that you are Mohammedans
in belief, and that you delight in the death
of all who will not worship at the shrine of
Alia!).
. You would complain bitterly if it were
said that when you pray, "Our Father in
Heaven, forgive our trespasses as we for
give those who tresspass against us,"' you
do not mean what you say.
YVe need not apologize, then, for this ap
peal to your charity, your forbearance,
your loving kindness, for you are Chris
tains.
Behold, yonder ! On the other side of
that broad, deep, black line, drawn by par
tizan spite and hate, which divides the
people of tiie Soulh, behold your brothers,
standing, with out-stretched hands, im
ploring you to lift from their hoof-beaten
breasts the iron heel of military despotism;
imploring you to take from their throats
the mailed hand of material law; imploring
yonjto restore them to the rights of Amer
ican citizens; imploring you to take from
their festering limbs the shackles of a po
litical slavery which is pressing energy,
hope and life out of their hearts. They
had sinned against the light and the knowl
edge of good government. But oh! how
heve they expiated their transgression.—
Go count the nameless graves that mark
the track ot their deviation from the right.
Go gather the tears of the widow and the
orphan, now weeping in hopeless sorrow
over the dead braves of the South. Go
mark the desolate fields, the mined cities,
the pained industry, of that unhappy sec
tion. lias not their punishment been ter
rible ? And now they ask you to forgive
the past and receive them back into fel
lowship and union. You are Christian.—
You pray God to forgive those (your
brethern of the South) who hava tres
passed against you. You will forgive
them ! Oh, yes, you are not of the
heathen, who believe and preach the
gospel of hate; you arc uot savages who
cannot be content with justice, but burn
for revenge. You must forgive them!—
11. Patriot.
of the Radical bids for votes :
Five hundred millions of dollars a year in
taxation.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY Mann has conde
scendingly promised a fair election m Phil
adelphia. YY'e confidently anticipate, there
lore, the defeat of Eiisha YV. Davis in the
Tenth Representative District. The hon
est people of that district will not less
strenuously resist the election of Davis
than they did that of Mann.
jP-jPNothing more valued than time'
yet nothing less valued.
TERMS, $2.00 Per. ANNUM, in Advance.
pise anii ftffiEtfoise.
"Why does the operation of banging kill a
man V' naked a medical professor of his
class.
"Because," replied oue of the students,
"inspiration is checked, circulations is stop*
ped, and the blood suffuses and congests the
brain."
"Fudge /" said auother, "its simply |be
cause the rope isn't long enough to let his
teet touch the grouud."
"I atn wilting to split hairs with my op
ponent all day, if he insists on it," said a
very distinguished lawyer, in a speech at the
bar.
"Split that then," said the opponent pul
ling a coarse specimen from his own head.
"May it please the court, 1 did not say
bristles !"
Long words, like long dresses, frequently
hide something wrong about tho understand
ing.
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A Schoolmaster asked a fair pupil, "Can
you decline a kiss ?"
"Yes, sir," she replied, "bnt I hate J k to
p'aguidly."
Iho lady, who stood on her d'gnity. got a
cramp in her foot on account of the small
ness of the space occupied.
"If ill you take half of thisjpoor apple !
said a pretty damsel to a witty lover. "No.I
thank 3011 ; I'd prefer tha BETTER HALF."—
She blushed, and refered him to her papa.
My hearers," said an enthusiastic Texas
orator, ''truth is mighty and will prevail ;
but truth hpats eggs all hollow, and why ?
Because, trulli crushed to the earth will rise
again, but eggs won't."
A Mrs. Boots, of Pennsylvania, has left her
husband, Mr. Bouts, and strayed to parts un
known. Be presume this pair of Boots are
rights and lefis. We cannot say, however,
that, Mrs. Boots is right, but there is no
mistake Mr. Boots is left.
Smith and Brown, running opposite ways
around a corner, struck each other. "Ob,
dear! bow you made my head ring," said
; Smith.
"That's a sign its hollow," said Brown.
"But did'nt yours ring
"No." *
"That's a sign its cracked," replied his
friend.
A shrewd politician once gave a grand
supper to soino of his party friends, and
while his guests were doing full justice to his
liberality, he slipped from the room, and cal
ling his c ervetH, inquired :
"What wine diJ j-uu put on the table ?"
"The twesty.foar, sir."
"Confound your eyes, you beast, that's the
oldest wine in the cellar ?"
"Yes, sir, and I naterally thought you'd
hke to get rid of the holdest fust !
A cnriespnndent ot the Boston Advertiser,
writing from Martha's Vineyard, says :
"As I sat on the beach to-day watching
the gatnbols of a hundred 'bathists,' I inquir
ed of an old pilot if there was not danger to
be feared from sharks." "Not a mite." he
replied ; "not a mite ; cover's been a shark
seen here, sir, since them creeturs," pointing
pointing to the ladies, "took to the water
scare ! them all t'other side of Gay Head."
"Boys," said Lncle Peter, as he examined
the points of the beast, "I don't see but oi e
reason why that mar" can't trot her mile in
three minutes."
They gathered around to hear this oracus
lar opinion, and one inquired, "What is
it ?"
"Why,' he replied, "the distance is too
great for so short a lime."
THE KIND-;.—A young lady, a sensible
girl, gives the following catalogue of different
kinds of love :
"llie sweetest, a mother's love : tho lorgs
est, a brother's love ; the strongest, a wo
man's love fNhe dearest, a mac's love ; and
the sweetest, longest, strongest, dearest
1 ive, a "love of a bonnet."
The following epitaph in a Pennsylvania
churchyard touehingly commemorates tho
gluttony of a husband, and the grief of his
widow :
Eliza, sorrowing, rears this marble slab
To her dear Johu, who died of eating crab!
A Maiden Lady, while in company the
other evening, alluding to her youthful
smartness said, at six months old she went
alone. A malicious wag present remarked,
"Yes, and you have been going alono ever
since."
A wag has truly said, that if some men
1 could come out of their coffins and read the
i inscriptions on their tombstones, they would
i think they had got into the wrong grave.
<►
. H'hat did a certain gentleman say to Poti
j pher's wife ? "Not for Joseph, no, no, no ;
i not for Joseph, oh ! dear no !"
NO. 9.