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SO 00 Adminisirator' and Executors' notices,3 00 : Transient advertising pay ab'er in advance, ail other doe after the first insertion.. my owx fireside. BT i Li SIC WATTS. It it a mystio circle, that surrounds Comfort and virtues never known bejond its hallowed limit. SouthictI , Let others task for empty joys . At ball or concert, routor play ; AVhilst.7 far from fashion's idle noise, -' -"'!- Her gilded domes and trappings gar, I while the wintry 'eve aay, . 'Twin book and lute (be hours divide; Aod marvel how 1 e'er could stay . , From thee-my own fireside! My own fireside! Those simple words . Can bid th sweetest dreams arise, A waken feteling' tenderesl cords. . - And fill with teats of joy mine eye. What is there my wild hear: can prize-, 1 ' That doth not in thy sphere abide; Haunt of my home-bread sympathies, , My own-my own Ereside ! A. senile form is near me now; A small white band is clapped ia mine; ! gaze upon her placid brow, And ak what jojs can equal thine ? A babe, whose beauties half divine, , - In sleep hi mother's eyes doth bide; Where may Love seek a finer shrine Than thou my own fireside. . My refuge ever from the storm ' Of this world's passion, strife and care ; Though thunder-clouds, (he skies deform, Their iury cannot reach me there. There all is cheerful, calm and fair. V Wrath, Envy, Malice, Strife, or Prida - Hath never. maJe its hated lair . By thee ray own fireside ! - Shrine of.tny household dilie! - Bright scene of home's unsullied joys; To (bee ny hardened spint dies TThen Fortune frowns or Care annoys! Thine Is the blis that bever cloys; The mile whose troth hath oft been 1 tried ' - - ;What,'iheo, are this world's tinsel toys ) To thee my own fireside ! Oh, may the yearnings, fond and sweet, That bid my thoughts be all of thee, Thus ever guide toy wandering feel L. To tny bean-soothing sanctuary ! Whate'er my future years may ba - Le joy or grief my fate betide, Be still an Eden bright to me, ' My own my own fireside ! r..;. v rTreatoent of Cronp. - - --- ' Croup is an inflammation of the inner sur ' face of the wind pipe. Inflammation im " piles heat, and that heat must be subdued or the patient will inevitably die If promp1 fcfforu are made to cool the parts in (be case -of an attack of the croup relief will be as "prompt as it is surprising and delightful. , Ail know that cold water applied to a hot skin cools it, but all do "not know and nn- derstand that hot water applied to an in' "flamed akin will certainly cool it off.- Hence the application .of iced water with linen - cloths, or almost hot water with woolen fiandet, of two (old, large enough to cover the whole throat and upper part of the chest", . p'at these in a pail 'of water as hot as the band can bear, and keep it thus h9i by ad ding water from the boiling tea kettle. Let two or three flannels be in hot water all - the time, with a dry flannel covering the wet one so as to keep the heat in to some extent; the flanne! should not be so wet when put on as to dribble, for it is import ant !o keep the clothing dry, and keep up the process until the phlegm is' loose, the "cbUd easier and beginning to fall asleep then gendy wrap a flannel over the wet one which U on, soas to cover it op entirely, and the child is saved. - When it wakes up both flannels will be dty.-HaWi Journal of JlsalX' . ' Importance or Punctuation. WaUeJ. A young man to take charge of a pair of horses of a religions turn of mind A school committee man writes r We hae i a school-house large enough to accomodate .oar hundred pupils foor stories high. A newspaper says: A child was run over by & wagon three years old cress eyed with pantalets which never spoke afterwards. Parasol A 'protection agaiost the sun - used by ladiea made of cctian aod whale bone. - - i . ' Eiraps Articles worn under tha boots of gn:!?naa made of calf-kin.' , 'Aa exchange describing a cslebration taysi The procession was very fine and tear! two miles in length as was alio the pr?j?f of Dr. Perry the chaplain. , , - A'uxc:ciA!t once upon . a tiraa i.dvertised en 1.3 tills that the evening's entertainment t?c-!i ccsckcJ3 with a mysterious diaap- -: - cf a hlj. T9 esotjh, afisr the v rrl'i cf tbs HOLLO CAR. ST JOHW JAY. ' Yes) I will relate the incident to yoo, but it always leaves a sadness upon me; and I wonder why to some the hour of repentance never comes roe late, while to others it nev er comes at all. 'Ah, ii we only would not do those things that must be repented of ! In the Summer of 1832 I took passage upon a . Western steamer for Cincinnati. The river was remarkably low for the sea eon, and we were kept in constant annoy ance by the multitude of passengers, the scarcity and poor quality of the fare, and the almost daily stranding upon the bars which the falling water brought near the surface. But the incident' which occurred on Rollo bar, as (he pilot named ii, com pletely hid these minor grievances and made me forever ashamed of my selfish, ness. During the trip I bad made the ac quaintance of a young man, whose fine person and agreeable manners impressed me most favorably. Confidence grew rap idly between us, and in an hour when feel ing was more than usually predominant, he had told me bis history. He bad been mar ried, for a little more than a year, to a love ly young woman, who, be said, ws his su perior in everything save family position. Previous to bis marriage his father had ex erted every means in'his power to dissolve the match ; but without success. They were married, but unrecognized in their new relation by bis prond family ; and not only 60, but these injored relatives tried every means to part those whom God had joined together. : It was cunningly and craftily done; and when the young husband would miss the elegant society he bad moved in, among the friends of his wife, the father's doors would be thrown open, and more than usual parade and splendor would receive him. She was not admitted, nor inquired after.; At first this stung and mortified him. alas! for mortal weakness, she was soon forgotten by him doting these Visits. After the novelty of his married life began to wear away, he turned too willing an ear to the luring voices in his aristocratic home ; his manner grew gradually told and even barsb to her, whom be swort, to leave father and mother to cherish. . His coldness was borne as only woman can bear such things, and his unkiudness repaid with tenfold love. Bat he was not won back, and sought more and more the gay circle of bia father's bouse, leaving but one to watch the -dying embers upon his own hearth. At length he told his wife that he must seek another home, that his business did not prosper there, and be mut build it up elsewhere. She was glad, very glad in heart, for now she fell that she alone would have her hns btud, and there flitted before her many vis ions of successfully winning back his for mer tenderness. Bnt no, she was to remain where she was until he could be firmly established in bust ness; he could not afford to take her with him now. He mocked her appeal to him and left.- The poor wife bowed her bead and wept 6uch tears, more bitter than she thought even weman could weep. Time passed on, month alter month, but be wrote her not a single lice. Once she was courageous enough in her grief to go to bis father's princely house to ask news of him, of her husband; tbey laughed at her and turned her away, as a Pariah from the door. Yet she would not write, for she felt he did not wish her existence brought to his memory. Her cheek paled and ber eye grew dim. . But now be was conscious, .of another being within her own, hii life lying beneath ber heart, .and that-heart grew strong with the thought, that, it was another claim upon Lis love, that Lis proud lather even could not deny, for the God of Heaven gave it. Nbw she wrote to him only one simple line :, "George, your wife will 60on be a mother; won't you come to see our chins? and the note, came to him amid his cupswbere like a madman he was drown ing the voice of conscience; came to him among the heartless revellers who fed upo.? tbe affection estranged from her. Yet a De ity had winged the thaft. His knees trem bled beneath him, and his heart became as lead within bis bosom. Saul-like, his con version was sodden and complete. "God forgive me, Kate,", he wrote, "I come to you and ours," " ': But a day or two after learning these par ticulars, our boat struck upon Rollo bar, and it seemed as though it wocld prove a per manent attachment. Re pea of sand may be a symbol of weakness, but bars of sand are so by no means. - The second day of our sojourn here, many of the passengers had taken the steamer's small boats aod crossed to the.neighboriug shore to relieve the mo notony of the ship life, for so it bad become. Some had partially stripped themselves and waded successfully through tbe shallow water, noticing which, the repentant hus band proposed to me and a third party to follow their example. My rheumatism would not tolerate for an instant such a bath, (he others accepted the proposition, and quickly , preparing themselves, tbey leaped from the lower deck into the water. It was not more than four feet deep, and 1 watched them moving rapidly along re gretting that I cooJd not share their sport. They were not more than thirty yards from the' shore," and were .already exchanging words with their friends upon it, when in a moment their feet were swept from beneath them by a treacherous under-current ; they were drawn cnder,and carried several yardi down the stream.. .So sndien had been thn came to :he surface and casting off- their hatg, shouted for help, all wan explained, and a fearful excitement ensued. The boats bad unfortunately gone farther up the stream with the last load of passengers, and several minutes elapsed before the urgency of the case could be made clear to them. Tbey then bore down with all speed to the rescue, but to the anxious spectators it seemed as though , lhey moved not. . Kails from a near fence, aod limbs of trees harri ed ly broken off, were thrown into the cur rent, but it refused to carry them in mid stream', and they floated uselessly along the shore. . In the meantime the adventurers struggled manfully, and, with incredible exertion, one extricated himself from the dangerous current and iell down exhausted upon the shore. It was not the young hus band. He still buffeted the stream which, alas! though he knew it net, was bearing him farther away from the bank. The little clothing be had on, clinging round his limbs', impeded his movements, and be was evi dently wearied. Twice he bad been drawn under, but the love or life, now doubly strong, still bore him up. His efforts grew fainter and weaker, and bis voice crying for help sounded to the horror-stricken specta tors like the low wail of an infant. 1 The boat was not ten yards from him when be sunk again, and the swift river gurgled over him. Grappling hooks were letdown and grappled lor him, diversswam in the water and dived for him ; for more than -an hour the search was continued, but the treacher ous current kept him and hid him. The next morning the steamer was raised by means of lighters and a species of der rick from her unpleasant position, and at sonset of the same day lay alongside of the wharf, her destination gained at last. I was standing in the front saloon of the boat watching the bustling crowd abound me, but much depressed in spirit, when I saw a young woman, with weak step, struggling through the rush of men along the gang way. She came up the steps to the saloon where the baggage from the emptied state rooms was promiscuonsly piled. She was white as marble, and her eye burned with a bright though unsteady lustre. She gazed anxiously around in every direction, but seemed to miss the object of her search. She was on the point of leaving, when passing by the mass of trunks 1 saw her stop and a quick smile lighten up her pale face. Then she sat down upon a trunk on which the .name of "George Graham" was written again looked around for the owner. 't fZA Ii; I .. i .u:. No: an eye but was moist in all that rude and bustiing throng, for the story was now known. None could break the terrible news to her.' My tongue clung to the roof of my mouth. Still she sal there, the pallor again settling over ber face, and clutching the trunk with her thin while band;, as a mother would her. child, alas! to those gathered there ber dead child. One by one the baggage was claimed and taken away.1 Still the secret slept. At length a porter came up suddenly and shouted, "Cap'n, wbar mnst I send that man's traps; what was drowned T" Tbe woman sprang to her feel, glanced anxiously from one to another.and read the pitying sympathy they could not express. No sound escaped her lips that blow was crushing; only a dead-( Iter pallor overran her white face, and lbs lustre of her eye dimmed." Then the cap tain, with a sense ot kindness that seemed not to belong to his nature, gently led her away to the office of the boat, and tenderly as he could, unfolded the cruel news to her. No tears fell from her; with bands clasped before her, and lips moving as in low pray er, she stood for a moment. Upon her face a look of the most unutterable woe, hope and life dying together. Darker shadows crept over it; tarried, then faded away. She was borne from - the boat to her home, bot it was only the body they bore. She was dead, and tbe child she carried beneath her heart became her own in beavon. Bal timore Sunday Telegram. . Free Masonbt. After the battle of Wat erloo was decided in favor ol the English, about fifty Frenchmen nearly all of them wounded the heroic wreck of a square of two regiments of infantry which bad been almost exterminated by tbe discbarge of a park of artillery found rhemselre3 at the close of ibatlerrible day, surrounded by a considerable force of the enemy. After having performed prodigies of valor, per ceiving that it was impossible for them to make a retreat, they reluctantly determined to lay down their arms. Bui the allies, irri tated at the great loss which they bad sai fered 6y them, continued to fire on them. Tbe Frenchmen now perceived that their complete destruction was inevitable unless some miracle should save them. Tbe lieu tenant in command was suddenly inspired with tbe thonght that this might be achiev ed by Masonry ; advancing from the ranks, in the midst of a galling fire, be made the appeal. Two Hanoverian officers perceived him, and by a spontaneons impulse they or dered the firing to cease, withont the eus tornary etiquette of consulting their com manding officer. Having provided for the safety of the prisoners, they reported them selves to. their General for ibis breach of military discipline. He, however, being al so a Free Mason, so far from inflicting any punishment commended them for their gen erous conduct. Ia onb of our schools, a clergyman asked if any of the scholars conlJ tall who wits David's crandrnother. Thereupon a little Eather Kongh noneymoon. On last Friday morning an athletic young farmer, in the town of Waynesburg, took a fair girl, "all bathed in blushes," from her parents, and started for the first town across the Pennsylvania line, to be married, where the ceremony could be performed without a ? license. The happy pair were accompanied by a sister of tbe girl, a tall, gaunt, sharp featured female of some thirty seven sum mers. The pair crossed the line, were mar ried, and returned to Wellsville to pass t be night. People at the hotel where the wed ding party stopped, observed'that they con ducted themselves in a rather singular man ner. The husband would take his sister in law, the tall female aforesaid, into one cor ner of the parlor, and talk earnestly to hr, gesticulating wildly all the lime. Then the tall female would "put her foot down," and talk to him in an angry and excited manner. Then the husband would take his fair young bride into a corner; but he would no sooner commence talking to her, than the gaunt sister would rush in between them and angrily join in the conversation. The peo ple at the hotel ascertained what this meant about nine o'clock that evening. There was an uproar in the room which had been assigned to the newly married couple. Female shrieks and masculine "swears" startled the people in the hotel, and tbey rushed to the spot. Tbe gaunt female was pressing against the door of the room, and tbe newly married man, mostly undresced. was barring her out'with all his might. Oc casionally she would kick the door far enough open to disclose the stalwart hus band, in his gentlemen Greek slave appa rel. - It appears that the tall female insisted upon occupying the same bed with the new ly wedded pair; that her sister was favor ably disposedjto the arrangement, and that tbe husband had agreed to it before the wedding took place, tad now indignantly repregentation in Congress is clearly assert repudiated the contract. "Won't yoo go ! ed ,n lh9 Emancipation Proclamation, aay now, usan v sau tne newty marneo man, softening his voice "No," said she, "I won't so there!" . . a-x t ? tilt Lon-tyou ouage an men cnea me , gregB Qf ,he Suprerae CotrU Bot in the married sister within the room. AmneMy Proclamation, he was on the sure "Now now, Maria," said the young man fooiing of the Constitution, and never made to bis wife, in a Jpiteous lone, "don't go to any eUch concession. The Amnesty Proc cuttin' np in this way ; now don't." I amatioa wa9 therefore more defensible in "I'll cut op'd much as I wanter !" she ,aw aaJ u eqoal:. binds ln3 puDiic failh, sharply replied. unless we adopt the whimsical doctrine that " Well," roared the desperate man, throw- ig9 made lo white people is of no ing the door wide open and eta'king oat among the crowd, "jet you two wimij, pat on your duds and go right straight home and bring back the old man and woman1 j es;aace f0 the United States. It alsa prc and your granfather, who is nigh on to a 6entej a pIan 0i reconstruction, but e.press hundred ; bring 'em alt here, and Til marry ,y ,efl lhe door open l0 other methods. In thewhoe dd eabzoodle cf 'm, and we'll all tbe aouuai Message which ihis Proclama tleep together V tioo accompanied, Mr. Lincoln said: "By The difficulty was finally adjusted by the tall female taking a room. Wellsville is enjoying itself over the sensation. Cteve land Plaihdealer. Homely Girls. The editor of tbe Cleveland Herald, hav ing been tolerably profuse in bis compli ments to the pretty girls of Cleveland, has been requested to say a good thing in behalf of the homely ones, and be does it thus : First The homely girls of Cleveland are in a bad minority, but they mean well. Second They go to church every Sunday and are fond of their meals. They would rather have their meals regularly than a new bonnet. Third They understand their business, and wear No. 16 gaiters.. Fourth They are bright, intelligent, de void of low jealousy,, fond of music, dance at Garrett's Hall as though it was the chief aim of life, and always go in when it rains. Fifth They always thank the gentlemen for giving them seats in the streetcars, nev er flirt with the boys because it's out of their line and keep out of the fire. Sixth Tbey never have half a dozen yoang sprigs keeping company with them-1 Seventh Tbey wash their own handker. chiefs, iron their own collars, and darn their own stockings. Eighth They never wear waterfalls that weigh over one hundred and fifty pounds, and have neither rats nor other animals in their hair Ninth They don't call the young bloods, and other trash perfectly splendid. Tenth They never eat between meals. Eleventh Tbey are all going to get mar ried. Twelfth They will all marry well. ' Thirteenth Their children will be bright and shining lights in the world. Fourteenth Tbey won't keep hired girls till their husbands can afford them. Fifteenth They sleep under mnsquito bars when convenient. Sixteenth Tbey can make coffee and hot cakes and can do chamber work. ' ' Seventeenth They are O. K. Eighteenth They are homely, but oh Je rusalem! Nineteenth They know they are homely. . Twentieth They perspire when the thermometor is at 91 in the shade and wear gored waists. Twenty-first Young gentlemen don't pqueeze them by the band, and they like pea'-nats. Twenty-second Tey -sing "Beautiful Dreamer," and use Sozodont. At a recent railroad dinner, in comple ment to the fraternity, the toast was given ; "An honest lawyer, the noblest work of God!" ' Bat an old farmer in the back part ef lhe hall, rather sjoiled tbe prct by ajdi"' in Is the Government Bonnd ti Keep Faith only With Xegroes ? An argument often used with much effect in favor of maintaining and perfecting the emancipation of the Southern negroes, is, that the government is bound to keep the faith plighted to them in President Lincoln's proclamation. We have heard this argu- mexit from President Lincoln himself, from Chief Justice Chase, from distinguished members of both Houaes of Congress, and from numerous publicists on bo:h sides of the Atlantic. The Constitutional amend ment and great mass of congressional legis lation have been advocated on the ground that they'were demanded by the fulfillment of that pledge, which could not be violated without national disgrace. Let ns accept the argument aud apply it to a parallel case. About a year subsequent to the Emanci pation Proclamation, President Lincoln made another proclamation, addressed, not to the collective negro population, but to the collective white population of the rebellious States, if an executive pioclamation can bind the nation faith when addressed to men with black skins, it must bind it when ad dressed to men with white skins; pale ness of complexion having no power to re lease the obligations of faith and honor. If President Lincoln's emancipation promises are binding, bis amnesty premises are equally binding. No question can be rais ed as to his exceeding his authority in the latter, which is not at least equally pertinent in respect to the former. If Congress did not authorize the promise made in the one proclamation, they just as little authorized the other. If judged by the Constitution, ihe Reconstruction Proclamation would stand the test a great deal better than tbe Emancipation Proclamation; for no author j ity is conferred by the Constitution to liber ate slaves, but tbe title of every S:ate to Pre5ijant Lincoln took the risk, as he after ward in public documents repeatedly ac knowledged. of its being set aside by Coo- moral obligation or binding force. The essential condition of the Amnesty , Proclamation is the taking cf an oath ol al lne Proclamation a dan is presented which may be accepted by them as a rallying point, aud which they are assured in ad vance will not be rejected here. Tbi" may bring them to act sooner than they other wise would " And in the proclamation it self he said: "And I further proclaim, de clare, and make known, that whenever in any of the States of Arkausas, Texas, Lou isiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama. Georgia, Virginia, Florida, Sooth Carolina, and North Carolina," the persons taking the Oath of allegiance "rhall re-establish a State government that shall be republican, and in nowise contravening said oa'.b,such government shall be recognized as the true government of the State, and be entitled to the benefits of the constitutional provision which declares that the United States shall guarantee to every State in this Uciou a re publican form of government." Here is a plain, distinct, unequivocal promise; as plain, distiuct, aud po'enm as that made to the negroes ia tho Emancipa J lion proclamation. Will soxe ami rest.-a-tionist tell us why it does rot equally bind the public faith t So far as the authority of the Executive goes, it most certainly does and ten arguments can easily be proJuced to show that the emancipation promise ex ceeded that authority for one o provu thai this does. Is ihe public faith to te kept, then, only with negroes? Is tbe national honor a mockery and a shadow the moment a question arises of satisfying expectations raised by a solemn act of ihe government in (he breasts of white men ? N. Y. News. Suarp youths are some of our dry-goods clerks, very ! A lady entered a retail store, on Front Street, a short time since, and) among other things, aked for some cam brio of a bay color. "What color is that, ma'am?" inquired the youth. "Why, the color cf your drawers, there." "No ma'am," continued the clerk, ''I don't wear draw ers!" It was with considerable effort that the embarrassed lady explained to the juve nils dealer in tape and twist that she allud ed to the painted fixtures behind him, with handles upon them. An old woman was complaining, a few days since, in the market, ot lhe excessive high prices of provisioas. "It is not meat only that is se enormously dear," said she, "but I cannot obtain flour for less than deuble tbe usual price, and they do not make eggs 'half so large as they use'd to be!" The first battle of the war, Manassas, was fought on the land of Mr.' Andrew McLean, in tbe county of Fairfax, Virginia, and lhe virtual termination of the struggle took place in the same getleman's house, in tbe conn J ly of Appottomax, where the terms. of sor j render were formally drawn op and ratified Two Oratorical Specimen!. Speaking extemporaneously is rather dif- flcull until )oq get used to it. A young Jaw- . yer in New Hampshire, who bad never yet J had a case in court was invited to deliver j au oratoo on the occasion of the dedication of a new bridge. It was a fine oportonity j of establishing his reputation. He did not prepare nimseir, ior ne naa an tuea tnai was unlawyer-iike, and that a lawyer must be able to speak any number of hours in astyle of thrilling eloquence at a moment's notice. He stood upon the platform, and amid the profound attention of bis Leareri, commen ced as follows : . Fellow Citizens : Five-and forty years ago, this bridge built by your enterprise, wa part and parcel of the "howling wilderness." He paused for a moment. '-Yes, fellow-citizens, only five-and-forty years ago this bridge, where we now stand, was part and parcel of the howling wilJerue-iS." again he paused Crie9 of "Gaod, go on." Here was the rub.' I hardly feel it necessa ry to repeat that this bridge, fellow citi zens, only five-and-forty years ago, was part and parcel of the bowling wilderness : and I will conclude by saying that I wish ii was part and parcel of it now !" Another orator we have beard tell of in appealing to the "bone and sinew," said: My friend I am proud to see around me to-nig bt the hardy yeomanry ol the land, for I love the agricultural interests of the country ! and well may I love thern, fellow citizens, for 1 was born a farmer tbe hap piest days of my youth were spent in the peaceiul avocations of the son of the soil. If I may be allowed to use a figurative ex pression, my friends, 1 may say, I was raised between two rows of corn." "A pumkin, by thunder," exclaimed an inebriate chap jusi in front of the speakers staud. Brownlow and the Colored Soldiers. Parson Brownlow, it seems, has been in collision with soldiers of the colored per suasion and don'i lke it. The following is a description of the affair, from the Govern ors own pen : "One half of all the colored soldiers in uniform, in East Tennessee, have no re 6pect for that uniform, and do not appreci ate its dignity and importance. Two of them in full uniform, some time since, upon a narrow sidevvelk in this city, knocked the writer of this article into the gutter, throw ing him upon his hands and knees. He w3 irir.g to get cut of tha ivay and they taw it, but beit.g feeble, and leaning upon a staff, Lc rnoied loo slow foi their ideis ol progress. I made no complaint, but conclu ded that these colored ruflins had not 'learn ed to respect the uniform of the army,' add went my way not rejoicing .but feeling in the left kr.ee that I was worsted in lhe en counter, which 1 had uot brought about, but sought to prevent. Soldiers and officers wearing the Federal uniform ought all to be gentlemen, no matter what their color, but the only two colored soldiers I ever encoun tereJ did not prove to be of that stripe. I have no wish to try them again 1 might light upon others less refined who would run me through i:h a bayonet. Being denied a white man's choice, 1 only ask a negro's privilege of getting out of the way He Wadfd It was election day, and Grimes having assisted on the occasion by the deposit of his vote and the absorption of about a much old rye as he could walk under, started vi;htwoof his neighbors, who were in the same state o! elevation, to make their way down to thair homes. They had topr059 Brandy wine creek byt a foot bridge, constructed of a single log thrown acrosB, I and hewn flat on the upper side, but with out any handrail to aid in the transit. There would have been no difficulty with a clear bead and steady legs in crossing; but with our party it was felt not to be de void of difficulties "under existing circum stances." Hoever, the creek most be crossed. Grimes' two friends took the lead, and with much swinging of arms and contortion ol body reached the farther side. It was now Grimo-' iuru to fct ihe muric, and caking a bold start he succeeded in getting about one-third of the way over, when a loud splash announced to his friends ibat he was overboard. Emerging from the wa'er, it being about to bis breast, he qoie.ty said, 'as it this course was the result of mature de liberation "1 guess I'll wade !" The way in which words are often divi ded when set to music sometimes produces a rather ludicrous effect. A stranger was once surprised on bearing a congregation, mostly of women, crying out "Oh for a man Oh lor a man ! Oh 'or a man 6ion in the 6kie!" At a revival meeting, the other evening, we heard tbe congregation roaring . "Send down Sal ! Send down Sal ! Send down Sal vation from ott high !" While on another occasion a choir sang to tbe best of their ability: "We'll catch the flee ! We'll catch tbe flee ! We'll catch the flee ting hours !' It is to be hoped no body was bitten. A schoolboy being asked by his teacher how he should flog him, replied: "If yon please, sir, I should like to have it upon the Italian system of penmanship, the heavy 'Brick PomcrayaU'an Unlucky Datchman. Hillflicker Snicki-n acker, a Tenteonic ven der ot sour-kraut, wooden combs, crude cabbage, striped mittens, cotton suspen ders and such "liddle dings." with true pa triotic zeal left his home in La Cro-e at tbe commencement of the war, and enlisted as a slop grocery keeper behind the sutler's j tent, on the Potomac. When he wen: away it was with the intention of mat inn frome' 'monish," if it took all Hiiro roer and noblvj A:a i. c.i. :. : t.:- i: u. A..V Ulil. lie Ultl II UUi I.I lltff I1IIO, IIUT lia uau. u is Dest iota as ne toicJ it ia us on uis return, last week : ' ' You see, Mr. Bumroy. der drum beets nnd der call conms to co to wars mil arms Ue pe padriotic so much as Sheneral Wash' intnon, or Sheneral Curtu. or Shenera Bangs, or any dem Shenerals wat live lo come home great men. So 1 pnys some lit tie dings and gets some bapers from de Wai Committee and goes mil ter poys ter pe pa (riots and sell some Hole dings and roakt some monish. Un day I pokes mine win dow out un mine head to hear deroerenarii and dink of somedings, when I see Shtone wall bbackson mil his droops und der pi pra pand coming down der street playini like der dyful "Who's pin here since Ih pin gone?" Dal Shtonewall Shackson isde dyful ml fihtins, und I pels mine monish in mini bocket und mine little bapers in mine pad and I goes so quick as never was to Gettjij bnrg. Und dere 1 opens some more slhoi und sells some more liddle dings. And ti day I hears men un der hor.e pack ridin down der shtreet like dunder, un den pokes der winder unter mine head end looks myself up der shtreet, und dere com dat dyful, Sheneral Shtonewall Shackso playing dat same olJer due as I beard p fore, 'Who(8 pin here i-ince Ih pin gone?" Den I maks mine monish comes int mine bockets, und makes mine pag com inter mine bapers, und pule mine sign der pig shtore on der corner, so I Io?es mo goods as I hart not got, und den 1 go to W consin to see mine frow ' as I haint seen dese two years, so long time as never a4 , Den I comes home, and knocks on " door, und my frow she make talk nnd me (:whose dare?" . Den I say Hillflicker Snicksnacker, i she knows dat is my name, und she maJ herself comes out of der house, und g me nine, seven-times kiss on nine face good as never vah. Den, Mr. Botnroy, I goes in der ho nnd I see some dings ! And to I ask m frow if sheet bin married since I go vfi pe a batriot, und if she pa no got rnarr where she get dem two pabies when I gone mid der wars? und 1 gets mad as f ol, end den I dinks of dat damn Shto wall Shackson und his dig prass pand, ti I sing : "Who's pin here since Ish pin gone? j Und now, Mr. Bumroy, somepody ma trouble mid mo, for Ih peen gone two ye und I knows some dings, und I goes ps mid der war end I sings dat damu Shto:! wall Shackson song all der way.! Bride and Groom a Ccntnrj Ago. To begin with lhe lady. Her locks trained upwards over au immense cush thai sal like an incubus on ber bead, i plastered over with a shower of white p der. The height of this tower was son thing over a foot. One single white rosea lay on its top like an ea0la ou a haystacx? Over her neck and bosom was folded a la handkerchief, fastened in front by a bosq pin larger than a dollar, containing gra mother's miniature set in virgin gold. airy form was braced up in a satin dress, sleeves as tight as the skin of the arm, vJ a waist formed by a boddice worn outs from whence the skirl flowed off, and t distended at the top Ly ample hoops Shoes of white kid with peaked toes, i heels of two or three inches of elevati enclosed her feet, and glittered wiih sp gles, as her little pedal members peered rionsly out. . Now lor the swain. His bair was slee! back and plentifully bepowdered while queu projected like the handle of a ski: His coat was a sky blue silk, lined yelloj his long vest of white satin embroidef with gold lace, his breeches ol the sa material, and tied at the knee with a p ribbon. White silk stockings and purl with laces and ties of lhe same hue com: led the habiliments of his nether limb Lace ruiHes clustered round his wrists, a portentious frill, worked in corresrf deuce and bearing of bis beloved, finis his truly gentle appearance. The Power or the Heaet. Let any c while setting down, place the left leg c the knee of the right'one, and permit i hang freely, abandoning all muscular c trol over it. Speedily it may be observe' way forward and backward through a fjt ited space at regular intervals. Coun the number of these motions from any r en time, they will be found to agree i the beatings of the pulse. Every knows that, at fires when the water f the engine is forced .through bent hose, tendency i to straighten the hose, ani the bend be a sharp one, considerable It is necessary to overcome the tendetic; Just so it is in tbe case of the human bt The arteries are but a system ot h through which the blood is forced by heart. When the leg is bent, all the a ies within it are bent too and every time heart contracts the blood rushes through' arteries tends to straighten .them ; and the effort which produces the motion of leg alluded to. Without such ocular d! onstration, it is difficult to conceive power exerted by that exquisite mechan the normar pulsations of which are
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