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Advertisements left without direclmtit ai to tM i leneth of time they ire to be published, will ! j continued until ordered out, and charged acerd Ily Masscr & Elsclj. Simbury, Northumberland Co. Pa. Saturday, April 6, IS-l-l. vol. .i-xo. as Whole aro, is I. ingly. fj5S Meen Krret make ft aqusre. TERMS OF TUB) "AMK1UCAK." IT. B. MA8SER, ? Pvsusataa akd JOSEPH EI8EI.Y. S Po""toi. It. It. JIJISSEH, editor. From the Southern Literary Mes senger. LOVE A ST 1 c a n K . Love sat in his bower one summer day And Cure, with his train, tame to drive him a way 'I will not depart,' said Love ! And, seizing his Into, with silvery words, lie ran his bright finders along the chords, And played so sweet, so entrancing an air, That a grim smile lit up the face of Cure. 'Away away V said Love ! 'Nay nay ! I have friends !' grim Care replied ; 'Behold, here is one and his name is Pride T' 'I care not for Pride,' said Love ! Then touching the strings of hislight guitar, Tilde soon forgot his lofty air; Anil seizing the hand ol a rustic queen, Laugh'd, gutnboU'd and tripp'd it o'er the green, Aha. aha !' said Love! 'Away with your jeers!' cried Care, 'if you please; Here's another lank, haggurd, and pale Disease!' 'I care not for him,' said Love ! Then touched a strain so plaintive and weak, That a flush pass'd over his pallid cheek ; And Disease leap'd up from his couch of twin, Andsmil'd, and re-echoed the healing strain 'Well done for Disease !' said Love ! Tshaw ! pshaw!' cried Care 'this squalid one see ! How lik'st thou the gaunt look of Poverty V 1 care not lor him,' said Love! Then struck such a sound from his viol's string, That Poverty shouted aloud, 'I am Kino! The jewfll'd wreaths round my temples shall twine, For the sparkling gems of Golconda are mine !' 'Ay, ay ! very true !' said Love ; ""Nay, boast not,' said Care ""there is fretful Old Age, Beware of his crutches, and tempt not his rage!' 'I care not lor AgeV said Love! riien swept the strines of his magic lyre. Till the glaz'd eye sparkled with youthful fire ; And Age droppd his cratches, and, light as a fay, I.tfugri'd.wper'd, and danc'd,likeachildat play ! '"Bravo.'Srr F.ld!' said Love! "A truce,' fried wrinkled Care, 'with thy glee! Now look on this last one 'tis Jfalocsy ! 'Ah me"! all me!' said Love ! IIer green eye "burns with a quenchless fire 1 die1! 1 die '." Then droppinghis lyre, Love flew far away from Vis cherish'd boweT, And never leturncd from that fatal hour 1 'Alas, for thee, blighted Love ! t my IToot. "Stanzas to my Lute,'' in one of the Annuals. Boot ! thou art silent now'! Thy nails which ou the pavement rang In thy ynsng days with echoing clang, No longer nia"kt- a row ; Thy beauties sunk into decay, The nails and heels have worn away, fioot ' thon art silent now ' Boot ! thou hast lost thy sole! Thy trusty wells no longer meet ; 1 feel the wet against my feet Sad witness of a hole ; No more thou'lt press the rushes plat, Or sweep the cords which form the mat, . Boot! thou hast lost thy sole. ThS Great VrTKii.i Iron Works, the Pittsburg American says, including about tAKIO ncret, of land, was sold on Monday last, at Kit tanning, by the Slieritl' of Armstrong county, for $171,000, which covered a mortgage of i&l'Jft, 000, the judgment creditors and mine other claims in the Viands of attorney a. The purcha ser was Mr. Pray, of Boston. An application has already been made in tho District Court of the U. S to have the sabs set aside, probably upon the ground of insufficient notice to the tockholder of the intended sale, and possibly otlier causes. Millerism, The last nuinber of the 'M id night Cry" thus coolly notices the failure of their last prediction. Our ftofiiiuu at to Time. We have no new light on the prophetic period. Our lime ends with this Jewieh year. If time be continued beyond that, we have no other definite period to fix upon , but, henceforward, shall look for the event every hour till the Lord shall come. Others can give their views on the termination, of the periods, on their own responsibility. If it be necessary, We shall give ours in full on the point. Let us all be ready "having our loins girt about, and our light burning that when the Master cometh we may open to him imme diately." . J. V. Dimes. New York, March, 1844. Looking into a beautiful woman's eyes by moonlight, is taking a lunar observation, and by sunlight, a ou(-ar observation. The ants are so large in the State of Mai- that they climb trees snd bark. RXTRACTKD FOR THK AMRRICAX, ELOCUTION, No branch of education can be more success fully and advantageously applied to the great and practical purposes of life, than Elocution. It is in the most frequent use of any other fac ulty with which our nature is endowed. When ever we exerche the organs of speech, whether in conversation, reading, or public speaking, we employ some of our powers of elocution. Throughout all the diversities of rank and sex, including kings and beggars, all individuals be gin to practice it, the second, if not the first year of their existence. It is but another word for the faculty of Fpeech, a faculty which ele vates man above the brute creation, and which should not be permitted to "rust out unused," and unimproved. That the reading or speaking voice, as well as the singing voice, is suscepti ble ofalmost on unlimited degree of cultivation, is a truth, with a conviction of which, men have been deeply impressed, in nil ages ofthe world. Especially is this true of the citizens of Greece and Rome. They paid great attention to the art of eloquence, as it was called in ancient times ; now, (locution ; which is "the rose by another name;" and we learn from history, thit their labors were rewarded with beneficial re sults. Passing over in silence, other great and im mortal names, let us direct our attention for a moment, to Demosthenes, Cicero, and Pericles. Nature did not very liberally provide Domos tlienrs with power of speech. lie, however, possessed genius in an eminent degree. And yet, without industry, his name would have "mouldered in oblivion." Ry undying perse vernnce in the pursuit of oratory, and by unre mitting attention to the principles upon which grod speaking is founded ; he acquired an elo quence which "nstonished all Greece." We may say of him without any poetical license, he spoke, 'Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar stood ruled." Cicero, by close application, reading, and de claiming, rendered his voice so melodious, pow erful, and thrilling, that it hushed the Roman Senate into silence, and made "great Cmsor" himself tremble on his seat, Pericles so suc cessfully cultixated the noble ait of elocution, that with him, manner was almost matter. An incident is related in history, which may serve to give us an idea of the power ol his eloquence. Thucidiiles, although an enemy to Pericles, when asked which was the best wrestler an swered: "Whenever I have given him a fall, he affirms the contrary, in such strong and for cible terms, that he pursuadesall the specta tors that I did not throw him, though they them selves saw him on the ground." Those three renowned oTators adopted in early life, the ex celled motto, that "nothing is given to mortals without indefatigable labor." Discarding tho absurd notion, that the Gods tnndo orators, or that they were born so, they acted upon the true principle, that however much or little na ture had done for them, they would rely exclu sively and entirely upon their own exertions. The docility of Dc.uosthenes, Cicero, and Peri cles, through life, and the care and success with which they cultivated the science of speaking well, afford examples worthy of universal imi tation, from the President of the United States, members of congress, and of State legislatures, lawyers, clergymen, conductors of literary in stitutions, and other gentlemen of public con sideration, down to the humblest citizen of our republic. Those peerless orators immortalized their names by "patient labor, anu patient labor only." If they excelled Americans, or any o thcr men that the world ever produced, it is be cause they devoted time, money, and labor to tho improvement of their manner of speaking. Who does not know that inattention to a sub ject, is tantamount fo ignorance of it ! Know ledge is not intuitive. The infant grasps alike the near flame, which would burn him, and the bright orb of day, which he cannot reach. It is a truism, but, nevertheless, one u Inch is too often practicilly disregarded, that we know lit tle or nothing, except what we learn. Why, then, talk so much of "nature's orutors!" Ci cero says, that the "poet is boin, but the orator is made." Nature, doubtless, makes a great difference in the capacities with which she en dows her children ( but art makes a still great er difference. In an excellent letter addressed to a young manengnged in the study of law, the late Hon. William Wirt, truly observes, that "it is a fiat of fate, from which no genius can ab solve youth, that there is no excellence without great labor." Vocal music is more gratifying than instru mental, because the human voice, whether its notes are heard in song or speech, is the noblest and sweetest Instrument of music in existence, tt, however, differs from a musical instrument in thit respect, among others I it is capable of producing an infinite variety of sounds. By the tones of the voice. acd, no, 0nly sll the operations of the mind, but every emo tion implsnted by the hand nature, in the heart of man; The best readers and speakers aro not governed by particular rules. They rend and speak "right on." They do not stop to give n rising inflection of voice, here ; a fuilling, there; and a circumflex, elsewhere. Dr. Goldsmith ways, thnt "to feel our subject thoroughly, and to speak without fear are the only rules of elo quence." It is certain, that in order to be elo quent, we must surrender ourselves to the spi rit which stirs within us, and the "mouth" must speak ''from tlie abundance of the heart." Being perfectly satisfied with nature's system of elo cution, the nuthnr has not presumed to lay down a series of artificial rules in tho shape, cither of marks of inflection or rhetorical notation, in the vain hope of attempting to make a better. Those extraordinary endowments of intellect, of imagination, and of sensibility, which arede rived from nature, and without which, pre-eminence in oratory is unattaiainablo, are possessed by few men in any age or country. Rut all may learn to read and speak correctly snd im pressively, by becoming familiar with the cle mency sonnds of onr langnige, and the other important principles of elocution, and by en gaging in practical elocutionary exercises. It is gratifying to know, that elocution is be ginning to secure a portion of attention, corres ponding, in some degree, with its importance. But still it is too much neglected, not only by community generally, but even by public speak ers and teachers of youth. There are, as yet, few or no distinct professorships of elocution in our literary institutions. The bishop of Cloyne says, "thnt probably half the learning of these kingdoms is lost, for want of having a proper delivery taught in the schools and colleges." Is not half the learning of these United States, "lost tor want of having" elocution properly and thoroughly taught in our "schools and colleges!" Does not religion suffer in the hands of those who, owing to their ignorance of elocution, and their want of those fei lings of love to God and love to man with which the gospel inspires all who believe and practice its precepts, present that solemn and surpassingly important subject to the world, in a cold, lifeless, and bungling manner! It is, as Dr. Blair observes, "a poor compliment, that one is an accurate reasoner, if he be not a persuasive speaker." Why may not the peopleof the United States, become as much distinguisheJ for their eloquence, as for their free and glorious institutions! Is not eloquence as valuable now as it was in ancient times! Is not freedom's soil adapted to its growth ! Ami would it not hi "glorious to ex eel" other nations, as well as other individuals, "in that article in which men excel the brute!" The Supreme Being has kindly allotted o us our portion of human existence, inn country, the Constitutions and laws of which recognize in every citizen, the right to Torm, to cherish ! Bm' ,0 express his opinions on all subjects in- leresttng to oor common welfare, a country where the opinion of a majority prevails, end where eloquence criales public opinion. Here as in the free States of antiquity, "every man's opinion should be written on his forehead." Here, too, the noble science and art of elocu tion should receive, at least attention enough to elevate tho standard of public speaking, partic ularly among our representatives snd senators in congress. Then, when foreigners viit the city of Washington, as they often d.i, they Would witness something more than "The flag ofthe Union flouting over the Capitol," they would hear within its walls, specimens of elo quence the power and grandeur of which, they could not otherwise than admire. They now animadvert very severely upon the maiiuer in which our congressional orators are accustomed to speak. Alter crossing the Atlantic, they vi sit the seat of Government, in the expectation of hearing some ofthe imt eloquent speakers in the United States. In that respect, they are not disippoiuled. And not only so, but they hear in the Senate, if not in the House of Re presentatives, orators, compared with whom, the best speakers in England or any other country, are not superior, il equal. The ca villers undervalue the merits of American spea kers. In their books, they criticise too severe ly those who have seats incongtess, as well as other citizens of the United States. But if we would entirely escape censure, let us endeavor to avoid deserving any iiortiou of it. Lt A- aierican speakers unite elegance of language, with force of reasoning, so perfectly, that even the inhabitants of other countries will be con strained to say, with regard to them, as Milton did in another case : "That their words drew audience and attention, Still as night and summer hoon-lide air." American young men are, then, called upon by considerations of national honor, to become good speakers, tit order to accomplikh so de sirable an object, that honorable enthusiain for the ftrt of eloquence, by which the great men ofantiqii'' were characterised, should pervade .ueir minds. "The totch of genius," bo it re membered, "is lighted at the altar of enthusi asm." In view of the whole subject, it js proper to remark, in conclusion, thnt whatever may be the perfection in Which an individual possesses the faculty of speech from nature, il is suscepti ble of acquiring much additional power, smooth ness, and flexibility, by cultivation and practice, lxird Bacon took "all knowledge to be his pro vince." Mrs. Stgournry advises us to "take all goodness for otir province." Let ti take both. To be wise and good, is the highest ob ject to which our hope can aspire. Those in whom wisdom and goodness are combined in the greatest decree, will pnrt;cipite the most largely in all social plensiros tf this life, and ( in the unspeakible joys of that which com mences, never to end, beyond the darkness and silence ofthe tomb. It is the will of llim whn built the heavens and the eaith, that man should he the insttuctor of his fellow man. We are commanded by llim who "spake as never tnnn spake," to do all that in our day and generation may be done, "to teach all nations" and thus to swell the triumphs of knowledge. Kit-Rant Kttrartt The following is an extract from an oration delivered by Dr. George W. Bethcne, before the Literary societies of Dickinson's College. The orator opens with the following fine pas sage': "There is a story told somewhere, of one who came Kick nfler a long absence, to the scenes of his youth. He had gone forth in early ad venture to distant lands, and the hope of return had cheered his rnnny years of foreign toil, un til the noon of life found him drawing near once more to the only spot thnt he could call his home. His heart beat more and more quickly as the mountains around the village a rose in a distance ; then us he saw the sr ire of the village church, or the well remembered trees grown old hut still green ; and then as he entered the cheerful street, many a dwelling was familiar t 'lcmrjli touched by time; but a mong the groups about their threshhotds, ami those who met him on the walk, 'there was not a face that he knew or thnt knew him. lie passed on through the abodes of the living to the resting place of the dead; and there he found graven on stones, many names thnt were written on his soul. All whom he had hoped to meet again were buried, or had forgotten him. tie wbs alone, a stranger in his early home. He paused 'toWk atcur.d him. There ftood the venerable edifice within which his young mind had been trained to learning. There was the green where he had leaped and shouted with his fellows. There flowed the little stream from the shaded spring which hud so often sla ken his summer thirst. lie follow- Oil it to Hie path deep bfaten in the sod. He stopped and took one long cool draught his tears fell on the water's fire he raised his lint J from his head and breuthed a prayer, and de parted to return no more. "With some such emotions does your orator address you now. A score of years has passed since he left, for the urgencies of mature lif these academic shades dear from a thousand memories of happy youth. They were then populous with his friends, and their classic cx ercitations were directed by the kind and pa ternal solicitude of teachers to whose skill and fidelity gratitude can never make sufficient pay ment. He has troddi n the collego halls again to-day, and has seen w thin them many happy faces in the bloom of youth, hut those whom he once loved to greet with frank rejrard, are gone. Some are in the grave ; the rest widely scat tered through a cold world, never to know a- gnin the buoyant happiness and careless wealth of alloc ion that here blessed them and Iiiui. But thanks be to God ! the fountain of truth at which they drank, siill pours forth its living wa ters ; the path to it still beaten by youthful few. and 1 have corn.-to take one draught of it willi you ; to send up a prayer tothe Father of lights, who causes it to flow and to go my Way." Medical r.very new invention or improve ment in the science of medicine merits o p.isiu.i pan.grapli. Dr. Junod, of Paris, has invented a f.ev method, which he ter,s Hemonptisir, for the treatment of a Dumber of diseases. This method consist', in ihq employment of a pneu mutic apparatus of a peculiar cons'iructtun, in which l!.e armor leg is so placed astotittrnct tie., blood to the extremities, without diminish ing the mass of this liquid. ParIs. Louis Phillipe isiheohl'y monarch who has discovered that Paris is France. The walls areund the city aro completed, and are garrisoned by 100,(Vio men. Strange that the 6agaciiy of Napoleon should have been wanting on this important point. No allied army ban no'V get possession of the city-, nOr can the peo ple rise snd overturn the government, while the soldiers control the cannon from the walls. More BeIriits ron Job Smith. The steamer Maid of Iowa passed up yesterday, on her way to Nauvoo, with about 200 paMengcrs on board, all Mormons, emigrants from Eng land, per ship Fanny, arrived at New Orleans a few days since from England. There are taid to be 1000 wort! coming. .afcftrj Cvur, A Orent t)nft Col. Hooper, ofthe "East Alnbamian," has a dog named "Ponto," whose sagacity and ex ploits deserve to be handed down to posterity in "immortal verse," as much as tho exploits of Achilles or the intrigues of Paris. During the late hunt, which he describes at length in the "New York Spirit," they were encamped on the Oalrehumhatches Creek, where Pontons sagacity and his new plan of catching wild ducks were both shown. "About night fall," Hooper says, "immense flocks of ducks descend cd into the little stagnant pools around os, and excited greatly the admiration end astonish ment of Ponto, who hns a mortal antipathy for ducks, growingout of the ill-treatment he gen. era 11 v receives at home from several individu nls of that species, who help themselves out of his dish when at his meals. Here wbb a chance fur revenge, which the sagacious animal did not let slip. About midnight he awakened us, and jjivinir us to understand that he had something on hand, he siler.tly crept into the nearest la goon, and with stealthy tread, came upon a fine flock as they rode at anchor near the shore, like a fleet of little boats. lie gently touches the tail of one with his fore paw the dock takes its head from under its wing in an instant Ponto seizes the head in his mouth, crushes it berore the note of alarm could be sounded Thus he despatches one by one, the whole flock! In the morning he piled up before us twenty-seven fat ducks. We instantly voted him a silver collar." A Singvi.arTasTE. An English gentleman of education, and bo far as we know,ofrrTe pronchable character, left England some eigh tren months since, with the intention of spend ing some years in a solitary cell in one of our prisons, lie applied at the Eastern Peniten tiary, but was denied admission, lie insisted upon a place in the cells, and while he avcred that he abhored the idea of committing a 'crime, stated that he wotild do so to ensure the ac coinplishment of his wishes. He was of course arrested upon this threat, and required by the Mayor to eive bail. In default cf bail he was committed to the Moyamensing prison where - . . . ah . he has remained for thirteen months. lhe pri son doors are, and have long been open to him, but he refuses to leave his cell : and, as his daily labor supports him he is permitted to re main. He is in full possession of his faculties ; is cheerful and performs all the labor of an or dinary convict. But though engaged ten hours tech day at the loom, he pursues his mathema t ieal and other studies with great perseverance and energy. He converses with great intelli gence and is obviously, from education and as sociation, a gentleman. This is a singular in stance of voluntary and self-inflicted penance, if such it be: and the satisfaction, which it seems to confer upon its subject, proves that tho discipline of that excellent institution is tar from cruel. Am Infernal MArntsE MvsTERiors Af i-aik. The Richmond (Va.) Star of Friday says, an extraordinary affair occurred in that city the day previous. A box, about two feet long and a foot and a half wide, was left at Mr. S. S. Dcnoon'u shop, by a drayman, marked "M. A. Lipscomb, care of S. S. Denoon" and brought from the schr. David Rogers, trim New York. Mr. Denoon not being able to find any such person as it was directed to, opened the box. Luckily he did so at the bottom. Had he opened it et the top, his life would probably have paid the forfeit. Upon opening the box, he found a brace nf horseman's pistols, one of which was loaded heavily witj, buckshot, and cocked, and so placed that any person opening the box at the top would have been likely to receive the charge. The triggers of the two were both tsecured to a string, and the pisto's were Covered over by cases, Bo that a person ta-ki-.j hold of them would have caused the wea- p in to discharge. For whom this infernal con trivance was intended is not known. ArciDKNT-. As Mr. Bear, the political ora for, and J. J.Taylor wero returning from Gochland, Vs., on Monday, in a buggy, the horse took fright, ran oft into the woods, and taking tho Ve hicle between two trees, brought the whole con cern up "all standing," laying the blacksmith on his back, and Mr. Taylor, about twenty feet from him, speechless. Both of them however, being somewhat ofthe toughest sort, got near ly whole scain, sud are yet able to do full duty. Both were considerably bruised. Immense Gi n. The largest gun ever rrtnde in England has been landed at the Arsenal, at Woolwich. It weighs nearly 18 tons. This gun is made on the Howitzer principle snd is bout twelve feet long. The dinmeler of the bore is within about one tenth of sixteen inches. The weight nf solid shot with which it will be fired is AM lb., by shells 800 lbs. This gun was cast and bored for Mehemet Ali, Pacha of Egypt and two other large guns, 130 pound ers, were landed at the same time, to be proved for service in Egypt. A Philosophical t,olrWHhn1y tH vtniu An eveninrr or two since, 84 wil were pas sing up Broadway, our attention was arrested by a soliloquising loafer, who stood leaning a gainst tho railing ofthe Park, and holdingfortlt to himself in the following rather odd, amualnj and philosophical manner "t'veget two whole cents Pd give th"tr and bnst myself, ifanybodyM tell me where Pin. going to sleep to night-. Ilere 1 am, With on. ly two cents, half-past nine, and a severe niphtt Werrily t am a victim of WiisfirVt'n 1 i &n t see how tis Pve wesretated so long at I has. General Jackson says every bodys born fq'iat except me; t knows I isnHand yet Pm ji-t as good as any hody what" belter. I don l tun derstand the philosophy of lmman natur If t wasother fo'ks, and other folks waa me, l would'nt let myself stand here fritxing with, only two cents, and no chance for lodging Thure goes a couple of dandies -they ain't no body t wodld'nt be a dandy for two shilling. Them omnibus chaps ain't nobody neither if they washey'dlet a feller ride for Uo cents. Nobody don't take no notice of me, becauj tnpv knows a man in my sitivation despises all Such mean critters. Why could'nt 1 had the good luck to he born ahoss! ift had 1'sposo I'd heen a clam boss, and fed on shavings. If t was an oystcT, Owould he my misforOn to be a first-rate plump fat feller the first one to he peppeted, Batted, anil swaller d. My eyesi these is scrotinacious times only two cent! and a '.mey loolt for lodging !" e gave the unfortunate philoeophryfa six pence for which he toolt off his hat awl thank ed is Very politely; but sang out as we left him "Look ere I say, old hoss, CouWnf ym maXe )u's a shifting Lovk Letter ExTRonniNXRY. Yhe foV lowing very tonching cpistfe, was found in Woodside, Carefully folded in a piece of dirty colored blue paper, Ifke fhatnsed hy grocers. Aa epistle so Cloyingly sweet, 'Can only have eman ated from the pen of one of the fraternity. 'MrDerrest , I w as Very much struck with your unearthly beauty the other Sunday in th place of worship. 7Ime are you a Angiel from the Realms of Bliss come here to lay waste soft harts, like mine, so susceptible to LoVe-w Those bine eyes oT yours, which expresses lovA so strong, and a'so those sweet lips and 'Cheek Were made for kissing. You know your charm would melt a Sampson, and oh if you resist emp'oyings.T shall devolve away and be nomotev Excuse this dearest , Love to your sisttv English Papct. Wise Savings. When yo?t rise to in!t s speech, look at any thing hu the auuienees tin til your steam is up, when you may look wh.-r you please ; and '"look unuttevablu things." When yen "pop the q-jestion'' to a lady, Aj it with a kind of laugh, as IT you were jofc'ti. 1 1 she excepts you, very "well ; if she does not, you can say "you were only in fun." Whenever a female friend hearts to back bite an acquaintance, run your hind behind your coat collar, and scratch with vehemence. Guess she will take the hint. When you wncld hortow a sum of money, never ask an old friend. Not one in a hundred "can stand it." Speak deliberately ; and in a hard case put your fir.ger on the side of yocr nose, and wink hut fay nothing. To Corf, tne Tooth ach. We havo never tried either of the following recipes, hut Ve cotempnrary from whom we extract them tMiks thnt either would prove infallible. For a ra gitig tcothach, throw a somerset thronti a win dow and light on a pitchtbrk. Ifthll don't dn, get somebody "to pound yob on t?ie head till it drops out, A boy once complained of his bed fellow for taking half the led "And why hot," said his mother, "he's entitled to half, aint he 1" "Vcs mother," said the boy, "but how should jou like to have him lake all the 6oft for his hall ! H will have his half right o' the middle, ar,d 1 have to sleep both sides of him." A Lady Every female Is a lady now a r!y applied to the Ahne House yesterday for S load of wood. "We can only gUe you half a load," said the commissioner. "Haifa load," exclaimed the lady in a l uff, "it would not took resectable lo have halt' load of wood dumped down before a house I' With that, Lticrctia Mac Tab, pride Snd po verly, bounded off. Got no om Tic. At New Brunswick, on lhe Dili insl., 0j American clocks were seize . for parsing the Custom House without payug duty. A Tsavei.ling Mesmerize having said h wa ready to answer any question that mifcht t asked him, a Kentuckian desired to know "liow much it cost per week, to 'paster' Nebuchadnn. ur during the time he was out on (rats."
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