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SummerUUl, .Summit,. ,YUmore, . cjiVrciies, jiixisters &C PresivtrianRtT. T. M. Wilsos, Pastor- freacliing' every Sabbath morning at 10 J .-'clock, and in the evening at 7 o'.clock. Sab U School at 9 o'clock, A. M. Prayer meet Bff everv Thursday evening at 6 o'clock. ' Vithc'dist Episcopal Church Utv. A. Baker, teacher, in charge Kev. J. ..v-mt Preaching every alternate aabbath ,!-lr . s.hhdth School at9 oV-ock A. M. - Prayer meeting every ednes- d&; venmg, at p-l ir.a irf(pwiee-Rw Ll. B. r swell, Pa-tor.-Preacbing every Sabbath morning at lAnVlnrk. and in the evening at 6 o clock. Sabbath School at 1 o'clock, P. M. Prayer ,i . c,- xrxtiHtir i-reninp Of etCU 0-.unthI.nd on every Tuesday, Thursday and Fricbj evening, excepting the. first week in each month. : CilAmilit Uthoiit-Kr. Morgan Ellis, PadtorVreathing every Sabbath evening at 2aua 6 o'clock. Sabbath School at v o ciock, A. 31. Piarer meeting every rriuay ucumSl c 7 o'clock. Society every '1 uesaay evening it 7 o'clock. .- ... n,. w t trtvn Pastor. Preach- iivery Sabbath morning at 10 o'clock. reticular UaptistsRz . David Evass, ?.j:lt. Prenching every sabbath evening at 1 i .icjck. Salilmli School at at I o ciock, i . u. C:.hulicliv. R. C. Christt, Pastor. iorviofcs every Sabbath morning at 10 o'clock" :i Vcspcr3 at 4 o'clock in the evening. - - ' EBEXSnVRG 31A1L.S. . MAILS ARRIVE. EJtra, dailv, at 8.50 o'clock, a ra. feuero, at 6.25 o'clock p. m. . MAILS ('LOS.E. Ziittrn, daily, at 8 o'clock, P. M. Itstern, ' at 8 o'clock, P. M CJiThe raaifs from Newman's Mills, Car rclltown, &c.:, arrive on Monday, Wednesday rd Pridav o' each week, at 3 o clock, Y. SL. I:'T5 "Kbensbvrg" o"a Tuesdays, Thursdays r.v.'ruiivii, ni t civil, j j . . RAILROAD SCIIEL'EE. ;' CRESSON STATIOX. Wet Bait. Eiuress leaves at 9.13 A. M i Pl-.ila. Enirfsa ' 9.5o A. M. 10.33 P. M. 9.03 P. M. 7.48 A. M. 4.32 P. M. 8.31 P. M. 2.21 A. M. 6.43 A.M. 1.11 P. M. 5.21 P. M. 12.36 A. M. " Fast Line Mail Train Pitts. Erie Ml " Altoona Accom. (i i E&K Phila. Express " Fast Line " Lay Express ii ii 1 1 ii i ' Liuciunati Ex. ' .Vail Train 1 iltoona Accom. COl'STY OFFICERS. Judges of Ihe Courts President Hon. Geo. Tiulor. lluutinadon; Associates, Georee W. Eis'ey, Heury C. Devine. " iToihonofary Joseph M'Donali. Rtjuitr and Reeordtr James Griffin. Sherif James Myers. District AUcrney. Philip S. Noon. C'junty ComnixiiioHtrt Johu Campbell, Ed ward GUfs, E. H. Duonegan. . CUrk to Cvixniisiimert William H. Sech lt:. Trtasurer Isaac "Wike. C.r': f0 Treasurer John Lloyd. Foot House Directors Georgo M'Cullough. wo-ge Orris, Joseph Dailey. Poor House Trtasurer George C. K. Zabm. AHl.toTsTrm. P. Titrney, Jco. A. Ken iy, Einanu.l Brallier. Coa urrVor. Henry Scanlan. Uroner. .Yuiliam Flattery. Mercantile AFpraiserichix Cox. i"P t. of Common Schools J. F. Condon. EUEXSliVRG KOU. OFFICERS. Jutt:ces of th r.... ,t. . . Edmund J. Waters. ""'e-"BrrisCQ Kinkead, E. Jon?,, j1' HUgh JODeS Wm' JL -rou9i Treasurer-Gto. W. Oatman. y lent J- X Sn:1" Evan Griffith, TCisC'0r,'Richard R- Tibbott, Robert D. r a ?"-Thos. J.William.. 3aTr.r uV""e ;7Tls.aa awfori, James P. KaaiL- "e"' Kmltad. Georga W. fe7r7R0bwt TETans' Jn0- E- Scaulan. . a3'f Election. John D. Thomas. aor.capt. Murray. ; . . SOCIETIES, &C. i..;. Summit Lodtr v ai5f a v IcerATf HliU' Ebensborg, on tie '.JL lcesday of each month, at 7 J o'clock, ,'--L,;Bi61,Un!i Division Ko. 81 Son. of --c meets in TV .... ... 4!!2jaIiyv5ng. 'pjiS OF SUBSCRIPTION rP Va4 . ' 'THE ALLEGHANIAN ' ; . ; ' $2.00 IN ADVANCE, ? VdT 3r iv ADVxvta. TO EBENSBURG, PA., THURSDAY, NO Y EMBER 80: 1865; The Ulng aud the Miller. BY ALEXANDEtt MACKESZIS. There dwelt a miller, hale and bold, Beside the river Dee ; He -worked and sang from morn till night, No lark more blithe than he v ' ' ; And this the burden of his song Forever used to be : "I envy nobody no, not I 1 'And nobody envies me !'' ' "Thou'rt wrong, my friend," said old King v Hail,. '. . . r- : r "' "Thou'rt wrong as wrong can be; , For could my heart be light as thine, I'd gladly change with thee ; , . And tell me now what makes thee sing, . With voice so loud and free, While I m sad, though I um King, , Beside the river Dee." '. , The miller smiled and doffed his cap "I earn my bread." quoth he ; -'I love my wife ; I love my friend, I love my children three ; I owe no penny I cannot pay ; ... I thank the rive Dee That turns the mill that grinds the corn To feed my babes and toe." ; . , "Good friend," said Hall, and sighed .the while, ' Farewell ! and happy be ; But say no more, if thou'dst be true, That no one envies thee ; -Thy mealy cap is worth my crown " Thy mill my kingdom's fee; " " ' ; Such men as thou are England's boast, Oh 1 miller of the Dee." ' ' ' lion. Scliujler Colfax on Re construction. Hon. Schuyler Colfax, Speaker of the National House of Representatives, was serenaded- in - Washington city on . th? eveuiug of the 18th instant,- and in reply to the compliment, made a brief npeecli, which may be tairiy accepted as eoibody iug the collective , judgment of a' large majority of the tew Co.jgrc&a on the sub ject of ilecjustruetion. . The tollowing is au extract : . "The Constitution, which seems fra med fur every emergency, gtfes to each House the exclusive right to judge of the qualifications, election at:d returns of its ukemuurs, aud I apprehend' they will ex ercise thatriht. Oonirrcss having passed no law on the subject tf reconstruction, I'residesit Johnson prescribed cenaiu ac tion for the States which lie deemed in dispensable to their restoration, to their former relations to the government, which I think eminently wise and patriotic : 'Firat. That their conventions should declare the various ordinances of secession null and void, not, as some have dune, merely repealing them, but absolutely without any force or effect. ' 'Second. That their Legislatures should ratily the constitutional auieudmest abol ishing slavery, that this cause of dissen sion and rebellion might be utterly extir pated. ''Third. That they 6hall formally repu diate the State debt, though by its terms it will be a long while before it falls due, as it was to be payable after the recogni tion of the confederacy by the United States.' This reminds me of an old Irietid in Indiana, who said he liked to give hu note payable teu days after convenience. (Laughter and cheers) "Jiut there are other terms on which L thiuk there is uo division utuong the loyal men ol the Union. First, that the leo iaiation of Independence must be recog nized as the law ot the land, aud every mar, alien and native, white and black, protecied in 'the inalienable and (Jod giveu rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.' Mr. Lincoln, in the Eman cipation ProcIaruatiutirwhich is the proud est wreath in his chaplet of fame, not only rave freedom to the slave, but declared that the government would maintain that freedom. We ':annot abandou them and leave them deleiir-cless, at the mercy of their former owners.' Thvy must be pro tected in their rights of person and prop erty, and these freemen must have the right to ue iu courts of justice lor all just claims, and to testify, also,' so as to have hecurity against outrage and wrong. 1 call them freemen, not frttdmen... The last phrase might have - answered betore their freedom was fully secured, but they fchould be regarded now as freemen of the republic. "Second, the amendment of their State constitutions, which have been adopted by many of their conventions so reluctantly under the pressure of dispatches from the President and the Secretary of Stale, should be ratified by a majority of their people.' We all know that a very small portion of their voters participated in the election of delegates to these conventions, and nearly if not all the conventions have declared them in force without any ratifi cation by the people. ' When the crisis has passed, can they not turn around and fay that-thes$ were adopted under duress by delegates elected by a meagre vote under provisional governors and military authorities, and never ratified by a popu lar vote ? And could they not turn over th? anti-Lecoupton argument against us, and iusist, as we did, that a constitution not ratified by the people may have legal fft, but no moral effect whatever T ' I WOULD RATHER BE RIGHT THAN PRESIDENT.! Hkry Clay. Third, the President, on all oeeasious insisted that they should elect Congress-; men who could take the oath prescribed by the 'Act of 1802. But in defiance of this, and insulting to the President and the country, they have, in a large majori ity of instances, "votea1 down mercilessly Uuion nen who could take the oath, and elected thoe who boasted that they could not, would not, and would feel disgraced if they could. Without mentioning1 name, one gentlemen, - elected in Ala bama, -'declared in his address to the peo ple before.ihe election that the- iron .penf of history would declare the emancipation act as the most monstrous deed of cruelty, that ever darkened the annals of any nal iwv.' And another, who avowed that he ;;ave all possible aid-and comfort to the rebelliou, denounced the Congress of 1SG2 for' enacting the outh. The ! South is filled with-men who can take the oath. ; It declares, 'I: have not voluntarily taken part iu the rebellion . Every conscript in Hit Southern army can: take that oath, because he was iorced into the ranks by their conscription act;' and. every man who stayed at home and refused to accept civil or military office could take that oath. But these were uo't the choice of the States lately in rebellion.- ' .-. , ': 'Jb'ourtb; while it must be expected that a minority ot thsse Stales will cherish for years, perhaps, their leelinga ot disloyalty the country has a right to expect that be-; lore theirimembers are admitted to share iu the government, of this cbuntryi-ciear majority -of the jople of '; each: of these! States should give evidence of their ear4 nest and . cheerful-loyalty -non by tuch speeches as i are ao common, that Hhey submitted the issue to the arbitrament ot war but that they arc willing to stand by aud fight for the flag of tue couutry 'against all its euemiep, at home or abroad. ; - j 'The' danger no i is T- in too much, pre- cipitation. L.ct us crather make . haste. 4 "slowly, and we can' thei hope " thatLthe louudatious of our gbverunicnt, when thusl reconstructed ou the basis ot uudispataole loyalty, will be' as eternal as'the stars." . A Wall Over .'ew Jersey. , On the Wing; Nov. the 9th, 18G5.: 'Never wuz 1 iu so pleasant a frame uv mind fz last bight. . Ale wuz peas with me, fur alter beiu.1 buffett-d about ' ibe woild for xhreo skore-years,' atlarst - it'' seemed to me as though forchuiie, tired uv persekutiu a uuloichuuit beiu, had taken me into favor. 1 bed a solmcn promts from the Detr.o kratic State Central Committy in the grate fcitaie uv Noo (Jersey," that ez soon tz our candidate for (Juvnor wuz dooly elected, I shud hev the position uv Door keeper to the Hous uv the Lord, (wich iu this Slate meaus the Capitoi aud wich iz certainly better than dwellin iu the tents uv wicked grosery keepers, on tick, ez I do,) aud a joodieus exhibition uv this promise had prukured lur me uulini- lied facilities tor borrerin, which 1 im prooved muchly. On Wednesday nite I was sittin in my room, a c-njoyin tlie piuasiu rcflechuu that iu a few days I ehul be placed abuv want, & beyond the coutinguuevs uv iorehuuo. Wood! oh, wood ! that I had died then and there, before thai dream uv bliss wuz rudely broken. A wicked boy cum run ning past with a paper, which he had brot from the next town where lives a mau w no takes one. He flung it' thru the iviuder to uio "and parst on. I opened it and glaneea" at the hed lines! "NEW JERSEY 5,0'JvJ REPUBLICAN'!"' One loug and pierciu hnlc wuz hurd thru that house, and wneu the inmates rushed into the room they found me in auymate ou the Lor. The iat.il paper lay near me explaiuiu tho caus uv the catastophe. The kind hearted laudiord, alter Icelia uv my pockets, and diskiverin that the contents tnereol wuld not pay the arreages of my board, had a hurried cou sullatiou with his wiio as to tlfe propriety uv bringing me to, he insisting that it wuz the only cauce uv gettiu what wuz back, she lusistiu that it 1 wuz bruog to I'd go ou ruuuiug up the bill bigger ana big ger, and uever pay at' last, .While they wuz arguiu the matter pro aud cuu, 1 happened to gfet a good smell uv his breth, wich restored me to couuiousueaa at 1st, without f urther adoo. rWheu iu truble my poetic sole alluz finds vent in soug. Did ever poet who delighted iu tomb?, and dark rolliu strcms, and consumption, and blighted hopes, and decay, and sich themes, ever hev bich a pick uv bjecks ezl-hev this time? The iollerin may be a kunsolation to the lu Dimokrats uv the North, who hev gon so far iuto copperhedism that they can't change thaf base. ' ' :. . A WALE ! " ' :.: In the mornin we go forth rejoicin in our strength in -the evening we ar buu tid aud wilt! ' .-. Man born uv woman (and most men ar) is us lu days, and .them is so full uv truble, that its ekarsely worth while beiu born at all. ' ?.. : ; . , .4 lu October I waded in woe knee deep, and now the waters uv afiiickshun are about my chin. V. " " '-', ; 1 look to the east and Massachusetts rolla in Abolishun.n-! ' : : ' ) . .'. ! To the west T turn my eyes and Wis consin and Minnesota' and Illinois ans'er Abolishun. 5 " ' 1 . Southward I turn" my irnplorin gaze, and Maryland ?euds gTeetin Aboiisbun. r In Noo York we hed. 'em, for lo ! we run a sojer who fot valiantly, and we put him on a platform wich stunk with nig ger yea, the : savor thereof vtvt louder than the Abblishun platform itself. -. But behold ! the people jeer and flout and say, "the platform stinketh lord enough, but the smell thereof U not the J'mell of the Afrikan it is uv the rotten I material uv wich it is komposed, and the Korrupshun tney hev placed onto it" and Noo York goes Abolishun. ' Slocum held hisself up and sed ''come and buy' And our folks bought him and : his .tribe, but he getteth not his price. Noo Jersey 'Abolishun ! !!!!!! Job's cattle wuz slaiu by murrain and holler horn, and sich, and not livin near Noo York, the flesh . thereof ho culd not sell. ' ( . But Job had suthin left still he culd cell the hides aud tallow I Lazurus hed sores, but he hed dcrgs to lick them. ' .' .r.. ;" Noo Jersey was the.jo atTd tallow uv Dimokracy, and lo ! that is' gone. - ' What little is left of the Dimokracy is all sore, but where" is the dorg so low as to uk it? .: Jwey wuz Tour ewe Iamb lo ! the strong hand uv , Ibolishuuiam hez taken it. ; ! : .Noo Jersey wuz the Aryrat on wich our Ark rcstid behold ! the dark waves of Abolishunism sweep over it. ' ; Darkness falls over me; liko a pall the shadow of wocencompasseth me. Down my furred -cheeks roll the tear3 uv angush, varyih in size from a pea tu a small tater: - large Nco Jersey will vote for the Constitoo shanel Amendment, and lo 1 the niggers will possess the land: ' 1 see horrid visions ! On the Camboy and Amden nigger brakesmenand at the polls, niggers ! Where shall we find refuge? ;In the North ? Lo ! it is barrel agin us by Abolishunism. " ' In the South ? In their eyes the northern copperhead findeth no favor. ' In Mexico? There is war there and we might he drafted. Who will driver us ? Who will pluck us from the ph into wich we hev falleu ? - . On the dark rollin sea." - And into what harbor fata, will drive my weather-beaten bark, the undersigned cannot trooly say. ;: Noo Jersey farewell! The world may stand it a year or two, but. I doubt it. Mournfully and sadly, . . Petroleum V. Napby, Lait Pastor uv the Church uv the Noo Dis pensashun. i From Harper's Weekly. Anecdote of I'resldent Johnson. "I say, I say, General Jackson, for fear you should think I have some axe to grind because I try so hard to keep you at my poor house all night, I will agree to eu tcntain ycu free of expense!" expostula ted the landlord of the only iun in the villiage of Jefferson, Ashe county, North Carolina, to General Jackso-i, lato one evening iu the autumn of 18 , as he entered his carriage to pursue his journey toward Tennessee. ."The B'ue llidge, sir, is infested with banditti, and you will certainly be robbed, and possibly murder ed, before morning. I beseech you to stay!" "' ' ' 'l'ou arc very kind, sir, and I thank you," replied the General, . "but I will proceed, and try and reach the Tennessee line at all events. JL- have uo fears of being molested. Drive on, Ned, briskly. Adieu, ge-ileuieu all !'' aud the. old hero drove off at a rapid pace. "Hilloa there, young-ter !" cried-; the laudiord to a slim, witty, flaxen-headed stripling, standing in the motley crowd in front of the tavern, "if you are going to Tennessee, you had better jump up be hind and ro uiouur with the General : it's as cheap riding as walking !' I'd better. and thank you." replied the young man, jumping up behind the coach as it drove oft. . . . , They rode on quietly for eome hours, until they began to ascend the mountains, when the Geueral, hearing a slight cough behind, called out, sternly : ."Who's that?" ; . "It's me, sir Andrew Johnson." Iam a traveler, on my way to Tennessee, and I thought I might get a lift on j'onr-car-riagc, sir: I beg your pardon, r." "You are quite welcome, sir, to my car riage. Como forward ; and take a seat with me' ' i .. "Thank, you, sir, but as the mountain is father steep here, I'll jump off and walk up." ' . He walked forward , up the mountain side in advance of .the carriage, .but had notv gone far' when: he saw a man ahead of him ascending i the mountain. He ap peared " to b intoxicated.. He. lurched this way and-theother way, staggering buck ward and forward; now his knees would double up,' and he would miss a step, as if the earth had suddenly vanish ed before him j then ho would cross his legs, and a lurch would send him diagon ally across the road. lie stopped and bracd himself up so as nearly to fall backward, and then drifted helplessly along. Presently he turned an angle in the read and . was out of sight. "That man is beastly drunk," remarked the General. "Drunk! not much, sir," laughed the young man ; "he's no more drunk than I am- He's playing possum and means mischief. Look there 1 he's Iviuz on .he road." ' , ... As they, drove, up he raised himself lazily and hailed them. "Hie! ah ! I I say, gentlemen, can't you give me a lift ? I I bic! cantV wa'lk; I'm loaded too heavily with d -d mean whisky." "Then stay where you are and get rid of it," replied the General sternly. "The devil!" exclaimed the man. sprin ging to his feet with the agility of a cat. He gave a keen whistle and planted him self in front, of the coach. Three men sprang out from the bushc3 aud siiade a rush at the carriage. . Quick as thought the General sprang upon one of them, and they rolled over in the road 'together. A dull, crushios sound was next ' heard over tho conflict, and a second rolled over in the dust, pro pelled by the loaded whip iu the powerful hands of the driver. The young man, by a timely shot, fired and brought down a third, and then sprang to the assistance of the General, who still fought manfully with his herculean antagonist, while .the driver engaged the remaining robber. . "Stand back! stand back !" cried the General to the young man "we arc man to man. I'll give the villain fair play. By the Eternal, I have you now!" and he threw ; big : antagonist over, apparently lifeless. " "Are you hurt, my boy !" asked the General "And you. too, Ned? Where's Ned ?". V. ,." . . "Here, massa !" replied tho boy, puf fing up the road. "My robber coward he run -he! he! he! I golly, I save one, massa save one, an de young gentle man sav3 oue he ! he I he!" All this occurred in less time . than it takes to record it. "But you, General, are you hurt?" "No, nothing but a few bruises, thank God! But look there! one of them is stirring. "You, sir, and Ned, pinion his hands, while I examine the others." : None of them were found to be dead. Two were only stunned, and the third had "received a nistot-shof throuirh tli shoul I der, and was crouching in affright. Thpy were, a'l soon pinioned, and a couucil was held, when it w;is determined to disarm them and let them' go rather thau be de tained, on the road. No,fur.her iucideots befel our travelers during their jaunt. On their separation in Tenue-see,- the Geueral pave the young mau much ood advice, lie recounted to hiui his own history, and baJe him aspire to be good and useful. The General comiui'ed en route for his home in Middle Tennessee, and the young man stopped and settled in the town of Greenville Tennessee, as a journeyman tailor. Of his subsequent career .it is needless to speak ; it is part of the history of our country. m m m- A Blunt Wat of Putting It. The Secessionists in Memphis, like their breth ren elsewhere, says an army historian, in sisted that all the points we had captured were given up because they had no fur ther use for them. The evacuation of Columbus, Fort Pillow, Fort Henry, and Boiling Green, with ihe surrender of Donclson, were parts of the grand strategy of the rebel leader-;, and sered to lure us on to our destruction. They would never admit a defeat, but contended we had iu variably suffered. . An uneducated farmer, on the rcuta followed by one of our aimio in Tennes see, to!d our officers that a rebel general and his staff had takeu dinner wiih hiru during hi, retreat from . Nashville.' The farmer was anxious to learu somethiur about the military situation, and asked a rebel major how the Confederate cause was progressing. ; "Splendidly," answered the major. "We have whipped tha yankees in every battle, and our iudependenco. will soou be recognized." The farmer was houghtful for a minute or two and then deliberately said : "ll don't know much about war, but if we are always whipping, che Yankees, how is it they keep c jming down into our c'ouu'ry alter every battle V The major grew red in the face,' and told the farmer that any man who asked such au absurd question was an Aboli tionist, and deserved hanging to tho uear est tree. The farmer was silenced, but not satisfied. 1 fSfA Frenchman writing a letter in English to a friend, and looking in the dictionary for tho word "preserved," and finding it meant to pickle, wrote as fol lows : "May you and all your family be pickled to all eternity." ZOfA conversation once turning on first love, Thomas Moore compared it to a potato, because "it shoots ftotu the eyes." "Or rather," exclaimed Lord Byron, "be cause it becomes less by pairing." BLWhy cannot slender persons ever become great friends ?. Because they will always be slight acquaintances. . . . B3.The most delicate method ot giving a lady a key to your feelings is to send her a lock of your hair." TERMS:300 1ER ASSIJI. .OO II AOVAXCE. NUMBER 7. "Old Hickory." All Americans are familiar with thi sobriquet of General Andrew Jackson, yet very few know how it was earned by the old hero. A writer in a Southern journal gives the following information on the subject : ... "In 1836, I was intimately acquainted with Colonel John Allen, United State agent of the Chickasaw Indians, residing in Pontotoc, and with his brother, JapU Wm. Allen, then a merchant in that town. I learned from Capt. Wm. Allen that.his father was a near neighbor and devoted friend of General Jackson, and that he and his brother John served as soldiers in his escort, iu all his campaigns, and catnpod at the same fire, and messed with him during the Creek war. They were certainly great favorites with hira? and ho rewarded them for their friendship by giving them lucrative appointments in the Chickasaw nation, while he was Pres ident. In conversation with (!at,t." AHn' about General Jackson, on one occasion, IsLed Mm how he acquired the name of 4OId Hickory V -.1 give his reply, as well as 1 can remember, in his own. words : "During the campaign which included th? battle of Emucklaw Creek, the army was moving rapidly, to surprise the In dians, and we were without tent. In the month ot March, a cold equinoctial rain fell on us, mingled with sleet, which last ed several days. The General was exposed to the weather, and wa suffering (severely with a bad cold and -a sore throat. At night we bivouacked in a muddy bottom, while it was pouring down rain, which froze as it fell. My brother John "aud I, finding ihat the General was very unwell, became uneasy about him. although he did not complain, but laid. down upon. his blanket by the camp fire with his soldiers. Seeing him wet to the skin, stretched in the mud and water in his suffering cod-, dition, we determined to try and make him more comfortable.' r . T "We cut down a stout hickory tree, in which the eapwa3 rising, and peeled the bark from it in flakes ; cut two forks' and a pole ; laid down a floor of bark aud dead leaves, and roofed it, and closed on side, or rather one end ot the structure, against the wind, and left the-other end peu. -We then dried our blankets, and made a pallet in the tent we had constructed. We woke up the old Generala-nd'-with. some difficulty persuaded him to crawl in. With his saddle for a pillow, wrapped in our dry blauke'ts, and his feet to the fire, he slept rouiiuiy all uight, well cased in hickory bark. "The next morning, an' old man from the neighborhood came into camp with a jug of whisky, with which, after imbibing quite freely himself, lie gave us all 'a treat' us far as the liqu r would go. He seemed to bo a kiiid-liearted, jovial, and patriotic o d fellow ; a sort of 'privileged charac ter in his country. While staiierin" about among the camp fires, full of fun and whisky, he blundered upon our little hickory bark tent, which immediately ar rested his attention. After eyeing it for a moment, he exclaimed, 'What sort of au outlandish I-sjiu fixia' i this?' ; aud gave it a kick which-tumbled down the queer looking structure, and completely buried the old hero in the bark. As h? stag gered out of the ruins, and looked fiercely around for the author ot the mi-chief, the old toper recognized tho General, and ex claimed, 'Hallo, old Hickory! come out of your bark and joiti us in a diink!' 'There was something si luiiciroas in the whok' scene, that respect for the old hero's preseuca and rank could not re strain our merriment. He very good humoredly joined us in laughing at the mishap. As he rose up and shook the bark, from bis, he looked so tough and ster; that we all srave him a clou 'Hur rah for old Hickory !' This was the first time he ever heard these words, 4whi-:h were afterward shouted-by the millions ot his couutrymen whenever he appeared among them.' " A Yankee Iaw3er, who was plead ing the cause of a little boy, took him up in his arms and held hiiu up to the jury, suffused in tears. This had a great elfvicr, until the opposite lawyer aked the boy "What makes you e-y ?" - "He's pinching me I" answered the boy. , . T" lke,": said Mrs. Partington, "how' do they find out the difference between the earth and the suu V "Oh," said the young hopeful, "ther calculate a quarter of the distance, aud theu multiply by four." w ., A Jerseman was very sick, and not expected u recover. His friends got around his bed, and one of them said: "John, do feel willing to die?" Johu made an tffoit to eive his views on the subject and answered, in a feeble voice: ... "I think I'd rather stay where l'c Detter acquainted." , A parson once prefaced his ser mon with, "My friends, let u say a few words before wa begin." Thi is about equal to the man who took a short uap before he went to sleep. 8r,A joung lady says sho ean't un derstand what her brother Dick sees ir the girls that he likes them so well; foi her part, she would rather have one youn, man than twenty girls. .V I:
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