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EBENSBMG, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1852.
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DEATH CF THE OLD YEAH.
UT ALFE.ED TE.NSTSOX.
lull kntc-ueep lies the winter snow,
And the whiter winds are wearily sighing;
Tell ye the church-bells sad and low.
And tread softly and speak low,
For the Old Year lies a dying.
Old Year, you must not die ;
You came to us so readily.
You lived wi;h us so steadily
OM Year, you shall not die.
He T.eth still; he doth not move;
lie will not see the dawn of day ;
He hath no other life above,
Hi gave me a friend, a true true-love,
Acd the 5ew Year will take 'cm away.
Old Year, you must not go ;
5) long you have I ten with us.
Such joy you have seen "with us,
'Old Yeur, you shall not go.
.He frothed his bumpers to the brim,
A jollier Year we shall not see ;
"But though his eyes are waxing dim,
3ut taough his foes speak ill of Lim,
lie was a friend to me ! .
Old Year, you shall not die I
We did so laugh and cry with you,
I've half a mind to die with you,
iDld Year, if you must die.
lie was full of joke and jest.
Cut all his merry quips ore o'er.
To see him die, across the waste,
His son and heir doth ride post haste;
But he'll be dead before.
.Every one for his own !
The night is starry and cold,
And the New Year blithe and bold,
Comes up to take his own.
Jkw hard he breathes! Over the snow,-
I heard just now the crowing cock,
The shadows flicker to and fro ;
The ricket chirps, the light burns low;
'lis nearly one o'clock.
Old Year, we'll duly rue for you,
Shake hands before you die,
What is it we can do for you!
Speak out before you die.
His face is growing sharp and thin.
Alack! our friend is gone !
Cioso up his eyes tie up his chin ;
:ep from the corpse and let uim in
Xfcat staudeth there alone,
And waiteth at the door,
There's a new foot on the floor, my friend,
And a iiew face at the, door, my friend,
A new face at the door !
A BLACK L IGLC I.V A BAD WAY.
Acsteia, in this present year of grace, 1851,
looks to me very much like a translated version
England under the Stuarts.
I am a resident at Vienna, and know Austria
pretty well. I have seen many birds before
now in a sickly state have seen some abso
lutely rotting away but I never saw one with
ach unpromising symptoms upon him as the
Black Eagle of Austria.
The Court of Vienna is perhaps the most
brilliant in Europe; the whole social system in
Vienna is perhaps the most thoroughly unsound
ia Europe. Austria is weighed down by a nu
merous and impoverished nobility, by unjust
taxes, and by a currency incredibly depreciated.
Her commerce is hampered by ail manner of
monopolies, and is involved in such a complex
network of restrictions, as only the industrious,
Hold-getting fingers of a few can unravel. Near
ly the whole trade of Austria is in the hands of
busy persevering few. Out of the imme
ate circle of the government, there is scarcely
satisfied man in the Austrian dominions. The
Cobles feel abridgment of their privileges, and
decrease of profit by the abolition of their feudal
Xlghta succeeding the late revolution. The mer
its fed that in Austria they Buffer more vex-
atl0us interference than it is in the nature of
t0 bea quietly. The people, a naturally
f'e am.reJ rHCe haTe Earned insensibly to
tneir fi5ts whenever they think of their
folate and paternal government.
fw e Psitioa of the nobles is ridiculous. They
0Vfcr the land ; increase and multiply, and
i; T.'" Xot more tnaa a few dozen of them can
one ftte8tljr witout employment; white not
for b Utle miiliona my exrci8e a trade
. may practice law or medicine, or 6ink
into authojship. The Austrian patrici
c&0 not feed v,;.i v .
ician
ant i daughter; if he do, his household will
mer-
o acknowledged by his noble friends. The
CmSt morrn V.o .1.. ..M. - .1
Pir miserat)le me&o hungry, noble
A ceUbratsi Viennese Professor dined -one
3 10 Eatfad; with larnd lord. Pray,
how is Baron Dash?" inquired a guest said
Baron Dash being at that time an Austrian
Minister.
" He is quite well," said the Professor.
"And his wife?" pursued the other. "I re
member meeting her at Rome; they were just
married, and she was a most delightful person.
She created a sensation, no doubt, when she was
received at ycur court?"
44ho was not received at all?" said the Pro
fessor. . 4'How was that?" asked many voices.
"Because she is not born."
"Not born" is the customary mode of igno
ring (if 1 may use a slang word of this time) the
existence cf the vulgar, among the noble Vien
nese. At the present moment, the family of a
Minister, or of auy of the generals who have
saved the throne, may be excluded from society
on this pretense. Two recent exceptions have
been made in favor of the wives of two of the
most important people in the empire. They were
invited to the court-balls; but were there trea
ted so scurvily by the "born" ladies, that these
unborn women visited them only once.
What is to be done by these poor nobles
shut out from commerce, law, and physic ?
Diplomacy is voted low ; unless they get the
great embassies. The church, a3 in all Catholic
countries, is low; unless a nobleman should en
ter it with certain prospect of a cardinal's hat
or a bishopric. The best bishoprics in the world
(meaning, of course, the most luxurious) are
Austrian. The revenues of the Primate of
Hungary are said to be worth the comfortable
trifle of sixty thousand pounds a year;
But there remains for these wretched nobles,
one road to independence and distinction; and
this is the army. To the army, it may be said,
the whole body of the Austrian nobility belongs.
The more fortunate, that is to sny, the highest
in rank, add to their commissions places about
the court. Cherished titles are acquired ia this I
w.ay ; and a lady may insist on being seriously
addressed in polite Austrian society as say for J
example, Frau-ober-consistorial-hof-Directorinn i
Ia the army, of course, under such a system,
wo see lieutenants with the hair gone from their
heads, and generals with no hair come yet on
their chins. A young man of family may get a
captaincy in three months, while his neighbor
without patronage, might not get if he lived for
ever. Commissions are not sold in Austria as
they are in England, but the Ministry of War
knows how to respond to proper influence. In
an army of five hundred thousand, vacancies, it
is needless to say constantly occur. The lad
who is named cornet in Hungary, is presently
lieutenant of a regiment in Italy, and by-and-by
a captain in Croatia. After that, he muy awake
some morning, major, with the place of aid-decamp
to the Emperor; and to such a boy, with
friends to back him, the army is decidedly a good
profession. The inferior otlicers are miserably
paid, an ensign having little more than thirty
pounds a year. A captain, however, is well
paid in allowances, if not in money; while a
colonel lias forage for twelve horses, and very
good contingencies besides. Again, there are
to be considered other very important differences
between pay in the Austrian and. pay in the
English army. An Austrian can live upon his
pay. His simple uniform is not costly ; he is
free from mess expense, and may dine for six
pence at the tavern favored by his comrades.
Not being allowed at any time to lay aside his
nniform, he can not run up a long tailor's bill ;
and, being admitted to the best society, he need
not spend much money on amusement. Besides,
does not the state accord to him the privilege of
going to the theatre for twopence?
The poorer oncers in the Austrian service are
so unreasonable" and ill-conditioned, that they
are not in general pleased by these .advantages
being given to men, who may possibly be well
born, but who have certainly not been long born ;
and in many places combinations have been
made to resist the unfair system of promotion.
A young captain sent down to command gray
beards, with, a lively cense of their own claims
on the vacancy, is now and then required to
light, one after the other, the whole series of
senior lieutenants. This causes a juvenile cap
tain occasionally to shirk the visit to his regi
ment, and effect a prompt exchange.
Some part of the last-named difficulty is over
come by the existence of one or two corps of
officers who have no regiment at all. Where
there arc no men to murmur, the business of
promotion is carried on with perfect comfort.
In spite of all this, there is much to be said
to the credt and honor of the innumerable
throng of people forming the Austrian army.
It is an excellently appointed and well-disciplined
multitude. The gallantry of its soldiers
and the skill and experience of many of its
highest officers, must be freely admitted: Then,
too, the great number of nobles classed within
it has at least had the good effect of creating
a high standard of artific-al honor. The fellow
feeling among Austrian soldiers is also great ;
those of the same rank accost each other with
the "Du," the household word of German con
versation; and the common word for an old
companion in arms is "Duty-bruder."
Duels axe frequent, but not often fatal, or even
dangerous. To take the .nib from an adversary's
nose, or to pare a small rind from hla ear, is
ample vengeance even for the blood-thirsty.
' An Austrian officer who has received a blow,
though only in an accidental scuffle, is called
upon to quit Lis regiment, unless he. has slain
upon the spot the owner of the sacrilegious
hand that struck him. This he Is authorised
by law to do, if struck while wearing uniform.
Tho effect of this savage custom has been ts
produce in Austrian cfiicers a peculiar meekness
and forbearance; to keep tfacm always watchful
against quarrels with civilians ; and to make
them socially the quietest gentlemen in thfi
world.
Last winter a fast English gent left a masked
ball at the Redoute, intoxicated. Disarming a
sentry, he ensconced himself until morn.ng in
his box. The gent was then forwarded to the
frontier, but the soldier" was flogged for not
having shot him.
Freedom from arrest for debt is an immunity
enjoyed by Austrian officers; but those who
indulge too freely in their exemption from re
sponsibility, may want defenders powerful
enough to prevent their summary dismissal
from the service.
I have written thus much about the Austrian
army, because, in fact, as the world here now
stands, every third man is or has been a sol
dier; and one can not talk about society in this
empire without beginning at once to talk about
its military aspect.
Gay and trifling as the metropolis is, with its
abundance of out-door amusements, Vienna
must be put dowu in plain words as the most
inhospitable capital in Europe. The Austrians
themselves admit that they could not endure to
be received abroad as they are in the habit of
receiving strangers here. The greater Austrian
nobles never receive a stranger to their intimacy.
A late French ambassador, who conducted
his establishment with splendor, .and was at all
times profusely hospitable, used to say that he
was net once asked privately to dinner during
the whole period of his residence in Vienna,
The diplomatic corps do not succeed in forcing
the close barriers of Austrian exclusiveness;
and twenty years of residence will not entitle
a stranger to feel that he has made himself
familiarly the friend of a single Austrian. Any
one who has lived among the higher classes in
Vienna will confirm my statement, and will re
call with astonishment the somewhat indignant
testimouy of the oldest and most respected
members of the corpt diplomatiqut to the inhos
pitable way in which their friendly overtures
have been received. Invitations to dinner are
exceedingly rare; there are brilliant balls; but
these do not satisfy an English longing for
good-fellowship. Familiar visits and free social
intercourse do not exist at all. Then there are
the two great divisions of society or the nobles
and the merchant Jews; on one side poverty
and pride; on the other, wealth and intellect.
The ugliest and most illiterate of pauper-countesses
would consider her glove soiled by contact
with the rosy fingers of the fairest and most
accomplished among bankers' wives. The nobles
so intermarrying and so looking down contempt
uously upon the brain and sinew of the land,
have, as a matter of course, degenerated into
colorless morsels of humanity. How long they
can remain uppermost is for themselves to cal
culate, if they can; it is enough for us who see
good wine at the bottom, and lees at the top, to
know that there must be a settlement impending.
For the inhospitality of Viennese society there
is one sufficient reason; it springs out of the
dread of espionage. In this city of Vienna
alone there are 6aid to be four hundred police
spies, varying in rank between an arhduke and
a waiter. Letters are not safe; writing-desks
are not sacred. An office for opening letters
exists in the post-office. Upon the slightest
suspicion or curiosity, seals have impressions
taken from them, the wax is melted over a jet
of flame, the letters are read, and, if necessary,
copied, re-sealed, and delivered. Wafers are
of course moistened by steam. You can not
prevent this espionage, but it can be detected
(supposing that to be any consolation) if you
seal with wax over a wafer. One consequence
of the melting and 6teaming practices of the
Austrian post-office is especially afflicting to
merchants; bills come sometimes to be pre
sented, while the letters containing advice of
them lie detained by the authorities ; acceptance,
in the absence of advice, being refused.
From the surveillance of the police officials,
perhaps not a house in Vienna is free. The man
whom you invited as a friend, and who is dancing
with your wife, may be a spy. You" can Dot
tell ; and for this reason people in Vienna
naturally warm and sociable close their doors
upon familiarity, and are made freezingly inhos
pitable. Yet this grand machine of, espoinage
leaves crime at liberty. Although murder is
rare, or at least rare of discovery, (there is a
Todschauer, or inspector of deaths, but no coro
ner's inquest,) unpunished forgeries and robber
ies of the most shameless kind outrage society
continually. Many of the nore distant provin
ces are infested by gangs of organized banditti ;
who will ride, during .broad daylight, into a
country gentleman's courtyard; invite them
selves to dinner, take away his property, and
insist on a ransom for himself if he has do wish
i to see hxa bouse in flames. Wba soei hr trooDS
thess bands of thieves are oftsu strong enough
to offer battle.
aUhctrgu Uw Austriaa police c-m cot pro
tect Acstrlsn subjects, it can annoy not only
them, but foreigners -besides. Thm English are
extremely liable to suffer. -One EcgUahman,
only she other day, was ordered to the frontier for
a$urel with his landlady; another, for keeping
had society; anotlrsr, for hissing a piece of mu
sic; three, for being suspected of political in
trigue ; two for being newspaper reporters. The
French have lately come in for their share of
public attentions; and we have lost, Trom the
same cause, the company of two Americans.
Aawag the Austrians themselves, the Tery name
of the police is a word of terror. By their hearths
they dare barely whisper matter that would be
harmless enough elsewhere, but dangerous here,
if falling upon a policeman's ears.
Recently there was a poem Dublished vrWfc
professed to draw a parellel between a monarchy
auu a repuoac. or course it was an orthodox
andanatmwst rabid elorification of nA'
absolutist princioles. Th iwt -
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an Austrian noble; who, opening it carelessly,
and immediately noticing the word "rennhl.
handed the book back to a servant, with a shud
der, and a note to the author acknowledging its
receipt, ana wondering that the Doet " shonld
have thought him (the noble) capable of en
couraging republican principles!" This note
scarified the feelings of the rhymer intensely.
lie aurnea on to exculpate himself and explain
the real aim of his book. He did this, and, of
course, his book was bought.
This is the state of Austria in 1851. Men of
all grades look anxiously to France : well know
ing that the events in Paris next year, if they
lead to outbreak, will be felt in Vienna instantly.
Yet Strauss delights the -dancers, and the mili
tary bands play their " Hoch Lebe " round the
throne. The nobles scorn the merchants and
the men of letters; "who return the noble scorn
with a contemptuous pity. The murmur of the
populace is heard below; but still we have the
gayest capital in all the world. We throng the
places of amusement. Dissipation occupies our
nanas and shuts out graver thought. Verily
Charles Stuart might be reigning in this capital.
Xapolcon on the Battle Field,
The night after the battle of .Bassano. the
moon rose cloudless and brilliant overhe ssn
guinary scene. Napoleon, who seldom exhibited
hilarity or even exhilaration of spirits in the
hour of victory, rode, as was his custom, over
the plain, and, 6ilent and thoughtful, seemed
lost in painful reveries. It was midnight, the
confusion and nproar of battle had passed away,
and the deep silence of the calm starlight night
was only disturbed by the moans of the wounded
and the d Vin CT. Suddenly A. dctr KTiran cr frftm
m v O O
beneath the cloak of his dead master, and rushed
to Napoleon, as if frantically imploring his aid.
and then rushed back again to the mangled
corpse, licking the blood from the face and the
hands, and howling most piteously. Napoleon
was deeply moved by the affecting scene, and
involuntarily checked his horse to contemplate
it In relating the event, may years afterward,
he remarked, " I know not how it was, but no
incident upon any field of . battle ever produced
so deep an impression on my feelings. This
man, thought I, must have bad among his com
rades, friends ; and yet, here he lies, forsaken
by all except his faithful dog. What a 6trange
being is man ! How mysterious are his expres
sions I had, without emotion, ordered battles
which had decided the fate of armies. I had,
with tearless eye, beheld the execution of those
orders, in which thousands of my countrymen
were slain. And yet here my sympathies were
most deeply and resistlessly moved by the mourn"
ful howling of a dog. Certainly in that moment
I should have been unabte to refuse any request
to a suppliant enemy ?"
Mysterious Death.
On Sunday morning last, a young girl named
Mary Hogan, in the neighborhood of South Eas
ton, was found dead in her bed. The following
particulars were furnished us in relation to her.
On Saturday evening the friends with whom she
resided, left for some part of New Jersey on a
visit to some friends, and left the girl alone in
the house ; according to directions, she was en
gaged in ironing clothes ; a young girl from tho
neighborhood called in and remained with her
until 3 o'clock in the morning ; whilst sho was
thus employed she heard a noise at the window,
and she went out, and in a short time returned
to the room as pale as death, whereupon the
young girl who was with her interrogated her as
to the cause, and she told her that she had seen
a friend who ' died long since, and told her that
6he was going to injure her; the girl was very
much frightened, and requested her companion
to remain with her during the night, who refused
and went home, after which she retired, and in
the morning when her friends came home they
went to her room to call her, but to their aston
ishment found her dead. A medical gentleman
was immediately palled in, buj all efforts 1,0
restore her were unavailing.. PttUfi Arffu-
On a wall at the east of London, is the
following notice : " Whoever trespasses on thess
premises is requested to bring bia coffin."
Aunt Hetty on Matrimony.
Now, girls, said Aunt Hetty, put dowu your
muroider and worsted work, do something
sensible, acd stop building air-castles, and talk
ing of lovers and hftney moons ; it makes me
ick, it's perfect! anthzrooisi. Lots is a farce
matrimony ia a hufabeg ; husbands are domestic
Napoleons, Neros, Alexanders, sighing for ether
hearts to conquer after they arc sure of yours.
Tho honey moon is ss short-lived as a lacifer
match ; after that you may wear your wedding
dress at the wash-tub, and your night-cap. to
meeting, and your husband wouldn't know it.
You may pick up yoor own pocket handkerchief,
help" yourself to a chair, and split your gown
across the back reaching over the table to get a
piece of butter, while he is laying in his break
fast as if it was the last meal he should eat this
side of Jordan; when he gets through he will
aid your digestion, (while you are sipping your
first cup of coffee,) by inquiring what you'll have
for dinner, whether the cold lamb was all ate
yesterday ; if the charcoal is out, and what you
gave for the last green tea you bought. Then
he gets up from the table, lights hid cigar with
the last evening's paper that you have not had a
chance to read ; gives two or three whiffs of
smoke, sure to give you a headache for the after
noon, and. just as his coat tail is vanishing
through the door, apologises for not doing " that
errand " for yoa yesterday thinks it doubtful if
h can to-day "so pressed with business."
Hear of him at 11 o'clock, taking an ice-cream
with some ladies at Vinton's while you are at
home new lining bis coat-sleeves. Children by
the ears all day, can't get out to take the air,
feel as crazy as a fly in a drum ; husband comes
home at night, nods a "how d'ye do, Fan,"
boxes Charley's ears, stands little Fanny in the
corner, sits down in the easiest chair in the
warmest corner, puts his feet up over the grate,
shutting out all the fire, while the baby's little
pag-nose growif blue with the cold ; reads the
newspaper all to himself, solaces his inner man
with a hot cup of tea, and just as you are labor
ing under the hallucination that he will ask you
to take a mouthful of fresh air with him, he puts
on his dressing-gown and slippers, and begins to
reckon up the family expenses! after which he
lies down on the sofa, and yoa keep time with
your needle, while he snores till nine o'clock.
Next morning ek him to leave you " a little
money," he looks at you as if to be sure that
you are in your right mind, draws a sigh long
enough and strong enough to inflate a pair of
bellows, and Asks you " what you want with it,
and if half a dollar won't do." Gracious king!
as if those little shoes, and stockings, and petti
coats could be had for half a dollar Ob, girls!
set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or
lap-dogs but let matrimony alone. It's the
hardest way on earth of getting a living you
never know when your work is done up. Think
of carrying eight or nine children through the
measels, chicken-pox, rash, mumps, and scarlet
fever, some of 'em" twice over; it makes my
sides ache to think of it. Oh, you may scrimp
and save, and twist and turn, and dig and delve,
and economise and die, and your husband will
marry again, and take what you have saved to
dress his second wife with, and she'll take your
portrait for a fire-board, and but what's the use
of talking ? I'll warrant every one of you'll try
it, the first chance you get ; there's a sort of be
witchment about it, somehow. I wish one half
of the world warn't fools, and t'other half idiots,
I do. Oh, dear J Olive Branch.
Perseverance and its Revrard.
The Fredericksburg (Va.) Herald has the fol
lowing notice of the 11 Wheelbarrow Emigrant to
California :"
"The public will remember that in the spring
of the year 1850, a poor man started across the
plains to California, with no other sort of con
veyance for his luggage and means of subsistance,
than a wheelbarrow, which he pushed along for
many a weary mile. The energetic fellow
"rolled" lus barrow along until he arrived at
the Great Salt Lake city, at which place he
joined some emigrants who hauled his small
stock of baggage through. We remember when
the hero of the wheelbarrow arrived, and our
prediction at the time, which it appears has been
verified, for we 6ee it stated that he arrived at
the mint a few days ago with $6;00O of the dust,
and has now purchased a beautiful farm, and is
preparing, as soon as he gets a family, to enjoy
life, if a home will bring such a blessing in its
train.
Asm I'ndersrround Graveyard.
The old Totter's Field of New York is now
some thirty to fifty feet underground. Few
people who walk across Washington square at
this day are aware that far beneath their feet
lie the dust of numberless human beings. The
march rt improvement in New York did not call
upon Potter's Field, now Washington square, to
give up its nameless and numberless dead; but
on their unconscious remains were piled acres
of sand, carted down from the elevation of Broad
way, and of nr higher grooadsin (the Ticinity,
and .the fine houses which now surround the
square, and the flourishing trees which adorn it,
cover the dost, far down, whfch ones wss brea-
thing, living man.
Invasion Dreaded In Cnctnn.
The Duke of Wenicgtoa kaa been for
time past in almost daily coaniaDicaUon with
Sir John F. Borgoyre. inspector-general cf for
tiflcations; and their deliberation. fc u i.
said, been directed to lLo tort means of pro tec t
icg tho metropolis in case of. invssion. It is
understood tho result has beeo, that several
muitsry camps are likely to bo formci r,,-
London ; and eligible situations will bo selected,
particularly on the Kent and Essex banks of the
Thames, and on the banks of the Medway, with
the ultimate view of rendering them permanent
ly fortified campa. Orders have already been
given to place Shernesa in a proper state of de
fence, and to have ample supplies of ammunition
and warlike stores kept in a constant etate of
readiness at the fortifications already construct
ed at that naval port.
Seniority lists of non-commissioned officers of
the royal artillery have been called for. to b.
sent into the adjutant-general's office, within thm
last few days, preparatory, it is said, to an sug
mentation of that branch of the service. It is
also stated that the line regiments will have an
addition of 10,000 made to them over the num
bers in the estimates of the last year. The
royal marines are also to be increased both in
the royal marine artillery and divisional compa
nies uepartmeuts ; and recruits enlisted for every
branch of the land-forces are ordered to be sent
to the head-quarters or depots of their regiments,
with the least possible delax. that thev mav
be at once instructed in a knowledge of their
proiession.
Getting the .Mitten.
Most young men are acquainted with this Terr
familiar expression, and that, too, by sad expe
rience. Now we know that this thing of "get
ting the mitten" is by no means so agreeable as
it is cracked up to be ;" and it produces no
very pleasant sensation in the mind of the ardent
lover. When in answer to the anxious "Miss,
will you accept my company ?" she says, half
good humoredly, "I shant!" none but those who
have been similarly situated, can form any con
jecture of that peculiar sensation which it natu
rally creates. The victim feels oh, dear! he
feels ail over. He would gladly change places
with a mud-turtle or a bull-frog, for then ho
might find some frientUy hiding place wherewith
to conceal his devoted head. The soul seems,
for a moment, to secrete itself somewhere between
the torrid zones; and the heart, that but a few
moments before bounded like the deer of the
forest, is now endeavoring to hide its blushing
face between the liver and the kidneys. How
ever, if he is a man of sound sense, he will attach
no blame to the fair one who has thus repulsed
and thwarted his design, but after a few moments
pertubation of mind, he will come to the natural
and honorable conclusion that if she don't want
to go with him he eertainly cares nothing about
her company. And furthermore, as it commonly
takes two to make a bargain, and as the man
generally makes the proposition, we think it
perfectly just that she exercises her own liberty
an.d choice in all such matters.
The Scow Storm at 2Vew Orleans.
The recent snow storm at New Orleans a
novel feature in her sunny life seems to hare
excited the most curious sensations. The news
papers are filled with flowing verse, and com
ments, both merry and solemn, upon the " first
snow." Among the incidents of the dav th
Picayune records, as a fixed fact, the rush made
by a small Creole negro into his master's room.
at an early hour of the morning, followed by the '
exclamation. " Oh, sir, look! the yar J is full of
white tvgar !"
Ready-made Angels.
Our language can scarcely show a more deli
cate and beautiful compliment to woman, than
that conveyed in the following lines, attributed
to Lord Herbert, an English mjbltman, snd ad
dressed to an Italian lady, whoja he met in a
convent :
" Die when you will, you r.ccd not wear;
At heaven's court, a form more fair
Than beauty at your birth has given;
Keep but the lips, the eyes we see,
The voice we hear, and you will be
An angel ready-made for heaven."
"Seventy-five cents per gal!" exclaimed
Mrs. Partington, on looking over the price cur
rent. " Why, bless me, what is the world coming
to, when the gals are valued at 6eTenty-fivo
cents ?" The old lady pulled off her spectacles,
threw down her paper, and went into a brown
study on the want of a proper appreciation of
the feminine gender. "
t& Nothing like love and hunger to drive a
man mad or make him happy. Next to a least
upon a seventeen year old pair of swett lips
under grape-vines by moon light, is a foray upon
a platter of cold beans after fishing for suckers
all day. The one fills the poetic heart, and the
other a hungry stomach. .
"My young friend," said a minister to a
boy at a camp-meeting, " do you ever think f a
future state ?" " No, I never meddle yitb ttate
affairs, jthough brother John, is a politician,"
"J??yu ever think of dying V "No but I
guess our Sal djd whan sho had; measles."
" Whose boy ars you !" " Wi3 anv t? rif
73 tell er c-s iiz kre - .