'' 7 S L v.. 11 4 THE BLESSJXGS CF GOVERNMENT, LIKE THE DEWS OF HEAVEN, SHOULD BE DISTRIBUTED ALIKE UPON THE HIGH AND THE LOW, THE RICH AND THE POOR, 0 EBENSBURG, OCTOBER 27, 1858. VOL. 5. NO 49 YEOMAN OR WiHE. D Y 1'. WAUD. r,iaL.c of Wine- at entertainments ,4 .,.,. "foclharily reformer ! or wme, WclwtitUU' 'Alien ;,, Mcxs d luc presence is warrocf hIjo of tho vine. .111 U1H!.V J , are Jill "p ro vt in n from two i . i i l'I '.'.h w;is iiisi r"uVl'-' I'il.lll rk-'T 111 I'.i ni i. , b.irroi-s ;'a- b'.-uaty l.'.s whisky, ,.c;,aiic will be i'ut:i;.i t.) rue: ...r,v.s .-hfi a spirit :.ru In.iky mountain dew. i.ji-ks in the tin i ? o'it--. in Mil; .r. t:lJM--IliJ W.t'. ir. ,;t:'' what might be expected from parents so sim ple an J so good the young men intelligent and well con Ju cted; the boys docile and prom- lU .Mdcnt o nc ""UUw? ! beaded, rcsy-c becked puppet as ever was the ,raraci,M.iuB.Juu. u, """ net and nlavtl.innf ; lVrr fw;i Tf?c ; r r j - - - vtir, .. jc, uowever, wita. tue eldest daughters that we have to do. Jane and Fanny Evans were as mnch alike as has often befallen any two sisters not born at one time; for, in the4 matter of twin-children, there -has bcc"n a series of puzzles ever j since the days 01 tue Lromtos. .Nearly of an see, (T believe at this moment both arc tur lip: j ued nineteen, and neither has reached twea i ty.) exactly of a stchire, with hazel eyes. full lips, white teeth, brown hnir, clear, iV'H. Lur.oib , -i u.a.ii.. .... t healthy coniploxi-ms, ani that sort of a nose I i which is iu-itliT Grecian nor ltoman, ' aor S aijuihr.e, imr l- idit wz rttroussc, that some I persons prti'cr to them all; but a nose which, 'i moderately prmineiit, and Fuftieicntly wcll i shaped, is yet, a far as I know, anonymous, ntthouga U be pet haps as common and as well-lookirg a feature as is to be seen on an KDglish free, Altngot'ici they were a pair of comely mai dens, arid Lcif g constantly attired in gar ments of the same color and fafcbion, they always looked so much alike that no stranger ever dreamed of knowing them apart; and even their acquaintances were rather accus tomed to think and speak of them generally as "the Evanses," than as the separate indi viduals Jane an-J Fanny. Even those who did preteud tu distinguish one from the ether were not exempt from mistakes, which tho inters. Fanny especially who delighted in the fun so often produce! by the unusual re semblance were apt to favor by changing peaces in a walk, or slipping from one 6ide to the other at a country tea-party, or play ing a hundred itincctnt tricks to occasion at once a grave and a merry laugh. Old Tabitha Goodwin, for iuttance who, being rather purblind, was jealous of being suspected ef seeing l?ss clearly than her m ijzhbors., Tind had diCed even the Evanses to puzzle her 'discernment, soek'lng va vain the cut '-.ngi r sn; had dressed on Janes, as criboJ the incredible cure to the merits of her own incomparable Falve, aud could hard lv undeceived, eren 5y tho pulling off of Jane's gl-'ve, nnd the exhibition of the lac erated fii ger sewed rcund bj l:-c-rown ban-dajr-3 Young George Baily, too, the greatest bc-au in the parish, having betted at a party that lie Would duuee with everv rrcttv cirl k ) merrv. champagne ! than sh.vrry poor brain. in rks tl:;ir. the bottle's, i ni rf lit'.wilderiuly crowned, in thoir ravi.-lrno; thrrolt'ea .3tr-'A:a that .1 sni;-j will cnfoimd. .. r.i;ik!-s uk brutes, love is abltl T.i turn !H to t'i.'!s wit', like e;isc; ,:tx l.tys us lui lor tho tabic, f :i..u' bring? us at least to our knees. ii'.'h' seiMO niisel.it f she's brewing; ,.cr tV. t s.tlic ;icu.iint;i!HO bob w; .1 ' n no pretiant with rui'i, A t!i"s hidden tnp-s of the toe. A..1 :..xn 's. between courses at leisure-, Mile ii'itii.Is wln-n there's no one to inavli, A.! i-.-s :i"is "'.i yidd rapeb mulcr pressure !"::) litigcis thus s'i'iKzed iu the dark. A- ii -.iv r' i! tlie tojicr ui b. auty. !l i, rims '-.i b'.s viae, poor elf! i f.-urc 1 lii -'n'l.s ! lio.v hid duty ir l u t-j take t..o of itself! T sluks li.i.v plnieti bis power, rii'.M':'.ii at death's denr: wmiri') j'nr ! f i 1 1 1 thus lower. Siv, w';i:it .1:1 t'- !i.tt'u do Illort. 7 '' -vint ."o r.r lent as wo1 V.V.X o Si. n'lrc t ) intoxicate man; r i "ii-h is !eVrvrrr tremens," i. lit inl'ldflis him in ore thau it can. ;L:ice of her eye "blue ruin." i'r blusli is the b'uod of the vine, ! -r pout is a punch in whoe brewing T.i't, bii;;ar and spirit combine. vp.vrling, so heating, so beady. N t h'.iiu for hot victim appears; -..nil hcrtiiKilca only rendur bim giddy, iiu'.l he Mirtly bn drunk with her tears A:-.e rape-juice of I'.ilen fnude Adam SjsiupiJly forfeit Lisa!!; lure ot his volatile ma:Um tie room, :ost ms wager, which ranny saucy daaisel slip- .11: in tip.-ily ou t j bis fall. I., Me wiin-s ot tair t vr-vus :ne rover, s" Mil'- as tue v.c.iion begiiile; --' r re. -iuM-e. he is "EaT .- id i-i r," r..iv.i stir f.r s fatal isle. o lii'ilam :;uch a ti-nij'ter ns this If, Nr. ' :..::iLii c .--O li izaidoiis court, '..I'.uhed on the waves of her tresses, :r:i vi: that he ventured fr.-m Port, Er;iu r.eynold".-. Miso-l'nny. THE FAMILY LJKEUESS. The pretty Bpiare far m-biusc tunding ai t turner, n Ltre Kibes hate cro?st-i tiio k, or the brook cresses ivtbes Lane, (toe .; 2r.t phrase, although giving by far the set picture of the place, does, it must be :.v8cd, look rather Irish,) and where the tisaid brook win Is away by the side of au r lane, until it c reads n.to a river-like ktnty as it meanders lute the funny plain Uautay Common, av.d unally disappears enge ooo; half hidden the tail cltus in the fl-iwer court before it. iii-Jft the creen recesses of pretty souare farm-house hsd overheard, by that piug iuto her sister's ilaco, and pursuadirig her to join her own unconscious partner; to that George danced twice with ranny, aud uot at all with Jan; a flattering piece of mslicc which proved, as the young gentleman ( rustic ciquij-tte of the first water,) was pleased to a?ert, that 31 if Fanny was not displeased vith her partner. How little does a vain mau know of wemankiud ! If she had lived him. she would uot have played the trick for the mines of Golconda. In fhort, from their school-days, when Jane was chidden for Fanny's bad wcrk, and I'ainy-shipped for Jann'a bad spelling, down to this their prime of womanhood, there had be. n no end to t Lid coufusion produced by thif. remarkable instance of family liktness. And yet nature, who sets some mark of individuality upon evi-u her meanest produc tions, making some unnoted difference be tween the robins bred iu one nest, the flow- rs growing eu one fctalk, and the leaves from one tree, had net left these lens without one great and per manent distinction a natural and striking dissimilarity of temper. Ivpially industrious, affectionate, hajpy and kind, yet each was kind, happy, af.ectionafe and industrious in a different waj-. Jane was grave; Fanny was gay. If you heard a laugh or a song, be sure it was Fannj; she who smiled, for cer tain was Fanny, the who jumped the style whtn her siiiers opened the gate was Fanny; she who chased the pigs frcm the garden as merrily as if she were running a race, so that the very pigs did uot mind her, Tas Fanny. Ua the other hand, she that was so care fully making, with its own ravelled thiealp, blended well with the sterling goodness and genuine abundance of the English farmhouse: The young women, especially, tplc&sei hiim much. They formed -a ttroog 'contrast with everything that lie had met with before. No finery, no coquetry, no French, iio piano I It i impossible to describe the sensation of relief and -comfort "wifh 'which Charles Fors ttr, sick cf musical misses, ascertained that the whole dwelling did not contain a iingle inetrument, except a bassoon, on. which George Evans w&s wont every Sunday at church to torment the cars of tho whole con gregation Ho liked - both sisters. Jane's softness and cocsidcrateness engaged his full esteem, but Fanny's innocent playfulness suited best his own high spirits and animated conversation. He had known them apart from the first, and indeed denied that the likeness was at all puzzling, or more than is usual between sisters, 'and secretly thought Fanny as much prettier than her sister, as she was avowedly merrier. In-doors and out, he was continually at her side, and be fore l:e had been a month in the house all its inmates had given Charles Forster as a lavcr to his young cousin; and she, when rallied ou the subject, cried "fie!" and "pshaw!" 1 . . H 1 111 l ana "nonsense : ana wonaerea now people could talk such nonsense, though at the same time she liked to have such nonsense talked to her better than anything in the world. Affairs were in this state when one night Jane appeared even graver and more thought ful than usual, and far, far eadder. "ghed deepty; and Fanny, for tho two sisters shsred tho same little room, inquired ten derly, "what ailed her?" The inquiry secur ed to make Jane worse. She burst into tears, while Fanny hung over her aud sooth ed her. At length she roused herself by a strong effort, and turning away from her af fectionate comforter, said in a low tone, "I have been greatly. vexed to-night. Charles Forster has asked me to marry him " " CBai lea Forster ? Did you say Charles ForsterV" asked poor Fanny, trembling, un willing even to trust her own senses against the evidence of her heart; "Charles Forster!" she repeated. "And you have accepted him?" asked Fanny, in a hoarse voice. "Oh no, no, no!" said Jane. "Do you think I have forgotten poor Archibald? Be 6ides, I am not the person he ought to have asked to marry him. False and heartless as he i, I could not be his wife; cruel, unfeel ing, unmanly, as he has been ! No, not if he could make me Queen of England !" "You refused him, then?' said Fanny. "iio; my father met us suddenly, just as I was rt covering from the surpr'ue and indig nation tk&t at first struck me dumb," replied Jane. ' Hut I shall refuse him most cer tainly the false, deceitful, ungrateful man!" "My dear father," said Fnny; "ho will be disappointed. So will my mother.' "They will both he disappointed, Knd both night's misery, to be compensated by a life time 'of happiness. Jane was almostfas glad to lose a lover as her sister was to regain one. Charles is'gctee home to his father's to make preparations; for his brida Archibald has taken a great nursery garden ; and there is some talk in Aberleigh that the marriage of 'the two sisters is to be celebrated ou tho same day. .-. ; From the llome Journal. TALES OF THE SOUTH. A SOCTIIERX MAN. nan; sngry, saiu Jane, "but not at niy rciuiai. Oh, how they will despise him!" she added; and poor Fanuy, melted by her sister's sym pathy, and touched by au indignation most unusual in that mild and gentle girl, could i o longer command her feelings, but flung herself on the bed in that agony of passion and grief which the first great ecrrow seldom fails to excite. After awhile Fanny resumed the conver sation. "We must not," the said, "blame him too severely, Jane. Feihaps ray vanity made me think, his attentions meant more then they really did, and you had all taken up the notion. But you must not speak of h'm so unkindly; he has done nothing but what is natural. You aru so much wiser and better than I am, my dear Jane! lie laugh ed and talked with me ; but he felt your goodness; and he was right I was never worthy of him, aud you are; and if it were not for Archibald. I should rejoice from the bottom of my heait," continued Fanny, sob bing, "if you would accept ." But, unable to finish the expression of her gener- TUE REPORTER TO TUB SENATE. J. II , of Alabama, is a humorist Ifcd a practical joker, A blind phrenologist once examining his head, declared that his organ of humor was mountainously developed, and that it had, in fact, swallowed up, or dwarfed by proximity, all the neighboring bumps, ltight or wrong in his theory, the phrenolo gist was singularly correct, for once, at least, in the portraiture of the leading intellectual characteristic of his subject. J once for, by that familiar abbreviation of his Christian name he is best known among his friends is the embodiment of frolic and fun . He looks, speaks and acts the humorist. Leau and gaunt in peison, cadaverous in .complexion and wrinkled in visage, he resembles, for all the world, an Egyptian mummy. He would be irredeemably ugly were it not for his eyes, f.i - which are black, piercing and full of the lire kiie i . . i - ti t- ot genius Ana a genras, as wen as a cuiv alric gentleman, Jouce ttrot unquestionably i3. lie writes well, speaks well, talks well, and, in short, does all kinds cf brain-woik well. He edits the best paper in the State, gets off more jokes on friend and foe, and tells more amusing tales than the Whole edito rial fiaternity combined. lie was once State Solicitor in one of our circuits, and gained more verdicts from juries, by his jokes and humor, than the best legal abilities and acquirements. In fact, Joncc and his terrible battery of fun and anecdote, struck greater terror into evil-doers than the fiercest anathemas of most eloquent philippics of associate counsel for the prosecution, lie quizzed the witnesses, bamboozled the oppo; sing attorneys, poked his fun at the bench, tickled the jury, and. many a time, got ver dicts when he did cot deserve them on the law and the facts of his case. His whole so licitondiip was the Saturnalia of fun on his circuit, and as lull ot lorensic mumpns ior himself as it was ot laughter for the public, and of fines of imprisonment for the accused. Impelled by the optitude of his natural m- stincta and endowments, Jonce wrote humor ous talcs and sketches, all of considerable merit, aud, at length, produced a book which brought a grin to to the face of the country, r m.: rvt: F-. TTn.1 ,.7.." i .L . il - l- .1. qvrt, wuicu is now iuc synonym iu me couiu for a practical jokeo, lie embaime t old li. 1 , of Tallapoosa county, for humorous immor tality lue victim, it is said, has never for given his embalmer; but the book lives and ranks deservedly as a classic m tue depart ment cf letters to which it belongs. But Jonce's great passion is for a practical jotc one of those thunder-claps from the sky of humor wuien overwhelm tue smitten party with laughter, and shake the sides of the com munity for a month afterwards with iuextin guishable mirth. He will undergo any amount of mental vigil aud bodily toil to get up such a surprise aud carry it into success ful execution. Being ot once fertile in the invention and wonderfully adroit in the man agement of practical jokes, he almost con stantly has some affair of the sort ou baud, and rarely fails to draw down a cachiunatory explosion from any quarter iuto which he chooses to sail one of his humorous kites with tue ppacioui garden and orchard an chief, invitiole .? arn tn tier metier d lianuker- and bei'rir.g her little sitter read the while; she that so patiently was feeding, one T:i a Aberleich. the large and 'iffii.v ..f ir. - i' 'i i iimirt joain. 'Hc.her from Bkill or good furluue, or as ' "'-Si tirobabb' frnui a lnrkv miYtTit of j 3 ivtr tiling goes right in his great farm. tjfmrei .1.- I . .1. . I - I I . t me nest iu iuo paniiu; uis uay :SeT'r spoiled: his cattle never die: hischil- ""a ar0 never ill. Hp Imv Minn nrwl ti it'ar; money gathers about htm like a ' j i v. it. buis ii-jivaiu lutlerablo prosperity, everybody loves -r r.vans he is so hr -nJ, an J the extensire tarn-vard and out- t bv one. two broods of ouR2 lurkevs: she iaps, so completely occupies one of the ' that so pensively was watering her own bed ;:i't f'Tmed by the crossing of the lane and of delicate aud somewhat rare plants the s'.reatii that pretty farm-Louse contains j pale stars of the Alpine ink, or the alabaster J of the happiest aud most prosperous fam- blossoms cf the white evening primrose, l:mviii2 whose modest flowers, dviiitr oft into a blush. resembled Lor own character was Jane. Some of the gossips of Aberleigh used to assert that Jane's sighing over the flowers, as well as the early steadiness of her character, arose from an engagement to my lord's head gardener, an intelligent, 6edate and sober young Scotchman, Of this I know nothing. Certain it is that the prettiest and newest plants were always to be found in Jane's flower-border; and if Mr Archibald Maclane did sometimes come to look after them, I do not see that it was auy business of anybody's. 1 In the mean time a visitor of a different description arrived at the farm. A cousin of Mrs Evans had been as successful in trade as her hueband had been in agriculture, and he had now sent his only son to become acquainted with his relations, and to spend some weeks in their family. Charles Forster was a fine young man, whoso father was neither more nor less than a rich linen-draper in a great town; but whose manners, education, mind, aud character Hiight have done honor to a far higher sta tion, lie wap, in a word, one of Nature's gentlemen, and iu notliiug did he more thor oughly show his own taste and good breed ing than bj entering eutirely into the home ly ways and old fashioned habits of his coun try cousins. He was delighted with the simplicity, frugality and- industry, which ans he is so hosm table, go Pfn- 80 good-natured, so homely. There, '-r U, lies thfi fh.irni Bielick lir n.-f atpoiled the man, but thry LaTe not even 'itred !it,n it. . .i i t manner, that ha was thirty years "uta ue ana his wife, with two eorry e, one cow, and three pigs, began the tent1 Dea,,'s Gate- a litUo Largin of y cres, two miles off. Aye, and his w the same woman ! the same frugal, ml TU,Strious' good-natured Mr. Evans, Ut b a i , activity of tongue and limb, good looks, and her plain dressing. She -aiae Mr8, Kvaus at forty-five as the &U,Uet anJ aUh h ju a jjjj- t ?. s good-looking tl r children they Lad six "boys," as . inner itc,..i ti . i -1 J ' r.M r . lu cau mem, wiiose ages tfc'rJ e,g"t to efcht-and-twentv. uree eirl. . e Stk 11 ' two 8rown u va- tweuty, and - ww, ouu uuc uqi yet tfce junge of the family-are just y- 1 f. tTc.T flirt tillTLt in fl frAcll tT,-V,-1 r r t and the tisters, mutually and strongly affect ed wept ia each other's arms, aud were com forted. That night Fanoy cried herself to sleep; but such sleep is not of long duration. Be fore dawn, she was up. and pacing with rest Icfs irritability the dewy grass walks of the garden and oichard. lu Jess than half-an-hour a light clastic sb-p (eho knew the sound well) came rapidly behind her ; a hand (ah ! how often had she thrilled at the tocuh of that hand 1) tried to draw hers under his own ; whilit a well-kuown voice thus addressed her in the softest and tenderest accents : "Fanny, mv own sweet Fanuv! have vou thought of what I said to you last night V" "To vie T' returned Fanny, with bittei ncss. was the reply. "Do you not remember the question 1 asked you when your father, for the first time unwelcome, joined us so sudden lv that vou had no time to say 'Yes?' And will you not say 'yes' now ?"' "Mr. Forster," renlicd Fanny, with some spirit, "you arc under a mistake hero. It was to Jane you made the proposal yesterday. You are taking me for her at this moment." j "Mistake you for your sister !'' exclaimed j Charles. "I'ropose to Jane! Incredible I You are surely jesting." ."Then he mistook me for Jane last night. At the sesfiiou of 1857-8 of the Alabama Lcislature," Joncc acted as reporter in the rSenatc for his own paper. Ihe positiou ad- .nits the one who hold3 it to a scat within the bar of the Senate, and to constant, familiar intercourse with the members. A man so companionable and jocose as J once, of course, soon became a prime favorite with the Sena tors. He was, in fact, a sort of honorary member of the body, without the right to ppcak or vott; but by no moans without influ ence in its deliberations. Ever ready, with pen or counsel, to assist all who needed or asked his help, ho combined and admirably executed, the double function of a diligent re porter and adviser in ordinary to the Senate. Now, the individuals composing the Senate of Alabama, however able in counsel or ac complished iu the arts of debato, were never theless but men, and subject, like tbe rest of mankind, to the appetites and frailties of hu manity. Being neither teetotallers nor iuo briates, they relished, the most of them, at least, an occasional infusion into their bever age of that element which is warmer than tea, and more exhilarating than coffee. The rig or of the winter and the tedium of protracted legislation, made moderate potation as harm less to the;r consciences in an ethical, as it was agreeable to their taste in a palatial poiut of view. Besides the regular matutinal, ante-prandial, post-prandial and vesper obla tions made at the shrine of the ruddy god, by a fow of the more devout of his senatorial de intelligence ariS'deVotldi: to the duties of le gislation. One day, during an unusually protracted ses sion, the spirituous supplies in the cemmitte rooms had all been exhausted. Owing to the length of tho sitting and the torrid heat of the debate, tbe mouths and throats of the Sena tors patched with a thirst which water could not assuage, and both their minds and bodies needed tbe presence of the exhilarating com forter. But the discussion was too interest ing, and the presence of individual members too important at the vote which was soon to be taken upon the question coder debate, to allow of temporary absence, farther than the adjoining committee-room?, from the irenate chamber. In this emergency. Jonce "came to the re lief of the exhausting Senators. l3e?patching a messenger with instructions to bring Mai a certain large black bottle, which was to be found under a file of old papers, in one cor ner of his editorial 'sanctum, he proceeded to inform the members of the provision he was making for their refreshment, more than half the body accepting nis avitfttion to partake of it as soon as it was receive! In due time the messenger returned with thfi bot'le, which was deposited in a recess in one of the committee rooms. Jonce, officia ting as host and master of ceremonies, tipped the wink to the Senators, who repaired, in companies of two and three, to the place ap pointed, partook of the contents of the bottle, and retHriicd with rueful faces, to their seats, lu quick succession, all who had accepted the invitation withdrew from the "chamber, im bibed, and returned. A shade of thought fulness settled upon tho brow of every one of the drinkers, and a slight pallor, accompanied by nervous twitel.i'igs at the corners of the tno'wth, overspread their countenances. It was rjca'wcd afterwards, bnt observed as an act of considerate forbearance r.t the time, prompted, as was then believed, by a desire net to diminish the spirituous supplies of his cuests, that Jonce did not himself partake of the contents of the bottle, lie urged the Senators, however, with hospitable importu nity, to replenish their glasses, But no ono vcuturcd a repeat. A majority of them gulp ed down at a iingle swallow the potroa they j had poured from the bottle. Some, with wry taces, iooK. ineiia iu uiuai-u uiw. v-i tasted and declined. All fe!t suspicions ; many commented upon the peculiar flavor of the liquor, and every one left the room with a uauscous taste in his mouth, and a rapid flow of saliva to his lips. The debate, in the meantime, was approach ing the Jinale of a Vote upon the measure uudcr discussion. The refreshment of the coaimittec-room had stilled, instead of quick ening, the tongues of the imbibing Seuators, among whom were included the leading dis putants on both sides of the question. The pause in the debate oon became as embar rassing as it was surprising. It was like the fcilcnce of d-ath falling suddenly upon the uproar of clamorous life. Unable longer to retain . their seats, natch less to deliberate or to debate, the Senators who had visited the committee room, rose, one by one, seized their hats and hurried from the chamber. As the debate seemed to have come to a sudden conclusion a Senator, one of the uninvited to Jonce's treat, called for the final vote upon the question. It was suggested and soon accrtained by a couut, that a quoram was not prcsentv The door keeper of th Sonata was soon dispatched to recall the absentees, The partisan on each side of the question about to be submitted to a vote, anxious to rally all of their respective forces, joiued iu tho hunt for their missing comrades, leaving nearly cvey s?at vacant in the Senate II all. The fugitive Secators were soon found. Around the rear corners of the Capitol build ings, in sheltered nooks upon the surrounding campus, and in every hiding-place about tbe premises, there they were some prostrate on the grouud, others perched on extempore scats and not a few, though still on foot, leaning in most devotional attitudes, and all of them with rueful faces aud Jo!oro3 complaints, like a regiment of cholera patients. The spectacle was ludicrous Lej-ond expression The searching party greeted the absentees with peals of laughter. The news spread; the crowd and the merriment increased apac and the capitol hill of Alabama rang with laughter. The cause of this senatorial upheaval wa rcadll3' traced A powerful emetic had been mixed in the brandy, of which the Senators had nartaken in the committee-room. Jonce averred then, and avers to this day, that the mixture had been prepared for a sick servant, and that the messenger brought him, by mis take, the wrong bottle. Tbo law and the testimony, however, dcdufible from all the facts of the case, and especially from his own frolicsome character, arc agaiust his solution. But be had the marvellous address to make it entirely credible to the victims, and so he retained both his popularity and Lis position as reporter to the Souate. votees, there were occasional acknowledg ments of his claims made by nearly all of the Senators, ,in the recess of the committee rooms adjoining the chamber of the Senate. These interluded acts of homage, rather furtive in nnd hp ia no deceiver thought rannv to nr-oif s. with Kii.ilfR h.iminrr lrtrhtlv i ilinnictpr. were rendered daring soma dull through her tears, she turned round a his j protraction of debate or some exhausting ma reiterated prayers and entreaties, and yielded the hand he so eagerly sought. "He mistook her for aie Le ham 1" And so it was ; an unconscious and unob served change of place, as cither sister re sumed her station behind littleBetsey, who had scampered away, after a ; glow-worm, added to the deepening twilight and the lover's natural embarrassment, bad produced The Happy Typo. A cheerful temper is a natural gift, the de sirability of which cannot be questioned, tut seldom do wo meet with a spirit so thoroughly saturated with good nature that m disap- pointmcnt. no poverty, deprivation or 'combi nation of adverse circumstances C3a break ft down or overcome its geniality. A few days ago a man made his "appearance before Justice Brensan, "who seemed to Tiato a perfect fountain -of "undiluted contentment somewhere in his composition, which rio de pressing influence of care or accident Tiad been able exhaust or adulterate a type a modern addition of Mark Tapley a huurari barrel of joliincss without hoops on. lie walj arrested for being intoxicated. He gave his name as Getephat Take, said ho was a "prin ter, and hailed from "The Gem of Science" office; isa short man of beer cask figure, and a face a3 rubicund as if Le slept in a room with red curtains. His answer to 1ti exer tions of the authorities showed his content ment under all shades of fortune. The Jus tice beiDg alsi in a good humor, was inclined to banter the disciple of Ben Franklin, and accordingly addressed Lim as follows: Judge "Well, Mr. Tako, it seems you have thrown aside the 'composing stick,' and gone to getting drunk for a living. I am afraid you're a 'bad trase,' and sfand in need of 'correcting.' I think I shall end yen th 'quod.'" These tecnicalities which were uttered in a tone of yon-see-l-know-your-tradc-as-well-as-yoa-do air, seemed to give Mr. Take the ar surance which printers seldota lack-, but of which, the solemnities of a Police 'Court tniglit temporarily havo deprived hini od he an swered: Prisoner. "Well, at any faVe, T am s;lad we have nc 'galleys in thiscclutry, or 1 I'ip--pose you would 'empty' me there, and 'weil leaded' at that. But bless you, sir, going to jail's nothing; tho last time I was there I tamed a 'rat' and taught him to chew tobacco, besides iuventing ihree new steps for horn pipe it's a good deal better than Setting 'solil miuion,' more than three quarters "fig ure work,' and getting only a 'price and a hall for it. Lord bless you, Squire. I'd a gr.at deal rather go to jail for ten days than not. I've got sick of work just now and 111 have a chance to got the bile off my stomach." Jailjc "You seem to take it easy; how do you propose to employ your time this trip':' Prisoner "Well, Corporal, I'm undecided whether I'll learn to whistle the opera of th 'Bohemian Girl,' practice standing on rsy head, or undertake to acquire the elegant ac complishment of balancing straws on my nose. If I could get a eat, I'd teach her to play the fiddle, if I thought the strings wovldu't re mind her unpletsai tly rf intestinal diicord, after her feline body has been niLe times slain." Judjs "Mr. Take, you seem particularly happy under the circumstances; have you go a wife?' Priaontr "2ot now. Lieutenant. I Lad one, bu t she ran off with a bow-lsgged cob bler. I was to glad about it I sent her Lor dresses and quit claim deed of Ler person, signed in capital letters. SLc left me ono boy, but be was "foul proof net a bit like me; I bound him 'prentice to the type-sticking trade, but the first day he quarrelled with the regular 'devil. He dropped the 'shoot ing stick' into the 'alligator p ress,' aud iu the evening he and another hopeful boy were rehearsing a broad-sword cambat with & couple of 'column rules ' The foreman 'bat tered' him with a 'mallet,' and when ho got home he had a 'fancy head,' if ever there was ono." Clerk. " 'Where is he now?" Prisoner "He ran away with a circus, and the last I saw 6f him ho was in the mid dle of a sawdust ring, trying to tio his legs in a bow-knot round Lis neck. I've been jollier since than ever before." Judge. "You feem to bo always jolly. Prisoner. "So I am I laughed when my father turned me out of doors at eleven years old laughed when I broke my arm, and made funny faces at the doctor while ho was setting it, The happiest day I ever spent was one time when I hadn't but one shirt and a pair of pants to put on, anl had spent all the money I had, and gone hungry forty hours. I uever was really unhappy but once ia my life, and that was when I fell down stairs, fractured my collar bone's anl skinned my leg so baJIy that I couldn't get on my ue?a t-j thank God I hadn't broken my neck." The Judge relented and let Mr. Take go. and that profound individual loft the room trying to whistle and sing tt the same time, and also to dance an independant jig with each leg to a different tune. nceuvre of parliamcntray tactics, and gentr- ally'by only two or three Senators At a time, that defied us to perplex j who quietly left their scats, improved the mo ment of absence, ana as quicuy reiurueu. The supplies for these stolen interviews were drawn from bottles and jwtit jugs, which feund their way into the committee-rooms by means known only to tho initiated Despite all this, however, bo it remembered, the Sen ntA nf Alabama, durinz the bession of 1857-S was distinguished, as a body, for sobriety, tbe confusion which caused poor Fanuy a A Good Ski.l. A Broadbrim owned a most beautiful horse. A gentleman saw" him in the pasture, wished to purchase him, aud asked the Friend if ho could go well. "Go I" said Broadbrim, "it wouU delight theo to seo him go." The gentleman therefore purchases him. harnesses hin before hi:'- wagcri, but, to his 1 surprise, he is immovable as tho Alps. He-. t-1i.io ta wlwn l.llf nfm tlllri flirt linrcn ' "ft""-0 "" " l " v v.w is as still as death. He then cries to the Quaker "Look here, Shadbelly, you havo cheatod me; you said this horse would go "Nav. friend,' sud the A Torcmsa Dixit in Pnost. When Scth got Lome from mackrling Le sought his Sarah Anu, and found that she, thi heartless one, had found another man And then most awful tight he got, and so Le went away, nd bound Limself for to cut oak all down ia Flor iday. lie pined upon the live oak laud, ha murmured in the shades; his are grew heavy in his hand, all Tn the will-wood glades. Mosquitoes bit bim everywhere; no comfort did he get; and oh, how terribly he'd scold whenever he got bit. At last, despairing of relief, and wishing himself dea l, he went into the wood a-picrs head. and chopped off his own HSU An eld rod house ttimling near tho line of tho Troy nnd Boston llailway. is loca ted in two States, three counties, and four townships the States of New York and Ver mont, tho counties of Keuselear, Washington 1 and Bennington, the townships of Hoosack. , i t iiM u. ri 1 PI .f. i 1 t . luaaer; uia I j iiiic vrces, ouaus?ary ami lK'uuuguiu. not tell thee it would delijt thee to see him Twould tako a sharp officer to arrest the oo go? and I hope thee may have that ploasuro " cupant of that house. And with tins lie Lett, tlie sporting gem to i i .. . i .... i. - i i ! get over uis as uci. uci-vum. Au iulcrcstincr t tic the cvniiV fir A Knn.lful f Virnniixi.il tnixAil f'i-:l . ( ms ........ - . - nonally iu the mess of a cow, will py tcu fold its cost in the riciness cf the milk. a O no
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