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A reasonabledoduction will bo made to those who advertise by the year. I V,.• All Lettersand.Ccimtnunications addressed to the Editor by, mail must be post-paid, or they will not be attended to TUE GARLAND. 4‘.41.11-7, • Al' I. • "w 7/ Z. , "1. .2=1111;1017 eo. - 1,-+ • •111 —"With sweetest ❑owcrsenrich'd, From various gardeitscull!.(l with care.' 110 W CHEERY ARE THE MARINERS 111' FAUX. lIIINJAMM. How cheery arc tho mariners— Those lovers of the sea! Their hearts aro like its yeasty wave, As bounding and as free! They whistle when the storm-bird wheels In circles round the mast, And sing when deep in foam the ship Ploughs onward to the blast. What care the mariners for gales? Thoro's music in their roar, When wide the berth along the lee, And leagues of room before. Let billows toss to mountain heights, Or sink to chasms low; The stout of heart will ride it out, 1% or shrink when tempests blow. ith streamers down and canvass furl'd, ho gallint hull will float, lly as on inland 'lake, A Aiken tossed boat; And sound asleep sow: mariners, And some with watchful oyes Will fearless bo of dangers dark, That roll along the skies. God keep these cheery mariners! • And temper all the gales That sweep against the rocky coast To their storm-shattered sails; And, men on shore will bless the ship That could ao guided bo, Safe in the hollow of His hand, To bravo the mighty sea! THE PRISONER FOR DEBT. DT 0. WLIITTIEFI. Look on him through his dungeon gate; Fochly and cold, the morning light Comes stealing around him, dim and late, As if it loathed the sight; Reclining on his brawny bed, His hand upholds his drooping head— His bloodless cheek is seamed and hard, Unshorn his gray neglected beard; And o'er his bony fingers flow His long dishevelled locks of snow. No grateful fire before him glows. And yet the winter's breath is chill; And o'er his half•cled person goes . The frequent ague thrill! Silent, save over and anon, A sound, half murmur and half groan, Terms apart the painful grip Of she old sufferer's bearded lip; O sad and crushing is tho frito Of old age chained and desolate! lilla@CD2lUiltia3larZl.oo From the Philadelphia Saturday Courier A CURED HYPOCIIOADRIAC. Of all the evils that beset mankind, hypo, is the worst. We were once intimately acquainted with one Jedediah Jones, a me chanic in the town of B—, a young man of good talents, doing a fair profitable ness, and every prospect in life looking like a summer's day upon him; yet with all these Jed was one of the most miserable beings in creation. Ha' was hypochondri•' cal to the top notch ; every thing to his eyes wore a yellow, bilious, melancholy ap pearance. Sometimes one complaint, some times another afflicted peer Jed, and if you would lake his word fin it, Job's,sufrerincrs were but school-boy's troubles cornpure'd with his. We have frequently been com pelled to laugh, in spite of our politeness, to hear Jed enumerate ' his afflictions. Nothing could persuade him out or his no tion, at one time. of being 'dytpeptic. " N'o," said he, "you ma& talk till your tired; but I reckon 1 know my own com-plaint best. • I atn„fow spirited, my head aches every meriting, and th,ough I have a good appetite, my food does fne• no good; always after eating, it feels like so much lead ; and I should like to knoW if that aint dysppsiit 1" We kney, from' experience, that there wits no trumier ()fuse in reasoning with Jed,. after the kind was once fairly fixed: so we left him alone with his dyspepsia. It hen this fit was on him, he would swallow rhu bcrb by the ounce, and nll the patent med icines in town by the packnue I • lie would p, , walk out of town every morning and even ing, cutting up all kinds aunties, running like a greyhound for a while, and jumping every fence in his way. Thug, what with running, jumping, throwing and walking he would finally return, tired, sweating and blowing like a porpoise, and could scarcely raise breath enough to inform us that he had " be-en ex.e: cising" himself. Nor was this all ; dieting himself was a favorite remedy with Jed, while the dyspeptic man. is lasted ; a few dry crackers and cold wa ter. was all the ' subsistence he would take, although a good appetite was urging him to partake of the good things providecrat his boardinghouse. " No, no," quoth Jed ; " don't I know that this ravenous appetite. is my worst foe? Aint that one of the greatest signs of dys pepsia 1 I guess 1 knovc til " . , Jed might know, but we never did, that a good appetite was a sign of any disease ; and so Jed would go on dieting himself, until he looked more like a walking skele ton, than a man. Another time he thought he had tho liv ler complaint, and that his lungs were Abe. ted ; and that these were caused by his stooping at the bench. Accordingly he set to, and built a bench high enough for him to stand up to work ; but this was not e nough for Jed; lie got some leather straps, two inches wide, one to pass over each shoulder, and another fixed to them to cross his breast and buckle behind. "You see," said Jed, when describing this to us, "by buckling this pretty tight it draws my shoulders back, throws my breast open, and gives my lungs more room to operate.," " Very true," we replied, though we could not help thinking that he looked more like a trussed turkey than a human being. But to the sequel. Jed had an appren tice, Tom, a smart, intelligent little fellow ; go6d humored rogueishness gleamed in the twinkle of his, grey eyes, and played around the,,corners of his mouth.; and his happy, careless, laughter-loving disposition, made him a favorite with every one. This Tom was unwittingly the cause of Jed's cure One night we persuades Jed to accom pany us to an oyster-cellar. We entered a box and -sat down, while our stew was pre paring. We had been in but a minute or two, when we heard the occupants of the next box laughing at some story one of them had . been telling ; and among the rest, we could plainly distinguish the hear ty catchination ofJed's boy Tom: •' Hist," said Jed, " there's that plagued boy Tom, .let us listen a minute." But listeners, they say, never hear any good of themselves. The event, however, proved, that if Jed did not hear any good of, he certainly did for himself. Shortly we heard Tom's voice. " Boys," said he, "now we've got through that yarn, suppose we tell some story of ourselves." " Agreed," cried his companions, "and' you begin, Tom." " Enough said," replied Tom ; "no use of being backward, when sport's the go: I never told you how I work it sometimes to get holiday, did I ?" " No I tell us." " Well, you all know that my base has rather poor health ?" " Yes." " Fish ! 'tie all fudge." 0 , What I aint he sick V' " Sick ! he's no more sick than I am. He's,got the hypo, the worst way; that's all ails him." 466 Jed began to fidget on his seat. "But," continued Tom, "he's a fine fel low, and a good boss for all that; and take him , all around as you would a stove pipe, lie's what I call a clever fellow. Now' he would give me a play day most any time I'd ask for it; but I don't like to ask too often. Besides, it does me good to see how easy I can deceive him on one subject; and stolen fruit, you know is the sweetest any way. So when I want a resting spell, as soon as he comes in the shop, 1 put on my go-to-meeting face, and say, "Why, Mr. Jones, what's the matter with you?—you look sick this morning." "I don't feel very well, that's true," says he; "my breast pains mo greatly." "You do, indeed look very .pale,' says I; "you had better go home, take some medicine, and go to bed; probably 'twill work off by to-morrow." "No, I guess I won't," he'd sometimes say; "Mr. such a one's work must be done." "Now, Jones, yqu're very imprudent; you know, how much your sitting at the bench hurtb you; if you work to-day, I shouldn't be surprised if you.had to keep your bed for a month." "Well," says he, "I don't feel at all well; I guess I'll go home. and take a little medicine." Then. away he'd put for home, and I'll be hanged'•if he .wouldn't keep his bed all that day.' You may be sure there _wasn't over a bushel of work done while he was off. ~ W hy," cried Tom's•,compsnion, "he must bezoft." During the whole of this recital, Jed had been shilling himself from side to side, as though the gridiron of St. Lawrence was beneath him. When Tom got through, he broke out with, "D—n the boy! I'll go. and give , him a complete thrashing." "Sit still, Jed," said we; "think over the matter a little: Toni . has done no more, nor, half as much, as any .other' boy would, who had penetration enough to see the truth. I'll bet ho has not often served you so, has her quoth Jed, that's a fact; but, then tl—n the boy, 1 1 11 learn hlm." • Oh, fudge, sit - still; Jed, and now be con vinced of what we've often told you, that 4 s The liberty to know, to utter, and to ar: e, freely, Is above all othe . fl _lo t oataceuqraannao. zpqa.46, tetboactwart,, Jactirevzitz aatte. your sickness was all imaginary; and look ye, Jed don't say any thing to Tom; but next time he undertakes to play that trick on you, let him see that he's found out." "I guess I'll take your advice," said Jed. A few days after this oecurrence, Tom, with his go-to-meeting lace, as he called it, acccsted Jed with—How pale you are, Mr. Jones! Aro you unwell?"• "Ah, Tom, you rogue," cried Jed, ,"you want a resting day, do you?" Tom changed colour quicker than a cha meleon; but at length he honestly said— 'Yes, sir; 1 should like to go hunting.' "Well, Tom, you can go; but be here early to morrow, for-business is very brisk, and I want you,to work .lively.this week." "Yes, sir," said Tom; and off he went. As soon as Tom had gone, Jed pulled oil' his shoulder-bracing machine, knocked down his standing-up bench, went home; threw all his patent medicines out of doors; then to the pantry,and seized a large pump kin pie, which h, began to devourin short metre. The mistress of the boarding house looked at him in alarm; she thought his sickness had at length destroyed his reason, and a lunatic stood before her. • "Why, Mr. Jones," cried the good woman; bless me, what's the matter?" "Nothing," quoth Jed, digging most in dustriously into the New England dish be fore him; "nothing, only I'm most consarn ed hungry." The pie being despatched, he•went•whist ling back to his shop, a thing he had not done before for years. Jed was a cured man. E.• Y. DEATIL—ft is not till a friend is taken from us, that we entirely feel his value and appreciate his worth. The vision is loveli est as it is vanishing away; and we perceive it not, perhaps, till we see the parting wing, that an angel has been with us. • I feel that the dead have conferred a blessing upon me, in helping me to think of the tvorld rightly; in giving a hue of sad ness to the scenes of this world, while, at the same time they have clothed it with every glorious and powerful Charm of asso ciation. This mingled portion of energy and humility. of triumph and tenderness, of glorifying and sorrowing, is the very spirit of Christianity. It was the spirit ofJesus the conqueror and the sufferer. Death was before him; and yet his thoughts were of triumph. Victory was in his views, and yet, what a victory! No laurel crown , was upon his head—no flush of pride was upon his brow—no exultation flashed from his eye; for his was a victory to be gained over death, and through death. No laurel crown sat upon his head—but crown of thorns; no flush of pride was upon his brow—but meekness was enthroned there; no exulta tion flashed from his eye—but tears flowed from 4 -Jesus wept.", Come then, to us, that spirit, at once of 'courage and meekness; of fortitude and gentleness; of a life hopeful and happy, but thoughtful of death; of a world bright and beautiful, but passing away! So let us live I and act,—and think, and feel; and let us thank the good providence, the good ordina tion of heaven, that has made the dead our teachers. I have seen one die; she was beautiful; and beautiful were the ministries of life giv en her to fulfil. Angelic loveliness enrobed her; and a grace, as if it were caught from heaven, breathed io every tone, hallowed every affection, slope in every action; in vested, as a halo, her whole existence, and made it a light and blessing,—a charm and a vision of gladness,, to all around her; but she died! Friendship and love, nod paren tal fondness, and Infant weakness; stretched out their hands to save hers but they could not save her; arid she died? What! did all •that loveliness die? Is there no land of the blessed and the lovely ones, for such to live in? Forbid it reason, religion!—bereaved affection, and undying love! forbid the thought! It cannot be that such die, in God's council who live even in frail human memory, foreverl—Rea. Orville Dewey. rybia THE JOCKIED FRENCHMAN. A HUMOROUS SKETCH OP PURCHASING A HORSE.--A Frenchman, in this country, who was little acquainted with horse jock ies or horse flesh, was grievously taken in by a cheat, in the purchase of a steed. He gave ono hundred dollars for a miserable jade of an old mare that had been fattened up to sell; and she turned out to be' ringboned spavined, blind, .and .Nl.iindbroken. The Frenchman pretty soon discovered that he had been used up in the trade, and %vent to request i hejeck ey to take back the animal, and refund the money. "Sur," said he, "I ave foich•back de mare• horse vat you sell me,and I vont de money in my pocket back." "Your . pocket back!" returned the jnekey; feigning.eurprise; "1 dont understand' you." "You no stand. underme?" exclaimed the Frenchman, beginning to gesticulate••fitri• ously; "you not stand under me? Sore 'by gar, you be von grand rascalle—you lie like same—like sam--vot you call de leetlo mountain." . (+Sam Hill; I suppose you mean?" ",Qui Monsier—Sam do Hill-yea, sere, you lie like two Sam Hill. You sell me one . mare•horsefor one hundred dollailei—he no vort vrn kindred zeros, by gar!" "Why what's the matter with the beat?' "Mattair Sacref' Mattair do you say?" Vy, he's all rnatta;r —he no go at all—he got no leg, no feet, no vind—ho blind like von stone vid dis eye—he no see no body at all vid 'dot eye—ho go v-heezo,o, vheez o, like von forge hammer bellows—he go limp lump; ha no go over at all the groundz-lie 00 travel two mile in three days! Oui sare, he is von grand sheet—you must take him; and fund de money back." f.Refund the money! Oh no, 1 could not ' think of such a thing." "Vat! You no fund me back de. money? You sheated me vid one hundred dollairo horse dat not can go at all." "1 never promised you that he would . go." "13y Dar! vat ia von horse good for yen he no go. 11e is no better as:one dead shack. ass, by gar. V ill you, sore, take the mare. horse back, and give me money vot 1 . - pay him for?" , "No, sir, I cannot—'twas a fair bargain; your eyes where your own market; as we gentlemen of the turf say-", • "Gentlemen r.do turfl You be no gentle. man at all--you be no turf. Mon Dieul you be von grand Turk--you scare dam:decep• nom. You shoat your own born modder— you play von rascalle trick on your own got ton (adder. You have no, principaile," "The interest is what Igo in for." '.Yes,sare, your interest is no principaile. You bo volt grand rascallo sheet. Mon Dieu, yore you die von you go to, hell? Le diable—he feten you no time quicker, by gar." • Failing to obtain redress of the jockey he poor Frenchman sent his "mare-horse" oan auctioneer to be sold. But the auc- tioneer seems to havizi been as great a rascal as the jockey, for he took care that the tee 9 for selling should eat up the prices he got for the steed. . By•gar, said the Frenchman, when relit ling the story. "I be sheaty all round.— De shockey, horse, he sheaty me in trade, and de auctioneer, he sheated me in dispose of the hanimalle: he sell me de mare-horse for ten dollar: and and by gar he charge me 'leven dollture for sell him: Mon Daeul so I be take all around in,—loss levee and one hundred dollaire all in my pocket clear, for. one scare dam, limp lump,.vheeze-vind, no see at all, good for nothing shape of a mare horse, vorse as nineteen dead shack-ass, by gar. A Mississippi RO3IANCE.-A correspon dent of the Nutch& Courier, writing from the sect of government of Mississippi, gives currency to the following story of adven• ture : . . I turn from the legislature. to give an item which smacks of romance` and novelty. To day there arrived in the stage, in company . *With Jiidge Hadley; a - fair-faced and juven ile passenger, in pataloons arrayed, and on stopping at the mansion.of Madame Dixon, the said personage was consigned to a room in company with Senator Thomas B. Rives. In a few minutes 'suspicions were set Iv float that the stranger aforesaid was a wo wan, whereupon Mrs. Dixon, in curious trepidation, repaired to the presence of her new guest. '" You are dwoman," said Mrs. D. "I know I am," replied the stranger, " but listen to my story." ' She then related an adveritare that far eclipsed the dangers braved of the lover of. Orlando. She had been cruelly treated ; her husband had fled the country, and;lresolved to find him, ahe changed her dress and Went to the Mississ ippi river, where she secured a berth toil one of the steamboats as cabin boy. This life she followed up and down the western wat ers for eight months. Despairing of the object of her anxious pursuit, she is now on her way to the bosom of her family, in one' of the eastern counties of - Mississippi. When her' sex was discovered several la dies and gentlemen recalled her-acquain tance, and by the kmdrietis of herfriends, she was soon transformed and 'Conducted to the parlor glittering mall the splendor of he‘ sex. The stories she 'told were in. tensely insereuting and all true. While a *thin boy 'she had'tWo or three fights, in all of which she came off 'victOrious ! Who - I will say 'the Mississippi ladies are not brave and do 'not love.? We intend to write the history of this lady for ono - of the annuals; the materials are ample; her beauty, chi• valry, devotion and other heroic qualities ! Look out for the story of the "cabin boy wife." *sae How To B ECONWA PceT.•:—D not shave,or indulge too Ofien .clean nen; The moral effect of 'such .habits 'will be found pernicious to this groWth of poetical hallu. cination. Contrive; by all gleans, if possF ble, to'derange your digestiveorgans; this you 'may easily, accomplish by eating inor dinately, and out of seasOn, and Carefully refrain from all exercise of* an eih.larating kind. Thus you Will induce a determina tion-of blood to the'brain, l by which theln tellectual power* will be rendered "more active, vivid end 'subtle in their operation; There are also :Se r ino other minor point-4, Which, if attended to," Will considerably aid the attainment of - peened qualities; as, for instance,ahabit • ofsleepirig all day and wan . - dering about all nighl—taking two or three gin cocktails ~sinoking cigars before . 'breilltfast . drinkieg - whiskey punch byfiire dinner,dre. Also,learn t- eat opium,if pos sible; sleep with your heels higher than your head, and keep . your apartments un aired and in the most perfect confUsion. These little eccentriciiies,lf persevered in for a rensOnable length of time, must* have the etThet to dis Organize the physical - and moral power•s :, and thus give rise to new and ff strane assOcriiticios of ideas—the grand se cret of r. all originality in thought or concep. Y.' Evening Signal. A llaticheater merchant lately receivaclby mail, a miniature steam engine—fly-wheel, framing, boilor;anci fire-place—all complete. The weight was less than,A ounces and the postage only eight pence. DANGER OF. FEMALE SOCIETY.-4 can't look full in a purty gal's face all a flushing so,without being kind a dazzled and scorch. ed. It wakens me up this cold weather,and causes such a pulse in my heart that the blood runs through It as hot as if it had run through a steamboat pipe. , And then the all fired things, have so many sly ways of corning over a feller With them ae crmkums crankums of tilirn, that 1 don't think much of a teller,that can see their purty mouths work and,not feel his own mouth work too. If they sidle up, I can't help sidlin too if I died, and when their black oyes fall flash on me, 1 wilt right down under 'em us cut grass in Weathersfield in a hot, summer day. It's natur all this, and I can't help it no hqw." BENEFITS OF THE SAME.--“If wornen do snarl up a feller's heart strings, licy, keep him out of other scrapes, and any body will tell you thatt A men that Is in love a lee• ile is not always running into rum holes, and other such places. He don't go a gam. blin, and is'ent eneakin rotnidnights. Jonathan Slick. Smovr.An LAWSUIT. - A n English ,paper paper says that a curious lawsuit is now goingon in Perth in Hungary, between a butcher and n cattle dealer. Tho butcher had lent 1000 florins to the dealer, who, sometime after Wards, called on him as he was at din. nor and laid down a note for 1000 florins thanking him at the same time for the loan, The window beim: , open the note was blown by a gust of wind into the soup tureen: The butcher took it out, and holding it by the corner to allow the grease to drain 001 was seized by the dogand swallowed. Per• ceiving, that ho had done wrong, the dog absented himself, and did not return until the evening, when ho was killed and opened; but the note was, of course, by this time wholly digegted. The butcher has brought an action for the 1000 florins, which the dealer refuses to pay twice over, consider ing that,, the note having gone into the hands of the butcher, he alone 'ought ,to bear the loss, GRANDILOQUENCE.--"F ellow citizens," said a stump_orator lately in Wisconsin, who was running for,oflice in the territo rial legislature: "felloW citizens p ifyou elect me my opposition to banks shall be so strong that it will break the track of a herd of buf falaoesl Volcanoes may pour out their lava, reducing cities to smouldering ruins— earthquakes may engulph in the vortex of premature destruption large and popular: islands--ea ta recta may disgorge their, aqueous contents, making nature tremble with the continuous effort—the thunder's stroke may prestrate the mightest of Mon uments ever raised by the combined al& of art and !abort—the vivid and glaring flash of liAlitning' may rend the'sturdy oak of the forest, 'and 'make the lion souled and the iron-hearted quake• with' fear; but do yoU think, fellow citizerts, that all this Would make me vote fors bank!' d--i clear of it! 'Picayune. A RiP VAN WINKLE some hands in the employ of Mr. Daniel Irrengle were retrieving a bank of straw a few days ago, one of them was, not a little frightened by certain indications of some living being, as he approached the interior of the pile. Upon an examination, rather cautious to be sure, for tro one knew who or what might be to pay, the rntinster prov ed to be a hog who, like a Veritable 7 as he was, had been hurried under a moun tain of straw for seventy six days, A drove of hogs had been quartered 'there that long eine° and one of them having gone beyond his depth tn.the bank of straw has been en sconced there ever since,—F. Exam. - A Clergyman in ti town a few mites east of Hartford, recently in preaching an old sermon, stated to his congregation as a rea. son for so doing, that " the tinies.were so hard, that he could not.get money to bdy paper to write new ones upon.'.' Whiskey drinking never conducted wealth ,into a man's pocket, happiness to his fami ly, or respectability , ; to.his character-- therefore whiskey is a non-conductor, and consequently it is best to be lot alone— nevertheless, we can't resist a good :whis key punch of a cold night, if pressed to drink .NoTunic; VAIN.—The good people of Michigan think of putting the fever and aiite to a rnilitarianpUrPose—such 4 , dri ving sawmills, grist mills, cider presses, Sac. ' Twenty men, they say, who shake moderately hard, are sufficient to propel a steamboat, and no danger of the " biter's tistin." GO IT, 1300T8.-- A M re. Bools,ol Perinsrl- Vania, has left her husband, Mr. Boots, and strayed to parts unknown. We presume that this patrol Boots are rights and !Ms. We cannot say, however, that Mrs. Boots is I ilgzt, but there's no Mistake that Boots him. elf is left. At the last accounts he was pur suit.g her with all his might. de it Boots!. oot.—This is a valuable commodity—, indeed few persons are aware of its great value. i t .writer estaiates the - number of Sheep two years ago in the United Stales, at 12;000,000—and - stiPpOses that it is not less now than 15,000,000. ,Allowing the eAti mate of three pounds per head, the clip of 1839 would bo 45,000,0002p0un45; of wool. The average price of wool torn few years • pat has been 45 cents a pound. At that rate the last clip otwool is worth' more than twenty millions of dollars. 71 5 . 7 .120201 J`Pilaa 439a0 FunTITER AND STILL MOTen EttPOTITANT. I*-We learn specially, iliac that pie& or wedding cake presented by Victoria, via Great Western,-to Miss Rush, whereof' we spoke on Monday last, camo•enclosed in a gold box, upon which was the inscription-- ,& Queen Victoria to Miss— Rush." The box, with the cake enclosed, was brought to the lair hands of the recipient; by that distinguished "indomitable," Jesse Hoyt, Collector of New. York, who obtained it from the British Consul, under an injune lion to deliver it with his own loco foco hands, which he did, and was rewarded for his pains with a most gracious smile. The box, though not tho sweetest part of the compliment, is certainly the most valuable in these loco foco, anti-Metallic times. •We call the attention of Col. Benton - toithis.re: Coot importation of what may possibly arr. sumo the shape of "mint drops," to swell the current that is to " roll up the Miat;iB - Fnou Fr.oaxnA—More of the Blood- hounds.--Accounts from St. Augustine to the Bth inst. state, that the bloodhounds are carrying on the war with energy and effect. Information from Middle Plorida states that two of the dogs followed up as Indian' trail,. recently, and caught one Indian. They throttled him, threw hire down, and secured him. The Indian, on being relieved from his perilous situation, told the Men who had charge of the dogs, to keep °nand' they would find more Indians-..--wh:ch it is said they did, and captured four more. The latter is not certain.' That one Indian has been caught by means of dogs, is certafte: The last Tallahasse Floridian- flays. " We regret that Mr. Poinsett has taken the course he has about the doge. .lie is mistaken. They were intended by the people, at whose instance'Gov. Call impor ted them, to "worry;" ti) " hunt," to "bate," to "tear to pieces," all the red devils they can catch." . NEW POTATOES IN FEBRUARY I P—This beats the " beef beats."—Col. Edmimd Ho vey, of this place, has just shown, as, this 29th of February, some new. Potativ.9, of ordinary size, which he has Cultivated this winter in his garden. The process is sim ple, and is an important improvement in horticulture: Dig a trench similar to one usually prepared for celery—cover the bot tom with rich• manure, and that with a coat of soil, and plant the potatoes, covering tfiern with soil and 'manure—which noir whets and makes them grow while all , the' vegetable world shrinks and decays from the frosts of winter.—Urbana Citizen. There is a' gal' down east who cuts two cords ot wood a day, attends to all the household affairs, drives home the cows, can lift a barrel of cider, occasionally whips the schoolmasier, when none of the boys are able to do it. " - NOT DAD.—The Cincinnati Daily NETS) , tells the story of an editor' who recently got married, and being somewhat confused, he headed the marriage notice ‘Dreadful Ca lamity.' The next day his wife gavo him a'proof of the mistake by boxing his ears, and nearly knocking his form into pi. ' A French paper tells of a child at Veen= ciennes who has a distinct watch dial on each pupil of the eye, the figures being marked in one with Arabic, and in the oth , er with Roman characteri. These super natural marks are attributed by the mother to her havingilad, while enciente, a great desire to be the'oWner of a watch, and stop , ping frequently and for a long time, at the windo . w of a shop in Which'a great number of watches were displayedif • Locoroco"BANKtrio.-1 4 he Grand Gulf Advertiser, a loco foco paper, says, that the locofoco Legislature of Alabama, has conferred Banking privileges upon the Penitentiary about to be erected in that State. A N6EtE GUILD:—A little aged: eight years, named Bosworth was drowned in the canal leading from the Housatonic . neer Lee• Huddle, Mass. while generously attempting to save the , life of a younger brother who had fallen in. EXCEEISIVE MEANNEB9.--The Meanest man yet has lately moved out West. A chap who witnessed one of his small acts, said that "Ten thousand just sucli souls might live in a mustard seed, and keep fur nished rooms to let at that!' "No TIME TOCHAT."-:—.4( a'recent Loco Foco meeting in the West one of the lead ere alarmed at the ten tliotisdnd indications of the overwhelmino 'popularity of Gen. flAnatsolv,suggebteethe expediencY of drop ping Van and takide, up a Western Candi-. date. Another individual immediately arose and related the following striking anecdote, by way of opposing the stiggestioni "An Irishman, in crossinwa river in a beat,with his mare and colt, was thrown into• the river, and clung to the colt's' tail. Tho• colt showing signs - of exhaustion, and a man on &min told him to leave the colt and cling to the" mare's tail. 'Och, faith ,honey! ' is no tittle to swap horses.' 11 31 3 - I .r.s reply.% /. 411 `44. Reister. The Louisville Journal says that a lead. ing Van Buren member of the Illinois ate was in Louisville on the 22d . 0f Febru. ary, and openly asserted, that Illinois, would most unquestionably go for Geo, flarrisKts
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