II VOLUM %V.-•NUIMBER. 22 - -tut - • - POTTER JOURNAL. PUMAS/IED BY K. W. MehlarneS - , Proprietor. sl.i3 VAELLULY ADVANCt * * *Devoted tothe cause of Republicanism, the interests of Agri\culturc, theadvancernent of Education, and the best good of Potter county. Owning. no guide, eZcept ,that, of Principle, it will endeavor to aid in the work of more fully Freedomizing our !Country, . Aorsaviscurtirs inserted nt the following rates, except where special bargains are made. 1 'Square [lO lines] 1 insertion, - - 50 I ill o 3 ...1.1 r -$ 1 50 leach subsequent insertion less thou 13, 25 .I_4nare three months, -;-- 6 .. 250 14 00 1 " six " I 7 1 " nine " --- - - --- 550 1 " one year,' 600 1 Solemn six months, 20 00 Li I I 10 00 it 11 11 'II . ti ) 700 " . per year. 40 00 i it ti ti 1 ' '''d 00 - i Administrator's or Executor's Notice, 200 Business Cards, 8 lines or less. per year 5 00 Special and Editorial Notices, pe. iiine, 10 * * *All transient advertisements most he i paid in advance, and no notice Nvll l be taken of advertisements from a distanc6, unless they ate accompanied by the money o ' a...atisfactor.. - reference. * * *Blanks, and Job Work of 1 11 kinds. at tended to lly. promptly end faithfu - i BUSINESS CAIIDS.: • KULALIA LODGE. No. 342;. STATED Meetings on the 2nd end 4rthWednes days of each month. Also MasiTiti . gather ings on every Wedneklay Eve.,i lg. for work and practice, et their Hall in C. l ), wierrport. TIMOTHY IVES, W.: M. :11.131L'ET, JOHN S. MANN, &rrop..NEy AND COUNSkLLaIt AT LAW, Coudersport, Pa.. will attend the several Courti . in Potter and M'Kean Counties. Al! businegs entrusted in his care c.'ill..re.ceive prompt attention. Oqice corner' of West •nd Third street!. ARTHUR. G. OLMSTED; ATTOItNnY COUSSELLOR AT LA.W. Coudersport, Pa., will attend to all business • entruste d to his care, with pro alptnes and ity. - Office en Soth-west comer of Main tad Fourth streets. ISAA.O BENSON. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Coudersport, Pa., will attend to all Easiness entrusted to him, with cart and. promptness_ tilb'ce on Second st., - near the Allegheny Bridge. F. W. KNOX, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Coudersport, Pa., will regularly attend the Courts ilk Potter aoal Ike adjoining Counties, 1 O. T. ELLISON, rIt.A.CTICING PHYSICIAN, Coudersport, N.. ' respectfully informs the citizens of the vil . late and vicinity that he will promply re spond to all calls for professional services. Office on Min st., in building formerlY oc eupied by C. W. Ellis. F;sq. • C. S. & E. A.' JONES, - - DEALERS IN DRUGS, MEDICINES, PAINTS Oils, Fancy Articlis, Stationery. Dr= Good: Groceries, &c., Main st., Coudersport, Pa. D. E. OLMSTED, DEALER DRY GOODS, READY-MADE Clothing, Crockery, Groceries, Main st., Coudersport, Pa. COLLINS SMITH, DEALER in Dry Goods,Grocerics, Provisions. Hard‘kare, Queensware, Cutlery, and all Goods usually found in a country Siore.— ' Couderspoit, - Nor. 1861. COUDERSPORT HOTEL,. P. F. GLASSMIKE, Proprietor, Corner o- Main and Second Streets, Coudersport, Pot ter, Co., Pa.l . A Livery Stable is also keptjnconned Ilion with this Hotel., MAgxGILLON, TAlLOit—nearly opposite the Court House— will make all clothes intrusted to him in the latest and best styles —Orices to suit -the times.--Give him a call. H 13.41 I. J. OL4STED. . . ....... S. D. KELLY OLMSTED & KELLY, ,ZALEIL IN STOVES, TIN k SHEET IRON • WARE, Main st, nearly opposite the 'Court Harin-, Coadersport, Pa. Tin and Sheet Iron Ware made to order. in good ityle, on altort.notiee. • Ulysses Academy till retains as Principal, Mr.l; R.CAMPBELL, treceptress, , 3lrs. NETTIE JONES GRIDLEY j As listant, MISS ADA.' W/LKKV. The - Cpenses per Term are: Tuition, from $5 to $6; Board. frbm $1.50 to $1.75, per week; Rooms for self hoarding from $2 to $4. Each term comMence, •pon ISednesdag and continues Fourteen *reeks. term,Autr.27th.lB62;Winter term. Pec.loth,lB62 ; and Spring term. Nl:licit 25th. Iss3. , 0. R. BASSETT, eresidealt. W. W. GRIDL-F.Y, Sect . y. Levissike,. July 9, 1862. MANHATTAN HOTEL. NEW YORK. • THIS Popular Hotel is situated near the 'cbrher of Murray Street and ,Broad wayLopposite the Park within one, block of the Hudson River Rail Road and near the ltrie Rail Road Depot. It is one of the best pleasaht and convenient locations in the city. Board S. Rooms $1.50 per , day. N. HUGGINS, Proprietor. Feb. 38th, 1863. The Rocheiter Straw-Cutter. OLHSTED k - KELLY, Coudersport, have the exclusive agency fdr this celebrated machine, in this county.. js covenient, du -111141, and CHEAP. Dee. 1, . 1860.-12 raL t liow is ,the time to subscribe for your Wand Piper . —tHE JOURNAL. - • - -; ; . r - w,-;••• - -- -, .. - tymr + 5 .} . •••5;;G;i•,..,: .5%,Ve,...",;....-5r.•14°..;;.M.,174-,,7,"..Z....r...a...Z., „,_ ~-.24.14, - ;-....4"::„.4,.....:.--r,--- ,-.. , ,-,---, - -,-, •I , ... ;,.., -., ,-. • •;;;- . '.. ..1..1' , ..,,,,....- 1 .- .. - 1 -,- -, .." , ...i- ,,, ', r , W V WW. 7. ... 1° ' - 1 - 4'.. _ 4tl,..'"itt-b........r,`",,,,,, ;-k. 1 rea'''' '0 ,.. ,.... &-,_ lik # • i., • - -- • ~. , '. - , " 0 . • liii . .. '., OP •. . • I $ • • . , I . 1 '--- - , - . _. - ... • - _ ' I - • : , . IZZI , 'Twas 'June; I think 't= the night win& blew With fitful moaning! through the trees; IYou raised the window, leaning out 1 , To listen to the breeze. . There was no moon ; through brokenclouds The stars were shining cold and white: Awful and a - eird the forest looked In_tb_e' diui yraveringjight. • • Yon felt ft sense of loneliness, Of gronping far some bidden good, rt-,thoJost toys ofidArembrings , • . Of the mysterious wood, You spoke, at last, in far off tones Mite one leho liSeas in a. drearn 'How near all pure and holy things, I I In such calm twilights, seem I "The All!fgels_are not fnr away; ' Their faces brighten thrcugh the gloom, Their voicvs. full of heaven's sweet praise, I Float through this little room. . . "IleriowVey inve me I their pure eyes Have found the good I only meant ; The world has seen my barren life, But they, the rich 'Recut!" .You could not see my eyes,grow dim With an3wering tears; my words were light I know not now. a sttdow , fell Between our semis that night. You thought it ill-timed mirth that broke The spell of Night with friend! bow could I'let you - see • How deep my heart MIS stirred? 'Tryas years ago, but eren yet : Whene'er I ter the culd sr...Ars gle 7 rien Through br.ken clouds that Lour conies back Like an unqukt.drearn. Still through the open window deals The breath or clover lilosson z i bright Aud in' the darksoln e' wood be find, Cry the lost winds of night I see your earnest, burning, el cs, • That salute we with theit * depths of pain; Full of vague lungtngs,' faiut.uud far, I I hear your voice again ; And; turning as with sadder loss, Find of that sweet June eve gone by, There's nothing left but wilds of dark And winds that wail and cry I - [From the National TuLelligencer.] Letter grow a Loyal Southern Al recent visit to It Constant correspon deuce with the South, has ceuvinced thr writer of this article of the correctness oi the views advanced in his communication to your valuab:e paper some months sume. The fanatics on both sides who have us , serted that the people of the South have) been and are a unit in t heir.antagonism to the United.States . Gutierucaelit are in' the wrong, and the falsity of their aster, tiuns is every day becoming apparent —, Every Southerner knows that a niajorityl of the white population of his parliedlari sectiOu, are not iu favor of eztablibliitigi any stronger form of government t tan that set let up ,by our - fathers, and that] theyji'ave no interest in but, ou the cou.! trary!, they have an interest against the maintenance of slavery, which:only eper ates competition with their labor.- 1;1'04 Southerner knows there are nut' over two hnudred thousand -persons. eh told,iiir that portion of the tJuited States] now in rebellion, who are dir e ctly inter.' ested : as slave . aerners eptuddiag very, and thata •ri:ijiirit} of thew are not diipused to abandon u republican form of sovernment as a failure. It is true that the politicians of the'Sutith who futueuf ed and still control the rebellion, do re iard a umuareh as the best final of gov-1 et unient, and harebeep and are /eberingi insidiously to get their opinion adopted by the people who put then, in power.—lJ Theyl hare already, established a rigid toiiitary despotism, which so long as dull; war continues, will answer their purposesl sell enough, but in the event their re-1, beilion were to prove it success, which isl now more improbable - than' ever, what wouldi become of them in case their ar mies I were disbaudoned before rowel stronger lotto of government were adopt-1 ed and organized ? They have pondered' well Upon this question. They ituowl what in that event would-be their fate The writerof Ilia article, haV'ing been; born in the South, lit:vino alwats resided' there, 'and haring been in fi3e6.f the se. ? eeedecbStates within the sast siz munths.l is perhaps better qualified to judge oil public,s.ntittn.ht in the South than those! who hare never been there. Those re-I siding el , ewhere, whoare known as “syni• pathizers with .the.SOuth." are not enti tied to be so designated. They 'do Hot sympathize mith the majority of the! white Population of the South, but with the: politicians t theinitn i . their ruin The question is -often asked, why if; such tie the state of the ease„.do. not,no 1 masSe4 '41414 South• rise and, after' depoSibg the ruler 4 iStitrii to theii Ate- giancor i ? It is easily answered. They 1 lack arms, munitions of war; and organi zation,larof'.which -are in -tbi'ditipoic control of Mr. Jefferson Davis and his confederates. After hastno been abaci ' Boned to their', a-Panes , @ebotea to ttio thigoiplas. of lihe . @ginoeiley. 411 a ilia bissiil) ll l.ltioiY,of 1101#9, •Litehlui•# aita TO di. FRIEND. Gentleman. lIDERSPORT, -POTTER COMTY, seei.Keotucky, and Virgiiiia, and Texas - , by our governwent, ,it ,is out to' be ex pected that the people of any portion of Me seeeeded States sriivnow . deolLre'6uus. selves for the . 11Teion until 'they see ty - that they will receive permanent pro , -tection. - It is not at all strange that Mr Jeffer eon Davits' health seems _to be givii4way tinder thepressure to. which he hiii! bees, is, and_ must uo,titinue to be. - subjected.—_,! 'Whit ,hisbecume of ; the flattering int ducats - Cilia held out by him rand itis :is suciatie in the•coospiraoy to us,,the peo ple of the South ? • Have we liad:"peace• able secession ?" Has the expert ditty on cotton filled the trearniy of 'the-sci *idled 'Southern Confederacy by paying , the interest on the bon& issued by , Mr. lkleurininger ? Have the great powers of Eur Ope intervened - anci opened ou r per:s? Have the ,Deufecrats of the Nor th "held their parly tie stronger than their elle ! glance to their, government, and consented to help out the treason of those who, re igard'a•republican form of government, as a failure ? _Thus far, what have the , lead leis of the &nth gained by the war' they linaugurated save a stay of execution They know that their doom is hied, had they are only fighting for delay - . - If sUch l• its not-the case, iiliy are so many :of the i knowing ones among them occupied in I eouvertiiig ut a ruinous saorifice, their as sets into gold or sterling exchange ? Where has Gen. Sterling Pricesenthis 1 personal effects, and why? Where h vej Floyd, Slidell. arid_ a host of contractors I of the sc , iialled CiMfederacy, put tlieir available means ? - Why are Ditilions; worth of exchange and gold, not to speak 1 of gi.vernineut moon quietly escaping Out 1 of the limits of -Secess'a" by the oily 1 safe route left open by the neglect] ofl President Lincoln's administration-1bl ) war of :tAlatatilorasl ' I The ••Northern men with Southe.ln 1 . principles" who, like Slidell, have ridden i the South for yea - ra past; and vet ridel;t, I have a prudent conaideratiun for the fu-! ture. Though, like rats, they may in-1 stinetively desert. their sinking ship, they 1 have their hoards for future use in p i a- lees of safety abroad. , 1 i En WANTED' TO BE SEASON) -glut many mites from Buston, some time since, there was a revival, and a Merchant who was noted tur dishonesty, suddenly be came pious and joined the church:, Ile took to exhorting and one evening re marked that he had done many things fur Which he wassorry, and deemed it his duty to make full restitution to thoie he had wronged. He tlerefore notified all such that if they would cal! at his store, he would cer tainly-do so. Aituut four o'clock the Beat morning a gentleman called at the Merehaotla house and srum•ed him Irony bed. , 1 Raising the witidwa-, he demanded the businers of his visitor at that early hour iu the morning. "Is this Mr. ?" '-That is my came." "WelL . l underetand that you'offefed to wake restituikin fo` , tlwie you have cheat ed. You will remember that upon one oecak.ion l suffered to the extent of fifty dellar., and have called to get it " "Why did you not Wait until , proper Fours and then call at nit store.?" “Stuiply because I thought if I dill there would be Hich a rush there that I would not get it?” The window went down with a slam W - liat . we.call'ewisdow is the result pot I the residua, of ail the widow 'of 'pas6 sager. Our best iustitotiora are ;tike,' yeung trees 'growing upon the . r o ots ef ; old trungi that have et - cabled away Theshadows of the wind are like thosell of the body. In the morning of life - they' all Ire behind us ; at noon we tratnplet thew under foot ; and. in the evening . ' they stretch long and deepening before us.ii When the it:Ay-day of life is over, iold I agee - okay be Sunti and c'iirpitig - ; a merry !wart' way nestle in a tottering trawe. like! a swallow that buil& in a ruined chin-i nay. - Honesty is not only the best policy', bct the highest wisdom floweret dil:66 u l t it way be for intevity to get on. it is a thousand titues more difficult for knavery to get off: It seems strange that we of the present day are cot.tatitly prais,ing that past age which cur halters abused, and as con- Ntantly abusing the piebalt age which our chilareu will praise. Magnanimous repentance nev e r waits for the epur of remorse before it botinds toward..tne, injured one with confession and reconciliation. A man often thinks be knows more atm he does, never that he knows leas.A sleeping, man dreams he' is awake, a waking man novel dreams he sleeps. Soe persons are odious to vulgar p'eo ullple' simply on account of their rank in so eiety_ Each of them may say, like the tking in Hamlet, "0-reyoffetreeis rink." PA., WEDDIESDAY, HEAT 20, 1863 LIFE PARTIC/411.9 bP !TUE REC E NT EEE.ID RIOT 'A latlY . Of foreign birt h, :who has'resicl , id in ;Riclimind: for' `s everal .years, 'has r • - just.arrired Wasniugt , ,. Her' state: tents, which the' Reptiblo , n pfonottuce:.. perfectly : trnstworthy, are yery ißteieNt• tag. She sayi there is. a decided - Union.l sentiment in - 7tbq - rebel:o , 4oA, and - this• Lseniiment'is- they pressure .iiinoted against it. - Outward demonstrations are.:prevented, but there is a large community who hnow each nth er,:and.whose feelings for the UuloWcan- I not-be crushed out. Provisions are ,so scarce ;in Virginia, according to her Statementit; that the en emy will be, compelled to capture soMel of our stores to sustain theihselves. She predicts that as soon as the, roads are in i goocrcondition rebel raids will be the or !der of the day. The bread riot of Rich- I mond was a more serious affair,rhan we j have been led to suppose by any accuuntsl that have hithertd reached: us. Several I hundred females, led-by a woman of ee terwined obaractet• asseinbled • and after • arming theinselveti with hatchets, divided themselves into three parties rind marched through the three 'principal streets, which run parallel through the city; 0 ,, their way they halted at the principal stores and seized whatever provisions and I groceries they could find. Teams passing through the streets. were impressed, and the 'articles were sent, as fast as captured, under the care of persons ;detailed for that duty, to the :quarters inhabited by the poor people nd, distribu'ted. After passing through these streets the whole body concentrated in a quarter-occupied chiefly by Jew speculators and traders, add poceeded to open the retail establish ments and.help themselves. I, The plun dering had by this time beotoe rather promiscuous, and various ireli function ariesl were vainly eadeavortng to quell the riot. - 'General Winder interposed without ef fect. Governor Letcher attempted to barrangue the crowd, but they would not listen. Finally Jeff. Davis himself came to the rescue in a barouche, hilt even the consplrator-in•chief could make no im pression fur some time: He made several attempts to speak, but his voice was drowned in the cries of the eicited mob. At length the police succeeded in ar resting a few of the ring-leaders and lock ing them up in the central gaard•house, after which silence was so far restored that, Jeff. Davis was able to 'make hins• self heard He promised them relief, and the Confederate Treasurer appearing at The same time, distributing Con federate scrip to rioters, the excitement abated and the crowd dispersed. They reassembled subsequently, how ever, in front of the*uardhuuse, and de manded the release of those who bad been arrested anti. were to be tried for rioting. General Winder, military governor. sent secret,' orders for their release, alleging that the Virginia treeps would'; lay down their airws if the excitement knot:lg their families at home was not allayed; - Since that time the goverotnent has is sued to the pour of the city smell rations, and the government supplies rare failing even at that. It should have been stated that the women, before commencing their raid, re. ported to the Governor's mansion and asked for food. lie replied til l er., iv was out of his power to afford them any, relief, as the government demanded all the pro visions it was possible to get for the army. There was deep mutterings among the people already, and symptoms Of une..m trullable disaffection are plainly exhibited. A few are making. immense fortunes oat of the war, but the many suffer severe privations, which they cannot! endure much longer. Some boldly &Clare, in moments ofexcitement, that it is in vain to contend logger with the Yankees, for they must, be beaten at last. During the bread riot an individual noted for his ec centricities was in the crowd shouting, "It's of no use ! We i tnis!ht as Well give it up. We are whipped," &a. 1 It was noticed, at the titueof this grand *mute, that the most potent iuflu euce in quelling the cuebwas the tree dis tributiou of money to the people', and it . was the general ;minion that blood would have flowed freely if this reuiedy bad not been applied. , The great men of ;the earth are the shado,wy then, who, having lived and diva, now live again and forever through their 'undying thoughts. Thus living,;though their footfalls are ;heard no wore, their voices are louder than the thunder, and unceasing as the flow of tides or Happiness is to be gained by Waging war a g ainst ber enemies midair sooner than b; paying any particular earth to herself. Those who conquer berladier sariea need not go to 4i, for elie will eorn — e - to them. - - - ifttt3: 'Tie Berets{ Yeti all letifeinber {Ur a ,, perfect Inia'prevailed some . ye{ -ago on the sub ect Durhair calves Berkshire pigs. South -Dosib I• 'Well, I had a {neighbor by the natne - o Manic, tilio•was 4 I • • • au 1111011111100 clever ph {sician and:an ini; porter of fine stock { One'day the Doctor itopped{ t'u - git his ho Aliodlat - neighbor Biz Wit{ the • blacksmith,. :who- litqcrabout i{vo• Miles froni the{Doc or's-bowie. The Doe+ commenced - t lking - about his beautiful Berkshire and told the blickandtb ins ftrOf iberality that he ivould give him of the next lit ter that "Su" had. I In the course of two waiter, the dower cane Bold neighbor Bird that litter, I and: to send -an Bird_posis his man Bub B willow . basket to I tliseen IBird's and Mart who with a great quiz, ive 'and seeing Bob cowing Master's horse, old Tout on hislarin, he sang out ; Halloo, Bob, {where {such a hurry this tuorni I "I is g wine to Massa Ito get !M asea Tom's' BUI Massa IDoctur protnise Zt 'time he shod delloss, he reined in his itoitnal: "Well, Bob, you inns{ I back, and let me see: tht • "Dat I will, Massa SI and away he-went th ; speed.:{ In less than an hour a genuine swine, andali eery be lifted the corer to the astonished, gaze man, who itnagined a sumething morathana t ited a very beautiful sp black pig. An idea btt to play a joke on Bub, .t propensity to imbibe, tel the grocery and get a dry was gone Sam Smith ran of the house, and got a, l nigh about the same bef pig out of the basket and Wheal lob came out at nag, Sam Smith handed and off he'went. On are the blacksmith asked hi the pig., "Yes, Massa ' and 'a w4riy fi r ms pig he he' too,", said Bub,. iiftinkz up the cover; "black as a coal ;" when le the the utter astonishment of Bub and" Bird, there lay, a little Black curly puppy.l "Is that a 13srkshire pi blacksmith in atuazernent.l pup, not a pig !" "Bless de Lor'," said B when I spot him 'in de 1 chanoe to pop !" ‘ifalte;him back sir," sai indignapt, "and tell'Doet dren't want to be fooled pied, and' if he don't *an Berkshire pig, to say so." Bob started back,and"rtal stoFiped at the grocery to hap to Sam Smith, who hi with a countenance exprei der ' !at the saute lime dein eetiirol his increasing desire fits.] .AN'el4 get down, Bob." • ' cer, l i•and' take another drat] ] Bub didn't require a seco while he teas gettingit his the grocer took the pup fro; and put back the pig. . "Ms,.sa Sew," said Bob, coming cut to mount his horse, "I..,arn migh - ty . eausti cated 'bout dis pig; 1., ktOw heis pig fust,, but deo 1 know he le l, pup . t 00 . 7 - - Ara% you martin, Mu . sa Sam, he was pig fust ?" asked Boti,.as he(tuounted his crittur. "I'll swear to it," replied awayßr , b rode for the. D.Cti On arriving at the,house, ed ht ' s message, but the Bo somewhat_ icerecintuus as to the story, Bob, with a &aria! veracity, epened the lid of when lo! there was the ideni he had started with. Bob e fixed: and with his eyes prof mouth open, remarked— "BY golly, 'taint no use;} be pup or pig jus'. as.he plt O. l'cagitne. 1 1 I • Gerrit Smitli has-stthecrtbed one tbon sand.dollars tti the ftind" for t te relief of Ireland. Fernando :Wood h 1 net' giien a cent. Yet at ::his Coope r Institute apteoli. WOod had the itnpudlice-ta tan the eo ns of Ireland thit Gerrit Smith is a demagoguie,, and 'Omni& he p - ii--ind 11 -there T.ere some so ungta6ra 'ag to tip. -plaud the !Cr/fitment., Gerth• mitt etton errs, blot it is aiwiya On'tlie 7 slde ofAu marriti. 'Who' can, tat ae mu6h for Fer nando tend ? • ' Ao Old - angler says that no cn;e by mere ly a SSE eve succeeded in tire eg is out. • TERMS. -41.50 in. -AOll A bashful gentleman . ot Belly, pFingei I . B,lississippi, took a violent "hankering" 'after a fair seamstress of the .toirtri-end after 'a great deal of hesitation, tinily brougb. his courage up to the sticking point and made an evening cill:euTtbe lady. . He found. her busily: signed at her work,vresaing era; gittmrenvisith tailor's goose She,' .soweveir, seta him ierycourtelusly; - andl'enifttitiAliti work A' bevy of , the seating* tamale friends dropped in a few in:intat!Tafter our heroic friend had enbsided,inta•si lence, fur he found - it absolutely.inapossb. ble to toaintain a conversation withlbe lady. The sudden entrance 'cf- the viai tore, instead of relieving, only itddeti, to his embarrassMent;and he sat in silebee Fund! his ,situation. became painful. to -ill; but to none more than to himielf., .All efforts to -draw him :into •convetsitien proved abortive, - aria it-liettim-a matter of serums! concern - to the ladies bow to relieve the gerttlemai3 of his embarrass= went without a • catastrophe, forhe'!as well' known to all 'of them as a gentietriart of great wOrth r bashfulness being - hisnws frailty. The 'seamstress : 'got through with'her work and :ealied oils to the negro min in the kitchetr "Joh I.", , ',onths or such a at the shop and 4'3u" had a tine get his pig. Sc loff with - his wife's •-t the pig. Be. in's. Sem Smith, in a little grocery, post haste on his with tbe basket are you going in' 'log?" Doctor Martin's kshur pig, what assa Tom de lay' .aid the negro as The door, opened, and a itout, burly negro stack hie head through tht 4or . way, and said : stop as you come :m, dat.l will," top of old Tom's "I is;here, tnissus.". "John, will you take this goose Mail" Our bashltil friend spraisg to hislSei in an instant, and-exclaimed • "I beg your pardon, madmi, forintittd; ing oo yon, but go oat myselfl'', A And before the lady Could explain ticti meaning to him he- httd gathered hie bat and made his exit, which 'was folliwed by the frabtio yells iOf the girls. 1' -lin sctrY -to add that' that little mianodsir; stranding made an Old bachelor and Soya maid. With hting at the gro the•basket,and of the grocery erksbire to be ere hog, exbib kimen of a jet jack Sam Smitb ! I nd knowing his II him to go into Ica: While Bob round the back ;title black pup I, and took the A good joke is re itted of au of intemperaie habits and a vivid imagin: atiou. _ The ;two qualities combined Often • had a curious effect upon his mind and led sometim6 to -curious. result.A: • chi one occasion ht) had: been carousing With some boon co mpanions , until late in the evening, when he started for home ' , prat. ty wall hew cOme•you !V. " . After sundry gyrations and performingmany evoliatiune not laid down in any military work,. his reached. his - kerne, -where he found his wife in bed, :and a glOiring fire iu the stoic.. His _wife, that day had assumed the- care of a _brood of young dneke l whose natural protector bad been killed by a vicious dog. The ducks had been placed in "a basket and put ittthind ast Stove that they might keep warm. The heat arising from the fire also bad its oft feet upon - Jim, and soon experiended a pet culler sensation in the region of theetonst ach ; getting up hurriedly, he retired bet hind the stove, where .nature worked its own relief, easing him somewhat from the effects of his potations ; the ducks ben§ frightened at, the deluge poured 004 thew began to"quack,"..quack,""qtiabk.7 • Jim,started back in afright, and resumed his seat, from which he. was soon fumed, again - to retire, to undergo the Wane *Tao. uatibg process, to the; utter 'discomfiture of the ducks, as they again Uttered theie peculiar cries. iJitu was now really fright ened, and called loudly for his_ wife, whit hastily descended, and inquired the cause. of his alarm. . "Why, husVand what is the matter, are you,sick - ?",_ , . _ • "Matter I. Something awful, and if your stomach was as full of ducks is MIA I guess you Would be sick, too," "Why, yen dunce, hoWmould yob. btifii decki in your, stomach. Yon have heed - dreariiing." ''Tis no - dream. You will find e - riz deuce .to the contrary behind the loos& Examine that basket, and you *ill find it full of ducks,' all of &Lich. just cants from my sfornatia" put the pdp in od mounted, his him the basket, riviog at houie if he had got asltea:tte - I!Why, it is it b,. "be be pig asket, but he cl - Bird,liighly I•`r Martin-that with bis pup= to give we a rally enough; late his lois •atil bum - out sive of won • his".best, - to '• to burst into eald the gre- nd invite, and 'bald face," in the baaket, Smith, and ea. Bob deliTer etor seemed . Ikbe truth , of of insulted the basket. deal ?ig that A Mood treas. •uding. and John Minor-Botts, of Virginia so loii incarcerated in the Libby, prison and id Salisbury, North Carolina, has been r6:- leased through the in terposi don uf a friatt an extensivo purchaser of tohitalt:4r, has permission Ito remain on hiasesiatd? near Gordonsviile,nnde the pledge of alli aiding or abettitig 'the Unien 'cause,: =EI EIM!il A • little Swedish girl, while with her father on a Starry night, stmaitb ed in contemplation of tho •skies, &ohs asked of what eho was thinking; "I was thinking,' if the Stroni , side of heaven is so gloriims, what must she rigLt aide be 1" • 'Paddy, the, s!hiliey L gayer you to.eleau the , wiedowil with ," —081), toaster, I just ditok it. and thtiiiire if L breetk4 ou theightes it would be all the same: _,T Ladies are seitieut troubled, r.ith.4hot dnmb am/a, but are . very tuj)j,si to the kind' that ruakita - the jaws eh-sttsri rrfik _a. y 1 t a 4.% {,. ...7 , ._, .. 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