II I INI H A II 111 VOLUME %Va.-NUMBER 33. POTTER JOURNAL, it PCBLISFIED BY jie.A.I,A_RNET, Proprietor. tar Devoted to the can of Republicanism. the In terests of Agrioidture, the advancement of Education, and the beat goed ul Potter county. owning no ;aide except:that 'of Principle ' it will endeavor to aid In tae work of more 'fully Preedomizing our Country. t isarAdverthements inserted at the following rates, except where apecial bargains are made. A "-quare" 10 lines of Brevier or 8 of Nonpareil types : 1 square, :1 Maertion I,tl 50 1 square, 2 or 3 insertion- 2 00 Each subsequent insertion less than 13.-- 40 1 square, 1 year 70 00 Bariness cards, 1 year 5 00 ~t.dmintstrator's or Executor's Notices...... 3.00 !Venial arid Editorial Notices per line.-- 20 All transient advertisements must be paid in advance,and'no notice will be taken of ad verti-pmentS from a distance, unless they are accompanied by the Money cr sailSfactory reference. Stir Job Work, of all lands, executed with neatness and despatch. BUSINESS NOTICES. R. A. DRAKE. M. D., PHYSICIAN & et:IIGEON, offers Lis Eeri-ices to the eitii.6ns of this plaer and victnity and desires to inform there that he will promptly resnoml to a s tl sails for_professional services. 0111 cc on 11:011 . street, over C. F.Manning's Jewelry Store 11,sidm,er nearly opposite the oilier of the Fox & Boss' , Free and Accepted Ancient York Masons TIIULALLI :LODGE, No. tt42, F. A. M. Stated P Meetings on the 3rd and 4:1: ""edne4lays of each month. Hall, in the 3d Story of the (ttrn-ted Block. •M.W.MeALaniEY.See.. D.C.LARRABEE, ions S. mANN. . . . oA'TTORNET AND COUNSELLOR , AT LAW. Coudersport, V. w.II ut.7el:l the severat Courts Potter, Cameron and licKenn counties. An busi ness entrustej to his care will rec,ive promp..atten tion. office on Main street, hi rest&nce. AIITHICR G. 01.)ISTED ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLER AT LAW, Coudersport, PA , Will n; tend (0 h!I bthsiness , Ii• yusted i to bit. care.wth i Sn the seeond storey Uf the ()misted 13:0,rk. ISAAC BENSON ATTORNEY•AT-LAW, Comier•port. Pa., win atten:l to aq entruttt:.i to Mtn tvi , th car, and promptness. Attends Courts aF :vsjoininz coun ties.., Office on Secoml et ref:plea: the . . - • IF. 14. liN(10X. • A 7.170RNE . A.ND)COL - NriELLOR AT LAW _L - 1 Cot ierg, Jr:.! l'ap, Ny li dttendli.e i. , Can. le in l'ot Ler and the ad d' , ...1..t counties. MILLER h MeALARNEI - - - A TTOR EY . S-AIT 11 Ascr.ltrr.c, ,t he . United i,:t:ttes and Stat..: :Lb ren,lo:: , . Bounty, Arrears of Pay,&c. -Ad Iros, :17F W YILLCIC, ]. C. ICAL.VLSE.T DAN BAIEER, WT..TsTI" and WAIL 111.:11 . 31.AGENCY 1. Pensions procure.d Sdidiers of the pret,ent War who are iltsabl,i by reason of wounds r , ceired or diseabe contracted wlille tne . fittee ; and pensions bount.... and at - rcatt , of Mined for widowk• or ' heir@ of echo i.ave die.; „'- been killed while in 'service. All i-tiers of in.ralr promptly answere I. and on re:eipt by mail of. a etate ment of the caiie of claimant.. In, t,rlV•trd 11. c. :ie. ceittary papers for their ...Lima:ore. Fee: in rem,id . amens ac flied he law. Refers to ilo- P. .1 , ! 1 , C rionson. A. G. 01=itted:Juhn and I* Ley DAN B.11;.E1 , 1. * Claim Agent, Con.i,n ,- yl.t. Pa. JEr.eg 64 M. W. 31c.II.ARNEIC REAL ESTATE and INStili :NCE _AC-EN - T.— Land Bought and Seid, prkid and luVestigated. Lieures pr.:ipertv fire in tiie companies in the Country. and . Persensifaill.it dente in the Tr•lveters I.nran-, Company of Hart ford. Ba,ine,lt'tran,l.7.:eci prnmy:!:: 17.29 P. A. STEBBINS Co s I...Fancr and everyth ueu in a goad cou:l:ry st , ,re. Produce bought And • 17 C. 11. SIMNIONS Ac,rE.RCII.3xT—WELI.SVILI,E N. Y., Whole -1 s3le and Re! ill Deiii.: it; Pry Go re, Fancy:lA apleGoode.Clisithinz.Ladiee Drvesii.,edi4..Grocerii.s. Flour, Feed, &in, Rei:liiere sapplied ;in liberal terrne. C. S. E. A. JONES. Groceries, Sc., Alain St nret. D. E. OLIIISTEI); • ERCII A.'i - rDefiler in pry G oods. Ready-in:lde erack , ry. Gro,er:es, COLLINS SMITH, Af , EltellANi'—Dealer in Dry Goode, Grpceri,,,, Ilardware, QueeN, , xare, I_,ut.ery. arid all Goods' u-wally found in a country E:ore. OL'ISTED EiMg ITARDWARE Ilerenant,, and ITraier in j_ Tin and S,l - iee: Iriy.,-Ware.M.dn street. Conde: ort, PenT,'ft. Tin and Sheet Iron War, made to order, in good style, on Ebert. notice: :MARBLE YAR.D. THE subscriber destres :o inform tl e citizens of Pot ter that he ;can supply them all kinds of Marble work. al cheap and as u - rnd:a>._ it can be had . an r place in the. country. MONUMENTS aad TOMB STONES of all kinda furnial,ed on ehbrt notice. Coudersport, Febt; & ly C? 13 It.EU N L E COUDERSPORT HOTEL D. . F. GLASSMIRE, rneprarraa,Coraer of Main and E.:,cbrid streets,Coadeleno:,!l.l"otter Co. Pa. -A Livery Edible is also kept in connev fan with this Hotel. )13hW• Srar,es to and from the'llailroads. Potter Journal Job-011ice. HAVlNGadded a fine neW assortment of JOB-TYPE - to our :dread.: farce a , sortraent, we are Mon- prepared to do all kilids of work, cheaply and with taste and neatness. Orders Eolic cted. 1565 • 1563 Philadelphia & Erie Railroad. (- I`HIS great line traverses the Northern and North .- west counties of Pennsylvania to the city of Erie on lake Erie. It bag been lensed and is operated by The PEATI.V.I.:(I.k RAILEOAD COMTANS. Time of passenger trains' at EMPORIUM. . I.E4VE EASTWARD. Erie M&1 Erie Exprese Tiain 10:12 A. X . o'l7 P. LEAVE WESTWARD, Erie Mail Train ' 10:12 A. M. Erie Express Train... t 5'50 P. M. Passeng,Or ears run thronzh on the Erie Lail and Express Ira! a srithnnt change both - way. between Philadelphia and Erie. NEW YORK CONNECTION, • Leave New York at 6.00 r. e., arrive at Erie 3 37 Leave Erie at 155 r. x., arrive at New York LlO, P. a. NO CHANGE OF CARS BETWEEN ERIE ft NEW YORK ELEGASIT SLEEPING CARS, on all Night trains For information reaper:tin?, PaAsengor brishiess,ar,.. ply at Corner of 30th and Market street', Ph ilad , lph:a And for Freight baslness of the CompanyAgent4 5. i. Rinzaton, Jr., Cdr. 13th and Market istreota, J. IV. Reynolds, Erie. Wat Br 4 wq. dent. C. Et.t. , Baltimore. E. E. Hotsro N . , General FreightPhlladia. s 'awys,...NEß, General Ticket Agt. Paltda ' A. L. TYLEA, Genera: SalotoWllllll..maport, . S 23 , ulli . A ' ' • ~ V P.... ' 1 ). i 1 P l# ': ,_. , , ilij -F 4 j _ s ..1 Z ' ' I - --.' ‘— ~ e . ,e..-,.,0 _ . __. : .._, \,.._. : je , . , , „ , , , A - . i 1 ---..... ‘•, 111 " - 1 , • A i r ai S ) 1 ' I At - e f 1 , 4. ' I . • -- _ • 7 r, ,LALGE BLACHSMITEI. B I.ONGFELY.OII - . Under a spr acling chestnnt-tree The rilhige smithy stands; The smith a mighty man ih he,. With large and sinewy hand?; And the Muscles of his brwny arm 3 Are strong as. iron band,. His hair is crisp, and black. and long, pis face is like the tan ;I His brow i, w 4 with honest sweat. He carnsl what'er ha k paz4 jAndy looks the whole world in the face I , For he owes hot any map. • TIIE, V 1 Week in, 7eek i ont, from Morn till night, You caniheaF hie hellowS bloiv; . You can hear him swing his heavy sledge, With!measured beat and, slow; Like a fexton ringing the village belli When the ereningisun is; low. . 1 1 ' ! i I I ! • And eh Idren coming homelfrom FehOOL 1 . 1 . Looked ila at the open door, d They love to tee the fiamium forge , i ' ! .. And bear the bellows roar, • And caich the btirning sparks that fly ' Like chaff from a thrashing•floor. 1 ; He goes on Sunday to the church, 1 ?ta, 1 dsits among his boys ; i He hears the person pray add preach, Heild ars his daur c ,thter's voice, Singing in the village chnir:i And, it make_ his heart rejoice. • It sound:: to hint like her motheris voice, -! Singing in Paradise ! • He .needs Most think of her once more, How in the grave she lies,; . And•with his hard, rough hand ite wipes A tear out of his e; - es. I 1 . Tdilina—rejoicing—sorrowing, Onward hrough life he goes ; Ea!Ch morning sees some task begun, Each eve i iug sees it close; i . Sc'inethipg l attempted, something, done, Has earned a night's repose. *: 1 , , . Thanks ; 'thi l mks , torthee my worthy; friend, For toe lesson thou 'last taught! runs at the flaming forge of life Our fortUnes must be wrought: Vans Cr. Its tioundiwz anvil shaped Each Uetning deed - and thought. Fred. Saunders and were a couple. of bedeviled sophomores; who chattered bar barous Latin, and calculated more barbar ous logarithms and murdered still mire barbarous airs on the fete, within the eiaii.•ic'Eltades of Harvard. Truth to tell Vreci and I were the most rollicking and roriering:of the whole rollicking my', terino• crew! who made up that - famous sophomore class. who, I. fear, will be long :emembered by the faculty hod Professors and with not a very enviable re.colleetion; tor if those grave and reverend seniors did not wish the whole mad crew in the depth of the open Polar 'Sea they had morel of that patience whlch'eadureth than I ever gave them ereldtt for. Fred and I con trived to get tiuspended just aq the mid summer days ivere commencing,. and sat down one night to meditate, amid a true endgiras de r;icleesses our *ace for the summer campaign. "Let's go to the praries and shoot buf faloes ,Fred." \ "Tli'ere's not 1 Woman wekt df the Miss , issippi, Tom." I True; _I might have known that would have been anlinsurmountablelobjection to you; but I had rather see a bufialo than a woman :My; time, seen too i many !" \ 'Let's to the White Moutitains." \j 'k from lour Peel the shin all fro,our shanks! l No. 'thank rou Fred ! I've seen many a ' a fine pair of legs spoilt among these con.' fotF.ded hills. You've Often told me that i i itubs were My only beautly, so I pro pose ito preserve them." I What do you say to Nahant and al battle with the breakers ?" 1 .4 here, again', my untortheate per ion elle h omes in. Only good-locking people can'ro ford to be' yed blue in cold water, and have their long locks we:and plaster ed to their heads." • I "Well, what the deuce do you proppse doing? That confounded homely phiz of, your is the bane of my existence. 1 - flovv came you to be so homely ?" "That's slightly personal, Fred: We'll pa , slit, and I'll, propose going to Lnecoun try where there will be shooting, and horses for me, and country buropking for you." ",Agreod I when do we starLY" "Instanitly' 'We ariived at a genuine, old fasbion3d country farm house just at evening„ and were lounging under a big, tree th e at sha ded one of the windovis,iwhen we heard a aCcbnversatiou like zbe folfowing_ carried oh inside:* • I "Aunt, nap% I contrive some way to keep that John Jones away from here I ? I'll be hanged if I'm bothered with him here any longer I" 'l‘Notiiine - easier than to tell hinr tostay away, Kale." "That's entirely too detect for h1,m.4 I'll frighten him to death this very night. He's an outrageoUs coward, and be will (Ott a ghost as he comes up that dark strip of woods to night." , ''Supposin g he shouldn't be frightened and ebald °base you ?" I giebotea Itoj tip Tiiiieipies of Inv, QisseNitiAtioll of Vohi4, Via ilitlps• 'AT SA R ATOG BY IiATTIE TYSG COI3DERSPORT, POTTER COUNTY, PA., TUESDAY NOVENBE ' 28, 1865. "I'll go horsebaCk—ha! ha! ha 1" And the wildest, maddest laugh rang out on the air that I evec heard from a little woman—for little Miss Kate was,as we had had one peep at her dancing down the garden walk. "Hush i those ,gentlSmen will hear yoti." "Al fiddle stick for those gentlemen ! a couple of spoons. Any one could see by theirlooks—look as if they had ;been brought up on water gruel. Ask them if they wouldn't rather have some porridge for a change, aunt." Fred doubled up his fists; but I burst into an uproarious laugh, which caused a great searnpeting in the house. Just after dark, we saw Miss Kate issue from the barn, clothed in white from be ginnin,, to "finis," and mounted upon a , superbwhite horse. "She looks like death on a pale horse!" said Fred. "Let's follow her, like Luci fer and Beelzebub." Fred stole out to the barn, and p l at out itwo horses, cols-black and fiery ; and a few minutes beheld us mounted and away, also clothpd in white robes,made impromp tu fur the, occasion out of the spotless bed linen of our c' ambers. White paper caps stuck full of goose quills, surmount( d our heads ; and as we rode away, one end of the sheets we were wraped in, fluttered out behind. We took the read after Miss Kate in great style ; and not long after we saw her at a little distance ahead rid ing erect and stately in the middle of the road. Just ahead of her was a cuan,whow we took to be the John Jones who was trying to i•pprk her; and Fred a l nd I could not restrain another uproarious' laugh at ; this novel way of gettins , rid of a beau. John stepped short.in the middle of the! road, and held up both tiods, apparantly paralized with fear ; fibali. , he, made out to articulate : "In the. name of Heaven : v:l3(i are you?" "I alit your father's spirit!" ; answered Kate, in a ~ ,epurchral tune. "Good Heavens, father ; whitt do you want ? Havu't I done everything to please you ? What do you want, father ?" "I want you to go home and stay there!" - . “But, father, I can't.• You see first tell you how it. is : There is a woman in I thecLise, and she'll jest be expectin' me to: nighu ,, "Will you go home or 'I call other spirits to my assistance ?"1 No, no. I implore you! I'll go ; but what will the gal think ? Say, father, if you would only jest stop and let the gal know about it, she wouldn't feel so bad eh ? Goodness gracious ! there they are, ,Lore op 'elm !" This was just as Fred and I rode up behind Kate; and John Jones took to his heels, and made some tall tracks tow a;ds home. Kate burst into another of those riotous l peals of laughter, and turn ed her horses head to ride home- 7 but the laughter came to a dead stop as she turned round and beheld two other ghosts close to her heels in the darkness of the night. We expected a l piercing shriek, and a fainting fit, at the very least, but we were not gratified. She gave us' one look, then started her horse up, and just as she whizzed past us, she contrived to give both our horses a terrible clip with her whip, which induced the spirited and almost unmanageable animals to start off like the very . spirit of speed We were nearly uoseated ; but, making a desperate effort, contrived to keep our saddles, and dashed on after her like .a couple of fair ,ies. Faster, faster flew the liorses--mati ib madly rode we, in pefect silence, close, bYseacb side of Kate. One more blow of her whip almost finished us, for the hotsi , s could not be restrained this time,' and dashed into ditches and over fences at full peal. Off - went our caps, then the sheets we were wrapped in, but still,' Gilpin like, on we went. If we only kept! our heads rlio our shoulders, it was all we desired; and \ at last we drew np at the! gate of the tarp house with nothing I:in but a pair of white pants and It shirt.t 1 Kate rode up behind us, and remarked, , with the utmost nOnchalance : - "Well, gentletnetk, have you had a pleasant ride Yclon'tyon think the scenery around here is beautiftil ?" It lis charming indeed; but not so much 130' as the inhabitan \ ts," said Fred. -'Pray can't you give us an introduction to the ;friend you're in the hhbit of meet ing down there in the woo 4? Sorry to have ibterruped a tete-a-tete. Good night \ - pi to you . Welstaid at the farm house Fred Motertained himself with Miss\Kate to his heat t's content, while I huntod\acd fished, and helped the farmers to tuh , :c hay, and lay under the trees and rea Shelley. "I've had enough, of this," said I to Fred at, the end of the week. "I begin to want ,to see civilization again'; more than thdt, I feel the need of a little flirt ing. I'd like to see a well dressed, good lodking woman again." "Why not look at Bate Vincent ?" "Flew the deuce could I. get a chance with you.tuaking love to her so desperate ly all the time ? betides, she is not what I want. "You'll probably admit that she is pretty " i "Yes,frightfullyso,but not well-diessed" "I think she dresses charminglY." "In loose wrappers, and her hair in one prodigious twist behind." "That's classical. Those airy morning wrappers are the most charming ,thing a woman can wear." "Miss Vincent's are not always clean. But what do you prdpose doing ? Is she deeply smitten with you?" "Undoubtedly; havn't I smiled on her?" "Are you going to propose?" "Tom Leigi,have yon gone mad---;-stark roairng mad Think of Fred Saunders marrying a country girl, whose fortune would be a box of bed quilts and a cow ! Fred Saunders' personelle must make, his famine, you understand. I most marry an .heiress. But I own to the soft int peachment„of liking this iittle witch of a Kate rather better thatt,is perfectly com fortable--but I must have the dollars—so good bye, Kate :" "You're a heartless wretch, Fred ! Why do you try to gain the affections et girls only to leave them ?" Ha! ha! ha ! Tow, really that's too, 1, coming from you." Well, I'll tell you what it is, Fred ; marry Kate Vincent to-morrow, if :1 'd her as you say you do, if she hdd one wrapper to her back." "Every one to their ias:e; here's" for •ttoga l" and Fred walked to the glass stroked his ,whiskers. 'lVe entered the ball room at Saratoga 4w evenings after this, feeling perfect mseious that we were two of the most zerous coacutobs who had visited Sar-! CZ I'd iov , onl ato ma :that yc l ar. Fred's particular f,rte waihis whiskers; they were really irresist ible}, and no one knew it better than Fred; while I rather prided myself open my doe) military form, and my nether lin4is. Both of us dressed With perfect taste,and wore our hair part'ed in 'the middle; which Fred thinks is ail that is necessary to kill the majority of womau. We passed along glancing round rather disapprovingly, for there were not mans' pretty women at the springs that year—and, in fact,. the race zxneius to be almost running out every c: here. Fred's lip was contemptously all the time. till, of a sudden, he grasped My arm with almost a Eerceness, and pointed across the room. The band had just struck up a waltz—the most delicious waltz that ever was played—and played as only waltzes are played at Sarao2a; and a couple had just taken the floor,and were circling to the bewildering unisic. "Kate Yin Cent by all that is At o l od !" said Fred. "What does thie mean Thm?" tneans'tbat Miss Vincent is decid edly the prettiestototnan at the Spriogs." "And the :nost stylish one too. By Jove, that drels is magnificent! But what is she here for ? Country farmers don't s'end their daufAitcrs to Saratoga. By Jubiter know :" And away dashed Fred across the ball room to the seat - M283 Vincent bad just resumed. .They shook bands cordially.— She seemed deli gh ted to meet him, and glanced over to me. Fred telegraphed tne to come, and I went over, and held 'out my and 'to her. She laughed the most delicious little' lanub and wanted to know if my nervous system had fully re covered from the shock given it that night ride ; and if Fred and I bad ever replac ed her aunt's sheets which we had left in the hedges. We had the pleasantest chat in the world ; andl grew more than half }n love with the little beauty `myself probably should have becoine quite so had I not known that Fred was little ahead of me; and, i l l:limitable coxcomb as he really was I knew I should stand no chance in a tilt for a lady's favor. Fred and I always understood that we should not play fur the same game, but should portion off the game, and shcot in different directions so I contented myself with looking un spealtable things at Miss Vincent s and was Via' little surprised and pleased to see her eyes fail before "mice, and her cheeks take a little fresher tint. "There's a flirt 1" thought I to myself, and did not feel so much concerned about her when Fred commenced opening his most deadly bat teries of attention upon her. hey danced the redowa, and they waltze ; and then went utlt, for a cool hour on 't e colonade. I was forded,tO content myself with a bewitching little Geefaien, viho smiled at = we ; continually soMehloW or other, .1 but, her sm d es did not please half' as much as those of Miss Vincent—prob bly because I tnou , ht that. Miss Vitt ent's smiles w ould .00n belong - to . anothe . You know urbidd n fruit is always much sweeter. i "Well, the next two week; were rather du k to Mme, as Fredand Kate were so much cicenPied with themselveshs to have little time N. l . me, and there was no one else 1 there f r whom I cared a rush. But they 1 Ongered together in the morning over their i 111133 ; they walked together, ride and danced\ and:talked sentiment on i.the 1 colonade by \moonlight, and seemod to have oyes and\oars for no one elm - "Well, Fred," said I, one morning, "what are your intentions now 7 7 —to marry the country girl, settle' down on the farm and raise potatoes and babies 7" "By Jove, Tom, I'm going to marry Kate Vincent the very moment I get up courage enough to ask her." "'What in ignorance of her circumstances? She may have nothing but her elothes, after all." "Trust me for that! Is not old Two per ceat, her guardian l—and'ldidn't , he tell me she had a cool hundred thousand, besides large expeCtations ? She was rus ticating in the country just for fun; and I'll tell you what it is, Tom, I thought from the first moment I saw her she was the most captivating little witch that ever twisted a curl!' "Still ypn would have left her and mar ried any rich fright you could have found." i "Say no more, Tom, and I'll give yon the handsomest pair of long=tailed grays this kingdom affords as soon as I come into possession. A hundred thousane;!— huzza !" I was seated in a shady corner of the veraridailL that evading, when Fred and Nadal came and stodd uear me, and nein tentiouoy, I be.ardiail that was intended for their own ears. Fred had ended a very eloquont decla; ration of; Icive, and wound up by begging her to accept him, and be his own forever and ever- She spoke gaily, and rith a sareasticolacht "Mr. Saunders, I always said I should never marry a man who would not be willing to take me if my only fortune con t,isted-of a hos of bed-quilts and a cow. As you would have been stark roaring wad to have proposed for me when you thot' such was my fortune I should be stark staring mad to think of aceeptina c you now when lohg-tailed grays and the cool hundred thousand had more attractions than Kate Vincent herself." 1' Fred dropped her hand, and rushed fr4no the colic:made as tholigh he was sb ; I waited .a few minutes, then acci dentally went up to Miss Vincent. I tcok Fred's ' , lace at her side after this, and was very happy to see that it seemed quite as pleasing to that lady to have me there as it had been to have him ; and at the end of four, weeks I invited Fred to be my aroomstnam He accepted; without even 1 tearing his hair, as I expected he would have done. arid so one evening I dressed myself in my most immaculate style, and stood up beside Kate; who was radient in white silk, and diamonds, and lades; and orange flowers; and Fred supported me on one side looking co confoundedly handsome that I grew almost angry at him; after Kate and .I became one, Fred asked us to change places with him while he and the little Geargian went through the same process. Kate and Ithinkanreat 4ealofSat'atoga. I The Old Stor3.ol' the /rive Pea.:hes. 4 countryman bro't home five peaches from the city, the most beautiful that could be seen. His children saw the fruit for the first time. On this account they wondered, and were very much pleased over thd' beautiful peaches, with the rosy cheeksand soft down. The father divided them among his four children, and one was received by the mother. In the evening,. as the children were going to. their bedchaMbers, they were asked by their filther : "Well, how did tlibse find peadhcs taste to your i ' "Excellent, dear father," said the eld est. "It is a beautiful fruit, somewhat acid, and yet of so mild a flavor. I have saved the stone, and intend to rear a tree out cf it." "Well dome," said the father, "that I call prudently providing for the future, as it becomes a 'husbandman." "I have also eaten mine cp'," eaid the youngest., "and throin away the stone, and [nether gave me half of berg. Oh, it tasted so sweet, rind melted in one's mouth?" "Well," said the tabu, Into be sure you have cot acted very prudently, but very naturally, as children are wont to do. lor prudence,- there is still room enough in your ilfe." - Then began the second son: "I picked up- the stone my brother threw away-, and cracked it. There was a kernel therein that tasted as sweet as a nut. But my peach I sold, and have re. ceivediso much money for it, that I can when it go to the city, probably buy twelve," The; father shook his head,•and said : "Wise it was, but not in the least childish or natural'." May heaven preserve you from becoming a merchant 1" "And thou, Edmund ?" said the father. Candidiy and openly answered Edmund : "1 took my peach to'carr neighbor's son, the sick George, who has a fever. He was not willing to take it, bht Mid it on the bed aintearne away." "Well," said the fatiier; "wbo has, then wade the best use' of his peach?" Then cried they , all. thiee: "Brother Ed4nind ht." Bat Edu2an4 remained ailent,;and the mother kiss 14 with V in' her eyes. TEXINS.--$1.50 PER ikEIMO Indian ran (Yne of the earliest settlers of the cieditz try ronnd Lake Champlain was Colonel Rayinnod. He understood the eharactef. and ;disposition of the redskin natives of the ifores:, and he lived with them id much harmony, frequently employind them to, row him up and down the lakes as he had occasion. One stoat fella* bf the name of iligbeg, had Ins *igitatia of no Great distance from the CoLmel r e died; ling; and Was often there. • The Coliniel having occasion to visit same distant abort bf the lake, employed Bigbear to raw hint In his Canoe. On their retain they tin: sed near a high yet sloping ledge of mks On which lay an immense number of ilesnakCs asleep and basking in the sad: The Indian gave a penetrating look at tho Colonel and thus inquired: 4 "Raymnn love fun 7" "Yes," was the reply. "Well, then flay mud have &al saint Indian,and hold your tongue." So he rowed atom , silent and slow, and cut a crotched stick from a bunch: of hazles upon the bank: "Steady, now, Raymun," said he; as bd clapped the crotched stick astride-the neck of a serpent that was asleep arse td the edge of the water., "Take um nen Raymun ; hole fass." The Colonel then took bold of thestiek; I keeping the serpent doWn.yrbile Bigbear tied up a little sack of powder, putting l one end of a slow match therein. He then made it fast to the snake 'd tail, and 'setting fire to the match, gave orders to "let um go," at the same time pushing) the canoe off from the shore. The snake; being litierated, crawled away to hie den. The Indian immediately then stood, nit and clapped his hands, making as loud a noise as possible, and thus rousedmthei other serpents, who in a moment distt . :peared. "Now look, Raymun, look=see fan," said he; and in about a minute the pea= der exploded, and there was, to be sure; fun alive. The snakes in thousands coir. ered the rock, all hissing, rattling, lain• log, twirling and jumping in every ima g inable. Colonel Raymond" burst in tto aload laugh that echoed across the lake- pleased alike with the succeis of the trick and- the in O nouity of the Sav age's! invention. But Bigbear, from thd beginning to the end, was as grave as judg; not movinga mink., and not hay= ing the least show of risibility on hilt eountenande. This is truly charadteristici of the American aborigines; what &Lisps the greatest excitability of laughter: id : others has no effect upon them; they rO.; main sober, Sedate and fixed as a broutel statue. They may love fun,' but they . never in the smallest degree exhibit tbat eharieter in their looks. Simple Division ilre heard a story the other dardn the.. subjtt of “dilision," that we theitigkii "60111. " at the , time, and having novel seen it in print we are tempted to give' oar readers the benefit of it. A Southern planter named P., pretty well to do in the world now, was tKiino twenty years ago a poor boy on the East ern shore of Maryland. One of dui strongest and most marked traits of - ,bin character, was' inordinate love of money. This, however, iq characteristic of the' people in them diggins, where they prac tice skinning strangers during the brisk season, and skinning one' another darioi dull times. In the course of time P. was of age; and thought it about time to get married: He went to a neighboring village, and id course of time was introduced to ithe daughier of Judge A. "Ditngfine girl !" said tho einhryd speculator to his friends, who . Were gain= ing him an,entranee among the elite.' • "Very." "Him much mighaudge A. be Worth?". "Why, about tan thousand dollars,' was the reply. "And how many children has Judge A.," continued the enquirer: "Only three." „. "Three into - ten goes three titriesl4 a third over," mentally cyphered P. • Here was a chance—a glorious Chatici —and he improved it too. He made locd to the beautiful, unsophisticaied daukliz ter of the Judge to the best of his alatir. Strange to say, for he was as uncouth looking cub as ever went unlimited, _fa suit prospered and they were married. The honeymocii passed off as alt tho honeymoons do, and they were hap The bride was iively and chatty, and ofted made allusions to her brothers and sisteri.; Startled at the number of names helhot' should not be in the catalogue of relations; one evening it tea he said— "My dear, I thought there were fulls three of you?" i l 3o there are by thy pa, but MI As first wife had eight More." "Eleven into ten,*6 Tnit4 AND l'i'A t tkt ovEa," said the astciniitred P. who hid jumped.up and kicked over the chair, and groaned in perfect agony.lda! r.gn sold ! andand a sight cheaper theia an old bull-wetbst sheep at that
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