ie&fotft 3n(|Hirer at# Ciirouirte, BY DAVID OVED. THE DOUBLE RESCUE ; —OR, — THE STRENGTH OF LOVE. "A dreadful uight—O, a dreadful night"' uunnured the young wife with a shudder, as screening the puue with her baud from tbe bright firelight, she attempted, but in vaio> to penetrate the storm aud darkuess without , '•God grant he miy be near," aud with tbis heart felt petition she turned from the win dow, seated herself, and took up her knitting. Cheerful, homelike was the aspect of that humble apartment. Nurtbe fire, whose brisk blaze filled the room with a ruddy ijlow, and streamed far up the wide eh imuey, sing the waiting tea kettle; while a neatly spread supper table occupied the entre of Vkreioor, which wis scoured aliasst to snowy Whiteness. Tbe face of the only iomite of the dwel ling, the female above mentioned, wore aa anxious, troubled expression. Ever and anou, tbe rude blast rsttlel the latch ou the outer door, she paused in her work, and raised her eyes full of hope aud expectancy, then, wheu only the groaning of the ncigk -boriug forest trees met her listening ear, sighed, and again strove, by attention to ; her employment, to confine her thoughts, j and calm her appieheDsions. Si >w!y ani distinctly the tali clock at the back part of the room, told the hour of eight. The youni: woman put aside her task, and once more weut to the window. The tem pest had not tn the least abated, but raged with the fury of a thousand uncaged lions, and seemed stiil increasing;. Fearful in deed was that evening's elemental warfare, over that bleak Canadian plain! "Yet be comes uot —niv husband. Mer ciful Heaven be-friend us!" Tears gather ed in the eyes of the gentle, devoted wife, and fell like rain upon her agitated bosom. For soiite moments she stood indulging their How, until her heart, like a lightened ship, rose to its wonted paee upon the Liilows which had threatened to overwhelm it. Hope repeat.! i her whispering*; and, in imagination, the young wife beheld the ■> urdy form of her beloved, nobly ing the storm, and step by step uearing his home in safety. Already she seetuetf poui ug for birn the fragrant, straining beverage, nd lisieniug to this expressions of thauk lollies* tor sarroundiug blessings, She turned to the cut another slice from a loaf of inviting appearauce, and laid it upou the already iadeu plate. After re plenishing the tire, site resumed her seat be fore it, and gazed into the writhing flames, that hastily embraced tue tresh fuel, aud with a serpent-like hiss swallowed the so#w flikes, as they dropped iuto its red, open JIWS. The minute hand of theclook had traver sed bait the distance around the dial plate. The evening was fast waning, but tbeabseut .ae was absent still. About noon of that fay he b*d bad left home, on foot, intending to transact business in a village five miles -distant, and return by nightfall. At that tun ■no sign* of an immediate storm were apparent, but * the day drew near its closo, the clouds began to gather ibtck and heavy, anil the snow to fall in huge, feathery flakes. Faster and faster it descended, till ali the air seemed filled by one mighty avalanche. Three hours had passed, and the storin-god in all his terrible fury was yet abroad. At length, calmness eon'd be maintained by the wai'ing wife no longer. Hope and trust faltered, died within her bosom. Start ing from her chair, she paced the floor, wringing het baud? in agony, though her eyes were tearless, and her paie lips mule us if scaled in de-itb. Vainly did she endeavor to persuade her *glf into the belief, that the fierceness of the *tofin bad prevented iter husband from leaving the village—she could not be deceived. He would never voluntarily abandon her thus to loneliness and awful uncertainty—no; the assurance was ail too that the cold and the tempest had overpowered him ou his way, and be had sunk amid ike drifting suows to perish. .No wonder that her cheek blanched to auarble hue. and be/ eyes grew wild with terror! Suddenly she pauses, while every feature speaks desperate pgsolve. See, she horridly envelopes herself tn cloak and hood and now with firm step mores toward the uoor. Upon what is she dele/mined' Surely he win rtol expose thai frail form to the strife that rages without' That were an set o? itfkartrtv 4 But yes: she lift* the latch, uncloses tbe i ifi ftre 1%-fiiftf a ftfriom gnst drove a pwiftji*!! ? the had accumulated ItgtftWt thl 4hte opposite side of •lie room. Unable to compete with its ragey r!)< - £*-•>; ad wife " >feV Jtilt 'back, with a low, ' trdrmiilit* m'-an, and 'applying het whole J'be door forced tt again to its \. ceTj!l(4v aifd tbe mugt. ■ercofftr- witfcdtfT ' A Weekly Paper, Devoted to Literature, Politics, the Arts, Sciences, Agriculture, Ac., Ac —Terms: Two Dollars per annum. She waited but a moment, however, the next alio had rushed forth, closed the door behind her, and was flanging wildly down tlte snow-filled path. The storm was over, the clouds were beginning to break, and let down tbe rays of the moon, whose broad | disc bad just risen above tbo horizon. But while the suow had ceased to fall, the oold j bad grown more iutense, and the wrath of j the wind was noihing spent. Madly it swept ucruss the extended plain, converting it in aspect to a stormy sea,where foam-crested waves chase and dash upon each other, like wrangling demons. Onwaid toiled that solitary female, through tbe biiuding, suffocating snow which was con sequently being hurled against her; though ' aD occasional blast, fiercer than the others, compelled her to halt for a moment, and bury her face in the folds of her cloak.— Then her slender form, swaying to and fro as if it had been a yielding sapling, seemed as if it mast be borne down, but affection, deep, all powerful affection buoyed her up and led her forward. It was a dreary waste over which she had to pass; no cottage window sent forth a cheering gleam only a suow-covere d plain and barren trees, iu the distance, could be seen. No power could have summoned hu man aid to tbe spot; tbe direst shriek of distress would have been wasted ou the air. And now, when nearly a mile lay between her and home, the wife felt herself exhaust, ed, and-benumbed by cold to a degree tha I she could proceed no further. Tbe sharp winds pierced her garments as if they had 1 keen but a robe of muslin, and put to tbe torture every fibre of her Lame. Her limbs refused longer to obey her will, her breath ; was gone, her very heart's blood seemed j turned to ice. She tottered, fell, and the same blast that bore her down, wrapped her 1 in a shroud of snow. But exerting herself to the utmost, she! rose to her feet again, for her last glance bad rested on a dark object a short distance iu advance, and the possibility of its being ' him she sought, nerved her to make one j more effort. Fixing her eyes upon the j object which LaAsttraeted her attention, she stiuggled forward, and readied it just as . her last remnant of strength war expanded, j It was indeed her husband. He bad con- j tended with the elements, till chilled, wear- j icd, and almost breathless, then had sunk i down iu the path in order to recover him- j self for a further effort. No thought of perishing had passed the strong man's mind; but no sooner did muscular action cease, than the lethargy which but for timely breaking had ended iu death, was upon bim. j AH sense of suffering fled, gay colors floated before his sight, aud the sound of the aDgry j blast seemed sweetest music. • . . _ j He sat with his feet drawn up, and his ' head bowed upon his kuees. How long be had remained thus be kuew not, when tbe ■ voice of his wife exclaiming, "Thank God we die together!" sounded faintly in his ears, aud tbe same instant he felt her pros traie form aud eucirclingarms. These quick ly roused him to a sense of their situation, and that sense warmed the congealing life current, and scut it lightniug-like through its channels. The kuowiedge of the daugcr, the certain death to which his idolized companion wa 8 exposeJ, and frotn which he alone could save her at once raied hiiu above the power fatigue and cold. Starting to his feet, be folded her insensible form to his bosom, and bore it toward their home, as if she had been the merest infant. The blast to him was but a xepbyr, the snow drifts bat unresisting air. He paused not until the cottage was reached: where the wife was presently restored to animation, and both to happiness. Kach had saved the other from a fearful death. A SCATTERED FAMILY. —A red haired, herculean Irish girl, was brought up before the Recorder to New York, last week, for striking an aged German woman. 'Have you any family,' asked the Record" er. •Two children.' •Where is your husband l ' 'Out in the country —in the penitentiary." 'Where are your child run V 'Wan of them's in Ireland, and wan is— is—up town, in jail, place yer honor.' 'That will do? Oue in Ireland—the oth er hi jail—and your husband hi the peni tentiary? Take her below? A scattered family that.' PATIENCE. —'YOUENIDO anything if you only have patience,' said au old unolc, who had made a fortune, to a nephew who had nearly speat one. 'Water may be carried in a sieve,if you can only wait.' •How long*' nsked the petulant spend thrift, who was impatient for the old man's ■bttuary. 'Till it freezes" was the uncle's ■coot rep 1* A NORTH Eli IN TEXAS. Tbe day before we left San Antonia was j cold and foggy. The following morning was warm but still foggy, making our ride, ; with a light wind behind us exceedingly j oppressive. We three off our coats, and | soon stripped off vest and cravats; but this, we found, was not enongb, we were obliged to stop to take off our flannel. Our borses | were reeking with sweat. At two o'clock ; the thermometer, in a cool, shady spot, f stooa at 70 deg., nnd the sky was nearly ; clear. We were very tired and thirsty, and one of us suggested that this was the very ! country and tbe very weather for mirage j It was not long after we saw the edge of | the horiioD rising in the flickering heat, and groups of trees standing free in the air, as | an island or a point stretches off into tbe j sky of a hot day on the sea-coast. Then ; the trees connected themselves with the land j below upon each side, and we saw a beauti ful lake, tbe water rippliog in the sun-light. It grew wider and longer, and shortly after ! like the open sea, wiih a rieh and shady shore, extending up, at intervals, like bays | and rivers, into tbe land. Soon the lakes ! were common here and there about us, ; calm of surface, trees of heavy foliage bending over their banks to rest iu tbe wa ter. Had w not been prepared, by a knowledge ot tbe country, we should have been strongly tempted to ride towards some of them for a drink of cool water. Later in the day the air became clearer, and a pleasaut trecxe played upon our back. Tbe mirage gradually disappeared, and we lost it in descending a swell in tbe prairie. It was near sunset, with a dull cloud bank in the north. We were still suffering with the beat, when one of us said— ♦•See this before us, what is it, fog again or smoke?" "A prairie Sre, I think," said the other. "Probably it is; but what is this on the hill close by, this is tog, surely? It must j bo a norther, listen to tbat roar' We must be getting on our clothes or we shall he I chilled through." First a ebiliy whiff, (ben a puff, the grass ] bends flat, and, bang, ii is upon us—a blast that woitid have taken a top-gallant sail I smack out of the bolt ropes, and cold as if j blowing across a sea of ioe. We galloped to tbe uearest ravine, and hurried on all the clothing we could muster. Fortunately, : though our baggage was left behind, we had taken a supply, having strapped blankets, Guernsey shirts, and Grauada leggius, be our our saddles. At uiue o'clock tbe thermometer stood at 33 deg., and at seven next morning at 21 deg. A thermometer haugiug in New- BraunfeU showed a fall of sixty degress in seven hours. These northers on the open prairies are exceedingly trying. The fierce wind that accompanies such a sudden change gives them triple cifoct, especially as they often interrupt warm, relaxing weather. Team sters, herdsmen and travelers, caught out I far from habitations, not nnfreqaeutly per ish, and vrtial look ing face, yet for some reason or other it has never been the popular favorite. The pe culiarity of the Stuart picture is the wide, ! uaexpressive. grandmother mouth, which , one sees to this day in all the engravings, j But this face was not Washington's, but was au exaggeration or distortion rather, j produced by his artificial teeth, which en tirely changed the expression of bis couu tcuanee, giving it a certain look of mat ernal dignity that is not found in the Trumbull likeness, painted before the den tist had earned his "five hundred dollars," by a job which, though very well in those days, would uow he reckoued a buugliug piece of workman sbip. These facts, though 1 have not seen them in any biography of Washington, are a? well authenticated as his patriotism or consummate generalship. Trumbull and Stuart wore accustomed to uik of the matter together and, in the cor respondence of the latter, tbeTe is an allus ion to the artificial teeth, and the strikiug change they made in the appearance of the wearer. It may be owing U the fact that the American people like to contemplate the gentler qualities of Washington, rather than bis stern and heroic virtues, that they uave always considered the dentist's portrait as the true oue, though in truth, it is as false as the teeth which distort it. The fault was not Stuart's who painted his illustrious sitter as he found bim, but be had the misfortune to attorupt the heroes likeness, "in spite of his Uwth," and the result was suoh as might be expected.— Boston Post. k CHANGE INDEED.— A talented, l>u t dissipated Englishman, who was recently picked from the gutter in Cincinnati, seeing an advertisement for a pastor in a country parish, brushed himself up, went and preached as a candidate, and although he had several competitors, carried the parish, and is now regularly dispensing the bread of life. tEir'liepuiatiou may be the rewird of mediocraty aud fame, of taleat that panders to popular passions; but imuortal renown is the endless chant of generations, singing the praise of God like tnen, who have lifted their race toward heaven. TAKING TOLL. —It was winter, clear and cold, and tbe snow was firmly packed, when Dr. Meadows was one of a sleighing party, which he describes so far as he and the young Widow Lambkin were concerned, in tbe words following: The lively Widow Lambkin sat in the same sleigh, under the same buffalo robe with me. "Oh. no, don't, don't?" she exclaimed, as we came to the first bridge, at tbe same time catching me by the arm, while her little eyes twinkled through the moonlight. "Don't what ?" I asked. "I'm not doing anything." "Well, but I thought you were going to take toll," replied Mrs. Limhkm. "To//," I rejoined, "what's that ?" "Well, I declare!" cried the widow, her clear laugh ringing out above the tnusic of the bells, "you pretend you don't know what toll is !" "Indeed I don't then," I said, laughing, "pray explain, if you pieaae." "You uever heard, then," sai l the widow nmst provoking!y—"You never heard that when we are on asleigbride the gentlemen always—that is, sometimes—when tbey cross a bridge, claim a kiss, and call it toll. But 1 never pay it. I said tbat I bad never beard of it before —but wheu we came to the next bridge I claimed tbe toll, and the Widow's struggles to hold tbe veil over her face were not enough to tear it. At last, ihe veil was removed, her round, rosy face, was turnei, directly towards mine; and iu the clear light of a frosty moon, the toll was taken, for the first time iu his life, by Dr. Meadows.— Soon we cauie to a long bridge with several arches; the Widow said it was no use to resist a man who would have his own way, so she paid tbe toll without a murmur. "But you wont take toll for every arch mil yon, Doctor ?" the Widow said archly, but I could uot fail to exact all my dues, and tbat was the begining— but never minU tbe rest. The Lambkin hid tue Meadows all to herself in the spring. -mm*. - - r ••* ■ THE KANSAS YANKEE'S FERRY TICKET. The Marangi Journal savs: We are per mitted to copy the following anecdote from a private letter just reecived by a gentle man of tbis city, from a brother, now iu Kansas. Tbe Yankee referred to is tbe right kind of a in to to deal with the Bor der Ruffian* in Kansas. Yon kuow the test to whieh the Missouri ans subject ail travellers who make their ajJ— pearanee at any of ibeir ferries, and ask to be crossed iutd Kansas. Some days since a slab sided Yankee arrived at one of the Northern Missouri landings, with a long train of plunder of various soits. Byway of testing him, the ferryman asked him what stock he had. •Waul,' says tbe Yankee, 'I here got- two horses, a yoke of oxen end two keows." 'That's enough,' replied tho ferryman, 'you can't cross here.' 'Why not?' inquired the Yankee. The ferryman told hitu that his instruc tions were not to cross anybody that could n't pronounce the word cow. •But I said keow ,' persisted tbe Yankee ' Well, you can't cross here,' gruffly re plied Charon. 'But I've got tickets entitling ue to cross,' says the Yankee. The ferryman demanded a sight of the tickets, whereupon Mr. Yankee stepped back a little, hauled out a revolver in each hand crying, 'Them's the tickets, and I'm bound to ctoss this ferry, keow or no &*.' KOSSUTH AND NAPOLEOH.—M. KOS SUTH, in one of his recent speeches, com- , pares his lot with that of the man he had just before affected to condemn. He says: \ •'l will never restate to contrast my own liumblo lot with the brilliant one of that great potentate. 1 eat with my children 1 the bitter bread of bomelessness; I ant staggering joyless towards an obscure grave. For inheritance my children may get a legacy of sorrow, yet of devotion to j their country's cause. Such is my lot; but whatever may be my faults, my errors, or even my sios, never have I broken oaths, never have I deceived nation*, never trifled with the duties of an honest patriot. Bo lt APAHTE, on the contrary sits high in power daxxling the eyes of the short-sighted man with tbe luster of his propitious star.—- Still I do not at all believe in the stability of his successful crime." [Ejr~Sone one writes of Paris—"This splendid city teaches idolatry for the gold en calf—it piacei the ballet girl higher than the orator, the cook higher than the poet, millionaire higher than all, for with his luuiiers Lectin command ballet girl,or ator, cook and poet. In Paris the heart mast bronze or break." . HOW MURAT DIED. The sentence of ihercilitarv commission was read to him with due solemnity. He listened to it, as be would have listened to the caDnoo of anotlsr battle during his mil itary life, wilbont emotion or bravado. He neither asked for pardon, for delay, nor for appeal. Hehad advanced of his own accord toward tlte Hor, is if to accelerate the ca tastrophe. The door opened on a narrow esplanade lying between tbe towers of tbe castle and the outer walls. Twelve'soldiers, with haded nun-kefs awaited hiro . there The narrow space did not permit him to ataud at a sufficient distance to deprive his death of i part oi its horrors. Murat, in stepping over the threshold of tbe chamber, found himself face to face with them. He refused to have bis eyes bandaged, and, looking at the soldiers with a firm and be nevolent smile, said: "My friends, do not make tue suffer by taking bad n aim. The narrow space compels yon almost to rest the muzzle® of yonr markets on my breast, do not trembie, do uot strike me iu the face; aim at my heart —here it is." As he spoke thus he placed ins right hand upon his coat to indicate the position of bis heart. In his left hand be held a small me dallion, which contained in one focus of love the image of his wife and four children, as if he wished thus to make them witnesses o' his last look. He fixed his eyes on this por trait, and received tbe death blow in the contemplation of all he loved on earth.— His body, pierced at so sbort a di-tanee with twelve balls, fell, with bis arms open and his face toward the earth, as if still embracing the kingdom he once possessed, and whieh be had come to conquer for his tomb. They threw his cloak upon Lis body, which was buried in the Cathedral of Pizzi. Thus died tiie most cLivalrous soldier of the imperial epoch, not the greatest, but the most heroic figure among the champions of the new Alexander. Tax Part A.KI> Tit C HOMAH CATUOXAC CUI-U 'rwAWKRVeX A*D SVlTZSrlassb.— "fri a secret conclave hHJ at Koine on the 15th of DeCem t*r, the state of the Soman Catholic Church in Mexico, South America, and Switzerland was tak.-a into consideration, auil an allocu tion since published by his holiness on the subject clearly shows that th; Papal influence is considerably less in those countries than in this. The l'ope complains lii; teriy of the new gorerniuent of Mexico, which nas Com pletely set aside the ecclesiastical jurisdiction ' and sequestered the property of the church. We are told that the metiMtteeatal'llshtnents bare refused to permit tho "visitation*" of the bishops, and tltat some of thera have, in open j deflJrnce of the canonical law#, sold part ol their property. The permission given by the government to all sects publicly to practice their religious rites, is denounced a* an '-ale)- , mioable measure, which is calculated to un-: derminc the most holy Human Catholic reii gion." After summing up the various Laek siidmgs ol the Mexican g >veriunet his holi- j uevs declares all the measures which It has ; taken against the authority of the apostolic j f hair to he null and vohl. The Mexican states- j lueti are also reminded that the church has the power s< verely to punish those persons who have the power to disobey her behests. That j the behavior of a majority of the South Ame rican States towards the church does not give satisfaction will he seen by tne following ad- i dress to the bishops: '-Yon will see, reverend j brethren, that we mnst necessarily condemn and abhor the attempt of the c vil power to i overthrow alls|dt'itus 1 authority and discipline, and to insult the dignity and might of the ap- 1 otto lie chair."' The st ite of Switzerland! makes Pins IX quite disconsolate, "so nume rous sre the encroachments of tire civil an- ; tborities on tho rights of the church and of! her bishops and servants. After hurling his j thunders at those priest* who obey the l aws ; of the countries in which they live, rather 1 than the instructions forwarded to them from Home, the holy father entreats the Moat High to enlighten the minds of mea, and to bnug back those who hare gone astray into tne right path. As u math r of course, the Weiner Zeitung gives the allocution is ex/t.o. although it is a very lengthy document.— Vici.ua Cor respondent of the T.me*. TAKE A PATES FOK TUCR WIFE.—A friend, says au exchange, not long since told us a story in relation to one of oar subscri bers, which contains a good moral for hus bands, and also furnishes un example for wives which is not unworthy of imitation uuder similar circumstances. The subscriber teferred to, said our friend, in the presence of bis wife, said it bad been bis iuteution to call at the office, pay up his arrears, and discontinue bis pa per. His wife very promptly asked: •Why do yon intend to discontinue the paper?' 'Because,' said the husband, *1 am so much away from home on business, and have &o little time to read, there seems to be so little use in my taking a paper.' •Yes,' she replied, 'it may be of but lit tle use to jou, but it is of great ue tc me. 1 remain at borne while you are gone. 1 wish to know what is going on in the world. If vou discontinue the paper, I will go sirs', lit to town and subscribe myself.' As the p'-pei has Dot- been discontinued, we suppose the wife's reasoning was conclu sive. The moral of this inui len* should not be overlooked. ■' - • • "a 1 VOL. 30, NO. 9. J Memphis, Tennessee the other day, a countryman stood gmg in MamfeM*s window*, where two skeletons hung suspen ded—one being that of*a man, the 'other a boy. A stranger coming up— "Whcs* bkeletOD ia that?" asked the eouutryiuan pointing to the larger. "That ia Shakspeare's," said the stranger, i "And whose ia that?" continued the coun tryman, pointing tn the smaller. "That is Sbakspeare'a too," answered the wsg. * " ' *■' "How can it be*'" b' "Why, that's bint when be was a boy!" was the rejoinder. "Ob ! I'nevcr thought of that ." Aud our country friend walked away, wondering how theui "queer cusses,'" the I doctors, got the bones out of Scakspeare's body when be was alive! LIKDLET MI BBAY. —It is not generally known il.at tbi* "Prince of English Grumnrariaoa" was an American, and bora within tbe present | limits of Leianon county. FeuntrhrMis. fie i was born in tlie year 1740, on the Swatara, in j Svratara, in Kast Hanover township, then Lao j casti-r, rt< w I.elation county. His father was ' a miller, nnd followed that occuption when j Lindler wan born. but afterward* devoted his attention to mercantile pursuits, And amassed a considerable fortune by trading to the West I Indies, f.indley was the oldest of twelve ' children, and when about seven years of age was sent to Philadelphia, that he might have the benefit of a better education than could be had at Swatara. He studied law in Nw York, aud at the age of twenty-two was called to tbe bir, wbere lie gained for himself tbe reputation of an • honest lawyer." His '■Grammar of the English Language" was composed in England in 1784, and published in tbe spring n 17So. many millions of copies of which have been sold. He resided in Eng ' lami twenty-two years, most of which time he was an invalid. He composed many Work* i besides his grammar. He died ia a village in a village in Yorkshire, being upwards of eigb jty years of ego. He i represented as a Chris , uan ami pliilanthropist. lie left legacies to a number of relatives and friends, and sums of I metier to many religious societies. He also j directed iliat the residue of bis property, after the death of hie wife, should be devoted to j pious and IwneTolent uses. "I'LL CALL Aaoixn ASb PAY."— j What a world of woe is contained in these few words to the poor artizno and mechan ic! "I'll call around aud pay." says the TO.UV. I I <•' - -' ■•■ - ' bis desk to get the necessary funds, aud the poor mechanic is obliged to disappoint bis workmen and all who depend upon him for their due. It is au easy matter to work; tbe only real glory in this life ia an independent idea of being able o sustain yourself by the labor of your hand*, and it uiay be easily ituagiued what crushing force there is in "I'll call around and pay," to the laboring man, who depends upon that pay for subsistence. II those who could pay would only pay at once, t would place hundreds and thousands in a condi tion to do likewise, and would prevent much misery and distress. A GOOD SAFE.-T-A correspondent writh ing frotu Cleveland, describes a breed of salamander safes, which we should like to lnve introduced into this part of tbe eoun tiy One of our clerks, on Saturday, bought a Shanghai rooster, and, at night, uuknown to u, put it fur safe keeping in the safe That night, our establishment was destroy ed by fire, and the safe aud its contents were exposed to a tremendous heat of thirty-six hours, at the end of which time it was hoist ed out red hot. As soon as possible, it was opened, and y-u may judge of our sur" prise, when we found within'it the Shangha rooster, leaning against the ledger, frizec to death.' VERY EXPLICIT.—"HOW old are you, Bridget!" said a gentlemen to his servant girl. "About fifty, sir," replied Bridget. ; "You are mistaken Bridget, you are not over twenty. "Yes sir, ftttef is it. I'm about twenty or fifty somewhere • along there." This answer indicates a&ut the same degree of intelligence as that of an old gry-headed negro in South Carditis'. "How old are you, Pete?" said a gentle man to him, one day. "I dunno' Massa, I feels berry old; I speet I'se about five or six hundred." [£/™'Spirtt is now a very fashionable word, to act with spirit, to speak with spirit, means only W act rashly and indiscreetly. An able man show# spirit by gentle words and resolute aetioost he is neither hot nor timid. ' f ■ ..r , - , ! THE OLD SPANISH COSNS-—We learn that the average yield of worn Spaa i ish coins at the Mint of tbe United States, Philadelphia, is as follows- Quarters 1231 oeeta. Eighths 10 9^10" Sixteenths Si u The Treasurer of the MIDI pays i the new issue of sliver for atiiouut* exceeding five dollars in value, immediately upon as certaining tbe weight of such as are presen ted, at tbe rate of §1 22 i per troy ounce, y/*lml4phm Intro***-