VOLUME XX
NEW SPRING
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GEORGE STO VER
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GROCERIES,
AV' To which ho invites the attention of
of his patrons and the public generally.
Mara 30, 1866.
AMERICAN LIFE' INSURANCE AND
TRUST CO •
of
Corner Fourth and Walnut Streets, Philadelphia
Incorporated 1850. Charter Perpetual. Author
ized papital, $500,000. Paid Up Capital, $250,000
Philadelphia, Feb. 4, 1864. ,
The Trustees have this day declared a Dividend
of FIFTY PER CENT, on all premiums received
upon AlcrrirAL PoLicies during the year ending. De
cember 31st, 1803, and in fore° at that date, the s
hove amount to •be credited to said Policies, and
have also ordered the Dividend of 1800 on Policies
issued during that year to be paid, es the annual
premiums on said Policies aro received.
OFFICERS.
President—Alexander Whill4Ell.-
Bcent/try god nectsurer—lohn S. IN ilstm•
, Actuary—John C
BOARD OF TRUSTEES.—Alezander Whin
din„ I. Edgar Thomson, George Nugent, Hon. Jas.
Pollock. Albert C. Roberts. I'. B. Mingle, Samuel
Work, William J. Howard, Hon. Joseph Allison,
Samuel 'l'. Bodine, John Aikman, Charles F. Benz
lilt, Isaac Hazlehurst.
G. BERN Chambersburg Pa., is the general
Agent of the American Life Insurance and Trust
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ity.
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THE ATLANTIC CABLE.
Six thouramd years h ts'passed o'er earth ,
While 'science, 'like a - atripling, bore
The trophies of its timid birth .
In various foram from shore to shore.
But now, her latest, mightiest child;
Which Franklin viewed ,and Vorsa caress'd,
With glory ripe and undefiled,
Is laid within the oc:lan's breast
Ii ' •
The mighty lightning herald sleeps
Till human fancy wakes its fires,
To send beyond ten tnorning's reach,
New tidings ore a pulse expires.
'Tis laid! Old ocean feels a thrill
Throughout her time sealed bosom" now,
And yields to- inhn's . victorious will
The crown long placed on Neptune's brow !
HI
fialm as the deep in summer's reign,
And wild as in its wintry wrath
Shall b', with varied joy or pain,
Each message through its ocean path,
Within its grave beneath the storm,„
It. lives a .breathing thing of life,.
As they shall live who gave it,form,
In fame; when called from mortal rift !
IV.
Soon, like Orien's belt of fire,
Its broad electric ann shall hold,
The World, in all its varied fold! •
And froth its tongne, through every sphere,
Till time and earth together cease,
- Mankind the glorious tale shall hear—
Of commerce, brotherhood and peace.
Eowmte J, (mama..
THEY M U GOING ONE 111 ONO
BY I AUGUSTUS JONES
They are going one by one,
The friends 1 fondly love;
They are going to their home
In it.brighter world above.
There is sorrow in my heart.' .
And the tear-drops dim my e 3,13.3,
As I watch •them all deport
To their home beyond the skies.
They are going ono by one,
The young, the lair, the brave,
Their work on earth is done—i
Their rest is in the grave.
We see the vacant chair--
We hear their voice no mere—
We miss their love nhd caro,
And their early loss deplore,
They are going one by one,
The father and the mother,
The wife, the child, companion, Mend;
The sister and the brother:
But we shall meet again
When life's ties are riven;
Nor sorrow, sickness, death or pain
Can mar our joy in Heaven. •
IVEY S; 2+TY.
THE DEAD GAMBLER.
BY JAMES REYNOLDS
Among the thousands'of gold seekers who
landed in Sacramento in the summer of the
year 1849, on their way to the placers on
South, Middle and North forks of the A
merican river,, was a prepossessing looking
gentleman by the name of llardiP. only
companion was.his . sono lad of some four
teen years, but who, notwithstanding his ex.
trerao.youth, was sharp, shrewd and intelli.
gent Mr. Hardie was what might be call
ed, as the•fashionable phrase gees, a 'reticent
man.' Ho bad at ono time been wealthy;
but his ra , sion for gaming had ruined him.
He was not a professional. Indeed, be look.
cd with contempt upon all who kept games
of chance, but hie personal dislike for such
characters did not prevent him from risking
his money upon the turn of a card or the
cast of the dies, His son, fully aware of his
father's only failing, sought by every possi
ble means to keep him from the table, in
the hope. vain thought it was, that the pas
sion would !twits hold upon him, and that
eventually he would be thoroughly weaned
from cards.
Hardie landed in Sacramento with about
a hundred dollars in money, the last of his
once . autple fortune; and without an hour's
delay, pushed to the mines which had inst
been discovered to the eastward of Column,
where it was rumored 7exy, rich veins had
been discovered.
By a fortunate chance, Hardie and his
son made the „acquaintance on the road of
two:honest hearted adventurous sailors, and
they determined to prospect the emintry
g,ether:
On the fourth day from their leaving Sa
cramento, the little company entered agulch,
- which - subsequently — became — famous — as ,th-e
-'Oregon,' and there succeeded in securing a
claim that nroply",,repaill the adventurers for
their cite and labor. At the expiration of
four months the..cotnpany had• realized twen
ty thousand dollars. This was equally divi.
del, one half being handed to Mardi() and
liiitson, while the other moiety was retained
byVetr eelaborers ;_ll7.lten the. division.
bad .been .satisfactorily-spade Hardie became
suddenly restlesi. Ile intimated a desire to
return to Sacramento; there to - engage in
some mercantile pursuit for • which. his early
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education had fifted bin]; and he offered to
sell his own and his sons inte'reit to the sail-
OTS.
On returning to Sacramento, father and
son, as the reader perceives, had , the snug
little capital of upwards of twelves thousand
dollars to begin with. End Hardie, as he
honestly intended, when he left' the •Oregon
canon, at' once embarked in trade, he could
have is a few months trebled if, not quad.
rallied his - capital, and perhaps in sours — a - 0f
,a couple of years returned to the Atlantic
States with a fortune quite as large as he
was Master of before the mania for gambling
_ottam_upon_h i m
Unfortunately for him however ; before he
had fully arranged his mercantile projcats be
renewed his acquaintance yith, a gentleman,
who like himself, had bee n addicted to gam
bling, and was by him invited' to visit the
Empire Saloon, at that time the /ending 'hell'
where miners, after months of exposure, 'per
haps sickness, and always hard labor, would
lose in a single night all they had earned,
and be.compelled to return to the Biggins
with saddened hearts, to win from the riv.
ors and hills those smiles which fortune had
denied them at the table of the gamblers.
Hardie had barely entered the saloon when
his thirst returned to him; and even before
he was fully conscious of his action, he found
himself seated at a faro table. Unfortunate
ly for him, he rose from' it the winner of a
thousand dollars.
The passion for gaming once aroused in
the man, and he could no mure restrain him•
self from indulging in it than a broken down,
thirsty toper can keep his lips froui tasting
the fiery potations that stimulates and pi-
The next night and the next, Hardie was
at the table; now; however, •accompanied by
his son—who, with tears in his eyes, stood
by the.chair in which his father sat and
trembling - irrar - theiflittle capttal passing in
to the hands of the 'bankers' of the gamo.--
He, poor boy, had entreated his parent not
to indulge in the wild intoxication, to 'save
his money, and, if he would not engage in
legitimate business either to return to the
mines or to his home in the far oast. He
might as well attempted to persuade the har
dened wretches who ware swindling his fath
er to return to the path of reotitude—of hon.
est dealing. .
On the third night, Hardie fontin himself
the owner of about five hundred dollars.—
His thousands had already passed out of his
hands.
will win all back or lose the remainder
before I rise,' he muttered. 'Poor George,'
he added, as-he glanced at his son, ought
riot, for the boy's sake, to have given away
.to the besetting sin. But I could not help
myself.'
The next moment his mind was absorbed
in the game. Fortune seemed to be against
him. In a few moments he bad but one hun
dred dollars left. This he boldly placed on
the queen, and calmly awaited the result.—
Thus waiting, he leaned the elbowof . his
left arm on the chair, and while a fresh pack
of cards was being shuffled, hid his face in
the open palm of his hand.
A number of' spectators were at the table,
but none had ventured so heavily as Hardie,
and they took their lases or their winnings
with some degree of equanimity.
A few seconds of silence followed the pla
cing of the 'deck' in the faro box, and then,
amid the silence, might be heard the noise
of the cards as . they were drawn therefrom
and dropped on their separate piles.
'Lost!' said the dealer, in a low, smooth
monotonous tone, and ere the sound of his
voice had died away all the bets on the ta
ble were either paid or swept to the other
side of the banker. 'The queen 'wins,' he
added, in the same indifferent tone.
But before the announcement 'the queen
wins,' had been made, the boy observed that
his ether's body slightly quiveied as if with
suppressed emotion, and then remained pas
sive as before. Yes! Hardie had won.—
Fortune had at length smiled upon him
His bet. had been added to by the harikers;
but he did not attempt to remove.' Was he
about to try his luck the second time? Yes!
He made no repave movement.
Again the Cardi were dealt from the box
and again Hardie's fortune was in theaseen-'
dant! But, to the surprise of bankers and
speotators, he permitted his winnings to re•
main on the fortunate card.
For nine successive deals the queen turn
ed up favorable to the better. Arrangethe
pack as the dealer might, an expert at the
game, the card at each distribution,
on which
Hardie had placed his last hundred &UM;
Would turn up in his favor. The hundreds
increased tolhousands ()Hollers. At length,
so exceedingly heavy had the bets become,
that the entire company in the saloon gath
ered around the table and wondered at the
temerity of the man who woulci'dare so much
—for as all knew, one adverse card and the
bank would again have in its possession the
enormous pile of gold that -now, like a huge
pyramid, glittered over and completely ob
scured the queen,
'The man's either asleep, drunk, or a fool?
whispered a looker on, just tie,- the winning
card turned up fur the eighth time, 'or be
wouldn't risk so much,'
'.Father, father,' whispered rho boy as he
saw with nervous excitement the wealth
which was each Minute 'increasing on his pa
rent's side. at the same' time Breading with
those around him its sudden
Again and for the' last time, the 'Tema
turned up, and to the utter amazement of tne
speotatora on the side of the better.
For a moment the .bankera and dealers
consulte,i together, and then the latter said
In a .ealm, but no altogether steady voice:
,'The bank will receive no mote bets to
night., ...It is closfedr.• ,
-- The announcement that the . bank- had
been broken seeentl.ta releve the tongnes
of the, spectators, who instantly cut up a ,
cheer at the unwonted event.
'Father - , father,' cried the lad, 'the bank
is broken. All this is yours. .Como?
There was no movement. '
A stranger took hold of the hand girdle
bad placed on the table, and; and with an
oath declared that ha believed the man was
stupidly drunk and didn ' t know what he'was
about. As• he attempted to remove the
hand he started shddenly,baelf, but before
he could open bib lips to express his astoish
went, flardie's head fell heavily fo , ard
and,etruek the table. • .
A, slight examination told, the tale. T
poor gambler was'dead!
Subsequent ;nqairy proved • that be had
- 3ied — of disease of the heart, brought about
by undue excitement:
The bankers, not forgettieg their inter•
eats, set up a claim for the money 'they had
lost, but this was over-ruled. it was given
to the boy, who, without , unnecessary delay
returned with it to the 'States.' What
becanie of him afterwards F never 'learn
ed.
The body of the Dead Gambler lies, a lit
tle ways out of Sacramento. .No tombstone
marks the spot where the, infatuated maxi
sleeps his last sleep.
HON. HANNIBAL HAMLIN.
STROI'W UNION! A PDREStt,
BANUOR, ME., Sept. 9.—Ho s n Hannibal
Hamlin addressed a great meeting of his fel
low-citizens here last evening, being enthus
iatioally received and welcomed. Ile spoke
earnestly for an hour and a half.
He commenced by saying that he intend•
ed to assail no:man: neither did he intend to
use any honeyed words to soothe any rebel
ear. N - o' commentary he could make on
the President could have half the force of
the commentary he makes on himself. In
the course of his remarks .he said the _Gov—
ernment must be restored on the basis of the
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immutable priociples_of justce, equality and
liberty. The rebels fought for four long
years to get out of the Union, and now
with their allies at the North, they demand
the immediate return to their former posi
tion. God forbid that they should ever re
sume their place but on principles of equal—
ity and justice to all. He:would rather con
tinue•the struggle and transmit it to our
sons than that the question shouldlnr settled
on any other terms. We cannot afford to
have it settled on any other. We have
poured out blood end treasure enough to
have it right. We dannot Cans - eat to any
restoration that does not protect the loyal
men of the South who stood by the flag
when it needed,,support.
Speaking of the, proper treatment of the
rebels, Mr. Hamlin said he did not care to
come up to the revolutionary standard. He
was willing the,traitors and their allies should
remain in the country; but, so help him God,
had he the power, he would hang some hale
a doien of the leading rebels who got up this
rebellion and murdered three hundred thou
sand of our loyal soldiers. He believed •in
Andrew Johnson as he was, and in our Con
gressional Representatives as they are.
• Under the bead of what had been done
the speaker denounced the recreaney of the
President. Ho wished to speak with cau
tion; he had weighed his words. The Pres
ident has presented the issue whether loyal
men shall govern or rebels with their allies;
secondly, whether the Government should
be Controlled by Executive ordinances or
legislative enactments. On this bead be
charged the 'President, with the usurpation
of powers not delegated to him by the Con
stitution, in support of which he cited the
Constitution, defining the functions of Con.
gross, the Executive and the Judiciary.—
Congress had the sole power to make laws,
and the President was but its instrument
to administer them. fie was but a servant,
not the master ho asqurnes to be, in his ad
ministration of affairs he had ignored Con
gress, taken the reins into his own hands,
and undertaken to run the machine himself.
Where did he obtain the power of ap
pointing provisional Governors in the rebel
States, and making conditions by which to
come back into the Union! Not' in the Con
stitution. Congress alone possessess this
power. Yet ho rises above Congress, and
the people. it they respect themselves; will
vindicate their' manhood anti stand by their
Representativea... Having usurped power
not belonging to him, he turns round and
declares that the people, through their 'Rep
sesentatives, hts,ve no right to interfere.
Upon what meat does this our Crew feed
that he has grown so great? Had the Pres
ident submitted his acts,and the conditions he
would impose on the States,the speaker would
not complain, for then Congress would have
been the final arbitrator, but the President
instead of doing that declared the work nF
Congress an interlorence lie assumes to
make the conditions and denies the right of
Congress. If this usurpation is not a high
crime within the meaning of the Constitu
tion, it certainly comes up to a misdemeanor.
The' New Orleans masacre is all to be laid
largely at his doer, instigated undoubtely by
his despatches. Instead of communicating
with Gov. Wells, the lawful chief magis
trate.of Louisiana, he held correspondence
with Gem Herron . , a man whose hands were
red withibe blood of Union men.
Now the President is trying to make a
party composed of rebels and copperheads,
and such as conld be purchased at the flue•
tion , of office--hirelings covered all over with
political leprosy. The Philadelphia Oonven.',i
tion was filled with men with pardons stiek•
ing out of their pockets, and theratification i
meeting at Memphis was prchidad Over by
General Forrest, who Ordered the slaughter
of - Union soldiers after surrender. If the
new party ern stand the reereancy of the
President, certainly the Union party - can.
What ought we to_ do now_? We should
stand by (3.cmgress and the eonctitutioual a
wendmetits.it-prePoscs, preliminary to the
admission of rebel State? - Congress 1:al done
the hest it conld.altholgh.not all ArP would
luiparrtal ImIT age, vri:h)'Jt di t ant
don 'of race or cOlor, *Child : : have been; i - Otir,
Wish. Congress heidone the neat best thing.
If'the States trillinit acdoOd'this' the olise so
excluded from 'suffrage is not to bo counted
-in the basis of congressional representatieti.
Without this amendment the Seutttwill gain
a dozen- representatives in consequence of
the abolition'of slavery. In' that ease who
All have been the victor in' the late contest?
Pid we fight the rebellion doirtrboly to 'give
e South more power in our Government ?;
The Philadelphia Convention did give' an
opinioin that the nationaLdebtiliduld . be bald'
:sacred. If it - was really' hcinett_i" 4_wity
not agree with Congress and ut it: ntb the
Constitution -beyond th meek , ef 1
agitation.' Colt' tevent y -the :Dernocratie
State "Convention of Mitins called fOr repit ,
ditition ottheThivernment obligations to its
bnndfibldefs.-, There was nodap.
g4',lir if the new party shotild hire the petrei
of repudiation . of thorDnion debt,: but 'there
could be no doubt it 'would assume the rebel
debt.
The Little Cup Of Tears
We find the following North German, leg
end in "Thorpe's Yule.tide Stories,P one of
Mhos Antiquated Stories. It is too , beau
tiful to remain in The sole keeping of Anti
quariei. 'There was a mother who loved
her first child !with her whole heart, and
thought she could not live - without it; !mit
the Almighty sent a . great sickness among
children, which seized this', little - one who
lay on its sink 'bed even to death. Three
days and three nights the m - other watched
and wept,• and prayed! by the side of her
darling. child ; but it died. ThO mother, how
alone in the wide world, gave way, to the
most violent and unspeakable grief; she ate
nothing and drank nothing, and Wept, crept,
wept three - long - days and" three long nights,
' lis_the-mother-did—without-coasing-,---ealfr
ing constantly on her child. The third
night, as she thus Kit, overcome with suffer
ing, , in the place wherelter_ohild_had-died,-
her eyes bathed in tears, ned faint from
grief, the door softly opened, and the moth.
er started; for hereire her stood heedeparted
child. It had become a heavenly angel, and
smiled sweetly, as inuocew.e, and was beau
tiful like the blessed. It had in its hand a
small cup that was almost running over, so
full was it. And the - child spoke: '0!
dearest mother, Weep no inote tot me; the
angel of mourning has collected in this little
cup the tears which you have shed for. Me.
If for me you, shed but ova tear more, it will
overflow,•and I shall have no more' rest in the
grave and no joy in Veaven, 'There/orb, 0
dearest mother? weep no more' for your child:
for it is well and happy, and angels; aro its
companions. It thou vanished. The moth
er'sho .1 no 'mere tears; that she • might not
disturb het child's joy in heaven.'
An ..Eogentrio
Some years since there .resided in ,11 1 - an
eccentric but most worthy divine of the Bap
tist'pernuasion, by the name of Driver, yet
more familiarly known by the name of Tom
Driver, who loved a• good joke, no matter
whom it hit, provided it wounded not too
deeply..
One day while returning from fo a
brother clergyman of' an adjacent tawrrimedt-.
ing a man with an exceedingly poor, yoke of
oxen, and an unusually large load of hay,
which was so deeply in the mire that the u•
nited efforts of the cattle could not atatt it
from its position, ho accosted him with . —
"Well, friend, what is the matter y''• ; , . • •
"Matter enough, I'm in
. the, mud and can't
got out."
"Your oxen' are too lean edit the load.—
Yon should give them more te'eat, for'yon
kcow the Bitile.says i "Whose giveth to the
poor, lendeth to,the Lord."
The fernier replied that was not the res.
son.
" "Well, what is it then ?" asked the Di
vine.
"Why, they are just like the North Bap
tist Church at R., replied the farmer pettish
ly, "they want a darn'd sight better Drier
than they've got now."
MAN'S DUTY To 1i him learn
to be grateful to Woman for this undoubted
achievement of her sex that it is she--she
far more than he, and she' too ofton . in des
pite of him-=who bus kept Mercy mid truth
from being utterly overborne by those greedy
monsters, money and 'wart Let hitri be grate.
Jul for this, that almost•every groat soul that
has led forward or lifted up the race,has been
furnished for each nobler deed, and inspired
with each patriotic and holy aspiration, by
the untiring fortitude of some Spartan, some
-Christian mother. Moses, the deliverer of
his people,. drawn out of the Nile by the
Kings daughter, some one , has hinted, is, on
ly a symbol of the way that women's hotter
instinct always.outwit the tyrannical' diplo
macy of man. Let him cheerfully remem•
her, that though the sinewy sex achieves en•
terprise on public theatres, it is the nerve
and sensibility of the other, that arm the
mind and inflame the soul in• secret. livery.
where a man executes. the performance, but
woman trains the man.
"Pray." inquired one minister of another•
seeing so many ladies attend his ohnrch,
"why do you invariably address your congre
gation as 'dear hrethernr" "Qh, the answer
is easily given," ho replied;, '•tha brethern,
omiarace the sisters."
The three events which causes us to think
most profoundly, .and which make the most
dcaided impression on the character, era
thwarted ambition, 13 ti snems fir I 11 , :o.,
the npproch of death.
"ITacc yea a fellotv is seer boaefri
for the poor wc,rua a 'of Utah?" asked a spank
er of the sister of Mr!, Partington, •
Get out,"iyou inAulting rascal,. said sho
's'll have, you know I:don't alklw fellows to
be feeling in my bosom. aoirl",„,
Jtidgei (be Tattlpefal3Co !enterer, in
ono of his elnts, got elf the following :
"All of those who in youth acquire a hab•
-it of drinking whi*ey, at forty years of age
will ,be" total abstainers or drunkards. „li'or no
OOP use whiskey for years in modernikrn.
If there is a person in- -the audience before
me, whose own experience disputes this let
him-make it known; I wi:l account for it, or
doknoWledge that 1 , am inisfakco.
A-tall, large' man ;arose and ft;ltling his
arms•in a dignified manner across his breast,
BOA :
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—'l offer ri~yseff as ono ivhose oOn experi
-cute contradicts your statement': '
"Are you a modirate drinktr ?" said the
Judge.
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"Dow 'long liave you drank in modera
tion
"F?rty yearct. 7 i .
werenever i '
nto'xicated ?"
tt.W.el,lP remarked the Judire t scanning his
subjeci closely frolll bead to loot,-,"yours is
a singular ease; yet I think it is, easily ac
counted for. lam reminded yitof a little
incident: ,
"A colored man, With a loaf of bread ,and
flask of whi key, sat down ti`i dine by the
.bank of a clear stream. [a breaking' the
• bread some of the,crutubs dropped into the
water. These
,tr r ere eagerly 'seized and eaten
by the fish. 'That cireumsianco suggested',
to The darkey the ideth of dipping the
: LHead
in the whiskey a - rid• feeding it. to - them. He
tried it. It-worked well. demo of the fish
ate of it, became drunk, and.,floated : helpless
on the water. In_this way he easily caught
a gTeiit number. But, in the stream was a
large fish very unlike the' rest. It t »irtook
freely of the bread and whiskey, but with no
R9;ceptible effect. It was shy of_e-ver-y—ef
-lerti.rfilio darkey to take it. Ire resolved
to have it at all hazz:trds, That he Might
learn its name andititure.
-He- a 0 , -- nf'
.rprocurod uact, and, after much effort,
caught it, carried it to, a ,co•lored neighbor,
and asked his ()pinion in the matter, Tho
other surveyed the wonder a moment, and
then said :
"Samba, I uu'erstnns dis. ease. Dat fish
is a 'rntillerhead ; it hain't 12,..A any braitrs s'"
"In other words," added the Jude, "al.
cohol effects only the brain, and, of courso,
those having none way drink withotit inja
ry !"
The storm of laughter that followed drove
the moderato , dr:alcer suddenly trout the
house.
The folloWing eome from Nebraska City :
' A few days ago an honeAt miner from Col
orado had his pocket book stolen, contain
ing sundry greenbacks and several nug
gets, one of which was of a peeeliar wedge
shape.
•
Our worthy Marshal soon scented out and
dire'sted a suspicious character, upon whose
person the nuggets were found. Upon the
'examination the prisoner brought forward a
Dutchman to prove that the nuggets found
with him were his, and that the witness: had
seen them in hiS possession previotit 'to the
theft. The Dutchman was sworn' and told
his .story, and was, cross-examined by
plaintiff's attorney, who asked hina,if one of
these nuggets he described was thinner at
one end than the other '
"V-o•s ?" says Datehie.
"I ask you, says 0- "if ono of
these nuggets you describe was thinner at
one end than at the other ?"
"Oh ! No, it vos dicker mit orie end as it
vos wit de odder !"
A shout was raised, ',nod the Dutchmen
retired from the'wltneds stand with a bewil
dered look, muttering to himself, "It vos
dicker !"
FALL Or A GREAT MAN.--doming down
Chestnut street, Bt. Louis, one day last week,
writes a correspondent, I was struck .by the
appearance of an old man
° past sixty, who
wore a-threadbare eoat; shiny with eonsiant
wear s and whose hat was bruised and seedy.
His head was bent toward the earth, and his
walk was a tottering shuffle; the effect of
whiskey and old age.• He reeled from one
side of the pavement to the other, and at last,
brought up against a lamp-post on tho cor
ner, when a young looking loafer oomine• a
long saluted him, with '.finlloa Jim Come
and, take a drink ?'"fhe old man's eyes
brightened, and arm-in aril), he sauntered a
long to the nearest groggery with ' his com
panion, Five years ag o that old man was.
James Green, United States Senator from,
Missouri, and in the . days of the Kansas and
Lecompton matters lie was ,next to• Stephen
A, Douglas, the ablest debater is Congress.
But the war broke out, Mr. Green was sent
to the rebel Congress, soon lost his property,
his position and his character, and•now ho is
a poor drunkard, and earns barely a pittance
of a living as a calaboose, shyster.
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The Salt lake Vidette says that "finny
freaks occur in Utah." A short time since,
a merman was frozen between two wives , —
Ile was engaged in hauling; wood between
the respective cabins of his first and second
wives.
General i,ugan says that A. Johnson is
the man made President by a single aonsti•
tuent—llooth, the assassin, and that ho
represents the lone constituent.
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A Nortveigian Wolinll, (me hundred and
five years otd, and sev.enty-eight of her do.
soentiarits, are on :he road to Utah. The
old Women , lo!edirr;_ , A hur intentiou of "setting'
:;er rap" for Bligham. - - _
I=l
A young Indy out West was ehatgeclwith
Tutting on sirs' because she reiused. to ga
to a ball barefooted. . •
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One asked• his friend why he liltd married
so little a wife? -.Why," suit thought►
yo,lhtid known that of ail evils 'bhould .
h entivize the, le ist.".
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