VOL. II.
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Albany, October 13, 1866. 3m ' -r
poetry.
THE MOTIICIl'M FIRST GRIEF
She situ beside the cradle,
And her tears are streaming fast,
For she sees the present only,
While sho thinks of all tie past
Of the day so full of gladnuss,
When their first-born's answering kiss
Thrilled her soul with such a rapture
That it knew no other bliss.
Oh, those happy, happy moments I
They but deepen her despair,
For she bends above the cradle,
And her baby is not there!
There are words of comfort spoken.
And the leaden clouds of grief
Wear tho smiling bow of promise,
And sho feels a sad relief; ""
But her wavering thoughts still wander,
'Till they settle on the scene.
Of the dark and silent chamber,
And of all that might have been I
For a little vacant garment,
Or a shining tress of hair,
Tells her heart in tones of anguish
That her baby is sot there !
She sits beside the cradle,
But her tears no longer flow,
For she sees a blcsed vision,
And forgets all earthly woe ;
Saintly eyes look down npon her,
And the voice that hushed the sea
Stills her spirit with a wbi.por -
"Suffer them to come to '
And while her soul is lifted
On the soaring wings of prayer,
Heaven's crystal gates swing inward,
And she sees her baby there !
THE SAI1I1ATII.
Sweetly as tha angels' breathing
Through the song of "Peace on earth,'
Came this holy Sabbath morning
Mora of high celestial birth !
Sacredly and all-sorenely,
By the Father's presence hft,
And the Savior's heavenly teachings,
And the Holy Spirit's rest,
Move along the Sabbath hours;
May our souls harmonious be
With their beauty, truth and temper
Witf their worship, high ia key !
As the Sabbath evening closes
With all its benedictions deep !
May we wrap our garments, purer,
Bound onr souls and calmly sleep.
Nearer home one Sabbath's journey,
Nearer all that's good and true,
Bleied j 1th light frcm God Eternal,
To proceed with Heaven in view !
A Good Story
Judjje Ray, the temperance lecturer in
one of ht efforts, trot off the following:
"All of those who in youth acquire a
habit of drinking whisky, at forty years at
ae will le total abstainers or drunkards.
No one can use whisky for yara in !
eration. If there is a persou in the audi-
ance before me whose experience dispute
this let him make it known; I will account
for it, or acknowledge that I am mista
ken." A tall, larjre man arose and folding his
arms in a dignified manner acrons his
breast, gaid : "I offer myself as one whose
own experience contradicts your state
ment." .'Are you a moderate drinker?' said the
Judge. . .
"1 am."
"How Iccg tare you drank in modera
tion?" ''Forty ytars."
"And vere never intoxicated f"
"Never."
''Well," remarked the Judge, scanniDg
his sublet closely from head to foot,
"yours is a singular cage; yet I think it is
easily accounted for. I am reminded by
it of a little story: A colored man, with
a loaf of bread and a bottle of whisky, sat
down to dine by the bank of a clear stream.
In breaking tread some of the crumbs
dropped into the water. These were eag
erly seized and eaten by the fish. That
circumstance suggested to the darkey the
idea of dipping the bread in tlixs whbi.y
and feeding ft to them. He tried it. - It
worked well. Some of the fish ate of it
became drunk, and floated helpless on the
surtace. In this way he easily caught a
great number. But in the stream wzs a
large fish very unlike the rest. It par
took freely of the bread and whisky, but
with no perceptible effect- It was shy of
every effort of the darkey to take it. He
resolved to have it at all hazards, that he
flight learn its qame and nature. He
procured a net and after jaiuch effort
caught it carried it to a colored neighbor
and asked his opinion in the matter, Tbe
other surveyed tluj irooder a moment 'and
then said; 'Sambo, I un'erstans dis case.
Dat fish is a mullethead; 'it aiiCt got no
brains!' In other words," added he
Judge, alcohol affects only the train, and,
of course those having none , may drink
without injury!"
The storm of laughter which followed
drove the moderate drinker suddenly
from the house.
Bad Writing an Imposition on So
ciety. It has been irreverently said that
speech was given to man to disguise his
thoughts; but it is literally true that the
penmanship of some people Teils their
meaning in all but impenetrable mystery.
Scholars to whom the reading of Epyptian
scrolls of the days of the, Pharoahs is as
ejisy as making love would be utterly dis
CD&fited by the skeins of worse than cun-
nifbrm" characters which editors are some
times called upon to unravel. We dare
not subscribe to the doctrine'of Poe, that
men's moral natures are to be , estimated
by the nature of their chirography, for to
believe the' bad penman with which the
world abounds, were half as villainous -as
their handwriting, would make a man even
of benevolent instincts a confirmed misan
thrope. No man has a right to send refuses
to his friends in the form of letters.
Time is money; and it is an imposition to
compel a man to waste it in 'deciphering
slovenly hieroglyphics, ' ' -
For the State IUght Democrat.
LECTURES BY REVJI. H. SPAULOING
i:arly Oregon MImmIoiin Their Im
1oriaiiee in Ncruriiig ino .;oiiii
ry to American.
number seven,
Our mis-don party, except tho ladies,
wcro duly mustered in, and each took his
turn in standing guard. Scarcely had we
passed the Pawneo vilhges, and attained
a beautilul meadow, when Uod broko
down ono of tho large wagons of tho Co.,
early in tho day, to give our mission party
and animal the rest wo so much needed".
But tho same kind Hund before night
sent a company, under Major Harris,
from .Port Laramie, with 2D mules and
paddles, for tho good of tho broken
wagon ; sd the next morning the cara
van moved again.
May 20. we reached tho main Platte,
or Nebraska river, opposite tho head of
Grand Island; and hero I will give the
following, derived from Lewis & Clark,
Capt. Bonnevill and Gcu. Fremont:
"Grand Island fifty-two miles long and
one mile wide, above high-water mark
separates the Platte into two nearly equal
chanucls; 2,000 feet above tho Gull of
Mexico; in. latitude 40-14.' longitudo
9S ; 372 miles from port Leavenworth,
772 from St. Louis (2U0 more via Coun
cil Bluffs), 678 from Laramie. Platte
river is 2,200 yards wide, whilo the MU
smrt at thd mouth of the Kaunas is only
500 yards. (Jras of these prairies attains
the night of S to 11 leet. Trees of this
longitude are cottonwood, poplar, ash,
oak, walnut, elm, hackberry, coppcruut,
sycamore, plum, birch, grape, rose and
box-alder." In the days of Iewis &
Clark this longitude cems to have been
the dividing liue between the wild turkey
and the honey bee on the one fide, and
the black-tailed ind big-horned deer,
prairie dog, hmall goat, prickly pear and
page brush on the other. With a "drag-
out," made of willows and bark, in thi
longitude, in a branch of the Missouri,
these gentlemen caught 1.010 fih trout,
salmon trout, ba. pike, buffalo fih, rock
CLdi, Cat-back, catfish, perch, silver-hide,
red horhe and chrimp. They also killed
a pelican whone pouch would hold five
gallon of water.
Five more days of rapid traveling
brought us to the lurks of the Platte, and
found tho Company in a Rtarving condi
tion. Flour aud pork gone, and the last
ox killed. We furnished them with a
cow, for which we were to receive another
i'i exchange at Iiramie; reserving the
o If, as we our-clves were on allowance.
II -re we had hoped t meet buffalo, but
n t one was to be seen ; although the face
of the earth was covered with buffalo
h;ads and bones, and the incredible
amount of dry buffalo manure (ftoit ifr
rachf would make one feel that he was
standing in a cow-yard, rather than in the
wilderness. The graa was sheared clc,
leaving a poor show for our animals. The
deep-worn watcriug trails leading from
sand-hills were becoming numerous and
very troublesome to our wagons.
The next day the hunters brought in
two bull.-?, the next the choice pieces of
eight cows, and the third day the grand
drama opened soon after our caravan
stretched out in the morning. And such
a eight! It was grand beyond the power
of imagination. None but those who
have traveled these prairies in early days
can have an idea of it. At first a dark
Jine over the hills in the distant north is
taken for timber; but soon the undulat
ing motion of the oncoming clouds and
the cry of "Buffalo !" undeceives us. On
tliev come, extending to the horizon right
and Jeftand no break, as yet, in the rear.
The caravan h speedily formed in solid
body, and the guard and hunters aud
spare men form ia line of a V, to open the
living mass. On each side the black
clouds roll by rthank the Lord Iand,
the gap closes up again. The incessant
clatter of horns, the trembling earth and
the low bellowing of the countless bulls,
produce a continued roar. The river u
passed, and over the southern hills the
dark liue closes in against the horizon. ?
No mortal can possibly guess the number
of thousands. Fremont, sir years later,
allowing ten feet to each buffalo, makes
10,000 in a . space cf two miles around
him; but here was a space much greater
how much no one could tell. Lewis
Clark estimate 20,000 in yiew and feed
ing so quietly, that they seemed unwilling
to give their company room to psssi'
fe were emphatically in a land flowing
with milk and buflalo flesh. Tho whole
camp was in the best possible humor.
Only a few days before, when hunger was,
ppintipg his finger in every man's face
and every rope was breaking, there was a
fight almost every day : but now it would
naveoeen impossible tQ nave gotten up a
fight. The mets fires were crowded jevcry
nignt to a late hour with cooking in any
and every way that could be devised in a
country like this and on a journey like
this, where there was not a stick of tim
ber or switch large enough for a roasting-
stick; sweetbread on the fire; marrow
bones in the fire; broad sides, supported
by pacK-saddies, betore the fare; coffee
pots and buffalo tongues over the fire.
The loi$ de vache made a hot fire, and
answered our purpose better than could
be expected. As the head of the long
caravan would come to a halt for the
night, the spare men through, the whole
line might be seen dashing out with hat,
handkerchief, or anything else, to gather
those 'buffalo phjps" for night and morn-
Wjb passed; Chimney liock-rr-the mod
ern Xowqt .of , the Desert" Scott's
Bluff and. the , battle-ground. ' of " 1833,
where the Cbeycnnes and their enemy
fought desperately, leaving many of their
bones to bleach upon the spot. The In
dian's l;ve of reyeBge, the white man's
avarice and the Church's slow movements
will annihilate the last red man not many
ages hence. ; ' - ' . ! ;'
We arrived at Fort William (Laramie)
the 18th of June, and remained here four
days;. ' )Vo had divine scrvico on the Sab
bath, at which nparly all tho Company
wcro present; good tinging and good at
tention. s
Laramie was a post of tho American
ur Company, at tho mouth of Laramio
river ; was built in 1831; in latitude 41
40', longitudo 10120'; 4,470 feet above
the sea; 1 ,550 miles from St. Louis yia
Council Bluff; 820 mile i from South
I'ws 1,080 from Walla Walla, and 70
within tho southeast corner of tho Terri
tory of Idaho. . .
Near this spot Mr. Stewart and party
spent tho last part of their terrific winter
of 1811-12 having Been alarmed from
their snug winter quarters on tho Sweet
Water by tho Crow Indians, who had
robbed them of their horses and put them
on foot on the head-watery ?f Snake river
tho fall before. They came near perish
ing from hunger before they reached
gamo ia tho spurs of the Wind river
mountains ; and finally mado their first
winter camp on Sweet Water, In the
midst of game, and were alarmed from
that as above stated. Thoy had to find
their way to tho States pn foot, in the
spring.
Tho Company left all their wagons at
this post, and gave every man three ani
njals one to ride and two to pack. We
left ono of our wagons. Thu far the la
dies endured the journey far better than
was expected ; but Mrs. Hpauldiug began
to suffer severely from living only on fresh
meat, without bread.
The OrlIu of Many Thins.
The sources of our familiar food are
various indeed. A small part of the cata
logue of vegetables borrowed from foreign
regions runs through half of tho globo.
Amongst breadstuff wheat and buck
wheat comes from Asia, rye from Siberia,
and rice from Ethiopia. Atoont greeni
tho cucumber comes from Spain, tha
artichoke from Sicily and Audaluaia,
crosses from Crete, lettuce from Coos,
onions and parsley 'from Kgypt, cauliflow
er from" Cyrus, spinach from Asia, tdialot
from Ascaton. beans from India, horse
radish from China. America has given
u the potato and Jerusalem artichokc.,
Amongst fruit we owe the filbert, pome
granite, walnut, quince and grape to Asia;
the apricot to Armenia, the lemon to Me
dia, tho peach to Persia, the orange toln
dia,thc fig to Mesopotamia, the hazlcnut
and cherry to the Kuxine, tho chestnut to
Lydia, the plum to Syria, almonds to
Mauritania and olives to Greece.
Amongst plants which are uncd fur vari
ous purposes are coffee from Arabia, tea
from China, cooa from Mexico, tobacco
from the New Vorld, fennel from the Ca
naries, cloves from the Moroccos, the cas-tor-oil
plant from ludia. Amongst trees
the horse-chcHtnut tree comes from In
dia, the taurcl from Crtte, tho elder tree
from Prussia. Amongst flowers the
narcissus and carnation cane from Italy,
the hlv from Syria, the tulip from Carpa
docio, the jassatuiiio Troni India, the nas
turtium from Peru, the dahlia from
Mexico.
A Pauadise in Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Kloi.se Hunt, of Ilcioer's Itun Clin
tou, Pa., writes thus: "My home has been
for fcix years in little rocky basin shut in
on every hide by the Alleghanies, without
a neighbor, a church or a school, seeing
no human face for weeks-
-ayc,
even
months, sometimes except thoae of my
mother and child. Living thus, I have
come to love in a Ktranjre. all-absorbing
way all that nature has thrown around me.
Earth, with its varied growth of trees and
sdirubs, plants and mosaic rocks and water,
the clouds, blue ky aud ttars, everything
is beautiful to me; even the dead leaves,
the decayed trees aud bare rocks arc be
loved. Think, then, how inexpressibly
dear tho living trees and flowers and water.
I have tame trout, six yards from the door
that leap above the water to catch bits of
meat from my fiogora. The phecsant
make their nests in sight of the house and
sometimes the male bird is seen drum
ming ou an old log only a few rods up the
mountain fcide. 1 have planted wild flow
ers aouud ray doors, and ip summer the
humming-birds go through the open house
on their visits to the flowers. Strangers
from the world have said: "How can you
exist in this dreary place?' Their .eyes
cannot see as mine, nor can they hear any
of the pleasant voices I hear, and so I sim
ply tell them what they comprehended :
4 It is my necessity.' My place, which is
so lonely to others, is so pleasant to me
that I have named it Paradise, and hero I
will teach my son a lovo of truth, purity
uuu uuuuijr. .
i i r
How TO E Unuappy. In the first
nlace. if vou want to hn m!mll ho
selfish. Think all the timo of yourself
ana your own things.. Do not care about
anybody else having feelings for any one
butyourselj ijev.cjr think of enjoying
uie Kausiacuon oi seeing others happy ;
but rather, it you see a smiling face, bo
jealous, lest another should enjoy what
you have not. .Lnvy every one who is
better off, in any respect, than yourself;
thinkjunkindly toward them and speak ill
of them. Be constantly afraid lest some
one' should encroach upon your rights;
bo watchful against it, and if anyone comes
near your things, snap at him liko a mad
dog. Contend earnestly for everything
A. f it . ' I fL
inai is your- own, inougn n may noi oe
worth a dime ; for your "rights" are just
as mucb concerned as if Jt were a pound
of gold, . Never yield a point. Bo very
sensitive, and take everything that is said
to you in playfulness in the most serious
manner. Be jealous of your friends, lest
thoy should not think enough; of you:
and if at any . time they should Beem to
neglect you, put tho worst construction
upon their conduct you can. ' 1
ExcnANaE, One of our 'bachelor-ac-quaintapecs,
who is head centre of a down
east paper,' and has a very pretty , sister,
recently wrote to another bachelor editor,
equally fortunate, "please exchange."-
We hope that it happened, or soon will.
A Pcu-ricturo of Abrunnm 1,1 n
" ; r,- coin. ' :
Tho Hon. W. II. Herndon, of Spring
field Illinois, who was for twenty years
tho law partner of Abraham Lincoln, re.
ccntly gavo a lecture on tho life and char
acter of his illustrious companion, prefac
ing it with tho following remarkable per
sonal description :
Abraham Lincoln was, about six feet
four inches high, and when he left the
city was fifty-one years old, having good
health, and no grey hairs, or but few in
his head. He was thin, wiry", sinewy,
rawboned, thin through the breast, to the
back, and narrow across the shoulders;
standing, he leaned forward; was what
may bo called fctoop-shouldar&d, inclining
to the consumptive by build. His usual
weight was about one hundred and sixty
pounds. His organization rather his
structure and function worked slowly.
His blood had to run a fong distance from
his heart to tho extremities of his framd,
and his nerve force had to travel through
dry ground along distance before his
muscles were obedient to his will. His
structure was loose and leathery; his
body was loose and shriveled, having dark
skin, dark hair, looking woestruck. The
whole man, body and mind, worked slow
ly, crcakingly, as if it needed oiling.
Physicially, ho was a very powerful man,
lifting with case from four to six hundred
pounds.
HU mind was liko his body; it worked
slowly, but strongly. When he walked
he moved cautiously but firmly, his long
arms, and hands on them liko a giant's
Lauds, swung down by h'u side. lie
walked with even trtuJ; the inner sides
of his feet were parelleled. He put the
whole foot flat down on tho ground at
onto, not landing on tho heel; ho like
wise lifted his foot at once, not rising
from tho toes, and hence had no epring to
his walk. He had the , economy of fall
and lift of foot, though he had no spring
or apparent case of motion in his tread.
He walked undulatory, up and down,
catching and pocketing tire, weariness
and paiu all up and down his person, pre
venting them from locating. The first
opinion of a stranger, or a man who did
not watch and observe very closely, was
was that his walk implied shrewdness,
cunning, a tricky man; but his walk was
that of caution and firmness. In sitting
ou a common chair ho was no taller than
ordinary men. His legs and arms were
abnormally, unnaturally long, and in un
due proportion to tho rest of his body.
It was only when he stood up that he
loomed above other men. HU head was
loug and toll from the ban of tho brain
and from the eyebrows the perspective
faculties. His head ran back at a
low angle, like Clay's, and unlike Web
ster's aluiost perpendicular. The size of
the hat, measured ou tho hatter's bloik,
was seven and a half, his head being from
car to ear six and a half inches, and from
the front to the back of the train eight
inches. Thus measured it was not below
the medium size. His forehead was nar
row but high, his hair was dark, almost
black, and lay floating whero his fingers
or the wind had left it piled up at ran
dom. If is cheek bones were high, sharp
and prominent. His eyebrows heavy
aud jutted out; his jaws were long, up
curved and heavy; his nose was large,
long and blunt, having the tip glowing in
rod, and & littlo awry toward the right
eye; his chin was long, sharp and up-
urved ; his eyebrows were cropped out
likoahugo rock on the brow of a hill;
his face was long, sallow, cadaverous,
shrunk, shriveled, wrinkled and dry, hay
ing here aud there a hair on tho surface;
his cheeks wcro leathery; his cars were
lare and ran out almost at right angles
from hij head, caused by heavy hats and
paitly by nature; his lower lip was thick,
hanging and under-curved, while his
chin reached tor the lip up-curved; huj
neck was neat and trim, his head being
well-balanced on it ; thcro was the love
mole on his right cheek and Adam's
apple on tho throat. Thus stood, walked,
acted, and looked Abraham Lincoln
He was not a pretty man, by any nieans,
nor was hs an ugly one. He was a
homely man, careless of his looks, plain
looking, and plain acting. He had no
Ii
omp, digplay, or dignity so callcd.-
Ie appeared simple in his carriage and
bearing. " He was a sad looking man; his
melancholy dripped from hnu as ho walk
cd. IJis apparent gloom impressed his
friends and created a sympathy for him
one means of his .success. He was
gloomy, abstracted, and joyous, rather hu
morous, by turns. I do not think he
knew what real joy was for more than
twenty-threo years. Mr. Lincoln, some
times walked our streets cheerily, good
humoredly, perhaps joyously, and then it
was, op meeting a friend, ho cried, "How
d'y," clasping one of his friend's hands
in both of his, giving a good, hearty soul
welcome. Sometimes be might be seen.
wending his way to his offico, to tho court
room, or to tho railroad depot, wit" his
baggage, looking like a rail in broad
cloth. ,Qf a winter's morning ho might
kavo beep seen stalking and stilting it to
ward tho market bouse, basket on his
arm, bis old gray shawl wrapped around
his nock, his littlo Willie or Tad running
along at . his heels, asking a thousand
little quick questions, which his father
neara pot--not ercu Knowing lDac lllo
Willio or Tad w&s there, so abstracted
was the father, When ho has met a
friend he said that something put him in
mind of a story which he , heard in Indi
ana, and tell it he would, and thero was
no alternative but to listen. Thus, I say
stood and walked and looked this singu
lar man. , , :i " ''-',-;- r:
Forms and barrels. "Of what use
are forms?" exclaimed a petulant legisla
tor of Dr. Franklin; "you cannot 'deny
that thejr are often mere empty things 1"
"Well, my friend, and so are barrels but
nevertheless," they have their uses," quiet
ly' replied the doctor, ' ": ! ' - ; 'C
Iiiolca About In the World.
It is ti good thing for a young man to
bo ?knocked about in the World' though
his soft-hearted parents may not think so.
All yout hs, or if not all certainly nineteen
twentieths of tho sum total enter life with
a surplusage of fcclf-conccit. The sooner
thoy aro relieved of it the better. If in
measuring tbcnjsolycs they discover that
it is unwarranted, and get rid of it grace
fully, of their own accord, well and good ;
if not, it is desirable, for their own sakes,
that it ba knocked out of them. A boy
who ii sent to a largo school Boon finds his
level. His will may havo been para
mount at home, but schoolboys aro demo
cratic in their ideas, and if arrogant, he
is sure to bo thrashed into a recognition
of the golden rule. Tho world is a great
public school, and it soon teaches a new
pupil hi proper place. If ho has the
attributes that belong to a leader, he will
bo installed to the position of a leader; if
not, whatever his own opinion of his abil
ities may be, he will be compellod to fall
in with the rank file. If hot destined to
greatness, but no man can either be tru
ly great or truly respectable who ia Tain,
pompous and overbearing'.
By tho time the novice hai found. bis
legitimate social status, be the same high
or low, the probability is that the disa
greeable traits of his character will be
softened down or worn away. Most likc-j
ly the process will be rough perhaps
very rough but when it is all over, and
he tegins to see himself as others see him,
and not as reflected by the mirror ofclf
conceit, he will be thankful that he has
run the gauntlet, and arrived, though by
a rough road, at self-knowledge. Upon
the whole, whatever loving mothers may
think to the contrary, it is a good thing
for youths to be kuocked about in the
world; it makes men of them.
A Wonderful Land With Stone
Tukk Hix Hu.NbiiKD Feet Lono. In
the Dinem Slope newspaper we find a re
port of many of the curiosities and the
great richness of the Black Kock country
in the northwestern portion of California.
The reports of the singular features of that
section are of many years standing, but are
so marvelous that they have seldom ob
tained credence. Among the wonderful
stories we have beard is one that there is
a petrified Ueo six hundred feet in length !
The present report in part confirms pre
vious statements, and estabishes the fact
that Black Bock is ono of the wonders of
the Pacific coast, like the Yo Semite, the
Big Trees, the G uyscrs, etc. Besidr& the
curiosities there appears to bo an abun
dance of silver at Black Itock, but the ore
is said to be of an unusual variety and
very difficult to work; but it has been
worked with very gcol results at the
mills at Washoe. The quality of ore is so
great that it is said it will justify the erec
tion cf a thousand mills. A gentleman
who has viiited the section has exhibited
to the editor of tho Eu$Um Slope very
many natural curiosities peculiar to the
country; strange petrifications ravines; cu
rious water worn pebbles from tho moun
tain tops; knives, arrow-heads and daggers
manufactured by Indiau kill from solid
fiict; as uperior quality, apparently, of oil
blacking, said to contain six hundred dol
lars in silver to tho ton; pebble tin with
its curious fracture that admits no change
of form and a thousand strange and new
things. The editor sa3s: He tells us of
strange things that he saw. but could not
bring with him, and many strange things
he heard of, but did not see. Among the
latter list of wonders is a great basin that
contains a petrified forest apparently
floated there many vast trees of solid stone
ranging from six to fifteen feet above in
diameter, and from three to six hundred
fect'in length. Doubtful as this tale may
appear, shall we dare to dispute its correct
ness when we knew this strange country
has a boiling spring of frash water fifteen
feet in diameter, that cannot be sounded
from which no drop of water ever runs;
that in the vicinity there is a flowing
stream of cold and apparently good water
the drinking of which induces vcncral dis
ease, and that any water found by digging
is as salt as salt can make it; that 00c,
deposited in the soil is eaten up by the salt
and after thirty days no veatago of it can
be found r
Wiiat they Won't Own to. There
aro several things which you uever can by
any accident, get a lady be she young or
old to coufess to. Here are some of
them: That she 'laces tight. That her
shoes are too small for her. That she is
tired at a ball. " That she paint3. That
she is as old as she looks. That she has
been more than five minutes dressing
That she blushes upon hearing a certain
person's name mentioned- That she ever
says a thing ahe does not mean That she
is'ond of scandal. That sho cannot keep
a secret That she above all persons in
tho wide world is in love. That sho
doesen't want a new bonnet. That she
doesen't know everything. That sho can
do with a single thing less whenshewas
about to travel. That she has not the dis
position ot an angel, or the temper of a
saint or how elso could sho go through
with one-half of what sho does? That she
does not know better than any ono else
what is best for her. - That. she is a flirt
or coquette. " .- . , - -
The Suez Canal. In a little more
than a year, the great work projected but
never begun, by JNapoleon the great, will
be completed. The Capo of Good Hope,
at tho southern extremity of Africa, will
become to European commerce what the
Isthmus railway has made Cape Horn to
our Atlantic and Pacific trade. Africa
will no longer block the highway between
Europe and the! East. While we aro en
deavoring to reach the Indies by a jad
across this continent Louis Napoleon is
onnnfietinw1 the Mediterranean with the
Red Sea and the: Arabia'n7 gulf , It will
undoubtedly be'a succfessj and become one
more link to bind the nations together in
the bonds of commerce, the precursor of a
higher ' Qiyilization. .
MISCELLANCOUS COLUMN. :
: Kaa-KATERg. New York city de
vours ten thousand dollars' worth of
daily.: ' "
: -1 - -
A Matrimonial' Mem.- TTow 'nn
do we find tjiat a map'i better half giye's
hjin no quarter f ' M ' r V
The purest metal is produced from the
hottest furnace, and the brightest thud,
derbolt from the darkest storm. ;
Until. An exchane-o savs L fiv
ers, like armies, generally get along qn,
etlj enough until they are engaged.?' ri
The Difference. A rear of Tlanr
passes like a floating breeze : but a rod-
uiiBivnuuv seems an age or pain.
A Detroit man recently sold hi wifa
for 8200 to a sailor, and applied to a Jusi
UCe CO marry him tn n. rnrlrir MvnfMn
j - , o ; i.'v,vuvijvjf, .
Vixofi. "Pa, have dogs got wings V
"No, child, don't you know better than
that V "Why. na. this naYier savs hi
dog flew at him and bit hizn. So dogs
navo got wings." " .t
The Fatal Period. Eitltr
teen years elapsed from the appearance 6t
the first Asiatic cholera in the vear
until its reappearance in 1849, and the
same number oi years nave passed since
1819 until its visitation in the' present
year, giving an interval of seventeen years
uemeeu iue occasions.
A Good. Stomach. A Norfolk paper
says: "A ncsrro after eatincr four hard
crabs, drank a quart of hard cider, ate a'
half gallon of scupperning grape3, and a
pound of Limberger Kaese-' Strange to
reiaie, me negro man i aie, in Ufit. wasn t
sick. " '
Modest Indeed! "Have you any
limbhorn bonnets?" inquired a very mod
est miss of a shopkeeper. "Any what?'?
"Any limbhorn bonnets V "Any
you dont mean leghorn ?" The young
lady was brought to by the proppcr rested
raiircj. '
A Recommendation. A farm wa
lately advertised in which all the beauty
of the situation, the fertility of the soli
and salubrity of the air' were detailed iii
was a further enhanced with thisi V. Tt'
There is not an attorney within fifteen
ri i i j ' ' --
muca ui inc ucigauruovu.
Poor Fellow! A maniace was cost-
poned in Nashville, Tennessee, the other
night, because tho croom. beintr one of a
jury who could not agree' was locked up
uuui me opaing or me court tne next
morninjr. He was heard muttering sever.
al times during tho night. "How different
f , . T . , " '"
irom wnai i expccieai
A Capacity. A wealthy man's lady?
paying her daughter a visit at Echool, and
inquiring what progress she had made in
her education, the governess answered'.
"Pretty good, madam; she was very' atten
tive; if she wants anything, it is capacity
but for that deficiency you must not blame
her." "No madam," replied the niother
"but I blame you for not having mention
ed it before. Her father can afford his
daughter a capacity, and I beg she may
hayo one immediately, cost what it may
Lost nis Indentity. Living at
West end is a couple of gentlemen whom
we call Hanscomb and Wiggings, who.
went to a political jollification the other
night, and got jolly on the champagne so
freely dispensed. On going home to
gether, one living a sort distance beyond
tho first one's residence, who, standing at
tho gate, called out, "lrs. Hanscomb I
Mrs. Hanscomb! please cotne and pick;
out Mr. Hanscomb, because Mr. Wig'gins
wanU to go home I7 port Argus! .
Lady Hamilton, tho friend of Lord
Nelson was rowed ashore by one of Nel
son's sailors, which she deemed observing
of some courtesy at her hands. "Will
you have a glass of runi, a mug of beer
or a tumbler of punch inquired the lady."
"If you please na'am," responded Jack,
with his best bow, "I will take the rum
now, and toss off the mug of beer whilo
your ladyship mixes the punch for me."
The Tribune thinks General Dix must
have inherited something liko Jack's com
prehensive appetite. '
TnE Prince of Wales made a rather
skillf ul little speech in laying the founda
tion stono for the Bible Society, He said
that ho had an hereditary interest in thak
society, since Luther's translation of the
Bible was executed under the protection
of the Elecfor of Saxony, "the collateral
ancestor" of the late prince consort, while
the present authorized version was intrqf
duccd "With the sanction of the royal pre
decessor of my mother," to-wit, "Queen
Elizabeth." Some ill.natured reporter
wrote ''ancestor," instead vof , "predeces?
sor," and tho prince baa been a good deal
quizzed for tracing his ancestry to a
maiden queen, f - ? ' ' - j ..'
Will Live LoNQ.-TThe New Haven
Reg;ster publishes this item: "'. " '
Senator Wilson says: lL have been a
member of Congress for ;the "past twelve,
years, on a salary of 3,000 per year, and
wero I to die to-morrow it would be im
possible for me to raise sufficient to defray
tho expenses of a pine coffin to send my
remains home." ,; Wo aro sorry to hear
that for it would be hard work, to collect
sufficient froih the public for such a pur
pose,,,; - t ... f , - r--t . ,,:s "
Tho Register! says an exchange, ued
havo no alarm on that point. 1 "Whom tho
god3 love die young;" but those held in
affectionato rejrard by the boss of hell hntp
ger long so Jerem,iah Colbath, alia Sen
ator Wilson, won't need the pine coffin for
a long timo to come," unless he TcapaKis; -reward
at the hands of an outraged peopU
in"which event the Str.te will furnish hiin
a box and burial gratis. : :
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