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BY SAM. P. IVINS.
ATHENS, TENN., FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1850.
VO LUM E NUMBE It 101.
TIE
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THE POST.
ATHENS, FRIDAY, AUG. 30, 1850.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Washington, Aug. 18.
Tlie Houc made no progress yesterday,
IB the civil nnd diplomatic bills. There is
very little disposition to transact any busi
ness. The proceedings of tlie Committee
of the Whole, are frequently interrupted by
the want of a quorum. Tho territorial bills
cannot be taken up on Monday. According
to present appearances, they are likely to
lie on the Speaker's table for a week or two.
1 have, some doubt whether they will pass
in their present form, if at all. The South
ern members will certainly not vote for the I
Texan boundary hill, till the bills establish
ing territorial governments shall pass
Should they do this, it is probable that the
Northern members would next pass the,
California bill, and leave the territories as
they are.
But this difficulty can be obviated by com
bining the territorial bills with the bill for
the adjustment of the Texan boundary. I
learned yesterday, that several Southern
conservative democratic members have dc
termined to propose this course and among
them sre Mr. Speaker Cobb and Mr. Linn
Boyd. When tho Texan bill is taken up,
the Speaker can. by arrangement, recognize
mambor who will move lbs New .Mexico
bill as an amendment; and another who ill
move to amend the amendment by adding
the Utah bill. Any intended motion for
adding the Wilmot Proviso may be thus cut
off, The three bills, thus conjoined, may
possibly pass, and go back to the Senate
where, if it pass at all, it will be by a very
close vote.
It is stated that Massachusetts has in
rressed her population since 1840, by two
hundred and fitly thousand, and that ill tho
Eastern State have increased in pnpula
tion. The reason is obvious. Employment
became mere diversified every year, and
labor more diviicd, and emigration to the
grain-growing districts of the West is very
much checked.
At the same time, crime has in tho same
proportion increased. In the annual addres
of Governor Brigg and of tho Myr of
Boston, the "alarming increase of crime'' is
mentioned, and it is added, that, '-at the
rato with which violenco and crime have
recently increased, our jails, however c
pacions, will be scarcely adequate to the
necessary requirements of society. Tho
Secretary of the Board of Education says.
'what wo call civilization and progress
have increased temptation n thousand fold
in this cout.try, ten thousand fold;" that,
among us, 'all that is base and depraved in
the human heart has such full liberty, and
wide compass, and hot -timulus to sction,
a have never been known before; that
wickedness, not less than virtue has i's
steam engines and its pnwer presses and its
lightning telegraphs," and he adds that
"those external restraints of reverence for
authority am' dread of religious guide and
of penal codee, aro now lifted on". It must
be seen that the tendency of these things is
towards an arbitrary system of government.
Mr. Fillmore transacts business at the
White House during the day, and then
retires to a private residence on the heights
of Georgetown, not being willing to hazard
his health by sleeping in the vicinity of
malaria.
General Scott has taken tho Demenon
house as his residence, for ihe I'-nn of the
present administration. I am not sure that
ho does not expect to remove thence into
the White House. Cor. Char. Cow.
We have a devil, says the Albany
Knickerbocker, who would make an ex
cellent politician. He ia the biggest liar
that ever walked, and tella a falsehood with
the cheek of an auctioneer.
Ihfanticide. The paternity or a new.
borninfant, found dead in a run it Pitts,
burg on Tuesday, has been traced to a
young single girl of very respectable fami-fj-i
"d aha i held uodei arrest
THE REGISTER AND THE POST.
The Register of last week has taken our
article of the lOih, altered it, and
made ns to ay some very pretty things of
oursell niuch prettier perhaps than almost
any tint? else would have ventured upon.
Under the circumstances, we have no doubt
it was the very bent thing it could do, as
tho pa raph rase contains a bout ns much origi
nality of thought anil sentiment as most of
the. Iil-rary effusion that have emanated
from the rather ex'raordinary genius who
fathers it. Tho register evidently feels the
awkwardness of thn situation in which it
ha placed itself in record to tho Road, and
is willing 10 venture into any absurdity to
ecpn the responsibility which it hi in
curred. Wo nitii,; briiii? it back to the
point. Ai long ns there wa any chance to
embarrass the operations on tho Road it left
no opportunity 11 n i. 11 proved. Rut some how
it o'i.or the work was ptt-hed along in de
spite of its efiort. and at present there is a
pret'y fair prospect for it early completion
to the Tennesson river. Whatever may
have been the moD'tiri of the Register, its
P,ai!road articles admitted of but one infer
prctation to wit: that the writer of them
was opposed to thn enterprise. His dis
claimers are of no weight while his articles
btond on record public opinion has been
unanimous in assigning him tho character
of in enemy nnd that opinion was made
up by reading his articles, and not by what
tee said about them. And when the Regis
ter asserts, as it has done, that the light in
which it is rog.-.Hcd by t!in public in refer
ence to ihn Railroad is owing to our repre
sentations of its cuurse,and in the same
ar'icle says that we are such a notorious
character and ho well known that no one
pays the least attention to whnt wo soy, it
furni"hes very pood evidence that it is rath
er hard run, and would filnilty escape if it
only knew which way to turn. The an
nouncement a few weeks since that a con
tract for the iron rails and equipment for
the entire Rood from Daltnn to Blair's
Ferry wa being made, appears to havp fall
en upon the ears of the Register fulk with
the startling eff-ct of a clap of thunder from
a clnud!e-s sky, and convinced them of the
npce-.sity of changing their course; and flf
tr some consultation, it was agreed to quit
the Railroad for a while and take up a good
deal les imports rt subject onrelf with
the hope, if lhcy.ouid silence our paper, of
getting themselves right before the public.
Well, as wo said before, we were glRd of it,
and in our reply wo went farther than al
most any other person would have done in
assisting them to get right. But instead of
appreciating tlie motive, our kindness and
lib'-ralilv onnears to have thrown them off
their balance entirely, to have wounded
them grievously, excited their spleen to an
alarming degree, and turned the natural
milk and water of their dispositions to ga
and wormwood. Now they ought not to
have let that, opportunity pass unimproved,
as we cannot afford to he doing the clever
thine all the time. We must bring them
back t" 'ho rack, whether the provender
sui's them or not. If our memory serves
us right, it is tic Register's courso in re
gard to the Railroad that has been and still
is at isue whether that paper ha been
an enemy or a friend to the enterprise and
not whether Mr. Swan. Mr. ilcKee or Sam.
P. Ivins is llio greatest man. the best editor.
or I lie most intolernbln hunibugger To be
a great man require", sonin attribute which
neither of u possess to be a good editor
depends upon 8 judicious exorcise of the
scissors, nnd (irmness enough to reject all
arncles for which one would not willingly
become peror,alj responsible, and to bo a
great homhugger presume a degree of gul
libility on 'he part of the public which wo
suspect never had ar. existence except in tho
minds of the gentlemen of the Register.
Nor is it in ih h-at incident to tho matter
in hand, whether t!e eiilor of this sheet
cyr mndn proposition t- print Demo,
era 'its paper, or whether tho Register's right
bower, agreed in '47 to vote for a Democrat
for Supreme Jud-.'e in tho event tho Demoi
crats of old Knox would assist in placing
him in a positi m to give such a vote. (You
had as well tread lightly o'er the ashes of
tho pa!, dear friends of ours, or you may
Micceul in waking up some very unpleasant
reniiniccncc.) These things have nolhi
ing to do i'h the Register's course in re;
eurJ k,thi Railroad, and we don't intend it
--.-aim in that way. It would be doing
in.v.i ion wrioii an injury to gratify iheih
. 1 1 1
with a per-onal controversy iney n in
quite equanimity enough for a work of that
sort 1 hey are rather too irritable for men cf
heir acknowledged nerve, and manifest
most loo much spleen when pressed to the
wall, and display 100 much ill nature to auit
the temper of the time.
We know the time haa come when the
Register is compelled to change its coarse
in regard to the Road that it must hence
forth either remain silent, or come out and
give it a sincere and earnest support.
Whenever it furnishei tangible evidence
thai it ha adopted the latter course, we
shall announce the fact with great pleasure,
for we would even now rather have it a
friend than an enemy of the Road. Nor
shall we attempt to cast any obstacles in (he
way of its return to a right course, if it
will odopt a straight forward policy; but we
cannot afford to let it relievo itself by con
tinually asserting that wo have wilfully mis
represented it, and that it has always been
a friend to the Road. We know, also, that
it will eut a sorry figuro at first in the
position which it must soon assume; but let
it adopt tho right course at once, and bold,
ly and fearlessly pursue i', cense it fault
finding nnd unwise and uncalled for cen
sures, and it may yet atone, at least to
sonm extent, lor the errors of the past. If
it. will do this, even we may he induced 10
assist it in relioving itself from the respon
sibility vhich its erratic course is bringing
upon it.
In the mean time, while it i in the nc,
cessnry state of transition, or rather, being
born again, if it thinks there is any thing
connected with our past life, either personal
or political, that will afford entertainment
to its readers, and it will inform u of the
fact, we will take pleasure in furnishing
it with full and correct data, as nothing
gratifies us moro than to bo ablo to serve
those gentlemen who seem to ihini; thnt
their position is such ns to entitle them to
the lasting gratitude and services of every
one to whom they may have found it con
venient or profjtablo to extend the common
courtesies of life. We don't know exactly
the amount of gra'ituda claimed by those
friends whem the Register squints at, and
it may be advisable, perhaps, to get a Clerk
and Master in Chancery to take an account
of the matter, and thmi we will know pre
cisely how thick and fast to lay it on,
We have ono little request to make of
thn Register before closing, which we hope
it will comply with, for tho sake of some
of Us friend, whom it has already injured
quite enough; and that request is, that it
preach no more patent sermons nbontriencf
ship until it becomes capable of apprecia
ting the true meaning of the term, nnd to
bear in mind that those only are justly
chargeable with the sin of ingratitude who
wantonly attempt to inflict injuries upon
the hand that has always proved itself rea
dy to rssist them in their anpimtioiis for
plnco ii.d power.
Baltimore, Ang. 20.
Important from Washington. In the
United States Sennte, on Monday Augur t
I!), the Fugitive Slave Bill wns under the
consideration of ihe Senate, All motions
to amend were rejected. The vote in eve
ry instance being yeas eleven, nays twen,
ty eight.
'n the United States House of Repre.
sentnlives. on the same day, a motion to
take up the Utah, California, New-Mexico
and Texas Roundary Rills was rejected;
tin vole being ninety-eight ayes to ninety-
eight nays; a majority of two thirds in the
affirmative being titcedsary for the success
of such a motion.
Nothing will he done by the House rel
ative to the great question now distracting
the nation before the Appropriation Dills
are passed, which will he most probably on
Saturday next."
A Terrible Tragedv. A Daughter
Murdered by her Father. An awful trage
dy occurred at Philadelphia, Hancock coun
ty, Indiana, on thn evening of Th'irfday,
tho th inst. The circumstances of the cio
nre these: A man by the namo of Thomas
Kennedy has for year resided in Hancock
counry, who, with hi family havo been
considered disrepututablo members of socie
ty. A difliulty had existed between Kenne
dy and his wifo fir sonic time past. Ibis
difficulty had increased to such an extent
that the authorities had been compelled to
interfere in order to protect his wife from
personal violence, and the whole family
from ejectment. About a month since,
Kennedy was brought before a justice, charg-
ed by hi wife with threatening to kill her, ,
and he was bound over in the sum 01 tf iw
to keep the peace. On Thursday night Ken
nedy had been drinking freely, and, after
making a great disturbance in tho neighbor
hood of Philadelphia, repaired to his farm,
situated a short distance from the town.
About midnight tho ncighbood was alarmed
by tho discharge of firearms and the cry of
murder; and the terrible announcement was
made that Kennedy haj blown out his
daughter's brains. Medical aid was of no
use, for the braina of tho joung woman
store blown completely out of the skull, and
she ceased to exist. It is supposed Kenne
dy, in hie madness, bad assaulted his wife j
and family, and in doing so, destroyed the'
life of his best child. The nnfurtunato man
ia in good circumstances, lie was arrest
ed on Friday morning. Cincinnati Dispatch
Fifiy years ago there wire on'y Uisst-J l.er. oke us rs if in ihe greatest Imre done to Hie feelings, ami of efforts
hundred Catholics in Glasgow; now there I amazement, and said, "I think you ought made in defence of strict and suber olcu
aro seventy thousand. J be ashamsJ." j laiions.
TIE MODERN CLERGY
Sydney f-milh, ft' the hrvi""'"! rl's
century, described the current seimons o'
his own church as heiiig chiefly character,
izod by decern debility. Mr. Whipple, the
Nen- England reviewer, appear to have
hardly more exalted opinion ofthe discourse
of tho clergy general at the presfnt time,
judging by some remarks in hi vigorou
and eloquent ortioe on "South' Sermons."
At the conclusion of that nhly written pi
per, ho comes down upon tho "c'encal
icicles" of pur doy in f tie following trucu
lent and daring fashion : "It fceem to is
thnt theology is fast falling behind the other
professions, in regard to iho charneier and
iiitclligencp demanded in its professors.
Depth r. m -ehennon, a largo knowing
in . - 'r(f- '! dissecting evidence onu mo -
lives, a genera!-f' rce of bing which ncver ; Brief ns is the interval since e hnc! nc
yields to moral or intellectual timidity, are j casion to hail thn passage of ihs fundamen-
not now jnsi-sted upon as neep9ry to the
clergyman. The toleration awarded 10
feeblo sermons is ihe Khorpest of all sih-nt
satires on tho decline of divinity. Forcible
men, men possessing sufficiei.t vigor and
vitality to 'get along in the world,' riifh
almost universally into the other professions.
Law and politics, in this country, draw into
their vortex Mindr.,!i of scholars who ought
to be pti -ichers of God's word both to law
and politics. If a youth of education does
not evince enough ui.d"rttnnding l"
evidence or tear nway the defences of 0
sophism, if he 'acks sufficient nerve to
badger a witness or amputate a leg, his
parenU 'hink hirn eminently calculft'ed fur
thnt other profession, whose members aro
to scr lter the reasonings of Home and
Diderot, to smite wickedness in high places,
to lay bare the laeiiess of accredited sins,
to brave with an unflinching front the op
position of the selfish nnd tho strong, and tn
dre, if need be. ail the powers of earth and
hell in Ike cnu of justice and truth. This,
we need not sr.y, is all wrong. If tho
powers of darkness and delu;i( n are strong
in oil the rcngth of bid passions and
sophistical vices, let ihoin lie opposed by
mrm whos spirfi are of the greatest size
and divim at mettle;' by men who have the
arm t( smi'eam! the brain to know; by men
whose souls can tlmd oil 'li'i-e mazes of
dec-it through which sin eludes tho chas"
of the weak in heart and the sinnll in mind.
Without fi.ie of character, there pun he no
f-,r-i-.,( rii!;wt'n V,'orils never nsh onl
with pt-'fK'iasivo or awful power from a
feeble hnort."
YiEt-oop Whkat. The Macomb (Mich
ijan,) Gazelle lately staled thai Ira Phil
ips, of Armada, in that county, raised from
two aw of ground one hundred and twen
ty-four bushels of wheal.
That appeared to bs a very large story
to believe, siztytwo bushels to the acre,
narlicularlv when the fact is taken into
consideration that forty bushels to the acie
is considered pretty fair for the mellow soil
of the Geneese Valley, when well cultiva
ted. But the Mormons of Salt Lake or
Utah, make still larger drafts upon our
credulity. An account from thence says:
'Seventy-five bushels of wheat to lite
acre is itio ordinary yield when sown
broadcast, but one hundied and sixty bush
els have been produced from a Miigle bush,
el of teed, when planted in (Jri'l. Corn
only grows tolerably well, in coti-;equeni:e
of the nig'.i's being too cold. Potatoes
are easily rown, and produce abundaiitlv .
Alltliesiiulli-rgraiiisliiiijri-.h. 'J'ne usu
al time to begin ngricoliur.il work is at om
the first of April In cousi-q-ivnce of the
proximity of mount mis, winch nre always
covered with snow, there is vtrv Imle ram.
and the lauds are irrigated by- tm-ans of ca
nals hi the base ol ihe hills.
All we can fay to the above is, that we
ihink that in Michigan and Uian thev j
must have considern'ily larger sited acres
than we have iu this State. j
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A singu ar explosion occurred on Iho sr.
rival of the six o'clock line from New York
for Philadelphia, at Newark, Now Jersey,
00 Tu. sday morning l ist. A keg of yeasl
whs put 1.1.0 tagiiage crato, when it
exploded with trrmendous force, icurnii; off
(i)t; ,(J 0f tic crrvl,., throwing the keg at
), gf,.. c,,p, j ,)0 jr. t i0 udoU at the
feet of a bystander, having kiwcki d 0110 man
, , . . , , , .. !
down and completely covered h.m with
l'roih, and -cattrrcd ihe contents on the
passengers, giving them a ludicrous appear- i
aill-O. JNU IIVCS lost I I
Ait Ncinr.Nr Earlv this moronic, at ibp '
Jail, a wel! eVscd mn rre.etH himself! CMT "
' then live to see its success lor six or even
and do'min.'cd to be ik n into custody. He j CPnlurlPS after wards; but al present a man
was asked what crimo ho had commuted; waits, and doubts, and hesitate, and cun
when ho replied, that he was tho murderer i bis brother, and his uncle, and hts
of Dr. Parkman, and that Dr. Webster was
innocent. The keepers n fused him admit
tance upon such grounds. 11 was eater,
wards ascertained thai the nun b longed tn
South Boston, and wa insane. Ho refused
ogive his name. Huston Traveller, lGlft
inst.
The other evening a lady, who prptend-
mil In l.p In. I nJ(ii until lierlipan IiaA trail
BE OF GOOD CHEER.
Be of good cheer, friends of the Union !
Give no heed to the Bugtiries,
"Sadder than r.w.fi"iif on the midnight
hlM,"
of thop who prophesy defeat, in the People's
Hoiip, of the mea-ures which, in the true
"tiirit of the Constitution and of an enlight
eiien Patrioti-m, have already passed the
Senate for the restoration to tho country of
Peare, Harmony, and Union! Whenever
the wish is not father to such thoughts,
unreaii.n'-Mt! apprehension fear, such a
"oft betrays like tre.ison" unmans the
mind, unnerves the resolution which enables
men to breat such n crisis as ths present,
and by cnnrnpeoiis, generonu,
and united
, effort, to carry their country triumphantly
, inroci 11.
i Inl net ol Blju'rr.cnt of the knotty and vex
atioiis Territorial controversy, it has yet
been long pnnugb to confirm Ihe confident
trust which we then pxpresjed, thnt time
would prove, bryond the doubt of any reas,
onab'e Seing, the dvo'ion to thn peace and
harmony of this Union of the mass n,' Ihe
People, nnd the determination to suffer no
schemes of disunion or of mere faction
longer to disturb the ono or tho oth;r.
In the hundreds of newspapers which
have reached us since the pasage of the
Texas Boundary hill, carrying tho California
bill ami iho New Mexico Territoriiil bill in
its trn in, firn only in the South one in this
ciiy ami anu'her in the city of Charleston
as far as we hit ve observed, have denounced,
ridicnle.l. or oiherviso shown hostility to
this bnnign nr-a-urc; nnd in the North only
one st-ems almost willin" to hozard a C(n
fltct ..farms between ono or more States and
the General Government, rather than t'
consent to thn measure. To those who thus,
from two extremes of sectional fueling, in
mere hate of each other, seem disposed to .
unite to defeat this pacification, and, as a
con-ipqnentp, to possibly involve tho country
in a Civil War, we havo no argument to
offer: they are beyond tho reach of it. We
trust that we have not in the Nor'h or the
South R "iugl" r-mler who coincides in their
policy, or regards with any sentiment hut
horror their vindictive and sanguinary p.ir
jioeos. No !
I,oi s:ic!i as d"em it clorii to destri y
Jitufi 111(0 ljlod. the suck of cities
seek,
oitiji'-viii .J. - . i'l ilie widow'
J lit- virgin's "brick, and infant' trembling
ci ) I
.ViiM-iM.
For the Post.
LINES TO MISS SARAH
BV J0I1M F. P0WE1.
Well, Sally, "il.irlin,' if vou wiah
To know what 'm to he
Furs ikon hv the one we love,
Just listen, child, to lue.
Whilst I, 111 cii-v rhyme rlaia
The tale ol grid to Ihte.
Imagine, if you please, an oak
Whose gmnt lo-m hath stood,
A thousand years upon the plain
Ilnof monarch of Ihe wood.
Suppose t'.ie thiindtr'. iiin-1'iil stroka
To lull upon this gitnt oak.
Will not the hioom then on his chsek
As surely pass away.
As if the wnh'ring hand of lims
Hal siiio'- him wiih decay ?
And will his shaiictM trunk not show,
N tiiue can heal the venglul blow ?
So stoutest hearts must wither, fads,
And fall hen-aih Hip stroke
That iiim-q iitl-ii love convey?,
As l.t'les and 'alls ihe o ik.
No tune can he ai ill wound that's
I Hy disappointment's pierciuj bla-ls.
Want of Coukahe. Sydney Smith,
in bis work on moral philosophy, speaks
in this wise of what men lose for the want
of a little brass :
. , . , . r . , . . , . . ..
world tor the want of a little conrs?". Ev
erv dav st-nils to their craves a number c'
obscure tiir'i who hav only remained ;
ob-iurnv because their timidity lias pre
vetiied tliein Irom making a first effort; and
who, H they could only have he-n indiKtu
to ht sin, would in all probab hty have cone
ereat lengths Hi the career of fame. Tlie
'l 'l m order to do Bnytliins ir. tins
world wtrtli doing, we must not stand
shiv,n,, , banli al, l!llllltm, ()f lne
co, a,j ,ne danger, but jump in an I
scramble ihroush as well as we can. It
"I" "l " 1 't-rTiiiimy
risks, as. belore Ihe b Until when a man could
consult his Inends upon an intend, d pub
fits! cousins, and hts particular IrienJ
till one fine day he finds that he is sixty
five 1 ears ol age that he li lost so much
time in consulting first cousins and par
ticular Inends, that lis has 00 more nine
left to lollow iheir advice. There is such
little time lor over Fquramishnes at pres
ent, the opportunity so easily slips away,
the very period of life at which a man
chooses to venture, f ever, is so continp l,
that it is no bad rule in preach up the ne
cessity, in such instances, ot a iitHe vi
Dr.ATH of a Fonc.F.r.-.Mounding Din
closures The MaiUsoifijanU Robbery, tie,
Among !hi victims of the cholera on
Monday night last, ivaV 4 convict in the
Indian penitentiary, at Jefler-onville, nam
ed Rom. The Louisville Courier, of the
I6th, gives the following astounding dis
closure? made by him :
"lie wns sonfenced to the penitentiary
for si- years, under a charge nf having
rohbe-l the hink at ATadion, la., of some
!ji'2w.CnO, and his sentence would have ex
pircd next month. Our readers will recoU
lect that this robherv took place nbout sev
en years since, and created great excite
ment nttheHtne, and suspicion was cast
upon some men occupvins high places.
The money was never found, and to this
day, as has been ascertained by a memo
mndn kept by the b.ink. not a dollar of the1
Volen notes has ever been put in circu
lalion.
"Root was a man of bad character, and
as he wis at Madison about ihe time of
the robhery, he was pursued, arrested, and
on trial was convicted of the crime, al
thoush nothinri positive was proven against
him, and notwithstanding he almost posi
tively proved an alibi.
"On his death bed Monday night, be
freely confessed to a number cf forgeries
and crimes, and implicated as being con
nected with htm in hi9 forjery transactions
a person who is at present a resident of
this city, and who is now reputed to b
worth his hun Ired thousand dollars! He,
however, most earnestly and solemnly de"
nietl having ever had anything whatever
to do with the Madison bank robbery, or of
knowing any thing about it either directly
or indirectly."
Junn Fernandez, the old residence of
Alexander Selkirk, (Kobison Crusoe,) and
his man Friday, ha been visited lately
and his caves discovered. Tho island la
lhirten miles l-insr and four wide; lis
shore nre a pile of barren rocks, some of
j them 2000 feet hi.'h, splintered and sepa
hv eartitquakes. Wild horses and
I coats, of excellent eating, ab.iund. r ish
j, ahn,nnt and lol.iters easily procured.
The soil is excellent for potatoes and corn;
peaches and erapes thrive m every valley,
and strawberries 111 their season. Ihe is
land is resorted to for wood and water.
Juan F. is now the Hotanv Ray of Chili.
A writer who was there March II, Says .
"It affords a very indifferent harbor, and
has only twelve inhabitants, five men and
seven women, all Chilians, except one
man, who aitl he was governor of the is
land, liiat his name was Worth, and that
he was a native ol Maine, fie had lived
on the island three" yars. Tuere are five
houses or huts made of poles, interwoven
with straw; affording a good protection
from the weather.
A romantic souni lady fell the other
j day into the river, an I was near drowning,
hut succor heini fortunately at hand, she
was drawn out sen-eess and carried home.
On coiuiiiir to, she d-M-Ured to her lamilv
that she must marry him who had saved
her. "Impossible," said her papa. "What
is he already married t" "No." "Wasn't
it 1 1 1 m 1 iuterisit) yo'in man who lives
here in our neighborhood?" "Dear roe,
uo it was a Newfoundland dog."
Suspicion. "Wile, wife, what has be
cine of Mir- gropes? ' "I suppose, my dearj
the hens have pirfc"d them off," was lief
ino.li-rftP! reply, "Hens hens somo two
legg'-d hrnl gneij-s," paid the husband with
some iuipo'ti .sity; to which she calmly re
plied, '-.My dear, did yu ever t-eo any othor
kind?"
"The girls who remain torpid in their
girlhood, cold as the reflection of a moon
in a well," says n sharp writer, '!are pret
ly sure to repay themselves for such ill
timed sobriety, by a glowing meridian ten
years after dale. 1 detest even virtues that
are uiina'."tJ'. I ha'e a matronly miss.
The cat should begin by being a kitten."
Some queer chap says that srain is treas
ted hke infants when the head becomes
heavy, it is cradled: fcntl generally it is
well thrashed 10 make it fit for use.
The ci!i:or of tho IVttnit Advertiser
amities Postmasters, that by tho tenor ol the
census bill. Assistant Marshals havo th8
pr.vlcrre r franking all matter counseled
with tlie performance of their duties.
Ssoine writer nn'-p tbc following observa
tion, winch is fn.'l of the fine gold of truj
wisdom : "M'-n slight the good they have,
in I'm anxiety f.ir tiie grod to come. They
waste their oil for to-day in fruitless at
tempts to procure a supply for tho morrow,
1 'or jetting that Ho who replenishes the
truie is inexhaustible."
It is str.ted that Mr. HUmoro hn two
brothers, who have nmo timo past resided
111 Washtenaw county, Michigan, one a
hmio carpenter, the other a blacksmith by
trade.
A convict in the Ohio Sts,to Prison, maJet
hi escape over tho wall in rather a singu
lar manner, tho othr day. Ho crawled
into a cannon, and got ono of his companions
tn shoot him over the fence. He landed ia
tho next county. Li.'iit constables and a
bed cord in pursuit of him.
The mm that killed himself hv eati.ig a
picklod elephant i 110 better, snd Hie doctors
expect ho will long remain so.
A school mistr?ss advertised lately for
n-i asisiant accustomed tn confinement.
Siio received an auwcr from the mother of
twelve children.