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TTTE POST.
ATHENS, FBinAY, FEB. 80. IT.
New Yore, Feb. II. Mrs., Cunningham
hit been committed to the Toombs, on the
charge of being engaged In the murder of
Dr. Burdell. i
Mobile, Feb. 10. Several cotton presses
have been destroyed by fire here, involving n
loss of 15,000 bales of cotton.
Washington, Feb. 11. The two Houses
met In Convention to-day to count the vote
for President and Vice President. Buchnn.
an and Breckinridge were declared elected.
The vote of Wisconsin was received.
New York, Feb. 11. The evidence yes
terdny in the Burdell murder case, shows
almost to a certainty thiit Eckel and not
Burdell wna' the husband of Mrs. Cunning,
ham. Eckel hna refused to answer interro
gatoriea, on the ground of his being one of
the parties implicnted.
Boston, Feb. 13. The telcgrnphlc reports
of the thermometer down East, show a mtige
from zero to 33 degrees below.
St. Louie, Feb. 13. A Westport corres.
pondent of the Republican save the outward
Santa Fe miiil left the 3d. A letter from
Bents Fort, Nov. 23d, snys the Fort is safe,
but the Keo'wns have d-clared war. Bents
Fort has 25 whites and 400 friendly Che) en
Des to protect it.
The convention to frame a Constitution
for Kansas will meet at leompton on the
first Monday in September.
New Orleans, Feb. 12. The Black War.
rior is coming up, with .California dates to
the 201 h. Mr. Broderitk has been elected
Senator for the long term, and Mr. Gwin for
the short term. Both go to New York by
Geo. Law.
A eevere earthquake was felt in the
southern part of California. Trade at S;in
Francisco was dull, llining accounts are
favorable. There is nothing Inter definite
from Nicaragua. ' j
Rotation. The Washington correspon
dent of the Philadelphia North American
ays:
"It Is understood that Mr. Buchanan has
written a letter in reply to special inquiries,
signifying very distinctly that he intends to
rotate all the principal diplomatic incumbents
out of office. And the friends of Mr. Dallas
are not only quite prepared for such a contin
gency, but are willing the President elect
should exercise all his power. Whether this
policy will bo extended to Inferior places in
the same category, or Include others in dif
ferent branches of the civil service, is not
known. When Presidents begin to turn out,
they do not often atop at trifles.
1ST A correspondent of the Westorn Re
corder, writing from Greenville, S. C, says:
"I am within a few miles of the place where
the experiment was made of raising tea. It
has proved a failure. The plant will grow
well enough, but wages nre too high in this
country. We cannot afford to pick, roll up
and dry any sort of leaves here for half a
dollar a pound. In China, where a man is
hired for one dollar a month and board him
self, it may be done.
Dkatti or a Physician. The Petersburg,
V'nginia, papers anr.ounce the death on Sat
urday last of Doctor Hcnj. II. May, of that
city, in the 69th year of his age. For the
last forty years of his life he had been nfflicU
ed with total blindness which, however, did
rot prevent the practice of his profession, in
which he was eminently successful. He was
a brother of the late Judge May. and was
much esteemod by all who knew him,
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UFThe citirens of the Upper Peninsu.
la of Michigan last week petitioned the
Michigan legislature for the erection of a
separate State, to be called Ontonagon.
The Nkw Cabinet. The Washington
correspondent of the New York Journal of
Commerce says:
There Is an Increasing probability, or
chance, that the Hon. Win. L Marry will be
retained at the head of the State Department,
the affairs of which, for the Inst four years,
he Mas conducted with so much credit to him
self and the nation.
The Washington Star says no one will
know nnything about the new cabinet until
Jlr. Buchanan returns to Washington, which
will be about the 25th insk
Banc or WfsT Tennessee. The Tren
ton. 'I ennessee. Standard says that there is a
rennrt abroad that this hank has broke or
suspended. This is niJ correct. The Bunk of
West Tennessee reoeems us noies in specie
whenever presented. They are received here
as readily aa other noies. ,iiem cag
cf Enq.
Hrinatown In Orange county, New
York, are living a' man and hia wife who
have not spoken together for eight years.
They sleep in one bed, tako their meals at the
same table, and show not the slightest anger
towards each other. The only reason for
their obstinate silence la that each ia too
proud to speak first.
Qj- The next United Slatea Senate, aa
near as can be ascertained, after tilling the
vacancies, will contain twenty Republican
members, which Is a gain of five over the I
present vote and la nearly one-third of the
Senate.
Blue Ridge Rail Road. We have been
informed, from a reliable source, that a good
deal of excitement prevails in Anderson and
Pickena district, in relation to this important
enterprise, and that active exertiona are be
ing made to raise the amount required by
the State aa the condition of its second sub
scription on $5iK,000. Anderson, it is said,
subacribe 812,000; Pendleton snd Its neigh
borhood $12,000; and Walhalla $20,0i0.
Clayton is also aroused to the necessity of
doing something, snd will, we learn, sub
scribe !10,000; snd most of the contractors
will odd to the amount of stock taken by
them in payment for work.
We have been permitted to make the fol
lowing extract from a letter dated Ander
son, the 8lh of February:
"Sines returned from Charleston, we
'have held railroad meetings, at Pendleton and
Walhalla. - Our proportion to raise JJ7U.OUU
in the upper euuntry hna met with the most
flattering reception. A considerable amount
was subscribed promptly st both places, and
committees appointed to canvass the coun
try for aid. There is an appointment for a
mass meeting at Walhalla on Saturday next,
at which time we hope to raise the subscrip
tion at that place to $20,000. We feel cer
tain that we shall be able to redeem our
pledge to the Board of Directors at an early
day."
With these encouraging tidings in relation
to the subscription, we also learn that satis
factory progress if making in the tunnels.
The work Is going on at both extremities in
the main tunnel, and the first -shaft is so
nearlv sunk to the grade line that the head
ing has been commenced in both directions,
and several gangt can now be worked at the
same time, and there is every motive, cer
tainly, under circumstsnces so encouraging,
to persevere n this great work; and if thia
Road will do for Charleston what its friends
claim, we hope that the sum necessary to be
raised to secure the second State subscrip
tion will not be withheld. Ch. Cou.
Minnesota Tfumtory. The annual mes.
sage of Gov. Gorman, of Minnesota, shows
the population of the Territory tob 130,000.
The taxnble property amounts to between
thirty and thirty Sve millions of dollars. In
view of these facts, and of the large increase
in agricultural products, cash capital, Sic,
the Governor favors acliango from territorial
to a State Government, and recommends
that the speediest action, consistent with
other interests, should be taken to accom
plish the result. To this end he suggests
that a convention be called to form a censti
tution; that an act be passed providing for
the taking of a census in March or April,
and for such other preliminary steps as are
necessary; and that, if the constitution be
ratified by the people at the next October
election, it shall be presented to Congress in
the December following.
State Bank or N. C The legislature of
North Carolina has passed s bill Incorporating
the Bnnk of the State of North Carolina.
It increases the capital atock, now 1,500,000,
to $3,000,000 the State to take a half mil
lion, to be paid in annual installments of
8125,000, in State bonds; and individuals
may, within twelve months, take $1,000,000;
nnd whatever amount of the latter sum which
remains unsubscribed nt the end of twelve
months, may be taken by the State.
Delaware Legislature. Application is
to be made to the present Legislature of
Delaware to incorporate one or two more
lotteries, to run for a period of seven yeors.
Each proposes to the State 810,000 per year
tor the time the charter may extend. A bill
has been introduced to prohibit the banks
issuing notea under a less denomination than
five dollars.
"An III Wind," &.c The Boston Herald
mentions aa one of the incidents of the late
snow storm that a milk man got blinded with
the blowing snow, and failing to find the
village pump, drove Into town with several
cans of pure milk.
Truth is Stranger than Fiction!
From a lettor received by our countryman,
Mr. Robert G.Tomlin, we lake the lollowlng
extract. It ia from a gentleman whose veraci
ty for truth cannot be doubted :
Burke Co., Jan. 31st., 1851
Mk. R. G. Tomlin : The
most surprising thing that has happened is,
that Talion 11. Butler, a limber culler of
Scriven, went to Savannah since Christmas,
to sell timber, and was taken sick and it was
thought died. There being a boat about to
leave, his remains were deposited in a coffin
and sent home. On opening the coffin after
its arrival, he was discovered In smile. Medi
cnl assistance was immediately called, and it
ia aaid that he Is fast recovering. He was in
the coffin nearly two days and nighta
Casnille Standard.
rTWhether a people become learned,
depei dslcas on the number of their school
houses than on what they are taught. In
Tuscany, academies are more numerous than
they are in New York; but what do they
teach? That the King can do no wrong, and
that the Pope helps him. In Rome Geology
nnd Atheism are synonymous terms; while
Democracy is so surrounded with scare
crows, that a Republican is supposed to be
first cousin to the King of CuUhroats.
When the teaching takes the wrong di.
reclion, the more schools we have the more
ignorant we become.
Payment or thk-Stats Debt Interest.
The payment of the semi annual interest
on the funded debt of the 8late of Pcnnsyl.
vania. In Philadelphia, on Monday morning
by Mr. Fennimore, the State Agent. On thnt
day 8619.090 was paid out, and on I uesaay
about $20,000 more, making in all aome
$639,000 of which amount of interest about
two thirds go to foreign holders of the bonds.
The whole amount of aenii-snnual interest
payable at thie time Is between $900,000 and
$1,000,000.
ATHENS, TEM., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1857.
GREAT FRESHET.
Chicago. Ill Feb. 9. The fl iod his con
siderably damaged the Milwaukie Railroad
bridge. No trains are running. The Galena
Railroad bridge, at Elgin, was also swept
away, and a number of culverts were destroy,
ed The Fon Dulse Railroad track was car
ried away in several places. The Aux Plains
bridge snd the Burlington Railroad bridge
over Bureau river are gone. The Rock Is
land Railroad bridge at Dupngi river was
moved by the ice on Friday night, and an
engine, tender snd six cars were precipitated
into the river. A.nnmber of Railroad bridges
were carried awav on the Illinois river. At
Lasalle it rose 28 feet.
Harbisburg, Pa., Feb. 9. Several piers of
the Cumberland Valley Railroad bridge were
injured by the flood, and are in danger of
being destroyed; the cars have stopped run.
niag. The scene along the Susquehnnna- is
awful, and great destruction of properly ia
threatened.
Philadelphia, Feb. 9. The Ice in the
Schuylkill broke op Inst night. The water
carried away coa, wood snd lumber, snd then
subsiding, left canal boats on the wharves.
The damages are not so serious ae it was
anticipated they would be. We have similar
accounts from Oswego, Trenton snd Easton,
Pa. At Albany, N. Y., the water is three
feet higher than it was ever known before.
Wrecked houses nre coming down stream;
cattle and horses have been drowned; cellars
are filled with water, and lirea breaking out
in the lower part ot the city from slackening
lime. There is great confusion snd alarm.
Railroad trains are landing passengers nut.
side of the city, and no trains nre leaving.
The Hudson River and New York Central
Railroads are engulfed. The city of Troy,
N. Y., is nearly overflowed.
The freighl'depot at Grand Isinnd has
been burned, it was set on lire by slackening
lime.
Chicago, Feb. 9. Alrhostall the Railroad
river bridges in northern Illinois and Michi
gan arc impaired or destroyed by the freshet,
with a vast amount of other property.
The SurrsRiNO Mormons. A letter from
Salt Lake under date of October 31t says:
"We have dreadful accounts of the sufferings
among the Mormon emlgrnnts by the hand
cart train, which is r.ow in the mountains.
The train contained 350 souls. One-seventh
are already dead and they nre dying nt the
rate of fifteen per day. There are aome 600
more behind, of w hich we have heard noth.
ing. We hope they have stopped at Laramie.
It is impossible for them to get through this
fall. The Mormons estimated that there are
not less than 1500 of their brethren yet to
come in, and the snow is reported to be not
less than a foot deep in the mountains."
Judge James R. Donlittle, the republican,
who was elected to the United State's Sen
ate from Wisconsin on Friday last, is a na
tive of New York, where he was at one time
a zenloua democratic politician. In 1848,
however, he supported Van Buren for the
Presidency, nnd in 1850 emigrated to Wis.
consin, and was aoon after called to the
Bench of that State. He ia a large man, of
powerful voice and an orator of much pop
ularity. Rights or Married Women. The House
ofRepresentativesofliidiiina has passed a bill
securing to married women whose husbands
have deserted them, either voluntary or by
compulsion of a judicial sentence in cases of
felony, all their own property, real nnd per
sonal, all they may make duiing such deser
tion, and all the proceeds of debts due their
husbands, for tht support of themselves and
families.
A Rich Purr. A manufacturer and vend-
er of quack medicines, recently wrote to a
friend of hia living out west, for a 'good
strong,' recommendation of his the manufac
turers "Bnlsnm." In a few days he received
the follow ing w hich we call pretty "strong."
Dear Sir. The land composing my farm
has hitherto been so poor, that a Scotchman
could not get hia living off of it; and ao etony
that we had to slice our potatoes and plant
them edgeways, but hearing of your balsam,
I put some on the corner of a ten acre lot
surrounded by a rail fence, nnd in the morn
ing I found the rock had entirely disappear-
ert, a neat stone wan encirciea me neiu ana
the rails were split into oven wood and piled
uu svmetricallv in my back yard.
Put half an ounce Into the middle of a
huckelberry awamp in two daya it was
cleared off planted with corn and pumpkins,
and a row of peach trees in full blossom
through the middle.
As an evidence of its tremendous strength
I would say that it drew a atriking likeness
of mv eldest daughlei, drew my eldest son
out of a inillpond, drew a blister all over his
stomach drew a load of potatoes four
miles to market and eventually drew a prize
of 97 dollars in the Lottery.
Of'A prisoner in the Michigan peniten
tiary, sentenced to solitary confinement, was
found dead in his cell on the morning of the
11th. A stenmpipe passing through the cell
to warm it, had burst, and, as no cry for help
could be heard by the keeper, to save him
self from being cooked to death, the poor
man cut his throat.
Rather Tough. The Bangor (Maine)
Journal telle a story of a loafer who was
furnished with lodging in the watch house
In that city, "ne night recently, whose slum
bers were 'disturbed by a yoracioua rat, who
gnaw, da hole an inch in diameter through
the heel of his boot, and opened a venlilu
tor in the crown of his hat considerably
larger than a "pig'e eye." They have great
rats in Bangor
ttJ- The Lafayette (Vn..) Journal aaya:
"On the Friday night down train, on the Wa.
bash Valley road, the conductor, in passing
around for tickets, asked a passenger, w ho
was sitting m ar the atove, for his fare, when
Instead ot alickek the passenger thrust a red
hot poker Into his hand, burning it terribly.
The train was stopped snd the fiend put off.
We understand that one or the brakemen
avenged the Indignity by soundly thrashing
the acoundml
Maeino a Conquest. 'Fred, said a wag
to a conceited rp,'l know a beautiful crea
ture who desiree to make your acquaintance.'
Glad to hear It Hue girl god taste
struck with my fine appearance, I suppose!'
'Yes, very much so. She thinks you
would make a capital playmate for her poo
dle dog.'
DIVISION OF THE PENNSYLVANIA
DEMOCRACY.
The Pittsbnrg Despatch refers to the fact
that the friends of Gen. A. D. Foster are not
-disposed to suboit quietly to the denuncia
tions of the Permsylvanian (Forney'a organ)
snd the attempt of Wm. B. Rankin, of the
"Keystone Club," to "read out of the party"
those members m ho declined to go into the
Democratic Senatorial Caucus of the Penn
aylvania Legislature. TheWestmnreland De
mocrat "comes back" at the Forney wing of
the Democracy with a manly Independence
of the powers that ARE to be, which is truly
refreshing in these days of truckling subser
viency to those having political station where
with to reward favorites. We give a few ex
tacts; "Gen. Foeter, nd the remainder of the
eight men, coulrf neither be bought, hribed,
nor whipped into submission to the dictato
rial mandates if C' President elect
Let the Eastern Democracy have a care.
Westmoreland iTT ssstain her representa
tives. Like them, she can neither be bought
by the attempted open bribery of place and
position, nor be si!ened by the threaten- '
ings of authority." I
"Mr. Buchinan did interfere.
On the very day of the iassembling of the
Democratic cnucus, a lelte; was brought to
Harrisburg from Mr. Buchjinan, proclaiming
that Col. Jun. W. Forney has his choice lor
Senator, with the assurance that he (the
President) would be undel personal obliga
tions to every man, both h and out of the
legislature, who would ail in his nomina
tion. That was s direct brjbe to members of
the Legislature. t It was growing open the
whole patronage ot the incdiiirrg administra
tion to effect Col. Forneys nomination.
There is scarcely a membertf the Assembly
who does not, either directly or indirectly,
for himself or hi friend, desire from Mr. Bu
chanan's administration somninstnr position,
and each felt thr.t anything Which he might
do to put him under obligations would surely
result in profit to himself, t, was too much
to stand, and it was too much for Goneral
Foster's friends to submit tojtamelv.
They know the power of h administration,
and felt that it would be follp to go into cau
cus to vote against the man w hose pockets
were filled with the commisions for every
office in the gift of the cotniig Nutional Ad
ministration." ' ,'
"The friends of Gen. Foster nre not in a
position of hostility to Mr. Buchanan or his
administration. They believe that his inter
ference with the judgments and feelings of
the members of, the legislature was an un
warrantable assumption of dictatorial autho
rity, and it was resented in a proper way.
They cannot be read out of the Democratic
party. All the bilter denunciations of the
Pennsylvnnian, and howling of the truckling
hounds who bow in miserable subserviency
before the mandate of the President, and
who think denunciations of Gen. Foster snd
his friends will br acceptable to him, cannot
drive them from the support of democratic
measures."
As for Mr. W: B. Rankin of the Keystone
Club, whose "virtrious Indignation" pervades
the denunciatory resolutions of thnt organ I
zation, the Demeerat calls attention to his
former bitter "nslivism,"and to the notorious
fact, at the Willinmsport State Convention
of 1850, he was the man who paid a bribe of
three twenty dollars Middlelown note to
John S. Donahue, a delegate from Philadel
phia county. Tie indignation of so virtuous
a politician willscarcelycrubh the Democracy
of Westmorelaldl
Changes in J Temperature. It f ,ie , the
opinion entertained by both, professional men
and people gentrally that great and sudden
changes in temperature nre unhealthy, but it
is the opinion of Captain Hartstein that it is
not so. In his account of the Polar Sea Ex
pedition, be says:
"Nature lias qualified man to breathe an
atmosphere of one hundred and twenty de
grees above zero, or sixty below it, without
injuy to health; and me aocirme ol physi
cians' that great and sudden changes of tem
perature are injuries to health, is disproved
bv recorded facts. There sre very few nnvi-
gators who die in the Arctic zone, it is the
most healthy climate on the globe to those
who breatho the open air. We have among
our associnte observers one who observes and
records the changes of temperature in Aus
tralia, where the temperature rose to one
hundred and fifteen degrees at two o'clock,
P. M.,and next morning it was down to forty
degrees a change of seventy five degrees in
fourteen hours; there the people nre healthy;
and another at Franconin, N. H., where the
changes are the most sudden, the most fre
quent, nnd of the greatest extent of ony place
with which I am in correspondence on the
American continent; and yet there is no town
of its size thnt so great a portion of its in
habitants pass the age of three score years
and ten. It is the quality of the changed air
that constitutes the difference that physicians
notice, and not the temperature."
The Mississippi Legislature has just pass
ed a bill prohibiting any owner of slaves
from punishing them with more than "nine
and thirty lashes" at any one time or for any
offence, under penalty of fine nnd Imprisun
ment. All other unnecessary cruelty to
slaves is also mado indictable and punish
able by fine and imprisonment.
Value or Science. Orange or lemon
juice left upon a knife or other piece of iron
will, In a tew anys, pruuuee n suim so neany
resembling thnt caused by blood as to de
ceive the moat careful observer, and not
mnnv venrs ago, in Paris, a man was nearly
convicted of murder, owing to a knife being
found in his possession stained with what
was pronounced by seversl witnesses to be
blood, but afterwards discovered to be simp
ly lemon juice,
Is it True! In an old play, entitled, 'My
Son get Monov,' occurs a reply from Sir
Humphrey Slapio, a sonu man, to oir. ueau
fort, a fine gentleman, wherein Sir H. says;
"You may. be dishonest while you are get
tinir an estate, but when you hnve once got
It, I will answer tor you, you shall be honest
again." Ot a piece with thia is the following
dufinitinn of money: "A composition to take
staiua out of a character.
tJff"Did vou say, sir, that you considered
Mr. Smith insanet" asked a luwyer of a wit
ness in a criminal ease,
V.. air. I did."
"Upon what ground did you base that in-
ferenceT'
Whv I lent him a silk umbrella and five
dollars in cash, and he returned them both."
Blackstone was satislied
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
This history of the self styled Democratic
party of thia country forma the greatest re
proach to human nature to be found in the
annala of this age. It has never, in its
whole career, posesscd any principles, save
thoae of the five loaves and two fishes; nev
er exhibited any consistency, save in a per
sistent pursuit of the spoils of office.
Professing to be preeminently democratic.
it has subjected its members to a despotism
worse than that of Louis Napoleon a eerf-
dom more degrading than that of Russia
an aristocracy more arbitrary and absolute
than thnt of ancient Venice. Profeasing to
be par excellence the friend and advocato of
the doctrine of economy in the administra
tion of the government, it notoriously squan
ders the public money amongst ita parti
sans, and allows its minions to plunder the
public Treasury and the public domain ad
libitum and with perfect impunity. . Profess
ing to be the peculiar friend of the South, it
has by the passage of the insidious, iniquit
ous Nebraska act, destroyed the last hope of
the South in the Territories. Professing the
doctrine of Non Intervention in foreign af
fairs, it yet, during a Presidential canvass,
promises the acquisition of Cuba, "by hook
or by crook" a promise it takes care never
to fulfil when thu time for fruition comes.
Professing to be agninst all Banks, it has,
nevertheless, wherever it had the power,
chartered thousands of State Banks, and is
responsible for every monetary revulsion
that ever affected and desolated the country.
In different sections it enrries entirely dif
ferent colors and sets its sails to catch every
popular breeze that blows. Atthe North, it
is for "Free Kansas;" at the South, it is for
"Slave Kansas." At the North, it is for
Squatter Sovereignty; at the South it de
nounces the doctrine na most infamous. At
the North, it is for a Protective Tariff; at the
South, name "protection" to its members and
they are for resistance revolution rather
than submit to it. At the North, it is for the
improvement of Rivers and Harbors; at the
South, against it. At the North, it frowns
upon Walker's operations in Central America;
at the South, it lavishes upon the young he.
ro its blandest smiles. At the North it is
enthusiastically in favor of preserving the
Union; nt the South a majority of ts leaders
are continually plotting its downfall!
In short, the whole history of the Demo
cratic party proves conclusively and beyond
the possibility of contradiction, the truth of
Mr. Calhoun's celebrated remark, that it w as
"heldtogether alone by the cohesive power
of the public plunder" For this, -aod this
alone, its leaders struggle; for this, and thia
alone they flatter the foreigners, corrupt the
ballot-box, bribe Congressmen and other
legislators; and but for this the party would
die as dead as Hector in less than a 'hun
dred days.' Memphi$ Eagle.
The Profits oi the Slave Trade. It is
estimated that about forty vessels are engaged
in this country in the slave trade. These, it
is calculated, ship 600 negroes each from the
African const, of whom 600 are landed at the
port of destination. Allowing $3,000 for
ench vessel for brokerage and commission
from the port whence she sails, $4,000 on
each vessel for wages for officers and men,
$15 a head for the purchase of negroes on
the African coast, and $42 to aecure the
landing of ench negro at the port of delivery,
the whole cost would come up to 81,467,000.
Twenty thousand negroes, at $500 a head,
would produce $10,000,000, a clear profit of
$8,524,000, or upon two voyages a year, more
than $17,000,000.
Damages. A Indy named Purnell has re
covered from the Richmond and Petersburg
Railroad Company $4,158 damages for inju
ries sustained by herself on the roid; $2,408
for injuries to her son, nnd $900 for the loss
of a servant who was killed.
fjir A funny story is told of a man who
stole a five dollar bill out in Indiana. Hia
counsel tried to prove that the note was not
worth five dollars, it being nt a discount, in
order to lessen the crime. The prosecutor
said he knew the prisonor was the meanest
man in the State, but he did not think he
was ao all fired mean as not to be willing to
steal Indiana money at par.
pgr It was said by an observing philoso
pher, many years ago, in the Cincinnati mar
ket, that "Wherever you see ninny of them
'ere snssingers, you don't never see no dogs."
ft Gov. Pollock. of Pennsylvania, declines
being a candidate for re-election.
t-ff" Caroline Van Dusen, a widow of
seventy years, hung herself at Hudson, New
York, a few dnys since.
fjf James A. Bayard, Senator from Dela
ware, is said to be the best billiard piny or In
the United States.
tgfST William Waddill, an Assistant Post-
master at Selma, Ala., was arrested on the 6th
inst. by D. P. Blair, special agent of the Post
Office Department, charged with robbing the
mail.'
2fA great deal of discomfort srises from
over sensitiveness of what other people may
say of you or your actiona. Many unhappy
persons seenl to imagine that they are always
in an amphitheatre, with the assembled world
aa spectatora; whereae they are playing to
empty benches all the while,
Fool-Hardiness. A man named Forner,
living near Miltenaburg, Ohio, on the 15th
ulL, bet a dollar that he could walk home, a
dist nee of five Dines, barefooted. He won
his bet and lost both his fee'.; which were so
badly frozen as to require amputation
Dear Egos. This Indeapenaable for
housekeepers, were selling st CO cents per
dozen last Saturday at nicninonu,
MR. PINCHBECK'S SPECULATION,
BT rBEDERICK B. COZZENS.
William Dorry, er aa he waa called by hia
frienda snd everybody else, "old Dorry," held
a grand levee on Sunday night at his com
fortable quarters in Twenty second street.
A suite of rooms on the second floor, a book
case lined with fluted and faded green silk,
that kept out of view two shelves of aplcy
novels and twelve shelves of boxes of segnrs,
pots of pickles, packs of cards, bottlea filled
and half-filled with divers colored fluids,
meerschaum pipe, slippers arid many other
things peculiar to bachelor's establishments;
a score of pictures on the walls, pink cheeked,
die-awayed eyed, red lipped nudities in dis
habilla famous horses, groomed to the ut
most polish and a brace of dogs' heads; a
sofa snd pillow, chairs of fashionable pattern;
and a aide table with a pitcher in a tempting
slate of dew 'and beside it a few glasses,
large and small, with a decanter of old brandy,
constituted the establishment of Mr. William
Dorry.
Dorry waa aSne specimen of a large old
bachelor; none is. i yur small, wiry prodnc.
tions all wig and whiskers bnt a portly
gentleman in a broad white vest with a broad
black watch ribbon, a spotless shirt bosom,
nn easy smile, good teeth, rosy complexion,
curly hair, and a merry twinkle in hia attrac
tive blue eyes. He was one of those good
tempered fellows who always enjoy life and
its good things who live to eat, drink and
make merry, no matter what comes of it. At
watering places, he was gonernlly to be found
in the midst of a bevy of merry girls and
matrons, and at home he had a set of friends,
old and new, who made the time pass pleas
antly enough with horses, the chilis, cards,
and a few other simple amusements.
There was a captivating grace in the move
ments of Dorry's hands, at they slid the cards
through each other, and turned them over to
his right hand friend to "cut." Then to aee
him.
"With curved and pliant wrist, dispense
the pack," was beautiful.,- The company as
sembled in his rooms amounted to but half a
dozen in number namely, four bachelors and
two married rascals, who ought to be ashamed
of themselves. There are two tables; at one
presides Dorry in all the majesty of whist,
and at the other the two married men, in the
full enjoyment of their liberty, are aomewhat
boisterously demonstrating to their single
triund, by a game of three handed uchre, that
the sum of any two sides of a triangle is
greater than the third tide, -
"Where's Pinchbeck to night?" said one of
the married.
''Don't know," chirps ont Dorry, "Saw hlra
after church, walking home with old Poplar's
girl (my trick, and that mnkes a book.")
"Think he'll make a strike there?" asks the
liberated. -
"Can't say," answers the host, in all the
glory of his white teeth; ("and two honors)
but I think Old Pop ought to keep his weather-eye
open; Pinch seems to be mighty pop'lar
in thnt quarter."
At thi all the guests burst ont into a
laugh, and one of the two aides of the trinn
gle immediately consigned his soul to eternal
caloric, "if thnt was not the best thing he
had ever heard in his life."
"Pinch is a mighty good fellow," aaid one
of the whiBt-plavers.
"A mighty good fellow," echoed the party
in chorus.
"And what I like in him is that he never
puts on any nir on account of his family
that's whnt I like to aee in a man."
"Pity he hadn't a little more money," said
Dorry, with a merry twinkle in the corner of
his eves. '
"That's so." replied a aide of the triangle,
who had just been euchred, "and then ho
wouldn't hnve to use his friends so often."
"Owe you anything s said Dorry.
"Yes, a Icetle," answered the euchred
party.
"Owe you anything ?" aaid Dorry, nodding
to the whist player on his right hand, ('one
byc."do ... , , , n
"Well, he don I owe nnyDony eise.
"Yes, he does too, for he owes me," said
left-handed whist-player.
"And I'm in there," said Dorrv s partner.
"IM bet," said the host, "there's not one
of us here in this room that Pinch does not
owe borrowed money to (honors ore easy.;
At this, the other two sides of the trinngle
affirmed separately, and of their own accord,
that thev would ike to bet thnt wav, loo.
"It'a a cursed mean trsit in a man," said the
profane individual, "to bo alwaya sponging
on his friends in thnt way."
"Oh! yes;" echoed the pnrty, in contemptu
ous chorus.
"Such a man am t fit to associate with gen
llemen " aaid the Drofane one, with a dupli
cate consignment of himself to the place
previously alluded to.
"1 hat a so, "cnorusea uorry, mm menu.,
I th'inb " airl th nrofnna mail, "we are
bound to cut him dead, every one of us; if I
don't " And here followed another con-
signmcnt of himself, nt bis own personal risk,
to the same locality.
"So say we all or us," ecnoea me pinyem,
but iust at this, juncture the street door bell
announced a visitor, and the next moment
Lorenzo was in the room ana aliasing nnm
violently with everybody in it. "Why, Pinch,
my bov.howare you?" "GWe us your hand,
old fellow." "Been murning your absence.
"Uok as fresh as a primrose to night," and
other endearing epithets broke irom tne par-,
ty, while prolans one was msking out a fresh
consignment for a place not to be named, by
way of welenme, as old Dorry was proposing,
"Now, since Pinch has come, we'll take drinks
all around."
T .nv fhat Lorenzo wr-s aneedily engaged
aa a fourth hand at the euchre table, would
be to atate a fact simply, and notning else;
fnr in i. fnw moments he was turning up
"right bowers," and "going It alone," and
"making a marcn, ami jjrumijr ieuuumb- mc
little pile of earnings which the two married
ones had been accumulating that evening, to
tie grent joy of h'.s profane friend and partner
opposite, who participated In the spoils.
Then after the game was over, nnd the room
beran to look misty, and the dew was off the
pilcher.and the old Cognao nearly exhausted,
he proposed to his profane friend to "cut for
a half and won, and ao grndunlly led him
on, dollar by dollar.until he had reduced him
to two dimes, a Uulhplck, and a few feeble
oaths.
When matters rewhed this crisis, Lorenzo
gracefully took a drink of brandy and water,
for he had scarcely touched it before, and
ahnking hands again all round, left the
rooms.
"Mankind," said Lorenzo to himself, ss he
walked briskly down theovenne,"ia an inati
tution peculiarly human in its actiona. I
fleeced that party to-night, and I eon do It
every night in the year, and yet they would'nt
see into it Now, what is the philosophy of
it, considered In a bird's eye point of view!
They play for amusement and there they end,
I play Tor money! and there I begin cotiae
..! ! I t.la tlia dollars and leave the fun
quciitir , - "
to them, Playing cards for amusement!
VOL. IX.-M. 439. .
gambling for amusement! Thnf Is hnman
enough, oh! oh! eh ! I know what they are at
now trying to tnaxe n o nv a iuu
game among themselves. Ilo! ho t the poor
devils. Going it sharp and hungry enough
no doubt What a prime field human nature
is, after all 1 The soil hi deep, rich and gen
erous, and to look at it in an agricultural
point of view, how well it pays the man who
knows how to cultivate it."
Rsieea n a Him FfltTSn Not lOTIfr BinCS.
whils the workmen were digging a well near
North Bend, Ohio, the skeleton of s plan, or
lather of a giant, waa found, twenty-nine feet
oelOW tne suriace OI m earui wnu, wocu
living, towered to the enormous height of"
twenty three feet and ten inches. The skele.
- M:tiAllw vnmlnrl hv Prnfpaanr
.Mil V.III1 VII.IVWIIJ " J - "
IJnd, who arrives at the startling fact,, that
. . LI f-. IJ: 4L
IhlS monster man was cajmuie oi wieiuing inn
forearm with eufficient force to have throws
a cannon ball weighing 18 peunds from Cin.
ln.t Ia Tn 4 n - ..tiu fT rl i1 A A ff fift
L I f I , i n . I it, iii,iif,iiaLr..i.-. w. , ,.vv
miles; or to have taken a large millstone in
. ,. ,ij.-,.t- i-. . . .
encn nana, ana nave waiaeu win periwi,
at the astounding rata of Zli miles an hour.
J e-r-u t a-l-e-m!
An exchange paper discovors over six
ty persons mentioned ss having been frozen to
death during the cold weather of the present
winter we presume in the United Stats.
The number observed is possibly but an In
dex to a mtveh greater mo.-tality from the
same cause. .. , .i
Land Paying for itself in One Crop.
The late sheriff of Spotsylvania county, Vs.,
Rout C. Duerson, sold a farm of 300 acres
for $800. The purchaser fut 8 acres in tobac
co, which he cured and brought to Richmond,
and after paying all expenses, carried home
$1,000. ' '
, 9gr Mrs. Ross, at Niagara, N. "Y., died
very suddenly in the night, nobody being In
the house at the time but a little grnad daugh
ter, aged three years. The child was unable
to open the door, and remained until the next
afternoon in solitary companionship with the
corpse, which lay stretched upon the floor.
She was then discovered by the neighbors,
who were attracted to the house by her
cries. ,
Fraud of Flour Dealers. A correspon
dent of the Boston, Mnss., Herald, says: "A
few days since I bought a barrel of flour, and
to satisfy myself that it weighed 196 pounds
I thought that I would weigh it, and it foil
short 25 pounds. Last fall I bought a bar
rel of flour, nnd in the middle of the barrel I
found a paving stone weighing 15 lbs.
C7 To cure a pain in the brenst, procure
a well made woolen dress with nn equally
well constructed woman inside of it, nnd
press closely to the part affected. Repeat
the application till the pain crises. This re
ceipe, when the directions are carefully ob-
mrt ,x. t.nn tairljr tiow --- -
fecting a cure. The medicine ia found In
almost every household, and may possibly
cost a triflo,
A Waggish spendthrift said "Five years
ago I ws not worth a cent in the world; now
see where I am through my own exertions."
Well, where are you?"
"Why I owe more than three thousand
dollars."
3flt will be learned with regret,' that
the Hon. L. M. Keitt, of South Carolina, has
been attacked with a disease similar to that
which put an end to the life of his colleague,
Mr. Brooks."
J-f?"An Intelligent nurseryman, M.B. Batch
am, of Columbus, Ohio, states that the fenri
of injury to the fruit buds by the recent In
tense cold are groundless. He has examin
ed the buda, and they nre uninjured.
Chuknino. In churning butter, if small
grnnules of butter appear which do not
gather, throw in a lump of butter and it will
form a nucleus, and the butter will come.'
fy"Wake upend pay for your Indgingt
said the. deacon a' he nndged a sleepy stran
ger with the contribution box last Sunday,
A Toast. "Newspaper borrowers" may
their's be a life of single wretchedness; nod
may their paths be carpeted with cross-eyed
snakes, and their nights bo haunted with
knock kneed torn cats, provided they do
not live next door to a subscriber who hoa
paid for his paper.
A Hint to Advertisers. Warren'e cele
brated blacking manufactory has now ceased
to be. The business has "died" out simply
from a resolution taken by the proprietors
who succeeded the spirited original of the
firm, "to discontinue advertising in the news
papers as a nseless expense." The conse
quence might have been foreseen. The Arm
of Warren has ceased ' to exist within one
generation. ' J
(Kr-Out of the entire command of Col.
Jack Allen, which left Louisvillo in June last
for Nicaragua, only eight remnin alive accor
ding to the Inst accounts.
'Helton! I say, what did you eay your med
icine would curef
'Oh! it'll cure everything heal anything!
Ah! well, I'll take a bottle, may be it'll
heel my boots they need it badly enough!
"Pray, Mrs. Zapriska, why do you whip
your children so often?"
"La, Mr Worthy! I do It for their enlight
enment. I never whipped one of them In
my lile that he didn't acknowledge that It
nude him smart!"
&T Ma, la the portrait of father torar
asked a little cherub of three airliners"
"Nn, child why do you askl"
Why, this morning he said darn my pic,
ture. '
A Remedy tor Chilblains The N. Y,
Journal of Commerce asys: "Heat a brick
very hot, and hold the foot over it ae close
ly as it can be held without burning. Cut
nn onion In two, and dipping it repeatedly In
salt, rub It over the foot The juice of the
onion will be drhd Into the font, and effect
a cure In a very abort time. If thia Is done
a few timet, it Is almost certain to cure your
feet."
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