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MJEIYSVILLE, KLAJSTSAJS, SA.TTJKD.A.Y, NOVEMBER, 8. 1862
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and Fancy 'Groceries
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Vti r,L OUR, PLASTER PAR TS,
CEMENT AND WHITE LIME.
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'Opposite
the Slate Bank of Missouri.
. )OffiJI9Efi8iAL H0OJSE,
jOor. Gth and Commercial Streets, Atchison, Kan.
This Hotel is situated iu the moat pleasant part of thucityi
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'depend upon being accommodated w ith w tll-furni'-Lcd rooms
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'Te ha c a gooil stable, and will keep tuuns clamper tlnn
Bay one tl.o in tho place.
c r VVM.'STRATTONProprietor.
, WM. McLENNAN,
4 A1TORNEY AT LAW,
And t Solicitoi in Ghanceijv-
Worice Ji Main street, Nebraska City, X. T. Will attend to
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ATTORNEY AT LAW AND NOTARY
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
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JIarysville, Marshall Co. Kansas.
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Day, St, Louis. Headly & Carr; Bowman $ Co.;
Grimes & .Carter, Atchison, K. T. .Baker &
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v and.'Hftn. John Thompson Mason, Baltimore, Md.
"Hon. Sml. D. Lecompte; Wm. G. Mathis; Perry
, Lowe; and Ciark, Gruber & Co., jankers,
Jeavenwprtji, K. T. Lykins J- oyd; Vantear
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T2T, KANSAS,
' ' The Mermaid and:Liberty.
Under the ocean waves afar,
Beyond the light,qf sun or star,
A mVrmbid sat in he coral hall.
And saw the telagraph cable fall.
Past down the golden ledges it came,'
Slowly down like a line ot flame,
Breaking the branches from the trees,
That grow in groves under the seas.
Lodging Tiere on a mountain tall,
Leauinar there, irom an island wall ;
Sweeping for leagues the ocean oor,
Scaring'the monsters up to the shore.
The mermaid7 dressed her shining hair,
'With comb of pearl, and flowers as fair
,As those that bloom sn.nearthe skies ;
Sun, moon, an J stars, are in their eyes.
She looked and'wandcrect what could be ,
Falling so softly iu the sea.
Had the earth been ved"with the tide ?
LWas this a gold chain" for hir bride ?
Or was it a chain of Slavery,
Dropping slowly into the sea ?
Then leaping, from.her CrpthiCidoor,
,Sh lighted on the ocean floor. '
With her small hand 8he broke the chain ;
There are no slaves in her domain ;J
So now the silent cable lies
Broken, like England's sacred ties.
Were it to speak with tongue of flame,
It would proclaim" Brittania's shame;
When next it speaks its words will be,
'Ameiicaand Liberty !"
MINISTERING ANGELS.
Angels of light spread you t bright wings
and keep
Near me at morn ;
Nor.in thestarry-everrnor midnight -deep,
From all the dark spirits of unholy pow
er, ,Guard my weak heart.
Circle around me in each perilous hour !
And take my part.
Prom all foreboding .thoughts and danger
ous fcara,
Keep me secure ;
Teach me to hope, and through the bitter
est tears
- - ' t Still endure.
frIf Jonelfjijthe road sofalr andlwide
My feet sfiould stray,
Then through a safer, rougher pathway
guide
- ,'cy. -Me-dayb day.
Should nay heart faint at its unequal strife,
Oh, still be near
Shadpwrthe perilous sweetness ofyhis life,
with holy fear.
Then leave me not alone in this bleak
world, "' ''
Where'er I roam,
And at the end, with your bright wings
1 unfurled,
- - Oh take me home I
A NICE GIRL.
There i nothing half so sweet in life
half so beautiful or delightful, or loveable
asaunice girl."-Not a pretty, or a dash
ing, or an elegant girl, but a nice girl.
One of those lovely, lively, gopd-iempered,
good-hearted; sweet faced, amiable, neat,
little domestic creatures, met within .the
sphere's of "hame," diffusing around the
domestic hearth the influence ef her good
ness, like the essence of sweet flbwera.
. nice girl isnot the languishing beauty
dwadling on atfofaj and discussing the last
novel or opera ; or he giraffe-like thing
sweeping throigh, the drawing-room. The
nice girl may noterea dance or pjay well
and knowsnthiDgiabot-hi8ing-her eyes.'
oroquotting with afan 'She never lan
guishes ; she is too active. She is not'giv
enftto;scnsation ;novels, she ,is too busy.
At the operashejisjiotiinjJront showing
her bare shoulders; bat'site ouiet and un-
obtrusive-at'thVbacof-the. box, most
jjikely. In fact iOto oftenjn such
norne is her
place.
Who rises betimes4and luperintends the
morning meal ? Who makes the toast
and tea, and buttons the boyt' shirts, and
waters the ilowors, and feeds the chiekens,
and brightensupthe parlor, and aitting-
room ? Is it the languisher, or the giraffe
or the elegante ? Notaoitofit it is the
nice girl.
Her unaided toilet is made in the short
est possible, time, yet how charmingly itjs
done, and how elegant her neat dress and'
plain collar ! what kisses she distributes
among the family ! not presanting a cheek
or a brow, like a "fine girl," but an audi
ble smack which says plainlyj'l love you
so much," if ever I coveted anything it is
one of the nice girl's kissess;
BreakfastOTer down, inthe kitchen to
see about dinner ; and all day long it is
up and down always cheerful and light
hearted. Useful till the day is gone;
when she amuses the boys, and sings old
plays old tunes to her father for hours to
gether. She is a perfect treasure is the
nice girl.
When'.illness comes, it isshe that attends
with un wearying patience to tho sick
chamber. There is no risk, no fatigue
that she will not undergo ; no Sacrifice
the will not make. She is all love, 2.11 de
votion. I have often theught it would be
happiness to be ill to bo watcned by such
loving eyes and tended by such fair hands.
One of the most strongly marked char
acteristics of a nice girl,is tidiness in dress.
She is invariably associated in my mind
with a high neck frock, plain collar and
the neatest of neck-ribbons, ornamented
with the most modest little brooch in the
world. I never knew a nice girl who dis
played a profusion. ot rings and bracelets
or who wore lowdrejises, or a 'splended
bonnet.
I say again,, there is nothing in the
world half so beautiful, half so intrinsi
cally good, as a nice girl. She is the
sweetest flower in the path of life. There
are others far more stately, far more gor
geous ; but these we admire as we go by.
It is where the daisy grows that we lie
down to rest.
TnE GlBi. and Till Basket Tick.
The juggler calls the little girl to him and
begins to play with her. at first gently,
then a little more boisterously until at
last he thrusts her ro'Jghly under the bask
et, and tells her he shall keep her there
until she is good. The little girl begins
to whine and remonstrate from underneath
the bashet the juggler gets angry, scolds
her, and tells her to hold her tongue, etae
he will whip her ; but the little one is un
appeased, and the quarrel goes on, increa
sing in intensity, until at last the man in
a paroxysm of anger, draws his sword, and
thrusts it wildly into the basket. The
screams of the ehild are heart-rending
her yells and cries agonizing; but the jug
gler stabs and subs again, and works his
sword about the wicker-work in uncontrol
lable and fiend fiendish fury. The childs
voice ceases, and just a few heavy sobs are
heard, then, some fainter means, fainter
fainter, as the Jast gasps of a murdered
child would be and then all is still. The
juggler pulls his bloody sword from the
basket, wipes it, and composeaiy salaams
Mem Sahib and her friends, wo are gen
erally U a state of hysterical distress ;
sometimes, indeed the soldiers are4 with
difficulty restrained from tearing the man
to pieces, especially in one case known to
me, when the captain of the company,
himself quiveringin every limb with hor
ror and agitation, bad actually ta "to de
fend the juggler from the excited men.
Howit might have fared with him heaven
only knows, but that on his giving a pe
culiar cry, the little girl came bounding
and laughing into the circle, (comingr from
behind
behind, the soldiers), though every man of
l-Uwsi w
was reaay to awear that she had not
scenes that we diicove? her.
passed hint, and could not have passed
through the thick ranks any where.
Now
how is that trick done ? It is nothing
but
mere jugglery from first to last as much
mere jugglery as Torrin's trick of sawing
one live page into two ; but mere tricks
as it is, it is undiscovered yet, though
hundreds of shrewd, hard-headed unimag
inative, and scientific Inglish men have
seen it, thought about it, tried and been
baffled for half a dozen grnerations.
All the Tear Round.
&rA gentleman from the country, stop
ping at one of the hotels in Cincinnati,
entered into a conversation with one of
the boarders, askiug questions about the
fare, die. After a few moments' conversa
tion, the boarder dretv his, cigar case say
ing "Will you take a cigar, sir?"
"Well I don't mmd if I do,' was the re
ply. The cigar was passed to him ; also the
one which our boarder was smoking, for
the purpose of giving him a light, ne
carefully placed the cigar first haudedhim
in his pocket, and took his knife and cut
off that.end of the lighted cigar which had
been in the mouth of his friend and com
menced smoking, saying
"It ain't often a man from the country
runs aeross as clever a chap in the city as
you are."
A witty man can make a jest, a wise
man can take one.
Why is a fool like a needle ? He has
an eye, and no head.
What throat is the bestfor a singer to
reach high notes with ? A sore throat.
If you buy what you have no occasion
for, you will soon have to sell what you
can't spare.
If a young lady has a pain in her side
can she relieve it by wearing a sash ?
a bed of gold is a mine of wealth ; but
a boy whose father is very rich is a minor
of wealth.
Once in a minute, twice in a moment,
once iu a man's life ? the letter M.
Would the botanist classify the Ghost in
Hamlet, as a species of deadly night-shade?
Be diligent, frugal, and faithfnl, and
success is sure.
fgirLast Sunday a week ago a party
of Clevelander8, on a Aisit to Independence
were informed that one Phillip Herz, a far
mer in that town, had after whipping a
little six year old boy, a son ot nis con
fined him for four days and nights in the
hog pen without food, except what he
might find in the trough ; evidently for
the purpose of killiag the child. They
proceeded to the spot and found the poor
o in a horrid condition, emaciated to a
mere skeleton, hia clothes torn to shreds
and covered with filth, with hardly enough
life in him to stand up. The child was
rescue'd by them and delivered to a aeigh
bcr, and en the day following, on com
plaint of one ef them, to Justice Nichols,
a warrent was issued for the apprehen
o!nn nf fte inhuman father. Ha had
however, got wind of it and eluded the
vigilence of the officers, who returned the
nrocoss to that effect. From words spo
ken by him before his departure, and let
ters left behind him, it was suspected that
that the man had done himself some inju
ry. Search was made yesterday, and his
body found in the woods near his late res
idence. He had shot himself with a dou-ble-barrell
shot-gun, one of the charges
taking effect iJjf head, and the other
going through hi? hand.- (Clevelaad' Her
ald. jg-Good morningVMr- Henpeck ; hare
vou anv daughters thatwould make good
type-setters ? i
' "Not exactly, but Tve got awife ihtt
will make a first-rate-Duvil.atX
a
ottom of the sea. Mr. Graen, the fa
mous diver, tells singular stories of his
adventures when making seatch in the
deep waters of the ocean. He gives some
new sketches of what he saw at the Sil
ver Bank, near Hayti :
"Tho banks of coral on which y di
vmgs, narrated in a previous chapter, were
made, are about forty miles in lengjth, and
from ten to twenty in breadth.
Oa this bank of coral is presented to
the, diver one of the most beautiful and
sablimc scenes' the eye ever beheld.
The wanr varies from ten to ane hun
red feet in depth, and so clear that the di
ver can see from two to three hundrad
feet when he is submerged, with but little
obstruction to the sight.
The bottom of the ocean, in many places
on these bankt is as smooth as a marble
floor ; in athera it is studded with coral
columns from ten to one hundred in height
and from one te eighty feet in diameter."
An exchange says, grass seed should be
sown in the fall, because it is the natural
lime ; and as much so as winter rye or
wheat, By turning under the stubble of
your grain crops to prepare for sowing
grassseedyou give your grass the clean
possession of land. If sown with grain in
the spring, the tender grass plants are
crowded, above and below ground, by
grain and weeds above, and their roots be
low. and for three months 'have a hard
struggle for life in the shade. Can it sur
prise any one that, after such exposure
aid trial, his crops of grass, on. which his
hopes of a good crop are strongly ba?ed
should urove short and thin.
.'., ' ssssssa ess -i
A writer in the Oskaloosa Herald
gives his method of of preserving sweet
potatoes through the winter, nis plan is
as follows : I use dry sand to pat them
up in it don't matter how the sand was
dried in a kiln, a log heap, or in the sun
so it is dry that is all that is required... Ir
prefer drying it in a log heap, as it costs
at least four times less, and is just as good,
ind a family that has a little room with a
stove in in it, may keep a box or two, with
eight or ten bushels in them, Jwithouc any
inconveinco or consequence. The boxes
must be raised a few inches frem the
floor, and they must not be nearer than
four inches from the wall. Fill the hexes
with potatoes, and then put sand mntill
they are covered.
Proverbs of the BiLLruGs Family.
Preserved by Josh Billings, Isq.
Ef yu kant git gud close aad edicationtoo
git the gud close.
Say how ar ye ? to evrybody
Kultivate modesty, but mindand keep a
gud stock of impidence on hand.
Ef u argy, never git beat. "
Bee charitable thre cent peaces war
made a purpus. t
It costs more to borry than to by.
Ef a man flatters yu, yu kin kalkerlate
that he's a roge, or yure a fa 'e. t
Kepe both ize open, but doan't cec mor
ner haf yu notis.
n b these ar proverbs her stud for
morn a hunderd yers, and haint gin eut
w it
yit.
"Union Is not always strength," as
the sailor said as he see the purser mixing
water with his rum.
A Scotch paper tells the story of a
dairy farmer who after the burial of his
wife drove a hard bargain with the grave
digger, who bringing his hand downjJoB
his. shovel, exclaims : "Down wi anither
shjllin or np she comes.,' .
Xs you owe your printer pay him. "Tor
you will always uim mm nara up,
more' or less, usually moreS
P Ye "scads"
doth iot weigh his pocket heavily.
- Hememberthepriatetjin the days of
thy prosperity, andia yeur adversity he
remember theeW , -vs. ...
you owe for your paper f
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