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1 L--A n t,.-'. tjiM ; .... '. vvii. "I; ii' I (I 1 ' r '.TT'-r:';r r . . . . . ' 9 per amnm, A- WEEKLY JOURNAL--DEVOTED TO POLITICS, LITE It Unnj AQItlCULTUIlE, COMMERCE, AND NEWS. l do ilvbi. pjSjERItr . ' POMEROY, TUESDAY :.IARCH, 1859.";;: '--ly -;V 1VH0LE NUMBER 861 ;: PUBLISHED WEEKLV, BY All businees of the firm transacted by ; , ' ' A. B. M'LAUOHLIN, Wbo'sliMld ba applied to or addressed at .11 rtU-Telejrsph; Oflioe, Pomeroy, U- TiiRMa OFWBSCRIPTIOF 'Widvaacf'.' : '' 't v Jf p(4 wltbln th r, T. J I tI-50 J , s.oo TT?"S pantrwin b Oltoontmocil ontil 11 rrear (V r j;ia,icoitVth option cf lhe-put.lll.ii. r' VTH LAW OF SEWdpAPBRa." 1. abienban who do not (?iv txpnn noic 10 tb eoutrarT, an oomldorea a wuumi " k. I - ...k..ll..llAna I .. If trtbioriUuM order UiodUcnntinuanco of Iholr paport, th iullthor can conlinuo 10 nnu mom uu- tll all arroarfJ aro paid. . - 3. lfubcrlbrno(tBctcrTorutotakotholrpa- p.r. rrom tba olflco to whl.h thv are dlrucUd, thay ara hald roapoi"lla till they aetllo tholr kill, and or- Uar tba paper uuconiinueu. 4. If any aubicrlber roinorea to another plnco : withoatlnr.rmli.)ttho pukliber, and their paper U aonlto the formordlroctlon, the aubscrlber 1 held re- PS.""Tb'court hara docldod that refiislnir to take a nawipHper fniiu the ofllP", or rmiiovhig and l""""'!; it uncalled for, lapriiuii facie e Idenco of Intentional f"Ud" RATEH OP ADVERTISING: BinlneCar.t,0 linen arte, one yonr, : t 3 OU Oneauare, thlrtsen llnoa or les, throo wceka, 1 ue ach lubse'inuut liuortlon, : ! ! Una iunro threa mouth, : : y" y.ur tiiiuire aix nionint, s . - r; . Oaf fuaro one yuar, : ' ? " Oi-1ourth column od year, 8 5 t . 13 ui) I One-half column one yeur, : : ! 8 su oi i i i,,u...i..iirtii of column ono vear. : : ss uo Ono column one year, : : : 8 : : 30 uu Cauinl or trautieut advertuoineina uiui uo puiu for In advance. , . AUYrtUrinent not havln(f the nnmbar of Inaor t'on marked ou copy, will bo contluuod until lor- kid, nnd charced accordlnsly. $lof lo. SADNESS The calm blno iky of June o'erbead, Knrth'a emerald carpet 'neaih my feet, While elm umbrntfou, round me apread, t And zephyra waft tboti oilom iweet; finre Joyous life o'or ull bulh wny . Why bbould my heart be aud to-dayt. The maple'a crlmnon Rlory wane, , Hoj- coronal of beauty full, . , Ah mel my hoart a a. rlt-f retain. That ladlna:s;low airaln recall; Rniins;, with hor (rift of life and bloom, Huth nerer tarried by the tombl .. " - - 4 .--n . .'. 1. 1 U--: ' ' One -thomo for tnar and earneBt praye t n piure oi nuaiiii'a intuiiiur roaa, . ' ' Jlriirdt the flush the inupia wear V. : . r, ' W hoivIny hor farewell kt bestows, r Glowed wilu prophmio wo a cheek Whore still sat, nulling, patleuca meek. That baleful glow and patient smile, il hrouKh the brief summer llnpurod here, 1, hopeful, watching both the while, htrTvinir to quell euch rlallifc fear; Till allium cumo, a gloomy ruest. And brighter robe the uiuple dressed. Then to a marble palenoss changed That fair cheek, dimpled yet with smiles, And wind that hill and vulley ruiiffeil, Swept through the forent' vacant utsles, Strewing with fuded leuve earth breuat Where the lonj; sutTering luy at rusU I know, I know n fairer clime Thu dear departed hath than oura, "Where never fudu the uton'8 prime, And never blight assails the flower; Yul doth thu niHpIo' crimson low Keturn thut luuimor limo of woo. Tlio eye thut first behold with mo Juno's uzure dome, earth's blooming face, AJino meet not uud,one voice of gluo '.Miu auiiiiiiirsong I may uot tr.iee; And, there-lore, while ull cUo are guy, Is my lono keurt so and to-duy. BUSINESS DIKliCTOHY. LAWYEKS. T. A. PLANTS, Attorney and Councelor at Law. tJi.nmroy, O. Ofllco In tho Court House. S1MPSQN & LASLEY. Attorneys & Couiiaeloraut law and generul collecting agent, Foinoroy, O.- offlce in the fonrt-House. 5-ly. JOUN K. HAMNA. JAl On. KA-illtKT. II ANN A -is EARIIART, Attorneys r.1 Lnvt, Poiuoroy, O. AH business entrusted to their care will recoivo prompt nltiMilion. 1-1 HlOMAS CA11LETON, Altai ney and " Counselor nt Luw. OllK-o. 1-iMi htrect. cunt side, two door above T. .1. Smith' Shop Vtorff. oppuMl.'. tlio Kcminirtoii Hoiiso. All liiwlni-as onlrisxli'i to hit can- will re'civi- prompt iilli'iition. LHlr rioTKI.S. tJNITiiD bTATKS HOTEL. M. A- Hciwon. Hropriotor; (fo-meriy occupied by M. A Webter) nn iHiuar-i b(.'lw ihe Hiilliiig-iHill.Hoino-rov, O. Bv ondnavor to iicioiiiniodi le both man and beo.it tii tho hem manner, Mr. Iluds.ni hopes to reoeiva a constantly Increasing pairomigo 2-5-ly. " " PHYSICIAN'S. From tho Petersburg Express. TilE BItOItCIV IlCAItTliO; OR, CRIJIE ITS OWN AVENGER! A. S. PATRICK, Physician and fcui ;eon a. Matwii City. V. AUoaUa t-o thuountry proinptly BttenAd to. ' VK GiODS GKOCUKIES CLOTHING. ISAAC FALEil, Clothier. Grocer and Dry Good Denier, iirst Sloro v KnniiKlly ife funnino-' . nrtxr Urn Koillii''-.MHI. Pomoroy, O. Couuuy Merchnnls iiro respectfully r'UOU-il to call nod c-jcnmina my stock of Uroccric, us 1 am contl.lioit that 1 eiinnot bo iimlorsold. -- O. BRANCH di CO., Dealers in Dry Good-, Grocerius. Hurdw;:r. Qiioonswiiro, Scc Eiiat si.le of O inn street, threo doora above thu corner or Ki'inl. I "I STO VKS T .' NAV . UK. "What though the uplcy breoio, Blow soil o'er Ccxlon'a inle; l hoogh every pro&pCct nleuses, And only n'uiu 1 vile!'' Curiously enough, I was just repealing this Btanza, when my new acquainUinee called fur me. I had met with him while ou a business visit to Ceylon, as a euun tryman of mine, and was pleated with the opportunity that afforded me a more inti mate personal knowledge. 1 thought myself fortunate in falling in with B'J agreeable a gentleman, and con sidered his face and man nets peculiarly icCiied. Ou our second meeting I noticed a singular restlessness of the handsome dark eyes, and iriitable bitterness of the lips, and a disposition to be constantly on journing in an enchanted spot, and that aotne J'orror was suddenly to' break upon me. - . At my side, nearly coveiing a beautiful table of letter-wood, were several costly gift-books. I look them up carefully, for 1 have a reverence for books --and turning to the fly-leaf of a splendidly bound copy of Shakspeare, read: - ' '- """""TVMary Francis F ' , from lier de voted husband Henry E. F ."' A thrill of surprise and anguish ran from vein to vein. My thoughts seemed paralyzed. The truth bad burst upon me with. .such, suddenness '. that the Uuod rushed- with a eliockjo my hearlv --. . I knew Henry E. F , had known him intimately for years. He was a friend to whom all my sympathies had been drawn for he had seen such sorrow as makes the heart grow old before its time. His wife, whom he loved, had deserted him. She had taken with her his only child. She had desolated a household; and forgetting honor, ehame, everything that pet' tans to v.rtuo and to Uod, hnu tied from the country with tho man whose arts had won her wanton love. How could I remain under this roof that now seemed accursed? How meet the destroyer of virtue the fiend who had revelled in such a conquest? 1 could only think of the evil they had done not what they might suffer through the tortures of remorse. It was fonie time before the seducer came into the room where I still sat with the child, deter mined to meet him once more before I left the house. Oh! how guilty! how heart-stricken his appearance! Kemorse sat on his forehead looked out trom his eyes spoke when he was silent. "Will you come to dinner?" he asked. I hesitated. Should I ) artake of his ospitality; the hospitality of one of those fiends in human shape, whose steps take hold on hell? I knew hi3 guilt why de lay to declare it? Why not at once, in burning words, upbraid him lor his vil lainy, and flee as from a pestilence thissin cursed house. The man noticed my hesi tation. He could not, of course, interpret its cause. As he repeated his request, the look of disires'j upon his lace, excited a feeling of p'ny, which, for the moment, slightly disarmed my resentment, and under the influence of this feeling, al- ' ' 'ft '' , usband's ;f circum ne move, snown in me nipping , i.gut RK)St uncoIlsciousy ! p;issed h.to tl.edi LfCllJJ UVSVS V 44 1 4 V. y V 4 a 11V IMVUVtl V WV VI W.J. 1' It ALL, tlanufacitiier of Tinwaie ami liciiMrin every varieiv oi tmiw, cic. , airet'l, Honn-rov. 1-1 MILLS MA CHIN l-.s. J. VV. J ON ICS. Proprietor Middleport Sash Fuctorv and l'l:i ling Mill, will nil all ordora In hl line of biiiiiu-ss piinctiiully. and nt low rates, by ii. I J rousing or applying to him at Mlddl-iport 1-7 Sl'EAM SAWTflLL. Front str.-ei, Poni- erov. near Knrr's Hun. N'lul II. N'ye, Projirit'tor. Lumber suwed to order on short notice. I'List-'ring 1-ith con tinitlv on luiml, f"r mil,-. 1 I KEVGEltv lLLh: Steam (hist Mill N. Stewart, Proprietor hna been recently rebuilt. nml la now prepare ! to do i:nod work promptly. l-l JOHN S. DAVIS, has his IManing Ma- elilne,on Sugar Kun, Poineroy, In pood order, and constant "peration. PIouoiik, wullior-barding. Src., kont Mnstnntly nn iuuk , to All orJers. I - Hi Jli I'.Lt: Y. PETER LAMRRECHT, Watchmaker te )fal3rln Watches, Clocks. Jewelry and Fiiticy Articles, Court street, below tho new Banking House, Pomeroy. . Watchos, Clock and Jowulrj cnrnfully rwimlfed on iiort nntleo. M W. A. AICHlill, Watchmaker and Jew- .! wl.nt.onln mid rottiil doatur in Wutilies. Clocks, Jewelry and Fancy Goods. Front-t.,nlovo tho Remington House, I'omeroy. Particular atten tion paid to repairing;!!! articles 'n my line. 1-1 ii i ng-room. "I am sony little Nelly's mamma." ( I was glad he did not use the sacred name of wife) is not 'aWt to "fit uowu jili us," lie said. 'Il is many months since we have had her presence at our meals. She is suffering from the effects ol slow fever induced by the climate, he added, gravely, as he motioned me a seat before him. The table glittered wit.li silver-plate. Obedient servants brought ou the most costly servers, delicasies such as I never had seen before. Bui the skeleton sat at the feast! 1 could not lalk, save m monosylables. My host ale hnstily almost carelessly waiting upon me with many abrupt starts and apologies. Wine tame. lie drank fieely. Soon he sent the little girl and servants from the room, and seemed striving '.o nerve him self to conversation. "You are from city, I believe," he 6aid nervously. 1 answered an affirmative. "Did vou ever know a gentleman there by the name of H. E. F ?" "I know him, sir," 1 said sternly look- j ing the man sttadily in the face, "and 1 hand. These tilings, however, did not strike me as singular at the time, but coupled with what I afterwards learned, were cer tain evidence, that tho man felt already the gnawing of the worm that never dies. On afternoon we left the little seaport town where I was sojourning, and rode a short distance into tho enteriorof the gor geous Island. Most glorious were the surroundings on every hand. With a prodigalit' quite undreamed of by the in habiiauis of a colder clime, nature has showered most exquisite floral gifts every where. Trees loaded fith sweet smelling flowers, their intense colors vieing with the foliage of richer green, from out of which they smiled; tall cacius-planis, whh ctiinson, gobblei-shaped blossoms; lilies, gorgeous in the queenly unfolding of form and coloi eveiyihing rich, lavish, won derful met our eyet, tousled to fullness (villi this tropical luxuriance. "That is m)' house," said my new friend, pointing to a low roofed collage, surroun ded by a wide verandah, from whose cling ing vines sweet odors wre llun upon the so. I atmosphere but from the moment the words were uttered his sociability de- w- i i it I know him also as a ruined, heart-broken ithin the cottage enclosure were walks ,, ' bowers and fountains. Chaste statuary HOOTS AND SUCKS. T. WHITESIDE, Manufacturer of Boots and Fhous, Front flreet. three doors above Utone bridge. The bestof work, for Ladlosand Gentle men, made to rder. 1-1 LEATHER UEA L&ItS. McQUlGGtfe SMITH, Leather DTiTlTV and Kindors, CourUtroet. 3 doom bolow tho Bank and opposlto Branch's Storo. Honieroy, O MANUFACTUKES. POMKROY Rolling-Mill Co. have con stantly on nand, and oiako to order, a auporlor quality of Iron f all sises. Orders promptly exe cuted, bv application tothe Agent nt llio Aliil, orto r L. P. POTTEH. Cincinnati. SU OAR-RUN Salt Company. Salt twen- ty-Qva cents per bushol. Office near the Furnucu. 1-j ' C. OKA NT, Agent. POMEROY Salt Company. flvo cent iter huhl. Salt tweniy-i-i DAI5NEY Salt Company, Coalport. Salt twonty-flve cents per bushel for country trade. 1-1 G. W. COOPEH. Secretary. BLA cittTMITH INO. F. E. HUMPHREY, Blackilh. in hi new building, back of the Bank building, Poineroy. Job Work of all kinds. Horse-shooing, dc., executed with neatness and dispatch. 1-1 PA IX I EHK GL.'ZI EKS. F. LYMAN, Painter and Glazier, back room of P. Lanibrocht's Jewelry Store, west aide Court street, Pomeroy, O. 1-1 kadih.kkyT JOHN EISELSTIN. Saddle, Harness and Trunk Manufacturer, Frant Street, three onrs be low Court, Pomeroy, v.tll exocute all work en trusted to hiscare with neutnvwniul dispatch. Knd dle gotten np In the neatest style. JXMEITWRIGHT. Saddle and Harness Maker. Shop over Black and Itatliburn' store, Rotlaad. Q. 1-1 WAGON MA KINO. CARRIAGE Sc WAGtN MAKING by M. BKlT'im, Krout Street, first corner below the Kolllng-Mill. Pomeroy, O. All articles in bl line of business manufactured at reasonable rate, and they are espeoutlly recommeudud for durability. 3-.t-1y. PETER CROSBIE, Wagon Maker. Mul- Worry street, wait side, three daors Back street, Pomeroy, Ohio. Manufacturer of Wagona, Bug glea. Carriages, Ve. All order flllod on short otlcfl. ; 1-1 l)F.!TIRTKY. , C. WIIALEY. Surgeon Dentist, Hammer's Building 2nd Story, Rutland street, MlddlKTMirt, O. All operations pertaining tothe srseln proinptly parlor mod. Wudkws waited upon st fhaur raiaaoee. If deal red. 1-J was dispersed over the grounds with most charming eflect. The house seemed al most a fairy structure, rising in the midst of flowers and foliage. And the man who sat beside me, whose smiles mounted no higher than his lips the dreamy lar-look-iog discontent in I: is eye growing every moment more perceptible was the owner of this Eden-like home. We were met on the threshhold by a lovely child of some eleven summers. Her hair hu"g in curls. Her eyes par ticularly lustrous yet mournful in beauty, and on the young brow I seemed to see a something a shadow of sadness an un-child-Iike quiet, as she greeted my new friend. Dressed in pure white, she glided in before us, and to her was left the duly of entertaining me; while Mr. C, excusing himself in the remark, that sickness neces sarily called him away, left the room. "Is your mother very unwell?" I asked of the little girl, who, with those shallow tilled eyes cf hers, was regarding me gently, but attentively. "Yes, 6ir; mamma has been 6iok a long lime," replied she, dropping her eyes, while her lips trembled. "Did j'pu come from America?" she asked, timidly, alter a long sileuce. "Yes, my dear. Do you know anything of that country?" I returned, growing more aud more pleased with her express ive face. "Only that mamma came from there, and I think," she added, hesitatingly, "that I did. But Mr. C. will never let me talk about it." "Are you then not the little daughter of Mr. C?" 1 asked, somewhat aston ished. "I am my mother's daughter," answered the child, with a grave dignity in one so young and in a minute after she arose and quietly left the room. I sat watching her white robes flitting through the long shady walk opposite my window, and knew that the child brooded over some daik sorrow, for her eyes were filled with tears. Why was it, I questioned myself that faiuful thought took possession of me as at there? It seemed as if I was so- With an ejaculation of anguish he put his handkerchief to his eyes. It would have seemed hypocritical, but the suffering on his face was unmistakable. "Perhaps you have suspected then" he began in a quivering voice. Not calmly, but with the words of an accuser 1 told him what I had 6een, and thought and felt. "Sir," said he, in tones which I shall never forget, "If I have sinned, God in .n Heaven knows I have suffered; if in V.'s bereavement he has cursed me, that curse is fearfully fulfilled! Poor Mary is dying has been dying for months and I have known it. It has been for me to see ihe laiiing step the dimingeyes; it is for me, now, to see th terrible stru gles of her nearly worn out frame; it is for me to listen to her language of remorse, that sometimes almost drives me mad. Yes, mad mad mad," he said in frenzy, rising and crossing the floor with long, hasty strides. When buiying his face in his hands, he exclauned, "Too late too Jate 1 have repented." There was along pause, and he continued more calmly, "No human means can now restore my poor companion. Her moral sensibilities be come more and more acute as she fails in strength, so Hint she reproaches herself constantly." A weary, mournful sigh broke from his lips as if hi heart would break. "Ol il he knew," lie exclaimed, "If he know how bluer a penally she is paying for the outrage she has committed upon him, he would piiy her and if it could be, forgive." 'Will you 6ee her sir?" I shrank from the very thought. 'She asked for you, sir; do not deny her request. Heariug t'.iat you came from America she entreated me to bring you to her. 1 promised that I would." "I will go, then." Up the cool, wide, matted stairs, be led me into a chamber, oriental in its beautiful I'm Dishing, its chaste magnificence. There, half reclining in a wide easy chair, a costly shawl of lace thrown over her attenuated Bhoulders; the rich dress ing gown, clinging, aud hallowed to the :av4ges sickness ha 1 made bat one whose great beauty, and once g nfts, - had made the light and lovehn saored hornet -; ' 1 Hut now! 0 pity! pity! The eyes only retain ' 'jr; they were wofully sunken. ing jlre, kindled at the vitals, fc- pow her sharpened cheeks, bump '. ' - fiercely, more hotly as sne lookea ! my lace. I could think no more of I .could rtnlv aiiv in mvanlf: . ''. I1 J . ' w..v --j j ' "Oh! bow sorry Ism f ' She knew prpbably 1 manner, that I wa aw stances. . " ,. l-e-'t'c .Her first question xu or'i . ''Are you'goinj tract tceiia6rnjj, eirr The hollow voice startled trie. I seemed to see an open sepulchre. , I told her that it was not tny intention to return at present. ' I "Oh! then who will take raj child back to her father?" she cried, tlioiKars falling. "I am dying and she raustgofeack to him I It is the only reparation I carl make and little enough, oh, little enough, for the bitter wrong I have done them." 1 hoped, sir, you might see him, she added a moment after checking her sobs; I honed that vou might tell jun that his image is be tore rue, trom morning ml night, as I knew he must have lookeo when the first shock came. Oh, sir, tell .him my story warn, Oh, warn everybody. Tell him I have suffered through the long, long hours, these many weary years; ah, God only knows how deeply." Mary, you must control yourteelings, said my host gently. "Let me talk while I may," was the answer: "Let me say that since the day I left my home, I have not seen a single hour of happiness. I' was always to come alwnys just ahead and here is what has coine the grave is opening and I must go to judgement.' . 0, how bitterly have 1 paid for my sin. Forgive me, O ray God, forgive." It was a solemn hour, that I spent with that dying penitent. Prayer she listened to, she did not seem to join, or if she did, she gave no outward sign. Remorse tad worn away all beauty, even mure IhanMl ness. She looked to the future, with a despairing kind of hope, and, but feeble faith. - , . Header, tho misguided ttnraan of Cey lon lies beneath thu stately branches ol the palm tree. Her sweet child never mel her lather in her native laud. She sleeps un der the troubled writers of the gVeat wide sea. Where the betrayer wanders I can-1 not tellrfcw, wherever :1sflr' W no! peace for litiii. Ilw often ringVtiiat hol low voine in my ear "Tell hiov'jny story! Warn, O, Warn every body." J A Iluii) liouie. The Cist year of married life is tho most impoituut eta in the history of husband and wife. Generally as it is spent so is almost subequeut existence. The wife and husband then assimilate their views and llieir desires, or else conjure up their dislikes, and so add fuel to their prejudi ces and animosities for ever forward. "I have somewhere read," says Rev. Dr. Wise in his "Bridffl Greetings," of a bridegroom who gloried in his eccenlrici-lie-." He requested his bride to accom pany him into thegaiden a few days after the wedding. He then threw aline across the roof of their cottage. Giving his' wile the end of il, he retreated to the other side and exclaimed: "Pull the line!" "I can't," she replied. "Pull with all your might'sliouted the whimsical husband. But in vain were all the efforts of the bride to pull over the Jino, so long as the husDand held on the opposite end. But when he came round, and both pulled at one end, it came over with great ease. "There," said he. as tho line fell from the roof, "you see. how hard and in'iflec tual was our labor when we pulled in op position to each other, but bow easy and pleasant it is when we both pull together It will be so, my dear, ti.rouoh lite wo act together, it will be pleasant to live. Let us, therefore, alasys pu'l together." In this illustration, homely as it may be, there is sound philosophy. Husband and wife must mutually bear and concede, if ihey wi.sh to make home a retreat of joy and bliss. One alone cam ot make home bnppy. There must be uniou .of action. sweetness cf spirit, and great forbearance and love in both husband and wife, to se cure the great eud of happiness in the do mestic ciicle ' ; A Tci-rlflc Cat Fistit. The following poem, from the San Fran Cisco "Golden Era," iff not only . Homeric in style, but complete in itself, for it ends wiin me total annihilation of the 'com batants: .. .; Qnce a pine wood Blied, In An alley dark wnei scattered moonbeams, silting turougn a row t, totterirrg'Cjjimneys and an awning torn - and, drooping, fell etrod osck ana iunti, with sua and tense drawn muscle and peculiar tread, a cat. His name .was' Norval: on Yonder neio-Vt boring shed his father- caught ihe cats that came In squads, .'from streets- beyond T" -f'-i a ivupont in sear-jn oi looa ana strange-ad venture. Grim war he courted; and his twisted tail, and spine uphe ivin in fantastic curve aud claws distended, and ears flatly pressed egainst a head thrown back defiantly told of impending strife. With eyes a gleam, and screachinar blasts of war, and steps ns "silent as the falling dew, young JNorval crept along the splin tered edge, and gazed a moment through the darkness down with a tail awag triumphantly. Then with an imprecation and a growl perhaps an oath to direst vengence hissed lie started back, and, crooked in body like a letter fc, or rather like a U inverted, stood in fierc expectancy. ' I'was well. With eye-balls glaring and t ars all aslant, and open mouih in. which fvo rows of fangs stood forth iif Smaf p and dread conformity, show up-a-postfrom oat the dark below a head appeared. A dreadful tocsin of determined strife young Norval uttered, then, v.-ith face wn bleached, and moustache standing airtight before his nose, and tail flung wildly t the passing breeze, stepped back iu cau tious luvitations to the toe. Approaching the other, and, with pre paraiions dire, each cat surveyed the van lage of the field. Around Ihey walked, .with tails uplifted aud backs high in air, while from their mouths, in accents hiss ing with consuming rae, dropped brief but awful sentences or hate. Thrice round ihe roof they went in cii cle each with eye upon the foe intently bent; then sidewish moving, its wont wuh cats gave one long-diawu, terrific, savage yaw, and bucked in. The fur flew. A mist of hair hung o'er the battle field, lliirh 'bove the d u of pussing wagons rose ihe dnadful tumulu oi ihe snuggling cats, bo gleamed then eves in frenzy, that to me, who saw th conflict from a window near, uot else was pi hi u but fiery stars that moved in oiVits most eccentric. . An hour they 8lrtir;led in tempestous might, then faint aud fainter grew the squall ot war, until all sound was hushed. Then went 1 forth with lanthoru, and the field surveyed. What saw I? Six claws mie ear of teeth, perhaps a .handful; and save (or nought else except a actuary tail. Thai tail wn Norval s by a rin-r I knew it. The ear was but we'll lot the matter pass. That tale will do without the ear. None Stand Alone. It is in the prov idence of Gotl that none stand alone. We touch each, other; man acts on man, heart on heart; we are bound up with each other, hand is joined in hand; wheel sets wheel in motiun;we arespii ituul'.y I inked together, arm within arm; we cannoilive alone, nor die alone; we cannot tinjK I will only run rUks with my own soul; I nm piepared to disobey the Lord such a pleasure or such a gain, but I do not want to implicate others; I only want to bo answeiaole for myself. This cannot be. Each living Soul has its influence on others in some way and to some extent, consciously or unconsciously; each has some power, more or less, direct or indirect; one mit.d colors another; a child acts on children, servants ou their fellow servants; masters on those they employ; parents on their children; friends on friends. Even when we do not design to influence others when we are noi thinking, in the least de gree, of the effect of what we do when we are unconscious that wn have influence at all when we do not wish our conduct or way of life to affect any bat ourselves, our manner of life, our conversation, our deeds, are all the while having weight somewhere or somehow; our feet leave their impression, though we may net look behind us to see the mark. Scene in a Police Couiit. The priso ner n this case, .whose name is Dicky Swivel, alas. 'Siove Pipe Pete,' was placed at the bar, and questioned by the Judge to the following eflect: Judge 'Bring the prisoner into court.' Pete 'Here 1 am bound to blaze, as the spirits o' turpentine said when it was on lire,' We'll lake then a little of the fire out of you. How do you live?' 1 ain't particular, as the oyster said, when they asked him if he'd rather be roasted or fried.'1 We don't want to hear what the oyster 6aid or the spirits of turpentine either. What do you follow.' Anything that comes in my way, as the locomotive said when it run over a lit le nigger.' We don't care anything about the loco motive. What is your business.' 'That's various, as the cat said when il-'she stole the chicken off the table.' ii i near any more aosuru compari--ions 1 will give you twelve mouths.' I'm done as the beefsteak said to the cook.' 'Now, sir your punishment shall depend on the shortness and correctness of your answers. I suppose you live by going around the docks.' No, sir, 1 don't go around the docks without a boat, and I ain't got none.' 'Answer me, sit; how do you get your daily bread?' Sometimes at the bakers, and some limes i eat 'talers.' No more of your stupid nonsense. How do you support yourself?' Sometimes ou my legs, and sometimes on a cheer.' How do you keep yourself alive?' By breathing, sir.' I order you to answer this question cor rectly. How do you do.' Pielty well, 1 thank you, Judge How are you.' 1 shall have to commit you.' Well, you've corumited yourself that's some consolation.' Love and Love Makino. The power of loving and making love, I take to be very dis.inct giits, seldom found united in one individual. They resemble, respect ively, the power of thinking and the power of tnlkin r. and one would be much sur prised to find ihnt the number cf people who can make love without feeling it, is proportionate to thst of the people who can and will talk without thinking. But do not let us be eavnge, do not let us be dissatisfied with these arrangements of nature. Bless us all, what sort of a world would it be, if nobody sighed and 'whis pered unless be had a passion at his heart, and if nobody questioned and answered unless be bad a brain in ble bead. 6AV ley linxiks. Siit" aLOveiiswoauna iho Dog. ' ' Wben.I;w6re a boy, and nay legs not longer than John Wautwoi tlTe dad fotohod home a durned, iwurthless, niangry, flea- uiiieii, grey oia loxhoun, good for uutliin out tu waller up what orter lined the bowels ove us brats. . Well, I natural tuck a distaste to him, an bed a sorter hankerin arter hurtm his feelius and discunifertin ove him every time dad's back wer turned. Ihts sorter kept a big skeer allera afore ' - l f,' . . .. iii eyes, anu onui yen read to pure ou the fust moshun he seed me make Bo he larnt to swaller things as he run, andallers kept bis laiaii well onder himaelf. fur hn nererknowd how soon .he jnut;Wdnt j,! use em in lotln ins nuurnal c:icus bnyuue the reach ove a firm rock. He knowJ the whiz ove a rock in moshin well, and he never stopped ta see who fluoir hit. but : : -. 1.4 i i . i , just ieb iiia-neziu uy open iu giu a Howl room tu cum, and sot his lings a gwine the way his nose happened tu be a piniin. He'd shy roun every rock he seed in the road, lor he looked on hit as a calamity tu cum after him sum day. I ted yon, Gooryy, that runin nm the greatest inveu 6hun on yearth when used keerfuliy. Whar'd 1 a been by this time ef I hadn't relyed ontu these yere laigs? D'ye see era; JJon t thev mind vou ore a dhi- ove carapusses made to divide a mile inlet quarters? They'll do. Well one diy, I tuck a pig's bladuer ni ontu the siie ove a duck's aigand tilled hit with powder and corked liitup with a piece ove suunk, rolled hit up in a thiu ekulp of meat and sot intu gitiin away fur doin hit. I hearn a noise like bustin huhi- ttiin, and bis tail lit atop ove my hat. His head were way down the hill and heJiuen a deth boll enter a. roof. His fore laigs were fifty feet up the road a makin ruiini moshuns, and his hine one a straddil over the fence. Es tu the do, hisself, as a dog, I never seed him again. Well, dad, durn his oosanctitied soul, flung five or six hundred onder my shut wuh the dried skin ofeu n bull's tail and gin me the re mainder next day with a witggin whip what he borrowed fruin a feller while he were ja waterin his bosses, the wagoner I Z t sorry fur me, and hollered tu me iu turn my beg. 'in and suuailin inter fust- ralH runin, which 1 imejutly did, and the a-it lick mised nie about ten leet. Lx-han't. Opinions of lite Illustrious Dead. Whenever there is a foot of land to be stayed back from becoming slave territory, J am ready to assert the principle of the exo lut-ion of Slavery. Webster.- Slavery is a nlosi biitjliiing curse upon Virginia; and I know of but one way of relimg rid of it by legislative authoniy and so far as my vote shad go for that pur pose it8hall never be wantiug. Washing- ton. No earthly power will ever make me vote to spread Slavery over territory where it does not exist.-' luy. We should march up to the verge f the Constitution to destroy the tiathc in human flesh. Franklin. The way, I hope, is pi eparin under the auspices of heaven, for a total emancipa tion . Jefferson. We would transmit to posterity nor ab horrence cf Slavery. Patrick Henry. Slavery is a dark spot ou the face of the nation la Payette. It is among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which Slavery in this country may be abolished by law. Wash ingon. Funny. A good story wa told us lately (says an exchange.) of a popular preacher in the town of H in Penn sylvania, which we shall take the liberty of reproducing. It appears that the minister has been wedded to a most worthy lady, whose first gift was a dowry of ten thousand t'ollars, uh the proini.se ot as much more upon the decease of her invalid parent. Shortly after marriage, while occupying the pul pit, he chanced to give out a hymn, the tilth verso of which commeuced as fol lows, "Forover let tny grentful heart." He stopped short a forced but sliht cough then added: "The choir will omit the fifth verse." He then sat down with somethino; like a nervous haste. With curiosity excited at this conduct of their minister, he congre gation smiled, as it read thus, "Forever let my eratcful huart His boundless prruc.c adore Which gives ten thousand blessings now, Aud bids tue hope fur more." aTSTThe Oconoinownu "Free Press" learns from a source which it considers re liable, that the Town Trasurer of Erie, Washington county, Illinois, attempted to' ob himself of the tunds belonging to the lown iu the following manner: He told his wife he was going to a dis tant part of the village, and that he would not return until the next day. boon alter he had left a pedlar slopped at the house, and as he was a friend, he obtained lodg ing for the night. Ihe wile, unwittingly, put him in the room which coutained the money. About ten o'clock, heating a noise, she arose and opened the door, when hree men rushed in wuh their faces bKck nnd otherwise disguised. Threatening to shoolber if she raised an alarm, they went up stairs to the pedler's room, and at tempted to break in the door. Alter re pealed trials it gave way, and as ihe fore most lobber sprang in, ther pedler fired a evolver, killing him, when the other two fled. Upon examining the body ot the robber, it was fouui to be that of the Treasurer himself. JT"I knew I am a perfect bear in my manners," 6aid a young farmer to his sweet heart. "No, indeed, you are not, John, you have never hugged me yet. You are more sheep than bear." The girl changed her mind after five minutes of practical argument from John." A X'urn by Suit JLovciisovd. ' , We have often beard, but never, ven tured to publish, ft good yarn on. Dr. Thompson, of Atlanta, a generous, good man, and a tip-ton landlord aud wit; but ne certainly caught it once. , . ;vfl: . , A traveler called very late for breakfast, . the meal was hurriedly prepared. .Thorn p- f eon feeling that the "feed'was not quite . up lohe mark, made all sorts o( apologies all around the eater, who worked on in si- lence, never raising his bead ,beyond the .. affirmative influence of hie fork, by an act even acknowledging the presence, of mne host, Thi sulky demeanorlhQr,,"flea'd" the doctor, who. changing the range',of his battery, stuck his thumbs in his vtt ' arm-holes, expanded his chest by robbing the room of half its air. and said: "Now, Mister, dod durn me if t hain't ' made all the apology necessary an more too, Considering the breakfast and who gets it; and now, t tell you, I have seen dirtier, worse looking, and a h 1 of a si.'ht smaller breakfast than this, several times." 'The weary, hungry one, meekly Jaid down his tools, swallowed the bite in transitu, placed the palm of his hands to gether, and modestly looking up at the vexed and fuming landlord, shot him dead with the following words: "Is what you say -true?" 'Yes, sir," came with a viudictive promptness. . ' Well, then, I'll bo d d. boss, if vou hain't out traw led me!" The fellow had nothinsr to dry at that house, sure. Origin ol Ciei'.F. V s. Many of our readers have heard of the "First Families of Virginia;" but few, we take it. know how the terra originated. An exchange explains thus: in the early settlement of that Stite. it was found impossible to colonize it unless women were there. Accordingly a shin , load was sent out, "but no planter was al-'' loed to marry ono of them until he had hist paid one hundred pounds of Toboceo for her passage When the second Rbip load came, no one would pay more (Mian seventy-five pounds for the matrimonial' - privilege, except it were a very superior article. Consequently the descendants of all those who were sold for one hundred pounds of tobacco were ranked as the first tamilieq, while those who brought but seventy- five pounds are now ranked as the second families; and the reason why no one can ever find any of the second lami lies. is because you cant get a Virginian to admit that his mother only brought seventy-five pounds of tobacco. 1 ''B jC-Lewis, h- fun-loving editor of the N M. "Union," says an exchange, was a can ddate for the Legislature. In the last number cf his paper he published a circu lar to his fellow citizens of eight columns. Whereupon he says: It may be asked why I write so long a circular. An anecdote will illustrate my answer. Once upon a time an old lady sent her grandson out to set a turkey. On his return, the following dialogue took place: "Sammy, have you set her?" "Yes, grandma." "Fixed the nest all up nicely?" "Mighty fine, grandma." "How many eggs did you put under her?" "One hundred and twenty, grandma." "Why Sammy, what did you put so many under her for?" "Grandma, I wanted to see her spread herself!" My opponents will pitch into this circu lar 1 hope they will have a good time in making a large perceutageot it. A short one would be as much as they could get over, but I want to see them spread them selves ! jrayTbe following has the ring of the jack-plane in it Jail over: "Stiolling Itis ui ily about Uncle Sam's big ship yard in Washington ihe other day, we observed a regular hard weather sailor-looking chap from a man of war, in turn ws wu tching two men diagging a seven foot cross-cut sawtl hrough a hugli live oak log. The saw was dull, tlie log terribly hard, and there they went tee-saw pull push. Jack studied the matter over a while, until he came to the conclusion ihey were pulling to see who would get the saw. and, nsoue was a monstrous big chap, while the other was a little lellow, Jack decided to t-ee fair play, so taking the big one a clip un der the ear that capsized him end ever end, he jerked ihe saw out of the log, and giv ing it to the small one, snug out: "Now run, youbeggar!" SfThe S;tue of Arkansas has not a single telegiaph wire within her borders. A project is on foot for establishing ouo between Memphis aud Little Rock. Ver ily, Arkansas is sadly behind, and a fine country, loo! Has she any public-spirited men atall? Where's her solitary rah road to Fort Smith? Can anybody tell us any thing about it? Or is it only upon paper as yet? Why should that beautiful coun try be so much behind her sister Stales? We pause for a reply. II New Di6ii. Rudolph says that once upon a time a colored cook expected com pany of hor own kidd, and was at a loss to entertain her friends. Her mistress said: "Chole.you must make an apology." "Good lord! missus, how can I make it? I got no eggs, no butler, nor nothing to make it wuh." Horses. "Royal Morgan, owned by John Gregory ol North tk Id, Vt , died re cently by getting cast in his stall, al the age oi 33. He was exhibited at ihe S ale ' Fair htsi H-'ptemtttr, aui attiHotcd uittoli Attention. He boomed pcrieoiiy wull u; ' to the day of his de uh, and was .!, i r. horse Luown.