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THE NEW ERA.
What i' it but ,i Map of hiMy Life ?— C'atoper.
NORFOLK VM) PORTSMOUTH^
J' KIIHY, AlTUI.rNT '2i), 1H 15.
OUR FLAG!
FREE TRADE LOW DUTIES NO DEKT-SE
PARATION’ FROM RANKS W'ONiJMY RE
TRENCH MKNT VNI» STRICT ADHERENCE
I (> TIIE CONSTITUTION.
TO OUR DRI5TOKS.
We dislike to dun our patrons through the
columns of the newspaper, and do nut mean to do
it now. We desire only to inform those who
have been repeatedly called on, and who have
been waited upon until the debt has been doubly
earned, that unless speedy and prompt payment
is made, we shall put our accounts in the hands of
an officer to enforce settlement. We cannot and
will not wait any longer. Rvery one. when he
reads this notice, will know whether it applies to
hint or not—it it does—let him come forward and
settle. Ours is a eash business and cash we must
have when it is due us.
A. F. CUNNINGHAM.
STR A M110 AT ACC IDRNT.
Owinsr t<> the breaking of the shaft of Hie stea
mer Herald, on her upward trip on Tuesday last,
• we had no mail front the North yesterday. By
the occurring of this accident, not beinjr pressed
with news we are enabled to present this able
and interesting New Rra to our readers to day.
inKUK IS HEAL I Ux
And delight at the Ladies’ Feast, now Ijold
i°— at l*'« Masonic Hill, and notwithstanding
nor indisposition, on W ednesdny evening we went
there, and in the blaze of beauty that surrounded
us we forgot our misery, and as “ Betsey and the
Babies” staid at home, we forgot them ton, for a
little while, till an arch little witch, with spark
ling eye, and coral lip. asked us to pay f,r peep
ing at the “Gentlemen’s Horror.” We were
somewhat dubious at first, but ns it was enclosed
in a very neat little box and held in a lady’s hand,
we knew it was not very large, and therefore,
we did not feel much afraid. We looked, and
oh! horror of horrot . there it lay, solitary and
alone, in the bottom of the hox—what, only one
of them, we exclaimed. Hush, says the ladv,
yon most not tell what it is, and we were mum—
although we shivered. We also looked into an
other box at the «• Ladies’ Delight.” There it
lay, cozily curled up. with its curtain of sky
biuo silk, more like a model Hum for use. “ Well,
what was it?” What was it—we are bound to
secresy here too, and can’t tell. You must go
thete and see for yourself. The ladies are charm
ing— the refreshments cool and delightful, the
music enchanting, the viands substantial and pa
lateahle. We wonder if the Courier man was
there—we did not see him—he no doubt is too
bashful to be caught in such company. Some
bad, overgrown boys were detected peeping into
the windows from the tops of some barrels in the
yard. We Impe he was not one of ihtpn. Cap
tain David, pot this in conspicuously, and tell
Mr. Shields there is r.o “ Sulphur Water” at the
Feast.
MENTAL ACTION—ITS IMPORTANCE.
The first great habit that must lie at the foun
dation of ail others of a useful character, is that
of action. Like tins three requisites of the
Grecian orator, who when asked whut were the
Constituents of true eloquence, answered that the
fiat was action, the second, action, and the
third, action ; so the mind of man, that it may
retain a healthful state, and thus he capable of
usefulness must he active. Else like the stag
nant pool filled with putrefaction, exhaling only
disease and death, so the inert mind, replete
only with putrid faculties, diffuses the poison ef
fluvia of its own rottenness, contaminating all
.. |” J»nicimui miiufiK'e.
I here arc many reasons which may ho urged
to show the necessity of mental activity. Anil
first, it is the only source? of menial improvement,
and mental improvement it is God’s will we
should all make. Why. is it asked ? What is
the proof? Because, if we look through the
whole length and breadth of nature, we find no
one useless part, appendage or power anywhere
bestowed upon any creature, or in any way intro
duced throughout the whole of nature’s vast ma
chinery. Are we then to suppose that mao con
stitutes an exception t<, the general ruin? And
though the myriad of worlds of which the sys
tem of the univere is composed, the myriads of
myriads of atoms, of which each world or planet
is composed, has each its appropriate part allotted
it to perform, and whatever properties or powers
are possessed by any, are in accordance with the
whole great design, to he brought into active ex
orcise; though attraction hinds together worlds
and systems of worlds, though lical animates and
expands, though waters flnv, worlds revolve,
flowers bloom, harvests ripen, winds blow, light
nings flash, and thunders roll, yet, God’s last
great work was made in part without design ?
Will it he supposed that the being whom the
Creator made “in his own image,” on whom
alone of all he created on earilt, he conferred his
own high and holy attribute of immarfaliti/, has
powers of intellect given him to no purpose 1
■That God, in fact, when lie placed man as the
head of all he had created, made a sad mistake
in allotment? That instead of placing the no
blest and best of all to have dominion ove>r the
others. He, in fact, selected the weakest and the
worst ?
Yet this is the rase, unless the mental powers
are to he improved. For of all animals, man is,
at birth, most feeble and impotent. While oilier
creatures, by instinctive powers, arrive as it
were at once, at the perfection of their being, se
curing to themselves with unerring certainty,
each their proper quantum of enjoyment, man
alone, by constant culture and an infinitude of de
gress, arrives at a comparative state of advance
m**»t and enjoyment beyond which. however, lie
i regions unexplored, which after unnumbered ages
ot deep research must still leave fields yet tin
surveyed, replete with truths, to furnish sweetest
aliment to that God like part i f man which finds
delight in the acquisition of new stores of know l
edge. But the ability to acquire that knowledge
which is absolutely necessary to human life, and
, the enjoyment of life, and that highest IV licily of
; continued increase in knowledge is :t faculty ol
mind bestowed on man for wlial ? [Evidently to
j he employed, to he brought into active and con
tinned exercise. \\ ithottt mental activity the
condition of human society cannot he improved so
; as to secure to all its memhers the greatest pussi
! amount of comforts and enjoyments. 'I'lte
discoveries of science have done much and are
| destined to do much more, for bettering the condi
tion ol all classes. ^ <-t those discoveries are only
to he sought where mind is active. Is it ob
jected, that the /cm usually seize upon the advan
tages secured by tin* development of new princi
I
I
pies of science, or new applications of those al
ready known, and that people are often deceived
by counterfeits ? Wo answer: this is lint an ad
ditional argument in favor of mental activity, of
universal mental activity. Were the minds of
all well improved, did the pore beams of iutclli
genee every where radiate with unbeclmided
light, who then, would he found laboring to de
ceive his fellows that he might profit by the de
ception, when the only reward of hist chicanery
would be detection, exposure and disgrace? In
every department ol life, the only reason why so!
many seek to deceive, is because so many are in
a condition to he deceived. It is mental activity ■
alone can secure ns against danger from political
apostates, from parlizin demagogues, from religi
ous fanatics, professedly religious hypocrites, and
anti-religious atheistial desperadoes.
II Bhockesbroi'oii, one of the j
must brilliant young men in the South, is the de- j
mncratie. candidate lor Congress in Florida. Jf|
elected he will rank with Hunter, Seddon, and
other master intellects that old Virginia has con
tributed to the Union.
MON. ROBERT J. WALKER.
The New Orleans Republican, edited by the
Mon. J. F. 11. Claiborne, gives us the following
item in the history of Mr. Walker’s political life.
'Flint this is true, tlipre can be no doubt; for Mr.
Claiborne was then in Congress, a member of the
lower house, from Mississippi, and the confiden
tial friend ol Mr. Walker. I lad his advice then
been taken, how much heart burning and jealousy
would have been saved to tlip country—ere this.
Texas and California would have been peaceably
and quietly settled, under the laws of the United !
Stales, and the only ports on the Pacific of any \
value to us would have been ours. But other I
counsels prevailed, and now millions of treasure,
and, perhaps, oceans of blood may have to be ex
pended to secure them—for they will most as
suredly be annexed.
“Secret History.—In 183G there was a
surplus of over thirty millions of dollars in the
treasury, after G<*n. Jackson had paid off the Na
tional Debt. Mr. Walker proposed (in an inoi- !
dental debate, when the Senate was sitting with :
closed doors, on some nomination or treaty, from I
which the injunction of secrecy has since been re- ■
moved.) that Texas nnd California be purchased
from Me\ico, and the thirty surplus millions be
uspiI for that purpose. Mexico, oppressed with a
bankrupt treasury, a rebellious army and starving
population, would, doubtless, have accepted the
proposition. We should have added several
States, to the Confederacy, secured the integrity
ot our territory, extended the great interests ol
commerce, and extinguished forever all danger of
abolition. But the Federal and anti-Annexation
influence prevailed, the advances of the Taxon
patriots were scorned, and the surplus millions
were deposited (as they fraudulently terinpd n)
with the Slates to be sunk in stocks, or gambled
away by banks and speculators, and arc irretreiva
bly lost to the national treasury.”
MR. ANTON IK.
liicii of our readers do not recollect tlie plea
sant, facetious old Quaker friend, who lectured
some time ago in these two town on the subject
of 1 eiupcranee ? Well, lie has penetrated the
Southern settlements of Georgia and the “ Little
Georgian.” an excellent paper hy-the-hy, publish
ed in P orsyth, gives tlx; following account of
him : —
“ "*c were much pleased with a temperance i
address delivered in the Baptist Church at this)
place, on Wednesday evening, hy Mr. Antoine, '
an itinerant lecturer Irotn P-mitsvIvania, who is
making an extensive tour in the Southern Stales.
Being an aged gentleman of the "old school,”
his pronunciation is singular, and a portion of his
discourse was unintelligible to us. His mind is
good, and he seems to have read and thought
much. Some ol his arguments were forcible and
logic il, and his ‘hits and anecdotes pertinent and
decidedly pleasant. The citizens of Forsyth will
have an opportunity of hearing him speak again
on his chosen (and fruitful) theme, next Wetlnes I
day evening.”
Oi.o Baciiklohs.—A Western editor, who is
• an old bachelor, says: " We never cared afar :
| tiling about getting married until w,. attended n !
| bachelor’s funeral. G >d grant that our.Jatter end 1
i may not he like his.”—Exchange..
W hat was the matter with Ins latter end ? says
the Reveille. ]>ul the poor fellow get married
just before lie died? If so, the thing’s under
stood .
NAVAL SCHOOL AT ANNAPOLIS.
I his School goes into operation, on the first of
October next. I he following gentlemen have
been appointed officers:—Com. Franklin Buch
anan, superintendent ; Professor Chaubert; Lieu- I
tenants Lock wood. Ward, and Passed Midship
man Marry, teachers in mathematics, nautical
philosophy, use of nautical instruments and navi
gation; Hr. Dobarry, surgeon and teacher of
chemistry.
Important to the •• Sporting” Gentry.—
Oil cake, regularly fed to calves, is found to prc.
*ent th. malignant difMscIcaPed th* b’ackUg
t VC niwgrmrr^.m. ■ ■ ... ..
I.EECH STORIES.
Singular. — A gentleman recently took into thp
diligence, between Marseilles ami Toulon.a vessel
of leeches which were not well soon rod at the tup.
Tim creatures s-mn sillied forth in quest of blood!
Suddenly. piercing cties were heard from a you no
lady. who. unaware ot the blood thirst)' passemrers
"hit'll had been placed in Hip carriage. declared
that slip was seized w ith acute pains. as if punc
1'ired with lances. Though she continued her
cries, delicacy prevented her from permitting any
•*f the passengers to ascertain the cause of her
uneasiness. A detachment of the leeches, how
ever. had worn* further to fare worse, for they had
(i\ed on the lens of a smut elderly gentleman,
who. less fastidious than the fair one, at once nn
covered and ascertained the cause. The dili
oence was stopped, and the young lady taken to
the nearest house, where she was relieved from
tu-r unpleasant companions. Hetween fifteen and
twenty of the vagrant leeches had made their
wav tip her petticoats and fastened on her.—
(jaliunnni, ,Juli/ Is/.
StNGur.Alt Death.—A novel ease of death
(nun a leech is mentioned in one of the English
files, as occurring at Guy’s Hospital. A young
man serving in the capacity of a groom aa-.-is en
gaged in dressing a horse, when the animal kick
ed him on the right arm. Medical assistance Avas
procured, and leeches Avere ordered, four of which
vrere applied to the wound. In a short time
three only ot them could he sppii, hut it avhs sup
posed that the fourth had fallen off, and had got
away- The deceased was the follow ing day con
veyed to the hospital. The Avottnd arnfarm soon
began tn swell in a most unaccountable manner,
"'hen the honsc-sergcon observed there avhs a
slight discharge ot matter oozing from the orifice,
lie deemed it prudent, in consequence, to open
the arm. when, to his surprise, he found the miss
ing leech enclosed in the flesh, and quite dead._
The leech must have crawled into the orifice of a
very small Avoond in the arm, and it could not be
seen. After the leech had been extracted from
the arm. deceased went on very A\e|| f..r a Aveek.
w hen symptoms id inflammation of the A’eins en
sued, Avhieli terminated with death. It is the
opinion of the medical attendant that he died from
the effects of the wound, having hern poisoned fry
the long presence of the lepch within it.
THE WASTED FLOWERS.
On tile velvet hank of a rivulet sat a rosy chili!.
I lor lap was filled with (Ewers, and a garland of
rose buds was twined around her neck. Her lace
was as radiant as the sunshine that fell upon it:
and her voice was as clear as that of the bird
which warlded at her side. The little stream
w ent sinirin<r on, and w ith every gush of its music
the child lifted the (lowers in its dimpled hand,
■iml, with a merry laugh, tlirew them upon its sur
face. in her glee she forgot that her treasures
were growing less, and with the swift motion of
childhood, site (lung them upon the sparkling tide,
untii every hud and hi ssoni had disappeared.
1 lien, seeing her loss, she sprang upon her feet,
and. l*ursting into lears,ealied aloud to the stream,
•* hrinq hack my (lowers!” But the stream
danced along regardless nt her tears: and as it
hore the blooming burden away, her words came
hack in a taunting echo along its reedy tnarnin.
And, long after, amid the wailing of the breeze,
and the fitful bursts of childish grief, was heard*
the fruitless cry, “bring hack my flowers!”
Merry maiden! who art idly wasting the precious
moments so bountifully bestowed upon thee, see in
tbe thoughtless, impulsive child, an emblem of
thyself. Each moment is a perfumed flower.
Let its (ragance he dispensed in blessings on all
aroni d thee, and ascend as sweet incense to its
beneficent giver. Else, when thou lias! careless
ly flung them from thee, and serst them n eeding
on the swill waters ut time, thou will cry in tones
mure sorrowful than those of the child, “ hrino
back my flowers!” And the only answer will be
an echo from the shadowy past, •* bring back mil
flowers !,'—Laircll Offering.
FRIENDSHIP.
I.i-iU. Montgomery had soon much mililarv
service. However, the wars were over, and lie
hail nought to do but to lounge as host he could
through life upon half.pay. He was one day
taking his ease at his tavern, when he observed a
stranger, evidently a foreigner, gazing intently at
him. 'I'hi* lieutenant appeared not to notice the
intrusion, hut shifted his position. A short time
and the stranger shifted too, and still with un
hlenehed gaze ho started. This was too much for
Montgomery, who rose and approached his scru
tinizing intruder.
“ Do you know me?’’ asked the lieutenant.
“ 1 think I do,” answered the foreigner, who
was a Frenchman.
“ Dave we ever met before?’’ continued Mont
gomery.
•* 1 will nut swear for it; hut if we have—and
I am almost sure we have,” said the stranger.
you have a sabre cut, a deep one, on your right
wrist.”
I have, ’ cried Montgomery, turning hack
his sleeve, and displaying a very broad and ugly
sear ; *• | dido t get this lor nothing, for the brave
fellow who made me a present of it, I repaid with
a ga«h across the skull.”
I tie I' renrhman hent down his head, parted
his hair with his hands and said—•* You did, you
tntiv look at the receipt.’”
I he next moment they were in each other’s
arms: they became bosom friends for life.
\ QU\KER WEDDING
Came o(T yesterday in the meeting-house of
of that S> et in Orchard-street, the Discipline not
allowing marriages to he ‘ accomplished’ in any
other place. To accommodate the parties and
pp.tre the blushing bride the necessity of facing
a large congregation, a special meeting was in
this instance appointed, which was attended
only by a small circle of relatives and acquain
tances ol the bride and bridegroom, a few elderly
h rtends and small number of youth whose inter
cst to matrimonial scenes would not allow them
to he absent. About 3 o'clock, P. M , the Senior
portion ol the audience took their places one after
another on the ‘high seat?,’ while the Juniors
were scattered in different parts of the house._
The father looked so grave that a stranger would
have been likely to suspect that they had assem
bled for a funeral rather than a wedding. Soon,
however, the bride and bridegroom came in with
their friends and took a seat facing the assembly.
The mother ol the bride sat beside her daughter,
w hile the bridegroom w as supported by a member
of the matrimonial committee. After a silpricc !
which lasted some 20 minutes, the awed Friend
at the lipad of the meeting arose and said :_“ |
would not inlerfere improperly in the matter for
which we have come together, but I apprehend !
this be a suitable time for our young friends to I
proceed.” The bridegroom and bride now drew
their white kids and taking each other by the1
land, stood up before the audience. The bride
groom ’hen said in a calm voice, hut with evident1
emotion, “ In the presence of the Lord and these
witnesses I take-lobe my wife, promising
nv Divine assistance to ho unto her a faitliful and
jiliectionato husband until separated by death.’'
I In* bride, in tones that bespoke the deep nflee
lion of her heart, then made the same declaration
• n respect to him upon whom she had bestowed her
band. The twain having thus been made one.
resumed their seats. The marriage convenant
was then placed before them, when they proceed
ed to ratify their union by affixing their signa
Mires. I he friends of the newly married pair
appended their names to the document as witnes
ses. and thus ended the nuaker Weddim*- _,y
V. Tribune.
THE best joke op the season.
The Philadelphia Gazette contains this hit at
j *he poor Virginians:
1 In? heroes o| Parkenshurg. Va., who re
» c*n11 y invaded Ohio, and captured three citizens,
have again entered that Stale, and seized an in
dividual ihat they suspected to lie a Colored slave,
tnmiali ho protested he was a white man. On
examination, their prisoner proved to be Ex Gu
, vernor Corwin of Ohio.”
Mere we an* informed for tlie first time, that
“ " agonor Tom Corwin,*’ the big gun of Ohio,
who has been spoken of as a candidate for the
I residency, is so highly coloured as to he taken
lor a negro. This will recommend him strnnoly
m the Abolitionists, who have such a fondness
lor every thing dark.
Cut the Gazette has shown a Greenness which
litilo expected Irom so keen a hunter after
jokes upon others. The whole story is a Rnnr
l>a<‘k humbug—invented by some paper in Cin
cinnati. with the intention, doubtless, of ascer
taining how far the papers could he hoaxed._
'Vo do not know the real color of Corwin, though
lie is deeply dyed in Federalism—hut we will
say for “ ihe heroes of Parkersburg,” that they
am not quite ambitions enough to arrest an F,v
(inventor of a sovereign Stale. We hope that
tlte journals in the free States will not “ pile the
agony” too high upon the “ heroes of Parkers
burg. — Richmond finquirer.
TO OKSTROY INSECTS ON TREES.
J\Iesst x. Ril i tors,—Will you please request
V,l,,r agricultural readers to try the f«d
lowing’ cheap and simple experiment for the pre
servation of trees, shrubs and vines, from the
ravages of any insects Mint subsist upon their fnli
ege. fruit or sap, and, give the public the result
jof ""’ir experiment? My professional engage
i ments have prevented me from giving it s(> j'rre
an experiment as I wished.
Drive carefully well home, so that the hark
I 'vi*1 ,w;al "v,'r, a few headless cast iron nails, say
I some 6 or 8, size and number according to the
l size of the tree, in a ring around its body, a foot
; or two above the ground. The oxidation of the
i iron by the sap, will evolve ammonia, which will,
i ot course, with the rising sap, impregnate every
j part of the foliage, and prove to the delicate palate
ot the patient, a nostrum, which will snort be
come, as in many eases of larger animals, the real
; panacea for the ills of life, via Tomb. I think
it the ladies should drive some small iron hrads
into some limbs of any plants infested with any
insert, they would find it a good and safe reniedy
and I imagine in any case, instead of injury the
: ammonia will he found particularly invigorating.
Lf»t it he tried upon n limb of any tree where
Mierc is a vigorous nest of caterpillars, and watch
it for a week or ten days, and | think the result
will pay for the nails. JOHN R. CROSS.
Lincoln street, Boston. July 14, 1815.
HOW TO BECOME A WIDOWER.
We find in the N. (). Picayune this extract
from a translation of Lyunnilrhic, a French work
just out of press, and without expressing any opin
ion as to the right or wrong of the husband, lay it
before our readers:
A worthy gentieman. who had the misfortune
to marry a termagant, resolved to become a wid
ower. and in such a manner that he would not be
exposed to the penalties of the law.
He owned a beautiful country scat, situated on
the bank of a delightful river, to which his lady
t was much attracted, and which she visited rectti
larly every Sunday morning. She had for this
j purpose a charming little mule, with splendid
trappings, and ol which great care was taken.
for three days previous to the lady’s accus
tomed visit, tbe husband had deprived the poor
j animal of drink, so that it was almost famished.
Sunday morning canie;_ihe lady set out on her
mole, accompanied by her husband, who was
anxious to see the sport. The poor bpast sought
water on all sides, and had no sooner discovered
j r*Vf>r 'ban, with the rapidity of lightning, he
^started off and stopped not until he had plunged
; himself head and ears into the river. The hank
I was steep and the stream both rapid and deep at
j this place, and lady and mule wern soon buried
\ '’enpalh the. waves. The husband regretted his
loss ol—the mule, but reasoned like a philoso
pher, that to accomplish one’s purposes sacrifices
j must he made.
DANDIES.
I he. following is from tlie “ Patent Sermons’’
of Dow. .1 r :
** I hey are mere walking sticks for female flirts,
ornamented with bras-? heads and barely louelied
with the varnish of etiquette. Brass heads, did (
say? Nay their caputs are only half ripe rnnsh
rnellons. with monstrous thick rinds, and hollow
inside, containing (he seeds of foolishness, swim
minrr about with a vast quantity of sap. Their
moral garments are a double breasted coal of vani
ty. padded with prii|e and lined with the silk of
; eumplaeeney ; their other apparel is all in keep*
! ing ami imported fresh from the devil’s wholesale
and retail ready made clothing establishment.
Tinkered up with broad cloth, finger rings,safety
' ehains, soft sodder, vanity and impudence ; they
i are no more silver than plated silver. I detest a
dandy, as a cat does a wet floor. There are some
vain fools in this world ; who after n long incuba
tion, will hatch out from the hot-tied of pride a
siekly brood of fnrzy ideas, and then go strutting
along in the path of pomposity. with all the self
importance of a speckled hen with a black chick
en. F have an antipathy to such people.
A Parrot Story-.—We have from a reliable
source the following illustration of parrot cunning. ■
A certain wise parrot undertook to amuse himself
by a walk in the garden. A certain hungry cat |
espying him, crept softly behind him ; poll was j
evidently disturbed by puss’s presence; and as '
he quickened his step lie cast frequent glances
behind to watch her movements, ami as he saw
• hr cal following him he thus soliloquized : “ |
believe the beast will catch me, on my life I be
lieve the creature will have me.” The cat at
length crouched for a spring, when the parrot j
mustering all his courage, faced suddenly about, l
and shouted at t! e top of h s voice—■* scat you ,
beast, seal you beast !”and away went puss in the I
greatest consternation, leaving poll to finish his
stroll unmolested .—-Boston Traveller.
Sons or Temperance—'This new order is
spreading with almost incredible rapidity throuah.
<mt the Union. In th** Nnrili. particularly, if is
becoming decidedly popular. In Virginia, it has
advanced but slowly, but is steadily workinv it*
way to distinction. A new Division of the Sons
of Temperance has recently been instituted at
Franklin, in Pendleton county. It has taken th0
beautiful and appropriate nameof “Highland Divi
sion.” and is the eighth in point of number in the
State. Tim gentlemen attached to this institu
tion i" Franklin are ul llte right stamp, and under
this noble Order cannot fail ofaccomplishing much
good. Success to their efforts!—Rockingham
j Register.
! A Pketty Chambermaid.—In one of the v j|.
lages on the beautiful Hudson, resides a very dis
creet, pious elder of the church who had been fur
many years sons rrprnclic. Very lately it was
whispered about that he had a pretty chamber
maid. The story spread with amazing rapidity.
Old laities spoke of it over their cups—tea cups.
It reached theearsnf the minister. A great many
of the curious waited upon the elder: he to his no
small surprise received visits by dozens daily_
but no pretty chambermaid was seen. It was ob
served, however, that he had a new attic story
boilt, and it was universally believed that he kept
the impudent chambermaid there. At length the
story reached his ears, and he was determined to
trace the matter to its source, lie went to Mrs.
Smith for her authority, who referred him to Mrs.
I Brown, who referred him to Mrs. Jones. He was
; referred to the Johnsons. Dobsons arid Rodsons of
| the village, until finally lie reached the author of
the story.
How is this sir 1" he indignantly exclaimed.
“ * understand you have reported that I had a
pretty chambermaid.”
“ I did.”
“ You shall answer for it_’’
“ I am ready ! ”
“ Now.”
| “ Well, sir ?” t
“ You erected an attic story to your b.iildint™
and I said you had a pretty chamber made_and
so yon have.”
(j°oo SptjNK'.—lii the Woonsocket Patriot wo
notice the advertisement of Mrs. Mary Irons
wherein she gives old Irons such a dose* as wili
not set well on his stomach. Mary is an ironer
ami crimper, as the good-for-nothing Arthur has
probably Inner ago found out We like her spunk,
and therefore give her notice a place in our cul
i limns:
W hereas, Arthur Irons has seen fit to advertise
me as having lefi his lied and hoard, carrying off
Ins children, &c.; therefore. I hereby give notice
to all who may feel interested in the matter, that
llie said Arthur Irons, since his marriage, has had
neither bed nor board which was not procured
with my money; that all the furniture which I
took away I purchased and paid for myself; that
he had no money which did not belomr me • and
as lo getting trusted on his account, he'eannot get
trusted himself where he is known ; that I can hel
ler maintain myself than he can ; and that I prefer
living alone to living with a Ruin Jmr»
MAIiY "IRONS.
1 apf. ring Churches.—'I'ltis is a new fashion
which has grown up lately in Pittsburg, undone
tout adds much to the interior neatness and heautv
of churches The Fifth Presbyterian church in
I ittshurg has been papered with plain granite
walls, and a handsome figured paper on the ceil
i"2. I lie Disciples’ Church, in Allegheny, is
pa pared with granite paper on the walls, with
marble columns. The South Carolina Methodist
church, in Alleghany, is covered with marble pa
l,?r 0,1 lhe walls, with marble columns supporting
cornice. 1 he ceiling is covered with white wa
tered paper. The (Jazette says paper combines
neatness and cheapness, and can he renewed at
small expense—not mure than double that of
white- washing.
.Uf. i \rtnf.r OF Ihfe.—Many a man has
spoo ns choice lor a partner in life in the humble
sjir , far beneath him in ihe opinion of the world,
anda’though love and pride might have struggled
wuh him for a while, yet pride triumphedT'and
lie sought one from the higher walks of life. In
a‘l ll,e vicissitudes of social existence, nothine
c;‘" he capable of inflicting more certain misery
than is sure to follow such a course. It distracts
the general harmony of our days, misshapes our
ends, shortens the length of our lives, lessens the
statute of manhood, ami is contrary to the divine
instructions of the Bible, for it declares where
lev,, is there are peace, plenty, and thriftiness —
livery thing ,s sure f„||llW a happy uniun _
lJCt not pride interfere in ihis matter.
A Bad Fix —A clergyman of Alexandria, D.
1., was recently called upon at a late hour to mar
ry a colored couple, and on asking for the liceneo
was informed that the party had omitted to pro
vide themselves with the necassary papers, pre
suming that the parson could •• do all things well.”
or essential to be done in the premises, but to their
astonishment he informed them that they had
overrated his powers, and advised the groom to
w?nt J he grown, greatly posed, replied : “It
can t be done to night, then? We ajn’t got no
permit from the Mayor to be out after 10 o’clock,
A"d by the time I get the license, return, get mar
ried.and put out, the watch will nab us sartin, and
" won t do for us to sleep the first night in the
watch house, not no how yon can fix it.” The
wedding was an adjourned question.
Dairymen.—The Cleveland Herald says somo
" the dairymen of Aurora county have been into
'h0 Southern portion of Ohio and contracted for
some hundreds of acres of standing corn and stocks
•>:» which to winter their cows. A gentleman from
Hear Columbus also came into Aurora and con
tracted to keep 500 cows through the winter at
the rale one dollar per month. ' Another gentle
man was allowed to go into the yard of an exten
sive dairymrn and select cows ai §0 per head.—
I wo years old steers are selling at from §3 t0 45
per head.
Charity of Jit humf.nt.— I have erred my
sell like the rest; have found reason to love and
and honor men of every side. Many of my own
most decided opinions, I have lived to change;
to think my own best weighed and most dis
interested actions mistaken. How then shall
I judge others, who have need myself of «o can
did and indulgent a judge ?
To Quikt Cross Babies.—The New York
M,rror has hit upon a way to stop the squalling
of •• the young brats.” The only requisite to
qmet tlm squalling, sqncalliug, miserable little
wretch of a baby, is that it shall posses* a nose.
In the m.dst of it screaming, press your finger
gently and repeatedly across the carlillage of that
usefo organ, and in less than two minutes will
be asleep. 1 he eastern paper from w hence this
important discovery is derived, says in one min
ute, but we allow two, to prevent any disappoint