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SMutefc. gtisctllang.
The following little poem, from the fair bands
of Mrs. Louisa Flagg, the wife of the artist—
Flag of our Union —is very dainty; and her
ne%* ly coined word “woodting,'' a’pretty con
ceit :
Minnesota
Woodsing with Ina-
Along the wooded shore our wanderings lay;
A tiny basket, for our flower-spoil,
Beggsd little pet to bear, in mimic toil,
And filled with withered leaves, and mosses gray,
From weird.old oaks that branch’d above our way.
In shaded nooks the jesmine lingered yet,
White star-light clusters, bluest violets,
And tiny blossoms of the April day
That chanced to catch the little gaze,
Else all nnnoticed ’mid the glass had lain:
Rich harvest ours until the western rays
Warned homeward, tho’ for longer lingering fain,
Aud Ina begged in pretty baby phrase,
“To go a woodsing very soon again ”
Departure of Summer
Where are the blossoms of summer?—ln the
West,
Blushing their last to the last sunny hours,
Where the mild Eve by sudden Night is prest
Like tearful Proserpine .snatch’d from her flowers
To a most gloomy breast.
Where is the pride of Summer—the green prime,
The many,many leaves of all twinkling?—Three
On the mossed Elm: three on the naked lime
Trembling—and one upon the old oak tree !
Where is the Dryad’s immortality?—
Gone into mournful cypress and dark yew,
Or wearing the long gloomy winter through
In the smooth holly’s green eternity.
Hood.
The way they Behave
BY Mils. GEORGE WASHINGTON WYLLYS.
We went to hear Forrest the other
night.
Now don’t be misled by this simple
statement, reader. Don’t lay down the
paper with a mental “Pshaw! nobody
can tell us anything new about Forrest’s
acting.” We don’t intend to tell you
anything new, or anything old, either—
we only want to “soeak our mind” on
the manner in which women conduct
themselves at theaters, operas, and pub
lic places generally. It is emphatical
ly scandalous!
This is no new conviction, we are.
sorry to say. We have been aware ot
the fact, ever since we were tall enough
to look over the edge of the mantlepiece
But the other night, when we went
down to see Forrest enact “King
Lear,” the kettle of our Indignation
boiled over, and as we couldn’t box the
ears of the fair aggressors eumasse, nor
chastise them, u la the noble sex, with
pistols aad small-swords, we resolved to
take the only revenge in our power, and
tell “Life Illustrated” all about it
Perhaps they will be ashamed of them
selves when they see their naughty
deeds in print. But for mercy’s sake,
dear “Life,” don’t let them know it
was ice who told you. We are moder
ately courageous —we don’t object to
meeting any one woman of our size in
single combat, but consider how many
finger-nails and parasol points there
arc in New York!
It was very exhilarating to stand out
side the doors for half an hour,the cen
ter of a solid jam—to have your bonnet
criticised by somebody’s saustic tongue,
and crushed in by some other body’s
remorseless elbow—to know that your
dress was being “crumpled” ns if a pa
tent crimping-knife had done the busin
ess. Still more pleasant was it to say
meekly to a twohundred-pound woman,
“Please to take your gaiter-heel off my
foot,” and be annihilated with. “Well,
I should think any one calling herself a
lady would be a little more accom
modating!” And then the mad rush
when at length the doors were opened!
We mentally drew the dividing line
between politeness-male and politeness
female, when in answer to a faint re
monstrance for room,the gentleman be
hind us replied, gayly, “I really should
be glad to oblige you; but I am entirely
at the mercy of the crowd myself!”—
What made his wife spoil the genial ef
fect of his pleasant voice by chiming in,
tartly,“What do people come here for,if
they can’t stand being crowded?”
Deer, amiable soul! if ever we meet
you on Broadway, we will give you the
“right of way” with the greatest pleas
ure in life!
But the incident of the evening is yet
to be related. We never knew of a
duel between two women, but we can
very easily imagine, after being aneye
and-car witness of this brisk little scene,
how it would be fought. The parties
were a gray-eyed female—might have
been an old maid, and might not —and a
black eyed young lady, in company
with an invalid gentleman. Gray-eyes
had received a push from somebody,
which she (erroneously) charged to the
account of the gentleman with Black
eyes, whom she immediately assailed
with a shower of obloquy, wanting to
know “if he called himself a gentle
man?” and “what he, was knocking
people about, in that way, for?” and
giving emphasis to her words by bring
ing down her kid-gloved fists furiously
upon his shoulders. Black-eyes imedi
ately snatched up the gauntlet, before
the astonished victim could remonstrate.
Motto— « Freedom is the only safeguard of Government, and Order and Moderation arc nectary to Freedom.”— Milton.
SAUK RAPIDS, IIS.. THURSDAY. HOY. 29. 1860.
“What do you mean by such uulady
like conduct?” she demanded; “let the
gentleman alone—he has never touehed
you! I'should think you would be as
hamed of yourself!” Every word of
Black-eyes was accompanied with a
vigorous poke at her enemy’s ribs.—
Grav-eyes, in despair, appealed to the
policeman at the inner door. The pol
iceman in common gallantry could not
rebuke Miss Black-eyes, so he satisfied
justice by looking fiercely at an unof
fending int ividual who had been totally
unconnected with the whole affair, and
asking him “why he couldn’t behave
himself?”
Both these ladies were elegantly and
expensively dressed—wore French bon
nets, and probably belonged to “our
first ’circles,” but no two Hibernian
dames on the Bowery ever went at each
other with more spirit than they display
ed. With such soldiers before the
walls, Sebastopol never would have
held out as long as it did!
The roguish glee with which the sur
rounding gentlemen beheld the briet
passage at arms was another element
-in the cup of our dissatisfaction. YY ho
wants to furnish a laughing stock to
their excellencies, the men?
Now this is just the way women be
have themselves whenever it is particu
larly desirable they should be accom
modating- In the palmy days when
they were little girls, these are the self
same faults for which their mothers us
ed to box their ears and shut them up
in dark closets. We are not sure but
that a piece of the same discipline would
be good fir the complaint now! Noth
ing else seems to produce a reforming
influence.
Can’t they go to see a grand old
tragedy and a superb actor without
prefacing the feast intellectual leave
their watches and purses at homo, pre
vious to mingling in a crowd, for fear of
disastrous consequences. Couldn’t
they take the same course with their
warlike propensities? Does a woman
consider everything that w-ears a bon
net as her natural enemy? Isn’t a pol
ite word as cheap as a spiteful one?
We really would like a little informa
tion on these topics. Who will supply
us?
A Romantic Young Lady and a
Past Young Man
Moenlight, since the world began,
has been the food of love. Cupid danc
es in her silvery rays, and his most an
tic tricks are perpetrated under her
mellowing influence - It will be so, phi
losophers say, and it always should be
so, poets and lovers respond..
A poetic young lady of our city, one
of the wild, rattle-brained sort, but en
tirely above suspicion, made the ac
quaintance of a young gentleman on the
State Fair ground, and he was smitten.
He asked to visit her, bnt some strange
freak got into the young lady’s head,
and she declined his visits at her home,
and so arranged as to meat him in the
evenings, and ramble with him by moon
light, often until the small hours ap
proached. What he said or how he
said it, we don’t know, but we presume
he asked to accompany her to her apart
ment, for one Sunday night she took
him to her room, stepped out and turned
the key in the door behind her.
Having performed this exploit she
awoke her father and mother, complain
ed of insults offered and told them how
she had the libertine under lock and
key. Armed with canes and tongs the
paternal and fraternal burst into the
room, furious and in eager haste to
chastise the intruder. The young
stranger, although fast, is a youth of
coolness and courage. He started back
in an instant, under the glare of the
light from the lamp and the fire from the
two pair ofeyes, and drew a revolver,
telling them that if they advanced a step
he would fire every barrel at them -
He let them rave on, and the old inan
began to see the absurdity of his posi
tion. Then the young lover told them
to reflect. He was in the young lady’s
bed shamber, brought there by herself.
Was she not more in his power than he
was in hers? His love, he said, was
cooled—indeed it was below freezing
point; and he was willing to let the af
fair rest just where it was, and that each
paity should return to their own quar
ters, with their arms in their hands. It
was agreed that nothing should be said
about it, but, some hints having leaked
out, we have the substance of the above
from one of the nctors and believe it to
be true. Young ladies should not get
quite so romantic.
Southern Hospitality.- -The broth
er-in-law of Rev. C. M, Tyler of this
place embarked for Georgia on the
steamer from Philadelphia. Though
very discreet in the expression of his op
inion, he was not permitted to remain a
day in the city of Savannah without im
prisonment,being as terrible as an army
with banners. He returned by the next
steamer much impressed with Southern
liberality and political liberty
Fall and Winter Fashions.
Now that the people have decided by
suffrage the great national question as
to who shall he the Executive of the
confederacy for the ensuing four years, 1
and now that the excitement incident to
the result has in a measure abated in
the minds ot the inhabitants of our City j
and State, we must not forget the nuine- |
rous lady readers of the Times who are
interested in all that relates to the ever- j
changing “fashions.” For their bene-|
fit tve transfer to our columns the fol
lowing lively article from the fashion de- j
partment of a New York paper, descrip-!
tive of the new and recherche styles of
bonnets, cloaks, mantillas, shawls and ■
skirts, and ether articles of feminine
apparel, recently introduced, and now
all the rage in upper ten circles in that
“fast” city. No wonder the husbands
aud dads of Gotham “go under” every
now and then, when their wives and
daughters, in order to be “fashionable,”
sport two hundred dollar bonnets, fifteen
hundred dollar shawls, thousand duller
dresses, hundred and fifty dollar “Zou
ave jackets, 1 ’ ten dollar slippers, and
jewelry to correspond ! Ladies of St.
Paul, how do you like the picture?
But to the report. — [Timet]
Bonnets. —A lmppy medium has been
found for bonnets W bile there is less
of them than ever before, the front is
more projecting, and is not thrown up in
the preposterous way which has incurr
ed such just censure. One “duck”
may be minutely described. Fancy a
crown of black and white lace, the front
trimmed with white on eather side of
light green velvet, a white marabout
feather, tipped with green drooping de
liciously, and the inside trimmed with
white and green and gold ! Magenta
is a color very much in repute—a bril
liant red—and here is a bonnet of Ma
genta velvet, trimmed at the front with
lilac, the cape and crown of white tulle
trimmed with Magenta, and the inside
with white flowers and silk. The unan
imous verdict is that tho front shall he
close to the face. There is a charming
bridal bonnet of plain white corded silk,
with a double cape. Round the crown
is a pointed lea r , an 1 the trimming is
white illusion and lace. The decora
tions on - the out idc arc white roses,
green leaves and beads, and inside or
ange blossoms. Of ornaments there is
no end of delicate and divine ideas.—
Gilt figures largely all, hut Madame
Donporset clearly asserts that is “in
bad tasle and will be too common to be
elegant or distingue.” The dainty feath
ers of the Paris bird —can this be a cor
ruption of the bird o( Paradise?—of the
Russian duck, and of the homely but
beautiful pheasant —are to fall in soft
showers over many a lovely head
There is also an entirely new and very
clever idea—a chain of medallions to
encircle the bonnet.
Cloaks and Mantillas. —lt is gen
erally concluded that the loose sack will
be most commonly worn. There are
numerous designs, adapted to all ages,
and apparently, to both sexes. A new
idea that Zouave jacket, which fits nat
tily to the waiste, and is accompanied by
a cloak, so that there is accommodation
for all conditions of the atmosphere.—
The fringes and embroideries are very
elegant, and the cost of a silk sack va
ries from SSO to $l5O. Velvet main
tains its proud supremacy. A cloak of
this rich material, lined with purple silk,
and embroidered at the edge with a ma
chine stitch in vivid colo s, may, we
think, be called a “stunner.” For the
opera, silks of the most gorgeous strip
edness have been imported in bewilder
ing profusion A novel and pleasing
invention is a Turkish cloak, over which
from the left shoulder, depends a grace
ful scarf, while the right shoulder is
perfectly plain. For misses there is a
cunning cloak, denominated Zara, quite
Arabesgue in design. It is fitted to the
shoulders in sack form, with Bishop
sleeves and Japanese cuffs, and has two
collars.
Shawls. —One house in New York
has a stack of camel’s hair shawls val
ued at $150,000. Their separate val
ues range from S2O to $2,500, and their
paterns are sumptuous beyond descrip
tion. The extreme agony is a heavy
gold embroidery, and the expense of
such luxury we dare not disclose.
Skirts. —Let the tirade against crin
oline cease. Let no man take that
name in vain. Crinoline is a myth:
they don’t wear it. The spring skirt is
alone immortal. As many as 6ixty
springs are sometimes worn, and by au
ingenious contrivance, “the great an
noyance of tapes slipping on the strings
has been eflectually remodied, by pass
ing the fastening through the covering
of the springs, making it impossible for
them to slip or break way.” The bell
shape is the most popular, but there is
no political preference to this fashion,
however much corrupt factions may en
deavor to fasten it upon the ladies.
It is said that a brother of Carl Fo 7
mes has been missing for eight years,
and that he has at last turned up in
Garibaldi’s army.
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR
Family Infercourse at Table.
To meet at the breakfast table,father,
mother, children, all well, ought to be a
happiness to any heart; it should he a
source of humble gratitude, and should
wake up the warmest feelings of our
nature. Shame upon the conttmptible
and low-brtd cur, whether parent or
child, that can ever corac to the break
fast-table, where all the family have
met in health, only to frown, and whine,
and growl, and fret ! It is prima facie
evideuce of a mean, and grovelling, and
selfish, and degraded nature, whenceso
ever the churl may have sprung. Nor
is it less reprehensible to make such ex
hibitions at the tea-table; for before tho
morning comes, some of the little circle
may be striken with some deadly dis
ease, to gather around that table not
again lorever.
Children in good health, if left to
themselves at the table, become, after
a few mouthfulls, garrulous and noisy;
but if within at all reasonable or beara
ble bounds, it is better to let them
alone; they eat less, because they do
not eat so rapidly as if compelled to
keep silent, while the very exhileratior.
of spirits quickens the circulation of the
vivid fluids, and energize digestion and
assimilation. The extremes of society
curiously meet in this regard. The
tables of the rich and the nobles of Eng
land are models of mirth, wit, and bon
hommie; it t:;kes hours to get through a
rcpa6t, and they live long.
A Heartless Wretch
A few days ago, a man who gave his
name as Johnson, but whose real name
is Ellslev Pugh, and who resides near
Rochester, where he has a wife and a
large family of sons and daughters, some
of whom arc nearly grown up, came to
this city with a horse said to have been
stolen. Pugh sold the horse for almost
nothing, and then went over to ‘ Vinne
gar Hill,” where he married a young
lady, with whom he immediately left fur
unknown regions.
Yesterday his wife caine here after
him, as did also the?man from whom the
horse w'as stolen. The poor woman’s
grief was painful to witness—Of course
she did not suceed in finding her truant
husband. The police, however, are
making a diligent search and entertain
hope of capturing the rascal before
many days. Journal.
An Old Tree.—The oldest known
tree, the age of which is historically de
termed, is the sacred fig tree of Anara
japoura, in Ceylon. It was planted by
King Devinipiatsissa in the year 288 B.
C., and its history from that date is pre
served by a mass of documentary and
tradition evidence. It was described
by the Chinese traveler, Fa Hiam, in
the year 414, and by the earliest Euro
peans who visited it, in about the same
terms. It is still flourishing, and is[a i ob
ject of worship to the Buddhists of the
island
More Arrests of “Abolitionists”
at the South —A correspondent of
the Charleston Courier, writing from
Conwayboro’, S. C., October 10. says
that the Vigilant Society of that place
have arrested two men under suspicious
circumstances. One of the men profes
es to be a tailor, the other schoolmas
ter. Much excitement prevailed in the
place. The correspondent thinks that
“the gentemen will be dealt with as the
law directs.”
Some women are often excessively
fond of teasing those whom they love.
It is generally the very impassioned in
temperament, or the very cold, who do
so. The latter, whose love is compar
atively languid, may do it almost con
stantly; the former, just in the intervals
where the pulse ot love rather intermits:
and in this case it seems only to be a
part or form of the general craving for
excitement of some kind or other.
The Utica (N. Y.) Telegraph has
fbnnd the meanest man in the world.
It says that a man who was requested
to act as pall bearer at the funeral of a
friend’s wife, presented the bereaved
husband with a bill of 56 cents for his
services in that capacity, and received
his pay !
There has been a cowhiding affair at
Springfield, III.; a young lady applied,
the rawhide to a gentleman suitor who,
as she heard, had made boasts of his
power over her. There were half a
dozen heads at a window opposite to see
it well done.
What a glorious world this be, if all
its inhabitants could say, with Shak
speare’s Shepherd: “Sir lam a true
laborer; I earn that I wear; owe no
man hate; envy no man’s happiness:
glad of other men’s good; content with
ray farm.”
“Oh, that my father was seized with
a remittent fever!” sighed a youug spend
thrift at college.
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Early Trouble of a Newly
Maried Couple.
On last Friday morning an alhtoic
young fanner in the town of Waynes
burg, took a fair girl “all bathed in
blushes” from her parents, and started
fur the fiist town across the Pennsylva
nia line to be married, where the cera
tnony could be performed without a li
cense. The happy pair were accompa
nied by n sister of the girl, a tall, gaunt,
sharp-featured female of some thirty
seven summers The pair crossed the
line, were married, and returned Wella
ville to pass the night. People at the
hotel where the wedding party stopped
observed that they conducted themselves
in a rather singular mariner. The hus
band would take his sister-in-law, the
tall female aforesaid, into one corner of
the prrlor, nr.d talk earnestly to her;
gesticul ding wildly the while. Then
the tall female would “put her foot
down” and talk to him in an angry and
excited manner. Then the husband
would tako his fair young bride into a
c> r.ier, but he could uo sooner corn-*
mencc talking to her, than the gaunt
sister would rush between and join an
grily in the conversation. The people
at the hotel ascertained what this meant
by about nine o’clock that evening.—•
There was an uproar in the room which
had been assigned to the newly married
couple. Female shrieks and masculine
“swears” startled the people at the ho«
t si, and they hurried to the spot. The
gaunt female was pressing and kicking
against the door of the room, and the
newly married man, mostly undressed
was barring her out with all his might.
Occasionally she would kick the door
far enough open to disclose the stalwart
husband in his gentleman Greek Slave
apparel.
It appeared that the tall feinal* in
sisted upon occupying the same room
with t‘ e newly-wedded pair; and her
sister was favorably disposed to the ar
rangement; the husband had agreed to
it before the wedding took place, and
was indignantly repudiating the con-
tract.
“Won’t you go uway, now, Susan,
peaceful ?”
“No,” said she, “I won’t—sotherc.”
“Don’t you budge an inch!” cried the
married si.ter within the room.
Now, now, Maria,” said the young
man to his wile, in a piteous tone,
“don’t gn to cuttin’ up in this way, now
don’t!”
“I’ll cut up’s much ’s I wantei!” she
sharpie replied.
“Well !” roared the desperate man,
throwing the door .vide open, and stalk
ing among the crowd, “well, jest you
two women put on your duds and go
straight homo, and bring back the old
man and woman, aud your grandfather,
who is nigh on to a hundred; bring ’em
all here, and I'll marry Ike whole d—d
co’ioodle of ’em and tee’ll all tleep togeth
er.”
The difficulty was finally adjusted by
the tali female taking a room alone.—
Wcllsville is enjoping itself over the
sensation —[Cleveland Plaindenler.}
The Printer.
A printer is the most curiour being
living. He may have a bank and coins
and not be worth n cent—have small
1 caps, and have neither wife nor children.
Others may run fast, but he gets along
swiftest by s Ming fast. He may be
making impressions without eloquence—
may use the lye without offending, and
be telling the truth; while others can
not stand while they set, he can set
standing, and do both at the same time
—have to use furniture, and yet have
no dwelling—may make and put away pi,
and never see a pie, much I<jss eat it
during his whole life; be a human being
and a rat at the same time; may prett
! a great deal, and not ask a favor; may
' handle a shooting-iron, and know 1 noth'
ing about a cannon, gun or pistol; he
may move the lever that moves tho world
and yet be as fur from moving the glob*
as a hog under a mole hill; spread sheets
without being a housewife; he may lay
his form on a bed, and yet be obliged to
sleep on the floor; Ire may use the f
I without shedding blood, and from the
I earth he may haudie ***; he may be of
\ a rolling dispogsilion, and yet never de
j sire to travel; he may have a sheep's
foot , and not be deformed; never be
without a ease, and know nothing of law
or physic; be always correcting his er
rors, and be growing worse evory day ;
have smew’s without ever having the
arms of a lass thrown around bim; have
his form locked up, and at the same
time be free from jail, watch house, or
any other confinement:,his office may
have a hell in,it, and not be a bad place;
after all he might be plagued by the
devil, and be a Christian ofthe best kind
and what is stranger still, be he honest
or dishonest, rich or poor, drunk or so
ber, or Jaey/'he always
stands up to his business.— Oliver.
The richest endowments of* the mind
are temperance, produce and fortitude,
Prudence is a universal virtue, which
enters into the composition of sll the
rest; and where she is not, fortitude
loses its name and natunre,