X v - n ? & n 11 r r vrrrrif I l l C II P THE PlflftTH GAnULiniHHi rn rci icillh m I'AttMtitlS' DEPARTMENT. Forelne Flovrrs tn Winter. It will probably not be long before the ladies of our city, who have a taste for the ennous in nature, will emulate those of England, and cultivate marine animals and plants in their aquaria. At present the taste runs more in the way of forciug flowers an art derived from Paris. Any fancy or occupation leading to a more intimate acquaintance with nature's beau- tifnl an.i wonderful creations, is to be cherisnca and practiced; and to the female mind the em. ployment of tending flowers is particularly con genial. An interest in the subject may be awakened by the simplest sort of experiments. For instance, if the bulbs of hyacinths or tulips " ne pw4.in glasses partially filled with water, in November, or even as late as December, their frrnivt.il n n r rlnrplomneiit mav be watched. " - I The water must be warm, and changed every morning, to supply the nourishment which the plants imbibe through the little spongibles at the ends of their fibrous roots, and the bulb glasses should never be quite filled with water, so that space may be allowed for air. They may be kept on the mantelpiece until the flow ers begin to expand, but as soon as they open they should be placed in a strong light, to ob tain richness of color. This charming art is now carried to great perfection, by those willing to give.it time and iittention and wliat person of leisure and taste would not be? Numerous varieties of the Chinese primrose, with its large, double, cheer ful looking flowers, have been grown in the drawing room, while snows and bitter blasts :thnnt Tim white lilac, a favorite winter flower in Paris, and the purple clusters of the same, with roses and wall flowers, form bewitching bouquets, flourishing within view of the glowing antliractic, while heaths and or ange trees add richness to the blooms by their verdure. The belle now finds no difficulty in procuring from the florist the brilliant camelia to shine amid her raven braids; nor the pendant racemes of the beautiful garrya eliptica, whose delicate greenish flowers enhance the tender bloom of the cheek; and many are the sweet her bouauet. It kV,I ,uv wwui..w O is another refinement in luxury to cultivate those plants in the parlor or dining room. Time was, long ago, when it was difficult to find any floral decorations for windows or ta bles, in winter. The seed vessels of the peony, or the uegilla, or the scarlet berries of the as paragus, the holly, or the mountain ash, were alone avoilable. Even within our recollection, branches of the delicate foliage of the aspara gus have been sprinkled with beaten white of cc;g, to produce the effects of blossoms at a distance. Now we have real living and fresh flowers whenever we choose. The splendid Chinese crysantliemnm led the way -in the gor geous march of the flower spirits into our homes, to shed their smiles and fragrance upou us, when "the melancholy days are coma, the saddest of the year." We welcome the advance of this refining, fertilizing taste. The presence of pots and bulb glasses in halls and drawing rooms, is no annoy ance to us; and we hope it may be followed by the introducion of tanks, stocked with viraria till the furore of British ladies on the subject of mollusks and anemones shall become an epi demic throughout the length and breadth of this Republic. Our metropolitan lames espe cially, need something to think of and to do, which may divert their attention from dress and dissipation, in some small measure, and at brief Intervals. Husbands will find their account in cultivating the acquaintance both of the plants and animals, and providing them with accom modation. JVcio York Express. -my Receipts of Cotton. The comparative ta ble of receipts and shipments at all the ports, published in the Charleston Courier of 13th iust., gives the increased receipts of cotton, compared with last year at same time, 9, 6T4 bales. The decreased shipments to Great Bri- ta-n 250.000: to France, 42,000; and to for eign ports, 17,000 bales. The increased ship ments to Northern ports and 111,500 bales, and the increased stocks on hand and on ship board, 223,616 bales. The man who is too poor to take a paper has . bonsrht a slab-sided dog, an old shot gun, and a fv eliJllimr o-nUl watch, lie educates his , V. VJ W Q 0 children in the street, and his shanghais board on his neighbors. For the Carolinian. The Gray's Creek Independant Light Infan. try company celebrated the birth day of Wash ington at the usual place of meeting, near Bethel church, on Saturday last. There was Quite a respectable turn out, ana the incidents of the day were enlivened by a trial at Target firing. Mr Isaac liomngs- worth proved the successful competitor, nis .,aaa hnt. beintr 5 11-24 Mr C, D. Burke a i vi uuv - o . wwn 111 J? I the next best, being 5 13-24 me skim mapp ¬ ed by all the members of the company was highly creditable and would Have aone noaor to older veterans. The accomplished commander, Capt. Devane, was absent, but the exercises of the day were conducted by the next officer, Lieut. Jas. Kirk patrick, with ability. The Grays Creek Independant Light Infan try is a new company ; and from the interest manifested, and material of which it is compo sed, bids fair to take a permanent posaon among the military companies of old Cumber land who can boast of at least five volunteer Companies, enough to form a volunteer regi ment, and we hope the day is not far distant when this regiment will be formed. Let our imilitary take the matter in hand -rffid attend it no county in the State has a volunteer regiment let it be the pride of Cumberland to have one. Th. Cabin on WandWnite Slavery. Tragedies are not confined to Bond street, nor are the victims always the wealthy owners of houses, mortgages and bank stock. While the city has been shocked, Staten Island has had its terrors; where a poor orphan girl was, as is alledged, starved, beat, frozen and baked, until at last its spirit was called home to the bosom of its Father in Heaven, and the poor little emaciated body left as full of sores as that of Lazarus, and not half so well fed and cover. ed, to appeal to justice against a cruel mistress. But where are the denunciations ot the LIack "Republican' press of this horrible outrage? If this had been a little black girl who had been thus driven to death by her mistress, the horror mongers of the Beecher Stowe school would have seized upon the attrccitics and made them the basis of novels, plays and lec tures without number. As this was only a poor white child of Irish parentage, the politi cal philanthropists of the sect we have alluded to, will see nothing for their purposes but quite the reverse. Mrs Decker, even it as bad as she is represented, would not have slaughtered a chattel worth five hundred dollars. Had the victim of harshness and neglect been her pro perty in fee simple, she would have fed and nursed her with consideration, if not tenderness The Baby's Shirt, or Mary Ann's Wedding, aa Related by Hrs Jones. "We was all preparing,", said Mrs Jones, "to go the wedding. I was going, the gals was going to take the baby. But come to dress the badv. couldn't find the bady's shirt! I'd laid a clean one out of the drawers a purpose, I ktiowed jist where I'd put it, but come to look for't 'twas gone." "For mprrv's sake!" savs I. "irals." says I j Afc "has any one ye seen that baby's shirt?7' "Of course none on 'em had seen it; and I looked and looked, and looked and looked again, but 'twant nowhere to be found. 'It', the strangest thing in all natur,' says, I; 'here I had that shirt in my hand not more'n ten minutes ago, and now it's gone, nobody can tell where! I never see the beat. 'Gals,' says I, 'do look arond', can't ye?' But fretting wouldn't find it; so I give up, and went to the bureau and finished up another shirt, and put it onto the baby; and at last we was ready for a start. "Farther'd harnessed up the double team we drove the old white mare then and the rals and all was having a good time going to see Mary Ann married; but some how 1 couldn't "it over that shirt! 'Twan't the shirt eo much to hiTv?aujthing spirited away, right from uh I f vKftflCELLANEOUS ITEMS, c r h t I'TnE Loot Sori. Among the birds of Te. rnis one known as the ahnarprtd&ov lost soul,' for the following reo son :- n Indian girl ' while collecting balsam, left, Jierjhild alone in the forest, and on her return to VUe place where she had left it, sbe could ot nd it Calling aloud its name, the only reply Ihe received was the singularly mounful note of u:- ui.A ,inh frnm that time was'denoniina., i.,i rl.vi u-nrlr mil after UsrDieni'.lg tier, out tuu wnw, ... i i:S evLng, and ted "the lost soul." The legend is beaut was towed down and safely anchored with the . nd might nave " "J BoveWtnts ot the American SqnadroCMare Armstrong's General order on the Ute Engage ment. -:rx U. S. Ship ToRTSEOUTH, WiHPni China. Friday. Dec. "12, 56. The Portsmouth and Levant dropped down the Barrier on Saturday evening, but about two miles above this place the Portsmouth got very badly aground. As the tide receded, ehe mremieii over so badly as to render it inipossi- i.i .,..r;riit mi her decks. Altera- UtC IU SLII11U 1 O iard day's work, and after lightening ner, su tiicr Hnrrl nmstpi's ami mis- dor iuv fuce &11 cl eyes so. 'twas provoking. tresses at the Noath exact from their apprei.ti-i "What ye thinking about, mother?" says For the Carolinian. "THK GREAT TEN CENT INSOLVENCY'' ANSWERED. Mr Editor: I do not wish to encumber your columns, and have no inclination to intrude my humble name and person on the public: but as I have been assailed personally, I claim a right to be heard in self defence at least. Mr R D. Davis has seen fit to publish a card wherein he displays so much littleness on his own part as scarcely to leave me anything to say. Without having ever asked me for the vast sum often cents, in which amount I was indebted to him, he straightway issues a war rant for me, and desiring to "fight the devil with his own weapons" I pursued the course as indicated in his card. . A man narrow-souled enough to apprehend another for the sum of "five cents and fifty mills," without having ever asked' him for it, and then bare-faced enough to publish his own stinginess to the world, is unworthy even of the notice which I have given him As to "insolvency," Mr D owes ten dol lars where I do not owe one cent, and could the veil of futurity be lifted, his own creditors might see documents very similar to the one received by himself. I will not trouble you nor honor Mr R. D. Davis by any further notice of "so very small a potatoe." Respectfully, J. W. LARKIX. ces an amount of labor they cannot bear, while they grudge them food, clothing and the other necessaries of life. We Iiojm-, for the honor of humanity, that the treatment whirh the deail child suffered was not so attroeious as it has been represent ed. The case-is, however, a proof that a free rhild in a free state may be starved, striped and frozen to deatli pretty mucli-in the style of the dismal cruelties related in -uncle tours Cabin" and similar caricatures of Southern life. P,wrtv -it t!i nrth we find makes slaves j of the white man and his children, and their condition has none of those guaranteers of pro tection which the black slaves of the South possess. Our moralists have pointed out with microscopic accurracy tli3 mete in the eye of their brethren, will they attend somewhat to the beam in their own. If Southern social life is not perfection, it certainly lias, in no few points, the vantage of that of the North. Widows. "If you ever think of marrying a widow, my son," said an anxious parent to his heir, "select one whose first husband was hung that is the only way to prevent her throwing his memory in your face, and making annoying comparisons." "Even that won't prevent it, exclaimed the crusty old bachelor, "she 11 then praise him and say hanging would be too good for you." ' A SHARr Youxgstek. A little boy on his return from Sunday School recently, addressed his mother as follows: "Mammal" "Well, my dear." Mamma, the teacher says people are all ma.de of dust." "Yes, my dear, so the Bible eays." "Well, mamma, are white people made of dust?" "Yes." "Well, then, I s'pose colored people are made of cold dust aint theyl" The Fachiation of Crime. We no not know that onr caption fnlly or properly expresses our idea, which is, the strange facination that gathers around the de tails of and the supposed participants in any act of peculiar atrocity, especially if seasoned with a slight spice of mystery, and perpetrated within, or close upon the confines ot good so ciety." Bill Sikes might murder Nancy without ma ny people, save the police, troubling themselves with the mattar, and many a seamstress besid es Tom Iloood's may sing the Song of the Shirt on her way to a premature grave, and the world go its way unheeding; but when a miserable miser, like Doctor Burdell of New York is found murdered id a semi-fashionable boarding house in Bond street whose character turns out to be none of the best, and whose relations with Burdell were more than equivo cal, then the whole newspaper and newspaper reading world is on end as it were, and the "Bond Street Mystery" is discussed alike in bar-room and boudoir from one extreme of the land to tha other, while the names of Mrs Cun ningham and her supposed paramours and par ticipants in murder, Eckel and Snodgrass, are familiar as household words, from Maine to Texas. The writer who would attempt an analysis of this matter, must possess an acquaintance with mental anatomy far exceeding ai'thing to which we-can lay claim. It seems to be com posed in nearly equal parts of the spirit which leads to the pcrsnal of the Newgate calendar, and that which induces our republicans to take such interest in the novel that details the loves aud the scandals, the fortunes and the misfor tunes of the aristocratic Lady Betty and Lord Adolphns Fitz Frizzle. Something of the cu riosity that tempted Eve, combined with the truculence that caused Cain to shed the first blood. What are these rather improper and not very interesting people to us or we to them that, the papers should be filled with then names, and the electric wires vibrate with de tails concerning them, to au extent hardly eoualled by the news of the Presidential elec- 1 V tion? Perhaps the affair reveals a phase of New York life,; and people have an iuterest in it. Perhaps, and this seems the true reason, the parties are the true sinners, and have dwelt on the confines of "respectabilit" llad they been really good people, they would have lived unknowing and unknown, as thousands and millions do; and they might have perished in a railroad collision, their names forgotten the next day. Had they been in a more humble nosition. even their crimes or supposed crimes a would have won for tuem no corresponding no toriety, for we will venture, to say that Teague McSlathers may any dhy knock iu the crown of his long suffering wife . Bridget's head with an iron pot, and get his own neck streched A Runaway 5Ia.rsiase in Bigh Life. The Bride Worth $250,000. A. marriage took place iu Grace Church, on Monday last, says a New York exchange, that has excited no little interest in fashionable circles and caused quite a fluttering among certain wealthy families. It seems the bride is an heiress, and worth iu her own right $250,000. She was the inmate of one of our most exclusive female seminaries, and is but 14 years and eight months old. Her wealth and the high position of her family were of course known to her associates, I her acquaintance was consequently courted. mong the gentlemen she was introduced to was s k . a wen Known naoiiue Scphrony; "what makes ye so sober? says she. "I'm pestered to death thinking about that are shirt," says I. "One of you must a took it, I'm sartin," says I. "Now, ma, "says Sophrony, says she, "you need'nt say that, says she and as I'd laid onto her a good many times, she was beginning to irit vexed, and so we had it back and forth all about that baby's shirt, till we got to the wed ding. "Seeing company, kinder put it out of my mind, and I was gitting good natur u agin; though I couldn't help saying to myself every few minutes, 'What could a become of that shirt?' till at last they stood up to be married, :ind 1 forirot all about it. JNIarv Ann was a real modest creeter, and was more'n half fright ened to death, when she came into the room with Stephen, and the minister told 'em to jine hands. She fust give her left hand to Stephen. 'Your other hand,' says the minister, says he and poor Steeve, he was so bashful, too, he didn't know what he was about; he thought 'twas his mistake, and that the minister meant him, so he give Mary Ann his left hand That wouldn't do, any way, a left handed marriage all round; but by this time they didn't know what they was about fand Mary Ann jined her right hand with his left, then the left with his right, then both their left hands agin, till I was all of a fidget, and thought they never would get fixed. Mary Ann looked red as a turkey; and to make matters worse, she began to cough to turn it off, I suppose, and called for a glass of water. The minister had jist been drinkincr. and the tumbler stood right ntl.r hinR of the souadiou at Whampon The squadron will now disperse. i v"- modore, in the San Jacinto, his Uag-snip, w.u . Mn tho Tyrant will go to remain at uiiamiiu.!, -a I 1 - I lianton. and the Portsmouth, win against the Monsoon, to Shanghae. On Monday latt, by order ot tue wuiuiu dore, the following "General Order" ws read on board all ships of the squadron : To the Commanders, Officers and man.nz. uj the U. S. ships 1'orumonlh, San Jacinto and Levant : t th. mi.Ut of neace you have been called upon to redress an assault upon the flag of your country. The necessity oi such o- tn i. trotted bv as all. eveu though the man ner in which your stern duty has been perform ed is so honorable to yourselves. I shonld omit an act of justice to you, and tw who have bravely fallen iu the perfor mance of their duty, aud to the service to which von belonff. if I hesitated to make this otnciai acknowledgement of the faithful and honorable manner in which "all have borne their part. The embarrassment has been to check the earnest zeal with which both officers and men have sought to place themselves in the most daring and hazardous positions, and to keep them at any duty, however necessary, which did not bring them in contact with the enemy. Anions' the satisfactory results of the con- flict in which you have been engaged is the proof it presents of the intelligent subordina tion so crenerally exhibited in this emergency, and also of the magnanimity which has enabled yon, under aggravating acts, to respect the rights of the people wliose authorities had forced you into hostility, and thns to do the highest honor to the flag you represent. Your best rewards tin the consciousness of having well done your duty; but I should be wanting in mine unless, in this public manner, I conveyed to you my eaeHest thanks, with the hope that you will receive, as you have merited, the hi'rh honor of your country's approDation. Given under my hand, on board ot tue unit ed States flag-ship San Jacinto, at Whampoa, China, ou this Gth day of December, 18ob. JAMES ARMSTKUxU. Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Naval Forces in the East India and China Seas. land of the Incas, in the vales of Hellas. The poetical reader will recollect that a similar idea is developed in the closing part of "The Bride of Abydos," the most charming of all the lesser" works of Byron. The soul of Selim is reprcs ented as inhabiting the body of a bird,, and that bird's song is a "magic melody," uttering "Ziileika's uame." The idea, however, is not original With Byron, being old as the hills, which are a little older than the valleys, and common to mauy countries, lhe Tcruvtan le gend is the best of all those that have been founded upon it." IHCIC, UIIU 1 HO.! lll-l VUOj Uliu in wu,n h n of Fifth Avenue saloons, but who had reachett-W to gee Jt all QVer w-lU j ketch.ed up the the mature age of thirty-one years. The ac- i quaiiitance ripened into intimacy, and eventu- to g00jliess s,e was going to faint tumbler,. and run with it to her: for up I thought She un- ally the parties became engaged to be married; dertuok to drink I don't know how it happen- but as the parents might interpose an objection j ed but t10 tumbler slipped, and gracious me! it was arranged t hat it should take place unknown to them or any of the young lady's friends. It was agreed that the happy event should come off last Saturday (St. Valentine's day,) and the church was opened, the minister ready, and few spectators had also assembled to witness the marriage ceremoney which was announced for 11 A. M. But noon came and went, and no bride made her appearance, and the church was closed. It seems that the principal of the seminary in which the young lady was a pupil, got wind that something un usual was on the tapii, and she locked the would be bride in her room, and so prevented the fulfillment of her engagement. But love laughs at locksmiths, and by some means Mr K was notified of the situation of affairs, and arranged matters in such a manner that the young lady escaped from surveillance, and the couple were duly married in one of our most fashionable up-town churches on the 15th iust. The bride and bridegroom immediately started for Washington and intended to spend the honeymoon on a Southern tour. This pleasant little affair has created quite an ex citement among the young ladies in upper-ten-dom, a id is to t hem far more interesting than the Bond street tragedy. Anecdote of Jlr Marry. An eminent modem writer beautifully says: "The foundation of domestic happinesi, is f,.it.h in Mm virtnn of woman. The foundation of political happiness, a confidence iu the iuteg ity of man. The foundation of all happines temporal aud eternal reliance on the goodness oi God'' therefor, without the world troubliug itself, al though, in fact, poor Bridget"may have possess ed more of the true virtues of humanity, and be more sincerely mourned by her little ones than all the Burdella and Cunninghams aud Eckles, el id genus omne, in New York or out of it, ever will be by any human being. Wilming. ton Journal. The Washington correspondent of the Bos ton Post is responsible for the following: I do not think I shall violote any confidence in giving an anecdote of Mr Marcy, current in society, though I believe it has never been in print. It is known that during the enlistment controversy, and consequent difficulty with the English Minister, Mr Crampton, the French Minister M. de Sartiges, exerted all his influ ence with Mr Marcy for the rententiou of Mr Crampton. On one occasion M. de Sartiges was arguing before the Secretary against the dismissal of Crampton, presenting the disad vantages of such an act in the strongest colors, representing the desire of his government to prevent a rupture, &c, in quite a lengthy ora tion; during the delivery ot which Mr Marcy sat perfectly silent, dangling his watch-seals as if in profound reflection upon the French ministers eloquence. At length when Sartiges had quite exhausted his discourse and paused for a replv, the Secretary raised his shaggy eyebrows a little and quietly inquired, "M. Sartiges how is Madame this morning?" The story goes no further in that direction, except as deponent believes that, jvi: cie fcartiges took his hat and never approached the subject again, while, as the world knows, Mr Crampton f was dismis3ed, LordPalmers.on fumed and fretted, and finally has appointed Lord Napier to corce over here in Crampton's place. if between us both we didn't spill the water all over her collar and sleeve. I was dredful flustered, for it looked as though 'twas my fault: and the fust thine I did was to out with 7 my handkerchief, and give it to Mary Ann. It was niceiy done up: she took it and shook it out. The folks had held in putty well up to that time but then such a giggle and laugh as there was. I didn't know what had give 'era such a start, till I looked and see I d give lIary Ann that baby's shirt!" Here Mrs Jones, who is a very fleshy woman undulated and shook like a mighty jelly with her mirth ; and it was some time before she j could proceed with her narrative. "Why," she said, with tears of laughter run ning down her cheeks, "I'd tucked it into my dress for a handkerchief. That came of being absent minded, aud in a fidgit." "And Mary Ann and Stephen were they married after all?" "Dear me, yes! ' said Mrs Jones, "and it turned out to be the gayest weddin 1 ever 'tended." "And the baby's shirt, Mrs Jones?" "Law me," said Mrs Jones, "how young folks do ask nnestious. Everybody agreed I ought to make Mary Ann a present on't " "Well, Mrs Jones?" "Well," said Mrs Joues, 'twant long 'fore she fnnnd a use for it. And that's the end of the story." .A Wrinkle fob Young Ladiks. We know a bonding house keeper who saves twenty per cent, of her income, by telling the ladies at the breakfast table of an auction sale iu the house of a bankrupt merchant up town. They can never eat a mouthful thereafter. Beginners in the art of boarding house keeping will find it to their advantage to follow copy. jg-English is the language of grumbling, and grumbling is an amusement in which we all nrtir-injitfi to a greater or less extent We, each, and every one of us, find fault with all manner of persons and things, leaving all man ner of persons and things to return the compli ment by finding fault with us, which they are pretty certain to do. The best grumbled at functionary in or out of the government is the Postmaster General, and if there be one office more thankless than all others ou earth it is that of the head of the Post Office Department "General satisfac tion" cannot be given, the thing is impossible, so long as floods and frosts and snows and rail rood accidents prevail, and the Department owns not a mile of Railroad, Canal, Steamboat "V.i irirrr, firm OT tflfTft travel. Sav that the 1 LX IqUV.iv, v. - Q - m mails fail between Washington City and Rich mondPetersburg or Wilmington, and forth with a dismal, universal howl is set up against Mr Campbell, and a paper in Petersburg thanKs God in each morning's issue that that function ary will give place to another after the fourth of neft month. If these good people who are so prone to abinrgation would only reflect that the United States mail is a ponderous matter and cannot be transmitted by telegraph, but is compelled to "wait for the wagon," they might be led to the obvious conclusion that when the wagon does not get through the mails cannot The Department has nothing to do witn tne management of Railroads, is not responsible for the defects of their machinery or their failures to connect,.and ought not to be charged with them. Still less is the department responsible for the state of the thermometer. The postmaster General in England and France is placed in a much more favorable pos. ition. In each English charter or J?rencn concession," there is an express proviso under which the Company must carry the mails at a moderate stipulated rate. These roads are all set on foot under the authority of the General Government ours are not so, and are totally bevond its control. . With thousands and tens of thousands ot miles of mail service extending over thirty-oue States, with hundreds and thousands of lines operated by private contractors over whom the Eloquent Passage. The light ot the lamp was dying away in the socket; the midnight clock swung heavily aloft, and its brazen tones sonnded loudly on the frozen air. It was the hour when disembodied spirits walk and when murderers, like the stealthy wolf, prowl tor their prey. The lonely watcher shuddered as he heard a sliirht noise at the door. iig ciropa stood upon his pale brow, the door gently open cd aud in came a strange cat. - i . mm Ageutleman thought beM like something painted in the hall of a new house, and chose the Israelites passing over the Red Sea. lie engaged a man for the job, who weut to work and painted the hall red. "Nice color," said he, "but where are the Israelites?" "Oh, they've passed oyer' , ; "Conscience!" said Mrs Hopkins, indignant ly; "do you suppose that nobody has got any conscience but yourself?" My conscience is good as yours aye, and better, too; for it has never been used in the course of my me, while yours must be nearly worn out " Importance of Punctuation. In a list of the receipts of the American Tract Society, wc . . find $11 credited to "Big Flat fcraily bniitn," The printer who "set" that ought to be "locked up" and fed on "pi" till he learns the use of commas, ... m - A schoolboy being asked by the teacher how he should flog him, replied, -If you please, sir, I should like to have it on the Italian system the heavy strokes up' wards, aud the down strokes light." Ilelloa! I say, what did you say ypur medi cine would cure?" 'Oh! it'll cure everything heal anything! ' Ah ! well, I'll take a bottle; may be it'll heel my boots they need it badly enough." Horrible Cruelty. MUano, who attempted of Naoles. s IU Kill LUC UliWUi iv, v-a o deserves at least as pleasant a hereafter as his royal tormentor: tgT-The shoe business must be very good for not a pair are made and cot ready for the j market before they are soled. Department has no control beyond the feeble !mS , guarantee which its contract gives it, what folly nuereu a fnee nrar n tptnnnmrv failnrp ' J ..... 1 1 I 'a iaiO& A V - J " J ------- such horrid punishment in this world that he of the maijs tne editors making tuis fass : . . ' a liaroaftpr ns ni? 1 ... . are in many cases aware that ths cars carrying thft mail failed to connect, and tliat therefore "TTe was stripped, bound hand ana toot, ana t, re.;nt of mails ud to date is a physical im . i i.i '. J V, . I - hung to a beam nvith his heaa uownwaiu, possibiUty. Wilmington Journal. i 4.i 4iiia nnsirinn ior iwo uuuis. . .. - was toriuenLcu ... w.. ' . , . . . . . . - F .trow hp no- he d Under his UH. rSHAW. AL'UWum, wmui;vi..s uarmu wisijs ui on-- o i - .. . . rrr head. He was also bound and hung up by the couple riding home after their marriage, lhe ti, most ao-on zinff naisis m day had been cloudy, ana me young man neeiug ears, cuubiuh ." a . . , , in thp hpnrl and ears, ana ute gruuim uciicam im i the ctouas Dreah. uwuv eam ... . 1 A . I. n . ;U I . . -. . ? it ft'l. . nrifa vorklt- , 1 .-i-1 I ! i I irtrni Iirr . f-l I L 1 1 LL l VY I L II Ilia onnn haca CI UTTIf Sllll- - 1 T UUII ftWM Was LUVCICU nil." '' " o ' n t . i- - - bare feet he could not -stand. He wa3 also e(j very honestly, "As for me, I Should rather j r.i. -1inr.tn annliffltinn? rf fCA anrtll lMln nlittr .. '' ' ' tortureu wnu ancniun. - . uilvu a nnio ""o "" rl his shoulder bones were 1 , nulled out of joint with ropes tied to bis arms. Somebody sent a teg oi oytsier. ut uis eui.ur Lastly, he was scourgea; ana those who saw jot the ew ueu"u oia.mu, his naked body declare that the skin was black. I touching lines ou us neaa: ened with green and yellow marks upon it; "KememDer tne primer niueOUS iu ueuuiu. 'I say, John, where did you get that loafer's hat?' 'Please yer Honor,' said John, 'it's an old one of your's that Missis gave me yesterday when you were to to town." 'Mother said a little square built urchin, about five years old, 'why don't the taachcr make me monitor sometimes? 1 cau lick every boy in my class, but one!' The learned man who lately cut a slice off his thumb to see what his veins were like, is as sisted by a chap who contends that madness is a mineral. Awful Thoughts. "This had from the very beginning of their acquaintance in her that awe which is the most delicious feeling a wife can have toward a husband" "Awe!" said I on heariug the above remark "awe of a man whose whiskers you have trimmed, whose hair you have cut, whose cravat you have put into the wash, whose boots and shoes you haye kick ed into the closet, whose dressing gown you have woru while combing your hair; who has been down into the kitchen with you at eleven o'clock at night to hunt for a kitchen boue; who has hooked your dress, unlaced your boots fastened your bracelets, and tied on your bon nets; wlio has stood before your looking glass, with thumb and finger on his proboscis scraping his chin; whom you have buttered ana sugared, and toasted, and teaed; whom you have seen asleep with his month wide open! Rediculousr a-A man named Tracy whom the Syra cuse papers call the Plagupinist, gives some curious exhibitions of his powers of endurance while sticking knives and puis in Jus flesh, lie inserts the long narrow blade of a knife into the fleshy parts of his legs and arms also through liis cheeks. He will drive pins into his limbs to their very heads, at a single blow, without wineing. We are told that he also practices the same feats upon others when he can find willing sub- ects. which is not often. little or no blood follows the knife, and a slight scar is the only trace left of the weapon. "Crow, I want to ax yoa a connunder- duui." t ; "Can ydu tell roe why de art of self defence am like a river low tide." "No, Julius, I doesu't see no similarity in da two subjects, so darfor I go yes um up." "Well, den, I'll tell yoti it Is simply bekase It derelopes the muscles! You is the most ignumous nigger I nebbet sed." "Yahl yah! I knowed all de time what dat. was. only I didnt want to say nuffio. Jist ak me agin, and see if I can't told you." A pretty pair of eyes are, the best mirrors to shave by. f VYes! replied a batchelor xn read ing the above "many a man has been shaved by them." ' - i
