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Geo. VV. Kin-,
INDEPENDJENT IN POLITICS
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san augustine, texas, saturday, may 21, 1859.
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~ B A .T K S iDVeHTISfje.
Q:m SquAK&—<Of tea lines or lets, first inser-
Eastern Conoression al Convention
at. Henderson.«—-The meeting was organ-
ized by cboosUig Gen. J. G, Good as Pre-
sident, and Judge "l>. S. Jennings as Vice
"Prefident.
The. organization Laving been effected,
li e following names were put befote the
Convention : Reagag of Anderson, fiood
of Cherokee, Morgan of Red- River,
Sexton of San Augustine, Miffs ol Harri-
Ron, Lou of Smithy Poag of Panola, and
Chilton of Smith—all of which, exeept
Reagan, were successively withdrawn,
whpu the delegation froth Cass withdrew
from the Convention. They were follow-
. . ed by the delegations fcotn ilarrison, Up*
tin!y'eoatsli0lUr ' #u'we^ueat insertion, 8har an<j Panola. This was, we presume,
-QfSie sqtum per annrnn,... .$10 00 ;,1) indication of the determination not to
.Liberaldrdouti tms irtide for advertisements;*# —* "* 'Pt'" """ •
greirter length, and to gersons advertising by
■> -she year or quarterly.
Ni>ttCB« op"eAict miTsa—Ftjr .State or District
offices, tea doitara Fur Conntyoffises five.
JBC~ We will , be compelled to decline legal ad-
vertisements, nolens paid far to advance.
^JOU WOKK, of every description, will
be wMly, $heaplv, and expeditiously executed
at the Text an Office*-
WBDSPSDAY MORNING.
...MAY f8
Democratic Platform.
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The following resolutions were adop-
ted unanimously by Use Democratic
6'tate Convention:
r ... Resold, Tha £-the Democratic pa
o£ the State of Texas reaffirm
- rooneur in the principles contain©
lUe Platfo nn of the National Demos:
w Convention^.'- held at Cincinnati,in
June, 1856. as a ti ne expression of
their political faith and opinion, ard
siassert and set forth the prin-
therein maintained as embracing*
the only doctfin^'which can presseiw
the integrity of the Union, asSi nffr
support Reagan in any event. The account
proceeds:
There were in ail 245 in Convention, of
which 51 withdrew. The ballot was
then taken,-and resulted for Reagan 191.
The cha:r then announced the result, and
he vvss declared the nominee, and receiv-
ed as such with much applause,
A committee of five was appointed to
wait on Judge Reag&u and inform him of
bis nomination. The committee soon
fought the nominee to the stand. He
resseJ the convention for au hour in an
uettt speech, which even charmed
some-of his oppoueuts.
Loud John Russell on Washing-
n.~In his first volume of "The Life
id Times of Charles Johu Fox," Lord
ohn says :
"Before taking leave of the American
War a few words may be allowed on a
topic where there can be little differ-
ence of opinion. George Washington,
^without the genius of Julius Cjesar or
poleon Bonaparte, has a far purer
ieTas ":Jpf ambition was of a higher
equal rights of the States; and that we! \uid holier nature. Instead of seeking
will continue to adhere to and abide! to raise his awn n*me or se^ze supreme
by the principles and doctrines of the
"Uir^iuia ami Kentucky Resolutions of
1778 and Mr. Madison's Report rela-
ZAi&a good faith
with.wiiicli triey \^ere affirmed by the
Ciuciunati JDemocriUie Convention and
afterwards re-alfmrted and published by
the Waco Convention in'May, 1857, as
a part of its proceedings.
Resohmfs That th§ party also re-assert
and ad!iere to the principles assert,*
in the Waco Pkitfonn. 'i'hatthe citizens
power, he devoted his. whole talents,
military and civil, to the establishment
of the independence, and the perpetuity
of tlie liberties of his own country. In
modern "history no man has done such
great things without the soul of selfish-
ness or the stain of a groveling ambi-
tion. Caisar, Cromwell, Napoleon, at-
tained a higher elevation, but the love
of dominion was the spur that drove
" em on. John' Hampden, William
Russell, Algernon Sydney, may have
«f the Southern States have tiie iude- j had motives as pure and an ambition as
leasable ri.crUl to_ carry thfir slaves into j unstained; but tlicy fell. To George
any Territory belonging* to the United j Washington, nearly alone, in modern
States, and- there to enjoy *a 11 rights of [times, has it been "given to accomplish
[ For the Eastern^'Textan.
My Noughts Are With Thee!
When tbe sna's resplendent light is beaming,
In the orient azure-sky, and gleaming
From his aroh'd throne, on earth, and shy, and
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'Tis then, thrice dearest, my thoughts are with
thee.! '
When th' crescent moon, with her starry-deck'd
train.
Sheds her silvery light on hill and on plain*
And in triumph' is risiBg o'er lawn and o'er lee,
'Tis then, my own one, my thoughts are with
thee!
When the thunders mutter, aad the storm draws
nigh, *
And th' darkness of midnight envelops th' sky.
And each bright streak of fork'd lightning I Bin,
As, it- flies through the air, but brings thoughts
of thee!
Though death, disease, or famine, are stalking
The earth, and vile corruption be walking
At mid-day, 'thout fear, they're unheeded by
me, ■ * .
For thea, even then, my thoughts are with thee!
Working or playing, awake or asleep—
Whether walking the earth, or plowing the deep;
Though bleet with content, or sorry I be,
•tfye and forever my thoughts are with thee!
Then, sweet maiden, amid sunshine and show'rs,
In pleasure's glad years, or sorrow's sad hoars,
At home or abroad—wherever yon be,
Deign to cast, now and then, a thought upon me!
May 21, 184?. A. D. M.
Fingers and Rings.—The selection
of fingers for the ring, is by no means
an indifferent matter; it forms a course
of study. The index, or first finger
next we thumb, is the most majestic; it
is that which the Hebrews call the fin-
ger of God, and is universally the in-
dicative sign. It figures in advertis-
ing columns; on sign posts it js deline-
ated issuing from a clenched fist, to
point out the road to follow; and the
lover places it on his lips to command
silence and circumspection.. The gods
of antiquity wore the ring of authority
as their Imposing phalanx, an evidence
of their omnipotence. This example is
still imitated by the pope, cardinals,
bishops and others of dubious dle-
gance. 'The second finger from the
thumb is tlie di'uui.-maior of the hand.
A True Manhood.
A true manhood is self-sustaining and
self-sustained. It depends upon noth-
ing extrinsic. Advantaged by outward
possessions or circumstances, it disdains
to rest upon them or claim merit on
their account. Lacking these helps, it
does not sit down, fold the hands, and
murmur at the partialities of fortune.
Benefits and* opportunities it accepts
gratefully, and strives to improve them
—not alone for itself, but for society
aiso. Indeed; a true manhood implies
every noble sympathy, every generous
action,.every lofty virtue, in the com-
mon rauge of jjfe. A true manhood
asks no special fields to display itself.
It can every day develop its nobility
and heroism. Not a gracious word,
smile, or act, springs to the impulse of
its'large, warm heart, to lighten human
want or lessen human sorrow, but flash-
es brighter than a Toledo blade.
True manhood is firm and brave, as it
is mild and gentle, and the best gentle-
man is also the truest man. Gentlest
j.of the gentle was Bayard, the chevalier
sans peur et sa7is reproche, but never
sturdier arm bore lance or sword in
defense of virtue, honor, right. Gen-
tle of heart and courageous of soul—
gentle in feeling and heroic in action—
such are the Bayards ; such are all
gentlemen, all true inern. They may
be found in courts and camps, in univer-
sities and senates, but they also tread
the furrow and dwell in the humblest
cabins.
The estate of true manhood cannot
be bought with gold^ nor bequeathed
by letters of testamentary. In its es-
sentials it is God-given. All other pos-
sessions being "of earth, earthymay
be devised and inherited, but a true
manhood is a divine, a heavenly gift.
And if men at large only knew the
greatuessand preciousness of such man-
hood—how nobler it is in stature and
power than all titular estate—they
would honor and imitate it more. Man-
hood, sturdier manhood, is what socie-
ty and nations want to make their
foundations firm and their bulwarks
beautiful and strong. It might lessen
the world's pageants, but it would in-
crease its- toadears. When " life's
or obstruction to the enjoyment and ex
, ercisi "as^Southern. $ti*2ens by the
Government of the r- ,;ted States, or
by the Inhabitants of any Territoty
■would be a violation of the rights of
the Southern States, winch they possess
as sovereign States and co-equal mem
bers of tjie American Confederacy.
Resolved, That the Democracy of
Texas recognize in the Supreme Cpurt
of the United States, in the Dred Scott
ease, a trae and just exposition of Con-
example
virtuousand beneficial power."
Icebergs.—Few sights in nature are
more imposing than that of the huge,
solitary iceberg, as, regardless alike of
wind and tide, it steers its course across
the faoe of the deep, far away from
land. Like one of the frost giants of
Scandinavian mythology, it issues from
the portals of the North, armed with
great blocks of stone. Proudly it sails
- . „ y . , ,. e k. on. The waves that dash in foam
b tu iona powers and duties of ianraitl<,t its sides, sliake not the strength
Federal Uovernnienr the 1 crntories
iyid the limitations thereupon, and that
notliing lets than the uniform execu
tion of those powers
the continued observance of the limita-
qf its crystal walls, nor tarnish not the
sheen of its emerald caves. Sleet and
! uutiorm execu- sn0w, storm and tempest, are its conge
and duties, and nrn, pipmpnti! \T:„ur f!1„c ° i
tjons thereupon, can do justice to r,H
lUe States and preserve their equality.
Resolved, That we deny the possibil-
ity of the existence of the power of
the Legblatmi|j6t' any Territory, whilst
the Constitctioa prevails, by unfriendly
legislation or otherwise, to defeat the
rights of property in slaves, or practi-
cally refuse adequate protection thereto;
Resohtd, That no more States ought
to be admitted into the ITnion until it
lias been duly ascertained, by lawful
course, that .its Territory contains the
number of inhabitants requisite for one
representative upon the Federal basis
of representation.
■Resolved, That the Democracy of
Texas are in favor of the acquisition of
Cuba, and that we regard its consuta-
* ination as a measure which self pro tec-
*i<m imperatively demands, should be
procured at the earliest possible time
compatible with our natianal honor.
Gen. Henningse'u "publishes a$ard in
the Augusta Constitutionalist of April
2&raaying that he and Judge Kvans'
friends have withdrawn from the Ari-
zona, Mexican, and Central American
Emigrant Association, bat have formed
«n association, called the Henningscn
Arizona Association, with similar ob-
jeote sad terms, It is joined by nearly
aH the members, frientk and agents of
the former throughout the United
and, like children of a commanding jnttui reveris past, what can remain
height, it-seems as if its body had grown of man worth even a pitiful epitaph,
at the expense of its mind. Under- save the memory of a true manhood?
officers ^f the line, superior cooks, who) • ——
have had their affections, and wrestlers, j The'Ruby.*—The ruby is a gem,
to whom physical developmtnt is an j which," when of the kind called orient
accomplishment* wear the ring on thisjal, is of great beauty and value. The
it «m... i u 'true oriental ruby, when perfect, is the
Praying for His Provender.—We.
have no intenfton, says the Cleveland
Plaindealer, of making fun serious
matters; in telling the Ibllowiitg story
we merely relate a fact:
rlhere is a rule at Oberlin College
that no student shall board at any house
where prayers are not regularly made.
A certain man" fitted up a boarding-
liouse and filled it with boarders, but
forgot until the eleventh hour the pray-
ing proviso. Not being a praying man
himself he looked around for one who
At length he found one—a meek
finger. The favorite and popular fin
ger fcasbecnat all times the tlnrd from
the thumb and the origin of this is so
curious that m e must not pass it over
in silence. It is maintained that an ar-
tery leads thence directly to the heart,
and it is by right of this relation that
marriage rings are placed.on it. Old
apothecaries used to mix their pre-
most valuable of the gems next to the
diamond ; the color is a fine, deep co-
chineal red. having a richness of hue
unrivaled, and occasionally it is rose
red, or has a tinge of violet. The
monarchs of Pegu, Siamatid Ava, poss-
es rubies of the greatest beauty, as the
sovereigns of India had the largest
scriptions in presence of the client with diamonds. It is said that none equal
this privileged finger, to indicate that
nia! elements. Night falls around, and
the stars are reflected tremulously from
a thousand peaks, and from the green
depths of "caverns measureless to
man."
The visible.portion of an iceberg is
only about one-ninth part of the real
bulk of the whole mass; so that if one
be seen 100 feet high, the lowest point
may, perhaps, be away down 800 feet
below the waves. Now, it is easy to
see that such amoving island will often
grate across the summit .and along the
sides of submarine hills; and when the
lower part of the berg is roughened
over with earth.stones, the surface of
the rock over which it passes will be
striated in turn. v
But some icebergs hftve been seen ri-
sing 300 feet over the sea; and these,
if their submarine portions sunk to the
maximum .depth, must have reached the
enormous height of 2700 feet. By such
a mass-any rock or mountain top exist-
ing 2400 feet below the surface of the
oeean, would be polished and grooved,
aud succeeding bergs depositing mud
and boulders upon it, this smoothed
surface might be covered up and suffer
no change until the ocean :bed should
be slowly upheaved to the light of day.
In this way submarine rock surface,
at all depths, from the coast line down
to 2^000 or 3,000 feet, may be scratched
and polished and eventually entombed
in mud. It is upon -this theory only
States, including those in New York*•that we are able to account for the
They are plroeeediag w|th their
9 without interruption. The
its are to rendezvous at Pow-
>r , Texas, in July. Companies
ling in Georgia.
wafers flmg their wealth upon the
"vacant air, and rich men llio?
thHrs opon fte vacanfW. ' "
many huge boulders that lay scattered
about upon the mountain, valley and
plain.
An exchange paper says that the
girls arc so hard up lor husbands, in
some parts of Pennsylvania that they
sometimes tyke up with winters and
to these are in the possession of Euro-
pean princes. Rubies of ten carats are
extremely rare. A perfect stone of six
, grains is rare, and falls little short of
the value of the diamond : indeed if
.some small rubies are very fine, they
re of greater value than diamonds
f the same weight. The natural crys-
is in the form of a six sided prism ;
leaves more readily than the sap- j suited
phire, and is not so hard. But therefState."
is another stone, also sometimes called
ruby, which belongs to a different spe-
cies, and is inferior in value and hard-
no hurtful substance was prese
thumb had had its day of £
it was ordered to open th
or take the cartridge by tin
first finger. Formerly,
physicians wore their rin
thumb. It was thought tha
which was usually very larg1
ed suitable cordials to 'disiu
room or reanimate a wounde
On Dit—Tuey Say.—Ever
was driven out of Eden, ever
went into the land of Nod—at all event*:,
ever.since Noah quitted the ark, Sht,m,
Ham aud Japheth went forth as colet. its
—au indefinite pronoun has had existence
to designate an indefinite being having au
ul'iquitous existence. lie is singular yi
e&seuce, but has a 'plural*designation- He
has shadow, but no suhstauoe; he has a
tongue, but no atticu'.&te speech. He is
sometimes Veracious," ai d sometimes an
arrant siory-teller. lie is quoted as au .
orrcle, he is relied upon a6 a book, and atj^-^nce, says the Albany lvnicker-
the same lime is tha father of many scan- ;bocker of the 27th, was discovered in
dais, and of what the vulgar tongue calls ja vault attached to one of our Jjurial
"crammers.-" In the latter case the worst j grounds Mi Sundav last. It was that
of" it is that you never can finn him out. ;of a lemMe, who deposited therein for
The machinery of Lord Campbell's iibel jdead some two months since, being
act would never bring him before the found, on opening the coffin, to be lying
Cdurtof Queen's Bench. No Bow street j oil her side with one hand untUn* the
runner or keen-scented detective has yet
been able to discover his whereabouts.—
lie U quoted by everybody'who wis.ies to
ptopagate a slander, by all the cowards
>vho cannot tell a lie on tlieir own ac-
count. If not a father of lies, he is Claim-
ed as a father by those who tell lies. Ru-
mor might be his proper name; but in
Germany be goes by tho name of
sag; in France he is oalied O/i dit; in
England, we know him as "They say."—
This "Tney 6ay," is often a shrewd fel-
low, supposing h;m to be an entity—some-
times a very block-head, and very often a
mischief-making l uck.—JPa/is Letter.
ness. This is the spinelle or Balais ru-
by, which, when red or violet, has been
called ruby. It may be distinguished
from the oriental ruby by its inferior
hardness aud specific gravity. Its eol-
| or is usually some shade of red as scar-
| let, cochineal, rose, violet, cherry or
yellowish red.
Life after Burial.—A singular oc-
was.
young man from Trumbull county, who
agreed to pay for his boarding in pray-
ing. For awhile all went smoothly,
but the boarding master furnished his
table so poorly that the boarders be-
gan to grnmble aud to leave, and the
other morning the praying boarder ac-
tually struck.. Something like the fol-
lowing dialogue occurred at the table:
Landlord—Will you pray, Mr. Mild?
Mild—No, sir. I will not.
Landlord—Why not, Mr. Mild?
Mild—It don't pay, sir. I can't pray
on such victuals as these. And unless
you bind yourself in writing to set a
better table than you have for the last
three weeks, vary another prayer do you
get out of me!
And that's the way the matter stood
at latest advices.
Peter his own Judge.—The follow-
ing amusing incident, communicated by
a.friend in Roxbury, Mass., occurred
in#a school in that city :
A lad, whom we will call Peter, for
the sake of a name, playing truant from
that school, aud wishing'an excuse the
next day, altered over an old note
(which had been used for the same pur-
pose on former occasions), by expung-
ing the old date and substituting the
present. The master immediately de-
tected the trick, and ifi the presence of
the school impressed upon him the
.dangerous character of such frauds.
He then told Peter that he would leave
him in the aisle for half an hour to re-
flect upon this, and be his own judge, as
to the punishment due the offense/The
half hour having elapsed, the whole
school was called to the " third posi-
tion"—the attitude of attention—and
the teacher said, " Now, sir, you your-
self are the judge in this ease ; what is
your decision ?" Peter hesitated a little,
then, hanging his head, pronounced in
a winning voice, the following impar-
tial verdict:
Why, as it's the first time, 1 think
you'd better let the poor fellow go /"
[Glcason's Live-of-BattleiShip. .
Said Ike, as he read the factin the
papers. "Here's Q'Regan admitted to
the Union." "A furriner. I should
judge, remarked Mrs. Partington, look-
ing very wisely at the steam tkat rose
from the teacups, and formed in one
cloud near the ceiling; "but I'm glad
they've let him come in to enjoy our
political rights and lefts, and other pe-
rogatives. There's room enough, and
the rear of our institutions should be
extended. I don't believe a man should
be cut off because he was'nt born in
this country for twenty-one years,
which of course was'nt aqy fault of his,
for everybody would be born here if
they could have their own auction con-
"It means," said Ike, "a new
"Well, ray child," replied she,
"the odds is only the difference—States
or men. 'tis all the same. Let 'em
come into our graqd consternation,
where the eagle shall spread its broad
opinions over ?em, and make happy in
an unlimited bondage of brotherhood,
like the Siamese twins/'
A man having hurt his forehead, was
advised to rub it with brandy. Some
days after, being asked if he hatl done
so, he promptly answered:
"Well, I have tried serial times,
but can never get the glass nigher than
my mouth!"
Singular failure—very. There are
some things* iu this funny world
we cannot account for.
Not long since a religious society in
Connecticut met to decide what color
they should paint their meeting-house.
Some proposed one color and some an-
other. At last said one:
"I move we paint it rum color, for
Deacon Smith has had his face pain-
te<L that color for a number of years,
ana it grows brighter and brighter ev-
vear." •
head. From this it-was evident that
the woman was aljxe wfte*i Traced there,
aud awaking from #the trance into
which she had fallen, ch|Ieavored to ex:
tricate Jierseif from her entombment.
This, of courses, was an impossibility :
the cover was not only screwed down
Mm tightly, but the space was too contract-jC1 ^ -
ed to allow of even au effort. It was! sav> German v. hev ver got any
evident, however, that-the unfortuiiatejgf^s dogs?" Now, Young Amer-
woman became convinced of. this fact,j"jfimbt, expected Hans to land
and concluded tp die. She thereforeof wood in the vicinity of the
took the easy posture in which she ^as;dcwr; toi|£no! looking up from his work
found, and breathed her last. 1he|P^,nnng^| . Uej^plied: "Yaw, conft in
on." Young America
sloped
, The Chinese Hell.—-A correspon-
dent of the Baltimore American, thun
describes a representation of the pun-
ishment of the wieked, "after death, ac-
cording to the Buddhist theology,
which he witnessed on the-'saburbs of
Canton: i§t . .
After a waik about a mile we came
to the 1 Temple of Horrors." This is
a horrible place—that is, the scenes are.
hideous. The intention is to represent
what a bad man would suffer after
death. It is composed of ten different
groups of statuary, made of day, and
many of them are crumbling t6 pieces.
The first group represents the trial of
the man ; he is surrounded by his fami-
ly and friends, who are trying to de-
fend him ; the second, where he is con-
demned and given over to the execu-
tioner ; in the third, he is undergoing
a semi transformation from the man to
the brute; the fourth,, where he. is put
into a mill with his" head downwdfd,
and being ground up ; his dog is lite
mill licking up the blood.
In the fifth scene he is packed be-
tween two boards, and is "being sawed
down lengthwise ; sixth, he is under a
large bell, which is rung until (hje con-
cussion kills him ; seventh, the man is
placed upon a rack, and the execaiion-
ers are tearing his- flesh with red l^ot
pincers ; ninth, he is in a cauldron Ol
boiling lead ; the tenth scene represents
him upon a. gridiron, pndergoing the
process of roasting. In all of these
scenes his family are present; also a
large figure who represents the judge,
executioners, little devils, and various
instruments of torture.
The Pyramids.—The notion of Dio-
dorus that machines were not yet in-
vented is sufficiently proved by com;
mon sense and by the assertion cf
odotus. It is certainly- siogul
the Egyptians, who have «ieft
them so many records of their d
should, have omitted every Explanation
of their mode of raising the enormous
blocks they used. Some-have im&jap"ti-
ed incline planes, without recollecting
what their extent .would be when of
such a height and length of base J 'and
though the incline plane: may have been
employed for some purpose, a$:it wa& in
sieges by the Assyrians and others, .as a
"bank" for running up the moveable tow-,
ers against a perpendicular wall, ft wotifd.
be difficult- to adapt it to the slbping faee
of a pyramid, or to introduce it id*© tfte
interior of a large tarnple. The position
of thesa pyramids is very remarkable in
"being placed 60 exactly faciiig thfc four
cardinal points that th& variation of ihe
compass may be ascertained from tberti.-*-
This eccuracy would imply some asiroo*
omicnl knowledge and carfeful observations
at that time,—Hagodotus.
Married in Fun.—& fellow in Clar-
endon, South Carolina, got himself in-
to trouble a few days ago by Agoing
through a mock marriage, the person
who performed the ceremony % being
neither a magistrate nOr a clergyman.
The matter was brought before a court,
and the parties were declared lawfully
married. The Clarendon Banner says:
We need scarcely , say that we ap-
prove most heartily of the law of mar-
riage, as it exjsts in our State. Noth-
ing further is necessary to establish tho
validity of a marriage than the consent
of the parties expressed before compe-
tent witnesses. The weaker sex can-
not, as in other States, be imposed up-
on by* the fraudulent practices, ef de-
signing men.
Any one may solemnize a marriage*
and the mere declarations of the par-
ties themselves, in* the absenee of any
morb precise testimony, is eufieiefit to
establish the fact of their mantal rela-
tion, as our courts have decided in va-
rious instances.
A Widower Jilted.—There can be
no union between youth' and age, Janu-
ary and May, as the California Spirit
of the Times illustrates by a story of
a pretty young girl and a susceptible
widower of forty-eight, to w-hottij after
a courtship, she became engaged. Pre-
vious to the marrfage, the gentleman
was compelled to take a journey to the
Atlantic States, and for fear of accj-
deut, settled th<i sum of $l2,000 urJK)n
his future bride before starting. ' Dur-
ing his absence a tender correspon-
dence was kept up, a d' Ms busiuet^ v"
completed he hastened back with all
speed of an impatient widower to find,
alas! his fiancee nicely settled as the :
wife of his son. Like*a sensible
he took a pinch df snuff, kifcsed tlfe
bride, and resigned .himself to his fa^
To Dress Politicians.—Take
when they are troubled with a
ing of the backbono }ust before
day, and stuff their ears with.
Many a true heart, that would have
come back like a dove to the ark, after
the first transgression, has been fright-jhadjust arrived from the old
ened beyond recall by the angry look j last week, and were brought
and menace, the taunt, ine
:tv vi" an uuforsroltioc *eu!
, rer&glU
thought that they had buried her while! itry"Ton on!" Young America0** ^eir opponent's strej$rt&. * *•' •
vet alive: set her friends almost crazed. | sl0pea. ' J broil them on the gridiron o?
The father and mother of the deceased i " >*• ■< ; tire defeat until they begin, torfeiajgi^
countryj Did you ever know- a young Jady then hand them a subscript!^ w
the j.who was too weak to stand up during ffgr a torchlight procession, and fe' ' r,
to
uvatre char-1 vault- to see their child, The toenc is! prayer time in church, who could
•r-"';ik<j u': heart rending. ! 'Jaocc all iiie'ht without being tired*
not' skimmer reauj
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