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NAVARRO
R. A. VAN HORN,]
VOLUME!.
The Maiden Warrior-
Devoted to Politics, JYeics, Literature, Science, JWorality, Agriculture, Spc.
[PROPRIETOR
COKSICANA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1860.
NUMBER 51
A TALS OF THE REVOLUTION.
| self, although he was often by her side,
! penetrated her disguise.
The romance of her situatiou increased
¡ the fervor of her passion. It was her de
No struggle in history has produced no- light to reflect that, unknown to him, she
bier instances of horoUiu than that of our vvas ev^r by his side, watchin g over him iu
own glorious Revolution. i the hour of danger.
The achievements which light up the
expanse of the deadly conflict, like the
stars in the firmament, put-'to shame .the
melo dramatic heroes of Greece; indeed,
it is uot too much to say that every moun-
tain has been a Thermopylae, and every
battle-field a Marathon.
Occasionally these deeds of war have
been, lighted up by the sweetest "of all
passions, Love; and it is a tale of love
and patriotism we have now to tell.
Sergeant Jasper belonged to the gallant
band of Mariou's brigade, where his valor
and talents soon won him distinction.
Among other daring deeds, his rescuing
our flag at the battle of Fort Moultrie de-
serves to be mentioned. In the hostile
fire of the conflict, the flag was shot away
and fell without the fort. Leaping over
tbe rampart, he seized |he flag, and ie-
tufued amid the cheers of even the Brit-
ish. For this daring deed Gen, Rutledge
presented him with a sword.
Like many other families at that time,
his was divided on that great occasion,
ilis cider brother took the side of the En
glUb and served in the army. Out of af-
fection to bis brother and a wish to exam-
ine into the strength and condition of the
enemy, be resolved, in company with an
other patriot Soldier, Sergeant. New ton, to
pay, the British a sisit.
His brother's position in it enabled him
to receive his two friends without any eus
piciun uf "their being spi«*, aii<1 they were
viitertaiucd tVr two > j days with
gicat hospitality. . I
While they wife !Í.¡:s tng'géd a partv
of Americans Were ni as ptfgoti-
!-• ; and, m tliey had debited frota the
)>mt«4i and en!i?te-¡ inUií ,V'iu rica;i raiiks,
th.ir doom would have hééó to die. This,
the brother of: Jasper nssnred them, was
to Ire their oSUs. Willi theiii were the
wife ami child if oí.o uf the prisoners,
litr bueUand's appio-idling f iiu touched
the bean ot Jasjx-r. Confiding his pur-
p -e to his friend Newton, Uiey Cade adieu
lo J ai; •eiV brolhtr and took their leave.
'IheyTiad t¡osooner j*ót oulside of that
camp tónu they m ¡de a.detour and stretch
d across the country, to as to elude all
Au«p¡ei>>n should they meet with any 13iIt
i 1* soldier .' ' .
It v.H the cue-tom of the English to send
al¡ the prisoner^ taken in lli .t quarter to
&arn nah.
lier passions were fed by gazing upon
liim in the hour of slumber, hovering
near him when stealing through the
swamp and thicket, and being always
ready to avert danger from his head.
But gradually there stole a inelancholly
presentiment over tha poor gill's mind
She became convinced that death was
about to snatch her away from his aide,
but she phtyed that she might die and he
never know to what length the violence of
passion had led her.
It wa3 an eve before battle. The camp
bad sunk in repose, the watch fires were
burping low, and only the slow tread of
sentinels fell upon the profound silence of
the night air, as they moved through the
dark shadows of the forest. Upon the
ground, with no other couch than a blan-
ket, reposed the warlike form of Jasper.
Climbing vines trailed themselves to a can-
opy above his head, through which the
stars shone brightly down.
Tbo faint flicker from the expiting em-
bers of a fire fell athwart his countenance
and singed the cheek of one who bent over
his touch. It was the smooth-faced strip
ling. She bent down low as if to listen
to his dreams, or to breath into bifi soul
pleasant dreams of love aud happiness.
A mysterious voice had told her that the
hour of partiug had come, that to morrow
her destination is consummated.* There is
one long, long look, and then the unhappy
maid is seen to tear herself away from the
^pot to weep'-ut l.er sorrow in privacy.
Fierce and terrible is the conflict that on
the morrow rages on that spot. The fore
most one in the battle is the intrepid Jasper,
and ever by bis side that light strip ing
warrior. Often during the heat and the
?moke gleams suddenly on the eyes of Jas-
per 'the mjf'an jh'olly face if the maiden. In
the thiektstof the light, surrounded by en-
emies, fought the Jovurs side by side. A
lance was ¡-uddeuly*--levelled at the breast of
•J a-per, but swifter than the lance is the
smooth faced wairior. There is a wild cry,
and at the 'e.-t of Jasper sinks the maiden
with the life blood gushing from the white
bosom, which had beeu tbrowu as a shield
before bis breast. - lie did not bear the
din and danger of the conflict, but down
by the side of the dying body he kneels.
Then, for tbo first time, does he learn
that the stripling is his love ! that the dim
visions in bis slumber of an angeh face
A Sad Affair at Norfolk-
A Father Accidentally Shoots hisDaugh
ter Dead,—A most heart-rending accident
occurred at Norfolk, Va., on Wednesday
evening, 24th, affording another awful
warning to those handling firearms. It ap-
pears that Mr. Jesse T. Newell, a worthy
citizen and indulgent parent, went home
from business about sunset, and finding his
little son playing in the house and yard
with a pistol, not supposed to be loaded,
took it from him, and while examining it,
it was 'accidentally discharged. The Day
Book thus tells the rest of the truly sad
story;
Laura, (Mr. Newell's daughter) a beau
tiful and interesting little girl of nine sum-
mers, was seated on the step3 getting her
lesson when the pistol went offt and instant-
ly jumping up 6he exclaimed, Ob, pa, you
have killed me 1" As she said this the
blood burst from her nose and mouth. She
fell forward and instantly expired. The
pistol had been charged with two buckshot,
both of which had entered her right breast
aud perforated hor right lung.
The great shock, together with the inter
nal hemorrhage, produced almost instant
death. " Drs. Gait and Bright were almost
instantly called, and reached the scene of
casualty in a very short time, but too late;
the little girl had breathed her last, aud a
worthy family were overwhelmed with
grief. The unhappy father, almost bereft
of reason by the distressing and heartrend-
ing accident, sought, in his frenzy, to take
his ogpi life, lie seized a knife and made
a desperate effort to cut his throat, but was
prevented from steeping his family in still
deeper grief by some of his friends, who
happened to rush up at the time. Soothing
draughts were given him, and he finally
became quiet, and retired with an almost
broken heart. The unfiappy mother of
the little one was beard through the live
long night sobbing and mourning the tin
timely death of her child, while the agoni
zing wa I that occa>ionally rose upon the
night, told how deep was the distress of
the stricken parents.
A New Wrinkle.
A funny story is told of an old friend
of ours—one who, sick and tired of the
care and bustle of a city life, has retired
into the country, and " gone to farming,"
as the saying is. His land, albeit well sit-
uated and commanding sundry fine pros-
pects, is not so particularly, fertile as some
we have seen—requiring scientific culture
and a liberal system oí manuring to in-
duce an abundant yield. So far by way
of explanation. J. i *¿ . _
Once upon aytima^put ^friend, being on
a short visit to New Orleans, was attend-
ing an auction* sale down town, and -as it
so happened they were selling damaged
sausages at the time. There were some
eight or ten barrels of them, and they
were " just goiug at fifty cents per bar-
rel," when the auctioneer, with all appa-
rent seriousness, remarked that they were
worth more than that to manure land
with. Here was an idea. "Sixty-two
and a half cents—third and last call—
A Grand Buffalo Hunt-
gone r retorted the auctioneer. " Cash
It 19 phoposed that AU. AH i-Ba.SE
Line Ranceks in the State—ill friend
LY TO rilE CAUSE OK THE FltONUliK AND
a li. opposed to the 44 RESERVE INDI
ANS " will hold themselves in readiness
to take a grand buffalo hunt during the
present winter- All persons in the State
desirous of joining the party will address
" Buffalo," Weathorford, Parker county
Texas; so that he or they can, by circular,
be apprised of the time of starting, as well
as what kind of equipage will be necessary
—what amount of ammunition will be re-
quired—the length of time that will prob-
ably be consumed, and all other informa-
tion necessary. "Secret Circulars'1 will be
forwarded to all true rnet^desiring to join
in the hunt.
None genuine unless printed at. the
4 White Man" office, bearing fac similes
of "BUFFALO."
— White Man.
.the Utter p!ace, Jio-p r and N'ewlou secra
Ve-J iKemeeive*, H «dt.ug the arrival uf the
prisoners. It bad occurred to Jasper that,
I erli.ip , I hey might rest here for a short
At a litt'e spring, about two miles from1 hovering above bad inded been true. In
the midst of the battle, with her lover by
her side and the barb still iu her bosom,
the hiroie maiden dies.
lier name, her sex and her noble de-
>ipt«. to refresh ihrmst Ives, ktd the woody j votion soon b«came 'known throughout the
mflurw of the spot would turor their res whole corps. There was a tearful group
cue. Alter < me anxious suspense, they ! gathering around her grave—there wasn't
•aw the eícort, with thiir prisoners, ap ' one of those hardy warriors who did not
pr >.ioh. The guard whs ten in number, b<.dew her grave with tears.
«and armed. The ce^*md, with four men, | Théy buried her near the river Santee,
couditcted tint captive* ju the tfa'ar, and in a green shady nook, that looked as if it
told them to rent tkem^'.ves for an
vin£ them tome
ut the same liiu
. m _
they ahuukj
th .-•tusivo. me
tbeiuselvc u
pair. Near
' and cbild, two of
arms m m i tine! .
were filling their
Jasper and Newt
behind tbeni,
that were stuck'
and rushing upou
. with the butts of their muskets.
hour,
pro
loltrthe, men that
1 tbefr arm# and rest
pria >n jat then threw
peleas des
and wife
kept their
t of the men
with water,
althily along
the inu?ket&
bad le n stolon out of a Paradise.
What we Sow tve Shall Reap.—There
was once an old man whose eves had be-
come dim and bis-ear -deaf. Wben.be
nat at the d inneMable, he could hardly
hold bis spoon, so that sometimes be spilt
bis soup on the cloth. His sou aud
daughUr-in-law were much displeased at
this ; at last they made their old father
sit in a corner behind the stove, and gave
him food iu a little earthen plate. He
, never got as much food us he could eat,
the two "sentrie-1, rtr,d he would often look toward the table
rs, stuuoud them j Wet yet longing e es.
Depriv- J One day his sljakmg hands let the lit
«d of their arms, the soldiers abandoned tie dish fall, and it was broken. The wo-
th« conflict and fled. f • = ■
Releasing the prisoners, they escaned
across the river to the Americans.
But the most romantic incident in this
A worthy citizen of Maine, of fair social
position, good plain understanding, and
amiable manners, entered into the holy
state of matrimony with a strong minded
woman: Our narrative is brief. She had
all things her own way, from the very first
hour. Her contempt for his mental pow
era improved every day. His very iuof
fensiveness increased it. Her wishes soon
assumed tbe tono of commands. They
lived for maDy years, and "the gray mare
was universally acknowledged to ba tbe
best horse." In her presence, aud that of
third parties he was rarely known to open
his mouth ; and he would no more have
takes them at sixty-two and a half cents
per barrel 1"
To have them shipped to his country
seat was the immediate work of our friend,-
and as it was then planting time, &ud the
sausages, to use a comtnou phrase," were
getting no better very fast," to get them
under grouud and out of his way was his
next mijpement. He was about to plant
a field of several acres of corn—the soil
of the piny foods 6pecies—so here was
just the spot^for this new experimeut in
agriculture, this new wrinkie in tbe science
of geoponics# One 44 link of sausage be-
ing beemed amply sufficient" that amount
was placed in each bill, accompanied by
the usual number of kernels of corn and
an occasional pumpkin seed, and all were
uicely covered over in the usual style
Now, after prehiising that several days
have elapsed since the corn was planted,
tbe sequel of tbe story shall be told iu a
dialogue between our friend and one of
his neighbors:
Neighbor. — Well, friend, have you
planted your corn?
Friend.—Yes; several days since. •
Neighbor.—Is it up yet ?
Friend.—Up ! yes, and gone; the most
of it.
Neighbor.—IIow is that ?
Friend.— Well, you see, I bought a lot
of damaged sausages the other day in
New Orleans, a smooth tongue of an auc-
tioneer saying they would make excellent
manure if nothing else. I brought the
iot over, commenced planting my corn att night were shutti
once, as ii, was time, planted a sausage iu nal casket, tbe t
Marryiny in Haste aud Repenting at
Leisure.—The village of Canton, N. Y.,
has just been the scene of considerable ex-
citement, occasioned by the hasty marri-
age in that vicinity of a fast young man
to a lady of that place. It appeals that a
dashing young gentleman, named Daniels,
recently "turned up,"„ aud proceeded to
make himself promiscuously agreeable in
society, on the ground of having been born
and, brought up in Canton. He dressed
well, talked largely, and finally met a pret-
ty young lady teaching school, in town,
with whom he straightway fell in love.
He spent a pleasant afternoon with her, in-
vited her to take a ride with him in the
evening, and with an abruptness nnequaled
in the annals of courtship, avowed his pas-
sion, and asked her to become his. She
admired bim, and might learn to love, but
would prefer to know something of the an-
tecedents of the man she married. Dan-
ieU explained to her that he was a survey-
or in the employ of tbe Great Western
Railroad Company, and exhibited letters
from the citizens of Canten, recomm
him as a nun ofprope«ty an
Í8fied with the
Description of a ¡Janee.—There is both
truth and poetry iu the following graphic
description • of a dance, by one who b;i*
"been there." Thú is the kind oF amuse-
ment in which the future British king takes
so great delight:
A group of splendid ones is on the floor
and lovingly mated. The gents encircle
their partners' waists with one arm. The
ladies and gentlemen stand closely face to
face. The gents are very erect, and lean a
little back. The ladies lean a little forward^
(music). Now all wheel and whirl, circle
and curl. Feet and heels of gents go rip-
rap, rip rap, rip. Ladies' feet go tippity,
tip, tippity-tip, tip. Then all go rippity,
clippity, slippity, tippity, bippity, ikippitv,
hojípity^umpity, burapity,thump. Ladies
fly «off by centrifugal momentum* Gents
5 pull ladies hard and close. They reel,
-wijff, slide, sling, look tender, look silly,
Dj^jzzy. Feet fly, tresses fly, hoops fly#
^rels|s fly, all fly. It looks tuggity, hog-
gity, puMity, squeezity, preesity, rubbity,
rip. 'lnb men look like a cross between
steelyards and "limber jacks," beetles and
jointed Xes. Tbe maidens tuck down tfceir
chins very low, or raise them excee
high. Some smile, some grin, some (
some frown, some pout, some sneer, ¡
sweat freely. Tbe ladies' faces arij
against those of the men, orí
bosoms; breast against breast, i
nose, and toes against toes. Now,-
again, making a sound likeV
derey,peery ,ridev, pidey, L
44 This dance is not much, bat the extras
are glorious." If men were women, there
would be no such dancing. Bat they"are
only men, and so%be thing goes on by
ioomarCs love of it.
lyga
tress consenté
her suitor i
married on
liged to go
happy pair
drove to the r
in Dekalb,
was easily obtai
were convened,
each hill, and
Neighbor.—Well, and what ?
Friend.—And felt satisfied that I had
made a good job of it. .Some days after-
thought of giving an opinion upon any sub- , , . . is ,, . ,
ject, than that of giving ,m the ghost' At "ards 1 ","1 ou.1 t0 t0 se? h°
length his career of paliva obedience came lie.com ¡vf com,"S' «*- « Prc,tJ P|'« of
- r business 1 have made of trying agricultu-
ral experiments.
Neighbor.— Why, what tfas the mat*
ter? t*'
Friend.—Matter! the first thing! -saw
to a close; and Miss Popkin, ''had not the
leastest Soubt what killed him." His last
words, and they were remarkable words,
gave something like color to Miss Popkin's
opinion. The Rev. Dr. Tbunderbob at
tended him in his last moments ; and the j ft*" «aehing the 6eid, wa. the greatest
conversation botwceo them has been slat-1 ° u , °j=.3 ' and scratching all
edas follows: "Dr. Pilldriver informs."ver 6 «"> ">?,dog., and jr.nr
ma that yon are not much longer for this nd lb« "c'«hbcr s <HS. ,bes'J«
world." "I feel very nervous and suppose Iabüut lWee hm,,<lr,eii S""T g" 1
I «an't stand it ery long." "No, 1 sup- fet "rV" °nd ""J on,u
pose,your end is not very far off. llsrJ aft 'the buried aau-
It is an
awful thing to die." 41 Well, I don't know
but it may be for some folks." 4,I hope
you have made your peace with God.
Are you prepared to meet the King of
Terrors?" "Well, I s'pose I am—I've
lived with the Queen for thirty two years."
bnwe man's life was his love for Miss SaJ-
J*y St, Clair, as she is'termed iu our an-
aslpt tbe "Maiden Warrior."
Thia was a beautiful Creole girl, who
returned bis passion with a purity and in
teasity seldom known upon this cold globe.
Whea be *as called upon to joto the
defender *ef hie country her grief kuew
ao bounds. The hour of parti ug came
and tbe gallaut soldier sprang upon his
b*f e aad joined bis legfment.
Hardly bad the sound of his horse's
feet died opon her ear than her romantic
natnre suggested tbe plan of rejoining her
lover by enlisting in tbe same brigade.
Her project was fully resolved upon aud
immediately put in execution.
After securing a suit of male attire a*
near her own size ae possible, she severed
her long and jetty locks, dressed her bair
like a man's, aad, purchasing ber a horse,
tbe set off, tbree days afterwards, to offer
ber fervicee to the noble Marion. Her
offer was accepted, and a little, active
•tripling was added to the corps lo which
ber lover belonged.
Tbe contrast between tbe stripling and
these men in tttfaruncoBtb garbs, massive
faces, embrownpr ^od discolored by rain,
was indeed striking. But no ono was so
eager fop tbe battle or so indifferent to
latigna Iba (m freed boy. It was found
thai bis energy of ebaraoter, resolution
man scolded, but be said nofhing; be only
sighed. They then bought a wooden
jirougfc for bim. Once be was sitting thus
in tbe comer, his little granchild of four j
summers, was playing on the floor near!
bim with some pieces of wood.
"What are yoij. making?" asked the!
father, smiling, t
"I am making k trough," answered the
child "for father and mother to e'at from
when they are oiJ and I am grown big."
The man and l|ls wife looked at each
other in silence,fand their tears flowed
fast. They broiijht their old father back
to tbe table aadlgave bim as much as be
wist.ed, and the* never spoke angry words,
when tremblinc
pby,
bein
siqaa. Nofle eve* suspected bim of
f • JKMBAft. Not even Jasper hitu-
tbe clotb.-
bis band spilt
\ixtian Witness.
soup on
bis
Traitors.—¿Ion. L. D. Evans, in
speech at thistolace, said that at a public
meeting in M^sball, he called on all who
would be in favor of a dissolution of tbe
Union, in the event of the election of Lin-
coln, to hold up their hands, "when" said
the Judge, "up went the hand of Lowery,
editor of the Republican, and the band of
many an other traitor." Did Judge Evans
mean by this to S3y that all who are un-
willing to submit to tbe rule of a higher
law party,, a party that sets the Constitu-
tion at defiance, and that pronounces it a
covenant with death and a league with
bell, traitors? If he did, he will find ma-
ny such; men in whose hearts there abides
a never dyiDg love of liberty, and who will
, not tamely yield their'birthrights through
and courage amply supplied his lack of fear 0f being denominated traitors by
fawning sycophant?.—Independent Moni-
tor,
What toe are made of.—The following
i§ from an article by O. W. Holmes :
If the reader of this paper lives another
year* his self conscious principles will have
migrated from his present tenement to an
other, the raw materials even of which are
not yet put together. A portion of that
body of which is to be, will ripen in the
corn of bis next harvest. Another portiou
of his future person he will purchase, or
others will purchase for bim, headed up in
tbe forqrof certain barrels of potatoes. A
third fraction is yet to be gathered in tbe
southern rice field. The limbs with which
be is then to walk will be clad with flesh
borrowed from the tenants from many stalls
and pastures, now ^nconscious of their
doom.
The very organs of speech with which
he is to talk so wisely, plead so eloquently,
or speak so effectively, must first serve the
bumble brethren tobleat, to bellow, and for
all tbe varied utterance of bristled or feath-
ered barnyard life. His bones themselves
are to a great extent, inposse and not esse.
K bag of phosphate of lime, which he has
ordered for bis grounds, contain a large
part of what is lo bo his skeleton. And
more than all this, and by far tbe greater
part of his body is nothing at all but wa
ter, the main substance of his scattered
members is to be looked for in the reser
voir, in the running streams, at tbe bottom
of the well, in the clouds that float over
his head, or d'flused among them all.
sages! Somehow or other tbe rascally
whelps had scented out the business, aud
they have dug up every hill by this time.
If 1 could set every dog of them on that
auctioneer, I'd be satisfied !
44Prav, roadame, why did you name
your old ben Macduff?" "Because, I want
her to 4iay on.'"
Fith, at least, if no other animals, have
cause to believe it. is a bad practice to
think of riain" in life upou somebody else's { Mr. Yancey for disruption 'halter' or no
hook. °
A Neio Method of • Oissection.—The
great desideratum iu anatomy is to obtain
an exact diae of the real po-ition of the
internal organs. This, however, is far from
being the ease with tbe dissections by the
comtnou method, since every section made
on the body, rendered flabby and unelas'h
by death, produces a corresponding defoi-
matiou, the soft parts contract, and noth-
ing but an approximate idea cau be form
ed of tbe relative position of the exposed
parts before the operation. In order to
obviate this inconvenience, Dr. Pirogoff,
an emiueut Russian surgeon, has bad the
ingenious idea of subjecting tbe body, be-
fore disseotion, to a cold of eight degrees
eeutgrade (lfrgfeg. Fahr.) for a space of
three days. By this means the body ac
quires a hardness like that of wood, its or-
gans retaining at tbe same time their rel
ative sizes, since the moisture they contain
increases by congelation and thus counter-
acts the contractions which thesolids would
otherwise undergo. The body in this state
is subjected to the circular-saw, which will
cut oil' slices of the thickness of a one
franc piece with tbe greatest nicety, either
longitudinally, transversely, or along the
axis of the member. By this means Dr.
Pirogoff has been enabled to publish an
anatomical atlas of every part of the hu-
man body, seen under tbree different as
pects.
Another Disunionist.—Hon. John For
sytb, editor of the Mobile Register, apd
leader of the Douglas party in Alabama,
only a few days since, in a letter to Mr.
Samford said :
44 If a Black Republican President
should be elected by a purely sectional
vote, the South resisting and the North
uniting against us, this is no Union for
slaveholders to live in. I should go with
After the cerem
to make metry; a
ready encroached
the Cannon liver
hot haste aud
hiele he had
been discove
but had
Then cai
swooned, t¡
bridegroom
ly, accom
iels swore
confront bis
be arrived in
in-law's bug]
yet discove
prove that the
mon, as well as an
fortunate it was
| Initiation of a Wide Awake.—All who
enter tbe Black Republican wide awake
club, it is ytid, have to pass through a cer-
tain introductory service, and be submitted
to the following catechism :
Q Do you believe in a supreme politic-
al being? A. 1 do; it is Hhe almighty
nigger.
Q. .What are the chief objects of the
ide awake society ? A. To disturb dera-'
atic meetings and furnish conductors for
e under ground railroad.
Q. What is your opinion of the great
question of tbe day} A. I believe that
Abraham Lincoln was born, that he. built
a flat boat and split about tbree million
rails.
Q. Do you drink lager? - A.i am pt*f
ionately fond of that commodity.
Q. If you are admitted as a member of
bis society, do yoa promise to love fie ñe-
ro, cherish him as you would a brother,
nd cleave unto him through evil as well
good report, and bate tbe Democrats as
as life lasts and water runs ? A. AU
is I solemnly promise to perform, so help
e — Abraham.
Tbe candidate is then invested with cap
J cape, somebody gives him slap on tbe
of the bead, and tells him to be wide
e.
*$■
g to
Mor-
rascal; and
schoolmis-
tress that his detection took place as soon
as it did.
Who can read the following pathetic
straiu without shedding tears !
Don't you remember old Towser, dear Kate I
Old Towser, so shaggy and kinl;
How he used to lie, day and night by the gate
And seize interlopers behind!
The fallowing beautiful 44pome" is dedi
ca'ed to ladies above a certain age:
"There never was a goose so grayr
But some day, soon or late,
Au honest gander came that way
And took her for his mate.
'halter
Brownlow says he does not care any-
thing about those "votes taken on cars."
They are in favor of Bell and Everett, he
says, but amount to but very little. He
adds:
"The Democrats do the voting, and re
side in thejeaves among the hills and hol-
lows-, going without shoes in the summer
lime, and living on peaches until chestnut
mast comes into play! These are tbe
fellows we would like to hear from on this
exciting Presidential question."
We know a Whig in this city—says
the Richmond Enquirer—who is of the
same opinion of Brownlow, as regards the
votes in the cars, but in speaking of tbe
Democratic party says: "Hang 'em they
appear on election day like the 17 year
locusts, and eat us poor oppositionists up,
and theu tbey disappear, no ooe knows
whither, until election day agaio comes
around. Wbat's the use of votee on the
cars, if we can't get them at the polls ?"
True worth, like the roses, will blush at
its own sweetness.
Beauty, unaccompanied by virtues, is a
flower without perfume. „
That's but an empty purse that is filled
with other people's monoy.
Tom—"Wbat ails your eye, Joe?''
Joe—' I told a man he lied."
"Who are you, my boyf "Why, Jim
ays I'm nephew to uncle Tom !"
An Exacting Husband,—Wycberly, the
median, married a girl of eighteen, when
i was verging on eighty. Shortly after
ProvidetiCe was pleased in its mercy to the
young woman to ea!l tbe o!d man to ano-
ther and a better world. But ere he took
his final departure from this world, he sum-
moned bis young wife to Lis bedside, and
announced to ber that he was dying; where-
upon she wept bitterly. Wycberly lifted
himself up in tbe bed, and gazing with'ten-
der emotion on bis weeping wife, said:
44 My dearest love, I have a solemn _
ise to exact from you before I quit*
side forever here beJbw. Will you
me my wishes will be attended
however great the sacrifice, you will be \
ed on to make."
Horrid ideal of sutteee, of poor Indian
widows being called on to expire oi *
pyres with the bodies of their <
lords and masters, flashed acroes
of the poor woman. With aooni
fort and desperate resolution, rbe
out an assurance that bis comc
ever dreadful they might be,*
obeyed.
Then Wycberly, with a
said in a low and solemn voice i
44 My beloved wife,' the parting'
have to make of " '
^ m
(Mrs. Wycberly tore her
laid low—(the disconsolate wife roared '
grief)—when I am no longer a heavy ■
den and tie to you—(M Oh ! for beaveoV
sake!" howled Mrs. W., " what am I to
do ?")—I command you, my dear yooaf
wife—("Yes, y-es, love," sobbed Mr .
W.,)—on pain of inenrring my mx
—("yes, dear," groaned that horror itrickv
en wife,) never marry an old man agaj*!"
Mrs. Wychsrly dried ber eyes' and in
the most fervent manner promised that she
never would-^-and that faithful woman
kept her wonl for lifb.
Without a Parallel.—A correspondent
of the Charleston Courier, writing ivoin
Conwavboro, S. C., nn* :
441 know au old ger,tie-nan ag«>d'*riven.
ty-tbree years, having liv« in,J *',l
have families. .Vfe one of !i:is ever
owed a dollar, ev^took a drink of Fpiiit-
ous liquor, ever used a cup qf coftee, ever
used profane language «ver was one hun-
dred miles from homo, ever wattled f« r
anything, avtr lost bis vote in election ;
are all Methodists and Breck.nridge dem-
ocrats, and hale snakes and tobacco.
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