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SPORTING WITH " SPIRITS."
BY a BACKWOODSMAN.
The table moving was tried by all
placing our hands in a ring upon the
table. The effect was almost instantl\
seen. Our weight could not hold the
table down to the floor. Slowly it raised,
but tippling a little we fill headlong in-
to the pancake batter, the table and bat-
ter raising as we went down.
S. would have laughed at our fall had
not H- trod heavily upon bis corns.
Instead of lauging he looked like curs-
ing. He was grave, and declared that
the spirits compelled him to step where
he did. It was evident that we had "got
up the Dutch'' of our unseen visitors.
Wishing to get at a good understand-
ing with them we proposed to lsarn, by
rapping a variety of matters particularly
interesting, and at the same time test by
mental questions and otherwise, their
spiritual intelligence and Veracity, per-
haps I cannot do better than to give the
questions and answers as they occuried :
"Are the spirits present?"
" They am. sir."
" How many of them ?"
" Mor'n you can shake a stick at."
u Are they good spirits ?"
" Fourth proof and no mistake."
w From what sphere ?"
u .The Top notch."
" Will they converse with us?"
"Well, they will, hoss."
These replies were rapped out as we
drew our fingers over the letters of the
alphabet. Verbal questions were first
asked by different members of the circle.
'• Will any spirit called for appear and
answer ?"
" S-a-r-tain."
" Is Cain present ?"
41 Ho happens to b\"
" Was the club with which he slew
Abel hickory and white ash, and what
did he cut it with ?"
" 'Twan't neither. It was a shoe-make
ball club, cut with a butcher knife ?"
This important question settled. Cain
stood aside, and Belshazzar was called.
" Do you remember the feast when
the hand writing appeared on the wall?"
u I make out to."
M Were you—begging pardon, sir—
under the influence of intoxicating liquor
that evening?"
" Drunk, gentlemen, as a biled owl."
" On champagne or Monongehela?"
" Neither. Owing to the scarcity of
logwood we weqt it on the black strap
and clear rot-gut."
" Any of the women tipsy ?"'
" They wan't anything else, I reckon.
Mrs. Balshazzar was so limt\pr-like that
in playing 'snap-and-ketch-'em' she fell
into theiyster kettle and broke a turtle
shell comb all to smash."
u Was it fright that made your knees
smite together."
" No. sir—I was so almighty tired I
couldn't keep 'em from smitting together
no how."
u Was Cyrus one of the b'hoys ?"
" Well, no great scratch ; he took the
advantage of us when we were on a ben-
der. He was a cold water fanatic, and
an enemy to the constitution."
" Are you in favor of the Maine law?"
" Not by a jug full."
<> Do you get anything to take where
you are ?"
" Not a drop, I've got a thundering
hankering after a snifter."
u Help yourself to the cold water on
the table, old boy."
u Go to the devil with your cold
water."
. u Is Balaam present ?"
" What do you want of Balaam ?"
w How old was that jackass of his'n ?"
" Hr would have been four years old
the next general training "
u Are there any jackasses in your
sphere, Mr. Balaam ?''
u No, you impu<ient puppies; the
jackasses are all on earth yet."
This iil-natured insinuation was re*
ceived with enthusiastic raps by the
spirits.
" Is the boss builder of the Tower of
Babel present?" inquired one of the
company.
" He am."
"Was the tower built of briok or
stone ?"
" Brick."
" How many thousand of brick was in
the concern ?''
"An almighty heap of them, you bet-
ter believe."
" How much did they they cost per
thousand ? '
44 Four dollars and a half at the kiln."
44 How many Irishmen did it take to
carry mortar I"
"Nine millions and rising."
44 That's a lie, I know," muttered H.
A smart rap on his sore shin under
the table made him aware that the fore,
man of Babel was around.
The inquiries were continued.
<( Was there any confusion of language
among the workmen ?"
" Considerable I must admit—a per-
fect hellabaloo."
" What did the King say when he
came to inquire into the matter?"
" Nix for stay."
" One thing more, Mr.—Mr.—what's
your name ?"
" Smith, if your please."
" Well, Mr. Smith, one thing more.
Was it true that Nebucbadnezzer was
made to mix clay on the sweep ?"
u True, and a thunderin' good ox he
was, too. He ground all the clay for
the Tower of Babel."
u Did he have brass knobs on his
horns ?"
" He hadn't horns—he was a muly."
44 Was he a—"
"Go to thunder! I won't have any-
thing more to say to you."
" Was he It short-horned Durham or
Devon ?"
No answer. The foreman of the
Tower of Babel had evidently, believing
himself quizzed gone off in a huff.
The circle continued its sitting, after
H. had filled his pipe, and had spent a
few moments in the open air.
Noah was now called, and found to be
present.
" Were you commander of that craft
called the Ark ?"
" I was."
" Was there much of a shower about
those days ?"
" Shower I why. my dear sir. it poured
like blazes."
" What flag did you sail under, English
or French ?"
•' Dutch." •
" Who wa3 the pilot ?" "
" Christopher Columbus."
" How many animals had you on
board?"
" Several hundred."
" Any Know-Nothings among them?"
" Not oue, they were all drowued."
" Was it true that Belshazzar hailed
you on a 1 fe preserver, and told you to
go to thunder with your old tub, and
guessed there wouldn't be much of a
shower."
" He did."
* Why didn't you take him iu ?"
" He was taken iu a few minuter after
that—all over."
" Had you any of Bamum's Fire
Annihilators on board "
" Two or three hundred of them, to
put out the candles at night."
" One more qu^^tion, C>;m Noah.
What become of the dove that went out
and never returned 1"
'■ Some snipo hunter on Mount Ararat
shot it."
"Are Joe P 's doves chickens of
the one shot ?"
" So said to be; this explains why
they are sometimes shot."
" Was there any wharf at Mount
Ararat ?"
" Nothing but a white oak snubbing
post and a Yankee groccry."
" Was the Yankee there himself?"
4; Yes, he sat on a herring box, whit-
tling."
" What did he say when you hove in
sight?"
41 H-a-1 loo ! what craft is that? Been
looking out for you these two days, by
goll I Saay. neow. spose you don't
want to buv any hams nor Leathersfield
unyuns, nor nothing, dew ye?"
in search'oFaIdaughter.
In October last, an old gentleman
named Wood arrived in this city from
New York in search of a daughter whom
he had not seen for many year
Time was when Mr. W.owas looked
upon as one of the "solid men" ot,
Gotham, aud Fifth Avenue honored him1
a) he passed the way. But his richesi
took to themselves wings; eagles, half!
eagles and double eagles flew like hawks |
from the hands of a falcouer, and the
current of pulic opinion changed in
fashionable thoroughfares, as to bis
merits, after they had fled.
At length the old man was completely
broken—broken in hopes, broken in
fortune, and broken in all but his daugh-
ter's love; but this daughter had fori
many years been living in New Orleans'
in the .loneliness of early widowhood,
and but one remove from poverty ; atrd
so the old man thought that he would
visit his daughter in the Sunny South,
and he wended his way thitherward.
When he arrived here he found that
his daughter was dead ; and his grief
knew no bounds. He then yielded to
the wiles of the intoxicating cup, and
became, in a short time, an habitual
drunkard. For a while the police per-
mitted him to go his way. for it could
be easily perceived that he had seen
better days, there being still something
lofty and noble in his looks. But, for
the drunkard, the down-hill to ruin is
of easy descent, and the old man was at
length arrested, and taken before oue of
the police .Recorders as an inebriate aud
vagrant.
More out of pity than as a punishment,
the Recorder sent him to the workhouse,
and there he rema ned till yesterday,
when be breathed his last, and was
buried in a corporation coffin. What a
change from being a leader of ton in
Fifth Avenue but a few years ago!
Death seemed a welcome visitor to the
old man, for in his sober moments he
could not bear the thought of living and
herding with despised workhouse va-.
grants.—Picayune.
" Mother, said a little boy, I'm tired
of this pugnóse, its growing pugger and
pugger every day."
what sha^speake was like.
" When Shakspearc's cotemporaries
praise him for 4 his gentle muse,' the
question will arise—What part of a man
will poste ity choose to retain ? And
may it not possibly be that very part
which he himself least values, and would
least suspect.
That he has been a boon companion,
and fond of good fellowship, there can
be little doubt. All cotemporary infor-
mation about him sufficiently proves
this ; and, in fault of it, his own works
say more to the purpose. His experi-
ence is from without, as well as from
within. He treats of manner, and
habits, and personal peculiarities, no
less dexteriously than of the deeper hu-
man passions. He does not anatomize,
but create; and he never sits down in
his study without opening the window,
and letting the babble from the town,
and the sunshine from the field, stream
through it. It was well for the perfect
development of his genius that his youth
had great experience of nature—his man-
hood, of men. His first poem. 1 Venus
and Adonis,' breathes of the woodland
and the sky.
We wonder whether he was himself
fully aware of the colossal nature of his
own intelligence. Did he ever meet a
man whom be held superior to himself?
We are puzzled to know h.iw far he was
rightly appreciated by his cotemporaries.
That be was appreciated there can be
little doubt; but we question if it was
to the full. We must believe that Spen-
cer was the fashionable poet of the time,
but he certainly alludes with high honor
to Shakspeare. And yet it is less the
profundity and majesty of his stupend-l
ous genius, than its genial and graceful j
humanity, that we find everywhere
praised by those who were nearest to him j
Of no writer do we see through the!
intellect, so much of the temperament, |
as of Shakspeare. If, on the one bund, ¡
his cordial and exhuberant nature madej
him the merriest of his tavern friends;
on the other, those delicate and nervous
susceptibilities which usually accom
pany such a disposition, must have boen
exquisitively developed in his organiza-
tion ; and we venture the belief that he
was subject to fits of-intensely low spirits
and gloom, at times. We doubt if liia
digestion was not sometimes at war with
his good living. How frequent through-
out his plays are the invocations against
evil dreams and r stless Lights. Where
else is so strangely given us the whole
' anatomy of melancholy ?' Who else
has been so thoroughly to the heart of
solitude and sorrow ? How, too, does
he not gloat over the loathsome interior
of the tomb of all the Capulets with
Jiiliet; and with Clarence on the mon-
strous abyss of ocean ; and with the
Ghost of the Royal Dane, upon the pre-
ternatural h.rrors of Purgatflry ! This
is so great a star that he has warped us
out of our orbit. In vain we seek to
peer into that life, as vaiuly as to search
the sources of the sea. Yet who but
lingers by the ocean, if only to pick up
shells upon the shore ? W4th how quaint
a curiosity we muse upon that strange
bequest of his second best bed to Nan
Hathaway, his wife I Was this the only
cynicism we have seen in his humor ?
Of his brothers and sisters we know
nothing but that they lived and died.
Neither of his son, and if he loved him ;
and if, at that boy's death, a second
Shakspeare was lost to us. He is almost
too great to spegk of. His fame needs
not to be
" Registered upon his brazen tomb."
We return to other men, to observe
what dwarfs they seem beside him."
FILLMORE as HE IS.
Not tfce least weighty of all Mr.
Douglas' arguments for the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise, was that, as the
Compromise Measures of 1850 virtually
and in spirit, repealed or annulled that
measure, it ought not in form remain
upon the statute book. The Democratic
party South took that ground. The
Whig patty South Jook that ground.
The Kansas-Nebraska men of all or both
the Southérn parties took that ground
with scarcely a dissenting voice. Now,
as Mr. Fillmore signed those very mea-
sures that took off the Missouri restric-
tion, in spirit, and as the removal of it!
was but carrying out the principles of
the measures approved by him, thus con-
solidating the two acts, and as thej con-
stitute the existing legislation upon the
subject of slavery mentioned in the 12th
section of the Philadelphia American
Platforu , will not the Democracy effec-
tually and forever stopped from array-
ing him against the doctrines of that
section, even.though the American party
shall promulgate no other platform upon
the subject of slavery ? With his known
conservative views,gloriously manifested
in the troublous times of 1850, when
darkness and sorrow, wild disoord and
headlong fury overspread the Union,
who will be afraid to trust him now ?
Who will dare to say that such a man
needs such a platform to stand upon ?
His past history is enough. We have it.
—N. Y. Express.
An acute angle—an angle that ena-
bles you to oross a street so as not to run
against a creditor.
nicaragua.
Condensed from Squier'a History.
Mines.—" The mineral resources of
Nicaragua are also very great. Gold,
silver, copper, lead and iron, may be
found in considerable quantities, in va-
rious parts, but more particularly in
Sigovia, which district is not exceeded
in its mineral wealth, by any portion
of the continent. # • *
There is now no mint in Central
America, excepting a small one in Costa
R;ca, which coins from $50,000 to $100-
000 annually, principally in dollar pieces
of gold. These are short of weight and
are generally not current. Their true
value is 93 cents. • •
From a report by the master of tbe
old mint, made in 1825, it appears that
for the last 15 years anterior to 1810,
g.ld and silver-had been coined to the
amount of $3,810,382. This officer re*
marks " that it must not be deduced
from time, that this is all our miners
have produced in this period, as great
quantities of the metal have been manu-
factured and exported in their own
States." He estimates the actual pro-
ducts of the mines, at ten times the
amount coined, which would give upi
wards of $50,000.000 for thirty years
preceeding 1825. This will probably
bear some deduction.
Other minerals are abundant. Sul-
phur may be obtained in great quanti-
ties, crude and nearly pure from the
volcanoes, and nitre is easily produced
as also sulplate of iron. ¡
The modes of mining practiced in Cen-
tral America are exceedingly rude, and
render it surprising that profitable re-
sults should be obtained. # *
Some of the mines in San Salvador
and Costa Rica, have European machine-
ry, and are worked to great advantage.
The most productive mines are now in
Nicaragua, and ar€ called Difilta in the
Northern part of tbe republic. They
have been worked only for a short time,
and under very disadvantageous circum-
stances. Thiy have, nevertheless, du-
ring the ^ast three years, produced over
26 000 marks—17,300 pouuds of silver.
The average j ield of the ore is something
over one aud a half per cent. The bet-
ter qualities of ore produce nearly two
per cent.''
Of the mines in Central America, Mr.
Dunlap, who travelled in that country
in 1847, says:
" Five leagues North of San Miguel,
are a number of mines of silver; among
which was one called La Carolina,
worked by a Spaniard about thirty
years ago. He invested his own prop-
erty, borrowed $100.000,-and after get-
ting the mine in working order, in less
than six months was able to pay hi
obligation ; and although he died before
the end of the year, left $70,000 in gold
aod silver, the produce of the mine.
After his death the ownership was dis-
puted, the works fell into ruins, and the
mines became filled with water, in which
condition it remains. The mines in
Tubanco were more celebrated than
those in this vicinity, and when worked
yielded $1,000,000 annually, although
worked in a rude manner, without ma-
chinery. The principal of these once
yielded $200.000 annual profits to the
proprietors. Near the town of Teguci-
galpa, the capital of Honduras, there
are a number of mines which still pro-
duce a considerable amount of precious
metals, although not one-tenth of what
they formerly yielded. All the hills in
the neighborhood abound in gold and
silver, generally intermixed; and though
none of them have been excavated to any
depth, or worked by proper machinery,
they have formerly yielded more than
$2,000,000 per year, and were European
capital and science introduced, the pro-
duce would be great. From all I can
learn, this neighborhood appears to
possess natural stores of the preoious
metals, even exceeding those of the cele-
brated mines of Potosí, in Bolivia.
"The ores generally contain from 12
to 15 per cent, of silver, and from one to
two per cent, of gold ; but the latter
metal is often found pare in many pla-
cers, and the value of some thousauds of
dollars is annually collected by Indians
in the sands of the rivers ; pieces of gold
weighing as many as five and six pounds
having occasionally been discovered."
Ports—There are several fine ports
in Central America; but we shall only
trouble our readers with an account of¡
one which Mr. Squier describes as being
one of the best in the world.
" The bay of Fonseca probably con-
stitutes one of the finest harbors in the
Pacific. In its capacities it is^said to;
surpass its only rival, the bay of San ¡
Fraucisco, which it much resembles in;
form. Its entire length within tbe land
is eighty miles, by from thirty to thirty- ¡
five in breadth. The three States of!
Honduras, San Salvador and Nicaragua,!
have ports upon it. The principal port i
is La Union, situated on the subordinate!
bay of the same name, and belonging to
San Salvador. The inner shores are'
low, but with a country back of them of
unbounded fertility, penetrated by sev-
eral considerable streams, one of which
may be navigated.
•' The mountains which protect it from
the sea are high, and effectually protect
it from the winds and storms. It has.
in nearly every part, an abundance of
water for the largest ships, which, in the
little bay of Amapala, maj lie within a
cable length of tbe shore. Tbe entrance
may be effected with any wind, and tbe
exit can always be made with tbe tide.
Fresh water may be obtained in abun-
dance on the Island and along the shore;
the climate is delicious and healthy ;
the surrounding mountains furnish tim*
ber of a superior quality, including pine,
for ship-building and repairs; in short,
nature has lavished every requisite to
make Fonseca the great naval center
of the globe. But what gives peculiar
importance to it, and lends significance
to the attempted seizure by Great Bri-
tain is the fact, that if a shit canal is
ever opened across the continent, it
seems more than probable that its West-
ern terminus must be via the Estero
Renl in the Bay."
80UL0QtJT OF A LOAFER.
Let's sec, where am I ? This is—coal
I'm laying on. How'd I get here?—
Yes, I mind now. Was coming up street
—met a wheelbarrow—was drunk, com-
in't t'other way, the wheelbarrow fell
over me, or I fell over the wheelbarrow,
and one of us fell into the cellar—don't
'know which now—guess it must ha'
been mo. I'm a nice young man, yes I
am—tight! tore I drunk I Well, I can't
help it—'taint my fault—wonder whose
fault'tis? It is Jones'jfault? No.—
Is it my wife's fault? Well it ain't.-*-
Is it tbe wheelbarrow's fault. No. It's
whisky's fault. Who is whisky? Has
he a large family ? All poor, I recon.
I think I won't own him any more. I'll
cut his acquaintance. I've had that no-
tion for about ten years, and always
hate to do it for I fear of hurting his
feelings. I'll do it now—I think liquor's
injurin' me—it's spoilin' my temper.
Sometimes I get mad, when I'm drunk,
and abuse Bets and the brats ; it used
to be Lizzie and the children—that's
some time ago. I'd come home o' even-
in's, she used to put her aims round my
neck and kiss me, and call me her dear
William. When I comes home now,
she takes her pipe out of her mouth and
her hair out of her eyes, and says Some-
thin' like—" Bill, you drupken brute,
shut the door after you, we're cold
enough, havin' no fire, 'tbout' lettin' the
snow blow in that way." Yes, she's
Bets and I'm Bill now. I ain't • good
bill, nuther; think I'm a counterfeit,
won't pass—« tavern without goin' in
and gettin' drunk. Don't know what
bank I'm on. Last Saturday I was on
the river Bank—drunk. .
I stay out pretty late; no, sometimes
I'm out all night; fact is, I'm out pretty
much all over—out of friends, out of
pocket, out at the elbows and knees, and
always outrageously dirty—so Bess aays;
but then she's no judge, for she's never
clean herself. I wonder why she doesn't
wear good clothes; may be she hasn't
got 'em; whose fault's that ?—'taint
mine—must be whisky's.
Sometimes I'm in, however ; I'm in-
toxicated now, and in somebody's coal
cellar. There's one principle I'v got—
I won't get in debt; I never could do
it There, one of ray coat tails is gone
—got tore off, I expect, when I fell in
here I'll have to get a new suit soon.
A fellow told me t'other day, that I'd
make a good sign for a paper mill. If
he wasn't so big, I'd kick him, I've
had this shirt on for nine days, an' I'm
afraid it won't come off without tearin.'
People ought to respect me more'n they
do, for I'm in holy or^er . I ain't n
dandy, though my clothes arepretty near
Greaseian style. I guess I tore this
window shutter in my pants t'other
night, when I sat down on the wax in
Ben Rugg's shop; I'll have to get it
mended, or I'll catch cold. I ain't very
stout, as it is. As the boys say, I'm fat
as a match and as healthy as tbe small
pox. My best hat has been standing
guard for a window pane that went out
t'other morning at the invitation of a
brickbat. I'ts gettin' cold down here ;
wonder if I ain't able to climb. If I
had a drink I could think better. Let's
see; I ain't got three cents ; if I was in
the a tavern I could sponge one. When-
ever anybody treats and says " come
fellers," I always think my name's a fel-
lers,'' and I've got too good manners to
refuse. Well, I must leave this, or they
will arrest me for an attempt at burgla*
ry I ain't come to that yet. Anyhew
it was the whoelbaraow did the harm-
not me.
A gentleman jast returned from the
Sandwich Islands, states that " Yankee
Sullivan" is basking in the sunshine of
Royalty I He gave private lessons in
the " noble art of self defence" to the
Royal family, and is bottle companion
and body guard to the King in bar-
rooms and billiard saloons. He his
given two public exhibitions to full
houses.
A Comparison—A pleasent, cheerful
wife is a rainbow set in the sky, when
her husband's mind is tossed with storms
and tempests; but • dissatisfied and
fretful wife, in the hour of trouble, is
like one of those fiends who delight to
torture lost spirits.
m wémcQrATIONS/
" We take It for granted that no itt"
portent seetion of the American party
tn the Free Statee, will support the nom'
¡nation of Fillmore and Doeelson, made
by tbe Philadelphia Convention. It is
an utter impossibility that they ean ear*
ry a single Free State, uáless {I may be
Califor nia, but it fai barely possible that
by insisting upon an organisation in
States like Pennsylvania, Illinois and
Indiana, they may threw those States
into the hands of the snpporters«of the
present Administration, and entail «pon
us for another four years, or nntil the
Union is dissolved, these evil practices
which have already almost broken tbe
bonds of brotherhood between the
States."—ifetc Haven Courier.
Our brother inf Connecticut has the
blues, and if be and his Abends do not
soon get out of them, Connecticut itself
will turn np in the Electoral Colleges
for Pieree & Co. Divide tbe American
Party in Connecticut, and Pierce takes
the State as a matter of oonrse:—and if
any attempt be made there now in 1856,
as in 1851,—to organise a party distiaet
from great cooperating Union Parties,
the sectionals will make the State a
Democratic 8tate. Connecticut has
Union interesU everywhere, South as
well as North, and great interests of
Tiade and Commerce bind her to all parts
of the Union. Whoever attempts to
sever a Connecticut Party from a great
Union Party, will certainly fail.
As for Fillmore and Donelson, they
will certainly take New York, After the
great impromptu vote Ullman got, the
year before last, and the triumphant
election of a substantial Fillmore State
ticket last fall,—the thing was settled.—-
The old horse here is a swifter steed
than the best of his oolts. Thousands
and thousands of eld Pieroe Demoeratlo
votes will fcs his.
In Pennsylvania and Ohio,—es Id
1848 against Henry Clay, a third party
may be organised,—perhaps in the firs*
State, as the New Haven editor suggestsy
under tbe auspiees of Ex -Gov. j|)hs-
ston, Which may throw these Btatse,
with Connecticut, into the hands ef
Pierce & Co,—but if so upon the Bir*
neys of 1856 let the crime rest,—as |a
1844, the stan who then defended Hsn-'
ry Clay.
Our friend must not believe «Ifce
Tribune." u Times" and u Courier" ro-
mance about New York. Ws have for
our flute the very strongest ticket that
could be selected If as eleetion were
to take place to-morrow, Fillmore and
Donelson would esrry the State by i
20,000 to 80,000 majoVity,—and
will do us no barm,—if we make no
blunders. The New York clamor against
Fillmore, is all a Seward personality,—'
nothing more nor less,—and in two
elections we have separated from it and
tested it. The personal poiitios of New
York ought not to be transfered to Con-
necticut, Ohio, or Pennsylvania,—but
if men there ehoose to be the instument
of New York 8ewardism, we eannot help
it. As for New York, set it down sure,
strong, mighty, for Fillmore and Donel*
son, with it 33 Electoral votes in solid
columns. See the union and enthusi-
asm in Albany, asM>ng the Representa-
tives of the Americans of the State in
the Legislature—N. Y. Express.
Tun First Marriage.—An English
journal, the Britannia, bes an amusing
artiole under the head of "Adam's Wed-
ding." The editor says that he likes
short eourtehipe, and in this Adam acted
like a sensible man—be fell ssleep a bach-
elor, and awoke to find himself a married
lan. He appears to have "popped the
question" immediately after meeting
Ma'assselle Eve ; and she, without flirta-
tion or shyness, gave him a kiss and
herselt Of that first kiss in this world
we have bad, however, our own thoughts,
end sometimes is poetical nopod hatfe
wished we were the man that did it. But
the deed is or was done; the ehansw
was Adam's and he improved it. We
like tbe notion ef getting married in n
garden; it is in good taste. We like a'
private wedding, and Adam's was strictly
private. No envióse beaux ware there,
no croaking old maids, no chattering
aunts, and grumbling grandmothers.
The birds of heaven were minstrels, and
and the glad sky shed its light upon
tbe scene. One thing about tbe first
wedding brings queer ideas into onr be*,
spite of scnpteial truth. Adam Mid hie
wife were rather young to be married;
some two or three veers old, aeeording
to the sagest speculations of theolegists
—mese babies—larger, but no older
—without a home, without a pot or ket~
tie—nothing bat love and Eden!—N. O.
ricafum.
It was a proverb amoung the Greet#,
that a flatterer who lifts yen np to the
clouds has ths same motive aa the eagle
when he raises the tortoise in the air;
he wishee to grin something by y onr
fell.
A treaty ef peeee was negotiated en
the 10th of February, between the Sioux
and Omaha tribes ef Indians, in a<
held at Omaha City, Nebraska Territory.
The Sionz were also anxious to
with Gen. Harney for pcaot with the
whites.
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