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IP Q H T 2& "E
jlS'- ------Beauty; s:'
In the leafy woodland now
Where the birds are singing
And from ev'ry forest bough
Joyous notes are ringing ;
Where the streamlet glides along
And- ne'er thinks of staying
In its happy laughing song
There is Beavty straying.
Where the fields are robed in green
With its light so cheering
And the flow'rets fair are seen .
Through the grass-top peering ;
Where the dear old orchard tree
Into bloom is swelling
And its varied hues we see-
There is Beauty's dwelling.
When the toils of day are done
And the mind though weary
To the fire-side dear is won
By a smile so cherry;
Where the mist is flying fast
O'er the lovely mountain
And we kuo'v the storm is past
There is Beauty's fountain.
Where the friends whom Deatu hath taken
.Roam in bliss above us
And their spirit-harps awaken
Whisp'ring how theyjove us ;
Where the dear ones God has given
Rest in pure expansion
In the bright and holy heaven
There is Beauty's mansion.
Claaracter of General Jfackson.
BY COL. BENTON.
The first time that I saw General Jackson
was at Nashville Tennessee in 1799 he
was on the bench a Judge of the then Su-
perior Court and I a youth of seventeen
back in the crowd. He was then a remark-
able man and had his ascendant over all
who approached him not from- the effect
of his high judicial station nor from senato-
rial rank which he had held and resigned ;
nor from military exploits for he had not
then been to the war; but the effect of per-
sonal qualities cordial and graceful manners
hospitable temper elevation of mind un-
daunted spirit generosity and perfect integ-
rity. In charging the jury in the impending
case he committed a slight solecism in lan-
guage which grated on my ear and lodged
on my memory without derogating in the
least from the respect he inspired ; and
without awakening the slightest suspicion
that I was ever to be ensealed in smoothing
his diction. The first time I spoke to him
was several years after at a (then) frontier
town in Tennessee when he was returning
from a southern visit which brought him
through the towns and camps of some of
the Indian tribes. In pulling off his over-
coat 1 perceived on the while lining of the
turning dow u sleeve a dark speck which
had life and motion. I brushed it off and
put the heel of my shoe upon it little
thinking 1 was ever to brush away from him
game of a very different kind. He smiled
and we began a conversation in which he
very quickly revealed a leading trait of his
character that of encouraging young men
in their laudable pursuits. Getting my name
and parentage and learning my intended
profession he manifested a regard for me ;
said he had icceived hospitality at my fi-
thei's hoUae in North Carolina; gave me
kind invitations to visit him ; and expressed
the belief that I would do well at the bar
generous words which had the effect of pro-
moting what they undertook to foretell.
Soon after ho had further opportunity of
showing his generous feeling. I was em-
ployed in a criminal case of great magnitude
where the ablest and oldest counsel appeared
Haywood Grundy Whiteside and the
trial of which General Jackson attended
through concern for the fate of a friend. As
. junior counsel I had to precede me elders
and did my best and it being on the side
of hi f-elings he found ni'T effort to be bet-
ter than it was. He complimented me
gteatly and from that time our intimacy
Legim.
I soon after become his aid he being a
Ivfajor General in the Tennessee militia
inud-i so by one vote. How much often de-
pends on one vote ! New Orleans the Crow
campaign and all their consequences date
fiom that one vote! and after that I was
habitually at his house and as an inmate
had opportunities to know his domestic life
at the period when it was least understood
and most misrepresented. He had resigned
his .place on the bench of the Superior Court
as he had previously lesigned his seat in the
"United States Senate and lived on a superb
estate of some thousand acres twelve uiiles
from Nashville then hardly known by its
subsequent famous name of Hermitage a
mime chosen for its perfect accord with his
feelings; for he had then actually withdrawn
from the stage of public hie and from a
state of foehng well known to belong to
great talent wiien finding no theatre for its
congenial employment. He was a careful
farmer overlooking everything himself see-
ing that the fields and fences were in good
order the stock well attended and the slav.es
omfoubiy provided for. His house was
die seat of hospitality the tesort of friends ;
aad acquaintances and of al! the strangers i
visiting the State and the more agreeable
to all from the perfect conformity of Mrs.
Jackson's character to his own.
But he needed some excitement beyond
that which-a farming life can afford and
found for some years in the animating
sports of the tuif. He loved fine.horses
racers of speed and bottom --owned severaJL
and contested the four mile heats with the
best that could be bred or brought to the
State and for large sums. Thatjs the near-
est to gaming that I ever knew him to come.
Cards and the cock-pit have been imputed
to him but most erroniously. I never saw
J4ylm engaged-in eXtbelyJEtUels .w-erausual.
in tuat time ana ne naa ms snare or tnem
with their unpleasant concomitants but they
passed away with all their animosities and
he has often been zealously pressing the ad-
vancement of those against whom he had
but lately been arrayed in deadly hostility.
His temper was placable as well as irras-
cible and his reconciliations were cordial
and sincere. After a deadly feud I became
his constant adviser; was offered the highest
mark of his favor and received from his
dying bed a message of friendship dictated
when life was departing aud when he would
have to pause for breath. There was a deep-
seated vein of piety in him unaffectedly
showing itself in his reverence for divine
worship respect for ministers of the gospel
their hospitable reception in his house and
constant encouragement of all the pious ten-
dencies of Mrs. Jackson. And when they
both afterwards became members of a
church it was the natural and regular result
of their early and cherished feelings. Ho
was gentle in his house and alive to the
tenderest emotions ; and of this I can give
an instance greatly in contrast with his sup-
posed character and worth more than a long
discourse in showing what that character
really was. I arrived at his house one wet
chilly evening in February and came upon
them in the twilight sitting alone before the
fire with a lamb and a child between his
knees. He started a little called a servant
to remove the two little innocents to anoth-
er room and explained to me how it was.
The child had cried because the lamb "was
out in the cold and begged him to bring it
in which he had done to please the child
his adopted son then not two years old.
The ferocious man does not do that! and
though Jackson had his passion and his vio-
lence they wore for men and enemies
those who stood up against him and not
for women and children or the weak and
helpless for of whom his feelings were those
of protection and support. His hospitality
was active as well as cordial embracing the
worth in every cajl of life and seeking out
deserving objects to receive it no matter
how obscure. Of this I learned a character-
istic instance in relation to the son of the
famous Daniel Boone. The young man
came to Nashville on Ins father's business
to be detained some weeks and had his
lodgings at a small tavern towards the low-
er part of the town. Geu. Jackson heard
of it ; sought him out ; found him ; took
him homo to remain as long as his business
detained liim saying " Your father's dog
should not remain in a tavern where I have
a house." This was heard! aud I-had it
from the young man himself long after
when he was a State Senator of the General
Assembly of Missouri and as such nomi-
nated me for the United States Senate ;t
my first election in 1 820 ; an act of heredi-
tary friendship as our fathers had been ear-
ly friends.
Abhorrence of debt public and private
dislike of banks and love of hard money
love of justice and love of country were
ruling passions of General Jackson; and of
these he gave constant evidence in all the
situations of his life. Of private debts he
contracted none of his own and made any
sacrifices to get out of those incurred by
others. Of this he gave a signal instance!
not long before the war of 1S12 selling the
improved part of his estate with the best
buildings of the country upon it to pay a
debt incurred in mercantile adventure to
assist a young relative and going into log-
houses in the forest to begin a new home
and farm. He was living in these rude ten-
ements when he vanquished the British in
New Orlemis; ami probably a view of this
dom'cil would have astonished the. British
officers as much as their defeat had done.
He was attached to his friends aud his
country and never believed any report to
the discredit of either until compelled by
proof. He would not believe in the first
reports of the surrender of Gen. Hull and
became sad and oppressed when forced to
believe it. He never gave up a friend in a
doubtful case or from policy or calculation.
He was a firm believer in the goodness of a
superintending Providence and in the even-
tual right judgment and justice of the peo-
ple. I have seen him at the most desperate
part of his fortunes and have never seen
him waver in the belief that all would come
right ui the end. hi the time of Cromwell
he would have been a puritan.
The character of his iniud was that of
judgineut with a rapid and almost intui-
tive peiception followed by an instant and
decisive action. It was that which made
him a General and a President for the time
in which he served. He had vigorous
thoughts but not the faculty of ananging
them in a regular composition either writ-
ten or spoken ; and in formal papers he usu-
ally gave his draft to an aid a friend or a
secietaiy to be written over often to the
loss of vigor. But the thoughts were his
own vigorously expressed and without ef-
fort wi iting a pen and never blotting or al-
tering ; but as Carlyle says of Cromwell
hitting the nail upon the head as he went
I have a great deal of his writing now some
on public affaus and covering several sheets death the surest channel to the ear and the
of paper and no erasure or interlineations j heart of the President. His regard for her
anywhere. as conveisation was nice nis
writing a vigorous flowing curt en t appa- ( neaiest relatives. A nephew of hers was
rently without the trouble of thinking and his adopi-d son and heir taking his own
always impressive. His conclusions were . name anji now the respectable master of
rapid and incomplete when under strong ! the Hernjitage. Another nephew Andrew
convictions ; though often yielding on mi-' Jackson Itonelson Esq. was his private sec-
nor points to .his friends. Aud no man j retarj se-ii President. The Presidential
yielded quicker when he was convinced ; j mansion tas presided over during this term
perfectly illustrating the difference between i br herithe.most amiable Mrs. Don-.
firmness and obstinacy.. OX all the Presi- j clsbn'fall his'conduct bespoke affec-
dentsiwho bave doneTne the honor to listen ' lionnto and listing Fnembrances of ' . a he
to my opinions there was no one to whom ' held so dear.
I spoke with more confidence when 1 ieit
myself strongly to be in the right.
He had a load to cany all his life result-
ing from a temper which refused compro-
mises and bargaining and went for a clean
victory or a clean defeat in every case.
Hence every step he took was a contest ; ; neil up m a menagerie receives a sixpence
and it must be added every contest was a j in his trunk and turns ith difficulty to de-
victory. I have already said that he was posit it in a boz whose mental powers
elected a Major-General in Tennessee an J seem to be concentrated in the idesi of buns
election on which so much afterwards de- tossed into a gapiag mouth by the children's
pended by one vote. His appointment in j hands; this very beast might have come
the United States regular army was a con- j from a warlike stok. His sire may have
quest from the administration which had j oeen the terror of a district ; a pitiless high-
twice refused to appoint him a Brigadier i waynian whose soul thitated for blool; who
aud once disbanded him as a volunteer b'xS m Hait m S0ln8 tu"10 nni would
General and only. yielded to his military j rush upon the unwary passer-by and knew
victories. His election to tho Presidency
was a victory over politicians as was every
leading event of his administration.
Ibavesaid that his- appointment in tho
regular armv was a victoiv over the admin-
istration and it belongs to the inside view
of history and to the illustration of govern-
ment mistakes and the elucidation of indi-
vidual merit surmounting obstacles to tell
how it was. Twice passed by to give pre
ference to two otners m the est (Gen.
Harrison and Gen. mchester) once dis
banded and omitted in the list of military
. ! .i;i i. .t .f i..of f i. n
"v""""'i "" !. ui. c .iat w u.vy
pointed Major-General ? It was thus : Con-
sress had passed an act authorizing the
v.L;.w J o0f .;.i ...i
unteeis. I proposed to Gen. Jackson to raise
k-vaai - i .-. - .i - -
a cornfi under h.it ncL nnd loM it. rwul-r for
... w. .ww-w -.-j- w Wl v UViWll .ity.
iiiiiiiii'si'ii i r ' .i:iii. nii it 7' Kit
service. He did so; and idi this corps and ' as any animal known. Tho fact of their ffr &unf but vry essen-
some militia he defeated the Creek Indians great natuial .g iitv rrnder3 them the most "; " ot the. nS1!t' f f;ir T !ls we
-a n;A i. .....:. ...k:..!. ... ...i t.:' : LMMS . ... ".. .--.... i.nt. nw. knott be answered it once in three days or
ivtiu iifUiicu. tuu i vjjuirttujji vrilivtl wi ecu Ullyj
appointment in the regular army. I lrew
up the address which he made to his division
at the time and when I carried it to him in
the eveninsr I found tho child aid the lamb
between his knees. He had not thought of
this
resource but caught at it insbmtlv.
Adonted the address with two slWit altera-
C3 - J J
tions and published it to his diusion. 1
x ' o
raised a regiment myself and made speeches
at the general musters which helped to raise
two others assisted bv a small band of friends
......' ...".. - . .
all feeling coniident that if we could con
quer the difficulty master the first step
and get him upon tho theatre of action he
would do the rest for himself. This is the
way he got into the regular army not only
unselected by tho wisdom of government
out rejected Dy it a stone rejected ov tiiG
master builders and worked in by an un-;
seen hand becomes the corner stone of tho ;
temple. The aged men of Tennessee will
remember all this and it is time that histo-
ry should learn it. But to return to the
private life aud personal characteristics of
this extraordinary man.
The innate unvaring self-acting delicacy
in his intercourse with the female sex includ-
ing all womankind; and on that point my
personal observation (and my opportunities
for observation were both large and various)
enables me to j'oin in the declaration of the j
belief expressed by his earliest friend and
intimate associate the late Judge Overton
of Tennessee. The Koman General won an
immortality of honor by one act of conti-
nence ; what praise is due to Jackson whose
whole life was continent? i repeat: if he
had been born in the tkne of Cromwell he
would have been a Puritan. Nothing could
exceed his kindness and affection for Mr
Jackson always increasing as Ins Plevatmg
and culminating fortunes drew cruel attacks
upon her. 1 knew her well and that a more 1
exemplary woman m ail tho relations ot lite
wne neiguuor reiaf.ve mistress oi slaves
never lived and never presented a nioie
quer cneemu auu auunrauio m inageineni
of her household. She had not education.
but she had a heait and a good one; and
that was always leading her to. do kind
things in the kindest manner. She had tho
General's own warm heait frank manners
and hospitable tempei : aud no two persons
could be better suited to each other lived
more happily together or made a hou-e
more attractive to visitois. She had the
faculty a iare one f retaining names and
titles in a thiong of visitors addresin
(r J.lcn j
appropiiatefy and dispensing hopitali-'
All with a cordiality which enhanced
one
ty to all with a cordiality
its value.
No bashful 3 outh or plain old i
-c'-i
inan whose moaesty sat tnem aown aL tue
head of the table could escape her cordial
attention any more than the titled gentle-
men at her right and kit. Young persons
were her delight aud she a' w a- s had her
house filled with them clover young wo-
men aud clever young men al calling her
affectionately " Aunt Kachel." I was Touug
then aud was one of then?. 1 owe it to
early lecollections and to cherished couic-
tions in this last notice of the Hermitage to
bear this testimony to the memory of its
long mistress tho loved aud honoied wife
of .i great man. Her greatest eulogy the
affection which she bove her living and
in the sorrow with which she mourned her
dead. She died the moment of the" Gener-
al's first election to the Presidency ; and ev-'
i ery one that had a just petition to present
or charitable request to make lost in her
survive. ana uvea in Wie pw-
IP&e :i2itlmnt R she 2?tsi-
A person rho has never seen a wild ele-
phant can form no idea of hi real charac-
ter "either mentaiK or physically. The un-
wieldy and sleepy-looking beast who pen-
: no picture greater ttian tne actor emailing
his victim to a shapeless mass beneath his
leet.
I have heard people exclaim upon hear-
ing anecdotes of elephant htmiirig. "Poor
things !" Poor things indeed I I should liko
to.ee me .cry person wdo iniu expresses
eleiLnt afte? him - him hum to run
noon if h HW twTs ti. !.- im
: . i e. i - ai
a lout in every vara of the chase ftro in ina
fi ; i.';!..!! ...i ' i. ..u
ot the thing gentleman vho lately ex-
'''' ' " "' i-aujii" vuttri;: 5im wuum
1:iiiiip.1. Porti- .nr!" Kn tl.at.vr.il to M.a
."... . o. --"-"" -
J. wiiieitiial wouiU save him trom de-
' --traction I There are no animals more mis-
! im.lorn..- 1.an .l.rlu .. ti... nam..
understood than elephants; -they are natu
; r;i'b savage m
t wtiii' :i. r?n vrrmw rf..i OAvfiiar.ii tT.i t
' iuii t 3tT - - . Kii t. iiki irtiwiotMiii iiiiin.tv-
' inff as irrcat coura-e when in their il.I state
J - -J ' T --.- ..- .
"..--' t i"v-J. ijivm niitu ciivj
t..j t.n i. .. ... r...
a stranger to approach. Mu thev are then
only k 'Pt in awe by the sharn driving-hook
r.f t"o T.l.nir '
-.-. -. .vwvt
cie pu'tuis are gregarious ana tno nver-
' age number of a herd is about eight altho'
y .- . . ...-.
thev fremiaitly f.rm bodies of fifty and even
. r - ..- . ..
eighty m one troop
E-h herd counts of
a vcrv larr nmnortion of frm.-il nml thv
aro constantly met without a single bull in
I their number. I have seen some small herds
I . i . i ... .i ......
iormei exclusively oi nuns out inn is very
1-iMrt. ! ill 1 ffnnra v liui.. irrr?
than the female and is generally moro sav-
age. His habits freuuontly induce him to
prefer solitude to a gregarious life. Ho
! 'ei1 becomes doubly vicious. Ho seldom
i '". many nines num una loc.uuy vvnica
lie iiauuts tor many ears. lie then be-
comes what is termed a " rogue." He then
waylays the natives and in tact becomes n
scourge to the neighborhood attacking
the inoffensive without the slightest piovo-
cation canning dctuiction into that natives
paddy-JieM pfectly regaidlev? of night-
liiesor the usual precautions- for searing
wild beats.
The. daring pluck of these rogues is only
equalled Uy their extreme cunning. En-
dowed with that wondciful power of scent
peculiar to elephants he travels in the day
time down the wind; tlm-s nothing can fol-
low up his track and he stands with ears
thrown forwatd tail erect trunk thrown
high in the air with its distended tip point-
ed to the spot fiom which he winds the
silent but approaching .danger. Peifectly
motionless does he st md like a statue m
i ebony the very essence of attention every
nerve of sense and hearing stretched to its
cracKing point: not a muscle moves not a
I sound of a rustling branch against his rough
sides ; he is a mute figure t)f wild and tierce
eigerness. .Ucauw'nlu tho wary tracker
ioup to uie grouuu anu wuu a practised
)? pierce the tangled brushwood in search
- uoio.h ieei ouumnicrauu urucr
he silently cieeps forward when sud leidy a
crasii buists through the whole jungle;
the moment has arrived for the ambushed
charge and the elephant is upon him.
How to IIbvk iiii: C'ospel. llowland
Hill paid a visit to an old friend a few years
before his death who said to him " Mr.
' liill it isjust suelif-jlee years since I first
heard you preach and 1 lemember your
text and part of your sermon. You told us
1Jlt 'J?e Pple were very .s.piea.uish ab
tho !" ot dltiI' iiimiaters v
iboilt
who
.!..!. I I - . . .
1-'"WI- inusa.no gosnUI. ou saui -bup-
pose you were attending to hear a will lead
where you expected a legacy left you would
you employ the time in criticizing tho man-
ner in which the lawyer read it i Xo .yon
would not; you would be giving all ear to
hear it -any thing w as Ion to you aud how
much it was. That is the way L would ad-
vise you to hear the gospel.' "
Good adico well woith remomberino-sixly-jive
years.
In aucient days the celebrated precept
was " know thyself" in modem it has been
supplanted by the more fashionable maxim
" know thy neighbor and everything about
him."
The more a man accomplishes the more
he may. An active tool never grows msty. j
5ons or her
"Wliai J. JLive E?or.
I live for those who love me
Whose hearts are kind and true;.
Por tin; heaven that smiles above me.
And awaits my spirit too ;
For all human ties that bind mc
For Hie task by God assigned me
For the bright hop-es left behind me
And the good that I can do.
aft
Ili
ive to learn their story '" '
Who've suffered for mv s.iVr. i -
To emulate their glory " '
And to folio w in their wake; ' ' "'
-puxus. painoES. iiurtvr a. sa5
The uoJe of all ajrft.a.
!
"WIjou 3- Mo cro'-vd history's pa? .
Aud time's eat volufue make. -
I livo to hold communion
With all that is diviia . -
To fee! there is a uu'ion
'Xwixt Nature's heart and mine
To proiit by affliction
Reap truths from rields of fiction '
Grow wiser from conviction - -
And fulfil each grand design.
I live to hail that season
By gifted m'nd3 foretold
When men shall live by reason
And not alone by gold
When man to man united
And every wrong thing righted "
The Tfhole world" shall be lighted " . '
As Eden was of old.
I live for thoso who love mo
For those who knovr me true
For the heaven that smiles above me
And awaits my spirit too
For the cause that lacks assistance
For the rons that needs resistance
For the future in the distance
And the good that I can do.
TSse SJianiMTC!CiaieiI Sky 1
ll 3 StraT12e hnS l10w "- gen
erl W P? aboiU the skJ- It is the
. part or creation m hich nature has done
; ' A r 4 T . u Ut; UVUi-
more for the sake of pleasing man more
. fi . - ......
I Z-Z ;Y"li. '" .? P 0I .
. . - l"o muh l"" m any otner
0j jer works: and iti mat. thnnm-fin ..
; ; t ; "
) r' ;." . . Le aro n01 man)
of ier other work3 m winch somo more ma
ioniil or essential purpose than the mere
i .
.!- . 4" .. J- t
' ir'""1. IIIWI la. no.L answered by every
l"UMWUWt yreus ui'iy macK ram-cioud
y fought up over he b ue and every-
!"n- ! rvater. ail lf W? ia
uU next tme v'lih Perhaps a film of morn-
ingnnd evening mist for dew.
cnd mtt!ul
t !.!- l. -. ' . . . ni
i "' ""? -uultJ. li UOL m01ent ot any day ot
nnr lt aa u. hnn nfii.-v - . - I.- -?
' 'T' ' uuu proaucmg
f T ' pIL . . I'"""""-
! aitur ur-' auu orKing still upon such CX-
quisite and constant principles ot the most
n uu-" ' luai f? I1" certain that it
IS all ClOllfl tor IK. JITJil ltitnnrln.I t.. mr- nnr.
i ..r. i 1 .. .i . . i. ......
i ""-' - " i-
! I" .-......-.. m c.ci man ut'TOCI
! placed however far from other sources of
j interest cr of beauty has this doing for him
constant!-. The noblest scenes of the earth
can be seen and known but by few ; it is
not intended that man should live always in
the midst of them ; ho injures them by his
presence he ceases to feel them if he be al-
ways with them ; but the sky is for all ;
bright as it h it is not 'too bright for human
nature's daily food.' Sometimes gentle
sometimes capricious sometimes awful; nev-
er the same for two moments together ; al-
most human in its passions spiritual in its
tenderness almost divine in its infinity
its appeal to what is immortal in us is as
distinct as its ministry of chastisement or of
blessing to what is mortal is essential.
" An I yet vo never attend to it we nev-
er make it a subject of thought but as it has
j to do wth. our . ?n.iln.aI nsation ; wo look
upon all by which it speaks to us more
clearly than to brutes upon all which bears
witness to the intention of the Supreme that
wo are to receive more from the covering
vault than the light and the dew which we
share with the weed and tho worm only
as a succession of meauingless and monoto
nous accidents too common and too painful
t0 b0 f 0tl3' ot a moment ot watchfulness
j vi u iuue ui iiuuin.iiiou. ooii.ll JLUlSKluS.
j ITiGir-FhowN Description. A writer in
i. 1..ti-.umM ffi n Tfiir r i. .1.1.
1 1ku1 atteiuleil thJ examination of a female
sehooIin Laurens district and was eom-
pletely enraptured with all he saw andJieard.
Hear him :
"At 10 o'clock the procession was form-
ed all uniformed with white dresses and
badges of blue riband the tallest in front
and so ou alternately to tho last looking
grand in the sublimest degree ; like to the
highest pinnacles of tho Alps decorated and
adorned with Heaven's beautiful robo of
white surrounded by its lesser points of no-
toriety bedecked in all tho magnificence of
a suow-w loathed mountain. And as they
proceeded the mellilluent sounds of the sweet
and consonant violin aud flute caused the
very hills and dales to echo and re-echo ;
and if there should have been an monotony
these our fellow-countrymen and frieuds to
humanity were ever ready to drivo awnv
dull care by their pleasing variations in
striking their lyre to the ever-pleasing tune
Til hang my haip on the wiflow tree.' "
Education is a companion which no mis-
foituue can depress no crime can destroy
no onemy can alienate no despotism en-
clave. At home a friend abroad an in-
troduction in solitude a solace and in
society an ornament. It chastens vice it
guidos virtue it gives nt once grace and
government to genius without if what is
Man ? A splendid slave a reasoning say- j 1
age.
Jonathan's Hunting Excursion. Did
yon ever hear of the scrape I and nncla
Zekiel had duckin' on7fc on the old Connec-
ticut?" asked Jonathan Timbertoes while
amusing his old Dutch -liostess who agreed
to entertain him under her roof for and in
consideration of a bran new milk-pan.
' 2u I never did do tell it."
" "Well you must know that I and 'uncle
ZGkQ took it into our heads to go gunnino"
j alter ducks in father's skiff; so in we got
duuwuiueuuunu tuu river j a proper si fun
of ducks tlew about I tell ye aud bime by
a few of them .lit down in the marsh and-
went to feeding on muscles. I catch e'd up
my peauder-horn to prime and it slipped
right out of my'hand and sunk to the bot-
tom of the river. Tho water was amazingly
clear and I could see it on the bottom.
Eow I couldn't swim .a jot so I sez to uncle
Zeke "you are a pretty clever feller jesfc
let me -taice your peauuer-nom to prime
and don't you thiuk the stingy critter
wouid'nt do it " well says I you are a
pretty good diver and if you'll dive and get
it I'll give you a priminV I thought he'd
leave his. peauder-horn but he didn't but
stuck it in his pocket and down he went
and there he staid."
Here the old lady opened her eyes with
wonder and a pause of sometime ensued
when Jonathan added
" I looked down; and what do you think
the old critter was doin' V .
" Lord" exclaimed the old lady " Vra
sure I don't know.
" There ho was settin' right on the bot-
tom of the river pourin' peauder out my
horn into hizen."
Ths Ladies and the Census. A Lon-
don paper says : The returns of- the ages
of ladies have given some .trouble and a
slight correction has been necessary. Those
V
wno m 1851 were.between 20 and'25 must
: course have been between 10 and 157 at
";
the previous census; but the number 'of
girls between 10 and 15. in 1S41 was.-fnofc
large enough to grow into the goodly com-
pany who in 1851 says that they are but
between 20 and 25. The return also be-
tween 30 and 35" in 1S51 is too small as
compared with the return for the favorite
age of 20-25 in 1841. After allowing for
immigration and comparing the number-
!
J tanU
3o'000 iadie:5 h'
wilti those ot men the Kegistrar General
s are of opinion that about
ho havo entered themselves
! kee1 20 and 40 really belocg to the
nwf nrro A-f( in u'hipli ttio -n1v rP Aa
-w " -';:.""." 2 Ilf' Tr.
linquents are transferred in the calculations
and tables accordingly.
- Tho gentlemen who feel driven to this
conclusion very handsomely suggests that
those who made these misrepresentations
may have done so " because they were quite
unconscious of tho silent lapse of time or be-
cause their imaginations still lingered over
tho hours of the younger age" but they are
obliged to add that it may have been " be-
cause they choose foolishly to reprcseufc
themselves younger than they really wera
at the schaudalous risk of bringing the state-
ments of the whole of their country women
into discredit."
The mean age at which marriages are first
contracted in England and Wales in 25 8
years for males and 24 6 for females ;
while 54 in every 100 brides and 54 in eve-
ry 100 bridegrooms are 20 and under 25
eais of ago.
A good looking fellow stopped all last
week at Mayor Uell's Hotel Catawba Ala.
and ordered his baggage taken down to the
boat and went down himself without pay-
ing his bill. Saul the Mayor :
'Sir. you must not leave without paying
your bill. I cau't afford U hire servants
and pay for provisions and board people for
nothing."
"You can't?" .:
Xo." .:t .-
" Well why in thunder then don't yon
sell out to 'somebody who can. "
Our informant js anxious to chalk that
man's hat both ways as a slight tribute of
respect for his magnificent impudence.
A Good Answer. A little girl meeting
Ti countryman with a load of slaughtered
swine dropped a courtesy. The rustic laugh-
ed without returning tho civility. "Whatl''
said he " do you courtesy to dead hogs V
"Xo sir" "replied the little miss "Icourto
sied to tho live one"
Somo villain out West perpetrated tlio
following :
woman's KinnTS. I
Whon wonmn'3 lights are stirred a bit
The first reform she pitches on
Is how she may with lease delay '
Just draw a pair t-f breeches oa I f
An indignant editor out West gets off
the following sentiment:
Newspaper borrowers May theirs be a
life of single blessedness ; may their path be
carpeted w ith cross-eyed snakes and their
nights be haunted bv knock-kneed torn cats.
The best board in the world for dispeptic
young ladies is said to be the wash board.
It gives them strength of muscles and exu-
berance of spirits a good appetite for their
meals and supercedes the necessity of paint-
ing their faces.
"I believe thej-have been inoculated with
stupidity" said a lawyer. " That may be"
said his opponent " but the bar is of the
opinion that you had it in the natural way."
An old lady in Cincinnati who sells eggs
ms over ner door -'ew laid e-o-s awv
morning by Betty Briggs."
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