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VOL. II.
CITY OF BROWNVILLE, NEMAHA COUNTY, N. T., THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1858.
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ari:tiin in a tyl anurtmed by any other office
in the United Status.
PartienlvttjnU.n will h i ;ira bi orlers from
a distance in h tvin thorn pr .inaptly attended to.
The Prorict irs having bad n exteUitive expe
rience, will give their p,rs.in:il attenti-m to this
branch of buiues, tnd h pc, in their endeavors to
pleae. b ith in the exallene of their work, and
rtaaonibla charges to receive a share of the public
ptMntge.
BUSINESS CARDS.
MISS MARY TURNER,
MILLIMER AliD DRESS MAKER.
Kain Street, one door abore Carson Bank.
BROWNVILLE, N. T.
Bonnds and Trmmings always on hand
C. W. WHEELER,
Arcliitsct and Builder.
Tirownvillo. -
TJ. C. JOHNSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
SOLICITOR IN CHANCERY
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Real Estate Agent,
drown villi:, n. t.
RKFKKKSCKI.
Hon. Wm.lessup, M..ntroe, Pa.
It. S. Itently.
Johe Millar, Chi- ag .. III.
Win. K. VI Al i-tr, - " "
Ch-rlc F. Koler, " " "
R. W. Furnas, lirownville, N.T.
U. F I.ke,
Xtj 7. 1S57.
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I. T. Whyte & Co.,
TROLEAALK sVP KKTAIL DE1LIBS IK
DRY GOODS, GROCERIES
Qnnswiire, H irdwcre,
Otovos, 2? vurrx.ltu.ro.
Country Produce,
IlllOWNVII.I.i:, NT. T.
J. HART fit SON
iviATiZTm a,
Oregon, tAt Ooaaty, Mi. BOuri.
Keep ?oo:atitly n hand all Jescriptiouuf 'larness,
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ad.llHi, Unlies. c, c.
X. H. Every .-ticle inoorhop:smnufaotureu
v ars-.lve.,ini Tummw t give humwihib.
. J A COB fLlFFORD,
AttiTOcv and Counsellor at Liw
UEXERAL INSURANCE ANO LAN1 AGENT
Ana Notary Public
EXEBA.SKA CITr, N. T.
T7ILL tttend nroiitlT t all bnisoess entrusted
'V to his care, in Nebraska Territory and West-
era Iowa.
September 12, 1855. rlnl5-ly
E. S. DUNDY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
AftCnEX, RtCrtAHDROJI CO. K. T.
-WILL praice in the several Court ol the il Judicial
TWict. attend to all matters connected wilb tbe
'Neti.-j. .WM.McLtt.HAH Kq.. of ebra Cuy,
VU aatwt me in Uie pru.-cuUuO of import! uits.
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IIEMAHA LMID AGEl.T,
SOlYElOIt & ROTARY PllILIC,
Will select liDdl, investigate title, P'7 taxe. fcc,
ither iu Kanaas or Nebraska; buy, sell. ana emer
landt on commission; Invest In town property. Duy or
Mil tbe Mime and will always bav on nana correct
plau of townships, countiea, fcc., showing all latKissuo-
Jeci to entry, and where deeirea will furnish rttea liv
ing in the states wlib tbe aame.
Bern the oldest settler in the county arm in an
case be able to give fall and reliable information.
Addresa A. L. Coate, either at erownvuieor jteinana
City. Nebraska Territory, 6m-43-r3
DAIimii -L. McGAUY,
1TT0M11Y AT LAW,
AND
SOLICITOR LY CIIJXCERY.
Brownville, Nebraska.
Will practice in tbe Courts of Kebraska,and North
west Missouri.
REFERENCES.
Messrs. Crow. McCreary . Co.,
Jljn. Jame M. Huphs,
Hon J .bD R. Sheply,
Hun. Jellies Craig,
St. Lonis, Mo.
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St. Joseph, Mo.
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Nebraska City, N. T.
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Hon. Silns Wuodann, '
Jud?e A. A. Bradrord,
8 F. Nuckolls Km..
H. M. ATKINSON,
Surveyor and Land Agent,
1IAIN STREET,
BROWNVILLE, N. T.,
Wli' attend promptly to the celcci ion and loca
tion cf Government land in the emaba lunddii'
trict: surreying town fitw, and subtliridin lands':
drafting citr iitnu.and all vther busings of a Gctier-
il Surveyor. Ho will im-ato wnrranis on time ior
dintant dealcru; file declaratory statetmenU ot tn-
tention to Dre-"iniit : make out pre-emption papers:
and always on band to look out claims for actual set
tlers.
REFER TO
T. W. Sanger, M. 1)., New York City,
8wal k Withington, Uoston, llais.
Rev. T. W. Howe, l'ataskala Ohio,
tlol. W. E. Atkinson.
George 11. Nix. n, Register Land Office. Brownville,
Lu'hbauph k Carson, bankers, lirownville, n. 1.
R.W. Furnat.
J: D.N.&B. B. THOMPSON
Heal l.btan- & General 'ol'ecting Agents.
BnOWNVTIiLE, N. T.
Ascnts forloira Ins. Co., osKaioosa,
AIX b:i: ties entrust et to nr care will meet with.
p.-!mpi arM i.m and warrsmedeorseet. Papers prcpar--d
ir ;er'U. wishing to p.e-euip:, Declaratory aute
loput iii .de out. eic, eic.
3-)ffli e . n First street, north of I. T. Whrte & Co .S
1-F.PKKKIiVCES :
J. W . GrimeJ, Ex-tJ .ve. nor I-iwa
T. L P ice dj Missouri
Antiu A King do do
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(i. Donuhty Council B.uff., Iowa
ApiU 8, 1863. vinal-ty
A. D. KIRK,
Attorney at Law,
i-ind Acreat and Notary I'libllc.
ylrchtr. Richardson Co., J. I.
Will practice in the Courts of Nehraska.ussisted
by llanlinirand Bennett, Nebraska City.
W. P. LOAN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
LOT AND LAND AGENT,
Arrhf r. Richardson Countjy N. T.
K. C. HARPING. O. V. lDUiua . r. .
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HARDING, KIMBOUGH & CO.,
J(iHAictreraio! U'ioJeaafe Dealer in
HATS, CAPS & STRAW GOODS,
No 49 Ma-'n street, tet. yure ana nne,
ST. LOUIS, MO.
Particular attention paid to manufacturing our
finest Mole Hats.
REAL ESTATE AGENCY.
GEORGE CLAYE8. W" LE
Clayes cfa Loo.
Real Esttto and General Agency,
OMAHA CITY, N. T.
REFER TO
James Wright, Ttroker, New York,
Wm. A. Woodward, Esq. " "
Hon. It. Wood, Ex-tiov. of Ohio, Cleveland,
Wicks, Otic and Urownell, Bankers, "
Alcott k llorton, .
Col. Uobort Campbell, St. Louis,
James Kidgway, Esq. " "
Crawforn and Sa:kett. Chicago.
t)mh "iiy. Ang. 30. 185ft. TlnU-l.T
p mcxviCTT. J. 8. MORTON, H.U. BAKDINU
RENNET. MORTON & HAKUIIU
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Xebraska City, X. T. and Glentcood, la
17 practioein all the Courts of Nebraska and
obtaining, looting Land Warranta.and collection of
WHstnrn Iowa. I'anicuiar nwuii"" vmni iu
debt.
REFERENCE:
H..n. Lewis Cass. Detroit. Michig1ln.
uliu l. Morton, " S
(r.4oel A. Matteson, Springfield. Ill
Gov. J. V. rime Iowa City, Iowa;
It. P. Fifiled. St. Iuis,Mo.:
Hon. Daniel O. Morton. Toledo. Ohio;
P. A. Sarpy, Bellevne, Nebraska:
Sedgewirh k Walker, Chicago. Ill:
Green, Wear k Benton, Council Bluffj.lowa.
JErPEKSUN r. CA8APT
J AS. D. TEST.
r, ) MAKTIN V. RIDEM.)
JAB. D. VHITR, I
i. ) Nebraska City NT)
Council Bluffs, Iowa,
CASSADY. TEST,
RIDEN & CO
Successirs to Hide f- Whito.)
LAND AGENTS.
NEBRASKA CITT, K. T.
llAVIN'i made arrngem'nt.s by which we will
tl rtweirc a.-eurate copies of all the Township
embraoed in the Eastern por ion of Nebranka, we
are now prepared t off- r mr services to the
" Squatters of Xelraska Territory."
In rilling Declaratory Statements of inten
tion to Pre-empt. Securing Preemp
tions. Locating Ind Warrants-
AND ENTERING LAND.
Land ITarrants Ilouglitand Sold.
LAND ENTERED ON TIME.
Particular attention paid to Buying and Selling
lroportr n commission: Al. to making Colleetior.s
and forwarding remittances to any pnrtof the Union.
Blank of all kind always n hajd. ...
REFERENCES.
Hon. A. A. Bradford, Nebraska City.
S.F.Nucolls, "
Messrs. IMaian k West, St. Joseph, Wo.,
Peter A. Keller. Washington City
Thomas Lumpkin, " "
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JAMES W. GIBSON,
BLACKSMITH
Second Street. between Main and Nebraska,
BECnVXVLLLE, ST. T.
Political
Democratic Address.
Fellow Democrats:
The day is fast approaching when Ne
braska will seek admission into the Union.
But three years have passed away since
her wide extent of Territory was opened
for settlement, and she has already at
tained to more than one half of the popu
lation. ,r usually,, .required., of. ..Territories
when admitted to the independent sove
reignty of States, and this too when party
and personal excitements, the nation
through, have directed into Kansas the
great tide of emigration. Now that these
excitements are being allayed, . and the
emigrant selects his own path-way,' unin
fluenced by morbid partizan feelings,
three more years can hardly elapse before
our Territory will be ready to throw off
the swaddling clothes of her minority and
claim the sovereignty of a full grown in
dependent state.
That day will be one of momentous
importance to our political future. There
will ' be adopted by us a Constitution,
moulded according to the views and sen
timents of the people at the time, a consti
tution which, being the fundamental law
of the new State,' will shape and give co
loring to all subsequent legislation. ; Con
gress requires of the Constitution of a
State seeking admission into the Ucion no
other qualification than that it be rt pubh
can in form. A wide field is here left to
the discretion and choice of the people
composing the ne-v State. They may
adopt a constitution upon the old federal
ist plan, conferring large powers upon the
government, powers of oppressive taxa
tion, powers of large patronage in the ap
pointment to lucrative offices by the Exe
cutive, instead of electing them by the
people, powers of managing the public
funds ou systems and plans of ruinous
extravagance, and of establishing mam
moth monopolies which rival aud crush
the interests of individual citizens, thus
making the people and their substantial
good substrvient to the government.
which is the theory of tyrannies, lostead
of making the government subservient to
the people, which is and always has been
the theory of the Democratic party.
On the other hand, they may adopt a
constitution whose basis shall be the glori
ous democratic motto "That government
is best which governs least." It may
leave the people free to elect all their own
officers, with power to arraign them be
fore the tribunal of public opinion when
ever their misdeeds or shortcomings de
mand it. It may errant to its officers only
such limited powers as a faithful and effi
cient discharge of their duties absolutely
requires. It may limit taxation both m
its objects and amounts. It may forbid
all lavish expenditures of public monies.
It may restrain the chartering of banks
and monied corporations whose baleful
effects upon the public prosperity we are
now sorely experiencing. In short it may
provide an economical, safe and democ
ratic government. Between extremes so
very wide the new State will be permitted
to form its own domestic institutions
Democrats, you believe that the latter
and not the former description of consti
tution is the true one for a democratic
people is best suited to our intelligence,
prosperity and . wnts. . You belong to
that great and glorious party whose foun
der was Thomas Jefferson ; which from
the first formation of our government un
til now, has contended for such a constitu
tion. You could not content yourself to
live under one less free less democratic.
Not one of you but would indignantly
spurn the idea of living in a State ruled
by federalists, whose leading doctrine is
to increase the power of the government
at the expense of the power of the people.
As this Territory is so soon to make the
choice of th-j constitution which it will
have, and as every democrat, every free
man, is personally and vitally interested
in framing a constitution free and demo
cratic in all us part, it is very apparent
that no tune is to be lost in adopting mea
sures and means for securing it. . Public
sentiment should be moulded early, those
who are of opposite views should be in
formed and convinced, while those who
are of like views should be impressed
with an adequate idea of their importance,
and all of us should be trained into an ar
my, compact, determined and strong,
which can sweep the field of every oppos
ing foe.
Considerations of this character have
induced Democrats from ail parts of the
Territory to urge upon their brethren the
propriety of an early and thorough orga
nization of the party.
In all new countries, personal and sec
tional iealousies wasre titter contests. If
our Territory has been no exception to
the general rule if we have been unwill
ing witnesses of the unnatural strifes of
Democrats with Democrats, let us re
member, let the bitterest opponents re
member that now we are approaching a
new era that another than a sectional
warfare is. coming on, a warfare in which
are involved ihe vital and permanent in
terests, not of one section only but of all
together, not of one man or set of men
only, but of all democrats and that a
common triumph r a common defeat
await us all. If our zeal for Democratic
doctrines, principles and usages, has wax
ed cold in controversies in which they
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were not uireuiiy iu issue, ici ua uuw,
when they are involved and involved for
all time toome, warm oar political faith
into new life, that we may march once
more under the old tanner which we all
love.'boldly and confidently to the war
fare which is before us.
Fellow Democrats, look at the past his
tory of our party, and in her glorious
principles and achievements,, see what
abundant cause we hate for pride' and
exultation. The history of ! progress is
but a history of her triumphs, every step
which has been taken m advance since
the first adoption of our federal constitu
tion by our forefathers, has been taken by
the Democratic party In the great
march of human progress the opposition to
our party has slowly and rebtanctly fol
lowed, guided not by their principle, but
by the ashes of our former camp-fires, and
seldom reaching these till they were cold
and dead. Not a day goes by but that
our enemies pay the tribute of acknowl
edgement to the worth and wisdom of
some measure against whose establish
menl they warred to the bitter end. Re
call the great issues on which the country
has been divided, and behold the Demo
craty from first to last and always fight
ing on the side of the people and coming
on victorious. The alien and sedition
laws the fond idol of the federalists of
the daya of John Adams assailed by
Jeffersonian Democrats and annihilated,
so that to-dav the dosr in the street will
not howl a requiem over their rotten re
mains. ' The United States Bank, that
monstruous monopoly of money, which as
pirechto rule the politics of the country by
its power, assailed by Jacksonian Demo
crats upon the democratic doctrine that
commerce, and not arbitrary government
should regulate trade and intercourse
extinct measure of the Past forgotten al
most, in the issues of our day. In its
wake has followed the kindred measure
of a protective tariff, and in its rlare
stands the wise and salutary measure of
a tariff for revenue only. The D mo
cratic party hr.g added every foot of &oil
which has extended the general domain,
limited on the west by the Gulf of Mexi
co, to the-Pacific Ooan and to Central
America, making a sea girt empire
mightier than the tyrannies of ancient or
the monarchies of modern tunes. And
lastly it has proclaimed and established
upon a firm basis the great doctrine of
Popular Sovereignty, in which e now
exult as a free, while we remain a depen
dent peoole that glorious doctrine which
ia the last triumph of the American Gov
ernment.
As the Democratic party has advanced
from one of these principles to the other,
asserting them, contending for them, and
establishing them, the party of the oppo
sition, under whatever name its forces
were rallied, has ohiected to them as
yielding too much to the people, has op
posed them and been defeated under
them, and has at last come to see their
wisdom and to acquiesce in their firm and
enduring establishment in the govern
meut. How devoutly do we see Seward
Hale; Sumner andGiddings to-day kneel
ing . around the altar of Popular Sover
eignty, rivaling even Douglas and his as
sociates in devotion to a doctrine agams
the establishment of which, tour years
ago, they wagtd bitter and unscrupulous
warfare.
Such, Fellow Democrats, has been the
history of our party. She had her origin
in the first days of the Union. She has
held on her way amid the breaking of
opposition factions amid her many faced
aud ever changing foes, amid all changes,
one and the same, the party of the people,
the party of progress, the party of power,
and the party of victory. Have not the
democrats of Nebraska . a right to be
proud that they may constitute a regiment
in the grand army, and should we not
wheel into rank and march : boldly and
fearlessly to battle, assured that as ever
when we have been united victory will be
ours.
The day is auspicious for our hearty
and thorough organization. The causes
which for a few dark weeks thrtatened to
divide our strength have ceased to oper
ate. The vexed Kansas question, which
in -de the halls of our national legislation
a theatre of strife and turmoil, and array
ed friend against friend, has been refer
red to the people of that Territory for
final settlement. Let us hope that they
may act wisely and secure for themselves
a brighter destiny in the future than they
have had in the past. Upon that question
Democrats hive never been divided in
principle, for the President declared in
his first message that hereafter the prin
ciple should be applied, that the constitu
lion of a new State should be submitted to
and adoptt d by the people before it is
presented to Congress, and this is the
whole of the great principle j f popular
sovereignty for which Sir.. Douglas has
contended. The only contest was over the
question of expediency in the Kamas
case and the fact that Democrats cannot
always see alike with regard to questions
of expediency is only an evidence of their
honestv and independence, and should
excite no fears that the party is threat
ened with disorganization such mere is
sues of a day will never divide the Dera
ocratic ranks. Thev are held together
by too many ties and associations, by too
many hallowed memories and great h"pes
to cease their common ehorts tor, the ac
complishment of the grand aims and pur
poses of the party.
B. P. R NKIN,
Chairman of Committee.
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"My daughter, why do you look at the
moon so much ? ' inquired a motner o:
her daughter, a young lady just entering
her sixteenth year. "Why, ma, they say
(there's a man in' it," was the innocent
j reply. !
Miscellaneons.
Tbe Sculpture of Habit
Did you ever watch a sculptor slowly
ashioning a human countenance? It is
not moulded at once. It is not struck out
at a single beat. It is painfully and la
boriously wrought. .A thousand blows
rough cast it. Ten thousand chisel-points
polish and perfect it put ' in the fine
touches, and bring out the features and
expression. It is a work of time; but at
last the full likeness comes out, and stands
fixed forever and unchanging in the solid
marble.
Well, so does a man under the leadings
of the Spirit, or the teachings of Satan,
carve out his own moral likeness. Every
day he adds something to the work.
A thousand acts of thought, and will, and
deed, shape the features and expression of
the soul habits of love, and purity, and
truth habit3 of falsehood, malice and un-
cleanliness, silently mould and fashion it.
till at length it wears the likeness of God,
or the image and superscription of the
Evil One.
The Three Mariels of England.
England produces three objects which
are met with everywhere, but which in
that island are remarkable for their mar
vellous beauty the women, the trees,
and the horses. Moreover, every place
which raises a race of horses worthy of
admiration is also peopled by pretty wo
men. W hat is the cause of the coinci
dence, it is not easy to say; but this strauge
correlation is not the less real
Georgia j
rears the best horses of the East. The
plains of La Camargue, in the neighbor
hood of Aries, famous for its lovely girls,
preserve the blood of the Moorish cour
sers in a state of nature; the Audalusian
maid attains her perfection of forms by
the side of the most symmetrical steeds of
the Peninsula; at Mecklenburg you be-
hold the purest blood of Germany ; and
when a phalanx of amazons gallop along
the avenues of the London parks, the
dazzled eye cannot fix itsf If with indif-
ference either on the ecuyere or the am-
mal on which she is mounted. Let a
young girl draw up her horse beneath a
lufty tree, and you will contemplate,
grouped in a eiwrld picture, the three
marvels of England.
WhJit I h.iTi Kntlrpil.
I have noticed that all men speak well
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of n hin's virt,.P u-hn h i ,W nn,l
o,,, -r- .;.t,
of 'good and virtuous.' Is there any par-
jm
T;eAi
I have noticed that the prayer of every
selfish man is 'forgive us our debts ' but
he makes evervbodv who owes him nav to
lha ntrn.wt FoHhinn
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. UililUCIlUllUILJi:.
I have noticed that death is a merciless
j .-b" "V" v.".. j.v.jr ...oil
rUO o tnKt Totk tt.
to lay down the dust in the currency of
mortality.
I have noticed that he who thinks a
ha . k,m. kjoip vk. - k:
rascal Diogenes must have been at that
rate .
t i,.0 o,;,i ,v,o, p.
n-;Anrn ,i,a i.o
m. itu ? s uuuwvu fcua, iuuur;y jo iuc iuui o
niouuiu, nit uuic o icuuiauuii. luc wise
man's jewel, the rich man's trouble, the
nnnr rW rlr tha envatm,. mnn', m.
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bition, and the idol of all
I have noticed that merit is always
measured in this world by its success.
1 nave noticea mat in oraer to be a
reasonable creature, it is necessary to be
down right mad.
I have noticed that as we are always
wishing instead of working for fortunes,
we are disappointed and call dame for
tune blind; but it is the most capable eye
tight, and is no old granny with spec
tacles.
I have noticed that purses will hold
pennies as well as pounds.
A AiU AAVtlVU tVUJ t'ClUllV J ru V j
I hiA fit-it is orl I hit tAmhctnnoo cot?
Here he lies,' which no doubt is often
true, and if men could see the epitaphs
their friends sometimes write, they would
believe that they had got into the wrong
grave,
- Baptism in Hoops.
At Chicago last week, a rather amus
ing scene took place during the baptism
of a young la .y by the pastor of the Ta
bernacle. The Union says: "The minis-
ter requested her to assume the dress pe-
culiar to such an occasion, but she dtclin-
ed to take off her hooped skirt; the
minister told her of the inconvenience
that must result from her obstinacy, but she
persis'ed. When she came to descend into
the bath, the inflated skirt touched the wa
ter and rose up aroun 1 her like a talloon.
Her head was lost to the congregation,
she was swallowed up in the swelling
skirt, the minister tried to force her down
into the bath, but she was kept above the
surface by the floating properties of the
crinoline, and was buoyed up so success
fully that it was not until attw mucn uu
i 1 r "II. . . -. . . I
ncuity ana many iorciue auempis to suo-
merge ihe lady, the minister succeeded
baptizing the lair one. many it was
effected, to the relief of the minister and
the seriously inclined audience, who coald
not weep irom laugmng in meir poctei
kerchiefs.
The age is becoming more refined.
"Root hog or die," is now rendered
follows: "Penetrate the subsoil, my por
cine fri?nd, or early expect an obituary
notice on your untimely demise.
Age or Distinguished Statesmen.
The following table will be interesting
at this time, as showing the age of many
of our distinguished statesmen at the time
of their death:
Born. Died. Age
General Washington 1732 1799 67
Benjamin Franklin 1706 1790
74
83
SI
78
75
68
70
76
John Adams
1735 1S28
Thomas Jefferson 1743 1S27
John Q.Adams 1767 1S4S
Andrew Jackson 1767 1345
Henry Clay . 1777 1S52
John C. Calhoun 1782 1S50
Daniel Webster 1782 1S52
Thomas H. Benton 1785 1S5S
Col. Benton's Last Words.
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Tribune, thus writes, under
date of the 10th :
The supposed time of Mr. Benton's
death was 7:35, although he glided off so
gently that it may have been some mi
nutes earlier. The last evening, when
Mr. Appleton called, he was too ex
hausted to converse and merely signified
"to-morrow." At times through the
night he was seized with spasmodic pains
of great violence, otherwise he Tested
gently. His last connected words were
about two in the morning, when Jacobs,
his son-in-law, who was setting up, ask
ed how he felt, to which he faintly whis
pered, "comfortable and contented."
Two Good Puns.
ine tcariesion courier says teat on
some festive occasion connected with the
commencement of Harvard, Judge Story
having been called on
for a sentiment,
crn vp
'The TTnri Fn m ti Vi.o.n Lnmn
follows merit where Everett -(ever it)
goes,
The uproarious and dsafening applause
called forth by this jeu (Tesprit having
subsided, Mr. Everett rose and paid with
usury the compliment and laudation he
had received, and gave in return
"The Hon. Joseph Story No emi
nence in virtue, letrnjng, or jurispru
dence, can raise higher than one Storj
Lapland 31arriagcs.
Every Laplander, however poor, has a
dozen or two dozen deer; and the flock of
Lapp Crcesus amouut sometimes to two
thousand head. As soon as i young lady
13 born. atter having been duly rolltd in
. , . - -
BUUW su.e 13 lX iier
"lul wiu uuiuuer oi ueer, wnicn are
J.-J,mmed,ateiy branded with her initials
d. thenceforth kept apart as her espe
I . .j ii uui nun ua nicy iu
ticasc auu inuiupiy aoes ner cnance im
provf " mali,n" inalCQ- a?P
TJ,lsu,'a LB?. conuuciea pretty much in
uie ?arae i M,on.M ,n 0,ner Parts "e
1 wnrlll. I hP nenirnnt ns uvin hn. A, a
" - ' uo own us lie U1S'
I , M
?overs lV"ne nas 10.sl nls U
. rp. f0J
"J-
ens' s,rauneous y, the brandy and his
business, while the lover remains outside,
v b -6. r "
1 uri rrn rron 1 nnii-m rm A a-s . i
mernai employment, ir, alter the brandy
ailu l" proposal nave Deen auiy discuss-
fT elo?"enl;eJ0f bis friend prevails
e is uiuiseu cauea into me conclave, and
me young people are allowed to rub
I . , . .
uuses. me onaetnen accepts from her
1 . ...
i .ucC, awu.
and the espousals are considered conclud-
ed. The marriage does not take place
for two or three years afterwards ; and
during the interval the intended is oblig
ed to labour in the service of his intended
father-in-law.
r t
It is a curious fact that the love of our
race is so innate in the robin as to render
him unhappy in any other society ex-
cepung oniyintne breeding season, when
all birds are naturally shy and suspicious
i for the welfare of their offspring. Go
intoany wood, walk down any shady lane,
enter any cemetery, seat yourself in any
country church yard; or perch yourself on
any rural style within a few moments
you will assuredly have a robin beside
j you, and he will assuredly introduce him-
sen wun a song, it is vain lor vou to
say to him nay. He fairly fascinates you,
he woes your heart and wins it. How
many of my successes in winning human
hearers are attributable to the hints af
forded me by this ingenious, bold, open
ing, conquering bird.Aidion ihe Robin
Terr COOl
The following correspondence, which is
said to have passed over the telegraphic
wires, is decidedly cool even for these
hard times
Mr : One year ago to-night I lent
you S4.87 If you have not had it long
enough, please keep it one year more.
Do you wish it I Answer. Yours, &c."
Mr. : Forgot the fact some time
ago, hoped you had. Let her run another
year then. Yours, &c."
Liston went to Paris in 1839, and was
- 0ne day walking in front of the Hote
- Meurice, with his tongue hanging out of
I . . . O D
nis mouth.
in "What are you doing that for ?" asked
his intimated friend, Potier.
"Why." replied the eccentric man. '
&m learning your language, and I want to
- eaten the accent."
We like the "new pill" which a distin
guished physician has -just invented. Thi
as invaluable remedy for melancholy is made
of "fun and fresh air in. equal proportions
and is to be taken with
cold water three
times a day."
Save t&e Piece
a.
"How many mills make one cent,1 as
ked a schoolmaster of a promising pupil,
"don't know; but guess it takes a good
many cents to make a mill, if thej!re built
cf stone."
A divine once praying eaid; 'Oh,
Lord, give us neither poverty nor riches,'
and, pausing a moment, he added, "espe
cially poverty." , -
A Texas paper says that the young la
dies thereabouts are making great ranges
on the grape vines, taking thexa for
hoops. "
. The woman who borst her idea a
aughing," had them mended by her hus
band coming into her parlor with muddy
boots. . ;
If the Naiads were constantly hathls?.
we presume, front their name, the Dryads .
were the ones who brought the tawelt.
To find out whom n child lores, iaait
it a present, and notice to whom it is most
eager to show that present, exultingly.
To find out whom a woman bates do ex
actly the same.
The ralue of things is not in their
size, but quality; and so of reason, which,
wrapped in few words, has the greater
weight.
An old Scotch preacher said of a young
opponent that he had ' a great deal, of
the young man, not a little of the old man.
very little of the new man.
"Ma," paid little Willemina, "I don't
think Solomon was so rich as they say he
was." "Why, my dear ?' said her as
tonished ma. "Because he slept with his
fathers; and I think if he had. been so
very rich, he would hare had a bed of his
own
An agent, soliciting subscribers for a
book, showed the prospectus to a man.
who after reading "one dollar in boards
and one dollar and twenty-five cents in
sheep, declined subscribing as he
might not have boards or sheep on hand,
when called upon for payment. (
At Gibraltar there was great scarcity of
water. An Irish officer said, "He was
very easy about the matter, for he bad
nothing to do with water; if he only got
his tea in the morning, and punch at
night, it was all that he wanted."
"When thou art buying a horse or
choosing a wife, says the Tuscan proverb,
"shut thine eyes and commend thyself to
God." Is that what is called "trusting in
Providence?"
There is a policeman in every man's
conscience even though you may not
always find him on the beat.
"Well, mariner," said a tooth doctor
to a salt-waiter customer, "which tooth do
you want extracted ? is it a molar or inci
sor?" "It's the upper tier on the lar
board side. Bear a hand, you swab, for
it is nipping my jaw like a bloody lob
ter." It is only fools that quarrel wise men
are above it. This is precisely the case
with nations, the only exception is where
a people are struggling for their liberties
against a common tyrant.
1
Finn, the celebrated comedian, once
ell over a lot of wooden-ware, in front
of a man's store, upon which the ahorw
keeper cried out: "You came near kick
ing the bucket that time, mister." "Oh,
no," said Finn quite complacently, "I on-
y turned a little pale."
There is a great demand for a kind of
plaster paper that will enable gentlemen
to stick to their business.
It is said that an ingenious down-east
Yankee has invented a machine by which
a man can tell when he is sufficiently
drunk. He calls it a fuddleomtter. and it
...
operates by giving a fellow a sharp punch
in me nos tne moment he has got bricks
enough in his hat
A farmer told a barber that he ought
to reduce his prices, now corn was cheap.
"No, sir-ee, replied the shaver, "for, when
corn is low, farmers make such long faces
that l have twice the ground to go over."
The Paris Figaro tells a neat anecdote
of one of the brothers Pereire, the great
financiers, who are Jews. A member of
some large stock company, of which this
brother is a chuf manager, fell into dis
pute with him about the management,
and being discontent with the absorbing
share that Pereire took in the direction,
and vexed at the rough way in which be
treated his protestations, finally exclaim
ed. "Do you mean to eat me up ?" "My
religion," answered the banker, prohibits
me from doing that." -
A queer genius has just died in the
Ohio Penitentiary, after being confined
three years for killing a man in the
drunken frolic. Around the body cf jhe
corpse was found a thick, heavy leathern
belt, which contained one hundred and
sixty half dollars and forty-six cents in
silver change. The poor fellow bad car
ried his load about him constantly for
years, for fear of being robbed. The
rooriey has been earned by him by over
work' while in prison. . '
Tbe progress of agriculture ought to be
one of the objects of your constant care ;
for upon its improvement or . decline de
pend the prosperity or decline of ercpirf.