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HATES L' ADVEUTlSlIt CL. Cneiuiro (ten I'utt ti lwBsisrtJo3 C 15 h aJJiuoual insertion ... 1 3 Uuaifiom earJ.vix liacj cr Ica one year 13 C3 Unecolaaia one year ... fc y One hilf conmn one year - -' 59 O Onafourllil colunsnoce jzr -' 23 C3 Una eighth column one yeir ,- 21 CJ1 One column six' ui nths - ' 59 C One half column six months - X3 CJ' One fourth coluuiu six mouth 21 C Oae eighth colua.o six uionths - IS 0) One column threa month i 31) One half coluuia three months - 21 Cf One fourth, columuthrea month j - ISO1 One eighth ccluian three monthj - It Announcing candidates for oice CO Alltransicat advertisement taustbo l-a ratio. Yearly advertisement quarter! Ia Sia.van:a. All kiadi of Jcb, Uook anl Card r r:2tlc;;kaa in tho bcststylo oa short notice aaJ re.uonali term) NEBRASKA ADVERTISER rcBUSUED vwr.Tnctsoiv by 1 .. . ! GEO. V. HILL & CO., ! liverUser Block, Main S't Between 1st 2d, i: r t ' jjlOWUViUoi 3J. T Ay AyAyfiNysy.. bscril'tin, inuat lr.vanr.h.v, bo r.aid inAdvauce v- Book Wort, anl Plain avl Faacy Job Work, it tht oei style, andou bi.jrt notice. LIBERTY AND UNION, ONE AND INSEPARABLE NOW AND FOREVER." vol; x. BROWNVILLE, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1865. NO. 2. v.ry v, A3 17 771 ! BUSINESS CARDS. II. C. TIIURMAN, tiljnsirian 2 Surgeon ER0&.T1LLE, NEBRASKA. ToI9-n2-fy-rd JHEEIGAN HOUSE D.ROKixso.rnopniETon, FroatS-.reet, between Main and Water, U IT j. a. iiewes: ATTORNEY AT LAW AND Solicitor in Chancery. LAXD AND COLLECING AGEKTS. March th, lj- C. 31 IICXDERSOX, GENERAL DEALER IS STAFLE AND FANCY DRY GOODS BOOTS & SHOES Main Street between First and Second, Erownvillo, "J"o""fc. "-y JAMES MEDFORD CABINET - MAKER AND Corner 2nd and Main Streets, BEO W NVTLXjE, N. T. Is rrq arcd to io all kind. of work in his line on tort cotico and reasonable terms. l-tJui j. n. Johnson, OFFICE WITH L. IIOADLY, Corner Main and First Streets, BKOWXTf LXE, XFUR ASH A. 9--ll-r.t-54 C. F. 8TEWAKT, hi D. A. S. nOLLADAY, MO. SocA Eet corner of First Stroti VILXE, AEDUASItA. Omci ILcm-7 to 9 A. and 1 to 2 and 64 to Brwnrille, Kervka, Waj" 5th, 1864 No 34, ly. ! C. II. WALfiSK I 3i)oto0vapl)ic CVvttst j (Successor to W. M. C. PeeKSs) i OyE DOOR TEST CF THE ER0VKVI1XK HOUsK, j BROWXVILLE, N T. W. i&vitei attention U his Card or Album j rbokfTxphs.alio hi? beautifal Ivory-like Ainbro- j types' ,hi-b are oriverpfclly admitted to be equal j toitr.v i r xlueed in this, or any other country. ! !!.':i civo hia undivided attention to the busi- I toss, and hopes to merit a share of public patron- I ago. Satibfaction guaranteed. 9-43 HiHinery & Fancy Goods ' Main 8treet one dooT west of the Post Office imoWKVILLE, XCBRASIU. , ' . & superior stock of Spring and Summer trooo.. jort receded. Kvorytbjng in the Jlillinery line kftcobntantiy on hand. Drew-ilakjog, Bonnet i'ettiinjr and Trimming dona to order i rcn, 160. , 1 -... r9.n--23Iy BACK TO THE OLD STAND ! CLOCKS. WATCHES, AKD JOiSEPll BIIUTZ" Woii rrMectfull Infoim bta old custor. that he t i a&:nuiiielhiR Jewelrj Shojvfn hie c;J lUud cn , nU'1 tavLib felJe. two doors east of the Brown Hou. He keep on bnd a splendid atrimer-t ' evervtLint in his line of business, wtlcn he will oa Uie Zowest term for Cash. W Cloitiij Wichesaui Jewelry dune on the abort "filvutice. WORK WARRANTED. Hrom!ie, Keb.. May ,9lh lsu nM-vSUIy J. F.. MORRIS Soccetir to K. Brown Co.J wnoij retecuuliy announce to tbe CiMieon of roTJv.:ie ; d Tieinty, that bo .f pnrcha"e4 the wrse ana Well Selected siycK op MEDICINES. PAINTS, &G ' OK a. BROWN it Co. - mc ptoiu .hi era. iy, iuai uc win kcp vu every thJnstisually aeept in Fust Clczs Drug Store, tp'V,?""rmi'c', , 0 undersold for cafh. ttLSCRiiTUiSS AND C5.C1 liiCAREFULLT F1LLFD yALLUoiiwS. " niTKEV KLOCX, MAIN GTHEET CU0WXV1LLE, N ESIIA SKA. is-e-ly A "STIT-1! IN Zi:iZ AV3:s SIHTS" u . . EOl IS WALDTER, "at bis y; tctkdy to perform all work. par . ngUhwbutinert. : ' in? I 'nd PintinSiglting,and paper banj M.' S.1 short notice, and the most arproTed Terms cash. Oive bim a call. u uP 00 iia.in Street, cast of Atkinson's Cloth ,DS "Ure. ne U prepared to do til w lx i t o W , la 1 xt d . AND " A L" COLOKING Bi!vi:ie, April 7, ly. B. & BURNS, M. D., PHYSICIA & StFGIFI Xi7oz33.Ala.ci.. City, IDJ, OFFICE AT UI3 RESIDENCE. Ang. Rth,.1865 n47-t9-ly EDWARD W. THOMAS, ATTORNEY AT LAV, AND SOLICITOR IN CHANCERY, Office corner of Main and Flrt StreU. BROWNVILLE. NEBRA&KA. C. C. DORSET. 8. X. RICH. DORSET & RICH, And COM3IERCIAE COEEECTOtlS. Oflet S. E. cornor JIain and First Streets, BROWNVILLE, NEBRASKA. Will pive prompt attention to all business en trusted to them in the various Courts of Nebraska aud North Missouri ; also, to tho Collection of Bounty Money, Back Tay, and Pensions ; and to the Payment of Taxes. 9-40-yty BEDFORD & CO., DEALERS IN iiSi mil k smcii BOOTS AND SHOES, IIATS AND CAPS Quecnswarc, Cutlery, etc. MAIN STREET. BROWNVILLE, NEBRASltA. C. W. WHEELER, CABINET-MAKER AND C-A.KPEISr TE R . Having opened up permanently on Main JStxrcot, One door above the Ealtiinore Cluthins Store, is prepared to do all kinds of work in his line in tho very best and style. Particular aitentiono given to very Contracts. v-n in p'd Mctlugr or School Examiners. Notice is hereby given that the Uoard of Schoo Examiner of Neniaha County, Nebraska, will hold meetings for the Examination of Teachers for1 aid Courty, at the office of E. W. Thomas, in Brownviile, on the 1st Saturday in every month, bctvreen the hours of one and 3 P. M, Applicant? for c rtifltatP8 are required to be present at one o'clock, precisely, cr they, will not be examined. No person need apply at any other time. Ey order of the Board, . . E. W. THOMAS, Clerk. April 1st, -yly JACOB MAROHN, ailEIilT TAILOR. BliOWNVILLE, ...NEBRASKA Calls the attention of Gentlemen desiring new, nea ervlcalle an 1 fashionable WEARING APPAREL, TO HIS EW STOCK OF GOODS. JUST RECEIVED, broad o'Lcrrns, cassimers, testings.. &c. fc- OF VERY LATEST STYLE Which he will J or make up, to order, at unyre c- dented low prices. Having on nata one or SINGER'S SElvTNG MACHINES, he Is able to do Custom wort t rates that defj coupe titi'in. I warranty work, Hand as well a Machine Work. Those :tinir any thins in bk line will do well to call p ' ioirn bla stock befot investing, as he pledges, nimsilf to hold out peculiarly favorable lu ducemut January 1st 1865 p'd to Oct. 15th. 18u3. CHOICE IIQUOES. Evaii Worthing, OF THE BROWNVILLE, Has Just Received the largest and beet atock ol Liquors and Cigars ever ofiered In this market, and will sell Uiem as low as any House in the Territory. WHITXEY'S DEOCK, Main Street, Brotvnrille FebMClyly. GRANT'S CAEAP CASn STOKE. JIain Street between First a:id Second. BROWNVILLE, N. T. V'E haveln store alarg anl well Felected stock of Boots and Shoes, Finest Quality of Winter Stock, wnicn EE OFFERS FOR SALE CHEAP FOR CASH Groceries of Every Kind, Suar, Co flee, Tea, Allspice, Candles. Matches, Soda, Pepper, Tobacco, Starch, &C..&C, &c. All d which he offers at the lowest prices, deter mined Lot to be uudeikolJ. , GRANT. Brewatil'.e, Neb., lx-39.6tu.7,60 AWniBLlGIG. - One day a party of three of us stray salt' waters took passage on board the United Kingdom, at that time the big ge.t, best, and eTery way finest fitted-out steamer ever sent afloat on the Canadian 2d of Lake Ontario. In o quarter of an hour after the Unit ed began paddling out of the harbor of Kingston we made the discovery that her commander was Captain Joseph Whit ney, a some time salt water shipmate of ours, only two years earlier a Jack-be-fore-the-mast with us in a Mediterrane an voyage, and one of the jclli est, hand somest chaps that ever hauled out a weather-earing. Joe was a Jerseyman, of an oyster and clam fishing family down about Barnegal, all as poor as lapiand rats, and we fell to wondering directly after finding him there in command of the great lake lev iathan, how he got that sudden elimb up in the world ; and about the first ques tion that was put to bim after he had got us snug into his state-room and introduc ed us to his wife, a real clipper. Hack neyed beauty, fair as a rose, and one hun dred and seventy pounds weight if she was an ounceyes, it was natural enough that the first question we should ask the captain was: Joe, what in the name cf Neptune put you into such a berth Us this?1 'Why, Emily here, and a whirligig the latter mostly,' Captain Joe replied promptly, chucking his pretty wife under tho chin and winking .wickedly, I'll tell you how it was, gentlemen 'Now, Joe. my dear, you know' Mrs. Whitney Hushed like a whole parterre of roses, and held up her finger threaten ingly.. Yes, my dear Emily, I know and so I do you But our shipmates here do not; and so I am going to spin 'em the yarn of how I engineered a whirligig and got a wife worth having. The thing isn't patented, you know, an just as likely as not some one of 'em may catch a wife in the same way if they cruise round in the woods out West through the winter.' Madam Emily protested, but Captain Joe promised to steer by the truth, keep on the weather-side of modesty and make a short splice of the affair altogeth er, so finally Eve consented with several extra blushes, and the Captain set his reel agoing. You ree shipmates, Emily's father owns the controlling stock in the Un'ted Kingdom, and travels up and down the lake a good deal on board of her. When I first came on the lake I happened to get a wheelman's berth in the Frontenac that was the General's boat, too and as he used-to go up and down with us about every other trip, almost always had Emi ly along with him. . Now, Mis3 Emily McClure wasn't a mite proud, and she used often to come into the pilot-house and listen to my salt yarns and chat so ciably with me, and before the end of the season we'd fallen five fathoms in love with each other. But then, you see. Geueral McCluer was the richest man in the Gore District, Emily was his only child, and so far to windward of me in every respect, that there was no hope of my ever working up to her latitude, car-.-7 sail as I would. Thunder ! General Mc(7i.,ire would as soon thought of givir.g his daUgiTi?r tt passage uw xnagaia v.. vr . Falls in stonO and iron paddle as to have giveu be & a com Jack tar for a wife. However, the General t(C fancy to me, and when the steamer' laid u'p D Toronto for the winter, proposed to me that I should stay by her under wage all the time, and go in her arain as wheelsman in the' spring; and further mere the General invited me to run out to bis place about six miles from town and make him a visit as often as I pleas ed during the winter. I accepted both propositions, and by the time the old Frontenac had been a month in winter quarters I had made three cruises out to Avondale, the Gen eral's fine country estate, and began to be almost as much at horn 3 there as I was on board the steamer. My fourth cruise, I think it was, was made on Sunday morning, and on my way out I met the General and his wife in a sleighj driving in towards town. He hove to for a minute ot so and hailed me: Bound for Avondale Joe V Aye, aye, sir.' 'Very well away you go. Mrs. Mc Clure and I are going in to church,- and we shall spend toe evening in town ; but you will find Emily at home, and her cousin., Jessie Sutherland, is with her. So, between the pair of them you will not miss us-much. Go ahead, my lad, aud entertain the lasses.' Well, I went ahead, and a little while after my arrival at Avondale, Emily and her cousen Jessie, a most magnificent eighteen year old romp, proposed an en tertainment that I had never heard cf be fore. I was to build a whirligig, and give them a jolly ride oa it, and I did. Out about a quarter of a mile from the mansion was a pond of water, frozen over solid, the ice smooth as glass, with a few stumps sticking" up through it there, and all around the edges a perfect tangle of brambles, briars and dry snags, twist ed and tied a.Bf frozen into the ice in all sorts of shapes. Under the superintendence of the girls, I cut a hole through the ice in about, the middle of the pond, in a spot tolerably clear from stamps, thrust down into the mud a strong stake, so that the upper end was about four feet above the ice. Then I brought a long pole of dry, light wood that had done service before in tnat capacity, and having a three-inch hole bored through it some seven or eight feet from the butt end. Inserting the top of the stake, rounded for '.he purpose, into tjie hole, there was a horizontal sweep with the long arm some thirty feet, acd the short end some seven or eight. While 1 was aehieving this part of the machine, the girls had brought out on the ice a hand-sled, bed-cord and two bushels of so of ashes. The fitfer ma terial was strown on the ice in a circle corresponding to the short end of the sweep, to prevent the .Joe-comtive slip ping the tracki don't you see ? Then to the switch' end of the sweep the hand-sled was attached by the whole length of the cord , and the two bouncing girls mount ing the fifed!, Emily sun& out : 'Get up. Joe !' and Joe get up and went with all his might. I had gone round the ash course, I sup pose about fifteen times, legging it my best licks, while the sled, at the end of the long cord, had all the time been wid ening its orbit, going diagonally swifter than ever arrow cut the air, and there was only a faint Hoish streak of pitti coats whizzing around me, when all at once, as quick as lightning, rip, capsized the sled, and z-z-ling went the ice riders, both feet foremost, shooting off in differ ent directions swifter than ever swallow cleft the air. . As said, the girls shot off feet fore most, and in a second every rag of dimi ty they had on slid back over their heads; the ice was as smooth as anything could be, the plump, round lassies were five times smoother, and they darted in end swifter than greased, high pressure light ning. Jessie run her race out in about three seconds, by going straddle of a stump with a chuck that brought her to sit-up, and there she sat bewildered burely on the bare ice, hugging the old stump and wondering who made her. Emily went clear of everything till she went in among the snarl of briars, snags and brambles, and then ' Now, Joseph, please stop there !' pleaded Mrs. Whitney ; her face as red as a ripe tomato, and hid behind Captain Joe's straw hat. What's that, my deaf, cut adrift right in the richest part of the yarn ? Ncnsense. Well, shipmates, there was a jJancing white streak in through the thicket, followed by a sort of haze of lint, and when I get Emily out of that snarl I hope to be happy it her dress all told wasn't her shoes, a pair of side comps ana string of gold beads. But Jupiter gicry ! wasn't Emily striped ! Red nd white the whoJe length of her. If she'd only had the Hue laid in regularly she would have been a superb American flag, wound round the most artistic staff ever fashioned in this world. I got ray pea-jacket from where I had thrown it off at the' whirligig, and but toning it around Emily, it cpverej her pretty well as far down as the knees, and then she insisted upon my going to Jes sie's assistance, while she scud for the j house through the snow, her bare le gs stripped .and checked, off with blood, made her look somewhat like one of the Seventh-ninth Highlanders in hiv winter Overcoat. I found poor Jessie still sitting flat on the ice, hugging the old stcmp, and the girl was so chilled through and shocked morally and physically, that she could scarcely stand. However. I managed by vigorous chafing of her nether limbs and person, with my hands, to excite a circu lation ; it wys no condition of affairs to admit of pretended modesty and sham delicacy ; and as Jessie Sutherland was far too bulky a cargo for my carrying capacity, the only alternative was to put her in a way to help herself to the house, and my somewhat rough treatment soon did that. . There was only three of us about the place, no doctor nearer than Toronto, no one to send for him ; the general and his wife would not be home till late iit the evening, and there t was, with the two young ladies, to do the best I could, and under the circumstances I think I. did it don't you, Emily V Now, Joseph Whitney, you're a bear!' Ves, I know, my dear ; but not quite so bare as Miss Emily McClure was be fore getting into my pea-jacket, and af ter she came out of it again until I had washed and tinted, and anointed her from end to end, fore and aft, alow and aloft. Upon my word, I dont believe a sergeon ever had so extensive a practice on any one woman in this world. Howe vert none of my patient's hurts were very deep or dangerous, and in an hour or so I had gone over the whole premices, carefully dressing Miss Emily's scratch es, and then as carefully dressing herself doing her up just a3 comfortably a? any four surgeons and ladies' maids in Can ada West could have done the thing, on ly not quite so artistically, perhaps.' Thea I tock Miss Jessie Sutherland in hand, and by the time I had so disposed of her case, that she declared she felt al most as well as she ever did in her life, I began to fancy that I had as correct ideas of superficial anatomy as any surgeon in British America. When General McClure and his wife returned.we frankly told the whole story, and as both of them had for sometime guessed the drift of Emily's and my own inclinations, Mrs. McClure, in her hon est Scotch fashion, suggested to the gen eral something like this r Noo, John, as the lad kens mair aboot the lassie than ony ither mon '11 iver be likely til ken a hint the bridal bed, is it nae bette r to gie ner til him a the grther?' The general, very greatly' to our sat isfaction, agreed entirely with the old la dy, and suggested that I should take his daughter not exactly as I found her af ter4her sudden side into ihe bushes and briars but as she was likely to be that night three weeks. There was no hesi tation on either side, and after the third Sunday Irvti that evening, tnefe' was no Emily McClure at Avondale. But there was a Captain Joe Whitney superintending the steamer United King dom, then building in Toronto; General McClure having decided that a wheels man's berth was not quite a proper avo cation for his son in-law. So you see, gentlemen, a whirf-a-gig whirled me into command of the finest craft along this line of lakes, and into my arms the choicest sample of dimity in the United Kingdom. A Wesferh pettifoger once broke forth in the following indignant strain: "Sir, we'er enough for -the hull of ye. Me and my client can't never be intimidated nor tyranized over; mark that. And, sir, just as sure "asf this Court decides against us we'll file a writ of 'progander, sir, and we " Here he" was interrupted by the opposite counsel who wanted to know what he ment by a writ of prcgand er. Mean? Why, sir, a writ of prcgran der is a a i'ts a a Wal, I don't re member the exact word.but its what will knock thunder out of your one horse court, anvhe'w." Forres, of the Hu.mbolt Regi&ler, Sac Francisco, has no faith in the effort to rai'e the Abuilla by means of a coffer dam. fj? says it reminds him of a cow in Illinois which .to saw swallow a this tle and coffer dam heat? di Take one pound white glue, onC vjuart rain water, three gills alcohol, - four i ounces white lead ; dissolve the glue in rain water ; add the alcohol and dissolve again ; then add the lead ; boil fifteen minutes ; stir ail the time j bottl3 while hot The above Is sold as a recipe fori mending wood, leather, &c, to make them as strong as before broken. A young man, who is the least bit fe minine in his appearance, parting his hair in the middle, etc., recently went to Philadelphia; and while there was taken with a severe fit cf colic. Stopping at a hotel, he put himself to bed and sent for a physician'. The doctor came, felt his patient's ptrlse, examined his stomach, and inquired solemnly if his habha were Tegular,'5 tnf which the young man, somewhat surprised, answered in the at firraative. The doctof thea cautiously and politely informed his patient that his symptoms nrsnifekted some probability of an increase of the census in a short tirse. The surprise of the colic-stricken young man at this singular announcement was only eqaalled by that of the doctor when he discovered the true sex cf thepatieat. A fearful giant in the shape cf a barn yard. fowl has been introduced into Scot land from Central India, called the 'Be gum Gaynsa," a cut of which is given in the August number of the American Ag riculturist. The male is thirty inches high, and appears like the Shanhai, ex cept that on the head a couple of minute horns arise, instead of a comb, from a heavy base which projects some distance along the upper side of the bill. The wattles are also larger and fuller. The chickens of this kind of fowl, it is report ed, grow to the weight of eight pounds at seven acd eight months old limbs of course included. We have no account of the laying properties. Moffat, the daring agent of the Lon don Missionary Society in South Africa, who, for twenty-three years, was expos ed to all the perils of general resident, and travelling supervisor of the society's operations in that wild region, has given iii o 11 v striking and memorable anecdotes of the lion. We quote one, in his own language ; 'The old lion, when in company with his children, as the natives call them, though they are nearly as big as himself, or when numbers together happened to come upon game, the oldest or ablest creeps to the object, while the others crouch on the grass ; if he be successful, which he generally is, he retiree f rem his, victim, and lies down to breathe and rest for perhaps t quarter of an hour ; in the meantime the others draw around and lie down at a respectful distance. When the chief one nas got his rest, he commences at the abdomen and breast, and after making havoc with the tit-bits of the carcase, he will take a second rest, none of the others presuming to move. Having made the second gorge, he retires ; the others watching his mo tions, rush on the remainder, and it is soon devoured. At other times, if a lien seizes the prey, and an old one comes up, the younger retires till the elder has dined. ''The following fact will show tbe fear ful dangers to which solitary travellers afe sometimes exposed. A man who was returning homewards from a visit to his friends, took a circuituous course in order to pass a small fountain, or rather pool, where he hoped to kill an antefope to cary home to his family. The sun had risen to some height by the time he reached the spot, and seeing no game, he laid his gun down on a shelving low rock, the back part of which was covered over with a species of thorn bushes. Being a httte tired, he fell ftsJeep. In a short time, the heal reflected from the rock awoke him, and, opening his eyes, he saw a large lion crouching before him, with its eyes glaring in his face, and within a little more than a yard of his feet. He sat motionless for some min utes, till he recotered his presence of mind, then eyeing his gun, moved his hand slowly towards i: ; the lion, seeing him, raised his head and gave a tremend ous roar ; he made another, and another attempt, but tha gun being far beyond his reach he gave it tip, as the lion seem ed weli aware ot his object, and was en raged whenever he attempted to more h? hind. His situation now became painful in the extreme ; the reek on which he sat became so hot that he could scarce- ly bear his caked feet to touch it, and kept moving them, alternately placing one above the o'her. "The day pasted, and the night also, but the lion never moved from the spot ; tii sun rose again, and its intense heat soon rdered his feet past feeling. At noon, the liou rose and walked to the water, only a few yards distant, looking behind as it went, lest the man should move, and seeing him stretch out Lis hand to take his gun. tamed m a rage. He vvithd rew his hand, ?tnd the animal then went to the water, drank, and re turning, lay down agait at the edge of the rock. Another night passed. t "Next day in the forenoon, the ani mal went ngain to the water, and while there he listened to s'enie noise, appar ently frcm an opposite quarter," and dis appeared in the. Lushes. The man nov made another effort and seized his gua; but, on attempting to rise, he fell, hi ankles heicg without power. With his gun ia hi3 hand, he' crept towards tho water and drank ; bat looking athisfeet, he saw, as he expressed it, his 'toes: toasted,' and th? skin torn eff with tha grass. There he sat a few moments, expecting the lion's return, when he re solved to send the contense cfthe gua through its head ; but as it did cot appear, tying hfs gun to hi3 back, the poor maa made the best cf his way,- on hi3 hand and knees, to the nearest pith,- hoping some solitary individual might pass. Providectally a persoa came up, who lock him to a place ef safety, from whence La obtained help, though be lost his lets and wa3 a Cripple for life-" ' A school teacher who Las b5ea engag ed for a long time ia hia profession aaJ wittessed the influence of a newspaper on the uiinds cf a family of chilren, write as follows? I have fouLd! it to be the universal fact without exception,' that those scholars cf both sexes and of all ages, who have ac cess to newspapers at home, . whea com pared to those who have not; are; ' 1. Better readers, excellent ia pro nunciation, and consequently read ' mere" underr.tandingly. , . ' 2. They are better spellers and define" words with ease and accuracy. : 3. They obtain practical knowledge cf geography ia almost half tha time it re quires others, as the ne wspaper has mad them acquainted with the location of tie important places, cations, their govern ments and doiogs on the globe. 4. They are better grammarians; for having become so familiar wita ,evejy variety of style ia the-' newspaper;! frcra common-place advertisement to the fin ished and classical oration of the states- Lraan: they more readily compf sLecd the' meaning of the text, and consequent analyze its conatrtreticra with accuracy.. 5. They write better compositcas, u.'ing better IatiiageY containing "mora thoughts, more clearly and nore coa nectedly expressed. 6. Those young ' men who have f cr years beerr readers of the newspaper are always taking the lead in the debat ing societies, exhibiting a more extensive" knowledge upon a greater variety of suo jects, aud expressing their views withf greater fluency-, clearness rind correct ness in the use of language. ' : ': A well-knowa lawyer cf thischy b$ ing sent for to counsel some ce'tr accus ed of horse-stealiog and then Iyic ift jail, was also sect for by an Irrabnaxx who occupied another cell of ibti iiizS' boilding. Well, Pat,' asked the lawyer waat da you want with me V Yer hocor,' refuroea Pat, I jest heard that there was fit lawy'ef in jail, and surcf I wanted td see bita' ; 7 , Well, what do you want with rue?! . An' what should I want wid you but to gt me oat of this? , r Well, what are feu here for ?' ,t 'Jist for burglary I believe they call it. Acd what is the testimony agaiast you ?' - : . : Och ! niter a bit at all. Only I touli the justic cf the peace meself that I ddi it.' ' Well, if you have confessed it, I dca't see but wnst yoa'll have to stay here.' An' is it that you say ? Sure, xiowi and in the country I came frcra niver i bit would thty kape a body in jail ca such a thriving ividencs as that V At the battle of Fair Oaks, the regi meet led by the lamented Kearneyi cad? a gallant and euccessful change Cca f vastly superion force of rebels. In relat ing the affdr one of the soldiers renait ed: - Ye ought la fcave seen the devil Keax. ney wid" his sword ia one hand and lL$ reins stuffed into his mouth, sweariaaa3 chaarin lvery sicond.' The question was asked how La cheer with reins in hh mouth. - Ye dirthy spalpeen, what d'ye-.kao about war ? Didn't ho spit era, oat ivery time he swore at the rilils, aad lapped 'em in again ivery time he tould us ta give it to the bloody saysish !' ' ' ,i . - -t A ship is not so long a rigging as a young girl is in trimming herself tiSzz the airivalcf a sweetheart. jal.iM shop, no flower cipaduw, "gracenl aspect in the storehouse of nature, is fjomparable to a young damsel wLd is dressing fcr a husband.