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Wits A Family Newspaper Devoted to Democracy, Literaturo, Agriculture, Mechanics, Education, Amusomcnts and Qonoral IntolllKonco. NO if). VOL. 1. BELLEVUE, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOIlKlt 15. 1857, FOSLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT IIELLCVIC (ITY, X. T. BY S. A. STRICKLAND & CO. Terms of Subscription. Two Dollars per Annum, if p.iid In advance, or $2 50 If not pil within to year, ' . . i i . ' to n.um t Thres copies to one address, iu advance 15 00 Seven do do do 10 fM Fifteen do do do 20 00 , A club of seven subscribers, at $10, will untitle tht poison making it up to a ropy for six months ; a club of firieen, at $20, to a copy for one year. When a clufi of subsrribors lilt been forwarded, additions may be made to it. on the name terms RATES Oi' ADVERTISING. 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' ' . :i 1 ).) i . l 1 id n'il. fr.' - ' v " .0 c ul at o T miice 1 1 ' T. v Lt s, f... Vl'ore ;kj r : v i !. ) fi.' ii ijwk'i near jiH .; : ' .'if ..1 ill Mm s-.'reeit. L. L. Bowcn. . ttokvk.y a.:i cob'.'ii:Moa at i. LAW, Hellevue, N. T. 1-tf S. A. Strickland, ATTORNEY" AND COUN'SELLOIt AT I. A W, Hellevue, N. T. "1-tf C. T. Ilolloway, ATTORNF.Y AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, Uelltvne, N. 'r. 1-tf , w. n. coo. GENERAL LAND AND JIKAL F.STATR AtiKNT, Iti-llevuefity, Nebraska. 1-tf B. P. Rankin, ATTORNKY ND COUNSNLL0R AT LAW. La PI tttt, NV 1-tf , 8. W. Cozzens, ATTORNF.Y AT LAW and General Land AGENT, Oiniha city, N. T. Office in Henry k. Root's new lirick Block, Farnhsm atrect. no lfi-fim. John W. Fattison. ATOTARY PFHLIC AND UF.AL ESTATE 1 AGF.NT, Fontenellf, NT. 1-tf James 6. Izard & Co. J- AND AGENTS, Omaha, Douglas County, U Nebraska Territory. t 1-tf Drs. Malcomb & Pock. OMAHA CITY. Offi-e on Harney street, opposite the Post Office. Particular at ittntion given to .jiirgerv. 1-tf P. E. Shannon. "IOEAL ESTATE AGENCY, Cerro Gordo - JX Post Office, St. Mary. Mills Co., Iowa. 2 " PTETShannon, VOMMISSION t FORWARDING MER CHANT, St. Mary's Landing Mills Co., Jowa. 2-tf Peter A. Sarpy, J FORWARDING 4. COMMISSION MER ? CHANT, Bellevue, N. T., Wholesale Dealer in. Indian Goods, Horses, Mules, and attl.. ' 'tf D. J, Sullivan. II. D.. PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Office Head of Broadway, Council Dlufls, Iowa, nov. 13 1-tf. T. . CCMINO. JOHN C. Tl'SK. - Cuming it Turk. Attorneys at Law and Real Estate .Igeiiis. OMAHA CITY, N. T., WILL attend faithfully and promptly to all business entrusted to them, in the Territorial or Iowa courts, to the purchase of lots and lands, entries and pre-emptions, col lections, fcc. Office in the second story of Henry & Roott ;new b.iildin?, nearly opposite the Western Ex-'hanjie Bank, Faruhitin street. Papers in the Territnrv f"le, and Keok'ik Time please copy and thtrpt Kehriskian ofiioe. Job Printing. "VTEATLY and epe'!tiousW exeeuiej, on ll reasonabls terms, at this Ottre. IIIHIM'.SS (Mil US. D. II. Solomon, ATTORNEY and COUNSELLOR AT LAW, Glenwood, Mills Co., Iowa, prac tices in all the Courts of western Iowa ami Nebraska, and the Suprome Court of Iowa. Land Aerncy not in the Programme, no 4-tf t. T. HOLLOW Y. C. P. K F.I.I. I S Ilolloway & Keller, G'lENEHAL LAND AGENTS, Bellevue f city, N. T., will promptly atti-nd to the collecti'im and investinsj money, lopiitini? Land Warrants, buvinff and sollini: city lots, 4tc. Ollice at the Ili'llrvue House. Oustav Sccger, rtlOPOGnAPHIC AND CIVIL ENG1 X NEi'.Il. I'.xpcutes Drawing nnd Paiiilini; of everv slvli? and ilcsci itilion. Also, H II business in Ins IIiip. OlhVe on Gregory Blict, I St. Mary. Mills county, Iowa. l-tt Greene, Wcare Si Benton, RANKER- AND LAW AGENTS, Council UIiiiIh. Polnw.ittanii"' roimty, Iowa. I (ircene &. Weiire. Ccd.u- lUpuls. lu.va. Greene, Weaie it Hire, Fort Dps Moines, la. Collections made; Taxes paid and Lands j purchased and sold, in any part of lowa.l-tf "W. "W. Harvey, j ClOl'NTY SURVEY OR OF SAUPY CO.. ! ' will attend to all hunim-as of Surveying, layinc out and dividing lands, surveying and platting towns nnd roads. OlHco on Main I street, Belief, N. T. 2!'-tf. GEO. SNYPER. JOIIX II. SHERMAN. Snyder & Sherman, j A TTORNEYS and COUNSELLORS AT i. LAW, and NOTARIES PUBLIC. Conn ell BlufTs, Iowa, will practice their profession in all the Courts of Iowa and Nebraska. All collections entrusted to their care, at tended to promptly. Especial attention given to buying and jll in? real estate, and making pre-emptions in Nebraska. Deeds, Mortages, and other Instrument of ( writing drawn with dispatch acknowledg ments '.Ai'ii, &c, &.r." Ollice weit side of Madison slreqt, just above Broadway, nov n m l-tf WM. n. SMITH. J. H. SMITH Smith fc Brother, ATTORNEYS & COUNSELLORS at LAW and Dnlers in Heal Eslat, Rellevue. Nebraska Territory, will attend faithfully arid promptly to buying and selling Real Estate, CiivLot Claims, and Land Warrants. Office at ilin Henlon House. 21-iiii j. n n6iv. 1TTCRXEY AM) CO t ML LOR AT LAM GENERAL LATD A SENT, AND NOTARY PUBLIC, ' riithmoutfi, Cass Co. X. T. ATTENDS to business in any of the Courts of this Territory. Particular attention paid to obtaining and locating Land Warrants, col lepiion -of debts, ane taxes paid. Ltters of inquiry relative fo any parts of the. Territory answered, ii accompanied with a fee. REFERENCES : Hon. Lyman Trumbull, U. S. S. from Ills.; Hon. Jaines Knox, M. C. " " Hon. O. H. Browning, Quincy, " Hon. James W. Grimes. Governor of Iowa. Hon. H. P. Bennett. Del to C. Irnm . T. Green, Wear &' lleirton, Council Bluffs. I. Nuckolls & Co., Gbviwood, Iowa. 23tf. Ira A. W. Buck, 1 I- AND and General Agent-. Pre-Fmption U Papers prepared, Land Warrant bought and sold. Office in th Old State House, over the U. S. Land Office. REFER TO Hon. A. R. Gillmore, Receiver, Omaha. Hon. Enos Lowe, Hon. S. A. Strickland, Ctllevue. Hon. John Finney, " . . , Hon. J. Sterling' Morton, Nebraska City1. Omaha, June 20, 1S.7T. 3.1 II. T. CI.ASKE. A. 11. CX.A 11K . CLARKE & BRO. FORWARDING; and commission MERCHANTS, STEMBOAT AND COLLECTING A C K T S BELLEVUE, NEBRASKA. Dealers in P:no Lumber, Boors, Sash, Flour. Heal, Bacon, &c, &c. . CV Direct Goods care Clarke & Ilro. l-tf roTEX elle" n a k of belle : v i c. Ilelleviie, Nebraska. IS prepared to transact the general business 1 of Banking, will rcctivt deposits, Discount , short paper, buy Bills of Exchange, mi all: parts of tht Country, and tell ou St. Louis, Chicago and New York) make collections in 1 th i-iinit tr a nrl r.mil tr lk.,m. I ' . ......j .vt , ..... ,U UIV wciiic mi vullcill rates of Exchange. 3? Interest allowed on special Deposits. JOHN WEARE, President. Thos. H. Benton, V. Pres. Johm J. Towm. Cashier. 1-tf Banking Hours From 0 to 12, A. M,, and 1 to 3, 1. M. W. n. Longsdorf, M. D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office on Main, between Twenty-Fifth and Twenty Sixth streets, Bellevue City. 33tf THOS. MACOM. A IO. MACON. Macon & Brother. A TTORNEYS AT LAW. LAND ACTS., I. Omaha City, Nebraska. Office on enr-1 iter of Farnham and Fourteenth Streets. 42tf 50 Sick G. sold, by Salt in Store and must be CLARKE II BRO. n3ltf. OOTS and SHOES Twenty cases ill Boots and Shoes, all sites, at the rrn r.vri: sTor.n. P. A. SAHPY, FORWARDING & COMMISSION MERCHANT, Still continues the above business st ST. MARYS, IOWA, & BELLEVUE, N. T. Merchants and Emigrants will find their goods promptly and carefully attended to. P. S. I have the only WAREHOUSE for storage at the above named landings. St. Marys, Feb. 20th, 1"7. ?t-tf-l Tootlo & Greene, . WHOLESALE 4. RETAIL DEALERS, Gleuwood, Iowa. We beg leave to call the attention of the Good People of Mills, Pottawattamie, Montgomery and Cuss coun ties, Iowa ( also, Douglas and Cass counties, Nebraska, to our Ion? n ml late supply of every kind of MERCHANDISE, usually kept in Western Iowa. Our stock of Groceries Is large ami complete, having been bought and shipped a little lower than our neighbors. Our stock of Hardware, Qucmswarc, . Wood enware. Roots nnd Shoes, Hats and Caps anil Ready-Made Clothing, have all been purchased in the Eastern cities, at the lowest cash prices. Give us a call before you purchase, and if wc do not sell you cheap goods, we will make our neighbor do so. Remember the cheapest lions Intowi . TOOTLE Jt GREENE. Glenwood, Iowa, Oct. 23, l5ti. 1-tf Tootlo & Jackson, I FORWARDING & COMMISSION MER . CHANTS, Council Bluff t city, Iowa. Having a Large and Commodious Warehouse on the Levee at the Council Bluff's landing, are now prepared to receive and store, all kinds of merchandise and produce, will receive and pay charges on all kinds of freigths so that Steam Boats will not be detained as they have been heretofore, in gptling some one to receive freight, when the consignees are absent. Ri rr.SKNCKS : Livermoore k. Cooley, S. C. Daviu ic Co. and Humphrey, Putt "c Tory, St. Louis, Mo.; Tootle &. Fafrlelgh, St. Joseph, Mo, J. 8. Chenewortli ti Co., Cincinnati Ohio; W, F. Coiilliongh, Burlington, Iowa. 1-lf rSAVK I.. KL.MP. WILLIAM CIWDSHAX. GUN AND JEWELRY STORE. KEMP & FRODSHAM, DEALERS in Clocks, Watches, Jewelry, Musical Instruments, Rifle), Shot Gun's, and Pistols. CLOCKS. Thirty hour and eight day clocks of the two best manufactories in the Union; steamboat and ollice spring clocks. GU.VI. Sinple and Hnnhju shot (Jnns, from five to fifty dollars 1 Riilen, of our own make; also. Eastern cake; Pistols of all kinds; pistol flasks, shot bags, waddini; and wad cutters; common and watcr-prol' caps; colt's caps, and numerous other articles suitable for the Western trade, which neither time nor space will allow to enumerate. V All of the above articles sold on the most reasonable, terms. . .Repairing docs to order at short Mticr. no U-tf Omaha Citt. N.T J NEW GOODS! NEW STORE H 'IHE lunlersignnd have opened, M thcirnew J. store on Douglas street, opposite the hnnk, a new and splendid assortment of . DRY GOODS, , CLOTH I VG, BOOTS and SHOES. BOOKS, $TATiONCRY,&c. Our stock of Dry Goods comprises all kinds of LADIES', GENTLEMEN'S and CHILD REN'S DRESS GOODS, ALL KINDS OP DOMESTICS ml everything that is requisite to make up a complete assortment of Dry Goods. siraiiJifa. :: :.. We have a large lot of Clothing that is wel and fashionably made, and out of tht best material. Our stock consists of all kinds of Gents' Furnishing. Goods. BOOTS and SHOES. Our stock of Boots and fiiioe i.i the largest ever offered to the citizens of Nebraska. They are purchased directly from the' manufac turers, and are of the very besf quality. Onr roods are all r.cw, add .recently pur chased in the Eastern cities, and we intend sellii.i them at astonishing lov prices. 'All the ci'izens of Omaha ami vic:Diiv are re quested to call and examine our stock, as they will find it to their interest to do so. ' fcvjf We atiuly o plea. no. 10-tf PATRICK it CO. BELLEVUE HOUSE. THE PROPRIETOR OF THE ABOVE LARGE AND POPULAR H O T EL, offers every To the Public, and will render ASSIDl Ot S ATTr..TIO To the vault of IIIS GUESTS. 3. T, ALLEN. Bellevue, Oct. 21, I.Vt. 1-tf f I1F.A, TE , TEA A tip-top article of L Young Hyson, at ri.S es. per pound, at 'be ni l I.K I F vrofiK. POET It Y. Youth Ik iio. I walked once more In the meadows, Where my feet In chflhood strayed ; I sit agnln in the shadows, Where my youth's companions played; The trees ill accustomed places, Like familiar forms appear, Hut the once familiar fares Ar not here they are not here, The brook glides through the grasses, Where It ran long years before, ' And the song it sines as It passes, i 1 Is the song it murmured of yore ; From lha willow that is nearest, Sings a well remembered bird ; But the voices that arc dourest, Are not heard they are not heard. The inspiring mom it glowing, With the light of early days, And htr robes beauty arc flowing, Along all her flowery ways ; But nlasl for nil the swct es,' All the beamy of the dawn I For, with morethati fairy llflnees( Youth is gone ah, youth is gonsl MISCELLANEOUS. Climbing Vesuvius at Mulil. lie who cJiinlm Vesuvius nt night, f-tum-blinjr over thrt heaps of finder, bruising his bhins, and scarring his hands nnin.st the ragged edges, would demand suae higher compensation thun to oul on the dark side of a crator-cone. llo will rarely find it, however, unless ho wait till dnwii, or the night1 bo bright nnd start y. We did. Scarcely had we eel down to rest at the fool of the small cone, when we observed a great excitement umongit our guide, who, by violent gesticulation and vociferation, iii'licnted that they observed sometliinj iniiiMial in the aspect of the mountain, nnd vehemently urgud a rapid dc'.-ceni. The very idea, however, of bo-holding- even a partial eruption, ut ueh a time nnd place, fixed us to the (pot. 'Twos a fit lvght for such a 6cene. Tho air was heavy and tudphurous; the sky d;uli uud niurliy, not a blar hhone forth in if, nnd the moonlight fell with a faint twilight gleam on t!i ! waters of the bay. There were soon bigns and portents of a move ment within. 1 leavings and loud rum bling were lieurd, as though a thunder cloud wen) pent in the boem of the mouij lain. The lava stream grew live and tur bid. The little wreaths, which hang over round the edges of the crater, irrew nnd gathered iulo one huge mass, winch roared und toased as it rote uud rolled swiftly on, like the breathings ot a spirit of 1 v j 1 , spreading darkness and gloom i round. v iery BWurdj ef (lame Unshed tliroiijjh and through the emolu cloud, htrenkin but not lighting it; and thesu again were boon nb- orbed in ou largo lire, which riifhed. strong and lierce from the crater's mouth, raging 111 wild bursts and wrathful gusts, coursing after tho smoke, ami muking the heavens lurid with that strange, fearful glare which the soul associates with fire und doom. The roar within deepened, and the fire grew fiercer every :ioment, the smoke blacker and thicker, and then there was n bound as of a mighty wind, the sweeping of a tornado, and fonh from the muuiiluiii's depths ihere surged floods of flame and storms of fiery balls, which shot meieoMiku into the air, and then felt and rolled around us with all the force of red-hot bhot. Lver and anon there woulJ be a lull, a smouldering; and then again the volcano would send up its eruptions of Mm and smoke and allies. Amid the grand and terrible features of the stone was one which had much of beauty in its effect. Ever a? the mountain worked, the Inva-streuin swelled and glowed, rushing from its outlet, and running in burning rills down the mountain side. It has often been described us snake-hke, JS'o, word images it so truly. Its glowing color have the win brilliant beauty which at tracts und repels, its motion is s-o gliding, and yrl so swift; and ihero is a serjwiiii fascination in il, too, which rivets the gaze, though the eyeballs grow hot, and the brain burns from contact with the molten hues, UtacktrooJ. Post Orrics Amcuote. The N'-w-buryport Herald tells the following Tost Office anecdote: A rap at the delivery. , Postmaster "Well, iny lad, what will you huvet" IJoy "Here's a letter, the wants it to go along as fast as it can, cause there's a feller wants 10 lave hr here, and she's courted by another feller what ain't here; and she wauts to know whether he is go ing to have her or not." I laving delivered his message with great emphasis, tho boy departed, leaving ihe postmaster o Convulsed w ith laughter thai he n"''!d tii.vl.i: uj ir p'y. . , Tur Ixmans. Thrt lownsj, who have recently been on n lisit to the Oloes, have relumed, The Oloes presented theui with Nome sixty horse nnd other gifis. The Southern Sues are now on 11 visit to the lowns, to hnve 11 grand prwv-wow nnd smoke. In all probability, the Iowa will present them wall all the horses they re ceived from the Otoes. When the Sacs return home, they will no doubt be visited by some other tribe who will get the hor ses from them perhaps the ( hoes, who will gel (heir horses bur',-. Such ate the ways of lilt) Indians. The powwow and smoke between thu Sacs ui.d lowas, is to continue several days. There have been nn unitsiinl number of Indians in tmvri, for a few days past, We liolirq (hat their "heads aro right" on the wutei-iiiellon ipieitiiui they know what to do with them. We udmire their way of eating the vegetable, as it is both natu ral and dainty. They just tdum one down on the ground, where hogs, h rse und cattle have I n before ilu ui. They then gather on lb.- iii i ' .;. the d ri ell t I 11 l., 11 u.iw , ,t . ... , i .0' , I. l.iiO a hole under ilii ir mi', uud it is "all any more." Kiiusns Vl.irf. Kmigi'utloit .11 (i 111 enl In ltlci ico. The JC. Y. ''iiMi.t learns of a movement of the Mexican (iovcrnuicnt to promolo emigration to that country, which may hereafter bo attended with impoilunt ro suits both to that section and to our own. A grant has been Hindu for the establish ment of u line of vteuiners between .New Ui Ivans nud Vera Cruz, with compensa tion fur carrying the mails, and witli an eijuivolent for the passuge money of emi grants in an allowance of duties upon ear- goes of goods that may bo imported. The Mexican Govcrmuunt offers to each emi grant a free passage in these steamers, with twenty five acres of luud and a lot in what is designed tu be a central villngd of each colony that may be thus established. The emigrant is allowed throe yeurs to re fund the pussage money; if it is not paid ut the end of thut time, the emigrant en gages to pay live per cent annual interest upon it, and the government lakes a mort gage upon the land which he has received, . Iho oiler is open to emigrants of all classes; but those who are expected lo avail themselves of it most largely uro iho bet' tor classes otfrte blink and mulattoes in the southern states. liy going to Mexico, they can still haw the udvuutuges of the Mue climate as that to which they have been ticcusloijied, while they will1 escape from the bevrre and uncomfortable mir vrithtnee to which tle existence of slavery at homo utj6cUi them, . . The south has for a long lime been very desirous of finding some way of disposing of the free blacks in that sertiort, who are snl l to be very little use' at home, while they are taipposcd to oiler a constant in citement to discontentment among the slaves. It is not impossible that a coloni zation of the kind proposed, if eainesily and permanently favored by the Mextca-i government, may be of essential service to the south in connection with this question. fso rsr. ron Tnowsr.H. On the morn ing of the meteoric shower in 18.TJ,'old Peyton Roberts, who intended to make an early start to his work, got up in the midst of the display. Ongoing to the door, he, saw with amazement, tlu sky lighted up with the falling me'eors, 'und he con cluded at once thai the wdrld was on fire, and thnt the day of judgment had come. He stood a moment guziug in tpeechle.'s terror at the bcene, and then with a yell of lmrror cpraiig out of the d tor into the Vi.ril rorlil li.tn thn iriliTI tT t in fnlfv stars! and lher in his t Hons 10 dogde j them he commenced a series of ground ; tumWiu,'. that would i.ave doiw honor to , a ropu duncer. His wife a wai.. ,,ed in the ' meaiitiuit', and sevm " old Peyton jump-' comioiiered the pile, and guessing the e ie yard, railed out to cra l ,h? '"ty" ""ordinary expansion. and skipping1 about the htm to know what in tne name, of sense 1 he was a doin' tlmr a dancm' without his I clothes. JJut Peyton heard not -the judg ment and back uccount he would have to settle, made him heedless of all terres trial things, and his w ife by this lime be coming alarmed at his behavior, sprang out of bed, and running to the door, shriek d at the top of her lungs ! Peyton, I say Peyton, what do you mean jumpin' about ont tharf Coine i:i' and put your urowsera on.' J Trowsers. Peggy, wUt the devil the j use of trowaers when the world's on lire. ' ! , . Tat was hungry, and got out of the car for refreshment. The cars very thought- j Iesly went on without . hi.n. IV.' ire was j up. "Ye spalpeen! he suited on a run, j and shaking his fit as he flew after the train, "s'op there, ye old statue waggin; ! ye murtherin' stame ingine you've trot a j passenger on board that's left behind!" - ; j had polished his led-mate's boots instead The. tobacco-chewer is said to bo like n of his own, he called it an aggravated in 2 .' e in u IM'.-Voeii -:lway on a pit '-t in-? cf "hbottng under a iMv.c,.w Siimk Don. A gentleman left Holyoke 011 Friday nfternonn for this city, in a bug gy, taking a favorite dog with him. As they progressed toward Willianiselt, the geullemau nmuved himself by plaguing the dog, till he had got the animal in n complete worry. Presently the gentle man' hat blew off, und he went buck af ter it, leaving his lioiso nnd buggy stand ing in the mud; then (he dog took advan tage of his master's absence to jump into the buggy and start the animal, who mu ted guily toward ihe river, followed by the gentleman, yelling "whoa" to no purpose. His faithful dog now look u position upon the sent, where ho could keep an cyo on the master and another on the steed, to see fair pluy in the race. They approach ed the Connecticut river, into which iho waggish brute drove, and, keeping his seat, floated out behind the horso, who swam, after getting beyond his depth. They were seen, at this juncture, by per sons on the south shore, who put off in a boat nnd got them safely to Innd- the dojf in hiith glee nt his successful experiment in driving and then went buck after their owner, who will no doubt lenvo that dog behind the next time he goes to ride. The best of this story Is its truths Spi ingicW (.1ifiJi.) Republican. A Maw or BcsiNr. In ono of the western counties of New Yolk, is a man by the name of Zndock Pratt, one of the bono and siuow, nn intelligent mechanic and farmer, who ha contribu ted greatly to tho general prosperity, as well as to his individual wealth. In a speech at an Agricultural Fair, in Greeno county, New York, ho said thot since ho had been engaged in farming, ho had cm ployed over fifteen thousand years of oth er men s labor; had employed over thirty thousand men, and paid them for their la bor over two millions five hundred thou sand dollars. Ho had cleared over tea thousand acres of land, and used over two hundred thousand cords of hemlock Lark, and paid over half a milliun of dollars for it. He had used and worn out five hun dred horse nnd 0110 thousand yoke of ox en, used two hundred thousand Luuhels of oats, one hundred and twenty thousand tons of hay, thirty thousand barrels of beef and pork, nearly one hundred thousand barrels of flour, and potatoes without num ber or measure. He had lannedover ono million two hundred and fifty thousand sides of leather; his usual disbursement is over five thousand dollars per duy, and ho has used iu his business, over ten millions. He has never had a side of leather stolen, and Wns never sued on account of his bus iti"si transactions. We should nay thai Zadoi k wtisa valuable member of society. Moreover, this shows tho advantage of di versifying lubo", and bringing die man who consumes by the side of him who produce. Rirhmnnt Dinpufrh. A Fireman on (be New York Central Rail road nskeil ih superintendent for a pass, which ho declined to give, saying "Tho company employ you and pay you so inch for your berviees, nnd there our trade enda. If you were at work for a farmer for a dollar u day, and wanted to go to Saratoga, would you expect him to hitch tip his team and lake ymi there for nothing." The fireman answered "No, sir; but if ho bad his team hitched up. and was going directly to Saratoga, I should think he was a d d hog if he didn't let me ride." The JJostou Post has a story of a face tious rail-road conductor: "A lady who had a boy with her considerafy above the non-paying age, attempted the rather diffi cult exploit, (in the unii-crmuliue period,) Chiding her precious son underpins. L "Lle .J'Jiin' ,v" aw ",ore ., u,l lari ,1" coul(1 arcou"1 tor W nV ordinary the- crV "r I''' nlrgement, carefully re- procceawi wunout aymg u worn. 0 coi- ,ect Ia:r t.ar.0,1.e finger na a cair ana gavp trie way ntr cnange, wnicn, witnotit looking it over, she put it in her pocket. lly and-by, observing that tlte hoy was Aid kept in "durance vile,' uncle John humanely whispered in her ear You may as well let hint out you're paid for both. ' ' ' J , Wiuom orTowx Ladies. "Pa.whv don't you buy a hen, to we cart have all die egs we want?" . "My dear, one hen would not lay all the esrgs we want." "Why, ye it would, Pa; we only use a dozen eggs a day, and a good hen would certainly lay that many." . The ir;uler' devil says this young lady U a bister lhe one who lhoi ht miik w pumped out of cows, and the tail was the pump-handle. . . When Jack Jones discovered that he 4