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THE COLORADO CITIZEN.
OUR COUNTY, OUR STATE, THE SOUTH, AND THE UNION.
Volume hi.
columbus, texas, saturday, august 11, 1860.
number 46.
ADVERTISEMENTS.
*. ai*en,. ®. hitchcock
ALLEN & CO.,
|Carlt>l€i2>ealers>
GALVESTON, TEXAS.
The Undersigned? importers of Italian
Marble" direct from Italy, krep constantly
•ahand the largest assortment of all kinds of
i'" .Marble, Monuments, Tonib« and Tomb-Stones
executed in tte highest styles and on the most
reasonable terms. Work and style guaranteed.
A ALLGH 4k Co.
Galveston, March 1,1859. gy
SHACKELFORD, GAY 4 Co.,
.COTTON FACTORS
..avd..
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
Strand, ClalVMtM, Texas.
J. SaACMiwno, j GaIrnton.
b.a.b ™, $ j. f, <jat,Goom1m.
35 j J. L. Gat, Fayette Co.
" O. X es«mg'fl
ihato& sas0gh,
COLUMBUS, TEXAS,
shaviHg,
shampooing,
hair-dressing
DONB in the most applied styles of the
day. tW Copping done, and corns ex-
tractad when requested.
wSjjam t. austin,
CAlvestoM, Texas,
COTTON FACTOR, RECEIVING,
Forwardlns
and commission merchant,
Makes cash advances npon all consignments
to hia address, either for sale in this mar-
ket, or for re-shipment to other ports.
Galveston, August 23, 1856. v2nStf.
c. C ASSEL, Ageht,
MARKET STREET, GALVESTON.
fTTHEELER & WILSON'S SEWING
VV Machines are now admitted to be .supe-
rior to ail others. As evidence of this fact, they
took the First Premium in the Fall of 1858 at
«very State Fair in the United States, without
on a exceftion, Wherever they contended, over
Singer's, Grover fc Raker's, vh: in the States
•f New York, Pennsylvania, Virgin , Michi-
gan, Wisconsin, Illinois, New Jersey, Maryland,
Missouri, Kentucky, Mississippi, Indiana, Cah-
foraia and Tenhessee. ...
The Boasting " oid-tiipe shuttle" machine of
Singer ft Co. contended at most of the above
Fairs, and were «gnally MÍ Wiy beaJe?J*
■every instance. Although Wheeler and Wil-
son's Machines come out some four years after
Singer & Go's, yet so steadily and rapidly they
superceded Singer & Ca's, and all others; that
their sales for the last twelve months have been
more than 20,000, being double that of Singer
and Co's, and more than Singer's, Grover and
Bqjrer's combined.
C. CASSEL, AaiJit,
For the sala of these Machines in Galveston,
Tesas, wheere they can be had at wholesale and
retail for cash or approved city acceptance, on
as good terms as they can be procured in New
Orfsans or the' North. Machines repaired end
-put in running order at the shortest notice. Silk
knd thread, all colors, suited for the Machines,
extra make. Sewing of every kind done at
short noticeandat the very lowest rates. 23
Something New
UNDER THE SUN!
■ÍI7IL90N AND BROTHERS' Premium
W Horse Power, the best now in nse, first,
for its durability, being made entirely of cast
iron; second, its portability, standing as it does
npon its own ground, and may be taken down or
pot up in a few minntes by any one, so simple is
it in its structure—the whole weighing about
2100 pounds.
The running of this Power shows an increase
of speed over the/)there now in ure of from 33
to 50 per cent., requiring about half the team to
move it that is ordinarily u&«d.
Numerous certificates could be given, but we
prefer the Power to speak for itself. I have had
one at work on my place near Colbmbus for
some time. It has been carefully examined by
several of our practical citizens, the unanimous
opinion at Whom is that it is a complete success.
As a proof of their confidence in it, several have
left their orders for it. My own opinion is that
it is not only the best in the world, but the most
economical, as it dispenses with all the heavy
girders, king-posts, etc., in building. Price-
complete, rea^y for ose, delivered in Galveston,
$180 TTione wishing to purchase, or to get in-
formation in regard to it, will address me at this
piace, or Preston Perry, or T. H. McMahan and
Gilbert, at Galveston. Their orders will be
promptly filled, or their inquiries satisfactorily
aMWfffcd, at either place
E P WHITFIELD
Columbus, June 20, 1860 39 dhkl
Beef Market*
HENRY M. JOHNSON would respectfully
anaounee to the citizens of Columbus and
vieiaity that he will open a Market-house for the
•ale of Reef, next week, between Messrs.
Keller A Mctz and Thulemeicr's stores. Beef
will he sold at four and five cents per pound,
warranted palatable. He hopes, by strict atten.
tion to business, to merit a liberal skare of pfb-
)ie patronage. 38
COLORADO COUNCIL
..or..
Bay ml aad Select IV altera
MEETS nt the Lodge Room of Caledonia
Lodge on the second Saturday of February,
May, August and November. Called meeting
whenever necessary.
T. W. HARRIS, Th.111. Master;
J. M CÜMMIN3, Dep't 111. Master;
W. J. HARDEN, P. C. of Work.
LT M. Nawson, Recorder. -8
ADVERTISEMENTS.
FEMALE JSEMlIfABI.
THIS iostituttion has been plac
ed under the entire control of
Prof. Rilkt and Rev. J. J. Looms'
as principals, and a thorough course has been
adopted, in order that advantages may be pre-
sented both for moral and mental culture, sec.
ond to none in the State.
FACULTY.
P. RILEY, A. M.,
Prof, of Ancient Languages and Nat Science;
Rer. 3. Í. LOOMIS,
Professor of Mathematics, Moral Science
and Belles Lettrcs; , ,
Miss flABT HAÍWELL,
Teacher of Vocal and Instrumental Music;'
Teacher of Ornamental Branches;
TERMS PER MONTH.
Primary Department. $2 00
Propara tot y (first and second terms).... 3 00
.. (third and fourth terms).... 4 00
Collegiate Department 6 00
Musical Dep., wifh use of instrument.. 6 00
Incidental fee, per seseion k 50
The next session of this institution wilt com-
mence on the first Monday in September. Com-
petent assistants will be employed whenever the
interests of the Seminary shall demand it, but
"at present the Primary Department will be con-
ducted solely by the Principles.
Pupils will be charged from the time of en-
trance until the close of rhe term; and no de-
duction made for absence except in cases of
protracted illness of at least two weeks.
N. B—A full sett of Philosophical and Chem-
ical Apparatus Will be procured and in readiness
for the coming session. 41
£|t Cms Ipilitarjr Jnstitott
AT RÜTERSVILLE.
DISCIPLINE, Military, modeled after Wes
Point Coarse of Studies: thoroughly
collegiate. Sessions open first Monday in Sep-
tember and continue forty weeks. Uniform and
books to be had at the Institute. All payments
in advance, strictly. A ddress.
Col, C. G. FORSHEY,
- 43 Superintendent Proprietor.
colorado college.
THE next session of this Institution will
commence on the 2d Monday of January
ficvltt:
Rev. J. J. LOOMIS....
Ma. S. WELLS.......
Principal;
Assistant;
. •, Prp/, Languages
tbrms per month:
Primary English branches,. $2 00
English Grammar, Geography, etc 3 00
Algebra, Composition, History and Phi.
losophy, 4 00
Higher Mathematics, Latin and Greek.. 5 00
Incidental Tax per session 50
A competent Professor of the Languages will
be employed, if necessary.
There will be no deduction made for lost time
except in cases of protracted illness.
By order of the Board of Trustees,
J. J. SCHERER, Secretary.
January 6, 1860.-v3rll8yl,
GALVESTON
POST OFFICE STREET.
MRS. C. BRANARD
IS SOLE AGENT for the State of Texas for
Lighte and Bradling's Celebrated Pianos,
warranted fully, aod sold at New York cost
prices, adding charges for freight; also, Tilton's
Patent Guitars, and Cushart and Needham's
Mclodeons. A fine selection of Sheet Mi^gic
and Instruction Books, in the new store adjoin-
ing the Millinery Establishment, where will be
found a large assortment of Grover aod Baker's
Sewing Machines. These machines have been
used for the last three years in her dress-making
roomi and need only to be seen to be appreciated.
They are worked with less trouble, and with
a common spool of silk or cotton, thus avoiding
the trouble of winding and a.change of tension,
the usual difficulty in other machines. They
have been adopted in the work room, from this
fact, and its taking so short a time in learning its
use. All are warranted, and exchanged, if not
satisfactory. Local agents wanted. 23
The Fire-Fiend t A Nightmare.
from an unpublished manuscript op thb uti
edgar a. pos, in thb possession of chaeles
d. oardettk.
i.
In the deepest dearth "of midnight, while the sad
and solemn swell
Still Was floating, faintly echoed from the forest
chapel bell—
Faintly, falteringly floating o'er the sable wares
of air,
That were through the midnight rolling, and
billowy with the tolling— _
In my chamber I lay dreaming, by the fire*
light's fitful gleaming,
And my dreams were dreams foreshadowed on a
heart foredoomed to care.
B6ethe & Sandmeyer's
NEW
Grocery Store!!
WE respectfully announce to the citizens of
Columbus and the public generally that,
having opened a New Grocery Store in Colum-
bus, we intend to keep on hand at all times a
GENERAL ASSORTMENT
8uited to this msrket, such as Sugar, Coffee,
Flour, Bacon, Irish Potatoes, Fancy Articles,
Wine, Porter, Segare, etc., etc. Give us a call.
BEETHE & SANDMEYER.
Columbus, February 4,1860 21 air
FINE Brandy, fine old Bourbon Whiskey, Old
Port Wine, Malaga Wine, three year old
Mustang Wine, Chsmpagne Wine, Old Holland
Gin, Jamaica Rum, Blackberry Brandy—all pur-
chased for Medicinal purposes, and consequently
superior articles—at the Drug Store of
LEWELLYN & PUTNEY.
Saddlery.
HENRY KASTROP respectfully announces
to the public that he is prepared to mauu-
facture
SADDLES, BRIDLES á HARNESS
At short notice, and on accommodating terms.
His experience in the business warrants him in
stating that he will be able to please all.
Cokrmbus, June 13,1800-38
As the last, long, lingering echo of the'mid-
night's mystic chime
Lifting through the sable billows of the thither
shore of Time—
Leaving on the startleaa silence not a token or
a trace—
In a quivering sigh departed; from my conch in
fear I started;
Started to my feel in terror, for my dream's
phantasmal error
Painted in the fitful fire a frightful, fiendish, fla-
ming face.
Hi.
On the red hearth's reddest center, from a bla-
zing. knot of oak,
Seemed to gibe and grin this phantom when in
terror I awoke,
And my slumberous eyelids straining, as I stag.
gered to the floor,
Still in that dread vision seeming, turned my gaze
toward the gleaming
Hearth, and there!—O, God!—I saw it; and
from its flaming jaw it
Spat a ceaseless, seething, hissing, bubbling,
gurgling stream of gore!
iv.
Speechless, struck with stony silence, frozen to
the floor 1 stood, '
Till methought mj brain was hissjlig with that
hissing bubbling blood;
Till I felt my life-stream oozing, owing from
those lambent lips;
Till the demon seemed to name me—then a won-
drous calm came o'er me,
And my brow grew cold and deiry, with a death-
damp stiff and gluey,
And 1 fell back on my pillow, in apparent soul
eclipse.
Then as in death's seeming shadow, in the icy
fall of fear
I lay, stricken, came a hoarse and hideous mur-
mur to my ear,
Muttering, ''Higher! higher! higher! I am
Demon of the Fire !
I am Arcb-Fieud of the Fire! and each blazing
root's my pyre,
And my sweetest incense is the* blood and tears
my victims werp *
" How I revel on the prairie ! how I roar among
the pines!
How I laugh when from the village o'er the
enow the red flame shines.
And I hear the shrieks of terror, with a life in
every breath!
How I scream with lambent laughter, as I hurl
each crackling rafter
Down the fell abyss of fire—until higher! high-
er! higher!
Leap the high priests of my altar, in their merr>
dance of death!
"I am Monarch of the Fire! I am Vassal-King
of Death !
World enriching, with the shadow of its doom
upon my breath!
With tht symbol of Hereafter flaming from my
fatal face!
I command the Eternal Fire ! Higher! higher!
higher! higher!
Leap my ministering demons, like phantasms
goric leinans!
Hugging Universal Nature in their hideous
embrace!"
VIII. ♦
Then a sombre silence shut me in a solemn,
shrouding sleep,
And 1 slumbered like an infant in the *' cradle
of the deep,"
Till the belfry in the forest quivered with the
matin stroke,
And the martins, from the edges of its lichen-
lidded ledges,
Shimmered through the russet arches, where the
light in torn files marches.
Like a routed ariqy struggling through the ser-
ried ranks of oak.
V. ,x"
Thrangh my ivy-fretted casements, filtered in a
tremulous note,
From the tall and stately linden where the robin
swelled his throat-
Querulous, quaker-breasted robin, calling quaint-
ly for his mate!
Then I started up unbidden from my slumber,
nightrmare ridden,
With the memory of that dire demon in my
central fire.
On my eye's interior mirror like the shadow of
a fate!
x.
Ah! the fiendish fire had smouldered to a white
and formless heap,
And no knot of oak was flaming as it flamed
upon my sleep;
But around its very center, where the demon
face had shone,
Forked shadows seemed to linger, pointing, as
. with special finger,
To a Bible, massive, golden, on a table canted
and olden,
And I bowed and said, "AH power is of God—
of God alone ! "
A Good Pun.——A Georgia editor has
received a basket of pears and the follow-
ing message from a lady ;
"Mr. Editor: I send you some Bell
pears, and the best you Ever et."
Home Tooke being asked by George the
Third whether he played at cards, replied," No,
y« nr Majesty, the fact is I cannot tell a king
froip a ^ avek"
Tell Your Wipe.—If you are in any
trouble or quandary, tell your wife—that
is, if you have one—all about it at once.
Ten to one her invention will solve your
difficulty sooner than all your logic. The
wfcof woman has been praised, but her
instincts are quicker and keener than her
reason. Counsel with your wife, or your
mother, or your sister, and be assured that
light will flash upon.your darkness. Wo-
men are too commonly judged as verdant
in áfl but purely womanish affairs. No
philosophical student of the sex thus
judges them. Their intuitions, or insight,
aré the most subtle, and if they cannot
see a cat in the meal, there is no cat there.
Jn'^^DssIing to tell his tioubles to his
wife/we would go furttier and ad viae him
to keep none of his affairs secret from her.
Many a home has been happily saved,
and many a fortune retrieved by man's
full confidence in his " better-balf." Wo-
man is far more a seer and prophet than
man, if she be given a fair chance. As a
general rule, wives confide the minutest of
their plans and thoughts to their hus-
bands, having no involvements to screen
from him. Why not reciprocate, if but
for the pleasure of raqeting confidence
with confidence ? We are certain no tnao
succeeds so well in the world as he who,
taking a partner for life, makes her the
partner of all his purposes and hopes.
What is wrong of his impulses or judg-
ment, she will check and set right with
her almost universally right instincts.
" Help meet11 was no insignificant title, as
applied to man's companion. She is a
meet help to him in every darkness, diffi-
culty and sorrow of life. And what she
most craves and deserves is, confidence—
without which love is never free from a
shadow.
<m •
A Yankee Trick.—A week or two ago
fourcreditors started from Boston in the
same train of cars, for the purpose of at-
taching the pioperty of a certain debtor
in Farnington in the State of Maine. He
owed each one separately, and they each
were suspicious of the object of the other,
bnt dared not say a word about it. So
they rode, acquaintances all, talking upon
everything except that which tbey had
mott at heart. When they arrived at the
depot at Farmington, which was three
miles from where the debtor did business,
they found nothing " to put 'em over the
ro*dt" but «¿solitary cab, toward which
they all rushed. Three got in and refused
admittance to the fourth, and the cab
started. The fourth ran after and got
upon the out6ide with the driver. He
asked the driver if he wanted to sell his
horse. He replied that he did not want
to—that he was not worth more than $50,
but he would not sell him for that. He
asked him if be would take $100 for him.
"Y«s," said he. The "fourth man"
quickly paid over the money, took the
reini and backed the cab up to a bank—
slipped it from the harness and tipped it
up so that the door could not be opened,
jumped upon the horse's back and rode
off " lick-a-ty-switch," whilelhe "insiders"
were looking out of the window feeliug
like tinged cats. He rode to a lawyer's
and got a writ made, served, and his debt
secute, and got back to the hotel, just as
the "insiders" came up puffiing and
blowing. The cabman soon bought back
his horse for fiftv dollars.
Forbidden Fruit.—M. Noel, a French
agriculturist, speaking of the introduction
of the potatoe into France, says:
This vegetable was viewed by the peo-
ple with extreme disfavor when first intro-
duced, and many expedients were adopted
to induce them to use it, but without suc-
cess. It) vain did Louis XIV. wear its
flower in his button hole, and in vain
were samples of the tubercle distributed
among the farmer ; they gave them to
theii pigs, but would not use it themselves.
At last Parmentier, the chemist, who well
knew the nutritive properties of the po-
tatoe, and was most anxious to see it in
general use, bit upon the following inge-
nious plan: He planted a good breadth of
potatoes at Sablons, close to Paris, and
pai¿ great attention to their cultivation.
When the roots were nearly ripe, lie put
notices around the field that all persons1
who sto'e any of the potatoes would be
{>rosecuted with the utmost rigor of the
aws, and gendarmes were employed to
watch the field day and night, and arrest
all tresspassers. No sooner were the new
roots thus forbidden, as it were by au
thority, then all persons seemed eager to
eat them, and in a fortnight, notwithstand-
ing the gendarmes, the whole crop wa?.
stolen, and without doubt eaten. The new
vegetable having been found to be excel-
lent food, was soon after cultivated in every
part of the kingdom.
"Give thy children a sound education," saya
a writer, " coupled with some useful trade, and
you thereby give them a fortune. Give them to
understand, from the beginning, that labor is
honorable."
Woman's Best Right—The marriage
rite.
©or. Houston's Letter.
Austin, July 31,1860.
J. G. Smith, Esq.
Dear Sir:—Your letter making inqnirv
as to whether I have withdrawn the use of
my name in connection with the Presiden-
cy, and declared for Mr. Bell, has been
received, and I hasten to reply:
H'aving consented to the use of my
name as the People's candidate for the
Presidency, it is but just to those who have
put me forward, that I should say the re-
port has no foundation in truth. As I
have had no agency in presenting my name
to the American people^ so I leave to my
fellow-citizens perfect freedom of action.
I shall not weigh success against principle,
nor abandon a cause from motives of policy.
If it is the wish of the people to vote for
me, they have a right to do so. If they
do not desire my services, it will be recol-
lected that I have not asked their suffrages.
That parlies and Conventions and their
candidates to so great an extent divide the
public mind, is no source of discourage-
ment to me. In the distracted state of our
politics, I see the germ of a better future.
The day of Conventions and their chicane-
ry is past. The wand has fallen from the
hands of politicians; and they are power
less, only as against themselves. The
country may meet a shock now from the
war of factions, but a healthy reaction will
follow, which will result in their complete
downfall. I have seen the rise and the
fall of the Convention system. If I have
contributed in the least to arouse ftty fel-
low citizens to the danger of its continu-
ance, I am content. If convinoed that my
name stood as a stumbling block in the
way of the perpetuity o£ the Union, or
that one ray of its glory was darkened by
ray form, I would implore my fellow-citi-
zens to cease to remember me. When a
stripling I obeyed the call of my country,
and gave my blood in its defence. Through-
out advancing years, I have endeavored to
serve it faithfully ; I have been with it in
times of psril, and it is now doubly dear
to me from the fact, that as life's winter
gathers about me, 1 realize that my pos-
terity must soon share its fortunes, depriv-
ed of my aid or counsel. And among the
most grateful feelings that come to me
oow, is the recollection that though
throughhout an eventful life, the busy
tongue of slander has often detracted from
my fame, a love for the Union haa been so
implanted on my character that none have
dared to impeach my devotion to it. It
should at least be some satisfaction to me,
that at a time when parties and party piat*
forms were in the ascendency, I raised the
Standard of THE CONSTITUTION AND
THE UNION in Texas, and made the first
fight upon that simple declaration of prin
ciples against disunion. My only hope is
that all men who sincerely desire the pre-
servation of the Government will unite
together in the present contest against
sectionalism.
I have no aspirations for the Presidency,
beyond a desire to be useful to my country.
If the part I have assumed in the past
years has contributed to bring before the
people the question of Union or Disunion,
(for such is now the issue,) and to inspire
a determination to put down disunion in
the North and South, my ambition will
receive more solace than the Presidency
could afford. Could I be the means now
of putting an end to sectional strife, of
silencing the agitation on the slavery ques-
tion, of breaking down parties, based on
geographical distinctions, and of uniting
my fellow-citizens in support of patriotic
electors in the different States, trusting to
their love of country to give tbe Nation a
President and Vice-President, wno would
administer the government once again with
honesty, wisdom, impartiality, aod with a
reward for our National honor, I would be
willing to close my public career aad find
in retirement, that happiness, which those
high in station know not.
While I have expressed no preference
for any of the candidates now before tbe
country, I have at the same time experien-
ced the hope that the people wou'd soon
see whither they were drifting, that the
war of factions would cease and that npon
some common basis they would unite and
prevent the triumph of either sectionalism
or disunion. Party names or party cham
pions, should sink into insignificance, when
the palladium of our liberties is threatened.
The blessings we enjoy, the government
which our fathers gave us, THE CONSTI-
TUTION AND THE UNION should be
first in the heart of every patriot, and be
who fails to sacrifice all else to maintain
these, is unworthy the name of American.
I regard this contest as one in qÉich the
permanency of tbe Union is involved. I
desire to see Texas present an united front
against the effort to maintain here a sec-
tional party ; and to this end I desire to
say, that it is my wish that Electors asso-
ciated with my name shall be perfectly free
to cast the Electoral vote of Texas for any
National man, most likely to defeat either
Sectionalism or Disunion.
Having ever been opposed to Abolition-
ism from the North and Sectionalism,
Disunion and Ke openicg the African
Shave Trade from the Sonth, I believe the
defeat of these elements should be the
desire of every patriot.
I cannet close this letter without ac—
knwledging a full sense of obligations toi
those friends who have expressed a pref-
erence for me, upon principle, over others.
Their kindness has been gratuitous, for I
have not sought to influence and in favor
of my advancement, and their support is,
therefore, moiiniglily appreciated.
I hope that in justice to my friends,
those papers which bavefpublished the re-
port of my withdrawal, will also givé this
letter a place in their columns.
Very truly your friend,
SAM HOUSTON.
A YEsVm No.—A simple 11 yes,wJ^j
emphatic " no^" may cost you a fortune,
may cost yon a troop of friends, may cost
yon a political promotion," mav cost yow
your character, may cost you your soul!
How many a public man has t had j his
whole career decided by his course in some;
trying emergency, or on some great ques-
tion of right. He is led up into the
AtDouot of temptation, where some gigan-
lie iniquity bids him bow down and wor-
ship it, and promise in) return "all the
world and the glory thereof." From that
momént he comes down a hero or a fool.
The die is cast. If he has honored justice
and truth, then justice and truth will
honor him; if not, his bones will be left
bleaching on the road te a promotion ha
can never reach.—Cuyler.
Timi FoBOFTHBTAaANTCLA.—1The tarantula
• ** Jnl! ^ ™ *he wasp, which preys upon
it. j he manner in which the wasp attacks the
tarantnla is described by the editor of Hie Mari-
p°aa (Cal.) Democrat, who recently witnessed
its mode of operating. An ngly looking taran-
alonf tbe usual awkward
{*, n£ l°n£ unwieldy legs above the
short blades of grass, when suddenly the veno-
mous insect stopped short in its wanderings and
raised itself up to its full height, as though
watching the coming of some unwelcome vis-
itor. It then quickly erouched behind a turf of
dry grasa, and remaining very quiet, seemed to
make himself as small as possible. A slight
biizxing was heard in the" air, and in a moment
a wasp passed quickly near, hovering on the wing
over the trembling victim. Like some bird of
pre/ the wasp remained poised for a moment,
and then, quick as thought, darted down npon
hi. enemy and stung him many times with great
rapidity. The tarantula, smarting under the
pain, began a retreat with all the speed of which
. WM capable; but^the wasp hung o rer him
with revengeful temerity, and ávain Myng him
with his vMomons Aifcg. GraXaUylfiliht
o f the tarantnla became slower and mora irreg-
ular, and at length, under the repeated thrusts
of his conqueror, he died, biting tbe grass with
bis terrible fanga. The wasp then seized the
tarantnla aad dragged him away.
Thb K. G. C. not Aftoeciateo —Advices
from Washington report that President General
George Bir.ktey, K. 6. C., and Filibuster, is re-
garded as having presented in his 44 open letter"
a plan for the Sootherniiation of Meneo whollv
visionary in its character; that it has received
no encouragement from the Juarez Government,
and that if any feeling exists at a1! in his faror,
it is only among a few dissatisfied and restless
spirits in the Northern part of the country.
Should George fail in his schemes of conquest
and riches, and Mexico refuse her consent to be
sheared or skinned by him, he may continue to
flourish greenly as a Knight of the Golden Cir-
cle, bat will not succeed in becoming a Knight
of the Golden Fleece. The stupid "greasers"
do not appreciate the beauty ol his n synthe-
cism," and are content to remain still-longer in
the barbarism of their original" analyticiem."
A convention of Bloomer damsels is
reported to have resolved that they will
wear short dresses or nothing. What an
awful thing it would be if they shouldn't
wear the short dress!
A sweet girl is a sort of divinity, to
whom even the scriptures do not forbid us
to render " lip service."
John Van Busdirk, of Troy, N. Y. has
been arrested for assisting in a late fugitiva
slave rescue—that of Nalle. Of her crimi-
nals implicated in the same affair, are to
be arrested.
When a lover dotes on h¡3 darling, a
refusal acts as an anti'dote.
Those who, when the marry, seek their happi-
ness in the mere gaining of fortune and personal
beauty, evince a heartless disposition, and their
folly is often punished in their success.
Census.—Some are not aware that the law
imposes a fine of thirty dollars to be collected in
the United SUÉes' Courts, with costs, for refus-
ing to answer any of the legal questions to be
asked by the Marshals who take the census. Wo
see that three suits have been entered in Cincin-
nati to collect fines for such refusals.
An indiscreet person is like an unsealed
letter, which every one may read, but
which is seldom worth reading.
What means of conveyance by Iandr
and what by se , ana ladies fondest of ?
Busses and smacks.
Every human feeling is greater and
larger than tbe exciting cause.
Self-love exaggerates our faults as well
as our virtues.
What ejoes most against a farmer's
grain ? • nts reaping machine.
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