Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1850-06-04

Give Cupid the use oil IFS Wings
For Eame's but a pithul fortune,
And hearts arc such ValEciess thingS'
ooh Laura forgive five spoken
Too bOldly-nay turn not away
For my heart with affection is broken
My uncle died only to-day
NV uncle the nabob-who tended
NV Yonth with affection and care;
My manhood who kindly bcfricndcd-
And the maiden said, " Weep not, sincercst!
My heart has been yours all along;
Oh! hearts o trcasurcs are dearest
Do, Edward, go on with your song"
OAK NECESSARY TO BUILD ONE SHrP.-By the
report of the Commissioner of Land Revenue, il
appears that a seventy four gun ship contains
about 1000 tons, which, at the rate ola load ant
a half a ton, would give 5000 loads of timber
and would require 1000 trees of seventy. five
years growth. 1t has also been calculated that
as not more than 40 oaks, containing a load ant
a half of timber in each, can stand upon one acre
fifty are required to produce the oaks necessary
for every seventy-four gun ship.
[RaihOay Magazine.
"RoUGE EFT NoIR."-The EagIish people arc
getting ~facetious under the imprisonment OF eco.
lored men in America" A correspondent of the
Times says, that all the Americans condeseend
TO say about the matter is, " II you don't like the
custom, don't bring your nasty sinking niggers
to Charleston" He, therefore, suggests that the
British should, in retaliation, commit TO Bride
well every red haired American the moment he
enters the Merscy. If Mr.. Lawrence remon-
%strates, as he probably will do, all they have to
answer is, "If you don't like the custom, don't
bring your carroty countrymcn to Liverpool
Very good, that, for John Bull.
They tell, says the Panama Echo, some tough
stories about the natives crossing the lsthmus.-
The latest is to this effect: a number of kegs
of powder were placed upon the backs Of the man
mules, with the direction that they should be kept
dry but, unfortunately, n shower Of rain over
took them before they got half way across-the
powder, Of course, was wet by the watcry fluid.
In this predicamenta fire was kindled, and an at
tempt made to dry the cnmbustible compound Of
~saltpetre and birthstone when 10! it ignited, ex-
ploded, and went oHlike a sky rocket, blowing
the darkies into the air, and shivering them into
a thousand pieces.
LTFE.-In Longfellow's Hyperion, that casket
ofrare and sparkling gems, we have the folio wing
beautiful moral deduced from the story of the
hero
"Look not mournfully into the past; it comes
not back again. Wisely Improve the present;
/: is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future
without fear and with a manly heart"
"Shall l help you to some of the tomatussus ~
inquired a young exquisite OF a venerable physi-
clan, as he sat opposite 10 him at one Of our hotel
tables. "No, sir, | thank you" replied the learn
ed suavan; " but I'll trouble you for some of the
Potasussus, if you pIeasc.' 1t is SAID the young
man never mentioned "Tomatussus" again.
A girl advertises through a Lowell paper a
lost miniature, and makes some love sick swain
happy by saying that "the purloincr by returning
the picture may obtain the original"
Never did an Irishman utter a better bull than
did honest John, who being asked by a friend
elias your sister got son, or is il a daughter?"
"Upon my soul, | don't know whether I'm an
uncle or an aunt"
The handsomest specimen of the " art Of print
ing" is a thousand dollar bank note.
"Have you ever broken a horse 2" inquired a
horsejnckey. "No, not exactly" replied Simon,
" but I've broke three or four wagons"
"Stocks, are firm as the rogue said when he
had his feet in them"
AsEcDorE.-A sailor in the pit of a theatre,
looking over his ~play-bill, read, " an interval OF
twenty-five years occurs betwee the first and
second acts" AT the end Of tho first act he nut
on his old tarpaulin and left the house, saving
few ofthese folks will live to see the end ont"
"Dad, who is this Sam Francisco that's gettin'
all the gold out there in Kaliforny? He must be
the richest man in all them diggins"
why, Georgey, rather think he's some re.
lation to the Sam Jacinto who was killed in the
Texican war by Gen. Sam Houston.
They debate strange questions down East
The last was, "What is the difference between
the Bridge of Signs and the size of a bridge ?"-
The next is to be "the difference between a fac
simile and a sick family.
In Court, a shorttime ago, the crier endeavorel
& disperse the crowd by exclaiming, "all ye
blackguards that isn't lawyers, quit the court"
A company of Cocknies are playing out West,
"Th Mysterious Morphans, hor the outrageous
Hunkie"-The principal character appears on a
orse.
eff We cannot alter things
Why then, Wen change their names, sirs."
"Seventy-five cents per gal! !" exclaimed Mrs.
Darlington, on looking over the price curreAt:-
" why, bless me! what is the world coming to,
when the gals are valued at only 70 cents"
Mrs. PARrIseroS,s LATEST -Hearing that a
young man had set up for himself-Poor fellow,
said she, has he no friends that will set up for
him part of the time, and she sighed to be young
again.
Wai,efl"
"Wbat, sir q"
ga half dozen pigs feet in the SHE'LL"
In a moment, sir, as soon rs | mix an Indier
meal sling for a Grahamite. Anything else, sir =
Yes, a knot-hole, fried"
Waiter disappears beneath a ~tandiDg-colla
81 say" said a creditor to an easy debtor, "yoar
note has been running a long time.' al re.
piled the other "well, as the boy said of the mo.
lasses, lei her RIM ~
A gentleman looking at his watch just after
midnight, cried, " it is to-morro,c morning i !
must bid you good night
aConstitutionally Tired is now the polae
way OF expressing the fact that aman is natural
" lazy. We live in wosdetfully refined times
Why is a rejected lover like a rock tumblsd
over a precipice? Because he is down cast.