Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1852-10-20

The New Orleans Delta says that the Treasu-
~ of Louisiana contains only sixty dollars
Drafts are consequently protested, and the State
officers are in starving condition for the want
of money.
Alrertising.-In English papers is somewhat
expensive. The lowest charge for advertising
in the London Times. is about three dollars
square; even line aRnouncinga marriage or
death, costs seven Shilling NEARLY two dollars.
Irish Wf.-A couple of Irishmen who had
not been long in this country, met in an inn,
and called for dinner. As it happened, there
was dish of horse-raddish grated for dinner.
Pat thinking it was something to be eaten with
a spoon. nut a large spoonful into his mouth
tears Immed1ateIt nIled his eyes, and rolled
down his cheeks. His companion saw it, and
said:
"Pat, what is the matter?"
II was thinking of my poor father, who was
hanged in swate Ireland answered Patrick.
But Jenny soon filed his mouth with the
same, and the tears gushed from his eyes also,
when Pat said
"What's the matter-what has happened to
you?"
"Ah," said Jenny, II was Just thinking what
pity it was you were not hanged when your
father was"
AN IRISH EPITAPH.
Here les
And my heart at aise is,
Il Wild the point of my nose
And the tips of my toes
Turned up to the roots of the daisies.
PBDDY WHACK.
young lad recently ran away from home
and went to a tavern, where he was found by a
friend with cigar in MS mouth.
"What made you leave homer" said his friend.
"Ch, confound it." said he, 'father and moth
er were so saucy that couldn't stand it any lon
ger-so quit EN-"
Dobbs thinks the tree of knowledge was the
beech tree, the twigs of which have done more
to make men acquainted with arithmetic, than
all the other members of the vegetable kingdom
combined.
ooh dear, Mr. D., you are certainly testing
when you say my baby is the handsOmest you
ever saw-must be soft-sOaping." Well, mad
ad, 1 should think it needed soap of some kind"
Veal hare our Troubles.-Sister Mary-why
Charley, dear boy, what's the matter? You
seem quite miserable.
Charley-Ah! amt /, just Here's mother
says l must wear turn down collars until Christ
mas, and there's young Sidney Bowler, who's
not half as tall as | am, has had 'stick-up's and
white chokers for ever so long.
A wag one day asked his friend, How many
knaves do you suppose are in this street beside
yourself2"
Besides myself? replied the other in heat,
do you mean to insult me?'
well, them said the first, how many do you
recon, including yourself?
A love-sick swain, one of the eleven, dined at
the Walnut Street House, yesterday. and wrote
the following while waiting for a surloin;
"0h carve me yet another slice,
Oh help me to more gravy stll;
There's Dought something NICE
To conquer care, or grief to kill
1 always loved a bit of beef
When youth and bliss, and hope were mine,
And now it gives my heart relief,
InysorrOws's darksome hour b dine
"A man cant help what is done behind his
back as the loafer said as he was kicked out of
doors.
To support standing shirt-collars during the
present run of warm weather, genius down
East has invented set of pullies which pass
over the ears.
knowledge may slumber in the memory, but
t never dies; it is ike the dormous in the ivied
oweT, that sleeps while winter lasts, but awakes
With che warm breath of spring.
Real fidelity may be rare, but it exists-in the
heart. They only deny its worth and power who
never loved friend, or labored to make a friend
happy.
a man in Georgia has invented poultice of
such power that they are used for drawing ca
hal boats.
j Dutchman says that Honesty is the best
policy, but keeps one tam poor