Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1853-02-12


Tho poston Traveller is indebted to mercantile /
house of that city for the following extract from let
ter inst received from ST. Petersburgh, and dated the
2lst. Of December -
shere ia a report that the plague has entered Rus
STA, and is prevalent at Astracnan ana aholher Paoe
seventy thousand men to prevent Its advancing lu
her into the interior of the country Some alarm Is
felt st. Petersburgh; though in former times as IN
the reign of Catherine, it stopped at Moscow.
There are three kinds of men in the world: the
Wills, the 'Wouts, and the Cants.' The former et-
feet everything the other oppose everything, and the
latter fail in everything Il wP builds railroads
and steamboats, i WON'T don't believe in 'experi-
ments and nensense while Il can't grows weeds for
wheat and commonly ends his days in the slow diges-
ton of court of bankruptcy.
Dr. Washburn, who resides at Vernon, VT, the
Gretna Green for Massachusetts, performed the mar
rage ceremony for hundred and sixteen couple
last week.
There is girl in Troy who wears such sunshny
face that when she goes out of DOORS the snow birds
take her for summer, and follow her about as if she
had apple blossoms in her apron With such power
in cheerfuness isn't it singular that women ever allow
themselves to have the sulks !
Dobbs saws he always esteemed slegh-rdes, because
of the delightful privileges which the common law al
lows the driver-such tucking in the furs about
sthe dear creature the left, keeping the chilli
ing winds away from pair of light blue eyes, by bury
ing your face every and then, within the pink silk
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epicure.
They must have some rich soil in Oregon. A child
of shoemaker, in one Of the most fertile counties,
hid, few weeks since, of his fathers boots in a
hole dug in the vegetable garden. The next morning
the principal attraction in the enclosure was leather
tree loaded with brogans.
There is hog exhibition at Cincinnati, of such
size and fatness that Prof SOmerndyke says, that if
his tail was lighted and kept properly trimmed, he
would burn for year, and with such brilancy as to
light large portion of the city. Where's your sperm
whale now
There is a woman in Iowa so homey that they won't
allow her to travel on the railroad for fear she will
frighten the locomotives. She is the natural parent
of that interesting youth who insisted the first time he
peeped into looking glass; that his father had brought
home a cuba young bear, "cause he seed it in the
chest"
Ten Of the Rochester IN. W Aldermen have been
indicted for misdemeanor in the licensing of taverns
and other houses of entertainment.
Alexander Dumas, the author, of Paris, has written
i fifty dramas and seven hundred volumes of fiction.
The Supreme court of Louisiana decided the Nc
Donogh will in favor of the cities of Baltimore
and New Orleans, but against the States of Maryland
n and Louisiana.
DEATHS OF WEALTHY MEN.-Senor Pinos Count
s de Vaneuva long Intendente of Cuba, and reported
If to be the richest man in Span died December Dist
Y His fortune estimated at $l5,O00000. One OF
- the Wealthest private capitalists of Paris, NJ Pei
lapra, fell dead in the Office of insurance company
of which he director, within the last few weeks.
) He worth between $6,O0O00O and $8,OOO,O0O.
e The hypocrite is lkened to "whed sepulchre;
the smile of Longfellow is more striking
"And though she is virgin outwardly
Within she is sinner; like those pannels
OF doors and altar pieces the old monks
II Painted in converts, Virgin Mary
e On the outside, and on the inside Venus"
st The following description of good wife is given
g by down easter:
e "She hadn't for music, Sam, but she had a
t. capital eye for dirt and with poor folks that's much
IS better. No never seed as much dirt in my house
r. as fly couldn't brush off with his wings. Boston
gals may boast of their spinnets and their gytars and
their eeaian airs and their for music but give
me the gal that has an eye for Dirt she's the gal for
my money"
GREAT RAILROAD PRoFITs.-The exhibit of the
earnings Of the Chicago and Galena Railroad during
/ the four months sums up $2Ol, 7o4 So. The cost OF
r the nnetytwo miles of road used less than :
J. 100000; and estimating the running expense SOL
7O4Whch is an extra figure taking the year cri-
terian$I is left clear profit for one-third OF
the year, investment of $lOO,0OO, which is at
% the rate OF 40 per cent. per annum.
d Women delight in horrors. Who ever knew one to
write poem, the heroine of which did not fall vic
4 tim to "the seducer's wes,' the fumes of newly
u kinded charcoal! We pause for reply.
Lima, in Peru is the topmost city of the earth be-
ing situated 1925 feet above the level of the sea-
The man that built the Rocky Mountains, has just
gone to Norway. He intends to open a rope-walk
e and use the maelstroom for laying the twists He
l. will do.
y LAND-A plantation within miles of Huntsville
containing 757 acres, sold recently on one and two
at years credit without interest for $2922 per acre.
rs 'Why is it, asked Frenchman of Switzer etha
ne you Swiss always fight for money, while we FrencE
re- fight only for honorr 4 suppose, answered the Swift
10 ger, that each fight for what they most Jack
70 lady, in the New York Herald advertises unde
s the head of Wants., gentleman for breakfast and tea
Natur is natur,' and will show ITSELF It is as i'm
Possibe to ride along side of in railroad ca
without getting your around her neck, as it is t
In look at strawberries without wishing for loaf suga
70 and cream.
ye STATEsMEN-Gentemen who secure the respect O
other people by losing all respect for themselves
There are few great in this any other country
- where knowledge of this world was not purchased B.
00 losing all hopes for the next one.
Married, in Michigan, Mr. HENRY BILLS to Mis-
MARY SMALL. Here is the only case we know !,
10 which the Legislature has right whatever to inter
~ fere in the legitimate privilege to issue small bills
,e The Pittsburg Commercial speaking of the mild
:: ness of this winter, says:
eve trust that the old adage will not prove true
l. "When Christmas is white
i" The graveyard is lean;
But fat is the graveyard
When Christmas is green"
ID The following, which we find in the New Yor
Day Book, is one of the best epigrams which we re
- member to have seen for some time
nc When Latin studied, my Ainsworth in hand
g. answered my teacher that Sto meant to stand;