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Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-09-30

~ GA perfect woman, molly planned
| To warn, to comfort, and command"
He wasprodga and dissolute affecting on smaller scale,
the extrgance and righteousness of his royal master
at Versatile The Marquis, told, used to say
ms wife tina. believed she would be agreeable to
other but that sAe could never please him. There
this difference remarked between them that he esteemed
Madame de Sevgne b did not love her. whc she loved
her husband but could MT esteem him.
But this ncongruo1s us9n did not last long, for in
1861 the Marquis was killed ina duel of which Madame
de Gendrnn the final causeA After his decease she
devoted herself to tho nurture and education of her child
rem, son and daughter of whom he former often
proved in after years. beaviness to s mother while
he latter though cold in her temperament seems better
to have repaid the wealth of affection prosey lavish
ed on her The hayward boy following in the footsteps
Of his father became gay Lotharo, learner the feet
OF that illustrious Cypran, Ninon de FEnclos and
friend of dashing actresses like the pretty Champmea
Thus writes Madame dc s. to her daughter Madame de
,Grgnan
elbow dangerous she is, that Ninon II you only knew
how she dogmatizes religion you would shudder with
horror Her zeal for the perverson Of Young men Is
equal to that of certain NJ de Saint erman whom we
once saw at Lvry. am greatly grieved at the evil
she is doing my but do not tell him this We are
doing all we can, Madame de la Fayete and in order
to disentange him from dangerous an intimacy. lie
patronses besides ate coincidence aud all the Boileaus
and Racnes, and pays for the suppers In fne he is
perfect rattle brain. He mocks the Mascarons# as
you know"
Her daughter became almost the sole object worthy
Of her Affection and remained through all her after
e for though suors many sought the hand Of Mad de
Sevgne, she declined oil their fattering propositions
Among those thus rejected the of Turenne the
Prince of Cont, the Superintendent Of the Treasury
Fooquet, the Chevalier de Mere and that prince of
Wits M. de Lude to say nothing Of the good hearted
Menage Mademoiselle de Sevigne, having finished her
scholastic career entered the gay world Of Paris the
year 1863 Both the mother and the daughter became
the toasts of the city "The lords Of fashion and the
poets of the court racked their invention to devise
and Ingenious compliments for the charming pair" Ben
Mascaron Of the pulpit orators Of the day
speeding whom suspect her sons judgment better
tnan that Of Mad de Sevgne, who has not hesated to
compare him to Bourdaloue.
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the particulars Of three divisions having absolutely sailed
from thence but there is word about it in the pa
pers Of this morning
The Gear will make no concession. He has turned a
deaf ear to Austria and Prussia. His estimate of his
powers and resources makes him dsdain the policy
which they would persuade him to ADOPT lie is resolue
to bear the brunt of the storm which threatens him
the West.
1t is said that the passage to the fortress of Abo is
found to be extremely narrow, and that it is probable
that port will not be attacked The next shall
have from the Baltic viii be the destruction Of the for
tress Bomarsund The French have lost six hundred
there by cholera during their very short occupation
The Monteur states that nearly the entire Turkish army
have passed into Waachia and that every thing shows
the Turks intend follow the Russians into Modavia
This would, however, be dangerous movement. The
sanitary state of the fleets and armies the Black Sea
and near Varna has very much improved. The Econo-
mist has doubt about the Allies taking Scbastopo and
says the only solution to what it is to be done with
when taken is to destroy the Notifications and allow Rus
STA to retain the Crimea the condition that Sebastopo
shall be free and Independent harbor under the joint
guaranty of all the principal European Porers, the
fleets Of all nations having free to the Euxne.
We very sorry have to report terrible increase
of cholera in London during the last week The deaths
during that week 1867 above the average or rather
more than double the average, which would be l,2lS
The whole number of deaths 2,5l5. The deaths from
cholera during the last nine weeks have been l. &C.
1913, 500, GA, 40, SAL and 1887 The cholera has
broken at Leeds and is very bad Wisbeach in the
Isle of Ely.
Another week Of extraordinary ine weather has en-
abled farmers to make great progress with harvest
South Of Yorkshire the corn, particularly wheat has in
great part been secured and far north the
southenmost half Of Scotland very considerable progress
has been made. Prices are falling rapidly Good red
wheat averaging weight Of 6s pounds the bushel, has
receded to $50 per quarter about ST. as bushel The
potato disease Is very general and considerable portion
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-06-14
POP GOES THE-..BoTrLE.

Under the title of" Thrilling adven-
lures ola Young Lady," we find. In the
PEolhliiladelphia Phi City Item, very comical
story:
=" In one of the most sober towns OF
Hampshire county, where the Maine Law
is strictly observed, the keeper of one OF
the hotels has for, severel months past,
kept bottle or two of wine in the bed
where he sleeps, taking care to remove
them every night when he went to bed,
and replace them when he got up in the
morning. A few days since, after replen-
ishing his bottles, and not hayinga good
opportunity to carry them to his old
quarters, he slipped them under the boil
sters of one of the beds reserved for trav-
elers, and, being called out of town to
spend the following day, forgot to remove
them. It unfortunately happened that
a young lady traveller stopped at the ho-
tel for the night, and was conducted, by
an unsuspecting servant girl, to theroom
where the liquors had been deposited
As the even grew late, the young lady
went to bed, and was soon fast asleep,
little dreaming of the mischievous spirits
which were acorklng under her pillow
About midnight, when all had be-
come still, the secreted liquor-owing to
the heat of the weather, or the warmth
impaired to it by the sleeper-expand-
ed to such degree as to defy longer
confinement. Pop! popl went the corks
of both bottles, almost as loud as the
report of as many pistols, and awaking
the. fair sleeper, who sprang from the
bed, uttering such wild and terrific
screams, that every person in the house
was Immediately, aroused. The moon
shone bright enough for the lady to dis
cover the liquor on her night drees, and
with the conviction that she had been
shot, she tainted and fell on the floor.
A dozen servants Immediately burst in
to the lady's room, and was Mortified to
find her lying on the floor and we1tering
in blood Ali believed that some horri-
BILE tragedy had been enacted-that she
had either committed suicide or had
been cruelty murdered. A light, how
ever, convinced them that she still breath
ed. No time was lost in sending for a
surgeon, whilst the .half-dressed in
mates of the house commenced search
for the assassin or the instrument which
had been employed to perpetrate the
horrid deed. On examining the bed, it
was found to be drenched with what
they supposed to be the blood of the
young lady; but the. strong smell of
aciaze caused one. to investigate further,
when the two bottles were discovered
under the pillow How the doctor came,
how the lady recovered, and how the
landlord tried to hush up the affair the
next day, can be better magined than
we can describe p 'l-'' as = 60.
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mIDNIGHT SIZES.


The midnight skies-the midnight skies
Oh what solemn grandeur lies <f-;
Upon their brow,s eter nal height; 1
e And yet around them wreathed the-e seems
c A halo, brighter than the beams
Caught from the smiles Of life and light.
The midnight skies-the midnight skies
Millions of eyer-waking eyes u. -
-. Look through their silent starry bowers.
I Watching their wizard twin ofdeath
.Slecp--thinly moving on the breath .-..
mortaIs-in this sphere of ours.
The midnight skies the midnight skies
In vain the Unbeliever tries s-t
To laugh their shadowy terrors off; rr
For o'er his soul they cast spell
or God-head, so ineffabIe
As freezes on his lips the scof:
The midnight skies-Prand boundIess. deep
Halls, where the watching angels keep
The passes oil eternity.
Regions mysterious and sublime,
Stretched out upon the wings of time
% Doninions ofa Deity!
'saii7ss srH -51sss9 s.,,i5s.i zs 59cda
We'know that God is every where
Beyond the eastern ocean, there ..-s
He girds the morn with wings oflight-
He spreads upon the sunny hour 4
The dark pavilion of his power, a." so
And then-we say, behold 'ts nightI
IsEl gEb-I5 20 - s7szsIa srE si1Es.U
4. But oh-'tis in the skies aIone-- - III
The skies of midnight, God hath shown =,
Perspecliyes 10 the sdeathless mind
Mansions that all the blaze of day
Could never to the mind display
~ aAfar in distant glory shriR'd. ffrc~E
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proach and spit in the faces of notorious
bullies, with whom he had no cause oi
quarrel, and for the sole end of proEok-
ing a fight re One personal advantagere-
suited from this excessive desperation
Noother physician could be found hardy
enough to settle in Conway, where such
fee reigned, and as a matter of course.
-AIcncfee got all the practice. He even
attended his own fwounded-would cut
man open with his 1bowfe-khife in the
morning, and if called upon, sew him up
with his needlein the evening.
The old proverb says, there must
be an end to everything;;" and an end
came at last to the reign of the 90 Fight
ing Doctor" as he was christened in
blood throughout Arkansas. J He had a
neighbor named Phillips, a peaceable,
/ inoffensive man, who had never previous
ly been engaged in difficulty with any
human being, and hence In that region
was generally deemed a coward. From
some cause, which never publicly trans
pired, feelings of hostility arose between
the two, and Menefee sought an early
opportunity to cowhide the other in the
streets of Lewisburg., Phillips bore his
chastisement without SO much as an eff
fort of resistance. Indeed, at the mo-
ment, he had no other alternative, for
he was altogether unarmed, while his
enemy had pistol cooked at his breast.
Immediately afterward, however, Phil
lips went and literally loaded himself
with murderous weapons, and returned
to face his foe on more equal terms
They encountered in the public square
while the court was in session, and new
er did the sun of. heaven shine on a more
obstinate combat First of all they
fred two rounds with pistols, and at the
second round Phillips was wounded in
the lions. But this, instead of checking
his furious ardor, only tended to inaame
and madden him the more. He un-
sheathed' his knife, and bounded upon
his enemy, whoseceived his thrusts with
a deadly blade With clenched teeth,
foam on their liyid lips, painting chests,
and blazing eyes, they fought like ma
MACS, till both were bathed in sweat
and blood. At length Phillips ventured
a desperate maneu7er. He dropped his
own knife, and seizing the naked blade
of his antagonists, snapped it in two by
main strength, cutting, at the same time
his own fingers to the bone. He then
drew from beneath his vest another
knife, and made plunge at Menefee's
heart, but Menefee, in turn, caught the
sharp blade in his hand and broke off
the point, when p hiIips produced a third:
bowie knife, much larger than the 9TH
ers, and plunged it up to the hilt in his
enemy's side, who fell to rise no more,
Menefee, as he lay upon the CORY ground,
looked up with a smile, and gasped in
dying voice - i=,5' - % i5's' 'Ft.
Phillips, you are King of Conway,
now, for you have killed the Fighting
Doctor. "Hfta s3ia tss7t3@ -s-.a .'.-F =.
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ILLUSIONS toF THE . BRAIN.

-
DR.. Goch relates the case of, lady
who in consequence of an alarm of fire
believed that she was the Virgin Mary,
and her head was constantly encircled by
brilliant halo. Dr. Twins gives an ac-
count of an intellectual young gentle
man who from some morbid association
with the idea of an elephant, was struck
by horriie spasnl whenever the word
was named, or even written before him;
and to such pitch was this infatuation
carried, that elephant paper, if he were
sensible it were such produced the same
effect. A similar case is. told of a gen
tleman who, on narrowly escaping from
the earthquake at Lisbon, fell into a
state of delirium whenever the word
earthquake was pronounced in his hear
ing. The Rev. John Mason, of Water
Straford, evinced in everything sound
Judgment, except that he was Elias, fore
told the advent of Christ, who was to
commence the millennium of Stratford.-
A lady, twenty-three years of age, afhict-
ed with hysterical madness, used to re-
main constantly at the windows of her
apartment during the summer.
I, When she saw beautiful cloud in the
sky, she screamed out, Garverin, Gar
verin, come and take mel" and repeated
the same invitation until the cloud dis
appeared. She mistook the clouds for
balloons sent up by GarVerin. The Rev.
Simon Brown died with the conviction
that his rational soul was ,annihilated by
a special fat of the Divine will; and a
natient in the Friends, "Retreat,p at
York, thought he had no soul, heart, or
lungs. There was tradesman. who
thought he was seven shilling piece; and
advertised himself thus:-"If my wife
presents me for payment don't change
metz isfe.7 -r5aatfl SO. '4-s, sssia sasa5
Bishop Warburton tells us of man
who thought himself a goose !" and
DR., Ferriday, of Manchester, had a
patient who thought he h,d SWALLOWED
the devil. In Paris there lived man
who thought he had, with Others, been
guillotined, and when Napoleon was en-
peror their heads were all restored but
in the scramble he got the wrong onei
Marcus Donatus tells of one !" Vicentinus,
who believed himself too largeto pass one
of his doorways.i To dispelthis illusion,
it was resolved by his physician that he
should be dragged through the aperture
be force. This erroneous dictate was
forced along, Vicentinus screamed out in
agony that his limbs were fractured, and
the flesh torn from his bones In this
dreadful sdelusion, with terrific impreca-
tions against his murderers, he died. .
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E While number of lawyers and
gentlemen were dining at Wiscasset, q
few years since, jolly son of the Emer-
aid Isle appeared and called for dinner.
The landlord told him he should dine
when the gentlemen were done. % g Let
him among us" whispered a limb of the
law, "and we will have some fun with
him" The Irishman took seat at the
table. asa bfE -bst ref
-, g You were not born in this country
my friend 2'' said one. .-.-...--,
=" No. sir, 1 was born in Ireland. p"
= I" Is your father living ?'' 81.
zs."No sir, he is dead.'' sfEc.sSs.;s''s
20" What is your oecupation?n .si:
y A horse jockey, sir"
What was your fathers occupation. "
Trading horses, - $
Did your father ever cheat any one
while here ?,'sa'}t =siEfe ssf i75tss Z
b!ssI suppose he did cheat many, sir. "
Where do you suppose he,went to ?''
To heaven SIR 4--.f...--ss.,....f
t"And what do you suppose he is do
ing there ?'' 80 e ''-'.''''i' '-as an -'.-'s;=
d Il Trading horses, sir. ''o Y - :
"Has he cheated any one there ?p
g He has cheated one, l believe, sir. "
Why did they not prosecute him ?''s
because they searched the whole
kingdom of Heaven, and eouldt find a
Iawyer.n }Z's aGs tasIF .NasAaa18
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g NOTHING TO DO.

It is common boast with would be
fine gentlemen, that they have nothing
to do. Y Youmg men, whose fathers per-
haps worked at the forge, drove carts or
blacked boots, are servants of all work
at country hotel, profess to despise
honest labor, pride themselves on a life
wealthy Incidence. Others born of fami-
lies that have enjoyed competence for
several generations, look down contempt
uously on these latter pretenders to
gentility, and like Spanish gradees of the
first class, think their blood purer than
that of the other people, because it has
flowed through drones for century or
Yet is the working man, not the idle
one, who ;is a benefit to a state. The
mere consumer adds nothing to the
community If we could suppose a
commonwealth wholly composed of such
persons, we should have one that was inn
poverishing itself continually Just in
proportion, also, as nations cease to be
producers, and become consumers do
they decline towards poverty and ruin.
The decay oftSpain is an example in
point. But people that is mostly. or
altogether; composed ofworking men, is
always adding to its wealth and enlarg-
ing its prosperity. America has fewer
-drones than any nation on the face of
the globe, and America is advancing in
a ratio that is without precedent.
II 1t is curse to a people to be idle,
not the less deleterious is it to. the in
dividuaL Nature never intended hu-
man faculties to run to waste, as they do
when a man has NO occupation. A life
of Incidence is an almost sure precursor.
to life of vice. To boast of having
nothing to do, is actually to stultify ones
self 1t is to proclaim that the cause of
civilization is to gain nothing in that.
quarter; that the noble purposes of exis-.
tence are to be selfshly sacrificed tomere
sensual qualifications. In word it is
to substitute the animal life of the saw
age, for the loftier duties of the man and
citizen.eob sti ss tad b a1iIei id5iiT se
sThe boast should be, not that one does
nothing, but that one never passes use
less moment Every true man wishes to
die in the harness. las Adams, Clay! and
Webster did, and mot to trife aWay7life
in empty amusement or vicious. excite
ments. Recreation is necessary to all,
and no man can work sturdily without
it-buta life which is all recreation is
"a fatal blunder, to use the mildest phrase.
/ 1t devours the individual with ennui re-
tards instead of advancing his develop
ments, contributes nothing to the benefit
of society, and often ends IN crime itself.
If "a man wishes to pronounce. his fown
degradation, let him boast of having
nothing to do.-Phila. Ledger. .soN =
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) THE sPRoD1eAL, eSoN.-At an infant
Sabbath-school, of the care of which I
was promoted" a few years since, !
gave bible story" the p" Prodigal
Son" When I came to the place where
the poor ragged sen reached his former
home, and his father saw him 1" a great
way of, inquired what his father prob
ably did. One of the smallest boys,
with his little fist c1enched, said +
i-''I dono, but 1 des he set de dog on
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r, A SLIGHT ERRoR.-A gentleman of
.Douot was going out in his carriage to
make some calls with his wife, when he
discovered that he had left his visiting
cards. He ordered his footman, re-
Gently come into his service, to go to
the mantle piece in his sitting room, and
bring the cards he should see there.
The servant did as ordered, retaining
the articles to, be used as he would be
directed, and off started the gentleman,
sending in the footman with cards where
ever g not at homes. occurred. o As
these were quite numerous, he turned to
his servant with the question, cnsurp
How many cards have you left ?"
"Well, SIR" said the footman, very
innocently, =" there's the king of spades,
the six of hearts, and the ace of elubs-n
J The poor fellow had taken the wrong
documents.
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r-.s Sc thera lN .exclaimed a re

E" See there ln exclaimed re-
turned Irish soldier to a gaping crowd,
as he exhibited with some pride his tall
hat with bullet-hole in it. "Look at
that bullet-hole, will yeesa ye see that
if it had been a low crowned hat l
should have been kilt 20
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HAT WANTED. Please Mr.. Smith,
papa wants to know if you won't lend
him the model oflyour hat?a .soid
saa" Certainly, my son; what for?p
g" He wants to make scare crow to
keep the corn out of our turkey-buz-
yards. !" o
p Exit youth, followed by Smith and a
new xe-helve sas - ia
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NJ E Punch proposes "prize joke
show" As specimen of the style adj
missible, the following is given " If
I want statute of myself, why should
1 be foolish to present a sculptor with
the marble for the work? Answers.
Because if did, he would be sure to
chisel me out of il"
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E Meeting a negro in the, road,
with Grape ON his hat, a traveller said:
p s"iYou have lost some of your rela-
tives i see.n- sGsL baszE ! ELb 70
.isi's Y es, Nassau 11c sl5i5s =sed -E
"Was it a near or distant relative ?"
n" Yes, putty. distant-'bout twenty
four miles," was the reply.lI ssoz e..
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7 IL The mechanic who improved
an opportunity, intends to have it pat
ented,
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EE Why must your nose necessari-
ly be in the middle of your face? Be-
cause it is the scenter.
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+ A tuft of horse=hair is commonly in
serted by the Circassians in the heels of
their prisoners, in order to create such a
degree of lameness as to prevent their
escape s. sbsRE aTsE .-7sasa.[s os'io1;
i The simplicity of many of the Rus
sian soldiers is almost touching in its
ehildness. 1t, is against the Czar that
we are making war, not against these
unfortunate beings.
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.2a;O4d IRON Wan ted,

.rfIHE Subscriber 6fil pzsscAsH for any quantity
u. OF old metal delivered At his foundry in shIad
Fab. /, 37tf II, II. MANSFIELD.
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