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POLITICAL.
Cuba-The Views of MIR. Thrasher.


We have received letter (says the Charles
ton Comricr) from New Orleans from the pen
Of Mr.. J. S. Thrashcr, in the course of which he
gives his views of the Cuba question. lie states
distinctly that he is engaged in an effort to raise
money for the purposes of the Cuba revolution
and he says he knows of no laws prohibiting
such q course. He ridicules the Proclamation
of the President, and intimates that there is no
such thing as a military expedition on foot
lie expresses the opinion that there will be no
war with Spain and he concludes with this Ian
guage:
"Thc unanimous opinion throughout the
country is, that the "unity cabinet" of the Pres
ident has certain fixed principles of action that
rs no two of its members think alike Gil any
question, they take weekly (don't let the prin-
ter make mistake and print that word ,ceakly)
turns Mt n fixed policy. Now, there are eight
members. including the President, and | pre-
sumo heis allowed to have his turn, so that the
"war" policy stands chance of ruling only du-
ring one week in each eight weeks, and seven
days ore not quite enough to carry this coun-
trF into war.
Besides, I am told that the cabinet is afraid
Of the discussion Of its measures in Congress
and before the country Now all know that
Gen. Pezuela has authority to issue the decree
emancipating the slavein Cuba on the decara-
ton of our Government Of war against Spain,
and that he has openly said he would do it
IuT SllS Iou III ChC NellutC HAS ulSo SUN CIluL
Calderon dc In Barker, late Spanish Minister
at Washington, and now minister Of foreign
affairs at Madrid, has personally given him the
same assurance. Thus war with Spain would
bring on the decree; the decree would bring
on emancipation in Cuba; emancipation in
Cuba would bring on discussion in Congress
discussion in Congress would bring -, (the
reader may fill the blank with any word he
ohooses) on the administration.
"While now their souls with ardor thrill,
The new recruits march out to drill;
The cockade monstrous fine appears,
But then the sword awakes their fears. -
Moreover, Cuba is rapidly preparing to set
tie her own domestic affairs; and as she is
young and lively, tied down with no consider
ations for friendly power" and fully deter
mined to continue her efforts, the probabilities
arc that the betters on her against Uncle Sans
deliberative nag will win their money. am
confirmed in the opinion from the conduct of
Uncle Sans riders on the" squatters sover-
eighty course.
Andla1tly, I do not think we shall have war
with Spain, because the Administration is play
ang four stringed fiddle Soule and sell in
Madrid tClcto and negotiation in Washington
and proclamation and war in the country at
large arethree of the strings Regarding the
fourthsstring,. "a decent respect" for the opin-
ions Of mankind towards the administrator,
lin view of the prospective alliances between usl
requires that should maintain q respectful Il.
ience.' sg J.S. THRAsER."
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A Scene from Real Life.-woman's Love

VIC saw last evening On apt illustration of
the affection Of woman. A poor inebriated
wretch in the after noon had been taken to the
cnlaboose. Ills conduct on the street. aud nf-
ter he was placed in the cell, was Of such vi
olent character that it became necessary to
handcuf him. The demon of rum had DOS.
session of his soul, and lie gave vent toshis ra-
wings in curses profane MS to shock the senses
of his fellow prisoners, one Of whom, in the
same cell, Mt his own solicitation, was placed in
separate apartment "A woman appeared at
the grating, and in heEhands she had a rude
tray, upon which was placed some slices Of
bread, fresh from the, hearthstone and other
little dclicacies for her erring husband. She
stood at the bar gazing intensely into the thick
gloom where her mannclcd companionF wildly
ravcd. Her voice was low and ;eoft and as she
called his name it's utterance was as plaintive
as the melody of q fond and crushed spirit.
The tears streamed from her eyes, and there,
Fin the dark prison house, the abode of the most
wretched and depraved, the tones of her voice
found their way into tho wicked mans heart,
and he knelt in sorrow and in silence before
his young and injured wife while his heart
found relief in tears such only as man can weep.
Though the irons still bound his wrists, he
degradation, confidingly and nffectionately up
on the brow of his fair companion and exclnin.
cd "Katy, will be better man." There up
on a rude seat she had spread the humble meal
which she had prepared with her own hands,
and after he had finished rose to depart, bid
ding him be calm and resigned for her sake,
with tho assurance that she would bring q
friend to go on his bond and that she would re-
turn and take him home. And she left him. o
| strong man withshis head dropping upon his
breast very, coward humiliated before the
weak and tender being, whose presence and af.
fection had stilied the angry passions of his
soul. True to Ethe instincts @of her love and
I s-ff- q 81
his bond Tor his appearance next morning, and
with his hand clasped in that of his loving
wife, shc led him away apenitent and we trust
better N en-. Theteswere those who, laughed,
as that pale, meek woman bore off her errine
husband, but che needed them not, and hersclf
| sacrificing heart knew or cared for nothing ID
its holy and heaven born instincts, but to pre-
serve and to protect him whom she loved with
all the devotion of Q wife and woman, (. g.
So ST Loats RepEbi;ean. II
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POETRY.
Iron THE INDEPENDENT rREss.

FOR THE INDEPENDENT PRESS.
Lines
TO HER WHO CAN BEST UNDERSTAND THEM.
The last red glow of the twilight hour
Had gone from the darkcncd skies
As sat by the light of chandelier,
And marked thy witching eyes.
The light-wingcd breeze had gone to sleep,
And the birds had hushcd their glcc,
Andmy pulse did leap with light, free bound
As you gave those flowers to me.
I've always loved, from my childhood's hour,
To look on the bright and gay,
And tried to sweep with a cunning hand
The beautiful in my way.
I've heir'd the gifts of favored few,
Which cheer me when sec;
But the best Of all that ever had
Arc the foccrs you yavc to mel
I've often looked with wooing ego
On the work of skilful hand,
And felt twas good to award it praise
. In every cline and land;
But the flowers you twincd rs boon for me
Is the gift praise today
And sooner would part with sacred right
Than throw one flower away.
I've touched my harp with light, gay heart,
And have felt the thrill of joy
And tried to sip from the cup of bliss
Tillmy spirits, aye, would cloy;
But the thirst have for the light and gay
Is whim that's dear to me,
And the flowers took from your snowy hand
Are the flowers Ill love for thee.
know that you love the gay Of this life,
AS well rs the grave I wccn,
For the soul that bears such comely face
Must leap at joyous scene
The world is filled with thousand charms,
And the best of all are thine;
But the flowers you wreathed as gift for ME
Arc all that I ask as minc
Ut. Carmel, June "a, 1854.
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A Queer shift to make Money.

A few weeks agoaa young man stopped be-
fore our house andScalled us to the gate. He
wanted to find the whereabouts of our Tax
Collector. Upon our enquiring Of ;bims what
he wanted with the Collector, he replied that
"he was travelling through the South, princi-
pally, on the hunt up of Names and that bfafter
newspapaper Offices, Tax Collectors books
were the ikeliest places to find them in abun-
dance" And what good will the names do
you pray after you get themi +" Well, Sifs''
said he With. ssshrewd Yankee twinkle of the
eye, a. them when get back home to the
various Publishers in our cities, at a half-dollar
per hundred, and the best of tho joke is, sell
the same list forty times over" The chap fad
then in his saddle-bags some twenty thousand
names for which he expected torealize at least
FIVE, Hundred dollars. And tthe Publishers
make by it too. They ere thus enabled to send
out their newspaper md pefodieals on trial
trips to every nook and corner Of the South,
rsaeiying in return, stme five Of six S6bscrip-
tions at least ont of every fifty cents worth Of
names-Edgefsld Adsaytiser
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Platte river: There are already five post Offices
established in Nebraska on the north side of the
Platte, ns is the case with Western Iowa; this
new territory will be filled soon after being
opened, with hardy, industrious people from the
East, who will make her hills and dales resound
with the song of the laborer or click of the me-
chanic's tools
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Fortuna g PrinterS

q "lThe annual income Of Samuel Bran an, OF
California, is $3.50, ,0ooa Ershange paper. s
J. About ninefyears ago Bsanban, . foorp penni::
less printer, arrived in this Sty rom the West,
A4crownlass hat and shabSf nit Of fseISthss
gs,s re- nasgeTy preposss.s sseonaaq! tieps y
persqns Of tl5Sisms saaigion a. .bimsslE Ehe .Nss
|4upplisd witt decent suifof clofheA a1d4S5
4hortsY nftsfNards inade editorspf sssWs4kIy
paper owned the sams perSons ono AZ our
isnds was.employsd As.B BhS6an, auld it3yafs
Of tie difaenltias he (Be4prar EA1perisnSadi in
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CoME WHEN THE BIRDS sINo.-Prof. Caldwell,
of Dickson College, a short time before his
death. said to his wife:-You will not am
sure, lie down upon your bed and weep, when
am gone. And when you visit the spot where
lie, do not choose n sad and mournful time; T;
dark of night-These are no times to visit: the
grave of one who hopes and trusts in q risen
Redeeemerl Come, dear wife, in the bright
sunshine, and when the birds are singingi
What beautiful illustration these words con.
tain Come in the morning of sunshine, when
the notes of the harmless birds are heard; come
not in the dark shades of evening, when the
mournful notes of frogs and the troubled whip.
poorwiIl will fill the graveyard. Tha. former
representing the. glorious resurrection of. the
righteous, and the later that of the WICKED.
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aos wsaessasy last
vote Of l1e,tegs (s1 not voting) passed o res.
olution to ainShd the State constitutionfso a.
to allow negroes to vote on the same terms as
white men. Also (l06 to 8O) an amendment to
prohibit any person from voting who cannot
'reads These proposed a1sndments were then
ordered t6Be continued fYethe next Legisla.
ture, and published with Che laws. !.
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An INTERESTING IScrDESr.--A correspondent
of the Greenfield Republic relates the following
interesting sinstance of maternal affection in
animals: a.
"a few days since, III. Joel Rice of Con.
way, discovered on tree what he supposed to
be q crows nest But on examinatinn he
found, instead of sbroodof unfiedged corn pull
lers, litter of flying squirrels. Not little
pleased with his booty, he thought it Q fine op-
portunity to secure an acceptable present for
his children. Having descended from the tree,
he stood at the foos conterupiatingAhis prize,
when tho old ono made her. appearance. A
mothers temerity, when her offspring are in
danger. knows no limits. She jumped upon his
hat, crawled down to his hand, and seizng one of
her young ones endeavored to take it away.
For, q moment Mr.. R. resisted her clainl-yet
only for moment. Sympathy far parents
agony made an appeal, and was successful
his better feelings triumphed, and the dam
gathering into her furry folds q litte one,
sought a new home for her family. After q
short, time she returnd and then again, until
she had taken them all away.''
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CARRYING BusDLEs.-Many people have a
conter pitble fenr Of being seen to carry n bun
die, however small, having the absurd idea that
there is social degradation in tho net. The
most triiiing as we'll as weighty packages must
be sent to them, no matter how much to the
Inconvenience of others. This arises from a
low kind of pride. There is a pride that is
higher; that arises from consciousness of there
being something in the individual not to be eff
fected by such accidents-worth and weight of
character. This latter pride was exhibited by
the American son of Jerome Napoleon Bona.
parte. While he was in College at Cambridge,
he was carrying home a broom which he had
just purchased, when he met friend, who no.
ticing it. with surprise exclaimed, Y &,
"Why did you not have it sent home2" \.
81 am notashamed to carry anything which
belongs to me, "'was the very sensible reply of
young Bonnparte. q
Very different pride was this from that of
young lady whom We knew, who always gave
her mother all the bundles to carry when they
went out together because she thought it vul
gar to beseen with one herself
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SETTLEMENT IN KANsAs.-On Saturday lost
the settlers held convention four miles west OF
Fort Lcavcnw orth. L. Burnes ESQ.,, presided
j. II. r. Cunduff, Esq, was secretary.
1twas agreed that IN association be formed
to regulate and protect claims, upon the follow.
ing principless Settlers to register their claims
in two weeks (Mr Grover was appointed Reg,
ster they are to protect each other in all reg,
.ular claims, but if not registered in two weeks
the claim to be forfeited. Where the lands are
open to settlement, there must be occupation.
On the Delaware lands. simply to mark, stake,
and register, without residence, will hold.
Now is the time for the Missourians to make
claims. The country is swarming with emi-
grants. Men on horseback, with cup and skill
let and ham, flour and coffee tied on behind,
and with axe shouldcred, are facing westward
while gentlemen and ladies are driving furious
ly to and fro in carriages, printers writing, law
yers speaking, doctors gallanting ladies' and
selecting sites for residences, companies with
flags waving stalking out the prairies, trees fall.
ing, tents stretching, cabins going up, every
thing alive, and everybody wide awake. ,Hur-
rah for KnnsasI ."Westward the star of empire
takes its way."-Parkrille Laeninary.
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AWFUL BEnEAvE,RNr.-@The tPhiladslphia In
quircr saysi We hove already alluded to the
case Of gentleman now a resident of this city,
Mr.. William H. Colliss, who Slost his, wife.
seven children, and upwards of twenty thou
sand dollarsj in; the steamship City Of Glasgow.
His agony3of mind under these Distressing cir. -
eumstances may well be imagined. For time
the was almost threatened with niadness. Heas
is now:more composed. E.S 9 =
A NEW ExcrrEMEST.-Itis is stated In, the Err,
ropean paPersthat new wonder.h
up at Stockholm, in Sweden, in tkJS SfS
singer, whose voice is more extraQrd rdin1 than
that Of Jenny Geldschmidt She hssSfaken
the people of her native city by storm, md sst
them frantic from excitement Itis said 81
she 80 enraptures her hearers, by her singHg,
forget themselves and stop Her HSife Il:
Mr.. Madden, d brother-in-law OF Jehn7keE
OSulliyan, hos sold his plantation ana sIaSeA
Ein the island of Cuba, and come to the United n
States with bis family for apermanent residence !"
Last sumhd the governor general refuseds M $.
Madden permission to come to the United
States though q member of his family wasl ly- :,
ing dangerously sick 81, ,y.sf3:s II :.
'"Husband, why do you destroy, the ssfests;
cling Betseysr Il - ss:.....s xs, 1es StEsass
'Because the Betseys are all favo,ritea of.
but wont have any sweet w illians
fprem'sesa s. y 81 "
+ Rev. Il. Il. Kayanaaeh, one 81 s = dsfh. 4
odist Episcopal Bishopg of the ECk3 S6f2s ia,
is q practical Print md when
man edited CO. lKsp1 ss sssBBsss q
,'DosE sosis ssssarssSSss lla "a 81
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WHOLE NUMBER 81.


None OF THE Mon sr1Rrr-A Judge Resisted
qn9 he Court Adourned-We learn from tho
Dalas CTexas) Herald that Judge Rcagin, whilo
noalng court in tho town Of Springfield, had
and to order the imprisonment of n Mr.. viii.
Jams. who had grossly insulted the court. On
his way to jail Williams drew knife, released
himself from the custody of the officer, and
gathered MS clan to make an assault upon tha
court. An hour or two aftcrw ards he was dis,
covered in the rear of the court house with q
rifle leveled on Judge Reagin, in the net Of
shooting him through-n window by which ho
was sitting holding the court and the gun was
thrown up just in time to save the Judges life.
The sheriff was ordered to summon all the by.
ISLANDERS to arrest him; they either would not
or could not do it, and the court then ordered
him to summon every body in town to assist.
Still failing to arrest the offender, Judge r. ad-
iourned the court, declaring that he would not
hold court where the civil authority could not
be respected and enforced ="
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Why DON'T you TAKE A PAPER 7--Can it be
that you are too stngys Or are you too poori
Or arc you too lazy to read iti Or do you read
your neighbrs paper and get the news with
| out paying the printer for it7 If 80, is it hon.
est in you to do soi Any man who don't SUBJ
scribe for his country paper need not expect
his children to know what is going on in tho
world around them, only as they get it second
handed from those who patronize the paper.
families, who spend hundreds of dollars for
mere trifes to amuse their children, and who
cannot afford to pay two or three dollars for
the luxurcs of newspaper. We say we have
been astonished ut such men, and know soma
such men yet, and our astoniahment still con-
tinucs; but we hope ere long to have the pleas
urc of entering their names ON our books, and
of proving to them that there's nothing like
q newspaper Wakulla Times.
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MORE MonAIrrY.--Father Kroegcr, Roman
Catholic Priest in this city, was arrested yes
terday for assault with attempt to commit q
rape on girl fourteen years old. She testificd
that ehe went to confession to him; he asked
her into private room, and inquired if shc had
| ever sinned with a man. She said "No,' and
he then undertook to make an indecent personal
examination of her, which he did. He then
whipped her severely.
She screamed Her screams attracted tho
attention of the workmen on the Church and
| the ncighbors. and che was let out The door
! was locked ali the time she was in. 1Her testi-
| mony as to the door being locked and tho
screaming and whipping was confirmed by
other witnesses a %.
Father Ritter, another priest in tho Same
| Church, testified that the door was not locked
but open: That he sow the girl and priest talk
ing together that the screams were made by
another girl in another place. *"
The testimony shows not 80 much an intent
to commit rape as the claiming of right to
make IN indecent personal examination of tho
girl-New York Bren:ngjEs Post.
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Thompson's Life Preserver.

! We described to our readers this valuable in.
| vention, and we can now state that it was fully
| tested at the Navy Yard on Friday, in the pres.
ence of q party of naval officers members OF
Congress, and others, and received many ex-
Pressons of appreciation. The Union states
| that an experimenter, who had never before
| seen the machine, threw himself with it into
| eighteen feet water, and managed it many ways
with perfect ease. He got in and out of it sev-
eral times i'll different ways, sometimes raising
| 1T with one hand out of the water, and putting
| it over his head and shoulders and then draw
ing the arms through; sometimes putting in his
feet first rs it lay on the water, sitting, lying
upon 1T, holding to it, 6c Ho also moved it
rapidly through tho water Mt WILL and in any
direction, using his hands and feet without en-
barrassment; and it was evident that q person
with such n machine might hold up several
others, in case of emergency, while supply of
them on board vessels Of any kind, in many
cases Of peril by shipwreck, fire. de-, might save
scores and hundreds of liyes.-Nat. Ltei1igenccr
A THRILLING INcIDENr.-We published n few
days since ON account of the hazardous exploit
o.. child which clambcrod upon roof in
New. York, and was providentially rescued
when death seemed imminent. precisely sim
liar incident occurred, but day or two since
before our own eyes. An infant of not more
than two years, unnoticcd by its nurse, clam
bcrcd upon the sill of q window in the third
scoiy VI 'lc lolei oPPoslte our once, and there
stood, laughing and Growing, oil needless of the
peril that threatened it. 1t was q sghtto make
strong men hold their breath. The slightest
motion, n breath of air, the least fright would
have thrownit off its balance, and prccipitated
itupon the pavement below. A crowd gath.
cred and stood, in speccllcss agony of suspense.
expecting every moment to sec the child dashed
to pieces. Meanwhile the infant stood boldly
erect and laughingly extended its hands Us If
inviting romP with the spectators below
at last when the sight I'D become agonizing,
n female who had been sewing in the room
where the window was, caught sight of the lit
tie creature, and with commendable GOODNESS,
instead of shrieking, and thus almost certainly
bringing. about the catastrophe, quietly stepped
to the window and enclosed the child in her
arms. One long, deep breath from tho crowd
showed the interest they had felt and the relief
xperienced.-Bu6aloD Democrat.
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Observation-Disclosures that whitewash is
one of the finest things in the world to promote
cleanliness and health. Old buildings, the
coverings Of which may not be worth the
expense of coat Of paint and which are so
unsightly that you are justly ashamed of them
in their present condition, may be made to ap.
pear almost like new work by TIE application
Of few coats of whitewash. Fences around
the house should be washed or painted, also the
interior of all out-buildings, barns, sheds, hen.
houses, granaries, &c. and the walls of the eel
Tar, as we'll as the overhead ceilings of the rooms
in the house. A liberal use of this sanitary ma
terial is of great consequence; lime being a
powerful disinfector and highly eficacious in
promoting health at all seasons of the year,
Powdered lime sprinkled over the bottom fthe
cellar after the roots are removed in the spring
and repeated occasionally through the season
till cold weather, will prevent the unpleasant
ordor ordinarily engendered by warmth, and
keep the atmosphere pure and Sweet.-[N. E
Farmer
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WnRLD,SFAIR

THE present age is trnly great era, in the Worlds
i History. Coloric engines, Magnetic Telegraphs,
&c. And the Arts and sciences improved in point
of correctness and simplicity, that it only requires
one fourth of the time and expense, now, to gain
competent knowledge of many of The Arts, that was
required 20 years ago. Fer example, Twenty years
ago it required from 10 to 20 days to learn the art of
Garment Cutting; now by the aid of
j. S. DOMAINS
Improved Garment Cutter any Lady of common ca
pacity can gain practical knowledge of this truly
interestion and necessary branch of domestic
my, in from to days. By this Best Rule of Gar
ment Cutting the Ladies up with the Tailor and
in many case they render more satisfaction than the
Tailor-their Coats, Pants and Vests, fit neat easy
and fashionable This work is now selling in IA of
the Southern ana Wester States. part fthe Wes-
tern and all the Eastern States yet for sale, and
L am giving most ex traordnary chance to make
money in the sale of the Copy Right of States, &C.,
for further information to the sale of the Copy
Right, Orders for Patterns, &C., address me TPost
Paid at Louisville, Tenn.
Respectfully,
JAMES S. BONHAM.
Publisher d ProDrietor