The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-05-23
Charles Dickens never wrote any thing more


i Charles Dickens never wrote any thing more
beautiful and true than the following: ny
true woman, for whose ambition husband:
love and her children's alteration are sufficient
who applies her military instincts to the dis
cipline of her household, and whose legisla
tons exercise themselves in making laws fol
her nurse; whose intellect has field enongf
for her in communion with her husband, and
whose heart asks no other honors than his love
and admiration a woman who does not think
Lit a weakness to attend to her toilet, and does
not disdain to be beautiful; who believes the
virtue of glossy hair and well-httlng gowns,
and who eschews rents and ravelled adges,
slip-shod shoes and audacious makeups; a
woman who speaks low, and does not speak
much; who is patient and gentle and lntellec-
tual and industrious; who loves more than she
reasons, and rarely argues, but adjusts with a
smile; such a woman is the wife we have all
dreamed of once in our lives, and who is the
mother we still worship in the backward dis
lance of the past; such a woman as this does
more for woman's cause than all the sea cap
tains, barristers, judges, and members of parli-
ament put together-and God given and God
blessed she isl a-- a-..
WESTERN BANK-One of our western cor
respondents tells the story of man who had
draft on one of the banks of Illinois for three
thousand dollars, for which he demanded spe
Gle. The bank officers invited the applicant to
come behind the counter, which invitation was
accepted, when the door of the bank safe was
opened, and the officer addressed the following
language to his visitor: "Say, stranger look
in that further corner of this safe and you will
see pile of gold. Now, that pile is the least
possible sum that the law will allow US to keep
on hand, a wasting, while we are a banking
institution; and if you think that am going to
break one Of our State laws to pay youin spe-
Gle, you don't know who / am. You never
wronged me- and have no i'll will against you,
but take care how you run on our bank, or |
will bring out our revolvers." The stranger
took bills for his draft. Boston Transcript.
The following is an extract from speech Of
col. Buncom in favor of 81 40: "Mr. Speak
open my eyes, and look over the
vast expanse Of this country-when [ see how
the yeast of freedom has caused it to rise in
the scale of civilization and expand on every
l see it growing, swelling, roaring
like spring freshet-I cannot resist the idea,
sir, the day will come when this great nation
ike schoolboy, will burst its straps and be-
come entirely too big for its boots Sir, we
want elbow room-the continent, the whole
continent, and nothing but the continent-and
We will have it. Then shall Uncle Sam, pla- ,,
ing his hat upon the Canadas, rest his right p
rm on the Oregon and California coast his
eft on the eastern seaboard, and white away P
he British power, while reposing his leg, like
freeman, upon cape Horn Sir, the day s,
Vill-tha day mist cOmep' "
The Dutcbman says, poverty runs strongly
} fun. An Irisbman is never so full Of jokes
S when he is reduced to one shirt and two
otatoes. Wealth is tacitun and very fretful.
took brokers would no sooner indulge in
earty laugh than they would lend money on L
"second mortgage" Nature is great be- Z
ealth, she saddles with lawsuits and dyspep- by
.. The poor never indulge in woodcock, but
enthey have style ofappehte that converts
lite as we'll u,r .....,~ .m
1t has been beautifully said, that "the veil spi
lich covers the face of futurty is woven by
2 hand of Mercy" Seek not to raise that ian
il, therefore, for sadness might be seen to {
ade the brow that fancy had arrayed in the S
lies Of gladness. IL ]
1t IS evident, from analysis, that the notion /
tobacco preserving the teeth, at any rate f'eI
en- smoked is an extremely erroneous one. ovs
e smoker brings in contact with his teeth, '
a high temperature, acids which cannot fail dry
attack the phosphate of lime, which forms
If principal mineral basis. RI" 7"' lea 4
The best capital for young man, is CAPT
young wife. The merit of dead men when \
med for the living, is like the stars seen on gin
water, which would not be there but for l
If bright originals in heaven. .o.... d [Irn
\ coroner's jury, some time ago returned s
following sensible verdict ''Died by the and
tation of God-through the use of ardent ass
its?' That was bright jury. 49,, "
mob says that there is no danger of hard QUO c
es among the shoemakers, because every ing
e is soled before it can be got ready for the VIII
-ket. r. =. s.-.. -. er,
he California legislature is about fixing the mel
tial knot at SO. This will bring the luxury 's1 =
egal marriage down within every ones