The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-05-16

After the defeat at Yorktown, gen. Wash
ington invited the English officers to an enter
tainment. The officers of each army gave
suitable toasts, and cheerfulness and goodwill
peryaded the assembly. The late belligerant'
did each other the justice due their bravery
and conduct-they drank to the memory O
those who had distinguished themselves dur
ing the war. When it came to the turn o.
lord CORVALLIS, he lifted high bumper to the
ehonor of gen. Marion. Yes, please your
excellency," continued he, looking at Wash
ington, II honor Marion. Slender was his
force, he yet gave me more alarm than any Of
yeur officers. I often detached my able par
tizans to surprise him; and they often promised
me by express that they had got him within
striking distance, and would soon give good
account of old Swamp Fox. But instead of
surprising him, it always turned out that he
surprised Them .
| A woman in Connecticut whose husband has
been reclaimed from drunkenness, through the
fundamentally of the Maine law, said to
physician a short time since, 81 have been
married twenty years, but it seems as if my
husband and had just lived together. Talk
about hard times! | never had such easy
times as now. Tea, sugar, flour in abundance,
two pigs in the barrel, and twenty five dollars
due my husband when he has finished a job
of work. Formerly when he had butchered
his pork, he could do nothing but drink and
carouse the remainder of the day. This year
he got up his team and brought home a load
of wood!''
A lady very earnestly told her servant girl
that perseverance was the only way to accom-
plsh great things. One day eight dumplings
were sent down stairs, and they all disappear
ed. 'Sally, where are all those dumplings?''
Il managed to get through them, n1a'am.' -
"Why, how on earth did you contrive to eat
so many dumplings?" "By perseverance if
you please, ma'am," said Sally, quite good
There is no talent so useful towards rising
in the world, or which puts men more out of
he reach or fortune, than that quality gener
ally possessed by the dullest sort of men, and a
n common speech called discretion; species a
If lower prudence, by the assistance of which, =
people of the meanest intellects, without any S
ther qualification, pass through the world in c
'reat tranquility, and with universal good treat
nent neither giving nor taking offence. y, "
The Circassian women are not only beauti-
ILL., but in some things wise. They denote tn
1eir position in society by popularity of dress. a!
fair one should chance to attract the ad- III
firing glances of a gallant knight, be can al be
avs tell by the color Of her trousers whether ar
lie wearer be maid, wife, or widow; virgin pc
hite being worn by the young girls, red by
lose who assumed the duties of matron, and pa
lie by the hapless dame who mourns the r
sath Of her lord sta
There is power some men have which wi
axes them float any way. The moment the -:
wnward pressure ceases. he.is ready to rise &c
the surface. Plunge him into a sea of dis 8
ter, and multiply mishaps, like reefs, in his !
urse, and if he cannot find plank to sus- - -,
n himself, he will tread water and make for we we
shore, and shake himself Of the drip of Bo,
misfortune, and try again. Tumble him goi
m the pinnacle of prosperity, he strikes like goo
of the feline Species upon his feet, and e erS
ks round to see if he cannot make something rior
of it. Ten to one he works his fortune out vest
lis troubles, and manufactures disasters into late
lars y