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MARRIAGE UNDER DIFFICULTIES

A queer affair, says the Philadelphia
Enquirer, happened not long since in
this city. A young man. it seems, took
fancy TO rather stylish looking shop
girl, and they were soon engaged to be
married. The parties net at the Church
for the purpose of being uni!ed. While
awaiting the arrival of the minister, which
they did in the porch of the church. a
tailor stepped up 10 the bridegroom and
presented bill for his wedding coat
The bill must be paid at once or the
coat returned. Now it was rather a diff
6cult thing for the bridegroom to pay
for the coat, for he had not dollar saw
ing that which be had laid aside for the
clergyman. Again, he had the coat on
his back, and if he permitted the tailor to
take it he would have to be married in
his shirt sleeves. A friend who he had in
vited to witness the ceremony, seeing his
advanced the requisite
sum, and the tailor departed. But all
trouble was not at an end-the parties
had hardly left the altar. on the compile
ton of the ceremony, when stout coarse
woman made her way up to the bride
and presented a bill for the wedding
dress. The friend advanced money
again, and the woman departed. We
should call this getting manied under
difficulties.
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RATHER SPICY.

The editoress of the Olive Branch,
published at Boston, having received a
communication from Nashville, Tennes-
see, inquiring whether some female print
ers could be hired to go to Nashville.
replied as follows:
Every girl in Boston who is old
enough to work in printing Office, OF
any other Office. has lover whom she
would be as likely to trade off for Ten
nessee article as she weuld to swop him
off for grizzly bear. The idea of a
Boston girl. who goes to operas. patron
ICES Jullien's concerts, waltzes once
week, eats ice cream, rides in the omni-
bus. wears satin slippers, sometimes kiss
es the editor, going to Tennessee. unless
she goes there as one Of your first class
citizens, editors excepted, is truly ridic.
ulous. Wouldn't girl in a silk dress,
with lace edged pantalets. and shiny gal.
ter boots, look well trudging through
the mud and mire Of Nashville to an old
barn of a printing Office, while in one
corner CT the same room, two old dark
les are jerking away al an old ramage
press, and in the other the editor is
squirting tobacco juice over1he AOor?-
Wouldn't she be in nice fix when the
editor and some great brute of fellow
whom he had Tended, got to playing at
the game of shooting their tevolvers
across the Office at each others headsl
Who would make the fire when the devil
had run off, and the editor was drunk?
Who'd go home with her of dark nights?
Who would take her out to ride on Sun
day afternoon, and go to Church with
her on Sunday! No, sir, a Boston girl
won't go 10 Tennessee for love or money.
She can get enough Of both nearer home.
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GBoiet Mlisttllangg,
From Chambers Edinburgh jour-
THE COURT BALL.

The splendid city of St. Petersburgh
wore an air Of unusual gaiety and ex-
element on the morning of the 9th Of
December l6-. In the immediate
neighborhood of the Winter Palace, this
excitement and hustle of preparation was
manifest. Servants clad in the imperial
livery were to be seen running to and
fro in all directions some assisting to
lift into their places the most fragrant
exotics, destined to decorate the sump-
tous halls others laden with some Of
the choicest flowers, looking gayer and
more beautiful because of the contrast
they presented to the. dead winter-sea-
son out eff doors whilst to third set of
careful hands, were intrusted the trans
port Of large light bandboxes, containing
the ball-dresses Of her maiesty's maids
of honor.
All these signs of preparation for the
soming festivity belonged especially to
that day /; for had not the Empress
Alexandrine issued her invitations, COM
manding those so honored as 10 receive
them to attend her annual ball, given in
celebration of his majesty of the Empe-
ror Nicholas name day
Already, at daybreak, some honest
prayers for his health and happiness had
been offered up, and some warm, heart
felt good wishes for his prosperity
breathed from the twelve prisoners for
political offences pardoned and liberated.
in honor of that occasion, from the for
tress; but, indeed, though doubtless
their emotions might surpass in enthusi.
asm and intensity those of the mass of
the people, still there was pretty gene
rally spread in those days very warm
and loyal hearted feeling of personal at
tachment to the Gar, which of course,
signalized itself on this his saints day.
At noon Nicholas reviewed his noble
regiment of the Cheyalier Guards in the
Champ de Mars, taking occasion to CON-
Pliment, with few well chosen words,
his most efficient officers; on whom,
also. he bestowed more tangible marks
Of his favor, BY presenting them with
medals Of gold, bearing his likeness
From thence he drove. to the ice-mouR-
tains. where the young cadets were
amusing themselves after partaking of
splendid collation.. provided for them by
their imperial master. Ay. and right
royal and noble did he look as be leaped |
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APRIL.

At last young April. ever fraii and fair,
wooed by her playmate with the golden hair,
Chased to the margin cf receding foods
Der the soft meadows, starred with opening buds,
In tears and bushes sighs herself away,
And hides her cheek beneath the flowers Of May.
Then the proud tulip lights her beacon blaze,
Her clustering cuTls the hyacinih displays,
Ger her tall blades the erested'heur de-lis,
Like blue eyed Psllss, towers erect and free
With yellower flames the heightened sunshine glowI
And love lays bare the passion-breathing rose;
Queen OF the lake, along its reedy verge
The rival lily hasteRs TO emerge,
Her snowy shoulders glistening she strips,
Till morn is sultan Of her parted lips.
Then bursts the song from every leafy glade,
The yielding seasons bridal serenade;
Then fash the wings returning summer calls
Though the deep arches OF her forest halls;
The bluebird breathing from its azure plumes
The fragrance borrowed where the myrtle blooms;
The thrush, poor EandeTer, dropping meekly down,
Clad in his remnant of sutumnal brown;
Ihe orole, drifting like fake of fire
Rent ty the whirlwind from blazing spire.
The robin, jerking his spasmodic throat,
Repeats, stGeeatO. his peremptory note;
The crsckbrzined bobonk courts his crazy mate,
Poised on a bulrush tipsy with his weight
Nay: in his cage the lone canary sings.
Feels the soft air and spreads his idle wings.
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a hundred times day for my country'sI
welfare. All rests with you, and can
not doubt what your decision will be-
While you hold to your word, think you
he will consent to break his? So, for
the sake of your sovereign, of your
country, of him You profess so to love,
Idemand of you this sacrifice, bitter as
it isl"
The poor girl hid her face in her
hands and almost inaudibly said:
1t was true what he had said-it was
no high sounding speech of merely world
ly policy; for those who knew Nicholas
best DO believe him, however mistaken,
to have been a conscientious man, who
actually did daily and hourly sacrifice
his private feelings to what he believed
his duty, He had done so even in the
present instance. By one word Of i'm
perative command, he could have at
tanned his object; but the autocrat had
stopped to argument and solicitation
with the young girl, who bent like reed
before him.
At the bethrothal, which took place
Immediately, and during the whole
time of the splendid preparations for the
wedding, Natalie lived and moved as il
dream-nothing gave her pleasure,
nothing pain. On the evening appoin-
ted for the religious ceremony, when all
the guests were assembled, and the
bridesmaids, thirty-six in number, and
mastering among them the highest rank
and beauty of the young nobility of Rus
sia, were assembled in the magni6ciently
lighted and decorated church-when the
bridegroom Maurenosoff stood, looking,
in spite of all the repulses he had receiv-
ed at Naialie's hands, proud contented;
and almost happy-all eyes were turned
toward the church-doors, when presently
the bells began noisily toannounce the ap
proach of the bride, and in another in-
slant. leaning on the arm of the emperor,
she appeared.
Never shall l forget that scene-never
lose from my memory the impression Of
that marble face and utterly unresisIing
manner. If she had been in her coffin,
she would have looked less deathlike
there than when she stood shrouded in
lace and glittering wi h jewels starting
at vacancy, hearing nothing. under
staining nothing, answering as if the
words and their meaning were alike in
different. After the ceremony was con.
cluded she received the congratulations
of her friends, and even the kiss Of the
empress, as if so many condolences had
been offered her. But nature broke
down under the forced composure of the
moment, and she entered her-neW home,
borne across the threshold in state of
insensibility. l need add nothing more
The emperor had Judged rightly; and
the marriage of The grand duke with the
present empress took place very shortly
afterwards.
Within a year after her marriage, l
saw the Countess Maurenosoff in her
coffin; she had died giving birth to twin
daughters.
The little incidents of this little nara
tive are well known in St. Petersburg,
and will be recognized by many who
will appreciate the reasons that have
made me alter the names of all but the
principal actors.
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The Knickerbocker, for February. is an
unusually good number, both in the or
iginsl communications and in the edito-
rial matter. On pages 9os and 9o9 are
some paragraphs about the childrsa.
two or three Of which we transcribe:
Our little boy. bright, observing
child Of FIVE summers, yesterday went
with his nurse to a distant church. As
You well know; in the Episcopal Church
the collection for the day IS gensyaly ta-
ken up before the sermon. This was
the case here. When he left the Church,
he remarked 10 his father that Mr.. H.
preached a good sermon, but took his
money first. In the afternoon he went.
with his mother, to the service. Alter the
sermon was concluded, and the blessing
pronounced, he looked up into her fare
with the irquiry, "Don'twe have to
pay!"
/ was traversiRg the southern tier of
our counties, short time since, when
overtaken by storm which had sudden
ly arisen, l sought shelter in a very
comfortable domicil, possessing much of
the "old homestead appearance" We
sometimes read Of. The family was quite
large; and at evening prayers | saw as
sembled the gray and the haired.
The eldest Of the company, / should
judge, had seen at least the third gener-
ation of his name--a worthy sire, and
one who demanded reverence a! first
sight. l felt peculiarly awe-stricken
when this old man, after reading chap
ter in the Bible, kneeled to offer thanks
for the manifold blessings four common
Creator. The room would have resoun-
ded to the least noise, and all were silent
till the 6nal '.Amenp' which Nas Ut
tered with peculiar emphasis. Hardly
had the "Amen" been ut cred, when a
bright-eyed urchin suddenly projected
his toH-head above the table on the 9th
er side of the room, fnd inquired.
Grandpa. why don't you say 'A-po-
men. sometimes when you are done
praying?" The effect was irresistible.
The other day our little boy saw a
"colored lady" in the house for ths 6rst
lime; after contemplating the strange
a moment. with his little
hands behind him. he went up to her.
Ind looking into her face, exclaimed,
With countenanee indeacribable, "Wby
low dirty you arel"
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4oetrp,
THE LIFE.CL0CK.

There is little mystic clock,
Ne human eye has seem
Thai beateth on that beateth On,
From morning until cen:
And when the sOnl is wrapped In sleep,
And heareth not a sound,
II ticks, and ticks, the live long day,
And never runneth down.
Oh, vondrous is the work Of art,
Which knells the passing hour,
But art ne'er iormsd, nor miHd conceived,
The life-clock's magic power.
Not set in gold, nor decked with gems.
By pride and wealth possessed;
But rich or poor, or high or low,
Each bears it in his breast
when Iife's deep stream. mid beds Of flowers,
All still and softly glides,
Like the wavelet's step, with gentle beat,
It warns of passing tides.
When passion nerves the warriors arm,
For deeds OF hate and wrong.
Though needed not the fearful sound.
The kneIl is deep and strong.
When eye to eye are gazing soft,
And tender words are spoken
Then fast and wild il rattles on,
ASH with love Ixere broken
Such is the clock that measures life.
or flesh and spirit blended;
And thus twill run within The breast,
Till that strange life is ended.
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ONE BY ONE.

One by one the sands are flowing,
One by one the moments fall;i
Some are coming, some are going,
Do not strive to grasp them all
One by one thy duties wait thee,
Let thy whole strength go to each;
Let no future dreams elats thee,
Learn thou first what these can teach.
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PoPULAR writers usually deal with
facts. as wig makers do with beads, sup
plying q graceful covering. for their
badness.
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WE must watch our passions, as men
in the wilderness watch the wild animals
around them.
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The young long for lands beyond the
ocean, and the old for regions beyond
the grave.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-04-16

Tue pain of doing righ: is less than
the punishment Of doing srong.
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WHOLE NO. 2Oss :,
GREAT CITY IN CENTRAL AFRICA.

Mr. Bowen, a Baptist Missionary, sent
out from Florida, in his journal nentions
a visit made last April to Horrin. the
eapitalof the Kingdom Of Yoruba. He
speaks Of it as about the largest town.
with the exception of London, that
he has ever seen. He describes the in
habitants as peculiar people. with whom
he was much pleased-mostly black,
and some nearly white, hair between
tina: of a negro and IA white mans, beard
good, European features-some of their
noses would even be considered sharp in
America. Again he speaks of them
Gas that superior class or race of men
who have jet black skins with European
features and large beard. They are
sometimes called lUhite black men.
Mr.. Brown adds:-I never saw sn
honorable man or modest woman in
Africa, till reached Horria. The num-
Der of people who can read and write
surprised me. Many of them have no
idols. They are generally serious, solid,
sensible people, and profess to believe in
God. They have no tiucture of Mahom-
mechanism.
The existence of such people in re-
gion hitherto unknown, but supposed to
be the abode of utter barbarism, is fact
of no little interest. It would seem,
from Mr.. Browns statements-(unfortu-
nately his journal is too brief to be salts.
factory)-that they are willing listeners
to the preaching of the gospel. True,
he was, on arriving at HOrrin, subjected
to nominal confinement for a few DAYS,
but very soon was received with honor
by the King, who gave him valuable
horse, presents for his wife, ,-laad to build
on, and also for house of worship
We note it as not little curious, that
Swedenbcrg in one of his strange publ
cations, written between eighty and
ninety years since. speaks Os meeting in
the world OF spirits individuals from
the interior Of Africa, whom be deserib-
ed as. being in moral characteristics,
much in advance Of other heather. He
speaks, especially, of their readiness to
receive the truth when communicated TO
them.-Cleve Leader. 7
Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1856-06-24
SAM scROGGS AND FILLMORE.

Most of the Old Line Wing Editors would consider
Themselves asuted by any one who proposed TO them
to enter the culvert take the secret oah and learn
the fraterna grip. If such conduct would degrade
them, does it not more degrade candidate for the
Presidency As al honest man, such candidate, II
elected should dispense equal justice and equal ia
yors TO all citizens whether natives, foreigners, or
Catholics: but as a Know-Nolhing, his secret oaths
compel him to prescribe and disfrsnchise in great
measure very large aud respectable portion CT his
fellow.citizens Those Editors propose to M no such
station, TO incur 10 suun duties aud responsibilities,
end might, with far more propriety than their candl-
date, take such oatls
1t appears from the evidence of General Scroggs,
and from Mr. Fllmore's letter of acceptance, that he
has wholly incapacitated himself to discharge con-
scentiousy, honestly fairly, the duties OF the Of
fee to which be aspi,ea. He proposes to become
President only of part of the people, and the oath
bound tyrant aud oppressor Of the balance
His present position is one which no honorable or
honest man should occupy In private life the most
honorable man, without derogation or impeachment
Of his honor, may be now.Nothipg, but there
are few othcls stations in which the Kuow-Nothlng
might not sometimes find his party oaths and allie.
glance, conflicting with his public duties As Presi.
dent, no could discharge his duties fairly for a
single day. without violating his oaths.
This subject is too plain to need further comment
But We are resolved that Sam and Fillmore shall face
the music. They shall, 1t least, attempt to show
how Know-Nothing, as such, can be just, Impair
tisl and honest President
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WHO is HE !

Perhaps the National American may be able to en-
tighten the public as 10 the identity Of the "Frgina
Editor" referred to below by The New York cores
pondence of the Charleston Standard. Th2 state
men. goes to ccnfr=a O1in,ons oien avowed that the
f,llmoreues have no hope Of succeeding before the
people, butt in their desperation and bitter hostility
to the National Democracy, will take every chance,
even at the risk Of aiding the Of Black Re.
paoiiconism in the House of Representatives. pre-.
sided over by HaukG. Will not this development
ptarsle all true Southern men, and convince them of
The criminal fully and madness Of dividing the South.
ern vote in the real contest between the National
Democracy and reasonable Black Repubcansm
A Virginia Editor and delegate to the late Know
Nothing National Council (which was slender affair,
said to during the Council that they would like
t. withdraw Fillmore if they could, and fuse with The
general opposition to the administration but were
they to do 30 Kuow.Nuthingsm would be at an end
in ths South and all would 10 for Buchanan He
thought therefore, that the b. ct and only thing to be
dop. was to staud to their guns take 3s aDy States
as posshe FROM S.aaapGU, In tue South, and thus
nrrhapSe ,hrJw ths election into the House, where
Fillmore might stand better chance. There are
tho.. who think that Fillmore, when he returns and
srrs u,t how things stand, will withdraw, but know
something of the man, and venture all my prophet.
ic reputation that he will do no such thing.-lN. r
Cor. CharlestoH Standard.
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KNOW-EOTHING AND RItACK BEPUbLl-
CAN COMAINATI0N.

In the Philadelphia BLACK Republican Convention
many speakers admitted their own weakness, with
out an alliance with the know.NothingA. Mr.. Little
John of New York, ssid that "wthout the aid of the
Americans, james Buchanan would certainly be
elected"
Mr. Gazzan of Pittsburg, said "he had opposed
the American party in their earliest organization, but
he could not deny that they formed the bone aud
Of the Republicans p.HY."
Mr.. Elliott OF Massachusets, got tue foort to
that he thoughtt weuld be better to treat the Amer
cans with courtesy-s the Americans, 80 far as he
knew, are Republicans
This is the great "nationaf party into whose fold
Know Nothing leaders sought to inveigle the Sou,h
ern people! Was there ever more strocious de
tiou sought to be carried out
Does not every days experience aciAonstro
fact that the Democracy Is the only national
snd that every national man should baud togeth. :.
the support Of Buchanan, against whom alone the
abolition foes Of the Constitution and the Union. d
rect their vile assaults
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,s.issE' PRYOR Il DUNNA'ANH'
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CoMlIISs!ONER's OFFICE:

,Hk>l Ent IkIp I. II JtSk - 80,
| rur cerp,rORS OF THE ESTI' E Ot vii
fiiiiW WALLACE DAY, DECEASED. AND A. ~
~. 'T'ONCE2NED- You are hereb! noth.a' tts
..,,cc ;, Il decree .! thc Circuit. Court OF Chester
an pronourcsI on the drs, day OF May iT'o; ~ !;
as OF " " Days ESecu'rix, &C; a-n.nS' rn,v
,ni ..t,-s. have appointed the 18th dny oi July
.rir.. t,- taking AN accoun, OF the real ana
SAFE o. Wm W. Day, decd, and OF me "nass'
f., !p v,u. thereof; account "t ihr l,lan',ti H.
,1,. a. executive aforesaid. snd an scco"h' vi ;n
Of he ,.s:u'or, and the disnitie+ ih'f"",' a.
sa place you ar, hereby requ'ed' 10 "',,.s ,S Circuit
. =, Chs.,rrieII county the day and vcsE ars' ao'e
: . W. ". 7. COGRlLL Commissioner
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JOHN s. GEORGE GIBSON,
!OCSE RUll DERS Ann CARpENTERS

N 49,, RICHMOND, Va,
HAVING extensively fitted up their establishment
with the latest improved machinery. are prepared
ash al abort notice and on reasonable terms, all
E fE" Portable finished Carpenters work. such Nc
~ :. AID Window Frames, Castings, out and inside fin.
:.@aa' blGds and Doors Of all varieties
C' hont!ni!s, Porch"s, Verandrhs Bricorics
s.e rO'nsse a.Gulaitgs aad BFsgasta Of all sizes
||pESu,Ediu:s OF all descriptions
bsr bDG%,''s, Chnr.boards Ceiling boards, &c, &C.
WI, make estimates tor work to plans furnished
ue'"r II II, their factory the estimated prices
l-P-cuully solicited. Jan 2S-ctf