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POETRY.

Spring.
The following, by Thomas Hood, but too faith
fully portrays the tiresent Spring:
Come gentle Spring ethereal nildness comet
Oh Thompson, void of rhyme as well as reason,
How couldst thou thus poor human nature hump
There's no such season.
The spring shrink and shudder at her name!
For why, l find her breath bitter blghter!
And suffer from her bloscs as if they came
From Spring the fighter.
Her praises, then, let hardy poets sing,
And be her tuneful laureates and upholders,
Who do not feel as if they had Spring
Poured down their shoulders.
Her cowslips, stocks, and lilies Of the vale,
Her honey blossoms that you hear the bees at
Her tanses daffodils, and primrose pale,
Are things that sneeze at
Fair is the vernal quarter of the year
And fair its early buildings and its blowings-
But just suppose consumption's seeds appear;
With other sowings
For me, find, when eastern winds are high,
A frigid, not genial inspiration;
Nor can, like ironchested Chubb, defy
An inflammation
Smitten by breezes from the land ofplague,
To me all vernal luxuries are fables
Oh where's the Springs in rheumatic leg,
Stiff as table!
I limp in agony-I wheeze and cough;
And quake with Ague, that great Agitator;
Nor dream, before July, of leaving off
My Respirator.
What wonder if in May itself lack
A peg for laudatory verse to hang on9
Spring mild and gentle? ?yes as Spring-heeled Jack
To those he syringe on!
In short, whatever panegyrics lie
In fulsome odes too many to be cited,
The tenderness of Spring is all my eye
And that is blighted!
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STAUNTON VIRGINIA, WEDNESDAY, MAY IL, 1857

ed coalition. Mr.. Pellatt, who was in danger
of being drowned, did in fact lay hold of the
Admiral. The result might have been that Mr..
Pellatt, without being saved by the Admiral sa-
wing him. might have draYn the Admiral after
him and drowned him too. Happily the worthy
Admiral had in turn become aware of the trick.
He went in haste to the printer, took back
those of his cards which had not yet been sent
away. ordered others, and then provided for a
separate distribution. The only drawback was
that the rectifcation had cost him forty pounds
which together with the twenty pounds first
paid down, formed typographical expense OF
sixty pounds.
This first part of his speech was listened 10
with expressions of hiarity, which proved that
merry England is still merry England.
The rest of his speech was devoted to his be-
hayior in Parliament. The whole was received
with hurrahs of appreciation. There is no
doubt that the Admiral will be elected.
Now came Mr. Locke's turn. He advanced to
the ratings. But thoug ere were perhaps a
thousand of his adherenty mong the crowd, as
shown by the cards stuck on their hats, with
the words "for Locke" the noise was even much
greater than that which Mr.. Pellatts appearance
produced. The reason was, that in Mr.. Pellat's
case there was unanimity, while in that of Mr.
Locke there was struggle OF contendlng rae
| tions.
Mr.. Pellatt became radiant with satisfaction,
and rubbed his hands. He touched me with
his elbow-"Eh bien9" said he to me: "Eh
bien ?" said l to him. "He made his friends
groan at me, he said; 81 will make mine whis-
tie at him."
But Mr.. Locke's chest was made different
| from that of Mr.. Peatt. Refusing to speak to
the shorthand writer's, he continued speaking
to the crowd. Instead of thunder coming from
below it was thunder coming from above. Like
Andromache, when she encouraged Hector down
from the walls OF Troy, Mrs. Locke encouraged
her husband down from balcony.
From what could understand of Mr.. Locke's
very advanced speech-more advanced even
in religious than political sense-he indlca-
ted to the gentlemen what would bo his con-
duct in Parliament.
The clock struck three. 1 must send you my
first letter Immediately. Ihave no time to lose
| ran down to the Thames; took steamer
which, together with thirty or forty Others
plies on the river, and at half-past three ! was
at nv hotel. A. DUMAS.
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MANIA For BEDDNe.-A rich old maid died
recently at Newton, New Hampshire who left
properly to the value OF nearly $4,000. She
was all her lifetime getting ready to be married;
and had stored up 1872 sheets, 6S ceverlets, 30
blankets, 81 beds with ll2O pounds OF feathers,
"a pillows, 4s handkercbiefs; while the whole
amount of her wearing apparel did not exceed
fan dollars in value
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THE WAY OF THE WoRLD.-First Boy-Say
Bill then, you're getting dollar week now u
Second Boy-"Well, you might know'd that
by seein all the felers come soapin' round me
that wouldn't noticed me ven l was poor"
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Growth is the nature of habit, not of one sort
or another, but of all, even of an unnatural hab-
t.-Chas. Reade.
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Why is q cowardly yasoldier iike butter9 Be-
ause he is sure to run when exposed to fire.
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If wanted to punish an enemy, it should be
by fastening on him the trouble of constantly
hating somebody. dy.-Hannah Moore.
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PAPER HANG NGS,
WHOLESALE & RETAIL,
&c &BROTHEPS

No. 260 Baltimore Street,
Opposite Hanover street,)
BALTIMORE,
rAKE great pleasure in announcing to their friends
i and the public generally, that they are now in
their New Store, where they offer the richest and most
desirable Stock of PAPER HANGINGS AND BOR-
DERS ever offered In this city.
The Stock embraces French and our own manufac-
ture in great variety and of all the different grades
Wholesale Dealers supplied on favorable terms.
~ Orders from the country punctuay attended to-
Feb. %, lS57.-lyr.
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Love is the great Instrument and engine Of
nature the bond and cement of society, the
spring and spirit of the universe-Dr. South.
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GREAT WAKING FEAT.-A citizen of Anna
polls, Nd, left that city few days ago, on wa
ger that he could walk from there to Baltimore
in II hours, carrying with him forty pounds ez-
ira weight. The task, rather difficult one,
was duly undertaken, and performed in nine
hours, thus winning the bet, not, however, with
out considerable fatigue. The distance is about
forty miles making over four miles per hour.
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UTITMERS & CO., ALEXAN DRIA, are
w now prepared to exhibit to their friends and
customers generally, very large and beautiful stock
of Fancy and Domestic DRY GOODS, Embroide-
ries, Shawls, etc., comprising
Fancy and Black Silks, in great variety; some very
superior andrich Lustre,
Rich printed Grenadines, Challies, De LANES,
Berage do, Grape de Espange,
Berages, Grenadines and 0rgandie Robes,
De Bege Madennas, Mohair and Alpaca Lustres,
Canton Cloths, plain and printed 0rgandies,
Lawns Chintzes, Ginghams, and Brilliants.
SHAwLs.-Stela, printed Cashmere, Grape andThi-
bet Shawls, and Scarfs.
In White Goods and Embroderies our stock is unu-
suay large and embraces everything that is new and
desirable.
Bonnets and Cap Ribbons, Dress Trimmings, etc.
In Goods for Gentlemen and Boys wear, our assort-
ment is very good consisting of Cloths, Cassimeres,
and yestngs indeed everything necessary to complete
q gentleman's wardrobe.
In House Furnishing and Goods adapted to the gen.
eral wants of the trade stock for Servants wear
and Housekeeping purposes, embraces everything In
the way of Staple and Domestic Goods Cotton, Yarns
etc.
Also, Carpetings, Oil Cloths, Mating, and Rugs,
Velvet, Brussels, Ingram, Venitian, Dutch, Hemp,
List and Rag Carpetings of every grade and quality.
Canton and Cocoa Mating, all widths; Velvet Tut
ed and other Rugs, Bookings Crumb Cloths, Stair Oil
Cloths and Linens, Table do. do. do.
large stock of Floor Oil Cloths, from yard to o
yards wide various qualities, and will be cut TO MT
Rooms and Halls-all of which they will sell to the
cash or prompt credit trade, as cheap as they can be
bought in any of the larger markets.
rSP To the cash Wholesale trade we think we can
offer special Inducements and shall be glad if they
will examine our stock before purchasing.
Alexandria, April Is, 1857
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NO. II NOrtn street, DdItImUre, UHu
April 4, IS57-3m $500
3 sTEYENs. WHOLE-Ll

DEEL & STEVENS, VIII E-Q
IL sale Druggists, 80 King street, are now e-YH
ceiving a large stock of Foreign and Domes- a
tic Drugs Dye-stus Paints, Oils Varnishes Brushes
Window Glass, Putty, Patent Medicines, &c. to which
thew call the attention of dealers. They will sell at
Noitherp prices and guarantee satisfaction in every
respect. Particular attention given to orders.
Alexandria, Feb 2S, 1S57.-ly
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YOU'VE WRE.-"Oh, Pm so glad you like
birds; what kind do you most admire2"
Young Husband-"Well, think good tur-
key, with plenty of dressing, is about as nice as
any,"
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The Comet.

II is amusing to witness the hubbub which
@ approach of q comet is creating in the news
pers. Some, while protesting to be supreme
impressed with the absurdity of any alarm on
9 subject, are evidently only whistling to keep
cir courage up, and others, scarcely better IN
rmed, catch up the banteriDg discussions OF
aggish correspondents and gravely undertake
refute them. Meanwhile, one at least OF
ese luminous 'nothings, with tail to it." is
ing like game-cock, right at the head of the
orld, and scores of astronomical Paul Prys, in
cad of reversing their telescopes and keeping
as far off as possible, are nightly busy in
Irawing it nearer" In this view of the matter
is perhaps best to treat the suspicious stranger
respectfully as possible,-so we venture TO
eet him in the rhymes of his poet laureate,
r. Holmes:
The Comet he is on his way,
And singing as he flies;
The whizzing planets shrink before
The spectre of the skies;
All we'll may regal orbs burn blue,
And satellites turn pale,
Ten million cubic miles OF head,
Ten billion leagues of tale.
On, on by whistling spheres of light,
He flashes and he flames;
He turns not to the left or right,
He asks them not their names;
One spurn from his demoniac heel
= Away, away they fly,
Where darkness might be bottled up
And sold for "Tyrean dye"
And what would happen to the land,
And how would look the sea,
If, in the bearded devils path
Our earth should chance to be?
Full hot and high the sea would boil,
Full red the forests gleam
Methought heard and saw it oil,
In dyspeptic dream.
saw the tutor take his tube
The Comets course to spy,
heard scream,-the gathered rays
Had stewed the tutors eye;
/ saw a fort,-the soldiers all
Were armed with goggles green;
Pop cracked the guns! whiz few the balls!
Bang went the magazine!
saw the scalding pitch roll down
The cracking, sweating pines,
And streams of smoke, like water spouts,
Burst through the rumbng mines;
asked the firemen why they made
Snch noise about the town;
They answered not, but all the while,
The brakes went up and down.
saw roasting pullet sit
Upon baking egg,
sny crinnle scorch his hand
Extinguishing his leg
saw nine geese upon the wing
Towards the frozen pole,
And every mothers gosling fell,
Crisped to cracking coal
I saw the OK that browsed the grass
wrthe in the blistering rays,
The herbage in his shrinking jaws
Was all fiery blaze;
I saw huge fishes, boiled to rags,
Bob through the bubbllng brine;
And thoughts of supper crossed my soul;
had been rash at mine.
Strange sights! Strange sounds fearful
dream
It's memory haunts me still,
The steaming sea, the crimson glare,
That wreathed each wooded hill;
Stranger if through thy reeling brain
Such midnight visions sweep,
Spare, spare, o spare thine evening meal,
And sweet shall be thy sleep!
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An astonished female American, writing from
Paris, asserts that French ladies acquire bril-
liant complexion by never washing themselves,
and says that they content themselves with
getle rubbing with dry coarse towel
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Philadelphia. April 25th, ~.

LITTLE LECTURE FOR LITTLE FoLKs.-A da-
guerrean artist came to our little village few
days since, and hung out his sign in the most
conspicuous place. Of course he was the gen.
eral topic for the time being. The burden of
conversation in the village was "Are you going
to have your daguerreotype takenl" slave
You had it2" "When are you going to sit for
niniature2" etc:
In consequence, all the little folks were on tip
toe to have their pictures taken.
One sensible mother made it the opportunity
of impressing her chidren's minds with lesson
of lifelong Importance, by saying 81 shall be
glad to get your daguerreotypes, my dears, but /
wish for another picture taken by myself one
for which you are unconsciously sitting every
day. 1t is your picture in my heart. Now you
wish me to curl your hair and put on your most
becoming holiday attire, and you will no doubt
look yonr best when you sit for the artist to take
your miniature. No frowns on your brow, no
pout on your lip, no angry glance in your eye,no
discomfort upon your countenance, dare say"
And do you wish that shadow, daguerreo-
type that may be easily lost, broken, or in many
ways destroyed, do you wish that that shall be
more lively than the picture that your mother
will wear in her breast so long as her life shall
last9 Your daily life engraves an indestructible
picture then be careful that no shadow of rude
ness, neglect or disobedence dim its future or
mar its features.
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CTTY HOTEL.

ALEXANDRIA, VA.
FVNHIS House having been thoroughly repaired and
l. newly furnished in every department, is new open
for the accommodation of the travelling community
The new Proprietor having leased it, will spare no
efforts to make all who favor him with CALL comfort
able and agreeable during their stay at his House.
LOGAN o. SMITH, Proprietor.
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March 81, lS57-3m

DOOKS FREE OF OSTAGE.-HAVING
ID made arrangements with the principal Publish
ers for supply OF the best works. will forward free
of postage any Book, Magazine, MaSie, or Cheap
Publication advertised in New York, Baltimore or
Philadelphia on the receipt of the advertised retail
price of the work wanted thereby securing to readers
at distance books at the same rates as they can be
bought at the bookstores in large cities Catalogues
mailed gratis upon application. All orders and in
quiries answered with promptness. J. S. HUNT,
No. "a North street, Baltimore, Md.
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The New CENT.-The Director of the United
States Mint in New York city notifies the pub
lie that ION and after the twenty fifth day of
May applications may be made at the Mint for
cents of the new issue in exchange for the pie
ces commonly known as the quater, eighth and
sixteenth of the Spanish pillar dollar, and of the
Mexican dollar" at the nominal rates of 25
cents, - 12 cents, and IA cents respectively,
or in exchange for the copper cents heretofore
issued; and the persons so applying will be at
tended 10 in their order, daily, between the
hours of nine and two o'clock" The silver or
copper coins thus offered must be in even
sums of five dollars and for the present not ex
ceeding fifty dollars and in the case of silver.
the sizes or denominations must be assorted and
kept separate so that any one package shall con.
tain exactly five dollars (or multiple thereof)
Of quarters, or of eighths, or of sixteenths.Z
Such pieces of silver as are mutilated or SO much
worn as to be illegible or as have any appear
ance of being counterfeit, will not be received
for the new cents; but packages containing the
same may be exchanged at another Office in the
Mint for silver coins of the United States The
reasonable expenses of transportation of the new
cent, in sums of fifty dollars, to any point ac.
cessible by railroad and steamboat, will be paid
by the Mint.
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Valuable Farm for Sale.
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Feb. IA, 1S57.-1y
A LEXANDRIA DRUG STORE.-Q
IA HENRY COOK & CO., No SO Sarepta ~
Hall, King ST., have just received a large as "a
sortment of the choicest varieties Of Garden Seed
which they prepared to sell wholesale retail at
low prices. Orders by mail promptly attended to-
Alexandria Feb. %, 1S57.-ly
q M BAYNE PATTERSON BAYSE. d. HARMON
GEORGE BAYNE & CO., W ii L Z
" dealers in Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, and Straw
Goods S. W Corner ofKing and Water Streets, Alex
andria, Va.
r-Eys Particular, attention paid to orders.
Alexandria, Feb. %, 1S57.-ly.
GRO w,s1IyGroN JAMES ROACH.
WASHINGTON & CO., WHOLESALE AND
wv Retail Grocers, Commission and Forwarding
Merchants, No III North Union Street, Alexandria,
Va. Alexandria, fep. 70, Iooi'-y
~ ,,pSu1rI H. C. WARD.
NIARSHALL & WARD, FORWARDING
IYl and Commission Merchants and dealers IN 1roce-
ries, Salt Grass Seeds, &C., No. III King 81,
Alexandria, April A, 1S57-to mar 10, 90
Observation-Disclosures received and for sale low,
Il 80 Barrels of No. Clipped Herring as Wen Ell as
other fish. STAPLES, MARTIN q w.
Staunton April 90, 1857.
A FRICAN GUANO.-Asu supply Of this valuable
IN fertilizer, just received and for sale by
lexandria March 81, 1851. FOWLE W.
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Land Commissioner of the Illinois c. K. K. Co.
tF9 Office in Illinois Central Railroad Depot, CHI
cago, Illinois lApril IL, 1S57-6m.
The Placer herald., 1857-06-13
An Angry Editor.

Parson Brownlow, of the Knoxville wing,
has been necessitated from the backwardness
of his patrons, to editorially illuminate ana
thema. The following is a specimen of the
"extreme junction." with which he winds
up his exhortation:-
Those Of you who can't pay and will write
to us, acknowledging your Indebtedness we
will regard as clever fellows, and those of
YOU who will not do either we will publish
this spring in an extra sheet as set of grace
less rascals, willing to have poor man labor
for you for years for nothing, aud pay for
paper ink and the hire of hands to serve YOU
without hire
Come to Knoxville, YOU rascals, on n pill
grimage, and see our little ones, "chips of
the old block" looking daggers at us and
crying for bread. Come and see us with our
elbows out and the officers Of the law lead
ing us about for debts created to furnish YOU
a paper, and you will fork over at once
"And you hypocrtes, who are members
of different churches, owing us for our pa
per, how dare you, around your family altars,
night and morning. pray to God. "Pay us
this day as we pay to others,' He knows
you owe us and wont pay, and until you do
pay, you will never be heard! Yes, You
sanity villains, yon have been owing us long
enough to make us poor halt, miserable
blind and naked, and yourselves rich at our
expense. You get to heaven without paying
up-neverI'
The Placer herald., 1857-06-13
A Good One,

DR.. Magoon, recently in lecture on
"Mind Your Business" tells the following
good one:
young man went from New York city
to the West, where he commenced business
on his own account, and married His
friends in the city ereinterested in his well
fare, and when merchant was about to
journey to the place where the young man
had located, he was requested to visit the
emigrant, and ascertain how he lived, what
sort of life he had ehosen, bis prospects,
&c. Accordingly the New Yorker ascer-
tanned the residence of his young friend, and
called upon him quite early in the morning.
lie found him in small neat cottage and
just taking his breakfast. The introduction
of the New Yorker 10 the young wife was
quite otf-hand and unceremonious and he
was requested to be seated and partake Of
the morning meal. The young wife had
prepared the steak biscuit and coffee with
her own hands, and for a table had used her
kneading board, over which napkin had
been spread, and the board placed on her
lap. The New Yorker declined seat at
the table and took his leave On making
his report to his New York friends as to how
he found his young friend living, he describ-
ed the style as magnificent" and for ex-
planaion of the superlative he said, that
were he the owner Of that young mans for
tune, he would not take ten thousand dollars
for the LEGS of his table.