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Smyrna times., 1857-02-18
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Written for the Smyrna Times.
MARRYING A BLUE STOCKING,
ny MARTHA HAINEs BUTT.

sI do wonder what Clarence Collamore can
be thinking of! Surely he must be insane
Here We have al been trying to catch him.
es,iing on our sweetest smiles, arraying our
selves TO the best advantage--and yet all this
Is 10 no purpose. Oh, dear just to think be is
EOing TO marry blue-stocking! Only to fancy
such a thing Why what avail will be all the
honOrs he has had conferred upon him! Why
he graduated at Yale College, took the degree
ofA. B. A. NJ, and the dear knows what ALL
II. is handsome, intelligent--in word, every
thing but wealthy. However, he has a good
salary, aud that will answer, provided he has
good health. He looks rather delicate, think;
that came, you see, from studying SO much, he
aisc very ambitious, or was at least-I feel
very sure that he has lost it all, since he intends
marrying Lucy Wrenn." .,'a a'-.1
ala il really true thought il was only q
samor, Emma. lie certainly has lost his rea-
ssa." s5ii " -t A." . s
aThat is nv opinion, exactly. Well, can tell
him oas thing-his shirts will be minus buttons,
his socks plus holes, the house will always be in
eonfusiou, and the dear knows what all.
cannot endure the thought of his marrying her.
ysu know very we'll that Lucy Wrenn will
never do anything but write; and, as to the
house, that may go TO destruction-that is, If IT
Is TO depend upon her. A blue-stocking can
think of nothing except fingers full of ink. slo-
senly dress, room completely litsered up with
kssss and papers. Poor Clarence! am truly
ssry Cor him." ~ f -.o'f
aIcannot tell how he became so fascinated
with her. i- -a.- is.a b. 'a..
~ will tell you the whole secret" said Ada
Nurse. who thought all the world of Lucy
wsenn; though she was not personally &C
qssiutea with her, she loved her for her grea
sslent. and esteemed her because she was IL
sgery way worthy of the respect of any oBe., d,
apo tell us the secret" /" exclaimed the gEoup
since yoa know il 80 we'll" j1s i . no.laaa
NsTo me il seems very obvious, Lucy \
very intelligsnt, indeed more SO than you hns
s'sls generally. She has received a frst clas
educasop--so has Clarence Collamorc. Is
strsage, then, that he shoaId fancy her! 'Whl
tsAink IL the most natural thing IN the world
HsS man of superior mind; therefore l az
net Al eli astouished at his choice. You nigh
have erieavored to captiyste him Lifetime
and yetnot succeed Your conversation isno
saises 20 him, he admires ladies of talent--no
those who are coaversant merely upon th
ispics the gessipisg world. Now, woul
ike TO know what he could promise himse
with such wife as either of us would make
ithiak Lucy Wrenn is about the only one SUI
ed 70 him. Ii would be great pity for NJ
70 marry person who is not congeniai WI
him, it would certainly blast his happiness 70
ever. an not 10 fasor of eensurlng persol
Ne>sss do not happen 70 be blessed with y
niSa with which the great Creator has sdorns
them" ~
"rsil hold my opinion, no matter what u
Smyrna times., 1857-02-18
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Written for the Smyrna Times.
Lonely Musings,
Br EXPONENT.

lt sar gf BI RxPoNENT. s. .- -.
A stranger forlorn, DER the country roam
Companionless, friendless, alone -
No city my residence, nowhere my home,
Cold strangers await me wherever come
We're stranger in Eden, in vain would it
bloom .......
'Twere desert if love was unknown.
No countenance beams in response to my own,
The glance that illumines the soul; ....I
But their faces are cold and unmeaning as stone,
And no voice that hear carries in it the tone
OF familiar friendship and love, and my own
Sounds strangely, and startlingly cold.
The friendships form with such foudness to-day,
Tomorrow asunder are riven;
And from those that love am hurried away
By the mandate of Fate, which we all must
obey @ r.. ..-.-
We meet but to part. and we part-ah |! It may
Be to meet not again but in Heaven.
How many complain, death their friends has
removed,
But my fate is more wretched than theirs!
Death seldom has robbed me of one that loved,
But the current of life more relentless has
proved,
From the friends loved most it has forced me
10 rove,
When death would have spared them for
years.
And though friends have found here, whom
dearly prize a.-'
None were ever more dear unto me
Yet soon must / sinder those delicate ties,
And bid them adieu, for time onward hies!
Then ask me no., maiden, why frequent my
sighs- II.
An, how could it otherwise be!
Columbia, No, Jan. IA, 1857.
Smyrna times., 1857-02-18

QUEER NAMEs.-The following somewhat
amusing specimens of American nomenclature
are given in the memoirs of William Shattuekx
lately published in Boston; 4rt ,1..s 81 ,sa!Ag
- Simon Shattuck, of Fitchburg, named three
sons Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego Abel
Shattuck of Coteraiue named the male Of a
pair of twins Truman and the female Truly !;
this Truman Shattuck named q girl Truly Ann,
and Truly Shattuck named a girl Emeline Tru-
.ly: Moses Shattuck, Of Brooklyn named four
sons. since 1900, Asia, Africa, Europe and Ame-
flea. Other edd names in tho volume are All:
Philiahasse, Ssrapb, Sayneda, Sarepta, Sarads
and Thisbe Atbala. latasmEl saf 10 ssufs g
MIR. Shattuck, in his remarks upon some OF
these names, says:" Singuarity OF taste is not
peculiar to our family; we once had under our
instruction., in Detroit, family whose sons
were named, One Stickney, Two Stckney,
Three rStickney,y and whose daughters were
named Frist Suckney, Second Stickney and SC
on. The three elder children ofa family near
er home were named Joseph, And, Another
aud IL has supposed that, should they have any
more they might have named them Also, More
oyer.I Nevertheless and Notwithstanding :
Another family actually named their chile
Finis, supposing that II wastheir last, but the,
happened afterwards 10 have a daughter ans
two sons. whom they called Addsnda. Appen
dir and Supplement" .aaisAoso gnissslsini Bd
Smyrna times., 1857-02-18
A Graphic Picture of Napoleon,

The personal appearance of Napoleon in the
last days Of his power, is thus described by
Lamartine - ie Gt'H..iH.- Co.,. q l.ts.I t'.s
/" The empire had made him old before his
time. Gratifed ambition, satiated pride, the
delights of the palace, the luxurious table, a
voluptuous couch, youthful wives, compa isant
mstresses, long vigils, sIeeplcss nights, divided
between labor and festive pleasure, the habit
Of constant riding, which made him corpulent,
al tended to deaden his limbs and enervate his
faculties. An early obesity overloaded him
with flesh. His cheeks, formerly streaked with
muscles, and followed by the working fgen.-
US, were broad, full and overhaDging like those
of Otho in the Roman medals of the Empire
An excess of bile mingling with blood, gave
yellow tint to the skin, which, at distance,
looked like varnish of pale gold on his coun-
tenance. His lips still preserved their Grecian
outline and steady grace, passing easily from
smile to a menace. HIS solid, bony chin form
ed an appropriate base for his features. His
nose was but line thin and transparent. The
paleness of his cheeks gave greater brilliancy
to the blue of his eyes; his look was searching,
unsteady as waVering fame--an emblem of
Inquietude. His forehead seemed to have wi
dened, from the scantiness of his thin black
hair, which was falling from the moisture of
eohtinual thonght IL might be SAID that his
head, naturally small, had increased in size to
give scope between his temples for the machin-
cry aud combination of his mind, every thought
of which was an empire. The map of the world
seemed to have been encrusted on the orb of
that reflective head. But it was beginning to
yield and he inclined it often on his breast,
while crossing his arms like Frederick the
Great--an attitude and gesture he appeared to
effect. Unable any longer to seduce his cour-
tiers and soldiers by the charm of youth, it was
evident he wished to facinate them by the rough
pensive and disdainful character of himself, as
it were, into the statue of reflection, before his
troops, who gave him the nickname of Father
Thoughtful he assumed the post of Destiny.
Something rough, rude and savage in his move
ments, revealed his Southern and singular ORR
gin. The name of the Mediterranean broke
out constantly through the Frenchman. His
nature, too great and too powerful for the part
he had to play, overflowed on all occasions
He bore no resemblance to any of the men
around him. Superior and altogether different,
he was an offspring of the sun, of the sea and
the battle feld--out of his element even in his
own palace, and a stranger even in his own
empire. Such was at this period the profile,
the bust and the external physognomy of Ma
poleon.
Smyrna times., 1857-02-18
A MISS IN PANTs.-The Cincinnati Com
Dlerciul tells the following. .t ta.a i'fs

niercial tells the following: - -''.'. l'+'
"a AS an officer was last night standing in the
confectionery store at the corner OF Third. and
Race streets, two gentlemen entered; one Of
them approached the stove and placed his faot
upon the ledge to warm it. The officer OBJ
served that il was a pretty and small foot, but
it was covered with lady's bootee This led
to an inspection in the face, also very pretty,
but without a sign of beard, present or to come
in short the gentleman was lady in pants.
With her friend she was conveyed, weeping to
the station house,, The male gentleman Ieft a
splendid gold watch as security for the future
appearance Of the female gentleman He said
his companion was a lady of good reputation,
that she resided in Covington, and had dsnned
her masculine attire for a merry trip across the
ice 70 the Cincinnati side and back. He was
so gallant as to press her to take some refresh.
ments, and her arrest was the Consequence.
Smyrna times., 1857-02-18
stlett MlisttIlaloopy,

HeRsEBACK RIDING.-N. =. Willis, in one of
his " Invalid Letters" thus speaks ofthe thera.
peutic virtues of horseback riding: ..
VI" "Itlwas a secret which did not discover by
books-that exercise, with the legs Of horse
to do the loork, distributes the blood's fullness
from the extremities TO the CENTRE Life and
strength, that is to say, are centrifugal if you
exercise on seback-centripeta il you exer-
else on foot. 70 test this. you have only to do
the two things. But, look in the glass, when
You return from a ride in the. saddle, and YOU
will see that the hollows under your eyes are
filled out and freshened in color, and that ihe
incipient lines in your face, ;(for presume 1
am addressing a middle-aged, charming wo-
man. have Disappeared wholly or become in-
distinct. Then, look in the glass on your re-
turn from walk, Of equal exercise, and you
will see just the contrary-your eyes sunken
and the lines in your face deepened with the
fatigue. Or, still more onstratively--com
pare the fresh-coored fullness of your hands
and fingers ends, after the one exercise, with
their dragged aud depleted spareness after the
other. 3, ..ii,'s..,., .e...',., ,,...,..1 ~
. A recognition of the same fact may be seen
in the advice given by medical books to literary
men--or men whose brains are oyerworked by
prolonged attention of any kind. avoid walk
lng as an exercise, And the reason, given is,
shat the concentrated exertien, at the hips and
lolns Of the pedestrian, pull directly upon the
forces Of the spine ,whicn sustain the brain.''--
And i is nature's rallying law--or calling in
OF recruiting power from the extremities to sup.
| ply the demand upon the centre Of the system
(which equally robs the brain, the face and
the hands, of their proportionate supply of full
nessriq four beauty, msdaln, merely pays it,
recruiting tax with the rsst."'s, go. -,
Smyrna times., 1857-02-18

THR ,PoLKa.--Somebody, describing the ab-
surd appearance of man dancing the polka,
says /" He locks as though he had a hole in
his pocket, and was trying 10 shak he shilling
down the leg of fhisdrowsers.'9 9G ay,a Is ~, ,ls'1
Smyrna times., 1857-02-18

OF The men who jump at 'couciusionAa eel.
dom reach any that are worth having. These
must be got by climbing, s.sa ~ saooa l'hs q
Smyrna times., 1857-02-18

w The sentiment contained in the follow
ing stanza, is good; we commend it to scandal
lovers and baekbters, generally, - 2, 2 A"fa
-o" What are ianotber's fault to me a. yaa.oiis
,y.qdye ynlture'sbilli 81 IsmsSa sxalh9ao
- To pick at every flaw lseessi bano72 oa1 90
And make it wider still; y ''3's'''p '''i
rsIt is.enough for melte know l osl' aidAW
eaompve ifollies ofmy own--- hsoa.isI % iaoa
And on my heart the care bestow, 'lasy y baa
.go And let my friends alone. 49,. ..., =.
nad % iuea 'Ysinh ssai.so uaxob xiH siaa ssi1H
.mnigIlF n5afi eaaless II aoisaslaaR is
Smyrna times., 1857-02-18

MORAL SUAsIoN.-There is nothing like
"moral suasion." 1t has grown to be q great
and controlling institution. The best example
of the same occurred in San Francisco recently.
You we'll know-if not, can inform you there
on-that the ckiefc of California is frequent.
ly, if not oftener, infested by Cinnamon. An
acquaintance of ours was Junior partner and
occasional salesman in a firm whose business
was to sell fish hooks cod lines, ropes ends,
and other odds and ends. One day John
Chinuman, followed by a train of about ten of
his countrymen, ranged tandem fashion, enter
ed the establishment, and after peering around
for few seconds, exclaimed:
"Cotton seine twine-got him 7"
"Yes." was the answer.
"How much takeen r.s n.1#
4" One dollar pound" ,t......... s.
"Um give fifty cents ~
Get o0t!" said the junior partner, with a
menacing gesture, and JOHN Chinaman depart
ed, followed by his tail and his countrymen.
81 They passed and repassed the door several
times, and at length re-entered. John, look
ing around as though he had never been there
before, again inquired y "a'.' 80. Z. ''..'.'.
1r" Cotton seine twine--got hinl" '.' -.t@# Il
q" Yes"l .s..1 .-... ~ .... t... .sa.a:,
!" How much takee! ....... ...... ..,...
"One dollar pound!"
{" Um! give seventee-fve cents"
q" Get out!" cried the excitd partner, and
the Chinese population departed as before.
E, The wild geese procession paraded past
few times and then re-entered. The spokes-
man, after gazing around for some time, lifted
0p his voice a third time, and thus he spoke:
"Cotton seine twine-got him !"' ~ -f9a
Yes!!g' a.t i ...4 .-.ola...- e..s s.. .ll
e How much takee 90 4. s,aA 4, s.... s..,..
The salesman whispered to Patrick, the por
ter, 10 hand him cleaver. This had, he grasp
ed the astonished John Chihaman with his left
hand. and raising the cleaver with his right,
exclaimed: 81 .t.ztmo3 a..l g. l.iiuasls ...
"On0 dollar pound -" ..it,. .atr.,
John gave one look at the cleaver, another
at the face Of the salesman, and yelled out:
. al takee one huhdred pound."a iH3a t11s#-
The bargain was thereon closed. So much
for moral suasion.--- POrter's Spirit. ..s4. sqni
Smyrna times., 1857-02-18

!. y.0yTa Cut my straps and let me 60 70 glory"
as Dow. Jr., said when he first kissed q girE no
b. NUtl bnlst .i3tbssf .lYvV0 ai ioi 3 81 ban5l
.alAaa nl
Smyrna times., 1857-02-18

.dl - Ind adl .Laa..aIl ln la Go Ilo
Smyrna times., 1857-02-18

or When the soul is ready 10 depart what
il gees from a palace or "a hoye!. t,s,'iI ~ -
Smyrna times., 1857-02-18
Smyrna, Feb. IL, 1857.

li..1 ailloql..a. . 80 81 391alI
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1857-08-29
Affecrfnn.

In the reign Of Queen Anne, a soldier, bea
longing to the marching regiment which was
quartered in the city of Worcester, was taken
up for desertion, and being tried by a courts
martial, was sentenced to be shot. The Colo
mel and Lieut~ColoneI being at the time in
London, the command of the regiment had
descended in course to the Major, a most cruel
and inhuman man. The day on which the
deserter was to be executed having arrived,
the regiment, as is usal ON these occasions, was
drawn out to see the execution.
1t is the custom on these occasions to draw
lots from the several eorporals for this dls~
agreeable office; and when every one expected
to see these lots as usual, they were surprised
to find that the Major had given orders that the
prisoner should die by the hand OF his WI
brother, who was only a private man IN the
same company; and who. when the cruel order
arrived, was taking leave Of his unhappy bros
Their, and with tears fast flowing, that expressed
the anguish of his soul, was hanging for the
last time about his neck.
On his knees did the poor fellow beg that he
might not have a hand in his brothers death;
and the poor prisoner forgetting for the mo"
ment his petitions to heaven, begged to die by
any hands but those of his brother. The I'M
r~elenting officer, however, could by no means
be prevailed on to revoke his cruel sentence,
though entreated to do so by every officer of
the regiment; on the contrary, he swore that
the brother, and he only, should be the execu>
toner, if it were merely for examples sake, to
make justice appear more terrible. When
much time had been wasted in ~fruitless en-
deavors to soften the rigor of this inhuman
sentence, the prisoner prepared to die, and the
brother to be the executioner.
The Major, strict to the maxims of cruelty,
stands close to see that the piece was properly
loaded, which being done, he directs that the
third motion of his cane, shall be the signal to
fire. Accordingly, at the third motion, the
Major--instead of the prisoner--receiVed the
bullet through his own head, and fell lifeless
to the ground.
The man no sooner discharged the piece,
throwing it on the ground, exclaimed:
ale that can give no mercy, no mercy let
him receive. Now | submit, | had rather die
this hour for that mans death, than live a huns
dred years, and take away the life of my bro
ther."
No one seemed to be sorry for this mex
pected piece of justice on the inhuman Major;
and the man being ordered into custody, many
gentlemen present, who had been witnesses to
the whole affair, Joined to entreat the officers
to defer the execution Of the other brother, till
the Queens pleasure should be known.
The request being complied with, the city
chamber that very night drew up a very feeling
and pathetic address to her Majesty, setting
forth the unparalleled cruelty of the deceased
officer, and humbIy entreated her Majesty's
pardon for both the brothers.
The brothers were pardoned and discharged
from the army.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1857-08-29

MOUNT VERNoN.--One or more of the Ma
sonic Lodges of Richmond have organized a
plan to purchase Mount Vernon. II is to get
the subordinate lodges to contribute 81 for
each member. The price asked for the Mount
Vernon estate is 100000, and the Masonic
statistics show that the order numbers three
hundred thousand; so that if all the lodges in
the Union accede to the proposition--and the
probability is that they will--the purchase of
Mount Vernon may be looked upon as a fixed
fact. The suggestion, as given, does not stop
here. When the land is possessed by the Mas
sons, they propose to present it to the State of
Virginia. only reserving to their order the right
to meet around the tomb oftbeir deceased bro
Their once every year, to celebrate his imper~
ishable deeds, and to keep alive his great
name.--DiSpatch.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1857-08-29

The ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.-The New York
Journal Of Commerce, in descanting upon the
probability that the enterprise of the Atlantic
telegraph will be crowned with success within
a few days from this time, says:
has been determined that the first mes
sage across the ocean, in case of success, shall
be "Glory to God in the highest, and ON earth
peace, goodwill toward men, This will pro.
baby be followed by Queen Vlctoria's compli-
ments to our President, and, after his reply, the
line will be open to the public for messages Of
not more than twenty words, at fifty shillings
the message, or 621 cents a word.
The Journal Think the merchants must
concert an arrangement among themselves by
which they will be kept advised of every change
in the European markets. 1t can hardly be
expected that the press can bear the whole ex-
pinse.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1857-08-29

The SOUTHERN CoEvEyTIoE.--The business
committee ofthe Southern Convention have res
ported against free trade and direct taxation;
also against the South receiving goods coming
from States not unfolding the fugitive slave
law; also against the discrimination of Govern
ment in favor of foreign mail lines from North4
ern ports; reported in favor Of the exemption
of one slave to each STAKEHOLDER from seizure
for debt, and in favor Of erecting Arizona into
a Territory; in favor of recovering certain land
lost by recent treaty with Mexico, also reported
that the time had not arrived for a convention
to consider the revival of the African slave
trade. A resolution in favor of Montgomery,
Alabama, as the next place of To Getting, was
adopted.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1857-08-29

1t is only shallow-minded pretenders who
make either distinguished origin a matter of
personal merit, Or obscure origin a matter of
personal reproach. a man who is not ashamed
of himself need not be ashamed of his early
condition. 1t did happen to me to be born in a
log cabin, raised among the snowtdrifts Of New
Hampshire, at a period so early that when the
smoke first rose from its rude chimney and
curled over the frozen bills, there was no SINH.
lar evidence of white mans habitation between
it and the settlements on the rivers of Canada.
It's remains still exist; | make it an annual visit.
| carry my children to it, and teach them the
hardship endured by the generation before
them. | love to dwell on the tendnr recollec-
tons, the kindred ties, the early affections, and
the variations and incidents which mingled
with all know Of this primitive family abode;
| weep to think that none of those who i'm
habited it are now among the living; and if ever
| fail in afectionate veneration for him who
raised it, and defended it against savage vio-
lence and destruction, cherished all domestic
comforts beneath its roof, and through the fire
and blood of seven years's revolutionary war,
shrunk from no toll, no sacrifice to serve his
country, and to raise his children to a condition
better than his own, may my name and the
name of my posterity be blotted from the
memory of mankind.--Danieg Webster.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1857-08-29

DUEL.--Two gentlemen of the Second Dis
trict, as we are informed, went over on the
Creole yesterday, to settle a difficulty with pjs.
tolls, at a handkerchief's length. As much as
we could hear of the particulars were, that one,
in the course of a dispute, slapped the face of
the other, and received a challenge. He ac-
cepted, and named his terms, as pistols at a
handkerchief's length, one pistol only to be
loaded, and the choice to be decided by a toss
mp. The challenger accepted this, and they
left for the Mississippi shore, as above stated
Crescent.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1857-08-29

WORKING Powers OF THE P~REsIDENT.--A
Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia
Press writes
AS Mr.. Buchanan attends to all important
matters himself, giving even 10 details his per-
sonaI attention, he will go to hard work, cow
that he has returned from Bedford, Pa, During
bis long and active life, ne has been remarkable
for a regular habit of increasing toll. Even in
his retirement at Wheatland he was a close
student and an earlyriser. During his residence
at the British Court be performed the heaviest
duties himself. The number Of letters and
papers he writes without the aid of an amanu.
ensis now is legion. Reading without specta-
cles, and Giving to every subject prompt and
careful attention, he is a wonder to his cabinet,
several Of whom knew very little of him till
thus thrown into connection with him. Rising
almost at dawn, and toiling late, be gives to
his high Office the conscientious fidelity and
patience which have marked his career from
the day when, nearly fifty years ago, he took
bis seat in the national councils.