The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1857-08-12

And offered odors up as incense meet,
The sacred messengers of God 10 greet.
Well pleased, the angels bent tltelr eyes Of blue
Upon the ground, whence came. the Offering sweet
And gave the yiolets their celestial hue.
Thus are they heavenly flowers, III whose true dye
Fancy may still discern the angel eye;
And there read oft some message from above,
Which seems half hid in its blue depths to lie.
Why should not yiolets human feeling move,
If such as these the blessed angels lore?
HAUNTED HoUsE.-The New York Journal
of Commerce has the following remarkable
story:
For the last Ten weeks our fellow-citizens in
the vicinity of Front and Dover streets, have
been much interested, exercised, and horrif-
cd BY the investigation of certain mysterious
rapplngs which were to be heard every night
about the small hours, on the door on the in
side, and were given with great distinctness,
as if by an arm of flesh and blood, but, nc mat
ter how soon the door was opened by a key
from the outside, or how thoroughly the build
inc was searched which was repeatedly done)
no traces Of any practical joker could be found
on the premises. The mystery remained deep,
dark and impenetrable.
Meanwhile, the news crept around the neigh
borhood that the building was haunted, and
every night, between eleven and two o'clock,
a crowd Of women and children might be seen
collected about the door.
The worthy owner of the store was not a lit
tie annoyed, even in the daytime by the per-
petual application of persons TO examine the
premises. Things were going on in this way,
much to the delight Of the spiritualists and
much to the mystiication Of everybody else,
when captain Ditchett, of the fourth ward po-
lice, who haes several times previously inspect
ed the building, determined to give it a more
thorough overhauling. He entered it two or
three nights ago and looking all over the first
floor, but, as usual, without finding any body.
He then proceeded very boldly to the second
story, where in a position directly above the
strange door he found a large bin with a little
meal in it. A lucky thought prompted the re-
moval Of the bin, when a rat-hole was discov-
cred underneath, which had once on a time
been covered with a long strip Of tin, but which
the industrious rats had gradually enlarged to
an enormous size, gnawing about the tin till
one end of it was loosened, the other end still
being held by its fastenings. It is supposed
that the rats moving in and out of this hole
gave vibrations to the tin, which were echoed
by the hollow bin overhead, and that the sound
was conveyed by a beam to the door where it
appeared to originate. This theory is borne
out by the fact that, since the bin was removed,
the mysterious rappings have altogether ceased
Thus ends a darling mystery, which has been
cherished SO long among The excitement era
vers Of the fourth ward.
Economically regarded, this is a misfortune,
torpeople who were getting shsir spiritual COM
munications for nothing, w~ithIgreat regularity
will now have to pay a dollar IN interview to a
protested medium who is perhaps not half SO
reliable as the rats.
"You see, sir" quoth the sobbler, "that a
mans business has a deal to DO with his man.
ner OF thinking. Every trade, / take it, has
ideas as belong to It. Butchers don't see life
as bakers do, and if you talk to Il dozen tallow
chambers, then to a dozen bsacksmiths, you
will see tallow chambers are peculiar, and black
smiths too" stYou are a keen observer" said
we, admirlng..y; "your remark is new to me-
| dare say it is true" 'stCour,e i It's; and the
stars have summat to do with it, for if they
order a mans calling, it stands to reason that
order a mans mind to fit it. Now, a tai
lor sits on his board with others, and is always
with 'em, and a reading the news
therefore, he thinks, as his fellows do, smart
and sharp, bang up to the day, but nothing
'riginal and all bis own, like. But a cobbler,o
continued the mar Of leather, with a majestic
''sits by himself, and talks with himself;
and what he thinks gets into his head without
being put there by another mans tongue.o-
You enllghten me more and linore," said our
friend, bowling respectfully; s~'aitailor is grega-
cobbler solitary. the gregarious
90 with the future-the solitary stick to the
1ast. | understand why you Dire a tory, and
a poet" ssWell, a Bit of one," said
he cobbler, with an iron SMILE 'sand many's
he cobble rWho is poet-or discovers marvel
Gus things in q crystal-Rhereas a tailor, sir,
spoken with great contempt, ,"only sees the
upper leather Of the worlds role in a newspa-
Ter. . [Sir Bulwer Lytton's new novel.
Always suspect a man WHIP affects great
oftness Of manner, an unruflcd e,enness of
and an enuuciation studied, slow and 1
These things are fall unnatural, {
nd bespeak a degree of mental discipline into r
9hich he that has no purpose yf craft or de- 7
ign to answer, cannot submit to drill himself. .
he more successful knayes are usually Of this :
escription, as smooth as razors dipped in oil, !
= LHCy aieCb tnG AulOcEUCe OF d
ne dove, which they have not, in order to hide i
1e cunning of the serpent, which they have. Il
''May it please the COURT said a yankee t.
.wyer before q dutch justice the other day,
that is q ease Of great Importance; while the
-merican eagle, whose s%leepless eye watches
YER the welfare of this mighty republic, and
hose wings extend from the Alleghanies to /
lie Rocky chain of the west, was rejoicing in ,
is pride Of place" r
''Shtop dare, I say; vat has dis suit to do :
eagles? Dis has notin' to DO NIT de wild i
1t is Won sheep" exclaimed the justice. lie
"True, your honor; but my client has his IT +
ghts." q
Yer CLIENT has no right to de eagle" a.
t'Of course not; but the laws Of language N
stWhat cares I for de laws Of language, Ell! NJ
the laws Of de State, and dat ish
for me. Confne your talk to de case
well, then, my client. the defendant in this
Use, is charged with stealing a Sheep, and
s.Dat will dol dat will do! Your CLIENT, is 4
nit sthealing sheep, a jfs nine shillin. 3
he court will odjourn.' Or
Thirteen married gentlemen. who, within &c