The independent. (Harrisonburg, La.) 1853-18??, 1858-08-18

: Is 50 ss w. manner, SO delightfully."-
Min ssweetly un-get-rid ofable,
81 xrsTs Amf IS or two since at the Office Of
business v.~ yer, to induce him, as the young
,ent,.e tlie two expressed it, with charming
smile, "To subscribe to most elegant work
just published, to be got up in elegant style,
with illustrations, ETC." "Indeed ladies'
said our friend, 81 cannot; 1 have no doubt
of tho excellence Of your work, but am not
in want Of anything of that kind. In fact,
do not feel able at present to subscribe for
any new works Of any description. The
partnership of which am member has
lately been so imprudent as to issue new
work of their own, an! the enormous ex-
peuse attending its issue, not to speak of the
illustrations, embellishments, and ornamental
adorninss with which they have seen fit to
clothe the. production-such unwonted out
lay has really, for the present-in fact Grip
pied me-sorry-but fact-every word of
it,"
"But-ah," interposed our enterprising
agcntess, perhaps we could procure you
some subscribers for your work; our terms
are quite reasonable. What do you call
your work, sil 2"
"Well, we have not fully determined as
yet, but | guess shall let Mrs. S. have
her own way, and call it after myself
Charles Henry"
The ladies concluded that they had an en-
gagement in the next block.
HERE'S TILL YE, JIMMY.-An Irishman
bad been sick for a long time, and while in
this state would occasionly cease breathing,
and life would bs apparently extinct for some
time, when he would again come to. On
one of these occasions when he had lust
awakened from his sleep, Patrick asked
him:
''An' how'll we know, Jenny, when you're
dead-you're after wakin' up livery time!'
bring me glass o grog, an say to me-
Here's til! re, Jenny, and, if don't raise
an drink, then bury me %
A MYSTERIOUS CAsE-Quite an excite
1nent is said to exist near MlIersburgh, To-
wa, in consequence of the spiritual reyela-
t'ons OF boy, who asserts that Thomas
twhose mysterious disappearance was noticed
about year ago. was shot and then thrown
into the well of one of the persons arrested
about that time on suspicion of being his
murderer, and that his horse was "backed'
down the we'll alive and the well filed up
"A large number of persons congregated
about the well on the Sd inst, to DIG down
and ascertain the truth of the boys story
When they had dug down about % feet, a
stencil arous so nauseating that they had to
I'LL up the well. II was their determination,
however, to dig from tho side of the well.-I
J.
who makes any further attempts.
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Nor so EAsY.-An officer of the U, S.
steamer Arctic saw the notorious steamer
Styx i'll the Gulf, and says:
She appeared to be very fine vessel, but
little smaller than the Saranac, and. if we
had been engaged, could have made short
work Of u.s. Indeed if it is true that soif,e
Of our Senators wish the Stvx to be captur-
ed and brought into one of our ports, it may
be for their edification to be informed tina.
the Wabash is the only vessel in these waters
which could do it, and that even the little
gun-boat Jasper could capture three vessels
like the Arctic with the greatest ease 1t is
SAID IN fact that !he English are very much
dlsgustcd to think that vessels Of this class
should be sent by our government to teach
better manners.
A TREMENDOUS FELLow.-The Shah of
Persia must be a pretty extensive specimen
OF humanity, if all that is said of him is
true. In treaty recently concluded between
the United States and Persia, he is described
as being Gas exalted as the planet Saturn
The sovereign to whom the sun serves as a
standard; whose splendor and macni6cenoe
are equal to that of the skies; the sublime
sovereign, the monarch whose armies are as
numerous AS the stars whose greatness calls
TO mind that of Jeinshid whose maenif-
cence equals that of Darius the heir of the
crown and throne Of the Kayanians. the sub
lime emperor of all Persia" 1t must be
dangerous to be at loggerhead with such ..
prodigious chap, and it is fortunate for the
with him. e
A MISER!-In Africa, as the story coes +
people used to find little grains Of cold in i
sand-plt, which they had to deliver M to the r
poor black as his property. With the helm =
OF these, he would then buy all sorts of tliuos h
from foreigners One day, going a little c
deeper, they fell in with two good sized r.
Jumps Of massy solid gold. The slaves, in o
great delight, carried the fruit of their labors b
to their black master, it being more than t,
they had found for ten years past, and thew a
thought how overjoyed the poor man would e
be at becoming rich thus all at once. But
they were mistaken. The wise old kinc j.
SAID: Look We, my friends-these pieces are q,
me father and mother of that little brood Of to
gold grains which we have constantly been IL
and'nS tor ages; carry them back immedi- W
ltely, and set them in the very same Mace f.