The Nevada journal., 1858-08-20
SQuibS from Prentice.

Hung be the Heavens with Black"
The editor of the Washington Union
abuses the fresoilers. He himself is the
freest soiler we know of-soiling every |
decent thing he touches.
The Washington Union says "there
is be no change in the Cabinet. There
has been precious little if any in the
Treasury for some time.
In Kansas, two weeks ago, Miss Irene
Baker, girl of seventeen, married a
man of seventy-fve from admiration of
one of his political speeches. Thus is
common saying verifed-'politics makes
strange bed-felows."
An Auburn IN. ~ paper praises very
highly a new lock said to have been got
up in that city. Auburn locks have al
Ways been admired.
A scurrillous correspondent of New
Orleans paper says that Gen. Scott has
no hear. Perhaps that writer thinks
that the old hero is all pluck.
III. Belly is said to be getting more vio-
lent than ever. He is a bellicose
Belly.
It is said that N. Belly has not money
enough to prosecute his designs. Poor
M. Belly is cramped.
NJ Belly avows his determination to
have the United States held to a terrible
responsibility. He hasn't single bow
el of compassion i'll him.
The Illinois Journal asks if we can
throw any light on XII ssing." We don't
care to, The thing is just as well in the
dark.
A correspondent discusses learnedlv
what he considers the great advantages
of an exclusively vegetable diet, We
don't believe in 1t. Nebuo
tried it when Heaven bade him "go to
grass" and it didn't agree with him.
The editors of the Boston Liberator
say that they do not acknowledge the
divinity of cotton" Nor do we, but we
think there is in hemp "a divinity that
will shape their ends"
A drunken father undertook to chas-
tise an undutiful son, nearly as large as
himself, in the Second ward, on the 4th
OF July, but fell suddenly down-pros-
trated by son stroke.
A Cincinnatian once at Berlin, being
shown through the Palace, was INDUCED
with look into the Kings bedchamber.
He removed from his jaws huge chew
of tobacco and carefully glazed it be-
tween the sheets, IN central position,
as testimonial of his regard for the sa-
cred person of his Majcsty.-Cin. Cona-
mercidi.
The act Of this Cincinnatian, who,
found himself a guest at the ROYAL Pal
acc, was rather curious affair for
Cincinnati paper to boast of. Cincinnati
seems to think she was very proudly
represented at the Court of Berlin
Irorsb'y she would have sent n more
ti!fl1 8 representative if she had had one.
We fUppose bis Majesty of Prussia
ought tc he thankful that his visitor de-
posted nothing wors, between his sheets
thar Gugc chew of tobacco.
Archbishop Hughes, in instituting
against the editor of the Albany States
man, Mr. James B. Swain, a suit for H.
bel, has put his damages enormously
high. If the editor is able to pay them,
he must have been like Norvel's father
ia frugal SWAIN
The Illinois Democrat boasts that an
American named Fitz Hubert, has
Joined the Democracy. We have no
objection to giving them Fitz.
A Democratic editor in Kentucky
charges that the American papers arc
getting less and less decent The fact
is they paint truly the features of the
Sag Nicht party, and that party is get
ting uglier and uglier. "A plague on
this looking. glass !" e1claimcda a follorn
old maid, docking glasses are a thous-
and times ineaner now than they were
twenty years ago !"
We have mentioned the passage of
bill through the Senate near the close of
the late session to raise the postage on
letters from three to FIVE and ten cents.
We have seen the ayes and noes. Er-
cry Senator that roted for dear postage is
Democrat.
Many of the Democrats are anxious
that Buchanan and Dougles should bury
the hatchet. Douglas doesn't mean to
bury it unless he bury old Buck with
it.
A late number of the Washington
Union publishes twelve columns of Gov
ernmcnt advertising and says "it is GER
tainly a good thing to be Democrat in
these days"
TYRIAN PURPLE. - The celebrated
Tyrian Purple is nothing more than
juice which exists in particular vein of
certain shell fish, found on our coasts
and on the coast of Ireland even more
Plentifully than on the coasts Of Tyre.
The jealousy of the Roman emperors
limited the knowledge of working in
Tyrian purple to certain families the
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