, 1862-05-10

New YORK, April 2lst-The city of Apalachi-
cola, Florida, has been successfully occupied by
our troops The capture was effected by two gdt-
boats, on the Sd, with little opposition. A few
shells dispersed the rebel force. The remaining
portion of the population were found to be in
starving condition. The blockade had cut off
supplies from the seaboard, and the resources
from the interior were not sufficient to maintain
the ordinary comforts of life
SERIOUS INDIAN TROUBLES ON THE OVERLAND
MAIL RoUTE.-A dispatch received at San Fran
cisco, dated April 22d says, that Indians east of
that point have committed depredations upon the
Overland Mail Company for the last two months,
and at the present time have control Of The route
they have stolen nearly all of the stock from the
route, killed several employees, and burned one
station. They threaten entire destruction of the
Overland Mail and Telegraph. The Mail Com
pany have discontinued running mails for the
present, and will not attempt to run the route
until troops are placed along it to protect them.
There is a report that eight men were killed by
the Indians on the 2lst.
! There is also a report credited by many, that
there is a fight going on east of Fort Brdger
between the employees and Indians. A dozen
men from Fort Bridger have gone there to rem
der assistance. The destruction of the telegraph
line is momentarily xpected.-PortIand Times.
A RICH SCENE.-A day or two since a country
man walked into an office in one of our cities,
without taking any particular notice of his where
abouts, and taking off his coat and cravat, threw
them on a chair, sat down. crossed his legs, and,
in an authoritative tone, called out
" Is that water hot ~
"Water, sir ~ said the clerk, who had been
watching his movements with some little curiosi-
ty; what water, srP You must be under mis-
take
" Mistake the ID, sir l want to be shaved
Why don't you get things in readiness P I'm in
hurry"
81 beg pardon, sir; this is not barber-shop
it is an exchange office"
"An exchange office There must be some
thing wrong, by hockey asked person in the
street where could get shaued, and he directed
me to come here"
The clerk looked daggers, and the customer
put on his coat and sloped.
DISAPPOINTMENT AND SUccEss.-When poor
Edmund Kean was acting in barns to country
pumpkins, barely finding bread for his wife and
child he was just as great genius as when he
was crowding Drury Lane. When Brougham
presided in the House of Lords, he was not bit
better or greater than when he had hung about
the Parliament House at Edinburgh, briehess
and suspected junior barrister. When all London
crowded to see the hippopotamus, he was just the
animal that he was couple of years later, when
no one took the trouble of looking at him. And
when George Stephenson died, amid the applause
and gratitude of all the intelligent men in Britain,
he was the same man, maintaining the same prin-,
ciple, as when men of science and of law regarded
him as a mischevous lunatic, the individual who
declared that some day the railroad would be the
kings highway, and mail coaches would be drawn
by steam.
To LET.-There are more things to let than
are pacarded Hearts are to let every day; old
hearts, young hearts, stricken hearts, all empty
all to let.
There are heads to let to any new thing, isms,
ologies, and lists; heads without tenant
There are hands to let Hands plump and fair ).
hands lean and brown Those to love, those to
labor; those for rags and those for rings
There are conscences to let elastic accommo-
dating caoutchouc; at five per cent. month !;
sixty per cent year. To let on bond and mort
gage and pound of flesh.
And so it goes from souls to souls almost ey-
erything in the market but griefs They are
never quoted never at premium, never to let.
THINK-Thought engenders thought. Place
one idea upon paper, another will follow, and still
another, until you have written page. You can
not fathom your mind There is a well Thought
there which has no bottom. The more you draw
from it, the more clear and fruitful it will be. If
you neglect to think yourself, and use other peo-
pies thoughts, giving them utterance only, you
will never know what you are capable Of At first
your ideas may come in lumps-homely and
peleSS-Dub nO uldttcI Jliue anu perseverance
will arrange and polish them. Learn to think,
and you will learn to write the more you think,
the better you will be enabled to express your
ideas
IT is mistaken notion that humbuggerv
succeeds. The people love the truth best, and in
the long iun will pay more for it. Humbugging,
like all cheating, may show a temporary gain over
honesty. But it is only temporary, and in the
long pull fair dealing with all communities will
ensure the best return
Look OUT-When cold the wind blows, take
care of your nose, that it doesn't get froze, and
wrap up your toes in warm wooden hose. The
above, we suppose, was written in prose, by some
one who knows the effect of cold SHOWS
GAN horest man is the noblest work of the
Lord !" enthusiastically exclaimed hardshell
Baptist and then, after pause, added" but the
Lord hasn't lad a job for fifty years.
THERE is one thing that the most successful
man seldom succeeds in, and that is in making
others forgive him his success.