Des Arc citizen., 1866-10-20
SALMAGUNDI.

| BspMisery loves company, ana so does marriageable young lady. ng-sAre you looking for any one inI particular :? as the rat said when h0 saw the cat watching him.
 gsy-Be temperate in diet. Our frs! parents ate themselves out ofhouse an6 home. re
 naspsMary,' asked Charles, what ami maj dropped from the cloudsT The rain deaf,s was the whispered reply.
 nsy- Whats the latest and swectest thing in bonnets2 The ladies' faces to be sure.
 Nsy~Hold your tongue for fool, said | an Irishman to his wife. Then youIlz be after speaking was the cutting re@ lply.
 gas~T think, wife, that you have q great many ways of calling me fool. q think, husband, that you have great many ways of being one.'
 p~'Come, get up--you've been in bed long enough as the gardener said | when he was pulling up carrots to send to market. stt
 DsyThe meanest reason for getting married that we ever heard of was from man who said he wanted some ond to part his back hair for him.
 M~There is a man ill Colorado sd thin, that when the Sheriff is after him1 he crawls into his rife, and watchea his adversary through the touchhole. DOMESTIC RELATIoNs.--Patrick, in writing his autobiography, says: ran away srom my father at an early period of my life because discovered that he was only my uncle. 1 GETTING BETTER. .-How is your hus- band, Mrs. Squipps?' Why, the doct0r says as how if he lives till morning, hc shall have some hopes of him but if hdI don't he must give him up.'
 THE Pres EAR MARK.--A lawyer asked a Dutchman in court what eaI/ marks pig had, that was in dispute. We'll, he has no ear marke except a very short tail.'
 Bss~ 'Bob,' said young fellow at q fancy fair, you arc missing all tho. sights on this side Never mind, Bill, retortcd Bob, I'm signing all the misses on the other.
 Beag~ For months past, the negroes of Louisiana have been fiocking back in droves to the s.old plantations" They1 are weary of the pilgrimage of frec- dom.
 BSr There are fully twenty thousand widows and sixty thousand orphariss whites, in Alabama, and three-fourths2 of them are utterly destitute.
 BSyA newspaper in England wound up an account of mnrder with thfsz odd anticlimax,: "For the safety oil society it is impossible mercy can bel extended to him (the condemned) inI this world beyond that, the province3 of the journalist does not extend."
 gGy-'Why do you wink at mo, sir?' \ said beautiful young lady, argrily, to} a stranger, at party, an evening ol. two3 since. I beg your pardon, madam, replied the wit, I winked as men do S when looking at the sun-your splend0r1 dazzled my eyes
 EssgWhy is the .tiltcr' like the poet] Gray? Becaus it shows to the world a1 beautiful elegy !-Excbange
 Job says it is more like will, bel cause it contains LEG-I SEE.
 A Galveston paper, commenting up-1 on the above, says, that allegation is | 1dlSc, aliu tHc diieSdiOT hHoWs II. We think the s'tiltcr" exhibits calf without brains!"
 gey@ According to an official rep6rtI of the Secretary of War; the number of prisoners taken on either side, during3 the war with the Southern States, com pare as follows: number of Federal prisoners taken, 100000; number of Confederate, 100000 Number of Fed -l eral prisoners who died whilst incar-| ccrated, 2l,576; number of Confeder- atcs who died in Northern prisons,] 26,430. l nSsFn The editor of tho Charjastor1