The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1866-02-21

IIark the insulting prOyosts cry
They are coming, quick my fachion,
Let me front them ere die:
Now no more, mid des0lation,
Shall nv name contention swell;
Phillips Sumner-devil take We!
Brownow, Hamilton, as well.
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4 CoxDExsED RouAycE-As the Stevenson train
vas about leaving Beefonaine on Sunday last ear
rage containing male and female came dashng up 10
the depot Their purpose was to take the tran. Ihe
whistle Of tie locomotive frightened the horses and
the gent in the carriage in true cavalier style jumped
out and seized the uuruly animals and endeaYored 70
stop them Yet they plunged and kicked the more
whilst with hercucan efforts he endeay0red to check
them but in vain. Breaking loose from him, in spite
Of the efforts the driver to check them, they dashed
with head-long speed over the field and direct to
stream whose turbd waters dashed madly along. The
female was heard TO scream-anIiety was depicted on
every counteuance In few moments and just as Tie
vehicle reached the creek she made plunge from the
carriage and landed fairly in the creek. Her escort
after laundering in the mud few moments Jumped up
ran TO her rescue and pulled her dripping with mud and
water from the ungenerous stream.
Sympathy manifold was manifested by all On the cars
when she came on board. But one young man be-
traycd unusual sympathy She was kindly shown to
in apartment Oh the where She could be private
and dvest herself Of her wet clothing. This young
man stirred the fire in the stove put blanket to the
window to shield her from vulgar gaze, and asked her
ii there was aught that he could do father to add to her
comfort With her long, black but dshGvelled hair
streaming down her back, She smiled gratefully upon
him, thanked him for lis kindness and declined
further aid.
Sdn anxious to serve her and struck BY her f4scua;
ing appearance this young man fingered near With the
hope that he st might serve her tarther-at ahy rate
he would be could be but receive approving
smile from her After 4 time she came forth hand
somcly dressed and looking bewitchngly Attractive
took her seat in The passenger On reaching Ste
ycnson, this yoang man sought to learn her name
After dilgCnt inquiry Ito effect among the passeG-
gers, he accosted rough looking character living
there, and pointing to her asked who she was. Why
SAYS he that c0ored woman who used to live here
and that man with her IS the captain Of niggdr com
Pany at Chattanooga. Huntsville Independent.
ABSENCE OF MIND.-My grandfather was returning
home one evening from the hay field, driving bib
before load Of hay. lie had tied old mare which
he had been using, to the cart behind but happening
to think Of one Of her avorite tricks of pulling, he
united her again, and, mounting, rode alouside, still
driving the oxen.
he fell into deep reyerie, as was his woat, in
which old mares and all other vexatOus sublunary
matters we're banished from his mind But this sell
rene state suddenly broken up By bis happening.
to think, when near home, that he had when start
ing from the hay field, tied that unruly beast to the
cart behind.
Entirely forgetting the precauton be had afterward
taken he whirlcd about only to discover that she was
missing from the place; and supposing that she had
pulled loose, he rode back full galloP in search Of
the stray vixen.
In the course Of half mile lie met one Of bis
neighbors suffering fellow, to whom he called out
TO know if he had seen anything Of her Before the
had half surmouned the t-t-t-tts (perhaps from
comical expression Of his face the whole truth
flashed into my grandathers mind, and he TUNED
back at full speed without waiting for a reply ID his
inquiry, only cxclaimng,
" Let her 60! III not look her upin
But it was too late for him to save himself and Ills
neighbors in the old Connecticut village never suf
iered the story to be forgotten as long he Iyed
there
A Curious PAssPoRT-Petef Henry Bruce. in his.
curious memoirs, gives the form Of a passport which
in the reign Of Petcrhe Great always before the coffin
OF Russian was closed, was put between the fingers
Of the corpse:
1--WE, \. D.. do certify by these presents that the
bearer thereof hath always lived among Us rs became
good christian protesting the Greek religion; au@ al
though he may have committed some sins, lie bath
confessed the same; whereupon he hath received aso
luton, and taken the communion for the remission OF
sims That lie hath honored God and his saints tha he
hath not neglected bis prayers and hath tasted on the
hours and days appointed by the church, That he Hath
always behaved himself toward me, his confessor in
such manner, that have no reason to complain Of
Inn, or to refuse him the absoluon Of his sins | In
witness whereof, have given these testimonials to
the end that r. Peter upon sight of them, may mot
deny mm the opening at the gate to eternal Bliss"
NOT SATIsFIED.-An old negro woman in the Rich
mond VA, market interrupted tile other morning
70 the sale Of some articles she exposed contrary 10
the market ordinance, when highly Indignantly slowing
away her stock she said:
Wish Mass Lincun had done kephis freedom. t's
les IKE Couedericl money-more YOU get on it, thc
less count it is.n
bachelor uncle, to whom his niece applied for ad-
vice on the question Of choosing between two s0tos
one OF whom was rich and the other poer-he latter
Of course, being the ardent as well as the favort
loyer-seutenaously replied My dear, the question
beng stripped Of all its usory elements your choice
SIMPLY iles between love and beef Now, love is I'm
4dea, "hi!e beet IS a reality. Love you can get along
Of your beef
The Chattanooga (Teunessee) Gazette tells rather
tough story On Christmas morning one Of our Gill
zens PAID visit to his family who we're His "reptprI
lie found the husband sitting before the FIRE withIa
snAl-szed responsibility on either side merry
IHrstmas, 3 How are you?" saws G. s'Weli
Mr.. g., Im ont Of sorts selpD came here an SAM
day night, and my wife eloped with him. I,st bt IL
returned ana stole my cow ana here An ,ytb thesa
Two braJs 70 care torh Il suppose yor regard tl TAI
OF your COW as OF more consequence. under the cir
."an Una. OF your wife, remarked g. Yek
~ 'ils { w lna nma she has played me this trick
One Of Uncle Sans free n;rrar a,,arts T., yiif
short time since tried about fbonE5n5 y
art q voting. lie told them they shoul3 M gnaef
50 eject commissioner oil their own choice tn SEQ or
Their affairs ana directed all Of them in favor Of MI
y, g say aye. One long, uacarhly yell aye,r
NeL W, every particular negro voting with ali hik
might. Then he told al opposed to Tr " to vote
NJ, ana every daFkey voted "no, ten times harder
saam ever I5ereupon the agent looked puzzled ana
gFGh' ana hnahy sEore the niggers we're id foels
and ought to be ina very warm place w
recipe for instantaneously removing superapo1s
will "oildu against hef
lazy told her husband She read tie >sArtof Love1
have love without art, he replied "0a'u iS''ieI
My M6y Is party who INDUCES in limited weeping like
'0r oe!ns noisy Because be drops two or three tiers
lord with curtain lectures what ob Wbat ms y H. m
nature Of "4oungs night thoughtsn '''''' = -
of the bedn Ivy '""n ''iiFuI
lows YOU" az vac ID" al
Judge Kelly was descautipr IN H.. 100000 oc.