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Year: 1859

Too SMART TO LIvE.-We have a
devil in our office who gets up the funny
column" of paper down east. We found
a stray leaf Of his manuscript yesterday,
containing the following: Why are the
initials Of the author of Little Dorrit lik Q
the toilet of hard up individual


Cause they are &. u.
Year: 1859

PEOPLE TALK about gripping the
light fantastic toe," but the last tvip of the
REsoLuTE was neither light nor fantastic
tor, being six loaded coal barges en- route
for long Bob Lowrey's coal yard at Lyons.
Year: 1859

CoTILLION PARTY Another OF
these pleasant little parties will be given st
Woods Hall tomorrow Thursday evening.
Milo Whites excellent band will discourse
the music for the occasion.
Year: 1859

u The room occupied by the District
Court has been considerably improved by the
the Jures. The comfort of these approaches
to responsibility will, doubtless, be made mani
fest, during the present term to the persons who
are compelled TO experiment with them.
Year: 1859

lMPRovEMENT.-We notice that the Street
Commissioner is putting culvert on Elm street
10 carry off the water that collects on Third
Street, north OF Elm. We are glad to see this
step taken, as it has been long needed.
Year: 1859




About IL o'clock on Friday night officer Denni-
son discovered the counting room of the Pickling
establishment of Messrs. Shriver and Frck, 30S
West Pratt street, to be on fire. The alarm being
given. and some citizens Immediately repair
ing to the spot, the doors of the building were
burst open and the flames speedily extinguished
before the arrival of the engines. The origin of the
fire was accidental, it is supposed, having been
caused it is thought, by lighted cigar stump
which had been thrown into spittoon containing
combustible material. The damage done by the
fire trifing.


About o'clock last night, an unoccupied brick
dwelling, two stories and half high, on Lafayette
Square, at the head of Fremont street, formerly
owned and occupied by Edward Whitmore, was dis
covered to be on fire. Officer Purden noticed the
house to be on fire some half an hour before the
alarm was given by the bells, but the night being
so windy il was impossible to make his rattle heard
Finding this to be the case, he left his beat
and ran to the Western district station-house in
order to give information and raise the alarm. BY
the time the engines reached the spot the tenement
was nearly consumed. The building had been re-
Gently purchased by the Butchers Association and
we learn was fully insured. Incendarism was un-
dOubtediy the cause of the fire.
Year: 1859

An infrm old negro named BOYD was found at
Cleveland on the l4th roasting over blazing lime
Kiln Circumstances indicate that "a party of ne
groes among whom he lived murdered him to get
him out of the way. The Pioindealer SAYS these
people had become sick of him. as he had no money
and was too infirm to steal, and so they took him
while he was helplessly drunk, gave him few
knocks on the head and threw him on the kiln
Year: 1859

The last stone pier for the bridge which is to span
the Father OF Rivers at st. Paul was finished on
the 25th ult. On either side OF the river channel
at a distance of 240 feet apart. stand two stone
piers, rising, like two Bunker Hill monuments,
about 80 feet ont of the water The hesuperstructure
is fast being raised, and the whole will be compile
ted by the lst of May and ready for use.
Year: 1859

Professor Owen and three brother naturalists sat
down recently in London to a Joint of eland the
first % that fine species of anteopas which has been
tattened and killed for the table. The learned gen
tiemen appear to have enjoyed it exceedingly and
rose with the conviction that a new and superior
kind of animal food had been added to the restricted
choice from the mammalian class at present availa-
BILE in Europe.
Year: 1859

How WOODrECKERS CAME INTO NORWAY.
In DascGut's Tales from tho Morse is this
legend OF u curious mCtamOrphoss -" In
those days when our Lord and st. Peter
wandered upon earth, they came to an old
wite's house. who sat baking. Her name
was Gertrude, and she had a red mutch on
her head They had walked a long way.
and were both hungry, and Our Lord begged
hard for a bannuck to stay their hunger.-
Yes, obey should have il. She took tiny
piece OF dough and rolled it out, but as sho
rolled it, it grew and grew until it covered
the whole griddc Nay, that was too big
they couldn't have that. She took timer
biz still but when il was rolled out, it COW
cred the whole gridde just tho same, and
that hammock was too big she said; they
couldn't have that either. The third timo
she took a still timer Git-so tiny you could
scarcely sec it; but it was the same story
over again-lhe bannock was too big
Well said Gertrude, can't give you
anything; you must go without; for these
bannocks arc too big" Then our Lord
waxed wroth, and said, "SInce you love no
So l;ttlo as to grudgc me IL morsel OF food,
you shall have this punishment. you shall
become d bird, and seek your food hetwcen
bark and holc ,aud never get drop tn dIink
save when it rains" He had scarce said tho
last word before she turned into great
black woodpeckor, or Gertruds's bird, and
! flew from her kneading-trough right up tho
chimney; and Til this very day you may
see her flying about. with her red mutch on
her head aud her body ak black, because OF
I the SCOT in the chimney and so she hacks
aud taps away~t the trees for her food. and
whistles when Ipin is coming, for she is ever
athrst, and then she looks for drop to
cool her tongue
Year: 1859

SUPPOSED MURDER. Coroner Baz-
ley held an inquest on Monday last on
the body of a man found dead in the
road near Bear River. He had gun
shot wound in his breast the wad was
in the wound, and the clothes burned
from the fire of the weapon. The body
was well dressed but evidently disguis-
ed. The letters III. L." were pricked
in his arm. The body was still warm
when found, and was covered up with
blankets as if to sleep. Marks of vio-
lence were found on the body. 1t is
supposed the deceased was robber ana
killed by his companions.
Year: 1859

You received by the Tennessee the protest issued
by the Miramon Government against the action of
Mr.. McLane in recognizing the Constitutional Gov
eminent. The following are the official answers both
of the Constitutional Government itself and of our
Minister to the above protest. say official protest.
by which mean that give you the substance of the
correspondence, for it to hand too late for me
to make an accurate translation of the answers in
full The first is the reply of Senior Ocampo, Secre.
tary Of Foreign Affairs under President Jaurez and
addressed to the Governors of the different States of
the Republic. Mr. Oeampo says:


The protest of the Miramon Government is q piece
of presumption the real significance of which was to
make it appear by affected Indignation that the
recognition of the Constitutional Government by the
United States involved some injury, and was made
with view to despoil the Republic of the country.
He says Mr.. McLane has answered the other principal
points Of the protest in letter which he transmits
them for their information. The fourth point made


in the protest declaring all treaties and contracts
made between Mexico and the United States null
and void, has been properly left for him, Mr.. Ocampo,
to answer.


He then proceeds to vindcate the right and power
of the Constitutional Government to make what trea-
ties it may think proper; and adds that it does not
remain with military faction, holding only the
gronndit stands upon to issue imperial decrees either
making or annuling treaties. 1t is an imp udent de-
Year: 1859

YESTERDAY was dry, breezy, and sunshiny de.
lightful May day. At one time some vagrant clouds
melted little, giving US rain without quenching the
sunshne-a sure indication (if old legends be true)
that the ancient and venerable Mrs. Nicholas was un
dergong castigation at the hands of the dark com.
plexoned gentleman, her husband, whom Dante,
Milton, and other famous word painters have so mag.
nifcently portrayed.


The INrERMENTs in the city cemeteries last week
numbered l29.


AN ESTEEMED FRIEND, formerly an oldline Whig,
but now an ardent member of the preponderant wing
of the New Orleans Democracy requests us to state
that we were mistaken yesterday in our statement
that the uuharmonious meeting of the Fourth District
and neghboring Democracy, on Saturday night, was
called by the Slide or old.lne Democrats. We make
this statement of our mistake with pleasure. Not
that it pleases to find we were mistaken but
because we are anxious not to have the appearance
OF interfering in family quarrels far at least as to
render us obnoxious to the charge of ncorectness
partality Unucky forus were not present at that
celebrated meeting. We got our information of the
proceedings from different sources, and made the
turest report we could under the circumstances and
not being posted in the minute details of the wrange
any more than we to the particular sides taken
by the different wranglers, (though knew and know
them all to be Democrats,) our mistake was more or
less excusable. We are sorry to find that the ques-
ton as to who called the meeting should be denied by
one wing OF the Democracy, and not owned by the
other. However, " it's none of our funeral" But
when an esteemed personal FRIEND who used to be an
ardent old line Wing, and is rampant old-line
Democrat requests US to say that the frolic at Union
Hall not gotten up called for by the oldiners,
We feel in duty bound TO say it, and in the saying we
| say it with pleasure.


THE LADIES FAIR on Dryades street was inaugura.
ted in splendid style last evening, and will continue
during the week. The proceeds resulting from the


fair being intended in part to defray the debt incur
red by the building of the schoolhouse great crowd
of ladies and gentlemen will no doubt be preseu,
nightly, and render the place an agreeable resort
When the residents of that portion of the city move
in any matter success is certain to crown their efforts
Year: 1859

A RAscALLy CoNTRACToR.-Some excitement was
created IN Cincinnati few days ago by the discovery
that the patients in the Insane Asylum had been fed
on the meat usually given to dogs. The Commits
sloners promptly notified the contractor, Mr. Charles
Rain, that he must comply with the terms of his
contract
Year: 1859

An ardent young man in this city, (says the
Springfield Republican of July ~ who fell in
love some time since with the portrait of a
woman on bank bill. wrote to the cashier of
the bank to know whether it was a fancifil
picture or !" the representation of a breathing
have her or die in the attempt. The cashier
replied to him after few days delay, which
he hoped had /" not tended unduly to aggral
vate the ferceness Of his disorder" thus


+" / am unable to give you the abundant con-
ISOLATION Of letter Of introduction to the origi-
nal of the portrait, if it had an original, which
L am not disposed to question. My knowledge
Of her is quite scanty and unsatisfactory. The
story told by our engravers is, that she was
teacher in the - school house in New York
at the time Of that cruel disaster q few years
ago, when, upon false alarm of FIRE, the chill
dren rushed down the stairway, which gave
way, causing the death Of a large number of
the innocents.' Our heroine is said to have
saved all her pupils by that presence of mind
that shiues in her face, and TO have then leaped
from third-story window. Whether in 90
doing she broke both her legs, irreparably
damaged her lovely nose, and forever dimmed
one iustrOus eye, L am not told. Ny own be.
Iief Is that she came out unscathed and un-
harmed, and st once proceeded to Brady's who
photographed her, and thus gave her unparal-
leled ineaments to Immortality on a bank note.
am further inclined 10 the notion that shortly
thereafter she married the man of her choice,
(she never would do nything else,) and is nov
the happy mother of four small children and
ono ut the breast OF course you'll take no
stock in this theory of mine, and if you are
bent on further Investigation, L can only refer
you to our engravers, who can possibly put
Jon on the track. Go in and win, and be sure
in such happy contamination to ask me to be
there. If it calls me to Kamschatka shall
surely obey; indeed, wore 1 not not sufficiently
blessed in the woman line, you would have re-
ceived no reply at all to your inquiries. "-&c.


We have been looking for a coroner's case of
the dead body of an interesting young man
found drowned but being disappointed thus
far. have concluded that our hero proposes 10
find consolation by joining in the sack race, or
the strife for the creased pig, on Hampden
Park next Monday.
Year: 1859

FRUIT PEDLARs are doing flourish
ing business on the streets selling apples oranges
lemons, ETC., to the injury of the trade of the lie
censed confectioners. These pedIars, we believe,
pay no rent or license and therefore undersell
those who DO contribute to the revenue Of the city
and State. The City Council have the power to
remedy the evil complained Of and will possibly do
so by passing an ordinance imposing tax upon
travelling traders. Confectioners are much en-.
titled to proper protection in their business,
as any other class of meu, and we'll no do dOubc
ceive it, now that the matter ia brought to the
tice of the Droper authorities
Year: 1859

ES- BUY YOUR Books AT THE GIFT BOOKSTORE
where You may buy
Book and Gold Watch for Sl.00
A Book and Silver Watch for LOO
Book and Gold Chain for 100
A Book and Gold T1imble for co
A Book and a Cameo PiA for co
A Book and set of Sleeve Buttons for Leo
A Book and Gold Locket for 90
A Book and Col Bracelet for leo
A Book aud Gold Pencil for 100
A Book and Gilt Book for 90


GIFT BOOK STORE.
NH 4-4t No sc Main st
Year: 1859

hORsE STRALING About 8 O'CLOCK
yesterday morning the stable of Phillip Toppiu,
on 18th street, between Broad and Marshall, was
broken into and fine work horse stolen there-
from One Of the neighbors saw the horse when
and saw the negro when be mounted aud rode of,
but had no suspicion that anything was wrong
At late hour yesterday evening, the negro was
arrested, and will be examined before the Mayor
this morning.
Year: 1859

NEW TACK-Las: Sunday night about
o'clock the door bell Of private residence on
Marshall street, near 4th. was rung gently by two
or three men who had been seen around the prem.
ises for an hour before, by a neighbor, and when
the bell was answered by the raising of one of the
front windows, the party walked off Finding it
impossible to effect entrance by the rear, be.
cause of the vcousness of the dogs, it is supposed
were asleep, before attempting to bore or cut thro
the front door
Year: 1859

RECEPTION DECLINED Scott has de
c.ined public reception at Baton Rouge, tender
ed him by the Legislature of Louisiana, and
which be had accepted. He assigns az the cause
OF the change OF determination, indisposition and
sympathy with the community in tho late steam.
boat disaster, by which so many valuable citizens
have lost their lives, and so many families made
acquainted with sorrow,
Year: 1859

SENSATION PREAcHING.-A correspondent Of the
Baltimore Christian Advocate relates of a New
York minister who desired to make sensation in
preaching on the crucfxion:


He instructed the sexton when he got to that
part of the discourse where be describes the DARK
ness overspreading the heavens. to draw down the
gas giving light only eRouGh to make the darkness
visible. The sexton however, put the gas cut alto
gether which so confounded the preacher that he
was unable TO proceed Some of the trustees ofthe
church hurried to the sexton in the lobby. aud in
quirsd what was the matter Greatly to his cha
grin and morif cation well as that of the preach
er, he was obliged to explain.
Year: 1859




The public expenditures under the control of
Congress than of the executive departments and the
policy of any party in reference to them, u.s. therefore,
clearly exhibited by its action in that body than
by its action in an administration of the Government
The opposition, as our readers aware, had ma
ority in the popular branch of the thiryourth Con-
gress, sufficient to control its organization and its
on and the record of that Congress- upon the subject
of the public expenditures, is the latest is the best
practical illustration of the principles in relation
to these expenditures by which they governed They
are just now loud in their professions of economy and in
their denunciatons of the extravaganza of the Demo-
cratic party but few facts furnished by this record of
the thirtyfourth Congress- will to show that they
do not practice when in power the economy which they
profess but the contrary more exravagant than
the party whose extravaganza they denounce For these
facts, indebted to the Democratic Review, and
other Democratic exchanges.


l. The legislative expenses of the opposition House
of Representatives of the thrtyourth Congress- deduc
ting from them the sum of seven hundred and ninety
four thousand five hundred and eighty dollars and sixty
cents for the difference in the pay of members under the
old and the compensation law were three hundred
and eighteen thousand six hundred and fifty dollars anC
fortynine cents more than those Of the Democratic
House of the preceding Congress. This is proven by
the following official statement from the Register of the
Treasury, which we commend to the attention of
readers:


account Of certain appropriations, b-efnidlly, from
the UedT 1854 to 1857 inchtSiCe:
Year: 1859

These Gums remove all
morbid or bad matter from
the system, supplying in
their place a healthy flow
Of bile, invigorating the
stomach, causing food to
digest we'll, purifying the
blood, giving tone and
health to the whole ma
chinery, Te wing tn e
cause of the disease--effect-
ing a radical cure.


Bilious attacks are cured,
and, what is better, preven-
ted by the occasional use
of the Liver Invigorator.


One dose after eating is
sufficient to relieve 4 h e
stomach and prevent the
food from rising and sour
ing.


Only one dose taken be-
fore retiring, prevent S
nightmare.


Only one dose taken at
night, lOosens the bowels
gently, and cures cOStire-
ness.


One dose taken after each
meal will cure Dyspepsia.


One dose of two teaspoon
fuls will always relieve Sick
Headache.


Only one dose immediate
ly relieves Collie, lille
Year: 1859

MOEE LAND FOR SALE.
HAVE PARCEL OF LAND about one mile from the
above Plantation we'll timbered with Oak Cypress and
Swamp wood. This good opening any person wish


ing to into the Wood and Shnge business The tract
surrounded by water sufficiently deep for large boat


flat At least thousand cords of wood be
ket.


These lands be had at bargain Call the subscri
Der as above. VIM McHORREIL.
May 9th, 1859. 364t*
Year: 1859

The Ohio State Journal thus speaks of a
sneaking cur at Harper's Ferry, who misrep-
resents the Dayton district in Congress -
"vallandingham is at Harper's Ferry, hanging
around the bed of the wounded Brown, put
ting leading and tricky questions which are
intended to convey suspicion, whatever the
answers, and watching an opportunity to
draw something out Of Brown that he can
torture into an implication Of Ohio Repub-
licans. His sneaking manner of doing this is
shown by the report, where he asks Brown
from what part Of Ohio his men came, and
answers it himself-"From the Reserve, of
course" Also in another case where he tries
to drag Giddings' name in so as to extract
something out Of Brown to connect his name
with suspicion.


. Is it not brave scene, these ours around
the bed of this wounded lion, playing him
with questions, and especially Vallanding-
ham, an Ohio Congressman trying to play
the spy and common informer againt his own
State, with knavish trick? This is quite an
improvement on his debut in Congress, when
he entered on an explanation to the South Of
his action on the repeal of the black laws in
the Ohio Legislature. in order to be admitted
to his seat, passing the sovereignty of the
State of Ohio under the negro yoke of the
South, for admission into Congress! Let the
sneaks of Ohio rush to Washington while the
game is going. The one that can inform
against the Republicans with the biggest in.
vention will get the attest Office, and it is vel
known there is going to be general overturr
of of6ce-holders. 1t is pleasing exhibition
of State pride. The British had to pay high
for Benedict Arnold, but the breed has in
creased so that they are dog cheap in Ohio
and they are rushing to Washington outbid
ding themselves in the monstrosity Of theil
charges against their own State"
Year: 1859




.Esa- The Memphis Bulletin pays high
compliment TO the newspaper literature of
our country, and says it has seen in little
country newspapers prose articles of genu-
inc merit-articles in which were displayed
the highestorder of capacity, and yet, beyond
the narrow circle of a county, where, per-


haps, they were not and could not be ap-
preciated, were never read, nor even heard
Of We open every week in our Office
country papers, whose editorials would
aaorn the great city papers and make their
reputation. But they pass away after being
glanced over, and are seen no more. There
is a great amount of talent i'll the country
that could be made the basis of splendid
reputation But it wants theater for dis
play. Like the cold steel, it must be smit-
ten to produce FIRE. 1t is modest, timid, and
retiring, and lives in oblivious shades while
contemporaneous- and arrogant ignorance
takes the lead in all public matters and gath
ers all the .laurels to be won. Look at the
second aud third classes of conspicuous men
among u.s. What they lack in capacity
they make up in an article commonly called
"brass. y" They have stepped in where the
highest capacity feared to tread. They reap
honors, emolument, and wealth, while the
timid children of genius like the glow-worm,
shine in obscurity, and go wanting all their
days He will indeed be benefactor who
shall teach true merit how to be courageous 4"
Year: 1859

We are indebted to the Hon. Jefferson Davis
for pamphlet containing his speeches made
during the summer of 1865, including his
speech before the Legislature of Mississippi
delivered last winter. He is induced to their
publication TO correct whatever erroneous i'm
presslons may have been made by persistent
Misrepresentation" of the sentiments express
ed in the addresses. Their publication and
distribution will triumphantly refute the SLAM
ders which have been perpetrated against
them and their distinguished author.


reperusal of these efforts seriatim will
strike any reader with an admiration, not be-
fore fully entertained, of the manifest genius
and great cVmprehensiveness of the orators
mind. They were made on various and dis
similar occasions, and though they bear, with
out exception, frequent marks of impromptu
eloquence, yet there is not one in the whole
collection which does not reach the highest
standard of fascinating rhetoric, nor vet is
there one which loses any of the effect of i'm
pulsive oratory. His speech at the Portland
serenade isfcaptivotfng in its beauty of senti-
mentand its flowing euphony of diction; while
that before the meeting at Faneuil Hall is
an unexceptionable specimen of dignity and
strength


Enmity itself must allow Jeff. Davis high
place among the great men of the age.
Year: 1859

The Eastern Clarion, at one time almost
alone in this State in the defence of Stephen
A. Douglas has at length abandoned his cause
We have not received the Free Trader of late
but presume it too has finally awakened to q
sense OF its own error in upholding the Little
Giant. His speech in the recent Great De-
bate" in Congress should certainly have the
effect of wholly alternating every trne Southern
man from him and his Squatter Sovereignty
doctrines. That speech has removed the veil
and exposed his treason in all its deformitv.
There can be but little doubt that Mississippi
now, with perfect unanimity, denounces Ste
phen A. Douglas as corrupt, revolu, ,ionary and
dangerous. He himself first stamped the brand
of treason on his brow by his own disgraceful
course. Let him bear the consequences as he
best can.