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Year: 1860

It happened that there were no
cats in Schilda, and so many mice
that nothing was safe, even in the
bread basket; for whatever they
put there, was sure to be gnawed
or eaten, and this grieved them
solely.


Up n time there came trav-
eler into the village carrying a cat
in his arms and he entered the ho-
tel. The host asked him:


What sort Of a beast is tLat!'


Said he 8 it is a mouser'


Now the mice at Schilda were so
quiet and tame that they never fed
before the people, but ran about all
day long without the slightest fear.
So the traveller let the cat run,
who, in sight of the host, soon
caught numbers of mice.


Now when the people were told
this by the host, they asked the
man whether the mouser was to be
sold, for they would pay him we'll
for it.


He SAID that it certainly was to
DO sold; but seeing that it would
be SO useful to them he would let
them have it if they would paw him
what Was right; and he asked a
hundred forins for it.


The Doors were glad to find he
asked so little and concluded bar
gain with him, he agreeing to take
half the money down and to come
again in six months to get the rest.
As soon as the bargain was struck
on both sides, they gave the travel
er half of his money and carried
the mouser into the granary where
they kept their corn, for there were
more mice there.


The traveller went off with his
money at full speed, for he feared
greatly lestthey should repent them
OF the bargain and want their mon
ey back again, and as he went along
kept looking behind him.


Now the boots had forgotten to
ask what the cat was to be fed up
on, SO they sent one after him in
haste to ask the question.


But when he with the gold -drst
saw that some one was following
him, he hastened so much the more
SO that the boor could by no means
overtake him; whereupon he call
ed out to him from afar off,


What does it eat! what does it
eat?


What you please! what you
pleasen quoth the traveller.


But the peasant understood him
to say men and beasts, men and
beasts therefore he returned home
ward IN great affliction and said as
said as much to his worthy masters.


On hearing it they become greatly |
alarmed, and said, when it has no |
more mice to eat, it will eat our
cattle, and when they are gone, it !
will eat US. To think we should |
pay our good money in buying such
4 thing


So they held a council together
and resolved that the cat should be
killed, but no one would venture to
ay hold Of it for that purpose
Whereupon it was determined to
burn the granary, and the cat in it,
seeing that it was better that they
'hould suffer common loss than
III lose life AID limb.


So they set fire to the granary
But when the cat smelt the fire, it
prang out Of window and fed to
mother house, and the granary was
'urnt to the ground.


Never was there sorrow greater
han that Of the Schildburghers,
ghen they found they could not kill
he cat. They counselled with one
mother and purchased the house to
which the cat had fed and burned
hat also. d But the cat sprang out ,
pom the roof and sat there, wash {
ng itself, and putting its paws be- |,
ind its ears after the manner Of
ats. And the Schildburohers nm ,
Year: 1860

sea-horse, and commands q price equal to the
best qualities of elephant ivory. Il is, how
ever, too hard and non-elastic for many pur-
poses, and has the disadvantage Of being too
small to cut up proGtably.


1t would be interesting to trace this trade
to its origin in Africa, TO follow it in all its
ramifcations to see how many thousands of
the human race make their gain from the
giant of quadrupeds but this would require
the space of a volume rather than the col
umn OF daily journaL-JonTAai Of Com
pleYcs
Year: 1860

rg Don't think you are making S bargain
when you cheat q customer for in the long
run all scch operations will turn on: qnadruple
losses Dom, lend yocr money at too great a
shave for the borrower must succeed. or he'll
not be able 70 paw Don't neglect Yoar regu-
lar business, thinking to do better ST some out-
side enterprise the chances are ten TO one
Won will not succeed.
Year: 1860

The Pope is going to sell at auction all
his stock in trade of relics, his peepshows
and his miracles and other valuable effects.
The sale will comprise all the juggling ap-
apparatus of the Holy Catholic Church.
Among the tricks will be observed the
Winking Picture of Remin, the blood Of
Janaurius, and the vision of La Salette.-
All these will be warranted in good work
ing condition, and with each lot will be
furnished table of instructions, showing
how 10 do the trick. After the sale for
instance, when the blood of good St. JAN
auris is intended to be liqui6cd to guilty
the faithful, His Holiness in person will at
tend the few first melting days, and will
superintend the sanguinary dripping as
chief cook.


The holy relics 10 be sold are expected
to realize very large amount, No mat
ter how great the antiquity may be, they
will all of them be found in capital condi-
tion, care having been taken from time to
time, to renew them whenever they show
ed symptoms of decay or wearing out
The hair shirt of ST. Filthius has been re-
Gently fresh sleeved, and the odor of Sancti-
ty will be preserved to cling to it, although
for fear of some infection, it not long ago
was washed. St. Peters coat is also in
frst-rate preservation, Notwithstanding the
wear and tear to which in pious exhibition
it has been exposed.


The waiscoat of St. Timothy will like
wise be disposed off, the rumor that the
moth was in it, being quite unfouuded, as
it was only six months since that, although
warranted "original," the vestment was re-
made.


Particular attention will, moreover, be
invited to the trowsers of st. Peter, which,
just having been seated, will last for some
years longer, before the owner will be put
to the expense of fresh repairs.


The slippers of st. Vitus have been new
topped, new-sided and new-soled.


By the appended declaration of his Ho-
illness, the Pope, it will be proved to dem
onstration, that the linen shirt of st. Fill
THUS is the same identical garment which
was worn by the good Saint; and vouch-
er will be given, with the bunion of st.
Limpa, and the toe-nails Of Saint Elaypes,
attested by the signatures or crosses of
the faithful, by whom those sacred relics
have been cut out.


A rumor is afloat that Cardinal w. will
be favored with the post of auctioneer, for
which his lordship is very eminently fitted.
Year: 1860

We commend to the consideration of
every young man, the following wholesome
ADVICE, copied from the Springfield (Mass)
Repu6f'can. 1t was handed to us by a
friend who is not now "young man."
but who knows the truthfulness of these
lines by actual experience and observation.


"lf there is anything in the world that
a young man should be more thankful for
than another, it is the poverty which necs.
states his starting in life under very great
disadvantages. Poverty is one of the
best tests of human quality in existence.
A triumph over it is like graduating with
honor from West Point. 1t demonstrates
stuff and stamina. II is certificate of
worthy labor creditably performed. A
young man who cannot stand the test is
not worth anything. He can never rise
above drudge or pauper. A young
man who cannot feel bis will harden as
the yoke of poverty presses upon him and
his pluck raise with every difficulty pow
erty throws in his way, may as well retire
into some corner and hide himself. Pow
erty saves thousand times more men than
it ruins; for it only ruins those who are
not particularly worth saving, while it
saves multitudes of those whom wealth
would have ruined. If any young man
who reads this is so unfortunate as to be
rich, give him my pity. Ipity you, my
rich young friend, because you are in dan
ger. You lack one stimulus to effort and
excellence with your poor companion pos
sesses. You will be very apt, if you
have soft place in your head, to think
yourself above him, and that sort of thing
makes you mean and Injuries you. With
full pockets full stomach, and fine linen
and broadcloth on your back, yonr heart
and soul plethoric in the race of life, you
will find yourself surpassed by all other
poor boys around you before you know it.


No, my boy, if you are poor, thank God
and tax courage; for be intendes to give
you chance to make something of your
self. If you had plenty of of money, ten
chances to one it would spoil you for all
useful purposes. Do you lack of educa-
tion9 Have you been cut short in the text
book! Remember that education, like
some other things does not consist in the
multitude of things a man possesses
What can you doa That is the question
that settles the business for you. Do you
know your business9 Do you know man
and how to deal with him? Has your
mind, by any means whatsoever, received
that discipline which gives to its action,
power and facilityl If so, then you are
more of man and thousand times bet
ter educated than the fellow who graduates
from college with his brains full of stuff
that he cannot apply to the practical bus
mess of life-stuff, the acquisition of which
has been in no sense disciplinary process
as far as he is concerned. There are very
few men in this world less than thirty years
of age and unmarried, who can afford to be
rich. One of the greatest benefits to be
reaped from great financial disasters, is the
saving large crop of young men.
Year: 1860

GAS CONFINES TO BE USED UP.-The
Phogrophic News predicts the destruc-
ton of the gas company monopoly by the
introduction of a gas produced by inpreg-
mating super heated steam with coal tar
II is found to contain one half less oxide
of carbon and twice as much bicarburetted
hydrogen as common gas, and is, therefore
twice as valuable. 1t is also very durable,
and after being kept for five months in
gasometois, it exhibits no change and left
no deposit. One of its merits consists in
its being entirely free from sulphurretted
hydrogen. Its practical utility will soon
be tested.
Year: 1860

EgOur readers remember what we
have given in relating to the finding of a
female body near Jersey City, anchored III
the bay to barrel of pitch, and which
body was identified as that of Mrs. Rich.
ardson-a frail woman who had been
leading very dissolute life. Her husband,
who chad parted from her on account
Of her liasons, and the man who had been
one of her victims, asserting confidently
that the remains found were hers, and an
exciting tale was told of her murder by
her young paramour, a prominent mer-
chant. and of his flight. After all this
Mrs. Richardson is alive and well in New
York, and her aforesaid husband certiies
to the fact, but says there were marks on
the remains found like those he knew to be
on the person Of his wife.
Year: 1860

GST The chief art of tho way to learn
how to succeed, is to attempt but little at
a time. The widest excursions of the
mind are made by short flights frequently
repeated. The most lofty fabrics Of science
are formed by the continual accumulations
Of single propositions.
Year: 1860

The Green committee in New Yok have is
sued an address to the supporters of Breckin-
ridge and Lane in that State declaring all ne
gotiations for a fusion at an end. The address
says:


Our object in addressing you at the present
time is officially to announce, with untelgned
regret the final and absolute failure of at
tempt made by us in good faith ounte the op-
ponents of republicanism in this State against
the election of Lincoln. Acting in pursuance
of the urgent personal advice Of the President
of the United States, the members of his cabi-
net and the Breckenridge and Lane National
Executive Committee, and impelled by what
appeared to be the desire of large number of
our constituents, we proposed, if 1t could be
effected honorably, to combine with the Doug
las party and its allies upon single ticket for
Presidential electors and State officers.


Now if the President of the United States
and members of the Cabinet are personally en-
gagged in the canvass why don't they advise a
withdrawal of the Breckenridge ticket in New
York? That would insure the success of the
Douglas-Bel fusion ticket and thus prevent
Lincoln's election by the people?


We learn by gentleman from New York on
Saturday that fusion would be made howev-
er, notwithstanding this address, by which six
electors would be given to the Breckinridge par
ty, and which arrangement would secure the
vote of that faction for the Union ticket,
Year: 1860

The recent lnsurrectlOnary excitement IN
Texas has been greatly exaggerated and that
too, we doubt not, in many instances for po-
panics seem to have been almost if not entirely
inadginary notwithstanding the efforts made
by certain partzan prints in those States to
make capital out of the plots" Every slave
State is able to protect its own property keep
the negroes under strict discipline, and to hang
all abolitionists who interfere with them; poll
tcians in the North and South may be assured
of this, and the further fact that no quarter
will be given to those who tamper with the
institution. But we beseech the fire eating
journals not to get up any more slave p0n1cs
until after the election is over; we don't think
it will help the sectional ticket.


The n D. Picoyune of the 8th instant says
of the Texas excitement:


''The Investigations which have been prose
cuted in the disturbed districts Of Texas have
not developed, with any degree of distinctness,
the existence of any other plot for ruin than
what few desperate characters, without CON
nection with OF hope of help from any other
quarter, might have formed In some cases
the negro population have been demoraliZed
evidently by the insidious promises of these
white men, and the work Of ruin wrought has
doubtless been mainly their work But not
half Of what has been confessed seems to be
borne out by later facts. The strychnine said
to have been discovered in the hands ofnegroes
turns out to be very harmless having no atfini
ty with the deadly poison which it was sup
posed to be The wells thought to have
been poisoned, late accounts declare to be un-
tainted with any deleterious substance. Tex
as, like all of our frontier States, has been the
point where desperate men have congregated,
and her whole history is full of violence and
outrage inflicted by the foes of society. Arous
ed by the present danger, the citizens have
taken the most effectual means to bring
such offenders to justice, and to break up all
combinations for. their protection"
Year: 1860

WORDS OF JACKsoN.-The following is an ex-
tract from the farewell address ofAndrew Jackson;


words ftly spoken, and worthy of the consdera-
| ton of every citizen at the present time:


The citizens off every State should studiously
avoid everything calculated to wound the sensi-


bty offend the just pride of the people of other
| States and they should frown upon any proceed


ings within their own borders likely to disturb


the tranquility of their political brethren in other
portions of the Union In a country extensive
as the United States, and with pun suits so varied


the internal regulations of the several States must
frequently differ from another in important
particulars and this difference is unavodably in


creased by tie varying principles upon which


the American Colonies were originally planted
principles which ad taken deep root in their So


cial relations before the Revolution and therefore


of necessity, influencing their policy since they
became free and independent States.


But each State has the unquestionable right
to regulate its own internal concerns according
to its pleasure; and while it does not inter
tere with the rights of the people of other States
or the rights of the Union, every State must be
the sole judge of the measures proper to secure
the safety of its citizens and promote their hap
piness and all efforts on the part of the people
OF other States to cast odium upon their institu-
tons, and all measures calculated to disturb their
rights of property, to put in jeopardy their
peace and internal tranquility are in direct op-
position to the spirit in which the Union was
formed and must endanger its safety. Motives
or philanthropy may be assigned for this unwar-
rantable interterence and such men may persuade
themselves for moment that they are laborinG
in the of humanity, and asserting the rights
OF the human race; but every one, upon sober
Election, will see that nothing but mischief can
come from their improper assaults upon the feel
ings and rights of others. Rest assured, that the
men found busy in this work of discord are not
worthy of your confidence, and deserve your
strongest reprobation.'
Year: 1860

RULES FOR EXHIBITION-sPTCIAL NOTICE.


The Secretary Office will be opened on the Fair
Grounds on the 9th day of Octo er for the pur-
pose of receiving entries
All who intend to compete for the premiums OF
the Society are desired to have their articles on
the ground and entered at the Secretarys office
at or before o'clock on Monday evening" the 29th
of October. SO that they may be arranged in their
respective departments and in readiness for ex-
animation by the Judges on Tuesday morning the
Both October.


No article or animal entered for premium can
be removed or taken away before the close of the
exhibition, unless by the of the Executive
Committee. No premiums will be paid on arti-
cles animals removed in violation of this
rule.


A diploma having the seal of the Society affixed
will be substituted for the monied premiums if
preferred by those to whom premiums are
awarded


Articles not enumerated will be entitled to dis
cretionary premiums at the option of the EXecu-
tive Committee.
Animals, when duly entered, arc we'll provided
for by the Society without charge to the owner.
And the Executive Committee will take every
precauon in their power for the safe preservation
of all articles and stock on exhibition They
WISH however, exhibitors to give attention to
their articles and at the close of the exhibition
attend to their removal.
All who have been appointed Judges of award,
except the ladies, will report themselves at the
head quarters of the Chief Marshal the Fair
GroundS on tuesday morning at IL CLOCK ana
register their names The ladies selected for
Judges will be received at Floral II all at the same
hour by the Chief Marshal, who will assist them
in organizing.


The Judges will not award premiums on ami
mails articles in their opinion not worthy,
though there be no competition.


No article or animal will be allowed to COM
pete for more than premium.


The grounds will be opened during the Fair at
9 o'clock to the public


Horses and cattle will be led out on the track
for examination during each day.


There will be band of music in attendance
and the track will be open every day for trial of
horses.


All persons having business with the Society
or wishing information not here furnished will ad-
dress VIM H. Oliver, Secretary.


VIM b. WADsWORTH, Chairman.
Year: 1860

son aud Jackson, shall be transmitted to bless and
make glad your children or will you follow in the
lead of that man who would accomplish its de-
struction'


am still for the Constitution-still for that
Union which has been cemented by the blood of
our fathers!


This our maxim. this our piety


And God and nature say its lust
Year: 1860

GETTING WRATHY.-The Charleston Nercury
man is foaming at the mouth Hear him:


Mr.. Douglas, upon the back Of this inso-
lent assertion of his, cannot possibly make a
speech in South Carolina His voice will not
be tolerated in this S{ate--even though il be a
- free country" 1t is more than the whole
some condition Of his skin is worth lie would
be kicked from any stump in the State. The
cry of shame, from every quarter Of the South
should rise up against Virginia, that she has
not only permitted her soil to be dessccrated
hy the bullying threats of violence against her
Southern sister States, but men have been
found there-found in masses-to hoot on this
Western bIackguard with their cowardly shouts
of applause Shame. Shame. upon poor old
Virginia Who could have thought she would
have come to this -


Now there's fire for you. We suppose, cous
IN, that Mr.. Douglas does not to visit the
land of the Hugenots just now but when he
does he will do so notwithstanding your threats
about kicking He is not made Of the stuff to
receive kicks he don't 6l0to as much some
of your sUelLs but then he has more moral
courage.


But how, neighbor, about the homespup
Increment, direct importation, the abolition of
the Of northern cabbages, your late COM
nissi0n to the old Dominion, &c? Don't you
think that States as well as individuals some
times make great nj1lnies of themselves? Let
HIS know when you secede good cousin
Year: 1860

NEW YORK CITY, Sept Is, 1860.


DEAR PRoGREss In New York at last. On my
way stopped at the KatskiIl mountains and found
it very agreeable. The air cold, vet relished
it much it gives good appetite 1 think to in
hale this mountain air. If you would see nature in
all its loveiines and beauty you can find ii here. If
it formed theme for the immortal Irving this is as
surance sufficient of its grandeur.


New York is full of everything. Barnum' Muse
um is crowded The What is it," seems to draw
a great crowd The lightning calculator is very
wonderful. The Albino family is among the
curiOstes 1t consists of man. wife and child. each
having white hair pink eyes and skin of real flesh
color. Their vision is very defective during the
day. l do not believe that the female part Of the
family is peculiarly blessed with a good temper,
but this is of my business. Another great
riosity Barnum has, is man who will tell you how
many seconds, minutes, hours, days and months you
old how many miles you have walked over by
telling him the date of your BIRTH and yet in every
other particular he is ignorant that if you give
him so cents he cannot tell how much change to
give. The Aquarium is a great attraction. The
last sensation Barnum has added to his Museum is
"What can they be ~ It is my candid impression
that Barnum had them made to order. The opera
opened week ago. The h0btaes of the opera
not there yet, but the house was filled. The
hotels are all crowded it is quite impossible to get
a room anywhere. The Ball to be given to the
Prince will come off the 18th. I dare say the heart
of many bell Is flutteTing One thing is very Ger
tain, he cannot marry any one of them. Poor fellow
we do pity him much to think he must marry those
who are chosen for him. Who would be prince
l must close Adeu, ROMEO.
Year: 1860

We learn from gentleman who was present
that the Hon. Thomas Ruffin harped at consid-
cradle length in his speech at Kinston, on
Tuesday, on the fact that Douglas editor in
the State had said that he would shoulder his
musket to put down diSuni0n or secession in
the South. We are no Douglas editoy though
We know that the following paragraph, which
appeared in the Progress few days ago, form
ed the text for the honorable gentleman's pa
thetic appeal to the passions and preiudices of
those who listened We re-publish the para
graph that those who heard the denuncations
of US may know what the offence was and to
say that we have no desire to add to or take
from it single word; it was calmly expressed
and carefully worded, and contains sentiments
to which we expect to adhere as long as we
have voice to speak or Il hand to write Here
is the article entire: