Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 20, Number 3, Jasper, Dubois County, 18 January 1878 — Page 6

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Aye, laugh if laugh you will Ht my rude sneech Kut wowh ttomettmeft ilk) of micli h jfroed ; life for the sihhII Joys held beyond tkeir Ami the tMMHrttitte they have all ttmy need! .Vry l, THeHml, in Sme Yerk Kvmmg Pt. TOMMY'S J) REAM: ON, THK OKOORArHY KKMO.V. 1 Itato my geography 1woh! It'n notliliiK out tMiHen and iidihm; To bother ino mi every evening, ItS teidly the grtMtettt of shHities. The brooks, they flow into the rivers, Ami the river How into the seu; 1 hopo, tor my part, they enjoy it, Rut wbMt ttoea it mutter to me? 01 late, oven more I've UisHked it, And more diKHH-eenble it seems. Kver hiiieu the iwul evening IhmI winter, When I had that to out frightful of dreams. I thought that h great horrid Monster Stood suddenly there in my room .A frightful Geography Dehtou, Knvckied in tUrkne and glee in; lib body and head like a mountain, A volcano oh top for a hat : Ilk arms and Mu Ie were like rivers. With a brook muiid hU neck for cmvat. JIo laid on my oor trembling shoulder lilt Hii(i'iH, cokl, elamniy uHd lon; And tlx I Kg-lift ml eye ujMin me, He roared ferth lift horrible seag; " Come f couie f rise and come Away to the banks of the Muskingum 1 It flows o'er the plaint of Timbuct(M), AVith the peak of TeHeritfe Jut In view. And the cataracts leap in the jiftle moon shine, As they danee o'er the cliffs ol lliHHdywine. Flee' lieel ri.andfle Away to the bunks of the Tombigbee 1 We'll rwH by Alaska's tiowerj' strand. Where the emerald towers of l'okln stand ; We'rl immw them by, and will ret awhile On Miehllllmavinuc's tropic isle; While the ape of Harlmry frixk around, Aad tho jmrrot crow with a lovely sound. 'Hie! hie! rise and hie Away to the banks of the Yang-tsec-kil There the giant mountains of Oshkesh stand, And tho iee-burgs gleam through the fulling sand; While the elephant it an the pal in -tree high, Ami the cannibals feast on bad-boy pie. "G! to! rlwjHHdgo Away to the Imnks of the Hoang-hol There the Ohlcasaw sachem makes hia tea, And the kettle bolls and waita for thee. We'll finite thee, ho! and wa'll lay thee low; On the beautiful banka of the Hoaag-hol" These terrible words were still sounding Like trutupetH and drums through my head, "When tlie monster clutched tighter my shoulder, And dragged me half out of the bed. In terror f clung to the bed-iMmt; Hut the faithless bed-post, it broke. 1 ureiuncd out aloud In my anguleli, And, suddenly well, I awoke. He ww goae. Kut I eau not forget him, The fearful Geography Anrke. He has toy lltxt thought in tho mornlm, lie has my last shudder at nkght. Do yott hlaiMo wo for hating my lewn? Is it stntagu that it frightful should seem? Or that 1 more and more should ahhor it Hlnce I had that tnost Uouibl dreaiH2 Laura 11. KctmriU, m Si. Xkkolmfur JMHiry. THE FLOODED UULCtf. t warn't never tuuant for no sailor, I warn't, but I come of a groat tiHtloit, ami when a chap out our way says he'll till a tiling-, lie dot it. I said I'd go to and I vent-nd thai you are. I ahl I'd drop hunting and take to intniHg, ami llinr lwas; and that's how it cioftio about. You sco, wo was rather rough out our way, where Ilez Laneaud inowentwitli our bit of tent and piuksrs, shootingirons, and fitch-like, meaning to mako a pile of gold. We went to Waahoe, and dkln't get on ; then we went to Fort Laratnii. nnd didn't get on there. Last, we went right up into the mountain, picking our way amongst the stones, for Ilex sei, "Loolc here, oltl boss, let's go whar no one's been afore. If we cot whar the boys are at work already, they've took tho cream, anil we, gots tlte skim milk. Let's you and me get tho cream, ami let some o1 the others take the skim milk." "Good for you," I says: and wo tramped on day after day, till w'e got right up in tho heart o' the mountains where ho one hadn't been afore, nnd it WW so still and quiet, as it made you quite deaf. It was a strange, wild sort of place, like as if one o' them coons called giants kul driven a wedge itAo a mountain and t)lii it, making a place for a hit of x stream to run at the bottom, and lay bare the gold wo wanted to liml. Thkvll do, Dab, ' says He,, aa wo Hit up our hit of a tent on a pleasant green shelf in tho steep valley place. Thia'll do, Dub tlmr'a yaller gold .spangling thin santk, aad running In vein through them rocks, and yellow gold in pocket of the rock." "Then let's oall it Yailer Gulch," I says. "Done, old hoset" says Hen: and l'aller Gulch it is. We set to work next day washing in the bit of a stream and shook hands on our good luck. 4 Thls'll do," says Hee. We shall

dream of hunting this out." "Say, stranger!" said a voice that matin us both jump. 44 Do it wash well?". And if there warn't a long, lean, ugly, yaller-looklng ohap looking down at as, as he stood holding a mule by the bridle. Why, afore a week was over, so far from us keeping it snug, I reckon there was fifty people ia Yaller Gulch, washtag away, and making their piles. Afore another week was over some one had sot up a store, and next day there was a gambling saloon. Keep it to ourselves ! Why, strangei, I reckon if there was one speck of gold anywhere within 500 miles our chaps 'd snift it' out like vultures, and be down upon it. It warn't no use to grumble, and wo kept what w thought to ourselves, working away and making our ounces as best wo could. One day I proposed we should go up higher in tho mountains; butllez said he'd bo darned if ho'dmovo; and next day, if ho'd wanted mo to go, t should havo told him I'd be darnod if I'd move, and, all at onco, from being rod-hot chums, as would havo done any thins: for ono another, Ilez and mo got to bo mortal enemies. Now, look hero, stranger. Did you ever koep chickens? P'raps not; but if youevor do, just you notice this: You've got, say, a dozen young cocks pecking about, 'and as happy as can bo smart and lively, and innorcont as chickens should bo. Now, just you go drop a pretty young pullet in among 'cm, and see if there woa't be a row. Why,aforo night thero'll be combs blooding, eyes knockad out, feathers torn and ragged a reg'lar pepper-box and bowio set-to, and all 'acauso of that littlo smooth, brown pullet, that looks on so quiet and gentle, as if wondering who made the row. Now, that's what was tho matter with us ; for who should come into the Gulch one day but an old storekeeper sort of fellow, with as pretty a daughter as ever stepped, and from that moment it was all over between Ilez and me. He'd got a way with him, you see, as I hadn't, and they always made him welkim at thar store, when it was only 44 How do you do?" and 44 Good morning," to mo. I don't know what love is, strangers ; but if Jacl Burn had told mo to go and cut one of my hands off to ploase hor, I'd ha' dono it. I'd ha' gone through fire and water for her, God bloss her! and if she's tied ono of her long, yallor hairs round my neck, sho might havo led mo about like a boar, rough as I am. Hut it wouldn't do. I soon see which way the wind blew. She was the only woman in camp, and could have have tho pick, and she picked Ilez. I was 'bout startin' mad first time I met them two togother she a hanging on his arm, and looking up in his face, worshiping him like some of them women can worship a great, big, strong he; and as soon as they war got by I sworo a big oath as Ilez should never have her, and 1 plugged my six-shooter, give my bowio a whetting, and lay inait for him coming back. It was a nice time that, as I sot there, seeing in fancy him kissin' ncr sweet littlo face, and s'he hanging on him. If I was 'most mad afore, I was. ton times worse now; and when I heored Hez comin'. I stood thoro on a shelf of rock. 1 where tho track came along, mcaningto I put halt atlozuH plugs in him, and then pitcn nan over into tne uuicn. uut i was tltat mad that when no came up i chery and singing, I forgot all about i my shooting-iron and wwie, and went r. """"' " "kh "8 " wivwmg i him, till wo fell together close to the j edge pf the Gulch, and I had only .to give him a shove and down ho'd ha' gono keh'h on the hard rocks ninety foot J DJ'0W44 Now, Hex," I says, 44 how about 1 your darling now? You'll cut in afore a better .man again, will you?" 44 Yes, if I live!" he says, stout-like, I so as I couldn't help likitig the grit ho showed. 44 That's right," ho says: i 44 pitch me over, and then go and toll i little Jael what you've done. She'll bo ' lino and proud of yer then, Abmadab , acaiesi" I Ho said that as I'd jrot him hanjrinsr; ovor the rocks, and he looked me full in 3 looked me ft 11 in i no nice, tun oi grit, tiiougn ho was as ' helpless as a baby; but I didn't see his j lace men, lor what i seen was the lace oi iiaei, wita anil passionate like, ask-1 mg me what I7d done with her love, and my hoart swollod so that I gave a sob Hez round like a woman, & I swung into safety, and taking his place like, 44 bhove mo over," I says, 4t an says, 4t and put mo I out of my misery." Poor old Hez! I hated htm liko nyson : but he wasn't that sort. 'Stead of sending mo over, now ho had thochancft, ho claps his hand on my shoulder, anil he says, siys he, 44 Dab, old man," ho says, 44 give it a name, anU let's go and have a drink on this. Wo can't all find tho big nuggets, old boss; and if I'm in luck, don't hu hard on yer , Then ho held out hts list, I t ke it, but turning off, I r mate." but I couldn't K on, i ran hard down 1 muong tho rocks till I dropped, bruised ami bleeding, and didn't go back to my . icm mat nigiit. 1 got a bit wilder arter that. Hoz and Jacl were spliced up, and I alius kent away. When I wanted an ounce or two of gold I worked, and when I'd got it I used to drinkdrink, because I wanted f to drown all recollections of the past. Hez used to come to me, but I warned him oft". Last time he cam aoross me, t ami irieu to maxe i nanus, iiez," I onja, kotii wvi i ib urapru, aim i won't ayl shan't plug yer I" TIhih Jael earao, and she began to talk tome about forgiving him; but only mini me more naad nor ever, and so I went and pitched at the lower end of the Gulch, and they lived at t'other.

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Timee and time I've felt aa if I'd tro and plug Hex on the quiet, hut I never did, though I got to hate him more and more, and never half m much as I did two years arter, when I came upon him one day sudden, with his wife, Jael, looKing poouer man ever, with a little white-haWl pquealer on her arm. -An it riled ie above a bit to see liira so smiling and happy, and me turned into a blood-shot, drinking, raviug savage, that half the Gulch was feared on, and t'other half daren't face. I had been drinking hard fiery Bourbon, you bet! for about a week, when early one morning as I lay in my ragged bit of a tent, I woko up suddon-like to a roaring noise like thunder; then there came a whirl and a rush, and I was swimming for life, half choked with tho water that had carried mo oft'. Now it was hitting my head, playful like, agen tho hardest cornors of tho rock it could find in the Gulch; then it was hitting me in the back, or pounding me in tho front, with trunks ol troos swept down from tho mountains, for something had bust a lake, or something high up and in about a wink the hull settlement in Yallor Gulch was swopt away, 44 Wall," I says, getting hold of a branch, and drawing mysolfout, "some on 'em wanted a good wash, and this'll ivo it 'cm:" tor vou soo water had ocen SKcerce iatoly, aiMl what thore was had all been used tor cleaning tho cold, l sot on a bit o' rocic, wringing that water out o' my hair leastwise, no ; it was some ono olso liko who sot there, chaps I knowed, you soo ; and thoro was tho water rushing down 80 or 40 foot deep, with ovory thing swept beforo it mules, and tents, and shanties, and storos, nnd dead bodies by tho dozen. 44 Unlucky for thorn," 1 says ; and just then I hears a wild sorter shriek, and, looking down, I soo a chap half-swimming, naif-swept along by tho torrent, trying hard to get at a treo that stood t'other side. 44 Why, it's 3ou, is it, Hez?" I says to myself, a3 1 looked at his wild oyos and strained faceu on which tho sun shone full. 44 You're a gone coon, Hez, lad; so you may just as well fold yer arms, say amen, and go down liko a man. How I could pot you now, lad, if I'd got a shooting-iron ; put you out o' yer misery like. You'll drown, lad." ' Ho made a dash, and tried for a branch hanging down, but missed it and got swept against tho rocks, where ke shoved his arm between two big-bits ; but the water gave him a wrench, tho bono went crack, and as I sat still thero I see him swept down l)wer and lower till ho clutched at a bush with his left hand, and hung on like grim death to a doad nigger. 44 Sarvo you right," I says, coolly. Why shouldn't you die liko the rost? If I'd had any go in mo I should havo plugged you long ago." 44 Holloa?" I cried then, giving a start. 44 It ain't 'tis tarnation! it can't be!" But it was. There, on t'other side, fifty yards lower down, was a bit of a shelf of earth that kept crumbling away as tho water washed it, was Jael, kneeling down with her young 'un ; and, as 1 looked, something scorned to give my heart a jigg, just as if some coon had pulled a string. 44 Well, he's 'bout gone," I says; 44 and thov cin't holu 'bout three mtnutos; then they'll all drown together, land sue can take okliioz ins last babby to nuss, cuss 'omi What's it got to do move." r took out my wet cako of 'bacca, and whittled oil a bit, shoved it in my cheek, sht my knife with a click, and sot thar WHtchin' of 'em father, and mother, alui imirn. you'vo been happy, you have," I says, out loud ; not as they could hear it, for the noise of tho waters. 44 Now you'll bo sorry for other people. Drown, darn ycr! stock, and lock, and barrel; ! I'm safe." j Just then, as I sot and chawed, tell- j ing myself as a chap would bo mad to try and save his friends out of such a f flood, lot alone his enemies, darn mo! if Jacl didn't put that there little squeal f u n iimma tt'acviiivi , nuu iium iiiuiii til' i er s hands tosrethcr, and hold tnem un as if she was niukinsr it say Us pravcrs i a bom fool!-whon that thar strinsr a born fool ! when that thar string seemed to be pulled, tnsido mc like, agin my heart; and, I couldn't help it, I jumped up. couldn't do a I liked, for, if I didn't begin to rip oil my things, wet and hanging to mo. Cuss mo! how they did stick! but I cleared half on 'em off, and then, like a mad fool, I made a run and I ' a jump, and was lighting hard with tho i' water to got across to Hcz's wife and child. It was a bit of a fight. Down I wont, j and up I went, and tho water twisted t mo like a loaf; but I got out of tho roar and thunder, on to tho bit of a shelf where Jaoi knelt: whetf. if the sillv thine didn't besrin to hold up to mo hor child, and her lips, poor darling, said, dumbly, "SaveMt! oh, save it!" In the midst of that rush and roar, as I saw that poor gal, white, horrified, and with hor yaller hair clinging round her, all my old lovo for her comes back, and I sworo a big oath I'd savo hor for myseii or die. I tore her dross into ribbons, for thero warn't a moment to lose, and 1 bound that bairn somehow on to my shoulders, sho watching me tho whlloj and then, with my hoart boating madly, I caught her in my arms, she clinging tightly to me In her fear, and I stood up, th'uking how I could get back, and mako ready The flood didn't wait for that though.

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44 bay, 1Mb," I says to myseii, "don't .w.v yon bo a fool. You hate that lot like lwr? tho ml0il States, whoro tho pyson, you do. Don't you go and fnct is frequently recorded in local newsdrown voursolf " papers, especially in September and OeI was 'bout mad, you know, and tobo!"! ami cewionnUy tho spring

In a moment there waa a quiver of the

; bank, and it went from beneath myfeet, leaving me wroetling with .the waters once more. I don't know how I did it, only that, after a flirht. and being half , smothered, I found myself crawling up tne sidu of tne union, ovorso low uowu, and dragging'Jael into a safe p?aco with , her bairn. t Sho foil down aforo mo, husrod mv 1 logs and kissed my feet; and then sho I srui-fnil tut mill luxrati utfirincr im uml down, ending by seeing just above us, -1.1 T- lf.. ll '.til -.-.1. I.f eld He, clinging there still, with his sound arm rammed into the bush, and his body swept out by tlte uerue stream. The next moment shu had soizod me by tho arm, and was pyntiug at him, and she gave a wild kind of shriek. 44 Ilo's a gone coon, my gal," I sa3's, though she couldn't hear me ; and I was gloating over hor beautiful white face and soft, clear nock, as I thought that now sho was mine all mino. I'd saved hor out of tho Hood, and thoro was no Hoz to stand in our way. 44 Save him! save him!" she shrieked in my oar. What, Hez? Save Hoz to como between us once more? Save her husband the man I hated, and would gladly see die! Oh, I couldn't do it, and my looks showed it, and sho reading mo like a book tho while. No, ho might ' drown ho was drowned must oo. No : just thon ho moved, liut, nonsenso! I wasn't coing to risk my life throat as to for his, and cut my own the futur'. Sho went down on her knees to me, though. Pynting again at whero Hoz still iloatod; and tho old feeling of love for hor was stronger on mo than over. 44 You're asking mo to die for you, Jael?" I shouted in hor ear. 44 Save him savo Hez !" sho shrieked. 44 Yos, save him!" I groaned to myself. 44 Bring him back to tho happiness that might oo mino. But sho loves him sho lovos him; and I must." I gave ono look at her as I though my fiist and I couldn't help it. If she hud askod mo dumbly, as she did, to do something ten times as bad, I should havo dono it; and with a run I got well up above Hez afore I jumped in onco more, to havo tho same fight with the waters till I was swept down to tho bush where ho was. I'd got my knife in my teeth to cut the biish.away and lot him free; but I was swept against it my weight tore it away, and Hoz and I went down tho stream togother; him so dono up that ho lay helpless upon the water. Something seemed to tell mo to finish him off. A minute tinder water would havo done it; but Jael 's face was before me, and at last I got to tho other sido, with her climbing along beside us; and if it hadn't boon for tho hand she stretched down to mo, I should never have crawled out with old Ilez I was that dono. As I dropped down, panting on the rock, Jacl came to my side, leaned over me and kissed me, and turned away, for tho next moment she was trying hard and bringing hor husband to, and I was onco more beginning to feel that I had been a fool. I ain't much more to tell, only that tho llood went down 'most as quick as it como up, and Hez got all right again with his. broken arm and did well. They i wanted muchly to be friends, but I kep' , away. I felt as if I'd been a fool to savo I him, and I was kinder 'shamed liko of it, ' so 1 took off to 'Frisco, where, after

I'm sate enough, i chumming about, I took: to going voywith mo? I shan't ages to Panama and back, and the sea seemed to suit mc like, and thero I stuck

to it. And there I seem to stick yet. Migration ef Insects. Prof. Riley regards tho migration of insects as duo to their multiplying inorq rapidly than their means of support. Tho migrations of rats are attributed to the sumo cause, and similar observations havo been made as to other animals. Many insects that are not normally of a migratory tendency, exhibit it when pressed by dearth of food. In those cases thoy collect together and migrate in largo bodies. Kcforring to instances of the kind, Prof. Itfloy, at a recent - . t . Jie.eun8 mv.us iycaaoni oi ac,?.nct?' siaic. " vasMi.gnis oi mutertlies took place at times from tho America, observed cnuatoriul reirions of South j Migrating swarms have been months. In cvorv instance where oh serrations have been made, this migrating butterfly has been found to bo the archippus. m m m A Celd CoHversatie. 44 Well, Bister Burphy, what do you thidk of the weather?" staked Mr. Slumker of his friend as thoy both stood nt tho corner of California and Montgomery Streets blowing their noses with much deliberation. 44 Oh, its lido, idducd, Mr. Slubker. I guess we'll have a raid id a tibe. I see you have a code." 44 Yos, I was up to Sacrabodto wod dightndd I aidt got ovor it yet." 44 Bad place for codes that Sacrabodto. I thidk if I were you.Mr. Slubker,! take somogid add sugar." 44 1 don't dridk, thadk you." 14 Well take some pulbodary bedicido add go to bed." 44 1 bay, Mr.Burphy, I bay. Solodg!" 44 So lodg!" And such is tho conversation of tlte period. In foggy weather, "Thoy all do it." San Francisco Wasp. Gkn. Skohklokk says to his soldiers : "A coward can fire a gun, but it takes a bravo man to use a bayonet."

Turkey's Circular to (ke Pewers. The following is tt translation of the Turkish circular to the Powers ; CoxsTANTiNOlM.K, I. ISWT.Uvwy ono know tlw origin or th unhappy event Which' have befallen roortitJy m th? ifctoplre, (The Imperial (invernitttMit feel the ooujicIoiiMiess of not having In any way provoked the war which we are earrybif on ajfRlHst Kiiftfilii, and of having, on the contrary, dono every thliifc to avoid it. At the HtiiuinoiiK of their Sovereign, tho inhabitants of the Kinplre have flocked together to fulfil! Mtmpiyaml heroically a great duty that of defending their iuhhhuhI mII. Hut on their own wide they have not threatened, ami thov threaten no ono. It is dlirlcutt to discover the motives whluh RuhsIh can Iiavu had to Justify her aggression. In It that sSic ;vlNhd to sec founded and developed, for the benefit of certain population who form tho object of he.rMliuittiilc, institutions and reforms tlt'.t'il to ameliorate their lot? The Sublime Porto anticipated such a desire by deciding to reorganize Its syotcni, and to establish in the country useful and practical reforms, lcfdgucri to satisfy the withes of all its mile lectH, without distinction of race or religion. This work of reorganization, governmental and administrative, has for Its base the Constitution granted by his Imperial Majesty tho Sultan. The country lias received with satisfaction and gratitude this charter, tho application of which, free from all hindrances, Is destined to prodnoe all those cHects which would have been in vain expected from incomplete measures and reformations wanting in sanction. A partial reform, which, only applied to certain province to the exclusion of the rest of the Kinpirc, would present grave inconveniences; for Instance, as regards matters of administration, exceptional favors accorded to separate provinces could not but inevitably have for their consequence to set In opposition one against another the Inhabitants of different races w ho live under the scepter of his Imperial .Majcsly the Sultan, and would constitute, In fact, a premium otfercd to rebellion. If any doubt could still survive as to the religious fultlllment of the New Constitution and of the reforms that wo have promised In tho Conference of Constantinople, this doubt should disappear In the presence of tho formal and solemn declaration of the sincerity of our resolutions. Weprotlorlu this regard a guarantee of which we invite. Huropo to take act. Tho true and only cause of hindrance which might slacken oti r efforts in this path would bo found In tho continuation of a state of war. Such a situation ia not only disastrous with reference to reforms, but equally calamitous in regard to the general prosperity of the country. It kills agriculture and Industry by keeping under arms the flower of the laboring classes; it imposes heavy charges upon tho public treasury, and thus places obstacles in the way of every amelioration of the ceouotnical"and llnancial condition of the Kmpire, to the great prejudice of the general prosperity of the country and tho special interests of tho creditors of tho State. It results, then, from what has gone beforethe questions of reform being outside

tho matter that a reason must still bo sought for tho continuation of the war. The desire of conquest has been loudly and pub licly repudiated rrom tne commencement oi hostilities by his Majesty, the Ktnperor Alexander. The military honor of the great Kmpire which lie goverm remains intact, notwithstanding the various fortunes of the campaign, and tho armies which confront each other have equally covered themselves with glory on the fields of battle. With what object should tbey, then, prolong desolation and ruin for their respective countries? We on our part think that the moment has come when notn belligerents might accept peace without forfeit tothelrdignlty, and when Kuropemlght usefully Interpose its good office. As for tho Imperial Government, It Is ready to ask this; not that the country has reached tho end cf Its resources. There are no sacrltluos which theentiro Ottoman nation Is not willlntr to face to maintain tho independ ence and integrity of tho Fatherland. Hut tho duty of the Imperial Government Is to avert, if possible, any further effusion of blood. It Is, therefore, In the name of humanity that we make this appeal to the sentiments of justice In the Great Towers, and that we hope they will he Inclined to reccivo our advance favorably. Wedded at Last.' A gentleman from Waxahachio, now visiting in our city, informs us that considerable excitement was created in tho social circle of his town last Wednesday, by the marriage of Mr. Nicholas Sims, a wealthy farmer of Ellis County, aged'soventj", to Mrs. Dtinhtp, an esteemed lady of Waxiihachie, of so mo sixty summers. In the State of Tennessee they had in tho days of childhood lived together; in youth had loved with all tho lorvor of tho heart's first pusMon, and when grown, rumor says, plighted their faith, but tho pledge'was broken and tho lovers separate!. Tho lover married another, whoso death ho mourned several years ago. Tho lady twice bowed at tho bridal altar, and twice has wept ovor the grave of a departed husband. After forty years they mot in this distant State, and, though his form has lost its youthful pride nnd vigor, and hor onco rosy cheek and sparkling oj'e havo somewhat faded, the lovo of former days Is aroused from its long slumber, and at the residence of Dr. Sweat, tho bride's son-in-law, in tho presence of a few old friends, tho broken pledge is fulfilled. Such a remarkable runuwel of an onrly attachment is seldom found, and challenges oven fiction for an uqual. Time, wo learn, has dealt kindly with the couple, and they look as though thoy may yet enjoy nniny happv days of wedded bliss. Dallas (Texas) Commercial. It is reported in London that, chiefly through tho instrumentality of tho Princess of Wales, tho Queen has como to the rcliof of tho Prince, who has for years had to bear costly charges which, hail not Ins mother retired from active representation, would havo been borne by hor, and litis put down $1,000,000 to discharge his liabilities, which became so pressing as to oause tho sale of his Saudringham stock a few months ago. This is probably true, because matters could not havo g6ne on much longer ss they had been, and the Queon knows perfectly well that if tho Government were to ask Parliament for further assistance for the Prince, some radical members would infallibly want to know what becomes of the great sum givea to her for representation.