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A Family Newspaper Devoted to Education, Agriculture, Commerce, Markets, General Intelligence, Foreign and Domestic News. VOL. 4. NO. 35. PLYMOUTH, INDIANA, .THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1855. WHOLE NO. 191.

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k PCBLISHED EVEBY THTJB8DAY MORN2SQ (Up Stair3. in the Old Plymouth Hotel,) BY YAI. J. BURNS. If pallin advance, II SO At the end ofsix months. - ----- 200 it delayed until the end of the year, 2 50 A failure to order a discontinonnce nt the expiration of the time subscribed for, will be considered a newengagement, and the paper continued. rro paper will bediscontinued unti?al! arrjuies ire paid, unlessatthe option oithe Publisher. trVhe above terms will be strictly ad-Ler.-d to. ADVERTIS1NG. (TE.1 LINES OR LESS MASS A SaCAXE.) Oad nqnare three insertion or les S 1. 00. Each additional insertion . . . 25o. Bminem Cardi inserted one year 5,00. Legal advertisements must be cash in advance or accepted necnrity. Advertisements. tim not mirked. will be inserted till forbidden and charged at the above rates. DIRECTORY. C 'I ARLES PALMER, Dealer in Dry flood. Boots & Shoes, Haidware Queensware, Groceries, and Hats k Caps. NELS. McLAUGllUN' Saddle and Harness Manufacturer, one door west of the corner in the old Plymouth Hotel. TROOKE & EVAN?, Dealers in Dry Goods. J Groceries, Crockery and Ready made mrtfMnir. corner Larvorte V Mich, streets. TBROWNLEE h CO. Dealers in Dry J . Goods, Boots & Shoes, Ready made '.v: TT...1 .r. fm f"!vt1TV Ciothiae. Hardware & Cutlery TV- T. A. LEMON. Practtcin Physician. 1 and dealer in Drus & Medicines, Ods. raii?s 4: Groceries, east side Michigan street. "VT R. PACKARD, Dealer in Foreirn and 1 . Domestic Groceries ana rrovisiui, east side Michigan street. WL. PIATT, ChaiT & Cabinet maVer. . and Undertaker. Furniture ioora in north room of the old Ply...1?!?!?'.; "m c D ANN E lT Manufacturer and dealer . in Boots & Shoes, and Shoe Findings, west aide Jlichian street. o. M HARVARD. Saddle & Harness man ufacture, west side of Michigan street. GS. CLEAVELAND Wholesale and re- . tail dealer in Stoves. Tinware, & Hardwire generally, west sjjlJjchJSaJ?.llrSl XT H. OGLESREE & Co. Dealers in Dry L 1 Goods Groceries, Hardware, Boots and Shoes, CrooVery&c- in the Brick Store. ROBERT RUSK, Dealer in Family Groceries, Provisions 'and Tinware. Bakery attached, east side Mieb;.zanatTeet. ICE ' CrSi Ü fsLOOX. M. IL JTibbits . nioprietor, up stairs in RnsV budn FRIMPLCT. Merchant Tailor, and Deal- . er in Clothing and all kinds of Furnishing Goois, in RasVs baRdin?. TT7ETERVELf & HEWITT. Dealers in W Dry Goods Gro.-erle?. Hardware Boots & Sbo?, madejCloth b7 PERCHING Wholesale and Retail . dealer in Drus Medicines, Oils, Patnts. 01as & Glassware, ftnrt-rie. & gmeer wine. BROWN BAXTER Manufacturers of Tin' Sheet ron and Copperwar. and dealers n Stoves sien of Tin shop J Stove. HrREEVsTÄVty. at Law. Coliections . punctually attended to in Northern Indiana. Lands for sate cheap. j cttTfi tnciicp nf the neace, will IVA. attend to business in the Circuit and Com. Plea CJ5verJhe Post . office rTsÄTi'L. HIGGINBOTHAM. Physician and Surgeon. OfSce at his residence on he east sie of Michigan street. OHNCOUGLE, Keeps a eeneral assortment of Dry Gools, Groceries, Ve?etables nd Meats of all kinds. ... CojGano fc Mtch; j'.s. " R.T. bTGRTY.'Eclectic Vhy.'inan, will attend to calls day or nizht. Odlce four doors north of C. . Reeve's residence. I7t LLIOTT & Co Waffon, Cairiace & Plow li Manufacturers, at their new atand at the south end of the Bridge, Michigan street. DR. R. BROWN". Physician anJ Surgeon, will promptly attend to all calls in his profession. 02ice at bis residence, south Plym. a A. JOSEPH. Cabinet MaXer ana in1 ... CmitV Plvmni'.ili. DR. CHAS. WEST, Eclectic Physician, Oiuce at bis residence, east side Miclagan street. ' CHKS. KLINE. Clock and Watchmaker, and SiWeismithine generally. Lp stairs ia the old Plymouth Hotel. 17 D WARDS HOTEL, Wia. C. EJwards Proli prietor, corner of Michigan and IVashingtoa streets. ' .' , " ' PC. TURNER, House Carpenter & Joiner. . Shop on Washington street, east of M ichigan street. - AK. BRIQOS. Horse Shoeing mo! Blacksmithing of all kinds done tö order. Shop south east of Edwards Hotel. MERICAN HOUSE, G. P. Cherry & Son proprietors, South Plymouth. BALDWIN manufacture and keeps on band custom made Boots & Shoes; east side Michigan street. fOHN SMITH. Manufacturer of Fioe Custom made Boots. Shop next door south of Dr. nigginbotbaro's oraee. JAMES & M. ELLIOTT Turners. Chair Makers, and Sign Painters, Michigan street, South Plymouth. T E. ARMSTRONG, attends to til calls in his line of Dasprerrrotyping, at his residence north ot Edwards'. Hotel. MIL PEGHER & CO., Dealers in Family . Groceries, rrorisions, Conlectionanes Ace, South Plymouth. - 27n tTze .JUgtI2q2.At the highest market prices, taken on subscription to' Ihe Banner, delivered at the office. . - ; : inly, 1853. "IT - FA1LOIL Cabinet Mai;r and jindefUJLj ker, west side of .Michigan street, inthe all Banr.tr ofSee. - - T. .V BLANK NOTES; Of tn ip?roTetU fori, for sale at this office

The Night. O. the nummer niht Hath a smile or light, And she its du a sapphire throne, Whilst the sweet winds load btr With garlands of odor From the bud of the rose o'erblown. B it the autumn night Iis a piercing sight AdJ a step both strong and frei; And a voice of wonder Like the wrath of thunder When be shouts to the stormy sea. And the wintry night I nil cold und white And sbo singt th a cong of pain. Till the wild bee huinineth, A;id the warm spring coinetb, When she dies iu a dream of r&iut O. the night! the n'ght! 'Ti a lovely sight, Whatever the clime or time; For sorrow then spareth. And the lover outpoureth His soul inu star-bright rhyiue. Itbringetb lerp To the forest deep, The fores? bird to it nest; To care bright hours, And dreams of flowers. And that balm to the weury, rest! From the Olive Branch. THE VI It A ITH OF EKMICII. ST SOrilBONIA CUBBIES. The Tt rrm Alhrt Vnn Trnt rofnrna1 after an absence of years, to the castle of his ancestors, still a widower; and though . U . l. J I it-. ujc report uau sevriai limes reacneu rrnheim that its lord would soon bring home a oung bride, which report seemed to be confirmed by the instructions which were, from time to time, sent lo his ervants, the old senschal, as he looked on that pile, melancholy countenance, shook his head, and replied to the eager questionings of the other domestics: No, no! the Baron will have no bride till he is wedded again to his own Maud iu Heaven.' But the servants were incredulous. Why. then, had the suit of rooms, designed, unquestionably, for a lady's use, bee u added to the castle? Was any one fool enough to believe that the Baron had prepared them for his maiden sister, whose tastes and habits were as antiquated as the caalle itself? Would she, whose ears never opened to a livelier note than Dcus Miserere, find pleasure in singing btr Ji. in delicately-toned harps and Spanish guitars? Would ahe, whose costliest v. rnrrfdc better than that of the beggar who raceived alms atner naud at the castle gate, and whose coarse dies3 concealed a garment of sack-cloth, be pleased with Persian carpets, tapestries of velvet embroidered with gold, couches of eider down, with their curtains of the richest damask? Would she admire to see multiplied, by those costly mirrors, that tall, spectre like form, and the features, which, naturally without beauty, had become positively ugly by sour, ascetic disposition, and by lor.g fastiis and vigils. No.' end none ol these things were designed for the Lady Agatha.' The Baron loved his sister; he felt more inclined to pity her than to be vexed at her pculiar ities: he would not offend her so much as even to tsk her to look upon such vanities. The servant., were sorely puzzled, and man Impossible things were imagined by them, but no one ever thoughi of anything so absurd as that the Bron'ä heir the young Count. Wilheira, was contemplating marriage that would have been beyond the belief of the most credulous. The monkish student would nev. or allow himself time even to form the acquaintance of t woman, and beside his aunt and the old housekeeper, he probably had not spoken to a female for years. Wilheim had become motherless at an early age. He was naturally a feeble, sickly boy, and some years after the death of his mother, the lingering, incurable disease which had brought her to the grave was believed to have fastened itself on him. It was probably as much to avoid witnessing a repetition ol those sufferinss which the most devoted care could not mitigate, os grief for the loss ofthat cherished. wife, which caused the Baron so long to absent himself from thecastle; for the Lady Agatha, to whosa care the youth had been entrusted, was so anxious lest hia guardianship should be resumed by his father, and thus all her counsels and instructions be lost, that she had kept the Baron to ignorant ol the facts respecting his son, it was only six months before his return to the castle that he learned from an unknown source, that in all the States there was not a more robust, finely formed, and handsome young man, than his own son, and there was, perhaps, no one of his age better taught in the learning of the schools; but he was so sadly deficient in nil rsally indispenible knowledge, that ht was as unfitted as indisposed to mingle in tociety, abutting himself up in almost monkish seclusion, and passing his time iu abstruse studies and wild dreaming. On hia faturn to his castle the Baron found that the Information be had received respecting hia con was, in every particular, correct; bot what impression the young rasa produced on his father, not even the keen sighted Lady Agatha could tell. It was tery evident to. Wilheira, however, at well as to. every one else, that the Baron cared terr little for , the society of his son, and it gave him much MtUfactioa to think so, fearing, as he bad done, that hit- course of life would ba interfered with by bis father. Uis liberty wat not at all infringed on, and bis morning! we fftat in the stu-iy, ot an-

ficult, abstruse sciences, and his evenings in those wild dreamings which almost

maddened him. It had been some weeks since the Baron's return to the castle, and bis son had almost forgotten hia presence there, when near the twilight of a day which had been one of more than usual intense and fruit less mental toil to him, and his frame was enervated by want of exerciso, and the powers of his mind exhausted by that long continued tension, that tho young rain, who had lately been seized with the J phantasy that he had a talent for paint ing, placed before him a work of one of j the great masters, and sat down to his easel. But tho canvas was still uncolored when the sun's last ray was giidinj the mountain tops, and the rnoon was be ginning to silver the beautifal Rhine. It was a beautiful landscape which lay beneath tbat high turret window, and pleasant sounds came floating on the soft delicious breeze, through the open casement. There was the tinkling pf bells, the lowing of cattle, and the call of the herdsman, which, in the distance, seemed like the refrain of the milkmaid's merry song; in the court an old piper was playing a merry air on the flageolet, while several young girls, with flowing tresses and round white arms, were'dancing over the lawn; the swallows were twittering beneath the window, the dove was eooing to his mate, and now and then was heard, in the pauses of this varied, but harmonious song, tho dash of oars and the whistling of the boatman. But the young Count Wilheim, iu his high turret window, saw nothing but tbat old painting he had selected for his copy, and the untouched canvas; be heard nothing but the beating of his own heart, which told him how time was passing away, while the purposes of life were so illy acomplished. What those purposes were, the young man might not have, found it easy to explain; but the eager, avaricious economist of time remembered that a whole dny had passed, and nothing was added to that already useless, unmanageable m iss he had crammed into his brain. A wholo day! 86 thought cast a backward glance, he remembered that there had been many days aud weeks, and months pished in the same manner at the organ, with the chisel, the pencil nnd the pen, i and a sickening sensation crept over his soul. The young Count was no genius; he had an active, powerful mind, and in any pursuit he might have engaged in, he had made himself respectable; but it was always exhausted energies and n desponding heart that he had brought to his self-disposed task, und then be cqaded himself alinuil lo uiüuüeSä i-jr uis lU S jflly,. sweetly . n:an. Anil's, .whLspeju fell the tones of the curfew on the evening air. . 'The Wraith of Ernheim walks through tho castle to night! pray, pray 'Lead us not irto lemptation'.' ultereu a low, harsh voice close to the car of the Count, and the Lady Agatha left the chamber as si lently as she had entered it. Mechanically the young man bowed his head on his folded arms, as he had been taught by his aunt in his childhood to do; and, though reason had learned him yeatE since, to discredit the tales told of a tnys terious visitant at the castle, this was the first time he had failed to utter the exor cism taught him by the lady. It was not, however, from forgetfulness of thr injunction, so often repeated; for. for some reason, those old legends which had so terrified his childhood, came with unusual force to his mind. The Wraith of Ernheirn was, it was said, that of the first Baroness Yon Ernst. When she had come, a bride, to the castle, she was nn angel of beauty and good ness; but before many years had passed away, she songht forbidden knowledge, and the elixirs of life which she drank, changed that loveliness of person to the most terrible deformity, and that gentleness of soul to fiendish malignity. . Condemned to existence, horrible as it had become, while the name of Voa Ernst was found on the earth, with her own hands she walled herself up in the lowest dungeon of the castle, to await the ruin of the house and her liberation from life; but at certain seasons of the year her wraith walked through the castle, end presented itself to the inmates; to the young and hopeful as an angel kind and benificent; to the aged, and the worldweary as a friend, ready to execute the purposes of their hearts. , But all whom she gave counsel or aid, paid the same fearful penalty for the wisdom they learned, or the revenge they soughta sudden and awful death, and the extinction with them ot their branch and family. , But fearful as it was, the desire, for present good, and the wish for revenge had been so strong, that it was said but one in a generation had resisted the arts of the temptress.. Even the Lady Agatha it was believed, had looked on the Wraith of Eruheim, and through that agency had wrought that terrible vengeance on her recreant lover,, and that it was only by the severest pennance that her doom was deferred. j ' The young Count, it -.hat 'been "said, gave no credence to these. tales,' yet,' as hesat there, with hit pencil if. his trembling.fingers, and that lethargy resting on his soul, he murmured half audibly to himself; 'Would that the fable were true to awaken the music I have listened lo in my dreams, to breathe the. thouglhs which sometimes flash through my brain, to pictuie the beautiful visions which pass before me; no avil could befall me thereafter!' and-half maddened by his thoughts, he added, in a louder tone, 'and who can tell but it may be true? What is reason, what is philosophy, but mere speculation! Does reason teach us to hope for or fear what it impossible?

Baroness of Ernheim, reveal thyself to me ns nn angel of beauty, take the form I have looked on in my dreams, aud give me power to transfer the lovely vision to canvas, and As the young Count speke he raised head, and in the corner of the apartment where he had placed that old painting he had designed to copy, stood a female figure of exquisite loveliness. Never had his dreams pictured anything half so fair as that pure white brow, on which th? moonbeams fll ns if caressingly; thofce gentle eyc3, turned timiilly toward him; that dimpled cheek, which

he fauciej crimsoned and p3led by turns before his fixfd ref.nri!; the hair falling like a shower of gold over the shoulders, and the white arm and taper fingers, which held, gathered into folds, the azure robe which burg like a cloud around her. Yet there m as something familtiar in that beautiful countenance; had he looked on it before, or was it that ideal of beauty which sometimes presented it self to his mind? He did not ask himself, so absorbed was he in its contemplation; but when, as the moonbeams fadod from the apartment, the figure gli led away, he beati to speculate on the reality of tho vision. That it was a supernatural being he would not admit for a moment, nor could he believe that it was simply a creature of his imagination. There must be some visitor at the castle, of whose presence ho was not aware; but why should a strauge lady be wandering through that remote part of the castle, where his study was situated, and at that hour? Wilheim was so much perplexed with the vision, that he forgot all his former disquieting thoughts, and with the determination in his mind that he would solve the mystery the next morning, he threw himself on his couch at an eaiJier hour man ne naa öelore, for years, sought re pose; and when the b?nms of the rising sun stole into tho ppartment, instead of wrapping himself iti a dressing-gown and sitting down to an unfinished task, he dressed himself with much care and joined his father and aunt in tho breakfastroom, a thing ho had not done before since the morning after tho Baron's return to tho castle. He was disappointed, however, in the expectation of finding a stranger theie, and though tho whole morning was spent in seeking to discover who was his visitor the previous evening, he could find no clue to the mvste rj. If there was a lady in the castle, he was sure that neither his aunt ucr th? servants wero aware of it, and that there nas no occupant of that jiew suite of rooms, he convinced .Lion made by iHWct itrzfO n ßccoin-" panied him through the apartments. Could it be possible that imagination had called up that beautiful figure? Would that it had such power again, and that be cou'.d transfer that form to canvas, the young Count thought, es, when the twilight was again stealing over the earth, he placed hi3 easel before him and again took up the pencil It was wonderful what a change had come over him. He could not have told why, but he had a strange command over his thoughts, and his fingers were so perfectly under his control, that when an hour had passed, such benutiful lines lay on the canvas, that the Count dropped his pencil and tjazed on his work with delight. ' ' "Now, fair Wraith of Ernheim!" he exclaimed, "for a glance of thy bright eyes, a smita front that sweet lip, and" Lould it be porsihle! there stood the figure in the azure robe," and golden hair gleaming in the soft moonlight, and the bright, gentle eyts gazing timidly upon him. while the rase- eud the lily were struggling for mastery on her cheek. More astonished 'tf .possible, than he had before been, the Ciunt sat gazing upon the apparition, tilli with tho moonlight, i. passed away, but his questioning of himself were to mere stisfactorily answered thau they iad before baen, nor did his renewed sear h, the next morning, meet with any bet te i reward than that of tho previous day. And thus several days passed away. Every evening for the few moments that the moonbeams found their way into tho turret window, that fair form occupied that rjiche in the student's chamber, and when 6e projecting column shut out the light, suddenly disappeared; and . every morring the Count had sought, in vain, brfjthom that mystery. More inexplicable, seemed, and so completely were his (noughts absorbed by it, that his studies wert entirely forgotten, and finally that aiding which, though it promised to be. a very respectable work, fell so far short, h ÜU'f stimation, of its beautiful origina that hft sat by his easel only for the few tnorient that fair figure presented itself tk his eje. The greater part of his time was spent in the society of the Baron, whom te waa astonished to find not only a mcst kgreeable and interesting companion, b t the kindest and most affectionate ofrirents; and from the compunctions her fel( for having treated his father with such boldness at their first meeting, it 6eemed not likely that he would ever again be Wanting in filial regard, j l .. ' Thanks be to'thatfafr vision which had changed the curr nt of his thoughts the Count Wilheia had become another man! , a -' : Severat days had pc sed away4 when, one evening, just as t a rroon was creeping up behind the easifrn hills, the Count, who had attired . hinkelf in a manner which would have fithtened the Lady Agatha, hoping,' as sl had done, that he would soon renounce, forever, the vanities of the world co cealed himself by the embrasure of hit window. It was very close proximity to be lp with'thit

vengeful wraith, for the projection of the window formed one side of the niche, but the young man seemed not to fear any very direful consequences, for no sooner was the panel slipped and that fair form was standing before him than it was encircled by the arm of the Count; and though the little fingers, which proved not to be formed of moonbeams, or auy other such subtile essence, made a desperate effort to undo his hold, though the cheek paled, the lips quivered, and the eye. grew moist, closer and closer was that form pressed to his heart, and his lips touched that little hand, tho golden hair, and even that white brow, while he cal

led her by all endearing names; and then the Count released ber from his arms and knelt before her, and in a voice almost tremulous with emotion, told her that be was acquainted with all she believed him ignorant of. The evening previous he had followed hor, as she retreated from his apartir.eut, to the door of her room, and had heard enough of the conversation which passed between her and his father to know that she was the Countess Ermine his own promised bride, who was betrothed to him in childhood, that though her father, on account of his (Wilheim's) ill health, had refused to consider the contract binding, and had, afterward, other plans for his daughter, she would not forget the pale, sickly boy who had once kissed her rosy cheek and called her his little wifp, and that her childish fancy had changed into affection, when, after the death of her father, her hand being at her own di5posal, she had put on tho disguise of a servant, and and come to the castle to learn if the man had become what, in her opinion, the boy had promised to be; that it was herself who bad sent that account of his son to the Baron, with the intimation that the Countess Ermine would not consider herself released from the engagement which had been made for! her :a her childhood, unless the Count Wilheim wished it broken, and that when the Baron, having seen his son, had confessed to tho lady that though it would make him the happiest of fathers to call her his daughter, it would be asking too great a sacrifice of her to give her hand to one who was so wedded to himself, she had promised him, if he would let her hide somewhere in that suite of rooms he had prepared for her uso, she would make of Wilheim not only the kindest and best husband, but the most dutiful and affectionate son in tho world. Bash young man!" exclaimed the lady, springing beyond the reach of the arms which would ngatn have encircled her, and clinging to the Baron, who, surprised at her long abseuce, had come in fajdpfjher, "remember the doom of all) Cannot that doom La averted?" inquired Wilheim. very humbly. "I know of nothing that can save you," returned tho Baron, a he led the lady away, "unless it be a pilgrimoge to tho castle of the Lady Ermine, and if by prayers and promises you can persuade her to become your guardian angel, and take up her abode in this dwelling, you need fear no more visitations ftom evil spirits.1' The young man thought so too; and after the beautiful Ermine had become Countess of Ernheim, even, the Lady Agatha was inclined to cherish the same opinion; for since tho night when it passed away, with the bright moonlight, from that niche by the turret wiudow, the xcraith has never been known to wander through the castle. A Hary Stump Spcccli. The following eloquent, grand, lofty, Stupenduous effort was recently made by a prominent genius, who has announced himself as a candidate for Congress: Friends and fellow citizens of this confiictious community, l'se rix to give you warnin' and make a political speech, and that I'm going to speak about and allude to. Now I'd like to have you pay particular attention, as the preacher says when the boys are pitching beans at his nose. I say a crisis has arrived, the wheels of government is stopped, the machinery needs greasiu, the rudder's unshipped, the biler's busted, we're all afloat, and the river is risin. Our glorious ship of State, that, like a bob-tailed gander, is floated down the current of time, has had its harmony disturbed, and is now drifting with fearful rapidity towards the shoals and quicksands of disunion, threatening to dash everything into fliuders, aud pick itself up in the end a gone gosling. Harken no longerye worthy citizens of HogHole, Terra tin Keck, and the adjacent territory, to the siren voice that whispers in your ears the delusive sound, peace, peace, for peace has sloped and flowed to I other lands, or div into the depth of the mighty deep, or iu the emphatic language of.Tecumserom, gone flickerin through the fogs of other climes. Or the great Alexander at the battle of Hunkers Bill, who, in the agony of despair, frantically shrieked, 'O. gravy, peace has gone like my school-boy days, and I don't care a darn.' He was a whole hos3 and team, sure. Fellow citizens and gals too in our halls of legislation confusion runs riot and anarchy reigns supreme. Rise up, then, like porkers in a pötatoe " patch and shake the dew. drops off your hunting shirts, and fall inter there ranks. Sound the moccasin! beat the drum! blow the tin horn! till the startled echoes reverberating from hill-lop to hill-top, shall reach the adamantine hills of New England, the ferruginous disposition .of Massachusetts, and the auriferous panicle of California to pick up tbar ears, and in whispered accents .inauire of her Talltys, WhatVeoat?' " ;

Fellow citizens nnd the wimin I re-! A friend travelling in New Hampshire, peat it, to your posts, and from the top was so pleased with some excellent corn most peak of the Oznrk mountain.", bid cake, that he was constrained to ask the definnco to the hull earth by bollerin' ; old lady who placed it on the table, the Who's afeard!' in such thunderin tones, manner of its concoction. Her recipe is that, quaken with terror, you'll forget j worthy of a trial by those good housewhat a nigger is. Don your rusty regi-1 wives who can follow accurately the dimentals, and gree&e the locks o your old rections. Here it is: guns, and put in new flints, grind yer old j "I took, I don't know justly how much scythes and make swords out of 'em, milk perhaps a pint or more like as rhouut yer hosses and save yer nation or any way it would have been better if I bust. had taken more then put in Indian meal Ladies and gentlemen the great bird euough to make it;"Msf right for thickness of American liberty's flewed aloft and don't want it too thick or too thin sorn upon the wings of the wind, and now but I hadn't quite meal enough, so I took hoverin high over the cloud summit of; the flour box and thought I'd shake in a the Rocky Mountains, and when we shall ' little flour, but it didn't come out quite have penetrated into the unknown regions ; fast enough, so I took off the cover and of unlimited space, and then shall have, poured it all right in about half a box duv down and lit on daddy's wood-pile, !, full that made it Just right for thickness. I shall be led to exclaim in the grand, . Then the Sal Eratus I guess I know just sublime, terrific language of Taul the ; how much there was of that, for I took

t ostler, in his celebrated epistle to the Abj originies. Toot pork, or die.' Time is critical, bloods goin' to bo poured out like soap suds outer a wash j tub, and every man that's got a soul as' big as a nigger's ete, Ml fite, bleed and!

dio for hi3 country. Them's the times j world of woe is contained in these few you want men in the councils of the na-j words to the poor nrtizan and mechanic! tion that you can depend on that's me. . 'I'll call around and pay,' says the rich Elect me to Congris, and I'll stick to yeu mao to avoid the trouble of going to his through thick and thin, like a lean tick j desk to get the necessary funds, and the to a nigger's shin. I'm not goin to make ! V)0r mechanic is obliged to go home, to a lectioneerin speech I'd skom the act. j disappoint his workmen and all who deYou know me I've been fotched up ; Per'l Upon him for their due. It IS an among ye already upon the wings of ; BSY matter to work the only real glory toplifled imagination I fancy I see you n this life'isan independent idea of being marching up to the poll in solid phalanx, ' hU to xustain yourself by the labor or and with shouts that make the airth ring, 30ur wn hand, and it may be easily 'hurrah for Joe Smith.' come down on my imagined what crushing force is in 'I'll opponent like a thousand of brick on a cal1 around and pay. to the laboring man

rotten punkin. TlirillillJ Incident. Some years eince we were a student of, . . .... ' medicine in a neiohhrmnr Sff und

- -0 a . - - , - -" , luieu on ueiore uie ciass, cunicai uemon- j stiat'ons and lectures at private houses, aud dissections whenever subjects could be, by any means obtained, We were assembled on one dark stormy evening in the lecture room. A lecture, by the professor of the theory and practice of medicine, was progressing, when a feeble rap on the outer door was heard. The porter, whose duty it was to attend and answer, and report all business calls, immedir.tftlr announced a roan in waiting. ö n is n de" f tVe s7i e d", aJti d " ?uV.f 2 V C r students wished one fresh from the grave and but recently deceased, he would dispose of it at a fair price. A bargain was at once made, the price demanded, fifty! dollars, was paid, and the body deposited on tho table. The lecture, of course, was interrupted, but as soon as this matter was disposed of the lecture proceeded. At the close of the lecture, however, it was proposed, and decided, to dissect the body. It wns disrobed of grave clothes, and lo! behold the body of a young lady, even in death of surpassing beauty; and it seemed, on a first view, more in a slate of calm and placid leep than of death, and involuntarily all were still and hush ed as the grave from which she had been j taken, lest she snould De awahened irom pleasant dreams. No sculptor could mold or imagination conceive a form more perfeet, more beautiful than the angelic form before us. No member of the class could raise the knife as a token of commencing! the tusk of dissection. No one could mark or mar a form so lovely. But horror of horrors! One of our most intelligent and promising associates, whose attention had been diverted during the act of uncovering the body, took his place at the table. And shall we forget the heart rending scene that followed? No, never! This young man was about closing his course of study, and had promised hia heart and hand to an interesting and dearly loved young lady in a neighboring village, fondly expecting, as soon as he could establish himself in business, to be united to her in marriage. But about one week prior to this eventful evening, after a short illness, 6he died, and it was her j body on the table before us! The first glance on the remains of the lovely female, by this student, he recognized it, and with a most unearthly groan and shriek, fell to the floor, and that moment bis reason took its flight, never to return that moment he was left a wreck of departed intelligene and promising greatness. Until death closed the scene he was a raying maniac. Importance of a Scwspapcr. A child beginning to read becomes delighted with a newspaper, because he reads ef names and things which are very familiar, and he will make progress accordingly,' A newspaper in one year is worth a quarter's schoolingto a child, and every father must consider that substantial information is connected with this advancement. To the mother of a family, being one of its heads, and having more immediate charge of the children, she should herself be instructed. Children amused by reading or studying, are of course easily governed. How many thoughtless young men have spent their earnings in a tavern or grog shop, who ought to have been teadingt How many parents who have never spent over twenty-five dollars fcr books for their families, would.gladlv; have given thousands to reclaim a son or.; daughter who had ignorantly and thought- j lesaly fallen into temptation. . ; .

with a number of associates and highly i respected classmates, were attending a ! A Dab at Dnrss Makes the Mast." course - of private lectures under the di- j correspondent of the Boston Journal rection end instruction of gentlemen of iE9s" 'A gentleman who was in Washextensive experience and of unsurpassed j ' ington the other day tells a pretty good scientific attainments and skill. During j story. He was present at the funeral of the course medical and surgical cases j ne of tho diplomatic corpse. As the were investigated, prescribed for and lec- j services were proceeding, he saw on the

j up three times the end. of the spoon, and when I put it into the milk it was all of

a foam, and then I yerked it into the or:n.'" 'l'tt Call Arocsd asb Tay.' Whata who depends upon that pay for subsistence. If those who could pay would pay at once, it would place hundreds and inusanJS n a condition to do likewise, Attn rrPVPnt rtturli muiw t 1 Alr UUU1 pa oi large leet, covered wttn a subslantial pair of brogans. worth about a 61 25, and a pair of blue homespun stockings. As the feet seemed to be in a position of honor, the observer thought he would trace them home. He did so, and found that they belonged to the Hon. William L. Marcy, Secretary of State." A GrxutNE America:?. A short time since theie was a terrific thunderstorm at 'iogira Falls. In the reading room of Jtc-livtjanpri,, 5i'.UiQbfx..jD.ida newspaper, never heeding ths ragicg of the elements around him. There came a clap of thunder louder and more terrific than any which had preceded it reverberating with innumerable echoes through the gorge, and the accompanying lightning throwing a lurid glare upon every, thing. Our quiet man deliberately remarked: 'That's on the American "side, they can't get up 6uch thunder in the Queen's dominions," and then resumed his reading without another word. A frenchman stopped a lad in the street to make some inquiries of his whereabouts. Mon fren. tthat Ik ri nnm nf ja ttreM?' WcIl who said 'twant?' Vot you call him?' fjf ccurse wc do.' Tardouez: I have not is nanje -rot tcu him call.' Yes. Watts we call it.1 Haw you call zo name of z;s street?' Watts street I told yer Zis street?' Watts street, old feller, and don't yer go to make game o'me. 'Sacre mon du! I ask you one, two, tre several lime, often, vill you tell me ze name of ze dam street, eh? Whatts streets, I told ver. Ter drunk ain't yer? Mon little fren, ver you lif, eh?' In Vandam street.' Eh, bieu? You lif in von dam street and you is von dam fool by dam?' Sancho,' said a dying planter to his slave, 'for your faithful services, I mean to do you honor; I will leave it in my will that you shall be buried in my family ground Ah! Massa ans wared the slave, 'Sancho rather hab de money or the freedom; besides, if de debil come in the dark to look for Massa, he make de mistake and take this poor nigger A meeting of unmarried printers which convened not long ßince, the following toast was drunk in silence; Woman Heaven reward fcer, ahe it always in favor of a well conducted press. Tit for Tat. The young ladies who refuse to have anything to say to the young men who drink liquor and smoke cigars, are likely to find their match in the young men who, the other evening, resolved against having aught to do with carmtned cheeks and cotton hips and bosoms. They further resolved, that a husband caught by such bait, is obtained 'under false pretence and that a criminal suit ought to lie againit the falsa pretender. 5 A Sell. A good joke was played by the telegraph operators on Saturday, in sending to the hotel and depots about j town, to inquire for a trunk marked L. E. Fant. After a close search bv the bar. gage masters, clerks. &c, all came to the conclusion that the Elephant always takes hi? trunk with him. Toledo Fepublkaji

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