Wabash Express, Volume 11, Number 4, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 January 1852 — Page 1

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Roads, to which the memorials were re-1 .fr°m

of the Mails, aw/ lA« opening of Post Of-

fats, on Sundays, report.

[CONCLUDED.]

With these facts before us, it must be a

With the exception of the United States, the whole human race, consisting it is supposed, of eight hundred millions of rational beings, is in religious bondage and in reviewing the scenes of p«r«ocution which history every where presents, un-

It was with a kiss that a Judas betrayed his divine master, and we should all be admonished, no matter what our faith may be, that the rights of conscience, cannot be so successfully assailed, as under the pretext of holiness. The christian religion made its way into the world in opposition to all human government. Banishment, tortures, and death, were inflicted in vain to stop its progress.' But many of its professors, as soon as clothed with political power, lost the meek spirit which their creed inculcated, and began to inflict on other religions, and dissenting sects of their own religion, persecutions more aggravated than those which their own npostles had endured. The ten persecutions of Pagan emperors, were exceeded in atrocity, by the massacres and murders perpetrated by christian hands and «n vain t-hull we cxamino the records of imperial tyranny, for an engine of cruelty equal to the holy, inquisition. Every religious sect, however meek in its origin, commenced the work of persecution as it acquired political power. The framers of tlw constitution recognised the eUjmjil 1—Wi/U UlCll HIS

rights of conscience inalienable. Reasonin° was not necessary to establish this truth we are conscious of it in our own bosoms it is this consciousness which, in defiancc of human laws, has sustained so many martyrs in tortures and in flames. They felt that their duty to God was superior to human enactments, and that man could exercise no authority over their consciences it is an inborn principle which nothing can eradicate.

The bigot, in the pride of his authority, may lose sight of it—but strip him of his power: prescribe a faith to him which his consciencc rejects threaten him in turn with the dungeon and the faggot, and the spirit which God has implanted in him, rises up in rebellion and defies you. Did the primitive christians ask that government should recognize and observe their religious institutions All tlwr asked was toleration all they complained of was persecution. What did the protcstants of Germany,w the Huguenots of Franco, ask of their catholic superiors Toleration.— What do the persecuted catholics of Ireland ask of their oppressors Toleration.

Do not all men this country enjoy every religious right which martyrs and saints ever asked I Whence, then, the voice

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enjoyment of every principle which human je^DOljsm laws"can secure, wishes to wrest a portion of these principles from his neighbor Do the petitioners allege thai they cannot conscientiously participate in the profits of the mail contracts and post offices, because life mail is curried on Sunday If this be their motive, then it is worldly gain which stimulates the action, and ny vir tue or religion. Do they men. less conscientious Sabbath, obtain advantages receiving their lette their contents I Still ly and selfish. But if their motive be to to keep holy, and devoto exclusively to his induce congress to sanction by law. iheir worship, would it not be more congenial

rtHgious opinions and odservances. then their efforts are to be resisted, as in tbeir tendency fatal, both to religious and political freedom. Why have the petitioners confined their prayer to the mails? Why have they not requested that the government be required to suspend all its executive functions on that day Why do they not require ws to enact that our ships shall not sail that our armies shall not march that officers of justice shall not seise the suspected, or guard the convicted They seem to forget that government is as necessary on Sunday as on any other day of the week. The spirit of evil does not lest on that day. It is the government. ever active in its functions, which enables KB all, even the petitioners, to worship in our churches in peace. Our government furnishes very few blessings like oar mails. They bear from the centre of our Repub-1 lie to its dintant extremes, the acts of oar legislative bodies, the decisions of the judiciary, and the orders of the executive.— Their meed is often essential to the defence of the country, the suppression of crime, and the dearest interests of the people. Were they suppressed cae day of principle, and liberty and indepei the week, their absence must be often'

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TOIUBOFB BEPOBT. mail coaches would pursue their journey ency, but because they violate the sanctity The Committee on Pott Offices and Post!

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itself, depends in part upon the speed with which a knowledge of the past is disseminated. Without an interchange between one country and another, and between difierent sections of the same country, every improvement in moral or political science, and the arts of life, would be confined to the neighborhood where it originated. The more rapid and the more fre-

less the committee could believe that the quent this interchange, the more rapid cries of the burning victim, and the flames will be the march of intellect, and the proby which he is consumed, bear to heaven a gress of improvement. The mail is the grateful incense, the conclusion is inevita- chief means by which intellectual light rable, that the line cannot be too strongly diates to the extremes of the Republic.— drawn between church and state. If a Slop it one day in seven, and you retard solemn act of legislation shall, in one point. one seventh the advancement of our coundefine the law of God, or point out to the try. So far from stopping the mail on eitizen one religious duty,it may with equal Sunday, the committee would recommend propriety procecd to define every part of divine revelation and enforce every religious obligation, even to the forms and ceremonies of worship the endowment of the church and the support of the clergy.

the use of all reasonable means to give it a greater extension. What ,could be the elevation of our country, if every new conception could be made to strike every mind in the Union at the same time 1 It is not the distance of a Province or State from the seat of government, which endangers its separation but it is the difficulty and unfrequency of intercourse between them. Our mails reach Missouri and Arkansas in less time than they reached Kentucky and Ohio in the infancy of their settlements and now, when there are three millions of people extending a thousand miles west of the Alleghany, we hear less of discontent, than when there were a few thousands scat,.tered,^IPng their western base.

To stop the mails one day in seven would be to thrust the whole western country, and other distant parts of this republic one day's journey farther from the seat of government. But, were it expedient to put an end to the transmission of letters and newspapers on Sunday, because it violates the law of God, have not the petitioners begun their efforts wrong ."If the arm of government be necessary to compel men to respect and obey the laws of God, do not the state governments possess infinite ly more power in this rospcct 1 petitioners turn— mn itiduee the passage of

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the first day of the week.

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spect tin* observance of the Sabbath for if it be sinful for the mail to carry letters on Sunday, it must be sinful for individuals to write, carry, receive, or read them. It would seem to require that these acts should be made pemil, to complete the system. Travelling on business or recreation. except to and from church all printing, carrying, receiving, and reading newspapers all conversations and social intercourse except upon religious subjects, must necessarily be punished to suppress the evil. Would it not also follow, as an inevitable consequence, that every man, woman, and child, should be compelled to attend meeting 1 and as only one sect, in the opinion of some, can be deemed orthodox, must it not be determined, by law. which that is, and compel all to hear those teachers, and contribute to their support If minor punishment would not restrain the Jew, or the Sabbatarian, or the infidel, who believe Saturday to bo the Sabbath, or disbelieve the whole, would not the same system require that we should resort to imprisonment, the rack and the faggot, to force men to violate their own conscience or compel them to listen to doctrines which they abhor 1 When the state governments shall have yielded to these measures. it will be time enough for congress to declare that the rattling of the mail

not break the silence of this

It is the duiy of this government to afford to all—to Jew or Gentile, Pagan or christian, the protection an.l the advantages of our benignant institutions, on Sunday. a well as every other day of the week Although this government will not convert i'^clt in'o an ecclesiastical tri-

ty complain thai baual, will practice upon the maxim laid in religion to the down by U* toun.K ot Christianity—that

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to the precepts of christians, to appeal exclusively to the great Lawgiver of the universe to aid them in making men better—

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separated, and increasing the most pure not the committee reasonably cherish the and refined pleasures of ourexistence al- thope, that they will feel reconciled to its so, the letters of commercial men, convey decision, in the case especially, as it is the state of the markets, prevent ruinous also a fact, that the counter memorials, speculations, and promote general, as well equally respectable, oppose the interfer

subject of deep regret, that a question as individual interest they bear innume- ience of congress, upon the ground that it lould be brought before Congress, which rable religious letters, newspapers, maga- 'would be legislating upon a religious sub volves the dearest privileges of the con-1 zines and tracts, which reach almost every ject, and therefore unconstitutional, every stitution, and even by those who enjoy its house throughout this wide Republic. Is choicest blessings. We should all recol- the conveyance of these a violation of the lect that Cataline, a professed patriot, was I Sabbath 1 The advance of the human a traitor to Rome Arnold, a professed race in intelligence, in virtue, and religion whig was a traitor to America, and Judas a professed disciple, was a traitor to bis divine master.

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communion of heart between those far wish to unite politics and religion, may

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Resolved, That the committee be discharged from the further consideration of the subject. [Read, and ten thou^nd copies ordered to be printed.]

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REMARKS OF MB. GOOKINS. The resolution of Mr. Owen, embodying instructions to the committee on the Judiciary, in relation to the revised law of descents, being under consideration, Mr. Gookins moved to amend the instructions by striking out portions of them and inserting other provisions in their stead.— The nature of these amendments will be seen by his remarks: In support of the proposed amendments,

Mr. Gookins said: I have long been of the opinion that some change ought to be made in our law of descents. Their unequal, and, as I think, unjust operation in some particulars has been pointed out by the gentleman from Posey, [Mr. 6wen,] but I cannot agree to the propositions he has brought forward by way of amendment. It is of the utmost importance, when we set about reforming the law, that we examine with great eare into the consequences of the proposed change and notning has surprised "ijae more than the form in which these propositions are brought before the Hous#, lifter the consideration he has given the subject. When they were first introduced I supposed them to have been hastily prepared, and submitted without mature reflection but I now learn from the remarks of the gentleman, and from the exposition he hits given of the law, that his conclusions are the result of the most thorough research and the most mature deliberation.

His first proposition is to abolish tenancies bv the courtesy and in dower. Although there are objections to these, as they now stand upon the statute book, they ought not to be abolished, but should be retained in a modified form, as will be seen hereafter

His second proposition is to give to the widow one-third of the property, real and

fiersonal.

in correcting their practices and purifying admirer of its divine precepts, but I think their hearts Government will protect has not considered the full import of their efforts. When they shall quotation, for pure religion and unde-

their them in have so instructed the public mind, and awakened the consciences of individuals, as to make them believe that it is a violation of God's law to carry the mail, open offices, or receive letters on Sunday, the evil'of which they complain, will cease of itself, without any exertion of the strong arm of civil power. When man undertakes to be God's avenger, he becomes a demon. Driven by the fzensy of a religious seal, he loses every gentle feeling: forgets the most sacred precepts of his creed, and becomes ferocious and unrelenting.

Oar fathers did not wait to be oppressed, when the mother country asserted and ex- the claims of erciscd an unconstitutional power over'

them. To hare acquiesced a tax

three pence, upon a pound of tea. would have led the *way to the most cruel exac* tions they took a bold stand against the mdence are not

the result. The petitioners ha

supplwd by .public expresses and, be*: requested congress to suppress Sunday sides, while the mail bags might.rest, the mails upon the ground of political expedi-

free from, nil domAndo A crctli-

01'S." This I propose to amend by striking- otrt the latter member of the sentence Let us try the operation of this rule in a case of not rare occurrence. A widower with a family of children, who have perhaps contributed of their labors to the accumulation of a property to the amount of 630,000, marries a young wife. He dies owing $20,000 of debts. The widow takes one-third of the entire estate, real and personal, '"free from all demands of creditors," the creditors take the other two-thirds, and the children of the man whose labor accumulated the property are left without a cent, with step-mother, a blooming young widow with a property of $10,000. ready for the next matrimonial offer. This may not often occur with respect to the amount, but the principle holds the same, be the estate great or small. With all the reflection the gentleman has given to this subject the idea of a second marriage seems never to have occurred to him. It ought to be borne in mind that our people are little inclined to the state of single blessedness, and that second marriages are of very frequent occurrence.

Now I maintain that this proposition is essentially wrong in two particulars.— First, it is unjust to the creditors. Although a man may have a large amount of property in his hands, it is not, in strict justice, his, until his debts are paid. It was his creditors' money that paid for the property, and they should have their money back before a distribution, saving, however, to the widow, from motives of policy and humanity, her right of dower, if she prefers that to one-third of the estate after payment of the debts. Secondly, it is unjust to the children, as in the case alreav putv If she is the mother of the childreu, she ought to be and usually would be willing to take her share with them, after the payment of the debts.— If she is not their mother, the reason is much stronger why she should not be allowed to take one-third of the entire estate, and leave all the debts a charge upon the share of the children, which may strip them, perhaps in tender infancy, of the last cent of a father's earnings. I am happy to find that the gentleman frem Posey is a student of the Bible, and an

filed is to visit the,fatherless as well as the widow, tbeir affliction.,^'

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This instruction contains a proviso, tfiat the widow may elect, instead of the former provision, to take against all creditors such an amount of ber husband's proper ty as, together with any property owned by herself, shall not exceed the amount exempt by law from seizure and sale for debt. My proposition is to amend this proviso, by striking oat "together with any property owned by herself:*' If the the widow has property of her own, I see no reason why that should be taken into the account in exempting an amennt from creditors. This humane rovision of the law is designed as well idow.

er pro of I for the children as for the wic If she

be not their mother, she is not beftind to maintain them. She may be disposed to take her own, and go her way. If her separate property happens to be as much as is exempted by law, the children, as in the former case, wdl be left destitute. Bat why, hi any case, make her accotrat for

her separate property, in a claim against the creditors? No debts are made on the credit of her property. I admire the gentleman's gallantry, and his efforts in behalf of the sex but here he has made the rule too hard for them. I am obliged to come forward as their champion in this instance, and I insist that I am entitled to a share in "the pitcher."

I propose further to amend the instructions by giving the widow, in ail cases, at her election, her right of dower, properly guarded, so as to secure to her its full value. I am aware of the difficulty of assigning dower in unimproved lands, as suggested by the gentleman from St. Joseph (Mr. Stanfield). I would therefore, such cases, either assign her a portion in fee, or make some other equitable provision for her, and, in all cases, so guard the allotment as to secure to her its full value.

The third instruction proposes to give to a widower, in lieu of courtesy, onethird of the wife's real and personal property, subject to her debts before marriage. There are objections to tenancy by the courtesy, but I think this does not remove them. For instance, a man marries a widow having children. They have issue, one child by the second marriage, and the wife dies. The husband takes a life estate in her real property, to the exclusion of her children by a former marriage. This is wrong but does the instruction afford the proper remdy? Young women, at marriage, are usually not in debt, but widows often are. If a man marry a widow, having children, her debts may absorb a large portion of her property and yet, though there be no issue of the second marriage, which alone would entitle him to courtesy, it is proposed to give the widower onethird of her property, real and personal, without any obligation to support any of her children. This, I insist, is too hard a rule against the woman and here again I must insist upon coming in for a share in the pitcher.

The fifth instruction proposes that if a husband or wife die without issue, leaving a father or mother, three-fourths of the estate shall go to the survivor, and onefourth to the father or mother of the deceased. I cannot go for this instruction. It is too hard against the woman, and on this score I must claim a further interest in the plate. I have seen a young couple begin life with nothing. By their joint labors they have accumulated a little property. The husband has been cut down in the prime of life, and his relatives have come in and taken a large portion of the property. By what right, let me Ssk, do they come in for any part of these earnings, towards which they have contributed nothing. It is in violation of the plainest dictates of common justice and common sense. There is an obligation on the £art of children, it may be admitted, to support their parents and when their munificence has endowed the married pair, I would allow the donor to reclaim half of the gift, leaving the remainder to the survivor but where property has been accumulated during the marriage, I would give the whole to the survivor, and have proposed so to amend the instruction. The gentleman from Posey objects to this as impracticable but a little familiarity with our chancery practice, and with the rule of the civil law to which he has reference, would satisfy him that this is frequently done.

The seventh ihstffiction is equally objectionable with the second, and for the reasons already given. It would be unjust to creditors. I would give the widow one-third, after the payment of debts, or tower afc her election.

The instances I have given to illustrate the operation of the proposed changes are not to be regarded as exceptions. They are not rare, but are of common occurrence and they admonish us to great caution in adopting remedies for the existing evils, without having given them that careful consideration which their importance demands.

We hear people incessantly growling about the hard world they live in. They never have seen a better—we hope they willflot see a worse one. If the world gives yeu hard knocks, buckle up and pay down. Keep on the sunny side of creation and of human nature, or you will see the blankest waste ever -'beam tell on." Keep out of slough-hodls and bad company and work for an honest living, and you will find that this world is considerable of a place to be got up in six days.—Cay Chief.

8erapi from Punch.

PCSCH'S CRIMINAL COURT.—Mr. Punch sat for the purpose of trying offenders, some of whom, when brought to the bar of public opinion, at once pleaded guilty The following area few of the delinquencies:

An unhappy youth was brought charged with maliciously cutting an wounding the English language, by asking, 'Of what sex is the National Anthem?' and then replying.4Masculine because it's a hymn (him).'' Verdict, Guilty. Sentence deferred.

A shabby-genteel looking person was next charged with utterring the following counterfeit joker "What tree is it which is not affected by the seasons, and brings forth neither blossom nor fruit? Tbe boot tree."

After the jury had been absent for sev era! hours, the foreman entered the Court, declaring that there was no chance of tbeir agreeing in a verdict. The Judge told them that, under these circumstances, they a

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TEREE-HAUTE, INDIANA, JANUARY 7, 1852. NO. 4.

THE ITXW8 BOYS OrFSSOTO .. TO TTC FJLTROXS or THB

WABASH EXPRESS,

For the Tear 1858.

wssy a A!

Aoifk't come to greet you, neighbor*,

Ia a plain and simple way To a*k a bleaain? on your labors, On ttaia happy 'iv YI:AR'» day '*2^ To wish that each one who parasaa

These unpretending verces. May hava illthin his comfort chooses. With filled and endless purses: May every coming New Year's morning.

Still find each one improving Richer and wiser, still adorning vThe sphere he takes to move in i, Till happiness shall find each mortal

In paths so smooth and even, With nought to do hut ope the portal—., The Golden Gate to Heaven.

My weekly visits to your quarters, Have been as sure as time I've brought the news from o'er the water*—

From every tone and clime And from a PRESS of long duration,

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I've strown abroad its views— The rise and fall of every nation, Or Pagans, Gentiles, Jews And weekly I have travelled o'er

These streets and lanes of ours, ,,, To lay the Paper at your door,

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To solace hapless hours I've seen rough times, and rougher weatherGone forth in snow and rain, ,, And when the frost

would strip a feather,

Or cleave the earth in twain

A truce to gritf—thetime is near,' When all the ills that grieve us, ,,, Herb-teas will cure, and then gum myrrh

And calomel will leave us V-4J I'll sing of what I saw last year, In passing round among you, If you can stop a moment here,

While business does not throng you I've seen the busy, noisy mill, Which runs from mora, till morn) Its clatter's heard from hill to hill,

As it grinds your wheat and corn. Its many wheels are turned by steam, While tho Miller oversees, sir. The grain comes in by every team,

And the flour goes o'er the seas, sir.'

Here is a shop hard by the road, 3^ And the sturdy Smith within, Whose heavy hammer rings abroad

A most unearthly din The dust is on his manly cheek, And o'er his clothing too He pays his way from week to Tfeek,

As you and I should do: r-* He never lets his credit run, Beyond his means to pay, And during life no pesky dim, ""*•4

Has stopt him on his way

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Because he is an honest son, And works in what he knows, His neighbors say he's "number one,"T5j

In all ho says or does.

Our Town has grown so much—so strange Its oldest friends dont know it Just take a peep at "Union Range,"

And see if

that

dont show it.

Arid "Phoenix Row." «o large and tall,' Stands peerless in its splendor, And "Corinth Hall" within its wall,

Where vows are made most tender Whore grace and beauty, both combined. Make this the plat* of places, yj When filled with all our woman-kind, .,

With naiads, nymphs and graces •u" A Waltx—a dance—away we whirl ,«» KJUIn such enchanting mazes, With Giizica's music, and with WiRt,

Enough, indeed, to crate us I

Out Bast we have a brick

When undisturbed by

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As slick as you can toss a ftp, F**"lj Or scratch a place that itches It

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"Raging Canawls" around us roam, Which shrubs and trees environ They take our products off from home

And bring tts salt and iron: The laden freight-boat brings id turn A thousand folks to settle, Which fills the farmer's golden urn

With heaps of yellow metal: They take away our surplus flour To sell the army's sutler, 'e' And all grow richer ev'ry hour, j.,.- 1

And think of CHARLEY BCTLER For he it was that raised the line From lowest degradaUon, And when 'tis done, each man will join

A bursting celebration,

Selah

We have the Wabash on our West, 4 A stream with purest waters, Which brings up to us on its breast,

The riches of all qnarters In Spring it bears away from hence, In broad-horns, flats, and steamers. The stuff that brings u»

ktgt tf pr*ct.

And wakes up all onr dreamers. A bridge now spans from shore to shore. This deep commercial river. On which the traveler passe* o'er,

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Who would scorn his humble fellow For the coat he Drears For the poverty he suffers,

For his daily cares

Who would pass him in the footway With averted eye Would you, brother? No—you would"nol

If you would—not /.

Who, when vice or crime repentant®/1*^?With a grief sincere Asked for pardon, would refau it— rjMore than heaven severe Who to erring woman's sorrow

Would with taunts reply Would you. brother No—you would not, If you would—not I.

Who would say that all who differ^f From his sect, must be Wicked sinners, heaven rejected

Sunk in Error's sea,

And consign them to perdition With a holy sigh Would you brother No—you would not, "*If you would—not /. Who would say that si* day's cheating

In the shop or mart,

May be rubbed by Sunday's praying From the tainted heart, If the Sunday's face were solemn.

And the credit high

Would you brother No—you would not, If you would—not /. Who Would say that Vice is Virtue^'

In A Hall of State

Or that rogues are not dishonest

Whether right or wrong Ever siding with the upmost, Letting downmost lie 7 Would you, brother No—you would not,

Tf you would—not I.

Who wduld lend his arm to strengthen Warfare with tho right Who would give his peri td blacken

If you would—not /. j-""

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And an iron road and horses, To travel dry in rain or snow, 5 With wives, and woans, and nurses Wlth ease we wAiz through hill or knob,'

Fixed up with all our riggings, And dine at noon with cousin Bob, Down at the "DEEPER DIGGINGS I We go so fast, in wind or rain,

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There's scarcely time for breathing, When dinner's o'er we take the train And tup at home that evening. The snorting "Vigo'' makes this trip ^j(i

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it latt forever!

For, tho* the Steamers hate One Draw, And tried to sue the owners, It stood the test of

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and law,

And meekly wear* its honors. So may it stand to g£mce our Town, From year to year, and longer, Till some mad broad-horn butts it down, .Ox—tries which is the stronger! a

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Our park men should be praised in VeVfes,' Por the good they do to all They scatter bank-hills from their gurses, 1

Like hail stone* "gainst a wall. Long Uve the just commercial I And the ngright merchant too,^ ,' They always do the best tbey

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through.

Wmn—Wiisot—Poa-rta—IURLT, And all tbe other dealers, Jlay they make tea thousand'. nearly— :By baying up the tyntltrt. And may they show a liberal foelinjT

In trading, day by day, And find the Mien al#ays wilting: To

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What they say.

So may they give

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Fall price for tbeir porkers, 1 make their profits,

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Yankee Torino*.

Remember now, tbe lad who greets yea. With a fssrur

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And if misfortaae ever meets yoa. Bell be there to hold your beta om. Be wiU!

A wax who was asked to hoy the Bank Xots Dettcr, ajiit he would p«rcfc«M, it it

hob: ia hls pocket.

From the Philadelphia Sunday Mercury.

Them Three Trays up Again.

A MISSISSIPPI Itrrna BWETOH.—BY "CHIPS."

One fine autumnal evening, a few years ago, I found myself on board of one of the western steamboats, making, as the Captain said, pretty "good time." I was on the look-out for sport, and was anxious to study human nature in all its phases. I did not care with whom I conversed or mingled, so that I was not placed in exact contact with desperadoes or "shovers."

I had list comiriended "puffing", desperately at one of "those large regalia#' that Jones, of, the Dock street Exchange Hotel, had insisted on my taking along as "baggage," when I heard the sound of footsteps. I looked towards the quarter from whence sounds proceeded, and beheld a short thick-set individual approaching me at, what I thought, a very peculiar gait. He addressed me in a familiar manner, and with an air of nonehalance, said: "Stranger, I will take some of your fire." "Certainly," said I, "and a cigar, too, if you nave no objections." "Wall," replied he, "I'm on the make, stranger, and If you kin shove one of them real Ha.wanas on me, why, tote her along."

I drew out my cigar case, and proffered him one of my best, which he accepted, ignited* and pufTed at, with all the ease and elegance of a man of the world. "Bin long on the river, stranger "No," I answered, "this i3 my first go—I am rather verdant yet id regard to western life."

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"Oh," he replied, laughing, "I rath- made one or two remarks about feel er guess you aint the greenest man about these parts, if you aint twentyone. I£a5t

IJJjke youj come, let's

I accepted the offer of my companion, kndwing that a refusal would na-* turally lead to an argument, and forced down some "all fired" hot compound, labelled "brandyand it is a good thing it was labelled, else I would have sworn it was some kind of active poison—and even as it was, I was half inclined to ask the bar-keeper if he ever did as the northern druggists do— make mistakes.. -When my friend paid the damage done to the liquor, by the throwing down of the dimes, we went td where 1 was first sitting. After a moment he bit (flfttte end of his cigar, and looking at me intently, said-11— "Stranger, two gentlemen should never travel withdut knowing one another's names now, what is yourn?"

I handed my card, containing my nafnft in full, to which he replied-— "Heard that name afore, likely ain't very uncommon. However, as I've no herds of this sort aboard, why 1*11 just sing mine™ out—It's Duplicate

Dodge." "Dodg e!" I exclaimed.

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tion to Dodge the funny man, though.'* "Duplicate!" I answered. "Singular name, that, but I suppose you aro a twin brother—that is what yotf mean by Duplicate "No, that ain't what I mean. You see I a'm a cripple—that is, one of

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legs is shorter than its feller-—so, when I gets into a fight, I plugs tny man right from the shoulder, and at the same time fetches him a kick with my game leg. The blow and kick goe* in company. The short leg contains my best foot, and when I'm fightin' I always puts it forward. The felleft —that is, the sportin' men—calls that leg a duplicate, and they calls mfe Duplicate Dodge."

I must confess that his quaint style of explanation pleased me heartily., and when I looked at his pleasant face and expressive eye, I felt certain that Duplicate Dodge, although a gambler, was not the worst fellow a man tiiight meet on the Western waters. "Do you know, stranger," he said "that when I see a chap Tike you I atri reminded of a feller I once met at Louisville, at the races, who was orful anxious to get a chaqce to bet on the sweat. He was a medical student, had lots of the needful, a rich father, and a thunderin' good credit but the man haari't traveled, that is, he in a legitimate and proper manner been put through a course of sprouts. Iie'd heard something about the ^arne and when his eye lit upon my fixings, he imagined he had my pewter, sure. He was goin' in on the whole pile—nothing could stojl him, he was so orful smart. "I had just got a couple tif three shillin' bets and was losing the one itbd sockirig the other, just keeping the game square, while I was a waitin' fbr chances. Up walked the student, and with an all-powerful pert voice, sting out—

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able on that speculation, if you'll stand my doublin' on you." "'Jist walk dp, young%an," Stfid I, "and win my money you cfln dduble and be d—d, if you'll stick to, one number." *r4 ft "I'm down," said he, and plump he socked a on the six.r^ "When I seed the yra.y the cat was jumpin', I rriariceuvred sonle, and jist tilted some bones in my box that was trained to come up travs. I shook 'erri purty good, so the felldw couldri't complain of not eittiri' his money's worth, and when I rolled 'em outi up came the trays, and down went hisv among my dough: It hadn'i been there long afore down went an Xj which shared the same fate of the V. But he wasn't skeered a bit. He was a reg'lar fightin' chicken, and kept the six well covered with his Stuff, riotwithstandin' the industridus efforts I was niakin' to keep the board clean. After a while, I begun to diskiver that he had to dive down purty deep to chase up his change. Presently^ with a desperate lunge, he laid out a five* but afore I cpula turn out the dice he caught my.arm, and remarked—» *'Sav, old top, I swear, if you do have the luck to hatch out trays agin, I'll eat 'cm." "Thinks I, 'young irian, ydii will b« sure of your dinner, if you ain't a-eo-in' to perjure yourself.' And, you kin believe me or not, stranger, afore I was done a thinkin' the dice was rolled, the trays was up, the fellow grabbed 'em, and swallowed 'em, afore I could stop him. "Ndw, that worried me some, for I didn't like to loose them dice, for they was a fortune to me in their way so, says I—'Old horse, I will jist follow you up.' You see I was sartain he couldn't hold 'em long, for they were loaded, consequently they would lay rather heavy on nis stomach. So, when he came to the hotel, he was purty blue about the gills, and he

in' a little under the weather. Arter a bit I heard a gagin' and a spittin', and there stood my customer dgin a fence, with his facei as red as scarlet, and his eyes startin' out of his head. Before assistance could be rendered he was relieved of his dose. He looked upon the ground, jumped back,and starin' me full in the face, bawled out: "By thunder there is them* darned trays up agin

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men require more sleep than men, and farmers less than those engaged in almost any other occupation., Editors reporters, and doctors need rio sleep at all. Lawyers can sleep as much as they please, and thus keep but of mischief. Clergymen can sleep twelve hours out of twenty-four and can put their parish to sleep once a week.

When travelling, put your watch and wallet at night into one of your stockings, and then place the stocking raider your head, ou will not.lesfe them behind then unless you hare been accustomed to go barefoot/*

There are men, who by long consul- •f ting only their Own inclinatioifclukve forgotten that others have a dami-to^. the same deference....