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WEEKLY AND 'LD. SHADD, Publishing Agent. VOLUME 1h CHATHAM, CANADA WEST, SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1856. "SELF-RELIANCE IS THE TRUE ROAD TO INDEPENDENCE." TERMS: oe ONE DOLLAR AND A HA INVARLABLY TY. ADVAN GN oe At os OFFICE, --- Brick Buitidings, King Street East, CHATHAM, Cc. W. ee THE PROPRIETORS OF THE PROVINCIAL. FREEMAN bee inform their Friends and the Public, that their yis supplied with all the Requisites 'for the _ eXeeution of every description of ROOK & JOB SREwrersG, _ INCLUDING - PAMPHLETS, _ BILL. WHAD CARDS, CeO EARS: "FUN ay LETTERS, LAB LS, INVITATION CARDS, "STE AMBOAT BILLS, STAGE BILLS, CONCERT BILLS, PROGRAMMES, : Posting BILLS, LAW BLANKS, "MAND | BILLS, BANK CHECQUES, DEE PROMISSORY NOTES, MORTG AGES, MEMORIALS, &C., &e.,. &., rer every description a LETTER-PRESS PRINTING, - im the best and handsomest style, with 2 accuracy and despatch. PRINTING IN COLORS AND BRONZES. 7) = epdaiiegs Directory. STONE & TURNBULL, 'CHATHAM CLOTHING HALL: DBY GOODS, AND Grovery Establishment, KING STREET, CHATHAM, Cc. W. _ September 6th, 1855. 20-tf DR. SAMUEL RUSSELL. BOTANIC MEDICINES. RAPID CURES, AND LOW CHARGES! Charity's Brick Buildings, next door to the * Freeman" Office, King Street East, CHATHAM, C. W. August 20, 1855. GEORGE KERR, RABSWARS MERCHANT, = WHOLESALE AND RETAIL SEALER IN ina and Shelf Hardware, CUTLERY, &c., &c., - Prett's Block, Chatham, G. w. Movember 22, 1855. HENRY LOTT, BARKER, ix 'TM OLD ESTABLISHMENT, KEPT BY 720 By Oe Ty 'King Street East, Chatham. "ee 20, 1855. MR. S, S. MACDONELL, Barrister, Altorney-at-Law, NOTARY PUBLIC, &c., WINDSOR, C. W. JAMES FORSTER BOULTON, B.A, Attorney-at-Law, Conveyancer, &c. oo, Master Extraordinary in Chancery. OFFICE ON QUEEN STREET, NIAGARA, Remy the Oifice of the late Chas. L. Hall, Esq Niagara, Jan., 1855. 42-Ly ANDREW HENDERSON, Auctioneer and Commission Merchant, _ No. 32, Yoner Srreer, Toronro. 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Apthorp, Esq,., George Adams, Joseph K. Hayes, ~ Pub, Boston Directory. Sup't Tremont Temple. Boston, November 20th, 1855. 30 MRS. S. WILKINS, BOARDING HOUSE, No. 168, PINE STREET, PHILADELPHIA. Nove pine: 1855. MILLER, ORTON & MULLIGAN, Soterestppers, Wrinters, and Winders, PUBLISHERS & BOOKSELLERS, No. 5, PARK ROW, Opposite Astor House, New York, And 107, Genesee Street, Auburn, N. Y¥, _ N.C. MILLER --WM. ORTON,--E. MULLIGAN. Poetry. aN BOBO ON OI I I oe OUR BABY. At our house, at hoee we've a sweet little baby, As fat as a 'coon in the fall; And ue mischief, fun, music, or whatever it may @, Of brats, he's the general of all! : With cheeks "like two roses, The prettiest of noses, Endeared is our Moses, By every fond tie ; In fair and foul weather, He serves as a tether, To bind us together-- My Betsy and I. From morning, full blossomed, her curtain, His means for employment ne'er fail; And though hushed be his gabble, of music we're certain, When he drags the old cat by the tail, Now calling, and bawling, Aud falling, "and sprawling, And mauling, and squaling, At work and at play ! In the dish-water padling, Or Jowler pack saddling, Or about fiddle-faddling, He passes the day. till night draws Though his third year is ended this present Sep- tember, He's equal to any at five; At two, he could " put on" as well, I remember, As the best " shoulder striker" alive; In consideration _ Of his qualification, I'm in contemplation Of placing him where All the Mrs. Duncans, And all the Mrs. Flunkins Will say he's" some punkins'-- And that is-- THe Farr." There's naught can escape his minutest inspec- tion Displayed on the toy-seller's boards ; | And he helps himself, too, without fear of detec- tion, To the nicest the pantry affords. He's just in condition To meet competition, At the grand exhibition, The rogue with two eyes !-- ' There's one thing--depend on't ; To make a quick end on's, If he can lay hand on't--_ He swre takes the prize. ° TO MY BIG SWEETHEART. BY JOHN LITTLEJOHN. os My love has long brown curls, And blue forget-me not eyes ; She's the beauty of all the girls-- But I wish I was twice my size ; Then I could kiss her cheek, Or venture her lips to taste; But now I only reach to the tibbor She ties around her waist. Chocolate drop of my heart! I dare not breathe thy name; Like a peppermint stick I stand apart, In a sweet bnt secret flame. When you look down on me, And the tassel a-top of my cap, I feel as if something had got in my throat, And was choking against the strap. I passed your garden, and there, On the clothes-line, hung a few Pantalettes, and one tall pair Reminded me, love, of you ; And I thought, as I swung on the gate In the cold, 'by myself alone, How soon the sweetness of hoarhound dies, But the bitter keeps on and on. TO MARY IN HEAVEN. BY ROBERT BURNS. Thou ling'ring star, with less'ning ray, That lov'st to greet the early morn, Again thou usher'st in the day, My Mary from my soul was torn. O Mary! dear departed shade! Where is thy place of blissful rest 1 See'st thou thy lover lowly laid? That sacred hour ean I forget, Can I forget the hollowed grave, Where by the winding Ayr we met, To live one day of parting love? Eternity will not efface Those records dear to transport past ; ; Thy image at our last embrace; Abe little thought we 'twas our last! Ayr gurgling kissed his pebbled shore, O'erhung 'with wildwoods, thick'ning green; The fragrant birch and hawthorn hoar , T'wined am'rous round the raptured seene. The flowers sprang wanton to the breast, The birds sang love on every spray, Till too, too soon, the glowing west Proclaimed the speed of winged day. Still o'er these scenes my mem'r wakes, And fondly broods with misery Pare! ee _ Time but the impression deeper Bees As streams their z channels d Mary, dear ted s Hear'st thou the groans that rend his wea | this was poor " Phrenzy. me ali managed to save themselves. I now cross- | Miscellaneons. NANI NT A Stag Hunt in Ceylon, . : I heard the bay, and I saw the buck far beneath standing upona level grassy platform, within three hundred yards of the river. The whole pack was around him except the grey- hounds, who were with me; but not a hound had a chance with him, and he repeatedly charged in among them, and regularly drove them before him, sending any single hound spinning whenever he came within his range. But the pack quickly re-united, and always returned with fresh vigour to the attack. There was a narrow wooded ravine be- tween me and them, and, with caution and speed compined, I made towards the spot down the precipitous mountain, followed by the greyhounds, " Bran" and " Lucifer." I soon arrived ona level with the bay, and plunging into the ravine, I swung myself down from tree to tree, and then climbed up the opposite side. I broke cover within a few yards of him. What a splendid fellow he looked!--he was about thirteen hands high, and carried the most beautiful head of horns that I had ever seen upon anelk. His mane was bristled up, his nostril was distend- ed, and, turning from the pack, he surveyed me, as though taking the measure of his new antagonist. Not seeming satisfied, he delib- erately turned, and, descending from the level space, he carefully 'picked his way. Down narrow elkruns along the steep precipices, and at a slow walk, with the whole pack in single file at his besls: he clambered down towards the river. I followed on his track over places which I would not pass in cold blood; and I shortly halted above a cataract of some eighty feet in depth, about a hundred paces from the great waterfall of three hnn- dred feet. It was extremely grand; the roar of the falls so entirely husksd all other sounds that the yoices of the hounds were perfectly inaudible, although within a few yards of me, as Tlooked down upon them from a rock which overhung the river. The elk stood upon the brink of the swollen torrent; he could not retreat, as the wall of rock was behind him, with the small step-like path by which he had descended; this was now occupied by the yelling pack. The hounds knew the dan- ger of the place; but the buck, accustomed to these haunts from his birth, suddenly lept across the boiling rapids, and springing from rock to rock along the verge of the catrract, he gained the opposite side, Here he bad mistaken his landingplace, as a shelving rock upon which he had alighted was so 'steep, that he could not retain his footing, and he gradually slid down towards the river. At this moment, to my horror, both " Bran" and " Lucifer" dashed across the torrent, and bounding trom rock to rock, they sprung at the already tottering elk, and in another moment both he and they rolled over in a confused mass into the boiling torrent. One more instant, and they re-appeared; the buck gallantly stemming the torrent, which his great length of limb and weight enabled him to do; "the dogs, overwhelied in the foam of the rapids, were swept down towards the fall, in spite of their frantic exertions to gain the bank. They were not fifteen feet from the edge of the fall, and I saw them spun round and round in the whirlpools, be- ) ing hurr ied towards certain destruction. he poor dogs seemed aware of the danger, and made the most extraordinary efforts to avoid their fate. 'They were my two favourites of | the pack, and I screamed out words of en- couragement to them, although the voice of acannon could not have been heard among the roar of waters. They had nearly gained the bank, on the very verge of the fall, when a few tufts of lemon-grass concealed them from my view. I thought they were over; and I could not restrain a cry of despair at their horrible fate. I felt sick with the idea. But the next moment I was shouting hurrah! they are all right; thank goodness, "they are saved Vaew iieta sit ugeling up the steep bank, through the same lemon-grass which had for a maercut obscured their fate. 'They were thoroughly exhausted, and half drowned. In the meantime, the elk had manfully breast. ed the rapids, carefully chosing the shallow places ; and the whole pack, being mad with excitement, had plunged into the water, re- gardless of the danger. I thought every hound would have been lost. [For an instant they looked like a flock of ducks, but a few moments afterwards they were scattered in the boiling eddies, hurrying with fatal speed to tue are ig { cataract. Poor " Phrenzy," round she spun in the dreadful vertex ; nearer and nearer she approached the verge; her struggles were unavailing; over she went, and was, of course, never heard of afterwards. This was a terrible style of hunting ; rather too much soto be pleasant. I clambered down to the edge of the river just in time to see the elk climbing as nimbly as a cat up the precipitous bank on the opposite side, threading his way at a slow walk under the overhanging rocks, and scrambling up the steep mountain, with a long string of hounds at his heels in single file. " Valiant," " Tip- toe," and Ploughboy," were close to him, and I counted the other hounds in the line, fully expecting to miss half ofthem. To my surprise and delight, only one was absent ; The others had ed the river by leaping from rock to rock. with some difficulty, and with hands andknees Bs climbed the opposite bank. This was about. sixty feet high, from the top of which the mountain commenced its ascent, which, climb. "amby, ¢ all right, _ within a a. pees great. that: i. was s impos. sible to hear the hounds, of the waters as Wetete: that, should they live "when single. 'though very. precipitaus, was $0 covered with | long lemon-grass that it was easy enough to| IT looked behind me and there was| The Death of the Buck. Jn another moment] saw the elk. standing ona platform of rock about 100. yards ¢ ahead, ona lower shelf of the mountain, and the whole pack at bay. This platform was the top of a cliff which overhung the deep gorge; the river flowing in the boitar afterits great fall, and both the' ell #nd hounds appeared to bein "atic" "Pie escent had been made to this point by leaping down places which he could not possibly re-ascend, and there was only one narrow utlet, which was cov- ered by the hounds. Should he charge through the hounds to force this passage, half- a-dozen of them must be knocked over the precipice. However, I carefully descended, and soon reached the platform. 'This was not more than twenty feet square, and it looked down into the gorge of about 300 feet. The first seventy of this depth were perpen- dicular, as the top of the rock overhung, after which the side of the cliff was marked by great fissures and natural steps formed by of rock which had fallen into, the river below. Bushes and rank grass filled the interstices of the rocks, and an old deserted water-course lay exactly beneath the platform, being cut and built out of the side of the cliff. It was amagnificent sight in such grand scenery to see the buck at bay when we arrived upon the platform. He was a dare-devil fellow, and feared neither hounds nor man, every now and then charging through the pack, and coming almost within reach of the Tam- by's spear. It wasa difficult thing to know how to kill him. I was afraid to go in at him, lest in his struggles he should drag the bounds over the precipice, end I would not cheer the seizers on for the same reason. In- deed, they seemed well aware of the danger, and every now and then retreated to me, as thouch to induce the elk to make a move to some better ground. However, the buck soon decided the question. I made up my mind to halloo the hounds on, and to ham- string the elk, to prevent him from nearing the precipice ; and, giving a shout, the pack rushed at him. Not a dog could touch him; he was too quick with his horns and fore feet. He made a dash into the pack, and then re- gained his position close to the verge of the precipice. He then turned his back to the hounds, looked down over the edge, and, to the astonishment of all, plunged into the abyss below! A dull crashsounded from beneath, and then nothing was heard but the roaring The hounds looked over the edge, and felled with a mixture of fear and despair. Their game was gone! By making a circuit of about half-a-mile among these frightfnl precipices and gorges, we at length arrived at the foot of the cliff down which the buck had leapt. Here we of course found himlying dead, as he had broken most of his bones. He was in very fine condition ; but it was impossible to move him from sucha spot. I, therefore, cut off his head, as his antlers were the finest that I have ever killed before or since. ---- ee >- e-- ---- More Hints on Petticoats.--By Mrs, ams, In the autumn of 1854 I mentioned the great comfort to be derived from warm light wadded petticoats. Many, I trust, are wear- ing them, and feel the benefit of the change. Perhaps some ladies may not have seen the necessity or want of change, or do not like to part with their heavy, cumbersome petti- coats, to these I would still point out the great evil arising from waering many heavy long petticoats; even to those that have good hips to support them, it must be a great trial; what those do who have little or no hips I scarce can tell. More than half the women I meet in the streets are wearing the moreen petticoats. The weight of one of| these is intolerable, and more than enough to carry; but when, added to this, there are two or three eee worn, and overall a heavy full dress, heavily lined, is it surpris- ing that a woman can walk scarcely any dis- tance. And it is an every-day saying "Qh, [never go out whichis very wrong. fir exercise ought to be taken every day. 'Those to whom [ have been able personally 'o mention the great objection there is to heavy clothing on the score of health, have severally answered," Oh, I cannot keep my- self warm; and how meanly. dressed JT shall look with less petticoats on.' There isa aes b, that common sense Is the most diffi- cult thing to meet with. I cannot find words,to express how much it is to be regreit- ed that women in general do not understand to be at all old, years of fm.sery are in store for them in conse- quence of choir dresssing improperly. Most persous are fully aware that present pleasure is often suecceded by future pain. When women marry they too fr ae neglect their appearance, because they have not so much time to devote to dressas they had No one, young or old, should wear more than two petticoats and a pair of drawers. In the winter, have a good wadce | aipaca_ black pe ean petticoat, and flannel drawers, if you like; but, for young persons, I should recommend thick calico, and leave the flannel for old or deli- cate persons. In summer, still wear only two petticoats, but much thinner; let your white one that replaces the black be well starched. To those who can afford it, a small crinoline, or horsehair petticoat, is very light, and wi'l keep the dress out: it should be worn under the white petticoat, and ae made to come all round; make one like large apron, to be worn behind: lt should have a flounce of the same material, as care waist. shilling a yard at a good linendraper' s; and | five yards is quite enough for founce and otters You can have white or gray | he material must be bought ata good ' \ = the detachment, from time to time, of masses | must be taken not to make it full ane the - The crinoline is to be bought for one (house. Take care yo dress is not lined ticoat will be of no use. me; ladies will persist in having, their dress- eg five or five yards and a-half wide; this is peifectly absurd, and shows bad taste. I never inmy life wore one more than four yards and a quarter wide, and seldom -any liningat all in.them; with flounces only three yards anda half. Ido not suggest this as an invariable rule; but there isa difference between five and a-half yards, and three and a-half; vo between the two; four and a-half is fulness enough for a plain dress for any one, and more than I would wear. _Mrs. Adams, No. 19 Edward Street, Langham Place, Regent Street, continues to give lessons in mi ilinery and dress-mak- ing, and to send patterns by post to all parts of England.--nglish Magizine. & -@- Petrifaction of Human Bodies. In the old Cathedral church of Bremen is a vault, the atmosphere of which possesses the peculiar property of perserving from de- cay all bodies that may be placed therein. Visitors are shown eight human bodies, besides a number of cats, dogs, monkies, birds, &e., all of which by mere exposure to this atmosphere, have become dried and free from offensive effluvia, resembling in ied ance coarse pane hineat The body nearest the door is that of an English Major, said to have lain one hun- dred years. The second, that of a German 'stodent, who lost his life in a duel. The hard dry flesh still shows the sabre wounds on his throat and arm. His body has been here one hun- dred and seventy years. The third, that of a Swedish countess, whose body has remained free from the lot of common mortals for one hundred and forty ears. The fourth that of a Swedish 'General, who was killed in the famous ** Thirty Year's War," and whose throat still exhibits the hastly mark of the wound of which he died. The fifth, that of his aid-de-camp, who lost his life at the same time, by a cannon ball striking him inthe side. he destruction of the parts is plainly visible. The sixth body is that ofa workman, who fell from the steeple of the church when near its completion--four hundred years ago-- and broke his neck. Owing to this accident, the peculiar properties of the vault became known, for the body of the deceased work- man was laid in this vault for a few days, and having evinced no signs of decomposition, the singularity of the fact, induced the au- thorities to permit it to remain, here it has remained during all that time. The seventh, is the body of an English lady who died one hundred and thirty years since, of a cancer on the lower jaw ; the ray- ages of the disease are still perceptible in the ulcerated flesh. The eighth is the body of a working man, which has lain here for sixty years. In a marble sarcophagus, standiug in the middle of the vault, are said to repose the re- mains of the Swedish Chancellor, Van [n- glebretchen ; but they are not permitted to be exposed to public view, on account of some of the still surviving relatives of the family. Jéach of the bodies retain toa sreat deg ree, the appearance peculiar to itselfin life Thus, the Swedish General was a shore, round- faced man, inclined to-carpulency ge aid- de-camp was a slender, well- proportioned man in the prime of life. As in general ap- pearance, also, in facial expression, do these bodies differ ; the parchment-like skin, though tightly over th e bones, stiil shows something of the manner in which the muscles and cords beneath once worked. The only reasonable solution of the pe- culiarity of this result--for no other part of the church posses it, that I have beard--is, that here all the plu: mbar s work of the build- ing was done, in melting and otherwise pre- paring the materials for the roof. We can only suppose then, that the entire chamber became so surcharged with lead, that it has coutinued ever since to give forth vapors, which forming an antiseptic chemical com- pound of lead, have operated upon ue eada- vera exposed to its influence. 5 Dancing. ---- That beautiful, graceful accomplishment of dancing, so perverted by- late hours and the mdecency of fashionable attire, has out- raged many sensible people, and led them to "deprive "the young of one of the most simple and healt thfal "enjoyments, because it has been abused. For myself; I can t. stify not only to its healthful, but to its recuper- ative power, The fortieth, nay, the fiftieth year of my age, found me enjoying this life- cheering exercise. It should be one of the earliest amusements of children, and care should be taken by parents that it is under- stood as an amusement. "The frivo' ity and ruin of many a young man and: woman are owing to the severe restrictions which im- prisoned them in youth, released from which they rush wildly into excitement the mo- ment. they are in freedom, and sell their souls to vanity and. dissipation. ; While Lam-on_ this topic, 1 will mention a case that occurred ih my practice. "A thoughtful, anxious mother, who had lost three children, brought to me her only re- maining Ghia daughter. Her tempera- ment nervous: bilious--the nervous fear fally predominant; with great irritability of the system ; peevish, passionate, dyspeptic, sleep- less; of course, exacting, arbitrary, and un- sonafortable = the poor ehild looked sad, old, morbid, and miserable. She had been to | amusement for her to be with other "children. After. Gritically. examining her phy 'sioghomy, with a heavy lining; if it is your apron pet- There is one more crying evil that grieves" | says, it is the form or features, and not the for their dissipations. school, because her parents" thought it an | I said to her bibticr, i What i is the tempera- ment of your husband?"' "The same as my own,' she replied. -- «Then the child is doubly. stamped," I continued, 'and vigor- ous measures must be used, if you expect to restore her health. Divorce her immediate- ly from any thing mental so far as memoriz ing is concernedlet her refléctives yield to } We bereepiyescaatlien send her to dancing- school, that she may combine exercise with order and melody, and thus some of her} rough edees may be*rougded." ~The child -- her large eyes wide open with wonder and delight--interrupted me with--* Dancing- school! -O, how I've longed to go! bat mother says it's wrong, and leads to wicked- ness." What a dilemma for a physician! what a dilemma for a child! 'My little. dear" said Ito her, "what color are my eyes?" Why--they ain't exactly blue, and they ain't black." "Very well, my child, they are gray eyes. Now your mother sees with black eyes, and 1 with gray aves Did you. ever intend your daughter to pl ay the piano, guitar, or other musical i instrument ?" said | tothe mother, "O, , yes," was the an- swere "why," 1 Coenucd: "why show such partiality to the upper extremities? The hands are rendered happy as a medium of melody: the feet are rendered equal hap- py inthe same way. Only be as careful in the selection of your dancing-teacher as of your musie-teacher, and all will be well." A nice afternoon school. recieved this little girl, who grew in health and harmony every month as as she followed the hygienic rules prescribed for her. Dancing is a healthful, beautiful, graceful, recreation, and it is not responsible | for the abuses laxury has thrown around it. The vulyarisms and excitements of the ball-room have no more to do with the simple enjoyment of the dance than the rich wines and samptous banquets of the gour- mand, in whom they induce disease, have to do with the temperate repasts that satisfy the natural- wants of the body. --Dr. Har- root K. Hunt. <-@ acl @- Discovery in Peru. The Hon. Thomas Ewbanks, in a letter to the National Jntelhgencer communicates some interesting information in relation to recent discoveries in the excavation of Peru- vian tumuli. It wasreceived by Mr. Ewbanks from W. Evans, Hisq., engineer of the Arica and Tacna valves in Peru. Mr. Evans states, that in making excavations for the railroad at Arica, hundreds of graves are de- molished, in which'are numerous Indian re- lics. he excavations are seventy feet deep, | and as the soil is loose sand, and as the work. proceeds, everything from the top comes sliding down--dead Indians, pots, kettles, ar- row-heads, &c. Among other: interesting mortuary relics, an Indian was stirred out of his resting-place, rolled up in a. shroud of gold. Before Mr, Evans had knowledge of the incident, the workmen had cut 'up this magnificent winding-sheet, and divided it among themselves. _ With some difficulty Mr. me obtaitied a fragment, and . dis- patched it to Mr. Ewbanks. Mr. Evans notices asa very remarkable fact, that in hundreds of Indian skulls which be has examined, not one has contained a decayed tooth. Mr. weight of the entire shroud must have been eight or nine pounds, and, had it been pre-° served, would have been the finest specimen of sheet gold that we. have heard of since the time of the Spanish conquest. In some please sir. dun. "a fus-rate tavern. = Ewbank thinks the |. ing soup. Yankee--TI sa-ay, wate" This ain't so clean asl have-seen! Waiter--Sir, 1 don't no wot you Wiesel that insinneration. I must speak -Carvinknife about that. - Waiter runs to the read. welts nd brings that officer:to.the Yankee's chair. Head Waiter--beg pardon,sir. Did you have the honor to a a remark Tests the soup? eo Yank ce-- Wall, denyin' that, Head Waiter (looking red in the 'Eh 'Sir, shall T-have the pleasure of sa the Superintendent: that you: eg the soup is dirty? = = Yankee (throwing himself bake int chair) --Look here--yew can report to-- Sewperintendent, ef youve got such cer over yer--Is' posed they hed Se tendentsin Sunday Schools, but heard of one in a tavern: before; yew just say to him what I said to thatlinen j diay There ain et fellow there, and mind, ef you perver truth, Vl teach you that the gods -- heathing area vain thing, in jest no 2 all, Tell the Sewperintendent what L said, _ and don't yer lie, ; Superintendent (coming forward) y- thing wrong T homas--anything wrong, sir? Waiter--He ms the soup ain't clean, -- : = Y ankee--That?s a teetotal lie. say it was dirty--TI didn't say 'twarnt. clean. I shouldn't have said anything about yer soup at all, ef the linen jacket feller hadn't poked: a bill for the dinner in my face afore 1 a ter eat. I shan't pay in advance. He | more'n forty things charged i in it--more? a could eat in two "fortnights. Hed a lot of wine charged when I belonged to the Sons. What I hey Pl pay for witen. the work This bere was recommended tor me Superintendent--my | Meah sir, that" was only our bill of fare, designed simply to indi- -- cate what dishes may be called for.--Our prices for dinner are uniform. Yankee --'The deuce it is; well the fact is, I was agoin' ter say the soup wasn't so clean as I have seen ; ; for yer see, when I was trav- ellin' in Pensylvania, they had some soup at one t avern so clean, that ef yer should dip not greese it. Exit Superintendent and * iis jacket | fellers,'--ammid great laughterefrom the com=_ pany. Capital Answers "A professor of universél enolase put up his sign near the palace of an Orien- tal prince, who snddenly camein upon the pretender, and put his wisdom to the test. "So thou knowest all things,"~ said the king ; "then tell me to-morrow morning -- these three things only, or thou shalt lose -. head. £irst, how many baskets of earth there are in yonder mountain? "Secondly, how much isthe king worth? And, thirdly, what is the king thinking of at the time. The professor was distressed beyond meas sure, audin bis apartments rolled upon the ear pet in agony, for he knew that he must die on the morrow. His servant learned the trouble, and offered to appear before the king eloquent remarks upon the preservation of souvenirs of the departed, and the futility of attempting to secure the great dead from contact with their native earth, Mr. Ewbanks body or substance of the dead, that should be | preserved, and adds: «The mummies of Egypt are fared a fuel, and, whether those of the Pharaohs, their wives, their priests, or.their slaves, are split open and chopped up with the same in- diferente as so many pine logs. 'he gums and balsams used in embalming them have made thema good substitute for bituminous coal; and thus the very means employed to piesgr Ss. them have become the active agents So it is when materi- high market value; they als of coffins have a are then seized as concealed treasure, and their cont heroes in. the eastern hemisphere, the descend- onts- cast out as rubbish. ants of Manco. Capac were sometimes, if not always, entombed in such, and with consid- erable treasures besides 'in vessels of gold and silver 3 hence we learn how the Spanish Sree sought for often found, and olten plundered rich Incan sepulchers, es @ Supporting x the Gospel. "The Tie d Shell Baptists seem to be fur- nishing a variety of amusing matters just now, A corr respondent writes: This sect (the Hard Shells) are in the} habit of holding a yearly association in our vicinity, generally in a ptece of wooils near to a good spring. The bretheren from abroad are aiareired upon those in the neigh- bourhood of the meeting; and these are re- quired, of course, to lay i in a good supply of the creature comforts, and among them, as the most important, a plenty of whiskey. A short time ago, such a place having been selected, the bretheren near by were busy putting up benches, and making the place ready, when brother Smith said: "Wall, Brother Gobbin, what preparations "have you mide to. home for the big associa- 'tion 2"? «" Why, Tr ve laidin a barrel oi flour or $0, and a gallon of whiskey." Brother Smith expressed great contempt at this pr eparation. A palion of whiskey for a big meetin.' whole bar'l; and you're just as well able, | Brother Gobbin, as Tarn to sapport the gos- pi? -- Harper's Mag. . hike 3 > Why, Pve laid in a} tions. 'The next morning, the servant, cloth- ed in his master's robes, "presented bimseif to his majesty, who-was deceived. by his appear- ance, and the king proceeded: " 'fell me, now, show many baskets ofearth -- are in yonder mountain ? a I dido' : a white cambrie laddkerchieg ia it, 'twould Bae and talce bis chance of answering: the ques- "That depends upon circumstances. 'Tthe os baskets are as large as the mountain, one will hold it; if half as "large, two; il a. arise four 5 ; and so on." = The king had to be satisfied, a er mae ae "« Now, tell. me how Hae the king" 'is worth 7? a * Welly yoursm yesty, the King. tain and Har er i for thirty pieces af silvery: and [ conclude you are worth ove piece. 'This was so witty an eeepe me -- laughed, and weat on: « See once more, tell me what. am ie thinking of? 2 66 You are now thinlieg that you are ae ing with the professor, whereas it is only his servant." & Well done," said . dhe Jo. . you stall have one reward, and your. master shall not . lose | his head." é Tn ae co bere no ¥ "Several colored citizens of the: U States, ail of them native Americans,. passed 'through this city during the past 'two weeks, ear oule for Canada. 'Three of these" were coed to-the teeth, and any one en- deavoring to impede their locomotion, would have, pos sibly, received a slight reruke. We talked with them playfully on the subject of their being more thoroughly equipped than the law directs. One of them remarked in reply, that " he did 'spec to throw his inv away whenhe got to Canaila, but he heara dere was gwine to be a war between dis -- country and de runaways ;" and, bringing his heavy fist against the wall, he added, "Tm gine to heop iL now.' Come on, bretheren ; the more lie merrier. --There is room enough for you in the Queen's dominions. Come, resolved to reach 'the other shore," though you die in the at~ tempt.-- Fred. Douglass ses ae ta pulled he ee a g hi their windoya, ave --