# Cape Pan ©wan fi'ate.

"LET ALL THE ENDS THOU ALM'ST AT BE THV GOD'S. fUY COUNTRY'S. AND TRUTH'S."

vol. ix. cape island. cape may county. new jersey. THURSDAY. ( )(T( )11RI? -12, ]sti:i. _ NO. -21.

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jjfbct ^octrn. j ; — r~ j i urr.n nrreMMnn. j sr inmttit eomrv msxrv < * • .. ,< L Of I ><» fpl!g"i"£. poem," ."Willis. of ibe j Hoxr Mamrnl, eevs'P'Tba degree to wVicfi ! | the melo-'iee nre pertoetaff, ami the beauty i of motupbur and rhythm. are mora liku tba ■ ifioinkej w«k nf a ci»*ic poet than tba ' inspiration ui an iat}>al»aa «"W»/ I»ta{ I an exqniaita ;,-.-m. aud, U>aui(b wa bata I j never bafure b.-ard nf tba author, *« are | i very mra ha ia not only a loldier, bM tbe j truant oPpoat#."* ! Craan grom Hit laurel on tba bauk < i .Dark vavei tba |daa upon tba hiil, ; t> reea hany;i tha iicbco. cold and dank, , Dark ipriOfri tba baarU^aM bp (be rill j j | Afa-muaea a (amber ever bright. , t Pale il -the natardil)'* bloom : Tbui fjfe Itift conrta tba ahadei of aigbi, ] ; And Baaoty boaart o'er tba tomb I So. ail through lift, ioeongruoaa hue i | ICaeb object wear* from childhood doun j j j I e vaoeacent — baa van "i blot. Tba all aoduring — aaber broan. , Onr brighten dream* too qatekiy die. And grief* are green that ibuflld be old, { I And jay* that iparUa to tba eye Are like a tala tbefa quickly told. 1 ! A nd yet 'lit bat tba golden maun , I That cbacki ear li w*' nttealy Bow ; , tJudV roueteibaianea thrown beta. -an. To paiaa tba acaia °lwul joy and woe ; And better »a, tor wawt tba bowl — lakjnts t« (be parched Jip gi »«, Too much of gaiaf would crueh tha aoai. Too mock of joy woald wean from heaven- j i pisfrltani!. THE MASUC 1XX.TUIL ? *m Uvntan la a BaHwaa MrU«t< ! It mnat I* conitmfd that it is a aery j provoking thing to rec/ iv* a letter on ' ChiMmaa wuruiag, calling yon two : baadred wilw away or. 'itwHtalc and | important t»oai»r«a.' Y«a, it i« a vary r provoking th'ng, indeed— at b-ait to I j found it: both ia aatieipatinn and in i v ery dead; bat tbefa waa no help for it. 1 ' Snooki, my lawyer, wco.a and told me that if, cu tba S5th. I tw not at C- -, ! I abould probably laie. acvcr miad wiiat, hot wHectbinf which isdured me to pack my jvortmaataao in all h«L-, vend tor a baaaoa, and drive to the !x. Y. Z. ftaiioe. Whqn I arrierd Ibafe, I toao-J that 1 waa y«st too lata tor the irayt I bad como to caUch. »nd ■J that tha next cue did net atari for tbm- - I quarUrt of an boar. Inwardly grumb- J lieg at my ill tor.une. I went to tba ■ waiting rcofli. and endeavored to make mytclf a* eoa.tortai.le at 1 eoaid; bat davpitc nil my qttempu, I think I cevtr ' knew time to pan so llowly ia all my i life, except a omnia twenty minute* about which ! am going to ted. Although. M 1 aa:d, the time wvwt ia prtwwon af time, I found myaeif stingty mervneed in a Bnt claw carriage, I which hud bat one occupant bwidfl iKywdr. a cheerful looking, little, old ; man, nilb mmy hair aod a itraaga, n>tj toaal look about the ayea. Directly 1 got | (he carriage, be addressed me in a | Amiiiar way: •A mt-rry Chtittmu to yon!' 'The as me to ywu,» aaid 1, rather j gruffly, a* 1 wa* not fa flmtb© of ha- | mom. aed did not feel ioctined to be ebacrful or uafghbori v •Why, klea* ma! air,' aaid tha little ! old man, reeevriag the attnoh, >a ;0«rwll mm AM Ori alio*" me to offer yes one of my trnvwltng wrapper*; I alwwy* taka earn to be took from Id* aida a rolled nip rag, aufolW H. and taking a amall^ mahogaa y ! experiment, pa« know.'

'What grand cxperioient?' 1 aaid. t i somewhat etnrtled by the man'* etcited t . n *0, nothing, nothing,' said be. color- * i log violenily; only that ia to *ay — ex- » act to, are ton a PMameaonf' : ll 'No. *ir." j • •Nivi a FrecmaJitMi?' Why, We*« me. 11 yoo ought moat certainly to become one .' n ^ 'Why ao?' 1 , 'Bocanse too woald tbsB know ihatj' thcy^ve got a wwt of— tliat iv to aaj— in 11 . fact, a lecnt-' • •I Ynow thkt alreath ' ^ 'Uqally? I declare yoq are the rafti I extraordinary man 1 have ever met; r -well, I've got a secret, too, and that*' t- ; mj grant) experiment ' 'A* it's a aecret, I aappose yoo will! 1 J not tell me what it (*?' * j *0. yea, 1 will though, bat— perhapa * : 1 had better not; never mind, i'll tell c i you: It ia aimply this, to diacover what j 1 j era the different toelfags of different 1 on different occasion* ' 'I sl.oold hardly eall that an cxperi- 1 j meat.' *r i ' Wouldn't yoo, now? Curiam thgt; J 1 ! yea, very curiam, tor, to tell you the . f 1 truth, I don't tnyeelf know whether I are " ! quite jaatified in ralitag it aa cxperi- [ metil. Bat enough of that matter lor ' the prmenL May 1 ask where jrofflre ' geing to?' ; -To o — ■ I 'Haea yoo friends there!" ! 'None, T am aorfy to «x - 'i ami"1 called there on eomm liiMgreeable, ' . though important, busiaeia.' | 'Then, may 1 have the pleasure of . jour eompany to dinner, wbco wa ar- ' | rive there?' ! j 'Thank you; 1 shall hare the grexteet 1 pieaaura ia accepting your kind luriu- ' ;tion.' ' ily-lhe-by, do yoo know bow ronny ( time* we stop before we reach C f ( Only twice, aa tbi* ia an express { ' train; ouca at M , <t 8 o'clock, aud . ; the second time at F£— — , at 5.' I . "And whea are wa due at C- V •At half past six, I believe.* ' 'Thank yo# ' Thus, tor a time, onr conversation ; ended, but we often renewed It again, and I began to regard my companion ad : 1 claxor, kind-hcarivd, tbcugh eccentric : old man. Some time aftrr we bad pawed M — my eccentric friend eompoaed himself i . j tor a sleep, and waa soon auortng, and it waa not long before I followed kia example, bat my dreams were troubled. | First "of alt, I dreamt that 1 waa Wing 1 ' hur.g; then that I was Wing ban-C- ! euC.d; and, las', of aK, that a great weight was upon me, and that some- ! tiling whs pressing heavily upon my , f clissi. 1 then woke with a start, to find i ' myself bound hand andYoot, with a rope passed round my neck, and fattened to ; i ' the umbrella rack behind, in such a i manner that if 1 straggled is the least. ! • I should inevitably choke myself ; and , my fellow-traveler was ataadfrg over i urn. with one knee on my chert I j 'What are you doing — ' said 1; but my sentence wa* cut short by a gag, i which my cecentrc fricad thrnst into j >, my mouth aud tied behind my bead.— ; ' He then atood away {o look at his » • handiwurk, with eyes glaing like thou r of a wild beast, and his whole frume - t rambling with excileweat. 'Now,*, he aatd/ whh a wild laugh, 'bow I shall bo able to try mj grand - s experiment; now 1 shall be able to disi cover whether the heart can bo extras- j • { od while a man is aHvc witaout killing ; : him. Twice 1 have toiled, bat the stsn - have told me that a third time I shot! ■ not fail. O tome, glory, immortality, 1 j 1 lave you in my grasp! What! pttitoi ■ f(wt, do you turn pale and tremble? If ! - j yoo do din, yon will die a glorious mtrr tyr to science, aed If you livo, yoo mi . : I writ share tba gl«7 of this grand j f diocovfry.' j from this ridiculoni rbodomoatadc I r peccchrnd that my pleasant eccentric » ; traveling companion won a raving ma • nine. What waa 1 to dn? 1 conM not ; move hand or toot, or even apeak, ad s ' the madman was arranging on the wst i ; in trout of me a <;»'llam.toti ot bright J stai-i iwotromcoti'. Which he took from

the mabagaer box wi.ich I have men- ; tioncd before. Was there any hope for . m. ? 1 tried lo runx tuber how long it ■ was after Wo loft M b« fori' i went asleep, as f thought that if we only got ' to Rtj — , the msni*Oi^wou!rl be discovered, ind I should he rrfh-yed from (he , horrible death whTeli now H-iteeSJmnji- j nrnt; but si I bail brcu lit ang some i : time before I went reguladc off to ski ;>, ; I found that I could not in the to**; r« < f tnumbor what time hod paaeed. Aftrr some time spent, in -pf»yvscM*r j ! inn rumen ts, my pmecotnr lirgaa :■> 1 prepare me by ^ubattoniug my waisi- ; coat and bcsrlhglhy UrcssT- Aniitfjlb " ; everything seemed i» be to his saiisfsc- ; i tine; aed ha took up a sharp, krcti- [ L laded kejfe. 1 shall never forgrl tny | stnsations when I saw tiiat Ut: la gliuering instrument, so soon to be dyed with my blood. I felt a cold shudder run ail i through my body, and I long. <1 to clw ej « s, but they sermr-1 to keep open by a sort of botribk fsscinstlon After ! j trying the edge of the knife, and png>a- , .ring a cloth, aud giving one final look | ' his insirumenU, my .wceatric friend 1 j pressed his finger close above my heart, and said: 'ThisfehoWeJ am going to manage ' it, my friend; I am going to tut a cir- . : cle iu the flesh about the heart, with | this ksife; it will not hurt much, as J j shall only just cut through the skin, ami the knife is exceedingly sharp. 1 tlu-u , - shell proce.fi to dig deeper with this i instrument, ad finally extract the besri ! with this!' I The reader may imagine my Mrasations during this coid-blaode4_v»eiult ■ for 1 am utterly unable to describe | them; bat wheo the sharp sttel first | pierced mj flesh, ad I Lit the warm ; blood ' flowing out, ail my past life ; seeaieil to pass befoov my miod iu a uiouicnt of time, only to make my desire of still living, and the hosror of au ignominious death tenfold. miiitous ueatn tentutu.

• 1)0 VT UK SO ( BOSS." 'Don't speak w.i cross,' said one little ' boy in the street to another. 'Don't j i speak so cross; there's no use' in it!' We happened to be passing at the tim«, and hearing the injunction, or rather the ( t exburuuiou— for it was made in an ex- '• imrtaidry inai.nr — wc set the juvenile ' apesker down a* an embryo philosopher. I What more c<itild Solomon hsv« said on : ' the occasion? Trnc, he he* pot It upon ; i record that 'u sift answer Umi h away ) wrath';* sod tl'la I^ing tjken as Duo— i and t'S(-ryi)o<ly,knotr* it to be so-.-jt j* j ufiic.ucp.Aii favor oi tlra superiority of i i the law of kindness ovr r that of wratli | lint cur street philosopher said ^pri-'.ly , much the same thing «ub»tautialiy, when i.e *sid, 'Don't spcuk so proffl; there's \ no ns ; in it.' On the coatrury, it itivaI : (iably do. e much harm. Is a in an j , 1 angry? It Inflames h's ire still more, ! , aud c.r firms in his enmity him who, bj - r a kind word and a gentle and pieasiug I demeanor, might he converted iuto a ( | Intend. It is, in fact, an addition ol I . fuel to the (Uaiu* kl.-eady kindled And 1 | what do you gain by it? Nothing desi- j , rable, certainly, unices discord, strife, j , | contention, hatred, malice and utichari- 1 . j tsbleoess be drsirable. The boy spake , i the 'words of truth and soberness' j I ; when he said, 'Don't speak so cross; ! j ; there's no use in it ' t H3T" Mr- Orpheus C. Kerr, the bis- ( ! toriograpber of the M»rkeral Brigade, j j while lately approaching tha Capitolisn City, encountered a man — or, rather, fn i ' hti'ou'it Trnrdtr ~ 't When very near the city, on my | , return homo, 1 met a chap weighiog j , 235 pounds, who wss ow Ids way to a ' B ! lawyer* to get his exemption from the ! ' drivTi duly fixed. t 'S«-e here, my patriotic invalid,' says ; . I, skeptically, 'how do you some lo be \ exempt?'

UANt.hU U» lit ItKI.Mt WITH BKAMtY. AVe licard the other day of * tingulnr, " and. MtaUri*, a new cflVct of the applies tion of brandy n* a . hvedicinc. A gentlemun, convolcceot from an attack of sick new, wa* lecointBendrd by his physician to rub himself all »rer. mojamg st.d evening. v with ty. best of lira tidy. The invalid i.ccor.!rng1y fent to hi* ftrtntly grocer, with whom tu..bati dealt far years, and ordered a nw pic of the t.<*t old Cognac. Home it coovc. and th»t vary ereeirg j it was tried— outwardly, of courrc. The ' convalescent felt IretUr — moeh Wide— and i lie c.uititiued to feel tiettbr tor a. day or i two until he awoke one morning, nnd, to j hi» itorrtu. <iiu:o.vf v-d that Ma aoUrw eotlcfa —or at least whore it had been ruhl>cd with j Iho old Cognac— had buaoms of a devp i | He sprang net of bed in ntarm. Tho farml^ was arnuHf.!. A M-rvant dUpaUlied -, ! in hot how* (ir tha doctor. The iavaild's i wit* were terribly shaken by lhit< traver. bafore-heard-of catastrophe. What could bn the cause ,.f it? He looked a picture ' : for a painter, as lie »at before the looking- > j glaos hi an arm-thsir and recfwtly surveyed I | hi* criunou covering. It ww* almost tudiI i croas ; it wa* quite as badg.* Mr. Tittlebat i I it moose's predicament About his pnrpie : green heir. Dot this could be tie toughing ' J matter. It must be some extiatftdinary , phenomenon, as be explained U to Iu* woe - -j .faring and alarmed family. • "And just imagine, my dear, how I thai) ' , look »n Bty life ilVtliir-Confo' llded thing | ton't cured. Like a boiled lototer !- Hkc u ! boiled lobs' or ! 1 Aboil go by no other -juams! Qh dear! oh dear I . ; The door bell rang; the front door • ; opened; in ruehed the doctor. For an loll > sunt he could not contain himself; be hod - j to drop law a chair and teagh it out. — — y | "Oh. its very funny to yon, no doubt, j Doctor; but how would yoo like to go t about the bator.ee of your deys, looking B i ilke a overdone lobatar?" The doctor burst est again at tbi.; hot ; be saw that hi* siek man and family wore 1 ' alarmed, and ho soon sobered down to his • usual pulse feeling. f "Maybe iu the todhie, dbctor?" sug- .«■! i .■ i «» i-mine, oociorr

4 — Slowly the sharp kuito plow..] in my - flrsl^ making my l.lood freeze in the j vfln«, and eyeballs burn aud ft-cl rrady , ! to burst in their sockets, and now ] f.-lt my reason grsduofty -%2ving u;c^» (best rain upon my nerves was too moch — j they most give way; but I considered • Start if they dtd, ray only hope would be gene; for If 1 raovtd I should be choked j with the ropC round my neck j' Slowly lit* slta^ kntfr, impelled by the steady hand, cmtinaed iu d«sd)j ' MiBrte; and new the circle wee -nearly accomplish.- J, whew I fell that th^ speed of the town was being gradually dimin- ' ; isbed. A rsy cf Jtope illumined my breast, I loo. . a into ray companion's •yes to see if he, too noticed that wc ! ; were nearing F — but he waa too , intent on his horribto work. At length be leaned back, and aaid: 'There bow, only about an inch more, j and 1 sftall commence the deep rotting! Only aim at an Inch! And the station j was yet some way off Only about as infcb! My life hong upon the merest thr. ad. ]t waa not long that the experimenter ; admired bis diabolical work; he tooo f. 11 to it agaiB; bot I saw the ligbte on j F— station flash pa*t the window of Hie carriage. I saw a strange arm 1 siixe mv toramntor, I hoard a l.-ud end j appall og cry like thai of a bsfllsd wild j ' beast, tud f became insensibiv. ' 'B j For weeks ai'ur this I lsy between 1 life anS death, in a brain fcTenhfcrorglu ' 1 on by the In ten*, fear and excitoraeot | ' ! of those twenty minutes I efttrw*rd learned that my piowtWBt r ccmpaaioo had been a doctor "and a sur- , gecn, bnt that whan he was a yonng I , j u na and jam married, having performed j -i an operation on his wife to remove a j ' I cancer, of which she afterward died, be | 1 ' went out of hie wind, and had been I r ever awaw attempting U escape, ia order . - Unit ho might perform the dmdfol ex- ! , penmen* which so nWl; r vaulted in my .4-" . Burr Gram* Joky — Tha Grand. Jarr of tba praaaat tem. •' the Burling1 ton CdmKv Coart ore Ipty men.'' Of f : to whsie iwewty-toar mew, the lightest - one weighs Site pounds. Onw weighs t 884 ponada, one 27«. one SBfi, and two i j . -Jf-'.i Eight of the number weigh over 2H ponodr. The aggrrgwie weight of! 1 the t-ewty-fcrar is S.fflS pounds, an , '- averngs wrirtt of 215 pounds to nach

i l »»> ciswpj.' vavs ha. In a i>ro-iLr Uinnilly nn-laneholj miner, 'because I i . sra suffering from u brokeu hcurt ' j 1' 'Hem,' says 1. j " 'It is Due,' toys he, sniffling dismally. < : '1 asked the fetuuic of my heart to have t ^ :ne She said F hadn't enonirh postage ; stanyv* to suit her idrax trt' personal • nfeiiuc, and she didnY eutv to do ray ! washing. That was enough; my heart j ; is broken, and I aui not an able-bodied j tnan.' a it Drafting, my boy, u of i nalare to | dovtlope the seeds of disease in the j 1 ' hitherto bomsn system. j1 8TAT1STH8 (ONrEENDK TUB NAME «F I HAnHINhT»>. • , 1 1 — ' , ! . There sf^Jl " iecrruories, coui.iies and , j towns in the United Blates called T , i Washington. j , Washington Is the capital of the DU- ; ! j trict of L'olamNa|^ , There «re seven Towns named Wash- j ' t iugton in the State of Xew York— two | 1 ( , ia one connty, viz: Morris. Twenty in renosylvania — two in' r ! Gtvcnc connty. ( ; Forty -toot in Ohio — two in Richland ( county, two In Guernsey connty. < r Forty-two in Indiana — two in Davieas 1 ttfcrty, two in Wayne. I Six in Arkansas. , Two in Illinois. Poor in Missouri. N : , ( Two in Iowa. There are twenty-sewn caustics in : I . lb* United Stale* named WawMugtoa. j < j One territory. L j One hundred and forty -six towns. j I rj BnxcTircL Ltmx Aujkoby -A han»- 1 1 j roiag-oird met a butterfly, and being j j | pleased with the baauty of it* person, ( \ | aad the 'glory of iu wings, tuado aa r : offer of perpetual friendship. , - 'I cannot think of K,' was tbc reply, r | 'as yon one* spurned me, aed called me | a drawling doit.' I 1 . 'Impossible!' exclaimed ilia bnmmirg ' 'f ■ bird. T always entertained lb* big ben 1 I reepect for each Ik aulifni creatures as ' siyen.' , a 'Pcrbnpa you do now,' said the other, , r : 'bnt whea yon lusaltod me, I was a cat- . "I erpiller. Bo let at frfvo yoe a piece of , J ' advice: new insult the bumble, as they , | may some day -benptte your superiors

^gestcd the anxioK wifr. ' . - • - . "Oh, it's ironed la, no doubt." vniil tha jiativDi. indulging 'he ruiing paisiou strong ! io death. The doctor shook his heed. ' "Had that rubbing been done as lm pre- " "Ye*, faithfully " j "Hood brandy !" "Yet. ilio very best— we osa bo other." * W "Let mo have it " , The brandy was tiruajht. The doctor . looted it. and shook his head again, j "IU take that home to examine it rhentj There are to tnaqy tricks among i the liqsor dealers." , ! "Oh, no fear of that with our grocer. I Ho erli* none bat tbo best liqaors, imported | direct by himself." ! "No doubt. Ill look into it, neverthajjses." Ami. cs!min.u' the family aUrnv. the [ good doctor departed, the pare old cognac in his pocket That evening came a note from hhn: ■ "DearL , make yourself |ierf«ctly easy. Tk« cognac is first proof wbiisy, end won't yon. It was the logeood iu it tba* | did yosr bnsine**." LIFE ASB EXI.t7L.VtE. The mere lapse of years is net IIGs. To ** eat. eiU dqpk, ami sleep; to ba exposed 10 darkaeas and the light; to pace rosutl iu the mill of habit, aud turn thougiit isto an implement of trsde— this Is ool life. Io i all this bat a poor fraction of the cooj scioovMti of hnmenfty is awakened, end j tba sanctities still clamber which mskeVt ; worth whjle to bo. Knowledge, truth, Iota. i beauty, goodness, faith, eluee ean give 1 vitality to tha mechanism of existence The lauga of mirth that Vtbretos throagh J Ah* beer;, tba tears that fresheu tbo dry ; wastes withio, the music that brings chiidI beck, the prsyer that calls the futura I near, the doubt which makes u.< meditate, i lb* death which startles us with mystery, Ike hardship which foreae as to struggle, the anxiety that and* io trust, ere the true ooeriahmeut of our natural being. Ax Oura Tjrr Bsuc— The fair of 1 soierden county wa* held at Flemiagtoa lost week. The stteodaoce was quite large, sod among the object# of attraction exhibited was Uie family coach of General Weabiegtoe. e venerable rydic of former times, which wee ttut op to the Wr by Mr. Den lap, of TbiladelphU. who is the poF sensor of this greet cqriosiiy. On TharA day efteruoou it wsa drawn around the nc J ; course by four Etc sad beantif-il ctoy pliorat*, ac«l elicited greet stUuliou. ' , .