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VOLUME XV.

cape kay, istbw jersey. Wednesday, octobek 37,1869.

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Witt- n tlie worltlYt-Dowtiud CattK- (j, dm! of NtnubuTK hod Inen completed, t( the Chief Magistrate desired to orna- tj itwtit the stnepk with ao artistic clock. nl aodaftrr considerable KtarchlnR.aitd af- ,| much diOcoSy, he found an old _ man by Die name o[ Isaac Habicti. I who oflaml to make and arrange an a > incomparable clock, auch St the world i;, j had never areo before and might never , i see again. The oUbr was accepted ami l the old nun began his laborious w^ii. | After several ytwrs of tail tha work Q , wasttone, tlmlahara* an end and aU „ 1 who saw It nyanled it with jutifiah'u the rising and setting of the son, and Ilto BpprnrAitcrs of eclijnes. Memory p , atfxtd wlitt bts rtaffand pointed out all ^ the changes of tlac hcasou* and the c coming and going of tin- morning and evening «Ur-. lly Ihc tide of the iettnl (1 ' which pointed out lite hours stood lite () Bgnra of Death, who shortly bclbrr c tha strike of ovary qnatter, sdvontvd (. , to seise the clock-hnratucr, whenst tin- ^ same time the figure of Christ appeared and send bock Death. This ingenioua j, ' cluck as well as the chime of bells be- ^ t longing to ft, trsrtc tha pride ami glory j of tha city - of Ntrashurg. Tha eserllency of tbo work excited in th^ minds t of M|Uagihtracy tl« wish that Rtra*- c bui^ilglit remain tlio only dty thaff; oould hoas&ofauoh a clock. Thiawtah ■ I led to the design of putting out the . eras of the builder, in order to hav.- [ a pretence fttr this act of cruelty and r Ingratitude, and lasauae they feared to . L execute this horrible dtslgtt <m a man to highly cateuiued by the pupl.-, thry |j took refuge in the tuperttUlim of the time. Tbcy aecttaed tho builder with . being in Vague with the D-til, ssyliis J th.1t nit man couia h*Y* made stiNt u t dock without the Devil's aid. After t IM. tiuprimnm M.,1 aao.aaa, tbcy compelled Hw old titan Soto- J kno t ledge that lie was guilty. IV-fbre, baawacr. th» infaunrai act was carried 1 la to execution, the builder, informed 1 thnu that the work was not fblly dour 1 i, an ltitit If muAloueo rnonj ascend, the ' stMple. for a sheet time, to nratpitl* It. TTi thh thry assented, and the txraand after tiling arnl altering for sonic ' time, declared the work rttupMc. 1 Then the old man's ryes wcrs put 'out. ; I Hut from Hint moment the clock atotd j " The crtiel »tiH>.ir« of the Inhuman art : saw too hie, tU .t th - master-hand had ' faatrayetl its owu work. Thsntorkhe 1 said would never gn agmn .-it never ' I hat, rvm ta tlte presoft day. In the ' 1 snmtnnr of IMS, when . I myself visited 1 I tint obi Catheilral at ritr.ti burg, 1 was 1 I she wit the immovable wheel-work, j ' , stilled by the baud ami ciutw of the. j 1 . 1 oUman Kv VW lias ovet boen fixm I ; i j anfledBBdy skitf ti art ttr thing in I

! (Tniw the fAltolaliAla SoaJaf StataarT-l ' A VEST AKCCTT TILLAGE ; SrS 'iutsSSJsrS •i;. it. . ft. "tTit.r. | ' THnEScimtAK. Ope May Ca, ) away down Jersey, Oct. IS, m ( Mam. JSittniffjU Mercury:— y.m • may think it ttraage that I should write a letter fur your valuable Journal i fe$!tih4)n0* and rcmotdft jiu lite great erntrrw of civilisation as is this Sudani Tillage ; hat, let me ten you, this is a highly Interesting town, and wen worthy a prominrqt pht* in the chronicles of this age and country. A short stay here has Interested, instructed, and amused me very much, and I cannot but believe that, ir I prove able to do Justice to Tcrcnocrille, I shall bo able to edify and amuse your many - thottaands of Intelligent readers. ' If I fail, blame me— not this aaLnuatcd rills ge. Should any one of the charmed readers of my cpistlo conclude to visit this town, let hit? (or her) take passage on the West Jersey Railroad and got off ' at tlie sylvan hamlsl of Honeysuckle, (which contains three houses, besides , thesfatiofi-honse, andoneslorc), wltrro our friend will enter a stage drawn by {wo good hones, and driven (anil owned) by it lame, but very active and obliging individual, named Jacob Foster, in which conveyance the voyager will travel, by a very crooked road, through woods and sand (Itenntifli! >ck3t sand), a dirtdms or alttjuf four ■miles, immediately "after irbteli" the anledUuvian relic known as Tervut. vIUc will break, In nil its primitive, pristine and primeval glory, tt|vm the travrWs a^tomaiwd riaiou, as it did at upon ntine. Having reached this retired and hl«Uiri.' Villain', our fri-od, whether male or fbmak, will dml that tha contents of this Interesting li tter were (or are) entirely true. 1 have not boon able to learn when or by wboiu TerenecriUe was originally ■wtilcd, nor how It, njanagtid. to.e«r»pc the flood which, I had hitherto supposed, destroyed all of the human race except Noah and his " happy tu^fly." The site of the town nl present Man uo rratmblano, to my id- a of Mouut Ararat, anfl, therefore, I cannot believe that It was hern that the ark ~ rested— though there are many boild1 ings Jn tito |daaa, any t|ni' of svhiidt may he aald'to ranflRM ft in form and to 1* quite aacamtt enough to be that writable piece of amphibious archil' ture itself. Supposing that Noah's r

floating domicil did not bod here, and ' tlie great deluge oecunod four .usand years ago, it sdli be sufficient " and perhai- safc, for me to Say U.at 1 village is shout five thousand ' of age. 1 It is quite certain that neither Col- ' utubus nor tho Northmen ean Justly to have been the tint white men \ who went honored with the sight of \ this continent. This Net will be admitted by any 1 visiting Tercdceville. Tito place 1 formerly called' Tcrgpce (Jreek, i after the stream at the navigable head I of which the town Is situated. From ' the uaasa of tUa crrck, I lufcr that the 1 first esstlcr, or the Jtovaa. of this ' port o! our continent, was a Grecian • goutlsman hum the " Tine-clad lulls of or some other part of the Emerald lite ; for, jt is well known that 1 people who inhabit that verdant 1 island claim that some of Useir "ancient mariners*' ptstaded Columbus, 1 theCabots and the Swndinavians by ' several thousands of yenra in so fhr : penetrating" tha mysteries of ocean navigation as to reach this continent Captain Terence, if he did, as I believe, ■ dt A •over and cause the »:Ulon>ent of ; tbU ptoco,ltM beta eruitlly noglecled hUtortana, and this bet must bo , apology for n-fcrrirtR to him. It would be a wicked omission to say ootid ug of Tercndc when speaking of Ikravaeifft. But, my limited time and spaoc admonish roe that I most not indulge in writing ancient history. living present (if this place u alive) TcTrnocriBe has a population, I ■ tvild think, of about 476 souls, w|tponing all the bodies visible to contain tbuM InTbdbte etherialitiss. The InhabiMnts hoar a Strong resemblance " Grecisfl Bend *■ has not reached this piaoe yet, though, at 1 lave said, It is. I probably, of Ondaa origin, and the UM do not war coats so brief in their narratives sa those your citlseua delight in. Id fact, during the warm wiarivr. vary tew turn here wear in pantaloon*, l'm'ty girts arc notneroua, t-uyiultriug the aia»'.ln--<» of tin popuiatiuu, but. unflirtanately, they are wwntily suppliui with dcmiraW la'xux, as moot of the better cbt.it of . young me- Mtograt. to toe Urge I cities for the potpvse of making tuurv than th"y ewtt make Iwre. Tin ; open tog of toe railroad, by bciiiUtiiig ^ courmtmleatlon with the flutost portions of the country, has somewhat . dirturbed the ancient habits and Ideas of these primitive psnimalar people, j and lured many .4" thr younger men

I moo, to coral the Hoe. clothes and J lfcTOCS orjmor Ttdtepcdplc" and toenvy i >- ! such tatm as Joy Cook, and W«n. B. I Aator, of which sous of Cnrsus tltey j I, tare not yet luanl ; In short, all the t • rrils of modem cirilisatteu ore Ukciy, j socnt to flow In upon these innocent l a people, through the channel opened | ^ by the pernicious West Jersey Rail- : '» road to your dly and "Ruta." But, I " at presmt,thcvvils that usually follow k £ such modem .abouunatlous bare not ( *! ; perceptibly injured this place, except .1 u ' in the matter of depriving the young 1 sad female natives of their most at- r -tractive beaux. Aa an offset to this c ; calamity, 1 trust that" my letter and c j ' the railroad wffl bring down a goodly 1 . uambcr of young msufrom yourregion i B of -tbscnuotfy to yislt these dowrtod . f and dtsounsoiate nymplu. , t - One ramuikablo feature in the char- t ( scter of thcTciencevilleiuv Is their gen- I j" eral honetty, wltich their new-tormetl i . connection, with "Christian drilira- f I lion," I fear, may here-after seriously r impair. At present, cheating and I ^ stealing are crimes almost unknown t U here, and conjugal fidelity and every i iqwcies of personal virtue an severely t j observed. Locksmiths, at present, are c , not ueeded here, sad, In buriness, : every man's word is as -guod as Us < bond,' and sometimes belter. But i ( what will bo the rase after tho railway « l and tckgraph shall have been for ten t r or twenty yrars In operation '/ 1 shod- 1 1 dcr at the prospect, and will immcdi- c ^ ately abaudou tola part of roy sub- c , joeL . r I hare already stated tliat the jtop- r , utettouofTereaiwvilleconaiauof about , j 47>t persons "there or thereabout." I | sit. .u Id have added that the more rural r r iKipulatton.lu the country surrounding ! and adjacent to the village la exceed- 1 i Ingly sparse. -Yet the indications are - r that three is a large commerce carried f t on here, for I assure you there V 1 1 jilUtn "doreioln TeteiMerllte, hi most > , of which you ran buy almost anything, j t ' ftum a goose-yoke toa gallon of utoios- ^ I , see, (with or without whiskey at the | cud of the wt»d) or " from a noodle to ( an anchor," or a pair sf -oyster tonga , r Putting the population at MO souls, or | , bodies, we have Juat 8*1 persons— mi u, , women and children— including little ; babies, of which there are "some" i , here— to each store. Now, these peo- | ploaronot sff rish-ni't by Any man- i ,. nvrbf mcatw-andyst these stores ail I seem to be doing a thriving business I i r It is » Diet that several of tlie store- I . keepers are considered quite wealthy '• , by their ndgJibare, and all ef .them I t appear to lie well to do!*' How is • this? T "gave up" this conundrum i k several days ago i But these fifteen eomutrrcial estate , |4 lishmetits are not the only evidences of , ,1 business prosperity in- this place.'- i j. There are a goodly- u umber of vessel. , ^ plying between Tcrenvurtliu and your , L city, wltich carry wood, shingles uuul I city, wood. ablagkasAnd t

I other native productions thither and t I bring back the merchandise sold in the t raid stores. There Is also a ship-yard t here, In which several vssmls are an- t I mu^y from whibh » very lino, large schooner, owned by ttichanl ■ Flcmndog, Esq., ah'd' christened the "J. K. Raiding," was laLly launclt- | ed. There was. 1st me say, pareutliM- , - 1 ically, quite an excitontrat at this : j " launch.". a great many persons, of i both sexes, from- every Jtarl <>C the j j county, were present, all of whath appeared to rtlJojMlte sight hugely, es- ( la-dallywhen tho " tiilal wave," which I I sauwd , by too vessel's going Into ,i th- WitAfti l Bouts' a 4ier of iwd- , wood, which was eorered with people, i and orvrwhslmed the latter. Certain | (I •'prominent citiirns" looked vsrj- i . much mortified after their ducking. ; for the spectators '« M hiegh, "you ;i khow." . I To return to "business.'' There I two water-power saw mills and . one steam-power grist and saw mill .[bare, and a paper mUiis expcctojl to . , nuke Its "flrsl appearance" in lids I village at an early day, under tlie | j auspices of Mr. (Umbrella) Wrong, of r I yo.ur ci|y.' A considerable trade is I curried on iteUte'cbrd wood and ehtkgle , | Hne, in connection with the storvII keeping business. The Messrs. Kd- . I munda Itwo'of whom do business In : •

will finish Nan, fr*r sines' tlie open- I ing of the railroad, the " glorious 4th" t has found his way to thlt old pteer, I and, everybody knows, he Is- a sedot- j tire cttss. a .indent and secluded aa U thh rll- I there are same men in It not un- c known to hme nor Phibdbipbia — 1 There are Maxwell Rldgway, (store- a Elijah Cramfbrd, Nr., (store- * keeper,) the venerable Jolm Combe, t (slotedceeper,) Richard Fbmming, AL 1 Mudlarn, (fonaerly 9f the •• Handsome ' Cape Island,) the four E i- t munds,/rvrre ; (If the Terencorllleins c don't know what that means, they I ask their new 925 school-master. , I Lawrence Kcesby, " (Kcebby I is a big name down on this penln- I snla.)--and "lust, but not least.' • f the ITon. Flctnmlhg, (there Iff a good < deal of Fkmmlng in this enmity.) the t Hon. Flamming M. Price, who rep re- I eenu this county In the New Jersey t Senate Price is a Democrat, ■ and was elected In Xoreinber, 1987, ' I the first time 'he Democracy ever car- I , rird Capo May county, since the flood orbefure.nnd there lssniucrcasoiitofi-ar I that the world will come to another ' i end before tho like will hnppcn again. 1 Mr. Price is a "bully good fellow," ami 1 i ought to be re-elected ; but rich light- ' nltig don't often "strike twice in the ' same place." though, I'll try to hop.- ' that "Jersey lightning" is an exeep- ' I tion to the rule. I would not, how- •' ever, advise any esteemed friend to ' court a second stroke of some of th- ' article that maybe encountered In this ■ region. Still, Sain Bell, who * pre- 1 sides over the only battery here, if he ' likes a man. will not "strike" htra ' j All the. houses autl other Imlldltt-s I J h» this /plnce, except one— "the oid ' ) "Kicranfitjg Homestead*' — are built of ' r wood, but are too fhr apart to he .mil- 1 tu.Mly dangerous in case of fire. Their | | owners find them ennvrtiient fiir re- ! mnvnl, and it is no uncommon thing [ to sec a house going through the 1 town qn whecls, or rollers, b la Chicago, -fifteen years ago. Anenterprislngsbn of Vulcan, recently removed his shop ■ from this place all the way to Cape May city, twenty miles distant A i good-sized chapel was last spring, ' moved a mile and a half; and the present post office edifice, which is • rather grand one, was lately transferred to a locality a quarter qf a mile distant I from its original site, In order to have ■ near to the postmaster's residence, ■ it. I may ray, very inconvenienti located for the citizens, most of i whom, to mail or receive letters, hive i to travel orer two long nlid bleak causeways, which,. niter dark, are: ta- - ci vdiugly dismal and well calculated to f appal Cven stout-hearted persons, n- ■ minding ana. as they do. of the mehui- • L'ltoly "Mary'' in the song, who "died r of the winds that blow o'er ibe wild I moor," and a dark "Moor, *-. by the toe In

reminds ouo of the g-atlo Dcsdcmonaa's untimely end. There I go, all fit the way from Termer to Venire, in n " twinkling! , ' 1,1 I should have stated, wliils on the m"Wore" question, tliat such of the In "nwrchants" of this Innocent town as fx uo cterks. when tbsy go to your bd city to buy goods, or wlien they want is "da y^ shooting" or fishing, close »i their store-t. and pat tlw fats thereof I lutiiuir pucksU- r1 The chief productions of t no region ■ cord-wood, ccrlar rails, shingles. i hoiqepfdes and pretty giris.lss already ht > slated) logstherwltocrnubiriU'a.crahs, ■ clams, oysters, tels, Lima bonis, res- at , m-I captalps, (coasters and cnnalleta.) hi i green-brad flies,'aod mosquitoes. Th- "» • crop of the latter, however, foiled lids HJ • year, owing to the drought.. t There are n- laboring men nor httew h ing women in this town- nobody, for »' : instance, that you could hire to work u: I In vour ganten. ssrer your wood. nr do tl I your houeework. Every mail here ri . does his own work, and so does every k. i woman, awl toe men dote little of that ci t as possible. Living here, Ufa Dog. t! f berry's reading and writing, "comrs k , by nature " The creek, toe bay, and '■ , tigs ocean, which is not fire ad; ftirnislt a . f.>od for the poor at a very email cost C . of labor. This is a perft'ct Paradise b , f tr lazy mesi— which fiict accounts for ai , my hmjr slay fara. I eonfera, I de h r likeTerenccrilte. u There is but on# negro in this village n ' and vicinity— think of Unit, ye Cote a pcrheade and Antl-XVth-Am. udtueiit * t chaps! lis las native of A'ttea where, b r to judge from his ancient apptaraurc. t' I he was born a very km* time ago. His 1 name is Socrates, but be is uot tlie tl f man who wrele that big boot whlrh tl you Itave often seen in family libraries, * though he U no iois.it scholar. &>- ■ crates is a very hcnatAllfl IMIL and * has no inclination to assoetnts with d other negroes. He is a house servant I for John Combs, and is tho only ser- » taut, as well as the only African, in n the place, and loog'may he wave ! Tha a more ignorant ef the people hers say a c thai ho " came over" with the original I ,. discoverer of Cape May, a»uaWn-boy ; e but I do not believe this story, though it Is certain that be did serve several 0 years In Uot capacity, on board a U. 1' „ .S. naval Teesel, where be teamed navi- I 0 gntion, Cir which he hod a great pes- 1 siou, almmt before he had learned <Kir t jf alphabet. (Ndei/J. "Bcldga fiatlgithr, ' he is quite "at home" in tote pi*'-.', - If where ao many retired "Old Salt-" | ' are lying on their oars, or to use aaa- ,. tics! grammar, "fejrisj J»l aocltor." , I .y tdppi In th- Unit-id Status Senate from • " ■ A m 'wsa ww krir'teuwotoi ' :.; i«c*s dlla^btod did suwa.fr- -i

"Camiualivs Uateam," which, through the bigli reuouimrudatlons tb«v mothera and travsHng preacbere gave it, soon became vaMiv . popular, and opened a way for . Lone to escape poverty, for at this lime, a "church mouse" would have been envied by him. He soon after restored to Philadelphia. Next, 1 believe, came bis •* Expectorant," which, like tin- Carminative, proved more successful than expected, and tiicn followed the " Hair Topic," and tha other now universally known compounds, the profit, of which bailt the numerous vast j granite and marble monuments to thDoctor's memory, which rear, their lofty brads to the skies in your city. 1 Each of hie nostrums was retailed fur except tiw Caruloatire, the price or which was 25 cents. He once told that be had always regretted that he did not put that.alao.at 91 perbotth'. he said, ha oould have sold just as bottles of it, if uot uioiv, and would, of course, hare made far more . from lu ealo. " (■ By the way, I must tell you that Dr. . I An- wastn: a native of New Jersey, j as many suppose. '1 once called him I out at a supper in your city, to reply | to a toast to ny native State, which . was given to draw out your present . correspondent, remarking as I did ■ tliat. as lie was my senior, tho honor .him. This' brought the Doctor lo lite i ; l»ut he immediately disclaimed j a Jciffeytnon, by birth, and i stated that he woe bora, I forget at what point, on the banks of the hchtiyl- j kill. Ho emigrated to Jersey, however, at a wry early age. The Doctor's | speech was uot particularly brilliant. , , but it disclosed the above important j fdbt ; neither did bis speak- j r ing relieve me from the duly of making , . sjiccch. (Y ou ouglit to Itave htanl ' »t!j ,T1k- occasion was a sup|tcr glvett ; by some of his fellow-menthers of a cvr- . tain foslgv. to nc-rtatn Pldfad-Iplilati, . ou tho eve of liis departure to take his , seat it. Congress-iu 1S53. I twiiov. | , Mayor Gilplu preaidstl. 1'.-.: Ilarc" ; , Har.li.tg was present, .. .owastteorgs , R. Gliddou, as well as Dr. l/iue. all | Fcaco to tlrelr ashen ! A number of eminent men, besides , Senator Henderson, wore tmrn here, i among whom may !«• mentioned your - 1Y. R Thompson, Esq. ; but all of them ( had to go elsewhere to gain their cml- . nfn— . Thh atmosphere of this place r is nut): fitvnmble to human ambiliun. . nor to rrogres-. especially that kind , which i. -p.lt with a Mgr. 1 regret that my letter Is already so , WtfthM I cannot tell you what fine - funlsto lsi liml lu re lu fishing at the - 1 mouth of tho erevk and in the bay and 1 ocean. Tbo oysters caught at the J mouth of Terence creek are the finest a In flavor you ever tasted, except the flavor tasted, except me "

"Norfolfa." There Is excellent pike fishing here, too, in the mill-ponds. " Bench parties" are the rage here lu the summer time, and even biter in lite season. Tlir-re arc several nice yachts tlie creek, fiir picas ure and (telling. d' excursjons, and good gunning on the " shore and in the mcAilows. There ^ a good clianee for, enjoy incut here, and if you and I live till next summer. h I lut-iid to bring you (town to this " to prove the fact. Only one thing more. Thr ohlest Inltaliifant of litis place (except the u he drives) is Elijah Cratnfortl. " Sr. He isa "storekeeper" (of course), " rand Is a highly interesting as well as highly respectabfe old "rooster." He is n "character." Every old place '' this, has its "characters," and '" Elijalt is "one of •cm." Ufa all of his cbiss, he te a tough yarn-spinner. c and is, of course, very amusing ; but, " unlike many of his tribe, he is nch— v tliat i-, what these simple peOple cal) r Having been engaged In store- r and rigid economy lu this " clitwt-Uviug plage for somewhat less '' a century, lie haa raked in (and ' yon brt !) quite a quantity (how- " many that may be) of "stamps," ami, what is funny, *' don't care a who knows it ! To as ton- " a certain poor man, soin^yrara 1 ago. Elijah told him that lie (Elijah) ( hod half a bushel of allvu half ibdlars v up stairs, which, of course, tlie de- " scrndadt and disciple of Iraxarus was auxloua tossv. Accordingly, Eleaxer went up stairs and brought down a half mrasure which really s/ywsrri to be tilled *itli the shiners nforesaid. * Uot, Iasarus, laving doubts, poked tlie furctingrr of his right land down 1 through th- coins and found that there 4 only a layer or two of thein on . ntarlj a half bushel of beautiful, heavy c white, sand, which Is jntlrir nbumlnnt c this wsy. But. ttssugh uf I Elijah, and too tuucli. perita|ts you t will say, of this letter. i If you uiat (his ppistlr well, I will t si-iu scud you anotiuir from another i anciout villago of this county, whither | go from this. i Hastily, though lengthily, jours, | A. XoN*stoi>. , FosWHUTT. — U tritakspcure had Mis " Print* Iif Denmark" out of play Of "-JMUH," ho would have eomuu(ted a sin of omlssiou scarcely greater Uun 1 have committed in the foregoing, by braving -H* ths.namaof Josephus Mtnllam from among those of the eminent men and remark- : able "characters" of litis rcufarkabk . plsoe. ul* Dels Josey *• la !bc meat ex- , . trnaively known man in this count) ; indts-d, "uot to know himarguss lew's ' -elf unknown " Hsfsdeso-udsilfriffn a very "id and highly rtop,-clabic st-»--k. The ancestor of all sh» MiutUrn. in :u 1*»|- s ri-tl time before C'apTh- tojN IfaUtofttwihe birdf "

not too drop, cast anchor. When the I fog cleared away, he found himself , within sight of land— land to the right b or him; laud to the left of Mm, and , land ahead of him. lie waa In a soft , of frith, or forth, an estuary, or arm of f the ten. H" ordered tlie boots lowered, . went Ml shore, planted his standard, , a ml took formal |touemlon of the land, . tiiUteuaTneofhuaoverelgn,nb»knowtng , tliat Captain Terror* had discovered , tltis country from " the hay side," and . : settled It, some thousands of years be- „ I fore, captain Mudbun, liking the . I country . i rained lately conclndcd to , j pitch his trot In it, and the estuary iu r which his ship lay he christened Mudbun *s Inlet," by whldi name ^ 1 it has been known ever since. , An eloquent dispptant in a Wlscou- 1 , sin Debating Society, while the quea- 1 . tf>n~" Which was Ibe greater bene- [ factor ofhla rac-.Clirlstopber Columbus j ^ or Gcorgs AVashingtou T' was under I discussion, carried thr question fi>r , . Columbus by concluding hh argument " Ib-crushinz assertion, made In a very vehement and triumphant man- ' . tt-r, that " if it hadn't been' for Capj Uin Columbus, Mr. Washington would ' Iicvcr have been born !" and I may venture the remark that, tint for the , fortunate fog above referred to, this place might m-rer have been blessed r with the personal presence ofthatemin -nt and excellent gentleman, known 5 a- Uncle Josey Mmllam. '[ •' Uncle Josey" was horn in 4hls , 1 place at an early period In Its history and his own, and has resided here ever since, lie has a fine estate here, 1 atul iu the matter of happiness, the s | proverbial "clatn at high water" is I in a wretchedly melancholy creature | in comparison with " Uncle Josey." I . Again yours, Ac.. A. N. ,1 ' ' — „ Mark Twain tells a capital story.— .. Here is one ofhls best : , "One day when 1 and my brother ' went into the woods, he shot u chicken hawk and a "crow, and white we .'. were lolling in the shade und»r a tree ... lie pulled the talis out of tlie birds, and U then, fooling round and talkiug, lie , • Ji unity built the trow's tail into the iltickt iflmwk's transom. When we „ -nw what a neat Job It was wc thought, , . we would keep it. When we got home ,> we were late for su|iper, nud wo Just i dropped It on the porch and rushed In. iu ' We had n sort of rofttking hojic that 1_ ) the old matt and our undo would get 1 till With II anyway, because tbcy were ' always loitering over geology or na. „'l ! turn! hUtory. or something tbcy didn't know anything about. While we were ,,, I ut sup|ter tltey ntmr along and found tit- bird, nnd we lieard tin-lit tllscussing it and talking all sorts of astontslimeuL -Directly -the old man ctune. in he having the b'ml by the U g and says: »l " Boys, where did you gel Ibis "Khot bint in tlie woods, sir."

bird like this around Iwre Itefbre!"- i " No, sir. this is the first. " t " Bovt do yon know what you've , done? ' You've discovered something thai will make you known ovsry where ^ The bird is of a new species." j And thro he wnlked out. and we ( him and uncle conclude tliat c tbcy would label it with Ihrir own nanu s anil ecnd It to Professor ltagen- , itautn, nl Albony. Fretty soon, ( though, the old man took hold of the | tail and it pulled out, and we beard both of litem swear a little. When we came out the bird was lying on one side of the fence nnd tail on the olh- ' We did not dare to laugh, nor to •let on about hearing their talk, cither. 1 But about a month after this there 1 came along one of the rattiest sped- 1 mens of a boy you ever saw, and wanted to stop with us. He was an and tatters, and tired out with 1 running away from his master somewhere. HI- shirt was hanging at halfmaat through his trousera, and 1 two-thirds of tlie tell of It was a bine ' flannel that had been sewed on. ' White the poor devil was eating his dinner, uncle and the old man were , Studying up what they had brtter do with hint. And finally they said, "By George! thry didn't know what to do Willi him." Jtut then the boy rose ami Iwung libs colors Itf view, and Brother Bob says: "Father you might send Mm to Professor flagenbaum, at Albany." It was lite first the old man knew we had overheard the bird talk and so he w listed us bulb. He snys, " ill tram vou to play Jofas ou your obi fs4hcr." 'A Burin Itch. -An smusiug colloquy, says a western paper, coma off -reorotix at tbe-raupper table on board one of our MissUslppi boats, between a Boston exquisite, reeking wiib oil and catogn-, who was cursing tlte waiters, assuming very consequential airs, and a raw Jonathan seated by tide, dressed in h rairapon. Turnto his vulgar friend, the former pointed with hh Jeweled finger and said: " Uintah, aahY " f "I sec it Is," coolly replied Jonar "BqlUh, sab, 1 say! " fhrosly re - pasted the dandy. f -'PLkuujr Itr-rsrj good— a flrsl rate s article." "BoUali, I tell you!" thundered - the dgody, in stUl louder toues, point- . ing wlfti slow, rmmoviug flngere. and -rowling U,«. bis neighbor ra if he , would aimttiiUte bias. , •• Woti. m-h all Jmtsstem, what of . Ill' BOW rrttsd the d ora raster, gst- , totg his dander up In Inro " Ysr . didn't think I t-ufc it hr lardf " The leading pbytici'— in" Parte have croc to the ctmulumlon that one • of the brat prey-ntivra of oU^ra l»j • qumev of tida, un Im'mTOte «m»omp- 1 *

;■ .-rir — J Nuffs kswtssg'm* saaama Bsvve" t assiassaksn.Rtib'tefatifas f nsaMvUs^skftearewK cues ths IsvsS sf log ste ■■ nsskrosvitsusisasBWav. 5 Vstosstaol-rvffssrS as moss. I Tasrs test lonsz sassa. Oava -s»', , Wart. wSsss Basis ffscvrs JS4. Haly fssss pats sad tiM, IksSswy Wrff. S* uuviB. ksti, »,re,«fassM-wn-fis". v , I/pas' 4s*T frsZTssss-sjas > ; ssiassss: *s4 Iks (ratteMsfavs (Ufa ousters" '^^f* *| Com* tha IsvsS sf teas HOr The Gsthsror." > -"Sffffse t'r" rmsstHisHtilB Bank notes -the song of a cashier j Query. Does a milter ever grind . his teeth? [ Dearer than life -hahfasafch tun. * Marrying a woman fiir hsr beauty, . Li, like eating a nightingale testes tiug- » ins. Wine drinking and afar smoking are had hablu. They Impair the ' mind and tend too waste of (las. " A secret has been admirably dafinstl T as "anything uratte ham to svery- ' body ih a whisper." Passion and pnfludlos sulfa more " decitioos than reason; imputes usually has tha start cfla«te. The politician who "took his position" 4- supposed to have carried Jt ^ away with htm. as bs haa not been ' heard from since. It la altogtahsr absurd to say that " titan is not perfect. " Who is there that Ins not met with a perfect strait - I ger; some who wurc perfect raacsls. end not a few who were perfect fool- f ^ Remember that seir-lntsssst is rarov w likely to warp your Jodgtamti than ^ all cireumstanere combined; therefor.' [# look well to your detywboo your interete is coueerued. 11C The Dentists of the United itiatos ,, have been holding a convention, for ^ the purpose, aa lite chairman mid, of devising some means where ibr tirey tan ^ p»7 together. " - A boy eight yeeire old, ia owe sf ■ ur „ , public echaol«, having fans loW that a reptile " Is an snimsl that erecpe." re bring asksd to name ana so axsimn." - a tion day. promptly and MfatphaoUy replied, "a hob)'." •m sub-criher who gnmiHet that his •s; morntiig paper is unoirralgT Oamii- ,|, rays "that is because thrre s SO Biucb t(pe (dew) on It." I little cir! wstiled to lav that -be A little girl wanted to

had a fan. but had forgotten what it called; so she described It ns *' a ' thing to brnsh the warm ail off you witb." * ' Getting drunk ottcc a week has been decided to he " habitual fhloxleati'm" in Cities go. What, then, asks s contemporary, I- getting drnpk every day? A doctor who has been trying to establish a practice oul Weal say- It is detestably healthy there Ibat they had to murder a man in order to start A young lady frilly accustomed to drinking cider, recently joined the Order of Good Templar*. She now rats appira and gets her "teller" to squeeze her, which she thinks ta s good substitute for herfovorite beverage. I " Why do you not admire ray daugV I ter?" raid a proud motbat toa graik- , mau. "Bocause," hoispfad, "lam . no judge of pain Uafa," "But surely" . replied the lady, not the teas* dlsconI eerted by this rude re&faloo, "you , never saw an angel that was not yunt- . ed." ,l ... 1 «t> t- " i " Betsy, my dear," said Mr. Wolfe*, ■ giving his wife a pair ef unrafatio'i- > shies, "have the goodoras to raetid these trowtHI; it will be ss good at . going to the play to-night." Mr*, a took far needle, hut oaalni ting she eoulft not rae the point, remarked: » "iiow »!" "Why. my dear, you will era the ' wonderful ravrh in tfa.paat ooiine." ' Mrs. Stubb. flnbthed the Job ffo l I handed bock the nsmeoUonaMra, tol l - Stubb# — . A ... _ - " That* darned good." ; ArrRornuTM Awmw. — Nome u time ago an affectionate srifc doporti-1 I this life sud fbr the benefit of tear buVhand «h- remained In thte "vuteof t tear.," she crdert-J piaosd opto her j tombtiooe the followtag rarer: - Wrep sol SB, » faoresi Srev, I bs sat S—Lffst tt»«vB< t»l 1 lionate husband. beUcvlng tl IffS g »"i . for nun to live alone, took nolo himself another spouse and trader the Arte verse ]dagnd the following explanatory T \iocx: .TJ. " ~isr,'sisasr to iMssatMB-scsfasrsvAiffss, rs> Itiul cssa* ttssgsfaMto* •J Oitmrt '■ton, af WRfarag. sa). id in thar stay and ti^^Kfa ■?"*">>