TWILIGHT THOUGHTS.

1 love tie Sammer’s twiticht hours, As fade tue shadowy byes of even,

When dew begins to wei the flowers, And early stars shine out of heaven

Far in the West I love to see

The rosy clouds wherg daylight lingers— Their tints could senrcely lévelier be

Ai pw uted by an angel's fingers

Thongh it is neither day nor night, Yet both are sweetly now combining, Awl blend theie dasky , seaftened linht, To beautify the day's declining

How like the Christian's dying hour, When-soul sustaining taith ia given When he from eartu enjoys the power

hv look, like Stephen, inte heaven.

The cord which binds to earth his soul Kuve knife of death will shortly sever;

Tien tree from tears and pain’s control, His spirit will be happy ever

, While sinks bia palse, his eves grow dim, And things of time, not worth his heeding At euch an hour, are nought to him, But, like the duy-beaus, are receding

As ebbea the tice of life away, His fuith each moment growing stronger, lic would not here protauct his stay,

A Horemir But Fienr—a Man Gorep To Deari.—Certain Spanish Journals have yep- ‘tured upon a surprising picee of philanthropy— surprising, beeanse they advocate the abolition of at national institution, the bull-fight. Yet so This brutal pastime has been disturbed by

RICHEST MAN IN AMERICA — SKETCH OF W. B. ASTOR. A recent writer for the press thus describes Wm. B. Astor :—- As the ordinary pesser by is traversing Prince] gre street, ke is not likely to be struck by the appear. 1b is.

ance of any of bis surroundings lisof athird rate character, and though quite re joceurrence. ‘The Fe rdad takes occasion to de- ae the houses are of # common stamp. Near) youpee tauromachy as an amusement “ unworthy Broadway, however, one mity notice a still brick | of a civilised nation, serving only to feed the fero- otfice, neatly built, yf e Ne de — ” on cious instinets of an ignorant mob. if I} expresses wae as Gakae coral _ amg int jits wonderment that the horrors which it now de- may be in a listle sign which reads as follows : | Pleres are not the results of every conflict, and ‘Entrance next door, office bours from 9 to 3." | asks whether it is moral, rational, or 4 hristian-

The next door to which we are thus referred is a like to authorise a spectacle which derives its in | plain three storey brick dwelling, with no name on terest from the most harrible tortures } inflicted

he door, and might be taken for the residence of | wpon defenceless animals, and contests in whied | some well to do old fashioned family Indeed, 7 the wretehes who ex pose their lives: for hire are | would be quite startled to léwrn that this is the hend: | on aon stantly maimed inthe disgraceful “ pastime. quarters of the greatest capitalist in America En The Reine professes to be as much shocked as the

the street door, we find ourselves in a surall | . 5 aed : a ; a a i) Verdad, but thinks the abolition ot the uational | It sees Do

j tine

\ tering vestibele neatly floored wilh checkered otleloth wane 3 ; aie l opening a door on our lefi, we are at once in a front | sport neither necessary Dor advisable, }

room, Well lighted, but destitute of any furniture, | occasion to deprive the people ofan amusement in

suve a counting-house desk anda few ‘chairs. At i which they take great delight, but it proposes that {this desk may be seen a young men using pen and) the Government shall allow bull-fights only on | ont books, aud evidently eu | Sunday!!! No foreigney ever gazes at a bull-

le bg ere all an Geht Without horrey aud disgust. The nation that tv of refusing soucitations - « ° a “ial : a i a

ofa charitable nature, and will attend to the gene; C4” find diversion in bloodsle d ip fit ouly tw ub } ral run of business; but if you have anything spe low in the shambles. Surrounding nations have leial he will paint you toa door opeuing into a rear | no need to be meek or gentle with such butchers, | office. This office is of moderate size, and of plain | Yet a Spaiwsh journal gravely preposes that the lfurnitare. On a table are a few books, aud on! exhibition of these butcheries shall be restricted | openings that one which appears most thumbed, you to the day which all other nations are wont te perceiye that itis a volume of maps of city prorert#, | keen holy. A few days ago a matador was gored

1 mk On a seMmes of ace | joving an easy berth.

}imquires, will de the du

The street itself | one of the horrible accidents which are of frequent | ~

To weep, aud grog, aad sutter longer.

Between two worlds, with half-plamd wings, Libs dattering spirit is suspeuced ;

An? things of

earth with heavenly things,

Like twilight's yingling hues, are blended.

/Jie aweet to die as Christians die, Resigned, rejeicing and victorions,

Wien not a choad obscures their sky, Aud all is tranquil, bright aud glorious

Be auch a dying triamph mine—

May holy prospects rise before me— While forms angelic aud divine,

ith beckoning fingers, hover o'er me.

THE DY{NG CHI

Mather, I'm tired

Let me repose |

—_—-

D.

,and F would fain be sleeping— tpon thy

nm meck ;

But premise me that th: a wilt leave oi weeping, Reeanse thy tears fall hot upon my cheek:

flere it is cold; the tempest ravech huadly ; Bat in my dreams all is so woidrots bright ;

J eee the angel ¢! When from my

tikiren smiling eladly, ‘ weary eyus | shut the light.

Mother, one steals behind we now ; and listen— Dost theu not hear the music's sweet accord ? See how his white wings beautifully glisten! Surely those Wings were given him by our Lord. Green, gold. and red are floating all around me ; They are the flowers she angels scattereth Shall ] have also wings while life has bouad me?) ficent library founded by his father, to which he Or, mother, are they given aloue in death !

Why dost thou clasp me as if I wero going? _ Why dost thou press thy cheek thas ento wine?! Prince-strect office, where, Suudays excepted, he

Ty cheek is hot, and stil thy tears are flowiig; | does a full day's work every day iu the week. | curred only last week, in this harbour (Hong- wi

il, dear méther, will be always thine! Do not sigh thus—it marreth my reposiag, And if thou weep, then [ must weep with thee!

O, Lam tired, my Lovk, wother, |

weary eyes are closing ; ook! the angel kissetl me.

- — = - ~ SQUARING WORDS.

In these days of perpetual polka and ceaseless |

small talk, a new drawing-room game is an acqui-

sition. In

spite of Wilkie’s picture, we are afraid that “ Blind Man's Buff” would now be reckoned |

hoydenish, and, for all its undoubted antiquity,

“ Hunt the Slipper” has becoune decidedly vulgar. | “ Proverbs” are excellent, but require considerable | histrionic talent to be thoroughly and suceessfilly | The mechanical games, from “* The |

carried out.

Royal Game of the Race” down to “ Spellicans,’

gre commen enough. Cards are voted * borish” |

and “ frumpish.”

Ergo, as we said betore, anew

draWing-reom game is an acqmesition

Doubtless those are the best drawing-reoin | games which stimulate the imagination and tax |

the knowledge of

ting the members of a merry party to the tortures | of a competitive examination, some of these jexr® de salon are better and more real tests of the ac-|

he players. Without submit-

quirements of an individual than 2 hundred delibe-

rate examinations. They require no special effort; | de nut admit of eramming: cribs are quite |

the:

wel! as juadmissable ; all is spentaneous,

a game consists of a

os fair, ar above-board,

these exeellent qualities. we recommend, as an! reeable itm to drawing-room games, that | ing Words.”

Fer a combination of all

The apparatus of this few seraps of writing paper and

a peneil for each player. RULES OF THE GAMF.

1. The game should be played with words of,

bree, four, five, or six letters; more than six will

too difficult.

‘The game may be

to which each player contributes, or for forfeits. | ‘Tf fora pool, & prize may be awardedto the play-|

2. The words should be chosen either by a person who remains independent of the game, or at random from a veeabulary.

3. played either for a small pool,

er who first squares the word, aud another to the second

The ‘operation of squaring a word may be best

shown

horizentaliy and

otherletters to cot also read in words both Lorizovtally and perpen- |

| To

dicularly.

Worps or Turker Lerrers.—Examples:

example.

ete the square, which will

square the words Cat, Dog, Tea, Pig, Kap: CAT DOG TEA PIG RAP APE ONE EAT ICE ALE TEA GET ATE GET PET

Words ot three letters are generally very easily |

squared, and should ouly be used for the purpose

ot teaching the game.

three letters.

The obvious

carefully and elegantly executed, aud, as a whole, ewbraciny the sundries of au enyrimous estate Seated by the desk, neur the window, you may behold a hirge stout built man,with coarse features, } stiff, romrh, sandy-colored buir, and a cast of coun 4 tenance ot a very ordinary , and even vulvar type, He is plainly, theagh neatly dressed, and ocuss a | somewhat cire-worn look, und appears to be fifty to sixty years of ave. You naturally feel a degree lof uwe on addressing him, since it is not often you | speak to 2 man worth twenty-five millious of dol- lars. Sueh,at least, was our experience at our first interview with William B. Asior. We were in want of a loan of $10,000, and so determined to go to headquarters. Having been introduce d ne afore | said, to the rear office, the enquiry was, * Well,sir, | what is your business!” “f wish # loun of ten I thousund dollars on real estate.”’ ‘ What is your | property worth?’ * Sixteen thousand.’ te Umph! | people generally come here and wane a little more ou property than it is worth. Leave your applica tion and it will be looked at.’ We did so. In the eourse Of the day, from our window, we noted a atall and somewhat uncouth form pacing in front and taking a survey of the premises, with no favor

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Prince-street office, tie clerk replied te our question | —“ Mr. Astor has concluded net to take that loan.’’ | Thus began and ended our dealings with the great } capitalist; and we got the loan somewhere else and | when it fell due we paid it. Mr. Astor oecupies one

ofa large row of dwellings (in Lafayette Place.) ‘which twenty-five years i the gity, though nuw they are distanced by the pa laces of the Fifth Avenue. Near by is the magni

{has added a fund nearly equal to the original en- | Here he spends a sinall part of his time, |

| dowment. the remainder being oceupied by bis duties in the

| Thus the whole routine of lite ef the richest man {in America is a walk to and from home of a half } mile, and close attention to business. The care of | Mr. Astor's estate is a vast burden. He has seve- | ral hundred tenements of all grades, from the $300 | cottage to the $300,000 store. To relieve himself of j}this vexatious duty he has commitied it for years } to an agent, who does the work well, and who, of course, wakes a fine thing of it. He collects rents, and makes quarterly retuens, and thus pays over a

sum which would be almost ineredible, aud which | yard, clapped his bands to warm them, and went | Government should labour,

we may roughly estimate at $300,000 per annum. This inan, of course,employs a small army of paint ers, carpenters, and other mechanic 8, 1iu order keep up repairs, and superintends the whole of the department. As a large part of Mr. Astor's pro perty consists of yacaut lots which are in continual demand, and which he wiil not sell, be is much j} employed with architects und master builders, and generally has gne or two lurge blocks in course of erection ata Ume. This isa very serious burden, jand we presume that were it not for the help de rived from his family it wonld soon crush him.

to

man, and bears his share of the load. some fifteen vears ago,a talented and elegant young

danghters, and also affords assistance. In addition to these labours, the attention to the collection of interest, in bonds, dividends, &c., is a heavy item, since in that little brick office (which is, of course, fire proof,) there are several millions of Government and State seeuritics. In orderto get a fair estimate of the immense iuceme rolling in upon this farnily, we begin by remarking that $3 perC€ay is considered very fair wage>—that the man wh. makes $5 daily throughout the year may be considered very forta nate—that $10 a day are attained by the few who are more favored and gifted, and whose proportion to the mass is about one in a hundred. with such an estimate, we may get a fuir view of | Mr. Astor’s wealth by comparing the ubove with the sum of $6000, which is said to be his daily in-

CGiood heavens! one exclaims, Crewsus might

cote.

die of envy at such a rival, and even Midas would |

confess himself outdone. Yet we add, let no man envy the man of gold. It is said that « certain per son once felicitated Mr. Astor on his wealth. Point

able result, since, on our second appearance at the }

ayo were the grandest in |

Howeveg, his son, John Jacob, is quite a business | i Lesides this, |

merchant (Franklin Delane,) marned one of the |

Starting |

to death by a bull in the ring. There were not a few amongst the spectators who, carried away by the excitement, applauded the bull, whilstthey, | perhaps, pitied his victim, whose name 1s Rod- jriguez. He was beifer known by his sobriquet ol El Pedite. He had just thrown his red mantle jover the bull’s eyes, and thus preserved a picador ‘from great danger. ‘The bull, howsver, coutrived | toshake off the incumbrance, rushed at Rodriguez, | threw him down, and tore open lus chest with his horns, He then tossed his victim in the air, and {rushed about wildly in search of another victim. | Rodriguez rose, strove to stanch his gaping wounds {whence the blood flowed copiously ; he staggered ja few steps and fell, never to rise again. The | picadors bore the corpse to an ambulance ; and de you think that the performances were stopped for jsuch a trifle!) No; the idea was not even enter- tained, the {Qmous toreador, El Gaz.tano, made his bow, and resumed the amusements on the ver) spot yet reeking with his colleague’s gore. He slew five buils in suecession, and miraculously es- caped being “butchered to make a Spanish boli- day.’ At the close he was loudly applauded. |The buli-fivht which was to have taken place the | following day has been suspended, as El Gazetano was too exliausted by his exertions on the prece- | ding day to renew them so seon, and no other toreador could be found. They have telegraphed all over Andalusia and the surrounding country to send up a supply of toreadors without delay.

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<< A Sartor SomNambutist. — The following istory of somnambulism on board the British ship | Sardimian, Captain J. Davis, vow at Macao, oc-

jkeng), and the particulars are supplied by the j captain bimself— Ou Friday last, at halfpast ten

p.in., [was in the cabin, when the watch came }aud reported to me a man on the main royalnast |head. I gave orders not to disturb him, then went fon deck, and found him working at the royalist lhead, with a warlin-spike round his neck. he

EF xanriner,

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Che

~~ Charlottetown, 9th June, 1862.

Tue ‘Islander’ still labours to propagate the delusion that the Bills passed last Session to con- firm the Award will really be sanctioned by the Queen—ihat they are regarded with especial fa- vour by the country, and that great “ privileges and advantages” will be conferred on the Ten autry by the operation of thoge Bills. The Colo- nial Secretary, who writes the nonsensical stufl which bears this interpretation, further says :—

“We rather feared that the ‘Examiner’ would have devoted its columns to dengthy articles in advocacy of the Proprietors’ Bill, and have coun- gelled the abandoument of the Award, in the hope that if the Government, by such a course, should discharge the consenting proprietors frou the ob ligation which their letter to the Duke of New castle imposed upon them, and simply obtain for the tenants a right to purchase, on payment ot fitteen years rent, be would not have much diffi- culty thereaiter 1m proving that the Award would have been much better, and that the abandonment of a measure which four-fifths of the Representa. lives of the people had declared should be con firmed, was an act of the Goyeruament whieh evi- denced their proprictory bearings, and rendered them worthy only of “ profound detestation throughout the length and breadth of the Jand.””

The Colonial Seeretary is not easily pleased. If we write anything that savours of an imputa- tion against the Proprietors, Mr. Pope rushes for- ward as their champion, and assails us violently. Then, again, he is afraid that we will favour all their claims and pretensions—(as set forth, for instanee, in Sir 8S. Cunard’s Bill)—and expresses satisfaction when he finds that he is mistaken. We are glad that he has got comfortably over his fright with regard to our support of the latter Bill; and as to the extent of our influence over the Government, which might induce them to pre- fer the Proprietors’ Bill to the Award, we are willing to admit that Mr. Pope’s remarks on that point are, to us, far more complimentary than truthful. Mr. Pope evidently coincides with us in opinion that the majority of his readers may be easily imposed upou when he can venture to offer them such literary garbage as the first paragraph in the leading article of the last * Islander’ con- tains.

The second paragraph in the same article is still more note-worthy. The official Editor assures us that the Government “are not at all afraid that the people generally will suspect them of labouring to promote proprietory interests.” We are certainly not aware of any other lateresis promoted by them during the time they have been in Office. We have frequently challenged their advocate topoiut out ove good measure they have completed, and he has not been able to accept our

; stayed there about a quarter of an hour after he | was first seen¢ then came down upon the royal

jout upon the port reval yardarm; knocked the rigging op, and made the sail fast; afterwards went to the reyalmast head, with half his bod; above the truck; then came down upon the royal ‘yard, and warmed his hands as before; went out

on the starbuard yard, knocked the rigging on, | He vexteame!} | : 7 jot the Leader of the Goverument, who is ene of

}and made the sail faust on that side. | down upon the topgallant yard, and performed the | same work as on the royal yard. He afterwards mast head, and game down into the main yard, and did the same thing. He next got into the listings of the min yard, aud stayed about ten midutes examining the sling and truss of the main i yard, then came on deck, whore he was seizel bj two men, but could not be awakened, drewing 2 | knife and exclaiming that they Were all his ene- inies. He afterwards walked into the forecastle jand into his berth, where he was woke up. He }said he dreamt he had been ding some sa lor work. At two ou Monday morning be again came out of his berth, and went up en the reyal yard,

loosed the yard aed gaskets of the sail, and then}

j loosed the topgallant sail, and came down to the inaintop; went up the mizen topmast stay, and loosed the mizen topgallant sacl and mizen reyal: came down the mizen topgailant stay into the maintop, and then upon the rail; ran along it, went up the rigging, and loosed the fore and fore topgallant sail; | to loose the jib: but returned to the deck, gathered j all the loose belayine-pins, went forward into the furecastle, and threw them inte his berth.

‘went on each side of the cross-trees, examined the |

then came down, and was gving |

He}

t may, however, be deseri- bed as follows: having written down the word. Oe te a you mist find |

Onee, however, we were |

ug to his pile of bonds, mips, &e., the capitalist chon wiped his. feut upon thie shank: and sent tebe replied: ** How would you lke tomunage ull these | \~ p~ suing,’ : matters for your board and clothes?’ The man dee | "8 bank, w ee woke up, and was quite sur- murred to the idea. “ Si continued the other, | prised at seeing the belaying-jius im his berth.— “it is all I get.” Hence philosophisiug on the true | China Mail, view of life, we have never envied Mr. Astor, and | : =

would not bear his burden for all the glory of his | For New Orvesns.—lt is estimated that wealth. }over 500 vessels will sail from the North for ‘the Southern ports by the first of June. There will be at least 200 clearances for cer- jgovs of ice. It is said that by last accounts ‘about 50 English and French vessels were hovering around these ports, waiting for the bluckade to be raised or modified.

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72>.

EXTRAORDINARY Discovery.—We extract the following from a letter of a London corres- | pondent :—

“This is the age of discoveries, and one of a startling nature has just bewn made in an English jcounty. The Rarl of ——~ married not long jage, and brought his bride home to one of the | old family mansions, which members of the Eng- | | lish aristucraey regard with au affection amount-| vide for the protection of the American eagle came

ing to veneration, The Jady, however, being | up in the House of Representatives of Minnesota, more continental in her tastes, after a short re-| on its third reading, Mr, Severance, the author of sidence in the apartments appropriated to her! the bill, arose in its defence, und, according to the

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i : ; | “Mr. Speaker, I have only to say that any man i gladly have complied with the réquest, but, upew | who will in any way injure or take the life of our national bird, is meay enough to carry rotten sar-

mag with X. After some trouble, we succeeded j times happens in antique buildings, were 80 aWk-| gines in the same pocket with musty fine ent to-

known. tie

fingered Jack,” and the name of the dwarf who in.

the fact by the aid of a well- ' ealled “Obi; or, Three-

attended the three giganiie wardersin Mr. Harri-

ee es * Lower gt London,” Thus then}! was summoned from London.

Wonrps or Foun Lerrens are more dificult. | that wing of the mansion. The ueble earl laugied |

cox oBd » OG

— Examples: To square Loe, Milk, Lamp, Town.

LOVE OBEY VETH EYOoT

still. Chair may

IDEA

L&ahw MEAP: WONT

KANT

Worps or Five Letvrers are more difficult only was the reom found, but a sight presented |

be sqnared with the help of | Rouse.

LKR LAMP

AREA

TOWN OBOE

, ae NETS

Haddo, Adieu, ldeas, and

With Six Lefrests the difficulty increases pre- ever, we may achieve the

7 IMpossiiality of —

gressively Here,

a

Squaring the Circle.

Lhe six words required to perform the feat may | suggest the following cognate reflect have the cirele to square, which

ime qaibility.

~. , mathewatical i tempted si im

3. That which

Dility would be. 4.

tent can accom of Glory. 6.

CIRCLE IC ARUS RAREST CREATE LUSTRE ESTEEM

y sibility * accom

| Sowetimes in squaring six letters we may have

‘ recours: to tWo, ur even more words, as in the

word Downe —

amen

DOMINO ONEDSY MERIPS ILDEDIY NATIVE OYSTER

-Here we have Oue day, and | did it, for lines.

/The sequence of Native and Oyster is ctitious enough; theagh very curious accidents of this

‘kind are wot uncommon in the game of SQUARING Worbs.— The Queen. ‘ F

Tur. Eprror.—tif an-Aditor omits anything, he

is lazy. Af he speaks of things as the If he glosses over, smoot rough points, he is bribed ee roper Lanes is up§t Gr the position of itor. If he "dass not furnish + queen r with jokes, he isa mull, If be does, We is a

. are mad, L their an

rattle-head, lack

are, people down the Tf he calls things by

y. If he condemns

the wrong, he is a good teow, but lacks disere-

tion. If he lets wrong and injuries go unmen- tioned, he jt a coward. If ie aphabls me by gratily spi

Soate's spile—is w of a te the. outs”’ If he indulges

+ be dyes to poole ee blackguard; if he dues pe ? 8 ae Gla ; | hia paper is dull and insipid, sie

respectable the

that

hind

tullowing ' outside the shop door tor sale, when

welf in it. pte

— ee oe ' A Neat TaweKk.—The Gironde Bordeaux states a ;

stopped to jook at him- d thus oveupied, with be

| Wardly distributed that by ne conceivable plan er} paeeo, and pass the same round on the ace ot | re-arrangement could the desired boudeir be fitted | syades at the commmnion table; or would empty Thereupon it became beeessary to inveke | the canteen of a rebel prisoner, and sit upon it professional assistance, and an eminent architect yyd whistle a confederate air through the key ( He examiued the | pole of Washington’s tomb.” fhouse narrowly, aud said there ecetmed to be | ‘The bill, vt course, passed unanimously. nothing for it bat te build, though, at the saine | Jilin time, he could not resist the impression that there) Cuiyesg Art ov Carcuine Fist.—Take must be another undiscovered room somewhere M! Coceulas Indieus, pulverize and mix with at the idea; the oldest servants, the retainers of | dough, then scatter it bro adcast over the ithe family were questioned, and declared that | ¥@te?, a8 you would sow secd = The fish will they had never even heard a rumour of its exist-| Seiz? it with avidity, and will instantly become lence, Still the architect retained his conviction, |8o complecely intoxicated that they will tarn 'The ear! at last consented to let tle walls be| belly up on the top of the water, by dozens, | bored, and, when au opening Lad been made, not | hundreds or thousands, as the case may be. d ; | All that you now have to do is to bave a boat itself which almost defeats description. The! . : ’ apartment was fitted up in the itoliens and most = ohn. ni tage ap " ne — luxuriona style of 150 years ago. A quantity of |” J = P 1 yee a _— <rnee lady*s apparel lay about the room, jewels were | ¥#Fs and presently they will be as lively seattered on the dressing table, aud, but for the | and healthy as ever. faded aspect everything wore, the chamber might er eee have been tenanted half an hour previously. On| A Cieyer Rascat.—The Portland ‘ Ad- approaching the bed the most curious sight of! vertiser’ of Monday teils of & man named all was seen, and this it is which affords the only George W. Whitten who made his escape a clue to the mystery. The couch held the skele-| few duys ago from the jail at Augusta, Me. ton, that of a mau, presenting evident traces of while awaiting his trial ~ by fastening io

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WESTERN ELoQuence.—-W hen the bill to pro- |

; s use, expressed a wish to have a boudvir in the | St. Paul ‘Pioneer,’ addressed the House as follows : | very wueb puzzled with a proper name containing | vicinity of her bedroom, The noble earl would The name was Coz, difficulty was to get a word of three letters begin-| examination, it was found that reows, as some-|

ions :—1}. We) is regarded as a| tradjtious of the seene faded away, but even the 2. A wan who at and failed. giserably. of an lmpossi- _—

“That whieh enly the Oumipo- 5. The physical expression mental éXpression of the same,

inijeeut cause is | tiou ia vue of the far western States, for enlist- to pay the value of| ment, was asked “ if he could sieep ou the point w » aud the} of the bayonet,” when he — replied by i his | saying, “ he could it, as often slept on

re, and svon afterwards | a pint of whiskey,and the kind used in L unpleasant ds that} would kill farther than any -irouu he ever

violence, and proving that, betore he expired in that position, he must have received some dread- ful injury. The secret connected with this tale of blood has been well kept, for not merely had all

existence of the room itself was forgotten.— Liverpool Journal.

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THe Meerscuaum Pree.—The Meerschaum is To pipes what the diamoud is to precious stones. No other material is so easily wrouglit inte beau- tiful forms, and nothing takes such glowing rich colors by use, While at the same time its porous- ness absorbs much of the essential oil, and thus rendeys the smoke less harmfull. Meerschaum, 1 as the name signifies, is sea-foam, or keil-kiil, to use the Tartar term for it. It is found in various parts of Asia Minor. The principal ingredi-nts are a silicia, magnesia, carbonic acid and water. It is found chiefiy in veins and lumps among ser- peeeer rocks, In its natural state it forms a ather like soap, and isused in washing linen by the Tartgrs, The Turks fabricate it in the same mayer as potter's clay is made; the pipe is then boiled in tallow or wax. The Germans have car- ried the meerschaum pipesto great uicety. Some varieties of superb dysign, mounted in precious metgls anid jewelled, have been valued as high as

$5,000,

An elderiy lady, who was handling a pair of ar- tificial plates in a deatisi’s office, aud admiring the fluebey with which the deutist described them, asked him,

“Can a body eat with these things?”

“My dear ma’am, mastication can be per- eee with a tucility scarvely excelled by Nature herself.”

“ Yea, I know; but ean a body eat with them?” still queried the old lady.

a el

vomasiaitaliiae ican The body ef a middiing-sized man contains a pound of phosphorous, which, if in a free state, and inflamed, would burn him up and everything around him.—L£ xchange. *Can’t be,” says the Hartford Times; “ we know lots of old bachelors aud antiquated maideus who haven't eyeu phosphoroys puough iu ’em to make a match,”

A young man who applied at a recruiting sta-

turnkey into one of the eclis, and then with -}akey which he had in bis possession, unlock- ing the door opening into the jailor’s office, and making his escape to thestreet. Sunday night he slept in a church in Manchester. Monday he stole a pair of booteand proceeded to Winthrop, and there stole an overcoat from the depot, and exchanged his boots for a pair of shoes. Tuesday he proceeded to Readfield, and that night entered a building used as a store and post office, hel ping himee]t to various artivles in the store, and robbing the post office of letters, stamps, and a small amount of money. Wednesday he was arrested by Sbleriff Uateh, who bad been on his track siuce his eseape,and was conveyed back to Augusta, It is quite evident that cs made the must of the time allowed him, while on this little expedition.

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A boy went into a baker's shop for a two-penny loaf, gud eouceiving it to be diminished in size, remarked to the baker that he did not believe it was weight. * Never mind that,” gaid the man of dough, “ you will have the jess to carry.” True,” replied the lad; and throwing the ajf&pence on the counter, left the shop. The baker called him, saying that he had not leit money enough. “ Never mind that,” said the bey, “ you will haye the less to count.”

ec A Gi QUAKER Toast.—" This is me and mine to thee and thine. 1 wish when thee and thine come to see mie and mine, that me and mine will treat thee and thine as thee aud thine have treated me and mine.” This is a new version pf the old compliment which rans somewhat in this wise: “ 1 wish thee and thy folks loved me and ny tolks as well us me and my folks love thee and thy folks. For sure, there never was folks ginee folks was folks, that ever loved folks half so jyeil as me and my folks Jove thee and thy folks.” UNANiMITY.—A Sevich parson, in his prayer, said ; “ Lord bless the grand council, the parliament, and grant that they may hang together.” A country fellow standing by replied ;

“ Yes sir, with all my heart, the sooner the potters 908 1 au sure it is the prayer of all good people,

“ But, friends,” said the parson, “TI don’t mean as that fellow does, but pray that they may all togetherin accord and concord.”

saw.”

« No iatier what cord,” replied the other, “sq

ear of Her Majesty's Colonial Minister, I would ask that uprigit, Honorable British statesman, whether he cousiders Her Majesty’s Government are geting justly towards that portion of Her Ma- jesty’s Loyal subjects who reside in this Island— who obey the laws and claim their protection—in abandoning them and their property to the domi- nation of a number of men, who either do wot! |

We are not at all surprised that the as they do, to advance Four members out of the

| challenge. | proprietory interests. | eight who censtitate the Government are, in their

own persons, proprietors and agents; and the | other four are well known sworn friends to the Proprietors, and will, ia all things, do the bidding

| the four Land Proprietors referred to, and whose name figures in the vow notorious Bill from his

right and wrong, and whose judginents are 80 perverted that they can see nothing but justice and equity,” in measures which Her Majesty's Government have declared to amount to plain un- disguished dishonesty - .. - The power soepeent Judges, Coroners aud Sheriffs, is in their hands, and does His Lordship believe that, — foiled in their attempts to enact unjust laws—smarting Wo- der the exposure—not of their dishonesty, but ef their want of power to take lands from the Proprt-

with resentment towards those who were to have been their victims, those men would hesitate to resort to any means, however dishonorable, to

Colony is likely to be conducted by them on those principles of Justice, on which alone the subjects of Her Majesty should be governed ?”

After giving this testimony as regards the rela- tions which existed between the Liberal Govern- ment aud the Proprietors in 1856, in what light are we to regard the statement now made by Mr.

‘ . . ie less as the emanation of a mind most lamentably

disordered ?

can only say that we are pleased to find that they

are disposed to negociation.”

etors and give them to the Tenants — and burning |

gain their ends, or that the Government of the |

Pope as to mutual assistance and co-operation, un-| by many keen eyes. “Tn reference to the Bill which the Proprietors have sent out,” says the Colonial Secretary, * we

Really that is a wonderful concession on the part of Mr. Pope's

ee a rf We still find it difficult to alter that belief. Yet, as | ty, if the theory we have tentioned veteolaae we are bound to state, not merely our | ed. The rebel Generals. \0o chrewdeet® cDowell ix comhe

expectations, but also what is expected | in so clumey a trap, and jf

own private by those who ought to be well informed, and we | ing toward the ne valley, be vil it must, therefore, admit that the best informed per- | enemy gone and himself ta tray’ will de

We ean conceive of no mili . abandonment of the Shenandoah valles ney the heartless movement, whoever directed Wh wae 4 eapee hy oe the little foree of a mee ly cut up or captared, ; would left hundreds of Kenton ae and Gare mre hia rehed om the protection of the general Why to the tender mereies of the rebels. ‘net,

North, given heed.

lewy wlarwed the whole the rebels, and by sending abroad the snlort to

sons have of late been more uneasy on this subject i} than they have ever been before. Noone imagmes, | indeed, that the French Emperor wishes to see ltraly in the hands of Piedmont. So far from de- i siring a nnited Italy there is nothing he would s» \}ittle tolerate. The snapicion is that some com promise may have been perce upon between the Governments of Paris and Turin in virtue of which | Naples is to become practically Freneb, under the ‘rule probably of a Murat, while Rome is abandoned |

1. Victor Kinmanuel. We find this expectation a@- Wael ington a etill in danger, will a that quertionably gaining groundamong those who most | good effects of all our recent SUCt CeRes, ling the