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\ thy Vole! _ no more, line, the cab . then is o'ers— mute for evermore !

This drt the eVsr that beanie on high,

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HASZAttD'S GA.ZE'l"l‘l:3, DECEMBER 6.

A Dust. IN Texas-—SoU't'ltInN ClllVAl.- itir.—Wm. Autrey, known as “Dock Autrey," and William Carson, fought a duel eight miles below Seguin, last Satur- day.—They used double barrel shot guns and six shooters, and commenced at a hundred and twenty paces apart, and con-

ople will have them, though they spoil a lloeng good one to make it short one. There wasamost beautiful young lady in New Orleans some years ago, as there always

_has been, and still are many such. She !was it Creole, that is to say, borti in ‘this ‘country of parents ft-om Europe. A gentle-

-Q‘. tursemeiit

la the were beneath sin l- 1! the star sway should tlee. ‘ , Who wouldtheu the shadow see ! Where would l thy Ihsdow, be 1

Thou art the breath in which I breathe, In thy heart mine own I sheathe-

If thou livest, l live on 3 If tlioii guest I am gone- I too vanish cold and vrsn l

IISOELLAIEOUS. Our, friend C L——. of “ the Swamp.” tells a capital story of the witty and renowned Blossom, of Blossom’s Ho- tel, Canand:-.igua, at one time, while he ke t it—wheii he was alive the prince of osts and the delight of his guests— the first hotel of all the Western l0W)‘s. There was an old fellow, a good deal of abore, who used to frequent his hotise, ‘and occasionally worm himself into din- ner, where his conversation was not al- wa s timely, and not seldom obtrusive.

man who was building a splendid steamboat took it into his head to‘honor this beautiful young lady by connecting her namew itli his vessel: at.d he bestowed upon it in golden letters, the captivating designation of La Belle Creole. The vessel was beautiful, and the name was beautiful, and the lady was beautiful; but all the beauty on earth could not save the ntime from catastrophe to which .all losg titles are subjected. At first they called her the beIl—not the French belle, which si nifies line or heau!iful—i)ut the plain Eng sh bell, deﬁned in Scripture to be a tinkling cymbal. This was bad enough, but worse was coming It so hap- ensthat the vernacular pronunciation of creole in the Kentucky waters is cre-owl so they began up there to call this beautiful boat the Creowl. But things did not stop here. It was too extrtivagent to employ two sylltiblu when one would answer as well and be so much more economicttl,so the first half oftlie name was dropped and the last retained; and thus La Belle Creole-

e day Blossom had received fromthe l)E.llu_lll‘tll _Ci-eole— soiled up and down ﬂew York some very large, ﬁne lobgrerg, the Mississippi all her.life by the nanie, ‘nd had sewed [hem up to one 9; two style, title, and description of'I‘iin Otvi..

friends sitting at his favored end of the table. obtrusionist. to lose all his teeth except a long eye- tooth, that stood sentinel at the corner of his cavernous month.

“What is them red things, Blossom?” he asked, ".Did you tie vcr see 3. lobster before’! They are the ﬁucst eating in the world. Try that leg !”

“ Here he gave him a huge claw, and told him to “ go to work upon that !”

He ptit one end of it in his motith,atid began to mtimble it over, without mak- ing any very great progress.

“How do you like it .1” said Blossom, who, with his friends, were ready to split their sides lziugliittg. (They had helped themselves to some other dish, and were waiting for their portion of the

Among them came in also our!

He had had the misfortur.e~ _ _ lthem; the last, and with which he conclu-

“ Lobsters,” replied the ltosi. |

Roars ol lnughter in the Senate followed this story, and on went Benton with two or three more, but we will repeat but'one of

tied his remarks.

“I do not pretend to impose a name upon this bantling: that is a pirvilege of pater- nity, or of sponsorship, and I standliti neither n liitioiisliip to this babe’ But 11

‘name ol'brcvit_v—ol' brevity and signifi- ac

iince—-lt tnu.~t have, and if the fathers and Ip0lI80lt>£tlr- not bestow it the people will, for n lots,-_v mime is alihort-ed and es- chewed in all countries. Rt-nienibt-r the fate ofJohu Bat-cbune, the canting hypo- crite il Uioinwc|l’s time, He had a very good sinine, John llarolioiit-; but the knave cotnposcd it long verse, like Scripture, to sanctity liiinself with it, and entitled bitu- i-clt' thus: ‘Praise God, ll.it-obonc, for if Christ had not died f.n- _t~.iu, you would be diimnod, Bat-ebonc.’ Now this was vi-ry

lobster.)

“Cau’t tell yet,” said the other. “How do you eat the cussed thing, niiy how '1"

“Oh, eat it right down,” said Blossom; “ never mind the bones !”

By this time the man, with his one sharp tooth, had succeeded in drilling ii hole through to the meat. Having es- tablished suction, as Blossom saw, he asked him again,

*‘ Well, how do you like it now '2”

*‘ Wal,” he replied, “it is pretty hard eatin’, but I kinder like the path on’! .”’

It didn’t need the roar that followed this to satisfy the victim that the pitli of the whole matter was that he had been badly “ sold."

0 not-res”: nlsvvltt.

Thomas H. Benton has a way of telling

I story that the wits of the day might be rottd of, if they could beg or borrow it. But it is Benton’s' own, and he needs no copyri ht to rotect him in his exclusive use o it eeding some of his recent stamp speeches intere creed with frequent piquant passages of nmor, we were re- minded of a sudden explosion of his maga- zine of ridicule, when, in the year the tussle John Tyler Bank Bill was introdu- cd into the United States Senate with the protracted title of" An act to provide for the better collection, safe keeping, and tie- ofthe public revenue, by means

‘ not-poretion, to be styled the Fiscal { Il® of the United States.” Iguantly on the title being read, Mr. Ben-

’? 5- “ I‘¢h|m°di

""1-leaveas,whst a name .' long as the got-allow. The people will never dead

'siinctiinonious, lint it was too loiig—too

tnucli ofa good tliiiig—nnd so the people .cut it till oil but the last two words. ll" gcalled the fellow ‘dainncd Barebone,’ and ,‘nothing else all his life after. So let this

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tinned advancing and ﬁring until within six or eight feet, when Ctirsoti was shot through with asix shooter ball, and died in about two hours. Autrey was not hurt, but some buck shot struck him upon the first lire, too much spent to do any injury, anda pistol shot passed through his vast and shirt, just missing the skin. Atitrey imme- diately lelt, and was pursued by the Sherilf of Guadaeoupe county and overtaken sixty miles below Seguin and brought back. \‘\'e learn that several others are implica- ted ns seconds.-—.dtt.ilt'n Stole Times, Ocl. ll.

Exraioitniruav Rsvr:r.s1'ion.—-An ex- tensive coinpatiy, having their head-quar- tei-s within it circtiit of I00 miles frotii this city, and who are engaged in large indus- trial speculations in the west of Scotland, had in their employment for ten past years a inanitger of one of the departments of their business, in whom they placed not a little confidence. This excellent servant, however, “sliuﬂled off his mortal coil," and as he was considerably respected, his inastera, with a degree, of liberulity and benevolence which was most exemplary, paid great attention to his remains, and were themselves at the expense of the funeral rites, which were conducted in it tnost respectnlile intiiiner. The deceased litid a salary of £130 ii year, and lived in a plain, comfortable style. It so happens, however, that out of this annual income he has contrived to amass and leave to his rcprescntiitivcs the insignificant sum of £'.’0,tltl0! \\'e Ulld(3l":‘.l!.lllll the company have seen lit to arra-st the money, petul- ing certain procecdings.—GIusgoic Daily Press.

ECt)l\'0ltlY ix Till-‘. US!-2 or Scitivrviti-:.— 'l‘|ic Ullcil Observer says} the folloiving I iiit-ssnge was liniided iii to the loctil tole- ‘grapliollict-:—“ Third Epistle of John, l3.l»l.” So brief :1 despntch was trans- mitted ii! the lowest charge, and yet it (‘0fl'I])l'(‘llt'Il(lC(l this nicss.'ig'e.——"l had many tliiiigs, but I will not with pen and ink write unto thee. lliit ltrnst l Sllﬂll ,Sllt|l‘lly see then, and we shall see then litlltl we shall spozik face to face. Uur

‘corpoi-osity beware, it may get its:-It’ tlum-{Irieiids S:.l.llllL‘ lllt‘.(.‘. tlrcct the friends ncd before it is done with us, and Tyler too. 5 by H1llll'~'- ’ -———-o l .,.tz~:‘-..-‘—.~.,‘.’:..‘.‘.‘;.t':;'.t':..“;:I;!,.::;:'°‘;r::t.°:;::::.'::P <v~m»=~.—'nw mm- ltﬂllae in this city. He has lH't‘ll niakiiig it tour I lmntill l l"l°50l’l”C‘ll Jilllrlml Slal"-“ ‘hill at the Westerti States. with his scieiitiﬁc associ.1- |llt‘\V'1l|)plCs ol (‘.\'ll‘1tOl‘(lll|tlI‘y c.\:ct-llciice, lee,ln investigate the I'(’lIl9tllill pit-'.ltictioii.~. mﬁlizive lict-ii (llS(‘0\'(‘l‘(?ll in the Criuiezi, ;:°.“..::.":.::.."...'."::’.. .'.:‘.'?;f;Ia"';....‘.‘..':.:::’.":;;.11: ‘cw will doubt ﬁnd their way leading citizens oftlie West and are l'P_ltvll‘.t'tl it‘: hllrﬁlw and ."‘mo“Ca' Pu”.aS speaks .of ‘M, may hue ,,,,,,,,.,, . ,,,,,,,,., ,_.s,,,,,,,,, of ,l.,,. one called l.in:ip Aliiiti, ivliicli keeps till trait who has perhaps done more for the Ycllt’. of July, and only iicquires its Cxccllotict‘. "mun ill! than fin)’ other -‘mt"i°*"'--9 '73’ before the new,yczir. Waggon loads tire

Journal, Cincinnati, 0.

'l‘i~:ititiai.r. CON]-LAGRATION AT S\'RACl?sl'. ——On Sunday morning, Syracuse was vi- sited with a terrible conﬂagration. In three hours twelve acres were burned over, and about one hundred btiildings consumed. We have the following par- ticulars:

“The ﬁre ori innted in the brick of a hotel, which he not been occupied for two or three years.

The water at the Reservoir was turned off, and the hydrants rendered useless. A strong west wind was blowing at the time, and the citizens were compelled to stand and see their propert consumed. The entire loss cannot tell s on of a mil- lion dollars. Over one hundred families have been rendered homeless. It was the work of an incendiary.

Townsend, the noted mail robber, has a sin broken out of Newcastle, Pa., Jail.

_I_‘b-,r_ supra; tligo‘iirg.l:‘a_-1

, ‘I ‘ﬁll Q,‘ » long. It l‘i“£VO " ‘ vJIN_.0Ih0 two _... - ',.,antttiuou

e cut his irons and broke a passage through the ﬂoor of the cell,and is now at liberty. This is his third successful ce- .°‘P°' ‘

sctit to Moscow, and even to St. Peters- btirgh. There is also an atitiiniii apple thought to be far the best ever tasted in tiny cotiiitry, A larger cobiiiit than licretolore known is also recorded. Tiventy-foiir varieties ofgrapes tire cul- tivated, either for wine or for table. Notie ofthciii appear to be of importance.

Tits use or SALT IN Foon.—Dr. Cham- bers, of London, in his recently published work on Digestion and its Dertingements, says of common salt in food:—

“ The etnployment of salt in the average healthy state, is decidedly benelicial to the

umnn species, and the use of it is an ac- cessory eliment is wise in those who are well supplied with other food.

'l‘he physiological actions of salt indeed lead us to expect that it must be hurtful in some cases. Where waste is already ex- cessivo, or under circumstances where the diet is insuﬁcient, the advantage of salt is e. matter of serious doubt. VVhere food is deﬂicietit in quantity or quality, it is evi- dently lmpl'0p(:l' that any excess of salt should be used beyond that which is just sufficient to act as a complementary sli-

ment: all beyond this increases the waste.

Encouragement should be given to smp|oy instead, other spicy ﬂavoring? Ihich have not this tendency, or-which have even |, contrary tendency. ' . It is to be remarked tli'etNte_ option of the use of salt so an ace ry _ d isliy no means the same as that of t ' .employ- ment of salted provisions. The etiufec- turing process so dries u snd’ha_ulsna uh. muscular fibre that without diligent eopk. ery it is insoluble in the gastric juice, and in point of fact is an insutlicient nutrlment, a state of things where it has been said salt is improper. When salted provisions must be used, the desidsratuni is a mode of cookery which would ‘render the albumen and the ﬁbrine again soluble.” ' '

JAPAN rnsowit oi-sit roit 'l‘iunnvc.—A French paper, devoted generally to mail matters, contains the following:

Our last accounts from the China, mention a highly interesting finch Emperor of Japan, being anxious to adjust various questions connected with the re- cent treaties he has concluﬁd with the several Governments of Europe and Ameri- ca, held on the 22nd ofJune, at Jeddo, the capital of his em ire, ti solemn assembly of the principal lor s and most inﬂuential per- sonages of his court. It was decideilt the meeting that two parts of the empire, those of,Nangaaiiki and Hekodadi, should be open to the vessels of all nations. There they might repair, renew their provisions, establish depots of coal, 8t.c. The other ports oftlie empire, moreover are to be e‘ - cessible to vessels in distrﬁs which may take refuge in them, but will have to put to sea the moment the danger is over. No foreigner is to be allowed to penetrate into the interior ofthe country without a special permission from the chief ofthe State. No decision had yet been cotiie to with regard to the coinnierciiil question.

'l‘lie right of ti-aﬁg with Japan is still exclusively maintained in favor of the Dutch and Chinese, who linve long possessed it on very onerous terms, having but one market open to them, that of Nangasaki. The new policy adopted by the Govern- ment of Japan will be productive of incul- cultible results. Hitherto no foreign ves- sel could enter the ports of the country to relit or renew its provisions. 'l‘ho lest de- cision of the Court of Jeddo accordingly Cochin China, the Empire of Assam, and all the other neiglibouring states follow the example of Japan, the intercourse between the cxtreuie East and the rest oftho world would be completely changed.

An unfortunate ltindlord, going round to collect rents, and sent his servant forward to prepare his tenants for the visit. On reaching the tirst house, and seeing his ser- vant taking a survey, appariintly in vain endeavouring to gitin admittance, he said, —“ \\'htit’s the matter, John?-—is the door bolted?” “I don't} know, master,” was the reply, “but the tenant evidently has.”

“ Mother you inusn’t whi me for run- ning away from school any more !” “why?” "Because my scliool-book says that tmls are the tnost industrious beings in the world; and aim I a lru-ant?‘ "Polly, box his etirs !"

Agentleman in an English town gave his man servant some whiskey, the other day, to mix with the whitening in cleaning the windows of the House. He was aur- prised that the man never dipped the cloth in the whiskey, and, accoating the delin- quent sharply as to what had become ofthe spirits, the following reply was nisde:— ‘ Ye see, yer honor, I drank it, but (suito ' ing the action to the word) I blow my breath on the glass, so’ it's a’ the same.’

A person pretending to have seen a ghost, was nked what the apparition said to him. ‘How should lknowl’ he. replied ; guagea !'

A oung lady when told to take exer- " ’

cise or her health, said she would ‘jump’.

your daughter to her superior, at t_w' to her equal, at thirty to enyﬂdy ,

will have her.

‘I am not skilled in dead lan-:9

at an offer and ‘run’ her own risk, '. Q---.

Tbe Spaniards say, ' At elghteelvllelily [$-

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