The Cadiz Sentinel, 1864-11-16

Y. Ledgtr, on its being also the sign of taste will lu read with tatiMaction : The idea that custa is the measure of at attractiveness - tractiveness attractiveness iu dress is a very vulgar error. Simplicity of design, and a duo regard to the enngi-uities of color, are essential to ele elegance - gance elegance in the matter of costume. One might vd'or ftom the strong contrast of gorgeous hue which some ladies affect in their prome prome-na - na prome-na feature, that they had' learned the art of personal decoration in a herald's college, and held it to Iw one and the Mime thing w-.ih the art of of emblazing. Thetenden-. cy to the florid was never more conspicuous in dress of both sexes than it is now. All the prismatic tints not melting into har harmony, - mony, harmony, as the rainbow, but opposed to each other in distinct dabs, if we may bo use the expression not tuifrequently flare in the stieet toilet, of a modem belle. - Our bucks, tort, not to be behind hand in mairr.ificc nee, tincture their throats with g owing cravats, crimson and red being the favoi ite colors. All (his sort of thing is an outrage on good fast?. A paler young gen gen-t - t gen-t enian in a blood tinted neckcloth presents a suicidal api earanee wl ich is quite shock shocking; - ing; shocking; and a dumpy, h'gh couipleetionod damn a-rayed in purpe and si k, Wiih shawl and b-.mnet of many radiant dyes, is a burlesque on the laws of adoption which makes the judicious grieve. Assimilation, not contrast is the secret of true elegance iu dress. The several parts of the costume should be in tasteful harmony with each other, and the whole should be adapted to the styles of figure, the com plexiou and the fuature of wearer. , . . r Shade unperce'ved still softoning into shade . And all ao forming an harmonious whole. .A Model Farm. Wo know of a snug little farm of thirty thirty-four - four thirty-four acres of cuitivaicd land, and seventeen of rocky pasture, which yields a profit much larger th .n any one hi nd ei and fifty acres we know of. It upholds a snug little cot cottage - tage cottage of eight rooms, a large barn with mod modern - ern modern and useful improvemsnts. three acres of splendid orchard of all valuable fruits, half an awe of excellent garden ; an acre and a half more devoted to carrots, turnips and onions; the tunocs are all post and rail, bushes and weeds are in eternal exile, and the whole place is exceedingly fair to look upon, auu to live on. xins mania guu.iug rich by being thorough in everything, llis hen-house is perfect, and his firms lay, and no droppings are lost. His pig-sty is well supplied with muck, and the house slops run into it. After taking the first premium, he puts about six acres of corn into pork, which makes more manure ; his carrots and turnips .h5 puts into bot, which makes more manure. Munuro and thorough til lage are the grand secrets or all larunng in New England at least' 'Ihis man lives well no pork diet for him he eats turkeys. eatseg;, lamb, and the first of his fruits and herds. He dresses well, rides in a car riage, has a good pew in church, and sends 1 1 t , , t 1. .-...--.. i- , nisciiiiiiren ;o toe urst institution or learn learning. - ing. learning. His wife isen't worked to death, and lias a piano in his parlor. He pays about fifty dollars a year for help vi-ifcs his neiih neiih-bori - bori neiih-bori and knows how to fish. No rich Uncle ever left him any property ho began life by owning half of his farm, without any build buildings - ings buildings upon it, and five thousand dollars would not buy his real estate to-daj'. This farmer is 110 myth ; we know him, and more minute statistics might be given to show that fifty acres is enough enough unless a man desires to dig and scratch oyer large farm of half-tilled acres, and perhaps not. be any better off in the end than my friend, with a small farm. Country Gentleman. Suffering; In California. The Lowell (Mass.) Courier publishes the following extracts from a letter from a lady in California to her daughter, Sirs. Sullivan Iliehaidson, of Lowell: ; . SVCIt.AMENTO, Cal., Oct. 2. Business is exceedingly dull here. The drouth has cut off all business for farmers. There is an immense amount of emigration this season, and there must, of course, be a great deal or suffering among the emigrants before the crops come off another year. In a great many localities there has been no nothing - thing nothing at all raised this year, and the people are entirely dependent upon their farms for their daily bread. The people are actually' starving to death at Santa Barbara and St. Louis Obi?po, and in that region. One man who owned ten thousand cattle has lost all but sixty by starvation. They are making a great effort in San Fianeisco to aid the sufferers. They have ba 1 several public meetings, and ap appointed - pointed appointed committees to canvass the eity. The wealthy business men went around with drays to .houses begging clothing and pro provisions - visions provisions to send to the destitute; . They sent away about seven tuns. Th"y sent a com committee - mittee committee to learn the amount of suffering, and see that the articles were properly distribu distributed. - ted. distributed. ; It is not so bad all over' tho State,' but Southern Californiahass-uffered exceedingly. A treat fnan.v of the fxtners about here have not tail ed a single thing to eat this year. , A Mr. Hall dined with us yesterday. He lives eighteen miles away up on the Sac Sacramento - ramento Sacramento river. He said he had not raised fhe first eatable thing; TIeV had wheat enough on hand to last him til! another year, but everything else he has to buy at a high price. This will be. a hard winter for people destitute of mnnov. -'"' From the IOvansvillo, (Ind) Times. The Horror! of the lira ft Sepa Separation - ration Separation of Husband and Wile. Some affecting scenes in connection with tho draft tceur in our streets every day, but yesterday the parting between a hus husband - band husband and wife was the most affec ting and hetit-rending cxhiLition we have yet wit witnessed. - nessed. witnessed. She was a delicate woman, seem seemingly - ingly seemingly not long for this World, i nd as the thought ot parting from her htnband, per perhaps - haps perhaps never more to meet on earth,, flashed across her mind, she gave way tlie most de-pairing and agonizing bursts of grief, , And yet there were some in tho adjoining crowd, who were verv eloouent about the evils of slavery in icparating families, who stood by and laughed at the scene. Csuch creatures ire not human they arc worse than brutes even fiends whom it would bo a vile libel on the human race to call men. -- .As the poor heart broken womou hung with passionate and tearful agony to her husband, perhaps her sole support, we could. not help lecling in our inmost heart the wickedness of the policy that has rendered this thing necessary; Those who are weal wealthy, - thy, wealthy, enough to escape the burdens which this harsh and infamous law imposes upon the poor may laugh now, but they may see the day when tho laugh will come out of the other side of their mouths.. There is a God in Heaven, and his vengeance will not slum slumber - ber slumber forever. . . . , . "Bob, how is your1 sweetheart getting?" "Pretty well, I guess; she ay needn't cnU anymore.' , ; - ,' v j

look upon those unexplored . landscape which are cen only in the country beyond the tomb. Instead of that, I saw: Captain Grant levelling mV rifle : toward me,, while standing beside and behind hits, were the blacks, in every conceivable attitude of the nost intense suspense. - t ' : In a moment I comprehended all. . The huge serpent had struck a young buffalo cow between which and him I had unluckily placed myt-elf at the moiueat of firing upon the elephant. A most singular good fortune had attended nie,. however, for instead of Leing crushed into a tminiiletl niass with tho unlbitunatecow, my loft forearm had only been caught in between the buffalo's body and one fingle ibid of the constiietoi:. The bniblaid iu.-t in front of the thou'tler at the root ci' the .nock, and thus l.ad a soft bed of fle.-b. n.to which it wa jammed, as H were by the immense pre.st-ure. of (be serpent's biy-that was non-hie m ha:diiets.;.; t .Ail taw Grunt about to shoot, a, terror took poeMon of nie, for if he renamed I might possibly escape, alter the boa released tha folds from the dead cow. . But should ha fire and strike the reptile, it would in its convulsions, crush or drag nie to pieces., Even as the idea came to me Ibeheld Grant pause, lie appeared to Jully -comprehend all. , He coala see how I was situated, that I was still living, and 1 bat my delivery de- pended on the will cf the. constrictor. We could see every lino on each other's face, so close were wej and I would lmvehouted or spoken, or-even whispered at limi, had I dared, but the boa's head was within a few inches of mine, and the wink of an.:cyclid would perhaps settle my doom; so 1 stared like a dead man at Grant and the blacks. Presently the serpent began to- rolax his folds, aud after re-tightening them several times as the crushed buffalo oiuvered, he unwound ono fold entirely.' .Then he paused.- The next iron-liko band was the one that held me prisoner; and as I felt it little by little , unclasping', my heart stood still with hope and fear. Perhaps, upon be being - ing being freed, the benumed arm uncontrolled by my will might fall .",0111 the cushion-like bed in which it lay. . And such a mii-hap might biing the ware Ibid around my neek or chest, and then farewell to the sources of the Nile. '.Oh, how hardly, how desperate desperately, - ly, desperately, I struggled to command myself! I glanced at Grant and saw him handling Lis rifle anxiously. I glanced at (he ne negroes - groes negroes and saw them still gaiing as though petrified with astonishment. 1 glanced at the serpentTs loathsome head and faw its bright, deadly eyes watching lor the last sign of life in its prey. Now, then, the reptile loosened its fold upon my arm a hair's breadth, and now a little more, until half an inch of space sepa separated - rated separated my aim and its mottled skin. I could have whipped out my hand, but dared not take the risk. Atoms of time dragged themselves into ages, and a minute seemed eternity itself'l Tho second fold waf re removed - moved removed entirely, and the next ono was easing. Should I das-h away now, or wait' a more favorable movement? I decided upon the Inrmer; and, with lightning speed, I bound bounded - ed bounded awny toward Grant, the crack of whose piece I heard at the same instant. jMor the first time in my life. I was thorougwf over overcome; - come; overcome; and sinking down, -1 remained in a semi-ennsious stato for several minutes. . When I fully recovered, Grant and the overjoyed negroes held me up, and pointed out tho boa, who was still writhing in his death ngonies. I rhuddered as 1 looked upon the effects of his tremendous dying strength. Foryards around where he lay, grass, bnshes and saplings, and in fact every everything - thing everything except the more fully grown trees, were cut clean off, as though they had been trimmed with an immense ;sytlie.' .This monster, when measured, was fjt'ty-one feet two inches and a halt' in extreme length, while round tho thickest part of the body its girth was nearly three feet, thus proving, I believe, to be the largest serpent that was ever authentically heard of. From Tho Ohid Farmer, Nov. 5th. The Wool Trade. Onr exchanges in New York nnd Boston note a decided improvement in the. wool trade. In New York, tho manufacturers are feeling around, with the view of replen replenishing - ishing replenishing tbeir stocks, and the market conse consequently, - quently, consequently, says the J&xmomint, has been more active the past week, and prices are deci decidedly - dedly decidedly firmer.. The demand is chiefly from Eastern manufacturers, and Philadelphians, some of .whom are buying quite freely. The inquiry is principally , for Low and Medium Domestic 1'ieeccs, at $1 per ft., and the stock of tiese has become so much reduced, that holders now demand $1 05 to $1 .10 for Wool in good-condition, und many sellers are not, anxious to realize at the advance, in anticipation of still higher rates ere thocloi-e of tho season. Nearly, if not all, thestiay lots in the .hands of the outsiders nave been bought; so that what trade is now doing is from regular parties., The near approach of the election will no doubt'eurtail business to some extent, bural'tor the result is known, lively times are anticipated, As .nearly , all the speculators are beared ofl', business for the balance oi' the yeac will be with the reg regular - ular regular dealers, and a good trade and good pri prices, - ces, prices, as heretofore predicted, will ) e the; re re-sult.llcavy - sult.llcavy re-sult.llcavy ; woolen ; gooda are telling more freely, and the tone of the wool and woolen goods market is decidedly better. , .; In Boston, .says the Mvlletim there is much better feeling for domestio wool, and a much larger jmniber of buyers have made their appearenee than for tome weeks pre previous. - vious. previous. The sales i-how . a considerable in increase - crease increase in the volume f , lua.es8, bi t would have been much larger,, if holders were jeady to-sell at the current rates. The franhactions of ,tlQ week have been 360,000 fim. of fleoce aud pulled, at from 80c to $1, (4$ per lb. as to quality. , Included in the Ml ei were 120.000 lbs. New York and Wes Western - tern Western fleece at85o.,. principally ,New York, but there is little of this description, now offering under 90o; 130,000 lbs.,, principally good Ohio, at 92Jc;v 12,000 .lbs,,. Michigan at 8c; a lot of course and ordinary Ohio af 8-fcj 10,000, lbs. tine Ohio at 95c; o0,()00 lbs. various kinds, ranging from 80c for odds and ends up to 90c for good Western; 1,500 lbs. low pulled at 85c; 5,000 lbs, fine Pennsylva Pennsylvania - nia Pennsylvania at 1 02i; and 10,000 lbs. very choice New York, very light, fine and clean, at $1, 06, but the two last transactions are? no criterion of the market,- and may be put , down as fancy lots at very . extreme figuros. At the dosp prices are fiim nt from 85c, to 95c,. an advance of full 5 cents per lb. on the quotations of last week, and ne, consid consid-erabls.purehaFea, - erabls.purehaFea, consid-erabls.purehaFea, could be made without leading to another advance ot 5 to lOo per ib. on these figures,,, aa. most holders are very indiffer(ml;iiufi.s(!lling.andJook for .a more active, market and better nricea at, nn- tearjy' day,? unless, ili. theu meantime igold

uneu uiuue 10 lue women wno now taia. night after night, with heavy heart and busy fingers making or mending garments for the little ones (your children) while yon are di 'sipating with other idlers like your yourself, - self, yourself, the veiy means for which they stand in need. Y ou complain of hard times, scarci scarci-ty - ty scarci-ty of work, and want of money; ani your wife works herseif sick, to economize and reduce the household expenditures.- Why, you miserable grumbler (we we; about to say loafer,) you spend money enough foolishly every month of your life to clothe aud educate youf children, and leave a little sum to lay away against arainy day. Wife wants new dress. ,. "Can't afford it I" no. but you can afford to spend fifty wmte or a dollar every day for lager, segars, billiard or something worse! And then what abom abominable - inable abominable lies you will tell your wife; and she, innocent soul, believes every Word as gospel truth. When she at-kod you, in thatkindly manner: "Husband, must, you go dowa town to night? I get tired and lonely with without - out without you'V-howyou positively aver thut "important business" calls you away ajid then, as if feeling the enormity of the lib, you promise to return early a promise Which you always break, of course. Are' yet yet-aware - aware yet-aware that you are laying the foundation .of a miserable, poverty strickeu ' old age? If not, allow us to remind you of it. and we do so earnestly but in a spirit of kindness. l'ou are planting seeds of sorrow in, the heart of her you have sworn to cherish, and love that will bear early the. pale, blossoms of death. Don't do so any more. Spend your evenings at home. Pftvide yourself with books and papers, and while your wife is engaged with her domestic duties,,' read nlnud for Iter instruction, aud aninsement. Our word for it, you will see tho fresfi. tints of youth return to that : faded face. Tho happy never grow old. ; - ,-;;.,(... ,5 A Reverie. The "ere and yellow" leaf' has fallen, and the eold, piercing blasts of another winter is soon to moan round our homes, where, but a few months since,, the birds sang so sweetly to our listening ear, among the branches of tho trees, and Where the flowers opened their petals at the rising of the sun, shedding their scented fragrance in the balmy air. But where are the birds where are the flowers gone I The song stcrs who were wont to grtset ns have .gone to warmer climates, there to warble and chant their merry sones until spring, sum summer - mer summer and autumn shall again gladden our1 withered earth, and cheer our hearts as in day's past; but a few months intervene, and if they do not greet us in life, they will sing : . , t .. 4 n-i . it . ict.uieuts ii er our luneiy graves. Alio uow" ers, too, will bloom again, and we could have no greater wish when called from earth, than to have those emblems of beauty adorn, our last resting place. , " " , ' ' ' ' "Give me flowers wlwh t die. ' Plane thfin in my pale cold nahdj: ' I would have their gentle fragrance, . . Waft me to a better land,' All nature is; a study, and were man to appreciate its gifts more, there would be less anguish and less misery in our goodly land Enq,. . .-. . . . , An ExTiiAonriTN'Any Case. A soldier in Sherman's army, with throat cut from 'cat to ear, was thought to be mortally 'wound' ed by a council of surgeons; but the one un under - der under whose immediate care he was thought he was justified in making atl experiment for the good of others, at the same time having great hopes of saving the man. He first commenced his task by cutting through where the two lipper ribs meet the sternum, ami through this orifice for forty days he has been fed five gallons of milk per week,' and sometimes his appetite required five per diy. He is fat and hearty aha the surgeon thinks in two weeks he will have him able. . and the inside of his throat so nearly healed as to allow him to swallow by the natural passage. He at first introduced a stomach pump, and thus fed his patient, and after a -few hours would clear nis stomach in the same manner, thus producing artificial di-1 gestion, till it was no longer necessary..1. A' silver tube is now used to feedjilm. A singular case of sudden madness oc occurred - curred occurred the other day on the train between Albany and Springfield A well dressed Irish woman, while quietly seated in the cars, became a raving maniae and pelted the the-other - other the-other passengers with a gold watch, ncarlyv choked a small boy, and performed many other unpleasant pranks. . She was secured' with difficulty, and her pockets were found full of gold coin,; watches, jewelrjr and greenbacks. -,' ' I : ' '. ;..' .l'i-i A gallant gentleman of the old school in one of the Roxbury cars, tbe.dther day,' gave his seat up to a ladyi who, as, is ale .est , always the case under like circumstances, : fiiled. to make the proper acknowledgement. Standing awhile aftei1 the ear had moved on he stooped over; as if to listen, end - said ta her, "What did you say, Madam?" .!'Noth ing, sir," was .the reply of the startled lady. .. ' '. - ' ' i "Oh.,J said he, excuse me; I thought you said ihankee. IIe Wocxd "Cuss. "Paring the march of one of the divisions of the army from Vera Cruz to Jalapa, a teamster was heard to curse and swear severely at his mules. 4 The General,' who did not happen to be in uniform, rode up to him, nnd peremptorily ordered him-to stop the noise.'"' "And who' the devil lire you? "I am the Command Commander - er Commander of the division." "Well, then! command your division. . lam the commander oi these these-mules, - mules, these-mules, and I will boiler and, cuss at them, just as much as I please." . ' , ,f ; An o?d soldic f , more than ;100 Veara "cf age, has just die'd at Montmiral, France. He entered the army at the" beginning of ihe Revolution, and termlnrted his military career at Waterloo, ne jiever suffered from illness, and died at last from decay. ;' ' ' "WoNDliKFirt, things are done jtow-at-days,.' ...said .Mr. Triminins; "the doctor" has given Mr. Plae-k's bj y a new lip from hischeek." ' "Ah!" suid hifllady,''fmany'r the time I've known a pair taken from mine,-' and no very painful operation cither!" -; , , . A wiFKin San FiancUco lafely.put a pe- tition for divorce iu the court on the ground . that her husband was a "confounded fool. TliA tvmi-t wnnfitn'ft nritinlf hn -nlal,. fmft.HAI. almnttr-. pvaiu t,o tn-iiil ttianlvmil.l Via liiil,) tA; the same imifct itkro. Did yett ever. . At a printers' festival, the following sen! tiuitht was offered: " ' r . -.11).. -....':.;' Xf-.? jV.I t "I. , a ljiitvi b i, i,i!j itiov nicy uavu always plenty of s&alLoapi for tW beads of their " iiuleorit,iwtWiei'li.'-: - i .

the aarnerer lAiath to gather tlioni in aud cLxo tiD ihe world ioicver. As well miaht they ask to be placed beyond the range .of the tloia and thc launa ot the natural world as beyond the sight and hearing of. children the. blossoms, arid beauty of the human world.. k. . , A household without children is like a neglected garden with only last year's stalks therein,. looking grim and forbidding, ihe stately oak, which lifts its branches storm tried and old above tlie hills, never becomes so genteel or exclusive as to refuse a shelter beneath its outstretched arms to the tender sapling and the little forget-me-nots that peer out in (he sunny spots here and there prophetic of coining strength and perpet perpetual - ual perpetual beauty. Man- is affectional by nature, and, if not stunted in his moral growth, will something to foster and admire at almost every turn. If lie loves' not children .he must needs-love something else even him himself; - self; himself; and that, too', when the loveablo quali qualities - ties qualities in him are but imperfectly developed. Such persons should take up lodginpswith tho -"man in the moon," or seek for happi happiness - ness happiness in the frigid rones, where the sunshine is but a long twilight, anAwhcre flowers and the vernal beauty of Spring are scarcely known. Nature produces nothing fnll-groWn at the outset except mushroons and olher fungi and we must all set nut with infancy at ihe start, and trust to time for full devel development; - opment; development; Minerva, it is true, forms an ex ception to this principle, but then the stands solitary and alone in this respect it we ex except - cept except our first parents, who appear also to have had an uncommonly good physical out outfit - fit outfit to begin the world with, nnd, from what we read, must have been much more happy in their curly days than in (heir latter hie. The precise date of their expulsion fiom Eden is still a matter of some doubt, but that the prattle of children was heard there is unquestionable, and it was all the more a paradise. To be sore, Adam's first born did not turn out very well, and there have been Cains iii several lamilies since his day, but then bad children are Exceptional: the mle is quite the contrary, and they certainly ought not to be obnoxious to the most fasti fastidious - dious fastidious of boarders. 1 1' have never seen the person yet who could not look, with some relish upon the hearty pastime of children, and their cheerful presence ought to give us a keener relish for our meals aio. In olden time, children never dropped in into - to into unwelcome arms, nor were they looked upon as intruders by royalty itself. What delight the birth of Isnao bi ought to his parent,?; and they straightway expressed their joy ill the' unproved orthography of theirnan.es. And the gift of children lias not only produced orthographic changes, but has also changed the entire nature of many another man or woman. What joy, too, the birth of BucUel's son brought to Israel, albeit he had been seven times bless blessed - ed blessed "in that way by tsnder-cyed Leah not to mention Dan and Napthall, Gad and Asher. . ' But ah! what changes time produces! Two thousand years ago no man thought. of advertising bis dislike of childhood and in innocence. - nocence. innocence. Even at the beginning of the Christian eia it was said, "butler little chil children, - dren, children, and foibid them not, to come unto me; for of such is the kingdom of Heaven." :; - ' - M. I). B. . Political Clergymen. - The following is an extract from a speech delivered by C. G. Giccne, senior editor of the Boston Post, a short time since, before the McClellan Club of Ward Eleven, in Boston: ' 1 "Col. .Greene said he wished to address the Club but for a few minutes, upon a sin single - gle single topic, and proceeded to remark that one of the most uulbitunate leatures of tho pre present - sent present condition of political parties is the course adopted by many clergymen, those who abandoned their high calling as mis missionaries - sionaries missionaries of love, peace, forgiveness, to ad advocate - vocate advocate slaughter and gloat over the madness of human passion in its destruction of hu human - man human passion in its destruction of human lite: who encourage and aggravate cruelty and transgression to a degree appalling to the dullest sensibility. To behold such false guides enter to holy sanctuary as the disci disciples - ples disciples of tho blessed Saviour, who gave his lii'e to promote good will among men, and there invoke devastation and death upon the children of that Heavenly Pareut who creat created - ed created and cares for all, is to witness an insult offered to a benign Deity under the guise of homage an outrage upon common decency and propriety, meriting the rebuke of all who regard tho Holy Scriptures as tho laws of God. Such conduct teems offensive both to Heaven aud cai th ; it can afford satisfac satisfaction - tion satisfaction only to those dark spirits who rejoice in mans' misery and abasement. The daring sacrilege, too, of such expounders of the gospel of revenge must be revolting to any mind imbuded - with reverence, for pure Christianity, while their audacious profani profanity - ty profanity challenges the unger of the Great Mas Master, - ter, Master, whose name unworthy servants take in vain aud whoso attributes they strive to sink to tlie level of their own wicked deeds. Ordinary parochial duties are often disre disregarded, - garded, disregarded, words of inttiuction and consolation withheld affliction left without spiritual comfort, the dying without prayers, and I should not be surprised if even the ceremo ceremonies - nies ceremonies of the grave, were abrcviated that the officiating clergyman might answer an en engagement - gagement engagement to harangue a political caucus I Aud such sacerdotal orators stand up in i heir surplices and assume to pronounce the will of God as within their own knowledge, thus defaming the Great Creator aud Gov Governor - ernor Governor of the Universe by representing Him as having pleasure in the wiath of man in the deadly strife of. father against son, brother against brother, and in the violation of the very precepts Ho has given to ensure salvation.- Such is the office bf . political priestcraf t 1 Should it not stand condemn condemned - ed condemned before men and angels? ,; j !', ., .7 1 .' An Irishman, in describing America, said: "I am told that ye might roil England thru it, an' it wOu du tniake a dint in the ground; there's fresh watei; ;oceim imiuo that ye dround old Ireland in; an' as for Scotland, ye might Stick it in a corner, an' ye'd nivtr be able to find it out, except it might be by the mello whisky.

Can. '4?y cutting r. no'ch in a stick for each cay two notches tor fci nday. Col.-''After marking tiuia what comes next?" - ' ' Can. "March." Col. "What next after march?" Can"April." Col.' "How do you open ranks?" Can. "Fire a cannon ball into them." Col. "Who'are the highest military of officers?" - ficers?" officers?" - - Can. "Generals." " W hy are they called Generals?' ' Can. "Because they are nobody in par particular, - ticular, particular, " ...... Col. "What education have you had? What branches are you conversant with." Can. "Bscch branches nvn-tly, a-t I lived in Indiana during my ic'iool days.'-' ' Col. "Do you cou. idor your e'f capable to instruct and teach a (omp.-my of Ameri American - can American citizens of A I r'.can descen.?" Can. "I think, sir, I can teach the young idea how to shoot." Col. "What wou d be your prinoipal aim and end in Such instructions?" ' Can. "My principal aim wou'dbs at the rebels the end the end of the war." The examination ended here, and the Colonel's cupboard opened, and we took the oath together. 1 then took my hat and my leave. My commission has not arrived. Halcm ltrpvbh'ani. Ilea Hair the Fashion. The Paris correspondent of a London pa paper - per paper says that now red-haired Indies alone are admired in that city of fashion, and that all the ladies are coloring their hair to a doubt doubtful - ful doubtful "golden" hue. The writer remarks: I thiitkj may say a few words about this singular practice ot doing something, Jl pre sume, chemical to tho human hair which turns ceitain dear ladies of natural and var ied complexions into a cries of uniform blondes, appicaching what a Yorkshire man would call "a red haired lass." Poets and painters, we know, prefer this color. Shake Shakespeare, - speare, Shakespeare, Dante, Ta.-so and Goethe, and all the old Italian and Spanish painters, go in for reddish fair hair, AH the people oi the sunny South like (hat color by instinct. But until the present day, lovely women gen generally - erally generally contented themselves with the tint na nature - ture nature bestowed. We have all read about the period of patches and powder, and we have seen the hiir in drawings at different epochs of civilized hi.-toiy turned into every con conceivable - ceivable conceivable conceit, from the clasbiettilv beauti ful, when the ringlets were at the back of the uaad, to later days, when they hung 111 corkscrew luxuriance about the ears. At what period in tlie world's hi.-tory did a la lady - dy lady whose hair was naturally brown or black, deliberately go to the hair artist and request that roijjimr to turn if, inlo a light .red? That is what some ladies of Paris are now doing. It is the fashion. Yet more won wonderful - derful wonderful things still are done to make ladies beautiful. Masses of hair, ever augment augmenting - ing augmenting in size, are stuck where nature's hand handwork - work handwork ends. These bosses commenced with us modestly enough; they are now about the circumference of a soup plate. As much as one hundred flancs is paid for one of these hairy deceptions, which are generally impri imprisoned - soned imprisoned in network, occasionally studded with diamonds, and often half-circled with a broad golden comb. Do you think inven invention - tion invention ends here? Not a bit of it. The front hair is a curious nest 0! floral and other con conceits, - ceits, conceits, reminding us of an old poet's lines: llor hnir was rolled in many a curious fret, Much like a rich and curious coronet; Upon whose arches twenty cupids lay. - fi From the Detroit Free Frenn. A Nc;rro Runs Away with the Wife of a White Man. Several days since, a gentleman arrived in this city from Alliance, Ohio, in quest ot his wife and little girl about five vears of age, who, he thought, had e:opid with a colored man named Henry Sucke 6. - Sev Sev-of - of Sev-of our most experienced detectives were in informed - formed informed of the affair, and at once set about ferreting out the woman referiod to. Not Notwithstanding - withstanding Notwithstanding th fact that they worked dili diligently, - gently, diligently, they could not for a time discover the least clue to the whireaboits of the fu fugitives, - gitives, fugitives, and the uuhappy hu bai,d wasi bout to give up the chase in despair. So far as his wife was concerned, he cared but little, since the had left him to take up one cf a different color, and had cohabiled with the guilty iuvaderof his domestic happiness. His chief object was to secure tho bright eyed little girl. . The latter fact alone gava him additional strength and he resolved to push his search further. He called upon officer Port, of Windsor, who undertook to do the best he could. His efforts proved successful, and on Friday he found the woman and her dusky paramour at a negro boarding house at Windsor. The husband upon being inform informed - ed informed of the facts, accompanied the officer to tho house referred to, and there beheld his worse than guilty wife in rather mixed company.- She claimed his forgiveness, but of course was refused. The fi.thi r tock his child, but the mother's entreaties to take her home worked so hard upon his wound wounded - ed wounded feelngs, that he offered to take her home to her parents provided she would remain there." Ihis sne promised, and on Friday night they all ttui ted to Ohio together. Suckers, as toon a he learned of the suc successful - cessful successful pursuit of tho husband, made hastt to get out .-of the - way, which alone saved his life. The , outraged husband, had he got hold of him, would have shot him on the spot.: Suckers did not cure to risk . his worthless life in the encounter, and thus prevented the enactment of a tragedy. Tbb town of Perigueux a few days days ago received a painful elux-k. M.' Daussel, member of the Council General, was on the Doiht of getting his daughter married to a youiig gentleman of fortune. ; The latter, by some mitchanee, was stung in tho arm by a vonoinous insect. ills father, while rendering him assistance, was struck with upoxplexy and died. -The person who was charged to convey the melancholy intejligence to M. Daus.el execu'ed his mission so ab abruptly, - ruptly, abruptly, that the yoi ng lady, thiiik.ii g it was her intended husband who had died, was to affected that she expired in three days after from, the efieeta, of. the shock. Foreign A tKXS who sings in a choir, says ahe will marry a u.ull man, because shoit meter bins arc the ciwest to get alo. witb..

unusual to me; my' bcaiiiisr being ncne of the best; and I began to reflect seriously on our situation (I say on our situation, for my w.fc lay beside me, quite unconscicus of the fhrcatuing danger.) The gong continued to eound, so I determined to see how mutters stood -or at least feel my way to the door or window and .take a lookout. I stepped out of bed, and,' by George ! one of my feet found itself in water a foot deep! -' e are inundated!" I exclaimed, as 1 dashed about the room frantically;- and then began shaking my wife furiously to awaken her. ' 11 "What is the mutter?" asked my sleep sleeping - ing sleeping partner, laying hold of me in affright. "Is the house on fire, or what?" "We are drowning!" Icxclaimed. ,;I)on't you hearth gong? The tide has lisen, and Cooper's is floating off at this moment; we shall soon be out at sea, and there will be no help for us; ' ' ,' ' I hereupon seized my wife and began to make towards the door; and I must here remark that she is not a light load to cany; even for a strong man; which I am not. The waves seimcd to roar louder and louder; the gong sounded more terrified than ever, the house seemed to be loosened from its foun foundations; - dations; foundations; and rolled abont in harmony with the waters, while "carried away!;' was-the distant but increasing cry of the ' coolied waiter. ' , . "On horrors head horrors accumulate." Shakespeare says; you know, Hclt as though swimming was my only chance, and I resolved if 1 could get out, to do my best in that line, trusting to the buoyancy ot my wife to keen her afloat while I propelled. Ihe door was locked and I had forgot forgotten - ten forgotten where I had laid or hung the key. "Burst it open!" suggested my wife. "Just so," responded I. : And I receded a step or two to pet head way for a big kick at the door, which, in my opinion would have shattered it to atoms, when we stumbled backwards over our large traveling trunk, and then there we lay sprawling on the floor or rather I did. The sun was sbming bright in the room, and the gong Was soundiisg for breakfast. My wile stood over nie in her new nicht cap, smiling benignly on my prostrate con condition, - dition, condition, nnd quietly remarking: "You have made a horrible muss here old man upset the slop-pail, and knocked things about gen erally. Had bad dreams, 1 reckon. I told you it was not good to cat crabs for supper." Soldiers' Ingenuity. At the soldiers' lair, soon to conio off at Boston, thcie wi 1 be on exhibition and for sale a miniature steam engine, built of pick picked - ed picked up materials by two private soldiers, Westel E. llankins and Abram R. Evans, both belonging to the 44th New; York regi regiment, - ment, regiment, which was begun and finished since the arrival of the army before Petersburg. The engine, considering the materials and the means of making them, is a great piece of ingenuity. Its length is fourteen inches and its heighth twelve inches. The boiler is made from a common oil can; the furnace from a camp kettle; the smoke-stack from a tuble tray; the cylinder from a piece of mus musket - ket musket barrel from "the battle-field; the cylinder cover from a piece of sigmil telescope frame; the lining round the boiler from a snare drum hoop; the post connecting the cylinder with the bed plate from the rein rings from a sett of harness; two tri-cocks from a key to a door lock from a house at hpottsylva hpottsylva-nia; - nia; hpottsylva-nia; the steam chest is a piece ofdoor plate; the steam pipes a piece of scale Warn help ed out with a silver pencil caso, the steam whistle, which, when working, is loud and shrill, is composed of the mouthpiece to a buirle. part of a Soencer rifle cartridge, and a knob from the lip of a bayonet scabbard; tho safety valve is a piece of lightning rod from a mill at Kspi aliannock; tlie beam of the valve a part of a cavalry soldier's belt buckle; the weight a rebel grape shot; the piston rod and crank are made trom pieces of musket ramiod; the connecting rod is a piete of wire from a railroad lantern; the fly wheel is isjplo from a piece of mahogany table; the four spokes to tho wheel of a mus ket ramrod: the hub of the wheel, is a fuse plug of a rebel shell; the brace from a rail railroad - road railroad lantern; the valve rod is made from a piece ot wire from a parosol; tho Maltese. cross (the 5th corps badge) surmounting the frame, the -bed plate, stand plate, .shaft standards; cross heads, eccentrics and guides are all niado from pieces of brass picked tip from various places in Virginia; the packing boxes and screws were made front & United States medical instrument, destroyed. The machine rests upon a frame . niade from a piece of mahogony piano case, from a house near Petersburg, belonging to an officer in the rebel airoy: the logs are pieces of andi andirons - rons andirons from the same horse, and the brass knobs on the frames are from rebel cartridge boxes from the battle-field at the Weldon railroad. ' ' This nice piece of mechonisni, though so email, is in peifect running order, and woiks beautifully, and has power sufficient to run a sewing machine, It is named the general Uharles liriltin. A WEpciNG look" place at.She'rwood, Illi Illinois, - nois, Illinois, recently, the contracting .parties lxs lxs-ing - ing lxs-ing Mr. Joseph W. Crandall and Miss Hel Helen - en Helen B. Hurst. The ceremony was perform perform-ed - ed perform-ed in front of the officiating clergyman's residence, tho biidal parly being on horse horseback, - back, horseback, and the the bride and her three brides bridesmaids, - maids, bridesmaids, (Miss Fanny C. Hurst, Julia Shell Shell-enburg - enburg Shell-enburg and MissMary M. Thurber,) dressed and mounted en cavalier. The bride's cos costume - tume costume consisted of a deep blue cloth dress coat, deep blue cassimere punts, buff cassi cassi-mere - mere cassi-mere Vest, - black diess hat, choker collar, black Bertie,' rufled shirt bosom and buff kid gloves plain flat gilt buttons of the richest qnality-on the -coat and vest. The bridesmaids werS dressed precisely liko the bride, excepting only-that they wore plain shirt posoms and lavender colored gloves. Tho novelty of tho ceremony attracted a largo com. any of the neighbors. After the iwnmnnv was over, the bridal i artv rode to th& residences of jIr.t Crandall' s mother, where the jormai weaumg east took place, The bride and the bridesmaid wore their ri riding - ding riding suits during tba who'e day. . , ;

TI1E UEAIIT'8 LOXGIXGS. i A slender shaft of sunset gold Came glittering slantwise thro' my room; The heart was naked bleak and cold, i The walla seem tapestried with gloom. ! The clock upon the mantle-shelf : Ticked ever wearily and slowi ' . The hvart within my weary eU . Responded feebly, faint and low. ! u . r ; .' And flitting through, my idle brain ; Went visiona-of the vanished years ; Old memortfis of joy and iioin, And childhood with its smiles and tears. The hopes which came with boyhood's time The dreams of :yoth st i'uir nnd bright ( And lusty manhood's vigorous prime The athletic fitted tor the light. ; And musing on the Past, I, said r " Oh 1 heart what makes thee bcjit so low, . Are all Uiy hopes, long cheriihed, dead? What UBeleaa longing till thee iowP ' l-.l f ,r .. : ' ' I. !... ,.' ' " CMU give me back tho dreams oi youth, The friends who gathered round mo then j The early freshness and the truth yilch doubtc-d not my fcllow-menJ- And from within a 'voice rrpHcd : ' "OH ! give me back the smiles and tears '0T childhood, and from fur and wide - -Tlie flcattsred hopes of boyhood's years ! VT u m if . s. ' . .4 , s A "Where are the castles that I reared, . And where the lame I thought taiind ? , 1& j boy-wreaths,: once groeu leaves, are, ' i ) seared ' ' . i I By disappointment's frosty wind. "Where are the Bhips I sont to sea r. The golden spires J raised so high? ., Tte ships they ne'er come back to me ; , ; . The spires, they melted in the sky. ""Where is the wife I would possess ; . . The children climbing to her knoes . ,tTo share their mother-!, loud caress.? Ah! more than al4 I long for these 1" ' . ''Oh cease sad heart! your chambers all Are vacant lone and drear, i know ; Vet on each blank and naked wall . t Shall shine a sudden toinset glow. , .For lifo is never always dark; , No one by fate is so accurst i , ..But somewhere lurks a hidden spark That into Hume will sometimes burst. i A benevolent man was Absalom Bess; At each and every tale of distress , lie blazed right up like a rocket; He felt foraU beneath poverty's smart, Who wore fatod to bear life's roughest ,.; -. part , He felt for them in his inmost heart, i. But he never felt in his pocket. Se didn't know rightly what was meant By the Bible's promised four hundred per cent, For eharity's each donation; And as he acted as if he thought railroad ' stocks And bonds secure beneath earthly locks, Were bettor with pockets brimiull of rocks, . Than heavenly speculation. Yet all said he was an excellent man, Forthe poor he'd preach for the pour hod . ..' i plan ' To better them ho was willing; But tho oldest man who heard him pray, And preach for tiie poor in a pititul way, Could hardly remember him rightly to say Mr. Bess had o'er given a shilling. Oh an excellent man was Absalom Bess, And the world threw up its hands to bless A man so well intentionod ; But he died ono day, lio died and oh, He went where the par value was low Of duch souls, and you don't want to go A place that shan't bu mentioned. 'PROPOSAL. j ' BY B4VYAIID TAYLOR. .The i violet loves a sunny bank, (. ' ,., The cowslip loves tho lea. The scarlet creeper loves the elm ; , ;-5 .r. Bull love lliee. The sunshine kisses mount and valo, , , The stars they kiss the sea, The west winds kiss the clover bloom ; -i . But 1 kiss thee.. r ; The oriole weds his motlod mato, " ' ' ' ' The lily's feride o' tho bee ; Heaven's marriage ring is round the earth , .! .Shall I wed thoe? . Captain Spike's Advnlrc Willi a tloa Cuiibtrlctor. .' Atthe earliest possible moment after our camp had been pitotied, a hunt was set a a-bet - bet a-bet and Captain Grant, m.vbelf and some 'attendants wero soon making our Way . to 'the' path."' There were no animals there Vhen we arrived, except a tow hippopotami, and we were, therefore, obliged to.await the coming of soriio more palatable game. Our patience, 'however,' was severly taxed; and aftscr a JoTig, delay, wo were about to . ' "bag' ' a hippopotamus, when; one of our atten 'iaantb, perched in a tree about half a mile diBtant began waving his blaukct.v This was, a signal that ganio was approaching - Ve ' 'immediately drew int, cover-, and awaited the coming oi' the latter, , ''' We were hot; delayed long for' bre?cntly a column of anijualsj-fiom the elephant to the ,hoo-doo, appeared, in view, trotting at a good paco to the river, i Their flanks , were soon presented to w, and each selecting his object, fired. McColl shot a tine young Buf Buffalo - falo Buffalo cow, whilst Captain Grant was 'equally .successful with a hoo-doo, and several spears .ast by pur attendants, stopped the cateer of ene or two diQerent animals of the bord. , i At this juncture, however, occurred an 'Htiexpected adventure, that finished the sport for that day.' ' I had sprung forward, Immediately after firing, in order to obtain a fair Bhot at 'a bUgo elephant that I wanted tQ'bringc!own oh account of bis immense tueks. I got the desired aim, and pulled the trigger with niy second barrel. "At the mo mo-'merit - 'merit mo-'merit of my doing so a wild cr ot -olaim, uttered bj dne of the blacks, ca led my at at-'ientioii. - 'ientioii. at-'ientioii. Glancing round, wy eye chanced r to range p into the foliage of the1 tree be-i . ieath which Captajn Graut and ttiysell' had 4tfaio for several hours previous. ' " . "";; ; My fceliuas may, possibly be iuiagined 'as I behold an enormous boa constrictor, whosti liideoua head and neck proiocted eome dis dis-tance - tance dis-tance into view ( showing he was- about!'d mako'a fatal spriqg.' His direction was cer tainly'toward me: ahd as he flashed from his position like a thunder bolt, I ' gavo myself pf wr ere am couio nave reached me,! 4old ' alter fold gf the monster, would, have crush crushed - ed crushed mVBtrone frame iiito anuiveriniz nnln I foil, 'Beamingly caught in a whirlwind of dust) end etrange. jndesonbftbl 'struggle ensued. In the miast of this terriblestnle, I suddenly beoanie conscious of the presenca - of another victim-, tad eren after the time that has elasped rinee-then, I 'still recollect

High Tide at Long Beach. JBT SOL. FJllTn. ' Eoll, xoll! Dash, dash! What docs it all mean, the tide rising to such a hight! Such a thing was never heat d of before I . I was aware that in .winter time there were Mount that then' the waves lolled over the bluff banks here at. Loug Branch, and sometimes swept away fences, pig-peus and small houses, but that in. August such an event could occur seemed to unlikely that when tlie voice of the cOloied waiter at Cooper's cottage culled out "Get up all on yel the tide is canyitig us all away!" which proclamation he accompanied by. a severe pounding upon a Chinese gongi I euuld scaicely tredit the evidence of my scutes. Myrooui was in tl.esecord story of the cjt cjt-tage, - tage, cjt-tage, and I thought jf anybody was safe, I 'uiut be. Nevertheless, it must be confess confessed - ed confessed that my uneasiness was considerable as the gong tX,.waniiug cenliuucd to. sound in the distant corrider, and the waiter's voice per.'i.-ted in proclalliling that We should be earned way." ; ,; '' ' - It was as d'aik as Erelu?, niid I heard, or fancied I heard; a roaring 'of the waves very