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terrifying howls He rose upon his feet and Loock over our | Annie! I am the prettiest girl in the room-I have Little hut and exclaimed Lord our Heavenly father we will got a hole in my stocking! A logical conclusion." be eat up as shure as the Devil And Davies sead take down your head or by the Holy ste Kevin them tarnel varments will Scalp You just as shure as you live I dont Like this place that you and Barrenger has got me into oh if I could Onley see my wif once more befor I die oh my Lord And in an instant Barrenger mounted the hut And Exclaimed daveis follow me no suner Sead then don we

we went out in the morning we found five dead and Two wounded unable to follow the rest of the Wolves and wen

SOUTH CAROLINA has some smart boys. in Charleston writes to the Drawer, and says: "Charlie was not forthcoming at the breakfast hour. His parents, missing the little fellow at their social meal, inquired of the servants if he had been seen since the dressing-bell had been rung.

"Yes, Sir-yes, ma'am,' said Pete; 'he riz very early; and he told me if he was axed for to say that he musn't be expected to breakfast, 'cause he had a 'pointment to fight another boy!'"

A CALIFORNIAN writes:

The Chinese

both Leveled our rifles and Fired and two of the black cuses fell with Savage growls and while we ware ingaged in So doing Clark ware down in the hut a praying For his Lord to deliver him from His enemies says Barrenger you fool Your gun is more service to you then your Praying just now but still he cep on praying for mercy on a poor siner seventy Miles from home and Eighty miles from eny place And oh Lord what will i do to be saved from the "Some cute things occasionally happen here. Teeth of thes varments we remained In that position till Every Californian is aware that our State Governthe brake of day and then The tarnel warments disap-ment levies a direct monthly tax on all foreign peared from our site Among the hills in the forest and wen miners working in our gold mines, which gives employment to numerous collectors. we told Clark that tha ware Gon he shouted for joy that swarm throughout the mines in nearly all the canhis good Lord had cep Him through that pillowless nite ons and ravines of the State. They are notorious we prepared our breakfast and eat it and then started For for skulking into the mountains and chaparral while our camping ground which ware about Twelve miles fur- the collector is making his rounds. They can only ther in the forest we reached Our camping place about be taken by stratagem or surprise, so anxious are three o'clock that day And as it ware to Late to hunt eny they to shirk their taxes. Some three years since, that arter noon We built up a fire and prepared super and on one of the tributaries of Feather River, the Chisat About enjoying our selves and Barrenger proposed namen got wind of the near approach of the tax man That davies should sing a song to our merement And then (as they call him), and a stampede immediately enretire to our Bed and being fatigued and Wanting of sued. A shrewd (but untutored) digger Indian hapsleep we heard nothing that nite no Doupt it was owing pening to be on the ground, and being acquainted to our sleeping so sound Early next morning we aros and with some of the head Celestials, proposed to show clark prepared our breakfast and wen we had eat our them a cave where they could hide secure from the breakfast We sat off togather to hunt and wen we Ware search of the tax man, provided they would pay him ont of site of the camp Davies proposed that we should sep-five dollars. The offer was immediately accepted. erate now Barrenger sead Davies you go this way and Clark you go right up this this holler and about a quarter of a mile there is a small stream running Where deere often goes to drink and no doupt you will see some on em then we each Took our way and about ten minutes After we heard the sharp report of clark Rifle and davies noing that he ware a Stranger in the forest he made amediate Hast towards him and wen within about one hundred yards of him he stop seaing that He had shot a larg Buck the Ball went in one eye and out of the other which made him Unable to sea Clark droped his rifle and Being a very powerful man he sprang and Caught the Buck by his large antlers and Was about to plung his durk knife in his Throught wen the buck made a dash at him and threw him beneath his feet and clark Being spry and active he Recovered his feet Again and with a strong and determined hand still hung on his heavy antlers and in the strugle he Misfortunately Lost his knife and still he hung on For Life and death and in struglin around he recovered His knife again and triping him with a sudent Jurk he feach him to the ground and in a moment He Conquered his enemy and Davies stood with the Intention of going to his assistance if it ware required As Clark being a very strong and powerful man that no help ware neaded and we had No more truble after that we shot ten deer But always made shure pop we remained In the forest four days and then made our Way for home.

"I HAVE a little five-year old girl, who said something decidedly smart a short time ago; it is this: One evening I had been singing to her some snatches from negro songs for her amusement, among the rest I sang, from Bowery Girls:

wt danced with a girl with a hole in her stocking, With a hole in her stocking,

The prottiest girl in the room.'

-the next evening, as she was undressing for beat her call out to her older sister: Annie,

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The Indian showed them all into the cave, and received his five dollars. 'Now,' says the Indian, me go watch the tax man; when he gone me come tell you.' The shrewd rascal immediately came down, found the collector, and proposed, for the sum of five dollars, to show him where there were one hundred Chinamen safely coralled. The bargain was closed. The collector was shown to the mouth of the cave, and the Indian received his cash. The poor Chinamen found that they had been betrayed, and submitted with good grace to pay an exit fee of four dollars each, and receive their tax receipts for

one month."

A COUPLE of Long Island stories come to the Drawer from Lynn, Massachusetts:

Forty years ago there lived in the village of Sag Harbor an aged couple, who had a son, Sam. Sam was a trifle underwitted originally, and a good deal demented latterly, and had come to be a burden to his parents, The mother was very deaf, and when "Father" came into the house one morning early, and announced that the old cow was dead, she didn't hear correctly. "Dead!-poor Sam! Well, he's better off, I dare say!" "The old cow, mother! the old cow !"-in a louder tone. "Poor Sam! Well, we must be reconciled, father!" "Isay, mother [at the top of his voice], the old cow is dead!" "The old cow dead! Good Lord! what are we go ing to do?"

In the same town there lived an old farmer, known for twenty miles around by the title of Uncle Josh, who was noted for adding to all his important observations-" to all intents and purposes." He owned an old black horse, whose style it was to be very steady ordinarily, but on one occasion, when

about a mile from home, with Uncle Josh on his back, he took a notion to run away. Uncle Josh was terribly frightened, and as he went through the village Jehu-like, he was yelling all the way, "Gone, gone, gone! to all intents and purposes!" The villagers ran out of their houses to see what the uproar meant, and all heard the same exclamation, "Gone, gone, gone! to all intents and purposes!" At length the old horse arrived home, and stopping suddenly at the gate, sent his master over his head half a rod into the front yard. As Uncle Josh landed on his back he groaned out, loud enough to be heard by several neighbors, "Dead! dead! to all intents and purposes!"

"Is Natick, Massachusetts," says a new correspondent, "we have a witty and clever manufacturer, whose business often takes him into the country some twenty or thirty miles, and he always stops out there at Thompson's tavern to get his dinner. Now our Natick man, Copeland, is a great eater, and Thompson keeps a nice country tavern, and charges a quarter for dinner. But Copeland put away under his vest so many chickens and fixings that after a while Thompson got scared, and spoke to him about it. 'You see,' said he, when Copeland came to pay for his dinner, you see my regular charge is only a quarter; but you eat more than any two or three men I ever saw, and I think I must have about fifty cents from you to make it right.'

"Copeland took it quietly, paid the money, and said: Yes, I know I eat a good deal; but the fact is, I have to put myself on a low diet two or three days before I come here, where I have to eat your miserable stuff.'

"They were about square then, and Thompson never charged him but a quarter after that."

your Honor can not know judicially that the liquor was intoxicating. And on this ground I move that the indictment be quashed."

This seemed to the Judge to be unanswerable; the indictment was quashed, and Jonathan was turned loose, to his great joy. The Court having been adjourned, he approached his counsel:

"Look hyar, Colonel, you're the smartest man in Ameriky!"

"I don't know about that, Jonathan. How do you make it out ?"

"Yes, you are, Colonel. I've traveled all the way from the Alabam, and here's the fust place I've seed where it's 'sputed that a pint isn't less nor a quart. Darn me, I wouldn't a thort you could make the Judge b'leve it warn't. And look hyar, Colonel, what does toxicatin mean?"

"It means any thing that will make a person drunk."

"I thort so. Well, darn that fool of a Judge, if he'd only take a pint of my red-eye he'd find out if 'twas toxicatin. I ain't mean enough to put so much water in my licker that a feller can't get drunk on't!"

JOSEPH MILLER mentions an Irishman who enlisted in the Seventy-Fifth Regiment so as to be near his brother, who was in the Seventy-Fourth.

BROWN was speaking of Joe H to a friend one day, and said of him, "Joe is a first-rate fellow, but it must be confessed he has his failings. I am sorry it is so, but I can not tell a lie for any, man. I love Joe, but I love truth more."

"My dear Brown," said Joe, who overheard the remark, "I never thought you would prefer a perfect stranger to an old acquaintance."

TAKING up a new dictionary the other day, we were amused at the disposition made of a word very easily defined: "LOVER, see LUNATIC."

Ax old correspondent from Texas sends us another specimen of legal proceedings in that State : A couple of years ago, he says, I attended the Fall term of the District Court in one of the extreme frontier counties in this State. After the Court had As long ago as when King Solomon lived, or Dabeen organized, and some civil suits disposed of, the vid, we forget which, there were men who darkened Criminal Docket was taken up. The first case was counsel by words without knowledge. And ever that of "The State of Texas versus Jonathan Bow- since there have been men who make a simple thing crs." The defendant was one of those backwoods- unintelligible by trying to define it. Like the Rev. men who always live on the frontier, no matter how Dr. Stratton, who was addressing a school, and said rapidly it may advance. He had set up a "grocery" he would give them a summary of the subject they without troubling the County Court for a license. had been studying. The teacher asked him to exNow the law makes it a penal offense to sell "in-plain the word summary to the children; whereupon toxicating liquors in quantities less than one quart" he said: "I will explain to you, my dear children, without a license. Jonathan was accordingly in- what is meant by summary-it is an abbreviated sydicted for selling one pint of intoxicating liquor," nopsis of any thing." against the peace and dignity of the State," and he employed Colonel N to defend him. The counsel moved to quash the indictment on the ground that "the Court did not judicially know that one pint was less than one quart." The Judge, after deep deliberation, was proceeding to sustain the motion, and quash the indictment, when he was interrupted by the District Attorney:

THE great Dr. Johnson, who made the dictionary, was great for great words. One day Boswell was saying that it was no easy matter to write a fable, and make every animal talk in character. Johnson challenged the truth of the remark, and said it was just as easy as to write any thing else. Boswell instanced the fable of the little fishes who saw birds

making them talk like little fishes, but if Dr. Johnson were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales!"

"If your Honor pleases, allow me to make a sug-fly over their heads, and said "the skill consisted in gestion. The 'Standard of Weights and Measures' is adopted by law; and therefore your Honor does know judicially that one pint is less than one quart." "That is so," decided the Judge, after due deliberation. "The indictment is good."

"Will your Honor hold one moment," said the defendant's counsel. The indictment is bad in another point. My client is charged with selling one pint of intoxicating liquor. Now, I submit,

NOAH WEESTER was a great dictionary-maker, and a fine specimen of his aptness in using hard words to expound easy ones has been often cited: "A BOIL," he says, "is a circumscribed subcutaneous inflammation, characterized by a pointed pustu

lar tumor, and suppurating with a central core; a drawing up his cane with a view to emphasize and perunctus."

SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH was an eminent lawyer and judge; but a man of gigantic mind, accustomed to deal with the greatest subjects, and incapable of reducing his visual focus. "If he had to write on pepper," said Sydney Smith, "he would say, 'Pepper may philosophically be described as a dusty and highly-pulverized seed of an Oriental fruit, an article rather of condiment than diet, which, dispersed lightly over the surface of food, with no other rule than the caprice of the consumer, communicates pleasure rather than affords nutrition, and by adding a tropical flavor to the gross and succulent viands of the north, approximates the different regions of the earth, explains the objects of commerce, and justifies the industry of man.""

give point to what he had to say, 'that is not the worst of it' [solemn shake of the head], 'that is not the worst of it!'

"Why, Brother A-,' said the others, crowding round and looking for some astounding developments, 'what else is there?'

"Why,' said Brother A-, bringing down his cane with a rap, 'he don't keep a good article-I've tried it!"

WE are indebted to a new contributor for a new and admirable anecdote of the great Daniel, which was related to him by the distinguished statesman himself:

Some twenty years ago, or thereabouts, Daniel Webster, who was an expert in the piscatory art, sauntered forth of a morning toward a creek, not far distant from his house, where he expected to find a boat, in which he intended to cross to the opposite bank, and from thence he was to set out with his

WHERE words are of doubtful meaning, some pains must be taken to set forth the different senses in which they may be employed. The Bishop of Ox-lines in quest of trout. As he reached the creek he ford ought to have sent a dictionary with his circular when he asked the church-wardens, "Does the conversation and the carriage of your minister become the gospel?" For one of the wardens replied, "I have not recently had any conversation with him, and he does not keep a carriage."

NOT very far from Central New Jersey lived two young lawyers, Archy Brown and Tom Hall. Both were fond of dropping in at Mr. Smith's of an evening and spending an hour or two with his only daughter, Mary. One evening when Brown and Miss Mary had discussed almost every topic, Brown suddenly, and with his sweetest tones, struck out as follows:

"Do you think, Mary, you could leave your father and mother, your pleasant home here, with all its ease and comforts, and go to the Far West with a young lawyer, who has but little besides his profession to depend upon, and with him find out a new home, which it should be your joint duty to beautify and make delightful like this?"

Dropping her head softly on his shoulder, she answered, "I think I could, Archy."

"Well," said he, in a changed tone, and straightening himself up, "there's Tom Hall is going West, and wants to get a wife. I'll just mention it to him."

THIS is a good article: just try it. A Philadelphia brother writes to us, and says, in his friendly letter:

"As you seem not inclined to refuse a joke where the brethren are concerned, I have felt moved to communicate an occurrence which took place not long since in one of our Methodist churches in this city. "The question on the tapis, at a business meeting of some of the official members of the church, was to! find a suitable man to fill a vacancy in the Board of Trustees. A gentleman in business as a wholesale grocer was named by a member present as a very suitable man for the place; but his nomination was vehemently opposed by another brother, who was very zealous in the temperance cause, on the ground that in the way of his business he sold liquor. And appealing to Brother A-, one of the oldest membora present, who, from his solid and clerical look, was called the Bishop,' he said, 'What do you say, Brother A -P

Ah! maid Brother A-, looking very grave,

perceived that the boat was missing. While hesitating whether to stay where he was or to wade, he discovered an old man seated on the bank looking very disconsolate, and who questioned him as to the possible means of reaching the other side without a boat.

"Do as I do, old man," said Daniel.

"How is that?" queried the aged gentleman. "Take off your boots and wade; I am going to do so." And suiting the action to the word, he at once set about taking off his boots.

"But I can not wade," continued, in a doleful tone, the old man; "I am too old."

"Well, then, my boy!"-cheerily responded Mr. Webster-"Well, then, jump upon my back, and I will carry you over."

The old man's face brightened, and he at once assented to being carried a pic-a-back." When they arrived safely at the opposite bank, he said to his obliging friend,

"Well, when I get home, I shall have it to tell how a fine Boston gentleman carried me over a creek on his back. I declare I think it's good enough to tell to Daniel Webster himself." "Then tell it to me, my good man."

TO THE MADONNA DELLA SEDIA.
On! holy Mother, mild!
Calm Virgin, bending o'er thy sinless one---
The pure, the undefiled-
God's stainless Son!

Sweet Mary! pardon me

That, while in worship here I seem to pray
On lowly bended knee,

My thoughts will stray.

When gazing on thy child-
His golden hair, dark eyes, and lips apart
With infancy's glad smile-
Love fills my heart.

Not that he came to bless,

And guide our wandering souls from earth to heaven
And on this wilderness
Shine, light God-given!

Ah, Mother! do not frown,

Nor vail those eyes serene from my rapt sight!
But, pitying, look down
From thy pure height!

For, 'tis that in his eye,

His lips, white brow, and cheek press'd close to thee,
Round which the soft curls lie,
My babe I see!

JENNIE

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"OUR city," writes a patriotic correspondent, a specimen of his style we give the following. The "you must know, is a great place for Union people, first time we ever saw him was at a quarterly meetUnion speeches, Union flag-raising, etc. The boys ing in County. When we drove up he was are even more vociferous in cheering for the Union preaching on the subject of pride: "You don't know than their parents, and when the 'stars and stripes' how far pride will lead folks. Listen, and I'll tell are to be unfurled to the breeze, specimens of Young you. When I was a young man I traveled one of America may always be seen honoring the occasion the circuits contiguous to the sea-shore. The peowith their presence. Lately, at one of these gath-ple didn't wear fine silks and calicoes like they do erings, where, with the above described concourse, were assembled the stanch Union men of our city, one among the latter class was chosen to address the assembly. Accordingly, he arose upon the platform, and amidst the deep silence of the audience began, 'slowly, but surely,' as follows:

"Countrymen!-friends!-fellow-citizens!why are we here assembled this evening?'

"Scarcely had this question been put to the listening crowd when an impatient juvenile patriot, indignant at the very thought that the man selected to address the people should be ignorant of the reason why they had there assembled, answered, in a drawling, whining, but perfectly audible voice,

"To raise that flag, ye big fool ye!'

"This information was applauded by a general laugh; and I can assure you the orator asked no more such provoking questions during that address."

"WHO in Mississippi has not heard of the good, yet wonderfully eccentric Rev. Mr. L-? His preaching is unique, yet strangely simple and useful. As VOL XXIV.-No. 141.-DD*

now. No, they thought themselves very fine if they could get calico to wear on Sunday; but the people were just as vain in calico as some are now in silk. It is not the stuff we wear that makes the sin; 'tis the degree of homage we pay to it. In that circuit there was an old woman. Her wealth consisted in a spot of land, a churn, and a cow. But she got proud. Oh ho! Yes; and she thought she must have a calico frock to hear the young man in next Sunday. And so to get it she sold her cow and bought it. Ah ha! Bought a frock? Yes, and bless God, while she was making it she saw the churn, and she said to herself that she'd have no use for the churn without the cow; so she sold the churn, and with the money bought a bonnet. And, bless God, when I went to church next day who should come in, big as life, but Mrs. with the cow on her back and the churn on her head!'"

SENATOR TAPPAN, of Ohio, had an infinite amount of dry, terse humor that was wont to convulse the hearers with laughter. With a single remark he

sometimes annihilated his opponent. To make the effect more complete, it seemed to well up and flow out without an effort. He was engaged in a case at court, which was managed on the opposite side by two lawyers, one of whom was a young, vain, florid fledgeling, dressed as an exquisite, who always had his cane and pet dog with him. After Tappan had concluded his argument he sat down in a large armchair, rested his head on his hand, closed his eyes, and soon seemed asleep. Florid followed in his inflated style of speech. Growing warm as he progressed, and referring to Tappan's argument, his language was rather personal, and his gesticulation violent and pointed. Bringing down his arm, with

his finger extended, directly toward the sleeping giant, he vapored at him a moment, when the dog, attracted by the loud and seemingly angry words of his master, and seeing the extended finger directed to the Senator, rushed at him with furious barking. Tappan, without the movement of a muscle of his face, and without raising his head, waved his hand to both master and dog, and in his blandest manner said, "One at a time, gentlemen, if you please; one at a time!" The effect may easily be imagined. The whole house burst into laughter, in which bench and bar joined, and the labored effort of the young counsel was dead beyond the possibility of a resurrection.

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"You could not be in camp here long without knowing Duffy-every body knows him. He is the Drawer of our troop, and makes half the fun we have. One day some of his comrades were talking about the punishment of deserters.

"Any man that deserts will be shot,' said one. "Shot, will he?' said Duffy. Then, be-gorra, I'll never desart widout orders; an' then I won't be -hot, sure.""

"THE day that brought the last Harper to our house was a bright one, and although at that particular time there was another Richmond in the field.'

"Still 'dear old picturesque Harper'-as our little

girl calls it, since the cuts were added to the Drawer drew the crowd. But I was going to relate a conversation I overheard in the New York and Erie Railroad cars, where they have hanging berths for passengers. Two children, a boy and girl, evidently twins, were attentively examining the card in the sleeping car, which reads thus-No Berths Secured till Paid for.' The little girl did not understand the matter, and her brother explained it in this manner: 'Why, ye see, Fan, some folks are mean, and try to get along without pay, and the hooks that hold up the berths are so fixed that, if a man don't pay, as fast as he gets in he rolls out; but if he pays, then the berth is secured. Don't ye see?' "Fanny saw.""

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