Not Bad—ln the New York Inde
pendent we find the following from a
mother:
‘ But did I tell you what a time I had
with my little Joe ?”
“No; what was it?”
“Why I was showing him the picture
of the martyrs thrown to the lions, and
was talking very solemnly to him, try
ing to make him feel what a terrible
thing it was. “Ma,” said he all at once.
“Oh Ma just look at that poor little lion
way behind there, he wont get any.”
Preston King.—This able democra
tic politician is out in a long letter op
posingthe Nebraska project. He says:
“Should the bill pass Congress, it will
place ?»I. Douglas at the head of the par
ty interested to accomplish its object,
and the interests of free labor and slave
labor will be brought into collision upon
an issue to be decided at a Presidential
election. The free labor of the United
States will not, in my opinion, permit
African slavery tobe extended and mixed
up with it—to degrade or to drive out
the laboring white man from the now
unoccupied territory of the free West.”
JHr’A Frenchman is satisfied when
he gets enough to live on ; an American
never. A Frenchman must know exact
ly how much his income is, and he regu
lates his expenses accordingly, with
military precision ; an American’s hab
its are as elastic as his purse, without
other system than that of getting and
spending as much as possible.
three dollar gold coin, au
thorized by the last Congress, will be
issued as soon as the d.ss now in pro-*
gross arfe completed.
