WHEN the question of the enlistment of the negroes in the Northern army was first mooted, the following song made its appearance, and became very popular. It is supposed to be written by one Miles O'Reilly, a private soldier in the Army of the Potomac. Miles is altogether an imaginary personage, and is represented by his clever inventors as the typical Hibernian soldier of the war. The song is sung to the Irish air of the "Low-backed Car" :

"Some tell us 'tis a burning shame
To make the naygers fight,
And that the thrade of being kilt
Belongs but to the white;
But as for me, upon my sowl-
So liberal are we here-

:

I'll let Sambo be murther'd instead of myself
On every day in the year.

On every day in the year, boys,

And in every hour of the day,

The right to be killt I'll divide wid him,
And divil a word I'll say.

"In battle's wild commotion

I shouldn't at all object

If Sambo's body should stop a ball
That was coming for me direct.
And the prod of a Southern bagnet-
So generous are we here-

I'll resign, and let Sambo take it

On every day in the year.

So hear me, all boys, darlins,

Don't think I'm tippin' you chaff,

The right to be killt we'll divide wid him,
And give him the largest half."

PICKLED ELEPHANT.-584.

OLD ROWE kept a hotel in the northern part of York State, which he boasted was the best in those parts; where, as he used to say, you could get anything that was ever made to eat. One day in came a Yankee. He sent his horse round to the stable, and stepping up to the bar, asked old Rowe what he could give him for dinner. "Any

thing, Sir," said old Rowe; "anything from a pickled elephant to a canary-bird's tongue." "Wal," says the Yankee, eyeing Rowe, "I guess I'll take a piece of pickled elephant.' Out bustles Rowe into the dining-room, leaving our Yankee friend nonplussed at his gravity. Presently he comes back again. "Well, we've got 'em; got 'em all ready, right here in the house; but you'll have to take a whole 'un, 'cause we never cut 'em." The Yankee thought he would take some cod fish and potatoes.

SAME DRUNK.-585.

A GENTLEMAN, finding his servant intoxicated, said, "What, drunk again, Sam? I scolded you for being drunk last night, and here you are drunk again." No, massa; same drunk, massa, same drunk," replied Sambo.

CATCHING.-586.

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"JEM, you've been drinking.” 'No, I haven't; I've been looking at another man drinking, and it was too much for me."

TO MAKE LEECHES BITE.-587.

If the leech will not bite, bind him apprentice to a broker for a week, and his teeth will become so sharp that he will bite through the bottom of a brass kettle.

LACONIC.-588.

"HILLO, master," said a Yankee to a teamster, who appeared in something of a hurry, "What time is it? Where are you going?-How deep is the creek?-And what is the price of the butter? "Past one, almost two-homewaist deep-and elevenpence," was the reply.

AIDS TO MEMORY.-589.

A PAPER publishes a story in which it is stated that a man who came very near drowning had a wonderful recollection of every event which had occurred during his life. There are a few of our subscribers whom we would recommend to practice bathing in deep water.

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SIMMONS ON LIFE.-590.

"WHAT is the use of living?" asked Jack Simmons the other day. We are flogged for crying when we are babies, flogged because the master is cross when we are boys, obliged to toil, sick or well, or starve, when we are men, to toil still harder when we are husbands, and after exhausting life and strength in the service of other people, die, and leave our children to quarrel about the possession of father's watch, and our wives to catch somebody else."

CUTE EXPEDIENT.-591.

THERE was a law in Boston against smoking in the street. A down-easter strutted about the city one day, puffing at a cigar. Up walked the constable. "Guess your smokin'," he said. "You'll pay two dollars, stranger." "I ain't smokin'," was the quick response, "try the weed yourself; it ain't alight.' The constable took a pull at the cigar, and out came a long puff of white smoke. "Guess you'll pay me two dollars," said the down-easter, quietly. Wal," replied the constable, "I calc'late you're considerable sharp. S'pose we liquor."

A MILD ASSERTION.-
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THIS is to certify that I have always been bald, and have used up a barrel of common hair-dye. I accidentally heard of your Invigorator, and purchased a bottle, and carried it home in my overcoat pocket. The pocket was full of hair when I got home! I took the bottle and held it in the sun, when the shadow fell on my head. A thick head of chestnut-coloured hair grew out in thirty minutes by the watch, all curled and perfumed. Send me twenty bottles by return mail.

FRIENDLY NOTICE.-593.

THE editor of the Florence Inquirer gives the following notice to one of his friends-"The gentleman who took out of our library the number of Graham's Magazine, is respectfully invited to call again in about two weeks and get the number for August."

TIPPING THEM LATIN.-594.

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ANDREW JACKSON was once making a stump speech out West in a small village. Just as he was concluding amen, Kendall, who sat behind him, whispered, Tip 'em a little Latin, General; they won't be content without it." The man of iron instantly thought upon a few phrases he knew, and in a voice of thunder he wound up his speech by exclaiming " E pluribus unum―sine qua non-ne plus ultramulum in parvo." The effect was tremendous, and the Hoosier's shouts could be heard for miles."

A SOLID REASON.-595.

A DISTINGUISHED Southern gentleman, dining at a New York hotel, was annoyed at a negro servant continually waiting upon him, and desired him one day at dinner to retire. 66 Excuse me, Sir," said Cuffy, drawing himself up, "but I'se 'sponsible for de silver."

SQUASHED.-596.

A ROMANTIC youth, promenading in a fashionable street in New York, picked up a thimble. He stood awhile, meditating upon the probable beauty of the owner, when he pressed it to his lips, saying, "Oh, that it were the fair cheek of the wearer! Just as he had finished, a stout, elderly negress looked out of an upper window, and said, Massa, jist please to bring dat fimble of mine in de entry -I jist drapt it."

BRIGHT AND BLUE.-597.

I MET her in the sunset bright, her gingham gown was blue; her eyes, that danced with pure delight, were of the same dear hue. And always when the sun goes down, I think of the girl in the gingham gown.

OYSTERS.-598.

A MAN seeing an oyster vendor pass by, called out, "Give me a pound of oysters! "We sell oysters by measure, not by weight," replied the other. "Well," said he, “give me a yard of them.'

ABSTRACTION.-599.

AN editor at a dinner-table being asked if he would take some pudding, replied in a fit of abstraction, "Owing to a crowd of other matter we are unable to find room for it."

MODERN DEFINITIONS NOT FOUND IN ANY OF THE ANCIENT DICTIONARIES.-600.

Hard Times.-Sitting on a cold grindstone and reading the President's message.

Love.-A little world within itself intimately connected with shovel and tongs.

Genteel Society.-A place where the rake is honoured and the moralist condemned.

Poetry.-A bottle of ink thrown over a sheet of foolscap. Politician. A fellow that culls all his knowledge from borrowed newspapers.

Patriot.-A man who has neither property nor reputation to lose.

Independence.--Owing fifty thousand dollars which you ne er intend to pay.

Lovely Woman.-An article manufactured by milliners. "One wants but little here below,

And wants that little for a show."

FIRM FOUNDATION.-601.

THE editor of the Albany Express says, the only reason why his dwelling was not blown away in a late storm was because there was a heavy mortgage on it.

GALLANT CORRECTION.-602.

AN American agricultural society offers premiums to farmers' daughters-"girls under twenty-one years of age," who shall exhibit the best lots of butter, not less than 10 lbs. "That's all right," says a New York paper, save the insinuation that some girls are over twenty-one years of age."

MARRYING YOUNG.-603.

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ARTEMUS WARD says that the prettiest girls in Utah generally marry Young.