Time passed--Death called upon the wretched man of ingots and money bags,--but while power remained to forbid it, the old miser refused to have a physician. When, to all appearance, his senses were gone, his friends drew the miser's pantaloons from under his pillow, where he had always insisted on their remaining during his sleeping hours, and his last illness--but as one of the attendants slowly removed the garment, the poor old man, with a convulsive effort--a galvanic-like grab--threw out his bony, cold hand, and seized his old pantaloons! The miser clutched them with a dying grasp; words struggled in his throat; he could not utter them; his jaw fell--he was dead! Much curiosity was manifested by the friends and relatives to know what could have caused the poor old man to cling to his time-worn pantaloons; but the mystery was soon revealed--for upon examination of the linings of the waistbands and watch-fob, over $30,000 in bank notes were there concealed! The Lord's pardon and human sympathy be with all such misguided and wretched slaves of--money, say we. Dog Day. I used to like dogs--a puppy love that I got bravely over, since once upon a time, when a Dutch _bottier_, in the city of Charleston, S. C., put an end to my poor _Sue_,--the prettiest and most devoted female bull terrier specimen of the canine race you ever did see, I guess. My _Sue_ got into the wrong pew, one morning; the crout-eating cordwainer and she had a dispute--he, the bullet-headed ball of wax, ups with his revolver, and--I was dogless! I don't think dogs a very profitable investment, and every man weak enough to keep a dog in a city, ought to pay for the luxury handsomely--to the city authorities. Some people have a great weakness for dogs. Some fancy gentlemen seem to think it the very apex of highcockalorumdom to have the skeleton of a greyhound and highly polished collar--following them through crowded thorough-fares. Some young ladies, especially those of doubtful ages, delight in caressing lumps of white, cotton-looking dumpy dogs and toting them around, to the disgust of the lookers-on--with all the fondness and blind infatuation of a mamma with her first born, bran new baby. Wherever you see any quantity of white and black _loafers_--Philadelphia, for instance, you'll see rafts of ugly and wretched looking curs. Boz says poverty and oysters have a great affinity; in this country, for oysters read _dogs_. Who has not, that ever travelled over this remarkable country, had occasion to be down on dogs? Who that has ever lain awake, for hours at a stretch, listening to a blasted cur, not worth to any body the powder that would blow him up--but has felt a desire to advocate the dog-law, so judiciously practised in all well-regulated cities? Who that ever had a sneaking villanous cur slip up behind and _nip_ out a patch of your trowsers, boot top and calf--the size of an oyster, but has felt