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SAIDERSVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1853.
VOL. VI1--VO. 4
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GENERAL ADVERTISEMENTS
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GEORGIA
S A R SA P A R I L L A-
FOR
Jaundice, Sick Head-aclie, Dizzinees, Loss of
Appetite, Constipation of the Bowels, Piles,
caused by Costiveness, Pain in the Bowels, or
Rheumatism, caused by the use of Mercury,
Syphilis, Scrofula, Boils, Ulcers, cfc., Ape.
HIS preparation is made as pure as possible
POUTFIB'Y
A Beautiful Song.
The following original song was sung
at
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BUSINESS DIRECTOR V.
r. C. LYMAN,
Watch-Maker and Jeweler,
SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA,
sept. 7,1852.
33—tf
ft££XTH<& 3&02HJ31&
Dealers in Domestic Produce and
PROVISIONS.
209 Duane Street, New York.
Solicits Southern orders for the same
they will pack and ship in the best manner,
and sell at the lowest cash price.
[S. B. SMITH, J. F. SMITH.]
Feb. 1, 1853.
J. F.
1—3m
nr b knapf.
Manufacturer of
SADDLERS, HARNESS, dc. &c., and
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in all
kinds of
SADDLERY WARE. CARRIAGE
Trimmings, Laces, Fringes, Patent Leath
er, Springs, Axles, Bands, Varnish, dc.
AT THE SIGN OF THE GOLDEN SADDLE,
West end of Gibbons’ Building
Market Square, Savannah.
A large assortment always on hand, and
for sale at the lowest prices.
Feb. 15, 1853, 3—ly
OLD established.
“Savannah Stove Depot.”
COOKING STOVES of all sizes and
various patterns, Grates Stoves and Heaters
for all purposes 1 Tin and Britannia Ware,
Pumps and Pipes, Wooden Ware, Domes
tic Hardware and House-keeping articles,
too numerous to mention.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL,
JAMBS SULLIVAlf,
N<£ 145 Broughton Street
Savannah, Ga.
Feb. 15, 1853. 3—ly
Its bitter taste, and beneficial effects in dis
eases of the Liver, and diseases arising from
an impure state of the Blood, prove it to be
the purest and most useful preparation of Sar
saparilla that is made.
Those who have used the various preparations
of Sarsaparilla will find, by the taste and effect,
that there is more Sarsaparilla in one bottle of
Dr. D’s. preparation, than in half a dozen bot
tles as it is generall} made.
That it might be more particularly adapted
to professional use, nothing but the pbre Sar
saparilla has been used, that for different dis
eases, physicians might combine or prescribe
with it, such articles as they might consider
most appropriate in cases under their treatment
Its alterative and mildly purgative effect up
on the bowels, make it not only a good substi
tute for Mercury, but useful in removing al-
diseases aiising from the imprudent use of
Mercury.
Prepared only by J. DENNIS, M. D., Au
gusta, Georgia.
Sold in Sandersville by N- W. Haines &
Bro., in Midville, by James Griffin, in Waynes
boro’, by L. Schwartz, and in Irwinton, by Dr.
Wm. Fisher, J. H. Carter, and Hendrickson &
Moore, Savannah.
Remember to ask for DENNIS’ GEORGIA
SARSAPARILLA.
Augusta, july 1, 1852. 24—ly
Carriage Repository ••Blacksmithing.
T HE subscriber would respectfully an
nounce to his old friends and
patrons,
that he is still at his post where he continues to
Manufacture, and Repair, Carriages, Buggies,
Waggons Carts, &c., &c. Thankful for the
liberal patronage hitherto bestowed upon him,
he respectfully solicits a coutinuanee of the
same. No pains will be spared in mak ng
every job sent from his shop of the neatest and
most durable character.
In connection with the above he will still
carry on the Blacksmith business, and is pre
pared to do all kind of work in that line. All
plantation work, horseshoeing &c., done at
shortest notice.
LEWIS BENSON.
Jan. 11, 1853. 50—tf
the recent celebration of the Burns Club
the city of New York.
Take back the ring, dear Jamie,
The ring you gaed to me,
And a’ the vows vou made yestreen
Beneath the birken tree;
But gie back me my heart again
It’s a’ I hae to gie;
Gin ye’ll no wait a fitting time,
“Ye canna many me.”
I promised to my daddie,
Afore he slipped awa,
I ne’er wad leave my mammie,
What’er sud her befa;
I’ll faithful keep my promise,
For a’ that ye can gie;
So, Jamie, if ye winna wait,
“Ye canna marry me.”
I canna leave my mammie,
She’s been sae kind to me,
Sin e’er I was a bairn ee,
A wee thing on her knee;
Nae mair she’ll caim my gowden hair
Nor busk me snood and braw,
She’s auld and frail, her een are dim,
And snne will close on a’.
I mauna leave my mammie,
Her journey is nae lang,
Her heid is bending to the mools
Where it mun shortly gang;
Were I an heiress o’ a crown,
I’d a’ its honors tine,
To watch her steps in helpless age,
As she in youth watched mine.
“He is going fast, poor fellow ; do you
see this?” and he lifted up a rich goldlbcket
which had laid upod the boy’s breast. “He
has seen better days ”
I could not answer, for my heart was
full. Here was the being to whom, but a
few hours before, I had owed my life—a
poor, slight, unprotected child lying before
me, with death already written on his brow,
and yet i had never known his danger, und
never sought him out after the conflict.—
How bitterly my heart reproached me in
that hour. They noticed my agitation, and
his old friend—the seaman that held his
head, said sadly;
“Poor little Dick, you’ll never see the
shore you have wished for so long. But
there’ll be more than one (he spoke with
emotion) to mourn over you.”
Suddenly the little fellow opened his eyes
and looked vacantly around.
‘‘Has become yet!” he asked in alow
voice, “why won’t he come.”
“I am here,” said I, taking the little fel
low’s Hand; “don’t you know me Dick ?”
He smiled faintly and said :
“You have been kind to me, sir; kinder
than most people are to an orphan boy,
nSSIEILiILAN'Y
The Orphan Boy.
F&OYS HOUSE—Macon, Ga.
t. A. goodwin, Proprietor.
a. b. iiartwell, Superintendent.
THIS well known and popular Hotel
has been thoroughly repaired, and is
now open, and superbly furnished for
the r< ception of Boarders and the travelling
community. The Proprietor and his Assist
ants will spare no pains to make this House
one of the best Hotels in the State.
A. B. Hartwell, H. C. Cunningham and S.
Lanier will be happy to receive and welcome
their old friends and acquaintances, and will
use their utmost efforts to make them comfort
able during their stay.
Macon, aug. 31,1852. 31—tf
CtLOBD HOUSE—Sandersville
THE subscriber would
an
nounce to his friends and the
public generally, that he has ta
ken charge of this Hotel, and
will use his best endeavors to make all who
may call upon him comfortable. His table
G. B.. & J B HBCTDKICKS 03T
Wholesale Druggists,
AND DEALERS IN PAINTS,
Oils, Window filass, d’c., Mustard, Spices,
and Snuff, Perfumery, Brushes, dc., and
Landreth's Garden Seeds,
Gibbon’s Buildings, Savannah, Ga.
Feb. 15, 1852. 3—ly
will be furnished with the best that the mark
et affords. He respectfully solicits a share of
public patronage. JEPTHA BRANTLEY.
oct 19,1852. 39—tf
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
B. D. EVANS,
Attorney at Law,
SANDERSVILLE, GA.
Will practice in the Counties of the Mid
VBKSTXLLE & BUTXiSB.
DEALERS IN FASHIONABLE
Boots, Shoes & Plantation Brogans.
No. 161 Congress street.
South Side Market Square,
SAVANNAH, GA.
Feb. 15, 1853. 3—ly
K. la. TULTQN,
Factor and Commission Merchant.
No. 71, Bay Street, Savannah, Ga.
Feb. 15, 1853. 3~ly
cam w. BinrcoEsr.
n.o on nana ana is constantly receiving,
fresh supplies of tne purest Drugs Med-
(Sucdessor to Joseph M. Turner.)
Druggist and Chemist
MONUMENT SQUARE,
Savannah, Ga.
TTAS on hand and is
XX fresh supplies of
icines and Chemigals.
Also,
Brushes of every description, Fancy articles
Perfumery, Garden Seed, &c. &c. Particular
attention is paid in the selection of Medicine,
to have none but the purest, and all articles
sold by me are warranted to be just as they
are represented, and Phyeicians, Country Mer
chants and Planters, may rely upon their or
ders being filled with as much despatch and
care as if they were present in person.
Fpb, 14, 1853. 3—] v
Wanted to Hire.
A $°°d £pQK; for which a.liberal price wil
il belaid. Apply at this Office.
Jan. 64, 52—tf
die Circuit, and injustice’s Courts in this
County. He hopes by assiduity and a dil
igent attention to business, to merit a share
of the public patronage. Office in the
Court House.
Feb. 1, 1853. 1—ly
JAMES S. HOOK,
Attorney at Law,
SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA.
WILL PHACTICE Ilf THE COUNTIES OF
Mme-circuU. j
Southern Circuit. [ - - - - Laurens.
Ocmulgee Circuit | ... - Wilkinson.
Office next door to the Central Georgian
office. jan. 1,1852. 51—ly
R. L. WARTHEN,
Attorney at Law,
SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA,
feb. 17, 1853. 4—ly
JNO. W, RUDISILL.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
SANDERSVILLE, Ga.
Jan. 25,1853 52—ly
S. B. GRAFTON.
Attorney at Law.
SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA,
Will also attend tfie Courts of Emanu
Laurens, and Jefferspn, should business be em
rtusted to his care, in either of those countie?
feb. 11. 4—tf
Wi L UUJUVJU' IJUHl/j
SURQBOWr BBHTIST.
SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA
may 10, 1852. 16—tf
“He faded, yet so calm and meek,
So gently wan, so sweetly weak.”
The bustle of the fight was over; the
prisoners bad been secured, and the decks
washed down, the watch piped, and the
schooner had once more relapsed into mid
night quiet and repose. I sought ray ham
mock and soon fell asleep But my slum
bers were disturbed by dreams, which like
the visions of a fever, agitated and unnerv
ed me ; the late strife, the hardships of my
early life, and a thousand other things
mingled together, as fingers in a phantas
magoria. Suddenly a hand was hid on my
shoulder, and starting up, I beheld the sur
geon’s mate.
“Little Dick, sir, is dying,” be said.
I sprang from my hammock. Little Dick
was a sort of protege of mine. He was a
pale, delicate child, said to be an orphan,
and used to tender nurture ; and from the
first hour I joined the schooner, my heart
yearned toward him, for I too bad once
been friendless and alone in the world. He
bad often talked to me in confidence of his
mother, whose memory he regarded with
holy reverence, while to the other boys of
the ship he had little to say; for they were
rude and coarse, be delicate and sensitive.
Often when they jeered him for his melan
choly, he would go apart by himself and
weep. He never complained of his lot,
though his companions imposed on him
continually. Poor lad! his heart was in
the grave with his lost parents.
I took a strange interest in him, and had
lightened his task as much as possible.—
During the last fight I had owed my life to
him, for he had rushed in jast as a sabre
stroke was leveled at me, and by interpos
ing his cutlass, had averted the deadly blow.
In the hurry and confusion I had forgot-
ton to inquire if he was hurt, though, at the
time, I inwardly resolved to exert all my
influence to procure him a midshipman’s
warrant in requital of his service. It was
with a pang of reproachful agony, therefore,
that I leaped to my feet and exclaimed:
“You don’t mean it ? he is not dying ?”
“I fear sir,” said the messenger, “that he
cannot live till morniBg.”
“And I have been lying idle here,” ex
claimed I, with remorse. “Lead me to
him P*
“He is delirious, but in the intervals of
reason he asks for you,” and as the man
spoke, we stood by the bedside of the dying
boy.
The sufferer did not lie in his usual ham
mock, for it was hung in the very midst of
the crew, and the close air around it was too
stiffing; but he had been carried under an
open hatchway, and laid there in a little
open space about four feet square. From j
the sound of the ripples, 1 judged the
schooner was in motion, while the clear,
calm, bine sky, dotted with myriads of stars
betokened that the fog had broken away.
iro3|balm if smiled down on the wan face
of the dying boy. Occasionally a light-cur-
rent # o£wwind-^-oh, how deliciously cool in
that pent* up hold, eddied down the hatch
way and lifted-the dark chesnut locks of
the sufferer, $8 with his head, reposing in
the lap of an ohF veteran, he lay in an ■ un
quiet slumber. VE^'fhirfjcollar was unbut
toned, and his childish bosom, as white as
-that of a girl, was opened and exposed
The wound of which he was dying was in
tensely painful, but within the last half hour
had somewhat lulled, though even now his
thin fingers tightly grasped the bed clothes
as if he suffered the greatest agony.
A battle stained and grey-haired seamen
stood beside him, holding a lantern in his
hand, and gazing sorrowfully upon the suf
ferer. The surgeon knelt;, wiihhis finger
upon the boy’s pulse. As I approached
they all looked up; ~
him shook his head, and would have spoken
but the tears gathered in his eyes. The
surgeon said:
have no way to show my gratitude, unless
you will take the Bible which you will find
in my trunk. It’s a small offering I know
but it’s all I have.”
I burst into tears.
“Doctor, I am dying, ain’t I?” said the
little fellow—“my sight grows dim. God
bless you, Mr Danforth.”
“Can I do nothing for you, Dick ?” said I,
“you saved my life. I would give my blood
to buy yours.”
“I have nothing to ask; I don’t want to
live ; only, if it’s possible, let me be buried
by mother. You’ll find the name of the
place, and all about it in my trunk.”
“Anything, everything, my poor lad,” I
answered chokingly.
The ilttle fellow smiled faintly ; it was
like an angel’s smile; but he did not an
swer. His eyes were fixed on the stars
flickering in that patch of blue sky overhead.
His mind wandered.
“It’s a long, long ways up there; but
there are bright angels among them. Moth
er used to say that I would meet her there.
How near they come, and I see sweet faces
smiling upon me from among them. Hark !
is that music?” And lifting his linger, he
seemed listentng for a moment. He fell
back, and the old veteran burst into tears.
The child was dead.
Marshal Haynau in Florence.—Marshal
Haynau, familiarly called the “Austrian
Butcher,” is in Florence, receiving all sorts
of attentions trora the Grand Duke and his
minions, in the midst of the ill-concealed
scorn of an indignant community. A letter
in the Newark Advertiser, dated Florence,
Jan. 2, says:
The occasional appearance of this really
hideous looking personage in the streets,
(for he has certainly the most ill-favored
head and face I have ever seen on human
shoulders) is the invariable signal for the
bitterest expressions of popular hatred, half
suppressed hisses, and cries of-“butcher,”
“beast,” woman murderer,” “Austrian Jack
Cade,” &c. His servants share in the con
tempt.
Some of the most aristocratic families,
who delight in the Austrian rule, have
sought to soothe his feelings by feasts and
banquets; a fact which serves only to exas
perate the universal feeling. Among oth
er things they have ordered a portrait, and
a bust; Buzzuoli, an eminent artist, having
been employed to paint the picture, which
is to include illustrations of his exploits in
Hungary, for $800, and Dupre, the sculp
tor, to ftiake the bust. The butchery of the
women and children at Brescia, will not, it
is feared, be included among the pictorial il
lustrations of the Marshal’s, achievements
Several gentlemen who had given these ar
tists orders, have withdrawn them in conse
quence, and their brother artists freely com
plain of what they denounce as a base pros
titution of the arts.
Preuoaitory Symptoms of an Old
Barbel or.
Fanny Fern sends us the followiug char
acteristic production, as an offset to an ar
ticle which we published a week or two since
entitled “Symptoms of Old Maidism
“When he cuts a certain number of little
square bits of paper every night, and lays
them on his toilet table, ready to w’ipe his
razor wbeu he shaves in the morning—that’s
a symptom. When lie carries his fingers
perfectly straight in his gloves, for fear of
friction on the knuckles—that’s a symptom.
When he leaves a friend’s house in the mid
dle of the evening, to avoid a walk home
with a lady—that’s a symptom. When he
keeps his hat on in a lecture room, till the
latest permitted minute, on account of a
draft that 8 a sympton. When he wears
a large mustache and beard to conceal cer
tain defects—that’s a symptom. When he
turns a huge coat collar up over his ears ev
ery time there’s a cloud in the sky—that’s
a symptom. When he refuses 'a hymn
book in church, because he don’t like to be
seen using glasses—that’s a symtom.—
When he can’t go to sleep till he has as
certained whether the seam of the sheet is
precisely in the middle of the bed—that’s a
sympton. When an anthracite fire and a
wadded wrapper have greater charms for
him than a pair of bright eyes, jingling
sleigh bolls, and a tete-a-tete under a buffalo
robe—that’s a symptom. When a whiskey
punch and a flannel nightcap are the l ne
plus ultra’ of his earthly felicity—that’s a
symptom. When he calls women hum
bugs says ‘pshaw !’ to children, and has a
growing partiality for stuffed rocking chairs
and well aired linen—that’s a symptom.”
FANNY FERN.
Meagher's Apostrophe to Gold.—“Gold,
which has caused many a brain to ache has
blistered many a hand, broken'many a no
ble heart, has wounded many a soaring soul,
and clinging to it, has brought it to the
dust; gold, which has bought the integrity
of the statesman, and led his wisdom cap
tive; gold, which has silenced the tongue of
the orator, and bought the flatteries of the
poet; gold, for which in the gay saloons of
fashion many a fair, and noble girl has
slighted the vow which has consigned her
life to bitterness, locked upon her radient
neck the snake that swells her veins with
venom; gold, which has stolen into the
councils of the struggling nation, has bred
dissension among her chiefs, has broken the
seal of her sacred secrets, has forced the
gates of her strongest citadel, has bought
the evidences which hurried her apostles to
the scaffold, has bought the voters which
made over her inheritance to others, and
her glory to a strange people—gold, which
has led the traitor to the garden, and with
a kiss betrayed the redeemer of the world
gold, which in so many shapes has stepped
with a stealthy tread or rioted amongst men
—which has been the fever, the madness,
the despair—has been in turns and quick
succession the spy, the swindler, the perju
rer, the assassin—the foe of innocence, the
blight of beauty, the bane of genius; gold
has become a fountain of life, and joy, and
freedom—the serpent has been transformed
into a blossomed wand. Lucifer has be
come the morning star. To you. the citi
zens of America, it must be pleasing, indeed,
to behold a new republic rising up to share
with you the labors and glories of a future,
before which the conceit of the world shall
be humbled, and in the light of which hu
manity shall grow stroDg.”
—
5 •
A certain old gentleman had three sons
the two eldest were remarkable for their
filial piety and obedience, and were conse
quently beloved by all who knew them. The
youngest, on the contrary, was an incorrigi
ble scapegrace, and was hated as others
were loved. The old gentleman, in the
common course o? events, got very sick, and
assembled his family around bis bedside, to
have his will read in their presence. It was
as follows: “To my eldest son, William, I
bequeath all my landed property, <kc.,” to
which William exclaimed, “Father, I hope
you may live long and happy to enjoy it
yourself.” To my second son, Edward, I
bequeath all monies now in my bankers
hands, together with my house and house
hold furniture.” The second also replied
in the same manner as the first, “Father, I
hope you may liyfe, long and happy to en
joy it yousself.”- Then turning to the
youngest who, was waiting in silent antidi-.
pation for his division of the property, he
said,JA.s for you profligate scoundrel,
leavlOT.ou a shilling to buy a rope to bang
yourself.’ 5 To the surprise'and consterna
tion of all preset, he answered inlhe same
pious strain of the others, i
“Father, Ibope you may live long and
happy to enjoy it yourself!”
filial Dvfjf.—There is no virtue that
adds so noble a charm to the finest traits of
beauty as that which exerts itself in watch-
The veteran who held mg over the tranquility of an aged parent.
There are no tears that can give so noble
a l ustre to the cheek of innocence as the tears
of filial sorro w.
Argentine Republic.—Dates from Santa
Fe to the 20th, and from Mendosa to 29th
of November, have been received at Valpa
raiso. According to them the State of En-
tre Rios has been invaded by the Bueno
Ayrean army without any previous declar
ation of war which would justify such a pro
ceeding. The Buenos Ayrean troops were
commanded by Piran and Madarriaga, and
Gen. Urquiza left Santa Fe- at the head of
8,000 men to meet them. The Valparaiso
papers are very severe upon the revolution
ary Government of Buenos Ayres for having
begun this civil war.
Letters dated 18th November, from the
Mendoza Deputies to the Federal Congress
say: “Our latest dates from Buenos Avres
are to the 15th of November. The advices
are sorrowful and alarming. We are told
that the situation of Buenos Ayres is so des
perate that many cry for gome strong hand
to relieve them, and that if Gen. Urquiza
attempts it, he ean succeed without firing a
shot. The people of Buenos Ayres gener
ally disapprove the invasion of Entres Rios,
and believe it will not succeed.”
Eeward Everett, just elected to the U-
nited States Senate was born in Dorchester,
Massachusetts, in April, 1794. His father
was a respectable clergyman in Boston, and
his elder brother was minister at the court
of Spain. He received his early education
in Boston, and entered Harvard College
when little more than thirteen years old.
He turned his attention for two years to the
profession of divinity; but in 1814, he was
invited to accept the new professorship of
Greek literature at Cambridge, Massachu
setts, with permission to visit Europe. He
accepted the office; and, before entering on
its duties, embarked at Boston for Liver
pool. He passed more than two years at
the university Gottingen, engaged in the
study of the German language and branch
es of learning connected with his depart
ment. Ho passed the winter of 1817-’18
at Paris. The next spring he again visited
London, and passed a few weeks at Cam
bridge and Oxford. While in England, he
acquired the friendship of some of the most
eminent men of the day; among others, of
Scott, Byron Jeffrey, Campbell, Mackintosh,
Romilly, and Davy. In the autumn of 1818,
he returned to the continent, and divided
the winter between Florence, Rome, and
Naples. In the spring of 1819, he made a
short tour in Greece.
Mr. Everett came home in 1819, and en
tered at once upon tne duties of his profes
sorship. Soon after his return he became
the editor of the “North American Review,”
a journal, which, though supported by wri
ters of great ability, had acquired only a
limited circulation. Under its new editor,
the demand increased so rapidly that a sec
ond and sometimes a third edition of its
numbers was required. One of his first
cares as editor was to vindicate American
institutions aDd principles against a crowd
of British travellers and critics, who were
endeavoring to bring them into contempt.
The spirit with which he performed his task
checked this system of assault; and Camp
bell who had inadvertently admitted into
“The New Monthly Magazine,” a paper of
the same description, made a handsome
amende In 1824, Mr. Everett delivered the
annual oration before the Phi-Beta Kappa
Society, at Cambridge, Massachusetts. The
entire discourse was favorably received; but
the peroration, being an apostrophe to La
fayette, who was present, touched a chord
of sympathy immense audience, already ex
cited the unusual circumstances of the oc
casion. This was the first of a aerie, of ora
tions and addresses delivered by Everett on
public occasions of almost every kind, during
a quarter of a ceDtury, and lately collected
in two volumes. Up to 1824 he had ta
ken no active interest in politics.
The constituency of Middlesex, Massachu
setts, without any solicitation on hie part,
returned him to Congress by a great major
ity over the regular canditate. For ten
years he sat in Congress, aud proved him
self a working member, never taking advan
tage of his superior powers to detain the
house with oratorical display, but taking
part in every debate of importance. In 1835,
he retired from Congress, and was for four
successive years chosen Governor of Massa
chusetts. Iu 1839, he was again a candi
date for the same honor, but was defeated
ou local questions by a majority of one out
of more than 100,000 votes. In 1841 he
was appointed to represent the United Slates
at the court of St. James; a position for which
he was peculiarly qualified by his knowledge
ol the European tongues, and his acquain
tance with the then mooted boundary ques
tion. Although the Secretaryship of State
at Washington was held by four different
statesmen, of various politics, during Ever
ett’s mission, be enjoyed the confidence and
approbation of all. His firmness, high in
telligence and assiduous habits, won him
great respect in England; and his scholar
ship was recognised in the bestowal of the
degree ofD. D. L. by the universities of Ox
ford and Cambridge. He returned to A-
merica in 1845, was chosen president of
Harvard College, which office he resigned
in 1849. In 1852 he was called to preside
oyer the State Department by President
Fillmore as the successor of Daniel Web
ster.
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A friend at We^ Point tells us a comi
cal anecdote of a very diffident young cler
gyman, who had been invited to dine with
professional brother, who also kept a
young ladies’ boarding school. He was in
troduced to a bevy of the fair pupils in the
drawingroom, and among them to a Miss
M-—-—, to whom he said, stammeringly:
“A-a-a-a—Miss M , a-a-I I-I am
not entirely unacquainted with you. I-I-I
had the honor of sleeping with your father
a short time ago !”
If this isn’t a rich specimen of the art of
'scraping an acquaintance,” we have never
heard of one. It beats “power,” In the
“Man of Neve,” all to nothing.
The Schoolmaster Wanted.—The follow
ing, says the Mobile Advertiser, is a copy of
a gentleman Some time
to
a bill sent in
since:
aossfada
atachinonimomagin
1 50
50
Pade, Josef-
$2 00
Can any of our readers interpret it! At
Tirst we took it for apothecaries’ Latin; judge
our surprise, then, when the key was given
to us, to find the above inscrutable items
were simply these;
“A horse half a day and a taking on him
home again.”
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A man got up the other night, and took,
as he supposed, a card of matches, and be
gan to break off one by one, trying to light
a lamp, until the whole card was used up
without accomplishing his object, when he
discovered that he bad used up his wife’s
comb!
Temperance puts wood on the fire, flour
in the barrel; vigor in the body, intelligence
in the brain, and spirit in the whole com
position of man.
A woman quarreling with; her husband?
told him she believed that if she should die
he would marry the devU’s daughter. The
tender husband replied, “the law does not flady in such an admirable manner, th
allow a man tomarry two Hatera.”^®^- I haiband hr*fer«»a --—-Asr.
The enlightened citizen who ate his din r
ner with the fork of a river, has gone .
New Hampshire to spin a mountain top. ^
A daguerreotypist took the portrait of a
preferred: