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[Written for Tl<« Uaorgia Wtekly.]
Lines to Mt. and Mrs. Jim. Burning’s
Babe.
»Y LIZZIE.
Come .’wnnd'ring muae, and tune my lyre,
Tvbreuthe iti eofteft, gentleat lay*,
Whilst I with loving heart aspire
To tiftg » song in baby’s praise.
The gates of Heaven were lef’ ajar
One sofrnnd stilly wintry night,
When from its-portals wandered far
A cherub angel young and bright.
It saw this sleeping world of ours
AH'Wrapt in deep repose and rest,
It glided down a chain of flowers
And found a home on Mollie's breast.
And there secure from every harm,
Sweet cherub peaceful may you re t,
Surrounded by a father’s arm
And resting on a mother's breast.
Hickory Hill Academy.
The Value of Youth.
The value of youth and its privi
leges, who can tell ? None save those
whp have let it slip by unimproved.—
How important it is, then, for us who
are now enjoying so many privileges
that we rightly appreciate and improve
them.".
When we are young our minds are
more easily controlled, and we are more
susceptible of improvement in every
way.
llow .important it is for us, while we
have h*nd teachers to aid us in the at
tainment of knowledge, that we permit
not a moment to pass by unimproved,
form after years we may wish to recall
them, and cannot. How often do
we~hear-persons who are advanced
in life, say they wished they could re
call the misspent moments of* their
youth and that they would live very
differently if they could live* their
lives over again.’ May we not learn an
important lesson from this, as regards
the value of youth? We certainly
can.
In early life, when our hearts are
tender, is also the .time for the cultiva
tion of the heart, which will be more
essential to us in the hour of death
than a mental cultivation. But I
must admit that both are desirable.—
Oh ! may I ever remember this while
this golden opportunity is afforded me.
Julia.
Greenville Masonic Female College.
EXPRESSION OF THE MOUTH.
„ Th& mouth is a feature upon which
much of the character of the fa'ce de- *
pends. No woman can be a pretty wo
man who has an ugly mouth. To the
most regular features, a gaping mouth,
or ugly, drooping, and half-formed lips,
will give an air of listless ignorance,
or half idiocy, which is repulsive.—
Firmness, general decision, cruelty,
softness, and gentleness of mind, love
of our fellows, eloquence, spite, vin
dictiveness, generosity, and strength
of character, are all indicated by the
mouth.
It is incumbent, therefore, upon as
tute and cunning men—with those
who arc crafty and politic,, and who
plot against humanity—to conceal the
play and working of the mouth—as
Caesar covers his lips with a thick
drooping mustache ; in this, too, na
ture has admirably aided him. For
rester, the Bow Street runner, and
Fouche, Napoleon's celebrated chief of
pojice, almost invariably detected the
guilty by noticing the play of the
lips. Forrester, in his curious “Me
moirs,” has frequently told us that he
6aw “guilt upon the lip” of more than
one whom he suspected ; and his sa
gacity, if not unerring, was great.—
But who can watch the play of the
mouth when it is covered by a thick
grove of mustache! All the celebra
ted police-agents, from Fouche to In
spector Whieltpr, have been com
pletely puzzled by such. It is well,
therefore, on important occasions, to
conceal the mouth. It is too sure an
index of ehnradter.
Thin, pale lips are supposed to be
indicative of ill-temper. They are
tnore surely, pevUap», tKe cott&equence
of a weakly ar.d not too healthy habit
of the body. Avery thin nether lip,
clenched teeth, and a pale cheek, have
been for ages the stock in trade of the
hedonist, when he wishes to draw a
conspirator; and the painter has fol
lowed him. Judas, in many of his
Italian pictures, is seen biting his un
der-lip. Richard the Third, as por
trayed by Holinghead and by Shak
6peare, had a similar habit. Men of
nervous and excitable temperament
have, especially if suspicious, a habit
of plucking at their lips and distort
ing their mouths.
►Small mouths arc very much prais
ed, and have been for a long time
much in fashion. Fashionable pain
ters and artists for the “ Book of
Beauty” have carried this smallness
of the mouth to an absurdity. You
wjll see engravings of ladies with
mouths considerably smaller than
their eyes; which, of course, presum
ing the face to be in due proportion,
is as much a monstrosity as if the
mouth, like that of a giant in a pan
tomime, extended from.ear to ear.—
The female mouth should not be. too
small. From what we can gather
fron} contemporary portraits, suppos-
to be true, both Queen Eliz
abeth "and Mary, Queen of Scots, had
mouths much to small to be handsome.
That of the former, the greatest fe-
male monarch who has ever existed,
should have at least indicated her ca
pacious mind. That of Queen Char
lotte was ugly; that of the princess
of that name was a true Brunswick
mouth, exhibiting the two front teeth,
from the shortness and elevation of
the upper lip, which is perpetuateiin
the males of the present royal
The house of" llapsburg has rflso a
very ugly mouth, celebrated as the
Austrian mouth.
Certain masters of the ceremoni'ea
have written much on the expression
of the mouiti. “It is,” says one, “the
feature which is ca'led into play most
frequently ; and therefore, even
where beauty of form exists, careful
training is needed, to enable it to
perform correctly its manifold duties.
An elegant manner of utterance ren
ders words, insignificant in them
selves, agreeable and persuasive. In
the not of eating, skillful manage
ment is necessary. A laugh is very
sevel#-test to this feature.”
Mr. Dickens, whose observation is
very wide, has ridiculed such teaching,
when he makes one of bis superfine
<>H. women instruct her pupils in the
formation of the lips by uttering three
magic words —potatoes, prunes and
prism... And we presume that when
LoM:Bycon.near]y fa in ted at the sight
wife enjoying a rump steak, the
skilmri management of his Adas
mouth was neglected.
Turning from, such foppery to the
poets, we may conclude by saying,
that from the -Greek Anthology down
ward to the Adent. young fellows who
write songs for music publishers,
thousands of’jines have been written
in praise of ladies’ mouths. The Lat
ins and the Italians have paid great
attention to - ' this feature; rosy lips,,
pearly teeth a;id violet breath, have
been for ages the stock in trade of the
poOts. But, perhaps, the best things
said of them ai’e by an Irish-and En
glish poet; the Irishman, hvperbol
icnlly, likens the mouth of his char
mer to “a dish of strawberries smoth
ered in cranie;” and Sir John Suck
ling paints to the life the pretty pout
ing under-lip of a beauty, in his “Bal
lad on a Wedding
‘‘Her lip? were red, end one was tliin
Compared to that wus next her cliio—
Some bee hid stung it newly.**
(Written for the Georgia Weekly.)
A SOUND FROM THE SEA.
BY WILLIE 1. SLOAX,
Twas eve, as I walked by the dark sea-side,
The sun had sunk to rest,
And I heeded the ware's wild, weird chant.
As I watched Us snowy crest;
Mournfully, wildly they whispered a
As shoreward they madly dashed along;—
►ar — —— „ iTI. ifSfliHMiifl
“Down deep in onr bosom are secrets wild, —
Forms calmly sleeping in death ;
From'out whose hearts the spark of life—
From whose nostrils the vital breath—
We have forced l'ore'rr from earth away—
Sleep their forms' mid coral beds for aye.
“■Loved ones sleep in our out-stretched arms—
Friends weep for them far away ;
Those forms must yield to a High Commmd,
To appear in an endless day ;
And each, tho' obscure ho his lot,
Shall live again, tho’ now forgot!’’
I sought no more of the wild wave's song,
Chanted so wildly to me;
But 1 cast a glance o’er a desert waste,
O'er lifs tempestuous sea ;
And I watched the tide of life roll on,
Gayly singing its syren-song..
And I asked myself. Can there tie sud forms,
In life's ocean hidden away?
Shall virtues and crimes, forgotten by earth,
4Je remembered in endless Day ? [pb>
And the tide ofconscience welled up in re-
That ‘ the IVving of earth, shall answer on
high/'-'? ••
Maßietta, ,CjE6., 1861.
HOW AN HONEST OLD NEGRO OUT
WITTED a Party of Abolitionists.—
A short tipae ago a widow lady living
near the northern line of Missouri,
sent her negro man with a load of
wheat to a mill in lowa, to have it
manufactured into flour. The mill
Wits-rnuc)t crowded on his arrival there,
a'ffd'the prospect was that lie would
have to wait several days for his ‘turn.’
While waiting, some of the ‘freedom
shriekers’ in that latitude got around
the darkey and proposed aiding him
.iu securing his freedom. The negro
seemed struck with the idea, but did
not have any money to pay his ex
penses. “Well, sell your mules,”
siiWl they. “Don’t know ’bout dat;
missis couldn’t get along without deni,"
said Guft’.” Well, then,” said they,
“you can sell the waggon ; that will
bring the money.” Well, I belieb
missus needs de waggon too,” answer
ed the black. “But if I had de wheat
ground, 1 could sell de flour—dat
would fetch de money.” “Oh, well,”
stid the negro equalist, “we: will
swap you flour for the wheat to ac
commodate you.” So the trade was
made. The wheat was exchanged for
the proper portion of flour, and the
eplored man was loaded, all ready to
drive off and sell his flour. But when
he was about ready to start, he very
coolly said: “Masss, l’s bin studying
about freedom, but I don't., believe
missus can spare de flour, either,” and
drove off with a broad grin, display
ing two rows of ivory, much to the
mortification and vexation of our ne
gro-loving lowaians.
The song of the lark can be plainly
heard* w hen the bird is at the height of
50(J feet in the air, and it calculated
tteat the little songster must have
communicated to 17,886- tops of -ais a
motion sufficiently intense" to be ap
preciated by our ears.
THE GEIO it GI A WEEK LY .
REPLY TO “ATJHT' CY - E '"
I have a friend a “ yan<isorae\|irl,'i
Just old enq>-~(- lo marry J
Hyito'd like to b( a tfobob’s wife,
'JJut home she’d seldom tarry—
Wkh one SO diill as he must be/ - *•
Who does not take the Weekly, •
induced UyfcOpe of gain, *
Akd then submits so meekly. ■%
Jly friend enjoys the best of health, ’' "
But thinks she’d have the ra'pdre.
To live with one Who spends lt«e life
In reading weekly papers.
So when she marries him she hopes,
To leave him to lira reading ;
And visit Newport and the Springs—
'.. . Domestic cares unheeding.
She’d travel North when Summer's suns,
Have grown (60 warm for reason ;
And to some Southern part ihe'd go'
To spend the winter season,
And unmolested he could rend
The papers till he dies ;
When home she'd go, the w idotv’s w#ed*
She'd don with heartfelt sighs. . * “
All this my friend concludes to do,
To tease her present lover;
Because to-day he passed her by,
In converse with another.
But when a year she’s worn the weed*,
She’ll doff them for the bridafei-'i
For “Cadet Jim" will jilt the maid
Who thought .to be her rival.
Athene, Ga., March 23 d. 1861. Anna.
A Peep into the Bank of England.
The Bank of England must be on
the inside as well as out, and to- get
into the interior of
building to observe the operations of
an institution .that exerts more moral
and political power than any sovereign
in Europe, you must have an order
from the Governor of the bank. .The
building occupies an irregular area.'qf
eight acres of ground—an edifice, of
no architectural beauty, with not ope
window toward the street, being light
ed altogether from the roof of tlie en
closed areas.
I tfag led, orrpresenting my ewvA of
admission, into si-private rdem, whore,
after a dejay of a few moments, a
messenger came and conducted me
through the mighty and mysterious
building. Down we went into a rbom
where the notes of the Bank received
the day before were how examined,
compared with the entries in thebooks,
and stored away. The Bank of En
gland never issues the same note a sec
ond time. - It receives, in the,ordin
ary course of business, about ,£BOO.-
000, or BLOOO,OOO, daily in: notes ;
these are put up into parcels, accord
ing to their denomination, boxed up,
with the date of their reception, and
are kept ten years, at tlie expiration of
which period they are taken out and
ground up in the mill which # I saw
, running, and made again into paper.
If, in the coursS of fliPse' tifo yeflis,
any dispute in business, or law-suit,
should arise concerning the payment
of any note, the Bank can produce tlie
identical bill.
To meet the demand for notes so
constantly used up, the Bank has its
own papermakers, its owp printers, its
own engravers, all at work, under the
same roof, and.it even makes the ma
chinery by which the most of its own
work is done.. A complicated but
beautiful operation is a register, ex
tending from the printing office to the
banking offices, which marks every
sheet of paper that is struck off from
the press, so that tlie printers cannot
manufacture a single sheet of blank
notes that is not recorded in the bank.
On the same principle of exact
ness, a shaft is made to pass from
on! apartment to another, ccflneerifig
a clock in sixteen business wings of
the establishment, and' regulating
them with sucli precision that the
whole of them are always pointing to
; the same second of time. In another
room was a machine, exceedingly sim
ple, for dectectihg light gold coins.—
A row of them dropped one by one
upon a spring scale. If the piece of
gold was tTf the Standard weight, the
scale rose to a Certain height,, and the
coin slid off upon the side of the box ;
if less than the standard, it rose a lit
tle higher and the coin slid off upon
the other side. I asked the weigher
what was the average number of light
coins that came into his. hands,-and,
strangely enough, lie said it was a
question lie was not allowed to an
stver ! ' ~ -■
The next room I entered was that
in which the notes are deposited which
are ready for issue. “We have thir
ty-two millions of pounds sterling in
this room,” the officer remarked to
me: “Will you take a little of it?”
I told him it would be vastly agreea
ble ; and he handed me a million ster
ling (five millions of dollars,) which I
received with many thanks for his lib
erality, but he insisted on my deposit
ing it with him again, as it would be
hardly safe to carry so much money
into the street. 1 very much fear
that I shall never see that money
again. In the vault beneath the door
was a director and the cashier count
ing the bags of gold, which men were
pitching down to them, each bag .con
taining a thousand. poumls*-‘'ili<frting,
just from the mint. This world of
money seemed to realize the fables of
Eastern wealth, and gave me hew and
strong impressions of the magnitude
of the business done here, and the ex
tent of the relations of this one insti
tution to the commerce of the world.
Oftentimes those, best able to dis
pense charities- are most in the' habit
oF'Aispeffsrhg witEHiem. r “
.: The.-sugar cropoCLbuisitywt f<a?.lß6o
is valued at about tWe'E&r-five millions
of dollars.
. :• Rearing Children.
1. Children should not go to school
until-six years old,
2. Should not learn at home during
that ‘ ; me more than the alphabet, re
ligious teachings excepted.
3. Should be fed with plain sub
stantial food, at regular intervals of
not less than four houri.
f 4. iShbuld not be allowed tp eat any
thing within two hours of bed time.
5. Should have nothing for supper
but a single cup of warm drink, such
as very weak tea of some kind, op
cambric tea, or warm milk and water,
■with one slice of cold bread and but
ter—mothing else.
0. Should sleep on separate beds,
on hair mattresses, without caps, feet
first.Kell wanned by the fire, or rubbed
with'the hands until perfectly dry;
extrii covering on the lower limbs, but
little on the body.
7. Should be compelled to be out of
d«ors tor the greater part of daylight,
from after breakfast until half an hour
before sundown, unless in (lamp raw
weather, when they should not be al
lowed to go outside the door.
. 8... Never limit a healthy child as to
slaepwig or eating, except at supper;
but compel regularity as to both : it is
of great importance.
D. Never compel a child to sit still,
nor interfere with its enjoyment, as
long as it is not actually injurious to
person or property, or against good
morals.
10. Never threaten a child; it is
cruel, unjust and dangerous. What
you have to do, do it, and be done
with it.
A man named Talbert, of Bloom
ington, Ohio, was known to have chil
dren, but one of them mysteriously
disappeared three years ago, and cir
cumstances occurring since had exci
ted a suspicion that it was improperly
made way with. A town officer was
finally called in to investigate, and
proceeded, after examining the house,
to the smoke house. There the child
was sitting with its little legs tied to
gether, in its filth, and without having
a shred of clothing upon its emaciated
body, nor a bed on which to lay, ex
cept some fine straw. When untied
and put upon its feet, itcould scarcely
stand, The officer made the family
wash, clothe, and take the child into
their Circle ; _but a day or two after,
he caught them attempting to remove
it frfini their home by stealth, and the
husbtind hud-wife were put in jail.—
The only excuse they gave for keep
ing tlie little sufferer Chained in bis
prisoti for three years, was that he
could not speak, and, they, were
ashametkof him. It was with difficulty
the neighbors were jjrevented from
lysielung them. - ,
Classes of Chinese.
Chinamen 'are divided into five
classes, in the following order f
1. The scholars, who‘are held in the
highest respect, and arc the only ones
that can ever hope for preferment in
the government.
2. Agriculturists, the most honest
class among the whole people.
3. Artizans, whose specimens of
workmanship are equal to any in the
world. The art of printing, the mag
netic needle, gunpowder, gas—all were
known in China centuries before they
were in Europe.
4. The merchants, who arc shrewd
and unscrupulous, and who live by
cheating.
0. The soldiers, who are held in the
utmost contempt.
To these are added two morcclasses
—the priests and the beggars ; the
former ignorant and degraded, and the
latter a pest to society.
The people of China are liars and
thieves. They speak of death with
the utmost carelessness, and frequent
ly the sick man will die rather than go
to the expense of procuring a physi
cian.
A curious elopement occurred in
Ohio, last week, the parties being Mr.
Scott, who eloped with Mrs. Johnson,
while on the same day, and from the
same place, Mrs. Scott agreed to leave
with Mr. Johnson. In blissful ignor
ance, both parties proceeded on the
same train, but in different cars, as
far as Cressline, when they accident
ally met on the platform of the depot.
A moment for astonishment and re
cognition, and then ribbons Aew. a
regular pitched battle ensued. For
breaking the peace they were fined,
and finally, indulging in many hard
names, they departed, and left in the
'same companionship as they had
come, on different trains.
Lately, at St. Louis, a cow was
seen to ascend a fiight of stairs over a
grocery store. She got up into the
first story so comfortable that, says
an exchange, like many ambitious per
sons climbing Fame's high steep, she
determined to go up higher, and actu
ally succeeded in climbing the second
fiight of stairs, Looking about and
seeing nothing to eat, she attempted
to descend, but her courage failed.—
Those who witnessed the singular per
formance were obliged to slide her
down on a plunk.
Captain Travis, the celebrated
marksman, in order to test the truth
of the assertion that the hide of a rhi
noceros will resist a bullet, shot at the
specimen of this pachyderm, on exhib
ition in Memphis, on Saturday night
last. The bullet fell to the ground
flattened by contact with the thick
skin. The animal did not even move
when he was struck.
fitcnijjia fUttklij.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27.
~ OUR POSITION.
It appears that an “ armistice” has
been agreed upon between the com
missioners of the Confederate States
and tho Black Republican adminis
tration at Washington. There are so
many and to different rumors as re
gards tlie real purpose or benefit of
this armistice, that we confess our in
ability to clear up the mystery. Yet
we are not alone in believing, either
that the abolition leader is backing
down from his aggressive inaugural, or
that the armistice is a mere ruse for
gaining time, to concentrate all the
available executive and military force
of the Black Republican dynasty, pre
paratory to sudden and well sustained
war.
Nor do we think we are precipitate
in asserting, that the Confederate
States should end the existing harry
ing suspense in tlie minds of all men,
by granting no longer delay to the
proved imbecile, who well represents
the head of a political chimera. In
the debates in the Federal Congress
the abolition leaders boldly declare
that the qvacuation (?) of Fort Sum
ter, does in no wise mean that their
executive is to give up the present
status of garrisoned forts, nor to
abandon tlie belligerent policy of col
lecting the revenues of our ports.
To us it seems that a military, as
well as a political necessity demands
that the Northern States shall hold
the Atlantic and Gulf fortresses, as
long as possible; just as England holds
her Gibraltar at the entrance of the
Mediterranean, or as other European
powers grasp important fortresses on
soils not their own.
It remains to be seen if this youth
ful and powerful government, will de
grade itself, at its very birth, by per
mitting a single foot of its soil, or a
single fathom of its seas to be held
arid fortified by a foreign power.
Already the abolition'sts are ingreat
glee over the appointment of the no
torious Tom Corwin, ns Minister to
Mexico; whither he i3 to go to guar
antee that effete and mongrel govern
ment the future armed protection of
Lincoln's administration. Th!4 is
done to prevent the expansion, south
ward, of our Confederacy ’, and also to
strike palms with England and France
in the grand fanatical scheme of ulti
mately crushing negro slavery. This
Tom Corwin is the modern Benedict
Arnold (without that traitor’s cour
age,) who declared, during the late
Mexican war, that he hoped the Mex
icans would “ welcome the Americans,
his fellow countrymen, with bloody
hands and hospitable graves!”—
Doubtless his mission now is to pre
pare the same “ welcome” for the
South.
Insignificant as Tom Corwin is in
himself, as Minister to Mexico he is a
“speck of war’ —the war that must
inevitably sweep from Maine to Texas
ere the Black Republican party de
scends to its final doom—total extinc
tion.
This grievous delay has become in
tensely irksome to the fiercer spirits
of the lutog insulted South, and the
longer it continues tlie more terrible
will be the contest.when it does begin.
The insolence of the dominant*’fac
tion at Washington has greatly in
creased, since the action of North Car
olina and Arkansas, and we live in
daily expectation of hearing that our
Commissioners have left that City
baffled, deceived and insulted.
We are no advocate for war, but
know it to be the greatest calamity
that can befall a nation; yet deem
war scarcely a greater evil that this
carking, corroding crisis of paralyzing
suspense.
The burden of every abolition speech
in the House or in the Senate is, that
“the authority of the United States
will be maintained by peaceful means
—if peaceful means will suffice."
If that seems favorable to anybody
in this section we pity his intelli
gence.
JO CONTRIBUTORS.
It is a common error among new
contributors to a newspaper to suppose
that the editor has no right to alter or
shorten their articles. As the editor
has a right’ to judge for himself what
will best please his subscribers, and to
suit all contributions to the tone and
style of his paper, we presume to state
that no one has a right to tell him how
much, or what shall be published in
his paper. Nor has the author of any
rejected article more right.of
courtesy to ask for the reasons of its
rejection. Few, save the editor,
know the ihass of manuscripts offered
for publication, and few know how of
ten he sacrifices his trained judgment
to his kindly feeling for the author in
publishing what will benefit no one.—»
He often spends in an arti
cle more time than the. author did in
writing .in it. In many cases were he
to publish an article as it is presented,
he would expose both the writer and
himself to deserved ridicule. And
the editor is always the greatest suf
ferer ; for his paper deteriorates in
character as its columns are weak, in
sipid, commonplace or incorrect.
A paper is the property of the pub
lisher ns much as a farm is the prop
erty .of a farmer; and the former has
as much right as the latter to sow seed
of his own selection and to cultivate
it as he pleases.
An editor should be supposed to
know what is worth publishing, for
that is liis own and peculiar business.
Let it be remembered that the pub
lisher makes the' fame of the writer,
and not the writer the fame of tho
publisher. To make his paper inter
esting the editor has but to use the
exhaustless stores of standard and
world renowned authors, or to cull
from the literary granaries of his ex
changes.
The professional writer receives
substantial pay for his articles both in
money and fame. But the “thrown
off-in a-leisure-hour” style of writing
gets more than its due, in nine cases
out of ten, in being printed.
Wc shall ever be pleased to receive
contributions both in prose and verse ;
yet cling to our right to alter, prune,
accept or reject as our judgment dic
tates ; and if any one is unwilling to
give us this right we respectfully de
cline all his or her supposed favors.
Many of our contributors present
their articles in perfect shape—other#
do not; and to all we say we will read
and then act as we see proper —be
grateful where thanks are due, and in
dependent of all dictation. If our
paper suffers for such independence—
it is our business.
NINETY-THREE YOUNG DOCTORS.
From the Savannah Republican we
learn that ninety-three young doctor#
were graduated the other day, from a
Medical College in South Carolina. —
The Republican very pertinently
asks what will become of these new
fledged medicos. Let us rather de
mand what will become of the coun
try ! Our young men are crowded
into the learned professiens, already
replete with beggardly practitioners;
and, after graduating, not one in ten
gains a decent support from his pro
fession (?) We need more, a thousand
times more, mechanics, artizans, or
artists; men of bone, muscle and
sinew. We can spare a thousand,
more or less, of our genteel loafers,
would-be professionals, and the good
of the community never be the sufferer.
Our country would be incalculably
benefited were two-thirds of the
“ highfliers” of our colleges taught
how to handle the plane, saw, ormal
let. Every man who has a heavy
purse seems to think his sons embryo
Galens. or Ciceros, or Napoleons and
so makes a mistake that spoils what
might, with proper training, become a
useful and industrious citizen.
Ninety-three young doctors! Nine
ty-three who must kill ten apiece be
fore they can save one—say 1,000
dead men to make J dozen good doc
tors !
Who are Entitled to Vote for Militia
Officers.
This question has been frequently
asked within the last fevy weeks, in
anticipation of the coming election
for Militia officers in this county. Wo
have examined the law on the subject,
and find that all persons subject to
Militia duty are entitled to vote.—
“Who are subject to Militia duty ?”
The law says, “All free born white
male citizens, between the age of 18
and 45 years are subject, unless ex
cepted by the U. S. Laws, or Laws of
of this State,” without regard (as we
understand it,) to the length of time
they have resided within the jurisdic
tion of the office for which they vote.
This we conceive to be an explicit an
swer to the question.
4*6“ We shall soon begin the pub
lication of a serial Southern Bonmpce,
from the pen of the editor of this
paper, titled; Rqsptta, the Wine
Seller's Daughter ; or tjje Night
before the Battle of New Orleans.
This romance will run for two or
three months in our columns, yet all
its events and scenes are represented
as having transpired between the hours
7 and 12 o’clock of the night of tho
7th of January, 18lS! Subscribe early;