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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;