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A Bit of Advice, from an Old Man to
the Merritofcther Boys.
Come, join our compabyi
Both young and old,
Face tp the front.
Look fierce and bold I
For whether our cause
Be right or wrong,
We will show Old Abe
We’re brave and strong.
Our country he’s threatened
With blood and plunder—
Guns to tbs shoulder,
And give him thunder I
Greenville, April Ist. T.
Physical Advantages of Drill.
In a paper read at the Social Science
meeting at Glassgow, recently, Mr.
Edwin Chadwick says:
“It is common to hear the manly
education of English youth and of the
healthy exercise they have received
made matter of boast; but what pro
portion of the population do they form
who receive these- advantages ? In
the densely-crowded-in town districts,
what space is there for citizens’ chil
dren to partake of any such exercise ?
or what time is there after the present
school-hours to get to any space out
of the town to engage in them ? These
or other games ought to be maintained
and provided for, but they do not,
however, dispense systematised
bodily training. Cricket often leaves
contracted chests, which a well-ap
plied drill 6r systematised gymnastics
expand; round shoulders, which the
drill makes staight; shambling gait,
which the drill makes regular, and
firm and quick. The youth of Eton
and Oxford, I have been assured by
the collegiate authorities, are greatly
improved in health and strength, and
in every way, by the common military
drill, in addition to their common ex
ercises. For the middle and higher
classes, who could afford it, the cavalry
drill or exercise would be a val
uable sanity as well as a civil* and
military improvement. As denoting
the connection between body and mind,
it may be mentioned that as a general
rule, to which there are fewer excep
tions than might be supposed, those
who are foremost in the drill and in
bodily exercises are found in low
schools as well as high to be among
the foremost in mental exercises.—
Our higher class education, which gov
erns the education of the middle and
the lower class, is assumed to be classi
cal ; but in the hands of the ecclesias
tics of the middle ages, from whom we
derived it, it ceased to be so ; it is not
now so, and our movement ought to
be, to make it strictly so; for the
classics, as maybe seen from the dicta
of Plato, Aristotle and Galen, put the
bodily training before the mental, and.,
by the Greeks and Romans during the
time of their strength, it was most
successfully cultivated. There is
what some will deem a curious and
most important collateral effect of
systematical exercise, to which I must
now solicit attention. I have collect
ed the evidence of the employers of
laborers, who establish the fact, that
the drill adds at the least one fifth to
to the efficiency and value of youth
and men as laborers in after life;
four drilled men doing at least as
much work as five undrilled lads or
laborers. The drill teaches them
quick attention, obedience, with the
promptexecution of demands.—
Drilled laborers move together, lift
together, pull -together, and do their
work They are less clumsy
and avoid the frequent accidents by
which some five thousand lives are
lost every year, mainly from clumsi
ness and inaptitude. The superior
apitude communicated by the naval
drill to boys at school has occasioned
under-sized and puny town-born lads
to be preferred in the mercantile mar
ine to the robust and strong, but un
drilled lads from the open cottages on
the sea-coast are chosen and preferred
at lower premiums as apprentices. —
This bodily training, which to some
extent is begun in the infant school,
but may be begun and ought to be
carried on with the military drill at
the fifth year, and the boy will have
completed it, and also other accom
plishments, by his tenth or eleventh
year. By that time, the weakened
child will have been straightened by
bodily exercises; the moderately
healthy child of the town artizan will
be made comparatively robust, more
apt for all industrial employment, more
attentive and orderly, more prompt,
and worth more wages; in his adult
stage, he will earn more by as many
additional shillings per week as the
additional expense of his whole mili
tary training in childhood ; an extra
penny a week will have sufficed in
childhood to defray the expense of his
bodily cultivation. For civil purposes
alone, and simply in the interest of
the individual pupil, the improved
bodily training and the drill is a prof
itable investment totally irrespective
of any national military objects.”
Some six months ago, a son of Cas
per Kingenhagen, of Plymouth* fell
from an apple three, and one the twig3
was thrust between his right eye and
nose, causing a painful wound, which
has never healed, but continued in
flamed and painful, and at times
threatened the loss of the eye. The
boy was taken to the eye and ear in
firmary in Boston, recently, where,
under the influence of either, a piece
of wood was removed from the eye of
the sufferer, measuring an inch and
one-eighth in length, and about a
quarter of an inch in diameter. He
is now doing well, and is likely to re
cover.
jjgs- read what Downing
says. He is a “ well off ’’ negro ojfs
terman —cook and caterer —in Hew
York, He tells the truth as regards
the “ free nigger equality” in the
Noi;th:
“ The fact is,” said Downing, “ I
wonder how it was that a colored man
ever got on at all. I remember it is
now forty-five years ago when I first
thought of commencing the oyster
trade, I had a very little capital, and
commenced with my basket of oys
ters> and was soon able to get another,
and I added a little, weekly, to my
stock in trade, I soon had competi
tors, but still it was confined entirely
to colored men, so that by persever
ance and industry we, in a short time,
began to do a passable business ; in
fact, we were enabled to live and do
something for our families. But the
white .man saw it, and he thought ho
would speculate. He did so, and be
gan to draw . away our custom. He
had more capital, and was enabled to
do a better business. The poor col
ored men quit the field, one by one,
yet 1 remained and managed to live.
Soon the ‘oyster’ trade became a
flourishing one ; arid now we have our
Aston House, our Si. Nicholas and
Fifth Avenue Hotels, as well a^‘ail
the other small fry, all, having their
oyster openers _ and their private res
taurants. This arose from what- the
colored man commenced.
“ The trade being thus spoiled, and
“ Othello’s occupation gone-,” the col
ored man next took to shaving and hair
-dressing, This succeeded also, but
the black man is not industrious;
but the white man saw we were thriv
ing, and he stepped in, and now we
have our Phalon’s and our Batchelors,
and others. Still, in the business, the
colored man is pretty successful.
“ As body servants, waiters, and in
all other menial occupations, the col
ored men continued to thrive; and, at
least, managed to eke out a subsis
tence. But the white man stepped in
here, too ; and now, with one or two
exceptions, all the hotels are supplied
with white waiters, and very few pri
vate families have colored servants.
“ Our next downward trip was street
sweeping. With our broom and shovel
and wheelbarrow we went on from
day to day picking up garbage, and
endeavoring to earn a few pennies.—
But the white ragpicker and the
“ machine ” sweeper came in, and the
colored man, not being allowed to as
sociate with the white man, had to cast
about for another business. Any
thing, however menial, any thing to
support life. Accordingly, we became
night scavengers, cleaners of water
closets and other places of that kind,
and removers of the soil. Here, we
thought, we would surely remain un
disturbed. The labor was great, the
work most disgusting, and our natural
rest was lost. And we did succeed
for a while. But the white man saw T
it was a profitable speculation, and
we were not allowed to enjoy a mo
nopoly even of this disgusting busi
ness. One and another came in and
offered their services, and at length
capitalists put their money into the
business, and large contracts were
made for the work. The black man’s
“nose was put out of joint,” and he
had once more to seek for anew field
of labor.
“We now struck upon a business
which we really thought would be
above the white man, or that he would
consider himself above it. The oys
ter business was decent and respecta
ble ; hair-dressing was decidedly so;
shaving was not altogether barbar- ous,
though performed by a barber; body
servants and domestics had their white
representatives everywhere; even night
scavengering was not so bad, because
at night the party engaged in it was
not known ; but our new business we
believed to be the lowest in the scale.
And so we went to work, got brushes,
blacking and a stand, and commenced
polishing the understanding of the
people. In plain English, we became
shoe-blacks. And in this we were
most successful. Many of our little
boys used to earn from one to two dol
lars a day, and even more. This was
seen. In came the white man; he
was extensively patronised, and poor
Sambo, as you call him, had to give
way.
“ We now thought we had gone as
low in the scale as we could descend,
and therefore agreed to go no lower.
We ask but for a little ‘ raise ’ now.”
Negro Applicants for Office.—
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Express, in a recent letter
to that journal, says:
The number of applicants for minor
offices by colored men, is perfectly as
tonishing from Massachusetts alone. I
am informed that for postmaster’s
berth there are on the file over two
hundred and ten applications, and the
opposition is that there are several
black applicants filed away amongst
the white ones. In order to save
trouble, let me suggest to each appli
cant the propriety of making an affi
davit as to the color of his skin, &c.,
and enclose it in his application,
while those whose applications are al
ready on file, should forward it to the
department immediately. This plan
would, undoubtedly, facilitate busi
ness, and enable the applicant to ob
tain his appointment much sooner than
he would if he leaves the department
to find out his color, breed, &c., as
the department are determined not to
make appointments from the colored
ranks without knowing it, no matter
how well they may be endorsed.
THE G EORGIA WE EK LV
Things we are Tired of.
We are tired of hearing the girls
say they have “ rid time ” to read
Macauly arid Milton, when they will
sit up half the night to find out
whether - the hero of a red pepper
novel gets knocked on the head, or es
capes from the shipwreck with his
lady-love and her on a
board four inches square. We are
tired of hearing women Complain that
their husbands don’t care so much for
them as they used to, and setting it
down to the score of heartlessness,
when it is nothing on earth but the
sour bread and burned ham at the
breakfast table. Knock at the door
of their affections with a frying-pan,
and they’ll open it fast enough! We
are tired listening to the out-cry of
“hard times” from businessmen, who
wonder “ where on earth the money
slips to,” when part of it is leaking
out at the top of their head, through
a costly Panama hat, and part shut up
up in a cigar-case in their coat pock
ets, and part going down their throats
in “brandy smashes.” We are tir
ed of being “brought up short ” by a
pair of heels planted on the trails of
our silken raiment, and still more tir
ed of being transfixed by the scowl of
a fashionable lady when we get swam
ped among the flounces. We are tired
of seeing women box their babies’ ears
for making' Such a racket with their
trumpets and drums, and then set the
neighborhood’s nerves on edges with
piano practice and throat-splitting bra
vuras. We are tired of the women
who can’t talk about 'anything but
Bobby’s measles, and the price of silk
and starch—we are tired of the men
who chew tobacco in your face, and
pull out their pocket knives to trim
their nails, while they are talking with
you—we are tired of the Children who
learn French and philosophy at five
years old, and converse in four sylla
ble words of the dictionary, and don’t
know what buttercups mean; and we
are tired of the old ladies who dress in
the style of sweet sixteen ! —A Lady.
Can the Dead Win at Cards?
l A very curious law case came re
cently before a German court, arising
from the following circumstances: >
A gentleman sat at a faro table in
the town of Koethen, in Saxony; play
ing with the usual attention and 'sc
ience. Sever *pl ays were made, and
the cards which the gentleman con
tinued unchangedly to put forward,,
won repeatedly. The gold pushed
toward the winner by the croupier,
however, was not drawn by him, and
after several more accumulations had
made the pile inconveniently large,
the keeper of the bank rathgr*angrily.,
requested the fortunate, man to take in
his money. With his
his card, the player took nO notice of
the request. *• , '*
“Draw in your gold !” was again
uttered by several around the table. ;
No answer.
“Monsieur! you imeommode the
other players!” said the .-croupier.
The same motionless silence.
A person sitting next the offender
took hold of his hand. It was stone
cold. The winner was dead.
As the body was being removed,
the croupier drew back the money he
had shoved towards the dead player,
alleging that the game based upon re
ciprocal engagements, could not exist
between the dead and living. The
heirs of the defunct presented them
selves the day after, declaring that
the winner had regularly commenced
and continued the game. The ques
tion was carried before the tribunal of
Koethen, and will probably depend
upon the evidence as to the point of
time the player ceased to live. [Since
decided in favor of the heirs of the
dead man.— Ed. G. W.]
Atlantic Soundings. —Soundings
in the Atlantic have revealed the fact
that at least two hundred and thirty
miles from the coast of Ireland the wa
ter is still shallow, or, in other words,
that there is another Ireland only
waiting to be raised, thus reversing
the famous panacea for keeping the
country quiet. It is just beyond this
that the true Atlantic begins, the gulf
suddenly sinking to nine thousand
feet. Thus, Ireland one day may
have a coast line as high as the Alps.
The whole floor of the Atlantic is pa
ved with a Boft sticky substance, call
ed oaze, nine-tenths consisting of very
minute animals, many or them mere
lumps of jelly, and thousands of which
could float with ease in a.drop of wa
ter ; some resembling toothed wheels;
others bundles of spines, or threads
shooting from a little globule. Some,
however, are endowed with the prop
erty of separating flint from the sea
water —which is more than every
chemist could do ; and there are hun
dreds miles covered with the
skeletons of the&e little creatures. —
Part of this oaze is- doubtless from the
clouds of rain-dust which rise from
the vast steppes of South America in
such masses as to darken the sun, and
make the animals fly to shelter, and
which, after sweeping like a simoon
over the country, lose themselves in
the “ steep Atlantic.” No bones have
been found of the larger animals, so
that the kraken and sea-serpent might
sleep their last sleep, and leave not a
bone or a vertebra to tell the tale. —
Not a mast or anchor, not a block or
strand, not a coin or a keepsake has
been found to testify of the countless
gallant ships and more gallant men
who have gone down amid the pitiless
waves.
Hood describes a good church min
ister as “Piety Parson-ified.”
Salt. —Among the eastern nations
salt is a symbol of fidelity. A man
who has partaken of salt with you
is bound to you by the laws of hospi
tality ; and thus bread and salt are
eaten at the ratification of a bounty
or troaty to make it binding on all
parties. Salt is also an emblem of
desolation; ' conquered cities were
soiYn with salt. In Scotland and Ire
land suit appears to have been consid
ered .'to represent the incorruptible
spirit,- and was therefore laid above
the heart of a corpse; and, in some
cases, a platter was so placed, contain
ing a small portion of salt and earth
unmixed, the one to represent the;
mortal, and the other the immortal
part. In former days, when it was
the custom for all the household of a I
nobleman or a gentleman to dine to-1
gethtr,* the large salt cellar, which
was placed in the middle of the table,
was the boundary line of distinction
between the family and the menials.
A Newport paper says:—
“ A young roan residing not a thou
sand miles from Beck street, being dis
appokitcd in going to the Bluff last
Monday/consoled himself by consum
ing the following refreshments, in ad
dition to three heai;tyi meals. Five
sheets of gingerbread, tliree glasses of
small beer, five glasses of nectar,
three largfc pickles, twenty cocoa'nut
cakes, six .ounces choclate cream
drops, ten cigars, seven large apples,
half pint of peanuts, four cents, worth
of old cheese, one stick of candy, one
pint of new milk, four glasses of ice
water, and an emetic, which was or
dered by a physician, to save his life
for further duties. ’
The honor of being the first female
smoker in England is due to Queen
Elizabeth, who copied the habit from
Raleigh, and was, in her turn, imita
ted by ladies of her court. There
was another claimant for this honor in
the bf one Melly Cutpurse, a
low woman famous for her follies and
crimes, but upon examination, it was
found that the distinction belonged to
the Virgin Queen. Moll never laid
aside her pipe till her death, in 1G92.
She was an original genius, as was
shown by a direction in her will, that
her nephew, to whom she left the
bulk of her property, “should not lay
it out foolishly, but get drunk while it
lasted.”
Asa woman was walking, a man
looked at and followed her.
“Why,” said she, “do you follow
me
“ Because I have fallen in love with
jeli.”
“Why so 1 My sister, who is com-j
fetter, is iBWh %ttrdsurncr than TANARUS,
go and make love to her.”
The man turned back and saw a
woman with an ugly face, and being
greatly displeased, returned and said:
“Why did you tell a story ?”
The woman answered, “Neither did
you tell me the truth. If you are in
love with me, why did you look for
another woman ?”
A Dilemma. —Old Abe’s .adminis
tration is just now in a most woful
fix. If coercion is attempted towards
the seceded States, the Border Slave
States will go out of the Union, and
the country will be lost. If a pacific
policy is adopted, the Chicago plat
form will go to pieces, and the Black,
Republican party will be broken into
fragments. The President’s position'
may now be likened to an intoxicated
individual, who was one very cold,
night holding on to a spile on the
edge of the dock and thus moralized,
“If I hold on here,” said he, “ I shall:
certainly freeze to death, and if I let;
go I shall fall in the water and be|
drowned.”
The Largest Hotel in the World.
—The new Lindell hotel at St. Louis*
approaches completion. Its construc
tion will cost over 600,000. It is the
largest hotel in the world, far exceed- 1
ing in size any in New York or Phila
delphia. The front on Washington:
street is 212 feet, and its.depth is 227-
feet. It will easily accommodate]
twelve hundred guests, and the boar- i
ders can take a walk of a mile and aj
half before-breakfast, by going through j
the several halls, without visiting any
of them twice. The Messrs. Leiand,|
of this city, have the lease for fifteen!
years.
Increased Dem and in France for|
Cotton. —We learn from the Emperor
Napoleon's message, that since the re
duction of the French tariff the amount
of cotton imported to France has in-,
creased thirty per cent.; the importa
tion of wool has increased twenty perji
cent., and that of indigo fifty pei|
cent. Anew impetus has beon given,
to manufactures of all kinds. |
The London Telegraph thinks that
the English people have heretofore!
given too little attention to the poli-J
tics and policy of the great American
nation, and in view of the universal!
ignorance of its readers, it commences
an explanatory essay, with the remarll
that the trouble now pending in Auser-j
ica is occasioned by the desire of Vir
ginia to extend slavery in the States
of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michi
gan. ___
Marks of Character. —The man
everybody likes is generally a fool.—
The man nobody likes is usually a
knave. The man who has friends who
would die for him, and foes who would
love to see him broiled alive, is usu
ally a man of some worth and force.
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B.'S. ATKINSON,
Editor and Proprietor.
WM ; S. LAWSON,
Wholesale and Retail dealer in
DRY MODS,
CROCKERY,
HARDWARE & VARIETIES,
Respectfully solicits the custom of the
pebplfe of Merriwether county at hts store
in Greenville; where he will always be found
ready to Sell upon the most accommodating
terms,
Silks, Satins, Broadcloths, Homespuns, Domes
tics, coarse, tine and superfine Stuffs, Ho
siery, Osnaburgs, Yarns, Shirt Bosoms
in every style—plain andfancy—Magic
Ruffle, Ribbons, Straw-goods, Hard
ware, Axes, Hoes, Locks,
v Cutlery, Crockery,
Wooden ware,
Boots and Shoes,
Harness, Books, Stationery,
Perfumes and Fancy Articles —in
short everything from a37j cent Piano
to a £I,OOO bill of goods. Those who can
not be pleased elsewhere will not be disappoint
ed in him ; therefore, visit him first, and go on
your way rejoicing. I—ly
SOUTHERN
COTTON PACER!
THIS SCREW was invented by 11. G. Wil
liams, of Georgia, end is decidedly the
most convenient and durable Screw now in use.
It can be worked by hand or horse power. The
entire cost of this Screw will not exceed $125.
Any planter wishing to build a Screw that will
last bis life time will please
signed for the right. J. N.
2-ly Warner ville , Merriwether Cos., Ga.
SliiiiglesS
The undersigned having located at
WilliamsviHe, Pike County, Ga.,
begs leave to say to those interested in b ilding,
that they tan be supplied by calling on him, at
the rate of? 2.35 per thousand at the pile.
Orders filled at short notice.
WM. W. BEAUCHAMP.
February 17th, 1861. 3-ly
IMPROVE TOOR CROPS
_ „ AND the most effectual way
‘"~“f to do this is to use Rhodom
i liili Brooks’justly celebrated Sub
‘stfil BLOW. Call on Steed Lewis, and you
can be supplied.
WooTlbury, Get., March 14, 18G1. Y-3t
BOOTS AND SHOES!
LADIES’, Gents’ and Children’s Boots and
Shoes of all descriptions for sale by
1-ly HARRIS & JACOBSON.
ATACON AND COLUMBUS SHIRT-
IyJL iugs, Osnaburgs, Colton Y arns, and Geor
gia Stripes, sos sale br
1-ly .-*• HARRIS <L-JACOBSO-V.
SOMTHERN ENTERPRISE!
rpIIE undersigned having, with a view to
profit, and commercial independence, pur
chased the TANNERY in this place, are desir
ous bf purchasing a supply of
BAKK <3c ZETIIDIES-
They ask the people to aid them in this enter
prise by saving all the Bark and Hides, for
which they will pay the highest prices in CASII.
Now show your patriotism by saving the Bark
and Hides, and we will furnish the Leather and
Shoe3. ELLIS & FREEMAN.
Greenville, March 18, 1861. 7-ts
ISrEY7C r 'GOODS L
FOR SPRING TRADE
1 86 1 ! !
rpilE subscribers have received a very hand
_L some assor(men|'ol>
SPSIN6 COBISI
which will be sold on reasonable terms to
prompt paying credit customers, or for Cash.
Give our stock of Dry Goods an examination
before making your purchases.
HARRIS A JACOBSON.
Grceuvillc, March 15;A, 1861. 1- ly
PLANTERS!
DOUBLE YOUR CROPS!
And improveyonrLinds, with 200lbs.peracre,of
JARVIS k BAKER’S ISLAND
G XT -SL TtfO -
THIS is the best and cheapest manure ever
used. Its application will dopble any crop
with ordinary seasons.
For Sale on Easy Terms to Everybody.
CASH PRICES IN GRIFFIN:
Jarvis’ Island Guano, ground, S4S.QAb.
r -
Raker’s Island Guano, ground,
Tb> ’above Gua-os wjlf be sold for e.p§
acceptances, payable Ist November
dollars per ton over_tbe above price
% \V. FEKRIK^p^
Griffin, Feb. 16th, 1861.