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VOL. VI.
ATHENS. GEO. SATURDAY. MARCH 10* 1838.
NO. 51.
The Southern Banner
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with the establishment, must be postpaid in ordcrlo
secure attention.
:tatiw ot Advertising.
Letters of Citation, ... §275
Notice to Debtors und Creditors, (40 days) 3 25
Four Months’ Notices, . . . 4 00
Sales of Personal Property, by Executors,
Administrators, or Guardians, • 3 25
Sales of Lands or Negroes, by do. 4 75
Application for Letters of Dismission, 4 50
Other Advertisements, 75 cents for every thirteen
lines of small type, (or space equivalent,) first inser
tion, and 50 cents for each weekly continuance. If
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sertion only, §1 00 per square.
AovuSTISements should always have the desired i
number of in*, lions marked upon them when hand,
•ed in, otherwise they will be published till forbid
and charged accordingly.
llT Notice of the sale of Land and Negroes by Ad-
niinistrutors, Executors, or Guardians, must be pub.
lished sixty days previous to the day ofsale.
The sale of Personal Projierty, in like manner,
must lie published fatly days previous to the sale.
Notico to debtors and creditors of an estate, must
be published fort y days.
Notice that Application will be made tothe Court
of Ordinary, for leave to sell Land orNegrocs. must
3d
4th
Jefferson,
Thomas,
Bibb,
Decatur.
June.
1st Monday, Baldwin,
Richmond.
3d •• Decatur.
4th “ Coindeii.
Wayne, Thursday after.
Glynn, Mon. thereafter.
M’lutnsh, Thursday “
Lit-eriy, Monday “
Bryan, Wednesday “
Inferior Courts.
EASTERN CIRCUIT.
Wayne ;
Last
Monday
in
December and May.
Camden ;
1st
do
do January and June.
Glynn ;
2d
do
do
do
do
McIntosh ;
3d
do
do
do
do
Bryan ;
4th
do
do
do
do
Liberty ;
2d
do
do
do
do
Bulloch ;
1st
do
do February and July.
Effingham,
; 2d
u do
do
do
do
Chatham ;
3d
do
do
do
do
Columbia;
Washington; 4th
Montgomery ; I st
Tattnall;
Emanuel;
Striven;
llurke;
Jefferson ;
Richmond;
MIDDLE CIRCUIT.
1st Monday in July and last in Jan’y.
uo
do
in January and July,
in February and August.
2d
do
do
do do
1st
do
in January
and Jiily.
2d
do
do
do do
1st
do
do
do do
3d
do
do
do do
4th
do
in October
and April.
Madison;
Elbert ;
Ogiethorpe,
Lincoln ;
Hancock ;
Warren ;
Wilkes;
Taliaferro;
1st
1st
2d
1st
1st
j Franklin;
Rabun;
I Gwinnett;
I Jackson ;
• Clark;
COURT CALENDAR.
From the Georgia Journal.
Siipepior Coiii lN.
January.
1st Monday, Richmond,
2d “ Chatham.
August.
1st Monday, Stewart,
Floyd.
February.
lit Monday, Stewart,
Floyd.
Paulding, Thursd. before.
2d Monday, ('.lark,
Macon,
2d
3d
Randolph,
Cass.
Walton,
Crawford,
Early,
Cherokee.
Baker,
Jackson,
Me ri wether,
Forsyth,
Upson.
Lee. Thursday after.
4th
3d
Clark,
Randolph,
Cass,
Macon.
Walton,
Crawford,
Early,
Cherokee.
Walton ;
be published four mouths. j Habersham;
Notice that Application will he made for Letters ! Hall;
of Administration, ’.nust be published thirty days, and
or Letters of Dismission, six months.
Agcuts for the llanm-r.
Lairrer.crviUe, A. R. Smith, Esq.
Carnesrille, A. E. Whitten, Esq.
Clarksville, Lewis Levy, Esq.
Monroe. Lekoy Pattii.lo, Esq.
NORTHERN CIRCUIT.
2d Monday in January and July.
3d do do do.
4th do January and June,
do February and July,
do in February and 3d in Aug.
do February and August,
do January and July,
do June and December.
WESTERN CIRCUIT.
4th Monday in January and July.
1st do in July and January.
in June and December,
in January and July,
in Oct., and 2d in May.
in July and January,
in January and July,
in May and November.
2d
1st
4th
2d
4th
3d
do
do
do
do
do
do
OC.MULGEK circuit.
Wilkinson; (2d Monday in July and January.
Jones; 4th do iu do do
Jasper’, 4th do in January and July.
Baldwin; 3d do in February and August.
Greene; 1st Tuesday in January, and 2d Monday in
June.
Morgan; 1st Monday in June and December.
Putnam ; 3d Monday in do do.
SOUTHERN CIRCUIT.
4th Monday in January and July.
3d do in January and 1st in June,
in January and July,
in June and December.
March.
1st Monday, Coweta,
Morgan,
2d
4th
2d
Lumpkin,
Pike,
Sumpter,
Taliaferro.
Columbia,
Fayette,
Greene,
l.aurens,
Madison,
Marion,
Monroe,
Gwinnett,
Union.
Gilmer, Wednesday after.
3d Monday, Butts,
Elbert,
DeKalb,
Hall,
Putnam,
Talbot,
Murray.
Bulloch,
Cobb,
Dooly,
Newton,
Walker,
Washington,
Wilkoa.
Effingham, Thurs. after.
AnuL
l it Monday, Warren,
Wilkinson,
Campbell.
Carroll,
Dade,
Camdon,
Hancock,
Harris,
Henry,
Franklin,
Montgomery
Twiggs.
Tattnall, Thursday after.
Wayne,
3d Monday. Emanuel,
Habersham,
Heard,
Glynn,
Jones,
Muscogee,
Oglethorpe,
Pulaski,
M’lntosh, Thursday after
4th Monday, Scriven,
Lincoln,
Rabun,
Jasper,
Telfair,
Houston,
Troup,
Liberty,
Irwin, Thursday f .ft er ,
Bryan, Wednesday after.
May.
**t Monday, Burke, .
» App^e.
^*re, Thursday after,
-fl Monday, Chatham,
Xktvndea, .
1th “ Baker,
Houston;
4th
do
in March and September.
Jackson,
Butts ;
2d
do
in January and July.
Emanuel,
Crawford
3d
do
in May and November.
Upson,
Upson ;
2d
do
iu do
do
M* mvethor,
Pike ;
1st
do
iu June and December.
Forsyth.
Monroe ;
2d
do
in do
do
Lee, Thursday thereafter.
Norton ;
4th
do
in do
do
Henry ;
4 th
do
in January and July.
SurravuKR.
1st Monday, Pike,
Gilmer,
3d
3d
4th
Sumter,
Morgan,
Taliaferro,
CoweU,
Lumpkin.
Columbia,
Greene,
Madison,
Laurens,
Monroe,
Fayette,
Marion,
Gwinnett,
Union.
Elbert,
Hulls,
DeKalb,
Hall,
Talbot,
Murray,
Putnam.
Newton,
Cobb,
Walker,
Bulloch,
Dooly,
Washington,
Wilkes.
Twiggs;
Lowndes;
Thomas;
Dooly ;
Decatur ;
Telfair;
Inrin;
Laurens ;
Pulaski;
Appling ;
Ware ;
1st
4th
2d
1st
4th
1st
3d
3d
4th
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
in March and December,
iu April and 2d in October,
in January and 1st in July,
in June und December,
in January and July,
in June anil December,
in do do
FLINT CIRCUIT.
Bibb; 2d Monday in February and August.
B. B. LORD & CO.
- AV E just received a new
l and beautiful assortment of
Gold A Silver Watch
es •ietvulry, Ac.
Which makes their stock very
complete.
Gold Watches.
Fine London Duplex, Lever, Cylinder and Pok’t
CHRONOMETERS.
Independent seconds, 22 Jewels, with Lever es
capement.
Lady’s Anchor escapement, full jewol’d, with ruby
pallets.
Silver Levers, Cylinder, and common Watches.
Jewelry.
Diamond Rings and Broaches, Gold Chains of all
kinds.
A new and large supply of Gold Spectacles, Pen.
cil Cases, Finger Rings, and Watch Keys—very
handsome.
Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s Breast Pins, Gold Tooth
Picks, Duckies, Ear Rings and Pin, Sleeve Buttons
and Collar Buttons.
Silver Dessert Knives and Forks,and Butter Knives.
“ Table, Dessert and Tea Spoons.
“ Pencil Cases, Spectacles,Tooth Picks, Thim
bles and Snutf Boxes.
Silver Ear Rings and Pins, Watch Chains, Keys
and Hair Pius.
Silver plated Castors, Cake Baskets, Candlesticks
and Branches, and Snuffers and Trays.
A Variety Of Clocks, Astral Lamps, Brit-
tania Tea Sets and Percolators, Flower Vases, Wri
ting Desks, Work and Shaving Boxes, Coral, Gold
Beads, all sizes, Gold and Silver int’d Canes, Back-
gammon Boards, Chessmen and Boards, Purses, Ra.
zors, single, in pairs and cases of 7 each; Razor
Straps, Knives. Scissors, Shot Guns, Rifles, Pistols,
Game Bags, Flasks, Shot Pouches, &c. &c.
—also—
One Superior Toned Piano Forte,
Cloili and Stool,
Flutes, Accordions, Violins and Clarionets. Violin,
Guitar, and Bass Viol Strings.
0^7'Clocks and. Watches repaired and war
ranted.
Nov. 18.—35—tf.
BOOK BISMRY.
■* JpHE Subscribers would respectfully inform the
citizens of Athens, and tho public generally,
that they have united themselves in the above busi
ness, in the Third Story of Messrs. S. Tenney &. Co’s
Book Store, immediately over the Southern Whig
Office, where work will be executed in the neatest
ami handsomest style, at the shortest notice.
Day Books, Journals, Ledgers, Record, and Bank
Books, &.c., made to any pattern of Ruling or Bind
ing. CLARK Af BURDIN E.
Athens, Feb. 10.—47— ly.
CLOTHING STORE.
Subscribers would respectfully inform the
public, that they still keep up their usual assort-
inent of
Ready made Clothing-,
At their old stand opposite MilchelFs Hotel,
And will at all times be prepared to sell on the most
reasonable terras, every variety of garment, adapted
to the season. SHELTON ^ BUSH.
Athens, Jan. 13.—43.—tf.
NEW TAILOR’S SHOP.
FS'IIE undeisigned, re.
® cently from the City
of New York, respectful
ly informs the citizens of
Alliens, and the adjacent
country, that he has open-
ed a Shop in the House
formerly occupied as an
Office by Doct. Ware, in
this place, near the State
Bank, where he will be
happy to execute any or
ders with which he may
be favored in his line of
business. lie has had
many years’ experience in
the business, and will de
vote to it his personal at.
tention. His workmen will also be first rate; and
he hopes by his assiduous efforts to please, to re
ceive a share of the patronage of a liberal public.
13*Cutting of all descriptions, will be done on the
shortest notice, and in the most fashionable style.
B. F. CRANE.
Dee.. 2.—37—tf.
GROCERIES.
FjgIHE Subscriber is now opening at tho Storo for-
merly occupied by Mossrs. Sims, Lawrence &
Co., a general Stock of Groceries, embracing a great
variety of articles usually called for in that line of
business—all of which will be sold at a small ad-
vance on Augusta prices, for Cash only. Orders
for any articles will be promptly attended to.
O. P. SHAW.
Dee. 16.—39—tf.
Dortrs.
LIVERY STABLE.
INQUIRY OF A CHILD FOR A LOST
FATHER.
The following affecting letter, written by
a little girl only eight years of ago, has been
published in several newspapers, and mqui.
ries have been made for the father whose ah.
sence she so pathetically laments. These
inquiries have not been m vain. We learn
irotn the last 11 Southern Christian Advocate,”
that he is known to several persons in Charles- ,lie
ton, that he has read his child’s letter, and
that ere this, it is probublc he has sent her
the welcome intelligence that she is not yet
fatherless.
The interest which has been every where
expressed for the little forlorn one, has awa
kened the sympathetic muse of Mrs. Sigour-
ney, whose plaintive effusion will be found
annexed.
Wake Village, Maine, Oct. 13, 1837.
From II. h. Billings—I have learned by
my geography that the Southern people are
very hospitable to travellers. I often express
a wish to my teacher that I could go to Vir
ginia, and invite some of those kind people to
help me find my dear, dear father. Since it
is uot proper that I should go, she says that
I may write a letter and send to the kind peo
ple in Virginia, and ask them to make such
inquiries, or use such means for me,, ns their
1‘ttle girls Would like to have used if they had
a loved father lost.
My father's name is Daniel Billings. Four
years ago, when 1 was not quite half as old as
I now am,, he told me he was going to Vir
ginia. I cried very much, and said, * don’t
go off, father, I do love you better than any
1 else since my dear mother is dead and
TO CARRIAGE MAKERS.
F~BH1E Subscriber, residing in MONTICELLO,
-H- GEO., offers for sale, his
CII ATT A HOOCTIIE Cl RCUIT.
Steirarl;
Randolph ;
Lee ;
Sumpter;
Mai ion ;
Muscogee ;
Talbot;
Harris ;
Early ;
Raker ;
Macon ;
Octobeh.
1st Monday, Warren,
Wilkinson,
2d
3d
4th
Campbull,
Montgomery
Hancock,
Franklin,
Camden,
Twiggs,
Dade,
Henry,
Carroll,
Harris.
Emanuel,
Oglethorpe,
Habersham,
Jones,
Pulaski,
Heard,
Muscogee.
Scriven,
Lincoln,
Rabun,
Jasper,
Telfair,
Houston,
Troup.
November.
Bulloch, Wednesday be
fore tiro 1st Monday.
Effingham, Friday after
the 1st Monday.
2d Monday, Jefforson.
3d “ ' Burko,
Bibb,
Appling.
Ware, Thursday altar.
Lowndes, Monday there,
after.
December.
let Monday, Baldwin.
2d " Thomas.
Paulding ;
Cass;
Cherokee ;
Forsyth ;
Lumpkin ;
Union;
Gilmer ;
Murray ;
Walker ;
Floyd ;
Dade ;
2d
Mond;ij
f
April and October.
2d
do
m
May and November.
4th
do
in
do do
1st
do
in
Juno and December.
3d
do
in
May and November.
1st
do
in
June and December
3d
do
in
do do
3d
do
in
do do
2d
do
in
January and July.
4lh
do
in
do do
2d
do
in
May und Noveirtber.
CHEROKEE
CIRCUIT.
3d Monday
in
May and November.
4th
do
in
do do
1st
do
in
Jane and December.
2d
do
in
do dc
3d
do
in
do do
4th
do
in
do do
1st
do
in
July and January.
2d
do
in
do do
3d
do
in
do do
4th
do
in
do do
1st
do
in Juno and December.
Uari’iagc Establishment,
On good terms. Any young gentleman wishing to en.
gage in the business, would do well to call and exam
ine it, or write to me for further particulars. I have a
Superior tot of Timber,
And a sufficient quantity of Stock, with small con
tingencies, for 6 months operation ; all of which I of-
fer for first cost. As I am determined to sell, I
would give a bargain. The Stand, for a limited bu.
'incss, is not to be surpassed in the State.
THUS. H. BEVENS.
Monticcllo, Fob. 10.—47 9t.
Fayette;
COWETA CIRCUIT.
Carroll;
1st
do
Meriwether
4th
do
Tronp;
3d
do
Coxceta;
4th
do
DeKalb ;
2d
do
Campbell;
2d
do
Cobb ;
3d
do
Heard ;
4th
do
in February and August,
in April and October,
in June and 2d in January,
in June and Dccembor.
in July and January,
in Juno and December,
in do do
in May and November.
United States Courts.
Sixth Circuit for the district of Georgia James
M, Wayne, Circuit Judge—At Savannah. Thursday
after the 1st Monday, 3d May- Milledgetille, Thurs
day after the 1st Monday, 8tli November —Rules day,
the 1st Monday in each month, upon which days all
writs are returnable to the Clerk’s office in Savannah.
District Court—Jeremiah Cutler, Judge—In Sa.
vannah, 2d Tuesday 13th February—2d Tuesday 8lh
May—2d Tuesday 14th August—2d Tuesday 13th
November.
NOTES LOST.
L OST, some time in August last, at Mr. Henry
Jonnincrtt*. npnr plj.
Jennings’, near McNutt’s Creek, in Clark coun
ty, tho following notes : One on Jesse Pollard, due
the 25th Dec. 1837, for $7 00 ; one on A. S Will,
lams duo 25th Dec. 1837, for §10 00; ona on James
W. Espy, duo the same time, for §8 00. All i«r-
son* are cautioned against trading for said notes, as
they have been paid.
WARREN J. HILL, Guardian
. _. " ' f° r JOHN FREEMAN.
Feb. 24.—49—3t.«
THE PUBLIC
A RE cautioned not to. pay any Notes or Book Ac.
counts due to the subscriber, either to YVill«
iain M’BrydC or any other person, who may
present thorn for collection, as thev are not author
tzed by me, and the said Wm. Al’Bryde having been
guifiy of a breach of trust.
S. IF. BO AG, Charleston.
P. S,—The Columbus, Macon, Milledgeville and
Athens papers, wiil ploafie'ipsert the above three
times, and forward their bills to Charleston for pay.
inent, . r % t -[
, Feb. 10.—47—3t, vi .. .^ y ; H
CONTENTS OF THE
SOUTHER* LITER ART MESSENGER,
FOIt FEBRUARY, 1838.
ORIGINAL PAPERS.
Biography of the late Hon. Dabney Carr, one of
the Judges of tho Virginia Court of Appeals. By a
Virginian.
Review of N. P. Willis’s Poems. By a Virginian.
Lord Bacon. Part II. His Character and Wri
tings.
Human Nature Vindicated.
Discourse on American Literature. Bv George
Tucker, Esq. Professor of Bcllca-lx-ttres and Natu
ral Philosophy, in the University of Virginia.
Lexicographic Acnmen.
^ Journal of a Trip to the Mountains, Caves and
Springs of Virginia. By a Now Englander.
Heretical Beasts.
The Governess.
A Virginia Lady.
The Far West and its Native Inhabitants,—being
a Review of Washington Irving’s late work, “ The
Rocky mountains, or Scenes, Incidents and Adven.
tures in the Far West.” By a Virginian.
1 he Deserter: a Romance of the American Revo
lution, founded on a well authenticated incident.
Chapter X. and last, with an Appendix. By a Mis-
sissippian.
Review of “ Hallam’s View of the State of Eu
rope during the Middle Ages." By a Southerner.
Review of Dr. Johnson’s Tragedy of “ Irene.”—
By a native of Virginia.
The Truce Ground. A Tale of tho Revolutionary
Scone iu South Carolina, during Gen. Mari-
No.
By the Author of “ The Curso
War.
on’s exploits. From the Diary of an Invalid.
Ill- By a Lady of this State.
An Address on the Utility of Astronomy : deliv
ered before tile “ Young Men’s Society” of Lynch,
burg, Sept. 26th, 1837, by Prof. Laudon C. Garland,
of Randolph Macon College; and published by re-
quest of the Society in the Southern Literary Mes
senger.
Something on Sonnets. By James F. Otis.
Specimens of Causticity.
Shakspoare and the Critics. By a Marylander.
The Lyceum—No. VI. Advices to sundry kinds
of people. By Gulliver the Younger; Chaptor III.
Rules fo.- Conversation.
(Selected^ belWeen f® rd Bacon and Shakspoare—
Samuel Johnson and David Hume compared. (Se-
lectcd.) V
ORIGINAL POETRY.
By B. W. Huntington,
Tho Mother for her Son.
of South Carolina.
The Shipwrock. By W. Gilmore Simins, of S. C.
The Forester’s Serenade. By a Lady of Virginia.
The Pilgrim. By B. W. Huntington, of S. C.
Remorse. Lines written by Miss Marion Horton
and set to music by Mr. C. E. Horn, as an answer
to Beethoven’s celebrated “Adelaide.”
A Farewell to Mary. By a Virginian.
{ T*»o Dean of Badajps; A Spanish Tale.. Sclectod.
Ode. Translation of Dr, Johnson’s Ode from tho
8y a Gentleman of Richmond. ’
Isle of Skyo.
T HE Undersigned has just opened a I.ivory
Stable in the Town of Athens, immediately
in the rear of Mr. H. A. FRASER’S STORE
where he will keep on hand Vehicles of every descrip,
lion, and good Riding and well broken Harness Hor
ses to hire. Persons wishing to travel, can bo accom.
modated with Carriages and Horses at all times
His vehicles have not yet arrived, bat arc expected by
the first of the Spring.
Ho will, also, take on Livery, the horses of any
one wishing to nlaco them under his charge.
P. M. WELLS.
Athens, Jan. 27.—45—tf.
WESTERN AND ATLANTIC
RAIL ROAD.
TO LA.VJS ISVVVERS.
]|$ERSONS owning Land in DeKalb, Cobb, Cass,
■®* al 'd Murray counties, over which tho route of
tho Western and Atlantic Rail.Road passes, and es-
pecially Guardians, Executors, or Administrators,
having legal control of any Lot or Lots of Land, on
said route, are respectfully requested to attend at the
Commissioners’ Office, in Marietta, Cobh County, at
any time, to suit their convenience, in the month of
April or May next, for the purpose of having their
claims, (if any.) against tho State, adjusted and set
tled, tor the concession .of the right of way for said
-Rail-Road, over their Lois of Land, respectively.
By order ol the Board of Commissioners.
C. L. BOLTON, Sec'y. pro tern.
Feb. 17.—18.—4t.
CT - The Augusta Constitutionalist and Sentinel,
Columbus Enquirer and Sentinel, Athens Banner and
Whig, Macon Telegraph and Messenger, Miiledge-
ville Standard of Union and Recorder, and Savannah
Georgian, will each give the above 4 weekly inser.
tiona, and forward their accounts to the Board of
Commissioners, at Marietta, for payment.
SILK CULTURE.
qSTHE MOUUS MULTICAULIS, or the Largo
At Leaf Chinese Mulberry.
3,000 TREES ( The produco from Cuttings of
20,000 CUTTINGS, \ tho two last seasons.
The price of Trees, without side branches.
Under 5 feet, 25 cents each,
Over 5 and under 7 feet, 37£ cents each,
Over 7 feet, 50 cents each.
Cuttings—One eye, $35 per thousiuid,
* Two eyes, 55 “
“ Three *• 75 “
Tiie Tree is easily propagated from Cuttings, and
the growth in the southern States, is more than doub
le that in the northern, in the same timo. Of the
Cuttings I obtained from Prince &. Son, at Flashing,
Long Island, but 17 in 100 produced trees; of the
Cuttings from them, more than 75 from 100 was
obtained, and the height of them is from 7 to 10 feet
the present year. They should be put into the
ground betwoen this and the 1st of April. The
above Treos and Cuttings are for sale by
JONATHAN MEIGS,
Augusta, Georgia.
N. B.—They will be carefully packed and sent
to order, on remittance accompanying the order.—
The Cuttings can be sent by stage.
Jan. 13.-43- 9t
II J“The Chronicle St, Sentinel, Charleston Courier,
Columbia Telescope, Edgefield Advertiser, Green,
ville Mountaineer, Athens Banner, Milledgeville
Recorder, Macon Telegraph, Colnmbus Enquirer,
and Savannah Georgian, will publish the above
weekly, for two months, and sond their bills to this
office,—Constitutionalist.
builv
p it in the cold grave!’ 1 remember how he
wept when he prayed by my side the last
time—he said, « O Hod, bless my little daugh.
ter, and spare our lives to see each other
again.’ YVhen he kissed me the last time
his tears fell on mv cheeks, and he could
hardly say, * it is best for me to go now, but
I will come buck again.’ (), my dear father,
why don’t he come ? Grandmother says,
perhaps he is sick or deranged, as he has not
wrote to us for more than two years. O,
will not somebody tell inc if he is sick ? or,
if he is dead, where is his grave ? He told
me when I went to my mother’s grave, that 1
must think her spirit now in heaven with God
and the Lamb. I do want to know if my fa-
ther is there too.
Will not some good people in Virginia
write to me something about mv father and
and home. A secret, an almost impercepti
ble influence from that spot which is like no
other on earth, steals into the breast of ttm
virtuous laboring man, and strengthens every
weary step of his toil. Every blow that is
struck in the workshop and the field, finds an
echo in that holy shrine of his affections. If
he who fights to protect his home, rises to
the point of heroic virtue; no Jess may ho
who labors, his life long, to provide fur that
home. Peace be within those domestic
walls, and prosperity beneath those humble
roofs! but should it ever be otherwise 4
should a time ever come when the invader’s
step approaches to touch those sacred thres-
holds, I see in the labors that are taken for
them, that wounds will be taken for them
too; I see in every honest workman around
a hero.
material do I deem this point—the true
nobility of labor I mean—that I would dwell
upon it a moment longer, and in a larger
view. Why, then, in the great scale of
things, is labor ordained for us?—Easily, had.
it so pleased the great Ordainer, might it have
been dispensed with. The world itself might
have been a mighty machinery for the pro.
duction of all that man wants. The motion
of the globe upon its axis, might have been
the power to move that world of machinery.
I en thousand wheels might have been at
work ; ten thousand processes, more curious
and complicated than any man can devise,
might have been going forward without man’s
aid ; houses might have risen like an exhala
tion,
with the sound
Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet,
Built like a temple;
gorgeous furniture might have been placed in
them, and soil couches-and luxurious ban
quets spread, by hands unseen; and man,
clothed with fabrics of nature’s weaving,
ri-’her than imperial purple, might have beCft
sent to disport himselt in these Elvsian pala
ces. “fair scene!” I imagine vou are
saying; “ fortuuate for us, had it been the
scene ordained for human life!” But where
then, teil me, had been human energy, perse
verance, patience, virtue, heroism ? Cutoff
with one blow trom the world; and mankind
had sunk to a crowd, na)’, far beneath a crowd
of Asiatic voluptuaries. No, it had not been
fortunate. Better that rude and unsightly
materials be provided in the ore beds and
forest, for him to fashion into splendor and
beauty. Better, I say, not because of that
splendor and beauty, but because the act of
creating them is belter than the things them
selves, because exertion is nobler than en
joyment ; because the laborer is greater and
more worthy of honor than the idler. I call
upon those whom I address, tn stand up for
that nobility of labor. It is heaven’s great
ordinance for human improvement. Let riot
that great ordinance be broken down. What
do 1 say ? It is broken down; and it has been
broken down for ages. Let it then be built
I will daily pray to my heavenly Father to • U P a o am ? here, if any where, on'these shores
bless all those who pity and befriend me a
lonely orphan. Harriet F. Billings.
For the Register and Observer.
THE CHILD IN SEARCH OF HER FATHER.
They say I was but four years old.
When Father went away.
Yet I havo never seen his face,
Sinco that sad, parting day.
Ho went, where brighter flowrots grow,
Benoath Virginia skies—
Dear Teacher, show inc on your map.
Where that far counliy lies.
I begg’d him ‘ Father do not go!
For since tny mother died
I love no one so well as you:’
And clinging to his side,
The tears came gushing down my checks
* Until my eyes were dim ;
Some, were in sorrow for the doad,
And some in love for him.
lie knelt, and pray’d to God above,
‘ My little daughter spare,
And till we both shall meet again,
Oh keep her in thy care.’
He docs not come!— I watch for him,
At evening twilight grey,
Till every shadow wears his shape,
Along tho grassy way.
NOTICE.
ranHE Subscriber has a quantity of the MORUS
A MULTICAULIS MULBERRY SLIPS for
f. GIDEON.
Athens, Jan. 27—45—8t.
ETHIOPIAN EXPULSION,
^HE sine qua non of the United States.
: The utile cutn dulci• w ""-" «»»
Magna est veritas
et prccvalebit, \ \ % J. FLOURNOY,
Athens, Jon 27.—45—tf.
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I muse, and listen all alone,
When stormy winds are high.
And think I hear his tender tone.
And call, but no reply;
And so I’ve done these four long years.
Within a lonely home.
Yet every dream of hope is vain—
Why don’t my father come 7—
Father,—dear father, are you sick
Upon a stranger Bliore 7
Grandmother says it must be so,—
O write to us once more,
And let yonr little daughter come,
To smooth your restless bed.
And hold the cordial to your lips,
And press your aching head.
Alas!—I fear me he is dead.—
Who will my trouble share 7
Or tell me where his form is laid,
And let me travel there 7
By Mother’s tomb I love to sit
Where the green branches wave;
Good people !—help ah orphan child
. To find her Father’s grave.
of a new world, of a new civilization. But
how, i may be asked, is it broken down ?
Do not men toil, it may be said ? They do
indeed toil, hut they too generally do it be.
cause they must. Many submit to it as, in
some sort, a degrading necessity; and thev
desire nothing so much on earth as escapo
from it.
.They fulfil the great law of labor in the
letter, hut break it in spirit; fulfil it with the-
muscle, hut break it with the mind. To some
field ot labor, mental or manual, every idler
should fasten as a chosen and coveted the
atre of improvement. But so is he not im
pelled to do under the teachings of our im
perfect civilization: On the contrary, he sits
down, folds his hands, and blesses himself in
his idleness. This, way of thinking is the
heritage of tho absurd and unjust feudal^ sys
tem ; uuder which serfs labored, and gentle
men speut thvir lives in fighting and feastirig.
It is time that this opprobium of toil were
done away. Ashamed to toil, art thou?—
Ashamed of thy dingy work sho^ and dusty
labor field; ot thy hard hand, scarred with
service more honorable than that of war, of
thy soiled and weather stained garments, on
winch mother nature has embroidered, amidst
sun and rain, midst fire and steam, her own
heraldric honors? Ashamed of these tokens
and titles, and envious of the flaunting robes
of imbecile idleness and vanity ? It is trea
son to nature; it is irnpiety to heaven; it is
breaking heaven’s great ordinance. Toil, I
repeat it—toil, cither of the brain, of the
heart, or of the hand, is the only true man.
hood, the only true nobility. 7
It is said that the present fashion of wear-
ing the hair in long ‘ splatches’ over the ears
was introduced by a cropped convict,.in order
to hide the evidence of his infamy.
TRUE NOBILITY OF LABOR.
BY TIIE REV. ORVILLE DEWEY.
How many natural, ties are there between
even the humblest scene bflirboiv and the no
blest affections of humanity ?.: In tl\is view,
the employment of mere muscular strength (s
ennobled. There is a central point in every
man’s life, around which all his 'oils and
In time of Peace, prepare,for War.—
On Cape Cod, when a young lady is engaged
to be married, she suffers her finger nails to
grow long j so that iu case she sh «uld be obli
ged to throw herself on her reserved rights,
she may < come to the scratch’ wiflii some
prospect of success.—Galaxy,
Quackery—-The Neway Times adverti-
sp for a quantity , of ducks..with j^ood hroud
IyI 1 l O i 1 - & 4 1* aw* A* A a. - a A C * 7_ , . -
bills, to clean the mud out of tfie streets.
cares revolve. It is that spot which is con-
secrated by the names of wifq, arid children,
• f V< '-?.X - ‘ . ' "•
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Absence of Mind.—-A Jack Ketch lately
uridertuok to hang a criminal': but, in a statu
of mental absence, he put the rope round his
own neck. He did not discover his mistake.
until he heard his neck crack whsn he we?
swinging off.—Galaxt/.
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