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The ferment of a free, is preferable to the torpor of a despotic, Government.” VOL. VI. ATHENS. GEO. SATURDAY. MARCH 10* 1838. NO. 51. The Southern Banner IS FUJILMIIED IN THE TOWN OF ATHENS, GEORGIA, F.VKJIY SATURDAY, BY AliBOY CHASE. TERMS.—Three dollars per year, payable in ad. Vance, or Four dollars at the end of tho year. Any sultscril>er failing to give notice of his desire to discontinue his subscription at the expiration of the time for which it has been paid, will lie consid ered as wishing to continue it, and held liable accor dingly. No paper will lie discontinued, (except, at the option of the publisher,) until all arrearages are paid. U*AII Loiters to the Editor on matters connected 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 published every other week, 62 1-2 cents, and month ly, 75 cents for each continuance. For a single in 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. . 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 - ‘ . ' "• ' ■ ,v. ,s’. • ■. • N .- - c ** '♦ ^ .r* V.V-. ^ 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/. : ■ W / y V "*• V X ^ . Jam