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Newspaper Page TextSOUTHERN BANNER. PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BY JAMES A. SLEDGE, SOLB PROPRIETOR, rrioa OP StAIBS, HO. 7 , OBANITE BOW t-erms. •wo Dollars',per nnnnm.tHtrlctlJ^n ad» vancc.) or 03 OO.IM^ayed. emitting *10in.dir.nce.Six Copies .11 be .. give notice of his desire Any •-tW/SSSSrtio 1 !, at the expiration oflhe continue it, niul held liable accordingly.— ' So paper will be discontinued (except at the op- ■n of,lie Editor) until all arrearages nrc patd.^01 f | Advertisements inserted at the saoa the place as I found it. On bringing it r to the light, I found it open at St. John's gospel—chapter 'll, being on the left side, and chapter III. being on tile right side. I said, “Do you wish us to look. ‘ # at >. cha ptor lit” Ana.—“No.V “Do* you wish us to look at chapter HI I” ’ ^ s ~' , Yes." And it was then said) reading the §1 Ssiimm! t ®&a0it&8r a® ®8S93 0 4WJ& eandidatesfor ofTice, S5, (payable ' 5 ,* Husbands advertising their wives, will be , i i-, [o he paid invariably in advance. VOLUME XXII. ATHENS, GEO., THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1853. NUMBER 13 I'lVC OTHER ADVERTISEMENTS, OXK DOLLAR for every twelve lines «T MC .r - .ace e-iuivnleiitt first insertion, nnd l’lfty ...is f,!r each weekly continuanee—every oilier cck ' Si\ty»Two Cents—monthly Seventy* rents for each continuance. Special con- may be made for the year. Nl \„f ihe sale of band and Negroes bvAd- isirainrs. Executors »r Guardians.must be pub* i Forty Days previous to the day of sale. f W,.;,.,, lo Debtors and Creditors af an estate .. be published Forty Days, rx 'ii. cihnt application willbe madetothe Court trilinarv for leave io sell Land or Negroes, must published T WO .Months, weekly: Cling to thy Mother. .[ PN’.uiee of application for Letters of A.immistra- o„'must be published Thirty Days? nod Letters •f Di.mission of Executors or Administrators, till M.uti .s-l),-mission of Guardians. Forty Days. Sales of personal property of a perishable nattir., | IV \, t of I r»V2. by Kxecutors nntl Aunnnistratora, „ I v ItdmIt, (that is. administrators to collect the es- ,1 at the discretion of the Ordinary, upon not less • , , ten day's notice. Sales by regular Administra- V.'- . as under the old law. Forty Days- . \.Ivertise.items should always have the desired „ , .o ut of insertions mark*! upon them when handed i i ,,r Dihorwin 1 tl»*'V will be published "TII-L Full- VinV' and charged accordingly. , y A1 | letters to the Editor on matters with the iiaubUshmanl, must T .i..t to secure notice. Cling to thy Mother, for she was the first To know thy being and lo feel thy tile: The hope of thee through many a pang she nursed, And when, 'midst anguish like the parting strife, The halte was in her arms, the agony Was all lorgotfor bliss of loving llico are loaded with blossoms, and the roses arc out, it will seem like Paradise.” “ The entry is rather small and low,” remarked bet husband. “ 3h ! not a bit too smalh; and as to low ceilings, in a cottage like ibis, they are quite apropos. Now did you ever see a quainter, pleasanter little parlor- just the place for your mother's nice old- fashioned furniture. The sofa shall be there, right between those pretty little windows, and the chairs here, anJ the tables there ; won’t it look so cosy and comfortable ?” she asked, her blue eyes Be gentle to thy Mother! long she boro Thine infant frelfulness and silly youth; Nor rudely scorn the faithful voice thi.l o’er | 8pa| . k ]j n g w j t |, unalloyd pleasure. J by cradle ployed, and taught thy lisp:n c | 1 „ L-;tl.-.t truth. Yes. site is edd; yet on the manly brow She looks and claims thee as her child e’en now, held, the consequences will be certain to extern! themselves over the whole future life be POST-l’AID BUSINESS CARDS. Walsli, Mallory & Co., IMPORTERS OF FOREIGN, AND CO.MMIS sign agents roa American Hardware, oil PcStreet, New York, v.ll.-ir AN EXAMINATION OFT1IKIH GOODS. .lntnnry 13—14—ly. Uphold thy Mother! close to her warm heart She carried, fed thee, lull’d thee lo tliv vest; Then taught thy tottering limbs their untried art, Exulting in the fledgling from her ni-l; Ami now her steps are feeble, be her stay Whose strength was thine in thy most feeble day. Cherish thy Mother! brief perchance the time May be that she will claim the care she gave Passed are her hopes of youth, her harvest prime Of joy on earth ; her triends are in the grave. But for for her children she could lavlier head Gladly to rest among the precious dead. EDWARD It. HARDEN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, A:ul Transportation Agent of the Western and Atlantic Rail Road, RINliOOMI, WALKER COUNTV, C.A., Will attend promptly to the collection of D! tints in Walker.Chattooga, Whitfield, Murray, ii .iib'ii. and Dado Counties, Georgia, and Ham ilton County, Tennessee. HirEKUNCK®; Ringgold—II. \ B. T>. Brews- ,.. r , \V. J.. Whitman, F. W. Thornton, David Be tender with thy Mother! words unkind, Or light neglect from thee would give a pang To that fond bosom where limit art enshrined In love unutterable, more than fang Of venom’d serpent. Wound not her stron trust. As thou vvould’st hope for peace when she is dust. Oh! Mother mine! God grant I ne'er forget, Whatever be my grief, or what my joy, Theuntreasnrcd, the inextinguishable debt 1 owe tliv love; but fiiul my sweet employ Ever, through thy remaining days, lo be To thee as luilhltil as tlmu vverl to me. miscellaneous. .1 obi Augusta—Win. II. Stark iV Co., T*. A. Scran ton. Col. Jim. Milb’dge. Charleston—E. B. Stoddard A Co. Savannah—Dr. Richard D. Wayne, Win. M. Wad ley. jane 2—12—ly. T1IE TWO BRIDES. W. H. H. WRITE, BROAD STREET, ATHENS. Jan. 1, 11551. W. P. SAGE, Wliolcsttlc and Kctail .It'wrier No. 7, GRANITE ROW,ATHENS. .laa. 1st, HIM. DDCT3. HILL & SMITH, Wholesale »i»«l lt«*ts»sl DrnBSiMs AND DEALERS IN PERFUMERY AND FANCY ARTICLES, No. 10, NEW URICK RANGE, ATHENS, nil. 1, 1 jo 1. “Oh ! Henry! is this the cottage you tho’t so beautiful l—dear, dear me, what a very shabby place,” said Marian Lenox, as with her husband they alight ed at the door of a neat little cotta “ Why, love, you know its just spring; the leaves are hardly out, and the rose bushes only budding. Yet you may form some idea of how it will look in summer; see the vines trained over the windows! Look at the garden spots here and there—rather neglected to he sure—but” ' “Rather neglected,” added his wife, How could he help kissing that pure, innocent brow, upturned to him so lov ingly. Now the kitchen,,’ site cried, clap ping, her hands—“there! just what I imped ! It’s just a bit of old times as 1 thought it would he. Maybe you don’t like brick hearth—but I do. Many a frolic have I had in grandmother’s kitch en, this is like it, only a smaller edition. There she used to sit, in a corner like that, and her smile always looked so heavenly ! This docs make me think of her.” “ Do you like the closets?” asked her husband, throwing open the doors. Oh! I like everything. Yes, it’s rather fortunate they are daik; the flies will keep out nicely. Indeed I like ev erything,” she added, running up stairs, we can get a little new house paper, some blighter than this, and paper the Stairway; and here we are, chambers small, and cottage fashion. Most peo ple like upright chambers, hut don’t you think it pleasanter to hear the tain rattling down the roof? Oh, such snug litlle places not at all ungainly, and look ing out upon such a delicious prospect. Besides here is joyful surprise—a pond! that is, it will he; oh ! 1 am so glad— just in front of the house, too! the pret tiest spot! And when the trees are all leafed out, and the^birds sing on the branches, right close to our windows.— and the gat den and meadow are in the full bloom of summer—oh ! won’t we he happy ?” “ We are happy now,” said her hus band, thanking God in his heart for his cheerful little wife. “ Wo aro happy enough, now dear Louise !” As they were riding home they pass ed the new house on the hill. “There!” exclaimed Louise, point- g towards it, “ bow much better our lit tle home will be than that stiff ornament ed place. I pitty whoever will live there The seeds of protracted and hopeless sufferings have in innumerable instances been sown in tlie constitution of the child, simply through ignorance of this great fundamental physical law, and the time has come when the united voices of these innocent victims should ascend^'li ur^pot tongued,” to the.ears of every parent and teacher in the land. Give us fresh air and wholesome ex panding energies to be devolopeil in ac cordance to the law’s of our being, and full scope for the elastic and bounding im pulses of our young blood.—Quarterly Review. An Heiress Cor a Sixpence. A beautiful young heiress had be come so disgusted with the flatter ing set of soft-pated, pomatum-haired, moustached-lipped, strongly perfumed suitors for her hand, that she shut her self out from the fashionable (?) world; turned all her property into money, de posited it all in banks; donned a cheap wardrobe; put on a mask, and she went pedestrian-like, through the city in which she had hitherto moved with so much display and magnificence. She asked alms of those who of late had knelt at her feet and sued for her hand. They knew her not, and casting a Iftok of scorn upon her veild face, and coarse ward- lobe, bade her “begone !” She enteted the country—licie she met with deris ion and scorn. A few kind-hearted peo ple, it is true, bestowed aid ; but these were of the poor class, who lmd hard work to procure theif own daily bread ; but they could not turn a follow creature hungry*from their door, and therefore gave a small pittance from their scanty store. V. One sittnmer’s day a large company- met on — Beach. They were F-ora the New York Tribune. Gliostology—Hon. If. P. Tal- mauge on Spiritual Itapplngs. [We publish the following letter, in order that our readers may know what ingoing on among the fools'in the world, as well as among the “ rest of mankind.” Hon. N. P. Talmadge, the writer, was formerly a member of the United States Senate, from N. Y., and was considered an ablo man; we think, however, he has lost his mind, as no man, in the pos session of his faculties, Would run after such an abominable heresy as •* Spirit ual Rappings.” He had writteu aletter prior to this, published in the National Intelligencer, giving his experience, and contending for the reality of the “ man ifestations,” which attracted some at tention. This is his second, and a nice thing it is.—Ed. Banner.] Baltimore, April 12, 1833. Dear Madam :—I seize a few leisure moments, while detained here a short time on business, to give you a more ex tended account of the “ Physical Mani festations,” to which I alluded in a form er letter. In this account, I shall con fine myself to those which purport to come from the spirit of John C, Cal houn.. ^ n I havereceived numerous communi cations from him, from the commence ment of my investigation of this subject down to the present time. These com munications have been received through rapping mediums, writing mediums, and to raise the table ?” I took hold raised it without difficulty. After this the following conversation ensued: « Q,—Can you raise tho table entirely from the floor ? A. Yes. Q—Will you raise me with it? A. Yes: Get me the square tablo. The square table was of cherry, with four legs—a large sized tea table. It was brought out and substituted for the round one, the leaves being raised. I took my seat in the centre; the three ladies sat at the sides and end, their hands and arms resting upon it. This, of course, added to the weight to be raised, namely, my own weight and the weight of the table. Two legs of the table werg then raised about six inches from the floor; and then the other two legs were raised to the level of the first, so that the whole table was suspended in the air, about six inches from the floor. While thus seated on it, 1 could feel a gentle vibratory motion, as if floating in the atmosphere. After be ing thus suspended in the air for a few moments, tho table was gently let down again to the floor 1 Some pretend to say, that these phy sical manifestations are made by elec tricity ! I should like to know by what iaws of electricity known to us, a table is at one time rivelted, as it were, to the floor, against all the force that could be exerted to raise it i and at another time raised entirely from the floor, with more than two hundred pounds weight upon it. At a subsequent meeting, Calhoun directed me to bring three bells and a and speaking mediums. They are oft guitar. I brought them accordingly.— breaking in upon him; “l should think ahade tree llic0 ^-fashioned WRy there’s a nettle> Straw—litter besides,Guided i FERRY & CO., WHOLESALE A NO RET At L DEALERS IS Hals, Laps, Boots, Shoes, Trunks, No. 7, GRANITE ROW, ATHENS. .Inn. 1 . 1R 1. NEWTON & LUCAS. wholesale asii retail dealers in Dry Goods. Groceries, Hardware, Etc No. 0, BROAD STREET, ATHENS. J air 1st, 1851. y there s and old hoops—rather neglected. And I he door—how old fashioned and ugly < lake care—1 ain sure you can hardly stand upright in this, low studded hall. 1 detest low ceiling, country or no coun tiy. And this bit of a parlor, hardly large enough to turn about—1 can't and I won't like that! Now let inc sec the kitchen; oh, horror!” she exclaimed, holding up her hands, either noticing not, or deigning not to notice tho ex pression of uneasiness that sat on her she roguishly, turning to her husband, “two hundred dollars to spend in comfort is something of a gain ! Ah ! wo have made much the better bargain.” How true is the old proverb that “where the spider sucks j’oison the lee sucks honey.'' Education of tlie Heart. It is the vice of the age to substitute learning for wisdom—to educate the mostly from the city. Tito distinguish ed heiress, from some cause or other had wandered there. She asked alms of one or two, termed “upper tens." They spake tauntingly, but gave nothing.— What they had said had been heard by quite a number of their company. Most of litem laughed, or looked as if they thought they “served her right!” The beggar woman turned about, and was walking sadly away, when a well-look ing gentleman stepped forward, and catching hold of her arm thus spoke “Stay ! jpy good woman—tell me what you want?” She replied in a low trembling tone,] J “l^TNant sL Kixqtcnce-—null/ a sixpence /*! ff**t*Wflll«- “ You shall have ten times that amount Here,” lie added, drawing From his pocket ati eagle, and placing it in the gloved hand of tho woman, “take this; if this is not enough, I will give you aa other.” The heiress returned the .eagle ex claiming:— “ I want a sixpence—only a six- the most extraordinary character. In style and sentiment, they would do hon or to him iu his best days on earth. After the arrival of tho Misses Fox in Washington City, in February last, 1 called on them by appointment, and at onco received a communication from Calhoun. 4 I then wrote down and propounded mentally the following question : Can you do anything (meaning phy sical manifestations) to confirm tnu in the truth of these revelations, and tore- move from my mind tho least shadow of unbelief?” To which I received tho following answer : “ I will give you a communication on Monday, at 7£ o’clock. Do not fail to be here. I will then give you an ex- hushaml’s face, “ look at the hearth—of head, and forget there is a more impor- T. BISHOP, Wholesale and Retail Grocer, NO. I. BROAD STREET, ATHENS. Jan. El, Kyi). THOMAS H.'WILSON, Deal.ill Dry <■ ood*i,Groceries,& No. 1. COLLEGE AVENUE,ATHENS. .Ian. 1 >l, 1 350. © 0 Ea.KI']lLL &C4 nm.KR.S IN SILK, FANCY AND STAPLE GOODS, HARD WARE, CROCKERY, GROCE RIES, &C. No. 4, Granite Row, ATHENS, GA. I’lioifc Family Groceries. J l ST receiving a large ami complete assort luent of the very Lest Family Groceries ; Hermetically Scaled Fltr.SII OYSTEltS SAL.VOX, CLAMS .$• LOBS 7'EIIS ,• Assorted Preserves, Pickles and —ALL KINDS OF— JPcppcr, Spier, Extracts, Cooking H’iiir, Arc. For sale clioap fur cask Ly D. N. JUDSON. Athens, Oct. i4, 135*2. No. 4, Granite Row. B. M. HILL & CO. Are selling some real French Printed do LVines lower til in they cau be boueht iu New York. Feb. 3d, ’53—If F. tyllcr, brick, as I’m alive, and takes up hall the floor. High windows too !—how 1 hale high windows—and such a pattern for paper! It makes me nervous to look at it—criss cross, like spiders crawling over a web; now Henry, you can’t expect me to live here.” Her husband, a line manly looking fellow, half sighed as lie said—“ 1 should be veiy unwilling to subject you lo inconveniences such as you seem to dread, but there are only this and the new cottage above, on the hill. That you know is throe hundred dollars a year, two hundred more than vve should pay for this—and then the expenses?” "Oh! Henry dear! don't go to talk ing about expenses; your business good, it will wairant a little outlay, you told me so yourself. Come, I will econ omise in other things—just look now at these dingy, black closets”—he half agreed with her as she opened the real ly dismal places—“ I shouldn’t wonder if they were filled with rats and vermin. Now let’s go up stairs ; see how tho pa per is torn oft' and patched—and worse and more of it, tlieie is but one upright chamber in tho house. Mother’s last words to me wore, do get upright cliam bers, for they look so pretty when they are well furnished. And here in front of the house is a wretched great hole—’ '• But in summer,” put in Henry. 11 Oh ! I know what you would say 1 suppose theic is water there some times, but half of the year it will be a most detestable sight. Then the trees arc close to the house—I’ve always heard that trees make a house very damp and uncomfortable—no; I’m sure you won’t try to makp me live in such a place, after all tlio comfort I’ve been used to. Come, let’s go—dor vcully, I am quito melancholy already “ Heury resigned the key, only hall convinced by his wife’s reasoning. He JOHN C. CALHOUN. The bells of different sizes—the largest like a small sized dinner bell. He di rected a drawer to be put under the square table. I put under a bureau drawer, bottom side up. He directed the bells to be placed on the drawer.— The three ladies and myself were seated at the table, with our hands and Arms resting oil it. Tho bells commenced ringing a sort of chime. Numerous raps were made, as if beating time to a march. The hells continued to ring, and to chime in with tlio heating of time. The time of the march was slow and solemn. It was beautiful and per fect. The most fastidious ear could not detect any discrepency in it. The raps then ceased, and the bells rang violently for several minutes. A bell was then pressed on my foot, my ankle and my knee. This was at differ ent times repeated. Knocks were made Read.” I comm. .. chapter, and significant and 'eAfphatirijgt , raps were given At many verses;' ana it Verses 8,11,19, 34, most vehement rap* were given. By leaking at these versesi you will appreciate the signtflcancy and intelligence of this emphatic demon stration. This ittanifestatib'tf’purported .* to come from Calhoun, who had pre^ viously invited ns three gentlemen to bd present at a particular hour. In reflecting on the preceding mani festations, one cannot but marvel at the power by which they are made; And tlid iutcIligeCce by \VhtCh that power is di* reeled. * And it would seem impossibly for ono to doubt tho source of that in telligence. If, liowdVef, doubt should remain on the mind ot any one acquaint ed with similar manifestations, that doubt must be outirely dispelled by thd account of tho manifestation which fol lows : I was present by Calhoun’s appoint*, meat, with the Misses Fox and their mother. We were seated at the table as heretofore, our hands and arms rest ing upon it. I was directed to put pd- per and pencil on tho dravVet. I placed several sheets of unruled letter, papert together with a wood pencil dh it. I soon heard the sound of the pencil on the paper. It was then rapped out ( “Get the pencil and sharpen it.” I looked under the table, hut did not see the pencil. At length I found it lyint* diagonally from me, three or four fee* from the table. The lead was broketl off within the wood. I sharpened it and., again put it on the drawer. Again heard the sound of the pencil upon the paper. On being directed to look at the paper 1 discovered pencil marks oil each side of the outer sheet, but no wri ting. Then was received the follow* ing communication I “ The power is not enough td write d sentence. This will show you that I car. write. If you will meet me on Friday, precisely at seven, I will write you a short sentence! ♦ w JOHN C. CALHOUN." We met pursuant to appointment*-* 2 look oui-seats at the table, odir hands U " and arms resting on it as tlsuah I placed ^ the paper with my silvet-tjased 'pencil '■ on the drawer, and said- 5 * My friend, I Wish the sentence to he in your own hand-writing, so that your friends will recognize it.” He re* plied, “ You will know the writing' He then said, { . V Have your thinds on the spirit of John C. Calhoun.’* & t, •„ ... .. . „ ,.i. .ii j most vehemently against the underside It is proper here to remark, that all - . n „ j I of Ihe table-so that a large tin candle- the communications referred to in this letter, were made by Calhoun after a stick was, by every blow, raised coin pence tant education necessary for the heart.— The reason is cultivated at an age when nature does not furnish the elements ne cessary to a successful cultivation of it, and the child is solicited to reflection when it is only capable - of sensation and emo tion. In infancy the attention and the memory arc only excited strongly by the senses and more the heart. The father may instill more solid and avail able instruct ions in an hour spent in tlie fields, where wisdom and goodness are exemplified, seen, and felt, than a month spent in the study, where they aro ex pounded in stereotyped aphorism No physician doubts that precocious children in fifty cases for ono, are much tlv6 worse for the discipline they have undergone. The mind seems to have strained, and the foundation for insanity is laid. When the studies of maturer years are stuffed into the head of the child, people do not reflect on the anatomical fact that the brain of an infant is not the brain of a man : that the one is confirmed and can Seeing that she could not be made to take the coin, the gentleman drew forth a sixpence, and gave it to the stran ger being beside him, who, after thank ing the generous donor, walked slowly away. After being laughed at for so doing by his comrades, lie set out in per- suit of the beggar woman, saying: “ Perhaps she is an licires—or an an gel in disguise. I mean to ascertain.” Not that he thought this. He wish ed to show his indifference to what his comrades had said, besides satisfying liimself about tlie strange female whom he had aided. Ho soon overtook her, and thus spoke: “ Pardon me, madam, for pursuing you. 1 would know more about you.” As the speaker ceased, the mask drop ped from the face of the female, and the beautiful heiress was portrayed before the astonished gentleman. That they were afterwards married, the reader has already imagined, for the heiress used this means of procuring a worthy husband, and the generous gen tleman had long been looking for “an angel in disguise.” The happy husbaud is often heard to „ T ill.* i „ t! pletely from the table by the concussion, me in the usual way. They were made of the table (which it will he recollected was of cherry) and found indentation in the wood, made by the end of the bell, which was tipped with brass.— Could electricity make those violent knocks with the handle of the oell.caus- . ing indentations and rising the caudle My friend, the question is often put 8tick flom the tal) i 0 at every blow ' in the presence of the Misses Fox, and their mother. I called on Monday at .he hour ap pointed, and received the following com munic'dtion: to you, • What good can result from 0r was it done by the invisible power these manifestations ?’ 1 will answer it : | lliat rivetted the table to the floor, and again raised it, with all the weight Upon “ It is to draw mankind together iu harmony, and convince skeptics of the immortality of I he Soul. JOHN C. CALHOUN.” This reminds me that iu 1S50, at Bridgeport, in the presence of other ankle and knee, mediums, among many questions put I were several tin and answers received, were tlie follow ing—the answer purporting to come from W. E. Channing. Q.—What do Spirits propose to ac complish by these new manifestations? A.—To unite mankind, and to con vince skeptical minds of tho immortali ty of “ the soul.” The coincidence in sentiment of the answer of J. C. Calhoun and of IV. E. hear exertions, and the other is growing s lhat he t an ..heiress (ora six- anil requires repose ; that to force the at- — - - - INFORMS t!«c public ilm ,oved her, wanted to make her happy ; ' * hut just starting in life, how was he to maintain style and extravagarfce ? He liked the little cpttage, but was pur- suaded against his better judgment to refuse it. About an hour after, a plain carriage drove up and a sprightly young man lifted a sweet, blue-eyed girl to the ground, saying as he did so, “ N ow pre pare to be disappointed/' “ I am not in the least with' the ex terior,” she exclaimed, pausing—“ oh! how cunning—how neal}! what a fine place for a garden! and those dear little trees —and this wilderness of rose bush es! I declare, I never was so with anything in my life. Tbeidoor lopfes like what I have seen in pictures of old country houses-**and he has opened a TAILOR’S SHOP Up stairs, over the Shoe Shop ofl’atrick Barryjm Main Street, where ho'will bo happy to receive orders for cutting and making all kinds of garments, or other work in his lino of bust ness. uyAll orders promptly executed with neat ness and dispatch. Alltans, Juno 24. 1352. C'LQUR., FLOUR! just received from A PeofielJ Steam Mill, a fresh lot oflUatchoice r lour and for sales, (Terms cash.) , leb.,17. D. N. JUDSON. Agt C*) RUP.—Achoicoarticleof Hew Orleans 8y- Nor POUSl rCCeiVUd l> y T- BISHOP. 500-°-— T Ur ^ aIz 8»»* fofi »V|| order, for sale very low by *1 °V look land ae«4he yines clamber- Maroh iq, T. BISHOP. ing over every window! When tbav tcnlion to abstract facts; to load the mem ory with chronological and historical or scientific detail; in short, to expect a child’s brain to bear with impunity the exertions of % man’s is as irrational as it would be to hazard the same sort of ex periments on its muscles. The first eight or ten years of life should he devoted to the education of the heart—to the formation of principles, rather than to the acquirement of what is usually termed knowledge. Nature heisclf points out this course, for the emo. tions are the liveliest and most easily molded, being as yet unalloyed by pass ion. It is ftom this source the mass of men are hereafter to bIiow their sum of happiness or misery. The actions of the immense majority are under all circum- cumstancej dertermined much more by feeling that reflection ; in truth, life pres ents a happiness that we should feel rightly; very few instances occur where it is necessary that we should thiiik pro foundly. '*&.■ Up to "the 7th year of life, very great changes are going on in the structure of the brain, and demand, therefore, the ut most attention, not to interrupt them by improper or over excitement. Just that degree of exercise should be given to the brain atUiis period that is necessary to its health; and the best is moral instruc tion ; exemplified by the’ohjects which sifcike the senses. 4, > # " It is, perhaps, necessary to add, that at this period of life special attention should be given, both.'by parents and teacberSi to thbphysical aoTiftlgpmgpt of | the child. Pure air and exercise are in pence.”—Northern Light, IIow lie tells it! The Springfield Republican is in sea son. Hear him : •* We heard a bob-o-link yesterday bespatteriug the face of the morning with his frothy articulations, and practi cing the 119th Psalm, in Dutch, to tho tune of Money Musk, with a private flageolet accompanymcnt. Well he might sing, for the day was beautiful, and had a summer heart in it. One could almost hear the buds bursting, and the grass springing, and the seeds germin ating, and the little pumps and valves working to lift trom the earthAhe tertil- Ling juices. There was a bright blue sky above; and a soft air abroad. What wonder that the bob-o-link was bursting and suffocating with song! And then, perhaps, the tinkling chain of his music had linked his heart with GUI’s, apd be was thinking of the long bright days coming when tho meadow would be heavy with grass and bright with dew, and the brook would run lazily so as to hear tho early birds, and the old elms would look like great green fountains sprung out of the sear. an ^ double clinks of the mower’s ecythe would be faintly # heard in the distance. Oh heavi ens! what pictures! They come bad to # ua like dreams of Paradise." these manifestationss is remarkable, and worthy of particular notice. 1 ho con currence of two such great minds, whethei in or out of the body, on a sub ject so engrossing, cannot fail to com mand the attention of evory admirer of exalted intellect and moral purity.. During the above communication of Calhounrthe table moved occasionally, perhaps a foot, first ono way and then another. After the communication closed, we all moved back from the ta ble, from two to four feet—so that no it, entirely above the floor ? Here the ringing of tho hells ceased and then I felt sensibly and distinctly the impression of a hand on my foot, These manifestations times repeated. I was then directed to put tlie guitar on tlie drawer. We were all seated as before, with our hands and arms resting oti the table, Tho guitar was touched softly aud gently, and gave forth sweet and dp’ licious sounds like the accompaniment to a beautiful and exquisite piece of music. It then played a sort of sym phony, in much louder and holder tones, 1 these harmonious I soon heard a rapid movetaeill of ttyd ”‘ i *•- - rustling 3 pencil on the paper,’and a the paper, together with a movement of the drawer. I was then directed to look under the drawer. I looked, anti found my pencil outside of the drawety * near my feet, hut found the paper on the drawer where 1 had placed it. On raising up the drawer, I discovered the paper all under under it, and, oil exam* _ iniug, I found on the outside, these words, •• I'm wrrtf vo« Still;** I afterward showed the " sentence” to <3fen. James Hamilton, former Gov* ei nor of South Carolina, <|en. Wadoy Thompson,former Minister lo Mexico, Gen. Robert B. Campbell, late. Consul at Havana, together with other intimate* friends of Calhoun, and also to one of his . sons, all of whom are as well acquainted with his handwriting as their own, and they all pronounced it to be a perfect fac simile of the handwriting of John Ci Calhoun. General Hamilton stated a fact in connection with this writing, of great significance. He says that Calhoun was in the habit of writing “ I’m” for “ 1 am,” and that he has numeriras letters from him where the abrevlatton is thus usfeef' , - v Mrs. Gen. Macomb lias stated thd £ same fact to me. She says'that her hufi* band, the late Geri.'Macomb, has shown to her Calhoun's -fetters" to,him, where thiaabreviation "I’m” was used for ”T am,” and spake of it as & peculiarity of Calhoun. How significant, then, does this lact become? We have not only the most unequivocal testimony to the hand-wri ting itself, hut, lost any skeptic should suggest the persibility of an imitation or a ■ y-' -sj- Channing, in regard to the* object °£] ^’,1™ Je C0 ming soft, aud sweet, and .* -f peculiar sounds, „ . low, began to recede, and grew fainter and fainter tilljthey died away on the ear in the distance. Then they returned and grew louder and nearer, till they were heard again in full and gushing volumes as when they commenced. I am utterly incapable of giving any adequate idea of the beauty and har mony of this music. I have heard the guitar touched by the most delicate and scientific hands, and heard from it. under such guidance, the mest splendid pet- formances. But never did 1 hear any- *'•'*»* . , , ,, o u ..1.. # i,„ iormances. uumcici am *•»■»“* one touched llie table. "Suddenly the ^ t j, at f a3tene d upon the very soul fnltlrs mnvf'il from tllO DOSltlOIl it OCCU-I n »^ n ; na ilcnttm nnt table moved from the position pied some three or four feet—rested few moments—and then mov . to its original position. Then it again moved as far the other way, and return ed to tho place it started from. Ono side of the table was then raised, and stood for a few moments at an angle of about thirty-five degrees, and then again rested on tho floor as usual. like these prophetic strains drawn out p^hnrk I an invisible liai\d from the Spirit • - 'I World. While listening to it 1 was ready to exclaim, in the language of the Bard of Avon! “ That strain again—it hid a dying fall: O, it came u’cDny ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odor." After the musie*liad ceased, the fol- counterfeit, this abbreviation, to himself, anti known only, to nis most intimate friends, antj which no .imitator 01 counterfeiter could know, is intro- troduced by way of putting such sug- gestion to flight forever! This “sentence” is perfectly cbarac- ,*■ teristic of Galhoun. It contains hie terseness of style - and his condensation of thought. It is a text from whieh volumes might be written. It proves;* 1. The immortality of the soak 2. The power of sprits to je-visil the" earth. * ., 3. Their ability to communicate witlf relatives andfriends. ' 4 wjfg^ * , 4. The identity of the sprit to all eternity. ' How one’s soul expands at these sub lime conceptions!^ How resistless is this testimony of - their truth! How' surprising that men ‘ could doubt, when The table was a large, heavy, round lowing communication was received table, at which ten or a dozen persons might he seated at dinner. During all j an( j ^ guitar, these movements no person touched tho tablo nor was any one near it. After seeing it raised .in the manner above That is my ‘hand that touches you JOHN C. CALHOUN.” At another time, the following phy- mentioned, I had the curiosity to test sical v manifestation was made in the pre- ' myself. I ac-1 sence of Gen. Hamilton, Geru Waddy its v con USajKi -f mv bands under the leaf, and exerted self: .1 'u:u„ as^much force as I was capable : of in I Wo were directed to place the Bible j.,,,.. mwl rnnlil not raise I on a drawer under the table. I placed that sitting posture, and could not raise on ad rawer under thetable. 1 placed Ua DaSoCm the floor. I then stood it there, completely closed. It was a “ a : P _.,„ti, nosition to exert sraTlt pocket Bible, with very fine print. A^fcrag, des^ibin^Pfefoph ant > remark- 2 kI . .! • • .•.imol f nl*0a r»ti rn m ^ n a Ka beat possible position to exert small pocket Bible, with very fine print. <*'*• Njimeroua raps ware then KUkrd, beat* v r J -alii Mnl rnicrt it with all I iriff- time to “Hall Columbia,” which IjjSSy T hgl . . JVJBjH Sta. Sarah Helen Whitman, Piovidence, R. I; —~ A Sick Bachelor.—The NeW Yorit - Times thus heads a long article dn this * subjet: , >L . . . “A siek: Bachelor! A dyin^ Catrthl id the desert! A sailor on a hen-fioop id the middle of the Atlantic 1 ' All - thd same. The same incident from difisrhiil points of view. Tlfee same subject with “ If there is a* pre* rv m ed th never at this sagacious animal takes care rlo be robbed, for he always car* wif" -' ries hjs trunk before? biro. Costom will have the same effect, w .. ei krith respect tydpkth; as to .qtljer fright*. Wheu they | dispensable; and whenever they are with- * fill things; it will take off its terror. ' k ‘ ■lit"' J ' ■ •* 'V* ■C'Mp*.’-- could appiyi’ I then, re- had bej ■ladies to take hold beg^n* quested aro 'lift mfJTt a b pfSelo“ We ihen desisted spelled out “Look.” tjocjed on the fearing - wo should break table, l draw, apd tound the Bible open. I then asked, « \Vtll the spirits patm^ nto»took It up. aua carefully kept lt opcq at n palled for. * Soon the sounds to receddk and grew fainter and like the music of the guitav, way in the distance. The then called for,, and it Was varied accessories, ponderanee of misery dp Any side it is on the side o¥ the sick bacheldr. Thd ' may be; is still scarcely, as sensitive as the hutriau sufferer, and the sailor floatin^on the that there is help within bachelor is the ne plus ultra of hu^|M|-^ misery 1 1$ . •*rnr.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

Southern banner. (Athens, Ga.) 1832-1872, June 09, 1853, Image 1