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S — ftiwt 8 888 *~ Sgg-tLWfrg. ‘LgH. “ Wisdom, JhM.net, 'Moderation.» VOL. I. ALBANY, BAKER COUNTY, GEORGIA, JUNE 25,1845. NO. 11. THE PATRIOT, ,. pT.usirr.n every Wednesday mousing, by .nelson TIFT & SETH N. BOUGHTON, Editors and Proprietors. TERMS. -\X() Dollars par annum, if paid in advance, or Dollars at tlie end of the year. ' Vlvcrtiscments not exceeding twelve lines, will l ; n .! rt.d at One Dollar for the first insertion, and r'i 'v c nts for each continuance. Advertisements i ,t Living tl*e number of insertions specified, will 1. ..jUlished until forbid. of Und and Negroes by Executors. Adminis- irati.r. and Guardians, are required by law to he i IreTtised i» a public gazette, sixty days previous to ihci'w of sale. ' sales of Personal Property must be advertised in like manner forty days. Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an estate must licked forty days. \ ti, e that application will be made to the Court rftMic.ary for leave to sell Land and Negroes, mnst nn'di-lied weekly for four months. Voichly Advertisements, One Dollar per square f r wh insertion. ' J.'AI! Letters on bnsiness mnst lie post paid. here larging stream, til! they cover the shores which may have marked the stot w of the Pacific. Even then the ocean will sleeps tlieir honored dust. But they still not terminate tlieir progress, but rathef live. Tltcy live in the immortal principles open out n passage to the shores of Eastern which they tntight—in the endunng msti- Asia, till both the old nnd new world are ! unions which they established. They live united, nnd flourish beneath the same arts in the remembrance of a grateful posterity; and the same religion. We have already 1 nnd they will live on through all lime, in referred to what America is doing to pour j the gratitude of unborn generatisns, who llie clear full stream of her living Christi-,in long succession, shall 'rise unand call 10. Gentle exercise should be taken reg-: trades are liable* to produce, attend to the ularly two Irwin a day nt least; nnd it j following hints: must never be forgotten that cheerfulness. Keep, if possible, regular hours. Never MISCELLA Y. The Glory of America. flic following eloquent article is from the London Christian Examiner. Our readers will find themselves richly repaid fur its perusal: Oa America, in her present position, we ink with inicsc interest. Her whole his tory is interwoven with the fate of Europe, f.n’i there is not a State iu the wide spread comment of the Old Wyjld, which is not destined to feci nnd to be affected by her influence. No force can crush the sympa thy that already exists nnd is continually augmenting, between Europe and the New Vi’iirlil The eyes of the oppressed are turning wistfully to the land of fiecdom, and die kings of the continent already re gard with awe ami disquiliidc the new Rome rising in the West, the foreshadows cf whose greatness yet to be, arc exiend- ing, dark and heavy over the dominions and obscuring the lustre of their thrones! Since these enlightened utterances W'cre given forth, America has doubled her pop- n;..i!(.ii, end such arc her national resources that Iter influence is confined by no shore. During the last quarter of a century she lias made astonishing progress, and ere long w ill challenge the older Slates of Europe to divide with them the honor of taking liic lead in the idvanccmcnt of society. Her canvass is now sprehd to every breeze and i overs every sea. Ilcr flag is acknowledg ed and honored on every shore? She is a country of during enterprise, nnd is not on ly cnmimuiicatiiigto those who occupy her consecrated soil “a freer life and a fresher v it re,’’ hut she is spreading civilization, knowledge and religion among the most distant nations of the earth. America is a commercial nation, and it is on her com merce and bet religion that she must de pend for her influence among the nations, li was commerce which gave to Tyre and lhbylon, ami tier rival Ntnevali, and oilier ancient empires, their proud and lofty dis tinction. tint it was commerce which had no connection with the religious and true. It was therefore but tcm|iorary. Their greatness lias passed away. Thu waves ol the sea now roll wlierc once stood ilie vusl and magnificent palaces of wealth and luxury. The monuments of tlieir com mercial enterprise and prosperity arc now crumbled into ashes. Uritain and America arc now taught (hat if the sun ol ilicir prosperity is yet to as cend and shine forth full orbed, not only must both nations enjoy a free and unlet tered commerce, but that commerce must be sanctified. “ Righteousness exalte-lb a nation,” and this righteousness, the great principles of justice and truth, must per vade its commerce, its science, its enter prise. In this is the stability, as well as die strength and power of Stales. In ibis, America holds no common place. Doth he.- navy and her merchant services are greatly under a religious influence—and this influence affects tier commerce, which now extends to every coast and claims the confidence of every people. The influence of commerce on the im provement and the destiny of the world is secondary only to the all powcrlul, all su perior economy of grace. In her commer cial position America is great: but her true strength lies in her religion—in her free, pure Christianity. America has the most ample resources to spread the knowledge ol the truth over different countries, and which iu its rapidly increasing greatness, will find aids and supplies larger than have been possessed by any empire for benefiting man kind. They arc descended from ancestors who, like the Father of the faithful, for the sake of truth, went to a land which they knew not; and, like the children of Abraham, as they have the truth in their keeping, we trusi that they will carry it wide, even to tlie ends of the earth. _ They have no need of a disposition to spread them abroad among the nations; fur even now, in the infancy of their origin, their vessels touch upon every court, their inhabitants sojourn in every country, and religion grows up with their growth, and strengthens with their strength. Thcv carry their altars with them into the wil derness, and through them civilization nnd Christianity will Sow oa with an ever cn- living ..... nnity into those channels which an all-wise Providence hns laid open both at home nnd abroad. Her benevolence unntiaily ex ceeding the sum of five millions sterling, for education and religion, is graduated on a noble scale—her first talents nnd most hopeful energies are devoted to the spread of religion—her churches nnd her mission aries nre to bo found whithersoever her commerce has been enrried, nnd her mor al influence is ns wide as the world. This, in union and co-operation with that of Bri tain, is changing the whole aspect of so ciety. The children of both countries arc spreading over the globe, carrying with them the rlements of universal regenera tion. Already all things arc becoming new. The superstitions and errors of ages arc melting away; human systems arc be ing shaken lo tlieir foundation; earthly creeds are crumbling into fragments; mind is bursting its fetters, nnd all rreation is sighing for redemption. The day of re demption draieelh nigh l Borne on the cha riot of inspiration through ages of time, we arc set down in the midst of scenes of surpassing loveliness and glory, when this earth shall be as chaste in principle ns it is now impure, nnd when a brighter tight than that which invested the rising world of wa ters which Omnipotence called out of chons and darkness, shall clothe the whole moral creation, its mere limn sun-like brightness reflects the glorv nnd happiness of heaven. In the belief and anticipation of such a period, wo arc ready lo exclaim with the poet, though with far higher and purer feel ings, nnd looking for what never entered into Ins heart to conceive— ‘ Ad.pico convrxe mutnrtem pondcre mundiim: Terrasqiie; trartusque man's, railumquo profit ndum Allspice venture lactentur nt amnia seeclo!’ Entering the temple of truth-:—conduct ed into the holiest of all, and standing I y the lamp of projihccv, ns it casts iis clem and steady light on ihc future, we look for an age in which this will lie more than re alized. Christianity will spread and tri umph over every other system, nnd in its propagation, America will have no com mon part. She and Britain will advance with equal step till tlieir civilization shall be co-cxtcnsivc with the globe. The dis tance which we have gamed is lost. A- tncrica has made so rapidly upon us, that she is now ns much in the advance ns our selves, in the race of Christian benevolence and enterprise. Nor from the ground which she note occu pies tc ! ll she recede ! Each successive gen eration of her children will rise up im bued with the same spirit. The lessons of freedom, religion and enterprise which are now being taught, will.be perpetuated till latest posterity. They arc trained nnd dis ciplined as becomes h nation pledged lo great deeds. Her schools nre for the edu cation of the intellect—the development of mind with all its powers and capacities; her pulpit is for the sound nnd vigorous ex position of the Christian virtues—bringing them home to every man’s bosom and busi ness ; her press is for the support and de fence—the maintenance and diffusion of truth and virtue. In moral power nnd re sources, America not only rivals, hut far exceeds the European States, England alone excepted. She has engcriv pressed forward to tier present point of advance. In Iter future progress, she is destined, in common with Britain, to carry along with her the destiny of the species. Tlie world is not only to receive a new language—a new philosophy—a new religion; but to take its entire* type and impression from these two nations.* And should Britain de cline—should her lamp, now so full of light glimmer and expire—America, possessed of her language, her literature, her religion, will stnnd out as the great regenerator of the race, and within herself will find re- sources equal to any enterprise—any re sult. The pilgrim spirit has not fled. It still survives. It animates the children. It will live through generations yet to come, It is the genius which presides over the destinies of the land. One of the living descendants of the fathers thus writes « No other lorm of religion was known in this land of the Pilgrims, until the great principles of tlie American System were developed and established there by our Pu ritan forefathers. The truth is they lived for no ordinary purpose. They were the most remarkable men which the world ever produced. They lived for a nobler end, for a higher destiny than any that hns ever lived. These are the men to whom New England owes her religion, with all the blessings, social, civil, nnd literary, that follow in its train. These arc the venem- g sttcccssion, shall 'rise up and call them blessed. And shall we, Who keep the graves, and liear the names, and boast (he blood of these men,’ disovn their Church, or cast out ns evil, and rerile their religion 1 No—by the memory of those noble men, bv their holy lives, by tlieir hea venly principles, tlieir sacred institutions— by the sustaining strength which they themselves arc still giving 'o our fiecdom, nnd lo the great cause of civil and religious liberty throughout the earth—let us not give up the religion of our forefathers.— No—never, never.” i • Such arc the lofty princiflcs and senti ments which possess tlie bosuns of the de pendants of the Pilgrims. In these we have at once the promise anc-thc pledge of American greatness nnd cnttrprisc. Amer ica is now strong in moral lower, and so long ns slic breathes the sprit of the reli gion of the Pilgrims, we lope well, not only for the. United States, hit for Christen dom and the world. In the great conflict which is now opening on the Church of God, she will take the froni of the battle in the effort to compass and subjugate the world to the Cross, she will press into every field of action. Her eagle stands with un folded pinions, ready to take her flight lo the ends of the earth*, and, in their upward, onward passage to scatter blessings richer and more precious than dreps from the wings of. llie morning. May those pinions never be folded till the whole world, reno vated and purified, shall repose beneath the shadow of eternal love, waiting for the glorious liberty of the children of God! We have finished this imperfect sketch of the Pilgrim Fathers. Our hearts exult in. the fact that these honored and now sainted men, the Pilgrim Fathers, arc still represented on the earth. May their spirit in seven-fold energy descend and rest on the whole Church, nnd at no distant tiny mnv the Church embrace the universal family of men! From Sears' Familv Magazine. ■lints Tor rresming Health. 1. Habitual cheerfulness and composure of tnind, arising from peace of conscience, constant reliance on the goodness of God, nnd the exercise of kindly feelings toward men. Peace of miiul is as essential to health as it is to happiness. 2. Strict control over the appetites and passions, with a fixed abhorrence of all ex cess, and all unlawful gratifications what soever. He that would enjoy good health must be “temperate in all tilings, 3 nnd habitually exercise the most rigid self-gov ernment ; for every sort of vicious indul gence is highly injurious to health ; first, directly, in its immediate effects on the bo- t'j ; and next, indirectly, in the perpetual dissatisfaction and anxiety of mind which it invariably occasions. 3. Early rising; and in order to this, take no supper, or if any, a very slight one, nnd go early to bed. ’The hour before bed-time should be spent in agreeable relaxation, or in such exercises only as tend to compose the mind nnd promote inward peace and cheerfulness. 4. Simplicity, moderation,and regularity, with respect to diet. A judicious selection of the articles of food, tlie careful avoiding of unwholesome dainties, and whatever has proved hurtful to the constitution. The quantify of food should be in proportion to the amount of exercise n person undergoes. Sedentary people should be rather abste mious ; tlieir food should be nulricious, ea sy of digestion, nnd moderate in quantity. Seldom cat any thing between meals. 5. To abstain from the use of wine and othcrstimiilants. They may sometimes be employed to advantage in cases of extreme dibilitv or extraordinary labor ; but, nnrler any circumstances, if too freely or too fre quently indulged in, they will most certain ly impair your health and shorten your life •6. Eat very slowly, with a view to the thorough mastication of your iood: rather forego a meal, or lake - half the needful quantity, than cat too fast 7. Refrain from both mental and bodily exertion for a short time after the principal meal. If immediate exertion be required only a slight repast should be taken insteai of the usual meal. Never eat a full meal when the body is heated or much fatigued with exercise. Wait till you arc somewhat refreshed by a short interval of repose. 8. Occasional abstinence. Whenever the system is feeble or disordered, diminish the quantity of your food, and allow your self more tunc for exercise. In cases of slight indisposition, a partial or a total fast will often be found the best restorative. g. Take no physic unless it be absolute ly necessary. Learn, if possible how to keep well Without it. In case of real in is an essential ingredient in all beneficial exercise. Mental relaxation in agreeable society, too, should be sought as often as due attention to business and other impor tant affairs will permit. Providence. A firm persuasion of the superintendence of providence over all our concerns is abso lutely necessary to our happiness. With out it, we cannot be said to believe in the Scripture, or practise anything like resigna tion- to his will. If I ant convinced that no affliction can befall me without the per mission of God, I am convinced likewise that he sees and knows that I am afflicted; believing this, 1 must in the same degree believe that, if I pray to him for deliver ance, ha hears me; I must needs know “ a 2f Gazette. likewise with equal assurance, that if lie hears, he will also deliver me, if that will upontltc whole be most conducive to my happiness ; nnd if he docs not deliver me, I may be well assured that he has none hut the most benevolent intention in declining it. .He made us, not because wc could add to his happiness, which was always perfect, but that we might be made happy our selves , nnd will lie not in all his dispensa tions toward us, even in the minutest, con sult that end for which he made us ? To suppose the contrary, is (which wc arc not always aware of) affronting every one of his attributes; and at the same time the certain consequence of disbelieving his core for us is, that we renounce utterly our dependence upon him. In this view it will appear plainly that the line of duty is not stretched loo tight, when wc are told that wrought to accept every thing at his hands as a blessing, and lobe thankful even while we smart under the rod of iron with which he sometimes rules us. Without this persuasion, every blessing, however we may think ourselves happy in it, loses its greatest recommendation, and every af fliction is intolerable. Death itself must he welcome to him who hns this faith, nnd lie who has it not must aim at it, if he is not a madman.—Sears' Fam. Mag. Never Fail. The great secret of success in life is nc- cr to give up. If wc were to leave a le gacy lo our children, and had nothing bet ter, we should bequeath to them as tlieir motto “ persevere.” More is lost than peo ple suppose by want of well directed ener gy—wc do not mean that energy which comes by fits and starts, but a ceaseless, untircing tenacity of purpose, assisted by sound common sense in the affairs of life. Your weak-minded men, who give up at the first rebuff, are good for nothing.— Great souls onl, achieve immortality by dint of untiling perseverance. Look at Columbus—he was seventeen years in pro curing the little fleet which discovered a world. Sec how Washington toiled, year after year, otnid constantly recurring dis appointment, laboring, too, under the want if money and the suspicions of Congress. but he persevered, and our independence was achieved. John Jacob Astor says it was more difficult to earn his first thousand dollars than to amass all the rest of his twcnty-four-millions. He means really •hat the habits of enterprise, activity and perseverance, which he found necessary to earn his first thousand dollars, remained afterwards with him as a habit, and, assist ed by capital, easily achieved his enormous fortune. Most of our other rich men have once been poor like him. Do not despair, therefore. Let your watchword be “ never fail.” Rise superior to your fortunes, and you will yet bo great and rich. suppose you have done extra work when you sit up till midnight, and not rise until eight or nine in the morning. Abstain from ardent spirits, cordials and malt liquors. Let your drink be like that of Franklin when he was a printer—pure water. Never use tobacco in any form. By chewing, smoking or snuffing, you spend money which would help to clothe you, or enable you, if single, to make a useful pres ent lo an aged mother or dependent sister; if married, to buy a dress for your wife, or gel books fot your children. You also, by any of these filthy practices, injure your health, bring on headache, gnawing at the stomach, low spirits, trembling of the limbs, nnd at times sleeplessness.—JV*taTs Salur- From the New Orleans Picayune. Peter Plotvden, the Anti-Hum- bug. About 11 o’clock last night, the watchman station ed in St Charles street, opposite Lafayette Square, found an individual “coudiaht” on the pine-block pavement in that neighborhood. Having an insur mountable objection to any thing stationary—an ob jection so great that he keeps his accounts on a notched stick to avoid nsing pens and paper—h-> bade him “move on.” This language, which wav spoken in the potential cither than in tbs imperative mood—which was more a request than a command- war. allowed to pass unnoticed by the recumbent gentleman; on seeing which, the watchman applied a persuader, in the shape of bis baton, to his side. ‘•Hallow!” said he whose lodging was on the cold ground, “hallow, there! what’s that t If yon want to become drum-beoter to an auctioneer, yon ha 1 better find something else than my ribs to practice hie men whose blood still flows in our veins, disposition, consult a competent medical and into whose inheritance we have enter-1 adviser without delay, and implicitly at- ed. Peace to their silent shades 1 Frajf-: tend to his directions,* so far as you think rant as the breath of morning bo their he is fully acquainted with your constitu- memory! The winds of two centuries tion, nnd with the best means of treating have swept over their graves I your disorder. Never risk your health and “The effacing hand of time has well 1 life either by neglecting serious illness or nigh worn away tho perishable monuments, by tampering with quack remedies. Worth makes the Han. Worth makes the man 1 not wealth ! not dress I not parade. You will find more real manliness, .more sound sense, more loveliness of character, in the humble walks of life, than was ever dreamed of in the circles of fashion, of pride, of wealth, of Chcsterfieldian rules of politeness. When a man of sense—no matter how hum ble his origin, or lowly his occupation, may appear in the eyes of the vain and foppish —is treated with contempt, he will soon forget it; but will put forth all the ener gies of his mind to rise above those who Utus look down in scorn upon him. By shunning the mechanic, we exert an in fluence derogatory to honest labor and make it unfashionable for young men to learn trades, or labor for a support. Did our young women realize that for all their parents possess, for nit they have they are indebted to the raechanices it would be their desire to elevate him and eiicourage his visits to their society, while they would treat with scorn the lazy, the spounger and the well dressed pauper. On looking back a few years, our most fastidious la dies can trace their geneaology_from hum ble mechanics, who, perhaps, in their day w’ere sneered at by the proud and foolish while their grandmothers gladly received them to their bosoms. “Get un,” paid Charley, “and keep movin’; yo^ are already behind tlie age; if yon lie in tbs public street you will not only be passed by bat run over. What* your name?” “Peter Plowdcn,” said-that gentleman rising np, “but 1 should like to know what business tint is ct* yours ?” “Peter,” said the watchman, “I knows yon—and I knows you to be a humbug.” “Well, sir,” said Peter, speaking in a tons as if his diameter had been traduced and as if his action * were about to be misconstrued," well, sir and if I an what of it ? Is not humbug the all-pervading nrir- ciplc of tlie times ? like the oxygen in the atmosphere, does it not infuse itself into every department of life —every ramification of society ? Is not humbug the fulcrum l y which your running men move tho mar- m s—tho lever by which the selfish ascend to place and power. The—” “ Oh, that’s oil very well,” ntorted tho watch man, “ but it aint no defence for laying in the streets.” “ Certainly not,” rejoined Plowdcn, “because hum bug, and not the principles of law and justice, wi.l decide my cose. Talk of talent, patriotism and ge- nious—it’s humbnr.all sheer humbug, sir. Talent was never known to do more than servo as stilts for humbug; and patriotism, whenever it has taken the field, lias fallen a sacrifice to humbug or left it laur- eliess; and genious has been but the tail of the kiti that guidca the Sight of humbug. Why, sir, let cither talent, patriotism or genious start oa a race with humbug, and if it would not jostle them altc- I jether off the track, it would distance them long be- ore they ccukl get within sight of the winning post —using the refined idiom of the times, ‘ they couldn’t come it.’ No, my friend, (here he assumed a pat ronising air towsnl. the watchmanj if you have children, and would have them to succeed in tho world, teach them—though I doubt if you know how —but atoll events have them taught the science— or at least tho first principles of hnrnbog; ail the rest —including the living and the dead languages—they will learn themselves; beside—” “Besides,” said the watchman, “I reckons yon's beside yourself,” “ Yes,” said Peter Plovrden, “ and Pm before tho humbugged and behind the humbugs. They mov.i along on the electro-magnetkal speed principle. Iu tact, sir, as I believe I have already remarked, al though without principle themselves theirs is an ail-pervading principle. Humbug mixes our physic, mokes our lows and administers our justice. It founds new systems of philosophy and enlarges tho limits of philanthropy. It tonus societies lor tho irerervation of our bodies and institutes associations or the safety of our souls. In short, Charley,” said Mr. Plowdcn, familiarly addressing the functionary who had awoke him. “humbug is the great motive power of mankind, as the world is now constituted; and unless I can contrive to get an a little more of its steam than I have heretofore done, my locomotive on the railroad of prosperity will, 1 four, be slow in deed.” The watchman said there was “ sum’at" in what be said, but still he felt bound to take him to the watch-house. Hints to mechanics. Dr Alcott gives tlie following hints to mechanics, which wc think have a general application, ns well to those of the profess- ions os those of tho trades: » If you would avoid too diseases your IMMENSE NATURAL BEEHIVE, In a cavern on the right bank of the Colorado c- boutV miles above Austin, there is an immense hive of wild bees, which is one of the most interesting natural curosities in that section. The entrance ot this cavern is situated in a ledge of lime-stone form ing a high cliff which rises almost perpendicularly from the river bank to the bright of about one hun dred feet from the waters edge. This cliff bents partly on a M"»n stream named Bali creek. The mouth of this cavern is about ten feet below the top of the cliff In a warm day a dark stream of bees may be constantly sera winding oat from the cavern, like a long dark wreath of smoke. This stream of ten appears one or two feet in diameter near the clifij and gradually spreads out like a fen growing thinner sod thinner at a distance bom the cavern until it disappears. The number of bees in this cavern must be incalculably great, prebabiygreaterthsn the num ber in a thousand ordinary hives. The oldest set tiers say that the hive was there when they first ar rived in the country, and it is quite prshobie that it existed in the same state many yean previous to the settlement of the country. The bees it is said have never swarmed, and it is not improbable, that the hive has continued, fer more than a century, to in crease year after year in the same ratio that other swarms increas'd-^ Tim «■*» appears to extend bach many rods Into the ledge, and probably has many lateral chambers. : The bees doubtless occupy many of these lateral clamber*, and it is not improb able that new swarms annually find new chambers
