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Newspaper Page Text. 1/ { »i mil *=? oj “WISDOM—JUSTICE—MODERATION. ” VOL. II. ALBANY, BAKER COUNTY, GEORGIA, WEBNESBAY, JULY 22, 1846. NO. 15, THE ALBANY PATRIOT, It PUBLISHED EVERT WEDNESDAY WORKING, BY NELSON TIFT & SETH N. B0U6HT0N, t . Editors and Proprietors. TERMS. TWO Dollars per annum, if paid in advance, or Three Dollars at the end of the year. Advertisements not exceeding twelve lines, will be inserted at One Dollar for the first insertion, and Filly cents for each continuance. Advertisements not having the number of insertions specified, will be published until forbid. Sal es ot Land and Negroes by Executors, Adminis trators and Guardians, are required by law to be advertised in a public gazette, sixty days previous to ihe day of sale. The sales of Personal Property must be advertised m like manner forty days. Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an estate must be published forty days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Odinary for leave to sell Land and Negroes, must be published weekly for four months. Monthly Advertisements, One Dollar per square for each insertion. IT All Letters on business must be post paid. POETRY. G. D. Prentice, editor of the Louisville Journal, has been for some weeks at Biloxi, seeking the res toration of his health. The last Journal contains tlxe following beautiful piece of poetry from his pen: TO AW ABSENT WIFE. ’Tis morn—the sea-breeze seems to bring Joy, health, and freshness on its wing— Bright flowers, to me all strange and new, Are glittering in the early dew— And perfumes rise from every grove As incense to the clouds that move Like spirits o’er yon welkin clear— But I am 6ad—thou art not here. ’Tis noon—a calm, unbroken sleep Is on the blue waves of the deep— A soft haze like a fairy dream Is floating over wood and stream— And many a broad magnolia flower, Within its shadowy woodland bower, Is gleaming like a lovely star— But I am sad—for thou art far. ’Tis eve—on earth the snnset skies Are painting their own Eden dyes— The stars come down and trembling glow Like blossoms in the waves below— And, like some unseen sprite, the breeze Seems lingering ’mid these orange trees, Breathing its music around the spot— But I am sad—I see thee not. ’Tis midnight—with a soothing spell The far tones of the ocean swell Soft as a mother’s cadence mild I/>w bending o’er her sleeping child— And on each wandering breeze are beard The rich notes of the mocking bird In many a wild and wondrous lay— But I am sad—thou art away. I sink in dreams—low, sweet and clear, Thy own dear voice is in my car— Around my cheek thy tresses twine— Thy own loved hand is clasped in mine— Thy own soft lip to mine is pressed— Thy head is pillowed on my breast— Oh! I have all my heart holds dear— And I am happy—thou art here. g. 1 MIRTH AND WOE. Mr. Hudson, in one of his lectures the other night, said that mirth was often the result of sorrow and despair, and instan ced the jests of Sir Thomas More, when going to the scaffold. This is a fact little considered, yet both our own hearts and the example of others show its truth.— Cowper wrote his ‘John Gilpin’ in a fit of despondency. Who has not often laugh ed, from very bitterness of heart? We have often thought we have never found any man before Mr. Hudson to express the idea, that the cheerfulness which many historical personages are said to have shown on the sen fluid, was only an hys terical meriment, the insane child of des pair. No one who reads Miss St rickiand’s ‘ Queens of England,’ for instance, can doubt that poor Anne Boleyn’s levity, on the day of her death, was hysterical.— We once saw a French picture represent ing Lady Jane Gray disrobing on the scaffold; the expression of the face was resigned, but it was the wild exhaustion following a struggle of hope ami despair; a face, beautiful yet sorrowful, smiling but ghastly, such a face as haunts us even yet ami makes every nerve shudder to think upon. That face was a jest wrung from agony. As it looked so must Anne Boleyn have looked when she made merry on the scaffold. THE MEXICAN WAR THUS FAR. The war in which we are engaged has now presented itself fully, and in all its as pects, to the Judgement of the world. The ample and able report of the Commit tee on Foreign Relations of the House of Representativess, has stated, as may be supposed, the view taken of the whole subject by the American government. The address, or as we might call it, the an nul message of Paredes to the Mexican Congress—one of the ablest of the Mexican state papers, by the way—presents fully and clearly the position of the Mexican government in relation to the war. And fi nally, the last arrival from Europe has brought us the judgement of the leading European nations upon the same subject, in so far as that iudgeineut may be gath ered from the leading public journals in England and France, and from some inci dental allusion in the course of debate in the French Chamber of deputies. Some points in this European judgement of the war arewell worthy of notice. In the first place', it is astriking fact, that Mexico, weak, defeated, helpless, and hopeless as she is, has gained in Europe no sympathy whatever. She seems in this to have forfeited even the immemorial privi- lige of the unfortunate and the feeble. En glish policy is surely not too well pleased sing on its operations, both by sea and land, with utmost vigor—and finally, to hold steadily on our course, laying out of view as impossible, all armed interference on the part of foreign powers ; and in case any such interference should be attempted stern ly forbiddingand repelling it under penally of breaking up the peace of the world. [ Washington Union. A CURE FOR BAD TEMPER. A cheerful temper—not occasionally, but habitually cheerful—is aqualily which no wise man would be willing to dispense with in choosing a wife. It is like a good fire in winter, diffusive and genial in its in fluence, and always approached with a con fidence that it will comfort and do good. Attention to health is one great means of maintaining this excellence unimpaired, and attention to household affairs is anoth er.— The slate of body which women call billious is most initnimical to habitual clieertulness; and that which girls call having nothing nothing to do, but which 1 rail idleness, is equally so. I have always strongly recommended exercise as the first rule for preserving health; but there is an exercise in domestic usefulness, which without seperseding that in the open air, is highly beneficial to the health both of mind and body, inasmuch as it adds lo oth- The second article of the constitution I On ascending the throne, not conten reads as follows, to wit; *‘The object to with the spacious residence ol bis father which its attention is to be exclusively be erected another, much more magnifi directed, is lo promote and execute a ■ cent, fronting on the plnxa mayor of the plan for colonizing, with tbeir own con-1 present city of Mexico. So vast was this sent, the free people of color, residing,! great structure, that, as one of the histori- in our country, in Africa, or such other ans informs us, the space covered by its places as Congress shall deem expedient. And the Society shall act, to effect this object, in co-operation with the General Government, and such of the States as may adopt regulations on the subject.’, The first small band of emigrants left this country in 1320, but no permanent settlement was made till about the close of the year 1822, when the present colony of Liberia was settled at Cape Mesurado, and a town commenced named Monrovia, at thefirst blush of a successful American in-1 e , r benefits, the happiest of all sensations, MISCELLANY. A DESPERATE WOMAN. “A few days since while the Great Wes tern was lying at Mackinaw, it was whis pered round that one of the passengers, who seemed a trim hoy of some sixteen or eighteen years was in fact a woman. Cap tain Walker invited the voutli and one of the principle citizens of Mackinaw into his office, anil there being questioned, the sus picious passenger declared herself a woman and gave her reasons for assuming the dress she wore. She said she was married, as she supposed, a few years ago, in this city, to a man whose name our informant was unable lo give ; that after living with hint some years and having two or three children, her husband told her the marriage was all a sham, ilmt he had an other lawful wife, and hail contemtuously cast off her and her children. “Under these circumstances, she lias swornto have revenge or justice. She had asceriained that the man who had thus deeply wronged her was living at Macki naw, and she come there to obtain n recog nition of her rights, or vengea nee in default. Upon which sne exhibited two loaded pis tols, which she carried about her person. After some farther conversation, she gave up the pistols, and a messenger was iles- patccd tothe husband with an intimation that a passenger on the Great Western wished to see him. He soon came on “OLD ROUGH AND READY.” We have heard several very good an ecdotes related of General Taylor, by a gentleman who served under him in Flor ida.' The following is one of the num ber :—During the war with the Seminoles, the army was frequently supplied with corn, which had become damaged by ex posure to damp air—Gen. Taylor had a horse which was called “Clay Bank,” a very good animal, hut he did not particu larly fancy Utu le Sam’s musty rations.— The general used to partake of the same fare as the soldiers under him, and so dirl “Clay hank,” so for as the corn was concerned, hut he was a lillle dainty. The general was fond of hominy, and musty corn made anything hut a pleasant lit i. He would not lav himself liable to the siisdicion of “picking,” to the preju- lice of the soldiers; so old Clay hank would he let loose among the sacks of corn and after smelling very carefully, the sa- g.u-ioiis animal would commence gnaw- h.'le into one which pleased him. The general would watch the manoeuvre until lie saw ‘Clay bank” had made a ■hni< e then, calling his servant, would lirecl him lo have “Clay-bank” stabled immediately for fear he might do mischief; but, lie would say, “as the animal has gnnwed a hole in the bag, take out a quart or so of the corn and make a dish of hominy.” The trick was played sev. eral limes, hut by and bye it became known that whenever "Clay-bank,’ gnawed into a sack, sweet corn was to be found, and the incident became a standing joke during the war.—Lancaster Union. vnsion of Mexico, though that same British policy may indeed, npon further reflection, appreciate justly the inestimable advantage of the permanent peace upon the North Americnn continent to which such an in vasion looks. Y'el the British journals, dis inclined as they are to see any extension of our tcritorv, pronounce almost with one accord that the character of the war, thus fur—including, we may presume, the course of conduct which caused the war, as well as the mode in which it has been prosecuted—has sunk the Mexican charac ter lower than ever in the scale of nations. One of Ihe French journals has been cral- ic and venturous enough to argue for an armed interventinnof the French govern ment in behalf of Maxico. But even this journal, the Epoqe, puts its suggestion dis tinctly on the ground of the future French interests in the matter, and nol.at all upon the justice of the Mexican cause. In a word, Mexican policy lotvarsds us, in the midst of its defeat and disaster, finds on the other side, of the water neither sympa thy nor defence. The reason of this" is ob vious. The European nations well know that our governmeut entered upon this Mexican war with reluctance, and only when any peace, save that peace which should he gained by successful war, was no longer a possibility. Again: Judging from the indications of European opinion which have just reach ed us, no man can doubt, we think, that our war with Mexico thus far has given on the other side of ihe Atlantic a new and terraced roof might have afforded room for thirty knights to run their course in a regular lournay. His father’s palace, al though not so high, was so extensive, that the visitors were too much fatigued in ' wandering through the apartments ever lo see the whole of it. The palaces were built of red stone, or- uamented with marble, the arms rtf the Moniezumas family, (an eagle bearing a tiger in his talons) being sculptured over in honor of President Monroe, who was a j the main entrance. Chrystal fountain’s firm friend of this noble enterprise. The fed by great reservoirs on the neighbor- colony now numbers about 4,COOi'emi-ling hills, played in the vast halls and gar- THE PEOPLE. The greatest scholars, poets, orators, philosophers, warriors, statesmen, inven tors and improvers of the arts, arose from the lowest of the people. If we had wailed till courtiers hail invented the ait of printing, dock-making, navigation, and a thousand others, we should have proba bly continued in darkness lo this hour.— They hud something else to do than to add to the comforts and conveniences of ordinary life. They had to worship an idol with the incense of flattery, who was often much more stupid than themselves, and who sometimes had no more care or knowledge of the people under him, or their wants, than he had of arts or litera ture. CHRISTIAN HOME. “O! great, unspeakable, is the bless ings of a godly home! here is the cradle of the Christian: hence he sallies forth for the encounter with the world, armed at all points, disciplined in all the means of resistance, and full of hope of victoiy under his Heavculv Leader. Hither he ever afterwards turns a dutiful and afiec board, and the two parlies met face to face. | donate look, regarding it as the type and The woman upraided him with all the pledge of another home: hither, too, when wrongs he lind inflicted upon her, and de manded reperaiion for herself and children by a legal marriage, at the same lime, with all the recklesness of a woman goad ed to desperation, threatning his life with the most vehement asservations if he failed to do her justice. “At this point the door opened, and the man, who had cowered before her, shot out like lightning and escaped lo the store. She soon followed after, ascertained his place of business and sought another in terview. As she approached, the man, doubtless snppossed sue had come to fulfil her threats, and that he muBl defend his life, raised a pistol and fired. The ball struck near her feel. She never blenched, but drawing a pistol in turn from her vest, took deliberate aim'alhim. and then lowered the weapon, saying as she turned on her heel, “no you poor contemptible wretch, it would disgrace even a woman to slay you. I” The nffnir, of course, made a great noise on the island, but what was the issue we are unable to slate. The boat swung off soon after the events wehnve detailed, lea-1 Yinf both parties ashore,”—A*, t. Adv. ;• ... sore wounded in that conflict, he resorts lo repair his drooping vigor; here, when abandoned hy the selfish sonsof this world, he finds as in the sanctuary the children of God are ready with open arms to re ceive him; and here the returning prodi gal, folded in the embrace of those who know not, dream not, of the impurities of the world with which he has been mixing, feols at once his heart burn with shame and repentance. Merciful God, what a city of refuge hast thou ordained in the Christian home.”—Rectory of Vnlcheai. A son of the Emerald Isle meeting a countryman whom' he did not remember to have seen before, after saluting him most cordiallv, inquired his name.— ‘Walsh,’ was tfce reply. ‘Walsh, Walsh,' responded Pat, 'I knew two auld maids in Dublin, of that name; mas aitker of y*rmotherT • - The steamer Frentier has been lost on theltio Qrande. stronger impression of our national energy. The terms in which the European papers speak of our military operations on the Rio Grande, are altogether novel in the foreign accounts and estimates of Aacrican trans actions. But the truly impressive aspect of onr Mexican hosllities has not yet reach ed Europe, and is not lo be found in our two victories, unsurpassed as they are by any previous feats of American arms. The rush of our volunteer army to the scene of ac tion, is the fact in all our military operations which should strike, and which will strike, the governments of Europe with the deep est and most enduring impression. This spontaneous military energy of a federative republic is what both England and Ftanc have always affected lo disbelieve. They have regarded it as impossible. They nev er loose a chance to sneer at the citizen soldier. In nn article bearing the appear ance of the Palmerston party, the Morning Chronicle, has undertaken an elaborate refutation of (lie idea, which it professes lo find in the American journals, “that the Oregon question is to be seltled in Mexico.” Assuming the conquest of California and of other Mexican provicences as the neces sary result of the continuance of the of the war, the Chronicle yet gravely argues thot even such brilliant success would form no conclusive reason why England should yield to us on the Oregon question. The adoption of such n line of argument in such a quarter, shows how strongly the Mexican war has impressed the public mind in England. How much will this impression be deepened, when it is known a volunteer force of many thousands flew, at the first call of the country, to the Rio Grande, with a celerity that could hardly have been surpassed by the disciplined movements of a standing'army. We pay no respect and attach no val ue to the crude reports given out in some of the French journnls as to the probability of an armed intervention of the French or of the British govermpent. The temporary return to London of the British ambassa dor at the court of France, Lord Cowley, has been alluded to as indicating that some important measures in relation to Mexico were under discussion between the two cabinets. If Lord Cowley’s tempora ry absccnce from his post has any signifi cance at all in relation to such a fact, it indicates precisely the reverse, of tlint which it is here 'assumed to show. The moment when the French and British cabi nets were thus maturing a step—which would be in substance, if uot in terms, a declaration of war against the United Staes—such a moment would he the very last in which the Britishambassador would leave his post at Paris. But the whole supposition strikes us Us too exlravgant id be indulged for a moment. It only remains for our government to complete this Mexi can war, even as it has been begun—to keep justice on our side to the end—to con tinue to show ourselves always ready in future, ns heretofore, for ah honorable and satisfactory peace—to spare no proper ef fort to mitigate the horrors of the war while it lasts—tot loose no moment in pres- that of having rendered some assistance or done some good. Let-me entreat tny youug readers, if they ever feel a tendency to causeless melancholly, if they arc afflic ted with cold feet and headache, but, above all, with impatience and irritability, so that they can scarcely make a pleasant reply when spoken lo, let me entreat them to make a trial of the system 1 am recom mending; not simply to run into the kitch en and mile with the servants, hut set a- bout doing soinethingthat will add to the genera! comfort of the family, and that will, at the same lime, relieve some member of that family of a portion of daily toil. I fear it is a very unromantic conclusion to come to, hm my firm conviction is, that half the miseries of youg women, and half their ill tempers, might he avoided by habits of domestic activity.—The Daugll- ters of England. Beautiful Thought from Bnltvcr. I cannot think, with any grace. That earth is man's abiding place; It cannot he our life is cast Like gossamer upon the blast, To float ono moment, wild and free, On thy dark wave, eternity!— That all the hopes that we possess Should sink in boundless nothingness. There is a realm not made for mirth, Nor the false shadows of the earth, Where rainbow glories never fade, And stars in beauty are displayed, Whose orbs above our heads shall ride Like islets on the ocean tide; Where beings that, like shadows ever, Shall in onr presence be for ever. [publish by request.] COLONIZATION. We take pleasure in calling attention to the article of the Rev. Thomas C. Ben- ning, in this days paper, having Ion believed that the best thing which could happen to the south, would be the rem<^ val of every free person of color from a mong us, we have looked upon the opera tions of the Colonization Society with de cided favor. Next to the advantage to the south, we may advert lo that which would and does accrue to the free blacks themselves. Here, they have no fiosition and never can have' any; they labour to disadvantage, and when sick, are uncar ed for. At tite north even, among the boasting and clamorous friends of freedom their situation is infinitely worse. In Li beria, they are all placed upon an equali ty; property is protected; industry en couraged, an(f the road to preferment is open. If we are not mistaken, one of the emigrants from Savannah, in 1835, is now the second officer in the Colony. Why then should not others be encouraged to repair thither, and enjoy the advantages and privileges guarranted by the Society, of which Mr. Benning is the agent ? For our own part we cannot but regard the Colonization scheme, as the only one which is at all calculated to ameliorate the condition of the negro, in the slightest degree. And it should be the more spir itedly cherished by the people of the south, from the fact that it is honored with the hostility of every.thorough going Ataili- tionist m the Northern States. It is their universal theme of discussion; the object upon which their most choice epithets of abuse are heaped.—Sac. Repub. THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY To the Editors of the Sav. Republican Gentlemen: The undersigned has re cently been appointed agent of the above named Society, for the Slate of Georgia and Florida, and with your kind permis sion, will make a few brief statements in reference to the same. This Society was formed in Washing ton city, December, 1816, by a company of benevolent and patriotic gentlemen, among whom was Judge Washington, John Randolph, W. H. Crawford, An drew Jackson, Henry Clay, Robert Fin lay, C.F. Mercer, and others; and upon the adoption of its’Constitution. Bushrob Washiugloh was elected President; and among its first Vice Presidents are found (he names of Wm. H. Crawford, Andrew Jackson, Henry-pljy and Robert Finlay. grant and their descendants, besides 10, 000 to 15,000 natives, who live on the lands of the colony, and have become in corporated in the Governmeut of the col ony The great object of the Society it will lie seen, is to provide for the colonizing the free people of color, with theirown con sent on the western coast of Africa; and it is one of those schemes of benevolence which originated in the broadest philan thropy, and appeals to the most enlarged principles ofchrisiianity for countenance and support. The free colored people in this country are in circumstances which challenge for them our sympathies. They are degra ded in the scale of society—they are emi nently in an inferior, condition, and the ve ry frame work of society around them tends to depress them still lower. No other schem has yet been devised which promises as much for them as coloniza tion. It proposes to rescue them from their civil, social, and religious depres sion, and place them in a country of their own, where such influences will be for ever, and where they will enjoy the full blessings of civilization and Christianity— to invite and call into action all their powers, to inspire in them laudable mo tives of ambition, to incite them to person al aspiration as men, and finally to con vert, thro’ them, the wide regions of Af rican barbarism, into a garden of civili zation, and lo make it an eminent portion of Christendom ; to substitute the songs of freedom and true religion, for the groans and despairing cries of the victims of su- perstitulinn. Again, colonization promises more for Africa and her 150,000,000 of heathens titan any other scheme of benevolence which has ever yet been devised, for it cannnot beany longer a question, that if ever Africa is enlightened aud redeemed from heathenism and converted to Chris tianity, it must be done through the in strumentality of colored men. White men connot lice and labor long there! and yet it is as healthy for the colored man, as any other rich new country of which we have any knowledge. Does the friend and patron of missions seek a field broad as his benevolence, and ripe to the har vest ? Here it is—Africa with her teem ing millions! Every company of emigrants sent out by this Society may be regarded as a band of missionaries; they go to that country with some knowledge of the Gos pel ; they are generally accompained by Ministers of Christ; they form there as a Christian Society, with their Schools and Churches, and they become a powerful centre of civilization and religion. How mighty must be such a congregation, with their Minister and Sabbath school, upon the surrounding natives and tribes of heathens? and how rapid must be the triumphs of the Gospel under such cir cumstances? What an immense light will go out to dispel the darkness which now’ pervades the. interior of that vast continent There is not an instance ol such unpar alleled prosperity in the history ofany oth er colony now on record, and 1 may add for the number of emigrants, (many of whom were slaves, manumitted,) no com munity in any newly settled coantry can present a greater number of churches and church members, in proportion to its pop ulation, than the Colony of Liberia. Up to the close ol last year, there were 23 churches, among Methodist, Baptist and Presbyterians; and 1474 church members 353 of the numbers being converted heathens. The Hon. Henry Clay is the President, and there are 65* Vice Presi dents, among whom are the names of James O. Andrew, D. D. Bishop of the M. E. Church South, and Robert Camp bell, both of Georgia. Any communication to me upon the subjeet, may be addressed to this city. THOS. G. BENNING; Savannah, Georgia. dens, and supplied water to hundreds of marble baths in the interior of the palaces. Crowds of nobles and tributary chieftains were continually sauntering through the halls, or loitering away their hours in at tendance on the court. Rich carvings in wood adorned the ceilings, beautiful malts of palm leaf covered the floors.— The walls were hung with cotton richly stained, the skins of wild animals, or gor geous draperies of feather work wrought in imitation of birds, insects and flowers, in glowing radiance ol colors. Clouds of inccnsc from golden censers diffused in toxicating odors, through splendid apart ments, occupied by the nine hundred and eighty wives and five thousand slaves of Montezuma. He encouraged science and learning,' and public schools were established tliro’- out the greater part of his empire. The city of Mexico in his day, numbered twice ' as many inhabitants as at present, and one thousand men were daily employed in watering and sweeping its streets,— keeping them so clean that a man could traverse the whole city with as little dan: ger of soiling his feel as his hands. A careful police guarded the city. Exten sive arsenals, granaries, warehouses, and an aviary for the most beautiful birds, menageries, houses of reptiles and ser pents, a collection of human monsters, fish-ponds built of marble, and museums and public libraries, all on the most ex tensive scale, added their attractions to the great city of the Aztecs. _ Gorgeous temples—in which human victims were sacrificed, and their blood backed in bread, or their bodies dressed for food,% be devoured by the people at religious festivals—reared their pyra- rnidicat altars far above the highest edifi ces. Thousands of their brother men were thus sacrificed annually. The tem ple of Maxtili, their war god, was so cmv- structed, that its great alarm gong, souud- ing lo battle, roused the valley for three leagues around, and called three hundred! thousand armed Aztecs lo the immediate relief of their monarch. So vast was the collection ol birds of prey, in a building devoted to them, that 500 turkeys, the cheapest meat in Mexico, were allowed for their daily consumption. Such were the “ Halls of the Mnntezu- mas!” The summer residence of the monarch, on the hill ol Chapeltepec, over looking. the city, was surrounded by gar-1 dens of abveral miles in extent, and here were preserved until the middle of the. last century, two statues of the Emperor and his father. The great cypress trees, under which the Aztec sovereign and nis associates once held their moonlight revels- still shade the royal gardens. Some of them, fifty feet in circumference, are sev eral thousand years old, but are yet as green as in the days of Montezumas, whose, ashes, or those of his ancestors, render sacred, in the eyes of the native Mexi- cans, tjhe hill ol Chapoltepec. Natural decay, and a waning population now mark the seat of power of the great Montezuma. HALLS OF THE MONTEZUMAS; An Exchange paper gives the following description of these halls: “ Montezuma II. ascended the Mexican throne A. D. 1602, at the age of 24, be fore Mexico bad been discovered by Eu ropeans. He died 30th June, 1620, in the 42d year of his age, of wounds inflict ed by the Spanish discoverers whom he had invited to his royal presence. His torians agree, in adrmringhis character, " If wc go at noon day to the bottom of at deep pit, we shall bo able to sec the stars, which, on the level ground, are invisible. Even from the depths of grief, worn, wretch ed, sealed, and dying—the blessed nspera- tions and tokens of heaven make them selves visible to our eyes. No wonder that wo love flowers, for iff childhood they arc the most cherished gift frotrt those we love, through life they are touching mementoes of tne past, end in death they are dedicated to our bier. He that rewards the deserving makes himself one of the number. He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he nimself must pass, for every man hath need of forgivnoss. Narrow circumstances are 'the ■ most! powerful stimulants to mental expansion; and the early frowns of fortune tho; bestsccunty fords final smiles. I never knew” said Lord Erskipc, n man remarkable for heroic'Bravery,,whose very aspect was dot lighted up by gentle ness and humanity.” - 11 ’ • no The Indians who offered their services to Col. Kearney, at Fort Leavenna^hf to march against the Mexicans, hav ere-, turned to their homes, as their services, were not accepted, The department at* Washington has issued orders to the va rious indinn agents to use their influence to repress the disposition to volunteer now so prevalent among several tribes of lm!^ ans.-—LoteisCiUe Journal, Friday.

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The Albany patriot. (Albany, Ga.) 1845-1866, July 22, 1846, Image 1