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VOLUME X.
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be published
MISCELLANEOUS.
The American Flag.
nr JOSEPH.SODMAX HUASK.
When Freedom from bur mmjnt.iu height
Unfurled her utaudard in the’ air,
ghe tore the ware robe of bight,
\r,4 ..i ila iiu.mil giury .there. ■■-■
She mingled with its gorgeous djes
The milltjjtaldric of the skies.
And striped its pure celestial white.
With Streakings of the morning light;
Then from his mansion in the sun
gke railed her esgle bearer down,
And gave into his mighty hand
The symbol of her chosen laud.
Majestic monarch of the cloud,
Who J.ar'st a'oft thy eagle form,
To hear the tempest trumpings loud
And see the iighteuing lances driven,
When st’ ire the warriors of the storm,
And roll* the thunder drum of heaven,
Child of the fun ! to thee ’tin given
To guard the banner of the free,
Tu hover in t he sulphur sinoke,
Tu ward away the battle stroke,
And hid its blendings shine afar,
Like rainbow on the cloud of war.
The harbingers of victory !
Hag of the brave ! thy folds shall By,
The sign if hope and triumph high,
When sneaks the signal trumpet tone.
And the long lines come gleaming on,
Kre yet the life-blood, warm and wet,
Han doom'd the glistening bayonet.
Kaeb soldier’s eye shall brightly turn,
To where tire .try -tore glories burn,
And as his springing steps advance,
C neb War and vongcanoe from the glance.
And when the nmnon-m -ntklnge loud.
Heaven in wild wreath* the battle-shroud.
And gory sahroe rise and fall
Like shoots of Same on midnight's pall,
Then shall thy meteor glances ghfw.
And cowering foes shall sink beneath
I’ach gallant noil that Strike's below
That lovely messenger of death.
Hag of th Ml! on ooenn wavs
Thy stars shall glitter o’er the brave!
Whea death, oarer ring an tbs gale,
SwesM darkly round the bellied toil,
And frighuoed waves rank wihßy hack
Before the broadside's reeling rack,
Lack dying wthdoWSTlhe SO*
Shall look at earn to heaven and thee,
And entOs to sretky sgfoadtffa By
la triamfb o'er hi* stasia* eye. 1
By angel hands to rtlor given ;
’ Thy *UW lav* WttkS Welkin dome,
rjasf&sswßflr-
Where breathadtbe foe bat foils before us,
raw
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*• ‘ * •’ s.t *ADA*UJt.
The erieVet be dwiSeda the soM, eoH ground.
AM t 2tb^i^ 1 night
With a tottaw toao
Alt ttotastos oftbe rastUng tree,
The fitwstatoffiflcbp andstobmklet sigh,
He whistles a slant asm marry tune,
at thssflv.r moss, .
’ unr'Hma be.
Tkere's darkaesa oa aadh, I trow,
Witheat the gjubsa gfagloomy brow ;
Dark ares MtMb Oases ol the poor.
yttlflHllftfldHfitokL -1 ••.. ,'reta, . ~oa.:
Sf. •’ - Jplw
- ■-a^ ’ .■, - • r iST ■ -■£---• -At
time*—gave a dinner party <4 a few gentlemen,
umag whom wotrJi C. j£>n the appointed
®iy, however, the Indy of l3s>oQse 7 tf wm .
what annoyed at anafirly hour by the intrusion
of an old man at the door. Having been wet
by a servant, be inquire! if the proprietor of the
house—whom we will call Mr. Topham—wai
at home. Upon receiving a negative reply, and
being furthermore informed ‘.hat he would not
be at home for some three or four hours, the old
man Mid:
‘Well, being as lam here, I may as well re
main until becomes.’
‘Plesseaitamoment,’ said the servant, I
will call Mrs. Topham to the door, and see what
she will say.
The servant then ran and catlod the merchants
wife, who made her appearance. The old man
tlien repeated what he had said to the servant—
that being as he was there he might as well re
main until her husband came.
‘Well,’ replied Mrs. TANARUS., ‘if you will stay, just
walk through the alley and go back to the kitch
en and take a seat.’
Nothing daunted, the old man obeyed orders,
and passed through the alley to the kitchen,
where he found Mrs. T. and the servants very
busily engaged in preparing dinner. Supposing
him some old man seeking employment, Mrs. T.
was free in calling into requisition his services
in Iter work of preparing dinner, and he was
equally willing and ready to render all assistance
possible.
*< >!d man,’ said she, ‘suppose you take the
bucket and go to the hydrant, and draw up
some water.’ He at once complied with the
-request. ‘- -
‘Old man,’ again she said, ‘suppose you assist
us a little in preparing dinner, as we give a din
ner-party to-day, and.are very much hurried in
deed. Just peel a few potatoes if you please.’—
No sooner was the request made than ‘the old
mail’ got to work with a right good will.
After all things were sufficiently advanced to
release Mrs. T. from further supervision, she went
inlo her chamber to arrange her toilet to receive
her husband's guests. At the proper hour Iter
husband came iti; and then, one by one, came
those* who were To dine with him on that day.
In due time all arrived but one—our M. C. Mr.
Tophtiui then began to express his surprise at
the absence of the Virginia representative, as he
thought he certainly would have been one of
the first, if not the first to make his appearance,
knowing that his dinner hour at home was an
early one.
When about coming to the conclusion , that
the Virginia M. C. would fail to make hM ap
pearance, Mrs. 17s memory, which seemed to
have proved rather treacherous, became effulgent
and she acquainted her husband with the fact
that there was an ‘old man’ in the kTtchen who
had been waiting to see him for the last three
or four hours. Mr. T. immediately repaired to
kitchen to ascertain the ‘old nianV wants, when
10, and behold ! who should he fiud but our M.
C. himself! Astonished beyond measure, and
with confused utterance, beexclaimed, ‘Why,
how cante you here 1’ He simply replied, ‘I was
invited to the kitchen by your wife, and as I
came much before your dinner-hour, Z have been
making myself useful’ ——
Mr. T. at once invited and accompanied him
into the parlor, And introduced him to his wife
and guests as the ‘Hon. Bobert Rutherford, of
Virginia.’ _
The lady’s feelings can be better imagined by
the reader than described by the writer ; but
the balance of the day passed off pleasantly,
save the lady’s abashment resulting from not
recognizing the ‘Virginia Member of Congress.’
Anecdote of C&tlin.
l . We have seen a most interesting letter, says
the London Morning Advertiser, from a young
man who has recently settled in Brazil, in which
he speaks of a rencontre with Cadin, the cele
brated ethnographer and traveller. He met him
in George Town, Demerara, and was immedi
ately recognised, although it was ten yean aince
they had seen each other in the Egyptian Hall.
“You won’t know me,” he Mid to Catlin, “it is
ten yeansises you ar sic.” Cattir.. ia answer
pronounced hie name in an instant. They pro
ceeded, together, 1500 miles, “by land aid by
water, through forest* and swamp* and prairies,”
following the course of the Amazon, and *e se
lect the following incidents on the journey. The
first relating to Cok’s pistols, contain* a hint to
some efcf England. We most explain
that Oadin bad rtt*i™d the name of “Governor”
from his youthful associate: * . -
How tb Ou Cmirgu Astonished *y a
Com.—“ The Governor bad one of Colt's pistols
m his halt, and cae df hlsrsvolving rifies always
ia hkband, and: thad dm old Mima, with^Anae
and I ■ >
ijSMßaHiajpwp'.- mOhChs ipvEMHMKs • wHi
“Prove U things; W***4h* vhl* is
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 14, jtSM.
to keep perfeedy cool, and don’t spill the gravy— ‘
there a splendid tiger behiad yowf I held t
fast to the frying pan, and turning my head <
gradually around. I bad a full view of the fei- <
low within eight paces of me, iyiag flat on his
side, and with his paws lifting up and playing i
with the legs of one of our Spaniards, who had <
laid himself down upon his belly and wn fast i
asleep. Our rifles were left in the boat! The i
Governor drew himself gradually down the hank i
on his bands and feet ordering me not to move;
I was in the hopes he would have taken hla old
Minie, but he preferred his own weapon, and
getting it to bear upon the beast, he wn oblig
ed to wait some minutes for it to raise its basio,
so as not to endanger the poor Spaniard ; at the
crack of the rifle the animal gave a piercing
screech, and leaped about fifteen feet straight iu
to the air and fell quite dead. The Spaniard leap
ed nearly as far in anotherdirection; and at tlie
same instant, from behind a little bunch of bush
es on the opposite side, and not half the distance
from our fire, and right behind the Governor’s
back, where he had been sitting, sprang the
mate, which darted into the thicket and disap
peared. We skinned this beautiful annitnal,
which was shot exactly between the eyes, and
after all bands bad withdrawn to tlie boat waited
several hours in hopes that the other one would
show itself again, but we waited in vain, and
lost our game.’
Correspondence of the Journal of Commerce.
Discoveries in flidon.
Beirut, Stria, Feb. 11. 1855.
so Quite a Sensation lias been awakened among
llife mipiSsioiiabte pWipttfby “recent’ discoveries
in the ancient city of Sidon. Unequals in pop
ulation, in power and architectural magni
ficence to Babylon and Ninevah, still Tyre and
Sidon were in advance of those renowned
cities in commerce and letters, and were great
er benefactors of the human race. Time has
swept away all but their ruins and traces, wheth
er on the banks of Euphrates or the shores of
the “Great Sea;” but Las left more on the lat
ter than the former, and reserved for these ci
ties a brighter and more honorable page ill his
tory. The monuments of disinterred Ninevah
have justly aroused the world ; others of hardly
lex interest and importance are coming to light
in Sidon ; not equal in dimensions nor as im
posing to the eye,* but perhaps of greater value
in the history of letters and the disposal of cer
tain questions of archaeology.
Sidon is thirty miles north of Beirut, and
contains at present a population of about ten
thousand souls. It would seem that there have
long been certain dreamy and superstitious no
tions among tbe neighbors about buried treas
ures in the gardens, fields and grave yards ‘, just
as in America, in every ten or twenty years in
dividuals have revelations of Robert Kidd's con
cealed deposites, imp lied by the belief into
which they dig into river banks and sea-coast,
if they do not disturb the resting places of the
dead. Under this impulse a Moslem, as I learn,
obtained permission some three years ago to dig
for buried treasures in the old grave yards in Si
don. At first his labors were attended with no
success. In the winter of 1853—4, however, Jf
not a vein yet something better was struck, and
three copper pots, each containing eight hun
dred pieces of gold, met the delighted but not
surprised eyes of the adventurous diggers. Each
piece was of the value of about five dollars, and
all bore the name or head of Philip or Alexan
der. The discovery of so much money, while
it was fortunate to the Moslem dreamer and his
fellow diggers, very naturally excited both the
curiosity and the cupidity of others, in which Eu
ropean residents in the country participated with
the natives, and the operation* were continued
with greater hope and more liberal expenditure
and, as now it is ascertained, with more impor
tant results. ,
On the 10th of January last some men were
digging for more bid treasure in an ancient
cejmetery on the plain of Sidon, called Jfs
gorat Tubloon, when, at the depth of about
twelve feet below the surface and near the walls
of an ancient edifice, they uncovered a sarco
fegus, upon the lid of which there k a long
Phoenician Inscription. Tbe Hd tr efbturMscr
marble, intensely hard and taking a very floe
polish. Tbe lid is about eight foM long hy four
feet wide. The upper sod w wrought into tbe
figure of a female bead and shoulders of almost
s giant size. The features me Egyptian, with
large, full, almond shaped eyes, the nose
flattened and Hp remarkably thick, and some
what of the negro mould. the whole counte
nance is smiling, agreeable, and expressive be
yond anythin?! have ever seen in tbedhinter
ed monuments of fcgypl or N msveh._ ‘U^hestl
hawTof some bird--# dove or pigeon -end tbe
bosom what appeered to bea sort
ea, la regard to 4e hNHNmhip of Hie dieoov*
•al mono meet, heBWMa twelhglMh and neneh
ooneeU in ihjaplaefe Baa having mads a con
tract with the os tar oftbe hSad by which
was entitled to whatever he should discover ia f
it, aad the other having engaged ea Arstb tof
dig lor him, who eaaM apoa the sarcophagus j
in the other ooaeol’s limits, or, as the Cetifer-j
niaaa would sur, witbie his “claim.” Both ere J
•stmmelv anxiouaAo aUaiu it at any cost, e&b
(he Intention offending it toLoadoa or Paris to
be added to the prwvioas monuments and relics
which have been gathered there from the wrecks
of all nations aad eH ages. The Turkish Gov
ernor gs Sidon, in thk Stall at the matter, has
dosed up the ground end protected it by n guard
of soldiers while the questions is before the
oourta.
Mr. Thompson Informs me that ia tbe pro
ocas of the diggings the men opened large and
elegant moms cut out of the solid rock, one of
which he had entered and examinee], and which
could he hardly Ires than thirty feet square bv
fifteen in height, tbe ornamental work of which
was of the highest finish. As soon as the law
suit is ended and the ground opened again I in
tend at once to go to Sidon and obtain by per
sonal examination all the particulars relating to
this and other recent discoveries in the place.—
when a perfect translation and inscription is
made-you may expect to receive it.
. ‘ ■ 111 ■■fe m mll i .. .i.
The American Movement, its Origin, its He.
cessity, and the Evils it aims to correct.
The following srticle recently appeared ia the
■New York Courier it Enquirer. The sditorv eay
that it was written by a gentleman in this coun
try for a London paper, with a view of disabusing
the publi? mind abroad of the objects and aims of
the American Know Nothings. It will serve this
purpose ui a very great extent even among our
selves. and we ask for it the candid and careful
perusal of all who are willing to give a grave and
important subject a hearing, and to judge of its
merits and claims dispassionately :
“It is not strange that Europeans should be per
plexed by the sudden appearance of anew and
overwhelming party in the United States, which
promises to revolutionise our domestic and foreign
policy—for it is more than any American can do,
to explain the carious phenomenon themselves.—
I have seen, in English journals, many partial and
unsatisfactory accounts of the origin, progress prin
ciples and prospects of the Know Nothings; and
as tbeir policy and measures will be likely to af
fect European nations quite as seriously as our
own. it may lie uoll for our statesmen to under
stand this matter before things go any further.
The Know Nothing party came up in its present
form only about two years ago—it originated in
causes which, although often mistaken, lie upon
the very surface of society.
First, the increasing immigration from Europe,
principally of the lower classes, had thrown upon
oar shores withip a period of twenty yean over
two millions of foreigners. Few of them brought
the means of subsistence—fewer still had ever been
ftonsidf-td qiitliled to p*l **-—ip.and, jjj the adminis
tration f civil government, and not one in a hun
dred had say adequate ’ eompreheusioa of our so
cial, religions or political life* The evils which
grew out of their presence incraaaod from year to
year, until at feat they became intolerable. Those
new oomers who went straight through oar sea
ports t the breed end fertile Unde of the Week,
became agriculturist*, and at eooe began to eon
tribute to the growth and prosperity of tbo oom
mnnities where they eettlod. Against this cbm,,
end embracing nearly, and perhaps qnito one half
of tbe retire number of immigmato, no objection
was, or ooabd bo raised. They were peneeihlr
ritfeens; and although European present# can oco
| tribute little to tbe embeWehmente of eoeiplßfc
[ in America, yet they can, and do oostribnle to tbe
development of tbe material leeoarom of n new
i country; and their ohildren grow up under higher
• tofluracex, and aspire to * higher Hfe than their
fathers. With the second generation of European
; Bnt the'bundrsd of thoamnde, dbiefiy es Wrh and
Datoh. who huger around ear Mnpqrtt and great
| intend towns, and who mere about like border et
’ Gipeiee, from renal to canal, and from toilreed to
, railroad, have euustitatof t nmm rs eon
’ reption, and prosed a fraitfel sonres of dlsterhenss
and treabte. TIMCf hnTJi hlMi the Hefeto of the
North, m the Afrfenmi hB bore of and Sooth,
• and, bed m Afrteen dtnr; fepp be, even to Km
I United Stgtee.it erightndmit of n qnortten, whfer
’ of them twe Uifetijemre bed modi titotofirttopfd
’ progress in the soetel rente, fly a clam mMnmtfo
! in) ‘ j'-jt ‘mrffrwr *w-- J '-m r fttur*
, axnsnded
| for crime, 1 lIiSS
> e. and sMtoffll
mAmfo flj
IthvMuril muasßbud iwushad tbujfolgh* ‘
*> l”* 1
afe rttfv oftbiSvThvi been hxMlipf *
what should fat the remedy. InadditiewtoalMbe 4
evils which tins system of political corruption had 1
formariy entailed upon the country, W* fewnd that •
under Gen. Pieree it had pervaded every depart- t
■tew* of fee national admiuistraaisw; end with bwt I
few exoepkoos, we lmrurt! with asaeaeieen*. Mmß I
foreigners and dmipgsit fe fee laww* obamateT,
were filling posts ol honor and infiaenee abroad to I
the exclusion of all those great men wboee edaoa- 1
tioa. social standing, and great pnblis seniors had I
specially fitted them to represent the RepoMie at ‘
tbe Courts of civilised Nations Pledges the ***** I
sacred—because they were voluntarily given 4
were broken; end man of the very bigbMt reputa
tion, who had been requested to go abroad, he the
publie service—men who bad consented to ds seat I
great personal sacriftoes, wen left to re spenss, t
week after week, and month after month, until 1
they found themselves superseded by Gfemsu,
Jews, Red Republicans, Scotch Infidels. andFrench t
Fourieritee. (>n close scrutiny, it tented out that j
tbe entile policy of the Adminietratioo, at home i
and abroad, had been made to band to tbe views, i
tfaeTeeling* and the sol fish ttwriitt BftiWM few- 1
eign adventurers. ~ ’ * ~ ~~
Ben yon have n solution of what would other* 1
wise be an incomprehensible mystery—tbe ntddm |
uprising of The nationality of tbsoosmtry, tad
these vehement and overwhelming assaults Urn*
have been everywhere made upon tbs national ad
ministration. When the arm was Kited to smite
it, it was not to fall until it had smirttn its agents
and accomplices. Then, for the first time the na
tion began to look aroand to one where U stood
what it had been doing—who were its friends, and
who were its foe#—and it learned, after a brief in
vestigation, that the onuses of political ormspSian
end degeneracy had ben to operation long enough
to threaten tbe prosperity of n greet aad rigorous
Republic. . - ‘
Saeh was the origin of the Know Nothing party.
The first association that met apan the new plat
form , assembled in secret, and they did ell their
work quietly. They admitted none within tbe
enclosures, except native born cittern* of the Pro
testant faith, And men who stood pledged to cast
aside ull former political ties, and give tbrir sup
port only to such American men, end such mew
cures a* were calculated to develop -tbe expiring
spirit of nationality, and annihilate tbe politico]
and religions influence of foreigners in the United
States. These associations spread from district to
district, from State to State, before the to slaty had
been two yesra in extetenoe, ita otgenhotione had
been formed is every State end Territory of thr
Union, antil now they number, without a dosht,
upwards of two millions of able bodied man.
Will yon now ask if them men hare tbbelement
of cohesion, if they ore likely to remain e earn peat
end irreeietabte body % Why should tbsj net, fit
least, until they have eciitiepKtoiil the chief ob
jects of tbeir organisation ! Tteytew ermnssn
principles, and they are aajjMptwdmtos er^bm
brings them together, end now on vast an
army in diseipliße, ennnot feet forever; bafi It
and timt is nothing tem then rtrippiag forsigrenn
Catbolios, Jeraitee, and dsmsgegess es el) porttes
efpoUtfenl power. They will ssthar enact a an
tieaol statnte greatly prolonging the timeef tmfe
denoe, to entitle tbe foreigner to fcttetticanfolfo
or they will abolish the Naturalisation Ixws alto
ggttiflf Tktv vili bM
fey. This revolution pfaieh they propose tone
eemplieh, wnet herehtepAvn 11100*0 Ihenhelt
n aßlien es mm rmwnlmlntetoringtMtofief Irwti
and power, are fotv—toto prtreta Bie. to
place to the Know fifihh|t • - ‘h- s ,** Mt
The first ietereste afflfe iMfcfry, hfgM
Biiinily. ftiv puij Gil w
the
known to hare tn&w.
.. I. ei-'l efaMfiy - I
threaten the
his ebiefsst
-n,i— uf A ,. .L .... - , .
sa-"*-- ‘nst i nsve not yet sesnez ,
Europoan who * trsveHag in * j
living in the United But*e. -who dMnfe^tohfe
tl r* ‘ h the ‘ ifoe^^lhl^lieMfefth
nort on this ml.'mm ■ —j iL. 7%
r -.'y'-. . aim USI n ISSI ‘ •
foreigners universeliy ‘ HrflgWff 5
Nothings. They gtvs rrf toefe* ft? 7
*ny and do. They *e*
we do onrseivea that -
social influonuee that SB
m its beeoM. They knew wsO, wheTfo^
, Id. as i
feet, su far as Greet Srisstoi* dfiMMifej
of oar Criminal PopnliilfefoS ‘ .
“” B K
for believing that it has %
to hold together in oompeet Unegfh
p’-ndence my own feetinga are
ter. My bntineeete limited to firing yam W#
which happen, of the tnnsm es emotewttfkflfilti
be early discerned end eneh expesititmefifiß **•
will eonvey to Enrepeena, tooeerly mil
they were themseßm tmes tite spot: “fhfit.
of it all, for Eatepe and He gmmauak, ! need
town, I>. the TWgonAJg
u * re Msm* p*—
?Fwk whenlmS
eOGSHGM Dd .