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A. G. ■*■*•*• VOLUME X. tlitcK M ,, r r “ o 7^.oi^if^i^^**** ke ti,ie ” *•• i “ nd ’ * o ’ VUpy ofibVWor •greeiooot, must 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 - ... . iii . _ The Cricket. - < *• ‘ * •’ 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 .