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SELECTED POETRY.
THE AMERICAN FLAG.
UT ISAAC MACLSLLAN.
The meteor flng of England,
The tr’- jnlor of France,
Streini bravely to the tempeat,
O'er ocean’* gray expanse ;
And ’mid t!ie battle’s thunder,
And o’er the smoke of fight,
Have kept their country's honor
N tiled to «he top-mast height;
lhit the bold, bmve Hag ol freedom
As peerless Hosts as they,
Nor veil* to them its stars and striped,
In the bloody buttle day.
It waves oYr many a forties*
Along the Atlantic shore;
Where breaks the surf o’er rocks of Maine;
Where Meiic billows roar;
It Coats from many a rampart,
Far up Missouri’s tide;
OYr many a block liuuse fort that guards
Arkansas’ turbid tide;
And many a grim Osage that hunt*
Across the far frontier,
H uh learned that banner to respect,
That noble flag to fear.
And far o’er Michigan’s wild shore,
And Huron’s yellow strand,
Where spreads the trackless wilderness.
Deep forests, wildly grand ;
OYranaoy a white stockade it floats,
OYr many a guarded wall,
Holding the sav; ge Oitowavs
And Clnppewas in thrall:
And far in utmost Oregon,
By broad Colqiiibai’s sire in,
Willi beat of drum at morn aud eve
Those starry emblem* gleam.
Long may it float unsullied,
Long fan our fathers’ grave,
The war-worn Continentals,
The bravest of the brave.
At Yoiktown was it steeped in gore,
At Monmouth’s deadly fight;
And scurched with flame and torn with steel
On Bunker's smoky height.
And while a freeman’s arm may strike,
Or freeman’s heart may beat,
Ne’er will that vuliunt banner
Be humbled in defeat.
POETICAL CURIOSITY.
A curious pel formancc is given ir the following
poem, formed of different biblical texts:—
Cling to the Mighty One, Ps. Ixxxix 19.
Cling in thy grief; Heb. xii. 11.
Cling to the Holy One, Ileb. i. 12.
He gives relief. Ps. cxvi. if.
Cling to the Gracious One, Ps. cxvi. 5.
Cling in thy pain ; Ps. lv. 4.
Cling to the Faithful One, 1 Thess. v. 24.
He will sustain. Ps. xxviii. 8.
Cling to the Living One, Heb. vii. 25.
Cling in thy woe, Ps. Ixxxvi. 7.
Cling to the Loving One, 1 John iv. 16.
Through all below. Rom. viii. 38, 39.
Cling to the Pardonirg One, Is. iv. 7.
He speaketh peace; John xiv. 27.
Cling to the Healing One, Lxod. xv. 26.
Anguish shall cease. Ps. cxlvii. 3.
Cling to the Bleeding One, 1 John i. 7.
Cling to His side; John xx. 27.
Cling to the Risen One, Rom. vi. 9.
In Him abide. John xv. 4.
Cling to the Coming One, Rev. xxii. 20.
Hope shall arise; Titus ii. 13.
Cling to the Reigning One, Ps. xcvii. l.
Jojr lights thine eyes. Ps. x i.ll.
CURIOSITY.
Binoe that first fatal hour when Eve,
W.th all the fruit of Eden blest,
Pave only onr, rather than leave
That one unknown, loot all the rmi.
51 Southern Wcclih] Citmuuj unit iLlisccUmcous Souvnnt, for llje florae Circle.
From the Atlanta Examiner.
Affairs of Kansas.
AN IMPORTANT LETTER FROM
THE HON. L>. R. ATCHISON.
Platte City, Missouri, )
Dec. 15,1855. j
J. 11. Steele, Rsq.
Dear Sir—l have read, with intense
interest, so much of Governor Johnson's
Message to the Georgia Legislature as
refers to our “ Federal Relations.” The
question of slavery is the only one of
vital im|H>rtance at this time. Men who
have the least interest in it are endeavor
ing to regulate and control the whole
subject. Massachusetts, a Stale as far
removed from the institution of slavery
aud slave-holders as any other in the
Union, leads the van in the crusade: a
Stale that has advanced as little monev,
and certainly shed less Mood for lUe
acqttishion of Territory, either slave or
tree, than any other— "hails in this
war" against our institutions. 1 have
no disposition now to go farther into
this matter, l.ilt my object is to inter
change opinions with you, and to give
a very brief history of parties in Kansas
up to this little. 1 must, hmvcVi-r, be
pciuiittcd to say. that, in mv ..pinion,
the tee. mmeudatiolis of your Governor
tire wise, and, if acted on by the legis
lature wiil have a tendency, at h-ast for
a time, to cheek aggression on the part
of the Nottlt. It will furni-li some evi
deuce that one Southern State is re
solved to concede no farther. The Gov
ernor recommends, first, that the Locis-
ln Ule shall provide for the call of a con
vention. upon the happening of a certain
contingency. AVliat is that contingency?
If the i ede a. G tvci t.incut shall iclii-e
Kaii-as or any other T. rritory pteM iititnr
it-elf for admission into the Union as a
Stale because said Territory presents a
constitution, similar , if not identical
"ith that of Gcoigia, that theli Georgia,
in convention, will take steps to protect
herself and In r institutions—in a word,
cut her connection with the Union. If,
however, Giorgiu shows a determination,
a fixed purpose, to cany out the recom
mendations of the Governor, the contin
gencies vvtil not aii.-c.
1 expect to be a citizen of Kansas,
and it Kansas pr. scuts In tsi-If lugitimaL*
iy, having all the qualifications for a
State, and is rejected because Iter Con
stitution recognises and protects slavery,
then as a citizen of Kansas, I will con
tend that Kansas it a State, sovereign
and indej indent, out of the Union!
\\ hen Kansas was opened tip for set
tlement, l.y white men, people from all
the States rushed into, and settled in it,
each carrying with him his wife and
children, his goods and chattels, and his
peculiar opinions on ad subjects. I think
I can safely say that a large majority
of the people above described, were from
slave Slates, and particularly, from Mis
souri. There was another class of emi
grants to Kansas, and a very large class
too, men sent at the expense, and under
the auspices of certain “ Emigrant Aid
Societies,” for the express and avowed
purpose of seizing upon the Territory,
and by their votes to exclude slavery and
slave holders. Many' of them were rash
enough to avow their purpose, in the
event of failure at the ballot box, to
dri.e them l.y Jorce of arms, from the
Territory! The first trial of strength
belw.-en the Abolitionists and Bro-
Slavery’ men, came oft' in November,
1854. It resulted in the election of
of Gen. Whitfield, the Pro-Slavery can
didate, by an overwhelming majority,
lit March last, an election was held for
members of the Territorial Legislature
with the same result. The Legislature
met and adjourned after cnaeting a rode
of laws for the government of the Ter
ritory. The Kansas eode will compare
well with the best of any of the
States. The altolitionists repudiate the
Legislature, and declare it to la; their
intention to resist the execution of the
laws. On the oiler hand, Governor
Shannon declares it to Irj his purpose to
execute the laws. In this he will be
sustained by a very large portion of the
MADISON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1856.
■ itizens of Kansas. In the month of
October last, an election was again held
for a delegate to Congress—the time and
manner of conducting the election being
fixed ami regulated by law. Whitfield
was re elected almost without opposition.
Tile abolitionists, with ex Governor Reed
er at their head, agreed upon a subse
quent day for an election, which was
held, and Reeder received all the votes
given. This election was held without
law, and in defiance of all law. The
whole proceeding was treated by the
people of Kansas with the contempt it
deserved. The abolitionists, without
consulting the people of Kansas, have
also held a convention to form a Consti
tion for a State government, and did
form such a Constitution, and will pie
sent it to Congress at the next session,
and ask admission into the Union as a
State. 'lbis is a brief history of parties
and politics in Kansas. 1 have not lei- |
sure to go into details now. but it wjiuld
interest you to know aud understand the
tactics, mauoeim-is, and strategy of
respective parties in Kansas.
Kansas and Missouri have the same
latitude, climate and soil, and should
have the same institutions. The peace
and prosperity of both depend on it.—
Kansas must have slave institutions or
Missouri must have Jiec institutions — j
hence the interest the border “Ruffians”
take in Kansas affairs. A large tuim- J
her of the citizens of Kansas have mme !
there, or rather have been sect there, for j
the e xptess purpose of abolitionizing it, !
and ultimately Missouri. This has not
heretofore been the ease with the Terri
tories of the United States. lowa has
abolitionists in her borders ; so has Illi
nois; mq rineijiled abolitionists and tie-j
gro thieves; yet they are few in number, j
The great mass of the people in those i
States are honest mid law abiding men.
Not so with the class of settlers above ’
described in Kansas. Hundreds of them
have come, or rather were sent from the I
North and East, for no other purpose J
but to vote at the elections and return
home. This was understood by the bor
der Missourians, and they resolved to
counteract it, and it was done.
The border “Ruffians,” I assert and
believe, have shown a more amiable,
Christian, and foibearing spirit than anv
other body of men would have shown
under similar circumstances. Batallions
of men came on from the North, with
the open and avowed purpose of exclu
ding slave holders from Kansas. Not
only that, hut pamphlets were written,
newspapers argued and preachers preach
ed that to abolitionize Kansas was to
drive slavery away from Missouri. In
this they were right. To do the one, is
to do the other. Under these circum
stances, what does it become us to do ?
What we have done, has been done in
self defence. What we shall hereafter
do, time alone will show. We are pre
paring for the worst.
If the settlement of Kansas had been
left to the laws which govern emigration,
it would have been a slave territory, as
certainly as Missouri is a slave State.—
Rut inasmuch as those laws have been
violated and perverted by the force of
money, and a powerful organization in
the North and East, it becomes the
South “to be up and doing,” and to send
in a population to counteract the North.
This can he done with a little exertion
Thus far a few counties in Western
Missouri have successfully encountered
and defeated this powerful organization.
Let Georgia set the example ! What is
to be done should be done quickly.—
This course on the part of the South,
will save Kansas to the South; save
bloodshed, civil war, and, perhaps, a dis
solution of the Union itself.
Your obedient servant,
D. li. ATCHISON.
Feminine Revolver. —The Northern
papers publish an account of a ytm g
married woman who presented her bus
band with a bouncing baby, at the usual
sight and within three months afterw; r Is
added another of a different sex. Mr.
Colt may stand aside 1
Extinct Reptiles.
Among the achievements of science
there is no one thing which more deserv
edly excites our admiration than the
restoration of extinct animals. Vari
ous writers, who may be said to have
discovered the science of geology, had
shown that the strata of the earth were
laid on, one upon another, in a certain
and regular succession, and that each
class of rock, to use the geological phrase,
had its own peculiar suit of exitvim;
but this had not supplied us with the
true key with which we unlocked the
cabinet of Nature and called from her
secret treasures (hose strange creatures
which were produced during the earth’s
childhood. Cuvier, however has sup
plied what was wanting in this respect,
and by a rigid application of compara
tive anatomy, has enabled us to perfect
j our natural history by introducing scores
of animals of whoso existence our fath
ers knew nothing.
The construction of an animal, how
ever, when - only a small portion of the
skeleton is discovered, is a matter of
great difficulty, and requires much scien
tific knowledge. This, nevertheless, mav
he done; mid in some cases a single
hone is enough to indicate the size and
structure of the animal to which he be
longed. Suppose, fi r jus anee, that the
jawbone of an unknown species of ani
mal were found, it is surprising how
milch may he learned from it. The
teeth will show whether tlie animal was
iarniver its or Ireibivorous-; then if the
teeth were made for tearing flesh, so
the claws must he made to lay hold of
it ; then, again, the paws require strong
muscles itt the forearm, and in a corres
ponding structure of the shoulder; and
itt this way the grnertl structure of the
creation may lie deti minted. We may
also descend to some inimitiic, for the
digestive organs must have a similai
relation to the purls before mentioned,
and may therefore be inferred from tire
jaw bone.
Professor Austin has enabled us to re
call the volite period in geology with
great precision, for England was then a
line country, although there were no
men in it. Let us suppose ourselves,
then upon the south coast near the Isle
of Wight, and We shall find ourselves
upon a promontorystretchinginto lhe sea-
Behind us there is a country covered
with brushwood, and the distant hills
are clothed with lofty pines. The inte
rior is decked with a forest of magnifi
cent trees, and the most beautiful flowers
bloom on thousands of shrubs. Added
to this the whole place teems with life-
Looking out into the sr a, we shall per
ceive a huge monster lift its head out
of the water to breathe the air. It is
the most fearful and terrible of all the
inhabitants of the deep. Its jaws are
twenty feet long, and as it opens its
mouth it is appalling to think what an
engine of destruction it must be, and
what a number of liviug creatures must
be devoured daily to support a carcass
nearly one hundred feet long anil equal
in bulk to two hundred fat oxen !
He is armed with two large fins, with
powerful claws at the end of them, and
will grasp the enormous sharks abound
ing in the sea and devour them instant
ly. Such was the cetiosaurus, the larg
est marine reptile with which we are
acquainted.
But fierce as this creature com
panion, the ichthyosaurus, is much more
so. This is an air-breathing reptile, up
wards of thirty feet long. It was cover
ed like a whale, with a smooth, naked
skin, thickly folded under the fiellv for
the purpose of protection. The form
of the head, well as that of the jaws
and teeth, was like the crocodile. Its
eyes were very large, being eighteen
inches across, and adapted to all liglt’s.
Night and day, deep awl shallow water,
were all the same, and the open air and
deep ocean were alike transparent to it.
It moved with difficulty on land, but
swam with ease and swiftness in the
water, whilst its large and vertical tail
made it a strange mixture of the fish,
reptile and whale.
But, whilst looking upon the sen we
must not forget the animals that are
around us on the land ; for there are
monsters on the hind as strange ami feat
fill as any that inhabit the deep. Indeed,
this seems to be the age of monsters;
and there are around us reptiles as ter
rible as the famous dragon of the fabh ,
who was slain by our noble St. George.
First and foremost among these is a
large vegetable-eating reptile, called the
iguanodon. The bodies of two of the
largest elephants would not make up
that enormous carcass. The legs are
ten feet high from the foot to the point
of the shoulder. It is between sixty and
seventy feet long, and —par parenthesis
—the specimen restored at the Crystal
Palace, Sydenham, is raitliciently large
to admit of twenty gentlemen dining in
the inside of it But there are otli*.r
creatures associated with it, scarcely in
ferior in size and more rugged itt their
form. The megulosaurus, or great sau
roid is amongst the most remarkable of
the group ; hut there are others which
are of less size, though of more moil
strolls shapes. The I. by ri Moduli, or
ftog like reptile, was petliaps the most
ugly and grotesque creature that ever
breathed ; but the pterodactyl was, of
all creatures, the most singular.
Still retaining llie old const incur im
agination, »i! inny behold tin- pterodac
tyl sitli njc on the ground or standing
like a swan, with tin.- long nock resting
u|«»n the hack to support with ease the
heavy head, which is like that of the
crocodile. Approach it, and it will rise
into the air and tly like a lord, or cling
against die chti' like a hat. Whilst you
watch it, it will perhaps leave die lock,
I and taking to the sea, commence lishing.
i You will thus perceive that this creature
i possesses, in the organization of one an
| iinal, the head of the crocodile, the neck
of the swan, the wings of the hat, :«
resemblance to the hand of a man, and
legs and feet which enabled it to swim
and walk. In all points of bony struc
ture, from the teeth to the extremity of
j nails, it was a reptile covered with scaly
armour, or having a true reptilian heart
and circulating organs. Its w ings, when
not in use, were folded hack like those
of a laid, audit could suspend itself with
claws a.taohed to Ungers from the
branches of a tree. Its usual position
when not in motion, was standing on its
hind feet, with its neck set tip and curved
backward, lest the weight of the enor
mous head should disturb the equilibrium
of thu animal. With the huge rnon
slers already described crawling over
the land, and tens of thousands of the
flying reptiles hovering around the rocks
or darkening the air with their wings,
England must have been a strange place
in the time* of the iguanodon.
It will tliu* be seen how much may
be learned from a few hones. A poor
woiknian, in breaking a stone in Tilgate
quarry, England, found the tooth of an
iguauodun lmbeded in it. lie sold it
for a pot of beer to a man of sci, nee,
who soon perceived that it could not
have belonged to any animal that was
then known. Near it were found the
hones of other animals who had lived
with it; and gradually as the light en
ters a dark room, tile whole country thus
came back to us peopled with its former
inhabitants; and we have only to pause
over the picture with the poet and artist,
and we live for a while in these old times
—so that it seems to lis the morning of
the world. But the whole are now gone.
Death has swept them into his garner,
and untiling but their bones r< main to
tell the story of their lives. —English
-paper.
Bishop Kavanavoh once a Printer.
—Bishop Hubbard U Kavaiiaugh, of
Ketitliekv, at present presiding over the
M-tlmdist C-mferenoe now in session at
Memphis, Teim., was formerly a printer.
It has been thirty yearssince he en'ered
the Ministry, and he started on his Hrst
circuit (one of 100 miles) with only
seven shillings in his pocket. !
Don’t Stay Lon?.
“Don't stay long, husband,” said a
young wife tenderly, in tnv presence one
evening, as Iter husband was preparing
to go out. The words themselves w<*re
insignificant, but he look of melting
fondness with which they were aecotn
panied spoke volumes. It told all the
whole vast depths of a woman’s love—
of Iter grief when the light of his smile,
the source of all her joy, beamed not
brightly upon her.
“ Don’t stay long, husband!” and T
fancied I saw the loving gentle wife,
silting alone, anxiously counting the
moments of her husband’s absence, everv
few moments running to the door to see
if he were in sight, and finding that he
was not, I thought 1 could hear her ex
claiming in disappointed tones “ not vet
—not yet.”
“ Don’t stay long, husband.” And I
again thought I could see the young
wife, rocking nervously in the great arm
chair and weeping rs though her heart
would break, as her thoughtless “ lord
and master” prolonged his stay ton
wearisome length of lime.
O, you that have wives to say—“ Don’t
stay long,” when you go forth, think of
them kindly when you are mingling in
the busy hive of life, and try, just a lit
tle, to make their homes and hearts hap
py, for they are geinstooseldom replaced.
You cannot find amid the pleasures of
the world the peace and joy, that a
quiet home blessed with sucli a woman's
ptesence will afford.
“Don’tslay long, husband !” and the
young wife’s look seemed to say—“for
here in your own sweet home, is a lov
ing heart, whose music is hushed when
you are absent—here is a soft beast for
you to lay your head upon, and here are
pure lips unsoiled by sin, that will pay
you with kisses for coming back soon.”
Taking Care of the Queen. —When
Queen Victoria rides in a railroad train,
the royal saloon in which she sits has on
the top of it a semaphore signal, worked
from the interior of the carriage. A
man travels on the tender, looking buck
ward, sons to keep this semaphore con
stantly in view. He hasalso tied around
his arms the end of a cord, communica
ting with tin-guard on the end of the
break, thus giving the guard free corn
niunication with the driver. By this
meant no accident can occur which vig
ilance can guard against. Why cannot
our sovereigns here, w hen they ride on
the railroad, have equal care taken of
them. Certainly neither the signal, the
man, nor the cord, v ould add much to
the running expense of the train.
“ Free Love.” —Some enthusiastic ex
ponent of “Free Love” principles, gives
the following very lucid description of
what it is : " Free love is essentially and
solely a spherical element—one of the
fundamental spiritual harmonies—a pri
mordial inseparability of the eternities—
a primogenieal co-efficient of the super
sen-ible Zones—a cognate principle of
original materiality, flowing lineally to-1
wards matrimonial, social, and moral
consonance in the universal and eternal
fax of things.”
“ An’ he played on a harp uva thous
and strings, sperits of just men made
parfeo’.”
Ileaven knows how many simple let
ters, from simple minded women have
Ireen kissed, cherished and wept over by
men of far loftier intellect. So it will
be to the end of all time. Il is a lesson
worth learning, by those young, creatures
who seek to allure by their accomplish
ments, or dazzle by their genius, that
though he may admire, no man ever
loves a woman for these things. He loves
her for what is essentially distinct from,
although not incompatible with them.
This is why we often see a man of high
genius or intellectual power pass by the
DeStaels and Corrinnes, to take unto his
bosom some wayside Jlower, who has
nothing on earth to make her worthy <>f
him, except that she is—what few “fe
waleet eelebritie*” are—a true woman.
KUMBER 3
WIT AND HUMOP. _
A Yankee Boast. — A correspondent
furnishes the following repor' of a con
versation which recently took place in a
store in Boston. He say* :
An innoceu’ snd pure minded Jona
than, in a warm argument with a John
Bull, on our National institutions, was
endeavoring to floor his antagonist, who
had sneerittglv remarked that ‘•fortu
nately the Americans couldn’t, go farther
westward than the Pacific shore.” The
Yankee searched his pregnant brain for
an instant, and iiinmpl.anlly replied:
“ Why, good gracious, they're already
leveling the Kock' Mountains and cart
ing the dirt out West. 1 hail a letter
last week from my cousin, who is living
two hundred miles west of the Pacific
shore —on made land.
Felo dk Sk.—Stephen Hall, a queer
genius, had made frequent gracious prom
ises to his friends that lie would put him
self out of the way. One stinging cold
night lie vowed he w0..1d go out and
freeze to death.
About eleven o’clock lie returned,
shivering and slapping his fingers.
“ Why don’t you freeze 1 ” asked a
loving relative.
“Golly!” said the pseudo suicide,
“ when I freeze, I mean to take a warmer
night than this for it!”
Almost a Know Nothing. — A man,
near Eatonton, was recently digging a
well, when it caved in upon him. After
lie was extricated from it his first excla
mation was—“ I came nigh being a Know
Nothing then ! ” “ llow so ? ” asked hi*
rescuer. “ Why, the papers say they go
into a hole and pull it in afier them,”
was the reply.
That was a keen reply of the buxom
lassie to a little pigmy of a man" who
solicited a matrimonial connexion : “O,
no," said tlie fair lady, “ I ean't think of
it for a moment. The fact is, John, you
are a little too big to put into a cradle
and too small to put into a bed."
One of our exchanges, in noticing the
present of a silver cup to a contemporary ,
says:
“He needs no clip. lie can drink
from any vessel that contains liquor—
whether the neck of a bottle, the mouth
of a demijohn, the spile of a keg, or the
bung of a barrel.”
“Canyon tell me, my dear fellow.'*
said a lien peeked gentleman to his bach
elor friend, “what lock it is tha! even
llohbs himself ennno; pick and take to
pieces ? ” “ (’ain’t guess that,” said bach _
“llappv dog! to he without mv experi
ence—it is wed h-ck."
A Western editor.<hi speaking of on*
of tiie newly elected Senators, says that
his ignorance is so dense that the auger
of common sense will he longer in boring
through it than it would take a boded
carrot to bore through Stone Mountain.
When Bean Brutmneli was question- and
if he was mi veil, la* replied with ridicu
lous affectation, that he had caught cold
through being put into a coffee room w ith
a damp stranger !
The man who was “bent on matrimo
ny,” has straightened up.
lie would have be.-n doubly “straight
ened ” if lie iiad married.
Why should merchant tailors form
themselves into a regiment of heavy
dragoons? Because they are splendid
fellows for charging.
“ You look as though you were beside
yourself,” as the wag said to a fop who
happened to be standing mar a donkey.
Fop sloped.
Why is a pretty g : rl ike a steamboat?
Because she always has a swell after her.
A “ swell head ” editor got that off.
Provoking —To dream you are hug
ging an angel, and wake tip with th*
bolster in your arms.
A schoolmaster has been arrested and
hell to hail for teaching a young lady
jn vulgar fraction*.