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VOLUME X. T E R M S: Tbs Madison Family Visitor is publitfficd weekly «evert Saturday morning,') ut TWO DOLLARS per annum l near lully in advance. h\t\\ numbers in the year are mailed to each subscriber. iJutco.Uiuaancc*. —Notice must be given at the expiration of subscription and alt armt ray as pa id, or subscriber.* held liable accordingly. Subscribers willing the direction of their paper chs igeJ, will notify u.> from what office it is to be transferred. Oa.n /»i/iAddressed, post paid, to the My iison Family Visitor, UfU/t lut author'* name in every mstnuce. Ail 400 tVork ind other business in the Printingtme, wdi »n.*et with prompt attention aud f umful execution. s t >jci.ncas of .uir Book, Card, Circular, Bill aud Programme Pnut*ng cun be seen at the Office. A /inconspicuously inserted atsl per square for the tirst and lifty cents per square for each subsequent insertion. Those sent without a specification of the .lumber o! insertions desired, will be continued “ItUj Notices of the sales of Lund and Negroes, by Administrators, Lx ecu Lor. N or Guard.a us, must be p iblishevi rourv days previous to the day ol •ale. N itices for the sale of Personal Property must be riven at least tin day’s previous to the sale. Notice to Debtors and Creditors of au Estate musi be published forty* day's. N dice til it appucitioii Will be made to the C jurt of Ordinary for leave to sell Land or Nc- must be published weekly for two months. Oil itious for Letters of Admiutstratioii nuts! lx* published thirty dyy's —for Dismission from Ad mi.iistration, monthly six months —fur D.mu.s --•;on from Guardianship forty* days. Kule* for Foreclosure of Mortgage uittsl be pub lished MONTHLY’ FOR FOLK MONTHS— fol* establish ing lost papers, fortlie full space of thukk months -for compelling titles from Executors or Adimi iilrstors, where a bond lias been given by tin de ceased, the full space of tiiulk months. Publications will always be continued acc« ril ing to tliJse. the legal requirements, unless other wise ordered. 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*.