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VOLUME X. TEU M S S The Madison Family Visitor is published weekly (every Saturday morning,) at TWO DOLLARS per annum. incaiuilmj in adcancr. Fifty numbers in the year are mailed to each subscriber. th*xmtninance*. —Notice must be given at the expiration of subscription and •!// ort+untyt* paid, or subscriber* held liable accordingly. S ibaorib.Ts wishing tha direction «»f their paper changed, Will notify us from what oitice it is to be transferred. Cra /* uiA itioix*. —Addressed, post paid, to the M i lis m Fain.ly Visitor, with Lne author # nnutt in every instance. Ail Job tVork and other business in the Printing line, w.ll meet with prompt attention ands litliful execution. veei ne is of .nr 11 »;>k, C ird, Circular, Rill tnd Programme Printing can be seen at the O.Uce. A conspicuously inserted at $1 pir square for the first and fifty cents per square f. r each subsequent insertion. 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It ilea for P.»reclosnrcof Mortjj ige must he pub lish j! monthly Foa four months —f *r establLl - i ii g hist papers, for the full since of true*, months —for c >n;> elling titles from Executors or Admin istrators, where a b >nd Ins been given by the de eds* I, rile full sp u e of THREE MONTHS. PubPc iti.ms will alw »vs be contimi -d accord ing to these, the legal requirements, unless other wise ordered. ” SELECTED POETRY. LET 31E. I ne’er on that lip for a uiomeni h v<» g.i/ jd, Dnt a thousand temptrtiors beset pm*; And I’ve thought that the rubies wl< » It r bed, How delightful ‘twi.uld be if yop'il !«• t.o . Then be not so angry for what I h 've dooe. Nor sav that you've sv\ , o t,. hug. . me ; Thcv were buds of temptation too positing to.-Umi, Ands though* that you could not but h • -ue. When voiir lip with n whisper crr.e cb»~e <<> ivy <>, think fiow bewitching it in- t me; *'•a k, Ami plain, it ‘.lie eye of a Venus c »uM s t a*ak, Voin eye seemed to sty you would—let oe. Then lorgire the transgression, ord bid me remain For, in truth, if I go. you’ll regret me; Then, ol», let me fry the ti-insgressm.' T ’ *i. And I’ll do all von wish, ii' vm*— ?e: l.ie. PLL LET YOU. I!* a i.’ss be de'igiitfnl -so te n> ' mv P»»-, 'J ;» t a thousand soft whiles be*H »«,.*, I ,mv by the Mortar I’i ts .Ju ‘U r On certain conditions -1M let yen. If von me rUv m v charms 111 :t vo.Clfev' *.-e i • »te And tbit no other tie nisei >b I! got von. E\ ibe stars that roll r.nmd yon Mti.imii « ' b’ae, Peril -os ,ir, oeiY’-os, sir,-I’M let yon. If no. ,t . ... by a passion nsfleedrgas v. .’J, That . •** all the virtues f.,r;_ •: v. «-. L"t *U|S||jtieil, sob. . ; U' ! bT, T o«.t ask tb'- ;• kiss, then f !l hi yi u. A NEW SOX« GY GEO. £». JliOfTC:: . T 1 uk t; si fo< plea* n v\.\il!»« ! Cl'.o . it, merry rills! A clap eoni- bauds togetbc”, Veex’ul-ieg bills’ To mk Him, teeming rallev! Thank Him, fruitful pla’ii! For Hie golden sn.isb ue, And tiic silver tain. Thank (rod of Good the Given 1 Shout it, sportive hreo>:j! oh, tuneful Ivor! To the uuMing trees. Thank Him, bird au*i !• t,"ag! As ve e' ,- ow and sing l Mingle in Hianksg ; vi,.g Every bring thing! Tin »k Gad. with mice* fid sp -t, Jp :i *. 'mv of love, % For what we here iahetit, And our hofies above!— TJaiverbal Nature llevels in her birth, Whin Gad, hi pleasant wealhe 1 *. Smiles upou the earth! ■».».»■ % THE TIME TO MARRY. * The wou : d-oc-wise Ibis con*’?cl g : vc 'f* Let lore’s thud * coot! The man who early weds w ’l live To think hiiifcieir a final. The galling chain .bat f»e-s bis limb, Wears dee per day by dav • {Experience nitle teaches h : m Who gives the bea* t its wa v. He wisely weds who weddelh lnle A Ui'dly, un'mpas.*;io teu mote.” ■When wrinkled oaks shall twining cling, With tendrils like the vine; When ravens, like the tinbels, sing, Wdh melody and vine; When honev drops from w Dbor'd leaves, And not from summer flowers; Wbe-i winter brings us golden sheaves, And snow-driftsuuny bouts; When truth abused m ikes falsehood right, Go withering wed and find delight. Gl Scmiljcvn lUcdiU) Citenuij anir iiXiscclliincmts Journal, for i\jt l)cme Circle, A HISTORICAL STORY. LOYALTY OF LOVE. A TAI.E OF VIRGINIA. In ilie autumn of 1074. tho present si'e of lliclmioinj was divided into two plantations, belonging to Col. Cyrd and ! Nathaniel liaeon, the mansion of tlio latter standing upon what is now called Shoekoe’s Hill. It was one of those fine old mansions pattern, and after the I. halls of Old England, and shire uueepialh-d upon this continent. A spa cions hall, dceoia'ed w> h portraits, large parlois with tin nil me of carved oak. a dining hall, where a battalion c.uld han : quet and a library with a how window commanding a prospect of pic ute-tpie magnific. nec, e pi e'a'ly when at.mini had touched the to! age wi h les magic pencil. The blight sc.nlcl of the maple, the deep crimson of the dogwood, the incliow hough of the ash, and the lively Yellow of the dies nut, con ras.ed sliik ingly with the deep evngteen of the cedar, pine, and hemlock, scattered ’through the forests. I!, low, the river foamed over its lockv bed to spread in'o a lake- ike sheet, and was do ted wi ll small i~l:in is, whose shadows leached lar down into the c.aiih tinted tide. Nathaniel Racoti, the master of tlie establislntien'. was a bale and handsome man, wi It a m ins ache, dear black eyes, and a timid eomp'e.iou. Klueated in lingliiiid,during the convulsive stun-g'cs between the throne and pnrltaun-nt, he believed that popular rights were ociia! to royal svvav. Not so with Ids sister 11. it riel ta, who had passed a w .n er wit h the Governor’s family at Jamestown, where she learned to rcventi.ee the “ right divine " of her sovereign. Her age at that lime was about eighteen, and although her form was not what the vo luptuary would have called perfect, ot her face otic that a sculptor would iiave chosen as a model, vet theie was a win niug expression in her eyes, and a grace in her movements, that enabled bur to chat in all who knew her. At tile time our story commences,she had just opened a letter, from which a printed packet fell to the floor. “ licie, Inoilicr Nat,” said she, “ is otic of his Excellency's letters to the privy council, sent back in good London piint.” Huron took tbe document, but as he read, a flush came over his check. At length lie exclaimed ill an angry tone — “Hear how Governor Berkley closes his account of us: “ ‘ I thank God there are no free schools o: printing offices, and I hope we shall not have any these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects itro the wen Id, and printing lias divulged them, and libels against t lie best government. God keep us from both !’ ” “Excellent, I declarer said the fair loyalist. “Excellent! do you call that excel lent, gil l 1 Why, I have half a mind to sell my plantation, and remove to the North.” ‘Alt, brother Nat, you would have your nose frozen off, even if you only go among the Manhatten Dutchmen, and ’ Here the laughing was interrupted by the entrance of a stranger, who piesented a letter to Mr. Bacon. Glancing at the exterior, lie intiodueed the new comer to his sister as Mr. Rupert Wylhely, of Aecomac, mid breaking the seal, read the contents. “I am happy to see you,” said he, when lie had perused the epistle, “and regret much to hear of the ex.raordinarv course of the Governor, in disbanding the volunteers. Can it be possible that at this time, when the yells of life savages resound through the woods, Virginians must retire to their plantations, there to remain until they tire scalped !” “Ah! I am glad lo hear you talk so,” replied Rupert Wylhely, “for I have come expressly to request your accept ance of the commission of General.— MADISON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1856. Here it is, signed by five hundred as brave men as there are on the con tinent.” '“You surely are not asking my bro ther to take up arms against Governor Berkley’s will 3” asked Henrietta, with a smile. “Nav, Miss, but the country is in danger," said the young man, who had already began to admire the fair Hen rietta. “It is a grave question,” remarked Mr. Bin-ou, “and I must ponder over it; meanwhile, mv sister will escort you to the falls, and to the lock where Poca hontas saved the file of Captain Smith. At dinner time I will give you an an s we i.” Kupeit Wylhely was a young planter near Jhhk-Mowii, who, with :i well pro poitioaed peison, and a manly coun tenance, possessed a noble bear*, mid a ctii ivu ed intellect. IBs idea of female excellence bad been formed upon an ideal model of pelfectkio, ill which he had blended lie accomplishments of all | the heiouies of poetiy and romance. ; \ a u had been h's se.-nch hitherto, but <• e l.e had been long wi ll Henrietta, lie 1 ini; g tu-d if her <jii;il' u sos mind cones- I inled with her j et- onal chaims, he ha I it long h found his beau ideal of female | c vc ion. Me:;aw lute, her brother had been sore iv t oiibYd at heait by the invitation to !••-•»I his fellow ci.i.tens. Like every Igue \ iigui’an, he felt that his country was in danger, for death was ravaging the land under (ho hideous form of savage cruelly. The force out under the com mand of Captain John Washington had jiroved entirely insufficient, yet the Gov ernor, instead of adding to it, had re buked them for killing a party cf chiefs, because it injured the beaver trade, of which lie had a monopoly. That an armed resisteuce to the Indians was lie cessury, lie did not doubt, but tlie thought of rising in arms against the will of the King’s Governor, la her staggered him. “At any late,” said he to Wylhely, as they sat enjoying their wine after dinner, ‘I will go to Jamestown and see how matters stand. Let the news le.-ieii me that a single man has been banned by the savages, and 1 will lend you on lo veugeaiu-e, commission or no commission.” A long storm, at the conclusion of which the fouls were impassible, detained Bupert \\\ - he tv a week with lire Bacons. He well improved ihe time* for ere he left, Henrietta acknowledged that she was not disinclined to treasure up the rich harvest of affection which lie laid at her feet. Nay, she was rather dis posed to become more republican in her feelings, and lo admit that Virginians might be capable of self-government. Weeks passed, and in vain did Nath aniel Bacon urge Governor Berkely to abandon his scheme of detached forts, and organise a volunteer force of rifle men. At last lie left Jamestown in despair, and, ere going home, paid a visit lo IJemico, where the sloop-shooters were encamped, unappalled by the edicts of the Governor, commanding them to disjjerse. The men «oon went on jiarade, under the command of Riqieit Wylhely; hut ere he had learned the reports of the sergeants, a horseman approached at full gallop. Riding up in front of the line, he cheeked his foaming steed, and shout ed— “The savages are at the fall of James River, killing and plundering. Turn out, turn out!” “Where are they 3” asked Bacon, pale with apprehension. “They first killed all at the mills, and then camped around Bacon’s house, on the hill. They say it is Powhatlan’s council ground, and no white man Shall possess iT.” “And Miss Bacon 3” eagerly inquired Wylhely. “I heard they had got a while gal prisoner, and meant to torture her, in a few days, at a grand war dance.” “Bacon,” cried Wylhely, “do you now hesitate 3” “No, no!” Then raising his voice until it rung in truni|>et tones over the field, lie continued—“ Virginians, for give my hesitation. Now that my own home is desolated, can I ask you to fol low me to the rescue of a loved sister ?” A loud shout of “ lead on !” made the hearts of Bacon and Wythely heat high again; nor was it many hours eve the force was in motion. A braver set of men never hastened to the fray. Tito sun had set in clouds behind the ridge, and the woods grew dim, as the Vir ginians approached the house of their general. Scouts who had been sent in advance to reconnoitre, reported that there was an entrenchment around the house, within which a huge council fire had been lighted exactly at sunrise. It was evident no time was to lie lost. The mounted cavaliers under the command of Wylhely, were ordered lo sweep around to the rght, while General Bacon led the hulk of the force directly up the hill, against the silent frowning breast work. On ll.ey moved, with a cautious tread, uncertain its to whether their coming ".is known lo the entrenched foe. But when they were within about twetitv paces of the breastwork, there came along from its front a cloud of arrows, making many brave men l>ito the dust. The scene which followed is described as one of deadly warfare, for no sooner had the Virginians reached the breast work than a yell was given,and the rude terrace swarmed with painted warriors, each beating in his left hand a blazing torch, and in his right, a war club.— Sjitiiigiug into the midst of their assail ants, the savages dealt their murderous blows on all sides, often thrusting their burning torches into the faces of the whites, who could not use their fire arms, so close was the encounter. “Sound a ret real.” shouted General Bacon ; and in obedience to the brazen trumpet, his men fell hack. At that moment the cavaliers under Wythely charged through the savages, and when they had passed the infantry formed into line, and ponied in murder ous volleys. Again the cavaliers swept through their painted ranks, and then with a cheer, the entrenchment was s'ormed. At the head of those who first entered the breastwork, fighting like a demon, was Rupert Wythely, and at the door of the old mansion, as he rode up to it with a heavy heart, he saw his own llemietla. “She is safe! Thank God site is safe!” he exclaimed, and in an instant he had reached her side, aud she was clasped to his heart. Our limits will not permit us to por tray the story of her imprisonment, as she narrated it that night around the family hearthstone. Destined for a sacrifice, she had been carefully treated, and allowed the un molested liberty of her own room. But that night was to have witnessed her immolation. A Divine Providence had nerved her heart, as she was already summoned lo the burning pile when a scout, gave the alarm cry. Then by the light of the torches she plainly witnessed the fray, imploring ujion her knees be fore the window that a heavenly arm would support those whom she loved so well. Morning dawned, and a horrible scene presented itself around the house. There —where St. John’s now stiyuls—lay mangled corpses in the sti*T attitude of death, and the stream near by was tinged with blood. The wounded were cared for, the dead interred, and by*dinner-litne the horrors of “grim-visaged war” no longer met the eye. The last council-fire of the Indian race at Janies River Falls was extinguished, and the few surviving de scendants of that terrible tribe of Poca hontas began their funeral march toward the setting sun. Success insured success. Had Bacon been defeated, he would have been shot as a traitor to his king; but now the haughty governor rewarded him, and he was hailed by the Virginians as their defender. Marching to Jamestown, he forced the governor to adopt new laws, which code was adopted on the 4th of July, 1070—one hundred years to a day before the congress of the United Slates, adopting the Declaration framed by the statesmen of Virginia, began anew era in the history of man. The eighteenth century in Virginia was the child of the seventeenth ; and Bacon’s rebellion, with the corresponding scenes in Maryland and Carolina, and New England, was the early harbinger of American Indepen dence. And where was Henrietta, the sturdy loyalist? Not in the slately rooms of the Governor, but with the sisier of her affianced lover, Rupert Wylhelv, who had a residence in Jamestown. Her dream of royal protection and a noble husband bad vanished during her ter rible captivity, and she now bowed in homage before her heart’s lord. Soon they were married, and returned to the plantation, which Nathaniel Bacon gave his sister as a dower. Some clouds darkened the pathway of life, but they lived as happy as mortals can enjoy ; nos did she ever forget, in after years, in narrating to her grand-children (lie events of her rescue, lo add: “ For all that, my dears, your grandfather did not hold the King’s commission—Virginians would act for themselves.” A vars rolled on. 'J’lie Old Dominion became the leader in a great movement, and while the name of Wythely is re membered by many who visit,the beau liful locality of their homes, once the scene of deadly slaughter, history sounds the praise of Nathaniel Bacon, and in scribes his name in golden letters upon the architecture of our National Pan theon. “The Young South.” From an editorial on the above sub ject, in the “New leans Delta,” wo extract the following : The A'oung South is now determined and self reliant. With the great West as its ally, or without its aid, it will stand for its own. With the Constitution in one hand and the sword, if necessary, in the other, it will assert its inalienable lights, and fling the names of Thomas Jefferson and John C. Calhoun into tbe scales of fate against those of Seward, Sumner, Chase, Hale, Giddings, Banks and Greeley, until the latter kick the beam. It lias a nvssion, and it under stands its mission*; it has a future of magnificent extent, and it will never jiatise until it reaches its uttermost edge. The Young South is not yet a parly ; it is simply a principle. It is an idea up (o this, but an idea which will a-sume practical shape and development be lb re long. We ask not where it arose, whether is birth took place in Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia or Mississippi, for we are content to know that it is throbbing in the mind of all the Southern Stales, and hits nothing sectional or sel fish in its original composition. It is as broad and generous and Catholic as the Declaration of Independence, as sound and true as the Constitution of the United States, and as immortal as the memory of the Devolution. But though the Young South is not literally a party, it has a creed, a ritual, and an evangel of its own. It feels that God has given it a splendid destiny, but it understands the great truth that it must not expect Providence to do ail the work which it is fairly responsible for itself. “God will help us,’’ said the simple and trusting Scotchman, whose philosophy was the %ratid one of faith. “ Weel, Donald, tny mou, we maun help God to help us,’’ said his equally worthy companion, and the Young South agrees with boll). The faith of the Young South can he easily summed up. Its articles are clear and brief. They are not planks in a platform, it is tiue ; but they are earnest thoughts of the public mind. It bolds : Ist. That John C. Calhoun’s theory of the equilibrium of the Union should be reduced to practice, and that Cuba should balance California. 2nd. That the expansion of the slave States should be limited only by three points of the compass—the East, the West, and the South the North alone being tahooed. 3rd. That the Sierra Madre would be as natural a boundary for Texas as tbe Rio Grande, and that more feudalism and ecclesiasiicism cannot continue to flourish in the immediate neighborhood and on the very flank of a powerful rational Republic. 4th. That the connection between the great exporting jxiint of Ihe Southern Slates and the gale of the entry of the undeveloped glories of Central America —between New Orleans and San Juan de Nicaragua—should be constant and perfect in every particular, commercially and politically, and that the South should claim its predestined dominion in the land of the Mosquitoes, as well as in that of the Huguenots and Cavaliers. sth. That the utter extirpation of Puritanism proper, of prohibitory laws, com jiulsory sanctity, despotism of cliques, and all legislation viohttory of individu al liberty, of freedom of conscience and freedom of speech, should accompany the progress of the South, while ail those political heresies should return to the appropriate hospitality of Plymouth Rock Glli. That the South should he South ern and not send Northern and mongrel; that it should spend at home the money which it earns at home ; and be as ex clusive, if necessary, to the Northerners, who drain it of its wealth, as some of them wish it to he towards many classes who enrich it. 7tli. That all isms, born of the womb of “ Nox and darkness.” including Wo man’s Rights, Free Love, Maine Laws, Fourierism, Latter-Day Saint ism, and all the other extravagances which aceompa nv Abolitionism, should be utteily root ed out from the land where the women are content to be ladies and the men aspire to no higher title than that of gentlemen. Such is the creed of the A’oung South. It will be very likely to leave its mark on this generation aud all fill me eras imiil the dreams of the Millerites are fulfil lid. Perhaps there are “uses of adversity" which the ordinary politician neglects to calculate, and that without the fanati cism and violence of the North, this illimitable progmnme would never have been so distinctly intelligible to the South as it is now. It is needless to review the creed, article by article, at present; our space will not petmit us to do so; but we shall endeavor to illustrate it from time to time so fully and faithfully, that its true bearing and import shall be as plain to every Southerner “as a golden pillar in the sunshine.” Useful Statistics. Some female spiders produce neatly 2,000 eggs. About thirty fresh-water springs are discovered under the sett, on the south of the Persian Gulf. A wasp’s nest usually contains 15,000 or 10,000 cells. The Atlantic Ocean is estimated at four miles deep. A single female house-fly produces in one season 20,080,210. There are six or seven generations of gnats in a summer, and each lays 250 eggs. There are about 9,000 cells in a square foot of honey comb. 5,000 bees weigh a pound. A cow eats a 100 lbs. of green food every 24 hours, and yields five quarts, or 10 lbs. of milk. Dr. Bright published a case of an egg producing an insect eighty years after it must have been laid. A swarm of bees contains from 10,- 000 to 20,000 in a natural rtatc, and from 30,000 to 40,000 in a hive. Virtue is the best epitaph. NUMBEII 5 WIT AND HUMOR Tub Puzzled Irishman. —Dining our last conflict with Great Britain, a niiml>er of our troops were engaged in repairing the fortifications of Niagara; and whilst so engaged, the enemy commenced a pretty sharp fire, so that it occupied near ly the whole of the time of our forces to keep on the lookout for the shots of tho enemy. Finding that they did not make much headway, they stationed a son of tho Emerald Isle to give warning when a shot or shell was coming. This the sentinel faithfully performed ; alternately singing out, “shot,” “shell,” until finally, the enemy started a Con grove rocket, which l*at bad never seen before. He hesitated, and seeing it elevated, ho shouted, “Shot! and be Jabers the gun with it !’■ Among the “quaint and curious” cor respondence almost daily received at the Cosmopolitan Office in this city, we liavo been shown the following from a genius “oat West!” To the inquiry propoun ded him by the Circular of the Associa tion, demanding, “liovv many papers aro published in your place; population, the.” The reply was: “No papers published here, becru-o the people can’t read. The population is as follows: Irish ICO Amsterdam Dutch : : : 175 Other dam Dutch : : : : 83 White Men :::::: 7 Uiere was formerly eight white men ; your humble servant has vacated the ranche and pitched his lent in Mineral Point, where, il he can assist the Cosmo politan in a moral or religious wav, com mand him. Yours, . Sandusky Reyistcr. A Quaint Simile. —The following is from the Memoirs of Dev. Sidner Smith : “We were all assembled to look at n turtle that hail been sent to the house of a friend, when a child of the party stooped down and began stroking the shell of the turtle. “ Why are you doin>r that, Mary,” said her father. “O, to please the turtle !” “ Why, child, yon might «* well stroke the dome ..f St. Paul s Church, to please the ministers.” How to Kill Owls. —“ If yon find an owl looking at you from a tree,” says • lie doetor, “ and you wish to bring him down without the exjx-ose of jaiwder and shot, you have only to keep your eye steadily fixed upon him, and move slowly round the tree; in his eagerness to watch your movements —owls are wise —he forgets to turn his body mid his eyes following yours, his neck is soon twisted off.” A lady was once declaring that she could not understand how gentlemen could smoke. “It certainly shortens their lives.” said she. “1 don't know that,” replied a gentleman. “There is my father who smokes every blessed day, and he is now seventy years old.” “ Well,” was the reply, “ if |,«. had never smoked he might have been eighty.” Decently,in Detroit, when Koinco and Juliet was “in the bills,” a scape grace known as “Romeo” was in the pit. When Juliet exclaimed: “ Romeo, where art thou ?” the youngster rose and said : “ Here I am, in the pit—l had only a quarter, and couldn’t get into the boxes!" Juliet fainted. The editor of the N. Y. Tribune un dertakes to tell what is said and doue by “ men who know the ropes.” That edi tor may not know the rojies himself, but possibly lie will la-come acquainted with one of them if he doesn’t learn to be have bimself.— [Prentice. Why is a man who is catching dishes which are pitched to him by another, like a celebrated breed of fowls 1 Als. —Because he’s “cotchin china.” Hearts. —Little red thing*, that men and women play with for money.