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BENJAMIN G. LIDDON.
T. A, BURKE, EDITOR.
Madison, ga.-.
SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1856.
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Oar Weekly Chat,
With Reader* and Correspondents.
June is an important and busy month
■with farmers. Summer is upon us now, in
earnest, and cro]>e, with good seasons, are
growing rapidly both above and below the
ground. But attention and care are as
necessary to success in the vegetable as in
the animal world. In this immediate vi
cinity, and, in fact, throughout the country,
rains have been plenteous of late, and crops
aro in a fine, healthy condition. Many
farmers lay by their corn towards the
close of this month and cotton ought to be
pretty well advanced. Much may also be
done in flower gardens, in the morning
before the sun has become oppressive, or
in the evening when it has lost much of
its fervor.
An old writer (1828) gives some
good advice to those having the care of
dumb brutes at this season of the jeib.
“ If you keep dogs, let them have free ac
cess to water, and, if practicable, take
them out occasionally in the fields, and let
them go in swimming whenever there is
an opportunity. If you keep birds, do
not, ns is too commonly practiced, expose
them in their cages in the hot snn: it is
a cruel and fatal mistake. Birds uncon
fincd seek the shelter in sultry weather.—
If you do expose them out of doors, cover
the top of the cage with a piece of carpet,
or, which is better, a green sod, or abund
ance of leaves. Those who have the care
of horses should bo especially attentive,
duringsultry weather, to give them water,
or to moisten their months. We have
often been shocked to seo some of the la
boring horses, in sultry and dusty weather,
foaming at the mouth, nnd laboring under
symptoms of the intolerable torments of
thirst.”
The oditors of the New York Ex
press “rocently heard quite an interesting
debate excited in regard to n quotation
used ovory day an hundred times, and yet
as to the correctness of which, no two or
four or flvo well known literary gentle
men ot (hot city or New Orleans could
agroe, and the authorship of which not one
of them could give. The debate com
menced by one gentleman's using the quo
tation ns
"Small bv degrees and beautifully lets.'*
to which Literatus No. 2 excepted, assert
ing that the original rend,
"let! by degrees nnd benutifully fine."
Unablo to agree, they determined to
hunt it tip and settle the point. But a
now difficulty presented itself—the author
■could not be found. Various authorities
were consulted, without success, and the
original disputants “agreed to lay’ a wager
on the result and depend upon chance to
■wet them right. Meanwhile one of the
parties went to New Orleans, nnd not
Jong since transmitted to his friend an old
number of Punch, in which, under a broad
caricature, was the legend,
■“Small by degrees and beautifully few.”
Literatus No. 2, who had nearly forgot
ten the matter, refused to acknowledge
Fnnch as authority, insisting upon it that
tho Charivari had thus used the quotation
ns a capital joko. Inquiries were institu
ted anew, and tho [metical editors of the
Home Journal were appealed to; but no
reply appearing in that paper, a private
embassy was undertaken to the sanctum,
when the popular gentlemen frankly ad
mitted that they could not recall the au
thor nor did they know the proper quota
tion. They had an idea, however, that it
should be—
“ Small by degrees nnd beautifully fine."
When the Home Journal men had thus
started still anew reading, Literati were
■not wanting who insisted that none of the
supposed quotations were correct. One
advanced strong reasons to prove that—
“/bn by degrees nnd beautifully email."
was most likely to be the real original
line; while another was certain that it
was—
_ "fine by degrees snd beautifully le»«"
The matter was finally refered to the
editors ot the Express, who declare them
solves unable to decide, nnd call upon their
readers to give them the name of the poet
and chapter, page and line, where it may
be read in the original author. This we
are unable to do, but wo have found the
quotation in an old volume of Hone'* Tear
Root, published in 1826, where we dare
say it is correctly rendered. No due,
whatever, is given to the author's name.
The verso reads tbits—
" No longer shall the boddicc, sptlv Isecd
From the full bosom to the slender waist,
That air of harmony and shape express.
Fine by degrees and beautifully Ues.”
An Editor’s life has its snnsliine as
well as shade, and sueh a sunbeam as lias
Just come into our office in the shape of a
lot of superb Apricots, does n’t often enter
.on Editor’s 6anctnm. We are indebted,
for this Jirst present of fruit tiiis season, to
< nr fair friend, Miss Lizzie Si-eed, who
will please accept our thanks. The late
Jionr at which it is received and a oonse
quant want of room, prevent our saying
snore.
The Annnal Catalogue of the Mad
ison Female College is on onr table. From
St we learr. tl«if the institution is in a
flourishing condition—the total number of
pupils h;i» one hundred and tieentp-serer.
in iiiiii visit
Since its organization ib 1850, seventy
nine young ladies hate gtaduated, and the
Senior Class of tha present year numbers
seventeen; The College has an able and
efficient faculty and is well supplied with
apparatus, pianos And everything else ne
cessary in schools of this character. The
Commencement occurs in July—the next
one beginning on Sunday, 6th proximo.
We have also been favored with a
copy of the last Catalogue of Emory Col
lege, Oxford, Geo. The number of stu
dents, at present in attendance, is 134 in
the College and 51 in the preparatory
school. The College has graduated 234
yonng men, of which number, 42 are min
isters, 63 teachers and 17 have died. The
faculty is an able one, nnd is made up en
tirely, we believe, of Georgians. Rev.
JAMEfI R. Thomas is the President. Next
Commencement Wednesday after third
Monday in July.
“Who Wrote the Waverly Novelst”
Two or three years ago somebody in
England published a pamphlet, the object
of which was to prove that Shakespeare's
[days were not written by himself, but
were the productions of various persons,
ami were written for Shakespeare, who
was nothing more than the manager of a
theatre! Os course this effort to prove
the immortal Bard of Avon a miserable
pretender, a veritable literary jackdaw,
shining in borrowed plumage, was a sig
nal failure.
Parrallel with the fancy discovery above
mentioned, and worthy of a [dace along
side of it, is one which lias lately been
made by a Mr. Fitzpatrick, ot London,
who lias astonishod the literary world with
a pamphlet in which lie attempts to estab
lish the fact that Sir Walter Scott was not
tho writer of the Waverly Novels! lie
seeks to show that, at least, considerable
portions of them were written by Mr.
Thomas Scott, a brother of Sir Waitor,
nnd his wife. This brother waa a surgeon
in tho British Army, and was stationed
for some years prior to his death in Can
ada. Mr. Fitzpatrick seems to tiiink that
Sir Walter, alone, could not have accom
plished what the world has attributed to
him. “Some of these master pcices of
fictitious uarrative,” ho says, “appeared
in such rapid succession that the mere
ninnuul labor of transcribing oould not
possibly liavo been accomplished by any
ordinary writer in tho time. Sir Walter
must have had friendly assistance; but be
was not a man likely to have revealed any
secret calculated to lower hi* literary pres
tige. The whole secret, if any, died thir
ty-three years ago, far away in the planta
tions of Canada."
lie cites the following letter from Sir
Walter to his brother as a proof of the
correctness of his opinion. The letter is
to be found in Lockhart's Life of Scott:
“Send me a novel, intermixing yonr
exuberant and natural humor with any in
cidents and descriptions of scenery you
may see, particularly with characters and
traits of manners. I will give it all the
cobbling that is necessary, and if you do
but exert yourself i have not the least
doubt it will bo worth 500/.; and to en
courage you, you may, when you send the
manuscript, draw on mo for 100/. at fifty
days’sight; so that your labors will, at
any rate, not be quite thrown away. You
have more fun and descriptive talent than
most people; and all that you want, i. e.
the mere practice of composition, I can
supply, or the devil’s in it. Keep this a
dead secret, and look nothing when Wa
verly is spoken of. If you aro not Sir
John Falstaft', you aro as good a man as he,
and may, therefore, face Colville of the
Dale. + * * Mind that your MS. attends
the draft. lam perfectly serious and con
fident that in two or three months you
might clear the cobs. I beg my compli
ments to the hero who is afraid of Jeffrey's
scalping knife."
Mr. Fitzpatrick says in his pamphlet
that Mrs. Thomas Scott was a woman of
talent, “ with a mind well stored with wit,
anecdote nnd useful information.” He
quotes a passage from a letter of a Guern
sey gentleman, a cousin of Mrs. Scott:
“ Her knowledge of the legendary loro
of her native province of Callaway is said,
by those who had the pleasure of lier ac
quaintance, to hnvo been very groat. It
was generally tl ought in her family that
she had supplied many of the anecdotes
and traits of character which Sir Walter
Scott worked up in his Scotch novels.—
Much of the scenery described in ‘Guy
Manncring’ appears to have been sketched
from localities in the immediate vicinity,
of Mrs. Scott’s birthplace, a remarkable
cavern, the cave of Kirkclaugh, for exam
ple, being pointed ont to tourists as Dick
Hatternick's cave. It is asserted (for the
fact, of course, I cannot vouch,) that Sir
Walter Scott never was in that part of the
country. If this be the case, the minute
description of places answering so closely
to real localities, is, to say the least, a very
remarkable coincidence."
This Mrs. Scott was, from all accounts,
a woman of fino literary taste, nnd her
husband was doubtless entitled to the high
compliment paid him by bis brother, but
neither one of them, according to the wri
ter’s own admisssion, ever intimated that
they bad rendered Sir Walter any assis
tance. It is true that many names are
found among the characters in liis novels
identical with those of officers of the reg
iment to which Doot. Scott was attached.
One of these is particularly mentioned.—
Lieutenant Dalgetty, who figures in the
Legend of Montrose, and betrays a won
derful love for liis horse. Here is another
quotation from the pamphlet:
In those days,’ said Colonel W
1 a regiment was ot>e family, and offi-
cere were really brother officers.’ Colo
nel W used to be constantly in and
out of the house, and bo scarcely ever en
tered without finding Mrs. Scott at her
desk, with a heap of MSS. before her.
What was the destination of these writings
he knows not.
“Both Mr. and Mrs. Scott abounded in
anecdote. Colonel W ’s recollections
state that it was not until after Tom
Scott’s death at Quebec, and when there
no longer existed any doubt in the literary
world concerning the supposed author ot
the Wavcrly novels, that he bad any sus
picion of Tom Scott and bis wife having
had any hand in them. He and some
other officers then called to mind his hav
ing said ono evening, after having drank
pretty freely, addressing some of them,
‘Ah, you’ll be astonished to find your
selves some day or other in print.’ Tbos.
Scott was a bon tit ant. Dalgetty was a
gay, lively fellow, but rather an indiffer
ent soldier. Among the many communi
cations from Walter Scott, which were
continually arriving, were remittances of
money, though not to a large amount. —
Colonel W ’s impression is, that nei
ther Thomas Scott nor his wife wrote any
of tho novels; but that they assisted their
brother considerably in supplying anec
dotes, traits of character, &c.”
It is not necessary that wo should ad
duce any evidenco to provo the absurdity
of this writer’s position. The literary
world will be slow to believe any sncli
nonsense. It is not unlikely that Sir Wal
ter Scott made use of much material fur
nished him in a crude state by his brother
and wife, who bad opportunities to gather
many facts and incidents which, under bis
skillful hand, grew into form and beauty.
That lie was a man of most extraordinary
industry, endowed with a wonderful fac
ulty of rapid composition, all his biogra
phers agree. Between the third day after
his bankruptcy and the fifteenth, he wrote
an entire volume of “Woodstock"—and
he believed that “for a bet lie could have
written a volume in ten days.” “Tie
composed,” says ono writer, “ witli great
facility, and was so borne or carried along
that his brain resembled a high pressure
engine, the steam of which was perpetually
up overy timo he entered his study or lifted
a pen.” Later in liis life lie dictated to an
amanuensis, ono of whom says, “ lie paced
the apartment more like a rapt seer than
an ordinary mortal, while composing the
celebrated dialogue between the Templar
and Rebecca” in Ivanhoe.
In reference to tho work which lie nrged
his brother to write, Sir Walter said ho
did not believe ho ever wrote a line of it.
“lean oasily conceive," he adds, “that
there may have been circumstances which
gave a color to the general report of my
brother being interested in thess works;
and in particular that, it might derive
strength from my having occasion to re
mit to hitn, in consoquenee of certain fam
ily transactions, somo considerable sums
of money about that period. To it is to
be added, that if any person chanced to
evince particular curiosity on such a sub
ject, my brother was likely enough to di
vert himself w ith practising on their crod- j
ulity.”
It is well known that. Wavcrly was first
published anonymously and tho author
kept his name a secret for sometime.—
While tho question of its authorship was
exciting great attention in England a Mr.
Uorbert wroto a series of powerful papers,
proving by analogical reasoning that the
poems published by Sir Walter Scott and
the novel of Waverly were written by one
and the same person!
Our object in writing this editorial is
not to prove that Sir Walter Scott did
write the Waverly novels. No proof of
such a fact is necessary. We merely give
the substance of tho pamphlet and some
facts gleaned from other sources because
we think it may interest onr readers.
College Commencements.
It will be seen, by reference to an ad
vertisement in another column, that the
Commencement of the Madison Female
College occurs on Thursday, July 10th--
tlic exercises of the week beginning with
a sermon on Sunday, the 6th.
Wesleyan Female College holds its Com
mencement on tho 16th and 17th of July.
Commencement Sermon by Bishop An
drew on Sunday the 13th. Tho Literary
Address will be delivered by Hon. E. A.
Nisbet.
Oglethorpe University holds its Com
mencement on the 22tul of July.
Emory College holds its Commencment
on the 23d of July; Mercer University on
the last Wednesday in July nnd the State
University on the first Wednesday in Au
gust.
The Southern Masonic Female College
Commencement occurs on Tuesday, June
24th and that of the Cassville Female Col
lege on Wednesday, July 17th.
University of Georgia.
Tho following gntlemen have been ap
pointed a Board of Visitors, to attend the
examination of tho Classes in the Univer
sity of Georgia, on Tuesday the 24th inst.:
Hon. Joel Crawford, of Early; James
Gardner, Esq., of Richmond; J. W. Dodd,
Esq., of Floyd; B. H. Overby, Esq., of
Fulton; W. B. Hodgson, Esq., of Chatham;
D. A. Vason, Esq., of Dougherty; W. F.
Plane, Esq., of Muscogee; W. L. Mitchell,
Esq., of Clarke; Wins. Rutherford, Esq.,
of Clarke; Henry Hull, Esq, of Clarke;
Alex. M. Speer, Esq., of Bibb; Rev. Geo.
F. Pierce, of Hancock; Rev. Francis Bow
man, of Greene; Rev. Dr. Nathan Hoyt, of
Clarke; James. P. Simmons, Esq., of
Gwinnett; Dr. E. J. McGehee, of Hous
ton; Dr. J. R. Branham, Esq., of Putusm.
New York Fashions.
One of our New York exchanges, in a
j long article on “ Fashionable Gossip,"
j gives its readers a glance at the prevailing
fashions in that city. Hoops, it says, did
! not subside with the occasion that sugges
ted their revival. On the contrary they
have expanded to such a degree that the
circle marked upon the pavement by the
dress of a fasbionable woman is six feet in
diameter. Bonnets continue to recede
down the back, and are as small as ever;
except that the part called the “cape” is
made exceedingly large and square, so as to
indorse or fence in a considerable portion
of the back. The trimmings, however,
form the most wonderful part of the head
gear. The editor avows that he has seen
waxen imitations of the following produc
tions of the earth used for trimming bon
nets tiiis season: apples, pears, peaches,
plums, grapes, oranges, lemons, pomegran
ates, nectarines, currants, cranberries, rns
berries, gooseberries, strawberries, black
berries, encumbers, tomatoes, melons, rye,
wheat, oats, clover and rice. Grasses of
various kinds, common weeds, snn-flowers,
buttercups, dandelions, and many more of
the coarsest door-yard plants arc also pro
moted to the same unexpected elevation.
A dress is not considered complete without
a parasol to match. A lady must, there
fore, maintain as many parasols as she has
dresses—which, considering that the par
asols now in vogue are heavily fringed and
cost five dollars, must come rather expen
sive. The invisible embroidery mania
continues to rage, though not, perhaps,
quite to the degree of former years.—
Diamonds (California and other) glisten on
most fingers and bosoms. Black bends
are profusely used for ornamenting man
tillas, dresses, bonnets and everything, and
yellow gloves are much in vogne. The
fashionable watches, now-a-days, are ei
ther of the limiting pattern, or of great
size, similar to those ponderous creations
in whiclqour great-grandfathers took de
light. In one respect, however, tho fash
ionable world has improved. It is no lon
ger “the thing” to go to church oxtreme
ly dressed. The editor looked all over Dr.
Bellows' chnrcli—a very fashionable one
—the other evening, and could seo but
very few conspicuous toilettes—not four
in a congregation of a thousand people.
Local Items.
Local news is scarce tiiis week. No
thing has occurred since onr last issue to
disturb the usual quiet of the town.
From bills posted about the streets, we
lenrn that the Democrats of Morgan will
hold a meeting on Friday next, for the
purpose of nominating delegates to the
fourth of July Convention at Milledgeville.
Young America spends most of its lei
sure timo, now, in studying tho Circus
bills, which aro conspiciously posted up at
the most public places.
Rains, for a week past, have been fre
quent, and crops aro doing well in all parts
of the county, so far as wo have learned.
Pen-itndoScissurings.
The Enquirer object* to Columbus being
retained as the fighting ground for duelists
from Alabama, nnd proposes that it simll
hereafter be considered the Gretna Green
for lovers. Sparkling Cstuwba is more
highly appreciated than tho villainous
compounds of powder and lead A de
structive fire occurred at Opelika, Ala., on
the 4th inst., destroying the Hotel and
other buildings adjacent Bearded wo
men have been known in every age; one
was seen at the Court of Czar Peter I, in
1724, witli a beard of immense length.—
Margaret, Governess of the Netherlands,
has a heavy beard The youngest mem
ber of the present Congress is the Hon.
William Cnmback, being only 26 years of
age Miss Charlotte Cushman is en
gaged to appear in New Orleans next win
ter The Dnhlonegft Signal says that a
solid lump of gold, weighing 823 dwts,
was taken recently from the mine of Win.
B. Kennan, near that [dace The Wash
ington Star says that all reports published
about Mr. Sumner’s serious or alarming
condition, being threatened with erysipe
las, and having consultations with physi
cians, are all “bosh.” ...P. T. Baruum
has declined all pecuniary favors in tho
way of public benefits, lie is determined
to “weed liis own row.” Col Rich
ardson, at present a member of Congress,
lias accepted the Democratic nomination
for Governor of Illinois Although
there have been many medicinal prepara
tions brought before the public since the
first introduction ot Perry Davis’ Pain
Killer, and largo amounts expended in
their introduction, the Pain Killer lms
continued to steadily advance in the esti
mation of the world, as the best family
medicine ever introduced Hon. Law
rence M. Keitt, of S. C., is to address the
Literary Societies of the Virginia Military
Institute, on the 3d of July. ...It is pro
posed to supply tho city of Providence, R.
1., with water from Ten Mile river, in
Seekonk, at a cost of $1,000,000 The
American party in the Southern District
us Arkans .s has nominated Col. Absolom
Fowler for Congress Gen. Sam Hous
ton arrived at his home in Texas, on the
24th May, in very bad health Col.
Robt. Wilson, one of the * heroes of Texas,
who has filled many public positions in
Texas, died on the 20th ult The Prus
sian army is to be reduced to 114,402 men,
from 227, 212, its strength for the war
footing A young lady being told that
her lover was killed, exclaimed—“Oh,
that splendid gold watch of his!—give me
that—give me something to remember
him by!” Senator Trumbull, with a
view of restoration of peace in Kansas;
has prepared a bill annexing that territory
to Nebraska * Ex-President Van Pu-on
was recently thrown from his horse, and
received a severe wound on his head, but
not dangerous Col. F. H. Smith, of
Virginia, lias been chosen President of the
Board of Examiners at West Point
The SpriDg trade in Mexican horses has
been very brisk. Over 10,000 have passed
Goliad, Texas..... Charleston, S. C., was
fixed upon as the place for the next meet
ing of the National Convention in 1860.
... .The Spirit of the Times says that the
famous racer “Fashion” is not dead
The Ancient and Honorable Artillery of
Boston, Mass., celebrated their 218th an
niversary in that city, on Monday last.
The Oxygenated Bitters are highly
recommended for Dysjiepsia by persons
whose names give the most satisfactory
evidence of astonishing cures by using this
medicine. It will certainly relieve the
worst cases A California farmer ex
presses the opinion that hereafter coffee
will be grown in that State for their own
consumption, and also for exportation
His Excellency Herschel V. Johnson will
deliver the Anniversary Oration before
the Literary Societies of Oglethorpe Uni
versity on Commencement day, July 23d.
....The American party of Louisville
have presented George D. Prentice with u
service of silver consisting of a pitcher, six
goblets and a salver Mr. Buchanan is
by trade a printer, the first one of tho
craft who has been nominated for the
highest office in tiie gift of the people, al
though many of them have become fa
mous in other ways The American
party of Florida have nominated D. S.
Wulker, for Governor, and James M. Ba
ker, for Congress Col. Allen’s Ken
tucky regiment for Nicaragua disbanded
after reachiug New Orleans, for want of
funds The Treasury Department has
paid to the creditors of the late Republic
of Texas, under the act of Congress, $4,688,-
036,58 Since the first of May the
steamers from New York lor Europe have
taken out no less than 2,470 passengers.
.... A. P. Dearing has been unanimously
elected Cashier ot the Bank of Athens.
.... The Savannah Journal of Saturday
announces the death of the Hon. Mordecai
Sheftall, Sr., in the seventy-third year of
his age. He had been a member of the
Bar fifty-seven years A recent arrival
from Ilayti, represents that the insurrec
tion which has created so much trouble
has been finally suppressed.
For the Family Visitor.
Dream Land.
Surrounded by a thousand beautiful
creations which buttle the poet’s pen to de
scribe or the artist's pencil to delineate,
man still dreams half liis existence away
in the shadowy realms of fancy. And in
deed it is a lovely country with its peren
nial bloom, its cloudless snnsliine, and
eternal spring time. It is a region fairer
than this, with waters of more crystal
clearness, vallies and meadows of mellow
er green, tho songs of its birds of more
ravishing sweetness, flowers of brighter
hue nnd richer perfume, and skies of moro
etberial blue.
Did you ever wander in dream land
when a child? llow smooth and flowery
were the paths you trod! Did they lead
by the green hillside where the sunbeams
lingered, by the little rippling brook that
wound through the still shady vale, or up
the mountain cliff where the wild flowers
hung? An Eden paradise surrounded you,
and. beautiful visions delighted your eye.
On the light green turf, when moonlight
drew her silvery veil over the sky, you
watched the fairy bands as they danced to
and fro like shadows playing beneath the
trees, and followed their retreating forms
as they vanished like tho last shades of
night before the blush of dawn. From a
gloomy elevation, half hid in the mists,
the castle of “Blue Beard” looked frown
ingly upon you; the little “Red Riding
Hood” with a muffled face tripped lightly
by, and in the still lone woods, far from
the dwelling of man, the “Lost Children,”
their little feet tired with their long wan
derings, laid themselves down to sleep, tho
angels hovering over them, whispering
bright things in their dreams; at night the
glittering stars shone out above like bea
con lights, guiding them to their happy
home far away beyond tho skies, and the
pale moon waned, the shadows of night
dissolved, but sleep, a long qniet sleep,
scaled the eyelids of the lost ones, and the
little birds that hid in the tree-tops when
noise of gentle footsteps passed, gathered
the green leaves and strewed them for a
covering over tho lonely sleepers. Such
are the visions of dream land which child
hood forms.
Youth ranges beyond the enchanted re
gions of tho Genii, and the broad domains
and towering castles of the giants. The
merry laugh of the mocking satyr, and the
light-footed fawn dies away in the dis
tance, and even the thunders of Jupiter
and the divine strains of Orpheus are
awhile forgotten, as Olympus and Tempe
fade imperceptibly from view. Now in a
sea-shell chariot, led by the sporting dol
phins, you dive to the blue sea’s depths
and explorooldOceau’s caverns. Neptune,
surrounded by the monarchs of the deep,
himself mightiest of all, attends yon at bis
palace borne, reared ot the costliest pearls
and coral. And Triton, with sound of
trumpet, conducts yon back again to solid
earth. Amidst dim shades of night and
gloom you pass by Pluto’s drear abode
—but oh! how changed the landscape
when from the realms where darkness
sits Elysian fields salute your eye.—
Leading to these are the paths which saints
have trod, and straightest of them all the
narrow one which Bunyan’s pilgrim passed
in journeying to the city of Zion. Here
was the wilderness through which God. led
his people with a pillar of cloud by day
and of fire by night, while farther beyond
lies the promised land, with its waving
palms and vineyards, a land “flowing with
milk and honey.” Almost boundless in its
extent, there is no spot hallowed by pro
phets altar or tomb, or where the fires of
persecution in later times have lit the fu
neral pile of the martyr, but that some
where in dream land, there is a monument
to mark the spot. Whilst, towering pre
eminently above them all, are the everlast
ing hills which speak of great deeds past,
which tell that God has been there. On
that mountain, God had stood midst the
thick clouds and rolling thunders, with
the ascending smoke and flashing light
nings, and while the trumpet sounded
louder and louder and the mountain shook
and trembled, had spoken and sealed by
his commands man’s future judgement.—
And there are the mounts of transfigura
tion and Calvary, unchanged from what
they were eighteen and a half centuries
ago; where still stands the cross with the
bleeding sacrifice for
Jesus, the saviour of the world! You pause
before that picture of divine love, and
gradually the light which shone about the
crucified Redeemer, steals through the
prison windows of your soul, at first dim
ly making the darkness within more black
•and appalling, but slowly increasing in
brightness until your whole soul seems
bathed in a flood of heavenly light more
glorious than the noonday sun. It is the
new light which shone over the hills of
Judea, that has visited the islands of the
deep and spread unto the ends of the
earth.
Behold in dream land the moral world as
it was; follow it through its many
changes, to the present time, and picture
it as it will be at some future day, when all
men shall bow before the same God and
sing the praises of their common Saviour.
In that vast sweep of thought and fancy,
oh! what a field is passed over! We may
glance, with “birds eye view” over the
rise, the progress and decline of nations;
we may study the lives of great men who
have been but to mingle in the chaos of
things forgotten; rebuild the fabric of so
ciety and recreate in each mortal the feel
ings, the emotions, the hopes and fears
which animated them—here is something
more thnn eveu fancy cun do and dream
land becomes limited in its boundaries.
And we have our bright anticipations
too; our dreams of the future painted over
with rainbow hopes. Rut we arc not the
same beings in dream land that we are in
this grosser earth. Our very pleasures
are of a purer nature, and what would le
among the pleasure seeking world a
strange anomaly, virtue abounds, whilst
all the desires of the heart are satisfied.—
There is a time to dream of childLood's
delights, of youthful joys and hopes, and
of manhood's love, ambition and pursuits;
but there is a time at all timet, from the
cradle to the grave, to dream of that bet
ter portion reserved for the just in heaven.
That is the Christian’s brightest dream : it
is a fountain of sweet waters, springing up
and watering his soul amidst all the desert
wastes of life; when cares oppress, when
temptations assail or afflictions sadden, let
him look beyond this earthly prospect,
aud in fancy behold the heavenly Zion
with its walls of jasper, its gates of pearl
mid “streets of shining gold.” Rowed
before the throne of the Lamb with the
blood Washed throng, and joining in the
hallelujahs of praise which constantly as
cend, ho secs himself redeemed and saved;
no stain upon his spotless robe, the palm
of victory in his hand, and a crown of
never failing glory encircling his brow.
This is but a dream land view of heaven;
a faint conception of its glories, expressed
in language fainter still, hut it is the
brightest picture upon which human vis
ion may gaze, and until the veil of mortal
ity is removed from our eyes, let us paint
its images upon our souls.
Georgia. JEAXNIE.
The Vote fob Vice-President.—
On re-assembling, Friday morning,
the Convention immediately proceeded
to vote for Vice-President. The first
ballot resulted as follows :
J. C. Breckenridge, of Kentucky, 55 ;
General Quitman, of Miss , 50; Lynn
Boyd, of Kentucky, 33 ; Fitzpatrick, of
Ala., 11; A V. Brown, 29 ; Herschel
V. Johnson, of Ga, 31 ; Rusk, of Tex
as, 2 ; Polk, of Teun., 5 ; Secretary Dob
bin, 13.
On the 2d ballet, Hon. J. C. Brccken
lidge, of Kentucky, received the unani
mous vote of tbe Convention ; and was
declared tl.e nominee for Vice President.
The Convention adjourned until the
afternoon.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
At 2 o’clock the Convention re-assem
bled.
A resolution pledging all the consti
tutional powers of tbe Government to
the construction of a Railßoad to tbe
Pacific was adopted—ayes 205, nays 85.
Kansas Emigrants Returned.—Al
pheus Baker and L. F. Johnson, of Eu
faula, Ala., who accompanied Major Bu
ford’s company to Kansas, have recently
returned, bringing very favorable politi
cal news from that territory, and the
most flattering accounts of the soil, cli
mate and agricultural resources of the
country. They have thus speedily re
turned to their former home for the pur
pose of raising means and men to aid
tbe cause of Kansas. We bid them
God speed. —Griffin Empire State,
The Saturday Evening
Aa our readers generally are aware
this journal has an extensive bircolatioil
in tbe Southern States, and is a favorit*
weekly visitor to many Southern familie,
For many years it commended itself
tbe support of our people by its con
servatism and its freedom from offensive
and hostile sentiments. Os l ßle ( iow .
ever, its character and tone bare under
gone a change, and, on several oee*sk> n , r
its hostility to this section of country
has been evinced in exceptionable srti
cles, both editorial and selected. The
Post has seen fit to enter the arena of
politics, and has given evidence of it,
sympathy with that factious band of
Northern agitators who have so long
been disturbing the peace of the Union.
Its Abolition proclivities and anti South
ern views have before been brought to
the notice of its Southern patrons, an<f
they have very properly been urged to
discard it as unworthy of their confi
dence. Wo now give additional evi
dence of its uuworthiness, so far
least, as Southern support is concerned-
And as the Post has admitted a loss of'
ten thousand subscribers from the South
—one-half of the whole number in
consequence of its course (adverse to us)
in tbe well known Passmore William
son ease ; so we trust it will lose the re
maining one-half on account of the
comments it has seen fit to make on the
recent spirited conduct of our Repre
sentative and champion.
It is in allusion to this affair that the
Post uses the most objectionable lan
guage —virtually approving the speech
of Senator Sumner, and warmly con
demning the act of his castigation.—
The attack is called a “ shameful out
rage." The editors say “ they should
be recreant to their duty were they to re
frain from stamping with the seal of
shame the recent attempted assassina
tion—of Senator Sumner, of Massa
chuseits, by Preston S. Brooks, a mem
ber of the House of Hepresentatives
from South Carolina." As to the as
sault in question, they express the opin
ion that “it was made in the most das
tardly manner, and with the premedita
ted intention of silencing forever an en
emy whose brilliant intellect and elo
quent tongue made him an object of pe
culiar hatred and fear."
VI ith respect to Senator Sumner's in
sulting speech, it lias not a word of con
demnation. Nay, it presents for its
readers liberal extracts therefrom, and
begs them to remember that tbe person
alities used by him, “of the brilliant in
tellect and eloquent tongue,” were only
in reply to personalities. And, finallv,
since, as the Poet asserts, “no scuff has
beiu considered too severe aud opprdbei
oils to fling at Mr. Sumner and his
Free soil col! i agues," it does not wonder
that "even a gentle and scholarly nature
should at last be roused into fierce pas
sion and recrimination."
Now, we do not object to the Fust’s
expressing its opinions on any subject
whatever. Every one is justly entitled
to his opin on, and we would not hate,
in our country, a bridled press. Rut
we do feel in duty bound to protest
against such a paper deriving patronage
from the South. Shall we nerve tlio
arm upraised to strike ns? Should not
considerations of pride, as well as of pa
triulism, lead every Southern subscriber
to withdraw bis support from a paper in
no way identified with him, and which
neither respects his principles no upholds
his rights ? It is time, fellow-citizens
of the South, it is time for us sternly to
rebuke every assault, and firmly to re
pel every insult ofteted us, come in what
ever form they may. This is our duty,
no less than the instinct of true man
hood. V\ e have not willingly entered
into this gieat quarrel, but, being in, let
us bear it, that the opposcr may bewaro
of us.— South Carolinian.
Frauds ox the Government.—Sus
picion lias existed at Washington City
that fraudulent claims for bounty land
and pensions were in process of manu
facture in Columbia county, Ga.; and
S. G. Dodge was despatched by the de
partment to inquire into the matter.—
Evidence was soon obtained of the most
unblushing frauds and forgeries, and
warrants were issued for the arrest of
Dr. Henry A. Ramsey and Richard W.
Jones, of Columbia county, who were
arrested and taken to Savannah for ex
amination before Judge Henry. A bond
of $5,000 was given for liis attendance
during the examination by Dr. Ramsey.
Jones was lodged in jail. On Wednes
day night, 28th ult., Dr. Ramsey ab
sconded, forfeiting his bail.
Fitzgerald Tasistro, an eighteen hun
dred dollar clerk in the State Depart
ment, at Washington, has been removed
for writing an abusive letter to the Bal
timore Republican about foreign Minis
ters, and sending copies under the De
partment seal to Ministers.
Col. Preston S. Brooks served gallant
ly in the Mexican war, where he had a
brother killed.