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BENJAMIN G. LIDDON.
T. A. BURKE, EDITOR.
MADISON, GA.:
SATURDAY, SEPT. 27, 185(k
Oar Weekly (losslp,
Wren Readers and Correspondents.
In another column, Dr. Bliss discourses
most eloquently on the subject of dyspep
sia'. Ilis medicine will, we imagine, do
all that lie claims for it, but the wisest
plan is to pursue such a course ns will ob
viate the necessity §f taking his or any
other remedy. Dyspepsia is invariably
the result of imprudence at the table. If
practice makes perfect, mankind should
certainly know
How lo eat wisely.
And yet there are hut few who really do
understand the science: witness the large
number who are candidates for Dr. Bliss
and other medical men. The following
excellent advice on the subject., from Dr.
Wall’s Medical Journal, is worthy of atten
tion :
1. Never sit down to the table with an
anxious or disturbed mind; better a hun
dred fold intermit that meal, for there wil]
then lie that much more food in the world,
for hungrier stomachs than yours; and be
sides, eating under such circumstances can
only, and will always, prolong and aggra
vate the condition of things.
1. Never sit down to a meal after any
Intense mental effort, for physical and
mental injury is inevitable, and no man
lias a right deliberately to injure body,
mind or estate.
3. Never go to a full table during bodily
exhaustion—designated by some as being
worn out, tired to death, used up, done
over, and the like. The wisest thing you
can do under such circumstances, is to
take a cracker and n cup of warm ten, ei
tiler black or green, and no more. In ten
minutes you will fed a degree of refresh
ment and liveliness which will lie pleasant
ly surprising to you; not of the transient
kind which a glass of liquor affords, but
permanent; for the ten gives present stim
ulus and a little strength, and before-it
subsides, nutriment begins to be drawn
from the sugar, and cream, and bread, and
thus allowing the body, gradually and by
safe degrees, to regain its usual vigor.
Then, in a couple of hours, you may take
a full meal, provided it does not bring it
later than two hours before sundown if
later, then take nothing for tthnfl day iii
addition to the cracker and tea,, mid the
next day you will feel a freshness ami
vigor not recently known..
41. No re der will require to he advised
a ♦second time who will make atrial as
above, while it is n fact of no unusual ob
servation among intelligent physicians,
that onting heartily, and under bodily ex
haustion, is not an infrequent, cause of
alarming nml painful illness, and some
times of sudden death. These things be
ing so, let every family make it a point to
assemble around the family board, with
kindly fecliugs, with a cheerful humor,
and a courteous spirit; and let that mem
ber of it he sent from it in disgrace who
presumes to mar the onght-to-bc-blest re
union by sullen silence, or impatient look,
or angry tone, or complaining tongue.
Eat in thankful gladness, or away with
you to the kitchen, you graceless churl,
you ungrateful, pestilent lout that you are.
There was a grand and good philosophy in
the old time c stem of having a buffoon
ar music at the dinner table.
How to keep cool.
The Newark Advertiser ridicules the
flea of traveling in hot weather, for the
purpose of keeping cool, and makes these
suggestions:
“Our recipo is moral and mental.
First, you must have a good conscience.
We do not commence, as recipes generally
do, by saying you must take a good eon
science. This must J*e in possession be
forehand: you cannot take it; it must
come from a part of bouest occupation
where'ui you have intended injury to no
man. Thus a good conscience toward
wan will be yours; we go no further—the
rest belongs to the preacher. You must
next give up all anxiety about profit and
loss, as well ns the great election, till cool
weather. Be calm, and you will ho cool.
Let not your bodily appetites run away
with you while the dog-star rages. They
must be kept in leach. The passions must
be kept under; they are whips to the
hlood. Choler rimy bring on cholic.
Anxiety is too often the herald of fever,
and an irritable temper descends into the
stomach, and becomes the cause as well ns
the consequence of dyspepsia. Preserve
tfie mind 'serene, the honor clear; throw
off the anxious cupidity of gain, and the
depressing fear of loss. Do not be lament
ing that you are not somewhere except the
place where you happen to lie. Worry
not yonrself and others about an ideal
place, or a means- of happiness you will
never attain. The sooner you are con
vinced of this, the better. Obtain this
comfortable frame of mind, and then vou
will be in the neighborhood of content
ment, which is only another name for hap
piness—all that men will ever realize.”
Conning.
• “ Courting in the country,” says the Sy
racuse Standard, “is altogether a different
institution from city courting. In the for
mer place you get rosy lips, sweet cider,
johnny cake, and girls made of nature;
and in the latter a collection of starched
I'Ml illlll ¥ISII#E»
phrases, formal manners, fine silk, jewelry,
and girls got up ‘in hoops.’ Always take
the rural districts when you want to get a
good style of calico.”
Some folks who have tried it, are of
opinion that city courting isn’t “had to
take.” There’s no accounting for tastes.
We dare say there’s nothing disagreeable
in cither city or country courting.
A Word about Hcops.
Graham's Magazine for October says:
“Hoops are still the rage,.and in the cen
tre of fashion in Europe and America,
they have increased to'stupendous dimen
sions. A grocer in Baltimore, who does a
large business with the wealthy circles,
has been compelled to tear out the whole
front of his store and enlarge his doorway,
to make room for the ladies’ hoops, as
many of his customers were unable to en
ter, in consequenceof the bnlloonrey char
aeter of their skirts. Whalebone and
crinoline ape in great demand every
where.”
A spicey correspondent of one of the
Northern papers thus “ lets himself out”
on the constantly expanding subject of
hoops in ladies’ dresses:
“And, talking of the ladies, they are
positively getting bigger and bigger. The
petticoat mania rages fearfully. They fill
up the sidewalks, ns they brush by you;
you feel bones—whale-bones, 1 mean, for
there aro no others within half a mile of
you. What a dreadful reversal of nature
is all this f Ido not object to plumpness
arid rotundity in the proper place, hut
what sense is there in being so tremen
dously orbicular about the feet! Between
you and me,. Mrs. I’. T. has fallen into tlie
fashion, and mangre my remonstrance, has
purchased one of tbo most monstrous of
these inventions. I examined it with
inueh awe tho other night, after she had
gone to hod. Oh, Roberto! it was fearful
ly and wonderfully made. It is an institu
tion. In sizo it is like a small country
law office. 1 think it must have been
raised like a barn. It is latticed, and cor
nered and stiffened with the utmost inge
nuity. When she has it. on, my ‘glide
wife’ is (so to speak) like Hamlet’s father,
‘clad in complete steel.’ She is entirely
shut out from this vain world. Quoad
tho earth, she is nothing hut a large skirt.
So much for tiie safety of the contrivance.
Tho question of beauty is another matter.”
Let them be tabooed.
We have determined, even at tho risk of
losing ail our northern exchanges, to show
up their abolition proclivities, whenever
they come under our notice. Some of the
most rabid abolition sheets published in
this country are largely circulated at the
South, in spite of tho most earnest efforts
on tho part of Southern editors to con
vince our people that they are giving “aid
and comfort to the enemy” by taking
them. Wo have lint little hope that all
tho efforts of all tho newspapers in the
South will stop the evil; and yet wo are
determined to do our duty in the premises.
If the readers of the Visitor err, it shall
not bo through ignorance of tho facts.
Tiie Saturday Evening Poet Ims been
shown up so often, that it is not necessary
to do more here than allude to it. It has
announced for publication the last Aboli
tion bantling of that precious piece of
mortality, Aunt Harriot Beecher Stowe,
which for unblushing falsehood, low-down,
contemptible malevolence and unmeasured
abuse of the South, is said to excel Uncle
Tom’s Cabin. Its columns, week after
week,.are filled with language the most
insulting, and stories the most outrageous,
leveled at our poor devoted heads; and
yet, good-natured numskulls that we are,
we read and pay for them, as if they were
tho most courtly compliments.
Some months ago we felt it our duty to
warn the South against an abolition sheet
published in New York- City by Fowler &
Wells, whoso phrenological publications
are flooding the country from Maine to
California. Their paper —Life Illustrated
—still comes to ns, and is yet full'of abo
lition rant. It has hut few readers at the
South, we think.
We have been receiving for months past
tiie Portfolio , published at Boston,. l>y
John S. Sleeper A Cos. It is a good lite
rary paper, and we thought it disposed to
let us alone; hut the last number has
served to dispel the illusion. Ik contains
notices of throe abolition liooks, all of
them commendatory. Os Aunt Harriet
Beecher Stowe's last production— Dred,. a
laic of the Great Dismal Sic amp —it
speaks in high terms, as a work “calcula
ted to excite the feelings and enlist tiie
sensibilities of the reader.” No doubt of
it. The next book noticed is Horace Gree
ley’s History of the Struggle for Slavery
Extension, which it pronounces a “timely
publication.” The editor thinks Mr. Gree
ley bus performed his “labor in a very
able and satisfactory manner.” A volume
entitled Political Essays, by Parke God
win, comes in for a good notice. These
essays, it will be remembered, were pub
lished in Putnam's Magazine, and went
far to give that journal its abolition repu
tation. One of them was so outrageous
that a bookseller in Montgomery, Ala., re
fused to sell the number of the magazine
which contained it. And yet this candi
date for Southern favor and Southern dol
lars—the Portfolio —considers them “tru
ly American in feeling,” presenting “facts
and arguments in a light, where there ex
ists strong difference of opinion, whieh
must carry conviction to many minds.”
ibis “strong difference of opinion” is on
the slavery question of course. That’s
quite enough of the Portfolio for the pres
ent.
I lie Lnited States Magazine is published
in New \ork liy J. M. Emerson- & Cos.
When the first number (for July) came to
ns, we were pleased with it. The paper
is good, the typography neat, and the en
gravings very superior. The reading mat
ter we thought quite up to the standard of
magazine literature. That number, so far
as we could discover, contained nothing
obnoxious. The succeeding (Angust) num
ber devoted, we thought, rather too much
space to the illustrated adventures of the
woolly horse hero: still we said nothing.
But in the .September number, now before
us, the editor throws off bis mask and sets
up a shriek for freedom which would even
make Horace Greeley tremble in his boots.
All sorts of ways to get rid of this slavery
question have been talked of; but it re
mained for this sapient editor to suggest
the plan. What a capital Domestic Receipt
Book he could get up l Bis recipe for
cool ing a hare would doubtless soon super
cede tho noted one of Mrs. Glass; and
Miss Leslie and Mrs. Hale would soon hide
their diminished heads for very 6hame.
But how does this second Daniel propose
to get rid of the monster? Simply by
strangling it —grappling with it, and
squeezing tiie very vitals out of it. He
proposes to deal with it “in a perfectly
thorough manner, yielding to no fears,
granting no concessions, assenting to no
compromises, accepting nothing short of
‘indemnity for the past and security for
the future’!” Ifo talks boldly, does this
fellow, and without any fear of the conse
quences. “ Neither are tiie people, in
such a conflict, affected at all by threats
or prophecies of disunion. They know
better—they do not anticipate disunion as
the effect of any of these just and necessa
ry proceedings. They do not intend to
dissolve the Union themselves, nor let any
body else do it!" If the U. 8. Magazine
has any readers at the South, let them cut
it off at once. We charge tiie publishers
nothing for this notice.
Before we close this article, wo desire
to except several publications, which aro
clever enough to let us alone. The Home
Journal, published in New York, by
Messrs. Morris A Willis, has established a
high reputation, not only as a literary pa
per of the first class, hut ns a firm and un
wavering friend of the South. It lias a
large circle of readors in tho Southern
States, mid wo should like to see the num
her doubled. The Olive Branch, published
in Boston, by E. A. Norris, is also a good
paper, and altogether reliable for Southern
people. Among tho safe magazines we
will mention the Knickerbocker, Godey's
Lady's Pool:, and Arthur's Magazine.
ISy Friday Morning’s Mail.
Two European steamships have arrived
sinco tiie Indian—the Washington and the
Canada. Tho latter brings three days la
ter news than the Indian. The Cotton
market is unchanged—a slight decline in
Indian Corn and Flour. Consols aro quo
ted at, !I4 1-8 England lins stationed two
cruizers off' the Isle of Serpents. It is be
lieved that a change will be made in tho
Ministry of Spain. Prussia is supposed to
have concerted tho recent revolution in
Switzerland.
I he two divisions of tiie American par
ty, in New A ork, have united nml nomi
nated Ernst us Brooks, of the Express, for
Governor. They have also endorsed Mr.
Fillmore's nomination. The report that
the citizens of Concord iiad refused a pub
lic reception of President Pierce, is con
tradicted. lion. P. S. Brooks lias been
nominated for re-election to Congress.
I here were titty deaths in Charleston
last week, twenty four of which were from
yellow fever.
Local Items.
Tho revival mooting in the Baptist
Church, in this town, of which wo spoke
in our last, continues up to this time.
There have been several conversions and
the interest seems to bo increasing.
Tiie weather has been quite wintry since
Tuesday night, rendering thick coats and
fires comfortable. There were pretty stiff
frosts to be seen on Wednesday and Thurs
day mornings, ’though not sufficient to
‘kill’ anything, we believe.
Fires in Atlanta and Cassville.
Tho Car House usually occupied by the
La Grange R. R. Company, in Atlanta,
was burnt on Thurday morning last. Five
engines belonging to tiie La Grange, nml
thr eto the Georgia Road were badly dam
aged. Loss to tho two companies about
thirty thousand dollars.
We also learn, with regret, that our old
friend, AV m. A. Rogers, of Cassville, had
liis dwelling and out houses, with their en
tire contents, destroyed by fire, on Tues
day night last. Himself and family barely
escaped the flames—says the Standard—
not having time to save any tiling.
ErSF” Hie Cassville Standard takes us
down slightly, oil the Matrimonial sensa
tion. AVo ‘admit the maize,’ Ben, but
you really ought not to have peached on
us, old fellow. But as you aro one of the
‘ Robert narratives,’ we ’ll look over it.
Chief Justice Taney. —The Warren
ton (Va.) Whig states that the health of
the venerable Chief Justice Taney has
very much improved since lie has been
sojourning at the Fauquier White Sulphur
Springs, lie looks another person, so
much Ims his health improved.
A Fast Town. —Chicago is a funny
place. It is original in more things- than
one. Recently a man committed sui
cide there by drowning. Tho body
could not bo found, but the Coroner,
not to be cheated out of his foes, held an
inquest on his hat and jacket, found on
the bauk of the lake. Verdict, “found
empty.”
For the Visitor.
A little Gossip about Love and Marriage.
Sacred do I consider the bond made be
tween two hearts—the so-called betrothal
—sacred, holy, and not lightly to be bro
ken. But, better break a rasli, hasty
promise, than regret it a long, miserable
life-time. Another lesson to the impul
sive: Enter not rashly into a solemn obli
gation. Many an innocent girl gains the
“ nondesirable name” of flirt by just such
hasty conduct. A ligli , poetical fancy—
two or three idle conversations on love,
and marriage—a fancied congeniality—an
exchange of rows, and rings. Then an
awakening, a “ breaking off,” and all the
sad consequences involved in such a conrse.
Too much cannot be said on this subject.
I wou’d some able head would write a book
on this very theme.
Hasty engagements, hasty marriages,
are deplorable, lamentable—aye, a curse
to our country! How many inebriate
husbands and deserted wives owe their
unhappiness to this very source —so seem
ingly harmless. They admire a pretty
foot, a dazzling eye, perhaps— or a rounded
arm —a pink and white face, or snowy
neck—or something else equally trivial.
Such admiration, idle and momentary, is
dignified by the name of Love! Good
heaven! and what follows? Disappoint
ment, of course, if marriage takes place,
and all its endless ills. Study each other's
dispositions. (AVhy, Jenny Woodbine,
what do yon mean? You are surely an
antediluvian —that is, “out of fashion”
long ago.) Well! good friend, suppose it
is—it is common sense, and common sense
uhvnysdeservesconsiderntinn. Study dis
positions. I repeat it; and even at the risk
of being considered ultra-sentimental, and
out of date, I will add, “love each other.’’
Yes, love; for without it,oh! young bride
and bridegroom, you will never be able to
fight, life’s battles side by side. Disputa
tions will arise—the gorgon bead of mal
content be raised by one nml the other.
Human beings are not angels, and love
must throw a considerable quantity of dust
in the eyes to make people think so after
marriage. All are angels, beforehand, of
course —lovers would challenge those who
dared deny it.
Afterwards, if tho husband considers tho
“fnire Indie” a “good, clever woman, but
somewhat faulty,” well and good! Let
her choke the rising sob—’tis as much as
she can expect—aye, more commendation
than a groat many get: still, it’s rather
hard, after all the prate about “sylphs,”
and “seraphs." If worse, “close your fin
gers firmly upon the gift; let it sting
through your palm. Never m’nd: in
time, after your hand and arm have
swelled, and quivered long with torture,
the squeezed scorpion will die, and you
will have learned the great lesson how to
endure without a soli.” ’Tis woman’s lot.
But are there no good men in the world ?
say you. Ah yes —-many. I have not a
doubt of it. “Niniau Graeme” was not
altogether an imaginary character; nei
ther was “ Ulverston,” who figures in tiie
same book. There are many noble ones
on whoui God’s image is not entirely de
faced—many good men and good women,
evil men and evil women —and I would
willingly believe, an equal quantity of each.
I am terribly afraid that in striving to
deal out justice even-handed, I will appear
one-sided; however, let things take their
j course. Can I, who with “mine own
eyes” have seen so many unhappy mar
riage?, declare to tiie world all are “ states
of extreme felicity ?” That will not I.
Tiie Bard lias sung, “ God never formed
a soul without its own peculiar mate.” If
this be so—and who may deny it?—all is
oasily accounted for. Men and women do
not marry their own wives and husbands.
Someone lias treated this subject learned
ly, and well—l forget who. It is a vision
ary doctrine, and may well cause a smile
from the man who, anxious to “maintain
his position,” makes a “ marriage of con
venience” with art ugly heiress; or the
girl who, in receiving the addresses of a
lover, thinks not of the “ other self,” hut
wonders if he could give her a handsome
establishment, on such a street.’
Ah! well. It makes no difference
whom such sordid creatures wed. I’m
sure I don’t care. Lot them laugh. (“ But,
Miss Jenny Woodbine,” says someone, “if
your creed bo true, that marriages are
made in heaven, and each soul lias its
‘own peculiar mate,’ what do you do with
the old maids and old bachelors? where
are their ‘twin-spirits’ wandering?”)
All! my good sir, somebody has gene
rously taken possession of them—marred
the intentions of nature; lienee the “hub
bub” of ill-assorted marriages; hence the
number of those who are paired not
matched; lienee tho unions of “hands, not
hearts.” Tho old maids and bachelors
must learn to wait —“bide their time.”
You are incredulous—you smile. Very
well, sir—sorry for it—can’t help it, if you
reject my doctrine.
But oh! you good, patient, “henpecked”
husband; are you not a convert? Don’t
you agree with the bard, and his humble
follower ? Do you believe that termagant
creature, miscalled woman, in whoso pres
ence you wouldn’t dare to say “ mouse” if
she cried “rat,” is your “better half”?
Is not mine a pleasant belief? True, you
grieve because you made snch a mistake,
and because some dear “ kindred spirit’’
away off somewliero is waiting for yon,
while you are tormented out of your life.
Well sir, the case is plain—you married
the wife of somebody else—startling fact I
makes you nervous. What if this other
somebody should turn np suddenly? Had
you not rather fancy all this, and mourn
your folly, than believe this “ lady of the
tongue” was- made for you, and Fate never
intended you any better? (“Dangerous
doctrine, Jenny—savors too strongly of
romances and fable-land: excuse me—can’t
believe it.”)
Very good, sir. This is a free country,
(a few thanks to our forefathers for that
same.) Nobody ever expected.you to be
lieve it; how could they, when your
thoughts never soared above a counting
room, or dingy law-office and musty law
books. Yon don’t dream either, do you?
I’m afraid not. I know you never do with
your eyes open. Yon have no time—
you’re afraid it’s sinful. You have no
friends in fable-land, (where people die
when they get troublesome, and come to
life again if we wish them, all in “the
twinkling of an eye,”) who grasp you
warmly by the hand, and lead you through
shaded woodlands, and where flowers
never fade and die, unless yon so desire,
and where you can have spring, summer,
autumn, or winter, just when you like;
where the gallant knight always conies
along at the proper time to rescue the dis
tressed damsel; and unnatural guardians
die too at the proper time, before they can
accomplish some heart-rending, soul-split
ting act; whero the bravest hero marries
the handsomest heroine, of course, and
poor, plain Jane Maria must wait until
fate brings along another gallant somebody
“in search of a wife.” (You don’t com
prehend this, either, do yon. You ask
where is fable-land. Is it north, south,
east, or west? No use to tell you, if you
haven’t found out where it is yet. I’m
afraid you never will. Good day, sir.)
But, dear reader, (if I am fortunate enough
to have one, lie or she is very dear,) you
nml I will meet there one of these days,
will we not? In tiiat glorious place it is
unlike this life, where
“ The good die first,
And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust,
liurn to the socket.”
There nre no dry, dusty hearts there—no
indeed; we put them out of tiie way soon
enough, I’ll assure you. But the good live
always: so do the flowers, and the birds.
AVlmt a pleasant place, to be sure. Hurra
for fablo land!
Reader, when this world grows too
shockingly prosaic for your fastidious self,
just take a “summer trip” to fable land;
and somewhere, in some of its retreats,
you will find Jenny AA'oodbjne.
For the A r isitor.
“ l>o Women Reason l”
Mr. Editor: Did I not belong to that
class who “ will always have the last
word,” I should not again take my pen, to
do battle in the cause which I have es
poused ; not that I look upon it as a fail
ing cause; not that I have been convinced
by the cogency of the reasoning of either
Joiinie JoNQim. or Oconee; but. that a
friend has reminded me of the scripture
warning, “ not to cast pearls,” Ac., and that
1 am convinced, from the obstinacy with
which they maintain their position, that
they would not acknowledge their defeat,
however signal; that they would not
hearken to the voice of the charmer, let
him charm never so wisely. In proof of
thi«, just hear what Oconee says, (for as
lie has more direc'ly attacked me, I will
notice him first): “As to the vapid non
sense and fulsome flattery with which
men are compelled lo insult the good taste
and good sense of women,” I have only to
say, that men adapt themselves to the ca
pacities of those with whom they are talk
ing.” Now is not that unbearable? Could
I he silent under such slanderous insinua
tions? And as if that was not sufficient,
he goes on to add, Phehesays, “and should
she attempt to change the conversation
into something more interesting, she is at
once silenced by a shrug of the shoulder
or the opprobrious epithet of “Blue
Stocking. The difficulty which is here
presented is natural, and is likely to occur;
for when a woman is smart and learned
(I think I see the sneer that curled his lip
when he penned that line,) and attempts to
show off, it is disagreeable, and she will be
classed among the Blue Stockings."
Now, Mr. Editor, I appeal to you if
Oconee does not indirectly admit my rea
soning in that case; and is it a matter of
course that women desire to show off as lie
expresses it; or that she must be guilty of
pedantry, and become a bore if she en
deavors to introduce some sensible topic
of conversation ? lam sure you are too
candid and just to make any such admis
sion. I do wonder that Oconee, belong
ing to that class which reasons, should
have invited attack in such a vulnerable
point—deny that she can reason in one sen
tence, and in the next admit that she is
correct. He says further that he did hear
Bishop Pierce’s address; that he did ad
mire it; but believes that he was only de
bating on the affirmative side. That such
was not the case, I heard from the Bish
op’s lips. I heard him declare that he
truly believed the sentiments that he then
uttered, that “he held women naturally
to be endowed with the same degree and
kind of intellect with man ; and it a differ
ence was seen, it was the difference of
training which had served to develop some
faculties of mind in a greater degree in one
sex than the other.” High authority,
that. I wonder that Oconee will attempt
to gainsay it.
Now I take it from the style of his piece
that he is an intelligent, educated man, and
as snch is acquainted with history. He
has read to but little purpose if he has not
heard of Madame de Stae), that brilliant
woman of whom it is said “that the great
monarch who made thrones his play
things ’ respected her opinion and feared
her pen more than every other person in
his realm ; and this to such an extent as
to lead him to banish her from France,
whence she was not allowed to retnrn un
til another house occupied the throne.
Miss Edgeworth, too, was pronounced by
one of the first men of her day to t>« one
of the very best writers he ever read_
Such examples are few, I admit; bnt as
things are at present, I only wonder there
should be as many.
And now for a brief notice of Johnie
Jonquil. In his last he seemed rather to
complain that I had passed strictures npon
his piece without ever having read it.
Now being unwilling to do him any injus
tice, and determined to make the amende
honorable , if I had done so, I put myself
to the trouble of hunting np the paper,
and having found it, read it through, and
with the Queen of Sheba was forced to
exclaim, “The half has not been told me.”
Mr. Editor, Susie did not give him half
his deserts. But I suppose I must not deal
too hardly with him, for though he denies
that I prove my point, he pays rne the
compliment to say I write well. Thank
yon, Johnie, thongh I cannot let yon go
quite “scot free.” After denying our
power of reasoning, you gravely assert
that we have “no taste." Now I will
condemn you ont of your own mouth. If
you do not admire our style of dress, why
do you lords strive to copy it so closely?
Do you deny this? Well, I will prove it
to you. A few years since in the Kalei
doscope changes of our fashions, plaids be
came “ all the go.” The very next season
nothing was seen npon our exquisites but
plaids of the greatest possible widths: we
discarded our gaiters and substituted slip
pers, when lo! yon see slippered feet
among the other sex. Then up come
short waists and long skirts, and behold!
the waists of vonr coats grow by degrees
beautifully less, and the skirts lengthen
proportionally. We adopt the flowing
sleeves—the first thing that greets yonr
eyes on entering a store is the Talma, with
sleeves both long and wide. Yon have
quietly appropriated our shawls; and oh!
tell it not in Oath, yon have even stolen
our veils. Think of it, ladies—a great
rough bearded, bewhiskered, bemoustached
face behind our delicate gossamer veils!!
But I have done—on'y I must add for
your edification two favorite aphorisms,
“It will not do for those who live in glass
housesand “ Physician, heal thyself.”
PngßE Lam well.
Madison , Ga.
Pen-and-Scissorings.
lion. A. O. Magrath, Gen. James Gads
den, and Col. John Cunningham, are an
nounced in the Charleston papers as can
didates for the seat in Congress made va
cant by the resignation of Mr. Aikin....
We learn from the Columbus Times that
Mr. Lane, formerly of the Sun, of that
city, has gone to Charleston to aid as as
sistant editor of the Courier Captain
Milton H. Fair, of the Newberry, 8. C.,
company of emigrants, died at Leaven
worth City, Kansas, on the 3d inst....
A St.. Louis paper says that the grasshop
pers have eaten up the entire tobacco crop
of Franklin county, and the last that was
hoard from them they were seated on the
corners of the fence begging ererg man
that paused /or a chew. .. .Geo. N. Race,
of Louisiana, has been elected Grand Bire
of the Independent Order ot Odd Fellows
in the United States.... Rev. Prof. F. A.
P. Barnard, LL.D., has been elected Pres
ident of’the University of Mississippi, at
Oxford, to succeed Judge Longstreet....
The Oxygenated Bitters claim the favora
ble attention of those whose principles
forbid the use of alcoholic stimulants. This
well known remedy for dyspepsia and gen
eral debility is richly worth a fair trial.
Mr. Joel C. Potts, aged twenty-three
years, was killed by lightning, in Gordon
county, on the 9th inst The total ex
ports of precious metals from San Fran
cisco, during the first seven months of
this year, reached $30,000,000 Over
sixty thousand barrels of lager beer will
be manufactured this year in Milwankie
alone... .The Swiss Cantons, with a pop
ulation of only eight hundred thousand,
have two hundred aLd sixty-throe news
papers, twelve of which have been estab
lished within the last year... .Lorenzo B.
Shepherd, a prominent democrat of New
York city, died suddenly in that city on
the 18th inst “The Churchman,” a
Protestant Episcopal paper, comes out in
favor of dancing, as “an innocent recrea
tion, and as healthful as it is graceful”
The Hon. Townsend Harris, the American
Minister to Siam, has lately concluded a
commercial treaty between that govern
ment and our own... .Sir Henry Holland,
physician to Queen Victoria, and son-in
law of Sidney Smith, is in 805t0n....
Chilblains may be easily cured by a few
applications of Perry Davis’ Vegetable
Pain Killer. It is equally effectual in cur
ing scalds, burns, &c. No family should
be without it... A shark, measuring 12
feet 9 inches, was caught on Friday after
noon, near the quarantino station, off
Charleston... .Our government lands cost
one dollar an acre on an average, and
champagne two dollars a bottle, now
many a man dies landless, who,during his
life, has swallowed a township, trees and
all The citizens of Concord, N. 11.,
have refused a public reception to Presi
dent Pierce, on the occasion of his contem
plated visit. —The National Intelligencer
has conclnded to hoist the Fillmore and
Donelson flag.. .It is rumored, bnt con
sidered doubtful, that the Queen of Eng
land will visit Canada shortly.
JOT Chief Justice Lecompte, ofKan
sas, in a letter to the Hon. James A.
Stewart, of Maryland, makes an able
defence of his official acts against the
charges preferred against him by the
I ree State party, growing out of the
unfortunate disturbances in that territovy.
LATEST NEWS.
foreign.
New York, Sept. 23.—The steamship
Indian has arrived at Quebec, with four
days later from Europe. The cotton
trade is firm. Flour has declined from
Is. fid. to 2s. Trade in wheat very dull
with a decline of 3d. to 4d. Indian Corn
had fallen off from 6d. to is—demand
limited. There has been no change in
the money market. Consols at 94J.
The political news is unimportant.
FROM NEW GRANADA.
Minister Corwine reports the govern
ment of New Granada uuable to main
tain law and order, and recommends the
immediate and forcible occupation of the
Isthmus from ocean to ocean.
FROM KANSAS.
New York, Sept. 22.—1 tis annonne
ed that Gov. Geary, of Kansas, has dis
banded all the voluuteer troops in the
territory. The Missourians are greatly
incensed, and swear vengeance. Lane
with one hundred and fifty men, has
moved off towards Nebraska.
From the Georgia Telegraph,
Great Fire in Macon.
MANY HOUSES DESTROYED!
IMMENSE LOSS OF PROPERTY!;
A little before daybreak on last Mon
day, the 22d inst., our citizens were a
roused by the ringing of alarm bells and
the cry of fire. The cause of the fire is
not known, but it was first discovered,
we believe, on the premises of Mr. E. E.
Brown on Mulberry street, opposite the
Lanier House. It soon spread to the
neighboring houses, which being mostly
built of wood burnt very rapidly, notwith
standing the efforts of the firemen and
others, who were promptly on the spot
and used every exertion to stop the pro
gress of the flames. They were not fi
nallv checked nntil they had consumed
every building (exeept two) on the East
side of the Square, bounded by Mulberry
and Cherry, and Second and Third »t«;
they also crossed over the Alley and con
sumed several houses on the Viestsideof
the square, approaching so near our own
office as to render it in iniinent danger.
The following is a list of the houses
destroyed, some of which were owned
by their occupants, and others bv differ
eit persons; Dr. E. L. Strohecker’s Drug
Store; Day <fc Mausenet’sJewelry Store;
Pugh’s Dagtterrean Gallery; Clark ik
Pierson’s Provision Store; Gatey’s Boot
Store; John L. Jones & Co.'s Clothing
Store; Belden A; Co.’s Hat Store; Her
nandez’Segar Store; Peter <fe Jaugstet
er’s Tailoring Establishment; Baird's
Merchant iailor’s Store ; 11. R Barnes’
Jewelry Store ; C. A. Ells’ Provision Es
tablishment; Washington Ilall Building!
Board man's Book Store ; Goodman’s Dry
Goods Store ; Mrs. Audouin’s Millinerv;
Agency of Marine Bank of Savannah;
Agency of Mechanic’s Bank of Augusta;
Offices of Mrs. Battle, Pye and Matteau
er; John Ruthcrfords’s Law Office, ami
several other small buildings.
Most of these houses were partly insur
ed. Me have not ascertained the entire
loss. Some of the occupants sustained
heavy losses in goods, and all suffered
more or less damage and inconvenience
from moving, ifce. This is one of the lar
gest and most destiuctive conflagrations
that Macon has been visited with forma- I
ny years.
University of Georgia.
By a resolution of the Trustees, ten
Students will Ik,- educated at the Univer
sity without charge for tuition. Tin
; appointments wflT be made by the Facul
ty on the 25th of October—one fro®
each Congressional District, ami t*o
from the State at large. To receive the
appointment, the applicant must he t
resident of the State, of good moral clutr-J
acter, and unable to defray the expenses!
of a Collegiate eucacltion. He maul
also be over fourteen years of age, ar,.J
have pursued at least all the studies*
which are required for admission to ti»l
Freshman Class, one term advanced.
Applicants are requested to set |
their testimonials, showing that lie |
fully comply with all the requisitions, I J
the Persident of the- University. — S» J
them Banner.
&3T The New York Herald , since l
joined the abolitionists, is thrown co*
plctely in the background by its
allies. They beat it in blackguards
lying, and all the old ham bag tricks
used to form the speciality of Benue 1 !
paper. The Herald tries a snort, »|
and then—makes a spasmodic effort!
be heard and attract attention —but S
political demons, who dance round 1 ®
same cauldron with Bennett, exceed!®
in all his efforts—in. feet, comp!® l ®
utiscrew his tail,and stsip the poor*®
of all his Satanic emblems—exeept >■
horns I
it3TSportsmen may be interest ■
learn that small shot, when mixed
about one third its quantity of fin®
will keep more close together when
and kill at a distance of eight® eD ß
twenty yards further than ordinary. ■