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BENJAMIN G. LIDDON.
T. A. BURKE, EDITOR.
MADISON, GA.:
SATURDAY, NOV. 22, 185 G.
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self.
Our Weekly Ookk1j»,
With Readers and Cokkksi-ondk.nth.
Comparatively few persons seem to
know the
Value of Sleep.
The celebrated Dr. Alexander was often
heard to say, in substance, as follows:
“Clergymen, author*, teachers, and other
men of reflective habits, lose much health
by losing sleep, and this because they carry
.their trains of thought to bed with them.
Ih my earlier years I greatly injured iny
health by studying my sermons in bed-
The best thing one can do, is to take care
of the last half-hour before retiring. De
votion being ended, something may be
done to quiet the strings of the harp,
which otherwise would go on to vibrate.
J-et me commend to you this maxim,
which 1 somewhere learned from Dr.
Watts, who says that in his boyhood he
received it from the lips of I)r. John
Owen—a very good pedigree for a maxim :
‘Break the chain of thoughts at bedtime
by something at once serious and ngreca
hie.’ By all means, break the continuity
or sleep will he vexed, even if not driven
away. If you wish to know my method,
it is to turn over the pages of my English
Bible, alighting on a passage here, a pas
sago there, backward and forward without
plan, and without allowing my mind to
fasten on any, leaving any place the mo
ment it ceases to interest mo. Some trnn
quilizing word often becomes a divine
message of peace, ‘llc giveth his beloved
sleep.’ ”
A school teacher who has been engaged
along time in his profession, and witnessed
The Influence of a Newspaper,
on the minds of a family ol children, gives
his experience ns follows:
“1 have found it to be a universal fact,
without exception, that those scholars of
Loth sexes and of all ages who have had
access to newspapers at home, when com
pared with those who have not, are,
1. Better readers, excelling in pronun
ciation, and consequently rend more un
derstanding]}'.
2. They are better spoilers, and define
words with ease and accuracy.
3. They obtain a practical knowledge of
geography in almost half the time it re
q ilr .s others, as tho newspaper has made
them familiar with tho location of the
m >st important places, nations, their gov
ernments and doings, on the globe.
4. They are better grammarians, for,
having become so familiar with every va
riety in tho newspaper, from the com
monplaco advertisement to tho finished
and classical oration of t he statesman, they
more readily comprehend the meaning of
tho text, and consequently analyze its con
struction with accuracy.”
Dickens’ last work, Little Dorrit , now
publishing in Harper's Magazine, contains
many tine passages—passages quite worthy
of Boz, the greatest of all English novel
ists of the present day. The following de
scription of
A Scene in Switzerland
is a very beautiful piece of word painting,
so admirably and so naturally done, that
you can almost see the profusion oiVgrnpes,
as tho evening shadows creep over the
valley:
“lu the autumn of the year, darkness
and night were creeping up to the highest
ridges of tho Alps.
“It was a vintage timei n the valleys on
tho Swiss side of tho Pass of the Great.
Saint Bernard, and along the banks of the
Lako of Geneva. Tho air there was
churged with tho scent of gathered grapes.
Baskets, troughs, and tubs ot grapes,stood
in the dim village doorways, stopped the
steep and narrow village streets, and had
been carrying all day along the roads and
lanes. Grapes spilt and crushed under
foot, lay about everywhere, j'.'ic chffd
carried in a sling by the laden jieasant wo
man toiling borne, was quieted with picked
up grapes; the idiot suuuing his big goitre
under the eaves of the wooden chalet by
the way to the waterfall, sat munching
grapes; the breath of the cows ami goats
was redolent of leaves and stalks of grapes;
the company in every little cabaret were
eating, drinking, talking grapes. A pity
that no ripe touch of this generous abun
dance could be given to the thin, hard,
stony Wine, which after all was made from
the grapes!
“The air had been warm and transparent
through the whole ot the bright day.
Shining inetal spires and church roots, dis
tant and rarely seen, had sparkled in the
911 I&llil ¥IIIIII,
view; and the snow mountain tops had
been so clear Ilia# unaccustomed eyes, can
celing the intervening country, and light
ing their rugged height for something fab
ulous, would have measured them as with
in a few hours easy reach. Mountain
peaks of great celebrity in the valleys,
whence no trace of their existence was
visible sometimes for months together,
had been since morning plain and near in
the blue sky. And now, when it was dark
below, though they seemed solemnly to re
cede, like spectres who were going to van
ish, as the red eye of the sunset faded out
of them and left them coldly white, they
were yet distinctly defined in their loneli
ness, above the mists arid shadows.
“Seen from those solitudes and from
the Pass of the Great Saint Bernard,
which was one of them, the ascending
Night came up the mountain like a rising
water. When it at last rose to the wails
of the Convent of the Great Saint Bernard,
it was as if that weather-beaten structure
were another ark, and floated away upon
the shadowy waves.
“Darkness, outstripping some visitors
on mules, had risen thus to the rough con
vent walls, when those travelers were yet
climbing the mountain. As the heat of
tho glowing day, when they had stopped
to drink at streams of incited ice and snow,
was changed to the searching cold of the
frosty rarified night air at a great height,
so the fresh beauty of tho lower journey
had yielded to barrenness and desolation.
A craggy track, up which the mules, in
single file, scrambled and turned from
block to block, as though they were as
cending the broken staircase of a gigantic
ruin, was their way now. No trees were
lo bo seen, nor any vegetable growth, save
a poor brown scrubby moss, frozen in the
chinks of rock. Blackened skeleton arms
of wood by the wayside pointed upward
to the convent, as if the ghosts of former
travelers, overwhelmed by tho snow,
haunted the scene of their distress. Icicle
hung eaves and cellars built for refuges
from sudden storms, were like so many
whispers of the perils of the place; never
resting wreaths and mazes of mist wander
ing about, I "hunted by a moaning wind;
and snow, the hescsting danger of the
mountain, against which all ils defences
were taken, drifted sharply down.”
Tom Elmobe’s communication is respect
fully declined. The opinion, hereabouts,
seems to he that that subject is reduced to
a frazzlo. Let us hear from you about
other matters.
Tlie Salitmlh in England.
There is a contest now raging in Lon
don, between tho Sabhatli and Anti-Sab
bath party. The latter is in favor of
throwing open all the public promenades
on Sunday, with bands of musio in the af
ternoon and evening, and to liavo the
British Museum, Crystal Palace, and other
public institutions open also. So far the
Sabbatarians have prevailed, and wo trust,
for the sake of religion and morality, that
their success will ho permanent.
Wo gather from Life Illustrated tho
following facts in regard to tho petitions
which liavo been presented lo the Queen
—most of them from the country parts of
England, and some from a great distance:
“It appears that there were 111,309
signatures to 542 memorials, seven only of
which came from public meetiugs, and but
two from “ associations.” From different
varieties of kirks in Scotland, assembly,
free, synod, speeder, and presbyter, there
were 26 memorials. While the Wesleyan
Methodists sent no less than 08 memorials,
the Primitive Methodists sent hut one.
Tho Church scorns unrepresented in tho
list, unless that bedono by two memorials
from “clergy;” and from “clergy and
others,” 28 memorials. The “female in
habitants” of various places sent 377 dif
ferent memorials. London, it might bo
supposed, would ho largely represented,
but 28 memorials, with under 8,000 signa
tures out of tho 111,309, aro all that Stand
to the account of tho metropolis. The re
port shows that 42 memorials, while ask
ing for tho stoppage of tho military music
on Sunday, ask also that the museums and
Crystal Palace may he kept closed. Five
only of these 42 memorials came from
London and its neighborhood, and two
out of the five are described as from
“ mothers at Camberwell.” There are
some 27 memorials which pray her Majes
ty not only to withold her sanction from
the Sunday opening of tho Museum, etc.,
but also “ to put a stop to tho assemblage
of the higher classes in their equipages in
the parks on Sunday.” For some unex
plained reason, tho “drive” in Hyde Park
seems peculiarly interesting to the county
of Derby; for, of tho 27 memorials on the
subject, above 20 are from various places
in that county; the rest are from Scotland.
Only 34 memorials add to their prayer for
tho stoppage of military bands on Sunday,
one for tho closing of liew Gardens, and
two of these emanate from Bath, ono with
3,639 signature?; mens omers come from
all parts of Sufl'olk.”
Arthur’s Magazine.
Tiio December number of this work,
now before us, concludes the year and the
volume. Quite a number of improvements
are promised during the next year. The
new nouvelette of “Look Out, a Story of
New England,” will he commenced in the
January number, ami the publishers prom
ise in it a rare treat. Mr. Arthur will also
contribute a nouvelette, and the two edi
tors will furnish, in the course of the year,
many shorter stories. We can safely rec
ommend Arthur's, as ono of the safest and
best of all the magazines. Terms $2 a
year T. S. Arthur & Cos., publishers.
Philadelphia.
Little Children.
Os all men in the world, avoid him who
lias no love for children— who frowns at
their playfulness and rejects their caresses
Such a man is far more “fit for treason,
stratagem and spoils,” than lie who has
not “mns'c in his soul.” The reply of
Safi, a Persian hard, when asked if he were
a true poet, was, “I love God, I love little
children, I love flowers.” Christ set his
disciples and the world an example, when
he took little children in liis arms arid
blessed them; and no man who dislikes
children can be His true follower.
Is there anything more loveable than a
young child, its bright face wreathed with
smiles, its clear eyes beaming with love,
and its whole appearance an index of its
purity and siulessness ? All great? and
good men have been fond of children-
Doct. Watts esteemed his “ Infant Poems”
among the most commendable of bis
works. Washington, it is said, never
passed a little child without caressing it.
The celebrated cDr. Johnson, rough and
even insulting as lie frequently was to old
er persons, had a great regard sor t tho feel
ings of children —being “even scrupulous
ly and cereinoncously attentive not to of
fend them.” Mrs. I’iozzi says of him, “ho
had strongly persuaded
li'-ult} p. S') nil
I :
so loved 1 1 is mother when a V
had not given him ••off,-.- which
ill nit.»i il, to gratily hi- appetite
boy.’ ”
Borne one asked him the question.
you had children* sir, would you have
taught them anything?” “I hope,” lie
replied, “ that I should willingly have lived
on bread and water to obtain instruction
for them.”
lie condemned, without stint, the severe
discipline of the school masters of his—and,
wo fear, our—day. The remembrance of
what had passed in his own childhood
made him solicitous to preserve the happi
ness of children. Says Mrs. I’iozzi, “ When
lie had persuaded Dr. Sumner (a celebrated
teacher) to remit the tasks usually given
to fill up tho hoys’ time during the holi
days, he rejoiced exceedingly in the success
of his negotiations, and told me that ho
had never censed representing to all tho
eminent schoolmasters in England tho ab
surd tyranny of poisoning the hour of per
mitted pleasure, by keeping future misery
before the children’s eyes, and tempting
them by bribery or fraud to evade it.”
Shakspeare, Cowpcr, Thomson, l’ollok,
Campbell, and nearly all the English poets,
were fond of children, if we take their po
ems ns evidence. Byron was a passionate
admirer of childhood. Ilogrieved that his
unhappy differences with his wife prevent
ed him from enjoying tho love and com
panionship of his infant daughter. Hear
him in his address to Ada:
“ To uitl thy mind’s development—to watch
Thy dawn of tittle joys -to wait and see
Almost thy very growth- to view tiieo catch
Knowledge of' objects—wonders yet to thee!
To hold thee lightly on a gentle knee,
And print- on thy soft cheek a parent’s kiss—
This it should seem was not for me!
Vet this mis in my nature."
Is there, in the language, anything more
beautiful than tho following picture of
childhood, which occurs in his drama of
“ Cain ?”
“ See how foil of life,
Os strength, of bloom, of beauty, and of joy,
Look! how lie laughs and stretches out liis arms
And opens wide liis blue eyes upon thine,
To hail bis father; while his little form
Flutters as winged with joy. Talk not of pain!
The childless cherubs well might envy tliee
The pleasures of a parent.”
Is it unnatural that tho innocent beauty
of liis child should have drawn a blessing
from the unhappy man, upon whose brow
the Almighty bad set the seal of liis dis
pleasure for the commission of a great
crime? Blessings on littlochildren! “for
of such is tho kingdom of Heaven.”
The Augusta Evening Dispatch.
Simeon A. Atkinson, Esq., Into of tho
Marietta Georgian, proposes to issue, in
tho city of Augusta, Georgia, about the
first of January next, (provided one thou
sand subscribers can ho secured,) a daily
news and commercial journal, entitled as
above. It will bo tho organ of no political
party, and will be devoted entirely to tho
latest foreign, political and general news,
gathered from the telegraph, tho mails,
and all other available sources, up to the
departure of the evening trains.
It is believed, says tho prospectus before
us, that there is a popular demand for a
cheap medium of daily news; and railroad
and telegraphic communication is now so
perfected as to render such an enterprise
entirely practicable. The largo amount
of miscellaneous and political matter, con
tained in tho current daily papers, neces
sarily enhances their price, and while it
interests a certain class of readers, ren
ders them too expensive for large num
\>ei » -who would take a smaller and cheap
er daily, containing the latest news. Such
a paper it is proposed to make tho Daily
Evening Dispatch; and as every depart
ment will be under the control of practical
business men, its efficiency as a sprightly
and vigorous Newspaper may be relied
upon.
All subscriptions will bo due and paya
ble upon the receipt of the first number,
and the entire business will bo conducted
strictly upon tho cash system. Terms $4
a year.
Mr. A. will visit Madison in a few days,
for the purpose of soliciting subscriptions.
As this is his old home, we trust lie will
meet with tho fullest success. That lie
will succeed in making an interesting and
valuable paper, we have no doubt.
Presidency of Franklin College.
It is known to most of our readers that
Dr. Church has .resigned the Presidency
of our State University, and that liis suc
cessor is to lie clioscn on the 10th of next
month. Wo have beard the names of
several gentlemen mentioned in connection
with the position, but have no idea who
will be selected. We beg leave to call the
attention of the Trustees to a gentleman
of world-wide fame, a resident of a neigh
boring State, and a man whose superior
talents, ripe scholarship and position as a
man of letters eminently fit liim for the
post. Wo allude to Dr. Francis Lieber,
of Columbia, S. C., for many years Profes
sor of Political Economy in the University
of So. Carolina. Dr. L. edited the Ency
clopedia Americana, a work which is con
sidered indispensable in every gentleman’s
library in tins country. If is work on
“Civil Liberty and Self-Government,”
published by Harper Ac Brothers in 1853,
lias been republished in England, and
translated into various foreign languages
and published throughout Europe. We
should rejoice to know that the Trustees
had placed so distinguished a scholar at
the head of affairs in our State University.
Convention.
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Hil^BHlpwion.
We notice that Gqv. Johnson lias ap
pointed twelve delegates from the State at
large, and six from each Congressional
District, to represent Georgia. Those
from the State at large arc—Joel Craw
ford, of Early; John A. Howard, of Mus
cogee; Mark A. Cooper, of Cass; William
11. Stiles, of Chatham; A. 11. Chappell, of
Bibb; William Cnmining, of Kielnnond;
A. R. Wright, of Jefferson; John Billups,
ofClnrke; Francis S. Bartow, of Chatham; j
William H. Crawford, of Terrell; E. A. j
Nisbet, of Bibb; Junius Wingfield, of Put- :
mini.
The delegation from tho Seventh Con
gressional District is composed of tho fol
lowing gentlemen:
Nathan McGeliee, of Baldwin; David
W. Lewis, of Hancock; John B. Walker,
of Morgan; Thomas Stocks, of Greene;
Pcrmctus Reynolds, of Newton ; Fleming
Jordan, of Jasper.
Cocley’s Lady’s liook.
Tho December number of this well
known periodical is before us, with its
usual quantum of stories, poems, pretty
pictures, fashion plates and other matters,
suited to the tastes and fancies of its fair
renders. Tho publisher promises many
improvements during the coming year,
and furnishes tho following “several rea
sons whyGodey’s Lady’s Book is superior
to any other magazine”:
“Ist. Because it contains that variety
which you would have to take several
other papers to obtain.
2d. It is original—never copying the
ideas of others.
3d. It gives much finer steel engravings.
4th. Its Literature is far superior 'to
other magazines, and always of a moral
nature.
6ti>. Its fashion plates aro chaste, and
contain more figures, and are always of
tho latest fashions.
oth. It never deceives—giving as -much
(and sometimes more) in subsequent Nos.
as it docs in January.
7th. It is the cheapest magazino pub
lished, and its motto is '■Excelsior.' ”
Stockton’s lli tile and other Publicn
, tions.
Rev. T. 11. Stockton has removed his
office of publication from Baltimore to
Philadelphia. His publications aro des
tined, we predict, to become very popular,
liis object is to issue tho Bible—both Old
and New Testaments—in convenient and
roadab’o volumes. Ho has already issued
The Gospel by St. Matthew; The Stu
dent's Memorandum of the New Testament;
five numbors of tho Bible Tracts, and nine
numbers of tho Bible Times, completing
the first volume. He lias now nearly
ready, in advance of the Gift Season, the
whole of the New Testament, in six and
also in twelve volumes—in various styles
of binding. Either of the Gospels may bo
had in a separate volume, or the Four
Gospels, together; tho Gospels and Acts
together; and the Epistles by themselves
lie lias also in press The Bible Christian's
Poclcet Diary, both in 12mo. and lGmo,,
and in addition to other publications, ho
now proposes a serial Issue of Original
I Corks, from his own pen—the prepara
tions of many years— Sermons, Lectures,
Addresses, Poems, &c.
The Bible Times, a monthly newspaper,
only 25 cents for tho year, contains a re
presentation of tho whole cause.
I Told you so.—One of tho most aston
ishing facts connected with tho result of
the lato canvass, is the evidenco which it
lias furnished of tho superior foresight and
penetration of all the political editors in
the country. Every ono of thorn, Ameri
can, Democratic and Republican, insists
that everything lias turned out just ns lie
expected. Happy set of fellows! nobody
disappointed.
Col. Wood’s Exhibition.
It will bo seen, by reference to our ad
vertising columns, that Col. Wood’s col
lection of Living Wonders will be exhibit
el at the Town Hall, next Monday, We
seo that our eschangcs speak of the col
lection in high terms.
Cotton Stalk Hemp.
Our readers will be interested in the ex
tract which follows, from a letter of Col.
John I). Walker, to the editor of this pa
per, under date New Oaleans, Nov. 11th.
The Cotton Stalk Hemp promises to be an
article of quite considerable importance.
“ I went yesterday with Gen. Gordon,
and Lient. Governor llorton, of Texas, to
see the Cotton Harvest Gatherer, and the
Cotton Stalk Hemp. The first article is
intended to pick cotton from the boll and
put it into a bag. This I regard as worth
less—not a humbug, because it will not
likely deceive any one but the inventor 1
farmers will not be caught with it. The
Cotton Staik Hemp is, in my opinion,
worthy of the highest consideration. It
has the color of the Gnnny or East India
bagging, and the fibre is as strong as that
of the hemp. It is prepared by knocking
off the lateral limbs of the cotton stalk,
then entting down the stalk and burying
it in a plow furrow in the field, where it
lies covered up for fifteen days. It is then
taken up and broken, as you break hemp,
and this clears it of the woody fibre, and
it is fit for spinning in any way, either by
machinery or by hand. Again, it is better
prepared by sowing the cotton broadcast
and thickly; this causes the staik to run
up in height and clear of lateral limbs,
more nearly resembling the hemp weed.
The discoverer of this processof making
cotton stalk hemp is a Frenchman, of Ba
ton Rouge, by the name of John Blanc.
He lias been four years engaged in experi
ments, and has now just obtained his pat
ent right from the Patent Office.
I was ha py to meet our old county
friend, Mr. Wm. J. Vason, at the place
where this cotton stalk hemp is exhibited,
and see him test the strength ot the fibre.
When we shall get the cotton wool, and
then the bark from the staik for our bag
ging and rope, and the oil from the seed,
and the cotton seed hulls converted to
some practical purposes, and the cotton
stalk roots manufactured into patent med
icine as an elixir to perpetuate the exist
ence of the negro who cultivates tiie plant,
we can then imagine that it has its true,
intrinsic and inestimable value. It will
then "be woith a war on the part of the
South to sustain and defend it, and claim
a place for it and its cultivators in any re
putable portion of this earth.”
The Wheelbarrow Het.
Major Ben. Ferly I’oore, of Newbury
port, Mass., who lately rolled a wheelbar
row, containing a barrel of apples, to Bos
tin, a distance of 36 miles—in fulfilment
of a bet lie hail made with Col. It. 1. Bur
hank, was formerly a residont of Georgia,
and edited the Southern Whig, at Athens,
or a number of years.
Feti-nml-Scissorlngs.
An elderly lady says it always reminds
her of carrying coals to Newcastle, when
she sees girls kissing eacli other. Sensi
ble, is she not ? It is said that Siberia
affords two crops a year—one of moss, and
tho other of icicles-... .Senator Douglas,
it is reported, will this month lead to the
altar the beautiful Miss Cutts, the reign
ing belle of Washington. ...If five and a
half yards make a perch, how many will
make a trout? If two hogsheads make a
pipe, many will make a cigar?....
One-thinl of the twenty-eight American
physicians who went to Russia during the
war, have died. ...“I’m dying for you,”
as tho girl said to the old bachelor, when
she colored liis stockings... .Mrs. Thorn,
of Palo Alto, Michigan, hung herself and
and child, because her husband refused to
i t iko her to a ba11... .The chap who took
the thread of life to sew the rent of a
house, has gone west and invented a patent
point for cross-eyed needles.... With the
exception of a few miles in Virginia, there
is now a connected line of railroad from
Bangor, on the Penobscot river, Maine, to
Montgomery, Alabama.. The liar is the
greatest fool; but tho next greatest fool is
ho who tells all lie knows. A prudent re
ticence is the highest; practical wisdom.
Silence has made more fortunes than the
most gifted eloquence It is stated that
the Hon. Thomas H. Benton has accepted
the invitation of the Mercantile Library
Association of Boston to lecture before
•them this winter.... A cockney philologist
says tlmt the letter W enters into the
composition of women in all tho relations
of life—e. g. Virgin, Wife, Widow and
Vixen... .Rev. Win. B. Walker, for nine
teen Years, a Methodist preacher of consid
erable note in Tennessee, recently united
with tho Baptists...." Never bo critical
to tho ladies,” was the maxim of an old
Irish poor, remarkable tor liis homage to
the sex, “ the only way a true gentleman
will ever attempt to look at the faults of
a pretty woman is—to shut its eyes.”
A man by the name of Jack Miller com
mitted a brutal murder about six miles
from Dalton, on Wednesday the sth inst.
on tho person of Isaac Sisk, a citizen of>
Whitfield county.... A California jury, in
a suicide case lately, found tho following
verdict: “We, the jury, find that tho de
ceased was a fool.” Five hundred thou
sand dollars change hands every night at
the gambling tables in San Francisco!
“ Easy come, easy go.” Suppose a fel
low who lias got nothing marries a gal
who lias nothing; is her things his’n or
his things her’n? or is his’n his’n or lier’n
lier’n? A nice question to decide, that.
Tho result in Michigan will prevent
the re-election of Gen. Cass to the United
States Senate Never set yourself up
as a musician just because you have got
drums in your cars, nor believe yourself a
school teacher because yon have a pupil in
your eye....lion. Joshua L. Martin, an
ex-Governor of Alabama, died at his resi
dence in Tuscaloosa, on the 2d instant,,..
An adventurer, writing from California,
says: “A man’s life here is worth about
fifty cents on the d011ar.”... .Major Win.
11. Chase, of the U. S. Topographical corps,
has resigned his post to take charge of the
Pensacola and Montgomery Railroad, as
President of the Company A gentle
man from the rural districts, (after vainly
endeavoring to solve the mystery of chafing
dishes,) said, “ Look-a-hcre, waiter, bring
me some oysters, but have ’em tiled down
stairs. I don’t want none of them darned
little cook stoves.”... .Gen. Cass, who is
seventy-five years old, within the space of
six days, last month, delivered eight ad
dresses, traveled a distance of five hundred
miles, and accomplished nearly the same
amount of labor the week following!
An exchange paper, under the head of
“Good Advice,” advises young men to
“ wrap themselves up in their virtue.” A
cotemporary well says, “Many of them
would freeze to death if they had nothing
warmer.” Mrs. Elizabeth J. Eames, well
known as a writer both of prose and poe
try, died at Chinnabon, Illinois, a few
days ago... .An Irishman angling in the
rain kept his men under the arch of a
bridge; on lieing asked why ho did so,rc
pilied: “To be sure the fishes will be
afther crowding there to keep out of the
wet.”... .Col. P. W. Porter, inventor of
Porter’s rifle, died at his residence, near
Memphis, on the 7th inst., of inflammation
of the brain When Falstaff calls his fa
miliar friend “ Mine Ancient Pistol,” does
he intend to intimate that that respectable
individual was an old son of a gun?....
Professor Hedrick, lately removed from
the Professorship in the University of
North Carolina, is at Cambridge, Mass
Gold and silver are metals quite too heavy
for us to carry to heaven; but, in good
hands, they can be made to pave the way
to it... .The Oxygenated Bitters is a sci
entific remedy for Dyspepsia in all its
forms. When taken according to direc
tions, it gives immediate relief, and in
most cases effects a permanent cure....
Avery corpulent traveler was riding
through the city of Padua, and several of
the inhabitants, noted for their wit, asked
him why ho carried his bagg ge before
him. lie replied, “’Tis my custom when
Tgoto a town full of thieves.”... .It is
stated that 500,000 bushels of wheat have
accumulated within sixty days at Milwau
kie and its neighborhood... .Themechanic
who is ashamed of his apron, or the former
who is ashamed of his frock, is himself a
shame to his profession... .The population
of llavti is about seven hundred thousand.
cy, the day star of manhood, the evening
star of age—Bless such stars: may we
bask in their influence until we are sly
high."....A Yankee at Panama sought
shelter at the American Consul’s from an
earthquake—ho thought even the earth
quake would respect our flag... .The Al
bany (Ga.) Patriot is offered for sale. It
is said to have a large subscription list,
and a good run of advertising patronage.
. ...Good temper doesn’t mean an easy
temper —a serenity which nothing dis
turbs, for that is a mark of laziness....
The sash, door, and Mind factory in Lump
kin, Ga., belonging to Mr. I. M. Cox, was
destroyed by fire on Thursday morning
last, fitli instant.... .Mr. Reuben Haynes,
an old and respectable citizen, one of the
first Settlers of Atlanta, died at his resi
dence, in that city, on Thursday morning
last.... A scald or burn can be easily cured
by the use of Perry Davis’ Vegetable Pain
Killer. It is equally effectual in curing
headache, pain in the stomach and bowels,
dosenterv, diarrhoea and cholera... .Con
gress meets one week from next Monday,
and adjourns on the 3d of March.... Rev.
Dr. Hoge, of Richmond, Va., has been
chosen President of Hampden Sydney Col
lege.
The Presidential Electors.—The
people on Tuesday the 4th performed the
duty of choosing the Presidential Elec
tors. The next step in the programme
is the meeting of the Electors to cast
their votes for the Presidential candi
dates. This is done on the first Wednes
day in December, the Electors beino'
called together by a notice given by the
Governors of each State. On the second
Wednesday in February Congress will
open the returns and count the votes.
A young man by the name of
Marshall Ileifner, was shot dead in Cass
ville, Geo., on the night of the election
by Albert Thomas was so badly cut in
the back that his recovery is considered
doubtful.
In Disguise. —We understand, since
Fremont’s defeat, that Horace Greely
goes about in disguise. He has washed
his face and got anew hat! The other
day he went up to Yonkers, and the
people did not know him !
Printing on the High Seas —lt has
been proposed to establish a printing-press
on board the Great Western, the mam
moth ship now being built in England
for the Australian trade, and to issue a
daily paper during her voyage. In con
nection with this there is to be a reading
room, well supplied for the use of the voy
agers.
EST" A rough Kentuckian, hearing a
child squall very loud and furiously, re
marked, —“ How wickedly that small
sample of mankind is swearing now, in
its infantile vernacular ! what will it copie
to when it is educated?”
Our Yankee Countrymen:
Their Isms, their Ologies, and their Ites.
That streak of YVinkee land, which
embraces New England,—Northern
New York, —Northern Ohio, —Indiana,
Illinois, and Michigan,—is storng “ Fre
mont,” —but Southern New York, New
Jersey, and Pennsylvania, with Southern
Illinois and Indiana, are of a different
color:—and lienee it is,—while Yankee
land lias gone strong for Fremont—the
Southern States, and the Southern parts
of the Northern Stales, have gone strong
the other way. That Yankee land,
which in the days of old John Hancock,
John Adams, —and which, afterwards,
in the days of the Storys, the Websters
the Everetts, and the like, —held so
much sway over this country, has lost
its power,—and has, in fact, become but
mere provincial,—a La Vendee, Ax. In
short it has now no real hold, authority,
nor power, in this Union. Why is
this ?
’1 lie \ ankees, once conservative, —
once constitutional, —once a staid, steady
people, are now the first to run after the
ism s, and the ites, and the ologies, or
anything new. Massachusetts, the Rep
resentative Siate of the Yankees, three
years ago was all “Rum” and “Anti-
Rum,” and nothing was talked of but
“Rum.” Two years ago, it was so
Americanized that it made itself ridicu
lous, and made Americans in other States
ashamed of its excesses. Now, however
not only “ Rum,” but even tbe “ Pope”
has been ignored,—and the people enter
tain but one idea, —but one thought,
from “ morn to dewy eve.” Hence, in
the frequent changes of issues, and from
fickleness and inconsistencies, —the Rep
resentative Siate of the Yankees has
lost all power, and but prejudices and
damages even the right, when ii rallies
to that right.
r J lie people of New England are an
intensely intellectual people,—hut the
tact is, they have not enough to do, to
keep their intellects usefully employed.
Amusement among them is to some ex
tent tabooed, except the amusements of
“sewing meetings,” and hence the ac
tive mind rushes into the isms, the olo
gics, and the iies. The people there,
from the energy of the climate, can work
1G to 18 hours a day, if necessary, and
they have hours enough to spare from
sleep, for any sort of intellectual employ.
Hence, as in “ sewing meetings,” “sew
ing societies,” Ac., Ac., there is not
enough to do, —the mind pants for other
excitements, and agonizes itself upon
afflictions the world over, real or imairj
nary,—and the more it agonizes itself,
the more imaginary these afflictions are.
There lives not a negro in Georgia, that
pains not some soft New England heart,
while starve hundreds upon hundreds in
the Western Islands of Scotland, even,
that never gave the New England heart
a throb. The crime—the indiscribable
misery of the barbarian in this ..great
woild’s metropolis of mils, though print
ed and published in all the varied forms
of our City Press, touches not the-chord
of New England sensibility,—but, a mur
der in Kansas makes quake the whole
Aew England heart. “ Distance lends
enchantment,, to the view,” —and the
greater the distance, the more intense
the tension of New England heart strings.
This metropolis on election day,—as re
corded in our city Press, —was the scene
of as fierce and bloody contentions as
have disgraced the fields of Kansas—but
not a wail comes, as yet, up from a pure
Yankee newspaper !
New England, in New England,—and
New England, in Northern Ohio, Indi
ana, and Michigan are great States, or
pieces of States. The industry and en
ergy of the people are wonderful, —and
cannot be too highly extolled, —but they
are provtncical only. The isms, tbe
ologies and the ites of the nation worry
them to a forgetfuiness of the nation it
self. Reading is a great blessing,—an
indispensability of life among all culti
vated people,—but reading is a curse, —
if reading only opens the mental faculties
to being excited, in order to be imposed
upon. That sort of reading, which
takes in only one side, and that side, er
ror, is of course worse than that igno
rance of letters, which knows nothing of
the alphabet, but which, therefore, goes
about anxious, inquiring of all sides, and
therefore, learning from all. The hum
blest ignoramus thus, that learns all on
two sides, knows more than the collegi
an who shuts his eyes and ears to every
thing, but what tickle liis passions or
prejudices. Reading, therefore, is not
always intelligence, but on the contrary
may be, n positive curse. Now then,
reading among our Yankee countryman
is not always a source of instruction, but
on the contrary often, of muoh error.—
Our good sisters of Potsdam, Northern
New York, had amid their very acade
mies, read themselves into a through con
viction, that they themselves were in dan
ger of being turned into slaves, and of
being victim ized by some slaveholding
master. If they could not have read a
line, tbeynever would have been led into