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JfamiljjtMor PUBLISHED BY BENJAMIN G. LIDDON. T. A. BURKE, EDITOR. MADISON, GA.: SATURDAY, NOV. 22, 185 G. Family Visitor Office for Sale. Hie subscriber having ns much as lie can attend to in bis Bookstore, offers for sale the office of the Family Visitor upon ac commodating terms. The office is one of the best country papers in the State. Or ho would sell to a person capable of editing the paper, one half of the office with an equal interest in the Bookstore owned by the subscriber. Address BENJ. G. LIDDON, Madison, Ga. P. S. If our exchanges will notice the above, the favor will be reciprocated whenever an opportunity shall present it 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. "G 3 - fcV’*s" BP H tarn ■Hr 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