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The Last Witness Gone.—Those
who have seen the large engraving of
the “ Death bed of Wesley,” will recol-
VOLUME I.
ATHENS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING. JANUARY 11, 1855.
NUMBER 41
rUItl.lSUEl) WEEKLY,
BY JOHN H. CHllISTY,
, KDIT9R AND PRopr,I ETOR.
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ONLY WAITING.
A very Aged man, in an almshouse, was ask-
ed what lie w«< doing now. Ilia reply was
“Only Waiting.”
Only waiting till the shadows
Are a little longer grown.
Only waiting till the glimmer
Of the day’s last beam is flown;
Till the night of earth is faded
From the heart, once full of day.
Till the stars of Heaven are breaking
Through the twilight soft and grav.
Only waiting till the reapers
Have the last sheaf gather’d home,
For the summer time is failed
Anil the uutumu winds have come.
Quickly, reapers, gather quickly
The last ripe hours of my heart,
For the bloom of life is Wither’d
And I hasten to depart.
Only waiting till the angels
Open wide the mystic gate,
At whose feet I loug have linger’d,
Weary, poor and desolate.
Even now 1 hear their footsteps
Ami their voices far away ;
Ifthev call me I am waiting,
Ouly waiting to obey.
Only waiting till the shadows
Are a little longer grown,
Only waiting till the glimmer
Of the day’ last beam is flown.
Then from out the gath’rirg darkness
Holy, deathless stars shall rise,
jjjjpr I»y whose light my soul sfnrtl gladly
Tread its pathway to the skies.
' ^4*L ’ — :
SPEAK NOT HARSHLY.
Speak not harshly—much of care
Every human heart must bear;
Enough of shadows darkly lie
Veiled within the sunniest eye.
By thy childhood’s gushing tears,
By thy griefs of after years;
JJy the anguish thou dost know,
Add not to another's woe.
Speak not so harshly ; much of sin
Dwelletli every heart williiu ;
In its closely covered cells
Many a wayward passion dwells.
By the many hours mis-spent,
By the gifts to errors lent,
By the wrong thou didst not shun,
By the good thou hast not done—
With a lenient spirit scan
The weakness of thy fellow man.
#iisrrllfliu|.
tup: three hunchbacks of
DOUAI.
At a short distance from Douai, Franee,
there stood a castle on the beffiflf of a
river, near a bridge. The master of
this castle was hunchbacked. Nature
had exhausted her ingenuity in the
formation of his whimsical figure. In
place of understanding, she had given
him an immense head, which, neverthe
less, was lost between his two shoulders :
he had thick hair, a short neck, and a
horrible visage. Spite of his deformity,
this bugbear bethought himself of falling
in love with a beautiful young woman,
the daughter of a poor but respectable
burgess of Douai. He sought her in
marriage ; and as lie was the richest
person in the district, the poor girl was
delivered up to him. After the nuptials
he was as much an object of pity as she
was ; for, being devoured by jealousy, he
had no tranquility night nor day, but
went prying and rambling every where,
and suffered no stranger to enter the
castle. One day during the Christmas
festival, while standing sentinel at his
gate, he was accosted by three hump
backed minstrels. They saluted him as
a brother; as such, asked him for re
freshments, and at the same time, to
establish the fraternity, they ostentati
ously shouldered their humps at him.
Contrary to expectation, he conducted
them to his kitchen, gave them a capon
with peas, and to each a piece of money
over and above. Before their departure,
however, he warned them ne\er to return
on pain of being thrown into the river.
At this threat of the Chatcluin the min-
seen him this last time,” said the peasant,
entering the rcom where the lady was
seated. She answered she had not.
“ You were not far from it,” replied
he ; “ the sorcerer was already at the
gate, but I have taken care of him ; be
at your case—he will not come back
now. ’ The lady comp.ehended what
had occurred, and recompensed the
peasant with much satisfaction.
strels laughed heartily, and took the road j Go away
OMER PASHA S GLOVES.
REMARKABLE HISTORY OF THE TURKISH
GENERAL.
In a recent published history of mo
dern Greece and its insurrections, the
following interesting particulars are giv
en with regard to Omer Pasha, the com
mander in chief of the Turkish forces:
About fifteen years ago, a young man
arrived at Widdin, and asked to see Ilus-
sem Pasha, the commander of the place.
His personal appearance was unusually
prepossessing, being at once handsome
and majestic. His complexion was fair
and clear, his eyes soft and penetrating,
and his limbs pliant and athletic. The
lurks, who have a superstitious vene
ration for a fine physiognomy, and to
whom therefore good looks are pre-em
inently, as Queen Elizabeth said, an ex
cellent letter of recommendation, receiv
ed him with great cordiality and respect.
Hus-ein was at this time encamped be
fore Widdin, and living in a superb tent,
.o which the young stranger was direct
ed. lie happened, unfortunately, to get
there just as Hussein was waking up in
no very good humor.
“What do you want ?” said he impa-
. tiently to the intruder.
“To enter your excellency’s service,”
has the reply.
“1 have too many attendants already.
The Milwaukee Sentinel having plac
ed upon its bulletin board an annouce-
ment of the Pacific’s arrival, on which
was written, ‘War in statu quo,’ two
men from the country walked up to the
beard, and after reading very demurely,
“War in statu quo,” said one of them,
“where in thunder's that?” “I dont
know, 1 ’ said the other, “it’il sprerd all
over the world yet.” “Shouldn’twondcr
if it did,’’said lie. This reminds the Buf
falo Commercial of an anecdote of a
person who affected profound wisdom
and unlimited information upon every
subject, and who, while listening with a
crowd of companions to the reading of
“the latest from France,” hoard the
words, “The French have taken um
brage,” and wishing to show his superior
knowledge,broke in with—“Ah,indeed !
taken Umbrage, have they ! I knew they
had been besieging it for some time.”
The above reminds us of an occur
rence that took place in a county not a
hundred miles distant from this, a few
years ago : A subpoena duces tecum was
issued for John Simpkins; the Sheriff
returned it, executed as to Simpkins ;
butcnJorscd thereon, “Duces Tecum
not found in my County”—He asked
the Clerk when he returned the sub-
;nr, if he knew Daces Tecum; the
3lerk replied that be did not—where
upon the Sheriff remarked, “Ac is no
doubt some damn’d Dutchman—the coun
try is yelling full of them !”—Montgo
mery Mail.
peer
Clei
Boys you the Times.—We like an
active boy, one who has the impulse of
age—of the steam engine in him.
. lazy, plodding,snail-paced chap might
have got along in the world fifty years
ago—but he won’t do for these times.
We live in an age of quick, sharp
ideas,—men think quick—-speak quick
—cat, sleep, court, marry, die quick
—and slowcoaches ain’t tolerated.
ThinE, plan, reflect as much as you
please before you act; hut think quickly
'closely, ami when you have fixed
• eye upon an object, spring to the
k at once.
But above all things, be honest. If
ju intend to be an artist, carve it in
wood, chisel in the marble; if a
iant, write it in your day-book,
I spread it in capitals^ in you ledger,
t honesty of purpose be yottrguid-
star.
to the town, singing in full chorus, and
dancing in a grotesque manner, in deri
sion of their brother 1 ump of the cast’e.
He, on his part, without paying furllier
attention, went to walk in the fields. The
lady, who saw her husband cross the
bridge and heard the minstrels, called
them back to amuse her. They had
not been long returned to ttie castle,
when her husband knocked at the gate,
by which she and the minstrels were
equally alarmed : fortunately the lady
perceived in a neighboring room three
empty coffers. Into each of these site
stuffed a minstrel, shut the covers, and
then opened the gate to her husband.
He bad only come back to espy the con
duct of his wife, as usual, and after a
short stay went out anew ; at which you
may believe his wife was not dissatisfied.
She instantly ran to the coffers to release
her prisoners; for night was approach
ing, and her husband would not proba
bly be long absent. But what was her
dismay, when she found them all three
suffocated. Lamentation, however, was
useless. The main object now was to
gc-t rid of the dead bodies, and she had
not a moment to lose. She ran to the
gate, and seeing a peasant pass by, she
offered him a reward of thirty litres, and
leading him into the castle, she took him
to one of the coffers, and showing him
its contents, told him he must tliiov’ the
dead body into the river, lie asked for
a sack, put the carcass into it, pitched it
over the bridge, raid then returned,
quite out ofbreath, to claim the promis
ed reward. “ I certainly intend to re
ward you.” Sirid the lady, “ but you ought
first to fulfil the conditions of the bar
gain; you have agreed to rid me of the
dead body, have you not? There, how
ever, it is still.”
Saying this, she showed him to the
other coffer, in which the second hump
backed minstrel had expired. At this
sight the clown was perfectly confound
ed—“ How, the deuce! come back—a
sorcerer I”
He then stuffed the body into the
sack, and then, like the other, threw it
over the bridge, taking care to put the
head down, and to observe that it sunk.
Meanwhile the lady had again changed
the position of the coffers, so that the
third was now in the place which had
been successively occupied by the two
others. When the peasant returned,
she allowed him the remaining dead
body.^
** You are light, friend/ 1- said she, “lie
most be a magician, for there he is
again”
The rustic gnashed his teeth - with
rage.
*• What the deuce, am I to do nothing
but carry about this humpback
He then lifted him up, with dreadful
imprecations, and having tied a stone
round his neck, threw him into the mid
dle of the current, and threatening, if he
came out again, io dispatch him with a
cudgel. The first object that presented
itself to the clown on his way back for
his reward, was the hunchbacked master
of the castle, returning from his evening
walk, and making towards the gate.
At this sight the peasant could no longer
restrain his fury.
“ Dog of a humpback, arc you there
again ?”
So saying, he sprung on the Chatelain,
threw Inn ov.-r his shoulders, and hurl
ed him lieadlong into tlw river after the
minstrels.
of his effects, and the other of a purse
full of gold with abeautifu’ sabre. Omer
at once understood the choice that was
offered him—the fortune of the fritder
and the hand of his daughter, or depar
ture and a military life, with the means
of getting to the nearest camp. He ljesi-
taleda while, but at length ’decided to
keep the ring and the inventory, and re
turn the sabre and the purse. On the,
following day the two young people^
were betrothed amid great family re
joicings. But the day after, the young
lady, overpowered by her good fortune,
was taken ill, never to recover. For a
week or more her father and plighted
lover watched over her with the tendcr-
cst solicitude, and received her last sigh
with tears. Then the merchant once
more presented the sabre and the purse
to the young man, with these words; “It
is the will of God! It was so decreed !
May glory be more true to you than
happiness!” Omer now accepted the
weapon, and, kissing the icy hand of his
departed angel, set out for Widdin,
where he iJecame Hussein’s aide-de-
camp, as we have already stated. After
the death of the Pasha of Widdin, Omei
went to Constantinople, and there rose
rapidly from rank to rank, till he reach
ed that of mushir, and was appointed,
in 1852, to the chief command of the
Ottoman forces, in consequence of his
distinguished merit and eminent success.
Such is what can be accomplished by a
pair of gloves—in good hands.
In Turkey it is allowable for people
in the humblest condition to offer presents
to a distinguished personage without any
offence. Accordingly, the young man
pulled a small parcel, carefully done up,
out of his pocket, and presented it to
the pasha, begging him to accept it.
“What is this?” said the pasha, when
lie Ltd opened the parcel.
“Gloves, your excellency.”
“And what use are they?”
“When you go out in the sun they
will preserve the color of your hands,
(the pashh’s were very white), and when
you are riding, they will prevent them
from being blistered by the bridle.”
“But how do you put them on ?”
The young man auswered by putting
one on the pasha’s hand.
“Now the other.”
This also was put on. Hussein then
clapped his hands three times, and rais
ed them above his head, just as the of
ficers of his suite were entering the tent.
Thanks to this pair of gloves, which
were the admiration of the pasha and
his staff, the stranger was admitted into
Hussein’s service, and became his con
fidential aide de-camp. Now this stranger
was no other than Michael Ilatlas, a
native of Croatia, formerly inspector of
roads and bridges in Austria, and now
Omer Pasha, the heroic commander in
chief of the Turkishjtrrcy.
How was it that this young man,
without country, this fugitive without
resource, this German who had turned
Turk, thus made his destiny turn upon
a pair of gloves ? The answer is no less
ourious than what has already been stat
ed : Michael; the fourth son of Peter
llatia.-, n poor Austrian noble, was so
weakly in his infancy that, but for the
greatest efforts of maternal affection, lie
must have died long before reaching the
age of manhood. At eighteen he was
entrusted with the superintendence of
bridges and roads at Caristadt, and at
twenty was appointed sub-inspector at
Zora, in Dalmatia. Having been com
promised in a political affair,he fled from
his country to the Turkish frontier, with
only a small sum in his pocket. The
first village he came to after crossing
the frontiers was called Omer Unas, so
he a sumed the name of Omer with the
turban, and proceeded at random through
the province of Bosnia. Here he was
waylaid by robbers, who stripped him
ol everything, not even excepting his
clothes, and left him naked on the road.
A peasant happening to pass soon after
wards, and pitying his destitute condi
tion, received him into his house, furn
ished him with clothes, and gave him
some money. lie was thus enabled to
reach Banjalcuko, where he obtained a
situation in a shop. Here it was his
good fortune to meet with a favorsible
turn in the current of his history. Ilis
employer had a charming daughter.
Omer was not insensible to her attrac
tions. The young girl could not with
out emotion see this exile pursued by
misfortune—this brave and gallant en
gineer reduced to the position of a clerk
—that hand so elegant and white, yet
so energetic and manly, doomed to the
inglorious occupation of holding a pen
instead of wielding a sword. The two
young people understood each other
without speaking together, and (he fath
er clearly saw what was going on be
tween them without being admitted to
tire confidence of eitheT. One morning
he sent Omer two presents, one consist-
TIIE CIRCASSIAN SLAVE TRADE.
A Constantinople correspondent of
the London Morning Chronicle writes
that paper as follows, under date of Nov
ember 10th :
When last I wrote I forgot to inclose
vou the Imperial firmans issued by the
Sultan for the suppression of the slave
trade. They read very well, and would
tend to persuade strangers this traffic is
really on the point of being pot a stop
to. The promulgation and execution of
the law are two very different things in
Turkey. The public slave market of
Constantinople lias ceased to exist for
' some years, but the slave trade lias not
diminished. The same nun*:c 1 ' are
bought and sold ad libitum. The only
difference is, that the slave m£.i'$lK*nt
has his private dwelling. Tl- -^.omle
gation of the firman may Irm some
slight influenco, but it will be very’-j#j|liit;
and it is therefore as well to say so, and
expose how dust is thrown into the eyes
of the European public.
This is not the moment to indulge in
depicting the state of slavery in the
Turkish empire. It is, however, but
just to remark,that slavery exists here in
its mildest form. It is an Eastern cus
tom. Slaves are treated as a part of the
family or house-hold, and are not kept
for labor ; indeed numbers of the most
distinguished and powerful men in Turk
ey have been slaves by origin. As re
gards the sale and purchase of slaves in
Circassia, the desire and ambition of a
Circassian girl is to be sold at Constant
inople. She has a chance,if she is beau
tiful, of becoming Sultana, or one of
the Sultanas, or at least she flatters her
self that her good looks will open the
harem of some opulent Pasha to her.
It must not be disguised that our en
deavors to suppress the Circassian slave
trade, though no doubt meritorious, and
founded on motives of philanthropy, will
be regarded in a very different light by
the Circassians, and gain us many k an
enemy amongst them. With respect to
black slaves, no country is so liberal to
wards our dark brothers as the Turk,
whose ideas of ma.i in general seem not
to be rooted in a prejudice against the
dark sons of Arabia and Africa, asjs
the case in *he North. The black has
very nearty the same rights as his fel
low Mahometan of a paler color. Many
fill high offices in the State. Religion
is the barrier at which the Moslem stum
bles—one black Mahometan is better in
his sight than ten thousand white Giaours.
The promulgation of this firman is, how
ever, a move in the right direction, and
the result of the strenuous efforts of Her
Majesty’s Embassador, Lord Stratford
do lledcliffe.
up at 5 o’clock A. M., to got breakfast.’
You can’t persuade Perkins that such a
fate would ever befall him and Aramin-
ta. He gets married, and is transccn-
dantlv happy untile the honeymoon sets
leaving him in the sombre light of reali
ty. Hitherto he never concerned him
self about the price of coal or provisions,
and laughed ‘hard times’ to scorn ; but
now a depletion in the corpulency of the
portmonnaie gives him an idea of what
is meant by tightness in the money mar
ket, and the diminished six-penny loaf
llustrates a rise in breadstuff’s, terms he
never knew the full meaning of before.
When he hoarded at Mrs. Tough-steaks,
a quarter dollar a week advance covered
these deficiencies, but now it is quite
another matter. Araininta no longer
lives on love, or ice cream and sponge
cake, but actually has an appetite for
pork and beans, and is addicted to can
ton crape shawls, and loves of bonnets,
the price of which she declares she has nc
concern about. Perkins begins to open
his eyes, and look around to see what
kind of a country he has got into, studies
economy, domestic and political, is down
on landlords and high rents, and con
templates moving to Kansas.
Lawyer Turned Carpenter.—
The lawyer who “ filed a bill, shaved a
note, cut an acquaintance, split a hair,
made an entry, raised a haul, got up a
case, framed an indictment, impanelled
a jury, put them in a box. nailed a wit
ness, hammered a judge, chiseled a client,
and bored a whole court,”-—all in one
day—has since “laid down the law” and
turned carpenter.—Springfield Rep.
Conclusive Evidence.—A Protes
tant journal in America lately spoke of
the old lady, who triumphantly pointed
out the “ Epistle to the Romans,” and
asked where one could be found to the
Protestants ?
The Catholic Mirror happily retorts
by telling us of a negro Baptist at the
South, who said to his master:
* You’ve read the Bible, I s’pose ?”
« Yes.’
* Well you’ve read in it of one John
the Baptist, has’nt you ?”
‘ Yes.’
* Well, you never saw nothing about
John the Methodist, did >ou?’
‘No.’
* Well, den you see, dere’s Baptists in
the Bible, but dere aint no Methodists ;
so the Bible’s on my side.’
lect the figure of a little boy, who stands
near the foot of the bed, and who at the
time the picture was engraved was the
only person living who was present on
that solemn occasion. The fr’’owing
obituary from the last number of the
Lendon Watchman, shews that he too
has passed away :
Oct, 25th,—At Chesterfield, in his
68th year, James Roe Rogers, retired
revenue officer. He was the son of the
late Rev. James and Hester Ann Rog-
For thirty-five years he was a
useful and consistent member of the
Methodist connection. He was present
with-hiS parents at the death of the late
venerable John Wesiey, and was the last
survivor of the party who witnessed that
impressive scene.”
This is all that is said ; and what more
is needed 1 We commend this as a
model of comprehensive brevity to the
writers of obituary notices, who some
times send up long and wearisome effu
sions of common place eulogy which by
merely changing the names would apply
to other persons as well as those respect
ing whom ftiey are written.—Christian
Advocate & Journal.
The
Infallible Remedies.—We have
no faith in quack medicines, but think it
always best when sick to apply to a re
gular physican—there are, however,
some simple remedies, for certain disor
ders, we can recommend as infallible :
For sea sickness, stay at home.
For drunkenness, drink cold water.
For accident, keep out of danger.
For fear of Sheriffs, pay your debts.
To be happy, be honest.
To please all, mind your own hnsincss.
To make money, Advertise
Value of Manuscript.—-The- ori
ginal manuscript of Gray’s Elegy was
lately sold at auction in London. There
was really a “ scene” in the auction room.
Imagine a stranger entering in the midst
of a sale of some rusty looking old Looks.
The auctioneer produces two small half
sheets of paper, written over, torn and
mutilated. He calls it a 1 "mqst interest
ing article,’ apologises for its condition.
Pickering bids 5.10! Rodds. Foss,
Thorpe, Bohn, Holway, and some few
amateurs quietly remark, twelve, twenty,
twenty-five, thirty, and soon, till there
is a pause, at sixty-tlirce pounds.
hammer strikes.
* Hold!’ says Mr. Foss.
* It is mine,’ says the amateur.
“ No, I bid sixty-five in time.”
“ Then I bid seventy.”
“ Seventy-five,” says Mr. Foss ; and
fives are repeated again, until the two
bits of paper are knocked down, amidst
a general cheer, to Payne and_.Foss, for
one hundred pounds sterling ! On these
bits of paper are written the first drafts
of the Elegy in a country church yard,
by Thomas Gray, including five verses
which were omitted in publication, and
with the port’s interlinear corrections
and alterations, certainly an “ interest
ing article.” Several persons supposed
it would call forth a ten pound note, per
haps even a twenty.
COM.
THE
i’ll venture a wager you have not I ing of a marriege ring with an inventory
t ■ . 'm
Inkekmann.—Inkermann, or the city
of caverns, for the white rocks are full
of excavations, stands on the great bay
of Akbar, and was built by the Russians
about the year 1790. The bay was call
ed Sebastopol by the Russians during
the reign of Catharine II. whence the
name of the strong post now besieged by
the Allies. The great harbor of Inker-
mann, said to resemble that of Malta, is
one of the finest in the world. It has a
depth- of water varying from 21 to 70 ft.,
in which the largest vessels can ride at
anchor, at a cable’s length from the
shore. It is truly a city of caverns, for
the white rocks are full of excavations of
a most extraordinary character. They
consist Cf chambers, with Gothic win
dows, cut out of solid stone. Near the
harbor, the’rocks are hewn into chapels,
&c. They are considered by some to
have been retreats of the Christians of
the early ages. The Russians have made
sad havoc with all these antiquities and
splendid remains.
STOCKTON AND
KNOW NOTHINGS,
Commodore Stockton has written a
letter declaring his approval of Know
Nothing principles. He says, in answer
to interogations addressed to h m:
To your first interrogatory, I answer
and say—I am in favor of confining all
executive and administrative functions or
offices to American born,
j In relation to your second interfbga-
To have a good conscience, keep the j or y. I answer that I am in favour of
commandments. J “ an extension of the period of residence
To do right, take the Southern Watch- previous to naturalization, to at least
man. | twenty one years, or a total repeal of the
To prevent stammering, speak nothing naturalization laws, as the wisdom of the
but the truth.
To sleep well, be industrious.
To have your memory blessed, pay
the printer.
A Yankee Collector.—A gentle
man from New York, who had been in
Boston for the purpose of collecting some
moneys due him in that city, was about
returning, when he found that one bill
of one hundred dollars had been over
looked. The landlord, who knew the
debtor, thought it a doubtful case; but
added that if it was collected at all, a tall
rawboned Yankee then dunning a lodger
in another part of the hall, would worry
it out of the man.
Calling him up, therefore, he intro
duced him to the creditor, who showed
him the account.
“ Wal, * Squire,” said he, “ taint much
use o’ tryin, I guess. I hnow that critter.
You might as wel! try to squeeze ile out
of Bunker-Hill Monument, as to c'lect a
debt of hita. But any how, what’ll you
give, s’posinl try?”
“ Well, sir, the bill is one hundred
dollars.—I’ll give you—yes—I’ll give
you half, if you collect it.”
“ Greed,” replied the collector; “there’s
no harm in tryin, any way.”
Some weeks after, the creditor chanc
ed to be in Boston, and in walking up
Tremont street encountered his enter
prising friend ...
“ Look here, ’Squire,” said he, “ X had
considerable luck with that bill o’ youFn.
You see I stuck to hiin like a dog to a
root, but for the first week or so, ’twan’t
no use—not a bit. If he was home, he
was short; if he wasn’t home, I couldn’t
get no satisfaction Says I, after going
sixteen’times, “I’ll fix you,’says I; so
people may seem fit.”
Demagogues should no longer be
permitted to manufacture hordes of
freshly imported aliens into voters to
nullify the voice « f Americans in the
ballot-box. The Corrupt rivalsbip of
parties for the purchase of foreign born
voters must cease. It never will cea9e,
however, until the swarms of emigrants
who monthly land on our shofes shall
cease to be offered in the political mar
ket to the highest bidder.
In avowing the principle that" Ameri
cans alone should rule America,” I do
not understand you to approve the dis
franchisement of the foreign born who
already possess the right of voting. The
larger proportion of our adopted fellow-
citizens, at least the most intelligent
among them, I believe are perfectly
satisfied that the time has arrived when
our naturalization laws should be altered
or repealed, That portion of them
which does not constitute the staple of
political traffic, fully appreciate the dig
nity and high prerogative of sovereignty
which they enjoy on American citizens.
True to the country of their adoption,
they are unwilling to jeopard its institu
tions to benefit future emigrants, even
from tho land of their own nativity.
To your third interrogatory, I answer :
Being a Christian people, it seems that
to preserve our posterity in the faith of
their fathers, we can do no less-lhan to
secure to our children always perfect
freedom of access to the Holy Scriptures,
without “note or comment.”
While frankly expressing this opinion,
just say, also, that I agree with you, that
any connection between sectarianism and
politics, or between 1 church and State,
whether Protestant or Papist, would be
dangerous to liberty, and hostile to the
spirit and g< nius of the American con
stitution.
LIQUOR LAWS OF GEORGIA.
The Wilkes Republican says—‘‘There -
is a law upon our statute book which,
though of comparatively recent enact
ment, has, flo doubt, been overlooked tyy -
nine out of every ten lawyers in the
State, and of which the people, especial
ly merchants, are wholly ignorant, for
there is not a town or village in the
State where it is not daily and openly
violated. We allude to the act of I83fSV
to regulate the sale of spirituous liquors,
to_be fuond in Cobb’s Digest, page 1036.
It is the general impression that our pe*'
nal statutes all refer to the retail of li
quors in quantities less than one quart,
which is a gross error. The act in ques
tion prohibits its sale in quantities less
than a gallon, except on certain condi
tions, a failure to comply with which on
the part of the vender, subjects him ttf
; all the pains and penalties which a per
son retailing without license is now sub
ject to by law.”
It is unnecessary to copy the entire
act, and we give only those sections that
bear immedihtely upon the point under
considera'ion. After reciting the oatn
to be taken and subscribed, before the
Clerk of the Inferior Court, by a petson
applying for a retail license, the Act
proceeds as follews : ,
Sec. III. From and after the first day
of June next, and annually thereafter,
each aud every person who may or shall
become a vender of any measure or
quantity less than one gallon of distilled
spirituous or intoxicating liquor, shall
and are hereby required to take and
subscribe the atove and foregoing oath.
Sec. IV. Upon the neglect or refusal
of any person so required to take and
subscribe the above and foregoing oath/
each and every person so neglecting or
refusing shall be and are hereby mado’
liable and subject to all the pains andi
penalties which a person retailing with-'
out license is now subject to by law.
The Montgomery Lottery.—The,.
Mobile correspondent of the Montgo-^
mery (Ala.) Journal relates ai rathe/
curious tale about a negro preacheV irf
Mobile dreaming out prizes from Swarf’s'
Lottery. The following is his account
of the circumstances:
•* The last drawing of the Southern’
Military Academy Lottery has created,
a profound sensation among the colored
population here. One of their nrftabeQ
a reverend gentleman, called Preacher
Bolling, dreamed some six sinCe
that he was the fortunate holder of tf
prize ticket. Encouraged by the dream,
he went next day to Boullemet’s/ ana
invested $2,59, and was rewarded by
receiving from the fickle goddess the
comfortable sum of $1,590. One
would have thought him content witrf
this; but no! he determined to try
agaifi, and purchasing the same number,
has singularly enough drawn this time
$3,500rthe half of the capital priz^.;
Whether he will now retire and give
others a chance, report says not.
Allied Forces in tXJe Crimea.—
According to a correspondent of the
London Times, the combined forces land
ed by the -811163 at Old Fort, in the’
Crimea, o*n the 14th of September,’
amounted to 67,000 men, since which
time up to the middle ol November, rein
forcements arrived in the Crimea, mak
ing the total force 114,415 men. From 1
this roust be deducted the loss in bmtle,
in the trenches, by sickness. &c., 17,300/
leaving on the 15th of November an'
effective force of 95,il5 men. Since
the latter date 27.3S5 men have been
shipped for the Crimea, makiiYg, accord
ing to this showing, a total force of 121/
500 men. In these totals rre included
7,000 British and French sailors and
marines acting as land faces. The ag
gregate Russian force opposed to this'
array amounts to about 112,000 mrerf.’
American Settlers-in Palestine.'
—About two years ago eight AmektaiY
Christians conceived and carried out the'
novel idea of planting an ArtVeriftaft'
colony in the Holy Land. They first
located near Jerusalem.bjt Subsequent
ly removed to a place near Joppa, in
the plains of Sharon, Here they devot
ed themselves to the arts of agricmtrfre
and to the cultrvat.on of friendly rela
tions with the A;abs. The New York
Sun says.they procured American Agri
cultural implements from that city, ihkI
adds:
“The emigrants, in theii* letters home/
give the most glowing and attractive
descriptions of the fertility of the soil.
They are able to raise three crops in the
y ear —two in summer, by means of ir
rigation, and one in winter, when they
have the aid of the vfinter raids. The -
crops grow luxuriantly, and yield more
abundantly than in the United States ;’
and nearly every kiqd of vegetable, fruit'
or grain raised in this country
produced in Palestine.
Americans can do their own voting.’l
aud their own fighting.— Gen. Harrison.”
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