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VOLUME III.
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ATHENS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 15, 1856.
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HA 111) IVA RE A ND CROCKERY.
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LUCAS & BILLUPS,
irnOI.RS.1LE JLYD RETAIL DEALERS IX
DRY GOODS,
GROCERIES, HARDWARE, Ac. «tc.
iVo. 2, Broad Street. Athens.
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j«n Id ins with the hardnessof the times.
SAME IN THE SANI).
BV C. D. PBEKIICB.
Alone I walked on the ocean strand.
A peofl bhrll wa* in my hand,
1 stopped and wrote upon the sand
My name, the year and day:
As onward from the spot I passed,
One lingering look behind I cast,
A ware came rolling high and fast.
And washed my lines away. v
And so, meth, oght, ’twill quickly be
V5 ith every mark on earth from me J
A wave «>f dark oblivion’s sea
Will sweep across the place
Whertf I have trod the saudy shore
Of time, and bear to me no more, '
Of me, my day, the name I bore,
To leave n i track t r trace.
And yet with him who counts the sands,
And holds the water in his hands,
1 know a lasting record stands
Inscribed against my name.
Of all this mortal part has wrought.
Of all this thinking soul has thought,
Aud from these fleeting moments caught,
For glory or for shame.
Skiff Stems.
14 Lord Alvnnley, on returning home
after his duel with young O’Connell
gave a guinea to the hackney-coachman
who had driven him out and brought
him ba-tk. The man, surprised at ihe
largeness ofthj sum,'said ‘-My Lo.d, I
only took you to Aivnnly it »er-
rupted him, “ My friend, the gurnet is
fur bringing m* back, not for taking me
out.”
C< L. Benton.—It is said that old
Bullion has telegraphed to Missouri, de
clining the nomination for Governor of
that State; but at the same time con
juring his friends no; to yield an inch to
the Atchisonites.
T. BISHOP & SON,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers
IN
GROCERIES. HARDWARE, AND
STAPLE DRY GOODS,
May 1 No. 1, Broad streets Aibens.
WILLIAM N. WHITE,
WHOLESALE .VXD RETAIL
BOOKSELLER AND STATIONER,
And Xcitspaptr and Magazine Agent.
DEALER IX
MUSIC and MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
LAMPS, VINE CUTLERY, FANCY GOODS, «C.
No. 9, College Avenue. Newton House, Athene, Ga
sign of ” White’s University Book Store.”
Orders promptly filled at Augusta rates.
JAMES M. ROYAL,
HARNESS MAKER,
H AS removed his shop to Mitchell’s old
Tavern, one door east of Grady A Nich-
olsou’s—where he keeps always on hand a
general assortment*)! articles in bisline, and
isalwaysready to fillordersinthe best style
Jan 26 • tf
To lore an enemy is the dislinguisred
characteristic of a religion which is not
of man but of God. It could be deli
vered as a precept only by him who
lived and died to establish it by his ex
ample. i.
A Mother’s Love.—The intensity
of maternal affection was well illustrated
in the observation of a sweet little boy,
who after reading 44 Pilgrim’s Progress,”
asked his mother which , jf the charac
ters she liked best. She replied. 4 Chris-
an, of course; he is the hero of the
story.” He responded: 44 1 like Chris
tiana best, because when Christian sei
out on his pilgrimage he went alone,
but when Christiana started she took
i he children with her.”
A clerk at Stewart’s (New York) Us:
week, committed suicide by stabbing
himself with the points of his shirt cof-
lars. Hit effects, consisting of two pots
of lntir oil and a guitar, were forwarded
to his aunt in Mercer street. A verdict
of justifiable homicide was rendered by
the jurymen.
... ■'
The PorE’s Authority.— 14 The
Pope is the proper authority to decide
for me whether the Constitution of this
country is or is not repugnant to the
laws of God.”
Thus writes O. A. Bronson, the great
exponent of the Papnayi in this country.
How truthfully does this agree with the
exclamation of Lafayette, If ever the
liberties of this country are endangered
or destroyed, it will be’ through the in
fluence of Popish priests,” What i
c nnmentary on the prophetical declara
tion of the apostle of liberty, is the bold
avowal at the head of this paragraph!
Fillmore in New York.—The Al
bany Statesman tells us that almost uni
versally it is the fact that wherever the
Americans were overborne in the late
elections in New York, it was effected
by the ''united forces of Democrats and
Republicans!” It adds the following
cheering news:
44 To the close observer, the fact is ap
parent as the unclouded sun at noon-day,
that ihe American party will carry the
Empire Slate next fall. There is no
earthly power that can prevent its having
a large plurality, if not a clear majority,
in the State. To nobody is this so ap
parent as the Republicans and Demo
crats. While to them it is a fact dis
heartening and chilling, to Americans it
is full of hope and well calculated to in
spire confidence and renewed energy
for the good cause.”
ftiisriilamj.
i The young gentleman heard of the loss
! of lier beauty with great lonchalattce.
— ; —J ‘‘But that is not all,”said Mrs. Cham
WHICH TO CHOOSE. ! pi . 0 ?’ ’‘Mv business man has ju
Mrs Champion, a rich widow of on-1 W,th me *••• the . morning. Sly
ly thirty summers, and in the full bloom ; men,a were most .^fortunate
of her beauty, was in the matrimonial C0 ™P lete, 3 r beggared. . .
market closely heseiged by three suitors.!. * H ? w ut ? for , ,unate * cr “£ Careless,
all of them good looking, all gentlemen j , Fo , r 1 am ,n ,he ?, ? me 1
and all professing unbounded and disinl v 1 S - ee . my wa * . l irou ? h
teresied affection’f. r the fair lady. Cap- 1 I 1 “ v * r / t f 1 " lent ,ba * 11 wou,d . **
tain Trevanicn had been a cavalry offi-! th «height oftolly for two persons with-
cer, but he had retired from the ser-‘° U | a ? y or .P^spect to marry
vice. He was a tall, dashing figure, i °" ly ‘° * ,U W& m ' ser *’ 1 ? ust P * e *
with very aristocratic mam,fcrsTand like \ y0U C ° nS, ^‘ r
Ned Pepper, Paul Chifforls’s friend iT n,hj « on [* conditional Doubtless
possessed an “uncommon-.*.* head oi’i ?h - er ?*" rasb * «npnnc.pled men who
hair.”—Indeed, it was ruim?ed t hat his ,n my case Hunk only of seniiment.
ambrncinl rnrU but 1 » m ,0 » good r moralist and too
less and more favored individual, pro-' "° W \ Jewell, l farewell fur-
r , ever I I leave you with despair in my
het^rf and madness in my brain.”
Probably no declaration of despair
The American Cause in Missouri.
—The St. Louis Intelligencer, says:
Missonri, our own noble Stale, will
roll up a majority for the American j gracefully on one
ticket, th:
tives.’
t will astonish even the na-
ambrosial curls were not nature’s gift to i "J ,■ v r
him, but the spolia opima of some name ! a CU,Zen *° ,h,nk of
cured of Bogle by the intenned ition of C ' er
a certain amount of filthy lucre. The
captain had inherited a large fortune.
Suitor No.2 was a young man about
town, very fashionable, polished and
pleasant. lie contrived To keep out of
debt, but bis financial resources were
said to be very limited. Mr. Claude
Careless evidently had a good prospect
of success.
The third suitor, Mr. Stanley More-
ton, was an art-student, and also culti
vated poetry. Though very modest and
unaffected he was slightly eccentric in
the matter of costume—wore a Reubens
hat, and black velvet coat, and during
the Kossuth excitement had serious
thoughts of completing his equipment
with a feather—but his better genius
saved him from this solecism. ’ As he
was quite sensitive and timid, had an
awkward habit of blushing, and was si
lent in company, the Captain and Care
less made light of his rivaiship and con
sidered the contest as confined to them
selves.
The Captain proposed afier the most
approved taste of fashion, dropping
knee, and pressing
Impertinent.—Lady (in a fashiona
ble dress,) 44 Little boy, can I go through
this gate to the river?”
Boy— 44 Perhaps. A load of hay
went through ibis morning.”
A traveler domicilling at a hotel, ex-
cluimed one morning to the waiter:
4 What are you about, you black rascal ?
You have roused me twice from my
sleep by telling me breakfast is ready,
and now you are attemptii.g to strip off
the bed-clothes. What do you mean?’
4 Why,’ replied Pompcy, *• if you isn’t
a going to get up 1 mU st have the sheet
anyhow, cause dey’re waitingfode table
clqff.’ 6
COLT & COLBERT,
DEALERS IX
STAPLE DRY GOODS,GROCERIES
AND HARDWARE.
No. 9 Granite Row Athens, Ga.
JAMES x. COLT. | WM. C. COLBERT.
August 6,1865.
W. W. LUMPKIN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Athens, Ga.
‘WflLL Practice in all the counties of the
nWcrtera-Onatii, Particular attention
given to collecting.
Office on Broad street, over White A Moss’
Jan 81
^V. L. MAHLER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
•Jefferson, Jackson County,Ga.
^EnticF-s.—Mwars. McLester a Hunter
S, Thompson. Evqa., Jefferson; D.
_ Spence end W. J.Peeples, Esqs. Lnw-
'UjNvilfc; J.-'-H. Newton, 0. Peeples, Esq.
““^•K.'Ohristv, Athens; Law & Clarke
M. Graham, Bwj. Gainesville.
^j»B 17—ly
American Constitution.—That is a
beautiful figure of Winthrop’s, in re
ference to our Constitution, where he
says:
•' Like one of those wondrous rocking
stones raised by the Druids, which the
finger of a child might vibrate to its
centre, yet the might of an army could
not move-frdm its place, our Constitu
tion is so nicely poised, that it seem«
to sway with every breath of passion,
yet so firmly based in the heat ts and
affections of the people, that the wildest
.-torms of treason and fanaticism break
over it in vain.”
W. G. DET.ONY.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
W^LLgivnliUspeciiri attention':)) collVct-
titi J nK ’J nd 40 l h« claims of all pcrsons'gn-
te ***'“LandWarrants, under the 'late
the last Congress. •
Office oa Broad Street over the store
J.M. Kenney. ~ 3
^Mnreh 15-1865-tf.
C : & H. R. J. LONG,
"°* csa,e a »d Retail Druggists.
ATHENS, Ga.
JSD SLOAN & 0ATMAN7
•w DEALERS IN . d
a, Egyptian <b American
•SJiJSjLj MARBLE.
•Mantels nnc [we*; Marble
* All orders
*• The Bible a Humbug.”—A Rom
ish Journal before us (The Celt) has or.
editorial article this week, with this
heading.
This just confirms what we said the
other day—that Garrison’s Black Re
publican Convention in May, to show
that the Sacred Scriptures have no
claim to divine inspiration, will have the
heartiest sympathies with the Romish
Hierarchy. The Abolitionists don’t
, tb ® Bible, because its teachings are
I generally in reposition to their practices.
The Hierarchy don’t like it especially
among the laity, because It spoils their
trade.
Hence, this new Romish, Abolition,
Black Republican dogma— 44 The Bi
ble a Humbug.”—N. Y. Express.
A Noble Sentiment, Well Ex-
PRESSED.-The Hon. William R. Smith,
of Alabama, uttered the following senti
ment in the late American Convention
at Philadelphia:
44 Talk about dissolving the Union!
why, sir, I believe the American Un
ion is a political indestructibility 1—it
will endure for ages yet to come, aud
will look down upon thousands of trai
tors’ graves 1”— Fayetteville Argus.
The Jackson Mississippian says that
Mississippi •* owes a debt to the Pierce
Administration,” and Prentice wants to
know whether that State means to issue
bonds to secure its payment, and if so.
w!;at will probably be tbeir market val
ue? - ij- 'v' . -
A IIappt Fireside.—Home is the
residence, not merely of the body, but
of the heart: it is a place for the affec
tions to unfold themselves; for child
ren to love, and letrn, and play in ; for
husband and wife to toil smilingly to
gether, and make life a blessing. The
object of all arnbitio.Q should be a happy
home ; if we ate not happy there, we
cannot be happy elsewhere. It is the
roof of the virtues of* family circle
cc a happy fireside.
Awful Dispensation of Provid-
ence.—A private of the Ea*t York
Militia was on parade a few days ago,
at the camp at Aldershott, and being ac
cused of talking more than once by Ihe
sergeant, by whom be was threatened
that if he did so again he would be re
ported to the colonel, said lie did not
talk, ar.d at the same time wi.-hed that
*• God might sti ike him dumb if he had.”
He tvas from that instant struck dumb,
and has not spoken since. lie has an
swered questions by writing, and stated
that the moment he had uttered the last
word, ‘dumb,” he became so —English
Paper.
It was Cnbbelt who said (and he told
the truth too.) that ‘‘women are never
so amiable, as when they are useful,and as
for beauty, though men may fall in
love with girls at play, there is noth
ing to make them stand to t’.ieir love
like seeing them at work.”
Simply Ridiculous,—The Wash
ington Sentinel, a Buchanan organ, and
whose position has given to ihe editor
every opportunity for knowing Mr.
Pierce and his Administration,_ says s
“What commences to be ridiculous
ceases to be dangerous. And what could
be more ridiculous than the spectacle of
the great Democratic Party again fight
ing under Pierce. An array of Brob-
dingn«gians commanded by a Liltpulian
Chief would not be more incongruods.
In some political Liliputta, Mr. Pierce
might be n respectable, perhaps even a
great man; but in a party winch boasts
among a multitude of able leaders such
chieftains as Buchanan and Walter,
and Rusk and Butler, and Dallas and
Douglas, the attempt to measure h’.m-
self with them, only makes his dtminu-
tiveness the more painfully conspicuous.
editor
relates the
affection
An unprincipled I
following case of remarkable affection
and absence of mind 44 A girl, who
was one of our first loves, was one night
lighting us out. after having passed a
delightful evening. and in bashful trepi
dation, she blew us out of the door,
drew the candle behind the door and
kissed it.” .
A chandler having had some candles
,-tolen, one bid him be of good cheer.
“ for in a short time,” said he, 44 I am
confident they will come to light.”
Five Eclipses.—An exchange paper
says there will be five eclipses this year :
two of the snn, two of the moon, and
one of Frank Pierce ! The latter will
be visible all over the United Stnh s next
November. — w-'.
the lips that murmured his vows to the
fair hand he solicited as bis guerdon.
When he had retired, Claude paid
his devoirs, and made his proposals with
great earnestness. His professions of
disinterestedness were no less emphatic
than the captain’s.
The painter came next. When -alone
with the lady of his love he found a voice
which failed him in the presence of
others.
To each of the suitors six* gave,tlie
same reply—namely, that she would re
turn a . definite answer exactly three
weeks from the date of bis proposal,
requiring him in the interval to refrain
from calling or inquiring about her, and
to absent himself from the city. The
commands of a rich beauty are impera
tive. Each man promised a knightly
obedience and kept his pledge. The
Captain ran down to Newport; Claude
went to Saratoga, and Stanley carried
his sketch book up to the White Moun
tains.
The widow shut herself up for three
weeks. At the expiration of that time,
punctual to the appoint' d day, hour and
minute, the elegant Captain entered
Mrs. Champion’s dr iwing-room, and
surveyed himself from head to foot in
the Versailles mirror, with a smile of
satisfaction. He was engaged in self
admiration when a light step recalled
him to a sense of propriety.—He turned
and beheld the widow, but a thick veil
covered her face. He drew a chair to
her side and addressed her.
‘‘Dearest Isabella,” said he, in his
most persuasive tones, “allow me to re
move the envious screen which shrouds
charms which were ^rer meant to be
concealed.”
“Alas, Captain,” sa^d the widow,
with a tremulous voice, and drawing her
veil yet closer, “those charms exist no
longer.”
Is it possible 1'* cried the Captain
in a tone of alarm. “Wbat do you
mean ?”
“Since I saw you I have been very
sick. When I was a child my parents
neglected to have ine vaccinated, and
the ravages of the small pox”—
“The smallpox!” cried jhe Captain.-
pushing his chair back to the other side
of the room.
"Don’t be afraid, Captain,” said the
widow. “It is all over—and I am a
dreadful object to behold —tut of cou rse
that makes no difference in your affec-
,,0 “Hem!” cried the Captaiu. “It
would make no difference, if 1 wanted
to retire with you into the -country, to
live like Darby and Joan. But to go
into society—to introduce you as my
wife at balls and soirees—a person disfig
ured by a dreadful disorder, O Lord,
ma’am the idea never entered my
head!”
li I release you fron your engagement
you are free,” said the widow.’ : .-*'
“I have no doubt, ma’am,” said the
Captain,greatly relieved, “that you will
find individuals not exactly in my situa
tion, who will be—will be very happy
to—in short, ma’am,.I wish you a very
good day.” ^ - -A.
“Cold-hearted, vain egotist!” said the
widow, when he had lelt^ ‘‘I rightly
guaged your character. ^ o u on ly wish-
ed for a handsome wife to. enhance
your consequence, and parade in society,
as you show off your handsome horse in
the street. Let us see whether mv
thoughts have wronged Mr. Careless.
To Careless she told the same story.—
was ever uttered in a cooler tone—and
so thought the widow.
The young artist heard the loss of his
lady’s beauty calmly.
“It is a misfortune," said he. “Beau
ty is a glorious gift, bul perishable—the
true heart and mind alone remain un
changed till death.”
“But 1 am poor, Stanley,” said the
widow.
“You give me new life, Isabella!”—
cried the painter. “The world cannot
say now that any mercenary motive
tainted the pure feeling with which I re
garded you. Trust me, you shall never
want while I have brain and hand to
•work for you.”
. ‘/Then take me for such as I am and
was,” cried the widow, throwing off her
veil, “both in person and in purpose, and
forgive the fabricated tale which proved
two of my suitors worthless.”
Freed from the veil, her dazzling
beauty beamed on the painter in undim
med radiance, and her hand thrilled to
his touch. Need we say that they wp r e
happy ?
From the St, Louis Christian Advocate.
BIBLE LORE AMONG LAWYERS.
As we have noticed, several papers
from 44 down South" have been making
invest- themselves quite merry over some liuli-
I am crous blunders,, reported to have been
made by lawyers, at Jefferson City, in
this State, we propose to pay them in
their own c*>in—;or at least to send back
their change. It is true the legal gen
tlemen referred to were sadly at fault,
and ought to have known better—but
they were not a whit more at fault than
those of whom we will now speak.
Some years ago, during the sitting of
the Supreme Court for one of the'db-
tricts in the middle part of South Caro
lina, the following scene occurred. A
trial for seduction was progressing.
Able counsel had been employed on
both sides, and considerable emulation
was manifest ttnong the lawyers. One,
in his speech for the defendant, remark
ed, that fiom the evidence given, he be
lieved it was a Potiphir’s wife’s case,
immediately the principal lawyer on the
persevering
AN ANGEL IN EVERY HOUSE
There is an angel in every house.
No matter how fallen Ihe mma'es. how
depressing their circumstances, there is
an angel there to pity or to cheer. It
may be in the presence of a little phild ;
or it may be clothed in a stooping or
wrinkled body, treading the downward
path to the grave. Or, perhaps, in a
checrfu^spirit, looking upon the ills of
life as so many steps toward heaven, if
only bravely overcome, and mounted
with sinless feet.
We knew such an angel omef and it
was a drunkard’s child. On every side
wherever she moved she saw only mise
ry and degradation; and yet she did not
fall. Her father was brutal, her mother
discouraged, and her home thoroughly
comfortless. But she struggled along
with angel endurance, bearing with an
almost saintly patience, tie infirmities
of him who gave her existence, and then
hourly embittered iu Night after night,
at the appointed hour of ten, twelve, and
even one, barefoot, ragged, shawlless,
bonnetless, has she been to the den of
the d: unken and gone staggering home
with her arm around her father. Many
a time hasher flesh been blue with the
mark of his hand, when she has stepped
in between her helpless mother and vio
lence. Many a time has she sat upon
the cold curb stone with his head in
her lap; many a time known how bit
ter it was to cry for hunger, when the
money that should have bought bread
was spent for rum.
And the patience that the angel
wrought with, made her young face
shine, so that though never acknowl
edged in the courts of this world, in the
Kingdom of heaven, she was waited for
by assembled hosts of spirits, and the
crown of martyrdom ready, lay waiting
for her brow.
And she was a martyr. Her gentle
spirit went up from a couch of anguish
—anguish brought on by ill usage and
neglect. And never till then, did her
father recognize the angel in the child;
never till then, did his manhood arise
from the dust of his dishonor. From
her humble grave, he went away to steep
his revives for the better in bitter tears:
and he will tell you to-day how the
memory of her much endeared life,
keeps him from the bowl—how he goes
sometimes,and stands where her patient
hands have held him, while her cheek
crimsoned at the sneers of those who
scoff at the drunkard’s child.
Search for the angels in your house
holds, and cherish them while they are
among you. It may be that all uncon
sciously you frown upon them, when
a smile would lead you to a knowledge
of her exceeding worth. They may b:
among the least cared for, most despis
ed ; but when they are gone with their
silent influences then will you mourn
lor them, as for a jewel of great worth
Missouri Politics,—There are now
three condidates in the field for Gover
nor of Missouri, as follows: Thomas H.
Benton nominated by the Benton Dem
ocrats, Trusten Polk by the Atchison
Democrats, and Robert C. Ewing by
the Amerioaus. An effort was made
to bring the two wings of the Democrat
ic party together while their Conven
tions were sitting in Jefferson city
which failed, two separate t
ing nominated throughout,
ican ticket will doubtless be
part of the prosecution turned to an
other member of the bar with, “Col. B.,
where is that Potipher’s wife’s case re
ported ; I want to : answer that part of
the argument ?”
Col. B. looked wise and thoughtful
for a few seconds, and confessed he had
forgotten.
The questioner then immediately
turned to a young member oi the bar
who had but lately left College, and
asked the same question. The young
disciple of Biackstone of course did not
wish it to be thought he was deficient
in anything. So after indulging awhile
in that peculiar look, indicative of deep
thought, he answered, 44 It seems to me.
that when I was in College, 1 read some
thing about that case in the Greek
Testament.”
In North Carolina, the Solicitor for
the State on one of the Judicial circuits,
while prosecuting a young man f»r al
leged fraud in hrrse-swapping, after ad
dressing the “court and jury” for some
time, felt it incumbent on him to give
the accused some wholesome 'advice—
which he did in this wise. Turning
directly towards him, looking him fall
in the face, and significantly pointing
with his finger, he said, “ Young man,
that good old book' your father and
mother taught you to read and reverence
—that book by which you ought to have
been guided—says, ‘When thou swap-
pest horses with thy neighbor, tljpu shalt
tell the truth, the whole truth, and noth
ing but the truth.”
This same Solicitor, when prosecut
ing a man under charge of theft, grew
warm in the argument, and staitledthe
Court with the following: 4 Gentlemen
6f the Jury, the evidence, in this case U
point blank, it says to the prisoner as
Moses said to Solombn—thou art the
man.”
onicnl impediment. 1 >hnll personally
visit the Apostolic See once cvry It u
years, anil render an account to our
blessed Fs.th r X. and Ins succe soi l
as aforesaid, of my whole pastoral of
fice, and of every thing in any way sp-
pertaining to the si..te of my Church.to
the discipline of the c’.C'gy and p ’nple
and to the salvation of the souls entrust
ed to my care, and I shall htiinbll re
ceive in return the Apostolic mandates,
and most diligently execute them. Bul
if I be prevented by a lawful impedi
ment, 1 shall perform all the thing-*
aforesaid by a certain messenger spe
cially authorized for this purpose, a
priest i f the diocese, or by some other
secular, tegular priest of tried virtue
and piety, well instructed on all the
above subjects.
I shall not sell or give away, nor mort
gage, enfeoff anew, nor in any way
alienate the .possessions belonging to
my table, without the leave of the Ro
man Pontiff —-And should I proceed
to any alienation of them I am willing
to contract by the very fact the penal
ties specified in the Constitution pub
lished on this subject.”
More recently, the following occurred
in Tennessee. Several lawyers were in
conversation in a room in a public-house
in M- , during a session of the
Circuit Court,w hen one of them alluded
to the fable of the dog in the manger, 1
and insisted it was in the scripture:
Another denied it. They contended for
some time, and finally referred to young
II., who had the reputation ol being one
of the best read men of his age in that
part of the State. lie gave it as his
opinion that itwas Scripture, and might
te found in th-1 part of the Old Testa :
ment which spoke of Christ having
been laid in a manger!
Finally—an editor in Georgia, and
one too of those who have had so much
fun about the blunders of the Jefferson
City lawyers, lately let off the following.
He was speaking of the birth of the “ in
fant King of Algiers
“ If it is true that there is always joy
in heaven when a boy child 19 born, it
is equally true that there was great joy
in France when the young Prince made
his appearance.”
Whenever our editorial brethren feel
a disposition again to laugh at the mis
takes of Missouri lawyers, they can just
let us know.
CATHOLIC BISHOP’S OATH.
Last Summer the Sag Night press of
Tennessee, denied most vehemently that
any Roman Catholic had to take an
oath to support the Pope of Rome, in
any case in opposition to the Constitu
tional Laws of the United States, but it
now appears that these editors were
mistaken. Bishop Miles, of Nashville
has furnished the papers of that city
with the following, which we presume
may be taken as the true oath of a Cath
olic Bishop:
“1. N. Elect of the Church of N.
shall be from this hour henceforward obe
dient to blessed Peter the Apostle, and
to the holy Roman Church, and to the
most blessed Father pope N. and to his
successors canonically chosen. I shall
assist them to retain and defend against
any man whatever, the Roman Pope
dom. without prejudice to any rank. I
shall take care to preserve,' defend, and
promote the rights, honors, privdeges
and authorities of the Holy Roman
Church, of the Pope, and of his succes
sors, as aforesaid. With my whole
strength I shall observe, and cause to
be observed by others, the rules of the
holy Fathers, the decrees,ordinancestor
dispositions, and mandates of the Apns
tolic See. When called to a synod, 1
shall come unless prevented by scan
DIFFERENT DESTINIES OF TWO WRX
THERS.
JOHN C; AND FRANK FREMONT.
It seems to be settled, now, .that Col.
J. C. Fiiemont is to be the Presidential
candidate of the Black Republicans—•
the most detestable set of po iticians^
not excepting the party, of Robespierre
and Ditnton, in the French liuvolution.
that the world ever knew. For the
atrocities of the era referred to, there
was some Very slight pnlliatfon in the
oppressions of previous systems nml
wrongs inflicted by the classes which
were so horribly revenged by the Pa
risian cut-throats. To .the case of the
American eans-culottes, the attempted
revolution is softened by no presence .of
injury to it* actors, and is against all the
instincts ofn race—while it is demon
strated, by recent events at the North*
that their ferocity is as intense and as-
brutal as the annals of revolutionary
Paris can exhibit.
Vlt~ i* liiis4>aity that Col. Fremopl
now leads; and Col. Fremunt is a South
ern-born man. Nay, he is a Southern-
boru man, whose pres nt wealth and dis
tinguished position are fairly attributa
ble to the social influences of the section,
upon which he is hereafter to make
war. Had lie been a native of New
England,In nil probability he would
ibis day have been steeped in poverty
and unknown to fame. If Col. Fremont
was not born in Charleston, lie was car
ried there at a very’ early age by his
mother, and he certainly received there
the education which fitted him ' tor sub
sequent success and distinction. Ho
was the protege of the Ladies' Beneco~
lent Society ol Charleston, some members
of which found the family in gr^ut need
and aided them. Young J. C'. Fre
mont was discovered to have talent, and
by the interest of these same ladies, be
came the beneficiary of a charily, schol
arship in Cliarleston College. He was
graduated there, with distraction, having
shown (as we always heard.) decided
mathcmnupl talent. Subsequently,
through the influence already mentioned
Mr. Poinsett, was induced to get liiru an
appointment as a teacher of mathematic*,
on board a national vessel; thence he
was transferred to the corps of Topogra
phical Engineers-—not very long after
wards married a daughter of lion.
Thomas II. Benton, and begtiu bit-
brilliant and rapid rise. Every one
knows his subsequent history.
Col. Fremont had a brother,. Fiuid:,.
a year or two younger, who went on tin:
stage very early. He was a bluff look
ing, hearty fellow, sectaing very ranch
more like a man destined -to military
lea lership, than his brother. For some
little time, Frank hiade a sens ition and
got to be called the ‘‘Charleston
Roscius”—but gradually Ciine to be
considered merely it s‘6:k actor. Af er ha-
had been on the .-foge some years, Iks
married—in New. York, as well as We
recollect. Somewhere about 18.13-B
while playing an engagement in Bulf.ilo,
(N. Y.) he got into an abolition riot of
some kind and, while fighting gallantly
lor Southern principles, be received a
heavy blow on his head which affocte.l
his brain. From this he never recovered
—the injury finally settled upo i hi-
lungs and he died of enn-umprion.—
He continued to play, we believe, up n>
a few days before hi? death, which oc
curred in Columbus, G *.. in ■ LS3J. At
any rate, the ^writer of this found him
there (with some little trouble, as he
was playing under an assumed name,)
having been charged with a message to
him, by his mother—who, it may he
remarked, was a quiet, melancholy vo
man, greatly devoted to her ?on». i
It is a little striking, that these two
brothers, born and reared oi* slave soil,
should, by the merest accideuts, both
have been so nearly affected by abolition
ism, personally. The one is knots ;e-t
in the head and “done for” by fanatic
ism, while the other m ikes a name in
famous, which had else been truly fa
mous, by giving his influence to the
miscreants who wage an unholy war up
on the institutions ofhis own section
and of a people who raised him from bis
lowliness and placed him on the high
road to fame and boundless wealth. If
he ever thinks of his origin, he must see
the depth of an ingratitude almost sub
lime.—Montgomery Mail f April 17.