The Southern watchman. (Athens, Ga.) 1854-1882, May 22, 1856, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextPUBLISHED "WEEKLY, ny JOHN H. CHRISTY, ■PITOR ASO «M>»W*TO». , Termtof Subscription. SSESISffi^^ j&stxg&sss&txHmstt ::: .ighBir ZuSitUm rain,the CcA *■<!»cc»mpa»f tieardcr. Rates of AilrcrtUlng. Traa-laal tl»eWls«»e«>* wlllbeinserted st One A*IUrMrsqnar>forth*ftr»i.sniiFiriyi;eiit*persqamre r„r»«ch fOhseqneni insertion. US*I »<*d pearly ad rerdsemenW si the usual rales Candidates will be charged 45 for announcements .,4 obituary notiecaeaeoeoing*is lines in length will n tbaifed as alrwtlw agua • ^'r.rs^.swx.wara" and flitted accordinfly* anil ^rnftssinnal (Ms. ROBERT HESTER, attorney at law, May 1 ELBERTON, OA. J. M. MATTHEWS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, M,yl DANIELSVILLE, GA. C. B. LOMBARD, DENTIST, ATHFJYS, GEORGIA. I p,»*ivtr theStoreof Wilson k Veal. Jan PITNER & ENGLAND, Wholesale A Retail Dealers'! n Groceries, DryGoods, HARDWARE, SHOES AfCD BOOTS, Aprils Athens, Ga. DORSEY & CARTER, dealers in [Family Groceries & Provisions. Corner of Brn-d and Jackson streets, Athens. Ga. MOORE & CARLTON, DEALESS IN |ILK, FANCY AND STAPLE GOODS, HARDWARE AMD CROCKERY. Ipril No. 3, Granite Row, Athens,Ga. LUCAS & BILLUPS, irilOI.tZS.AUE AifD RETAIL DEALERS I.Y DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, HARDWARE, Ac. Ac. No. 2, Broad Street. Athens. JOHN II. CHRISTY. • PL1LY A.YI) EAJYCr Book and Job Printer, •’ Franklin Job Office,” Athens. Ga. , \ll w ok entrusted to his earelaithiully. correct!} and punctually executed, at prices correspond- |.itnll in; with the hardnessorthe times. TELL 1 ME YE WINGED WINDS. Tell we, ye winged winds Tbfttrouudmy pathway iw>. i'kLpq : Do you no}, know some spot : l; ' * •' Where mortals weep nc mote t. H»j n Scute lone and pleasant dell, ^ . Some valley in the west, - Where, free from toll and pain,it - The weary »oul may rest» , ‘ ■.i The loud wind softened in a whisper low, And sighed for pity as it answered ‘‘.No (S * Tell me, thou misty d«e]5, s , v ■'! Whose billows round ine play. ’ % Know st thou some favored spot, Some island fur sway, W here weary man may find The rest for which he sighs, Y here sorrow ‘never lives, And friendship never dies ? The loud waves rolling in perpetual flow. Stopped for awhile and sighed'to answer— “ No 1” ' And thou, rereuest moon, Aud with such holy face, Dost look upon the earth, Asleep in night’s embrace, Tell me, iu all th round Hast thou not seen some spot Where miserable man Might find a happier lot! Behind the cloud the nioou withdrew in woe. And a voice sweet, but sad, responded “ No 1” Tell me, my sweet soul, * Oh ! tell me, hope aud faith, Is there no resting place From sorrow, aiu and death t Is there no happy spot. Where mortals may be blessed, Where grief may find a balm And weariness a rest f Faith, Hope and Love, best boons to mnrtils given, Waved their bright wings and whispered, “ Yes. in Heaven P .Good Shoe Leather.—Matthew Lansing used tb say? * If you wish to have a shoe made of durable material, you should make the upper leather of the mouth of an old toper, for that never lets in water.” THE PHILOSOPHY OF EMIGRA- . 0 TION. " . ,7;y T: The New York Times obtains from the official returns of emigration from Great Britain to other countries; some interesting details,-in reference to the decrease of emigration, and which pre sents the subject in a different aspect from that which generally obtains. It A D. D.—Rev.* Theodore Parker, I a hP ear3 from these, that in 1854, there having received a letter from an Ala-| ,efl f 9 r th ® United S:ates t ,49,,065 enti- Oamian. calling him a ” d—~—d white g ran4s ;»*'d in 1855, 103,414 ;for Brit ish North America, in 1854. 43,761 : in 1855, 17,966; for Australia, in 1854 S3,237; in 1855, 52,309. Total in 1854, 323,429; in 1855, 176,807. When you get into a fit of passion just walk out into the air, you may speak your, mind to.the winds without liurting any oneor proclaiming your self a simpleton. 'Brief Stems. Why ore kisses like the creation 7 Because they are made out of nothing, and are very good. A German newspaper says th it a Mayence correspondent writes, under the date of March 23, that on the pre ceding day, some well-diggers in that city turned up a part of a printing press which bears the initials J. G„ (Jo hannes Guttenburg,) and the year 1441, in Roman characters. T. BISHOP & SON, Wholesale anil Retail Dealers GROCERIES. HARDWARE. AND STAPLE DRY GOODS, May t No. 1, Broad street, Athens. WILLIAM N. WHITE, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL BOOKSELLER AND STATIONER, A*iXcKtfprrand.Va^-.i»tA^eiU. DEALER IS |JIVSICanJ MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS LAlirS, FINE CUTLERY, FANCY Uv.ODS.bC. IV". 2, Colleft \vemie. Newlon llouse, Athens, Ga •ignof •• White’s University Bookstore.” Orders promptly filled at Augusta rates. JAMES M. ROYAL, HARNESS lUAKERt H AS removed his shop to Mitchell’s old Tavern, one door east of Grady A Nich- tlsoii’j—where he keeps always on baud a general assortmentof articles in hisline, and nlwaysready to fillordersinthebeet style Jan 2« tf COLT & COLBERT, DEALERS IX STAPLE DRY GOODS.GROCERIES AND HARDWARE. So. 9 Granite Row Athens, Ga. JAMES i. COLT, j mi. C. COLBERT. August 6,1355. _ W. W. LUMPKIN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ■ Athens, G«. [YV^LL Practice in all ihe counties of the Ill Western Circuit. Particular attention to collecting. Wiv on Broad street, over White A Moss’ JauSI phtre w. L. MARLER, attorney at law. I Jefferson, Jackson County, Ga. Messrs. McLester a Hunter n- .A 8 < Thompson. Erqs., Jefferson; D. **** r ®d W. J. Peeples, Esqs. Law- ST'"*-. J.H. Newton, C. Peeples, Esq. sdvi9hrietv,,-.Athens; Law A.Clarke Eko. Gaiuesville. hearted, slavo stealing scoundrel,” says he never before had the title oF D. D. conferred on him, even in small letters. One Sufficient.—Rogers relates! According to the same authority the that he once dined with Curran in the j returns from the Provinces show a sim- ptlblic room of the chief inn at Green- \ ilnr falling off. New Brunswick has wtch, when he talked a great deal, and 1405 arrivals in 1855, against .3618 in as usual with considerable exaggeration. 1854; Quebec, 21.274 this last year. Speaking of something which he would against 52,183 of the year preceding not do on any inducement, he exclaimed In the schedule of the nativity of enn vehemently: " ~ • • I had rather be hanged upon twenty gibbets.” Don’t you think, sir, that one would be enough for yout” said a girl.'a strang er, who was sitting at a table next to them, t w; . I wish (says Rogers) you could have seen Curran’s face. He was absolutely confounded—stiuck dumb. Tit fou Tat.—The editot of the Albany Herald says that he once knew a wild widow who cut out her own daughter iu the good graces of her lover, and married him, herself! To obtain revenge lor this mean, unmotherly trick, the daughter set her cap for the young man’s rich father (of whom he was the only heir,) and actually married him, and had children, to the infinite annoy ance of the other parties. This occur red in Onondaga county.—Exchange. National Language.—The language of a people expresses its character. The French is smooth, flowing, elegant, but it has no such word as home, no such word as comfort, and no word to express the distinction between love and like. On the. contrary, ennui and eclat are famous words, which have no equivalent in English. And, moreover, the fact that the French term for spiritual means simply witty, with a certain quickness and versatility of talent—and you have a sufficient hint with regard to the character ofthe people. Hands Wanted on Bosoms.—In a shirt store window, in New York, the notice “hands wanted on bosoms” was displayed. This attracted ihe attention ora wag, who coolly walked in, and with a ” a > r affecied simplicity, inquired of the lady in the store, whose bosoms she wanted hands on ? “Jane,” cried the • y ’, ,!! br,n « me the ,,r °°ro. and be quick !” Bovs shoudd Learn a Trade —St. Paul was a mechanic—a maker of tents. He was not only a thorough workman, but a thorough scholar, a master not only of his native Hebrew, but of other languages. It was the cus- tom among the Jews to have their sons taught some trade, a custom not confin ed to the poor classes, but also practised by the wealthy. The custom was a v.'ise one, and it were well if the fathers of the present day would train all their children to some useful employment, by which, in case their means of support from other sources should fail, they may get a comfortable livelihood. ** Do you know the prisoner Mr, Jones?” “ Yes. to the bone.” “What is his character?*’ “ Didn’t know he had any.” “ Does he live near you ?’ So near that he has spent only five shillings for fire, wood in eight years.” ‘Did he ever come into collision with you In any matter?” “Only once, and that when he was drunk and mistook me for a lamp post. •* From what you do know of him, would you believe him under oath ?” “ That depends upon circumstances. If he was so much in toxicated that he did not know what he was doing, 1 would; if not, I wouldn’t.” * What are you digging?” “ I am digging for money !*’ ' The news flew— the idlers collected. “ We are told jou are digging for money ?*’ *• Well, I ain’t digging for anything else !” ‘-Have you had any luck ?” “First-rate luck! pays well; you had better take hold.” All doffed their coals, and laid hold most vigorously for a while. After thn wing out some car-loads, the question arose ; *• When did you get any money la-t?” * Satuiday night.” ” Why f how much did you get?” “Four dollars and a half.” ^ “ Why, that’s rather small!” “ It's pretty well; six shillings a day. is the regular price.for digging cellars, all over town.” The spades dropped, and the loafers vanished. 1 : * W. G. DELONY. FWtRNeV AT LAW,' WS'? hi ”P«ial *tten tiuti to oolleot WUjX’r n< *claims of all persons en- ondw >otr 5'* 1 of last Congress J u 1T IC ® 1,11 Broad Street over the store Kenney. R - J - Li, f 8a,c and Retail Druggists. ' ATHENS, G a. SLOAN & OATMAN, dealers is Egyptian d: American &> EAST ■I!:: v Z r H s ■ UA n T\ L ’f. IS fill m : ni . s "4 V • 1’he following daguerreotype of his Satanic Majesty wasgiyen oy a negro preacher in breddren irginia to his ^‘colored “ Stan* ’side, niggers, let me tell you I hab a dream, and see de debil 1 He hab an eye like de moon ;. he hab a nose like a canoe; he hab an ear same ns ’bacca leaf; he had a shoulder like the Blue Ridge, and hab a tail like de rain- bow.P* '-<i. .'.■ns “ Sir, said a lady,to the Rev. Wm. Rpmaine, of London. ”1 like; the doc trine you preach, and think l can give up every thing but one.” “What is that mndam ?”—“Cards, sir.” “You think you could not be hytpy without them ?” “No sir, l could not” “Them, Madam, they are your God, and to them you must look for salvation.” This pointed and faithful reply is supposed to have led her to conversion. confident in its own.'strength, have given air imhiense actiViiy tb' all departments of industry, bringing With if. asa neces sary consequence, a greater, degree of individual comfort, wealth and content ment. The . possession of such home enjoyment diminishes the desire to emigrate —N: O. Bulletin. Mrs. Rusk, wife of Senator Rusk, of Texas, who^c death we recorded some days ago, was a Georgian by birth, and the daughther of Hon. Benj. Cleveland, of Habersham county. She married M/. Rusk in 1827, when he was a young and rising lawyer of this State, and . Mol.;. ..migrated with" him to Texas in 1835. • She is said to hate been a lady of in telligence and many mental anid personal charms. Fit for a Lawyer.—An old Udy walked in»o a lawyer’s office lately, when the following conversation took place: Lady—Squire, I called-to see if you’d like to take this boy and make a lawyer out of him. • ■'/ Lawyer—The boy appears rather young madam. How old is.be? Lady-r-Seven years, sir. Lawyer—He is too young, decidedly too yoang. Have you no older boys ? Lady—Oh,■ yes, sif, we have several y but wd have concluded to make farm ers of the others. I told my old man I thought this little feller would make a first rate lawyer,and so I call to see if you would take him- Lawyer—No. tnadam, he is too young yet to commence the study of the pro fession. But why do you think this boy so much better calculated for a lawyer than your other sous ? L: dy—Why, you see, sir, he is just seven years old to-day; when he was only five he’d lie like alf nature; when he got to bo six, he was sassy and im pudent as any critter could be, and now he’ll steal every thing he can lay his hands on.^ ' French a Discourtesy.—We regret to learn, says the Washington Star, that when recently i* Paris, on their way home, the commission of United States army officers who were sent to the Crimea for professional observation, were subjected to rude treatment by of ficials of the French Government Copies of certain drawings, &c., bad been promised to them when in Paris on their way to the Crimea, which were subsequently harshly refused, as ex plained above, because, as the 1 reneli officials declared, when they next met the American officers it would probably be at the cannon’s mouth. A Galway paper says that since peace has put an end to the call for solJiers, the immigration from Ireland to America is beginning to grow as great as ever. grants arriving at Quebec, it appears that 20,267 Irish arrived there in 1854, and last year only 5691; 11,034 Ger mans in 1854, and in 1S55 only 3815; 7353 English in 1851, and 4310 in 1855; ,7186 Scotch the one year, and 5348 this last year; aud 5811 Norwe gians in 1854, against 1288 in 1S55. Here we see that the emigration from Great Britain to our country has fallen off to 53 per cent, of what it was in 1854; the Australian is only 74 per cent, of ils former amount, and the em igration to the Provinces is but 24 per cent, of what it was in 1854. Taking the last quoted returns, we find that the whole, emigration to the Provinces is but 39 per cent, of its former number; while the whole emgration to the United States is 43 per cent, of what it was the year before Inst; so that the British Provin ces suffer 14 per cent, more loss in im migration than the United States. Aus tralia has lost 3G per cent, of her immi gration from England, and the Provin ces 75 per cent. Ofthe Irish, nearly four times as many came to Canada in 1854, as in 1855; of Germans, nearly three times ; of Norwegians, almost five times; of English about one and three- quarters as many. The impression has very generally prevailed, that the deyreaso^d emigra tion to this country, was to be iscribed to political or party movements; and par ticularly to the Know Nothing organi zation. It is very evident front the above exposition, that there are other immediate causes at work—for we see that the irm igratioh into the. English colonies, from Great Britain and the Continent, has dimi hed to a greater degiee than immigration into this coun try. The popular cry then, that Know Kothingism has diminished emigration, is an erroneous one. The starving Irish and Germans, who leaves their own country are not political martyrs, seek ing in the New World the enjoyment of a more liberal system of political rights. The blessings of free suffrage are un : known to them; and the prospects of possessing the great boon of American citizenship, voting without any property- qualification, and as often as they please, provided they vote on the right side, are not the attractions that draw them from the father land; sheer necessity- drives them from their homes, and it is to seek employment and obtain bread that they come over to us. The causes of the decrease of emi gration are entirely different from those that are generally assigned. The main cause is the enhanced dignity and value of labor. The class of laborers in Great Bri aiu are not the same they used to be—mentally, morally and socially considered. Enlightened statesman ship and a liberal philanthropy, have initiated an organized system of national educationand labor, instead of being degrade*) and servile, as it once was, is now intelligent, dignified and independ ent. Intelligent labor is well paid in all part* of Great Britain; and in Ireland a sensible improvement nr the physical and social condition .of the lotfrer classes is discernible.. The Irish National FnrnthaNew York Observer. SEENE IN A LOG CABIN. ^ It was neatly, midnight of a Saturday night that a passenger came to Col.—■—, requesting him to go to the cabin U a settler; some three miles down the river, and see his daughter, a girl of fourteen, who was supposed to be dying. Col.—— awoke me aud asked me to accompanv him,-and l consented, taking with me thesmall package of medicines which 1 always carried in the forest; but I learn ed soon there was no need of these, for her. disease was past cure. “She is a strange child,” said the Colonel, “her father is a strange man:— They live together alone on the bank of the river. They came here three years ago, and no one knows whence or why. He has money, and is a keen shot. The child has been wasting away for a year past. I have seen her often, and she is gifted with a marvellous intellect. She speaks sometimes as if inspired, and 6he seems to be the only hope of her fath er.” We reached the hut of the settler in less than half an hour, and entered it reverently The scene wasone which cannot easi- y be forgotten. There were books and evidences ofluxury and taste!* lying on the rude table in the centre. A guitar lay on the table near the little window, and the bed furniture, upon which -the dying girl lay, was as soft as the cover ing of a dying queen. She was a fair child, with masses of long black hair lying over her pillow.— Her eye was dark and piercing, and as it met mine she started slightly, but smil ed and looked upward. Is poke a few words toiler father, and turning to her, nsked her if she knew her condition. “I know that my Redeemer liveth,” said she, in a voice whose • melody was like the sweetest tone of an jEolian.-— Yap may imagine that the answer start led me, and with a few words uf like import, I turned from ber. A half hour jmssed, and she spoke in the samedeep. richly melodious voice— Father, I nra cold—lie down beside meand the old man lay down by his dying child, and she twined her emaciat ed arms around his neck ,and murmured, in a dreamy voice, “Dear father, dear father.” I • “My child,” said the <dd man, “doth the flood seem deep to thee ?” “Nay, father, for my soul is strong.” “Seest thou the thither shore ?” “I see it, father; audits banks are green with immortal verdure.” “Hearest thou the voices of its inhab itants £” “I hear them, father, as the voice of angels, falling from afar in the still and solemn night-time—anti they call me.- Her voice, too, father!—oh, I beard it then!’’ i > “Doth she speak to thee ?’’ “She speaketh in tones most heaven ly !” “Doth she smile ?” ‘•An angel smile! But a cod. calm smile. But I am cold—cold ! Father, there’s a mist in the room. You’ll be lonely'. Is this death, father ?' And so she passed away. You otfnnT to get Married.—For why ? ’Cause the nights are so cold, and you’re all growing Old Vand long keep ing, we’re tdld* spoils things manifold. You ought to get married. For why?’ : You’d Itavei something to cheer you ; a loving wife neac you ; the ghosts would all fear you, and small fry endear you.’ “Provided you got such close by!’ ‘You ought to get married. For * l »y ?> isingle life has no bliss, and if wedded you kiss,Tight or wrong, hit or mis3_ your wife and her sister antf may be her Schools and the Agricultural Schools, which hare been liberally scattered over the couutry, serve to enlighten the lrish peasantry and give them an appreciative estimate of the value of skilful and diversified, labor. Wag/es in Ireland are sometimes three shillings sterling Where’they Tried to 5 be one shiHingi el even only a sixpence. ‘ Another active and moving cause of the improved con dition of Ireland, is the operation of the Encumbered Estates law, which has been the means, in a great measure, of repairing the serious evils of .that bane of poor old Ireland—absenteeism. The effect of this new system Ins been to convert immense estates lying waste uncultivated and unprofitable, from the reckless and profligate extravagance of the absentee owuers—into small, fertile farms, owned bv the middle class land lords, and supporting a thrifty and in dustrious population. There is no one branch of the industrial arts that has improved to an equ d degree with iarm ingin Ireland. The same causes exist on the Con tinent lor keeping people at home. In Germany, in particular, business nt every description h is not been so pros perous fo: years The cessation of re volutionary movements, ; and the firm establishment of a strong gorvernment,^ From the Nashville (Tenu) Gazette. MR. CALHOUN ON KNOW-NOTHING* igt, , , ISM. , • . . . - The extraet below from the speech ol Mr. Calhoun upon the question of admit ting Michigao.into the Union, contains as full an endorsement of that portion of the American platform referring to foreign ers as.could have been desired, and just such a one as would have been expected from a mind like thatqt the great South Carolinian. The publication and dis- semination of that endorsement will have a profound effect in the South. Mr. Calhoun, in the extract referred tp, dis tinctly outlines the evils attendant upon the comparatively unrestricted system of American naturalization—especially m the States—and vividly portrays the dire dangers to the Republic which may proceed from this source. In order that no one may fail to see and understand the recorded sentiments of that great, and good and true Southern man, we reproduce the extract her*, entire. Let every patriot read and digest it thor oughly; and henceforth let southern skep tics cease their cry that “there is no dan ger” and their prating about “peace !— when there is no peace.” “In conferring the power to pass uni form laws of naturalization, says Mr. Callioun, the framers of the Constitution must have had two objects in View :one to prevent competition between the States in holding out inducements for the emigratinn of foreigners—and the other to prevent their improper influ ences over the General Government, through such States as might naturalize foreigners and could confer on them the right of exercising the elective franchise before they could be sufficiently inform ed of the nature of our institutions, or were interested in their preserration.— Both of these objects would be defeated, if the States may confer on aliens the right of voting, and the other privileges belonging to the citizen. On that sup position, it would be almost impossible to conceive what good would be obtain ed or evil prevented by Conferring the power on Congress. The power k , would be perfectly nugatory, A State might hold Qut every improper inducement to emigration, os freely as if the power did pot exist: and might confer on the alien all the political privileges belonging to a native-born citizen; not only to the great injury ofthe governme.pt of the State, bu t in an improper control over the Go vernment of the . Union. To illuftrate what I hare said, suppose the dominant party in .New York, finding political power about to depart from them, should, to maintain their ascendancy, exit nd t!)e right of suffrage to the thousands of aliens of every language and from every por tion of the world—that annually pour into her emporium—how deeply might the desting of the Union be affected by such a measure. It might-, in fact place the control over _the General Govern ment in the hands. of those who kno nothing of our institutions and are in different as to the interests of our coun try. New York gives about one*sixtb of the electoral votes in the choice of President and Vice-President; and it is well known that her political institutions keep the State nearly equally divided in to two great political parties. The ad dition of a few thousand votes either, way might turn the scale and the elec tion, on the supposition to the votes of unnaturalized foreigners. The Presi dential election might depend am the electoral vote ofthe State, and a Presi dent be chosen in reality by them; THAT IS, THEY MIGHT GIVE US A—KING.” cousin—so shy! ‘You ought to get married. For why? • . I i ‘Married men all grow fat-—they know, ,too what is what,they wear a good hat, anil eschew strong drink at that, You ought taget.married. For why? You’d soon be up, to snuff, ’midst smooth things apd rough ; if your wife’s tongue is tough,.you’ll have somethin'g to b.luff, ; that would give you Enough to keep your collar starched, and your buttons, button hoIe9, stockings, and sundry other little arrangements, in eluding your good temper, from being knocked dear into pi.—Sav. Jour. CLAY AND RANDOLPH. The story of the duel between Henry Clay and John Randolph is familiar to most-persona; not so their subsequent reconciliation and the manner of its ac complishment. It took place many years after the hostile meeting. In regard to it Mr, Clay wrote to a friend, in the year preceding Mr* Randolph’s death, as follows: “Youask how amity was restored be*, tween Mr v Randolph and me. There was no explanation, no intervention.— Observing him in the Senate one night, and looking as if he were not long for this world, and being myself engaged in a work of peace, with corresponding feel ings 1 shook hands with him. The salutation was cordial on both sides. I afterwards left a card at hia lodgings, where ( understood he had been confined by sickness.” In the last public speech that Ran dolph made, alter dweljing on the then threatening danger of disunion, he is re ported to have said: ‘‘There is one man, and one man only, who can save this Union— that is Henry Clay. I know he has the power; I be lieve he will be found to have the patri otism and firmness equal to the occa sion.” ■ . The cause of the duel between these distinguished men was the following in sulting language used by Mr. Randolph toward Mr. Clay in secret sessions of- the Senate in 1825 : This man^—(mankind, I crave your pardon)—this worm—(little animals, forgive this insult)—was spit out of the womb of weakness—was raised to a higher life than lie was born to, lor be was raised'to the sociely of blackguards. Some fortune—kind to bint—cruel to us- has tossed him to tell Secretary hip of State. Contempt has the property .of descending, but she stoops far Thori of him. She would die before 6he would reach him ; he dwells beneath her fall. I w-juldliate him if I dkl not despise him. It is not what be is, but wherein* is, that puts my thoughts in action. The alpha bet which writer the name of Thersiies, of blackguard, of squalidily, refuses her letters for him. .That mind which thinks on what it cannot express can scarcely think on him. An hyperbole for mean ness would be an ellipsis for Clay,” * ’’ Washington City in 1801.—One can scarcely credit the description of Washington City as Mrs. Adams found it in J8QL: “Here and there, she writes, Is a small cottage without.a glass window, interspersed among the forests, through which you travel for miles without see ing a human being. . The liopse is up on. a grand ?ud superb scale— requir ing about thirty servants to attend and keep the apartments in order. I could content; myself anywhere fo$ three months; hut though surrouudecl by for ests, can you believe l^at wood cannot be had, because people cannot be found to cut and cart it ? The house is made habitable, but there is not a single apart ment finished. We have not the. least fence; yard or other convenience with out, and the -great unfinished audience room I make a drying room to hang up clothes in. ; I< is a beauitful spot, capable of every .'improvement, and the more I view it the more I am delighted with it.” “The great unfinished audience room,’’ of. which Mi s. -Adams speaks, is the famous East Room ofthe White House.. ' ,■ A Lucky Fellow.—The Rogersville (Tennessee) Times has the followin': “A short time since a fellow from Buffalo Creek, Carter county, was im prisoned in Elizabethtown jail for burn- ing :i barn. The citizens of the place, (earning that he was from the neighbor hood where the small pox was raging, broke open the jail and turned him out, and then told him if be didn’t leave town in fifteen minutes they would tar and feather him.” The cheapest excursion you can make is into the lealms of fancy. No return ticket is required. THE LATE G. M. TROUP AND W. C. DAWSON. The National Intelligencer, in an nouncing the death of these distinguish ed sons of Georgia, paid the following brief and eloquent tribute to each: Ex-Governor George M. Troup died at his •residence in Laurens county, Georgia, on the 3d inst., in the 76th year of his age. He was a native of Georgia, and filled in succession all the highest official honors his State could bestow*on him, i rad he* deserved them all. He was Representative and Sen ator in Congress and Governor of the State, in all of which high trusts fidelity, ability, and honor marked his course. Mild and gentle, and most winning in private, he was stern and strenuous in discharging his public functions; and when he had occasion to arraign official delinquency he was fierce as the moun tain torrent. He possessed Roman tfrtofc'aod inflexibility. . A Public boss.—The Telegraph brought yesterday the sad inielligenco of the sudden death of the Hon. William C. Dawson, of Georgia. Of all the men who have occupied seats iu Congress ivithin our recollection few have won so high a place in the general esteem as this lamented gentleman. Mr. D. had been successively Representative and Senator iu Congress, in both of which he enjoyed an enviable Tespect. Another Slice of Mexico.—On the authority of a letter from Mexico, which it inserts, the Journal of Com merce states that our Minister to Mexico has essentially adjusted the terms of a Convention with the Comonfort ad ministration, by which we are to acquire another slice of Mexican Territory— how large is not stated, nor .the price to be paid for it. ' " I Have n<> Time to Ri:vp.~ The idea about ihe wnrtt of time is a mere phauton. Franklin found time, irrjhe midst of all his labors to drive into.the hidden recesses of philosophy, and to explore the untrodden path of science. The great Frederick,, with an empire at his direction, in the. midst of war. oil the eve of battles which were to decide the fate of his kingdom, found time to revel in the charms of .philosophy and intellectual pleasures. Bonaparte, with all Europe at his disposal, with kings in his antechamber begging lor vacant thrones, with thousands of men whose destinies were suspended by the brittle thread of his arbitrary pkasur-, had t n:e to converse with books. Ciesar, when he had embed the spirit ofthe R.unau people, and was thronged w itiivi itors from the remotest kingdoms, fnmu! time for intellectual conversation. Fvefy man has time;.it* he is careful to im prove it ns well ns he iuiglit, he can reap a threefold reward. Let all iiwike ust of the hours at their dis; os d i: they want to obtain a proper iiifliiri.n* t,> society. They can il they p c i-. . h . .L m ilieir hands the. destiutffs ofoiir !(-«• public. *. The gentleman who kissed a lady's “snowy brow,” caught a severe coin, ;.»>•< has been laid up ever since. ‘ S. rw l him right,” says a downea>{ jutpi t,— “He’d no business to kiss her outlie snowy brow. Vyiiy didn’t he kiss her ui) :lie lips:” , The Hopeful Son.—Mother.—- “Did l not tell you not to trouble iho.->e [■ies again - , - ' Hopeful Son.—“‘I ain’t bad u<> I rouble with ’em ; I’m aeateu ’em as near OSCau be,” When you go to drown you ways pttll.off.your clothes—they imTy tit your wife's second husband.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Southern watchman. (Athens, Ga.) 1854-1882, May 22, 1856, Image 1