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Newspaper Page Text- WIPUMP ■ • - jp ATHJSNS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 19,1866 NUMBER 12 tyt Stlttleb fctfej. PUBLISHED WEEKLY, ^ BY JOHN H. CHRISTY, editor asid riopirtwi. Terms of Subi^fiptlon* TWO DOLLAKSp*r»n«um, If p«M*irktIj in «d- ,.c. ; otherwise, THREE DOLLARS. Bates of Advertising- Trasilent wi,,b * ° n * kSlst p*t wjuaie Cut the firm. snd Fifty Uomsper • ebine^ss^wllfsasBlA. . . VVhtntbe sa»b#r of I nienionfii ooisisrt^eii as jvertMeraent. it will be published till XofWr, and jirjed accordingly, . jjnsinfss §mdot$. ).' fTla n g^t Attorney at Saw,, CAKNE8V1LLE, 0». I|-rill practice in the counties of Frank- IVlio,llirt, Elbert, Madison and Jackson Djrtst.iicEs—C, I'eeples, Esq., Wm. H. Hall, Esq, Attlffip; Gabriel hath, Esq, lielsrille; Hon. Junius Hillyer, Monroe; . Akeimnn, Esq., Elbertou. i )|»v ‘i”, 1856. -a*:. r • Ll t c ^ re of the Babies. ■ The' editor of the New York Sunday j Times mentions as a curious fact, that ^B* during '* * - » ROBERT HESTER, Attorney at Law, H, y l KLBEKTON, GA. J. M. MATTHEWS, Attorney at Law, - lUyl DANIELSV1LLE. GA. *«Sssa At the misty fature that stretches on rtnan eleven infants, within a circle of From the silent home of the dead. , j three hundred miles, that have perished ... . ji .. 1 i in the flames. He asks: . . c T No 1 brilUnnt, °but distant shore, ) becoming careless ?— Where the lovely ones who are celled away ) Ar £ children losing their domestic val- Must go to return no morF. u e? Or is it that the current means of • , . . . household illumination among the poor No—hesven is oear us; the mi 0 n.y veil ' are wrnwTiiw* mnP . _i„__ . a Vn, Or mortality blinds the eye, .frogrowing more dangerous? The That we see not the augol bands ; | latter, we suspect, is the chief cause of On the shores of eternity. j most of these uufortuuate calamities— Burning fluid, camphine and rosin oil,, are the common substitutes for gas in the dwellings of the j^bormg classes, and every one of these substitutes, un less handled with extraordinary care, are dangerous to life. The slightest care lessness and they explode ; and what is worse, rarely does a victim to their ex- "i i recover from the consequences. at C. B. LOMBARD, DENTIST, ATHENS, GEORGIA. |l4*«»»»Mli»StoTcof YVil*oit Ac Ve»l. JanS 1'ITNElt & ENGLAND. Wh .locale & HotailDealrmn [groceries, dry goods, HARDWARE, SHOES AND ROOTS, Aprils Athens, Ga. Yet oft. in the houra of holy thought. To the ihirating soul is given _ . , That power t-> pierce thro’ the mist of sense To the beauteous scenes or Heaven.- j Thru very near seem its pearly gntev^ And sweetly its harpings fall; Till tlie soul is restless to soar away, And longs for the angei call. I know when the silver chord is loosed. When the veil is rent away, Not long and dark shall the passage be To the realm of endless day. The eye that shuts in a dying hour, Will open the next in blits, Ere the farewell us hushed in this; We pass from the clasp of mourning friends, To the arms of the loved aud lost; And those smiling fnoes will greet us then, Which on earth we have valued most. A good kind of soul, accustomed to make “six mile prayers,” bad over persuaded a guest, .much against his in- rd'wiw, »<■«;;. »o Ngfe*. n* The vffclcome will sound in n heavenly world 6°*” Began to think seriously of edging DORSEY & CARTER, DSALEK! IS Family Groceries and Provisions, Corner of Bro’d and Jackson streets, Athens. Ga. MOORE & CARLTON, DEALERS IN lilk, Fancy and Staple Dry Goods, HARDWARE AND CROCKERY. ptU No. S, Granite Row, Athens, Ga. f. \v7l\Tcas, irilOI.r.ZILE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN dry goods, I GROCERIES, HARDWARE, Ac. Ac. No. 2, Broad Street. Athens. What shall Perish? What shall perish ! Plants that flourish, Blossoms steeped in dewy tears, Rushes that the brooklets.cherish, Oaks that brave a thousand years. What shall perish ? Thrones m ut crumblc- Centuries wreck the proudest walls And the heedless travelers stumble O’er the Caesar’s ruined halls. What shall perish 1 Man, the glory Of this sublunary spot, ' Like nn oft-repeated story. Shall be buried and forgot. What ahull perish? In their course, Stars must fall, and earth decay, And old Ocean's mightiest forces Like a bubble fleet away, ’ All shall perish, l>ut their Maker; While the soul that trusts his grace, Of his strength shall be partaker, And in Heaven behold his face. JOHN II. CHRISTY, PLAIN AND FANCY v j Book and Job Printer, "Franklin Job Office,” Athens, Ga. | All w.irk entrusted to his cnrefnithlully, correctly, ud punctually executed, nt pticeecorrespond ing with thohnrdness of lb# times. T. BISHOP & SON, Iholbsale and retail dealers in Groceries, Hardware and Staple Dry Goods, lltay l No. 1, Broad street, Athens. “Pa," said a little urchin to deacon N., “have poor folks got any soul?” “Certainly, my child; why do you ask such a question?” *'’Cause 1 hear folks say Parson P. never goes to see anybody but. the rich members of the church.” “Go to bed, child.” WILLIAM N. WHITE, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Bookseller & Stationer, Jit.Vi eapaptra nil Magaii* r Agent. DGALta IN U’SIC and MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS LAMPS, FINE CUTLERY, FANCY GOODS, AC. k i, Collrge Avenue, Newton House, Athene, Ga «i|#of White’*University llookStore.” j Orders promptly filled at Augusta rates. Tames m. royal, Harness-Maker, [AS removed his shop to Mitchell’s old 1 Tsvern, one door east of Grady A Nich- «'»—where he keeps always on baud a hentl assortment of articles in hisline, and |*Wray»ready to fillordersiothe best style I Jan 26 tf COLT & COLBERT, DEALERS IN ^ ’ I Staple Dry Goods, Groceries, and 1 Hardware, No, 9, Granite Row, Athens, Ga. MS I. COLT WM. C. COLBX1U LAuputti, I8S5. ly w. W. LUMPKIN, Attorney at Law, -ATHENS, GEORGIA. TILL Practice in all the countiesof the l Wcterti Circuit Particular attention I’** to collecting. |0®ct tm broad street, over White A Moss! Jan 81 Sundry Whoppers.—They have a man in Mississippi so lean that he makes no shadow at all. A rattlesnake struck at his leg six times in vain, and retired in disgust. He makes all hungry who look at him; und when children meet him in the street, they ran home crying for bread. It takes four things to make a thor ough gentleman. You must be a gen tleman in your principles, a gentleman in your taste, a gentleman in your man ners, a gentleman in your person. Eccentricity.—Eccentricity of man ner is so often allied to great genius that Borne very great fools have been though) to possess talent, because they were un like the rest of the world in their ac tions. “Remember, sir,” said a tavern-keep er to a gentleman who was about leav ing his house without paying his bill, “remember sir. that If you lose your purse, you didn’t pull it out here.” away quietly,-but in attempting it, waked up the man’s son, who Was in bis chair. " How soon will your father be through,’’ whispered the guest. “Don’t know,” said the boy.‘'“has he got to the Jews yet?” “ No,’’ said the oilier. “ Well, then, he aint half through,’ said the boy, and composed himself again to his wonted nap! The guest bolted. A Yankee doctor has receutly gol up a remedy for hard times. It consists of ten hours’ labor, well worked To. A very curious instance of confusion has taken place in a family in Lumber street, on Arbor Hill. A mother and her daughter were both confined on the same day, each hiving a little son. In the bustle of the moment both babies were placed in a cradle, and to the con fusion of the mothers, when the young sters were taken from the cradle, they were unable to tell which was the mother's and which the daughter’s son— a matter which, of course, must ever remain a mystery. The family is in great distress over the affair.—Albany Knickerbocker. A paper in Ohio tells a good joke of several prisoners who were confined in one of the county jails <if.the Buckeye State. The jail was old and dilapida ted, and one night they escaped from their durance vile, in other words “broke jail,”-r-byit instead of escaping, the jail or found them next morning seated on the top of their prison house, pounding the roof with.great violence. Surprised beyond measure, he asked them what they were doing, whereupon one ofthem replied that the house leaked so bad when it rained, they concluded they would just step out and repair the roof W. L. M ARLER, Attorney at Law, Jefferson, Jackson County, Ga. I ^ I ' tl! K'<cEs.—Messrs. McLester a Hunter S, Thompson. Etqs., Jefferson; D. -epence md w. J. Peeples, Esqs. Law- ; J. U. Newton, 0. Peeples, Esq. v-H. Christv, Athens; Law A Clarke ..Miraham, Esqs. Gainesville. mu L" it? >< . G . D E L 0 N Y, Attorney at Law, ?ivc hisspeoial attention tocollect- !*s> «Dtl to the claims of nil persons en- *»> to , n Warrants, under the late Land BUI of the last Congress j »n Broad Street over the 15-1855—tf. l^5- 6y J* & H. R. J. LONG, “"olesale and Retail Druggists, ATHENS, Ga. r*#10 SLOAN & OATMAN, DEALERS IN Italian, Egyptian & American . statuary, TENNE88EE MA RBLE. I* “'’•Tonfcs, Urns au*I Vnses; Marble n.*!!!“e»s and Furnishing Marblo • °fdcr* promptly filled. ATLANTA, «A. ~ Koss CrAI,e * juneld supBRFranT"^ j i, v a 1 the beat brands, for sale low Ipril io T * hIStlOP ii SON. It is a mistake, says the American Exponent, that the Democratic party plays upon a harp of a thousand strings 1 he organ of that party is a lyre. “So you would not take me to be twenty ?” said a young lady to her part ner, while dancing a polka, a few even ings since. ” What would you take me for?” “For better or woie,” here plied—and she was nothing loth. tkdlairams Sektions. THE GLASS RAILROAD. ’•There was n moral in that dream.” The ‘Milford Bard,’ during one of his fits of maniaapota^ said: ■ *It seemed tome as though I bad been suddenly aroused from my. slumbers. I looked around aiid found myself in the eenths.of a gay crowd. The first sensa tion 1 experienced was that of being borne with a peculiar, gentle motion. 1 looked around and found that I was in a long train of care, which were gliding over a railway ; and seemed to be many miles in; length. It was composed of many cars. Every car opened at top. was filled with men and women, all gaily dressed;; all happy, all laughing, talking and singing. The particularly gei.flt! motion of the carsinterested me. Tffere was no grating such as we hear on a railroad. They moved on, without the least jar or sound. This I say interest ed me. 1 looked over the side, and to my astonishment, found a railroad made of glass? The glass wheels moved over the glass rails without the least noise or osciliatkm. .The soft, gliding motion produced a feeling of exquisite happi ness. I was happy!' It seemed as if PERSONALITIES IN KANSAS;. ! ; - STUCK UP FOLKS. Fighting, we. believe, lias ceased in “I don’t like those people, they are Kansas, but ‘‘high words” and quarrel-! so dreadfully stuck tip,” was the remark inggo on actively as ever A man,] we beard the other day. What are whom we take lobe a “Border Ruffian ”j ‘stuck up* people, thought we, and we sends us a pbillipic hc has just issued , lmve been looking about to see if at against bis enemy in Kansas, who ap- could find any. ' pears to be an Abolition minister of the 1 *■ T> a yoo see that young mar. over yon A Printer out west, whose office is half a mile from any other building, aud who bangs his sign on the limb of a tree, advertises for an apprentice. He says, "A boy from the country would be preferred." An office-holding chap beiig* asked how he contrived to hold his place under successive administrations, replied, “that administrations must be smart which could change oftener than he could.” Different sounds travel with different velocity. A call to dinner will run over a ten acre lot in a minute and a half, while a summons to work will take from five to ten minutes; A Conscientious Fogy.—A Texas drover, who stayed over night at a ho tel, being asked, as he was about to leave in the morning, if he was not go ing to have his horse shod, replied; “No, sir! il will be a d—d long spell ’fore I pay for having a horse shod. 1 reckon if God Almighty had thought it right hosses should have iron on their feet he’d a pat it thar himself. I don't pretend to be a pious man nryself, but I, ain’t going to ran agin the will of God Almighty, though tliar’s some that cal] themselves ministers of Christ that dn itl” ■ ' •’ Hints to Parents—The Rev. Hosea Ballou—the founder and Cham pion of Univeraalisro in this country— was accustomed to say to parents; “If you practice severity,speak harshly, fre quently punish in anger, you will find yotir children will imbibe yonr spirit and manners. But if you are wise, and treat yoqr little ones with tenderness, you will fix the image of love in their minds, and they will love you and each other, and in their conversation will imitate the conversation which they have beard from the tenderest friend which children have on earth." It is stated that a Yankee baby will crawl out of his cradle, take a survey of it, invent an improvement, and apply for a-patent before he is six months old. Bread and STEAK.--An elderly fat gentleman, in discussing a warm beef stt-ak at nn inn, called to the waiting hoy, * Donald, bring me more bread, for I eat a great deal of bread to my steak.’ A Live Skeleton.—A youngdoctor who, knowing his uncle’s antipithy 16 anything that Bmelt- of death, told him that he actually hod a skeleton con cealed in his own house. The old gen tiernan plumply denied it—the roguibl nephew persisted; the house was search ed from the attic to the coal cellar. At lost'.he mystery grew so painful to the undo that when his young and face tious relative offered to show him where the skeleton was concealed for fifty dol lars down, lie immediately agreed and forked ovecihe money. The impudent lad then put his hand oil .his uncle s shoulder and said solemnly: “Here it is, my respected Sir, and if you’ll only let me strip yotir flesh off, you will hnd as complete, a skeleton.there as there is in the whole world.”—N. Y.News. 9 A bevy of little children were telling their father what they got at school.— The eldest got grammar; geography arithmetic, &c. The next got.reading spelling, and definitions. “And what do you get, my little soldier? ’ saiA the father io a rosy cheeked little fellow wfio was, at that moment, slily drivings everyihing was at rest within—I was full of peace. , - While I was wondering over this cir- cumstauce, a new sight attracted 1 my gaze. All along the road, on either side, within a foot of the track, laid long lines of coffins, one on either side of the railroad, apd every one contained a corpse, dressed for burial, with its cold white face turned upward to the light. The sighrfilled me withhorror; I yelled hxagony, but could make no sound. The gay throng who were around me only redoubled their singing and laughter at the sight of my agony; and we swept on, gliditig with glass wheels over the glass railroad, every moment coming nearer to the bend of the road, which formed an angle with the road, far in the distance. | Who are those,’ l cried at Iqst, point ing to the dead bodies in their coffins. ‘These are the persons wltu made the trip before us,’ was the reply of one of the gayest persons near me.. •What trip ?’ I asked. ‘Why, the trip we are now making, the trip on this glass railway,’ was the answer. 1 “Why do they lie along thv» road, each one’ in his coffin ?’ I w as answered with a whisper and a half laugh which froze my blood: ‘They are dashed to death at the end of the railroad,’ said the person whom I addressed. - “You know that ihe railroad termi nates at an abyss, which is without bot tom or measure. It is lined \vith point ed rocks. As each car arrives at the end, it precipitates its passengers into the abyss, They are dashed to pieces against the rocks and their bodies are brought here and placed in the coffins as a warning to other passengers, but no one minds it,-we are so happy on the glass railroad.’ I can pevei describe the horror with which these words inspired me. Wbat is the name of.the glass railroad? I asked. . • 1. The person whom I addressed replied in the same strain: ‘It is very easy to get in the cars, hut very bard to get ont, . for once in those cars everybody is delighted with the soil gliding motion. The cars move so gent ly ? Yes, this is a railroad of habit, and with glass wheels we are whirled over a glass railroad towards a fathomless abyss. In a few moments we’ll be there, and they’ll bring our bodies and put them in eoffiBS.as a warning-to others, bat no body will mir.d it, will they? I was choked with horror. I strug gled to breathe, made frantic efforts to leap from the care, and in the struggle awoke. I knew it was only a dream, and yet whenever I think of it, I can see that long train of cars moving gent ly over the glass railroad. I can see cars far ahead as they are turning the bend of the road. lean see the dead in their coffins, clear - and distinct—on either side of tile road. 'While the laugh ing and singing of the gay and happy passengers resound in ray ears, I only see those cold faces of thodeadi - with their glossy eyes uplifted and their frozen hands upon their white shrouds. . It was a horrible dream. And the Bard’s changing features and brightening eye attested the emotion which had been aroused by the very memory pf the. dream. ,lt was indeed a . horrible dream. A long train Of glass car?, gliding over a glass railroad, freighted with youth, beauty and music, while on the other hand are stretched, tile victims of yes terday—gliding over the railway of mb it towards the fathomless abyss. “There was a tpftral in that dream.” Reader; are you addicted to any sinful habitt Break it off ’tire you dash against the rocks, t - ’p ” * w ' mom .-.rL~ 3a-l • Gospel. He desires us to publish it in our paper. It is against bur rule to in dulge merely personal strictures in our columns; we therefore suppress names, but for the benefit of mankind and the English language, we will quote some of the excited Missourian’s tremendous in vective against the Free-soiler, as fol- Ipws *• Yonjire tr fourth-rate preacher, but a first- rate liar. Crime, cowardice and corruption glare forth from your glasses, gimlet-skewed eyes,‘like a guilty thing upon a fearful summons.' _ “ When the Devil shall search hell for bis jewels, he will gloat with a fiendish grin, and express his joy in an eldrich and unearthly squeak upon finding in the lower abyss, the putrid, gangrened, leprous and plague-spotted body, of D— S. * * Now, I dismiss you to the lashings of your own guilty, conscience!— yoq assinine, ape-browed, ash-colored Abolitionist!—you black-hearted, blear- der leaning against the post of the hotel piazza, twirling a shadow walking stick, now and then coaxing the hair on his Up hnd waiching every lady-that passes, not that he cares to see them, but is anxious to know whether tlieyareobserv- ing him; he belongs to the ‘stuck up folks.’ What is the occadon ? Well, he happens tp hare, a rich father, and 1 a HON. JOHN P. KENNEDY’S LETTER. - ‘ Baltimore., May 8th; 1856. My Dear Sir: In answer to your enqui ry as to the acceptance of the nomina tion by Mr. h illmore, I. can only say, that I am in daily expectation of hearing from himself upon this subject. I fo£ warded to him. * about the middle of March, the letter of the Committee, ap prising him of the proceedings «.f the Philadelphia Convention, and soon af ter a duplicate. I have as yet received no communication from him in reply. attribute this to the fact of his having setout;for the North of Europe, and the delay incident to the transportation of letters to him on his route of travel. I foolish, vain mother, who has taught have no doubt, however, of h» accept- himVuat he isn’t ‘common folks.” and mice, and have no hesitation in repeating eyed, brainless buzzard !—you craven, cringing, cheese-faced coward 1—you dark, damnable, double-faced driveler ! —you empty, crawlitigcreeping ear-wig! —you foul-headed, fish-mouthed fool! —you godless, guilty ghoul!—you heav en-defying, hell deserving hypocrite!— you itch-infected, infernal imp!—you Jesuitical Judas Iscariot [—you knock- kneed, kangaroo-shaped knave l 1 —you lousy, loose-tongued loafer!—you mullet headed, miserable mandrake 1—you pusillanimous, pewter-eyed poltroon !— you razor-faced, red-mouthed ‘rip 1*— you sap-headed, shallow-faced, scrub!— you tallowfaced, truckling trickster I— you unwashed, unannoinled ulcer!— you white-livered, wall-eyed, weazel- souled wire-worker !—you yelping, yel low, jaundiced yahoo!—you ‘gizzard- footed’ zigzagzancy 1” Here the dictionary collapsed—the English tongue broke down, and the Yankee faitited away. Whether lie will survive the cursing he gotr-mainsto be seen.—[Sf. Louis Intelingencer. SHUTTING DOORS. ‘‘Don't look so cros«, Edward, when I call you back to shut the doof ';‘ grand mother feels the cold wintry wind; and, besides, you have got to spend all your life shutting doors, and might as well begin now.” Do forgive me, grand-mother! ought to be ashamed to cross you. But what do you mean ? I am going to col lege, and then I am going tq be a law yer,” “Well, admitting nil that; I imagine Squire Edward C— will have good many doors to shut, 1 if he ever makes much of a man.” What kind of doors? Da tell me. grand mother.” . ‘ Sit down a minute, and I will give you a list. “In the first place, the doors of your ‘Cabs most he closed 'against bad lan guage and evil counsel of the - boys and young men you will meet with at- school ami college, or y«u will be undone.— Let tb< ro once get possession of that door, and 1 would not give much for Edward C — —’a future prospects. “The door of yours eyes, too, must be shut against bad: books, idle novels, and low, .wicked newspapers, or your studies will be neglected, and you will grow up a useless, ignorant man; you will have to close them sometimes aga- ihsl the fine' things exposed for sale' in the shop windows, or you will never leant to save your money, or have any left to give away. ; “The door of-,your lips will need especial care, for they guard an unruly member, which maks great use of the bad company let in at the doors of the eyes and ears. The door is very apt to blow open; and- if not constantly watched, will let out angry, trifling, or volgar words. It will backbite, some times worse than the winter's wind, if it is .left open too long. I would ad vise you to keep it shut much of the time, till you have laid up a store of knowledge, or at least till you have-soraethibg valua ble to say. ,• . “The inner door of your heart, most be well shut against temptation, for con science, the door-keeper, grows very in different if you disregard bis call; and sometimes drops asleep at his post, and when you may think you are doing very well, you are last going down to ruin. •‘If. you carefully guard the outside doors of the eyes, ears and-lips, y ou wilt keep out many Cold blasts of sin, which get iii before you think. “Thisshutting doors; yoa see, Eddy, will be a serious business; one on which your well doing in this life and the next depends.” folks,” and that poverty is almost the sapie as vul garity'and meanness, and so he has be*, come ‘stuck up,’ be doesn’t take pains iq learn anything, for lie does not feel the need of knowing any more: he does not work, for he has never required it, and he is so extensively ‘stuck up,’ that he hasn't the least idea that he will ever come down—-he dosen’t know, however. “There goes a young woman—lady she calls herself—with ifie most conde scending air to nobody in particular, and an all prevading consciousness that she had not earned the salt she eats, knows a little, very little, of a good many things, and nothing thoroughly of anything; is most puzzled lest she should be puzzled to make a selection out of some fifty young men, all of whom are dying for.her she supposes ; she is one of the “stuck up folks,” and that is about all she is. That old gentleman over the way, barricaded with half a pard of shirt collar, guard ed by a gold headed cane, with a pom pous pationizing air—do you see him ? Well he is one of t he ‘stuck up’, too. He has been so about ten years, since he got off his leather apron, and began to speculate successfully in real estate.— There are other fools of this class, some stuck up" fijr having at some lime been constable, justice of the peace, an_alder- man, and in varicus otbe? ways they get ‘Stuck up” notion?. They are not proud people, for .they dp not rise to the dignity of pride; they are not distinguish ed folks, for they have not the abil ty or character enough to make them to, these are just whkl they seem to be * ‘stuck up’ ‘ —let them stick. Donald answered, with much simplicity ten penny nail into; the door pannel— ‘ Ay, and please your honor, and ye eat a «*Me? oh, I get6 readin’, spelliti, an I great deal nf steak to your bread!’ spanking. ’ One 6f the Mothers of’76. Mrs. Sarah Philbrook, of Hardwick, VI., a widow of a Revolutionary soldier, and whose age is ninety-four years made and sold last season, from two cows, six hundred pounds of butter, besides milk and;batter for ffiraily use. Mrs Pnff brook-has ho assistance except what is rendered by her boy, who is' not quite seventy years old, and who does not in tend to marry while his mother is able to do her work. To Make Lire Hai'PY.—Take a strong solution of-brotherly love, add to it the essence of purity, and shake them well in the cup of fidelity. Then carry them abuut your person wherever you go. The deeper you -drink, the happier yon will he. A subscriber writes to a western editor, “ I don’t want your paper any longer,”—to which the editor replies— “ I wouldn’t muke it any longer if you did "J its present length -suiti* me very well. ’ ’ > ' SELFISHNESS. Live and let live, is a very excellent maxim, and absolutely essential to be observed by those who would go though the world with comfort to themselves, and meriting the good opinion of others. Love thy neighbor as thyself, is a divine precept, and a selfish man, although the law cannot reach him. is fairly guilty of high treason against human nature. A selfish person is generally an ungrateful one, and a long catalogue of offences may be. traced to this first cause, at the head of which is avarice, while robbery and violence bring up the rear.—The wickedness of selfibnes>) is forcibly ex pressed io the following little narrative “ I remembered when I was a boy at sehool.two of the boys proceeded to pond, for- the purpose of swimming gallipot, which wa3 the property of the bigger boy of the two. It chanced tha' in thu eagerness incidental to this ex citing amuseme'it, the smaller boy tipped into the water, and, after a good deal of struggling, sank; and was drown ed. After the melancholy catastrophe the bigger' boy was questioned as ter what efforts he had made to rescue his com panion, and bis answer made it evident that he had by no n earn exerted him self to the utmost. This conviction produced a severe rebuke from tl\p tutor; upon® which Muster Simpson burst into a flood of tears, and said, Jo think that I could have saved Green —but- -if I had -tried, Is' , toti!d hat* lost my gallipot P 1. ' Anecdote of the New Chaplain. The Rev. Henry Clay Dean, the present chaplain of the United States Senate, was some years ago a resident of North-Western Virginia. -Wipfe preaching one day at a church situated a few milvs from Fairmount, he was annoyedJiy the inattention of his con gregation as manifested in turning their heads to see everybody who came io.— “Brethren,” said he, “it is very difficult to preach when thus interrupted. Now do you listen to me.' and ! will tell yon the name of every man as he enters the church." Of course.this remark at tracted universal attention. Presently someone entered:—“Brother William Satterfield,” called out the preacher, while that “brother” was astonished be yond measure, and endeavored in vain to guess what, was the matter. Anoth er person came in—“brother Joseph Miller !” bawled the preacher with a like result ; and so perhaps , in other cases. After awhile the congregation were aira'zed at hearing the preacher call out in p loud voice: “A little old man with a bine coat and white hat on! Don’t know who he is! You can look for yourselves.” Voltaire defined a physiciaa as an un fortunate gentleman, expected every day to perform a miracle—namely, to reconcile health and intemperance. to you what I said a few weeks ago to - * some of the members of the American , State Convention at Greetisborougli, North Carolina, that a formal letter of unqualified acceptance may be confident ly expected at an early day f It may be, indeed, that Mr. Fillmore, having received the announcement of the Committee at the moment of his re turn from the continent to England, may defer his answer until he arrives here himself:; but upon the question of his ecceptance, you may assure your friends there is no; reason to doubt that it will certainly be given—Mr. Fillmore is too deeply impressed with a sense of bis duty to ihe couutry to shrink at such a time as this; from the high rt sponsibiliiy cast upon him hy his' political position. He is aware that his past service. .in a period of great embarrassment and dan ger, iq the domestic affair- of the Union, tas formed Hie principal inducement to the call which has lately been made upon him by the Convention in Phila delphia. 1 ! He would not be -the man he has proved himself to be, if from any fear of contest or consideration of per sonal ease, he should decline a summons which so strongly, addresses itself to his £ patriotism. I know, aivjsodoyou, with what pro found regret Mr. Fillmore noted the ac tion of the present* Administration and its friends in opening anew that angry and dartgerdus discussion on slavery, by the abrogation of the compromises US 1850, and with it the repeal of the old Missouri Compromise.—He 'foresaw it> il, what lias been so sadly realized, a more exasperated agitation of sectional strife and increased difficulty in the wav of peaceable settlement; and now, whem this mischief has been dune. 1 know that he looks with a stronger faith in the ^ American party as the only effective centre upon which the Intelligent and patriotic friends of the. Union may be rallied and organized with a good hope of bringing back the country Jo its old conservative position with reference to this unhapy dissention! He confides in the loyalty of that party to the Union, its devotion to the Constitution, its true estimate of the national sentiments of the people, and its determination to maintain a position which shall enable it to check the excesses of faction m both extremes of Nortb and South; he confides in these as presenting a basis- upon which all sound and earnest friends of peace and constitutional supremacy may be untied in the administration of the government. The virulence with which this party is assailed jurst now hy the two antago nistic organizations which have enter ed the field against it. is no acknowl edgement of its strength and a propf of their fears. Each ofthem hare their own serious reasons for thinking it exp> - &>' dicht to spreod tbd opinion that Air. more means to'decline,' or ought to be withdrawn from the canvis.-*. Ills prospects, nevertheless, ore better than any mau who can be brought against him. lu the South 1 give turn Delaware; Maryland, North Carolina, Kentucky and Tennessee, as certain » Louisiana'and. Missouri, I think, will also give him their votes. Virginia amt Georgia he may carry ; and even Mis sissippi, though 1 do not count on them;' - You can estimate hjs strength in the South better than I can. Of the Wc-t i cannot speak, since so much depends wns there upon future dc velopnients. ' I have recently rcturned from dj uf- ney through several of the Southern. States, and with pleasure fiTwi i r . 1 while there, that the American party were wisely calling,into sen ice, as can didates for their electoral ticket* and for other responsible trusts, the wot i hi- est aftet most distinguished citizen*, known and.approye'd for their conserva tism without-respect to (heir connection with the patly through any form, but looking only to their affinities with the -party in sentiment and opinion—they giving a broader und morej t>t founda tion to their own power as a politic J body. _ I hope that this course will be adopted generally and the objections of enemies be silenced, hy shnwing that in the.no mination of Mr. Fillmore: tho American organization has advanced from the character and position of an order inf > that of a great—political p riy, large enough to embrace every friend of the Union and the Constitution, and strong enough to concentrate a power that will be found ample to protect and perpet uate both. Why is a forged note like a whisper ? It buttered but never allowed, (aloud.) Very truly yours. ' JOHN P. KENNEDY!'* J. N. Reynolds, Esq.,New York.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Southern watchman. (Athens, Ga.) 1854-1882, June 19, 1856, Image 1