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ATHENS, GcJ±. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1,1859.
MEDICINE AND SURGERY
| Dr. G. I. McCLESKEY,
T-T AVING removed to A then*, offers hix profe-*ft'u>iuti
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ilvprtixemrntx at the usual rate*.
. } io liopes to merit and share a liberal patronage.
Residence and office, that which was formerly occu-
pied hy the late Judge Ihnigherty, on College Ave-
noe, where he may be found. Jan27
PktlIancous k delations.
JAMES M. ROYAL,
■ irl JBti.se.oen.......e— - „ , , Harness-Mskex, •
,, j <r , •jarccii «lS for nnnonneemenfw, n> % aa of II all Afreet, nearly opposite the old
''.tires decoding lifeline* in length will Slate Lank, Athene, ba.
EE Ps a l way c on band a genera {assortment pf
•Ic»in his line
the beef style
ement*.
,5 .nscrtioiM :s not marked on an
I lu* published till forbid, and
K EI w
article*-in his line, ami is always ready to fill
business Director!).
ATT.
M. MATTHEWS,
. i^xEY A.T I. A_"W,
DANIEI.SVIU.E CiA.
TAYLOR & LUMPKIN,
(COLLEGE AVENUE, ATHENS, GEORGIA,)
Dealers in
QlTfS AR. Cnlfe*. Mnlawee, Syntpe, Fait, Parrn.Tjtrd,
X.~ wines, hrnndica, I'lgarsnnd Tobarrn. and ever.
v.iriitv of article i
Feh 3, 1659.
FREEMAN.
PiTVi’/il.RXfll.AM) x 1' uLE
v t •“ i ttci.«il »«*»l*i>ii»
SRO
JRI3S, DIIY GOODS,
,aiiok* and hoots,
ItM.jd Street,Athens,
j. 15. S. DAVIS,
ATTORNEY at law,
JF.IT’KUSOX, JACKSON CO, GA.
ll«» llngl'
Uuchunan, Col. Win.
May 13
JO UN II
,ft.’|!tiH'
CHRISTY,
1 Watchman and Franklin Joli Office.)
PIA1NA.MI fancy
BOOK and JOB PRINTER,
Hit OAD STRF.F.T, ATIIENS.
salttsTed to him will he nofltly, cfirtfclly
a or m 'ily eMfUieil, nt prices aa low as good icorl
March, 1857
W
W . LUMPKIN,
.A.T LA.W,
^ ATHENS, GEORGIA.
i ,\\\ ilie eountlea of the Wei
PsirtieularAttentluii given f«
AY
toil. ■'
tl.l.pt
T. \V. WALKER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Athens. On.
r«
Mandeville, llrohd Street.
J. W. HANCOCK,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DANIELSVILLK, GA.
VITIUi practice In Jackson, Clarke. Madbon, Mart,
T » Oglethorpe and Elbert. Oct281 y
WILLIAM N. WHITE,
WHOLKSAI-K AND RETAIL
Bookseller and Stationer,
AndNnenpapnand Magazine Agent.
t>KAI.KU IN
MUSH:and .MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
LAVI*S. KINK CUTLERY, FANCY «OOP?.*0.
*»'*llege Avenue, corner opposite the Post Office
Or W* promptly filled at ANcruxta rates. .Mar 1
White's n<» »k Sinre-
JAMES A. CAllLTON,
TtKAI.FR IS
Silk. Fancy and Staple Dry Goods,
’/.I III) WA RE A Nl> CROCKERY
. r n f, No 3, Granite Row, ATHENS
J. F. O’KELLEY,
Resident Ambrotypist,
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
K OOMS in the building on tl.c corner, oppo-
• site the Post Office, up stairs. Sep 24
E. \Y. LUCAS. .
if.; ,I.ZS ILK AND RETAIL DEALER IN
) a Y GOODS,
> :"IKS. HARDWARE. Ac. Ac.
V l j,, Nu a, I!road Street, Athisi.
GRADY. NICHOLSON & CO.
WIi Ip-nlcand Retail Dealer*in
Staple and Fancy Goods, Groceries,
‘ HAHD.VARE, CROCKERY. Ao.
larrc New linrk Store, c >rncr llriilge and Broad *1*,
j„n*~ i ATHENS, Ga.
0. '.V. a II. R. J. LONG,
Wholesale and Retail Druggists,
JjnU ATHENS, GA
T. IIIS HOP & SON,
Wholesale and ltctail Dealers In
Groceries, Hardware and Staple
Dry Goods,
Msy I JV* 1. Broad Street, A TilF.NS.
C. B. LOMBARD,
DENTIST,
A TIIENS, GEORGIA,
n Brick building North ufthe Post Office.
Avenue.
COACH-MAKING AND REPAIRING.
BURPEE & CLARK.
Ai theold stand of R. P Scheeencll,
offers forsa'e a lot of superior articles ot liisuwn man
ufacture, at reduced prices—consisting of
Carriages, Buggies, Rockaways.&c.
Orders for any thing i»» hi* line will be thankfully
received and promptly Executed.
{fir REPAIRING done at short notice and on reas
onable Tenn*. tf Jannary 1
A. M, WYNG & CO.,
DEALER* IN
Hardware, Crockery. China and Glass,
Jan 1857 Bread Street.ATIlENS, Ga.
w«"»
J«m3
W.M. PHILLIPS,
attott tsr Y .A.T X.A.'W,
MARIETTA, GA.
till practice in all thecnuntiesoftlie Blue Ridge Oir-
fait, in tin* county of Pulton of tlieCotVfls C*rcnit T
Hike ^tpcc.ne Court, and in the L' S Diet. Conn,
| n Marietta
| Units 1. COLT Y*• C.OOLBRBT
COLT & COLBERT,
PKAMCU* IN
Staple Dry Goods, Groceries, and
Hardware,
[WikV» No.h. T3r»nU# Row, Atfmp,Ci
WILLIAM L. MAULER,
ATTORNEY AT X.A-"W,
JEFFERSON, JACKSON CO. GA.
S«s«.iL.i r,s —Messrs.Mcljostereand VV BTbomp-
'*«.li-li Ji ffTMin- D \V Spence and tV J Poeplea,
I bee t.,w,i.„ccville; John II Newton, O Peeples and
JHlTiri-'v. F.„h kthena; U« Clark,Gainesville
TALMADGE, STARK k HEINS,
HEALTHS IN
TITATCIIES, Clocks. Jewelry, Guns, Pistols, Fine
” Cutlery, Musics! Instruments, Bheet Musis, dLC.
Corner of Col lege Avenue and Clayton sL,
Athens, Ga. Oct 27
J. P. MASON & CO.,
BOOK BINDERS,
P A PER Rulers nn<l Blnnlt Rook Manufac
turers. Whitehall Street, Atlanta. Ga.
J. H. Christy, Agent, Alliens, Ga.
jnly22
W. A. PATMAN.
D EAl.Kii. in Hardwnre. Cutlery, Carriage
Trimming, Wooil and Tilt Ware. Stoves
anil Gantes, Nails, Castings anti Agricultural
(mplimenls. Corner Brontl A Wall fcttreet
Athens Ga. April 14
w
-:s|s, Athens; Li
. Cx . IlKLONY,
attorney at X.AW,
Athens, Georgia.
W li.l.s.tcndpromptly to all business entrust-
•* l t»i In* cure.
to-<i!Vr Miitrnd street,over 1 -M.Kenney’sstore.
J. W. HEAVES k CO.
| w it n 11’. R k u; .s N n U T All*
T\K M.F.US ill e.rorcrirH, Dry Good*, Crockery,
I IJ IUr.1 \\ trr, ’ 9
N'* l r *. on.ler PrAwklio Ilcn*c,
nnaa Sired, Afhefix, (Li.
II. GILLELAND,
DENTIST,
IT.I TRIES VILLE OA .
IB F-'il’KCTKUl.L.Y soliciu the patronage
111 "I the itirroun lingcmmlry.
tW Full s.itisli'.cuuti will be given in their
|profession. April 22.—tf
~TviIlTE k RITCH,
WHOLESALE and retail
Clotki ers and Merchant Tailors
Breed -Street, ATHENS,Ga.
gj SLOAN & OATMAN7
Tar DKALitaaiN
A Italian h\ji/pt I a n A Amrtitan
STATUARY,
iAy /; east Tennessee marble.
| All, ' 'H-NTS, I is, Urns and Vases; Marble
Iw* 7* '»»„,! urn siting Marble. Allordere
R i,* 1 ' ATLANTA, OA.
“ Mr dues Crane June 1
NEW ARRANGEMENT.
REMOVAL OK THE
LANIER HOUSE.
S M. LANIER wouhl announce lo the
. public that he has removed from the old
“ Franklin H-.u.c" to the “ Newton House,”
formerly oci upieil by W. Crawford, which
will hereafter be known as the ** Lanier
House " Willi facilities superior to any here
tofore, for tho Accommodation of the public,
the proprietor hopes thnt all who favir hiin
with their patronage will be pleased with
the new arrangement.
A comfortable nmtiihna is always
ready to convey jiassultgera to and from the
depot.
.Inn. 27.1859.—tf.
Coach Making.
R S. RCH EVEN ELL «t M. M. TUTBY
. FILL, have formed ihemselvea into n
Co-I'artnership in the ntsive Imsiness and re
spect lull v solicit, the patronage of their
friends nod public generally.
R. S SCEVKNELL.
M. M. TURRYFJLL,
Feb. 3, 1859.—ly.
Bakery, confectionery, tc.
.JOSEPH PAT AT
W OULD nmoooce to the riliaetis of Athena
and vicinity, that he has opened it Ba
kery and Confectionery at the well known
stand on Jack so street. n«kt to the Hlate
Hank, whi le he is prepared to furnish every-
tiiin? in Iiia liii*?.
An cxpnricnfd mi<l skillful linker 1^1 mi
ployed, who will bake fresh bread and cuke*
6 Fresh Oysters nlways on hand, and served
in rqy nt *Uort t
A »*f the public patroiinge i* reflect
tnllv solieiled. Jan. JO.
Blacksmithing.
T HE subscrtlier has commenced tho aliore
iHimnes* at the atand formerly oec- pied
bv Mr. MnnteUh. on Foundry street; where
lie will lie pleased to receive a share of |>ub-
lic patronage. H i« work will bf-done in good
Klyi<», at in*Mlormc price*. J. t*. OK tv.
Allu’U*, Feb. 8 t 18«59.
, J. R. DAVIS,
WSl) BlloivElt. COLLECTOR AND
GENRIUL AGENT.
J Sttsndetl tmn any county of this Btat#
'••tssr of Jseksaa anti Ellis streets.
'y JtoGVSTA. GA. ,
ATHENS STEAM COMPANY,
"■ NICKERSOM. Acotk Ree’r.
[ AXPFAiTURF.RS of Circular Raw Mtlle,
r , 1 lr * 111 hlnglors, furring anil lining PUMPS,
**4 M ivomnsv; lliu,li i. anti nil other
• ’•'-'klNG Isos slid tta.sa t'.STinosofev-
L''" 1 """' 8.MITIIING.Repairingst dFinish-Mf
' ,ee,,, sd. Helen patterns of Iron Penefng.
rtreooH. Jan 8. 1857.
II. A. LOWRANCE,
Resident Dentist,
Ibniis,.. ATHENS. 0*0.
\«p,„l*' ,ho timer, north ol the Newlan House
BENARBO J. ARZE,
HAHIiER AND HAIR-DRESSER,
T) KTITHNS hi« thanka fi-r past patronage,
ili and respectfully aolieila a continuance
of Hie same, at his old stand, corner of Broad
and Spring streets.
Athens, Jan. 18, 1859.
Cotton—Demand and Production.
The growth of cotton in the Unit
ed States is the dependence—almost
the sole dependence—of Europe and
Great Britain for their supply of the
most important article of human cloth
ing. We showed last week that In
dia does not furnish as much raw cot
ton as is required to make the goods
she huys, and the course of events
indicates that every progress made
by the English, with English capi
tal, to improve that country or “de-
velope its resources,’’ only stimulates
a large consumption of goods on the
It is their small
earnings, arising from the exhausted
state of the country, which circum
scribes their purchases. The em
ployment of English capital in the
construction of railroads, the culture
of opium—to pay for China teas, and
all branches of industry, only swells
the wages of the people, and by so
doing causes a new demand for cot
ton goods. The course of events in
China, by which at least 200,000,000
consumers of cotton cloth will bring
their demands into the European
market, must open a new and limit
less fieM for the disposal of goods.—
The demand in this market is now
large. The export to China from
New York has been $200,000 worth
of drills for the week, numbering at
least 2,000,000yards. This demand
will, in all probability, grow until
the United States exports to that
country of drills and coarse goods
will equal at least the sum of the im
ports of the finer goods from Europe
into the United States. China will
become a great cotton consumer.—
The other countries whence England
draws her cotton, the Brazils, Egypt,
the YVest Indies, Ac., are all consu
mers to an extent greater than they
supply the material. The United
Stiitcs alone continue to supply a
surplus ovci their large consumption,
and on that surpms the dependent in
terests are enormous.
It has been stated that the number
of cotton growers in the United States
is about 200,000, but the number de
pendent upon the manufacture of the
article in New England, Great Bri
tain and the Continent, is not short
of 5,000,000, and the capital employ
ed in the manufacture, sale, trans
portation and d stribution, is as $1,000
to §1 employed in the culture. There
probably is no other iudustry in the
world in which so expanded an inter
est rests upon so small a base. There
was a time when the whole production
of gold and silver in the world r by
the process of amalgamation, which
involves the use of quicksilver, depend
ed—with all its vast interests and nu
merous mines in all countries—upon
the singlo supply of mercury afforded
by the Ahnadcn mines in Spain, and
that government was forced to lease
those mines to the house of Roths
child. It resulted, that that single
house held the value of all the mines
in its hands, and when it put up the
rate from $30 to $60 per quintal, a
vast number of mines shut up, and
throngs of miners sought other em
ployment. That monopoly was dis
pelled by the discovery of quicksil
ver in California, ami the more gen
eral production of silver in Mexico
has resulted. Something analogous
to that quicksilver monopoly is the
position -of the cotton growers at the
South. They hold a monopoly which
the whole genius and capital at Lan
casbire has not been able to shake;
ou the other hand, this vast sphere
of interest, which receives its inflation
from that focus, is constantly expand
ing. The price of producing hands
and the material they produce, is con
stantly rising, and that without point
ing out any inode of relief. The
United States not only furnish the
only available surplus, but the only
description of cotton which works
well by itself. «\Vith the develop
ments going on in Asia, and the ex
tension of markets that has been
made in South America, in Africa
in Eastern Europe, and in Asia, be
yond the growing demands of the
United States, England and Western
Europe, the entire human race turns
towards the United States for a sup
ply, for which the. demand increases
in the double ratio of growing num
bers and increasing wealth. This is
a state of the facts which does not
keep itself well considered Gy the
trade at large, and the effects of which
are yearly becoming more important.
— U. S. Economist.
Southern Y lews of the late AboBtlon, t° come back to the Senate from your lily finger, break your cane,
Affair at Harpers Ferry—What shall Kansas, with the door opened so that shave your upper lip, wipe your nose,
w,,do? Kansas might be made a slave State. * " ' ‘
The door was opened, Atchison and
unparalleled abolition
we do?
The late
conspiracy, with all its astounding: his pro-slavery Missourians began
ramifications, may wgjl be considered their work ; but as the Kansas-Nc-
as the prelude to a more serious and
comprehensive discussion of the slave
ry question, especially in the South
ern States, than any which has marked
the various sectional agitations of the
subject for the last forty years. The
two editorial articles which we transfer
to this paper—the first from the
leading democratic organ of Virginia,
and the second from a conspicuous
organ of the conservative opposition
party of Tennessee—are somewhat*
significant in this connection, as
indicating the probable drift upon
this subject of the Southern demo
cracy and the Southern opposition.
Our Virginia democratic cotempo-
braska bill opened the door to aboli
tionists as well as to the pro slavery
squatters, the anti-slavery legions of
the North came prouing in. The
results comprehend the blackest and
most disgraceful chapter in the history
of our popular institutions, ami Sew
ard’s “irrepressible conflict’’ ami
“Old Brown” are among these re
sults.
Nor have we any promise of peace
with the final settlement of this issue
of “popular sovereignty’’ in Kansas.
On the contrary, a leading republi
can organ of this city, in its isAie of
yesterday, assures us* that the sys
tem of operations which, under the
rary pleads that “non-intervention Kansas-Nebraska bill, has made Kan-
by the federal government” in the sas a free State, will make free States
X. M. KENNEY,
door ,.^. e the Bank of Athena,)
LOXaTANTl.T KKXI'S or iia'sr
,jj c * Fancy Dry Goods,
0 CHOICE FAMILY GROCERIES.
“•Fiottufc,
to prompt paying eaftomrr*. |J»nl
oTT HARDY’S
i r Uiebr ated Axle Grease. *
l *'« bl*ndner» of Oil, with
in tli* * ,K r * u l' naturn of tnlUw, And
nl >*iitL't*'*'**?• ••"I «n t clean. It i*
1 *ct'onniic*l RT«a*e i8D)W8 For
Wo*) 0RAD L NICHOLSON SCO.
BLANKS!
’ *nt, fo , j 1 L y ?a Mat Ike
,i,k ’’W promptly exccuwu
PATRICK BARRY
N OW tnkea <«cca»ji>i» t** return Uia tbnnk*
to his former liberal |«airoij«. H* re
spectfully aolieir*n continuance of their *us
torn, and invites all to examine his new
stock of
DATS, CAPS, BOOTS nind
SHOES!
Ur has laid in an ample anpply of Su
perior Silk Hats, French Hats, <*
new article of exquisite texture, ) and Snr
Woolen Hats of all »hatlo» *nil qualities
Velvet, Cloth and Glazed Caps.
ALSO—An unequalled #>■dection of Gents’.
Ladies'. Boys’ ..ml'MlrSeti’ Sn.-e*.
Gaiters, Slippers, Bootees.
In every veristy «f style, i« which toe would
call special attention. ... A
Beside* his stock of ready made bool* and
shoos, he is prepared on the shortest notice
to make h* neat a boot a* any manufacturer
in the town. Harms experienced workmen
always in his shop »nd a plentiful • supply
of leather nud finding*, such as
F1NU.CALF SKIN &S0LE
' *• DINING AND BINDINGS* [J
Ho is tnal lrd tp more than suMatn Ills
established repntntion.
. '.-HEMEMBER
. sL «... Awsanjtc for g^inp ill-fhod when
cut a neni lilting nud sul>-
,„mVl 1.001 or *lo.o by Mlhag at
Alliens, April 26. V. 15ARUY S
A Little Excitement.
There was some excitement yester
day in our city, caused by an aboli
tionist from the North too freely ex
pressing his views in our midst. His
name, we understand is Mr. Charles
Scott, a drummer for the firm of
Scott & Co., New York. lie had
with him a sermon from the Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher, delivered in
behalf of Ossnwatomie Brown, with
sentiments of which he concurred,
and thought, of course, Capt. Brown,
the insurrectionist, a martyr to liber
ty. A vigilance Committee waited
on Mr. Scott and summoned witness
es to attend, who verified the reports
concerning him. He was sent from
the city, we understand, after the ju
ry passed upon bis case. A large
crowd of, spectators, was drawn to
the scene of trial, though no body
witnessed the proceedings but the
committee appointed. No violence
was used.—Columbus Times.
Earn your money before you spend
it, and get good security before you
lend it.
matter of domestic slavery “is prac
tically abolitionizing Virginia that
“if the negroes at Harper’s Ferry
did not rally to the black standard
and enlist in tho “irrepressible con
flict, ’ it was because non-interven
tion hud already rendered them free;
thnt thus, in Northern Virginia, “the
authority of the masters does not
existthat the negroes of that
section “remain in the State because
it suits them to remain,” for that the
enforcement of authority or labor
there ‘‘results in the certain loss of
the slaves.’’ On the other hand it
appears “that when this unrestrained
liberty becomes insufferable to the
white, the negro is converted in o
money, and thus white labor gradual
ly undermines the institution of slave
r ^-
All this is doubtless true; but what
is the remedy proposed? We are
told that in “the days of Harper’s
Ferry ententes we want the enforce
ment of laws, and not their negation,”
that “protection of slavery is de
manded by the blood of slaughered
citizensthat “the Southern man
who dares deny this right is even
more criminal than the inmates of
the Charlestown jail,’’ and that this
right to federal protection compre
hends “protection to slavery in the
States and Territories.” This is the
remedy of the Richmond Enquirer,
speaking as an organ of Governor
Wise and the Southern democratic
party. To render this remedy effec
tive, the ways ami means must he
provided by Congress for a more
ssitisfactory enforcement of the Fugi
tive Slave'law in the Northern States,
and a special code of laws must be
passed by Congress for the protection
of slavery in the Territories while
they remain in the territorial condi
tion. But it is only necessary to
look at the complexion of the new
Congress to sec that this protective
legislation is out of the question, at
least for two years to com *, while
the peace of the country calls for
immediate nctioo.
We thus turn from our Richmond
democratic scheme of protection to
our Nashville opposition co‘emporary.
He says that “the folly of the South
ern people in their incessant demands
for more slavery legislation is exhibit
ed in a strong light,” when we come
to trace this terrible abolition experi
ment of Brown back to the Kansas-
Nebraska bill; that the South, ac
cordingly, should cease to agitate
this question of slavery, and that the
people have the means in their hands
of putting an end to this evil of agita
tion, “by resolutely refusing to elevate
men to political offices who seek to
ride into power by incendiary appeals
to sectional prejudices. This is very
good, and wc must all come to this
at last; but the crisis demands some
thing more than the suspension of
the slavery agitation, and the ques
tion still recurs, what can we do that
will meet the exigencies of the day ?
The answer is at hand. Restore
the Missouri compromise line. Undo
the mischief which was done in 1854,
and put us back upon Henry Clay’s
substantia! peace treaty of 1850.
That peace gave such universal satis
faction to the country, that both the
democratic party and the old whig
party made it their Presidential plat
form in 1852; but as W. H. Seward
stoud in the way of the whig party,
it‘was borne down and destroyed by
the general rally of the people, North
and South, to the democratic party.
Thus, when poor Pierce entered the
White House he was backed by the
most powerful party, in position and
numbers, that ever existed in the
United States. Then he might have
secured his party in power and the
peace of the country for twenty years
without a break; but instead of his,
in the second year of his administra
tion, we find the democracy tram
pled down by an opposition majority
in Congress, and beaten and broken
to pieces throughout the country.
And fcow were all these disasters,
and the fierce anti revolutionary
Kansas border ruffian wars, and this
five years internal agitation of slave
culminating in this J Harper’s
of all our remaining Territories, dowu
to Mexico. And who can doubt that
such will be the case, if this repeal
of the Missouri compromise is per
mitted to stand? Southern Demo
cratic organs may cry “intervention’’
and “protectionSouthern opposi
tion organs may cry “non-interven
tion” anil “silence ;” but the shortest
practical way to the protection of
slavery ami the cessation of this
‘ irrepressible conflict” of sectional
agitators is the restoration of the
Missouri compromise line. Put the
two sections back again upon the
platform of 1850, and the peace of
the country may bn again restored.
—New York Herald, (Democratic.)
hold up your head, and by all means
never again cat the bread of idleness,
nor depend on father !
Respect to the Aged.
Bow low the head, boy. Do rever
ence to the old man.
Once like you, vicissitudes of life
have silvered the hair, and changed
tlic round, merry face to the worn
visage bcfoio you.
Once that heart beat with incidents
coequal to any you have ever felt;
ispiratious crushed by disappoint
ment, as perhaps your’s are destined
to be.
Once that form moved proudly
through the gav scenes of lifo; now
the band of Time, that withers the
flowers of yesterday, has warped the
figure ami destroyed the noble car
riage.
Once at your age he possessed the
thoughts that pass through your brain,
now wishing to accomplish deeds
Worthy of a nook in .fame, anon
imagining lifo a dream, that the
sooner he awoke from the better.
Tho time to awake is very near at
hand ; yet his eye kindles at noble
deeds of daring, and the hand niake9
i firmer grasp of the staff.
Bow low the head, boy, as you
would in your old age be reverenced.
ry, culminating in thisy Harper s
Ferry outbreak—how w««ve all these
troubles brought nbout, ? By that
one solitary act—the repeal of the
Missouri compromise.' That obm
promise was the Pandora’s (box, the
opening of which let loose Vll this
train of evils upon the country
Pierce and Douglas wanted the votes
of the South in the Cincinnati Con
vention ; Jefferson Davis coaxed them
on; Caleb Cushing joined the league;
Marcy stood aloof, strong enough to
stop the movement, but afraid to
resist it; Atchison, ruled out Jaf the
epend
Stand up be^^ young man, and
let us talk to you. You have trusted
alone to the contents of “father’s
purse,” or to his fair fame for your
influence or success in business.
Think you that “father’ lias attained
to eminence in his profession but by
unwearied industry? or that ho has
amassed a fortune honestly without
energy and activity ? You should
know that faculty requisite for the
acquiring of fame and fortune is
essential to, nay, inseparable from,
the retaining of either of th> se. Sup
pose father has the “rocks” in abun
dance ; if you never earned anything
for him you have m more business
with those “rocks” than a gosling has
with a tortoise 1 and if he alio-
to meddle with them till yiKNnare
learned their value by your owu in
dustry, lie perpetrates untold mischief.
And if the old gentleman is lavish of
his cash towards you, while he allows
you to idle away your time, you had
better leave him; yes, run away
sooner than be made an imbecile or
a scoundrel through so corrupting an
influence. Sooner or later you must
learn to rely on your own resources
or you will not be anybody. If you
have never helped yourself at all, if
you have become idle, if you have
eaten “father’s” bread and butter and
smoked “father’s’’ cigars, cut a swell
in “father’s” buggy, and tried to put
on “father’s’’ influence anti reputa
tion, you might far better have been
a poor canal boy, the son of a chim-
nej'-sweep, ora bootblack,and indeed
we would not swap with you the
sit uation of a poor,half-starved mother
less calf! Miserable objects you aro,
that depend entirely upon your pa
rents, playinggcntleman (alias, dandy
loafer). What in the name of common
sense are you thinking of? Wake
up there! Go to work witlt either
your hands or your brains, or both,
aud do something! Don’t merely
have it to boast on that you have
grown in “father’s’’ house—that you
have vegetated as other greenhorns!
but let folks know that you count
one.
Come, off with your coat, clinch
the saw, the plow-h indies, the scythe,
the axe, the pickaxe, the spade—
anything that will enable yon to stir
your blood! “Fly round and tear
your jacket,’’ rather than be the
recipient of the old man’s bounty.
Sooner than play the dandy at dad’s
expense, hire yourself out to some
potato patch, let yourse>fto stop hog
holes, or watch the bars; and when
you think yourself entitled to a
rasting spell, do it on your own hook.
If you have no other means of having
fun of your own, buy with your earn
ings an empty barrel, and put your
head into it and holler, or get into it
and roll down hill. Don’t, for pity’s
sake, don’t make the old gentleman
do everything; and you live at your
ease.
Look about you, yon well dressed,
smooth-faced, do-nothing droues!
Who arc they that have worth and
influence in society? Arc they those
that have depended alone on the old
gentleman’s purse ! or are they those
that have climbed their way to their
position by their industry and energy!
Ti ne, the old gentleman’s funds or
personal influence, may Ret ure you
tt^e forms of respect, but let him lose
his property or die, anti what are
you! A miserablefledgeltng-abuuch
*)f flesh and bones that needs to be
taken care of!
Again wo say, wake-^-get up in
the morning—turn round at least
twice before breakfast-help the old
man—give him now and then a
generous lift in business—learn how,
take the lead and not depend forever
on being led; and you have no idea
how the discipline will benefit you.
Do this, and our word for it, you will
seem to breathe a new atmosphere,
possess a new frame, ticad on new
earth, walk to a new destiny—and
yoq may then begin to aspire to man-
Crlme.
The prompt and certain punish
ment of criminals in England, wlieth-
of high or low degree, offers a
strange contrast to the lax treatment
of crime in this country. The com
parison is greatly to tho disadvan
tage not only of our courts, but the
state of public sentiment throughout
our great republic. Rank, worth,
station, arc powencss iti England to
shield the transgressor of the law
from the consequences of his turpi
tude. But in this country it is easy
for a criminal, provided he has
friends who have plenty of money, or
has it himself, to escape the just pun
ishment of liis crimes. The i uffianistn
and villainy that demanded tho in
tervention of tho vigilance commit
tee in San Francisco was not great
er then than is now rampant in these
times and calling loudly for the same
means of suppression—an impro i ptu
application of hemp. It would now
be unreasonable to expect a court to
pUss without one or more murders—
almost as unreasonable to expect that
the perpetrators should suffer the
penalty of their crimes at the hands
ofjustiee. The occasional execution
of a negro is not a warning example
to white rascals; impunity makes
them bolder, and the only hope of
saving society from a condition of
lawless anarchy appears to be in a
volunteer appliance cf hemp. It is
the great reformer now needed.—
Murder after murder, crime upon
crime is committed—while the perpe
trators escape. But we predict the
end will and must come. Tho pa
tience of the citizens will be exhaust
ed ; they will be driven, if things con
tinue, to organize for mutual protec
tion and punishment of offenders—
purposes which the law seems in
effectual to accomplish.
People talk of law, or justice, of
trial, of the court of sessions. YVe’d
as well have none. Abolish law,
courts of justice and tho court of ses
sions altogether. What good do
they do ? South Carolina, we might
well say, may perhaps lay claim to
the evil distinction of being the most
lawless of all the States that aspire
to be governed and controlled by the
law and courts of justice.
Men, now u-days, at least a large
number, amuse themselves by carry
ing concealed weapons and making,
for the least offence, a ferocious as
sault upon inoffensive and peaceable
citizens. Numbers of men march
every day in civil society armed with
a “seven shooter’’ and bowies fasten
ed around their persons, as if they
existed among a horde of uncivilised,
lawless barbarians. They commit
murder—they are acquitted. Why
not pass a law that every man shall
settle his own case as he pleases, ir*
respective of judge or jury? It
would be the wisest and best policy,
for then men, peaceable men, would
know what to depend upon.
It is almost, yes, it i3 dangerous
now for a man to ask another for a
debt, or for one' to express himself
civilly upon any subject. Our courts
of justice, our laws arc an anomaly,
r*|Dnting a series of contradictions
IN*umber 3 6.
Stlccticns.
Far at Southern Notehman.
IMPROMPTU LIKES TO
rAApOr OX “WOODIfA*. HPARKTUAT TBISK.”
Oh t barber, spare thnt patch,
Touch not the glossy hair;
Let not thy razor scratch
Hit tfeatured mustache there I
Take down thy cruel hand.
Wield not the fearful blow ;
Oil ! barber, let it Maud—
The toil is poor, you know.
Tit “ Young AmericaV’ joy,
lu mercy let it grow,
Wuuld’st tli.iu fore'er destroy
That liny mustachio !
His *■ pheelink*” to it cling.
Like grape-vine to an oak ;
\V uldVt thou liis heart strings wring;
Eorltear that fatal stroke !
Alt! yes,’tis his alone—
I pray dice tin not scoff.
Think of the "bear's oil” game;
When that it shaom off.
Think of liis i>Lhs nmj groans.
And of liis future lot;
Think of Ids tear* and moans.
Then, barber, harm it not!
For ’tis hi* fondest care.
With oil* and dyes 'twits bought;
Thy murderous blow foibear,
Thy alert shall harm il not /
Alliens, Go., Nor. 24th, 1869.
. CHARLOTTE.
...The question “why printers did
not succeed as well as brewers ?” was
answered: “Because printers work
j for tho head, and brewers for the
j stomach; and where tweuty men
{ hare stomachs, but one has brains.”
...Quin had a gardener who was
very slow. “Thomas,” said he, “did
yen ever see a snail ?” “Certainly.’’
“Then,” rejoined the wit, “you must
have met him, for you could never
overtake him.”
remarkably gross aud strange. With
a community, a population,'who claim
to be intelligent, wealthy, chivalrous
and charitable to a proverb, and who
pretend to be governed by law, it is
strange how continued violations
are tolerated. The existing state of
things exhibits tbc perfection of in
congruity. It is.tlie reduetio ad ab-
surdum “of tho largest liberty—to
do as you please, regardless of law,
for justice lias taken to herself wings
and flown to other climes.
. Crime is in the- ascendancy; the
evil is increasing; it stalks unblushing
in broad open day; every hour, eve
ry minute swells its power. L* son e
thing be not done to arrest it, if the
gallows Continues to be cheated, the
prospect for the diminuti m of crime-
is small indeed.—Rising Sun.
Parents should never put away their
own youth. They must never cease
to be young. Their sympathies and
sensibilities should be always quick
and fretdi^ They must bo susceptible.
They must love that which God made
the child to love. Children need not
only government, firm and mild, but
sympathy, warm and tjuder.
For the Southern Watchman.
0, LET VS ALL TAKE COURAGE.
BT UNI.ItT JOHNSON.
O, let ns all take coiirngo, friends,
Within this world of ou- *;
For hope is ling ring -till nnmng
The future’* fuirv fl •«- -rg;
And wtun the cloud* the darkest seem.
The sunbeam then i* nigh ;
For well we know the shower paints
The rainbow in the sky.
Then murmur not whatever clmnga
Tin; hand of lime lots made,
For the brighter will the sunshine be.
When deeper is the shade ;
And if we hope and despair not,
The coal shall Bonn be won;
For the deeper is the shadow, friend*,
So brighter is the sun.
When sorrow’s waves across us roll,
We will their billows stem,
And prove that we arm’d for the strife
Can live and act like men;
•Then rich indeed the jny will be,
That comes unto each breast;
For the harder that the labor is
The sweeter is the rest.
Bloodg Record.—Gilbert, tlic first
member of Congress from California,
was killed in a duel. Herbert, an
other member of Congress, killed a
hotel waiter at Washington. Key,
the District Attorney, who treacher
ously connived at his acquittal, was
shot by Sickles, and now Senator
Broderick is killed hya.Judgeof the
Supremo Court. This, indeed, is a
bloody record for so young a State.
...“I say, Jim, dey tells me dat
dare is a man dmvr> East wliat is so
industrious dat bun works twenty-five
hoifvs a day.”
“How is dat, Cuffy ? Dero is on
ly twenty-four hours in a day.”
“Why, don’t you see, lie gets tip
an hour before daylight, you stupid
nigger.”
...Have always some hook, work,
or other employment, that you can
take up at odd times. It is surprising
how much may be accomplished by
turning to account fragments of time.
...Temptation is a half-way house
on the road to ruin, and the toll-gate
is only passable by the forfeiture of
a heavy fine, namely, our characters
and our constitutions. .
TWENTY YEARS AGO.
How swift the giilili-tt moment* fly !
How brief the life of man 1
How tt ill v have hi* ilnye oil earth
Been ltkeneil to a epmi I
As far a* memory can trace.
But eliortn* that appear* ;
And yet old time linn numbered up
Mjr age to twenty years.
In days of early innocence.
Ere childhood'* d-eaiii was o’er,
Death, that unwelcome visitor.
Seem'd waiting at the door ;
Hi* icy baud is bun withdrawn—
Hi* presence disappear*;
And here on earth, 1 now remain,
A youth of tweuty year*.
And next came Imyhood’s early days,
Like youthful, smiling spring.
When p.iretit* think each word and act
A very wmid’ruus thing.
Aud. t-heu, the hu*y i-cliou hoy days,
Wilhnll their liu|e* and fear*.
Soon passed aw iv, a id Ufthelnud
The youth of twen'v years.
When 'ormer scenes I would recall,
Aud faces that were there;
Which then did bloom with rosy hc -lth
And lieauty fredi and fair;
Now, many of them are, l.y death
Consigned lo eartv bier*,
While l, in mercy, have been spared
Throughout these twenty years.
And as the days of inan on earth
Uncertain ate and few.
OU. Lord, enable its to keep
Our latter eud in view,
May grace ami truth direct my etepa
While in this vale of lears’
And may I ever walk with Thee,
Through all my future vear*.
Higs.—A subscriber in a neighbor
ing county writes to know what Pork
will open at per lb. At present, we
arc unable to give a satisfactory an
swer. A small lot lias been sold
here this week tit 6 cents nett. We
give some extracts to day, from wes
tern papevs in relation to the Hog
Crop. Notwithstanding large num
bers have died with a disease called
“cholera,” it is calculated the yield
will be pretty large. Corn, which
has something to do with the price
of Pork, we learn is selling in this
county at 40 cents per bushel.—
Athens (Tain) Post-,
No'Navg.—An Englishman wau
owee bragging what a large navy his
native country had, the number of
ships, guns, &c., when a Yankee, who
was standing near, said, “ We have no
navy in our country, but when wo
want men to go to war with, nil we
have to do is to send Gen. Scott with
t kettle drum over the mountains, and
we’ll have a navy in less than two
hours.”
Hhnsibe § titterings.
...Some years ago, a druggist “up
country,” used to be great on stun
ning advertisements of wonderful pan
aceas, that would cure everything
from the “aurora borealis to a pim
pie.” It was during a time when
young ftdlows about town were on the
alert for any sort of a joke ; and one
Sunday morning be saw suspended
over tlm door of his place of business,
a large black snake, to whicli was ap
pended a placard which rend thus:
“This worm was removed from a
child, four years of age, bv two doses
of Comstock’s Vern ifuje”.
...A story is told of a very eminent
lawyer in Old > receiving a severo
reprimand from a witness on tho
stand whom he was trying to brow
beat. Id was an important issue,
and in order to save liis cause from
defeat it was neccessary that Mr. A.
should impeach li e witness. He en
deavored to do it on tho ground of
age. The fallowing dialogue ensued:
Lawyer. How old arc you ?
Witness. Seventy-two years.
Lawyer. Your memory, of course,
is'not so brilliant and vivid as it was
twenty years ago is it?
Witness. I do not know but it is.
Lawyer. State qome circumstance
which occurred, say twelve years ago
and we shall be able to sec how well
you can remember.
Witness. I appeal to your Honor
if I am to be interrogated in this
manner ; it is insolent!
Judge. You had better answer tho
question.
Lawyer. Yea sir, state it!
Witness. Well, sir, if you compel
me to do it, I will. About twelve
years ago you studied in Judge B’s.
olfic?, ditl you not ?
Lawyer. Yes.
Witness. Well, sir, I remember your
father coming iuto my office and say
ing to mo, “Mr. D. my son is to be
1 examined to-morrow, and I wish you
would lend me fifteen dollars to buy
him a suit of clothes. I remember
also, sir, from that day to this ho has
never paid me that sum. That, sir,
I remember as though it was vester-
d.y.
Lawyer (considerably abashed.)
That nill do, sir.
Witness. I presume it wll.
—Preachers attending the Con
ference to he belt! in Romo, on the
14th December next, says the South
emer, will please call for Minister’s
Tickets, at the various depots where
they take the Railroad and they will
be furnished aft half price.
’...The following petition to the
Legislature is in circulation, in.Maine;
“The undersigned respectfully ask
you to put an end to slave hurtting in
Maine,by enacting that no person, who
lias been held as a slave, shall be deli v-
cicd up hy any officer or conrt, State
or Federal, within this State; to any
one claiming him on the ground that
he owes service or labor to such clai
mant, by the laws of one of the slave
States of this Union.’’ 'M*''8*44 |
...A punctual man of doubifr
credit. His small accounts are fro
quently settled, and ho never meets
with a difficulty in raising money to
pay large demands. Small debts
neglected ruin credit, and when a man
has lost that, he will find himself at
■ l( -'-bottom ot a hill lie cannot ascend.
The Bottom Dollar.
From Bishop Pierce’s “Footprints
across the Continent.’’ published in
the New Orleans Christian Advocate,
we tak« the following incident:
‘ IV e stopped at Bariliu Springs for
breakfast. Found there a large train,
of emigrants.- Two ladies came down
to the stage to talkjjth Mrs. P. The
atdest suia sho was moving simply
to.follow her daughtei, tho daughter
said-she was following her husband
I inquired into their history a little.
They had moved from Tennessee to
Mississippi, then to Texas, now to
California.
I said, “I suppose you will go next
to the Sandwich Islands ?”
The young ouo replied with some
spirit, “If I ever get to California,
you may bet your bottom dollar that
1 I’ll never move again.
“The emigration from Texas to
California is very heavy. Tho At
lantic States yield thousands to Tex
as and Texas in 1 icr turn, sends them
to tiro Pacific, and to mv astonish
ment 1 find scores litre aboilt to come
