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Newspaper Page Text[OHN H. CHRISTY.^ Editor and Proprietor. \ Proprietor. J Volume 'VIXX. An Independent Family Journal—Devoted to lews, Politics and Current Literature. ; • ATHEISTS, G-A. WEDISTESDA.Y, JXJ2STE 19, 1861. ftjt $ou%rn Stflatcjinan. k {ilf Lnrsrsl aid flwafcst Papers k the State!!! TERMS. ONLYT^O dollars a-year, " H i,» <•> <«ic«Hce/ ofhcncite, Three Dollar». ,• So Iiapi'r " ill >*e discontinued (except at the option ‘ 0 f ,| it - editor) until all arrearages are. paid. advkrtising. . —I advertisements inserted at the usual rates, v advert isemeuts, when not marked, will be hdini till forbid, at One Dollar per square of# lines £',}* first, end Fifty Cents per square for each snbse- lil.ir.tl deduction to yearly advertisers." .,»• Announcements of candidates $i in advance. ..v itldnwry notices exceeding six lit as in leugth -f{,, eltarged a* advertisements. business ;tniiJprofessi(mal Carts. i M W YNG & CO., Dealers in HARDWARE, CROCKERY, CHINA AND AO*. Brosd Street, Athens, tia. tf t TllKNS STEAM COMPANY.- \ it- NICKERSOWv Agent and Superintendent.' ^.ufaeturers of Circular Saw Mill*, Steam En- • Jll forcing and Lifting PUMPS, Shastim; and ■■ - -ie«t : Mu-i„ GlS and all other kinds of 6EAK- , y, ; | a nd Hit ass CasTixrs, of every description. iUlflHN'i. Repairing and Finishing promptly exo- " (1 |. Select patterns of Iron Fencing. Terms, cash. / i w.& H. R. J. LONG, Wholesale (j, ami Retail DRUGGISTS, Athens, Ga. Jtflttt ^nistcUatro. rAMM.Kti. be n. r. slop mu. HANDLER & SLOCUMB, Attor- L/' u.-vs at Law, Homer, Banks county, Georgia, will •.1,-tife'in the counties of Banks, Habersham, Frank- J, Jackson and Hall. All bnsiuoss entrusted to them ill receive prompt attention. May 8, 1801 ■p W. LUCAS, Wholesale and Re- F • tail Dealers iu DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, IHRIOVARE. Ac., No. 2, Broad Street, Athens. n L. McCLESKEY, M.D., having VjT• permanently located in Athens, will continue tie practice of Medicine and Surgery. Residence, that recently occupied by Mr. Chaio—Office, at home, where mar h« found. t f A. LOWILVNCE Surgeoii Den- TIST, Athens, Ga. Office on CollegeAvenuo, the Jewelry store of Messrs. Talmadge & Winn. tte Charge of Marat jit Eylau. It is at Eylau that Murat always appears ui his most terrible aspect. This battle fougltf in mid-winter, in 1807, was the most important and bloody one that had then occurred. France and Russia had never before opposed such strength to each other, and a complete victory on either side would have settled the fate of Europe; Bonaparte remained in posses sion of the field, and that' was all; no vic tory was ever so'like a defeat. The field of E} T Iau was covered with snow, aud the little ponds that lay scat tered over it were frozen sufficiently bard to bear the nrtiUery. Seventy-five thou sand men on one side, and eighty-five thousand on the other, arose from the fro zen field on which they had slept the night of Fe’.iruaiy, without tent or covering, to battle for a continent. Augurca, on the left, was utterly routed in the morning. Advancing through a snow storm so thick he could not sec the enemy, the Russian annon mowed down his ranks with their destructive fire, while the Cossack caval ry, which were ordered to charge, came thundering on, almost hitting the French infantry with their long lances before they were visible through the storm. Hemmed in and overthrown, the whole division, composed of 16,000 men, with the exception of 1500, were captured or slain. Just then, the snow storm clenring up, re vealed to Napoleon the peril to which he was brought," and ho immediately ordered a grand charge by the Imperial Guard and the whole cavalry. Nothing was fur ther from Bonaparte’s wishes or expecta tion, than the bringing of his reserve into the engagement at this early stage of the battle, but there was no other resource left him. II n GlLLELAND, Dentist, Wat- • k ins villi?. Ga., respectfully solicits the patron- ,f the surrounding country. Full satisfaction will t en in bis profession. __ tf T M. KENNEY, (next door to the Is Rank of Athens.) constantly keeps on hand STA- Pl.E and FANCY DRY GOODS, and Choice Family P ries. cheap for cash, or to prompt customers. J. M. MATTHEWS, Attorney at LAW, Damelsvillc, (la. May 1. TOllN II. CHRISTY, Plain and if Fancy BOOK AND JOB PRINTER, Broad St., Athens, tia. Office corner Broad and Wall streets, over t.»lT of SUUSOW & Pittard. tf AMES A. CARLTON, Dealer in Silk, Fancy anti Staple DUY GOODS, Hardware Crockery, No. X Grunito How, Athens*. I W. HANCOCK, Attorney at 1/ • . W, Danis is villc, Ga., will practice in Jack- >™. Clarke, Madison. Hart, Oglethorpe and Elbert. T F. O’KELLEY, Photograph and t* • A MBROTY I F. ARTIST. Rooms on Broad and the work were at an early hour assembled in the advance trenches, all in admirable order, and furnished with precise ‘nstrnc- tions. The mortare maintained an unre mitting fire until the moment appointed. “The very instant the last volley was discharged, the storming party of Zouaves rushed over the thirty paces before them, and were in the work before theastonished Russians knew what had happened. It was stated that this party had lost but eleven men in entering the work. Other troops advanced rapidlj- to the support of the storming party, a bridge was formed by rolling up five ladders with planks lash ed to them, a communication was com menced between the advanced trench and thp bridge, brigade after brigade passed over, the redoubt was at onoe occupied by the storming party; and thus the Malakoff, and with it Sebastopol, was won. The few Russians remaining in the work made a desperate resistance. Many gallant at tempts were made by the Russian columns to ascend the steep slope in rear and re gain the lost work; but the road was nar row, and difficult, and obstructed; the po sition perilous and the French in furee. All their furious efforts wore in vain, and the Malakoff remained m the possession of those who had so gallantly and skillfully won it. With regard to the final retreat to the north side, it can only be said that a per sonal examination of the locality there con firms its necessity, and the impression so g enerally entertained that this was the nest operation of the war. So admirably was it carried out that not a straggler re mained behind, a few men so severely wounded as to bo unfit for rough and hur ried transportation, were the sole ghastly human trophiesthat remained to the allies.” riu£ ftreetd, over the store of John It. Matthews, MarfMtf TAS. M. ROYAL, Harness-Maker, J i Wail of Wall street, nearly opposite the old State Bank| Athens, Ga.. keeps always on hand a general as- urtuivnt of nrtielea iu his line, aud is always ready to till ..Tilers in the best style. tf M N T 1L DAVIS, Land Broker, Collec ts e TOR and GENERAL AGENT, Augusta, Ga.— Badness attended to in any county of the State. Office ti mer of Jackson and Ellis streets. I 1*. MASON & GO., Bookbinders, II . F*p,r Rulers aud Blank Book Manufacturers, Whitehall street, Atlanta, Ga. J. II. Chkistv. Agent, Atbeus. tia. july22-ly ADI SON BELL, Attorney at LAW, Homer. Banks County, Ga.-—will prac tice in the Courts ol" the Western Circuit. All business curetted to bis rare will meet with prompt attention. RefKUF.xcKS : Hon. J. H. Lumpkin, T. K. II. C«*bb, Ksi.j., Wm. Hope Hull, Ee<|., Athens, Ga., J. H. Batiks, . Gainesville, Ga. _____ JH’IIOLSON, Reaves & Wynn, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in STAPLE and AM Y GOODS, GROCERIES, HARDWARE, Crock- T, a ■■ . large new Brick Store, corner Bridge and Broad ira-w, Athens, Ga. tf I > ATM A N & SUMMEY, Dealers in L IIARDWARE and CUTLERY, corner of Broad ri Wall streets, Athens. On. *£_ FRKE- j’bolcsale and Retail Dealers in GROCE Bib?, DRY GOODS, HARDWARE, SHOES A COOTS, Brand Street, Athens, Ga. tf _ P BARRY, Fashionable Boot and • SHOE-MAKER, Broad street, Athens, Ga., is i-way> in rta-1 in oat* t« lill orders in his line. r P BISHOP & SON. Wholesale and X e Retail Dealers in GROCERIES, HARDWARE Md ?TAPLE DRY GOODS, No. 1, Broad st„ Athens. I M I NER. ENGLAND & I MAN, W! WM. L. MARLER, Attorney at ’> LAW, Jefferson, Jaekson comity, Ga. I'.trcHxxi'Rs.—J. M. MeLcster an<l W. S. Thompson, Jefferron ; D. W. Spence and T. M. Peeples, Esq. Unrencevillc; John II. Newton and J. H. Christy, Athens. tf \UM. G. DELON Y, Attorney at IT LAW, Athens, Go., will attend prompUy to all wtiness entrusted to his care. Office on Broad street, *-L r J" "• Kenney’satore. tf Wm. PHILIPS, Attorney at Law, I * Marietta, Oa., will practice in all the counties 'Be lUne ltidgc Circuit, iu the county of Fulton, of the l .cccta Circuit, In the Supreme Court, and in the U. S. District Court tit Marietta. - tf White & ritch, wholesale & 11 Retail CLOTHIERS and MERCHANT TAI- tf’KS, Broad street, Athens, Ga. WM N. WHITE, Bookseller and II STATIONER, and Newspaper and Magazine S;cut—ltcalor in Music A Musical instruments, Lumps, *»« t atlcry, Fancy Goods, Ac., corner Broad Stroetand Avenue. Ortiors promptly filled at Augusta rates. PLANTER’S HOTEL, Atlanta. Oa. (OPPOSITE THE PASSENGER DEPOT.) THOROUGHLY renovated and re-furnished, and iu uto very centre of the business portion of the city. WM. O’HALI.ORAN .Proprietor. GLOBE HOTEL, Auguttfti (jra. AUSTIN MULLARKY, PROPRIETOR. A , TI '-' E —Passengers holding Through Tickets, will 1 , * C4r ried to and ftrc«u this Hotel freo of Omnibus Fob. 27—ly Wright & jackson, Wl tUdHISSlONAJ® mtWMfi MERCHANTS. J- ,srt!ET, SA VAXNAU, QEOltUlA. * «■ 'SIIIUUT. WM. a. JACKSON. i. REFER TO rf ’l; Aodorsota Savannah, Oa. ■ *Shoru 4 Cunuingham, * “ duaton * Villalonga, « • r «m A Hardee, « « T w r i.,* 11 ru - - York. S*.»' i * Co -» Augusta, Oa. * brother. F»rnandina. Florida. II i ii* c%ooro > Jacksonville, “ J.V L - llert, Palatka, “ “•ox Merritt, Hawkineville, Ga. Ilorida f ^ r ®»*«rf«de line of Mail Steamers to ^'ttviiL.* 0 '* “Outers Isaao Scott aud Oak, to Haw- • April 10—lm. Murat sustained his high reputation on this occasion, and proved himself, for the hundredth time, worthy of the great con fidence Napoleon placed in hint. Noth- _ could be more imposing than the bat tle field at this moment. Bonaparte and the Empire trembled in the balance, while Murat prepared to lead down his cavalry to save them. Seventy squadrons, making in all 14,000 well mounted men, began to move over the slope, with the Old Guard inarching sternly behind Bonaparte, it is said, was more agitated at this crisis than when, a moment before he was so near being captured by the Rus sians. But as lie saw those seveuty squad rons come down on a plunging trot, press ing hard after the white plume of Murat, that streamed through the snow storm far in front, a smile passed over his counte nance. The earth groaned and trembled as they passed, and the sabres, above the dark and angry mass below, looked like the foam ot a sea-wave as it crests on the deep. The rattling of their armor, and the muf fled thunder of tlicir tread, drowned all the roar of battle, as with firm, setarraj’, and swift, steady motion, they bore down with their terrible front on the foe. The shock of that immense host was like a falling mountain, and the front line of the Russian army went down like frost work before it. Then commehced a pro tracted fight of hand to hand, and sword to sword, as in the cavalry action at Eckmuhl. The clashing of steel was like the ringftig of countless hammers, and horses and riders we**e blended in wild confusion together; the Russian reserve were ordered up, and on those Murat fell with hifi fierce horsemen, crushing and trampling them down by thousands. But the obstinate Russians disdained to fly, and rallied again aud agaiu, so that it was no longer cavalry charging on infantry 1 , but squadrons of horse galloping through broken hosts that, gathering into knots, still disputed, with unparalleled bravery, the red and rent field. It was during this strange fight that Murat was seen to perform one of those desperate deeds lor which ho was so re nowned: Excited to the highest pitch of passion by the obstacles that opposed him, he seemed endowed with ten-luld strength, and looked more like a superhuman being treading down helpless mortals than an ordinary man. Amid the roar of artille ry, and rattling of musketry, and falling of gabreslrokes like lightningabout him, that lofty white plmno never ouce went down, while ever and anon it was seen glaring through the smoke of battle, the star of hope to Napoleon, and showing that liis «right arm” was Btill uplifted and strik ing for victory. He raged like an unloosed lion amid the foe; and his eyes, always terrible in bat tle, burned with increased lustre, while his clear and steady voice, heard above the turmoil of strife, was worth more than a thousand trumpets to chccr eif his fol'- lowers. At length, seeing a knot of Rus sian soldiers that for a long time bad kept up a devouring fire upon his men, he wheeled his horse and drove iu full gallop upon their levelled muskets. A tew oi his guards, that never allowed that white plume to leave their sig’jt, charged after him. Without waiting to count his foes, ho seized bis bridle'in his teeth, and with his pistol in pno hand and his dra wn sword .in the other, burst in headlong fury upon tiient, and scattered them as if a hurricane had swept by. Murat was a thunderbolt on that day, and the deeds that were wrought by him will furuikb themes for Ahe poet and the painter.” The French Zonares. The Zonaves baTe how become a house hold word, yet but few persons who read with so much interest the siege oi Sebasto pol, are aware that it was largely owing to the French Zouaves that the Malakoff was taken. " “The Franch had succeeded »n sapping to within thirty-two paces of the Malakoff', where the Zouaves lay coueealed. In their admirable arrangements for the attack of the Malakoff, the French counted on two things for Buccess—firet, they had ascer tained that tiie Russians were in the habit of relieving the guard of the Malakoff at noon, and that a great part of the old guard marched out before the new one arrived, in order to avoid the loss which would From Gleason’s Literary Companion. 1XCLE NEHEMIAU IN LOVE. BY CLARA AUGUSTA. “ Folks may say jest as much as they’re a mind to,” said Unde Nehemiah, knock- in the ashes out of his pipe into the fire, “ but I’ll tell yeu, the wust feeling in the world, by' all and all, is being in love, and not knowing whether you’re agwinetogit the object of ycr love or not ?” “Ah, then you have experienced the emotion ?” said we. “ Don’t know nothing about ycr notions,” he returned, with a grave shake of 1 he head, “but I know the ABC of being all-firedly and consarncdly in love, Iv’c had the com plaint so hard that it seemed as if forty' million muskeeters was a tappin’ my' heart strings,and a whole pin cushion full of darn ing needles was playing blind man’s buff in my buazom I’ve had the dispepsy, and the drapsy, and the guitar in my head, and the information of the stummuck^—and once I eat a couple of green cowcumbers and got the cholera morbus; but none of them dis eases was to becompared with what I suffer ed lor Sary Ann Banker. She put the dou ble and t n isted torments rite into me. From the time that I fust sot eyes on her, till a long spell afterwards,I took nocomfortday nor night—I was in a mustard-bath all the time—a thinking of her blue eyes and gold en hair. “ Sary Ann was none of yer leetlc cob web, delicate critters that the wind will blow away—not she. She didn’t faint at the sight of a mouse, or y’ell murder, ami go in the hydrostatics, if site seed a inop- handle. She was a regular bouncer—weigh ed n hundred and seventy-five, if a pound, and had a pair of arms that could hug ye like a grizzly'bear. % The fust*time that ever I seed her, she was a riding the boss for her father to plow the medder lot, and that very minnit some thing went rite through me like an arrer. I told inarm about it, and she said it was the green corn I’d cat for dinner, ami give me a dose of rnbub and some whisky; but as I got no better very fast, she sent after Dr. Rillgrim. He said I’d got a touch of the jamlers, and give me a cosmetic that turned me insideout and made me as weak as a spring gosling. I made up my’ mind'not to be doctored any more, hut to godo the singing skule, where 1 could see Sary Ann twice a week. Billy Ruzzell used to go home with her about every night, and I was so mad him that I could have smashed every bone in hisbody withoutlosing my appetite. Some? how or rather; when 1 got long with Sary Ann my courage run rite out, jest as corn does out of a crib" what haint got no bot tom. I sorter flatted out, blowed up, or collapsed—jest as you’re a mind to call it. I darsent say my soul was my own, with them blue eyes looking at me. “ Then agiu, I darsentgo to Bunker’s, for the old man—Sary* Ann’s father—-was the terriblest old Hottentot that ever was; he’d just as soon have hove me into the duck- pond on a pitchfork as not, if he had kotoli- ed me shining round Sary Ann. “But I’d got it into my head that Sary Ann warnt indifferent to hie, for I’d noticed she colored up when I was round, and once or twice she’d squeezed my hand under the skule-house desks—and all this didn’t mean nothing ? I tell you there’s a heap of talk- ingdono that haint done with the longue, ’specially’ amurijj young folks that is in love. “One night I determined to make a bold push, and see Sary Ann home. If I could’nt cut Bill Buzzle out, ‘twas a pity. So when singing-skulewaa nigh almost done, I whif fed over aside of her and whispered in her of the settee, and I sot down on tothcr, and both of us looked into the fire. “ I was so befuddled with her beauty that I couldn’t think of nothing to say; so I whirled my thumbs, and chawed tbecor- ners of my neck-bandkercher, and looked round the room tt> see if I couldn’t spy something to talk about. There warn’.t nothing remarkable, ’cept some sassir.gers and a string of all-fired great peppers. Say's I— •“ Them’s monstrous great peppers.’ Yes, Miah, they be,’ says she. “ Arter that, we sot still ns much as half an hour. I knowed something must he did or sed, and so, says I— “‘Them peppers is whoppers.’ “‘Yes,’ says she. ‘Yes, think they'air.’ “ The clock struck uine. I knowed it was time to be a goin,’ but I couldn’t give it up so. I straightened myself out, in hopes an idea would come, but it didn’t.— My eyes fell on the peppers agin, and says I— “‘Sary' Ann, them’s the tremenjurest fel lers that ever I seed.’ “ * Yes,’ says she, ‘so they am.’ “ Then we sot still a little longer. I was jest a goin’ to say something more about the peppers, when we* heerd a waggin drive up to the door. Sary' Ann turned pale as a cosset lamb. “‘ Good lord,’ says she, ‘Father and mo ther has come back.’ “‘ O, Jerusalem,’ says I, ‘what shall I do?’ “‘You can’t git out,’ says she,‘cause there aint but one door, and they’ll come in at that. Run up garret, iuto my room, and hide in the cupboard. I’ll come up and see to ye as quick as over I can.’ “I did jest as she told me to, and arter considerable of a tussel, managed to screw myself into the cupboard, between two barrels of dried apples. It was an awful long spell afore Sary Ann come, and when she did, she hud a caudle ill one hand and a rope in t’other. “‘Don’t make no noise,’ says she. ‘Fath er sleeps rite underneath. He’s just gone to bed, and you can’t git down stairs with out waking him. There’s a board loose that creaks awfully. I’ve got the clothes line, aud I’ll let you down out of the win der.’ “‘She histed the winder mighty’easy, tied the rope round my waist, and then, ye see I couldn’t endure it any longer—I jest flung my arms round her, and give her the awfiillest hugging and kissing that ev er was heerd of. She didn’t make no per sistence—only said—‘Don’t Miah,’ jest as if she didn’t mean it—and I don’t bleveshe did. • It’s a kind of a way the women have of making ofy’e think they’re indifferent. “I got out of the winder, and she held the rope. She let me down jest as slick as ile, but when I got off against the win der of old Bunker’s bed-room, out popped the old heathen’s red flannel night-cap, and before I could say Jack Robinson, he had cut the rope with liis jack-nife. Down 1 went to terry firmly like a thousand of brick—down, down rite in amongst a half dozen bee hives, that was not under Sary Ann’s win !cr for no airthly reason but to steal the honey from her lips, I expect.— My fail waked up the sleeping torments, and they pitched into mo like all possess ed. There warnt a square inch of skin but what was covered knee-deep with ’em. “ Sary’ Ann was crying out of her win der, and old Bunker was lafflng out of his’n. As for me, I streaked it for the duck- pond at the top of my best gallop, and dived rite in. I staid under water so long that I come pretty’ nigh drownding, and lost my watch seal and buzzum pin into the bargin. “ I went home and went to bed, which I didn’t leave agin fur six weeks. I expect I was a sight to be seed. Marin said I was the image of a cheese spotted with John’s w'art. I suffered unaccountably—the flesh and stiffening was all took out of me. I felt as weak as a tallered rag; and while I was sick, that good for-nothing huzzy', Sary Ann, went and married Bill Buzzed !” “ Mayn't I see you homo?” “‘ Yes, Miah, you may,’ says she.” “ I was in the fortieth heaven. I was transmogrified. Ail the airth was a greas ed rainbow, and I -woe sliding down it into a tab. of maple lasses; with velvet britches on. When she- pat lier band inside my coat-sleeve, and we marched off together, I could have wept for.joy. Nary one of us spoke for the whole half mile to Bunker’s. All crcashun seemed to whirl round and round before my y'y«*>; the trees was danc ing a jig; the moon luffed till she showed her teeth; the stars seemed crowing and clapping their hands, and I wa»s going home with Sary Ann. I felt just like shouting hallelujah, but I didn’t for fear I should wake up old Bunker. “ When we got to tlse gate, Sary Ann spoke. Says she— “‘Miah, wou’t you goin? Father and mother has gone over to Uncle Dave’s to , W.V.W. „ stay all night. Come in and git some oi- ariseftom crowding the Work with men; | der.’ • . in the second place, it was determined to “I cleared the fence at a bound—I was keeD up a most violent vertical fire until j so tickled ; and then I jumped back agin, the very moment of thq assault, thus driv-1 and grabbing Sary Ann, jumped over agin . utA »i.a nnil with 'her* it seemed an if I could have jumped over the meeting-bouse, as easy as nothing at all. Wo went into the kitchen, ine the Russians' into the bomb-proofs, and O. .» • * Aatt->***?> «\antrr *A DtltAF t lWI enabling the storr work with but lit of noon was there™ v ™ —- sault, and thesfontr columns intended for • " jjP party to enter the The hour os-1 and Sary Ann made up a fire, aud go 1 n pitcher of eider. . She sot down on one end Campaigning Axioms. 1. One well fed, well equipped, well ap pointed brigade is worth two that are ill provided. 2. In active service, three men die of undue exposure, had food, and their own impradcuces, where one is kilted by shot or stab. 3. An easy, rational, nicely fitting uni form, with warm, substantial blanket, broad-priled boots or shoes* and good wool len socks, will more conduce to efficiency iu service than superiority in weapons. 4. Tiie lightest possible head-covering, with a good lookout for ventilation, will add a tenth to the distance a regiment can march in a day’, while insuring increased comfort. 5. A small cotton handkerchief, or half a yard ot the commonest sheeting, mois tened with water in the morning and again at noon, and worn between the hat and the head, will protect the soldier from sun- stroko and greatly diminish tho discomfort and fatigue of a hot day’s march. 6. A flat bottle covered with woollen cloth, the cloth being moistened aud the bottle filled with water in the morning, will keep reasonably’ cool throughout a long, hot day. 7. Of all villainons concoctions, the li quors ^old by camp-followers are the most detestable and dangerous. They are more deadly than rifled cannon, and are sure to be taken just w-ltou they should not be. Every soldier who means to do his duty' to his country should insist that all venders of these poisons he drummed out of camp. 8. A good cook to each company, who -knows how to make salt meat juicy and tender, and to have it ready whenever and wherever it may be wanted, is equal to two doctors and four extra combatants. 9. Officers who love and care for their men while in repose never have to com plain of their conduct when in action. 10. A soldier whose heart is in the cause he fights for is worth two who fight foir their pay. The two Hllitary Chieftains. Jefferson Davis.—Whatever estimate Republicans may placa upon tho charac ter of Jefferson Davis, all parties know and agree that he is qot a man of bluster and bluff, but a man oftm^ible determination, who means what he says, and whose re sources of mind rise in grandeur in pro portion as the difficulties by which lie is surrounded increase. He is one of those very few gigantic minds which adorn the pages of history, of whom it may be said: —“Desperate courago makes one a major ity.” The latest powers of his soul and tellect have been fully called forth on hut one occasion. When the flower of the Mexican cavalry', numbering 8,000 strong came down on liis band of 400 Mis- sissippians at Buena Vista, whilst the whole army of Americans trembling look ed for naught hut to Bee his- little band go down before that terrible charge, he alone felt no misgivings, and kneio thufthe should triumph. The world knows the result. The Iron man of war stood firm; they re ceived the.shock of the charge, and deliv ered their doadly fire. The cavalry’ reeled and fled and the field of Buena Vista was won.—Banrjoi*{Me.) Democrat. Winfield Scott.—A Western paper says Gen. Scott is hale, hearty, healthy', and as active as a boy. This we know to be a deliberate lie. A gentleman was 40 our office yesterday, who saw Scott last Saturday. He says he is a complete Wreck. Infirm, gouty and overwhelmed with tiro lashing of a guilty' conscience, he lias be come a sort of terror to all around him. His Aids tremble in his presence, and his petulance prevents him from giving any one a civil answer. Old Abe, it is said, is absolutely afraid to go near “Fuss and Feathers,” as tho latter has not forgotten, and never will, tho remark of Lincoln to Rev. Dr. Fuller, that he was “Scott’s legal master.” Scott, who was present at the time of tho interview, managed to restrain his passion until the Doctor and th t mem bers of the Young Men’s Christian Associ ation left; but tlroy had scarcely cleared the room before he let out on Lincoln. At one time it was thought that Cameron and Seward would have to interfere to prevent a collision. Scott roved like a madman, and told Lincoln that ho was a stupid fool, a most consummate ass, and lavished sun. dry r other choice ephithets upon the de voted head of his “legal master.” Our in formant states that he finally worked him self up into such a passion that his nervous system could not longer stand the shock, and ho was conveyed to bed.—Petersburg Expra s. The Utility or Refuse Things. The prussiate of potash is made in large quantities in Cincinnati, from the hoofs, horns aud other refuse of slaughtered grun- ters. * Cow-hair, taken from the hides in tan neries, is employed for making plastering mortar, to give it a fibrous quality’. Saw-dust is sold for sprinkling tho floors of markets. It is also used for packing ice for shipping. The rags of old, worn-out shirting, cali co dresses, and the waste of cotton facto ries are employed to make the paper up on which these lines are printed. Old ropes are converted into fine note paper, and the waste paper itself, which is picked up in the gutters, is again con verted into broad, white sheets, and thus does duty in revolving stages. The paring of skins and hides, and the ears of cows, ealves and sheep are careful ly collected and converted into glue. The finer qualities of gelatine are made from ivory raspings—the bones and ten dons of animals. Bones converted into charcoal by roast ing in retorts are afterwards employed for purifying the white sugar with which we sweeten coffee, etc. The ammonia obtained from the distilla tion of coal in making gas, is employed for saturating orchil and cudbear in mak ing the beautiful lilac colors that are dyed on silk and the fine woolen goods. Carbonic acid, obtained in the distilla tion of coal tar, is employed with other acids to produce beautiful yellow colore on silk and wool. The shavings of cedar wood, used in making pencils, are distilled to make the otto of cedar wood. Brass filings and old brass kettles are remelted anti employed to make the brass work of printing presses and pumps. Old copper scraps are used in the con struction oi splendid bronze chandeliers, for illuminating our churches and the man sions of tho wealthy. Old horse-shoe nails are employed to make the famous steel and twist barrels of fowling pieces. Craney Island. These four points, there fore, form very nearly a parallelogram. Old Point is five miles North of Sewell’s Point. Along the Northern shores of the Roads, it is believed that no batteries have been erected ; and the Federal troops may he disembarked without any resis tance. If the reduction of Richmond is the object, as the signs seem to indi cate, the march of the Federal Army from Newport News will be ninety mites! But whether the invasion is made with onecolnran, or two or three columns, it will require an army of overwhelming force, and in the highest state of discip line, to cut its wav to the -Metropolis. Whether Scott and Lincoln have such an army at their command, our readers can judge as well as we; but for our part we do not believe they have. When the at tempt is made, tho peninsula between the York and James will he watered with blood.—Petersburg ( Fit.) Express. The Brain. One of the readiest roads to the brain is through the lungs. You may r&ieh the brain in a minute with chloroform, for example. The power of this drug, is some thing marvellous. When? under its influ ence, a man may’have his limb cut off with out any sensation whatever; and even when he recovers from a artificial trance, may still have neither pain or uneasiness. Why ? Have you ever scon a person af ter a fit of epilepsy? After a fit of that kind, people have no remembrance of any'- thing done to tlrem dnring the fit. Dur ing the epileptic paroxy'sin, the bruin is all but completely torpid. Tiro same thing happens after the anaethetic sleep of chlor oform. In neithercasc can a man remem ber what he never felt. But mark what may happen after amputation performed on a patient under chloroform. Tho same man who felt no pain in the stump either during or after the operation, may continue for many successive months to be attacked with the identical local symptoms for which his limb was removed, at the hour of the day’ or night when he was wont to suffer martyrdom before its removal. And more than this—if seized by’ his old enemy’ during his sleep, may wake,exclaiming, “O, my leg, my leg! it pajns me the same as when it was on !”’ More curious still, he may’toll you he cun, so far as his feelings are concerned, actu ally move the foot of the amputated limb What do these facts prove? They prove: 1. That the brain is the source 'tf nil motion, and sensation,' morbid or sane; they prove inversely, 2. That the brain is the source of rest and remission, sleep included; they forth er prove, 3. That the brain is the source of all paroxysmal recurrence, whether the more prominent symptons be general or lo cal—London Medical Practice. WaBSideSatlieviitgis. ...W aggs went to the depot of one of our railroads the other evening, and finding the best car full, said, in a loud voice-. “ This car don’t go.” Of course these words caused a great stampede, and Waggs took the best seat. The c.irs soon moved off. In the midst of the indignation, the wag was questioned. “ You said this car didn’t go.” “ Well, it didn’t then, but it does now.” Of course tho “sold” laughed, and said Waggs was smart. “ Do, children, for gracious sake, Stop your quarrelihg. I never saw the like in all the days of my life. Do try to remem ber that you are connected by the ties of consanguinity.” “ Yes,” replied the husband, who was in some way connected with the railroad, “I tfftnk you must be connected by the cross ties.” . ..At one of the up town schools yester day, the “inarm” in hearing the aritlune tic lesson of the little ones, put among others this question : “Now. if an army' of 59,009 Abolition ists should march against an army of 50; 000 Southerners, and the Southerners should fire upon them and kill 8,000, how many of them would be left ?’i A little nine year old boy, with a wick cd grin, put his thumb upon liis nose, and with the four fingers tickling the air, an swered : “ I know; there wouldn’t be ‘nary one’ left. They’d all run away Arkansas Lead.—Tho Vicksburg J\rkig says: We have seen as fine and rich le^d ...“ What’s tho matyer, my dear,” said a wife to her husband, who had sat half an hour with his face buried in his hands, and apparently' in great tribulation. “ O, don’t know,” said ho, “ I’ve felt like a fool all day’.” “Well,” returned the wife, consolingly, “I’m afraid you will never feel any better; you look the very picture of what you feel.” Arab Proverbs.—When you are the an vil, have patience—when you are the ham mer strike well and straight. A great many human beings dig their graves with their teeth. A generous man will place the benefit he con fere beneath his feet—those he re ceives nearest his heart. If you wisli to appear agreeable in soci ety you must consent to be taught many things that you know already. To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to dis cover who is a clever fellow. Experience teaches us no indulgence; the wisest is he who doubts his own judg ment with regal’d to the motives which ac tuate his fellow men. A friend that you have to buy' will be worth what you have to pay for him—no matter how little that may ever be. A juror’s name was called by the clerk. The man advanced up to the desk aud said: “ Judgo, I should like to be excused.” “It is impossible,” said the judge must decidedly'. “ But, Judge, if y'ou knew my reasons I am quite sure— “ Well, proceed,” said tho Judge, “what do you allego?” “ Well, Judge, if I must say it—I’ve got the itch!” Tiie Judge, who was a very' sober man, solemnly’ and impressively exclaimed: “ Clerk, scratch that man out.” ...A little girl hearing it said that she was born on the queen’s birth-day, took no notice of it at the time, but a day or two after asked her father if she and tho queen were twins. ...“I gave him a bit of my mind,” said a fop one day. “ That was very generous,” whispered a wag to a friend, “lor I know the fellow has uone to spare.” ...As a party of Pike’s Peakera were 1 starting from St. Jo., a fellow of the most article it can be had there. Pain and Death. It is a comfort to know that insects have no nerves of sensation. The idea that every insect and reptile, and even the myriads of aniinalculffi that we are obliged to crush and destroy’ day by day:, suffer pain, is a terrible one. The poets have taught us the idea; it is left to naturalists to set us right. Insects may’ be cut and torn to pieces without giving any indication of pain. When they lose a log or two, they go about their business without seeming to mind it at all. Cut a wasp in two, so that his thorax is separated from his stomach and abdomen, and he walks, about merrily, and eats with an unusually’ good appetite. In fact, as his food passes through him at once, it gives him no inconvenience, and he can eat any’ quantity'. The enjoyment does not last very long, because tho pro cesses of nutrition cannot go on without the organs of digestion ; hut Mr. Wasp does not appear to suffer in the least. Insects, in certain cases show muscular contortions, but these are not proof of pain. We know that there may be the spasmodic action in the human body’ with out the least sufferinge Some y'ears ago we knew of a little boy whose lower ex tremities were thrown into spasms by an injury to the spine. The little fellow had no feeling whatever below the point of in jury, and was greatly amused to lie and see himself kick. So, the convulsive spasm s of men who are hanged are no proof ofpaiir. When the neck is broken there can be none below the point of dislocation. .When the neck is not broken, the pres sure of blood on the brain produces insen sibility' almost instantly. All men who have recovered from bunging, after it was supposed that, they were dead, give the same testimony to its painlessness. When men die slowly, and with strong mnscular contractions, there is, probably, no suffer ing. Topography of Hampton Roads. Hampton Roads is the name given to the broad expanse of water between the mouth ot James River and the entrance in to Chesapeake Bay. Newport Nows Point, on the North side of the river and Pig Point on South, at the junction of the Nansemond with the James, may' be con sidered as the mouth of the James. Be tween these two points the distance is about five miles. Craney' Island lies at the mouth of Elizabeth river, some six or seven miles'East of Pig Point. Sewell’s Point is about the same distance North of ore from the State of Arkansas as was cv-1 sojemn visage shouted out to them, at the er produced in Illinois. If we need the listance of half a square: “ Hallow! hold on there.” Thegoldseekers stopped while iie came up and asked: “Are you going to Pike’s Peak?” “Yes,’ was the rather crusty response. “Well, why don’t you wait for the grass?” continued tho interro gator. “-Grass!” ejaculated one of the emigrants, impatiently’; “what do we want with grass? wo havn’t any cattle.” “Very true; but you are making asse3 of yourselves, and you ought to look out for provender.” Amid a roar of laughter which cams up from the crowd, the Pike Peakers made a general rush for the pros ecutor, and nothing but a nimble use of his legs saved tho wag from a sound drub bing. A rough individual, whose knowledge of classical language was not quite complete, had been sick, and on recovering was told by’ the loctoc that he might take a little ani mal food. “No, sir,” said he,“I took y’our gruel easy enough, but hang mo if I can go y’our hay and oats.” Rallying Song or the Virginians. Seat* ichti ha’ in"’ Wallace bleil." Air Now rouse, ye gallant comrades all, And ready stand, in war array; Virginia sounds tier battle-call, And gladly wc obey. Our hands upon our trusty swords, Our hearts with eoutage beating high, We’ll fight as once our fathers fought, To conquer or io <tie! Adieu awhile to loving eyes, And lips that breathe oar narao in prayer. To them our holiest thoughts be given— For them our swards wc bare! Yet linger Hot when honor calls, Nor breathe one sad, regretful sigh; Defying fate, for love we’ll live, Or for our country die ? No tyrant band shall ever dare 0«r sacred Southern homes despoil, No tyrant foot shall e'er invade Our freo Virginia’s sail. Lo ! From her lofty mountain peaks, To plains that skirt the Southern seas, Wo fling our banner to the winds, Her motto on the breeze! We hear the roll of stormy drums. We bear the trumpets call afar! Now farewell, gallant comrades all, To swell the ranks of war! Uplift on high our battle cry. When fiercest rolls the stormy fight; Virginia for the Southern Cauie, Aud Ood defend the rifftt l OUTWARD BOUND. From the shining st-and of childhood, Ships went sailing, long ago, Laden with the richest treasures Which my heart can ever know: Thoughts ns pure as morning dew-drops, Fancies like the rainbow gay. Dreams as sw.-et as fairy music, Hopes as blithe as birds of May; But though I have long been searching. Youth’s lost treasures ne’er are found; And I send forth other ventures, But they are all outward bound. Oatward bound, across the ocean, Wtaioh so many leagues is spread; Not a ripple on the water, Marks the track on which they sped. Vainly watch I for their coming, Vainly scan the swelling main, And I fear those fairy vessels Will not greet my gase agaiu. When I call there is no answer, Echo only mocks the sound, Not a sail in the borison— For they all were outward bound. Nrae come back with golden cargoes, None with tropic fruits appear, From the islands where Life’s noon-tide Makes a summer all the year. '>H And then looking to tho Future, « hen I, too, am outward bound, In E'cmity's calm Heaven My lost treasures shall bo found l ' * *&?: slT How to Cool Water.—If it is desried to cool water for drinking in warm weath er, and ice cannot be had for the purpose, let it be kept in an unglazed earthenware pitcher, wrapped around with two or throe folds of coarso cotton cloth kept constant ly wet. The theory of cooling water in this manner is the absorption of heat from it by the ovapocration of the moisture in the cotton cloth—expansion produces cold; compression, heat. ...Examples would indeed be oxeellont things, were not people so modest that uone will set, and so vain that none will follow them. ...Our friend Ebenezer seeing a fatted ox .staggering along on a liot day, so heavv that Iro was unable to walk steadily, said he.believed it was an exhibition oi corned beef. ...A bachelor observed that lie would marry, if certain of a wife perfectly good. A bystander bogggd him to bespeak one. as none such were ready made. ...A dandy being told that he would soon have to wear a wig, as he was get ting grey, exclaimed indignantly: “No sir, I’ll dye firet.” ...“ A soldier who was once wounded in battle, set up a terrible bellowing. An Irishman who lay near, with both legs shot off, immediately sung out.—'‘Bad luck to the like of ye—do' ye think nobody is kilt but yourself? ...A wag tells of a boardinghouse keep--- er, whose coffee was so weak that it couldn’t get up the spout of the coffee pot. There wasn’t even sufficient grounds for complaint. ...The press, the pulpit,’and petticoat— tho three ruling powers of tho day ledge, the i fitted for a ( — Always prepare ;

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Southern watchman. (Athens, Ga.) 1854-1882, June 19, 1861, Image 1