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NEWS & PLANTERS’ GAZETTE.
**. . COTTINO, Editor.
No. 48.—NEW SERIES.]
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January, 1842. 28
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July 7, 1842. 3t 45
Notice*
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July 21,1 12. . 47
THE WINE CUP.
JIY A CONNOISEUR.
Drink! The goods the gods have given
Ne’er sliOulu Selected:
Is wine a worthless gift, that Heaven
Meant should be rejected.
Then fill, fill up the joyous cup!
All the dancing bubbles
That gayly swim ’round the goblets brim
Are potent charms for troubles.
They bid us sip the flowing stream,
Wine to taste is sinful!
But let the dull fanatic dream
And take of water his skin full.
Prophets of old, as we are told,
Loved this liquor divine,
And are we to-day wiser than they
That we should drink no wine ’
They tell us wine shortens our life,
But that we need not fear.
One hour in wine with joy is rife
More than a sober year.
Then let them prate, and vegetate
Like weeds of a puddle born,
We’lh gather the flowers of the rosy hours,
And leave the sober the thorn.
s’
Hurrah for the grape juice! brimming high
Fill the wine cup to the brink!
Farther above earths’s cares we fly
The deeper that we drink.
Fill up! wine must efface the rust
Os care that dims our souls;
We will not heed Time's headlong speed,
But help him as lie rolls.
ICT The above is specimen of drunken poetry,
here is the sober side of the question—we leave it
to any unprejudiced judgement if the temperance
people havn’t the best of the quarrel, both in po
etry and morals.
THE WINE CUP.
BY MARY T.. GARDNER.
Stay—stay thy hand, lift not the cup
Os rdfcy glittering wine
Though clear its depths, there lurks beneath
A curse for thee and thine.
Ye say it gives a merry heart,
And drives away dull care ;
It brings, what else thou wouldst not know, i
Unmixed and dark despair.
Y’e say it has a power to drown
Thoughts of life’s sternest ill, —
To bring forgetfulness of woes—
And conscience voice to stiil;
Believe it not—oh ! never seek
Oblivion in the bowl—
A draught will only deeper fix
The agony of soul.
Ye say it stirs the sluggish blood,
And bids it quicker flow ;
Ye say ’tis pleasant on the lip,
And bright its ruby glow.
Have ye not seen the flashing light
That from the wine cup came,
Lead on the tempted, trusting one,
To misery and shame !
Then ‘ taste not, touch not,’ —dare ye thus :
Your glorious birth-right stain !
Would ye—descendants of the free,
Clank tiie inebriate’s chain !
No 1 by the memory’ of the brave
Who sleep beneath the sod—
Shake off the curse, and give your pledge
To virtue and to God.
J&teteUaueoits.
ADVICE TO THE LADIES.
A pretty hand and a pretty foot always
go together ; when we speak of the one we
always think of the other. For this reason,
stopping on a woman’s foot is equivalent to
squeezing her hand, and equally proper,
but sometimes more convenient, as it can
be done under the table. Be careful, how
ever, never to attempt it at a crowded table
for fear of making a mistake. We once
saw a lady very much confused, who was
trying to give a signal to a gentleman op
posite, and instead of his, she trod and press
ed on the corn-covered toes of an old bach
elor. He bore it as long as he could, and
then very quietly remarked, “ Madam,
when yon wish to step on a gentleman’s
toes, be particular and get the foot that be
longs to him—for the last five minutes you
have been jamming my corns most unmer
cifully.”
THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN.
“Some ladies have distinguished them
selves by declaiming against the oppression
of women which they say exists in our
Christian land. They say women are kept
in a condition of inferiority to men, and that
of right they ought to be equal.” We
have been thinking the matter over, and
have come to the conclusion that the wrong
is quite another way ; and that if rights
ought to be divided half and half, we should
be for anew division. Not on the ground
upon which Miss Grimke goes, that men
are not women, or permitted to engage in
women’s occupations, but because, when
the simple question of superiority is at issue
the men always have to give up. If ladies
and gentlemen meet on the side walk, who
has to turn out ? If there are not seats for
all the company, who has to stand up ?
When there is danger to face, who must go
forward? If there is curiosity to gratify,
who goes behind? Ifthere is too much com
pany for the first table who eats at the se
cond? Who has always the right hand and
the most respectable position? We could
mention a hundred other cases, in which on
the simple question of right every thing is
yielded to the women. But there are ma
ny cases in which the condition of men is
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING.
WASHINGTON, (WITHES COUNTY, GA.,) .11 I,V 28, 1842.
still worse. For instance, if on any pub
lie occasion a pew at church or a seat any
where he occupied by men ever so respec
table or aged, n smirky little beauty trips
along and presents herself at the top of the
seat, and they must all jump up and clear
out as if they had been shot. Especially
! ought it to be noticed, that when matrimo
nial negotiations are to be made, the whole
burden of performing the delicate and often
very embarrassing part of making propo
i tnrowri upon tne men, W,inCt!l? W0 ’
,men sit and say no, as long as they like, and
never say yes until they have a mind to.
Mrs. Angelina Grimke Weld may show a
catalogue of equal grievances if she can.
A CHANCE.
The editor of a paper in Pennsylvania
says he wants a wife, and he thus enumer
ates the necessary qualifications of the la- i
dy :
“She must be a gal whose eyes beam
with love, tenderness and pity; twinkle with j
fun, frolic and mischief: and light up the ‘
flash with the immortal part of its frail ten
ement ; whose countenance is illuminated I
by virgin innocence and purity, chastened j
by humility, and happy from the practice j
of homely virtue, with a heart to feel, a
hand to relieve and a boson, to sympathize
with misfortune ; one who can mend bree
ches, make shirts, scrub floors, peal taters,
and cook dinner.”
The Picayune says :
Had ho been a yankee he would proba
bly have appended’ to the list of qualifica
tions something like the following:—one
that can ride horse to plough, attend to the
garden, feed the pigs, drive home the cows,
and occasionally lick the schoolmaster !
Courage in the Pulpit and out of it. —ln
the year 1330, when the U. S. Ship Vin
cennes was at anchor in the harbor of Pen
sacola, a fight took place on shore between
some American seamen and the Spaniards,
during which a number of the former were
fatally wounded. Arrests were made, but
the judges, jurors, and counsel wore all
Spanish, and the assassins were acquitted
in the very face of the proof. The Chap- j
lain of the Vincennes was assistant counsil i
for the seamen, in the case, and in making
a report to the government, he remarked j
with severity on the administration of jus- j
tice in Pensacola. The article was pub- J
lished at Washington, and while the ship
still remained in port it reached Pensacola,
and produced great excitement. The au
thor was at once discovered, and threats of
chastisement, if not assassination, were
thrown out, if he came on shore. He was
; accustomed, one part of every Sabbath, to
preach in the Chapel at Pensacola, and pail
of the day on ship-board.
Sabbath moring came with the threats
hanging over his head from some of the
most prominent, as well as savage, of the
Spaniards in Pensacola. Even the Mayor
had armed himself, announcing his deter
mination to assassinate the Chaplain.,—
Hearing of these threats, on the morning of
the Subbath day, not to be driven from his
duty, he placed his pistols in his girdle and
went on shore. They expected him, and
many fierce glances and savage looks were
exchanged as he passed from the dock to the
Chapel. He entered the crowded church,
ascended the pulpit, and deliberately
placed his pistols on the desk beside his Bi
ble. Prayers were said, the sermon preach
ed, and the audience dismissed without any
disturbance, except the fierce looks which
flashed from eyes full of deep and implaca
ble hatred.
The Chaplain returned to the dock
through the streets, with no protection hut
his own moral and physical powers, and
reached his ship in safety. He subse
quently learned that not less than two indi
viduals had been posted, in secret places, to
assassinate him, but which they were pre
vented from doing by his following another
route. In a few days this same Chaplain
became quite a hero at Pensacola, in conse
quence of his firmness under such uncom
fortable circumstances. He subsequently
was repeatedly on shore undisturbed. It
may not bo improper here to state, that the
Chaplain above alluded to is now the editor
of the North American.— Phil. Evening
Journal.
Extraordinary Instance of Gambling. —lt
is well known upon the western waters, that
the firemen and other hands employed upon
the boats spend much of their idle time in
playing cards. Ofthe passion for gaining
thus excited, an instance has been narrated
to us upon the most credible authority,
which surpasses the highest wrought fic
tions of the gambler’s fate. A colored fire
man, on board a steam boat rdnning be
tween this and New Orleans, had lost all
his money at poker with his companions.—
He then staked his clothing, and being still
unfortunate, pledged his own freedom for a
small amount, losing this the bets were
doubled, and he finally, at one desperate
hazard, ventured his full value as a slave,
and laid down his free papers to represent
the stake. He lost, suffered his certificates
to be destroyed, and was actually sold by
the winner to a slave dealer, who hesitat'id
not to take him at a small discount apon
his assessed value. When last ’neard of
by one who knows him, and who informed
us ofthe fact, he was sVi'll paying in servi
tude the penalty of his criminal folly.
It is a great misfortune not to have mind
enough to speak well, nor judgment enough
to keep silent. Hence the origin of every
i impertinence
THE GOLDEN MAXIM.
Mr. John Richardson was one of the most
respected of London’s citizens. He had
arrived young in the metropolis, very foot
! sore, and with five and nine-pence in his
j pocket. In the course of thirty years he
| had increased the five and nine-pence to
j fifty thousand pounds. This was general
! *y considered clever ; but’, in truth, the man
j l ,at ! 110 genius in his composition. The
lack was more than compensated for by the !
possession of that valuable quality called
prudence. lie Was slow, but sure ; dull,
but industrious ; short-seeing, ‘but sharp
sighted within his ken. lie passed through
life acquiring few ideas, but many guineas.
He began ignorant and ended ignorant; he
began poor, and he ended rich.
Mr. John Richardson, at the age of sixty,
found himself retired from business, a wid
| ower, With one son. Alfred, the son, was
1 a-spirited young man. He despised trade j
and tradesmen, and particularly despised
the tradesman, his father. lie owned to a
very dim notion of the East end of London,
but paraded his intimate knowledge of the
W est. His associates were entirely aris
tocratic. Lord Cheroot, Sir Edward All
night, and’the Hon. Tom Daredevil (as he
was always called,) were his sworn friends.
It was rather an expensive friendship, cer
tainly, for amongst them they borrowed of j
him something like a hundred pounds a j
month, not one farthing of which they made |
even a show of returning. But he had his |
money’s worth in praise. They assured j
him that his spirit, his wit, his good sense, \
were something extraordinary, and for a j
citizen almost miraculous. To be sure j
there was a manner, an air, a something
only to be acquired by companionship with
persons of birth; but he had improved
greatly, in this respect, they said, and would j
in time be perfect. All this was averred to j
his face, and behind his back their remarks j
were, I doubt not, the same ; that is, unless j
Lord Cheroot, Sir Edward Allnight, arid j
the Honorable Tom Daredevil were swind- j
ling scoundrels, which, as they belonged to |
the aristocracy, was not likely.
One evening, Mr. John Richardson, that I
respectable, elderly, well-to-do individual, j
was taken suddenly ill. He went to bed— -
and never rose again. Just before his j
death he called for his son Alfred, and tak- j
ing his hand, affectionately uttered these 1
words in a broken voice :
“Son Alfred, I am about to die, and be- j
fore I do so I want to say a few words, as I I
have always made it a rule ta da every
thing in a business-like manner. I shall i
leave you more than fifty thousand pounds, j
all got honestly. There is something else
I shall leave you, almost as valuable.
Attached by a green silk ribbon to the
parchment on which is written my will, you
will find a sealed paper, containing the wi
sest sentence ever put together. By acting
in the spirit of that maxim, I made all my j
money, and by acting in it you may use !
well the money I made. I’m not much of;
a philosopher, son Alfred, but I say that all j
a man need know is contained in that max- j
irn. Do not take it in its vulgar interpre- j
tation : it applies to every situation in life, I
and if people understood it better they ■
wouldn’t be such fools. As you despise or J
venerate tnv maxim, so will you fail or j
prosper.”
Soon after pronouncing these words, the I
old gentleman expired.
At the proper time the will was produced
and read. Attached to it, sure enough, by
a green silk ribbon, was a small sealed pa
per, on the back of which was written, in
round text, “ The Golden Maxim.” The
anxiety was intense as the man in authori
ty broke the seal and opened the mysteri
ous paper. With a loud clear voice he
gave forth the contents, which were as fol
lows :
You MUST PAY THE BEST PRICE IF VOU
WANT THE BEST ARTICLE.
At this strange end of their expectations,
the audience were variously affected—
Some laughed, some whistled, and some
were angry, but not one certainly felt the
least respect either for the maxim or the
eccentric maxim giver.
Alfred, for whose special benefit the seal I
had been broken, did not affect to conceal j
his contempt. As soon as the company had i
departed, and he was alone, he soliloquised |
thus:
“ Well, this is pleasant 1 The old man
must not only bore me with his musty max
im, but render mo ridiculous before my
friends ! As for the fifty thousand pounds,
I’m obliged to him there ; but I don’t want
his narrow-minded posthumous advice how
to use it and conduct myself in the world.
These slow-goers are always so ready with
their counsel—and a confounded deal more
ready than welcome ! I can take care of
myself, or I’m mistaken.”
The first thing ho did to show that he
could take care of himself, was to sell the
old house and the old furniture, and take a
residence in a more fashionable situation,
which he immediately set about furnishing.
But here one of his peculiarities came into
operatir&L” In spite of being foolishly ex
travagant, he had a great notion of bargain
ing ; so he went to a cheap establishment
and purchased his furniture ; and proudly
did he chuckle when he saw the shining
mahogany, the brilliant carpets, the res
plendent gilding, and thought how little
money he had given in return for these
comforts and luxuries. It was not long,
however, before the shining mahogany went
to pieces, the splendid carpets laded and
wore out, and the resplendent gilding peel
ed off.
“Humph!” exclaimed Alfred, musing.
1 “ dad was certainly right here. As far ns
more buying and selling went, he knew
something, though lie was ignorant on other
j points. Yes, 1 suppose in trade the cheap,
j cst things are the dearest. Yon must pay
the best price if you leant the best article.'’
He now gave himself up entirely to the
j society of his somewhat loose but well-born
associates. Notoriety was the object of his
j existence. lie wished to rank amongst the
i first rakes of the day, and become celebra
ted for breaking lamps, beating..policemen,
driving over old women, and so on ; but
eitli or lie hud less spirit or more sense than
the rest, for in drunkenness, folly', brutality
and vice, they went generally beyond him.
Whilst their names were known far and
wide, and their deeds were fondly imitated,
he was known only as a third-rate genius,
and more an. imitator himself, than an ori
ginal worthy of imitation. He retired from
j the field considerably worse in pocket and
constitution.
“ Alas,” said lie, “ there was more in
that fantastic maxim than I suspected. It
does not apply to trade only. I was will
ing to purchase notoriety, and find, unhap
pily, that the first quality bf that commodi
ty costs me more than I can afford. It was
foolish to wish to obtain it ; but more fool
j ish to expect to obtain it cheaply. Yes—
j you must pay the best price if you leant the
j best article.”
j He had now bidden farewell to his un
j worthy companions, and resolved to pursue
a better path. Love entirely occupied his
I thoughts. He selected.* beautiful, accom
plished, and amiable gild, and thought that
I if he could induce he# to become his wife,
j happiness would be Ins portion forever.— :
But she was not easily won. There were !
points in his conduct which she wished to :
i see altered, before she could choose him
j before all others. These concessions ho i
was not exactly inclined tpbnake ; and ;
there was Mary Tojuliwa, fVV$i y nice girl, .
who was quite ready to have him just as he
was. Tie married Mary Tomlins. Six
I months after marriage she ran off with En- j
sign Jenkins.
“Ah!” sighed Alfred, “ what an error j
I did I commit. I lost a charming creature ‘
j from idleness and pride. In proportion to j
| the pain of acquisition, so would have been I
the pleasure of possession. You must pay j
the best price if you want the best article, ” j
Ho had arrived at a time of life when lovcj
generally yields to ambition. Alfred de-l
termined to become great, and great as a |
philosopher. He would examine into the I
nature of man and the constitution ofsocie- j
ty, and endeavor to leave the world wiser I
and better than he found it. He studied— j
he meditated—he wrote—he published ; j
but ihe cours’e of his studies and medita- j
lions were very prudently and daintily in !
accordance with popular notions, whence j
it happened that the books he wrote and i
published were somewhat trite and com- j
mon-place- He gained no reputation as a
philosopher, but lie lost none as a man.— !
Truth was not in his compositions, and, j
consequently, defamation and abuse were j
not in the criticisms on them.
“ I see clearly,” said he, “ that philoso- !
phic fame and the world’s love are incom- j
palible with each other. Every man who
greatly benefits his fellow creatures, is ha
ted and despised whilst living, by the ma- j
j jority of those he benefits. The immortali
ty of every great benefactor has been pur- :
chased dearly indeed. You must pay the j
best price, if you went the best article.
His hair was by this lime beginning to;
grey, and the “old gentlemanly vice,”stir- j
red him exceedingly.
“ I will make money,” exclaimed he ;
“ true, I have already some thousands, but j
a wise man should consider these merely j
as seed, to produce a plentiful crop, lam:
not young enough to enter trade regularly !
but I will speculate. That is the way to j
make fortunes in a few years.”
Accordingly.he bought ‘hares in Joint :
Stock Companies. He became a director
of the “ Dover and Calais Tunnel Compa- i
ny ;” he held largely in the • Steam Bal- j
loon Company ;” ho was greatly, concern- 1
ed in the “ Oxy-hydrogen Gas Street Light- ‘
j ing Company.” Bull, bear, scrip, pretni- ]
j urn, were familiar words. He thought, he i
dreamed, of nought but speculation—of J
j shares going down and getting up in the !
market—of paid-up ana un-paid-up capi- ;
tal.
But commercial matters, even the most
promising, are uncertain. “ The Dover
and Calais Tunnel Company,’ 1 “The Steam
Balloon Company,” “ The Oxy-hydrogen
Gas Street Lighting Company,” & all the
other companies went successively to the
dogs. A few knowing ones became astonish
ingly rich; but Mr. Alfred Richardson was !
not a knowing one, and lost all he had in
the world. Some must suffer, that others 1
may enjoy ; such is the tendency of civi’-i- •
zation.
Mr. Richardson retired to a garret in the
neighborhood ofClerkenwell to meditate on
his fortune seeking. lie came to the con
clusion that wealth is most certainly pro
cured by industry and self-denial, and that
here, as elsewhere, you must pay the best
price if you leant the best article.
■ He had managed to preserve from the
wreck of his property just enough to exist
upon, and he employed his time chiefly in
walking about, and viewing with unavail
ing regret those places where lie had for
merly exercised influence. But whether
this had a bad effect on his spirits, or from
whatever cause it might proceed, his health
gradually became worse, until at last he
was unable to stir from his room. His old
severely punished sin, however, once more
ill. .1 . ti API’EL, I* r infer.
tempted him. Ho could not prevail on
1 himself to call in a proper medical adviser
j which any man hm a fool will always do,
j even if he pawn his only coat (or the pur
j pose. Mr. Richardson availed himself of
the services of Mr. Abraham Solomons, who
assured him, by advertisement in the news
paper, that he was not only the cheapest,
( hut the cleverest sdrgeon in London. Mr.
j Abraham Solomons, gave him some hope
! of recovery ; hut finding that he got no bet
j ter. he changed his mind, and declared the
j case hopeless.
“ Mrs. Dickenson,” said our unfortunate
• hero. “I am dying. You have been a
kind landlady, and shall have all I possess.
1 am, and have been a victim to my con
tempt for a noble maxim. Oh ! Mrs. Dic
kenson, take warning by my sad example
and ever believe that you must pay the best,
price if- ”
Ilis voice failed—he fell hack on the pil
low a corpse.
Through life he understood not the Gol
den Maxim, so in death he was unable to
j pronounce it.
MORAL.
The earth yields nothing to one who re-
I fuses labor. Whatever the object of your
! pursuit, you must give you an equivalent;
j and, if that object he valuable, your ofier
j ing must be in proportion. You must pay
J the best price if you want the best article,
LADIES, HAVE A CARE!
Vi c the other day hunted up the follow
j in g statute of the ancient Virginia code,
j which would lead one to suppose that lib-
I erty is hardly so extensive in the Old Do
’ minion as the fijir sex would like it to be:
Picayune.
“Whereas many babbling women slan
j der and scandalize their neighbors for
j which their poor husbands are often involv
i ed in vexatious suits, and east in great dam
; ages: Be it therefore enacted, that in ac
! tionsof slander, occasioned by the wife, af
j ter judgment passed for the damages, the
j woman shall be punished by ducking; and
; if the slander be so enormous as to be ad
-1 judged at a greater damage than five hun
: dred lbs. of tobacco, then the woman is to
suffer a ducking for each five hundred lbs.
of tobacco adjudged against the husband if
he refuses to pay the tobacco. ’
A Parson well paid —“Take the cash. —
The income of the Archbishop of Canterbu
ry is stated :o be £II,OOO a year, which
makes £1738 Os. 2d. per week, ill 12 Cs. 6d.
per. day, and Cl 13s. per hour, reckoning
24 hours to the day.”
This is at the rate of about one hundred
dollars for evtfry three hours of breath the
Archbishop draws. V hat a charge for
working his own lungs, and living !—we
and duet for his sleeping eight hours. If for
his eating four hours—-(and this is very lit
tle, for a higli Englishman usually sits four
hours at his dinner table) —for exercise
1 and recreation four hours —it would take
our parson the remainder of his four ajid
twenty hours to receive and count his cash,
without giving him a minute to say his
prayers. Archbishops, bower, manage mon
ey and divine matters for the most part by
deputy, and in this way gain time for ma
ny little secular employments.
REMARKABLE MAGNETIC ROCK.
The following interesting ties are de
tailed by the Vicksburg Whig :
“ Near the iron mountain in Missouri,
: there is a ledge of rock extending for half
’ a mile in length,and several hundred yards
:in width. This stone is strongly irnpreg
; nated with magnetic properties, so much,
j so, indeed, that it is impossible to ride a well
shod horse over it. A gentleman having
his horse newly shod once attempted it, but
before lie had made two ‘revolutions’ his
horse was brought up standing perfectly
still. In vain our traveller urged his gal
lant steed forward. Persuasions and force
proved equally futile, until his patience be
came exhausted, and lie sent for a black
smith. The son of Vulcan soon arrived,
and found the horse standing stock-still and
ito all appearances as immovable as the
j ruck of Gibraltar. Various experiments
1 were resorted to to relieve the horse, but
• all failed. There he stood, and to all ap
; pearance he was likely to stand, with his
feet literally glued to the solid and imper
vious rock. At last the blacksmith’s eye
j glistened ; lie had it sure. He sent off to
! iiis smithy for his shoeing tools, which were,
j soon forthcoming, when he proceeded with
j all possible despatch to unciincli the nails
j which bound the hufse's shoes to his hoofs,
j One by one the nails were unclinched ; the
, whip was applied to the horse ; and as the
; last nail gave away, he escaped with a
bound, but left his shoes wedded to the
j rock.”
: Curious. —We saw a few days ago, says
j the Upper Marlbro’ (Ed.) Gazette, an old
j man, who, about 20 years since, was as
black as a negroes generally are. His col
i or has undergone an entire change, except
a few spots on his face, and he is now per
fectly white and exceedingly fair. His
hair is the only evidence of his ever having
been a negro. He isihe property ofThos.
T.Summervell, Esq. Weexpecta change
of this kind, so radical, is unparalleled.
i 7
Many of the pleasures of this world are
j to man like the flame of a lamp to a moth—
! dazzling, but destroying.
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