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NEWS & PLANTERS’ GAZETTE.
D. COTTIiVG, Editor.
No. 37.—NEW SERIES.]
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Mail Arrangements.
POST OFFICE, )
Washington, Ga., Sept. 1, 1843. )
EASTERN MAIL.
By this route, Mails are made up for Raytown,
Double-Wells, Crawfordville, Camack, Warren
ton, Thompson, Dearing, and Barzelia.
ARRIVES.
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 9, A. M.
CLOSES.
Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at Is, P. M
WESTERN MAIL.
By this route, Mails are made up for all Offi
ces in South-Western Georgia, Alabama, Mis
sissippi, Louisiana, Florida, also Athens, Ga. and
the North-Western part of the State.
arrives —Wednesday and Friday, by 6 A. M
>’ closes —-Tuesday and Thursday, at 12 M.
ABBEVILLE, S.C. MAIL.
By this route, Mails are made up for Daubing,
Pistol Creek, and Petersburg.
arrives.
Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, by 1 P. M.
closes.
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 6 A. M.
LEXINGTON MAIL.
By this route, Mails are made up for Ccntrc
ville". State Rights, Scull-shoals, and Salem.
arrives —Monday and Friday, at 9 A. M.
closes —Tuesday and Saturday, at 9 A. M.
APPLING MAIL.
By this route, Mails are made up for Wriglits
boro’, White Oak, Walker’s Quaker Springs.
arrives— -Tuesday and Saturday, by 9 A. M.
closes —Monday and Friday, at 9 A. M.
ELBERTON MAIL.
By this route, Mails are made up for Mallo
rysville, Goosepond, Whites, Mill-Stone, Harri
aonviile, and Ruckersville.
Arrives Thursday 81 1 . M., and Closes same time.
LINCOLNTON MAIL.
By this route, Mails are made up for Rehoboth,
Stoney Point, Goshen, Double Branches, and
Darby’s.
Arrives Friday, 12 M. | Closes same time,
[pr* The Letter Box is the proper place to de
posiie all matter designed to be transported by
Mail, and such as may be found there at the
times above specified, will be despatched by first
post.
COTTING & BUTLER,
ATTORNIES,
HAVE taken an OFFICE on the North
side of the Public Square, next door to
the Branch Bank of the State of Georgia.
October, 1843. 28
NELSON CARTER,
DEALER IN
Choice Drugs and Medicines,
Chemicals, Patent Medicines,
Surgical and Dental Instruments,
Perfumery , Brushes,
Paints, Oils, Dye-Stuffs,
Window Glass, Spc. Spc.
RED MO™A R . ( AVGUSTA, Ga.
October 12, 1843. ly 7
HAVILAND, RISLEY &, Cos.
Near the Mansion House, Glohe and United
States Hotels,
AUGUSTA, GA.,
DEALERS IN CHOICE
DRUGS AND MEDICINES,
Surgical and Dental Instruments,
Chemicals, Patent Medicines,
Perfumery, Brushes, Paints, Oils,
Window Glass, Dye Said’s,
&c. &c.
Being connected witli Davila no,
tigHßp Keese & Cos., New-York, and Dav-
B iTW iland, Harral Sc Allen, Charles
jVl ton, they are constantly receiving
fresh supplies of every article in
their line, which they are enabled to sell at the
lowest market prices.
O’ All goods sold by them, warranted to be of
the quality represented, or may be returned. ,
Augusta, August 1843. 51
Bargains ! Bargains !!
The Subscriber will sell his Stock
of
Staple and Fancy ,
Foreign and Domestic
GOODS,
At very reduced prices— cheaper than they
were ever offered in Washington before,
if you want good GOODS, at low prices,
call on
WILLIAM S. HEARD.
May 2, 1844. 2in 38
New Spring & Summer
GOODS.
J. MAYER & BROTHERS,
Respectfully inform the citizens of
Washington and vicinity, that they have
just received a
New Supply of
Spring A’ Summer
GOODS,
Consisting of the following Articles, viz.:
Foulard Silk, new style for Ladies’ Dresses, 374
cents per yard,
Lawns and printed Muslins, 31 to 45 cfs. per yd.
Calicoes, of every description, oto 18§ do.
4-4 French Calico, 25 do.
Finn Irish Linen, 50 to 87 do.
Summer fancy Cassimers, 1 37 to 1 50 do.
Darp d’ete’ for Summer wear, 874 to §il do.
Large assortment of Broadcloths, §2 to £*>().} do.
Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s Gloves of
every description, from 121, to §1
Great variety of Linen Cambric
Poeket Handkerchiefs, 18$ to -81 er.eh. ‘
Summer Stuff for Pantaloons, 15J| to 37 per yd.
Linen do. do. 374 to 82 do.
Swiss and Jaconet Muslins of every
description, 25 to G 2 do.
Scotch Gingham, 31$ do.
Also, a great variety of Manches
ter Ginghams, lSj to 18$ do.
All kinds of Laces, Silk and Fil
let Shawls, Neck Ties, of
the latest style, 45 cts. to $7 each.
Ladies’ Silk and Cotton Hose of
all kinds, 12 els. to §1 50
Leghorn and Straw Bonnets of
every description, 81 12$ to 4 50
A great variety of Bonnet and Cap gibbons,
Maiseilles Vesting ftoili 20 cts. to 75
Latest style of Ready-made Summer Clothing
for Gentlemen’s wear, a large assortment,
Also, an assortment of Summer Hats,
Ladies’ Shoes and Pumps of all kinds, from 25
cents a pair to tail 12$
Also, a large assortment of Gentlemen’s Shoes j
and Pumps, from 62$ to •'B2 75 cts. per pair
Boots from $2 to $4. do.
Bleached and unbleached Homespun of every
description, at the Charleston prices.
Cofibe, Sugar, Tobacco & Segars,
Which will be sold as cheap as can be bought
in this country. O’ Call and see—nothing
ciiarged tor showing Goods.
April 25, 1844. 35
FIRE INSURANCE.
The new.york contribution
ship FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
have established an Agency in Washington,
Wilkes county, Georgia, and are now prepared
to Insure Buildings and Merchandize against
loss or damage by Fire.
Capital $300,000,
All paid in and safety invested.
Applv to
WILLIAM S. HEARD, Agent,
Washington, Ga.
May 2, 1844. 36
Richmond Hotel •
Saak k THE Subscriber, having taken the
above named HOUSE, formerly oc
jjjjjj®* c.upied by Capt. Edward W. Collier,
Abkjlsf*. would be happy to receive the pat
ronage o. tus triends and the public generally.
The House is situated iu the vicinity of many of
the principal Warehouses in Augusta, making it
a convenient location for persons visiting the
city on business. Families can be accommoda
ted with retired and pleasant Rooms.
Persons favoring me with a cal), will find due
attention, comfortable lodgings, the best fare,
attentive hostlers and moderate charges.
JOHN T. WOOTTEN.
April 25, 1844. 35
Wilkes Agricultural Society.
A T the regular fall meeting of this Society
held in Washington on Friday the 16th in
stant, it was Resolved that Premiums be offered
for the following Stock, produce, &c., to be ex
hibited on the 20th of Ocfober next:
Premium offered for the best Bull.
Do. do. do. Boar.
Do. do. do. Sow.
Do. do. do. Horse.
Do. do. Pig under 1 year old.
Do. do. do. Cow.
Do. do do. Native Cow,
and if she be the best exhibited
may take both premiums.
Do. for best Acre of Corn.
Do. do. Cotton.
Do. do. $ “ Sweet Potatoes.
Do. do. 8 yards Negro Cloth
for winter wear.
Do. do. 8 yards of Jeans.
All persons competing for the above articles
of Produce will be required to report to the So
ciety an accurate and full account of the cir
cumstances under which his Crop was grown
especially the kind of soil, the kind and quantity
ol manures employed, the amount of labor be
stowed, the quantity of land cultivated, the time
and method of planting, and the state of the sea
sons from planting to the maturity of the crop.
L. J. GARTUELL, Secretary.
1 Washington, February 23,1844.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING.
WASHINGTON, (WILKES COUNTY, GA,,) MAY 9, 1844.
JttferrUflttroufii.
From Brougham's Irish Entertainment.
THE EMIGRANT’S FAMILY.
One of the strongest peculiarities—in
deed, l may say passions —of the Irish is
their devoted fondness for their offspring.
A curious illustration of this occurred to
me on my recent journey through the North
ern lakes. It happened to be what sailors
call very dirty weather, finished up by a
tremendous gale, which obliged us to seek
shelter at a lump of aboriginal barrenness,
called Maintou Island, where we were ob
liged to remain for five days. There were
a few deck passengers—between five and
six hundred ; and inasmuch as they had
only provided themselves with barely suf
ficient for the average time, provisions be
came alarmingly scarce, and no possihili
ty of a supply. To be sure there was one
venerable ox—a sort of semi-petrification,
an organic remnant—a poor attenuated,
hornless, sightless, bovine patriarch, who
obligingly yielded up his his small residue
of existence for our benefit. Indeed, it was
quite a mercy that we arrived to relieve
him from a painful slate of suspension ; for
so old and powerless was he, that if his
last breath had not been extracted, he cer
tainly could not have drawn it by himself.
Well, as you may suppose, there was
considerable consternation on board. Short,
very short allowance was adopted to meet
the contingency, and the poor deck pas
sengers had a terrible time of it. Amongst
the latter was an Irish emigrant, witli his
wife and three beautiful children, the el
destabout 7 years, andall without the smal
lest subsistence, except what the charity of
their fellow passengers could afford them ;
and as they were but scantily supplied, it
can readily be imagined how miserably off
I was this poor family. However, it so bap
! pened that the beauty and intelligence of
! the children attracted the attention of one
of our lady passengers, who had them occa
sionally brought into the cabin and their
hunger appeased. Gleesome, bright eyed
little creatures they were, scrupulously
clean, despite the poverty of their parents,
all life and happiness, and in blissful igno
ranee of the destitution by which they were
surrounded.
One day, delighted with her little prote
ges, the lady happened to say, half jesting
ly—‘l wonder would this poor man part
with one of those little darlings 2 I should
like to adopt it.’
‘I don’t know !’ said I: -'suppose we make
the inquiry.’
The man was sent for, and the delicate
1 business thus opened :
j ‘My good friend,’ said the lady, ‘you are
very poor, are you not V
His answer was peculiarly Irish : —‘Poor!
me lady,’ said he. ‘De the powers of pew
thor! ifthere’s a poorer man nor meself
ihroublin’ the world, God pity both of uz
for we’d be about aiqual.’
‘Then you must find itdifficut to support
your children,’ said I, making a long jump
towards our object.
‘ls it support thim, sir V he replied, ‘Lord
bless ye, i niver supported thim—they git
supported somehow or another; they’ve
niver bin hungry yit—whin they are it’ll
be time enough to grumble.’
Irish all over, thought I,—to day has e
nottgh to do, let to-morrow look out for it
self.
‘Well then,’ I resumed, with a determin
ed plunge, ‘would it boa relief to you to
part with one of them V
I had mistaken my mode of attack. He
started, turned pale, and, with a wild glare
in his eye, literally screamed out —
‘A relief! God be good to uz, what d’ye
mane ? A relief!—would it be a relief
d’ye think, to have the hand chopped from
me body, or the heart torn out oft he breast?’
‘You don’t understand us,’ interposed
my philamhropic companion. ‘Should one
be enabled to place your child in ease and
comfort, would you interfere with its well
doing ?’
The tact of women ! She had touched
the chord of parental solicitude; —the poor
fellow was silent, twisted his head about,
and looked all bewildered. The struggle
between a father’s love and his child’s in
terest was evident and affecting. At last
he said—
‘God bless ye, me lady, and all that
thinks of the poor ! Heaven knows I’d be
glad to better the child, it isn’t in regard to
meseif, but but hadn’t I better go and
spake to Mary ; she’s the mother of thim,
and ’twould be onraisonable to be givin’
away her children afore her face, and she
not to know nothin’ of the matter.’
‘Away with you then,’ said I, ‘and bring
us back word as soon as possible. In about
one hour he returned, but with eyes red
and swollen, and features pale from excite
ment and agitation.
‘Well,’ inquired I, ‘what success V
‘Beddad ’twss a hard struggle, sir,’ said
he ; but its for the child’s good, and Heaven
gives uz stringth to bear it.’
‘Very good, and which is it to be ?’
‘Why, sir, I’ve bin spakin’ to Mary, and
she thinks as Norah here is the ouldest, she
won’t miss the mother so much, and if ye’ll
jist let her take a partin’ kiss, she’d give
her to yez wid a blessin.’
So my poor fellow took his children a
way, to look at one of them for the last time.
It was long ere be returned, but when be
did he was leading the second eldest.
‘How’s this 2’ said I. ‘Have you changed
your mind ?’
‘Not exactly changed me mind, sir, he
replied ; ‘but I’ve changed the crather.—
Yesee, sir. I’ve bin spakin’ to Mary, and
whin it come to the ind, be goxty ! she
wouldn’t part with Norah, at all at all ;
they’ve got used to aich others ways ; but j
here’s little Biddy—she’s purticr, far, if
she’ll do as well.’
‘lt’s all the same,’ said I; ‘let Biddy re
main.’
‘May Heaven be yer guardian !’ cried be,
snatching her up in his arms, and giving
her one long, hearty kiss. ‘God be kind to
tiiim that’s kind to you, and thim that of
fers you hurt or harm, may their soul never
see St. Pether!’ So the bereaved father
rushed away, and all that night the child
remained with us: but early the next
morning my friend Pat reappeared, and
this time lie bad his youngest child, a mere
baby, snugly cuddled up in his arms.
‘What the matter now ?’ said I.
Why thin, sir, said lie, with an expres
sion of the most comic anxiety, ‘axin yer
honor’s pardon for bein’ so wake-hearted, i
but whin I begun to think of Biddy’s eyes
—look at thim, they’re the image of her
mother’s bedad—l could’nt let her go ; but
here’s little Paudeen—he won’t be much
trouble to any one, for if he takes after his
mother, he’ll have brightest eye and the
softest heart on top of creation, and if lie
takes after his father, he’ll have a purty
hard fist and a broad pair of shoulders to
push his way through the world. Take
him, sir,and gi’ me Biddy.’
‘Just as you like,’said I, having a pret
ty good guess how matters would eventu
ate. So he took away his pet Biddy, and
handed me the little toddling urchin. This
chirping little vagabond won’t be long with
usthought I. Nor was he. Ten minutes
had scarcely elapsed ere Pat rushed into
the cabin, and seizing little Paudeen up in
his arms, he turned to me, and with large
tears bubling in his eyes, cried out:
‘Look at him, sir—-just look at him !—it’s
the youngest. Ye wouldn’t have the heart
to keep him from uz. The long and the
short ofit is, I’ve bin spakin’ to Mary.—
Ye see she couldn’t part with Norah, and I
didn’t like to let Biddy go ; but, be me sowl,
vither of uz could live a day without lit
tle Paudeen. No, sir,—no, we can bear
the bitterness of poverty, but we can’t part
from our children, unless it's the will of
Heaven to take thim from uz !”
BRIDGET’S ACCOUNT OF HER IN
TERVIEW WITH THE DENTIST.
Well, Bridget, says Mary, “ how did you
get along with the docthur —what did ye
say ta him—and what did he say ta ye ?”
Bridget—“ It’s nothing he did til me,
nor I to him, that’s all—only says I, ‘ och
docthur docthur dear, it’s my tooth that
aches, aches entirely, and I’ve a mind to
draw it out, and it plaze ye.’ “Do it pane
ye,’ says he til me, ‘ Octi murder, can ye
ax me that now, and me all tfie way down
here to see ye abut it,’ says I. ‘ Sure have
I slept day or night, these three days ?
Haven’t I tried all manes to quiet the jump
ing divil ? Didn’t they tell me to put raw
brandy in my mouth though its far from the
likes o’me to be drinking the brandy with
out provocation or by accident.’ So thin
the docthur tuk his iron instruments in a
hurry, witli as little consarnment of mind
as Barney would swape the knives and
forks from the table. ‘Be aisy docthur,’
says I, there’s time enough—you’ll no be
in sich hurry when your turn comes, I’m
thinkin.’ ‘ O, well,’ said the docthur, ‘and
yet no ready now ye maycomethe morrow.’
‘ Indade, docthur, I’ll nivir stir from this
sate wid this ould tooth alive in me jaw,’
says I; ‘so you may just prepare, but ye
naue not come slashing as a poor Christian
body, of ye would wring her neck off first
and draw her tooth at yer convenience af
terwards. Now clap on yer pinchers but
mind ye got hoult of the right one—ye may
aisily see it by its aching and jumping.’—
‘Oh,’ says he, ‘ I’ll get the right one,’ and
with that he jabs a small razor-looking wea
pon into me mouth, and cuts up me gums,
as if it were naught but could mate foi hash
for breakfast.
Says I, ‘ Docthur, thunder and blood, —
for my mouth was full of blood—‘what in
the divil are ye after 2 D’ye want to make
an anatomy of a living creatur, ye grave
robber ye? ‘ Sit still,’ says he, jamming
something like corkscrew intil my jaw, and
twisting the very soul out of me. 1 sat still j
because the murthering thafe held me down
with his knee, and the gripe of his iron in
my lug. He then gave me one awful wring
Did’nt I think the day of judgment was come
till me ? Did’nt I see the red fire o’ the
pit 2 1 felt my head fly off me showlder,
and looking up, saw something monstrous
bloody in the docthur’s wrenching iron.—
‘ls that me head you’ve got there,’ says I
—‘ No, its only yer tooth,’ he made answer.
‘ May be it is, said I, as my eyes began to
open, and by putting my hand up, I found
the outside of my face on, though I felt as
if all the inside had been hault out. I had
taken a dollar and a half to pay for the op
eration—thinking it would be enough for a
poor woman to pay ; but I thought I’d just
ax him the price. So says I, docthur, how
much may ye ax beside the trouble ?’ Fifty
cents! say3 ho. ‘ Fifty cents!’ says I, sure
I’ve not been submitting three days to that
tyrant of a tooth for fifty cents. Troth,
this same teeth pulling is not very expen
sive, and I’m much obliged til ye, docthur.
j Take every opportunity of setting an or
namental shrub or choice fruit tree about
your house or dooryard. Now is the time.
If you have any taste, you will always re
joice at what you have done. —Southern
‘ Cultivator.
AN “ATTACHMENT.”
j We have just now heard a good story of i
| which an Alabama sheriff is the hero.— j
Court was in session, and, amid the multi
plicity of business which crowded upon him
at term time, he stopped at the door of a
beautiful widow, on the sunny side of 30,
who, by the way, had often bestowed melt
ing glances upon the Sheriff aforesaid. lie
was admitted, and soon the widow appear,
ed; the confusion and delight which the
arrival of her visitor occasioned, set off to
greater advantage than usual the captiva
ting charms of the widow M. Her cheeks
bore the beautiful blended tints of the apple
blossom—her lips resembled rosebuds up
on which the morning dew yet lingered, and
her eyes were like the quivers of Cupid,
the glances of love and tenderness with
which they were filled, resembling arrows
that only awaited a beau, (pardon the pun)
jto do full execution. After a few common
place remarks :
“Madam,” said the matter-of-fact Sher
iff, “ I have an attachment for you.”
A deeper blusti than usual mantled the
cheeks of the fair widow—with downcast
eyes, whose glances were centered upon
her beautiful foot, which half concealed by
her flowing drapery, gently patted the floor,
she with equal candor, replied :
“Sir the attachment is reciprocal.”
For some time the Sheriff maintained an
astonished silence, at last he said :
“ Madam will you proceed to Court ?”
“Proceed to Court ?” replied the lady
with a merry laugh, then shaking her beau
tiful head, she added :
“ No, sir l though this is leap year, I will
not take advantage of the license therein
therein granted to my sex, and therefore
greatly prefer that you should “proceed to
court.”
“ But, Madam, the Justice is waiting.”
“ Let him wait. I am not disposed to hur
ry matters in such an unbecoming manner,
and besides, Sir, when the ceremony is per
formed, I wish you to understand that I
prefer a minister to a Justice of the Peace.”
A light dawned upon Ihe Sheriff’s brain.
“ Madam,” said lie, rising from his chair ,
with solemn dignity, ‘ there is a great mis- ‘
take here, my language has been misun
derstood, the ATTACHMENT of which I speak
was issued lj-om the office of ’Squire C.,
and commands me to bring you instantly
before him to answer a contempt of Court,
in disobeying a subpoena in the case of
Smith vs. Jones !!”
VVc drop the curtain !— Port Gibson Her
ald.
A TRIBE OF SAVAGE DWARFS.
In Harris’s “ Highlands of Ethiopia” is
•lie following account of a singular race of
beings :
Beyond the extensive wilderness which
bounds Caffra on the South are the Doko, a
pigmy and perfectly wild race, not exceed
ing four feet in height, of a dark olive com
plexion, aud in habits even more closely
approximated “to the beasts that perish”
than the bushmen of South Africa. They
have neither idols, nor temples, nor sacred
; trees ; but possess a glimmering idea of a
Supreme Being, to whom in misfortune
(sucii as any of their relatives being sluin
by the kidnapper,) they pray standing on j
‘ their heads with their feet resting against a \
j tree. “ Yere, if indeed, thou art, why dost
; thou suffer us to be killed ? We are only
eating ants, and ask neither food nor rai
ment. Thou hast raised us up. Why
dost thou cast us down ?”
The country inhabited by the Doko, is
clothed with a dense forest of Bamboo, in
the depth of which, the people construct
their rude wigwams of bent canes and
grass. They have no king, no laws, no
arts, no arms, possess neither flocks nor
herds, they are not hunters, do not culti
vate the soil, but subsist entirely upon
fruits, roots, mice, serpents, reptiles, ants
and honey ; both of which latter they lick,
like the bear, from off their arms and hands.
They beguile serpents by whistling, and
having torn them piece-meal with their
j long nails, devour them raw ; but though
I the forest abound with elephants, buffaloes,
lions and leopards, they have no means of
destroying or entrapping them. A large
tree called Loko, is found among many oth
er species attaining an extraordinary height
! the roots of which when scraped, are red,
and serve for food The yeho and meytee”
are the principal fruits ; and to obtain these
women as well as men, ascend the trees
like monkey ; and in their quarrels and
scrambles, not unfrequently throw each oth
er down from the branches.
Both sexes go perfectly naked, and have
thick pouting lips, diminutive eyes, and
flat noses. Their hair is not woolly, and in
the female, reaches the shoulders. The
men have no beard. The nails, never
pared, grow both on the hands and feet like
eagle’s talons, and are employed in digging
for ants. The people are ignorant of the
use of fire. They perforate their ears in
infancy with pointed bamboo, so as to leave
nothing save the external crrtilage; but
they never tattoo nor pierce the nose, and
the only ornament worn is a necklace
composed of the spinal process of a ser
pent.
Squire S. of our village has a very saga
cious dog. He sits up like a man in a
chair, allows you to put a hat upon his head
and a cigar in his mouth, and if any by
stander chances to give him a sip or a levy,
the dog’s owner is the only person who can
get it from him again.— West. Rep.
A remarkably sagacious animal, truly,
but not so good a financier as the elephant
I?I. J. KAPPEIi, Printer.
i we heard of, who took in money on
! special deposile.
“That’s a very knowing hanimal of
yours, is he V said a cockney gentleman to
the keeper of ihe elephant in question.
•Very,’ was the cool rejoinder.
‘He performs strange tricks and hantics,
does ho ?’ inquired the cockney, eyeing the
animal through his glass.
‘Surprisin’!’ retorted ihe keeper—‘we’ve
learned him to put money in that box you
see way up there. Try him wilh a dollar.’
The cockney handed the elephant a dollar,
and sure enough ho took it in his trunk and
placed it in a box high out of reach.
‘Well, that is wery hexiraordinary—
hastonishing,’ truly !’ said the green one
opening his eyes. ‘Now let’s see himtalte
it out and hand it back.’
‘We never learns him that trick,’ retor
ted the keeper with a roguish leer, and
then turned away to stir up the monkeys
and punch the hyenas.— Picayune.
THE INFANT IN HEAVEN.
Dr. Chalmors furnishing the following
touching expression of his opinion on the
subject of infant salvation. It is expres
sed in strong and beautiful language :
This affords, we think, somethink more
than a dubious glimpse into the question
that is often put by a distracted mother
when her babe is taken away from her,
when all the converse it ever had w ith the
world amounted to the gaze upon it a few
months, or a few opening smiles, which
marked the dawn of felt enjoyment ; and
ere it had reached perhaps, the lisp of in
fancy, it, all unconscious of death, had to
wrestle throughout a period of sickness
with its power, and at length to be over
come by it.
Oil, it little knew what an interest it had
created in that home where it was so pas
sing a visitant, nor when carried to its ear
ly grave, what a tide of emotions it would
raise among the few acquaintances it left
behind it! On it, too, baptism wasimpres
sed as a seal, and as a sign it was never
-falsified. There was no positive unbelief
in its bosom—no lovo at all for darkness
rather than light—nor had it yet fallen into
that great condemnation which will attach
itself to all that perish, because of unbelief,
that their deeds are evil.
When we couple with this the known dis
position of our great forerunner—the love
that lie manifested to children on earth,
how he suffered them to approach his per
son and lavishing endearments and kind
ness upon them in Jerusalem, told the dis
ciples that. t!ie presence and the company
of such as these in heaven formed one in
gredient of the joy that was set before him ;
tell us if Christianity does not throw a plea
sing radiance around an infant’s tomb ?
And should any parent who hears us feel
softened by the touching remembrance of a
light that twinkled a few short months un
der his roof, and at the end of its little peri
od expired ; we cannot think we venture
too far when we say that he has only to per
severe in the faith and in the following of
the Gospel, and that very light will again
shine upon him in heaven. The blossom
which withered upon its stalk, has been
transplanted there to a place of endurance,
j and it will then gladden the eye which now
weeps out the agony of an affection that
has been sorely wound ; and in the name
of Him who ifon earth would have wept
with them, do we bid all believers present,
to sorrow not even as others which have no
hope, but to take comfort in the thought of
that country where there is no sorrow and
no separation.
Oil when a mother meets on high,
The babe she lost in infancy,
Hath she not then for pains and fear—
The days of woe, the watchful night—
For all tier sorrow, all her fear—
An over-payment of delighi ?
Short but Effectual Directions for Vari
ous Ends. —To embitter domestic life—
maintain your own opinions on small mat
ters at the point of the bayonet.
J’o keep yourself in a state of discontent;
set your heart on having everything exact
ly to your mind.
To involve yourselfin inextricable diffi
culty ; shape your own course of action
not by fixed principles but by temporary
- expedients.
To provide for yourself abundant matter
for shame and repentance ; act under the
influence of passion.
To die without accomplishing any thing ;
always intend to do something great here
after but neglect the present humble op
portunity of usefulness.
To gain extensive usefulness ; seize the
present opprtunity great or small, and im
prove it to the utmost.
To govern children (and men too) co-m.
mend them oftener than you blaine them-
To be a successful reprover ; first con
vince men by substantial deeds of kindness
that you love them.
To be always content; consider that you
will never in this life be free from annoy,
anqe, and that you may as well bear them
patiently as fret about them.
When religion is made a science, thera
is nothing intricate; when a duty, there is
nothing more easy.
We love a woman a little for what wa
do know of them, and a great deal more foq.
what we do not.
D#t no man ever expect to prosper in tiffs
life, or gain the respect or esteem of others,
without an undeviating course of integri'v
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