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SOtfTH WESTEHN UR.
We make the following extract from a
sketch ofGoi. Archibald Yell, of Arkansas.
The Judge had taken hi* seat forth® first
time. *
The first case on the docket was call
e3, and the plaintiff stood ready. It was
a case that had been in litigation for five
years.— Gen Smootarose for the defend
ant, and remarked in an overbearing
tone:
“Our witnesses are absent, and then
fore! demand that the case be continued
until the next term, in course.
♦•Let the atfida vii be filed, for not till
then can I entertain a motion for con
tinuance,” was the mid reply of the
Judge.
“Do you and übt my word as to the
lads? ’ General sii'Kit exclaimed, and
involumar.t/ raised hi* huge sword-cane.
“Mot at all,’ replied the Judge, with
his bland *inile;“but the law requires that
the tacts justifying a continuance must ap
pear on record, and the court has no power
to annul the law, nor will they see it an
nulled.”
Ihe Judge’s calm and business like
tone and manner only served to irritate the
bully, and he retorted, shaking his sword
in the direction of the bench. “Whatever
may be the law, I, for one, will not learn
U from the lips of an upstart demagogue
and coward!”
Judge Yell’s blue pyes shot like light
ning; l.ut he only mined to the Clerk and
said: “Clerk, you will enter a fine of SSO
agamsi Gen, Smoot, as I see him named
in my docket, tor gross contempt of couri;
and be sure you issue an immediate tx
ecu'ion.”
He had hurdly communicated the
order, when Gen Smoot was seen rushing
(awards'him brandishing the sword cane,
ali his features writhing with murderous
wrath and j allid us a corpse.
Every glance was fixed on the counte
nance oI iht* Judge, for ali wished to know
how he would brook the coining shock of
the duellist’* fierce assault. But none how
ever, could detect the slightest change
in his appearance. His cheek neither
grew red nor white, not a nerve seemed
to tremble; his calm eye surveyed the ad
vancing foe, with as little sign of perturba
tion os a chemist might show, scrutiniz
tng the effervescence of some novel mix
ture. He sat perfectly still, with a little
staff of painted iron in his right hand.
Smoot ascended the platform, and im
mediately aimed a tremendous blow with
his enormous sword-cane full at the head
of his foe. By that blow five hundred
hearts shuddered, and more than a dozen
voices shrieked, (or all expected to see the
victim’s skull shivered into atoms. The
general astonishment then may may be
conceived, when they beheld the little
iron sniff describe a quick curve us
the great sword-cane fiew from Smoot’s
fingers and fell with a loud clatter atadis
tance if 20 feet into the hall. The baf
fled bully unbred a cry of wrath, wild as
that of some wounded beast o( prey, and
snatched Ins buwie kune from its sheath
but ere it was p<used for the desperate
plunge, the little iron staff cut another
curve: and the big knife followed .the
sword cane. He then hastily drew a re
volving pistol, but before he had time to
touch the trigger his arm was struck pow
erless by li is side.
And then for the first tim? did JudgeYcll
bet-ay perceptible emotion. He stamped
his foot till the platform shook beneath it,
nnd shouted in trumpet tones—“Mr.
Clerk, you will blot this ruffian’s name,
ai a foul disgrace, from the roll of attor
neys. Mr Sheriff take this criminal to
jail.”
Iho latter officer sprang to obey the
mandate, mid imni’ diately it scene of con
fusion ensued that the pen cun not describe.
The bravoes and m\ rmidon friends of Gen.
Smoot, gathered round to obstruct the
sheriff, while many of the citizens lent
their aid to sustain the authority of the
court; menaces, screams, nnd horrid curses,
the ring of impinging and crossing steel
oho mate cries .if rage and pain, all com
mingled with the awful explosion of fir®
arms, blended to-gether, forming n vivid
idea of Pandemonium.
But throughout all the tempestuous
strife two individuals might be observ
ed as leaders in the whirlwind and riders
of the storm. The new Judge used his lit
tle iron cane with a tt rrible efficiency, crip
ling limbs yet sparing life. Bill Doff in,
imitating the clemency of his honored
friend, and sdaining the employment of eith
er knife or pistol, actually trampled down
all opposition, roaring at every furious
blow—“this is the way to preserve order
in court,”—a sentiment winch he accom
panied with peals of laughter In less
than two minutes the party of tile judge
triumphed, tne cliques of Gen Sinoot suf
fered disastrous defeat, 4 and the buiiy bins
self was borne away to prison.
Such was the debut of Archibald Yell,
of Arkansas: and from that day his popu
larity as a man, as a Judge, as a hero,
nndusn politician, went on rapidly and
brilliantly increasing, till it eclipsed all the
oldest and most powmrlul iwim*s.
EXTRACT FROM MISS B iEMER’3 “NORTHERN
I OV£S AND LEGENDS.”
Certainly. you have observed hew
strangely, si metimes, the clouds, at morn
ing, group themselves round the sun, and
are lighted up by it, and you have
thought, sometimes—“lf this should’
be represented in printing, people,
would say, ‘it is unnatural, ii is not
true!’” So even is human life. We of
ten find events, looking, when described,
unnatural,- and yet are perfectly true
to reality, to nature, in books, even
though not to everyday nature. For
example, if any one should tell tha*,
once a firs’ kiss was given by a young
modest lady, publicly, and in a p'ublic
square, to a young man ; old ladies, and
voung gentlemen and old gentlemen,
would, with one voice, call out, “I; is not
true: it is impossible.” Well, I ent eat
your attention to the folk wing little story
for whose truth and reality I will be re
sponse's :
St rv of a First Kiss. —ln the Uni
versity at Upsaia, in Sweden, lived a young
student;—a lonely youth, with great love
for studies, and without means ot pursuing
them. Ue was poor and without connec
tions. Still he studied on, living in great
poverty, but keeping up a cheerful heart,
and trying not to look at the future, which
looked so grimly at him.
His good humor and good qualifications
made him universally beloved by his young
comrades. Once he was standing with some
of them in the great square of Upsaia, prat
ting away an hour of leisure, when the
attention of the young men became arrest
ed by a very young and elegant lady, wno
at the side of an elder one, walked slowly
over the place. It was the daughter of
the Gorernor of Upland, lesiding in the
city, and the lady with her was governess.
She was generally known lor her beauty
and for her goodness and gentleness of
character, and was looked upon wlh great
admiration by the students. As the young
men now stood silently gazing at her, ns
she passed on like a graceful vision, one
of them exclaimed:
“Well it would be worth something to
have a kiss Horn that pretty mouth!”
The pnqr student, the hero of our story,
who u as lot king, intently at that pure and
angelic face, . as if by inspiration:
“■Well, f think 1 eouid have it.”
“What!” cried his friends in a chorus,
“are you crazy? J)o y. u know her?” &c.
“Not at all,” he answered; “but I think
she would kiss ine just no.v, if I asked
her.”
“What! in this .place* before all our
eyes?”
“In this place, before all your eyes.”—
•Freely” “Freely.”
“Well, if she would give you a kiss in
that manner, I will give you a thousand
dollars!” “And I !” “And'l!” cried three
or four others, for it so happened that sev
eral rich voungmen were in the group,and
bets ran high on so improbable an event
and the challenge was made and received
in less time than we take to relate it.
Our hero—my authority tells not wheth
er he was handsome or plain—l have my
peculiar reasons for believing that he was
rather plain, but singularly good looking
ut thp same time—our hero walked off to
meet the ‘'oung lady. He bowed to her
and said:
“My lady ('min froieen,)my fortune is in
your hands.”
She looked at him in astonishment, but
arrested her steps. He proceeded to state
his name and condition, his aspirations,
and related simply and truly what had
just } ass’ and between him and his compan
ions. ’J he young lady listened attentively
and when he had ceased to speak, she
said blushing but with great sweetness.
“If by so little a thing, so much gord
could be effected, it would be very foolish
in me to refuse your request”—and she
kissed the young man publicly and in tne
open square.
Next day the young student was sent for
by the Governor. He wanted to see the
young man who dared to ask a kiss of his
daugnter in that way, and whom she had
consented to kiss so. He received him
with a severe and scrutinizing brow, but
after an hour's conversation, was so pleas
ed with him, that he offered him todiue at
his table during the course of his studies
at Upsula
Our young friend now pursued his stu
dies in a manner which st on made him re
gar Jed as the most promising scholar at
the Tjniversity. Three years were not
passed after the day of the first kiss when
the young man was allowed to give a se
cond one to the lovely daughter of ihe
Governor, as h.s betrothed bride.
He became, later, orie of the greatest
scholars in Sweden, as much respected for
his iearning as for his character.. His
works will endure forever among the works
of science, and from this happy union
sprang a family well known in Sweden in
the present day and whose wealth of for
tune and high position in society are re
garded as small things compared wiih its
weal’h and goodness of love.
The Paris correspondent of the St. Lou
is Republican says of gnmblingiu Paris,
“The pa<sion for play is carried to a
most frightlul extent in Paris, and gives
rise every day to every description of scan
dal. Formerly, persons sat down to the
card table for amusement; now it has be
come a fever, a species of excitement,
which seeing almost incredible, and which
leads to the most deplorable scenes’ And
it is not only gentlemen but ladies, who
engage in it, and [ blush to add that the
latter are even more carried away by it
than the former. At every hall or soiree
there is a roorrt set apart for the card tables,
and the youngest and most beautiful la
dies will leave music, dancing, and agree
able conversation, lo go and take a hand at
whist, Boston, or piquet. Immense sums
are won and lost in this way, and the
temptation to cheat a little is too often too
great to be resisted, even by persons of the
most unblemished reputations A lady
belonging to one of the most fashionable
circles of Paris, and who goes regularly
to hear the sermons of the Rev. Father La
cordaire, was, the other evening, discov
ered i lyly drawing, with her fan, pieces
; of gold from her adversary’s pile which
lay near her, and a gentleman who holds
an office under Government, and who re
ceives the very cream of Parisian society
every week at his house, was playing the
other evening, when a visiting card fell
from the pack he held in his hand. The
miserable man, in taking his marked cards
from his pocket, had, unfortunately', taken
one of his visitii.g cards with them. I
could relate a good many such scandalous
results of this thirst for gamblin'”.”
TAKING THE CENSUS.
A census taker going round last fall,
stopped at an elegant brick dwelling house
on Western Row—the exact location of
which is no business of ours. He was re
ceived at the door by a stiff, well dressed
elderly lady, who could be easily recogni
zed as a widow of some years standing.
On learning the mission of her visitor, the
lady invited himtoaseatin the hall. Hav
ing arranged himself into a working posi
tion, he inquired for the number of per
sons in the family of the lady.
“Eight, sir.” replied the lady, ‘including
myself.” ‘Very well —your age mad
am?” (
“My age, sir,” she replied 1 with a
piercing, dignified look; “L conceive it’s
none of you/ business, what my age might
be—you are inquisitive, sir.”
“The law compels me, madam, to take
ihe age of every person in the ward—it is
my duty’ to make the inquiry.’
“Well, if the law compels you to ask, I
presume it will compel me to answer. I
am between 80 and 40.’
“I presume that means 35?”
“No sir it means no such thing—l am
only thirty three years of ace?’
“Very well madam,’ putting down the
figures.’just as you say. Now for the
ages o( the children, commencing with the
youngest if you please.”
“Josephine—pretty name—ten.” ,
“Minerva was twelve last wtvk.”
“Minerva—captivating—twelve.” | mi
“Cleopatra Elvira lias just lumen m- :
teen.”
“Cleopatra Elvira—charming—fifteen.
“Angelina is eighteen sir—just eight
een.”
“Angelina—fa von.? name—eighteen.”
“My eldest and only married daughter,
sir, Anna Sophia, is a little over twenty
five.”
“Twenty five did you say madam?”
“Yes, sir. Is there anything remarka
ble in her being of that age?”
“Well, no, I can’t say that there is—but
is it not remarkable that you should be her
mothe’- when you were only e ght years of
age?”
About that time the census taker was
observed sailing out of the house, closely
pursued by a broom stick. Ii was the last
time he pressed a lady to give her exact
age.
From the Winchester Independent.
BEGINNING WRONG.
“This little fable,” said my uncle, “may.
perhaps, be of service to some poor devil
more willing thar. wise:”
A certain man once married a lady
whose reputation for amiability of dis
position was seriously questioned, if it was
not in reality questionable. At the wed
ding every thingwent off merrily, of course.
The party was gay, the supper was mag
nificent. The whole affair had been emin
ently successful, and all of the parties ex
tremely delighted. On retit ing to his
apartments, the gentleman found himself
much annoyed by the purring and mewing
of a cat.
“What in the devil’s name is that?” he
exclaimed.
“Oh, nothing, my dear,” replied the
bride, “hut my favorite cat Pussita.”
“D—n Pussita! I hate cats!” And
with this he most unceremoniously threw
Pussita out of the second story window.
.“Well, if you havn’t got a temper /”
“Yes, my dear, you'd belter beiiepc
it!”
“Everything,” continued my uncle,
“went on well in that establishment—even
a warm dinner on Sunday.”
Now it happened that a friend of the a
bove-mentioned gentleman, who had some
months before committed the error us
marrying “an angel,” took occasion to in
quire of him, ‘•How is it that with you all
goes merry as a marriage bell, while I,
on the contrary, have almost given uptbe
idea of wearing pantaloons atall?” Where
upon he related to hrn the story of Pussi
taand the second-stoiy window, “without,”
said my uncle, “impressing upon his mind
the important moral, that it was necessary
to begin right. Nevertheless, there was
in his eye when he started for home “that
told of treason.”
“Well,” said his wife, “you’re come
home at last, have you, after keening me
! sitting up for you? What’s the matter?
You havn’t drinking been—have you
| You look very strange.”
‘ “No, not in the least, iny dear; but I hate
i cats.”
“You do—do you ? Weil, 1 like’ em
! that’s all the difference.”
Hereupon the unfortunate husband made
| a rush at poor tabby, who was quietly
i snoozing on the sofa,and dashed tothewin
i dow.
“You have been drinking! What are
I you going to do, mons'er?”
i “Throw h r out of the window.”
“You’d better try it! I,d like, to see you
: throw her out! I dare vou to it!”
i He put the cat softly down on the sofa,
] hung his hat on a peg iu the entiy. his
manliness and pantaloons on ail easy chair
land exclaimed:
“Go in ducky dsirling, and win—l
: didn’t begin right. ’
J “I rather t liink you didu’i. You’d bet
j ter take a fresh start. But don’t try that
game again, or vou’ilcatch il- Come to
i bed!”
And he went.
“Wrong from the beginning,” said .ny
: uncle.
couple of chaps were lying in
1 bed the other morning, when u musket
| was discharged near the house. One
1 o( them hunched his fellow —Gustus, Gus
! i us/’,
i ‘ VVliat do you want?” growled the
sleeping one.
•What was it banged so?”
‘Why, ’ twas the day breakin you
goose,’ and Gustus rolled over to take anolli
er quiet snooze.
THE HUMBUGGED HUSBAND.
She’s not what Fanry painted her—
I’m Radlv taken in—
If someone else hi and won her, I
Should not have cared a pin;
I though’ that she was mild and good,
A* maiden ere could he j
I wonder how she ever couM
Have so much humbugged me.
They cluster round and shake my hand.
They tell me I am blest—
My case they do not understand,
I think I know the best;
They call her fairest of the lair,
i
They drive ine mad and madder;
What do they mean ! I do declare
I only wish they had her.
’Tis true that she has lovely locks,
That on her shoulders fall-
What would they say to see the box
In which she keeps them all!
Her taper fingers it is true,
Are difficult to match—
What would they say if they hut knew,
How terribly they .scratch 1
Women or Spirit.— Wo like to see a woman
ol spirit and lile; tor a dull, supine, prosy woman,
is a poor affair indeed. And we have no particu
lar objection to seeing the “sparks fly” occasional
ly, when something stirring occurs. We like to
see her joyful and lively ; and if she has a litlle
spice of waggerv, we can put up with that very
well; nay, we like it all the better, hut a cross,
surly temper we have no opinion of; for a woman
that can never look pleasant, but is always Ir.tling
and scolding, will m ‘ke i>ii unhappy home for all
within her house. And we had as well undertake
to live in a hairel of vinegar or a thunderstorm, as
to live in a house with such a woman. Let a wo„
min wear stir-shine on her countenance and il wiil
drive the dark clouds from her husband’s face, and
joy will thrill through the bents of her children.
Let a woman he soothing and kind, and everything
is nappy arnuntl tier. Others win catch her sweet
temper, and will strive to be most like her. Sweet
ness of temper in a woman is more valuable than
gold, and mote to be prized than beauty.
After the Oli> Fashiui*.—-Wo received a day
or two since, the first number of the “National
I Monument,” anew paper printed at Washington,
| and devoted mainly to the subject whose name >t
hears. In the masonic contributions for the mm th
ot April we find, from the slave-bolding States 267
dollars, while limn the nonslaveholding States there
is the pittance of 36 dollars, 10 tioiu Maine, 13
from New Yotk, 5 from Ohio. 8 Irom [own. Ol
the above sum Georgia contributed upwards of 100
dollars Hoiv long will it be before the Northern
gentlemen will claun the whole of this magnificent
structure, and swear it not only belongs to them,
but that they nought and paid for it 1 Not long,
you may !>• sure; or its history will be different
from any other public enterprise that Inis ever yet
auccecJcd in this country.— G orgta Jeffersonian.
Rf. 411 THIS to Yoi;m SwEKTHKAnTR.—The
character of the young men of a community depend
much tin that of the young women. If the latlei
are cultivated, intelligent, accomplished, the young
men wili feel ‘he requirement that they themselves
el,.*—l I ..! Cft*;*4*crnr* . nnd -eti„r**l ,
hut if their female flieuds are fivolous anil silly,
the vou tig men will tie found to he dissipated and
worthless, lint remember, always that asi Her is
the host guardian of a brother’s integrity. She is
the surest inculcator of a faith in female purity and
worth. Asa daughter, she is the true light of the
home. The pride of the father oliencst is center.,
ed on his sons, but his affection is expended on his
daughters. She should therefore be the sun and
centre of all.
rt A . ViFFKCTiJni Appeal.—A Larned counsel
’ - C l/ dm middle of an allecting appeal in court
JOT a slander suit, Ist fly the following flight of ge
nius : •
“Slander, gentlemen, like a boa constrictor of
gigantic size and immeasurable proportions, wraps
the coil of its unwieldy body about its unfortunate
victim, and heedless of the shrieks of agony that
come from the inmost depth of its victim’s sou!
loud and reverberating as the m'ghty thunder that
rolls in the heavens, it finally breaks its unlucky
neck upon the i'on wheel of public opinion, forcing
him to desperation, then to madness, and finally
crushing him in ihe hideous jaws of moral death.
Judge, give us a chew of tobacco.
Mr. Corcoran, the broker, has con
tracted for building, immediately, eight
magnificent mansions on the President’s
Square, in four blocks. They are to be of
different oruers of Architecture, and have
been designed by Mr. Ren wick, of New
York, the Aichitectot Trinity Church and
the Smithsonian building.
The houses are designed for the mem
bers of the Cabinet, and if they cannot af
ford to rent them, then the Government
will be asked to pay the rent. In fine, it
is said that the Government will probably
purchase them. They will either db this
or raise the salary of heads of departments.
It has been difficult of late to obtain the
services of c impetent men in the depart
ments, oil account of the great expense
attending official residence here., and also
the loss of other business, at a time ot
life when it is generally of the greatest
importance to a professional man. It is
now well settled that all Heads of Depar
tments must be lawyers, and it is well un
derstood that lawyers must be paid.—
Charleston Courier.
I3F The editor of a newspaper out to
wards Lake Champlain, has discovered a
way of keeping eggs from spo.ling. His
method is, to eat them while they are fresh!
Bravo!
EF* He who knows the world will not
be too bashful; and he who knows him
self will never be impudent;
GF* Success is more indebted to pru
dence than it seems to be.
Thk National Washisgtos Moxcmext.—
The whole estimated Cost of the monument is
$1,250,000, of which only about $150,000 has yet
been collected. The work upon the monument
is rapidly progressing. The structure is now 80
feet in height, and will reach 150 feet by tho com.
ing autumn. If adequate funds are promptly sup.
pliad, tbc shaft, it is thought, will be carried to its
destined altitude of 516 feet in eight years from the
present time. —Southern Press.
California.—Tf-e Legislature of California
wa* to adjourn on the 30ih of April. No United
States Senator is elected, nor will there be at the
present session the subject having been postiam
ed to the Ist of Janoary next. — N. Y. Com. Adi .
Man and ies but none of his actions ev
er die.—Each is perpetuated and prolong
ed forever by interminable results, afFect-
I ing some beings in every age to come.
Drunkenness, says Paley, is a so
cial festive vice. The drinker collects his
circle; the circle naiurallv-spreads; of those
! who aie drawn within it, many become
corruptors and form sets and circles of their
own; every one countenancing, and per
haps emulating the res', till a whole neigh
borhood be infected from the contagion of
a single example.
Read nut to contraJict and confute;
nor tt believe and take for granted, nor to
find talk and discourse, but to weigh and
consider. Some books are to be tas.ted,
others to be swailowed, and some few to
be chewed and digested; that is, some
books are to be read only iu pails; others
to be read, but not cursorily; and some
lew to be whollv, and with diligence and
atiention. — Lord Bacon.
A Curiosity for the Worlds Fair
’Tis said that the Hon Robert Tiombs is
going over to the World’s Fair. The
Augusta Constitutionalist suggests “that
he should take over a model < I that
‘MASKED BATTERY’ to which he call
ed the attention of the American people in
the last Congress, and for which he is enti
tied to a patent.”
EF 0 Wonder if General Foote conld not
he in induced to go too, and exhibit the
ROPE with which lie was going lo
H.aNG Senator Hale.— Southern Stain
dard.
Rumors of Cabinet Changes.— Some
of the New York papers foretell a speedy
dissolution of the Cabinet on account of
’ the prevalence of jealousies among tho
I members. They also say that Mr Fill
more has determined to he a candidate for
election as President, and tli.it Mr Web
ster, will therefore retire from the Cabin
et.— Georgia I'efegrapft.
Senatorial Compliments.—“ Hale,”
said abn ther Senator to the Senatorial
Representative‘of New Hampshire, “do
you know what Cass says of you?” “No.”
“He savs vou are a Granite goose.”
“Just tell the General for me, will you
that he is a Michi-ga/n/cri”
A Matter of.Taste. \ very modern
poet seeks to assure the world that “most
of all’ 1 lie “loves the sky lark’s lay.” We
are prosiac enough to prefer the hen’s. j
An Evergreen.— A man who does not
learn by experience.
Advice to young men.—Live temper
ately—go to church—attend to vour af
fairs— love all the pretty gir's—marry
one of them—live like a man, die like a
Christian. .
The Whigs of York county, Vi re in- I
in, have nominated Daniel Webster for the ]
Presidency.
A young gentleman the other day
j asked a young lady what she thought of
the marriage sinie in general. “Not know
ing I can’.t tell,” was the reply, but if you
and I were to put our heads together, I
could soon give you a definite answer.”
There is likely says the N Y Mirror, to
by a general “bursting up” in Boston be
fore three months cr me round. The ne
gro cloths” of L-iwell the “negro shoes”
of Lyon, and the “negro notions” of
New England generally, remain drugs in
the lofts of the warehouses.
by the quantity of wine, but by its effect
on theconstitution. Lot no one fancy that
because he does not drink much,he is not
a sot. Pope said, that to him, more than
one glass was a debauch ; and every man
who habitually takes more than his stom
ach can bear, must sooner or later arrive
at those miseries which are the effects of
hard drinking.
—lt is a terrible thought to remember j
that nothing can be forgotten We ha-e
somewhere read that no’ an oath is uttered
that fines not vihrale tin mitrh all a;—®, in
the whole spreading currents of sounds— ;
not a prayer lisped that its record is not
also to be found stamped on the laws of
nature by the indelible seal of the Al
mighty’s will.
Pleasure is to woman what the sun is
to the flower—if moderately enjoyed, it
beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves ;
if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates, i
and destroys. But the duties of domestic
life, exercised, as they must be, in retire- j
and calling forth all the sensibilities
of the female, are perhaps as necessary
to the full development of her charms, as
the shade and the shower are to the rose,
confirming its* beauty and increasing its
fragrance.
Friends are like shadows, according
to the point the sun is at, so turn they'.
—The servant of a Prussian officer one
day’ met a crony, who inquired of him how
he got along with his fiery master. “Oh,
excellently,” answered the servant: “we
live on very friendly terms; every morn
ing tve beat each others coats ; the only
difference is, he takes his off to be beaten,
and I keep mini* on.”
—A Yankee says that prejudices against
color are very natural, and yet the pretti
est girl he ever knew was Olive Brown.
—A man’s wedding day is called his
‘bridal day.’ The orthography of that
word is wrong—it should he written bridle
day.
—A ministerial acquaintance of ours,
who had lost his wife and bad become
wearied ot his second edition of the sin
gl • state, was once instructing a congre
gation from the passage: “Use this world
as not abusing i;,” &c. In the course of
his remarks he took occasion to mention
some things which a Christian could dis
pense with in thisworld. In thiscategorylie
placed a vvi fe. He had however scarcely
said, “A man may do without a wife,”
when his own experience stoutly protest
ed, and he finished this branch of the sub
ject by saying in the simplicity ofhisheart,
“ but my brethren, it’s mighty hard.”
Poor Weak Woman! —Miss Susan Nip
per, who lived in a small tenement, a lone
woman, was quite ‘flustrated’ the other
morning by an early call from a bachelor
neighbor:
“ What did you come after 1” said Miss
Nipper.
“I came to borrow matches,” he meekly
replied.
“Matches! That’s a likely story ! Why
don’t you make a match? I knosv what
you come for,” cried the eexasperated old
virgin as she backed the bacheler into the
corner. “You come here to hug and kiss
•me almost to death? But you shant—with
out you’re the strongest, and the Lord knows
you ar’e ?”
—The boy that licked the molasses bar
rel. is now teaching a threshing machine
how to box.
Large Haul of Fish. —The Washington
Republic says that a few days s.nce up
wards of ninety-five thousand herrings and
fifteen hundred shad, were taken in one
haul, at Opossum Nose, about 35 miles
down the Potomac, opposite Budd’s Fer
ry.
—Fights in a grog shop are now called
spiritual knockings.
—Barnum has seen one of the legs ofthe
multiplication table.
—“Your goodness must have some edge
to it—else it.is none.”— Emerson.
—Love matches are often formed by
people, who pay for a month of honey
with a life of vinegar.
—The physician and the undertaker
stand in the same relation to each other
that the bird-catcher does to the bird-cage
maker.
—The greatest pleasure of life is love ;
the greatest treasure, contentment; the
greatest possession, health ; the greatest
ease, sleep ; and the best medicine, a true
friend,
—Dr. Robertson observed that John
son’s jokes were the rebukes of the rignte
ous, described in Scripture as being like
excellent oil. “Yes, exclaimed Burke,
“oil of vitriol t”
A Simile. —Dr. Johnson being asked his
I opinion of a very small volume with a
pompous title replied,‘that it was litceplac*
ing an eight-and-forty pounder at the door
i a pig-stye.’
—ln the library of the world, men have
hitherto been ranged according to the
form, the size and the binding. The time
is coming when they will take rank and
order according t<> their contents and in
trinsic merits.
—“lt is easy m the world, to live after
the world’s opinion. It iseasy in solitude
to live alter our own. But the great man
is he, who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps
with perfect sweetness, the independence
of his character.”— Emerson.
—ln the eighth yea* of the reign ofWil
liam 111., it was decide*!, that by law, a
Quaker was admitted to make his or her
solemn affirmation, in place of an oath, in
all courts ofjustice,and other places where
by law an oath was required.
Curious Calculation.—. The Rev. Mr.
Gannett reckons that each individual av
erages thiee hours of conversation daily,
at the rate of a hundred words a minute,
or twenty pages of an octavo volume in
an hour. At this rate, we talk a volume
ot 400 pages in a week, and fifty-two vol
umes in a year.
—“As soon as a man has once acted or
spoken with eclat, he is a committed per
son, watched by the sympathy or the hat
red of hundreds whose trillions of him
nrust now enter into his accounts. Socie
ty is everywhere in a conspiracy against
the manhood of every one of its mem
bers. Self-reliance is its aversion.” — Em
erson.
The Journalsof America.— “Mr Poore,
wishing to form a perfect collection of
American newspapers, for the City Libra
ry of Paris, requests a copy of every daily
journal published on the fourth of July,
1851 —and of the next published number
of every semi-weekly, and weekly jour
nal, directed to the “American Sentinel,
Boston, Mass.”
Editors will please copy the above no
tice.
I —A late writer in speaking of Bosto
nians says, they divide their time between
I metaphysics and “fancy poultry;” and
I while they look upon Emerson as far
I ahead of inspiration, they look upon a
| thirty pound rooster as far ahead of him.
The Albany Dutchman says, there is
a man in Troy with a nose so long that he
has had holes bored in it and uses it for a
clarionette.
A Polite Youth.—The boy who fell
asleep during preaching at the Taberna
cle, St Louis, arose in iiis sleep, walked
to the pulpit, and shook hands with the
preacher.
A Few Questions—We beg leave to
propound the following questions to all
submissionists, acquiescents, and non-ac
tion mer.—to all believers in the divine
right ot the Union, and to all who think
that the best way to preserve Southern
rights, is t > surrender them to the keeping
of the North. We hope they will answer
plainly and directly.
If secession would prove ruinous to S.
Carolina, why is it that all who hate and af
fect to despise South Carolina, are oppos
ed to secession !
If secession would prove injurious to
slavery, why is it that open abolitionists at
the North, agree with the Clay and union
abolitionists of ihe South, in denouncing
secession I— Columbia Telegraph. ...
*Ma,’ said a little girl to her mother, ‘do
the men want to get married as much as
the women do!’
‘Pshaw, what are you talking about!”
‘Why ma, the young women who come
here are always talking about getting
j married ; the men don’t do so.’
One day a butcher having ordered his
new assistant to bring the victim to the
slaughter, who not observing that his su
perior was crosseyed, rtritil the very in
stant he was drawing the blow, cried out
in an extraordinary voice:
‘Sir. do you mean to strike where vou
look
‘Yes!’
‘Well then, the devil may hold the ox, I
won’t.’
Sweetness of temper is not an acquired
but natural excellence and, therefore, to
recommend it to those who have it not,
may be deemed rather an insult than ad
vice.
Let the tirst action of manhood be to
govern your passions, for he who knows!
new to govern himselt, always becomes a
uiitk oOC*© 1 ”.
‘The last link is broken hat bound me
to thee,’ as the horse said when he kicked
off his traces and ran away from the
plough.
—l’m always in favor of carrying out a
principal—as one of the b’hoys said when
he kicked his master into the street.
—“What did you give tor that horse,
neighbor!”
“My note !”
“Well, that was cheap {”
—The ladies, now, we are told, wear
wired petticoats as a substitute for the
bustle. Old mnids get them magnetized
to make them attractive.
—“Gentlemen of the jury, have you
agreed! What is your verdict l ”
“We find the prisoner not guilty—if
he’ll leave the town.”
—The best thing to he done when evil
comes upon us, is not lamentation, but
action ; not to sit and suffer but to rise and
seek the remedy.
—There are two kindsxff people which
we OLght never *o nnl i- ■*'’ 1
are tar above us, and those who are far
below us.
—Beware of inquisitive persons, a won
derful curiosity to know all is generally
accompanied with as great an itching to
tell it again.
“MrSmith, will you have some but- 1
ter!”
“No, thank ye, marm, I belong to the
Temperance folks, and can’t take any
thing strong.”
Frmi the Savannah Georgian.
respected and respectable co
temporary the \I lledgeville Recorder, has
come to the strange conclusion thit resist,
since, or in other words secession by South
Carolina will be a gross insult offered to
Georgia, inasmuch as the latter has de
termined to submit to those aggressions
which the former chooses to resist. The
Recorder is disposed therefore to flame up
into considerable indignation towards our
neighbors over tlie river for this treatment
of theirs to our State. For our part we
wish we could pacify him somewhat. We
are confident that no insult is intended, and
see how well how any can he taken.
Suppose a ruffian whom he will call A.
spits in the face of B. and C., and that
while B. from conscientious scruples or
dislike to bloodshed, quietly passes by the
outrage, C on the other hand chastises A’s
insolence, does C thereby offer an insult
to 13? Surely not. By what right can B
complain of 0. He may feel that C’s con
duct is a rebuke to his own more peaceable
or pusdlanimoussptrit; but surely it is no in
suli; and even the rebuke is such as grows
inevitably out of the circumstances of the
case, nowhere showing itself in words.
Again. How can the resistance of
South Carolina I e a greater insult to Geor
gia who lias determined to submit, than
was the submission of Georgia an insult to
South Carolina, who long before the Geor
gia Convention, had resolved to res st?
According to the Recorder’s reasoning
these two sovereign States having com-,
in the exe-cise el their soveregn wills, to
opposite conclusions, each thereby offers
an insult to the other!
Our own idea of the matter is very far
different. Each had the perfect right,
without furnishirg any ground of com
plaint to the other, to exercise its own
pleasure in the matter. —That each should
regret the determination of the other when
different from her own is nuetral enough,
but that either should consider that it had
received any insult from the other in the
face of that determination, is quite prepos
terous.
Georgia is a sovereign State; having the
undisputed power either of resistance or
submission. In the exercise of that sover
eigntp and acting under w hat seemed to
her the highest wisdom and patriotism, she
made choice of submission. What right
has South (Carolina to take offence at that
submission, however much she may la
ment it. It is an affair of Georgia’s not of
hers. Is the latter the former’s keeper
or guardian? Or. the other hand, Carolina
equally sovereign, governed too, we are
b >und to stippoe, by what seems to her
wisest and best, decided from the very
first that she would not submit. V\ hv then
should Georgia consider this decision an
insult to he*?
But we beg pardon of our readers for
troubling them with a reply to an asser
tion so utterly puerile as the charge of the
Recorder. That paper is hard run, indeed
for grounds of quarrel against South Caro
lina, when it has to resort to such a pitia
ble pretext for an occasion upon which to
excite the odium of Georgia against a neigh
boring State. We commend to his atten
tion Gen. Taylor’s favorite fable.
FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 23,1851-
£bs”The Editor has gone from town for
a few days; We crave the indulgence of
the readers of the “Times” until his re
turn.
revolving stin brings fresh
proof that some of those who have hereto
fore styled themselves Southern Rights
men are beginning to prepare a means for
ridding themselves of the burthen of their
principles. We have evidence undoubted
of the fact that many who have been act
ing with us, are looking to a return to the
old polit cal issues of by-gone years as the
only means by which to save themselves
fas they believe") fretn utter annihilation.
Regardless of the great stake at issue fnoth
ing less than the salvation ot the South)
they seek to enlist and fight again under
the banner of Democracy. They say, that
to join battle underexisting circumstances,
is to consign the cause they profess to
love, to inevitable defeat. Thus do they
argue, “We can carry out the same views
we now entertain ; we can gain the same
ends by a return to at least the name of j
Democracy—by again rallying under this j
banner, we gain over from our opponents j
all those who have been cajoled into tali- i
ing sides with them, bythecryof disunion j
and civil war—let us adopt this plan—let
us gain the victory, and then proceed to
evolve and perfect our plan for the re
demption of our country and people.
This course, we are satisfied will not do.
To success, honesty is surely the best
road, certainly the plainest. Let us then
pursue it, and turning neither to the right
hand nor yet to the left, let us boldly pro
claim our sentiments and principles, and
move forward to the work of their attain
ment without a thought for the petty party
strifes of days past, which have plunged
us into our present difficulties.
‘f We firmly believe that the South can
hope for nothing in the future, and we as
truly believe that we entertain thejust idea
of the means to be resorted to for her safe
ty ; therefore let us not shrink from the
support of our holy cause in the darkest
hour of its existence. The true, the bold
and righteous soldier hails with joy the
battle of great odds, that he may exhibit
extraordinary courage and fortitude in his
country’s cause. We fight not for office,
spoils or party victories—our efforts tend
to the disenthralment of our beloved South
from the chains ofbigotted fanaticism, from
. the iron heel of usurped power. To those
who would throw off the name of “ South
ern Rights” we would say, you feel not
the genuine fire of patriotism glowing
within your breasts; did you so feel, your
very souls would sicken at an attempt to
cloak your sentiments under any garb for
expediency’s The time has past for
fIM onoroiso <>f “those hacknied tricks of
expediency. Coon skins and hard cider
have had their day with all the other polit
ical humbugs gotten up for the occasion
| by each of the two great parties of late
years; party victories were the stakes for
which the game was played then; but mow
the scene is changed, we have at stake our
political equality, our lives, our liberty,
j and icho can shrink from a struggle of
I such moment and dare call himself a man!
\ We must boldly proclaim the truth and
j preach it from every stump until the masses
| are roused to a sense ot their danger and
| to the necessity for immediate, energetic
I and determined action. When this Jay
! comes, as it surely will, the
Rights party will be viewed in ,rt ‘°
! light, & those men who have so ably la1? or ’
I ed tr p rfect the good work, will be emj”
tied to and will receive the thanks arflj j
M-xertru-gJoetln.ll e, - ■ „ x—-
regard to those gentlemen formerly acting
with the Whig party, who now uphold the
cause of the South with ih, wo would say
to our expediency friends, that they are
not political turn-coats, their course in
this matter has not been the result of a de
sire to enlist on the strong side ; ithasbeen
dictated by principle, by a conviction of
duty to their country, their wives and
children. Think you to carry with you in
your return to the name and all the prin
ciples of Democracy such men .as these!
Never, Whigs once they are Whigs now.—
They act with us for their own and their
country’s safety. They care not for the
jibes and taunts of their old companions
in arms, armed with the sword of jus
tice, panoplied in truth and right, they
stand or fall, conquer or die in the cause
of the South.
THE NEXT STATE AGRICULTURAL FAIR
We invite attention to the proceedings
of the Executive Committee of the South
ern Central Agricultural Society of ihe
State of Georgia, and the Premium List of
the Sixih Annual Fair to be held at Macon
in October next It will be found on our
first page.
This Society is working with an energy
that is worthy of the grand and peacefu
work in which it is engaged. It already
occupies a prominent position in the pub
lic mind, and is drawing to it the interest,
the co-operation and the best wishes of
the learned, the high in station and
the good of all professions, as well as those
of the Planters, artisans and ministers of
labor for whose particular benefit it is in
stituted. A glance at the Premium List
exhibits the ability and willingness of the
Socie y Whold out its encouragement to
excellence in every department of talent,
& industry that can be drawn into the ser
vice of State improvement and develop
ment. To show the interest taken in the
institution, we may state that the city and
citizens of Macon have contributed SjfHOOO
to the Society, on condition of its holding
the next Fair in that city. It promises to
be a grand and interesting occasion, and
we trust that every county, and every kin
dred society, will be represented, and eve
ry branch of industry, skill and art may
be there displayed as heralds to mark and
proclaim the rapid strides of Georgia in
the race of improvement in the useful ‘‘arts
of Peace.”
The above article should have ap*
peared in our last issue, which contained
the proceedings of the Executive Com
mittee, and the Lists of |Premiums to be
granted at the next Fair.
From the “Constitutionalist.”
SENATORS FOOTE AND COBB, AND THE SOUTH
ERN ADDRE3S.
The following interesting piece of hith
erto unwritten hisfory, is furnished by the
last • Federal Union”:
“Senator Foote of Mississippi. We
invite attention to the article *Tacts on
Foote,” in another column. We can give
another “fact” in keeping with those there
detailed. We formed his acquaintance in
Washington City, in February. 1849, at
the time when t.'ie Southern Address was j
on the tapis. He was then; if not its pa- ;
rent, one of its most zealous advocates. lie j
denounced most bitterly, Mr. Cobb.nfGeor- j
gia, for withholding his name from that Ad- :
dress—imputed as his motives, nis esnira- j
lions for the Speaker's Chair, and with Ins |
characteristic ardor, argued the point, and j
arced it up n us, that we should, ia this j
journal, charge him with an abandonment j
of his party, an I muse his own words, “read j
him out of the Democratic ran-s. 11 ’ j
Foote, since, like Mr. Cos: b. has abandoned j
foe party that honored him—and is now a
competitor with him for nomination on any
ticket that will make him Vice-President.
Alas, alas, for the poor, unfortunate Boutii.
Mer own sons abandon her, for the honots
that the North, with its overpowering ma.
jority, can confer, and when honest patri
ots among us murmur, they are dem unced
by these aspiring demagogues and their
deluded followers as liaitors and Disu-
ifionists !”
This incident occurred when Air. I*note
was one if the most glowing of Southern
fire-eaters at Washington. It was at a Unit
when the hope, so long and so fondl\ chei
ished by Southern patriots, seemed about
to be realized of uniting the tqtire South,
which had too long been divided by squab
bles <f national parties for the power and
plunder of office. It was at a time when
the high-toned Southern Whigs and De
mocrats in Congress were banding together
fraternajly, to demand for their much har
raesed, calumniated arid defrauded section,
peace and justice, and equality of rights in
ihe Uni ‘n. It was at a time when the voice
of taction, of selfishness, and demagogue
ism, was nbout to be drowned in the su
blime burst of enthusiasm for the South
her rights, and her h nor, which sprang
from the heart and lips of Southern free
men, representing a confiding Southern
constituency. It was not only hailed with
responsive enthusiasm by the Southern
people, but caused Northern cupidity to
pause in its career, and tremble, lest an
aroused indignation would shiver to atoms,
a Government used too long as an engine
o( exaction upon the South to fill Northern
coffers, and which was about to be made
the instrument of inflicting upon her the
badge of inferiority, and u| on her institu
tions the brand of infamy.
Fanaticism and cupidity paused, and
would have letraced its steps, in very fear
and trembling, for the Union is dear even
to Free soilers—Northern prosperity de
pends on it. It is the life’s blood—the very
breath of existence to Northern cities and
manufacturing towns.
Had that auspicious Union of the South
been then accomplished, the South would
have stood in the councils of the Confede
racy in the majesty of a unit—a unit in
sentiment, in policy, and in determination,
and she would have commanded ju>tice.
The Union would have been saved, and the
rights of the South would have been saved.
As it is, those rk’lits have been comprom
ised—sacrificed and surrendered—while
the Union is in more danger now than it
was before.
The Democratic, party ot the South vns
almost a unit, and but for a few recusants,
would have been, with the aid of many
patriotic Whigs, the means of thoroughly
rallying the Southern people. A small
voice of discord was raised in the Southern
Denn cratic rattles. Mr. Cobb and Mr.
Lumpkin <f Georgia, Mr. Boyd and Mr.
Clarke, of Kentucky, pul f< rth their protest
agrinst the Southern Address. The North
saw us divided, and knew how to take ad
vantage of it.
The covt*ted|prize of the Speaker’s Chair
was already glittering before the eyes of
Mr. Cobb and Mr. Boyd. At that time,
Mr. Foote was noi of sufficient consequence
to he tempted I v < ff’ rs of national honors.
But since ihe game of dividing, nnd thus
crippling the party in the South, which
hitherto presented the most efficient orga-
- the progress of Free
s>i! movements at the North, has been re
sorted to, Mr. Foote has been operatt and on
for tnat purpose by adroit appliances to his
selfish ambition and overweening vanity
The Vtce-Pre-'iiK-i cy lias been made to
I dance beforejhis dazzled
j (■ vK>ifungti at wire-workers, and
in the fires of his
I 1 file An ’ zeal, if Tie ever hud any,
I have /;jfi t .d and died out
of office will con'inne
the South, and keeping down resistance to
Federal encroachment, whenever Southern
men are found accessible, his the one
means destined to keep the South perpetu
ally in subjection to the North, and to con
vert this Gov fnment into a consolidated
despotism, it successful. Tlu* S uilierii
man who aspiids to Federal offices in the
gift only ol Frie-soil Presidents and Five
soil votes, shout] he narrowly watched, nnd
his motives,in < very movement, thorough
ly Sifted.
CONSOLIDATION.
The Athens Partner, one of the old Dem
ocratic Cobbpaper’s, says: iThe italics arc
its own.)
“What man but a Northern abolitionist
or a -Southern disunionist, declaims against
the constitutionality of the late law for the
uelivery of fugitive slaves'! These laws
being constitutional, and all others of a
like character, must be executed within
the limits of the respective States, where
their nature require it or the federal govern
ment is at an end. All governments must
act upon territory on which their Consti
tutional acts, at least, must be supreme. In
a federal system, this territory must needs
be that of the respective States. Every
inch of soil within them is, for the purposes of
the delegated powers, federal ground— the
ground of the co-States, as well as of the
particular State, and they must vindicate
their claim to it, or the government is at
an end.”
Our Athens cotemporary tells us that
“the ground of the co-States, as well as of
the particular State, isfederaiground and the
general Government, must vindicate their
CLAIM to IT, or the government is at an end.”
Inc Bannei national govern*
ment the head of the Union, from which
the blood flows to give life, vitality and
importance to every portion of the bodv
politic. }
The States, according to this, instead of
being separate sovereignties, blending
their light into a constellation, are sattel
ites revolving around a central sun.
Q .^ e k e *i ls US al /°’ t,lal the ground of each
Staflj belongs for general purposes to the
fneh e i de " y il ’ we and, n y that an
inch of the soil or grain of sand in Geor
gia belongs to abolition Massachusetts, or
Ohio or any other State. We repudiate
and repel in toto these blue-light consoli
dation doctrines. 100,1
There have been strange alterations in
the sentiments of some of our people with*
marked'!,f 6 !!’" 1 - Tht iTt
Drincfnle by of degeneracy of d °ctri H e. of
pniidpte, of courage and honor. These
indications are unfavorable to liberty ?n
w" e await o tho Uth fl ,n ‘ iberty in P a >cular.
mina c 1 th u “ifluence upon the public
mind of a sober second thought and fjr
ther Republic
r- T m ast year Wn >- B. Astor paid into the
City Treasury of New York the sum of
nSv'oMd , t i llnU T (l ’ eight hundred and
ninety-one dollars, for taxes—the largest in
d v,dual tax paid. The assessed vaVe “ -
in New York city, is $2,6000,-’
crimes.
SATURDAY EVENING MAY 24, 1851. ‘
ANOTHER PLATFORM.
Some ot our opponents, who in j a
past were in a perfect blaze of patriotj>-pj
and pugnacity, assembled at the Court,
house on Saturday last, for the purpose of
building anew platform. Wisely con.
eluding, after a severe lesson from tlle
people, that the old rickety disunion an,]
secession concern had bro-e down and
caved in, they now begin to hunt about fo r
some plank to swim to shore upon, and
finding none on which the people are will
ing to trust themselves, except the good
i boat built by the late Convention at Mil
! ledgeville, they have finally concluded to
| gel In the yawl and be carried into power
iif possible. What a getting down stairs i*
I this ! The only patriots ot the land—the
j only men on the green earth that weie
i ready to peril their all and perish for the
| South —who were determined to take th*
| Constitution in one hand and the sword in
j the o.ther, hewing their bloody way to their
i long lost rights—have now attempted to
| ease themselves down from their imagina
! ry eminence, and have at last come to the
conclusion that discretion is in politics the
better part of valor.
Well, the conclusion is a correct one,
but what induced our quondam tire eaters
to arrive at it! Are they convinced that
they were wrong! Oh no! Their opinions
are the same as formerly, but the people,
hard headed and hard hearted, will not go
with them. True to the government form
ed by our fathers, the great mass of tho
citizens of Georgia have >purnedand wifi
spurn every attempt to destroy it Seeing
this, and teeling it too, yet still looking tu
the flesh pots of office, they are anxious
now to bury the past, present new issues,
and try their luck again. All of this is
quite complimentary to the memories and
common sense of the people. We havo
no idea that tho people now remember the
tone of the public press, and the speeches
of the public orators during the past sum
mer and fall. The threats, the taunts, tho
jibes, are likely all forgotten. But there is
one thing wh.ch in all this forgetfulness
will be remembered, it is this: that tho
set of men who then sought to destroy the
Union, will make the same effort if they
get the power. This will not be forgotten.
The new platform will, we suppose, be
soon exhibited for public inspection, and
the people will then be able to judge how
much or how little it resembles its illustri
ous predecessors. — Columbus Enquirer o)
the 20/ h
The Resolutions ofthe Southern Rights
meeting held on Saturday, are now before
Ihe public. The Editor of the Enquirer
has no doubt seen them. Will he tell us
what fie thinks of them 1 or will he point
out to us a single principle stolen from his
party, or the most distant rumble of Sub
thunder appropriated by us. As to tho
• hankering after the flesh pots of office,’
we are certainly free from all such suspi
cion. The seekers of office, the lovers of
that pap which s doled out to prominent
partizans after each political victory in
consideration of their disinterested efforts,
must look to the Union men and not
to us for their reward. We, according to
the expressed opinion ofthe Enquirer are
in a decided minority. We are on the
eve of dissolution as a party, and are even
now casting about for some new issue Hy
which to gull the people—can we then
hope to reward our co-workers! If we are
the weaker party, of course we shall be
beaten in the struggle, and consequently
cannot promise office or a taste of the
“ flesh pots” to our friends. Qur object is
net office—we want no man who acts with
us for the sake thereof; the spoils of vic
tory may be promised to those whose mot
to is, “no pay no patriotism ;” let such
look to Unionists lor countenance, we
want no such material to swell the ranks
of the Southern Rights Party. But if any
man feels with us, that his section has
been insulted, that the South is likely to
be shorn of her equality in this confedera
cy, let him come to us, we shall welcome
him with the right hand of fellowship.—
Let those whose consciences warn them
of the justice of our cause, of the necessi
ty for stem action in this emergency, of
the danger of delay, come to us, we shall
hail them as brands snatched from the
burning mass of SuDmissionism.
To saj that we seek power for power’s
sake is ridiculous. It we have no shadow
of chance for riding into power on this
“new hobby of Southern Rights” as the
6’m'un journals would na*v it believed,
why is it that we are charged w.v.b a xfo
sire for office! interested men will join tho
other sine since it is the strongest, (as we
are constantly told by our neighbors of
the Union side.) As for ourselves we
have not the icinotest hankering after any
lover of the flesh pots, or any gentleman
who wants pay for his efforts in behalt of
the insulted South. ,>
T'‘-'.'.B s uth“r > Bights narfv -if founded
on pnnepie, and it will conquer orperisn
in support offits principles. What care
we for a defeat now, for reverse after re
verse,—should that change our feelings ?
should the lack ofthe spoils of party work
a complete revolution in our sentiments
and motives of action! No—being fully
satisfied of the justice of our position, we
shall keep it under all circumstances. Wo
firmly believe in the infallibility of truth,
arid we shall struggle on to the attainment
ot the great and good objects we have in
view—victory in the end, must and will
crown our efforts.
The following remarks are from the
Vicksburg (Miss.) Sentinel—those of our
Southern people who hive been in the
habit ot going North every year for busi
ness or pleasure, would do well to ponder
upon them :
Southern visitors to Boston : what think
ye is to be your reception in that “law
abiding and patriotic” city for the future!
Hear what Charles Sumner, the Senator
elect, has to say, and learn your welcome.
Many Southern men are in the habit of
spending their summers in Boston. Many
merchants lav in their stocks, and manv
planters purchase them. To extend suck
patronage for the future would be little
better than handing a ruffian half an eagle
toi spitting in your face and then implor
ing him to honor you with a kick also.—
But hear Sumner:
“Into Massachusetts he (the slave own
er) shall not come. * * * *
The contempt, the indignation, the abhor
rence of the community, shall be our wea
°Bence Wherever he moves, he
shall find no house to receive him —nota-
ble spread shall nourish him—no welcome
to cheer him-the dismal lotofthc Roman
exile shall be his. He shall be a wander
er without roof, fire, or water. Men shall
point at him in the streets, and on the
highways. The cities, towns and villages
i la re^us . e *9 recei/e the monster; they
f 1 k P or th, never again to dis
tuib the repose of our community.”
[’ ram the Palmetto State Banner.]
SOUTHERN RIGHTS IN GEORGIA
I lie strongest indications preyail atthi?
tune in Georgia, that her people era al, ve
to the wrongs they are compelled to en
dure in common v.dh the whole South.—
Meetings have been held in many coun
ties, and in others, ineetujgs have been call
ed, to nominate delggafs to the Conven
tion to bt hejd at IVl l Hedgevi He on the
28th inst., which Convention is called
nominate & candidate for Governor. A 1 !
along it ha* been supposed that Georgia
could no; be kicked out of the old pa rt y
moss tor President-making. But lo!
behold anew party tn this hitherto 10.V al
btate to Federal usurpation—a Souther 1 *
Rights Party ! ‘The Resolves of their