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VOLUME XI. J
Ipoctrn.
FLIGHT OF TIME.
BT ALEXANDER SMART.
4Vhy flies the time so fust ?
Hays, months, and years glide l?,
And each looks shorter than the last,
And swifter seems to fly ;
On viewless wing still rushing on,
1 o join the flight of ages g me,
I he;r silent couise they ply.
It seemed, when we were voung,
Time lingered on the way,
lair hope, like any syren, sung
The live long summer day—
Oh ! sweetly sung of promised bliss,
Too bright for such a world as this—
Too beautiful to stay.
And then the winter night
8o lively and so long,
IV hen round the fireside blazing bright,
Went merriment and song ;
Long wore tbe hours—for we were than
Impatieet to be haopy men,
And join the busy throng.
Hope’s radiance in the hear*,
In youth supremely blest,
Can transitory joys impart.
Tile brightest and the best,
The ills of life come all too soon ;
Ami vv!:y should cloihlr obscure the moon
That warms the youthful breast.
When life’s young dream is o’or
And fancy's fires decay,
And hope’s illusions charm no morn ;
Nor chide the lingering day ;
Then Time sweeps on with winged speed,
Or. liko a thief, with noiseless tread,
Steals all our years away.
Fled like a d>cam's the past.
Thejoypus banquet o’er,
Our longing looks we backward cn*t,
And think of days ofyore ;
Brood o’er each scene in or woe,
Till We grow old before we know
That we a-e young po tp° r c.
THE FILES S.
Sinifr at the Fruiters’ Festival, ‘Boston.
I,rt monnrehs revel w!iil< they may,
And drain their gnldt-fs might ;
No heart so tree, or cay a* wo,
On this our festal night.
We need no regal pageant here,
No banners tvseathed with tV*no ;
For brighter far our triumphs are,
Ot history and name.
Each printer lives himself a king,
A monarch in his might,
And throne am! crown mu<t topple down
When he is in the right;
Aid o’er the world his banner waves
Where fieedom's sung or told,
The f ntNT r. n pauk tile truths of ago,
.'nil glorious songs of old.
High honor to the noble art—
I3y far the brightest gem
That ever threw its lustrous hue
From fret-do n’a diadem.
E’en now it gl. ants the guiding star,
The wateh-word of the brave.
Where million* fight to gain the right
Os freedom or a grave.
Then, brothers, let our daily toil
Lie sung in festal strains.
While hards shall sing or weapons ring
On earth's wide battle plains.
For while one tyrant's throne is left
For truth to trample down.
Our mystic art will bear its part
Os glory and renown,
THE HOS-SE-JOCKEY’S CONFESSION.
‘1 hat man ot the •• Yankee Blade” will
Certainly have tube lied up. The way
in which he manages to point an excellent
| moral from the following rather “strong”
tal-, is worthy of the most profound meta
j physician. The story may have already
gone the rounds—we do not remember it,
!if it has. Anyhow, there is no harm in
[ settintr the ball in motion again:
A noted horse jockey in Connecticut,
j who had, by his profound knowledge of
| horseology, and the various arts “idj .cent
! the'eto,” accumulated a considk-ral !e
I property, was a great hypochondriac, and
exaggerated every slight disorder that at
tacked him, into a dangerous disease.— !
Some of his neighbors were uncharitable
enough to say that his conscience n ade
him tremble at the slightest menace of
death. It is certain that whenever he was
laid upon h ; s bed with sickness he began
straightway to talk aloud of his approaching
dissolution, and bored his friends and
neighbors with querulous complaints
Once when sick, an old confederate, who
had travelled with and aided him in des
p .ilint: the Egyptians in every part of the
State, called to see him. This fiiend cotn
| :• .ended the nature of his complaint at
once, tu and requested the family to allow
him to manage matters in his own way
for a day or two. He chanced the tactics
which ot luffs had previously employed,
and instead ol prophesying smooth thinys. j
! he cut-Heroded Herod in croaking over his
| friends’s maladies, and pronounced him a
dying man. From time to tune hp drop
ped in, and so worked upon his feelings
that lie s on brought the and seasetoa crisis
Ho cnllod upon him the second day
abi ut noon, and taking his sick In end’s
wrist hetween his fingers, lie shook his
head mournfully, and with a tear in his eye
he murmured,
••Poor fellow,it will soon be oyer”
“This is hard, Sam?” said the sick pro
fessor of liorseolngv, and lie groaned in
bitterness ol spit it.
“{-laid enough,” said Sam, “Iqstas
you have got to is nice farm all paid for.
Your boys will raise the devil with it
when you art- gone.”
“Oh"—oil ?” ‘
“What is the matter!”
“Oh ! such a pain shot through me.”
“Haiii’t you got anything on your mind
•hat you want to say—pretty soon ? The
last horse you sold for a colt, was as old
as a man, you know.’,
“(Hi no. Sam. I’ve nothing to say ; that
is. I’ve got so much to say that it is of no
use to try. Sam !”
“What ?”
••Can’t you —can’t you prr„y for me ?”
“Well, it’s something that ought to be
done, tit and I think I’ll try.”
Sun knell down, and the sick one cov
ered his head witn the blanket, and fairly
writhed in agony of soul. 3am began,
keeping one corner of an eye upon the bed:
“Oh Lord, thy servant that’s now lying
sick on the bed, having burnt out the can
dle ot life in the service of the devil, ( gioan
froin the blanket.) is now of thrmv
i„.r the snuff in his Maker’s face, ( sick one
veeps out), H.e lies here a broken-down
nag, spavined, ring-boned and heavy, and
thou knowest tfiat he has raised the hardest
colts in this neig-ib rhpod. ( Blanket jerked
I down conculsivefy.) I’hou knowest, Lord,
I that he has been one of the greatest liars
(heightened col r in the sick maids face,)
Site llloCttmlitts Himes®
and cheat?, (fists doubled under the blan
ket.) and most rascally horse-jockeys that
ever trotted oYer thy foot stool.” N
“It's un infernal lie , you scoundrell
said the reviving patient. “You’re a cus
sed sight Worse than ever I could he”—
atid he leaped from the bed. “You cheat
ed me twice vourself you cussed hypo*
crite”—roared the furious invalid—and he
fairly turned his friend out of doors.
The horse-jockey was abroad the next
day, and soon commence.l sending his
boys to school, and reforming h:s own man
ner of life. He was changed from the ve
ry hour that the prayer was made at his
ltd-side, and lived and died a better man.
ELECTIONEERING OUT WEST.
Goi g to Bed before a Young Lady.
The following is an adventure in the his
tory i / Hon. Stephi-.x A. Douglass, the
edited and popular Democratic Senator from
Illinois. It is front the New York “Spirit
of the Times.”
Next to Judge’Horse Allen’of Missouri,
Judge Di.Ug'asS) of Illinois, isdecidedly the
most originil and amusing member of the
western bar, or W& are no judge.
As I wa- saying, ten years ago Judge
Douglass, of Illinois, was a beardless youth
of twenty-one years of age, freshly come
among the people of the ‘Sticker State,’
with an air about him suspiciousl” redo
lent of Yankee land. A mere youthful
adventurer amongst the ‘squire’ Suckers—
one would deem the position embarrassing.
Not so the Judge—he had come on busi
ness. A political fortune was to be made,
arid no time to be lost. He was about
launching t n the sea of public favor, and
he commenced a general coast survey the
day he arrived. He soon made himself
District Attorney, Member r( the Legisla
ture. Register of the Uni'ed States Land j
Oflt •. Seen tary of State, and Judge of the j
Supreme Court.
•H o\v do vou adapt yourself, Judge,’ said |
I, ‘to the people? How did you ‘natural- j
ize’ yourself, as it were ?’
‘Oh nothing easier—you see I like it
It’s democratic. But it did come awkward
at first. Y"U know I am, or rather was,
bashful, to rattier a p inful degree. Welt,
now, nine-tenths of my constituents tk’s
pist* luxuries, and have no such thing as j
u se tond room in their houses. In beating |
up votes, I live with my constituents, eat
will, them, drink with them, lodge and pray
with them, laugh, hunt, dance and work
with them—l eat their corn duduers and
fried bacon, and sleep two in a bed with
them. Among my first acquaintances were
the L s; by the way, I am sure of five
rotes there. Well, you perceive, I had to
live there, arid I did live there: I own it,
I acknowlt dge the corn. And ice in Au
gust is something ; but I was done to an
icicle—had periodical chills for ten days.
Did you ever see a Venus in linsev-wool- j
sev?’
‘No.*
‘Then vou should see Serena L s.
They call her the ‘White Plover;’ seven
teen, plump as a pigeon and smooth ns a
persimmon. How the devil, said Ito my
self, soliloquizing the first night I slept
there, am [ to go to bed before this young
Indy? I do believe my heart was topsy
turvied, for the idea of pulling off my bools
t efore the girl was death. And as to d< fl
ing off my other fixtures, f would sooner
have my leg taken off with a wood-saw.
‘l’he crisis uas tremendous. It was near
ly midnight, a rid the family had been hours
in bed. .Miss Serena alone remained.—
Bright as the sun, the merry minx talked ,
on It was portentously obvious to me that |
she had determined to outsit me. By re
peated spasmodic efforts, in y coat, waist- j
coat, cravat, boots, and sock.-Vvere brought j
off’. During t e process,my beautiful neigh
bor talked on with unaverted eyes, and with
that peculiar kind of placidity employed
by painters to embody their idea of the Vir
gin. I dumped myself down in the chair
in a cold perspiration. A distressing
thought occurred o me. Does not tbe j
damsel stand on a point of local etiquette?
It may be the fashion of these people to see j
the strangers in bed bt fore retiring them
selves. Had L not kept those beautiful eyes
open from ignoratce of what these people
deem good breeding? Neither the lady’s
eyes or tongue betrayed the least fatigue.
Those large jet eyes seemed to dilate and
grow brighter, as the blaze of the wood fire
died away; but, doubtless, this was from
kind consideration for the strange wakeful
ness of her guest. The thing was clear,
1 determined to retire, and without delay.
I arose with firmness, unloosed my sus
penders, and in a voice no* altogether stea
dy, then said
“Miss Se'enn, l think I will retire.’
‘Certainly, sir,’ she quietly observed,
‘you will sleep there,’ inclining ht r head
towards a bed standing a few yards from j
where she was sitting. I proceeded to un- j
case, entrenching myself behind a chair the .
while, foully imagining the position afford- !
ed some security. It is simply plain to a
man in his senses, that a chair of the (ash
ion of the one that I had thrown between
myself and ‘the enemy,’ as a military man
would say, afforded almost no security at
all. No more, in fact, than standing up
behind a ladder—•nothing, in the way of the
artillery of bright eyes, as a poet would say,
sweeping one down by platoons. Then I
had a dead open space of ten feet between
me and the bed ; a sort of bridge of Lodi
passage, which I was forced to make, ex
posed to a rakittg fire fore and aft. Al
though l say it, an emergency never arose
for which I had not a resource. I hud one
for this. The plan was the work of a mo
ment ; I ‘
‘Alt, I see—you stormed the battery and
s ’ ‘Bali! don’t interrupt tne. No—r
l determined by a bold ruse de guerre to
throw her attention nlf, clear the danger
ous passage, ami fortify myself under the
counterpane before si e had recovered from
her surprise. The plan failed. You see
1 am a small man, physically speaking.
Body, limbs, and head, setting op business
on one hundred and a half pounds, all told,
of flesh, blood, and bones, cannot individu
ally or collectively, set up any very ostenr
tatious pretensions. [ believe the young
lady must have been settling in het mind
some philosophical point on that head. Per
haps her sense of justice wished to assure
itself of a perfectly fair distribution of the
respective motives. Perhaps she did not
feel easy until she knew that kind Provir
dence had not added to general poverty,
individual wrong. Certain it uas site
seemed rather pleased with her specula
tions ; for when I arose from a stooping
posture finally, wholly disencumbered from
cloth, I noticed mischievous shadows play
ing about the e Titers of her mouth. It
was the moment I had determined to direct
her eves to some astonishing circumstance
out of the window. But the young lady
spoke at the critical moment —
•Mr. Douglass, you have got q. mighty
small chance of legs there /’
‘Men seldom have any notion of their
own powers. I never made any preten
sions te ground and lofty tumbling; but it
j is s'.rictfy true, I cleared at one bound the
’ open space, planted myself in the centre of
“Tlt K UNION OF THE STATES AND THE SOVEREIGNTY OF’ THE SPATES.”
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY. JUNE 3, .851.
I the bed, and was buried in the blankets in
a twinkling.’
‘I congratulate you ;nv boy,* said I, * ’twns
a lucky escape, truly. But was the young
lady modest V
•Modest, sir I there’s not in Illinois a
more modest or sensible girl. It’s habit,
all habit. I think nothingof it now. \\ by,
it was only last week I was at a fine wed
ding | arty, and a large and fine assembly
of both sexes lodged in the same room, with
only three feet or so of neutral territory be
> tween them.’
‘You astonish me, Mr. Douglass.’ /
‘Fact, Sir, upon my honor. You see
these people are the sou! of hospitality, and
never allow a fine social party to turn oth
at midnight to go a long distance home.
All this is more leverly inamaged there.
An Illinois bed lets a power of elongation
or expansion perfectly enigmatical to stran
gers. One bed, four feet wide, will, on
occasion, flank one whole side of the house,
and is called a field bed, and large parties
will range themselves on opposite sides > f
the house as ec mumictlly as caudles in a
Tiox.’
Boys out After Nightfall. —Parents
will please read the following and profit
by it;
t have been an observer, as l am a
sympathizing lover of boVJ. I like to see
them happy, cheerful, gleesotne. lain
not Willing that they be cheated t ut of the
rightful heritage of youth. Indeed, I Can
hardly understand how a high-toned u*e
fu I man can be ripened fruit ol a hoy who
Las not enjoyed tt lull share of the glad i
privileges due to youth’ But while I .
watch with a very jealous eye all rights !
and customs which entrench up n the j
proper rights of boys, I am equally app re
liensive lest parents who are not fore
thoughtful, and who have not habituated I
themselves to close observation upon this j
subject permit their sons indulgences i
which are almost certain to result iu tltei. :
demoralization if not in theirtotal ruin; and ‘
among those which 1 have of served as tend- |
ing most surely to ruin I k> o.v of none I
more prominent than that of parents pert |
inittji g their sons to be iu the streets after 1
nightfall.
It is ruinogs Jo their morals in all instan
ces They acquire, under the cover of
nig'ht an unhealtbful stale nf mind; bid.
vulgar, immoral, and profane language
obscene practices, criminal sentiments,
a lawless and riotous bearing. Indeed it is’
in the street after nightfall that the boys j
principally acquire the education ol the \
bad, and capacity for becoming rowdy. |
dissolute, criminal men. Parents should
in this particular have a rig:d anil inflex- j
ible rule, that never will permit a son un- j
derany circumstances, whale v r, to go in j
the streets after nightfall with a view of j
engaging in out- if door sports, or meet !
other boys for social or chance occupation, j
A rigid rule of this kind, invariably ad her* j
ed to, will scon deaden the desire for such
dangerous practices.
Boys should he taught to have pleasure
around the family centre table, in reading,
| in conversation, and in quiet amusements.
Boys, gentlemen’s sons are seen in the
streets after nightfall, behaving in a man
ner entirely destructive of all goi and morals.
Fathers and mothers keep your children
home at night, and see that you take pains
to make your homes pleasant, attractive,
and profitable to thin.; and above all with
a view of their seemity from future de
struction let them not become, while for
| mitig their characters for life so accustom
ed to disregard the moral sense of shame
as to openly violate the Sabbath day in
street pastimes during its day or evening
hours.— A true Friend of the Boys.
Printers and Printing. —J T Buck
ingham, iu his series of reminiscences, in
curse of publication in tkV Boston Corni
er, speaks of the importance of the print
i er to authors as follows:
Many whocotidescend to illuminate the
j dark world with the fire of the r genius,
through the commits of n newspaper, lit
tle think of the lot of the printer,
who, almost suffocated by the smoke of a
lamp, sits up till midnight to correct his
false grain mor, bad orthography, and worse
punctuation. I have seen the arguments
of lawyers, in high repute as scholars, sent
to the printer in their own hand writing,
many words—and especially technical find
i foreign tern s—abbreviated, words mis
spelled, and few or no points, and those
few if there are any, entirely out ot place.
I have seen the sermons of divines sent
to the press without point or capitals to
designate the tit vision of sentences; ser
mons which, if published with ihe imper
fections of manuscript, would disgrace the
i printer’s devil if lie were the author. Sup
| pose they had been so printed. The
! printer would have bei n treated with scorn
! and contempt, as an illiterate blockhead—
! as a fellow better fitted to be a wood saw
yer than a printer. No cue would have
believed that such gross, palpable faults
were owing to the ignorance and careless
ness of the author. And t’o one hut the
practical printer knows how many hours
the compositor, and after him the proof
reader, is compelled to spend in reducing
to tt readable condition* manuscripts, that
the writer himself would be puzzled to
read,
Hood Joke on a Widower. —A Corres
pondent a*. Holly Springs fM'ssis-sippi,)
tells the following and vouches for its
truth. It is the best joke we have heard
of lately, It appears that a widower in
that town, of some what gallant disposition
hod been accustomed to visit the widow
M —, whether to see the amiable wid- !
i'W herself, or her lively daughters, our in
formant did not know. One evening he
found the family pa.ty hard at work upon
some garments ofcli.f’ .—The girls were
sewing uni the widow pressing the seams.
IHe widower hung up his hat as usual
and took his seat by the fire; just at that
moment it happened tlmf the widow had
done with the pressing iron, fvulgo, tai
lor’sgoose.J she set it down on the hearth
and called to her negro man in a loud voice,
“Jake! Jake I come and take out lilts
goose!
The widower started up in astonishment
not knowing what to make of this abrupt
order.
eJake do j’ou hear?” again exclaimed
the widow.
“I beg your pardon Mrs. M.’’ said the
widower with visible agitation, “but pray
pray don’t call Jake; if you wish me to
leave your house l vvill go at once without
the interference of servants ’’
The ladies roared witn laughter, and it
took some moments to explain to the
chagrined widower ’his mistake. He
has not been known to visit the widow M.
since that memorable night.
Col John W Forney, editor of the
Pennsylvanian, is announced by his po
-1 t cal friends as a candidate for clerk of
the House of Representatives, at Wash
ngt'-n. ‘o the next Congress,
WEDNESDAY MOBNING, MAY 28, 1851.
THE PANORAMA.
The Panorama of California, now on
exhibition in this city is said to be most
worthy of a visit. We have not seen it
ourselves and can not speak knowingly,
but by this morning we learn
from some of those who were present at
its first exhibition last night, that it is a
very interesting and truthful representa
tion of life in California, and an excellent
work of art beside.
The letter of recommendation from
Bayard Taylor which will be found in the
bills, is of itself, proof of the truthfulness
of the picture. Mr. Taylor having trav
elled, (if we recollect aright) over the
greater part of the country.
THE SOUTHERN RIGHTS PARTY.
It appears to be a part of the game with
the Union journals generally, to attempt to
impress upon the minds of the people that
the Southern Rights party is a failure.—
Such journals speak of the coming strug
gle for supremacy in the State, as certain
to result in the elevation of their party
men to all the offices of trust and emolu
ment. They term us a mere faction, soon
to be cushed beneath the weight of pub
lic opinion. Our object is merely to agi
tate and distract the public peace, they
say ; and as to ( ur ultimate success, they
deem it a thing beyond possibility. But
do these journalists really believe in their
hearts, what they so boldly proclaim in
the columns if their papers'! Rely upon
it they do not. They fear us—yea, with
trembling do they view our preparations
for the coming contest, and in that con
test they’ll find us though “silent as the
grave, dreadful as the storm.”
Knowing full well that we are not held
together by Hie “cohesive” power of pub
lic plunder, they know as well that our
honesty of purpose and zeal iu the glori
ous cause in which we are engaged, will
eventually bring us to the goal of our am
bition.
What boots it to us, that in many con
tests (it maybe,) we are beaten? What
shall the South, to whom we owe our alle
giance, gain by submission in such a con
tingency? Has any great object ever
been gained by an abject couise? Was
ever a brilliant operation got through with
without the exercise of courage and forti
tude, and mayhap, a subjection to many and
severe trials? What does the thorough sol
dier after a defeat? Does he not pgnt for,
and seek gain his enemy ihqt he may
wipe out the stain of defeat from his fair
escutcheon ? So it will be with the South
ern Rights party. No defeat will be great
enough to daunt it. No odds great enough
to intimidate. It may be beaten but not
conquered. Phoenix like, it will rise from
its ashes and struggle on to ultimate victo
ry. Composed of men honest in purposei
zealous in their cause, having in view no
petty party triumph, no wish for the spoils
which belong to the victorious, it will re
main intact through all the trials and vex
atious contingencies of its future exis’ ence.
Having but one object in view, it wil
sternly move on to the aceoinplishmen
of that object, unmindful of the taunting
cries of “disunionists.” “agitators,” “trai
tors,” Looking to no party for aid,
it will at all times recei ve’accessions to it s
ranks from the thoughtful, the honest and
the wise. While the conflicting claims of
a nbitious aspirants to office distract the
counsels of it* opponents, the Southern
Rights party will rally around someone
faithful standard bearer in the cause op
the South, and be lead on to the strug
gle with the determined mein and stern
silence which betokens the intention to do
or die. Small though it be in numbers at
present, its members have an abiding con
fidence in the future awakening of the
people of Georgia to a keen sense oftheir
position. Imagine the looks of horror
and despair depicted upon the contenan- 1
ces of the people when once they are a- i
roused to their real situation. Sec their’
distraction on looking to the future of the
South. Listen to thei r exclamations of sus
pense. G real God can it be that we have thus
been deluded? How were we made to
cljse our eyes to the impending fate of
our mother Georgia? We behold her al
most within the grasp of our mortal ene
mies. We see her struggling against the
strong current of fanaticism which with
out speedy aid from us will sweep her and
ourselves, her children, to destruction.
To action brothers, lose not a moment,
bare the sword ot justice, lend your atten
tion no longer to those whose counsels for
delay have brought us to this fearful crisis.
On, on to victory or death.
When the people shall he aroused thus,
Georgia will be free, the will be
free, and not until then. It is the duty and
the aim of the Southern Rights party to
instil into their minds the great 4 truth ; and
by the aid of a just Creator success must
crown its efforts.
03r The extracts p üblished below, are
from the N. Y. Tribune, and we respect
fully recommend a perusal of them to our
Union friends, who so positively affirm
that the Fugitive Slave Law will be en
forced. and that by jpeans of the Compro
mise, we shall receive for the future, all
that we are justly entitled to at the hands
of our Northern brethren. The Editor of
the Tribune speaks <,f the recovery of (
Slaves through the agency of that Law as
extremely preposterous, and tells his
readers that the Southern people no more
expect to gain anything by it, than the
Not th intend they shall. We have given
them the shadow of good things (he says,)
and they are content.
He treats the idea of a demand for re
dress for any infraction or total disregard
of the provisions of the Compromise mea
sures, as by no means to be apprehended.
For, says he, if the Sou'hern people had
ever intended to dissolve the Union it
would have been done long ago, they
have had ample cause. But they have no
idea of such a thing. So lopg as they can
now and then, by great exertion on the
part of Government, and the expenditure
of large sums of money, reclaim a runa
way, they’ll be perfectly satisfied.
But hear him in his own language: :
! “ And what is the execution of *hia Fu-
gitive Slave law upon which we are grave
ly told the issues of life and death to this
Union and Government hang? Does pot
everybody know that it amounts to, noth
ing, practically ? Does it not cost a good
deal more than it comes to for an owner
ot an absconding chattel to repossess him
self thereof? Do not the fugitives fly in
droves to Canada at its approach ? Indeed
did not Mr Speaker Cobb himself declare
here in New York, in effect, that it was
only the name of the thing that they were
alter, and not the runaways themselves
that tlioy expected to get? And did they not
get that in tne passage of the law 1 Don’t
the South understand that they can’t get
their escaped slaves, no matter how many i
laws are crowded upon the statute book, j
or crammed down the unwilling throats ot,
the North? Are not the flying blacks slid 1
along to Canada, secreted, anil otherwise 1
kept out of the reach ot their masters ? i
Was the Union dissolved because Shad-I
rach was rescued, or would it have been 1
if Sims had escaped ? The rescue was 1
made tbe occasion of an extra ebullition j
of Southern scoiiie belched through “Un- j
ion” throats in various latitudes, and the
escape would hove had the same results, i
but this is all. It is no compliment that
the peculiar friends of the South and the j
Union pay their Southern brethren, when !
they say the shadow ofthings satisfies them; !
that they are content with the rejection by i
Congress of the “ Wilmot,” though they j
know that Slavery cannot go into New :
Mexico and Utah,* and that they are satis
fled with the show of the execution of the
Fugitive Slave law, though it does not se
cure the return of a single‘slave, only
at a cost of more time, trouble and exl
pense than he is worth. And it is a stil
more significant intimation that they con
sider the Southern people destitute of all
common sense, when they declare their
belieft at they “ill forthwith dissolve the I,
Union if these phantoms should cease to j
adorn the wall where the shadows have j
been cast, to delight while they mock j
them.
****
If the South were in earnest in saying
they would attempt dissolution if the North
would not return their Fugitive Slaves,
then they would attempt it now; they
would ha ‘e attempted it long ago. For
the North does not and will not return j
them. They hide them and they send ,
ti.ein tu Canada. The South, and the
whole South sees it, and knows it, The
tact that creatures ot the Federal Govern
ment now and then nab and dolivera run
away furnishes the South an excellent
pretext for professing satisfaction, and for
an extra threat, and threat of what they
would have done if such creatures had not
been found.
We contemn utterly the whole gascon
ading and intim dating process. Yet we
are so used to it that it fails to provoke the
indignation it is naturally calculated to
excite. Indeed our wrath is mainly felt
toward , the chicken-hearted crew who
cower beneath it, of whom the whispering
apprehenders of danger • to the Union are
the chief, For those who play the game
of intimidation we have in fact a kind of
respect. It is a munifestion of plucky im
pudence pot altogether contemptible, and
we feel jlvat the game is played because it
is fappjed that some ulterior good to slave
ry may grow out of it,”
‘‘WHEkE ARE WE.”
Under this caption the last Enquirer
notices an article from the pen of the Edi
tor of this paper, which appeared a few
days since. In the first few lines of his
remarks, the Editor of the Enquirer speaks
thus :
“Under this somewhat significant cap
tion’ our cotemporaries of this city have
clearly indicated that they do not know
exactly where they stand.”
And further down thus, (J lt! refers to tlfe
“Sentinel” and “Times” both.)
“They stand where they stood at first,
although thetir forces have endeavored to
fly from the field and shield themselves
| under the broad wings of th“ conquerors.
! If there is any thing of consistency or
credit in either position, they are welcome
to it, and may divide it between them!”
Now what does the gentleman mean
when he says that the Editors of the two pa
pers can not locate themselves, and yet,
that they “stand where they did at first?”
Eitherhe did not know where their posi
tion was at first (which is a poor com
pliment he pays his penetration,) or tliS
gentlemen in question have so boxed the
compass that they cannot themselves tell
towards what point of the political globe
they are steering. Now let the Enquirer
say that any principle which these gen
tlemen set out with, has been abandoned,
or a single position given up. We do no 1
doubt that if the people really do know
where to place the Sentinel and Times,
they will very speedily show to the En
quirer and its compeers that they are not
so “ hard-headed ” as to be utterly incapable
of understanding the justness and right of
he position occupied by the two papers
in question, or so “'hard hearted,” as to
listen to the appeals of their insulted sec
tion for redress and protection, without
emotion.
We sincerely hope that the people are
awakening to a sense of the dangers to
which the Unionists are striving to blind
them, and that they will soon be so fully
convinced of the integrity of the course
pointed out by the Sentinel and Times, on
the great question o! the day, that they
will turn a deaf ear to the Syren songs of
“peace"’ when there is no “peace,” and
see in their true light, those, who either
wilfully or ignorantly, (God giant it,)
have counselled delay and inaction, when
either is destruction. The conflict which
“was at one time fearful and at another
ridiculous,” will be waged again, and
still again, if it be necessary. No rumors
of the dissolution of the party, formed for
the preservation of the South, coming
from the Union journals, will affect in the
least, the intention of that party to uphold
to the last, its principles.
No array of horrid words, such as “hos
tile confederacies,” “blood of brothers,’
“civil war,” “Jacobinical harangues” and
“blood-thirsty avowals,” which abound ip
t he last Enquirer, will serve to stop for a
moment the march of that party to a vic
torious result, or to “frighteq its members
from their propriety.”
We would say (for the information of
the Enquirer,) that both the Sentinel
Times occupy the very identical position
taken by them at the opening of this ques
tion, with the difference that ,then they
each entertained some hope that the gen
uine impulses ofSouthern feeling would in
duce the Enquirer and its adherents, to
join with them in their struggle against the
miscalled Compromise, and the obtaining
some sure guarantee that we were, in the
future, to be allowed the. enjoyrpent of our
peculiar institutions without let or hin- ;
drance on the part of the North. That |
hope has long been abandoned, there is
no room for the budding of the flower,
patriotism, when the heart yearns so ear- j
nestly after the “flesh pots” of office. i
| NUMBER U
We cannot- for the life of us, see an >*
j falling from grace in the ranks of the
; Southern Rights party or any swerving to
■ either hand on the part of the Sentinel
i and Times. Will the Enquirer enlighten
|os on this point! Will that paper shpw us
I in ichat degree or in how much there has
been a change! If the party is defunct!
if nothing is left of those furious Fire-eat
i ers and ‘-'blood-thirsty” disunionists of a
j short time ago, tell us lor pity’s sake, for
we give our word, we do not realize
the fact. Point out the deserters, show
j the man who enlisted upon this struggle
I with an honest conviction of the necessi
, ty for decided action, such as we demand,
: who has gone from among us. Most pro
bably some few can be shown who love
office and have an eye to tbe “flesh pots,”
whose fears for the result have induced
them to enlist in the ranks o,t the Unionists,
but we defy any man to lay his linger up
on a single individual who having no di
rect selfish interest at stake has gone
over to the enemy.
We are open to conviction, and ask
these questions for the purpose ot being
led to a true knowledge of the matter in
hand.
F r the Time*.
CLAY AND WEBSTER, vs. HOWELL COBB-
Mr. Forsyth—Messrs. Clay and Web
ster say that the North gained everything
by the Compromise. Mr Cobb says it was
wise, liberal and just to all parts ot the
country; and he says that it in no way
affected injuriously the honor or the inter
ests of the South. Now which are we to
believe, Olay and Webster, or Mr Cobb.
Mr Cobb reminds me very much of the
fox who got his tail cut yfF by a trap, and
then tried to persuade the rest of the foxes
that short tails looked best. If I mistake
not I think about the 27th Feb. 1350, Ham
ilcar Toombs agreed with Messrs Clay &
Webster ; I fear he has been caught in the
same trap with Cobb—for I have not yet
heard that he had ever sworn in his chil
dren to eternal hostility to a government
that had deprived us of our rights. Possi
bly lie may have changed his opinion, and
now thinks that no wrong has been done
the South. I suppose Mr Cobb thinks the
wrong (if any) was dune by the people of
California, and not by Congress. A Je
suit would be ashamed to make such an
excuse. Mr Cobb and his co-workers j
may try to make the people of Georgia
believe that they have been neither wrong
ed or insulted, but they will find it about
as difficult as a gentleman I once knew
f uni it, to prove lie had not been insulted.
A gentleman attempted to spit in bis face
and he dodged it and afterwards proved
that the gentleman did not spit in his facp,
consequently he was not insulted.
It is generally believed that Mr Uobb
will be our next Governor —if so, I hope
no one will offer an insult to the State
during his term, for I do not think it
would take a witch to tell the result.
SOUTHERN RIGHTS.
For the T* PS.
To the Editors of the Enquirer :
You say that Georgia will resist every j
wrong of sufficient magijjtudp to require
resistance. Permit me to you a plain
question, and answer yes or no, as I might
be better able to understand that than a
long and evasive argument. Would you
advise Georgia to resist the repeal of the
fugitive slave law, or one abolishing slave
ry in the District of Columbia, with or
without the consent of the inhabitants !
MUSCOGEE.
Extract from Mr Yancey’s letter declin
ing the Dallas County nomination for Gov
ernor:
“In the ranks of the advocates of sub
mission will eventually be gathered
whatever there is of fedeial and abo
lition tendencies in our midst; while be
neath the banners of secession will, as in
evitably, be rallied all that are true to the
institution of African slavery, as a part of
the fundamental basis of the social and
political policy of the South—and all shall
prefer citizenship under separate State
sovereignty, to a servile acquiescence in
the consolidation of the federal govern
ment upon tbe basis of freesoilism.
“The influence of a misguided, or of a
corrupt press, and of that class of men,
who have acquired some notoriety solely
by pandering to party prejudices—the
“ whippers in” upon every great party
hunt, may, perhaps, for a brief period, re
tard this result. It ij evident, however,
that such opposition must b • feeble—must
soon exhaust its If. Amidst the general
upheaving of the fundamental principles
of the Union of the States, the minor is
sues of party policy cannot long attract
popular attention —nor, to any apprecia
ble extent, control the popula, mind.”
The Story of Barnabas and ms Boots
—Barnabas cama to Columbia one day
lately, to attend to some business. Aftey
two or three drinks to enablp him to do his
business correctly, and two qr three more to
keep him comfortable on his way home,
he mounted his horse and started on the
back track.
Barnabas bad not got many miles from
town notwithstanding the liquor he had
taken to keep him warm, before his feet
began to feel that the evening was not so
comfortable as 4 might be, and looking
about him, he i spied what he supposed, to
be the declining embers of a fire which
had been kindled near an old stump, but
which.was, in Reality, the phosphorescent
light emitted by some decaying fish which
had been thrown by the roadside by some
passing wagoners.
Barnabas dismounted from his hqpse,
and drawing off his boots, very coolly warm
ed his feet by a burning stump, qlias dead
fish) When the right temperature
reached he mounted his horse, leav
ing his boots for the next passer-by.
A,s he journeyed onward he unfortunate
ly lost his way, and arriving at a farip
which he could net recognize, he eqguiE
ed of some negroes whether lie was in
“this neighborhood 01 th<- next,” and hav
ing been informed that he was in this neigh
borhood,” he rode away perfectly satisfied !-
We 1> arn that §ince this adventure be
caJjie known, Bjarnabas has been greatly
annoyed by a few inquisitive, saucy,
grown-up boys, who frequently enquire
of him “if he has found his boots!”—
Temperance Banner.
Takiso Steps is Turkish Fashions. — For
two day* past, two females have distinguished them
*.'|vcs in Broadway, as pioneers ig the (evolution
of petticoat*. On Friday afternoon, between three
and five o’clock, they promenaded Broadway in the
new costume of which so much has been said re.,
cently. The skirts of th°*e ladies, whose eounte„
nances were of a pale and intellectual cast, hung
as low as the knees, -nil trousers, in the ‘I urkish
style, served to conceal nearly all the clf| while
the hoots, heels (r and toes out, were a little worse
for wear, and exhibited a very broad platform of j
their constitution*, generally. Other ladies on the
promenade stared at the revolutionists, and the boys ;
applied their thumbs to their nose*, and burst
intc’lquJ gulftws, while grave men smiled, and
young Itiiws tittered wi(h laughter. Ceruir lj|
ihese specimen* might lie improved, if thi- ladiel
who hive undeitukeu the present reform nil! tn|i
i the mark with a handsome foot and new and clej!
gant boots. They should apply to J.ffivr* on Broad I
way, to make suitable §ls tor their teet, for he cari
(lie most incorrigible ankles to symmetry]
and even those who arc like Mullingar heifers.—j
Neip Hjwrk fierald.
Items.
Poetical. — A young lady vyhpse name
was Mayden, haying quarried a gentleman
called Mudd, gave fist, to the following:’
“ Lot’s wife Mis said, in days ot'old,
For one rebellions hU,
Was turned, as we are plainly told,
Into a lump of salt,
The same propensity to change
Still runs in woman’s uloori ;
For here we see a case as strange—
. A Mayden turned to Mudd.
When lias a scruple more weight thaq
a dram! When conscience makes atee-i
to taller refuse a thimbleful of brandy.
—Punch thinks it is a doubtful point:
whether a blind man could be made liable!
for his bill, payable on sight.
Last year. V{ m. B. Astor paid into tbe
City Treasury of New York* the sum oft
twenty-three thousand, eight hundred and |
ninety-one dollars, for taxes —the largest ill- !
dividual tax paid. The assessed vhlue of;
his property, in New York city, is 8*2.600.
000]
Great Suckers. —The assembly of the’
Rriti&lv Province of New Brunswick have
refused to refund the duties on wines and
liquors consumed by the officers of her
British majesty’s troops there. The quail-1
tity for ‘.he year was over S(H) gallons to
eae-h man, upwardsof three hundred gallons
of Vfhich was beer.
We must not ileel, either virtue or
learning in false colors, iuntdp.rto render
them attractive to the youthful ey.
—At a, late t;ial sopi.etyhere in Vermont,
the def-ndant, w\yi was oo.t sq oiliar with
the multitude of words which the Iqw em
ploys to make a very trillingjohiirge, after
listening awhile to the reading of the in
dictment, jumped up and said: “Them
’ere; allegations is false, and that ‘ere alli
gator knqws it!”
—Old bachelors do not live as long as
other men. They have nobody to uyuid
their clothes and darn their stoppings.—
They catch cold, and there is nobody to
make them peppermint tea, and they drop
off.
—Capt Gold.thorough o,l the Navy, states
that he 101 l California jn a clipper ship for
China, that he took she overldpd route for
England, and arrived in Boston in one
hundred and two travelling days after
leaving California. He is probably the
first person who has ever left the United
States and returned to it again, taking the
circuit of the world, in so short a time.
—.jenny Lind is usually called a “night
ingale,” bqt a chap who gave $lO for his
ticket, .-jays it's his opinion she’s in reality
a mbbtn. — [.V Y Traveller.
The Boy. —Sqlorqoq said, many centu
ries ago, “Even a ohijd js known bv his
doings, whether his vyurk be pure, and
whether it bp right.”
Some peopjpgeem to think that children
have no character at all. On the contrary
an observing eye sees in those young crea
tures the signs of what they are likely to
be in future life.
When I see a boy in hastp to spend eve
ry penny as soon ;.;y hp gets it, f think it
i a sign that he \jill be a spendthrift.
When I sec a boy*hoarding pp his pen
nies, and unwilling to part with them for
any good purpose, I think it aqjgn that lie
will be a miser.
When I see a boy qjyyqys Ipokipg out
for himself, and disliking to share good
with others, I think it a sign that he wil]
grow up a very selfish person.
When I see boys and girls ofti n quar
relling, I think it a sign that they will be
violent and hatelul men and woqien.
When I see a little boy willing to taste
strong drink, I think it a’ sign that he wilj
he a drunkard.
When I see a jtmy who never attends tq
the seryipes of religion, and who is in the
habit of Sabba.h breaking, I think it a
sign that he wjjl be a protane man.
When I see A phi Id pbpdient to his pa
rents, I think it q sign ofgreatfutqre bless
ings.
When I see a boy fond of the Bible, and
well acquainted with it, j think it q sign
that he will be a pious pia.n.
And though great changes sometime*
take place in the character, yet as q gen
eral rule these signs do not fail.
—‘Lizzie,’ said a little curly-headed
boy of some fiye years ’isn’t Sam Slade a
buster!’
‘Why Charley ]’
‘ Because the grammar says, positive
buss, comparative buster, and I did see
him give you such a positive buss,* Liz
zie tainted.
—Fletcher Webster, who knocked the
watchman down for ringing the bell in
Boston, is styled by the abolitionists a
“//i/er law” man.
—A farmer in thp peighbgjtljpod olTais
ley, Scotland states tjyaf.by patting garlic
in the bottom grain sacks be has for
some years past kppt them free from rats
and mice. The garlic is placed at a suffi
cient distance from the corn to prevent its
imparting a flavor.
—A lad, on delivering his milk a tew
mornings ago, was asked why the milk
was so warm. ‘I don’t know,’ he replied
with much simplicity, ‘unless they put in
warm water instead of cold.’
—Well, Pat, Jim didn’t, quite kill you
with that brick-bat did he 1
No, but I wish he had
What for!
So I could have Si.cn hin: haqg. the vil
lain.
—Why is a tailor calfed the ninth part
Cjt a man 1
“money makes the man,” and
tailors never get more than a ninth part o>
jyhat is due tfiem.
--Tq jtfijnk that an eternity of bliss du
ppnds upon the purity of a few years ot
earthly existence, is an overwhelming
thought, flow great is the ihdppejp.ont te
study truth, and cultivate virtpe.
Gold and God.— There is something
forcible in the anecdote told by a distin
guished preacher who, not being able to
make any impres-iop upon a man’s under
standing, wrote the jyord God on a piece
of pjjper.
‘Do yoq see that V said he to fjpj iqdi
vidual.
‘Yes.’
He then covered Ihe word wis # piece
of gold.
‘Do you see it now !’
The effect was startling. Thg man saw
at once what had shut hts ej ep to all that
was true and beautiful in thg jvorld, and
most worthy of his devotion.
—ls you make love to a wi,d,ow who has
a daughter twetity-three years younger
than herself, begin by declaring
reiflly thought tjiey were sisters.
—Why is $ gojdier more tired in April
than any othep inoiilr. I Because he ha?
just had a March ol thirty-one days.
—The gipj ighohad three lovers, nafped
Saken, Lopp and Born, was compelled tc
marry'the latter. She afterwards wrote |
“I Ain for-nfcen and Inrl.orn,
I wish ‘ hn<l never iir.e. Born.”
Pci.pit vs. Polka. —Several clergymen
in Poston and its vicinity, among whom
we hear inenth ned Rev. Mr. Huntington
and Rev Mr. Ware, r ceidly { pi< ached
sermons, in which they ocenstnn -o
c n ‘emn the Polka, Sch tfsihe, and othefc
fishionable dances now so much in vogue,
Yoiithfol Elopement. Master Tom
my Gurrin. a ho,-<d |4, residing jjj Kd
dare, In land, has eloped with Miss Eliza
J -, a girl aged Ihe servant gi r ;
who managetllip ailairtus confidante be
ing between fijiei n and sixteen years old
The juvenile fugitive took with her £ll
b-‘longing t ( q her mother, and tpe boy and
girl proceeded to America together.
—The man that introduced a fanuing
mill into Scotland, was denounced as a
! atheist. In the opinion of the old fogies
of that day, it was “flying in the face ot
tire £,ord”— and getting up gales of vi-a
whefi Providence willed a calm.
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