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THE WEEKLY’ TIMES. Jotl N FOR sY T H-E DIT O U . i.FiMtsirfiM- 5 ; ,J, ' ,S 81 <0 ” n? o p n 1 e r 0 R s. Th V VKRM.Y Jg* ££ZgSS~Z TiiK^M’S' ’ _ the TRI-^ sB kljY ’ . WKOVKSDVY and HRU)\I Pahlutieil Bttfl. 8 t tfl . . r ijai) vY Evenmas. Office OH -IJe oV Broad Street, neafl J oppose, Kteh,n 3 e. ( .... nnr annum ilt advance, or ‘iX fvrr. Dnr.r.'H’ P 1 ‘ D<.ttt* l ’' er i,''.li,rort*lrttied while nv 9T S ° P *"hb-, nl at the option of the • rrr*7'’* ire , proprietors. j,.,i.„, a |y inerte,l nt Onr ‘° r J.nre ior t'i‘ first insertion, ami Hr every ..heqnent contiimnn.-e. S,U ! ■ Wit- excee.iinc one square (or ,avert,.menu. TANARUS„ e Tl M ss BOOK * NO JOB OFFJCS - itrl. Mi' l ’ pnmpl>le*s n f . rd ,, VlslUußCardH, Kill Heal . ml|* rtf LatMttg, r,r- n::, Tir'uets, ’ ay Receipts) <fc * hrvine been latelv furnished wiltin’ . The .?^ e o NEW TYPE, comprising some of | j.rje Btoc* ” ‘ rf^ilT we ;, re prepared to exe o I Job Work in a style not to be ex "’* rf 'oarticuUrly invite the attention ..four mer fh ; J others who have heretofore ordered oh “, work from the north, to our specimens. “T , r p"ien. are fixed at the lowest possible rates. .Order, from 0.. r corn-ry fnenisw.il be promptly ( Ku'nk Legal forms of overy description, kept j .*u hind and for sale. j THE BRITISH PERIODICALS and thf. FARMER’S GUIDE. LEONARD SCOTT k CO. NO. 154, GOLD ST., NEW YORK, Continue to publish the fonr lead.no Brii.al. Qnar terlv Reviews and Bhckwood’s Magaz.no ; ... ad dition to which ther have recently commenced the publication of a valuable Agricultural worK, called .V’WrMER’S GUIDE TO SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL AGRICULTURE,” Bv Henry Stephens, K. R. S., of Edinburgh, author lif the* ‘ llook Os the Farm,” fce., *c. i “ss.st.-d bv J,hn P. Norton. M. A., New H ive.n, Professor of Irientilic Agriculture ih Y* l ” College, &c.. \c. Thi. liiltl'lv valnabUt work will comprise tw< l.rae roval n.t.avn vd un.es, contain! ng over U 0(. with 18 or 20 splendid steel engravings aid more than 000 engravings on wood, in the high ..t ttvle of the art; illustrating almost every- un ■ lament of husbandry now in nan by the best farm •ra the heat methods of ploughing, planting, hay iaf’, harvesting, Ac., k the various domes', c an imal, in their highest perfection ; in short the nictorial feature of the book is unique, and wil rouder it of incalculable value to tbe student of **The'work s being published in Semi-monthly Numbers, of 04 pages each, exclusive ot the - tee, • Huntings, and when not taken in connection with the Reviews or Blackwood ,s sold at 2a cents each • r 25 for the entire work .n numbers, of which there will be at least twenty-two. The British Periodicals Re-published are as fill- I•ws } rii : The London Quarterly Review (Conservative), The Edinburgh Review [Whig), The yorth British Review (Free-Churcn), The Westminster Review (Liberal), and Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine ( I’ory). Although these works are distinguished by the political shades above indicated, yet but. a smal. portion of the r c ntents is devoted to politic.! ■ iibjerts. It is their literary character which yive< thorn their chief value, and in that they stand con f*k *dly far above all other journals ot their class Rlackwood, atill under the mastoHy guidance oi Christopher North, ...amt ,ins its ancient celebrity, and is, at this time, unusually attractive, Irani the aerial w, As ot Hulwer, and other literary nota ble*, written for that magazine, and first appearing iu its columns both iu Great Briiain and in the United Sta.cs. Such works as * Caxtons and < m New Novel” (both by Hulwer), “ My Pernri sulr Medal,” “ The Grten Hand.” and other sri*f*. <n which numerous rival editions sre issued Vt the ieiding publls'iers in tins country, have xi bs reprinted bv those publishers Iron, tie p.get of Blackwood, after it has been issued by M*tr* Scott 4- Cos., so that, subscriber* to tbc rc- ; print of that Magazine may always rely on having | the earliest reading of these tacinallllg talcs. TKRVIB PER ANNNUM. For any one of the four Reviews j Fr any two 1 Far ny three do ■ For all four of the Reviews For Blackwood’s Magazine, •* Far Rlackwood and three Reviews, and m , For Rlackwood and the tour Reviews, Iu u 0 | For Kttin*r’s Guide (in 22 Nrs.) ---•• do. and 1 Rev’w or Rlackwood, iDu , to and any two reprints 9.00! <> do “. ..three..“ II -00 ii ... do .four.. . “ 13 00 j • do “...all five “ 14.00 {Pi/iiiiti to be nxle Lull cases in advance.) j CLUBBING. ! A discount of twenty five per cent, from the above prices will lie allowed to Clubs ordering lour or | ■tare copies of any one o> mor ot the above works. Thu* : 4 copies of Rlackwood or of one Review j will be sent to one address lor §9 ; 4 copies ot the fuur Reviews and Black wood lor §3O; and su nn. £5“ Remittances and communications should no always addressed, post-paid “r franked, to the Publishers. LEONARD SCO I I *.<<>., 79 Fulton Street, New York, apSwatwtf Entrance 54 Gold at. Prospectus of the Soil of ths South. THE undersigned, a Committee of Publication •n the part of the Mtscooke ami Rdsskli. Agiii ePLTCRAt Socibtt. respectlullv invite public at tention to the following Prospectus, t a Month at Journal tu ho published in thi*city, under the snap ces lifthe above named A*sociatln. We believe the Agricultural inlrrett of the Sout demand* and will support a wo k ot this character and in the hope of supplying that demand, and re . riving that support, wo have determined upon or THH south.” The Work tvill be devoted to the interest* of Agriculture and Horticulture . Domestic anil A’nr at Economy. Under these several head* will be included alt that concern* the culture oj Crops . the improvement ot the Soil, the management of the Farm, the Garden, the Orchard and the Howe, Yard, and the House-Keeper’* Department. Ir ,their connexion with the interests of the Soil, the other Industrial Pursuits of the land, will receive appropriate atiention. The columns ol ••I he Soil of the Smith,” will he filled with original *r ’ lice* written by the Editors, conlrthutions from many of the best informed prai tical Planters 111 the South, and extract* from the ablest Agrteultural Works and Per>"dical* The “Soil of the South ” will he under the Edt .(•rial supervision of Uhahlk* A. Pkaboiit E*<t •lid Col. Jamks M. Cham linns. Mr. Peabody has been for two year* past com.ee ed with the Agricultural P’e**, and is equally distinguished as a Pracical and Scientific, intelligent and successlut Planter in the South. The two furnish a combi nation of Editorial talent uso.passed by any Agri cultural work in the Union. They will be a .t.t sd hv an able corps of Contributors among the practical Farmer# ami Planters of the lakiuL Each Number will contain sixteen Page* of quarto size, prirted vcith new type on superior white paper, and furnished to Subscribers at the ( xto of ONE DOLLAR. PER AX SUM. which mu*t be paid upon the receipt of the Janu .ary Number. Masters are authorize!) to act as Agents’ and they may retain in their hinds twenty-five per (Tent of al! *ui'criptioiis collect* il by them, or it they prefer it. a copy of the Work will i*e sent to any j ,ono twelve months jfr?lyp'osiyt who will remit | Four names with Four .dollars. N. U.—lt is particularly requested that a!! wh*> j.utem! to suhacritic, send their names imiHedtnteU, jthat the Publisher may for.w some idea nt thorium* Vers ot Copies required. Ont Thousand copies of"the Transactions of the {late Fair in tins City, embracing the Addres*. i Treaties, and premium list, will lie ouhlished an I /ornishe.l gratuiiously yoihe first 10W0 subscribers .to the ‘ ‘ Soil of the Souyh.’t Communications must be addressed nut-paid, to Wm. H. f'titMnr.ns. publisher f> -The Boil of the Snulh.”„Cofjml os Ga. VAN I.EOXARJ), Y Committee R. A. WARE, C of J. E. HURT. Publication. Columbus, Dec. 10. ‘ 50 tl NEV WQE^S. XJ ECEIVED this day by A. C. Klewellefi fe Cos,, u-derthe Post Office. Roward and the Prison World of Kerop#. Life, Past ?p<j Present. Prank Forrests Field Spv/ts. Yonatr on the Dog. Cuba and tho Cubans. Island World of the pacific. History of the Polk Adininistra Forest Life. The Night side of Nature—Ghosts and Ghosl McKays PopularPc'.psionc. yiews a-foot, by bayard Taylor. The Woman oClsrael. ’j Vale ol Cedars. | Home Influence. \ By rtrace .fyuetar Mothers Recompense. [ Womans Friendship. J Fir Years of a Hunters Life in the tar inlcrio ms South Africa. The Brit'sh Colonies. American £duce*ion. .Co—yiuJS, March 5. iS5’ ’’ 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. ■(A