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JflH B. CH'BISTY,]
EDITOR. )
IT. M. U9IFKIN & D. J. ADAMS
( morucTORs add fubushos
NEW SERIES—VOL. III., NO. 34.
ATHENS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1850. cr S£0 " filA
VOLUME xvn. NUMBER 46
BUSINESS DIKECTOKT.
Andrew Comstock,
DEALER IS HATS, CAPS ASD PURS.
SO* Wa'.tr street. Maw ¥etk.
March 29. lj
DR. C. B. LOMBARD,
Surgeon Dentist,
ATHE!<S,flA.
*Offie* orer the Dru? Store of lUeert. Hill k Smith.
Athene, eept. 16. tf
John W. Goss,
DEALER IN DRT GOODS AND GROCERIES,
HARDWARE AND CUTLERY, Ac., AsC.
No. 9. Broad-itreet—ATHENS, GA,
Mmj », lMt. ly
WIL1LAM N. WHITE.
Initrnnenli
LAmZZcUTLSXT, a''™™ GOODS, Ac.
ColIXO* Ark'* 1 '*’ ATBKre, Ga.
(fCT Order»filed mllhe Augusta <**■
American Hotel)
t ••?»<« >■ Wo. 181, CHESTNUT ST,
PHILADELPHIA.
Directly oppoeite the OU State Ilouet, in which the
Declaration o/ ****
TLU la n first clans Hotel, and replete with e
iy
Thomas G. Hight,
DEALER IN DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, Ac.
Call off* A venae, next deer te P.O.
Terms—cheep for eeeh or country produce.
Athene, Jan, ti. 1 J _
w. S. Grady,
Sealer In tryfieoEi, Crecerlre, Ac., Ac.
Na IB, Broad Street—ATHENS, GA.
SEtECm) POETRY - .
WASTE NOT A MOMENT.
There is no time in any clime,
That should be unemployed;
An active mind will ever find
There’s nothing dull and voi’.
AU things that live, some cbm me will give.
If sought without delay;
From year to year, I seem to hear
The truthful voice of wisdom say.
Waste not a moment l
The singing birds, in simple words,
Wui.tk.lfehlard.jli>r£~ I'*
Tkl» not a raoniuia*“
Thomat W. Alexander,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Lawabmhcvhijl Owumrrr Co.
gW* Any h«fa-a to hi. car. .iU n.A-1*
* — jw Feb. 10,1848.
W. H. H. WHITE,
T. BISHOP,
WHOLESALE ASD RETAIL GROCER,
JIT. 1. flro.1 Str*-A TRESS. OA.
FREES A CO.
WIOLXaALX ARD XCTAIL DEALERS CT
HATS, CAPS, ROOTS, SHOES, TRUNKS, Be.
Broad Street—A THENS, GA.
H. J. MAYNARD,
O. & A. K. CHILDS,
WntdB-nsakers and Jewellers*
Aery Goods, <te. Ac.
V«. IS, Broad-etreet, under the Franklin House—Athens
AMERICAN HOTEL,
CHARLESTON, S. C.
F. A. HOKE, Proprietor.
Mud. I. IM». IJ
ASAM.JACKSON,
ATTO.NET AT LAW.
April 12,1848. ly Wat* instill*, Ga.
C. & W. J. PEEPLES,
Atterneye nt Lsw,
(Omen a Athens and Gawbtoii, Ga.)
Will continue the practice of Law in the cc
(see of Clarke, Walton, Jackson, Gwinnett, Hall, Haber
sham and Franklin, of the Western Circuit; Cherokee,
i and Forsyth, of the Cherokee Circuit; and
Cobb, of the Coweta Circuit,
C. Purus, Athene—W. J. Pncrucs, Gaineni'Je
Newton & Lucas,
> RETAIL DXALiaa n
DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, HAROWARE, ho
No. 1, Granite Rom—ATHENS, GA.
WIlliam A. Lewis,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Commie, Fossns co, Ga
ty Will practice in the counties composing the Che
rokee CimiiL AU professional and other business c~
tqpsted to his management, will meet witi^prom^t a
fpitiifnl attention.
CHASE & PETERSON,
WHOLESALE ANO RFTAIL DEALERS
POORS, STATIONERY, FANCY GOODS
PERFUMERY, *C.
"Arum, Gb
1ST All orders promptly Sited at Augustapricce
PAVILION HOTEL
CJIRALESTON, & G
fTHE undersigned begs leave to inform his friends,
A and the travelling public generally, that ho has ta-
—loathe above named House, at which place be would
be most heppy to see them, when they visit the city;
rraiuirng that there shall be nothing wanting on his
part, mr that ofhia household, to render their stay sgree-
#hle and pleasant while with K: — •
£et not the tune be wasted.
But take a book, and through it look,
And when its sweet* you've tasted.
Peruse it well, and on it dwell,
And find some truthful lay.
To feed your mind, and then you’ll find
The voice of Holy Truth will say,
_ n look but at the c
Like mM.'de* 1 * fair, who only care
For the a^oearance of their lovers;
But search for ti^th, aspiring youth ;
- Tin always wurC*»ywr finding."
My plain advice U small ’ n P" ce
You’ll find it ’neath the bina.’**—
Waste not a moment!
In every hour we have the power
To do some little good ;
If we a neighbor help to labor,
Tit only doing what we should;
For we were sent with the intent
Upon this fertile land,
n and brother, help one
tar ’tis thy God’s com ms
Waste not a moment!
Fat and Lean.—An Albany editor
speaks of a roan who is so fat his family
use bis voice to born instead of lard
oil. The Yankee Blade says there is a
roan in Boston so fat that the people
slip down looking at him—one individ
ual was even tripped by standing on
bis shadow. They have a man in Mis
sissippi so lean that he makes no shad
ow at all. A rattlesnake struck'-six
times at his legs in vain, and retired in
disgust. He makes all hungry who
look at him; and when children meet
him on the street they run home crying
for bread.
"How many poles are there?” "Three.”
" Name them/* " The northpole, ih*;
you its pole, and the pole tvfTiphKnocked
down the persimmon.” " ioght j qajtt.
Which is the principal sea in Europe ?”
“ The sea of Rome.” “ Very good.”—
" Which are the principal capes in the U.
States?” " The capes of fashion.”—
“ Good. What kind of fish are the
most common ?” " Cod-fish aristocra
cy.”—St. Louis Reveille.
The Road of Ambition.—The highei
it ascends, the more difficult it becomes,
till at last it terminates in some eleva
tion too narrow for friendship, too steep
for safety, too sharp for repose, and
where the occupant, above the sympa
thy of man, and below the friendship
of angels, resembles in the solitude, if
not in .the depth of his sufferings, a Pro-
melheus chained to the Caucasian rock.
of one mind. The Targum- sjt$. most as an agreeable mode of conveyance,
of the Jewish commentators, give to the The frame becomes soon more valuable
word the meaning of etcrnalhj forever, than the picture, and acquaintance with
Rabbi Kimchi regards it as a sign to el
evate the voice. The atwhofs of the
Septuagint translation appear to have
regarded it as a musical ory rythmical
note. Herder regards it as indicating
a change of torte; MathesofH&% musi
cal note, equivalent, perhaps, to the
word repeat. According to .Luther
and others, it means silence /, ‘tJesenius
explains it to mean : " Let rfie instru
ments play and the singersStopi” Wo*
cher regards it as equivalent to sursum
corda —up, my soul! after
examining all the sevealyl&Ch^l&ssages
in wliichihc wwd%cuiVM: cognizes 1n
every case “ an^ctuaL " *
Pile up, until your store can bout,
More thkn your hopes e’er told.
Then tell it o’er, and count the cost.
With jealous justice scan.
Compare the gains with what you’ve lost,
And who'* the happier man t
Nol Gold alone can never bring.
That peace for which you a mart;
It has one source and only “ tpring,"
m Contentment of the heart."
Then search, hat let your searches reach
Deep into this new field.
And look to Him, who gave, to teach,
And He the fruit will yield.
HUMOROUS SELECTIONS.
MECELLAKT.
Laziest Yd.
During the summer of 1846, corn
being scarce in the upper country, and
one of the citizens being hard pressed
for bread, having worn threadbare the
hospitality of bis generous neighbors
by his extreme laziness, they thought
it an act of charity to bury him. Ac
cordingly, he was carried towards the
place of interment, and being met by
one of the citizens, the following con%’cr-
sation took place:
Hallo! what have you there ?”
Poor old Mr. S.”
What are you going to do with
him V”
Bury him.”
What! is he dead? I hadn’t heard
of his death.”
No, he is not dead, hut he might
as well be, for he has no corn, and is
too lazy to work for any.”
"That is too cruel for civilized people.
I’ll give him two bushels of corn my
self, rather than see him buried alive.”
Mr. S. raised the cover, and asked in
his usual dragging tone, "I-s i-t s-h-e-l-1-
e-d ?”
" No, but you can soon shell it.”
" D-r-i-v-e o-n, b-o-y-s.”
A Belter Man than his Brother.
The Philadelphia Spirit tf the Times
vouches for the correctness of the fol
lowing :
“ On Thursday last a wedding party
arrived from the country, consisting of
the bride and groom, and the brother
of the latter, and several friends. They
put up at one of our public houses, and
in the evening, when the preliminaries
having'been all settled and the clergy
man in attendance, the ceremonies
were about to .begin, when the groom
manifested some dissatisfaction. The
bride, seeing this and being high spir
ited, showed as much independence as
the lover. In the midst of the confu
sion which ensued, the bridegroom’s
brother stepped up to the bride and
said, " Since won’t
Itis^L Tnx *ob«cribcr still continues to kevp opvj
JlUKhisllOUAEw
Ga, Ue the accommodation of Tr»r«W».
Man and hors*, p« ilar, IJ M
Apni,ms. * ****
EDWARD COPPEE, M. B.
B AS remoTsd to the corner east of W. W. Clayton
on College Avenue, where be can be found at all
Otis Or Ashe e i
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' Merchants and others supplied on fht —
* Order* pronely attendad .L
fcOOK AT THIS!;
PA IMAGES, BOCKAWAYS k BUGGIES,
NEW AND SECOND-HAND, '
*— —
• mww
marry you.
I’ll marry you myself, if you have no
objection.”
" None in the least,” said the bride;
1 1 always took you for a belter man
than your brother, and I am fully con
vinced of it/*
The knot was at once tied, and much
gratification was expressed at the finale
of the affair.
Scientific Wonders.
The general faith in science as a won
der-worker, is at present unlimited;
and along with this there is cherished the
conviction that every discovery and in-
ention admits of a practical applica
tion to the welfare of men. If a new veg
etable product is brought to this coun
try from abroad, or new chemical com
pound discovered, or a new physical
phenomenon recorded ; the question is
immediately asked, cut hono ? What is
it good for ? Is food or drink to be got
out of it ? Will it make hats or shoes,
or cover umbrellas? Will it kill-or
heal ? Will it drive a steam engine, or
make a mill go? And truly this cut 60-
question has of late been so satis
factorily answered, that we cannot won
der that the public should persist in
putting it somewhat eagerly, to every
discoverer and inventor, and should be
lieve that if a substance has one valua
ble application, it will prove, if further
investigated, to have a thousand. Gut-
ta percha has not been known in this
country ten years ; and already it would
be less difficult to say what purposes it
had not been applied to than to enumer
ate those to which it has been applied.
Gun-cotton had not proved in the
saddest way its power to kill, before
certain ingenious Americans showed that
it had a remarkable power of healing,
and forms the best slicking plaster for
wounds. Surgeons have not employed
ether and chlorolorm as anaesthetics for
three years; and already an ether steam
engine is at work in Lyons, and a chlo
roform engine in London. Of other
sciences we need scarcely speak.—
Chemistry has long come down from
her atomic altitudes and elective affin
ities, and now scours and dyes, bakes,
brews, cooks, and compounds drugs with
contented composure. Electricity leaves
her thunderbolt in the sky, and, like
Mercury, dismissed from Olympus, acts
as letter carrier and message-boy.—
Even the mysterious magnetism, which
once seemed a living principle to quiver
in the compass needle, is unclothed of
mystery,and setlodrivinglurninglathes.
The public sees all this, and has unlim
ited faith in man’s power to conquer
nature. The ciedulity which formerly
Fed upon unicorns, phoenixes, mer
maids, vampires, krakens, pestilential
comets, fairies, ghosts, winches, spec
tres, harms, curses, universal remedies,
factious with Satan, and the like, now
tampers with chemistry, electricity,
and magnetism, as it once did with the
invisible world.
Shoes of swiftness, seven league
boots, and Forlanatus’s wishing caps,
are banished even from the nursery.—
But an electro magnetic steam fire bal
loon, which will cleave the air like a
thunderbolt, and go as straight to its
tnons to Jehovah/ ^ _
aid, and prayers to be be$rd,expffcssed
either with entire directness, or if'not
in the imperative "Hear Jehovah !** or
awake Jehovah, and the like, still
est addresses to God that he would
remember and hear,” See. The word
itself, he regards as indenting a blast
of trumpets by the prie9f». Selah, itself,
he thinks an abridged expression used
for Higgaion, indicating the sound of the
stringed instrument, and Selah a vigor
ous blast of trumpets.—Bibliotheca Sacra.
Three Friends.
Trust to no friend if thou hast not
proved him ; they are oftener found at
the banqueting table than at the door
of the prison. *
A man had three friends; two of
them he loved greatly; to the third lie
was indifferent, although this one was
the most honest and sincere. He was
once summoned before a tribunal, where
forms, and the punctilio of politeness,
a mystery known only to the craft. In
this respect the best English society is
probably nearest allied to the Chinese,
only that the latter is much more demo
cratic ; mandarins being made out of
scholars and nol out of the oflspring of
noble families, and official position,
which alone gives rank in the Celestial
Empire, open to individual merit. The
blood relations ot Confucius, it is true,
receive pensions; but they do not set
the fashion of Celestial society.
" It is a familiar saying in England
that ‘a person may be admitted to their
best society, but that nonel^bt its mem
fatal to the cause of peace. If
North embrace it, the Union is gQhe. s
It is treason to encourage a Hope p]f>£
submission. Tell the truth, speak, oui .
boldly, go home and tell your peopfe
Politics of tl)C Slog.
Speech of Gov. Brown, of Miss.
The President’s Message, on the sub- , . . -
ject of California, being under con- • ,ssu ® 13 made up; they must now
sideration in the House of Represent-! choo l sc between non-interference with
lives, on the 30th ult., Gov. Brown j southern rights on the one side and a
sa jj . ; dissolution of the Union on the other.
Gentlemen sny they deprecate dis- | T‘1 1 '}' cm the Sooth nsks nothing from
cussion on the subject of slavery. My | bul on, y aslis ll,elr for -
judgment approves it. We have gone ‘ Mr?,n '' 0
Jzpjw hers ever belong to it.* Sbcfety and
although innocent, he was harshly ac- constitute,par excellancc, the society of
cused. ** Who of yon/* he said, ** will Washington; and although the first
go with me, and testify for me, for I
larshiy accused, and the king is angry
with me.” .
The first of his friends at oi»ce ex
cused himself, and said that lie could
not go with him on account of other bu
siness. The second accompanied him
to the door of the court house, then turn
ed and went back, for he was atraid of
the angry judge. The third, upon whom
he bail least depended, went in with
him, and spoke in his defence, and tes
tified so readily to bis innocence, that
the judge dismissed him with rich gifts.
Man has three friends in this world;
hdw do fiic/ coml uCrrtem^'.ves ia tha
hour of death, when God summons the
soul before his tribunal? ^Money, his
dearest friend, leaves him first, and does
not go with him. His relatives and
friends attend him to the door of the
grave, and return again to their homes.
The third, whom he oftenest forgot in
life, is his ivories of benevolence; these
alone accompany him to the throne of
the judge ; they go before him, speak in
his defeuce, and find mercy and favor
for him.
the institutions ol England are alike rest
ing on a feudal basis which has success
fully withstood all revolutions in poli
tics, religion, ethics, and taste; and it
is for this reason that Madame de Stael,
though herself but a distinguished
monplace, observed that English society
was the most capital means of keeping
ordinary men in prominent places.—
The perfect ease which pervades the
first society in England is, no doubt,
the result of conviction that its members
are above criticism—that no accidents,
voluntary or involuntary demerit on
their part, can derogate from their dig
nity, or in aught diminish that influence
the inferior classes which causes
these to emulate their matchless exam
ple.
There certainly exists something
similar to this in Washington, in regard
to the peerless society of senators, mem
bers, and the corps diplomatique. These
destination as the crow flie3, is an. in
vention which many hope to see real-
Good Society in Washington.
The following, by Mr. Francis J.
Gruml, gives a view which will be in
teresting to every body, of the polite
circles in our legislative metropolis:
"The prerequisite of agreeable socie
ty is equality, and that cannot exist
where its members, as in Washington,
re labelled ‘senators,’ ‘members,’
cabinet officers,* ‘ auditors,’ ‘ clerks,*
etc. There is probably no place in the
world where people are more strictly
classified, or more exclusively compos
ed of sets, according to power and in
fluence, than in Washington. The
l - upper crust’ in Washington seem to be
entirely absolved from any effort to
please or to be.agreeable. They are
everything from position - , and as that is
dependent, for the moftt part, on their
Standing and popularity in other com
munities, they but too often use the free
dom of travelers in hotels, and make
themselves comfortable ht the expense
of their neighbors. The disagreeable,
shocking scenes which aje so often, wit
nessed in both house%_<>f Congress,
would perhaps not ocoiOvif there were
an independent and sufficiently conse
quential society in Washington, capable
of punishing offenders against the pro
prieties of life. At all events, if it be
proper that Congress and the adminis
tration of the government should be
placed beyond the influence of a mob of
a great city, it would certainly not be
amiss if they were iqore frequently
brought within the sphere of those more
gentle attractions which can hardly
exist for them, as long as they remain
above stated, are, in general
lected from the strongest and ablest
men of the country, yet as society is ne
cessarily the province of women and not
of men, their very originality is calcu
lated to give ladies a certain degr
uneasiness. On the other hand,
is frequently introduced to fashionable
women in Washington whom it would
be difficult to class in any other city
the Union, on account of their being
strangers, comparatively, in all of them.
This may, indeed, heighten their charms,
and increase the attractions of their
company; but the season in Wash
ington ta ioo~e4*«m. to-nsatuce .acquain
tance into friendship, or to leave more
than partial regrets for ties easily form
ed and quickly severed. There is little
souvenir in Washington, and not enough
of retired private life to compensate for
the wrongs inflicted by society. The
city is too small for people to live in re
tirement, and yet too large and noisy to
promote the formation of domestic hah-
Washington is a watering place,
without its comforts, its social equality,
its abandon, and oh ! shall I name it?-—
without its baths ! It is a mere rendez-
of politicians, not always statesmen
public exchange, on which power
and place are discounted—the arena of
high ambition and vulgar pride—thi
place to study men and women ; but
the most ill-chosen residence of those
whose happiness depends on the sym
pathy of others.”
too far to recede without an adjustment
of our difficulties. Better far that this
adjustment should never have com
menced. But when wrong has been
perpetrated on one side, and resented on
thc.other, an adjustment iivjftjpe form
is indispensable. I* is', tgjtier so than
to leave the thorn ofdisceT^f thus plant
ed to rankle and fester, an^; finally to
produce a never-healing sore. We
need attempt no such useless task as
that of disguising from ourselves, our
constituents, and in truth the world at
large, that ill blood has been engendred,
and we are losing our mutual attach
ment, that we are daily becoming more
arid more estranged, that the fibres of
the great cord which unites us as one
people, are giving way’, and that we are
ast verging to ultimate and final clis-
ption. I hold no communion with the
spurious patriotism which closes its
eyes to the dangers which visit us, and
with aloud voice, sing hosannahs to the
Union; such patriotism will nol save
the Union—it is destructive of the Uni-
Open wide your eyes ant! look
these dangers full in the face, and with
strong arms and stout hearts assault
them, vanquish them, and on the field
of your triumph erect an altar sacred to
the cause of liberty, and on that altar
offer as a willing sacrifice this accursed
demon of discord. Do this, and we are
safe; refuse, and these dangers will
thicken, these misty elements will grow
darker and blacker as days roll on.—
The storm which now lingers will burst,
and the genius of dissolution will then
preside where the Union now is.
I am for a discussion, for an inter
change of sentiments. Let there be
wrangling about small grievances, but
with an elevated patriotism, high as our
noble mountains, and broad as the Uni-
itself—let us come to the considera
tion of the dangers and difficulties
which beset us.
beam nee.
The specious argument by which yon
cover up your unauthorised attempts to
drive us from the Territories may de
ceive the unwary, but an enlightened
public sentiment will not fail todctectits
fallacy, and posterity will award you
the credit of destroying tblT Union iif«
lawless effort to sicjfc tfie^spoiL of a
victory won by other hearts and fiands
than yours. Territory now'free, must
remain free, say you. Who gave you
the right to speak thus oracularly ? Is
this an acquisition of your own, or is it
a thing obtained by the joint effort of us
all ? I have been told that the United
States acquired the territory from Mex
ico, and that the Congress, speaking for
the United States, must dispose ofit.
Technically speaking, the United Stales
did make the acquisition ; but what is
the United States? a mere agent for
the States, holding for them certain po
litical powers in trust, to be exercised
for their mutual benefit, and among
these is the power to declare war and
make peace. In the exercise of these
powers the territory was acquired, and
for whom ? Nol certainly for the agent,
hut for the principal. Not for the United
States, but for the States.
Who fought the battles? who won
the victories which resulted in the ac
quisition? The people of the United
States? Certainly not. There is no
such thing as the people of the United
States. They can perform no act—have
in fact, no political existence. Do the
people of the United States elect ttii^
Congress? No; we are elected by
States—most of us by districts in
States. The Slates elect Senators, and
the President is himself elected by State
electoral colleges, and not by the peoj*
pie of the United Slates. There is no
such political body as the people of ibe
United States; they can do nothing*
have done nothing, have in fact noexisr
tcnce. When the \yar with Mexico be
gan, on whom did the President call?
in ait matters ©4U»spW, it u impor- «**"• J
tant to consider who committed the first Not, certainly, on the p6b|tflof llMUm-
wrong; until this is done, no satisfactory i States, but on the people of the
basis of an adjustment can be establish- ® lales , I Stales, and by States they
e( i responded, by Stales they made their
The Union is divided in seniimem contributions to the grand army; and
upon a great question, by a geographi- whatever was acquired, was of necessi-
cal line The Norlh is opposed lo : <y acquired lor the Slales, each having
slavery, and the South is in favor ol it. unequal interest; and the United States,
The North is for abolishing it; the I a ? agent, trustee, or general repository
South is for maintaining it. The North of l ie common fund, is bound to do
is lor confining it in its present limits, < ?9 ual aa< esaetjust.ee wall the parties
where they faucy it will languish, and interested.
languishing, will die. The South is for • The army was created and supported
leaving it unrestrained lo go wherever, j by thirty sovereignties allied together,
(within our present limits) it may be in-1 These sovereignties acted through a
viled by soil, climate, and population, common bead for the common defence
ized, before railways are quite worn! ,ar r ,on S a »
to pieces. A snuffbox full of the new! be y°" d ll ' c P a > e of
about to be patented, will for-
When Justin Butterfield, Esq., for
merly of Chicago, and now of the Land
Office in Washington* appeared in be*
half of Joe Smith before the U. S. Court
at Springfield* he made this brief bat
happy opening of his address to the
court, ’which rhetoricians most 'allow
answered every purpose of the best ex
ordium* and brought him at once to the
merits of the case;
• " I appear before the court,” said he*
•• in circumstances such as fnortal man
never was placed ip before.. I appear
before the Pope, (Judge Pope presiding)
in.the presence of apgels (waving bis
prophet of the lord,”-{pointing to 1 Joe
explosive will dismantle the
fortifications of Paris. By means of
the fish-tail propeller to be shortly laid
before the Admiralty, the Atlantic will
be crossed in three days.—Eilinburg
Review.
The Word Selah.
We- have often speculated-on the
meaning of this word xo it occurs io the
Bible. Below -we give the. opinion of
various persons concerning The
translators of the Bible have left the
Hebrew word Selah, which occurs sq
often in Psalms, as they have found it,*
and of coarse the English reader often
asks his minister* or some learned friend
what it means* and .ibe minister or leam-
r ed friend has most often been obliged to
hand to the ladies) In behalf of the confess his ignorance of its.meaning, be-
-r .1 1 1 >» *—?—-- • mnit.rin rentrA InnhichltiA
instead of ministering to the accom plish
ments of the other classes. Society is
naturally jealous of dominion. It.may
be the creator and at times the slave of
fashion ; but it is always destitute of
taste when it is supremely ruled by
caste. -
« Where society is exclusively com
posed ol one set .of tfien and women,
no matter what their qualification may
be, it soon becomes irksome. Its mem
bers become as familiar to each other as
old household . furniture, and the whole
cycle of social pleasores is soon reduc
ed to a series of matual entertainments.
To.this monotony even, the most exten
sive society of - London is reduced,
fro mi is exclusiveness. Thoughts, ideas,
feelings,, and -the mode qf .expressing
them, become tinctured with a fatal
cause it is a matter in regard ta wbicblhe mannerism, which acts as a check
Lady Miners in California.
A young man from Maine, writi
his friends from California, says his par
ty found, near the Sacramento, and al
most thirty miles from any other dig
ging, two intelligent and beautiful young
ladies, with no attendant except an old
grey-headed negro, whom they had en
ticed to accompanythem, and who is the
servant of the fatherof one of them. The
eldest of these girls was not twenty.—
It seems their minds had become excit
ed by the gold stones which they had
heard, and they had determined to try
their hands at making a fortune. The
old negro was past work, and was left
in the camp during the day, to look af
ter the household affairs and keep watch,
while the girls pursued their mining
operations. When the party reached
their camp, the olcl darkey was alone
but the girls came in during the
day, and received their visitors hospita
bly. They expressed no fears of being
molested or robbed, and said that they
should leave for home when they had
accumulated 310,000—they had already
gathered $7,000. They were from Flo
rida, and the youngest ran away r "*~’
school to enter upon the expedition.
The SchMlmaiter Abroad.
This phrase originated with Lord Brougham,
whose eloquence ia as notorious as is his eccen
tricity. In his speech on the elevation of Welling
ton, “ a mere military chieftain,” to the Premier
ship, after the death of Canning, Broughi
Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington may take
the ariry—he may take the navy—he may take the
great 6eal—he may take the miter. I make him a
present of them all. Let him come on with his
whole force, sword in hand, against the constitn-
tion, and the English people will not only beat him
back, but laugh at his assaults. In other times,
the country may have heard with dismay that “ the
soldier was abroad.” It will not be so now. Let
the soldier be abroad if he will; he can do nothing
in this age. There is another personage abroad—
personage less imposing in the eyes ot some,
These issues and their necessary inci
dents have brought the two ends of the
Union in their present perilous position
—a position from which one or the oth
er must recede, or a conflict dangerous
to liberty and fatal to the Union will
certainly ensue.
Who is at fault, or rather who was
first at fault in this fraternal quarrel?
Wc were the owners of slaves; we
bought them from your fathers. We
never sought to make slaveholders of
you ; nor to force slavery upon you.—
When you emancipated ibe remnant of
your slaves, we did nol interpose.—
Content lo enjoy the fruits of our indus
try at home, within our own limits, we
never sought to intrude upon your
domestic quiet. Not so with you. For
twenty years or more, you have
vaugo i* 19 aiuauv, . — 7 1 . , - • - - - *
TOOsVlearneiJ have, by (jo means, bee* the mind, Mislead of serving it merely
and general welfare of all. Bul it does
not follow that such head may rightful
ly appropriate the award of the con
flict to fifteen of the allies, leavingnoth
ing to the remaining fifteen. Sovereign
ties are equal; there is no such thing as
great or small sovereigns, or, to speak
.more correctly, sovereigns of great and
small degree. They are equals, except
when by conventional agreement that
equality is destroyed. No such agree
ment has been made between the sover
eigns composing our Confederacy.-—
Hence, Delaware is equal to New York,
and the fifteen Southern States are
equal to the fifteen Northern Stales. It
follows that the fifteen sovereignties of
the North cannot exclude the fifteen so
vereign! ics of the South from an equal
participation in and control over the
ceased to disturb our domestic peace. |H nl acquisition or property of all. ^
We have appealed in vain to your for- ' £f or can the common agent, the United
bearancc. Not only liava you disre-! Slal «. hearken loilio voice of the hfieen
carded these appeals, hot every ap-! "“’'horn in prelerencc to that ot ibe
peal has been followed by some near southern allies. So long as one
act of outrage and aggression. We j of lllc sovereigns in alliance protests
have in vain pointed lo our domicils, against a common disposition of what
and begged that voo would respect the belongs lo all and lo each one in an
feelings of their'inmates. You have equal degree, no disposition can be
threatened them with conflagration.— rightfully made. The strung may lake
When we have pointed to our wives h 3 force from the weak, but in such
and sleeping infants, and in their names ca3e power gives the ’>ght. The North
besought your forbearance, you have \ ,na y lalle ,run > lbo South to this way,
spurned our entreaties and mocked the : “"less perchance it should lorn put id
fears of these sacred pledges of our the course of the conflict that the Sooth
love. Long years of outrage upon our >s the stronger party, in which case it
feelings and disregard of our rights have would he oor right to lake from you.
awakened in every southern heart a feel- j Without pursuing this course of rea-
ing of stern resistance. Think what soning, unprofitable as I feel it most be*
you will, say what you will, perpetrate ; I come at once to the conclusion, that
again and again if you will, these acts . we of Mississippi have the same right
of lawless tyranny ; the day and hour to go into the Territories with oar slave-
is at hand, when every southern son properly as you of New York have to
will rise in rebellion, when every go there with your personal estate of
tongue will say give us justice or give whatever kind. And if you deny us
us death. this right, we will resist your authority,
1 repeat, we have never sought to and to the last extremity. You affect
disturb your quiet. We have forborne to think us not in earnest in this decla-.
to retaliate your wrongs. Content to ration. Look at the altitude of that;
await a returning sense of justice, we ’ South; hear her voice as it comes up,'
have submitted. That sense of justice, from her bench, her bar, her legisUliva
perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad „
and I trust to him, armed with hi* primer, against
the soldier in full military array.”
Satoxnio Chimrets.—The Scientific American
slates, on reliable authority, that if at two feet
above the throat oi your chimney you enlarge the
opening to double the size for a further space of
two feet, then carry up the rest as at the first, your
chimney wUTneter smoke. '
we fear, never will return, and submis
sion ia no longer a virtue. We owe it
to you* to ourselves, to our common
country.to thefriehdsoffreedom through
out the world,"to warn you tha't we in
tend to submit no longer.
Gefitlemen tell us they do not believe
the Booth is in earnest. They believe
w;e will^till submit. Let me wqcp
them fo put away that delusion. It is
halls, and, above all, from her people.;
Sir, there is not a hamlet in the South,
from which you will nol bear the voice,
of stern resistance. to your lawless
mandate. . Our men will write. it on
their shields, our women will teach lit
tle children lo lisp it with their eqrUesjL
breath. I invoke your forbearance qiv
this question* Ask .youreelyes it it. fr.
right tq exasperate eightmtllionsDfpepi