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VOL. XXVIII.]
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JULY 13, 1S47.
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JOSEPH T- LUMPKIN,
attorney at lay/,
Lexington, Oglethorpe County, Ga.
^'STll.L practice in the Courts of all the suttound*
|nr counties, and in the Supreme Court at
apU-ville. Collecting and all other business enn-
t !ed*t~> him will be faithfully and punctually attended
to.
Kcfcrcnccs*
| J. Dr tree, F.sq., Lexington.
,V„ SS| . S . Adams, Fargo, & Co., Augusta.
;‘J ... .. Townsend. Arnold, & Co., Charleston.
fe isrs Parmf.i.ei: & Rodgers, New York.
April 13, 1047. __ 14 lf
A. RUSSEL KELLAM,
ATT'ORNEV' a t la w ,
AS removed to, and is permanently located in,
Dublin, I.aurens County, and will continue to
,ct ad business entrusted to his charge with de-
MIS CELLAR EOUS.
W O M AN’S WILL-
•''ni Hugo had reached ltis fiftielh year,
unmolested hy passion, save an ardent one
for a flowing goblet, instead of love pas
sages, his delight was in tournaments,
whence lie always returned victorious. At
length he was flung from the saddle of his
indifference by the beardless tiller Love !
He saw Angelica, the fairest maiden of the
land, forgot his gray hairs, and unmindful
of the incongruity of all ull j on between
.May ami December, led her to the nuptial
altar, t oitunately, Angelica was modest
as she was fair, and her firm virtue repulsed
the numerous butterflies that swaimed
cgi gr-g&JBW.i
you see the use of my or-
i ' uul “ ] U,e ^ e,,in ? Sowers of her beauty.— j I)cver have entered
Wiad '»m, do
ders ?”
Conrade, who, as may be supposed, had
said nothing of the alteration he made in
the substance of his embassy, shrugged bis
shoulders with a smile, uuperceived by bis
master, who bad turned again to his consot t,
and now first perceived that she wore a
bandage upon her soft hand. He immedi
ately inquired the cause.
“Sultan bit me,” said Angelica ; “and it
is atl your fault, Sir Hugo,” added she
sobbing.
“ My rank !” cried the knight.
es, your fault, ami nobody’s but yours,”
retoiled his spouse. “ If you had not sent
me word by Conrade not to ride the nasty 7
mischievous brute, such a mad trick would
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.6. S. MlTCHIiLL,
A T T O R N K V A 1’ L A W ,
ST.iRhiEVILLE, Let County, (la.
March 18, lif45 10 ,f
WlLIji S,!! el. JLEtWftS,
attorney at law,
Ccmminu, Forsyth Co., Ca.
ILL practice in the counties comprising the
Cherokee Circuit.
All fnl'(Ttin» T and other business confided to him.
v i I l>e faithfully and punctually attended to.
\„v. 3, 1843 43 12m
“UUINCES R. NOLAN,
.IZTOS.Tiiir .iT £»!!!*,
McDOXOFGH, Henry Co., Ga.
ILL practice in th»* Courts of Henry, Butts,
V f Newton. IVKuHi, Fayette, Fike, Coweta and
Meriwether counties.
KciVr t * Dr. F. E Munson, McDonough, Ga.
“ ihui. J..I. Floyd, Covington, Ga
*• Hun. A. H. Stephens, Crawfordville, Ga.
•* 11. \V. Conner, Fsq., Messrs. Kelsey
Dras, Charleston, S. C.
May 18. 1347 If) 12in
£ N AUr to alter and amend the third Section oi
the second Article of the Constitution of this
Whereas, the third Section of the second Article of
tlie Constitution of this State reads in the following
words, to-wit:—“No person shall be eligible to the of
fc’eof Governor who shall not have been a citizen o
t.v United States twelve years, and an inhabitant o.‘
tbs siv years, and who hath not attained to the
;, !T rt oi thirty years, and who dor# not possess live hun*
tia-da*:resof land in his own right within this State,
and other property to the amount of four thousand
d •liars, had whose estate shall noton a reasonable
f-titnation be competent to the discharge of his jus*
fl bt? over and above that sum*’—and whereas said
j”f»n*»rty qualification is inconsistent with the genius
oi our institutions and the popular spirit of this .age—
Section 1. ]£e it enacted by tke Senate and tJunsd
r ' Representatives of the Stale of Georgia, in Gen-
r(J ' Assembly met, audit is hereby enacted by the
nuibirity of the same. That so soon as this At t shall
4i; t»c pa.vM-ri agreeably to Die requirement of the Con*
"‘■•uti •:», the following shall be adopted in lieu of the
Sr“iun above r<*cited,(to wit:)—“No person shall be
1 'in to the office of Governor who shall not have
‘“ p « ^ citizen of the United States twelve years, and an
innabitant of this State six years, and who hath not
a'luim-d the age of thirty years.
Approved, December 26th, 18 43.
Anil 13, 1847 1 4 6m
Wile, May 4, 1847
17 2lk
Hugo knew the tiied virtue of bis con
sort, ami theiefore was she to him dear and
piecious as the apple of his eye.
One morning he rode out to pay a visit
to a neighboring brolher-in arms, his honest
squire Conrade trotting after him. Scarce
ly had they proceeded half-way, when the
knight suddenly flopped, and cried :
“ Come here, Conrade ; a most torment
ing thought has just occurred to me. This
J is the very day that Father Nicholas comes
(o the castle to say mass for mv dear wife
and myself, and i am not at all inclined to
have him in my abode during my absence ;
so gallop back, and desire your lady in my
name, not to admit the priest ”
Conrade paused and shook his head, as
if in doubt, and replied, “ Excuse me, no
ble sir, but perhaps the Lady Angelica, if
left to her own discretion, will do what vou
wish.”
“A curse on your perhaps!" exclaimed
the knight; “1 make all sure by giving the
otder.”
“ Do you think so ?” replied the squire;
“ now, 1 in my simplicity believe exactly
the contrary. Take the advice of your
faithful servant for once in your life ; let
i things take their course, and give no order
| upon so delicate a point.”
“ A fig for your delicacy !” cried Sir IIu-
| go, angrily; “what absurd fancies you
i have got in your head to day ! Do you
think an hour’s ride back a task so very tedi
ous ?”
“ Oh ! it it comes lo that, sir,” rejoined
Conrade, “ 1 have no more to say.” lie
j put spurs to his horse and rode back to the
castle.
Angelica saw l itn galloping up
cried, in terror, from the window, 11
1ms brought you back in such haste I
any accident happened to mv lord V’
“ None whatever, gracious lady,” an
swered Conrade, “but the noble knight was
apprehensive that some accident, might hap
pen you, if by any chance you took a iancy
to t ide Sultan.”
“I ride—ride the large greyhound !” ex
claimed Angelica, in utter astonishment.—
“1 believe you are drunk or mad. * *
It is impossible that your master can have
sent me so ridiculous a message.”
“ Aye, but he did though,” pursued the
squire; “and my noble master said, at the
same lime, that he k en Sultan would bite
terribly, not being accustomed to be made I
niy head.”
In mute astonishment the knight hurried
out to seek an explanation from his squire,
who had slipped away when Angelica be
gan her complaint “ What message did
you bring your lady V’ demanded he.
Conrade now confessed the truth.
“ Were those the orders 1 gave you,
scoundrel V’ said the enraged Sir Hugo.
* “ Certainly riot,” replied the squire;
“but you will own that I have made my
point good. You may now see how it
would have been bad I given your order a-
btiut the young priest. My noble lady is a
model for her sex, and almost atr angel ; but
still she is a daughter of Eve, who seems
io have bequeathed to all her lineal female
descendants her own spirit of perverseness.”
And we have only to remember the lady
Angelica’s pieasaul r ide upon Sultan, to be
convinced lhat it has lost none ul its vigor
in the descent.
A Coots SI si is 1 iii js SViicy Country.
’Tis really astonishing what a monstrous
sight of mischief there is in a pint of rum. J
If one ot ’em was to be subjected to ana-
lyzation, as the doctor's call it, it would be
found to contain all manner of devilment
that ever entered the head of man, from |
cussiti and stealin up to murder and whip- j
pin his own mother, and nonsense enuff to
| turn all the men in the world out of their
senses. If a man’s got any badness in him,
| it’ll bring it out just as sassafras tea does
| the measles ; and if lie’s a good-for-nothing
sort of a fellow, with no bad traits in per-
I tickeler, it’ll bring out all his greenness.-
, and
what
Has
J ' r , , a , Y I pociiet pistol, as lie called if, of reglar old
a pony of ; aud he therefore begs lhat you T - t . t a- .t • ° . r
li dive,t tie .Lot J,mmak y> to kee P °fl ,1,e >umaiics. After
t affects different people in different ways
—it makes some men monstrous brave and
full of fight, and some it makes cowards—
some it makes rich and happy, and some
poor and miserable—aud it lias a different
effect on different people’s eyes—some it
makes see double, and some it makes so
blind that they can’t tell themselves from a
side of bacon. One of the worse cases of
rum foolery that I've heard of in a long
time, tuck place in Pineville last fall.
Bill Sweeny and Tom Culpepper is the
two greatest old coveys in our settlement
for coon lruntin. The fact is, they don’t do
much of anything else ; and when thetj can’t
ketch nothin, you may depend coons is
scace. Well, one night they had every
thing reddj' for a reglar hunt, but owing to
some extra good fortin, Tom had got a
jcket pistol, as he called if,
For Sale.
T OT No. 44, in the 4th district of Coweta. Any
-*—i uae dfsiiuus of purchasing can apply to either
PETER CLOWER, Clinton, or
R. M. ORME, Milk-dgeville.
Ail persons are hereby cautioned against trespassing
in any manner on said land, as in such case the law
*iil be rigidly enforced. P. C.
R. M. O.
E •" -17. 1047 18 If
Patent Scythes, Ac-
DOZ. 44, 4G &. 48 inch lhbotson’s best pa-
“yr ,, !:t Grain Scythes.
Grant s celebrated patent Fan Mills.
fOnimon or old st\le do
Cylinder Straw and Fodder Cutters, various sizes.
; 11 mi and Wood Cylinder Spike Threshing Machines.
- Beater do do
For sale by DENSLOW & WEBSTER.
Savannah, May 4, 1847 17 if
LBJMSlUCK & CO., Chemists and Druggists.
a "d propiietors of Comstock’s Popular Afedi-
‘•ns, ic., hereby give notice, that Mr Jas. H.Shea-
, AN ' MiUedgeville, Geo., is their only authorised
T 1 Air that place, and of him only can the true
™ genuine be had. COMSTOCK & Co.
*' ew fork, May 1st. 1847.
De undersigned, ubu offers fur sale a Drgc and
'pntive assortment of
- TO GOODS, CROCKERY. HARDWARE, BOOTS,
•'HOES, HATS, STATIONARY, .'to., Ac.
' ' 4 w kicu may he had on reusorahle teims.
JAS. II. SHEAIIAN.
will not attempt to diveit yourself in that
way.” Having said this, he again mounted
his horse, and galloped off to rejoin his mas
ter.
“ Am I awake, or do I dream ?” ejacula
ted Angelica. “The folly of Sir Hugo is
so strange that. 1 am almost tempted to be
lieve it all a wild dream. What does Ire
mean 1 Is it not enough that I have hither
to trier! to read his every will and wish, and
when known, obeyed them implicitly; and
do I deserve that he should stretch his pow
er so far, anil play the capricious, haughty
tyrant % Now, 1 see lhat to be too sub
missive, too sofilv compliant, is not the way
to treat him ; the worm that crawls the dust
is trampled upon. But no, sir knight, it is
not gone quite so far with us yet ; in spile
of you, I will ride Sultan ; and you may
thank yourself, as but for your message
such a ihing would never have entered my
head.”
Her soliloquy was here interrupted by
the entrance of a servant, who informed her
that Father Nicholas had arrived, and was
in the antechamber. “ I cannot receive
itis visit to day,” said the consort of Sir
Hugo, “ for my lord is absent. Hive this
as my excuse to the reverend father, and
beg of him to return to-morrow.” “With
| all due respect to Father Nicholas,” con
tinued she, when left to herself, “ he shall
not spoil my pleasant ride. Now, if my
pony were but here! He must have an
easy gait, and his teeth—I do not fear; he
is as quiet as a lamb. Oil ! how 1 shall de
light in this two fold pleasure of showing
the sur ly old fellow that I cave neither for
him nor iris orders ; and of trying a pastime
that is, at least, a novel one !” Through
everv corner of rhe house resounded now
iter cry of “Sultan !” Here, boy ! Sultan!
Sultan !”
The immense, but docile animal sprang
from a bone upon which he w'as feasting,
and was at her side in an instant. Caiessing
him till she got him into a room, the door
of which she shut—
“ Now, friend Sultan,” cried his fair mis
tress, “no growl, no bite, aud all is safe.”
With her snow-white hand siie continued
stroking and patting his huge back for some
minutes, and then, in the hope that, if only
through gratitude, lie would comply with
^ face for a Fortune, without pav-
r , T ing out any Money.
J * subscriber owns about ninety liocta of land
ii. i* 1 ,L * of Baker, Kailv, Decatur, Thom-
'irq. koun.Jes. The numbers were selected by a
l \,l 1 ’ 11 ^ one w ho is a good judge of land. 1 here
,, *' , l(J at least ten tracts of the number in-
^ worth $10 pHr acre, 11 is not believed that
; s, ngle tract not worth intrinsically the price
10 ^ ,e w bo!c by the acre. If this
i. , * * 11 ^ l ^ ie Sl, b*c.iiber thinks it is true, the ten
?. . * ° "onii double ns much money a* *t»e \\ ill
j. 0( . Jr 1 ,R Cnl ire amount. He will take fifty cents
i Hrrji j t,>l rile whole of his lands in those counties
, fi ' o years without interest, and longer indul-
’ 'flldi ' 1 Should cotton continue to pay
V- 1 * S ,,n d cotton lands must shortly command
t:- (l tr ' u, J *. # w *ll take 75 cents per acre tor thcen-
,J n f, 1 ^ Ul a ?y 0,10 of the counties, or 50 cents per
'* n rire amount. He has not the time to de-
uiiii n U u ‘ 1,1 selling them separately; he is therefore
wiijjj. F lSC a chance to make a fortune to those
years I? 6 , lI °? e S ' JC ^ business. It lias within a lew
gp) v 1 emonstrated, that the long staple cotton
M Low l0 " rUI,e I ' ‘
'll in the counties of Thomas
rarity >t CS ' usseil( ’d by farmers of known ve-
rotui’.Pp 1,6 count -V "f Thomas, 1,000 lbs.of seed
0il tun it "I 6 S rown successfully to the acre. I’ersons
It;-!.|, shall be fuinwhed with ;i list of the
Sj,' ir . ,, , JAS. THOMAS.
May 25th,1847 20 3m
‘‘•'He lnr?t ^° klm,J ", 8 Droes will please publish the
U1 Oirte monihs. 1 - —
J. T.
takin a good startin born, ihey went out on
their hunt, with their lightwood torch a
blazin, and the dogs a barkin and yelp'm
like forty-thousand. Evry now and then
stoppin to wait for the dogs, they would
drink one another’s health till ihey begun
to feel very comfortable, and chatted away
about one thing artd another, 'tliout mindin
much where they was gwine. Bimebv
they cum to a fence. Well, over they got
’thout much difficulty.
“ Whose fence is this ?” sez Bill.
“ ’Taint no matter,” sez Tom, “ let’s take
suthin to drink.”
After lakiti a drink they went on, won-
detin what on yeartlr had cum of the dogs.
Next thing they cum to was a terrible mud
dy branch. After puffin through the briers
and get tin on tother side, they tuck another
drink, and after gwine a little further they
come to another fence—a monstrous high
one this time.
“ W'har upon yearth is we got to, Cul
pepper V’ sez BiU ; “ I never seed Mch a
lieap of branches and fences in these parts.”
“ Why.” sez Tom, “it’s all Sturlin’s do-
ins—you know lie’s always biidin fences
anil rnakin Infernal Improvements, as lie
calls ’em. But never mind— wp’s through
’em now.”
“ The devil we is,” sez Bill ; “ here’s the
allfiredest tall fence yet.”
Shore enuff, that tLey was, right agin
another fence. By this time, they be nun
to be considerable tired and limber in the
jints, and it was siclr a terrible high fence,
Torn dropped the last piece of the torch,
and thar they was all in the dark.
“ Now you is done it,” sez Bill.
Tom knovv’d he had, but he thought ’twas
no use to grieve over the spilt milk, so sez
he, “Never mind, old boss—cum ahead,
and I’ll take you out.” and the next minit,
kerslash he went into the vvatet.
Bill hung on to the fence with both
bands like he thought it was slevvin round
to throw him off.
“ Ilellow, Tom,” sez he, “ where in the
world is you got to ?”
“ Here I is,” sez Tom, spoujin the water
out of Iris mouth, and coffin like he’d swal
lowed something. “ Look out, ihur’s an
other branch here.”
Name o’ sense, where is we V’ sez Bill
her fancy, she mounted her new steed.— ( ,. ]f t | lig isn - t a f eil cy country, dad fetch my
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buttons.
Yes, and a branchy one too,
He showed Ins teeth a little, in some doubt
what all this meant, but she soothed him
again into a good humor and patient endu
rance of the novel burthen ; but lie thought
this quite enough, and did not stir from the
one spot. Angelica was naturally not much
pleased with being thus stationary ; site
therefore gently goaded him with her leg,
but to no I rot would Sultan condescend ;
he remained motionless as before, while
something very like a growl escaped from
his immense and fear-inspiring jaws. Out
of all patience, she now exclaimed :—
“You shall feel the spur, then, you lazy
brute !” and drove her heel into his side.
He now growled audibly, but stirred not
an inch ; she repeated her blow. This was
too much for canine patience ; lie made a
spring, and as she fell full length upon the
floor, he turned and bit her hand. The
dismounted rider bedewed the floor with a
few tears, and then sprang up to turn out
of the room the uncourteous brute who bad
thus rudely shown how little he understood
play.
Towards evening, Sir Hugo returned,
and inquired with suspicious haste whether
Father Nicholas had been there.
“Oh, yes, he was here,” answered Angel
ica, “ but I ventured to refuse him admit
tance.”
The knight cast a triumphant glance at
his squire, and whispered him, “ Now, old
sez Tom,
“ and the highest and deepest and ihickest
that I ever seed in my born days.”
“ Which way is you V' sez Bill.
“ Mete, rite over the branch.”
The next minit, in Bill went, up to his
middle in the branch.
“ Cum ahead,” sez Tom, “ and let’s go
home.”
“ Cum thunder ! in sicli a place as this,
whar a man aiut more’ii got his cole tail un
hitched from a fence ’fore he’s over head j
and ears hi tire water.”
After getlin out and feelin about in the |
dark a little, they got together agio. Alter
takin another drink they sot out for home,
cussin the fences and the branches, and
iielpin one another up now aud then ; but
they hadn’t got more’ii twenty yards, ’fore
they brung up all stamlin in the middle of
another branch. After gettin through tire
branch and gwine ’bout ten steps, they was
brung to a halt by another fence.
“ Dad blame my picter,” sez Bill, “ if I
don’t think we is bewitched. Who upon
yearth would build fences all over creation
this way V'
“ It was about an hour’s job to get over
this one, but after they got on the top, they
found the ground on tother side ’thout
much trouble. This lime the bottle was
broke, and tiiey cum monstrous near bavin’
a fight about the catastrofy. But it was a
very good thing, it was; for after crossing
three or four more br andies, and climirtg as
many more fences, it got to bo daylight,
and they found out that the;/ had keen clim-
ing the same pence all night, not more’ii a
hundred yards from whar they first cum to
it.
Bill Sweeney says he can’t account for it
Tin other way but that tire licker sort o’
turned thar heads; and he sez he does real
ly l) lieve if it hadn’t gin out, they’d been
diming that same fence and wadin that
sirne branch till yet. Bill promised Ins
wile to jine the Temperance Society if she
wiitit never say no mote ’bout that Coon
Huut.
From ihc Sport-h of Gor. Ur)^» at Loirdl,
I recollect one member of Congress who
was always rallying me about our Congr es
sional Temperance Society. “ Briggs,”
be used to say, “ I am going to ‘jine’your
temperance society as soon as my demijohn
isempty;” but just before it became empty
he always filled it again. At one time to
wards the close of the session, he said to
me, “ I am going to sign the pledgo when
1 got home.”
“ Well , you have said so a great marry
times.”
“ But,” he replied, “ I am in earnest,
my demijohn is iieuilv empty, and I am
not going to li 11 it again.” lie spoke with
such an air of seriousness as Iliad not be
fore observed in him, and as impressed
me ; and I asked him wlrat it meant 1
what had changed his feelings 1
“ Why,” said he, “ I had a short time
since a visit from my brother, who stated
to me a fact that more deeply impressed
and affected me, than anything I recollect
to have heard upon the subject in any tem
perance speech, or even read.
“ in my neighborhood, is a gentleman
of my acquaintance, w'ell educated, who
once had some property, but now reduced
—poor ! He has a beautiful and lovely
wife, a lady of cultivation and refinement,
and a most chaiming daughter.
“ I Ir.s gentleman bad become decided
ly intemperate in his habits, and bail fully
alarmed his friends in regard to him. Ar
one time, when a number of his former as
sociates were together, they counselled as
to what could be done for him. Finally
one of them said to him, wiry don’t you
send your daughter away to a certain dis
tinguished school, which he named V ’Oh,
I cannot,’ said he, * it is out of the question.
I am not able to bear tire expense. Boor
girl ! 1 wish I could.’ ‘ Well,’ said his
friend, ‘ if you will sign the temperance
pledge, 1 will be at all the expense of her
attending school for one year.’ ‘ What
does this mean,’ said he ; ‘ do you think me
in danger of becoming a drunkard V ‘ No
matter,’ said bis friend, ‘ about that now,
but I will do as 1 said.’ ‘ And 1,’ said
another, ‘will pay the rent of your farm a
year, if you will sign the pledge.’ ‘ Well,
these offers are certainly liberal, but what
do they mean 1 Do you think me in dan
ger of becoming a drunkard 1 Whatmeans
this ? But, gentlemen, in view of your
liberality, 1 will make you an offer,— l
will sign it if you will !’ This was a prop
osition they had not considered, and were
not very well prepared to meet; but for his
sake, they said we will, and did sign, and
he with them.
“ And now for the first time the truth
poured into his mind, and he saw' his con
dition, and he sat down bathed in tears.
“ Now,” said he,’ ‘ gentlemen, you must
go and communicate these facts to my
wife ; poor woman, 1 know she will be glad
to bear it, but I cannot tell her.
“ Two of them started for the purpose.
The lady met them at the door, pale and
trembling with emotion.
“ What,’she inquired, ‘ is the matter’—
what has happened to my husband V
They trade her dismiss her fears, assur
ing her ihey had come to bring good ti
dings of her husband—good tidings, such
as she would be glad to hear.
“ Your husband lias signed the temper
ance pledge—yes, signed in good faith.’—
The joyous news nearly overcame her—
she trembled with excitement—wept free
ly, and clasping her hands devotionallv,
she looked up to heaven and thanked God
for the happy change. ‘ Now,’ said she,
1 have a husband, as be once w as, in ihe
days of our early love!’
“ But this was not what moved me,”
said the gentleman. “ There was in the
same vicinity another gentleman—a gener
ous, noble soul—married young—married
well—into a charming family, and theflow-
of it. His wine-drinking habits had arous
ed the fears of his friends, and one day
when several of them were together, one
said to another, ‘ Let us sign the pledge ;’
‘ I will if you will,’ said one to another,
till all had agreed to it, and the thing was
done.
“ This gentleman thought it rather small
business, and felt a little sensitive about
revealing to his wife what he had done.—
But on returning home, he said to her,
1 Mary, triy dear, 1 have done what I fear
will displease you.’ ‘ Well, vvliat is it?’—
‘ Why 1 have signed the temperance pledge.
‘ Have you V ‘ Yes, I have certainly,’
Watching ltis manner as he replied, and
reading in it sincerity, she entwined her
arms around his neck, laid her head upon
his bosom, and burst into a flood of tears.
Her husband was affected deeply by this
conduct of ltis wife, and said, * Mary, don’t
weep ; l did not know it would afflict you
so, or l would not have done it ; 1 will go
and lake my name off immediately.’—
‘ Take your name off ! said she, ‘ no,’ no !
—let it be there. I shall now have no
more solicitude in reference to your becom
ing a drunkard. I shall spend no more
wakeful midnight hours. I shall no more
steep my pillow in tears.’
‘ Now, for the first time, the truth shone
upon Iris mind, and he folded to his bosom
his young and beautiful wife, and wept
with her.
“ Now 5 can’t stand these facts, and ?.m
am going to sign the pledge.”
and lulled the senses to voluptuous repose.
Here, too, they loved to iudulge.in the lux
ury of their baths, replenished by streams
of crystal water, which weie conducted
through subterraneous silver channels inlo
basins of gold. The spacious gardens were
stocked with numerous varieties of plants
and flowers, that grew without effort in
this temperate region of the tropics ; while
parterres of more extraordidary kind were
planted by their side, glowing with the va-
rious forms of vegetable life skilfully imi-
; tated in gold and silver. Among them, tire
Indian corn—the most beautiful of Ameri-
: can grains—is particularly commemoia-
| ted ; and tire cutious workmanship is no-
| ! iced with which the golden ear was half
j disclosed amidst the broad leaves of silver,
] and the light tassel of the same material
| that floated gracefully from its tup. if this
dazzbng picture staggers the faith of the
reader, he may reflect that the Peruvian
mountains teemed with gold : lhat the na
tives understood the art of working tire
mines to a considerable extent; that none
of the ore, as we shall see hereafter, was
converted into coin ; and that the whole of
it passed into the hands of the sovereign,
for his own exclusive benefit, whether
fur purposes of utility or ornament. Cer
tain it is, that no fact is better attested by
the conquerors themselves, who had ample
means of information, and no motive for
mistatement. The Italian poets, in their
gor geous pictur es of the gardens of Aicina
and Morgana, came nearer to the truth than
they imagined.—History of the Conquest, of
Peru.
Color ok Country Houses.—The Hor
ticulturist for May contains a fine ar ticle on
the color of country houses, from the pen
of its editor. If its hints should receive
the attention they deserve, we should in a
few years see harmony and beauty in our
rural districts, where the eye is now con-
slat,tly offended with glaring and offensive
colors. Scarcely anything can be more
unpleasant to the eye than to approach the
sunny side of a bright white house, in one
of our brilliant midsummer days. Nature,
full of kindness to mau, has, it is well sug
gested, covered most of the surface that
meets his eye in the country with a soft
green, so refreshing and grateful to the eye.
His habitations seem to be colored on the
opposite principle, and one needs in broad
sunshine to turn Iris eyes away to relieve
them by a glimpse of the agreeable shades
that everywhere else pervade the landscape.
Hence landscape painters studiously avoid
the introduction of white in their buildings,
and give them some neutral tint—one
which contrasts agreeably with the prevail
ing hues of nature around them. It is laid
down as a rule among artists, that the colors
of all buildings in the country should be of
those soft anil quiet shades called neutral
tints, such as fawn, drab, gray, brown, Szc.;
and that all positive colors, such as white,
yellow, red, blue, black, &c , should always
be avoided. This principle of house-col
oring Mr. Downing adopts arid sustains by
strong argument and illustration. His
practical instruction is, that, in proportion as
a house is exposed to view, let its hues be
darker; and where it is much concealed by
foliage, a very light shade of color is to be
preferred. Fortunately, fashion is now set
ting in the right direction.
j Cincinnati Gazelle.
A Peruvian Paradise.—The favorite
residence of the Incas was at Yucny, about
four leagues distance from the capital. In
this delicious valley, locked up within the
friendly arms of the Sierra, which sheltered
it from the rude breezes of Lhe east, and
refreshed by gushing fountains and streams
of running water they built the most beau
tiful of their palaces. Here, when wear ied
with the dust and toil of the city, they loved
to retreat, and solace themselves with the so
ciety of their favorite concubines—wander
ing amidst groves and airy gardens, that
shed around their soft intoxicating odors,
Lord Brougham.
The following sketch of Lord Brough
am is from the correspondence of the N.
York Mirror. It is very like a caricature,
but of lhat faithful description which con
veys a better idea of the subject than a for
mal professed pot trait:
All this time you will fancy Brougham’s
tongue going at the rate of forty smoke-
jacks in one. Seated on the first r ow of the
opposition, wuh Stanley on one side of him,
Lord Ashburton on the other, and Ellen
borough in the rear, he puts half a dozen
questions in a breath to as many Min
isters, and proceeds to answer them him
self ont of hand, glancing ftr into half a
dozen fresh topics in the course of each re
ply to his own queries; then dropping
down into his seat with a protest that Gov
ernment should be prepared with the infor
mation he sought, and fiually slatting up a-
gaiu and declaring he will have nospeeches,
as there is no business before the House;
and forthwith he proceeds to make a
speech upon that, challenging every body
around to call him to older, or to point
out in what he does not stiictlv conform to
parliamentary usages. A fe v peers—Irish
men of course—accept the challenge, to
their subsequent tribulation. One is Lord
Mountcashel, (a piotn noble, who once
compared the prophets of the Scrij.ttuie to
lire sprouting of a potato”) but he very
speedily finds himself bewildered in his at
tempt to follow the ex-chancellor, who
catches him at the very first nip, and pouts
out a torrent of words upon him about law,
and philosophy, and logic, and a thousand
other things that are so much High Dutch
to the mystified Patlander. The second
leader of the forlorn hope will generally
be tbe Marquis of Londonderry, who is
sure to start with a bull or blunder of some
sort or another, on which Brougham, with
the rapidity of a kite, lays violent and re
sistless claws, upsets the fiery coal-owner
amidst universal derision, and then coolly
| savs he should like to know what are the
| intentions of the Cabinet on immigration,
on transportation, on education, and bank-
1 rupty business ; ending with a pretty broad
hint lhat it would be well if the Marquis
of Landsdowne took Iris notion ol law from
j a somewhat more competent authority than
j Lord Campbell.
There is no exaggeration in this. A Iit-
! eral repoit of the proceedings of any night
when Brougham figures, would eclipse in
j extr avagatice any invention. But such ex
hibitions are not reported fully, and an a
! bridgnient is destructive of their rich gro-
I tesqueness. The undesciibable part of
| Brougham’s oratory is his action. Instead
of speaking from his place, as other persons
do, he goes right over to the table, and not
only that, but places his ell»ows upon it, bal
ancing himself on one foot and looking with
intense eagerness at tire individual he ad
dresses, varying his position by starting up
every other minute to thump the box before
him, and turning round to ask questions,
or direct observations to any one in any oth
er part of the house that may strike his fan
cy , and the chances ate that the moment
he is about to receive the information he
requires, he sits down by tbe side of one of
the clerks and writes a letter or two, which
he despatches on the spot, without paying
the slightest seeming regar d to his inform
ant, though at the same time, not a sylla
ble escapes him, as any one very quickly
finds out who ventures lo presume on his
apparent inattention.
Yet, with all this eccentricity of mariner,
this inexpressible love of talking for the
sake of talk, there is about all he says and
does superabundant evidence of the high
est order of mind—such a solidity of infor
mation on the most heterogenous and out-
of the-way subjects perpetually peeping
forth, aud such endless play of fancy, that
he extorts admiration when he fails to win
respect. Flattered, feared and spoiled, he
hurries along, goaded by some inexorable
demon, who forbids all quiet to his victim,
and impels him to incessant occupation of
tongue, hand and brain, from morning till
night, and frequently all nightlong.
A view of .ScniidiuRrinii IVBytliology.
All nations hate sought, b: means of a
mythology, to explain the origin and gov
ernment of the world, the destiny of man
in this life, and his stale after death. Tire
belief and ideas of the early Scandinavians
on these points may be found in an ancient
work entitled the Ediia. According to that
work, there was in the beginning ot time
neither eattli, ocean, nor sky, but one huge
gull called Ginnungagap. On one side of
this gulf lay Niflhcm, a region of fr ost and
cold ; on the other Muspelshem, where
Surtur reigns, the region of file and light.
When the vapors from Niflhem met tire
rays from Muspelshem, they obtained life
and became a great giant, called Ymer.—
This giant was evil, as were all his de
scendants, who were called Rimtussar.—
But the three gods, Odin, Vile and Ve, kill
ed T met ; in whose blood all the Rimtus
sar were drowned save Bcrglemer, «ho,
with his wife, saved himself in a boat, and
continued lhe race of Rimtussar. Ymer’s
body was canied by the gods into Ginnuri-
gagap, and of it they made the earth. The
blood was turned into sea and lakes, the!
bones became mountains, the hair grew in- !
to forests, the beard into grass, and the!
teeth became stones. The skull was rais-t
ed above the earth and became tbe firma-1
ment. A dwarf was placed under each;
corner, called East, West, South and Ninth.
The gods then took sparks from Muspel-
sheni aud placed them as stars in the sky.
In the centre of the eattli they raised a
strong castle, made of Ymer’s eyebrows.—
'Ibis castle was culled Midgard, and there
the gods resided ; but the giants were per
mitted to dwell without on the seacoasts.—
'Ihe gods once found on the shore the
trunks of two dead trees. Of these they
formed the first human beings, Ask and Em-
biu, from whom the human race have since
desended—ar d they dwelt with the gods in
Midgard.
[NO. 2 7.
other purpose but to mend old boots—the
oailor hangingTo the rigging in the storm—
the collier toiling amid poisonous air—the
peasant with earth colored gannents, turnf
ing up the clods as if he were but a part o-
the soil—all teach good lessons to the re
flective mind.
Marriage Customs in Sweden.—l)r.
Baird , in a late lecture delivered in Spring-
field upon foreign governments and the so
cial customs of different nations, alluded
particularly to Sweden, a land made re
cently quite familiar to us through tire
graphic writings of Frcderika Bremer.—
The mantiers and customs of the Swedes
he describes as being remarkably interest
ing, aud some of them ver y peculiar. He
instances most especially the ceremony of
marriage, of which formality he gives the
annexed singular account :
VY hen a young girl is to he married, she
dresses herself in all her br idal garments,
and places herself in the middle of the par
lor, standing. A circle of bright lights are
placed about her, and the groomsmen also
come into the room bearing each a brilli
antly lighted chandelier. The doors and
windows are then thrown open, and every
one who chooses can come and see and
criticise the biide as they please. Impu
dent fellows will walk about her - , and be
sides criticising her appearance, which
they do within her heating, they will use
some such expressions as—“ Well, so arid
so is lobe married at last—she has been
long enough about it. I pity the man who
marties her,” &c. Females, too, will ap
pear about her in masks, and make still
mote culling aud insulting remarks. After
standing tip for an hour and a half, the or
deal is ended, the throng is dispersed, and
the wedding lakes place in the presence
of the immediate friends of the parties.—
After a dinner [ratty, the guests approach
the hostess, who stands in tire middle of
the room, and each returns thanks. This
beautiful custom prevails even among the
simple peasant families. After the meal is
over, the children! approach their mother
and taking her by the hand say, “Thank
you tna-rna.” The _grifcst, if one there be,
merely says, “ thanks.”
Town and Country—A town life i-
very agreeable, if one could forget the poor,
the wretched dwellings of vice and misery,
which form the narr ow streets behind those
noble houses ; the toils, troubles, and anxie
ties which hat r ass the minds of (hose gay
shops; the aching hearts, borne hither and
thillrei in the luxntious caniages ; the envy-
ings and heart-burnings, which vex the
spirits of the passers-by gazing on the
wealih they long for, toil fur, yet cannot
have; this, all this, does not intefere with
tin: June pleasures of the country. You
walk out and gaze around on nature in all
her inimitable beauty. The sun glistens on
the dew, making it brighter than any jew
els ; sheds its radiance on the exquisite
flowers, more beautiful than any work of
art ; and they are the property of the poor
est herdsman, and create no vain longings.
The ploughman whistling to his cattle, or
a joyous chilli swinging on a gate, are per
haps all you meet itr your walk, but you pass
them without a feeling of pain. They have
their troubles, doubtless, for sorrow is tire
lot of man ; but they ate lighter far than the
vexations of those who live in this troubled
city.
The World’s Reproof.—The world is
full of reproof for the indolent and des
ponding man. See, while the man endow
ed with superior abilities, arid favored by
education— the m m of genius and imagina
tion, who can cal! up lhe vfeta of the past
and of the future to cheer the solitude of
lire present—the man of reading who has
the world of books to range over, and can
think with Shakspeare—lire man of ex
panded mind who can overlook the dullness
of a part of human existence by transport
ing himself in thought through many dis
tant lands, and contemplating the move
ment and the interest of tbe whole of that
life to which he belongs—while such a man
droops his head, and feels lhat nothing re
mains to he hoped for or done in the world
—see the poor lacemaker wearieshands and
eyes ten hours every dav, monotonously
twirling her bobbins—for threepence—the
cobblei sticking to his last as patiently as if
his soul and body were put together for no
Major Downing again!
W e were thrown quite into a flutter yes
terday by receiving in our bag from the
Post Office the following letter from the
Public’s old Friend, ISlajor Jack Dowing,
who seems to have written it to us for the
purpose of communicating to the Public, in
his pla.n way, some views of President
Polk—Young Hickory, as he delights to
call him—which that distinguished func
tionary had not thought necessary to con
fide to his most confidential friends before
he met with tire Major.—Nat. Intel.
On board the Steamboat on Long Island
Sound, bound to Connecticut and Dozen
East, June 28, 1S47.
Mr. Gales Sc Sf.aton :
My dear old Friends: I and Mr. Buc
hanan and tire rest of us overtook the Pre
sident last night at York, where we found
him pretty well tuckered our, having got
through with all his birds egging in that ever-
lastin great city, and ready to push on this
morning down East. I was going to write
a line to friend Ritchie, as he’s the Gov
ernment Editor, as soon as I could ketch
up with the President, arid let him know
how the old gentleman stood the journey.
But 1 happened to look into your papet,
and I see brother Ingersoll, of Philadelphia,
sends his letters to you. This puzzled me
a little at first, because 1 knew be was on
Mr. Ritchie’s side. But I looked alouat,
and I see he called your paper a “powerful
journal ;” and then the thought struck me
that 1 had read somewhere that “there’s a
power behind the throne greater than the
throne itself.” Weil, thinks 1, that Inger
soll is a cunning feller, but he ain’t a going
to get ahead of ine. If he writes to the
power behind lhe throne, I will too. So,
if Mr. Ritchie complains, and says I ought
to wrote to hitn, 1 wish you would just
smooth it over lo him, and tell him the
reason of it. and tell him when the old ship
gets on ’tother tack, and his paper gets on
behind, I’ll wi ite to him.
As 1 had come right on from Mexico the
shortest cut, and had brought a letter from
Gineral Scott to the President, as soon as
we got to Yoik I run right up to the tavern
where he stopped to give him the letter.—
Folks told me he was at the Astor House—
that great tavern made out of hewed stone.
So l went up, and went in, and asked one of
the waiters if Colonel Polk put up there ?
“Is it Jemmy Polk ye mane; Young
Hickory, the President ?” says he.
“ Sartain,” says I.
“ Yes,” says he, “ he’s here : up stairs in
his room.”
Says I, “Show me his chamber as quick
as you can ; I must see him.”
“ \ ou can’t see him to-night,” says he ;
“ Young Hickory is tired out, and can’t see
nobody at all, at all. Why was’ntyeon band
in the Governor’s loom if ye wanted to see
him ! All the boys had a chance there.”
Says 1, “ that’s nothing lo the pint; 1
was on the road from Washington then, ar.it
Pin going to see the President to night if
1 have to go through the stone walls of this
house for it.”
Then along come Mr. Stutson • and savs
he, “ Patrick, what’s the row here ?”
“ Here’s a fellow getting wrathy,” says
Patrick, “ because I won’t let him go up
into the President’s room.”
At lhat Mr. Stutson turned round to me,
and, as soon as he seen me, Ire ketched
hold of my hand, and, says he, “ Major
Dowing, 1 am very happy to see you. I’ll
show you tight up lo the President’s room
myself. I’m sorry you was’nt here before.
We’ve had some very pleasant tea parties
since the President’s been here.”
When 1 got into the President’s chamber
he was lay ing down on the bed to rest, and
looking as tired as a rat that had been draw -
ed through forty knot holes. But, as soon
as he see me, he jumped up, looking rather
wild, and says he, “Major Downing, how
are ye ? I did’ut think of seeing you back
from Mexico so soon as this, lluvv does
things go on there now ?”
iSays 1 “ Colonel, they do’rit go on hardly
at all. They 3re waiting for more help.—
Scott and Taylor both are growing rather
red and angry to think you should chuck
’em away into the middle of Mexico there,
arid then not send ’em help to light the wav
out again. And it seems to me, Coloner,
you do hold back in this business a little too
much. If you don’t send ’em help pretty
soon, them guerrillas will eat uuaHe ar
mies all up. Why, Colonel,” say^L “ if
this war had come on in the time of the old
Gineral, my old friend Hickory, he would
a bad them Mexicans half whipped to death
by this time. But here’s a letter from Scott,
to tel! you what he thinks about the busi
ness. 1 come on post haste to bring it.—
He says be won’t stir from Puebla till you
scud on more men to take the place of all
them that’s coming home.”
The President took the letter and read a
few lines, and threw it down upon the table;
and says he, “ It’s no use ; Scott may grum
ble and growl as much as he’s a mind to,
but it’s uo use. This war is a concern of
my own getting up, for my own use, and I
.shall manage it jest as I please.” Says he,
“ Major Downing, there’s reason in ail
things. I don’t want them Mexicans whip
ped too fast, especially when them upetait
Generals gel all the glory of it. When I
found Taylor was swelliu up loo large, I
meant to a stopped him at Monterey and
draw oft’ a part of his glory on to Scott.—
But that Tay lor is a headstrong chap, a dan
gerous man. He overstept his duty and
blundered on to that victory at Buena Vista,
that sot everything all in a blaze. I shan’t
overlook it in him very soon. If the selfish
creature had only let Santa Anna given him
a handsome licking ihete, we might a had
peace in a little while, for I had things all
arranged with Santa Anna to wind the bu
siness right up in such a way that we might
each of us have made a handsome plum out
of it. But that unpardonable Taylor must
cut and slash round with his handful ot
men, untutored volunteers that l thought
were as harmless as a flock of sheep, and
contrive, by that awful blunder at Buena
Vista, to pour all the fat into the fire.
“ Well, then, Scott hasn’t behaved much
better. He’s licked the Mexicans too fast
by a great sight, and is swelhn himself up
in the eyes of the people shamefully. I
thought if I could a sent Col. Benton on
there, be would a squeezed the glory out
of both of ’em in a little while, and settled
’em down so they wouldn’t a been danger
ous. But that vagabond Seuale wouldn’t