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VOL. XXXIV.
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JlYE 14, 185?.
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P 0 E TRY,
1 Child's Thoughts.
|T idea which runs through tliese lines,
md
so beautifully and naturally carried out, it
;!, iv.:',s expressed by a little boy five years old.
f whole piece is true to a child's fancy.
0, I long to lie dear mother,
On the cool and fragrant grass,
YV; h nought but the sky above my head,
And the shadowing clouds that pass.
And I want the bright, bright sunshine,
All round about my bed;
I close my eyes and God will think
Your little boy is dead!
Then Christ will send an angel
To take him up to him;
H - will bear me, slow and steadily,
Far through the ether dim.
If will gently, gently lay me
Close to the Saviour’s side;
Ai„t when I’m sure that we’re in heaven,
My eyes I’ll open wide.
And I’ll look among the angels
That stand about the throne,
Till I find my sister Mary,
For I know she must be one.
And when I find her, mother,
We will go away alone,
And I will tell her how we've mourned
All the while she has been gone!
0!i! T shall be delighted
To hear her speak again—
I nigh I know she’ll ne’er return to us—
To ask her would be vain!
So, I’ll put my arms around her,
And look into her eyes,
And remember all I said to her,
And all her sweet replies.
And then I’ll ask the angel
To rake me back to you;
bear me, slow and steady,
Down through the ether blue.
And you’ll only think, deal - mother,
I had been out to play,
And had gone to sleep beneath a tree
Tiiis snltrv summer day.
RISCElLAlEDI S.
From the Ohio State Journal.
DY.A FERGUSON CURED WOMAN’S RIGHTS.
1 notice from your paper that Ohio wo-
'ti are troubled with “ rights,” and I
[would infer that they had them pretty hard.
The same disease broke out in this part of
pccouiitrv some time ago, and occasioned
:•!< rahle uneasiness in the community,
li re were one constitutions which never
|k it. however exposed, but it was a Ion,
I*®' - before dky remedy was found to cure
ii'.ati, after the rights had fairly set in.
[They were more troublesome than mumps
t . isles, and generally ended in author
's- or erne chronic type of philanthropy.
There was one Dan Ferguson in these
ns, who was a curiosity. He was a man
'■> strong native sense, robust physical
•tmeture, but eccentric habits and man
ors. He was a wit, and excellent compa
ny for those who knew him well enough to
know . lieu to laugh ; but his face was long
! ’ i solemn and the muscles not very move-
de. His droll things were said with such
siravitv that a stranger would take him to
W serious, and he had an unfortunate hab-
! ' i laughing when he meant to be sober,
ban Ferguson had little taste for reading,
asidw,;: not addicted to sentiment of any
'°~t. Were it not for a marked fondness
1 r children, he would have been consider
'd stiff aud unsocial. Dan had a keen eye
i n - speculation ; he would not work ; was in
^ct lazy ; but an infallible instinct seemed
To tell him when to buy and when to sell.—
h he fought hogs, pork was sure to rise ; if
> dd, it was a sign that prices would fall.
. ;acity and good luck in speculations
Gad made him rich. His business-trips to
1 Atlantic cities had given him all sorts of
experience; he could tell all about the ac-
! °rs and actresses, understood the lions, and
R ! 1 some attention to fashion. -His taste
u dress run to very large stripes in his
V( ' st s, and watch-keys, the weight of which
■ 'mid have been troublesome to a smaller
iaatt. ]£ e l ia d arrived at the age of forty,
'!;* 1 matrimony never had approached him.
Certain qualities he possessed, which, to-
(letiser with his wealth, gave him a social
Position, but the women regarded him as
minething of a reprobate. I am afraid he
' In this state of aifairs a Woman’s
Rights Convention happened to he held in
Harrisburg.
Ali-s J. Feliciana Wallington attended.
Abi J. Feliciana Wallington might have
' a some thirty summers, and for several
' ears had been teaching the young ideas
"of to shoot and how to say catechisms.—
She protested. Miss J. Feliciana was ob-
x iously a v. Oman who had arrived at her
wickedness, had the rights dreadfully, and
if left to herself much longer would become
sour and philanthropic.
Now Dan Ferguson had a fondness for
pets. . Sometimes he would tame a crow,
sometimes a raccoon. He liked to break in
x> ild horses, and seemed to require some
thing ^unusual to tax liis ingenuity in the
lazy intervals between liis speculations.—
Dan attended the W Oman’s Convention,
anu oxving to Ins unfortunate habit of laugh
ing when lie intended to he solemn, and of
being solemn xvhen he intended to make
sport, came nc^ getting into difficulty. lie
laughed at their pathos and looked solemn
at their xvit, and being somexvhat notorious
as a hard case, xvas used up in several alle
gorical speeches and almost as good as nam
ed. Dan said little, but after a day’s close
attention he turned to roe and said,
“ How the devil came she to liax'e the
rights ?”
lie alluded to Miss J. Feliciana Walling
ton, and proceeded to say :
“ If she hasn’t got the old Harry in her,
I’m no judge of feminines.”
“ This xvas plainly complimentary, but to
what purpose directed, I did not suspect.—
We passed out of the hall and xvere walk
ing silently down street, when in an absent
mood he muttered :
“ Not a false tooth, no cotton, no scrofula!
Very odd for such a woman to he troubled
with a mission !”
I have since learned that after he separ
ated from me, he halloed an old jockey to
his side, called Bot, and put the following
question :
“ Bot, do you remember that colt xve
called Tom, that I bought of daddy Jen
kins : how he used to jump all the fences,
kick in all the front boards of the buggies,
break stalls, bite, and run axvay before 1 got
him ?”
Bot said he remembered him.
“ When I got him,” said Dan, “ do you
remember how completely I broke him of
his tricks ; how he kept me busy for six
months, what a tine, active, sagacious hardy
beast he was, and what a glorious price I
sold him for ?”
Bot said he did, and looked as if he
would like to knoxv what had happened to
the horse Tom : indeed, he inquired.
“ 0, nothing!” said Dan, “I have not
thought of him for a long time.”
And further Dan Ferguson said not.
That ex'ening Dan called at the house
honored by Miss J. Felinciana Wallington,
and sat a long time, laughing xvhen he
ought to be sober, and xicc versa, until Miss
J. Felinciana got exceedingly proxoked.
The next day he called again and sat
long. Precisely hoxv the matter xvas man
aged, it would take too long to relate. Miss
J. Felinciana xvas alternately x exed, wor
ried, and flattered, until she came so near
hating Dan that she could think of nothing
else. No hour of the day xvas secure from
liis impertinent hut friendly x-isits. At
night Miss J. Felinciana could see nothing
in her dreams but huge xvatch seals, and
would frequently dream herself to be un
comfortably and fearfully xvhirled through
the air after fast horses. In her dreams
she would see Dan approaching, and would
run like a wild horse to avoid him, but all
at once xvould bring up in a stately man
sion, richly furnished, and xvould receive
the congratulations of her friends as Airs.
Ferguson. There never xvas a poor girl so
bedevilled. When she took her pen or
pencil to xx-rite a scraxvl, the name of Dan
Ferguson xvas sure to slip out upon the pa
per, which indignantly she would throw in
to the lire. His desire to marry her, and
her determination to reject him, she never
doubted. But all at once Dan cooled off,
and would drive other young ladies, more
particularly a blooming young widow, past
the house without ex'er casting a glance in
that direction at all. Unexplainable con
duct ! Miss J. Felinciana Wallington felt
lonesome without his annoyances. Had
he been making her a dupe ? Did he care
nothing for her after all '? But no x-isits
from Dan. At length Miss J. Feliciana
must leave Harrisburg. Her hostess par
tially understanding, perhaps knowing all
about tiie case, (these married women are
magicians in reading the mysteries of
courtship) invited Dan to tea and no one
else. When he came, Miss J. Feliciana
did the best she could to meet 1dm like a
x-cry common acquaintance, but she couldn t
put it through to suit her. She xvas first
very pale ; then very red ; then she xvas
nervous and trembled like a leaf, and
against all propriety shed a few tears,
which she thought she concealed. But af
ter tea, she and Dan, quite against her pre
vious remonstrances, xvere left together in
the parlor. Some circumstances, unexpe
rienced, no doubt, (confound these married
When she xvas a little restored, Dan said
“Jenny !” for the rascal had got to calling
her Jenny for short.
“Jenny,” said he, “Is it not fortunate
you did not have txvo ?”
“ Hoxv do you mean ?” inquired Mrs.
Ferguson, languidly.
“ AA by,” said Dan, “ That little thing is
one. If you had an oration, too, it would
liax-e been as had as txvins.”
AA hen she xvas married to Dan, she wore
any quantity of xvhite dress, gloves, bonnet
and veil, all which xvere Dan’s special axer-
sion, but he said nothing. When she re-
cox'ered from her temporary illnesss Dan
HOW TO SPOIL A HIGH-SPIRITED WIFE.
WRITTEN FOR THE OLIVE BRANCH.
“What did you speak in that way to your
,ife for, young man?” asked old uncle
togers of his nephew.
“Because it’s fun to see her spark up, re
plied the hopeful Benedict; “I like to make
tier black eyes shine, and her round cheeks
groxvred as my damask rose.” And it’s
quite tragic the xvay she puts her little foot
down, and say, “s-i-r.” By the muses. It
rou staid long enough uncle, I’d have shoxvn
vou a queen. You’ve no idea how grandly
took her a journey, and in one of the cities she tosses back her fierce little head oi
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subjected her to “ treatment, by a fashiona
ble milliner, took her to places of amuse
ment, and spent a deal of money upon her
against all the maxims of the Rights Socie
ty. She had a great many xvonderful sen
sations. The baby was wonderful. It wa„
xvonderful to find out that she could figure
as a city lady. It was wonderful to see
hoxv much her husband knew about every
thing, and how careful he was to make
things happen to suit her. Her old rights
friends x-isited and argued, and she said
“ of course.” They talked of her “ mis
sion,” and she said she was “ going to at
tend to it,” but it was continually slipping
away from her thoughts. At length a
marked and impressixe convention xvas
held, xvliere all women xvho had the rights
should make a demonstration, and shoxv the
xvorld that the cause xvas ‘onward. Mrs.
Ferguson was really a little remorseful.—
She had neglected the cause. It xvas eer-
<vith what a Dido-like air she wrings those
i delicate hands of hers. It quite breaks the
! monotony of life to get up such, a tempest to
• order. You see, uncle, one tires of clear
unshine and blue sky—and so, as I know she
ixx ns this spunky temper, I just touch it up
* with the spin matrimonial, and let it gallo;
! ill I see fit to rein in.”
“ I’ve .as good a mind to root out that sap-
•ng, Hal, and use it over your shoulders, as
i had this morning to eat my breakfast be
fore yon spoild my appetite.
You are taking the surest way to ruin
finelv strung organization. Saving your
presence, I despise the man who thus tam
pers with a passionate but lox’ing spirit.
Look at your xvife—hoxv delicate her beau
ty! Look at your household—the very
temple of taste and neatness. The little fix
ings on the mantle, the fringing and tassel-
ling here and there, gixe a touch beyond
the common toy our humble furniture. I hat
tainly her duty to be present and bear her j lounge that lends so grand an air to x
From the Macon Telegraph.
Messrs. Editors:—Having observed that
public attention lias again been attracted to
the importance of a Railroad communication
between Macon and Charleston through
Augusta, I desire to bring that subject to
the consideration of our eitizens. It will be
remembered, that a few years since, a Rail
road convention was held in Macon with the
view of obtaining another outlet for our
trade and produce to the ocean. At that
conx'ention an unfortunate dixdsion ot opin
ion as to the point of the intersection with
the Georgia Railroad led to a defeat of the
enterprise. Saxannah became awakened
to the importance of defending herself
against the threatened undertaking, and
immediately lent her aid to the Gordon
Railroad, which xvas in a languishing con
dition, finished that road, and aided in its
extension to Eatonton. Shelias, also, lent
efficient aid to the Burke Railroad, which
will soon be com pleated to Augusta. For
her energy in urging forward these various
enterprises she dooervea great credit, and
ox erty is an accident or incident that j conferred great benefits upon the country
From the Washington Republic.
\ Few Words About "Poor but Honest Peopled’
AYe have just read, in a newspaper issu
ed in a minor town in an adjoining State, a
very pathetic obituary notice of a gentle
man latelx' deceased, ot xvliom it is sain
that, “born of poor but honest parents, ’ he
ever regarded with kindness, “even in the
midst of unusual prosperity,” the “humblest
of the people in the community around
him,” &c. AYe doubt not, from the descrip
tion given, that he was a x ery kind and
worthy old gentleman, and we trust he is
now happy in the society of his eccentric
parents, who so strangely blended, as the
panegyrist assures us, the attribute of hon
esty xvith the circumstances of poverty.
But xve hear somewhat too much of this
thing, and it is exceedingly ill-timed in this
nineteenth century, and out of place in this
republican country. It is time xve had
learned better things—that poor men should
very readily be deemed honest, and xvork-
men respectable.
penetrated by her roads, and is already
reaping rewards of her industry and per-
severance.
It xvas doubtless the design of these txvo
crossroads to prex ent the building; of a road
share of the “ labors and responsibilities of
the movement.” She owed it to her piosi-
tion, to her friends, to the sex.
“I’ll tell you xvliat, Jenny,” said Air.
Ferguson. “ I regard you as rather an ex
traordinary woman.”
Jenny did not seem to he angry.
“You do seem to me to be very much of a
lady,” said Dan—“ I always thought you
xvas, and noxv I knoxv it. I took you up
Broadxvay last summer on purpose for com
parisons, and there xvas nothing in sight
that I would swap you for.”
This did not seem to be relevant to the
subject, but Jenny did not raise lier points i
of order as promptly as she had formerly
done in the convention. She had relaxed
the rigors of parliamentary laxv, and consen
ted to personal explanations.
“ Jenny,” says Dan, “you are a fine wo
man, and no mistake, and that’s a fine baby.
I don’t exactly xvant to take you to that
cattle-slioxv, and put you into the pen with
or’nary critters.”
Jenny’s eyes opened very wide.
“ These women,” says Dan, “ xvho are
troubled with rights don’t amount to much
no hoxv. They don’t shoxv xvell in the ring.
They are spavined, foundered, or got the
heaves, or something else, or they xvouldn’t
be there. You are the only saleable article
I ever saw among them, and I do think you
belong to a different set.”
Jenny said something about woman's
mission.
“ AVell l” said Dan, “I don’t think you
took xvoman’s mission in the natural way.
You were inoculated for it, and had it, but I
hope you xvon’t hax e it again. 1 think you
xx'ill get over it. It did not strike in. Noxv
parlor, I had set down for no less than a fit
ty—when lo ! it turns out that five dollars
and a xvoman’s ingenuity, deceived an old,
experienced upholsterer like myself.
The look at the vines she has trained,the
flowers she has planted, that lean towards
her xvhen she approaches them, as if she xvas
their guardian angel! AA by, Hal—is it
possible the possession of such a being as
this, tempts you to an absurdity that xvill
surely end iii the distraction of your domes
tic happiness V’
“ You are mighty serious about this little
thing, uncle.”
“ Serious! unfortunately I am something
more—a vie tin to my own indulgence in a
similar infatuation. A T ou have heard —
here uncle Rogers gave a great sigh—“ that
I am not happy at home. My oxvn fault !
Every bit of it!” and the oldmangavemotli-
er earth a savage blow xvith his cane. “If
a man marries an angel and torments lier
into a fiend, xvho’s to blame, I wonder, but
himself.” M y xvife was very handsome, and
as x'ou say, spunkx*. There never needed
to have been a xvarm xvord between us, but
1 liked to see lier angry. I liked to see the
delicate nostrils expand—the large bright
ex'es scintillate sparks of fire—but I did it just
once too often. 1 know the very time that
anger raised the final barrier of opposition,
and that nice sense of right became an ex
acting and imperious tormenter.
And noxx r y our old uncle is driven from the
home of his nephew, where he hoped for
peace, and tortured with the fresh opening
of old wounds.
“ I tell you, Hal, you xvill spoil your
xvife,you xvill ruin lier ; it’s not manly ; it’s a
burning shame”—and the old man’s thin
xve would advise all to get the better of as
soon as they can ; but, rich or poor, lie who •
is not in a proper sense a working man is a j
burden upon the community and a disgrace [
to society. All good men are either xvork-
ing men, invalids, or superannuated. Some j from Alacon to Warrenton, by openin
labnr harder than others; the task of some communication to the Capital of the State
is of a rougher character than that of oth- j an( j silencing the demands of Middle Geor-
ers. Lut just and rational men hold all | gia for a Railroad to the seaboard. Bnt these
alike in the esteem, except as the indix idu- r oads do not meet the question which xvas
al honors or dishonors the calling he pur- ■ proposed to the conx’ention before alluded
Distinctions based upon the artificial j to, and I shall he greatly surprised if
Charleston, xvith all her wealth and public
_ . spirit, shall lie still and see 200,000 hales of
is fortunately becoming x ery pressing just j cotton pass through Alacon to Sax annah
now,) are contemptible absurdities in this , without making an effort to draw a part of
country. A greater degree oi prosperity j them xvith the accompanying trade to her-
may here attend one pursuit than is realized , self. The extension of the S. Carolina
in another, or a greater amount of informa-1 Railroad across the river at Augusta, ra
tion may he essential to the practice of one j mox r es the onlv barrier which has prex - ent-
occupation than another; but as these things , cd Charleston from competing successfully
are not hereditary and perpetual, the idea | for the cotton which arrives at Augusta, and
of 1 lie recognition of castes can only linger J cannot doubt that she xvill aid liberally in
in the crania ot fools. ■ building a Railroad from Macon to AYar-
It is a great thing to be an eminent laxv-> renton, xvhicli will so greatly add to the
yer, physician, divine, or merchant, but it ’ cotton reccix’cd at Au^oista.
would be a x’ery little thing to dispise in The importance of such a road to Alacon
consequence one’s oxvn kindred in the pur- will be seen at a glance. In our present
rules of European countries, but more espe- |
eially of the Celestial Empire, (where work i
Jenny, let us go to the convention. You l lips quix’ered xx itli evcitcmenL
shall do the mission if you please, but I’ll
he hanged if I don’t believe you xvill disown
it. You are a wicked creature, just fit for a
reprobate like me and that little rascal
kicking in the cradle. I’ll stand by you,
Jenny, mission or no mission.
Jenny went to the Convention, but it did
not seem as formerly. She felt herself in
clined to modify resolutions that xvere offer
ed, and to make exceptions to sweeping
clauses; and her sisters in the cause no
ticed, in not flattering terms, a change in
the views of sister Ferguson. Jenny xvas
really not happy there. AYhen she asked
Dan how he liked it, he said, “Oh, very
xvell; very xvell; only it’s a bore—a con
founded bore ; that is to say, it’s ridiculous,
that’s all.”
“ But,” said Jenny, deprecatingly, “may
it not be the duty of a woman occasionally
to do ridiculous, if she pleases ; that is to
sav, if she has a ‘ mission’ to be ridiculous.” ( „ _ _
This unexpected turn of conversation set j ashes—used to call Hal s home a paradise
them both to laughing, and Dan xvound up on earth.
Hal said nothing then,hut when he return
ed, he ground his pride betxveen his teeth,
and begged his xvife’s pardon.
“ I’ll never taunt you for fun again, Car
re,” he said in a low tone. And she replied
as she hid her tearful face in his bosom—
“I am so quick, so passionate—but in
deed I ncx'er begin it; and you have been
so noble that I will try and conquer this
hasty temper. But Hal,” she added ro
guishly, shakinglicr curls in his face, “xvhat
will you do fer your queen ? xvhat will be
come of Dido tragedy, etc.,—ba ;
Her husband blushed (1 contend that
man looks handsome when he blushes) and
a kiss sealed the reconciliation. To-day,
after fortv ye in; of xvedded life, Hal boasts
that he remembers but once making up after
a storm—and that xvas axvay back in the
honey-moon. Ex _ er since lie has had still
xv at ers and a steady voyage; and uncle Rog
ers xvho died years ago—peace be with his
xvornen) took the lady of the house axvay,
and she staid axvay. But when she did
come back it xvas obxious that AIiss J. I c
liciana had been both laughing and crying,
and was upon the whole more decidedly
composed and radiant in Dans presence
than ever before. As for Dan. bis great
red face seemed larger and redder, like a
full moon in a smoky night. He related
quite abruptly the fact that they had
“struck up a bargain.” Aliss J. Feliciana
again both laughed .and cried.
Aliss J. Feliciana AA r allington saw a new
light beaming on her pathway. She began
to look upon herself as possessing more
personal attractions than she had imagined ;
practiced her looking-glass more and her
speeches less ; in short, married the rich
old bachelor, Dan Ferguson. It was a
wonder and a toxin talk. AYhen any ox
Dan’s old friends joked him about the
rights, his eye twinkled xvith a peculiar
twinkle, as xvho should say, - Leave me to
take care of that!” Aliss J. Feliemia AA al-
liugton was appointed orator to deliver an
an address at the next yearlv convention,
and intended to distinguish herself. But
before that time arrived she became very
much interested in needlework. A ladies
fair or something else xvas in contemplation,
for she never tired of stitching, and cutting,
and embroidering little garments, and Dan
would sit and see her do it. It was curious
for Dan too see what scollops, what im
probable embroidery, xvhat unaccountable
eyelet holes, and how ingenious devices
xvere made one after another to peer out
from the dreary xvastc of xvhite muslin, like
stars from the sky’ in a clear night.
> fZf, SELS.'KSXfci tiie timo of “d
‘IS aedicated llcrsdf t0 her “ mi8S10n ’’ aml Xcikfrom time to time, and almost for-
Gotten it. But if she had not done so, it
Her hair would have been impossible to deliver it.
She xvas unfortunately taken sick and could
not get out for a number ot weeks, it
proved to be fortunate that she had pre
pared for the fair.
the conversation by stating it to be his im
pression and belief that Jenny liad no nat
ural aptness at being ridiculous. Jenny .
xvanted to know hoxv, in that case, he had
happened to take a fancy to her xvhen she
was doing a mission. Dan said he did not
take any fancy—it took itself.
Ferguson, soon after their arrival home, '
presented Jenny xvith a silx r er tea-set, and ;
Jenny, in various domestic and social plea
sures, before the next convention, lost sight
of her rights entirely.
It was soon rumored that Airs. Ferguson,
whose case had been supposed incorrigible,
had been cured ; and many husbands whose
xvives.xvere afflicted with rights, tried to find
out Dan’s mode of cure. Dan did not
choose to say much about the matter; hut
one day, after being a good deal questioned
and bantered by a number of men, he of-
ffered them cigars and took one himself
and when the smoke had assended “in cy
cles and epicycles,” until the true smoker’s
Elysium had been produced, he threw out
an extra cloud xvith a twist known only to •
ornamental smokers, and thus spake—
“ l'ou see. gentlemen, it all depends upon
the saccharine principle.”
They enquired xvliat he meant by the sac
charine principle.
“You see, gentlemen, Jenny had the sac
charine principle. A woman can’t be cur-
red unless she has the saccharine principle
The rights are xvhat the doctors call a ‘mor
bid secretion.’ It is most apt to happen to
old maids and widows; but some wives,
xv hose husbands don’t knoxv hoxv to Lreab
them, have this disease awfully. It rc- i
quires constitutional treatment. It the sac ■
eliarine principle has been grieved axvay,
or if they ncx'er had it, in such cases the ;
rights can no more be cuned than scrofula.
But xvhen there’s a good deal of the saccha
rine principle in a woman, a little help from
one that understands the disease xvill ena
ble her constitution to throxv it off, and she '
xvill become as healthy and as good as new.
It all depends on the saccharine principle
This is all lie xvould tell them.
mission
as decorously but plainly dressed. She
1 as severe on “ the tyrant man,” and ae-
tennined to vindicate her sex. —
c ‘} 7 e-broxvs xvere almost xvhite, hut the
'A c uiiderneath xvas clear and full. Aliss J.
eliviana AYallington was Chair Female of
•ie ( oxnmittee on Resolutions. She spoke.
Never attempt to do anything that i-
not right. Just so sure as yo do, you wil’
o-et into trouble. Sin always brings sorroxv
sooner or later. If you even suspect tba
any autliing is wicked, do it not until you
are sure you suspicions are groundless.
The men who flatter women do not know
them sufficiently, and the men who only
abuse them do not knoxv them at all.
The Spirit of Distruction.—If ever
there xvas a time xvhen xve might incline to
the belief that ex-il influences are at xvork for
the distmetiin of human life, at certain sea
sons, that time is the present.
Some desolating spirit, surely, rales and
reigns. The dark xving of Distraction
broods over the world. From city’ to city it
flics, .and under its shadow, Death shakes
his spectral spear. An epidemic of slaugh
ter and massacre rages rampant, like a lion
sax’agefor prey. Thousands perish, uncal
led, unshriven. The red xvaves are drunk
en xvith blood, the earth is crimson like a
battle-field. The great pulse of humanity
beats to the mournful dirge of widows and
orphans.
And not the poor and helpless only, that
the world might seem to spare without re
luctance, but the great and learned, the
good and gifted, fall on every hand. Those
j^ir whom Science might put on sackcloth,
for whom there are tears in lowliest hamlet
and loftiest palace.
The poor emigrant and his babes sink
shrieking in the blackness of night under
the boiling surge. That same hour, the on
ly and beautiful daughters of wealth are
sent unprepared into eternity.*
Then comes the rumor of crashing cars;
of sinking ships; of fallingbuildings; of ter
rific fires ; of appalling suicides, and bru
tal murders; following in such rapid suc
cession that the very sympathies are blunt
ed with fearful satiety," and the most timid,
shrinking apprehension looks eagerly’ for
more distruction, and learns to sup on hor
rors.
Well my ex-ery heart utter the fervent
aspiration, “From battle and murder, and
from sudden death, good Lord deliver us.”
Poetry is over-tuning her lyre, and sing
ing of that beautiful state to which the hu
man race is capable of rising. Hope is
ever pointing her telescope to the better
time coming.
A Spanish prox-erb sax’s : “ A little in
the morning is enough, enough at dinner is
but little, and a little at night is too much.”
Remember this, and be preserved from in
digestion and sleepless nights.
Four story shirt collars are all the rage.
The increase in building has prox r ed x’crx’
profitable to the linen and starch trade.—
Short necked people, in order to keep
pace with the spirit of improvement, should
get their ears moved up a little higher.
suit of less profitable duties. The relatives
noxv among us of Washington, Franklin,
Sherman, and Greene are no doubt justly
proud of the fame of these men ; but unless
some of them, of xvliom xve have never ■
heard, are tenants of mad-houses or candid
ates for admission, xve presume there xvould .
be no affront iu telling them that AYashing- .
ton xvas a county surveyor, Franklin a
printer, Sherman a shoemaker and Greene
a blacksmith. If it were otherxvise, it
would but prox’e the tendency of families to
degeneracy in moral and intellectual stat
ure under the' influence of w orldly - prosper- '
ity.
AA’ho is he, no matter how exalted his po- '
sition, who has not relatives in the hum
blest ? The writer has himself seen mem
bers of the immediate families of two Presi
dents of this Republic, toiling for their sup
port in the severest of employments ; and
it is probable that no man has occupied the
AA'hite House xvho has* not been aware that
many of his kindred, unless reliex’ed by’
himself, xvere reckoned among the poor, if
not the honest of the land ! The only’
brother of the great Clay xvas a cabinet-ma
ker ; AYebster, the giant of statesmen and
the ornament of his country, had a brother-
in-law xvho never learned to read until after
completing the period of three score and
ten ; and a majority of the first statesmen
of the present time are the energetic and
ambitious sons of “poor but honest parents.”
Everett (who xvill never blush to hear it)
xvas discox-ered in liis younger days in the
pursuit of knoxvledge under difficulties—the
difficulties of poverty, though they’ present
ed to him but slight impediments on the
road to renown.
The xveb of social life in this country so
infallibly binds together in sympathy and
interest the whole people, that he xvho fan
cies the posibility of other distinctions than
those arising from the possession of wealth,
intelligence, and moral xvorth, but betrays
the folly and ignorance that darken liis own
perceptions and expose him to the contempt
and derision of rational beings.
AATiether iu the rough scramble of those
who are. over-zealous for the accumulation
of wealth, or the far more happy and tran
quil pathway of such as are content with a
prompt and liberal response to the petition
for “our daily bread,” the upright, the in
dependent, and the noblespirited, rich and
poor alike, disdain to think of the existence
of puerile partitions in society, manifested
either by the exhibition of pride and hau
teur on the one side, or of envy, jealousy’,
and conscious inferiority on the other.
But it is not the wealthy xvho most fre
quently betray a consciousness of any dif
ference betxveen themselves and those xvho
are less fortunate ; nor is it those who, in
the pursuit of the right means, are likely’ to
become wealthy. Both of these descrip
tions of persons are too busily’ engaged, the
one enjoying and the other garnering up
the means of independence. It is the poor
in spirit, as xvell as in purse, whose xveak
resolutions and feeble exertions sufficiently
evidence their inability to climb, and who
would fain rex-ile the possessor of that which
they’ are unworthy’ to obtain. How xvell
condition xve are dependant absolutely up
on the Central Railroad, and that Company
knoxving such to be the fact, xvill gix - e the
preference to those who are not thus xvliooly
dependant. Acting under these influences,
the cotton from Griffin, Oglethorpe, Colum
bus and all intermediate places, xvill have
the preference in transportation over cotton
received at Alacon. The consequence, xvill
be, that during the business season xve xvill
alxvays be compelled to xvait until the others
are served ; buyers of cotton, knoxving this,
of course, cannot gix e as good prices as if
there xvere a speedy communication with
other markets. Decrease in prices here
xvill drive trade to other places, and Alacon,
notwithstanding the “ material aid” xvhicli
she furnished in building the Central Rail
road, will be made to suffer by its policy’
towards her.
The Road which I am advocating xvill
also be important to Augusta. For with
the competition for freights at that point,
between the Carolina Road, the River
and the Burke Road, produce xvill al
xvays he carried forward, at very loxv rates.
AA’ ith such facilities, and xvith the fav orable
commercial regulations of an interior town,
the Augusta merchant xvill he enabled to
compete successfully’ with those of both
of Charleston and Savannah, in the pur
chase of cotton and in the sale of goods to
merchants and planters of the interior.
The Georgia Railroad too, will receive
the benefit of a large additional freight and
travel over the lower part of her road, from
die building of the feeder xvhicli is noxv pro
posed.
Nor can I overlook the advantage which
such a road xvould be to the beautiful and
hospitalbie city’ of Columbus. AA’ith the
markets of the Gulf opened to her by the
noble Chattahoochee, and Savannah and
Charleston by’ Railroad, xx’hat a command
ing position would she occupy.
For the building of such a road therefore
from Alacon, through Milledgeville and
Sparta to AA’arrenton xve rely’ upon the cities
of Charleston, Augusta, Alacon and Colum
bus, the planters of Hancock and Baldwin,
the Georgia and the South Carolina Rail
road companies. It is certainly the interest
of all these to unite their efforts in carrying
forward the xvork. Such a road with its
enuipments would probably cost a million
of dollars, and the money can he raised if
the enterprise xvill pay.
To conv ince the public of tbe profitable
ness of such a road, I have only - to say, that
the Central Railroad cannot carry’ off the
produce which xvill accumulate at Alacon,
and a part of it must find its way over the
new road. And I have yet to he convinced
that a bale of cotton could not be carried
through to Augusta, either to Charleston or
Savannah, as cheap as by the Central Rail
road, with the aid of the competition which
xvill exist at Augusta. And I have no
doubt, that when Girard and Alobile Rail
road shall be completed, both the great mail
and travel will be again attracted to this
old line, formerly traversed by the lumber
ing stage coach.
Again it is the universal experience, that
the opening of new facilities for trade a nd tra-
The AA’iik; Party—Whig Issees.—The
New-York Express thus responds to a para
graph in the Nexv-York Tribune, to die ef
fect that the AA'hig party and Whig issues
are dead. Hear the express:
The great Whig issue of resistance to the
natural encroachments of Executive Power,
and to causeless wars, and onsets upon For
eign countries—the Whig issue of a sound
conservatism, mingled xvith a rational pro
gress, is just as much alive as over. Those
issues are not the issues of “ Banks” or “Ta
riffs,” or “Internal Improvements”—but
the issues of all time, and issues that, in a
free government, neverdie. They have di
vided men for ages, and are likely to divide
them for ages to come.
The Executive, the Alonarehieal Power of
this government, and the corruption breed
ing under it and through its patronage, is
such, that a Whig party is indispensably
necessary, to watch it and to cripple it—and
without some such Party, the Constitution,
the Union, cannot exist. To change its
name would not change its duty', its vocation,
or its necessity. Not the less essential is
such a Whig party' as General Washington
led—a party which, while it xvill hesitate
not at even armed resistance, if necessary,
is yet a Party of Law and Order, and of
sound rational Conservatism—but not of
radical, destructive or Jacobin Progress.—
Besides, a AA’hig Constitutional Party is ne
cessary to maintain the Constitution as it is,
free from Estate Rights Secession in the
South—a party’ of-moderation, of justice and
of moral courage to do the Right, no matter
xvhat stands in the xvay. Such a party nex’-
er dies, under aConstitutionalGox’ermnect,
as long as there is Liberty.
It is a mistake to suppose a party' is de
feated and undone, because it cannot carry
a President. Peculiar circumstances may
defeat the man, but leax’e alive and warm the
principle, and these peculiar circumstances
liaxe just been against us. The Whigs
were in a minority, for example, pending the
xvhole of Air. Fillmore’s administration, but
they controlled and governed the two Houses
of Congress, in almost all measures and prin
ciples. Their Foreign Policy wu s sustained
by botli Houses of Congress by large major
ities. Their Internal Administration was
never condemned. Such facts we note, to
shoxv that principles are often stronger than
men, and to establish our idea, that the loss
of a President is by no means the loss
of the AA’hig party*. If offices were its only
bond of union, xve should be defeated and
routed, but that they are not, hasbeen shoxvn
from the whole history of the Whig party.
A “Fast” Age.—The folloxving is too
good to he lost. It illustrates one of the
peculiarities of this “ fast age;”
An old lady in Cincinnati had a large
quantity of bacon to ship to New Orleans,
where she xvas going herself, to buy' sup
plies. She stipulated xvith the Captain of a
steamer that lie should have her freight,
provided he would not race during the trip.
The Captain consented, and the old lady
came aboard. After the second day out,
another steamer was seen close astern ( with
which the Captain had been racing ail the
time) and xvould every’ now and then come
up to the old lady’s boat, and then fall back
again. The highest excitement prevailed
among the passengers, as the two boats con
tinued for nearly a day’ almost side by side.
At last the old lady, partaking of the excite
ment, called the Captain and said, “Cap
tain, you ain’t going to let that tliar old boat
pass us, are you?” “AA’hy, 1 shall haxeto,
Madam,as 1 agreed not to race.” “Well,
x’ou can just try’ it a little, that won’t hurt.”
“But, Madam, to tell you the truth, 1 did.”
“ Gracious, but do try it a little more—see,
the old boat is almost even xvith us,” and a
loud cheer arose from the passengers on the
“ old boat.” “ I can’t raise any’ more steam,
AF.adam, as all the tar and pine knots
arc burnt up.” “ Good gracious, what shall
xve do; see, the old boat is passing us. Is
there nothing else on hoard that will make
steam ?” “Nothing, Aladarn—eh, eh, [as if
a new idea struck him] except your bacon.”
“Throw in the bacon,” shrieked the old la
dy, “ throw in the bacon, Captain, and beat
the old boat ?”
xi'ouldit prox’e for them and for society could ] vel increases that trade and travel. In fact,
they but arouse from the lethargy of soul that the settled policy and conviction of the coun-
overpowers them, and by industry and » try, is, that all the business and trade of the
economy, gloriously win the prize of sue-1 country xvill he done by the railroads. They
cess, the possession of which by others casts ; have already driven ont all other modes of
a jaundiced hue upon ex'ery thing they con- eonx eyance, xve are dependant upon them,
template, and obliterates every just and I they are no longer an article of luxury but
noble feeling of their nature. In the midst 1 necessity, and w£ must have them. The
of the prosperity around us, even tiie shad-1 improvements in machinery will keep up
oxv of au envious thought should be repelled
as a disgrace ; action should take the plain
of idle murmurs : and a due regard to econ-
omy should banish the xuilgar desire of os
tentation. Thus would happiness be in-
ceased, prosperity secured, and every’ an
gry and unworthy emotion subdued.
There xvas a time in xvhicli demagogues
could enkindle tliese unworthy feelings for
their own advantage ; but we trust that it
lias forever departed, and that the self re
spect of every citizen is adequate to protect
him from their pernicious influence.
A good conscience is more to he desir
ed than all the riches of the East. How
sweet are the slumbers of him xvho can lie
doxxn on his pillow and review the transac
tions of every day, without condemning
himself ! A good conscience is the finest
opiate.
A young widoxv was asked xvhy she was
going to take another husband so soon af
ter the death of her first. “ O, la !” said
she, “ I do it to prevent fretting myself
to death on account of dear Tom !”
xvith the demands for their increase, and
they will always pay a fair remuneration.
I am aware that the building of ouch a
road as I liax’e advocated, might alarm the
jealously of those xvho wish to encourage
our oxvn sea-port towns. But with the* fa
cilities already offered to Savannah, she
need not fear rivalry, and we have been
taught in Alacon that the interests of a
particular community,- must he made al
xvays to y ield to the accomplishment of any
great public enterprise. Charleston is a
Southern city—wo are proud of her as
such, and should do all we can to build her
up, and xvliile we unleignedly rejoice at the
growing prosperity of Savannah, there is
no reason xvhy Georgia, bound as she is to
South Carolina by a community of interests
and pursuits, should not seek a favorable
communication with the great sea-port of
that State. G.
“ Dick, I say why don’t you turn tha
buffalo robe t’other side out ?—hair side iu is
the warmer.” “Ah! Tom. Do suppose
the animal himself didn’t know how to
xvear his hide ? I follow his stx'le.
Plain Truths.—The following plain-
spoken sentiments arc from that excellent
paper, the Providence Journal;
“ If any Whig President had done xvhat
Gen. Pierce is doing, the xvjiole conservatism
of the country’xvould be aroused, and half
the papers would he filled xvith denuncia
tions of ‘Sexvardism.’ Castle Garden would
not hold the crowds who would throngthere
to ‘save the Union,’ and the committee of
safety would sit daily. Gen. Pierce is fill
ing the post-offices in the interior of New-
York xvith Barnburners, and is distributing
liis favors in the South to rank Secessionists.
He is pledged to sustain the Compromise,
and he fills the executive offices xvith men
xvho have denounced it and opposed it fr om
the beginning. He removes AYhigs, xvho
were always in favor of the Compromise,
and puts in their places Democrats xvho
xvere always against h. Y’et no cry’ is rais
ed that the ‘Union ism danger.’ Abolition
ists and Secessionists, men who could not
cross Alason and Dixon’s line without the
danger of being lynched, and men who
hold that the institution of slavery is the
‘corner-stone of our republican institutions,’
meet in li ing harmony around the flesh-
pots of office. Of all kinds of humbug, tbe
humbug of Democratic conserv atism is the
most ridiculous, and the man who is impos
ed upon by - it has the least excuse.”
Death of William Dearing.—The Sa-
vannah Republican says:—AYe announce
with much regret, the death, yesterday
morning, in this city, of William Dearing,
Esq., in the sixty-eighth ! year of bis age.
The deceased lias been in techie health for
some time, having been at tasked w ith pa
ralysis, and had removed to Savannah the
past winter, with the view of trying a more
genial climate. He was a prominent man
in upper Georgia some years ago, xvliile en
gaged in business, and w as well known and
highly esteemed in Athens and Augusta,
and also in Charleston. Starting life de
pendent upon his own exertions solely, he
managed by industry and integrity to accu
mulate a large fortune, and to w in the re
spect of all who came in contact with him.
He xvas among the first, if not the first man
in the State to start a Cotton Factory. He
was also au early friend ot internal iu i rux e-
ments, and engaged in many e: r • .•>
all of xvhich he brought great • a i
high character. He leave--
eral children, among the b • *•'- Hon.
AVm. E. Dearing, Mayor c.fk
liis remains will 1 ■ km to Athens. Ga.
for interment.