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MIDLEDGhEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JUNE 91, 1859.
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f ' Tr ^rfrtlie -ale of Personal Property mm
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DR. J. W. HERTY,
TENDERS HIS PROFESSIONAL
Services to the
CITIZENS OF MILLEDGEVILLE AND
VICINITY.
OFFICE AT THE DRUG STORE OF
HERTY &GESNER.
Milledgevile, May 10,1859 19 tf
WAREHOLSB AM) COIllSSlOAi
MERCHANTS
M^VOOJSr, Gi-a.
COATES & W00LF0LK
ITAA E associated together and will occupy the
new FIRE PROOF WAREHOUSE, now being
erected opposite Messrs. Hardeman <fc Spark’s.
Liberal advances made on Cotton when asked
for. Orders for Bagging, Rope, Groceries. &c.,
: ffe f ,y r Mmrs’rf ‘Administration mos.be pnb- [ sh ?» h « re • 0nr . P erS0iial attention.
r» noSs *• ,L i ^ T y ism i s9 i 0 n from Administration, j * , e o} prompt fittention to business, to
i * ; r?v l pismission from Guardianship. . mp ^t ,<l liberal share of patronage.
* N. Coates, Jas. G. Woolvoi.k.
June 7, 1859 ‘ 23 4m
Orii-.irs and Creditors of an Estate mustbe
ed FoRT '..r^Von will ne made to the Court of J
A”. in sell Land nr Negroes, must be l
rv weekly for TWO months.
.jr months-
1 /«;/*• fC |,; Ur e of Morteage mustbe publisli-
" r r monflm for establishing lost papers.
> »r «*«e months—for compelling titles
i? r y imiuistraiors, where a bond has
1 ,^ cc eats*sd, the full space of three months.
'ms v-iil always'be continued according to
' ! requirements, unless otherwise ordered.
- || 1( . i; n e of PRINTING will meet with
. at the Recorder Office.
Notice.
THE Subscribers HOUSE will
be opened for.the reception of
MEMBERS to the Convention
in June next, also for PScsnbers
„ ,, to the nest ieg'islntnre.-
Cali and see me. E. S. CANDLER.
«—= — nrtrmmfl AfWIY Milledgeville, May 24, 1859. 21 tf
1859. GROCERIES. 18o9., _ laborers wanted,
A BOUT twenty hands arc wanted by the sub
scriber to work in a Brickyard. A liberal
price allowed. E. T. ALLING.
Milledgeville, June
opp
gf;r;TT ‘v dAPiAKEb,
rtVf IN’KFEL for the increased patronage of the
'{ ‘w a, beg leave to inform their friends
, vni-rs'tha! they are still at their old stand,
11 n the Post Office. where they would he
' i t .i wait upon them with a full assortment
a'ifarticles u ui.i'ly kept in their line of bnsi-
• Uhicii they will sell as low for cash, or on
‘‘,r as ■ market will allow,) consisting in part
,jj' e f.iilu.ving articles:
STEWART'S A, 15. & C. SUGARS.
Crush’d, Powder’d and Loaf do.
.UYA, COSTA RICA and RIO COFFEE.
CUBA MOLASSES and N. O. SYRUPS.
BACON—Hams, Shoulders & Sides —LARD.
Imperial, Young Hyson and Oolong Teas.
v;„ur, Tobacco, I Starch, Iron, Nails,
, ars Soap, I Cast &. Plow Steel,
IV-eding and Garden Iloes. Axes.
Race and Log Chains.
Lou"- and Short Handle Shovels and Spades.
Manure Forks. Wooden and Hollow Ware.
Hardware and Cutlery.
Lime, Plaster and Cement.
Fine Vines, Brandies, Whiskeys,Gin and Rum.
Paints, Oils & Varnish, and various other articles.
1859
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FOESALE. ,
A CHOICE lot of BACON, cheap for
-ljL cash or approved credit.
COMPTON & CALLOWAY.
May 17, 1859 20 tf
Executors’ Sale.
More than 3.500 Acres of Land.
B Y \ IRTUE of authority conferred by the last
will of Samuel M. Devereaux, deceased, late
of Hancock county, we offer for sale, at private
contract, tire following lots, viz: 139.' 296, and
419, in the 1st district ; No. 266 in the 2d dis
trict; and Nos. 269, 270, 271 and 272, (four adjoin
ing lots) containing 1,220 acres in the 3d district of
originally Wayne county.
Any person wishing to purchase any of said lots
of land, will please address the subscribers at Spar
ta, Hancock county, Ga.
If not previously sold, all the above named lots
will be sold on the first Tuesday in November next,
at public outcry, at the Court-house in the counties
in which said lots of land are now situate. In that
event, terms of sale cash.
CALL AND SEE !1
Mav 17,1859
JOHN GRAYBILL, } v ,
JOHN B. KADNEY, ) rs ’
20 tds
Milledgeville, May 10,1859
19 tf
)RUCE’S Itfew-TTork Type-foundry
) lias now on hand an immense stock of
Soman Type, Laney Type.
Copperplate Script, German lype.
Music Type, Ornaments,
Bhess and Checker Type, Borders,
Brass and Metal Rules, Leads,
ilra-s and Electro. Circles and Ellipses,
Labor-Saving Rules, Corner Quads,
fetal Furniture, etc.
The types are all east by steam power from the
hard metal peculiar to this foundry. The unequal-
id rapidity in the process of casting enables me to
svi! these more durable type at the lowest prices of ,
wdinarv types, either lor cash or credit.
Presses, iVood Type, Ink, Cases, Sticks, etc.,
farnidiedat the manufacturer’s lowest prices. A
specimen pamphlet of Fonts of Letter only, and
i ires mailed to printing offices, on the leceptlon
of seven cents to pre-pay the postage.
Printers of Newspapers who choose to publish
tl.L advertisement, including this note, three times
before the 1st day of August, 1859, and forward
an-mic of the papers, will be allowed their bills at
tie time of making a purchase from me of five
times the amount of my manufactures.
Address,
GEORGE BRUCE,
13 Chambers St., New York.
June 7,1359 23 Jt
AGRICULTURAL
lacliiitery aud Implements.
Plotice to Guilders.
W ILL BE LET to the lowest bidder in the
town of Wrightsville, Johnson county, on
Friday the first day of July next, the building of the
Court-house and Jail for said county.
The Court-house to be a framed building, two
stories, 50 by 36 feet. The Jail of hewd logs 12
by 12, two stories, 24 by 1S feet. Those desirous
of bidding for this work will please call on, or ad
dress by letter, the Clerk the Inferior Court, who
will show or make known the plan and specifica
tion of each building. Terms of letting on the day.
M. CL WILLIAMSON, J. J. C.
SOLOMON PAGE, J. I. C.
GEORGE SMITH, J. I. C.
LOTT WALKER, J. I. C.
JOSEPH C. SMITH, J. I. C.
Wrightsville, May 24, 1859 , 21 td
Lcrert Female College,
TALBOTTON, GA.
A GETLEMAN well qualified, is wanted to
take charge of and act as President of this
College—duties to commence on the middle of
July or first of August.
The building is a large and excellent one and
well suited to the purpose. Talbotton is a large
and thriving village, and has one of the best popu
lations in the South. There is now n flourishing
School. The place is entirely healthy and there
are few places so desirable in all respects.
A. F. OWEN,
Sec’y. of the Board of Trustees.
• Talbotton, May 31, 1859 22 3t
GRAIN CRADLES.
Vood ami Wire braced. 5 and 6 fingers. Price 3^
to 5 dollars.
SCYTHE BLADES,
1-n'iisli Patent, American Silver Steel. Price 75c.
to $ 1 15.
SICKLES' REAP HOOKS,
Grass blades, Scythe Stones and Rifles.
WHEAT FANS,
Grant’s Patent, Excelsior, &.c. Price 18 to 40
dollars.
THRI;SUING MA chines;
Crown’s Virginia, Wheeler’s and Georgia made.
Price 33 to 50 dollars.
HORSE POWERS,
Sinclair’s and Whitman's Lever Powers, one and
two burse Rail Road Powers. Price $100 to <8140.
STRAW CUTTERS,
‘'dinck and Fodder Cutters. Price 5 to 30 dollars.
CORN SHELLERS,
' trions sizes and Patterns Price GA to 15 dollars.
WEEDING HOES,
^ 1 "Vii s Collins’, Weed's Brades’ Patent, Clement’s
hon and Wood Straw Rakes, Cultivators, Harrows,
L evs, Corn Mills, Cliurnes, Wheelbarrows,&c.,
b- c - All for sale at Ihe lowest price», bv
ifiTHAY WEED, Macon Ga.
A Teacher Wanted !
T HE present teacher at Phoenix Academy hav
ing, on account of ill health, tendered his resig
nation. to take effect at the close of the present
term, it has been ordered by the trustees that the
Secretary advertise for an instructor to take his
place. None need apply who cannot come well
recommended as to the highest scholastic attain-
j meats, and first rate ability to teach, as the trustees
! are determined to keep the school up to its present
* high standard.
Address the undersigned at TnrnwolJ, Putnam
■ Co., Ga. J. A. TURNER, Secretary.
; May 31, 1859. 22 'tf
23 2m
May 17,18-,g
CARPETIN8, FLOOR GIL CLOTHS
AND
r I PilOLSTERY ROODS.
pitii subscriber has constantly on hand a full
j assortment of the followings goods, to which
le attention of purchasers is invited.
CA'&PSXZIffG— English Velvet Medal-
jiMi.-. English Tapestry Velvet, English Tapestry
1] lU ' se J 3 < Wire Brussels, English and American
l!, e I’iys. superfine two Plys—all wool; and Cot-
un ’tid Wool Carpets—Hemp, Wool. Dutch, «fce.
v S-rASR CARPETS—Velvet, Brussels,
eueli tn and Cotton—of all widths.
ER.U&GET3 —Wool aud Linen, from 1 to
in width. Bordered Crumb Cloths
of ail sizes.
p iiOOR OIL CLOTHS —English and
CALL AND SEE-
T riE UNDERSIGNED would respectfully call
the attention of his friends and the citizens
generally, to his stock now on hand of
SADDLES AND BRIDLES,
(riding and wagon) Bridle leathers, do. Bits, com
mon and line silver plated. HALTERS, single and
double Bug’g'y Harness, Baggy Whips,
and various other articles in bis line too tedious to
mention. Many of the above articles are as good
as can be put up. Call and examine the stock, no
charge for looking. Also, will do repairing, Har
ness, Shoes and Boots. Ail work done in shop war
anted to stand.
Next door North of Post-office, formerly occupied
by Mr. Staley, Tinner. P. FAIR.
Milledgeville, Fob. 22, 1859. 8 tf
•METALIC BURIAL CASES
Air
it can, varying in width, from J of a yard to
* Birds and of all qualities.
W ^-S01STERT GOODS —Satin and
. ,' ,lsle d damasks, Cotton and wool do.—Broca-
telle.
11 "l’ s - Lace and Muslin Curtains.
«®Uim.? D3 ' co *WICBS and fixtures
Y' lute and check Matting of all widths, always
'"store. a J
The
Rugs, door Mats, &.c.
p immmisious of entries and rooms being giv-
p ’ 0I , ut ks and carpets will be eat to fit, without
extra charge
fui- n r x l : '; T uineed Upholsterer will cut, and prepare
e window, Damask, Lacc and Muslin Cur-
11S D. LATHROP.
o 140 Congress st.57 St Julian st.
•savannah, Ga., May 10, 1859 19 12m
FOR SALE BY
S. G. PRUDEN Eatonton,
J. T. MAttTIN Sparta.
C. A. VINCENT Greenesboro.
March 29.1859 13 ly
“ FOR SALE OR TO HEAT.
A COMFORTABLE DWELLING- with
outhouses, Garden, Orchard, Ac.,at Mi®*
way. A family desiring such a place con
venient to good Schools, would do well to apply at
once to the undersigned. There are about 450
acres in the tract—200 well Wooded, near the Ool-
jege. E. M. OJtME, Sen.
January 4. 1859 1 tf
IP Q E T-R/Y.
The morning Glory.
BY JAMES RUSSKLL LOW El. L.
We wreathed around the darling’s head the morn
ing glory bright;
Her little face looked out beneath, so full of life
and light;
So lit as with a snnride, that we could only say
She is the morning-glory true, and her poor types
are they.
So always from that happy time we called her by
the name,
And very fitting did it seem, for sure as morning
came,
Behind her cradle-bars she smiled to catch the
first fain ray,
As from the trellis smile3 the flower and opens to
the day.
But not so beautiful they rear their airy cups of
bine
As turned her sweet eyes to the light brimmed
with sleep’s tender dew;
And not so close their tendrils fine round their sup
ports are thrown,
As these dear arms whose outstretched plea clasped
all hearts to her own.
We used to think how she had come, even as
comes the flower.
The last and perfect added gift to crown love’s
morning hour; m
And how in her was imaged forth the love we
could not say, _ •
As on the little dew-drops lound shines back the
heart of day.
We never could have thought, O God, that she
must wither up,
Almost before a day was flown, like the morning-
glory’s cup;
We never thought to see her droop her fair and
noble head.
Till she lay stretched before our eyes, wilted, and
cold, and dead.
The morning-glory's blossoming will soon be com
ing round,
We see their rows of heart-shaped leavs up-spring
ing from the ground ;
The tender things the winter killed renew again
their birth,
But the glory of our morning lias passed away
from eath.
O Earth, in vain our aching eyes stretch over thy
green plain !
Too harsh thy dews, too gross thine air, her spirits
to sustain;
But up in groves of Paradise full surely we shall
see,
Our morning-glory beautiful twine round our
Lord’s knee.
Too Proud to take Advice,
A boy took bis uncle down on Long
Wharf, to see a new ship that lay there.
His uncle was an old shipmaster, and
Harry was at some pains to show him
round, partly perhaps to show his. own
knowledge. There was only one sailor
on hoard, and as the visitors passed and
repassed the hatches, “Mind ye, mind ye,”
he said, “don’t fall into the hold, or ye’d
never see day-light again.”
There is no danger of my uncle,” said
Harry, proudly; “he knows a ship horn
stem to stern; and I do, too.” As tlTey
came down the ladder and walked away,
“I was so provoked with that old salt,”
said het “he seemed to think we were
know-nothing landsmen, -with not sense
enough to keep from pitching into the first
danger. I wonder you should thank him
for his advice, uncle; I was provoked.”
“I should he very sorry to take offence
at well meant advice,” said the uncle.—
“Did you ever read about the Royal George,
Harry 1”
“You mean that big ship which foun
dered one pleasant day, in some English
harbor, and all on board perished. I
know something about it; hut tell me more,
uncle. How did it happen?”
“It was at Spjthead, where the English
fleet were at anchor The Royal George
was the flag ship, and Admiral Kctnpen-
felt's blue flag-floated from the raizen.—
She was a fine ship of a hundred guns.—
She was about ready for sea, when the
first lieutenant discovered that the water-
cock was out of order. It was not thought
necessary to haul her in dock for repairs,
hut keel her over until the damaged part
was above water, and repair her there.—
Keeling a ship, you know, is making her
lean over on one side. A gang of men was
sent from the Falmouth dockyards to help
the ship’s carpenters. The larboard guns
were run out as far as possible, and the
starboard guns run in amidships, which
made the ship keel to larboard, so that
her starboard side was far up out of water.
. The workmen iiad got at the mouth of the
water-pipe, when a lighter, laden with
rum, came alongside, aud all hands were
piped to clear her. Now the port sills of
the larboard side were nearly even with
the water before the lighter came along
side, and when the men went down to take
in her casks, the ship keeled more than
ever; besides, the sea had grown rougher
since morning, washing the water into the
lower deck ports.
“The carpenter saw there was danger.
He ran to the second lieutenant, who was
officer of the watch, and told him the ship
must be righted. The lieutenant, angry
tl»at the carpenter should dare dictate to
him, ordered him hack to his work.—
Growing every instant more convinced of
the imminent peril of the ship the man
went a second time to the officer, warning
him that all would he lost if the vessel
was not righted instantly; but he only got
a volley ot oaths for his pains. The lieu
tenant, however, at last ordered the drum
mer to heat to quarters; hut before the
drummer had time to lay Iiold of his drum,
the ship keeled over a little and a little
more, and the men began to scramble down
the hatchways to put the heavy guns hack
iuto their proper places. Alas! it was too
late. Men may begin their duty too late.
Already the water was rushing in; she fill
ed rapidly, settled fast, and almost before
help or rescue could be thought of, down
went the Royal George, carrying her ad
miral. officers, men, and many nobles and
strangers on hoard, to the number of a
thousand souls, down, down, down to a
watery grave, so awfully sudden, that a
few only on the upper deck could save
themselves. And thus to perish, on a fair
day, in sight ot land,.surrounded by a fleet
of ships, all aggravated the terrible disas
ter. As an English poet, Cowper, has it:
“It. was not in the battle;
No tempest wave the shock:
She sprang no fatai leak;
She ran upon no rock.”
“Awful!” said Harry, shuddering; “and
to have it owing to the pride of that fool
ish lieutenant! Too proud to take the
carnenter’s advice; that was the worst of
all. I suppose you told it to me on that
account. L thank you, uncle. O, that
poor lieutenant! His own life, and the
lives of a thousand others, staked upon
his feeling proud! I am sure it makes
the Bible account of pride awfully true:—
“Pride goeth before destruction,. aud a
haughty spirit before a fall.”
f Child's Paper.
An Affecting Railway Incident.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Com
mercial relates the following :
An incident, perhaps common in such
places but very uncommon in our section of
the country, occurred on board the train of
cars I noticed, when fhe cars set out from
the station at Martinsburg, where we stop
ped for supper, two little boys seated on a
car seat two removes from the one I occu-
cupied, who wore a very forlorn appear
ance. The younger, a little lad six years,
seemed trying to cry, while the elder, evi
dently his brother, a bright lad of ten years,
was giving him encouragement in a low
voice, and glancing apprehensively at the
front car door, through which the conduc
tor was presently to make his entrance.—
In time ho came, and after the usual ques
tion and some mumbled response by the
elder hoy, addressed him in a rather rough
voice, “Ah, so* you’re on hoard again
are you? Well, you must get off at the next
stopping p]aee.” The next stopping place
came, hut the little boys never stirred
from their seat. Presently the conductor
came around again. “So you’re on board
yet are you? Well, xve will have you put
off the next time the cars stop.” At this
the little boy began to cry audibly, and
one of my Kentucky .acquaintance, who
sat just in front of them, questioned the el
der as to what ailed them. From his re-
plie^we gleaned the following account.
They were two brothers, and had' left
Baltimore, where they had previously resi
ded, about a week before. Their mother
had been dead some time, and their father
lost his life by an accident, while engaged
at work on a building just two days before
they set out on their trip. They had been
left destitute, and finding no resource but
the usual place of refuge, had resolved to
go W T est, where their big brother Lucas,
who was married, and their big sister Mar
tha, who expected to be, were living.—
They refused to wait, until, in answer to a
letter, their brother could come or send for
them ; but without money, they had seated
themselves in the cars, and had been put
off regularly and successively from each
train at the station, usually making one,
and very rarely the distance between two
stations. They bad experienced little dif
ficulty in securing something to eat and a
place to sleep, from the charity of the vil
lagers along the way. In this manner
they had conquered over a quarter of the
length of the Baltimore and Ohio road, and,
with equal success, could hope to attain
Chicago, the goal of their journey, late in
the fall. Upon becoming satisfied that
their story was really one of truth, my
friend, the Kentuckian, proposed and took
up a collection among the passengers for
their benefit, which resulted in the hand
some sum of between thirty or forty dol
lars. The conductor, to whom they had
simply stated that they had neither money
nor ticket, when told the circumstances,
refused to take any fare from them. And
so our little friends came all the way to
Wheeling at one ride.
The following day, after dinner, as the
Kentuckian and myself were sitting in
front of the Sprigg House, the little hero
came tugging before us with a stalwart,
well-dressed young iqan, whom lie vocifer
ously announced as his big brother, who
had set out from Chicago to bring them to
his home, and had there, by the happiest
chance, met them in the hotel. The big
brother made an earnest offer to return the
money contributed to our keeping, saying
that the boys had no need of it ; that he
was well to do, and had often vainly en
deavored to get his father to come to his
home. But we refused to accept it. and
hade him use it for the boys. That even
ing they set cut for Chicago, and long ere
this, I presume, the little heroes have been
clasped in the arms of their big sister.
Lord Byron’s Lameness.
No one was within the house but Fletch
er, of which I was glad. As if he knew
my wishes, he led me up a narrow stair in
to a small room, with nothing in it hut a
coffin standing on trestles. No word was
spoken by either of us ; he withdrew the
black pall and the white shroud, and there
lay the embalmed body of the Pilgrim—
more beautiful in death than in life. The
contraction of the muscles and skin had
efface 1 every line that time or passion had
ever traced on it; few marble busts could
have matched its stainless white, the har
mony of its proportion, and perfect finish ;.
yet he had been dissatisfied with that body,
and longed to cast its slough. How oit-
cn I heard him curse it! He was jealous
of the genius of Shakspearc—that might
well he ; but where had lie seen the face
or form worthy to excite his envy? I ask
ed Fletcher to bring me a glass of water.
On his leaving the room, to confirm or re
move my doubts as to the cause of his
lameness, I uncovered the Pilgrim’s feet,
aud was answered, the great mystery was
solved. Both his feet were clubbed, and
his legs withered to the knee^—the form
aud features of an Apollo, with the feet and
legs of a sylvan satyr.
Knowing and sympathising with By
ron’s sensitiveness, his associates avoided
prying into the cause of his lameness ; so
did strangers, from good breeding or com
mon humanity. It was generally thought
his halting gait originated in some defect
of the right foot or ankle ; the right foot
was the most distorted, and it had been
made worse in his boyhood by vain efforts
to set it right. He told me that for several
years he wore steel splints, which so
wrenched the sinews and tendons of his
leg, that they increased his lameness ; the
foot was twisted inwards, only the edge
touched the ground and that leg was shor
ter than the other. Ilis shoes were pecu
liar: very high heeled, with the soles un
commonly thick on the inside and pared
thin on the ontside ; the toes were stuffed
with cotton wool, and his trousers were
very large below the knee, and strapped
down so as to cover his feet. The peculiar
ity of his gait was now accounted for; he
entered a room with a sort of run, as if lie
could not stop, then planted his-best leg
well forward, throwing back his -body to
keep his balance. In early life, whilst his
frame was light and elastic, with the aid of
a stick he might have tottered along for a
mile or two; but after he had waxed heav
ier, lie seldom attempted to walk more
than a few hundred yards without squat
ting down or leaning against the first wall,
bank, rock, or tree at baud—never sitting
on the ground, as it would have been diffi
cult for him to get up again. In the compa
ny of strangers, occasionally, he would
make desperate efforts to conceal his in
firmity ; but the hectic flush on his face,
his swelling veins, and quivering nerves
hetraying him, and he suffered for many
days after such exertions. Disposed to
fatten, incapable of taking exercise to
check the tendency, what could he do ?—
If he added to his weight, his feet would
not have supported him ; in this dilemma
he was compelled to exist in a state of
semi starvation ; he was less than eleven
stones when at Genoa, and said he had
been fourteen at Venice. The pangs of
hunger which travelers and shipwrecked
mariners have desexfibed, were nothing to
wliat he suffered; their privations were
temporary, his were for life and more unen
durable, as he was in the midst of abund
ance— Tre7aicny's “Last Days of Shelley
and Byron."
[From the Peoria (Illinois). Transcript, May 18]
Terri tie Fight with a Rattlesnake.
We have hitherto supposed the day long
since passed for chronicling a big snake
fight in the vicinity of the Central City,
but such it appears is not the case, from a
scene which recently transpired within a
short drive from the eourt-house. Some of
the older residents will remember a build
ing which formerly stood on Prospect Hill,
about six miles distant from Peoria, and
which was destroyed some seven or eight
years since. During the past season an
other house was erected near the same lo
cation, and all that has remained as relics
of the old hotel was a partially filled exca
vation for a cellar and two well-preserved
brick cisterns, which had been kept cov
ered up. Last week the proprietor of the
place, while busy with his wife in prepar
ing their summer flower gardetv, found him
self in the want of a few brick for the edge
of the walks. Remembering the cisterns,
he uncovered one of them, and finding it
dry at the bottom, and only about six feet
in depth, he jumped in, and commenced
throwing out some of the best brick he
could pick from the walls. It seems there
was a piece, of plank with one end partial
ly imbedded in the earth that somewhat in
commoded him, so seizing it, with some
exertion lie pulled it out and threw it to
the top. What was his horror and surprise
at the next moment to find that he had un
earthed an enormous rattlesnake, and him
self without a weapon in his hand. As
the cistern wasround, and only about five
feet in diameter, he could not jump out,
and the snake, bristling with anger and
rattling defiance, was ready for battle. His
screams brought his wife to the scene, hut
she was so overcome with fright that she
became powerless to render any assistance.
The snake in the meantime had commen
ced the fight, making repeated springs at
him, hut fortunately he managed on each
occasion to hit him upon the heal with his
boot, without receiving a bite, the snake
all the time becoming more defiant and en
raged. During the whole scene, which
lasted several minutes, the man did not
lose his presence of mind, hut watching his
chance, made several frantic efforts to jump
bodily from this seemingly pit of destruc
tion. At the last trial he fortunately grasp
ed a brick, which gave way with him, and
remained in his hand as he again stood
fronting his hissing enemy. After a few
more kicks, and watching his opportunity,
he threw it, making probably one of the
best shots on record, for it stiuck the snake
on the head, and between the one sent
and the wall he became a “pretty well
used up sarpant.” Weak and exhausted,
our hero, by the assistance of his wile, was
enabled to climb from the pit, hut when
once more upon the earth he fainted away,
and it was some time before lie could be re
covered. For several succeeding days he
was quite unwell. The snake was after
wards taken from the cistern, when it was
found to measure seven feet in length, and
contained thirteen rattles. The latter
have been preserved, and are placed in
ShoafTs Museum for exhibition.
The Way lo Spoil Girls.
If any parent wishes a receipt how to
spoil daughters, it can he easily and readi
ly given, and can he proved by the experi
ence of hundreds to he certaia and effica
cious.
1. Be always telling her, from earliest
childhood, what a beautiful creature she
is. It is a capatal way of inflating the
vanity of a little girl, to he constantly
exclaiming “How pretty !” Children un
derstand such flattery, even when in the
nurse’s arms, and the evil is done the
character in its earliest formation.
2. Begin, as soon as she can toddle
around, to rig her up in fasionable cloths
and rich tresses. Put a hoop upon her at
once, with all the artficial adornments of
flounces, and feathers, and flowers, and
curls; Fondness for dress will thus become
a prominent characteristic and will usurp
the whole attention of the young immortal,
and be a long step toward spoiling her.
3. Let her visit so much that she finds
no happiness at home, aud therefore will
not be apt to slay there and learn home
duties. Jt is a capital thing for the spoil
ed daughter to seek all her happiness in
visiting find change of associates. She
will thus grow as useless as modern fasli-
iouable parents delight that their daugh
ters should he.
4. Let her reading consist of novels of
the nauseatingly sentimental, kind. She
will he spoiled sooner than il she persued
history or science. Her heart will he oc
cupied by fictitious scenes and feelings ;
her mind filled with unrealities, and her
aims placed on fashion and dress and ro
mantic attachments.
5. Be careful that her education gives
her a smattering of all the accomplish
ments, without the slightest knowledge of
the thing really useful in life. Your
daughtei won't he spoiled so long as she
has a real desire to be useful in the world,
and aims at its accomplishment. If her
mind and time arc occupied in modern
accomplishment, there will he no thought
of the necessity and virtue of being of
some real use to somebody pervading her
heart, and she will he soon ready as a
spoiled daughter.
6. As a consequence, keep her in pro
found ignorance ot all the useful arts of
houskeeping, impressing upon her mind
that it is vulgar to do anything for your
self; or to learn how anything is done in
the house. A spoiled daughter should
never be taught the mysteries of the kitch
en—such things a l.ady always leaves to
the servants. It would be “vulgar” for
her to know how to dress trout or shad, to
bake, to wash, to iron, to sweep, to wring
the neck of a live chicken, pluck it and
prepare it for breakfast, or to do anything
that servants arc hired to do. As a mis
tress x»f a house, it is her dnty to sit on a
velvet sofa all day, in the midst of a pyra
mid of silks and flounces, reading the last
flash novel, while her domestic are perform
ing the labors of the house.
To complete the happiness of your
spoiled daughter, marry her to a bearded
youth with soft hands, who knows as lit
tle how to earn money as she does to save
it. Her happiness will be finished for her
lifetime.
The President on Composition.
The following incident and episode are
related by the correspondent of the Rich
mond Dispatch, in.his account of the first
day's proceedings—the Sophomore exhi
bition—at the North Onrolina University,
on the 1st inst :
During an interval in these exercises,
Prof. Jno. T. Wheat appeared on the plat
form, and presented Elisha E. Wright, of I
Tenn. to President Buchanan, as the vonng
gentleman who had won the prize offered
for the most meritorious English composi
tion, adding that the prize would be doub
ly valued it presented by himself.
The President consented, and said :
“I confess I am taken by surprise at this
incident of this evening, but I am happy
to be the honored medium in the presenta
tion of this token to the young gentleman,
lie is distinguished for most meritorious
composition—and that is tl»e great merit
among literary gentlemen. The man w r ho
writes clearly, must think dearly, and
will, by practice, come to speak clearly.—
There is great merit in short sentences.—
The author who uses long sentences is al-
ways laboring with difficulty. One
tinct idea distinctly set forth, lias more po
tency than a book full of those in which
everything under the sun is jumbled togeth
er, as is so commonly the case among our
modern writers. The ancient style was
the best style, and that was the style of
Calhoun and Webster. I wish you, sir,
great honor and great prosperity in what
ever pursuit in life you may engage. I
have been delighted with the examination.
I have never heard more genuine sense,
humor and wit than in the address deliver
ed by the gentleman who spoke to you
this afternoon (Dr. Hooper,) aud who was
formerely professor here—aud with regard
to the more sober portions of it, I hope they
have sunk deep into the minds of every
student in this College.
“The great curse of our country, which
has involved so many in crime; is drunken
ness. It is more dreadful than the pesti
lence, than the yellow fever, than the
plague, than all the calamities that visit
man. In it, we bring ourselves a greater
calamity than Heaven has brought upon us
in any form or shape of misery. I wish,
with all my heart, to repeat what lias been
best said,—what that speaker said, aud ask
you all to take care to avoid that fatal vice,
which degrades man to the level of the
brute, and brings him into disgrace in the
eyes of the whole world. [Applause.]”
How to Converse.—Among all the
“accomplishments” which our youg ladies
are expect'd to acquire, it is to he regret
ted that the art of conversation is not in
cluded. No grace of person* or manners
can compensate for a lack of this. In
youth the conversation of our woman is
apt to le trifling and insipid, and in mid
dle age it is too often confined to com
plaints of health and the scandal of the
day. Lively conversation upon instructing
and elevating topics is hut little practiced ;
hut whenever it is found it gives a charm to
the soceity of females which nothing else
can. It triumphs over deformity and old
age, and makes ugliness itself agreeable.
Curran, speaking ofMadame de Stael, who
was by no means handsome, but a splen
did conversationalist, said that she “had
the power of talking herself into a beauty.”
Ladies should think of this. The faculty
of language is one of the most wonderful
and potent for good or evil of the powers
with which we are endowed ; hence the
importance of sedulously cultivating it.
True courtesy is self denial; and home
traing should have for its object the lead
ing of the young to regard each other, to
forbear exacting demands, to seek to
please, instead of insisting on being grati
fied. The world is growing decidedly too
unceremonious, and, of necessity, too un
scrupulous. We cannot afford to*lose the
guard which politeness and amenity place
around the observance of the eolden rule ;
and still less can we consent that the
counterfeit of artificial society, and that
only in public, should take the place of the
hearty kindness which is true courtesy.—
Let home training counteract the threaten
ed evil, and the family become the school
of reform.—Dlorih Ameiican.
The Wit oe a Miscuievods Bet.t.e.—
Hon. Henry Stuart Foote, lat-c Senator in
Congress from Mississippi, and afterwards a
shining light in California, is attracting
considerable attention in the South at this
time. It seems he is endeavoring to look
youngagain, and has donned a Lrown wig
and dyed his heard and moustache. Last
winter the Ex-Governor was figuringabnut
the parlors of the St. Charles Bote! in New
Orleans, in a flowing wig of dark brown
locks, and enormous heard and moustache,
of the deepest jet, which would have done
honor to a Grenadier of the French Impe
rial Guard. As he passed the large mir
rors he never failed to cast an admiring
look at his own reflection, and not only
smiled at himself, hut was the cause of
laughter in others who helield him. One
evening he joined a group of gentlemen
who surrounded a young and charming
belle, and soon addressed some remarks to
her. She returned a look of surprise as if
she did not know him. “Why Miss ,”
said our venerable friend, “you don’t seem
to know me.” “Oh, yes.” said she apo
logetically, “there, is something quite fa
miliar to me in your voice, but really I
can’t recollect your naftie.” “My name,
Miss , is Foote.” “Ah, now I under
stand i f . I once knew a Gov. Foote, of
Mississippi, hut did not know that he had
a son as young as yon are!” “Thank you
Miss I owe you one,” said the orator as be
turned away, for his self-possession was not
proof against the wit of the mischievous
belle.
Hatpiness.—I am inclined to think that
if our minds were capable of apprehending
the essential facts of the life we see, we
should be convinced that happiness is one
of the most evenly distributed of all human
possessions. The laborer loves*his wife
and children as well as the lord, and takes
into his soul all the tender and precious
influences that flow to him through their
love as well as be. Food tastes as sweet
ly to the ploughman as the placeman. If
tlie latter have the daintier dish, the for
mer lias the keener appetite. Into all
ears the brook ponrs the same stream of
mnsic, and the birds never vary their pro
gramme With reference to their audience.
The spring scatters violets broadcast, and
grass grows by the roadside as well as in
the park. The breeze that tosses the curls
on yonr little ones and mine is not softer
in its caresses of those who bonnd over the
velvet to meet it. The sun shines, tlie rain
falls, the trees dress themselves in green,
the thunder rolls and the stars flash for
all alike. Health knows nothing of hu
man distinctions, and abides with him who
treats it best. Sleep, the gentle angel,
does not come at the call of power, and
never proffers its ministry for gold. The
senses take no bribes of luxury ; but deal
as honestly and generously by the poor as
by the rich ; and the President of the Uni
ted States would whistle himself blind be
fore he eonld call our dog from us.
[Timothy Titcomb.
Memory. T\e need not go beyond onr
own familiar experience to verify the power
of memory. Revisit some scenes of early
life, from which you have been absent
twenty, thirty, or forty years ; what in
tensely vivid remembrances take shape,
hue and voice ? 'i he faces and tones of
the long fogotten, the very trees and
stones now disloged r the prattle and day
dreams of infiijjcy, every evanescent of
thought and feeling, will be recalled, and
you find yonrself -again a child. There is
not a reverie that ever flitted across our
minds, uct a dream that e\*er haunted our
pillows, which lias gone beyond return.—
Nor is there a single day, when st range
and isolated facts, fragments of conversa
tions, vague, floating images of ancient
and forgotten things, do not thus rise be
fore us, like ghosts of the rnibnricd. Tims
the past never dies, though in the common
routine of life, we- have tv a* degree the
keys of memory in orn- own hands, and
may admit or exclltUe recollections at
pleasure. But thera are seasons, and those
not rare, when the keys are taken from us,
and, without tlie power of clioiee, we ate
liable to iuundations'froin tlie ;jood or evil,
the sweet or bitter, of the past promiscu
ously. Itideed, tlie seasons are so frequent
with us ail, that a large part of our happi
ness is placed irrevocably out of our own
keeping—transferred from onr present to
our past selves. * * * * •
Of the power of memory for good or
evil we have in this life ample experience,
from the torn and scattered leaves of its
book, with which recollection furnishes us.
What anguish can be compared with the
remorse that gnaws the breast of tlie betray
er of innocence—“of him whose profligaev
has brought the gray hairs of parents with
sorrow to the graven of him whose every re
trospect is ravlessand guilt-stained ? *
* * * We recollect our childish fol
lies, and the chiding and paiu that attend
ed them;, but* if they were outgrown, for
saken, or forgiven, and if, while they lie
back in the dim distance of many years,
we have built fair and pleasing structures
in the foreground,these so occupy the views
as to prevent the eye from resting painful
ly on earlier guilt.
\Rev. Dr. A. P. Peabody.
Pigeons in Eastern Tirginia.
It is is estimated that $20;00Q worth of
wild pigeons-are caught in Essex County,
Va., every seasonT.As they sell for about
$1 a dozen, this makes the number caught
about a quarter of a* million. The Salem
Observer gives this account of the way
they are caught:
The pigeons jare attracted to particular
parts of the woods by the strewing of grain
in an open spiacecleared of the brushwood
for the purpose. Hi this* way, are not on
ly tolled around the spot where traps are
to be set and familiarized with the ground,
but are well fattened before taken. They
are. fed for some time previous to the
spreading of 1 the net*: When a sufficient
number have congregated to make *t worth
while to entrap them,-their grain is satur
ated with whisky, which steals away their
silly brains as it does giHy men’s brains,
and they become wiiliugly stupefied victims
of the trappers. The net is set in such a
way that, by the use of youug saplings or
drawing springs, it’is- made to jump orer
the dense flock of fuddled pigeons gather
ed in front of it ; and when they attempt
to rise they are entangled in tlie meshes.
The pigeons* we are toJd, when enticed by
the grain and whiskey-, willLmddle togeth-
in a coinpat- mass, as if* for the special
convenience and gratification of the trap
per. When once caught in the net, they
thrust their head through th’a-meshcs. and
the trapper, by a certain pressure npon the
neck, kills one after* another vitn great
rapidity, and with more-dexterity of touch
than tenderness of feeling.
A Fnon in the Stomach.—A son of Mr.
Charles Davis, residing in Gonld’s Court,
leading from- M-oittjgomery, near Lijrht-
street. lias-caused dieifcmily great uneasi
ness for three years past, in consequeuce
of his being subject at times, for honrs to
gether, to spasms and terrible fits. Physi
cians were consulted, hot all tlieir investi
gations failed to reveal the causes that pro
duced the malady. Yesterday afternoon,
about three o’clock, when entering the
ihouse, the lad was seized with the symp
toms of his nmltidy, and in a fit of retching,
threw npou the floor wlive frog, about two
inches in length. The frog hopped gaily
about the floor until aecnred by the family.
Instant relief was experienced by the lad.
His name is William Davis, and he is about
ten years of age. Be has no recollection
of the time Ihe frog was taken into the
stomach hut his father thinks it was swal
lowed with his drink about three years
,ago, when he was first afflicted with fits.
[ Baltimore Sun.
A Pari%c orrfl6 P OI, fl en l of the Boston Post
says that the Empress Eugenie, as Regent,
«s said to have given great eanse of uneasi
ness by her behavior at the Council. She
broke forth into opinion, of her own
which astonish ealhem all- She declared
the war to be mijust and wicked, expressed
her conviction that it never would come to
a prosperous end, and, in the midst of sobs
aud exclamations, betraying, by sundry
appeals and passionate entreaties, immedi
ately to cause the strife to cease, and. that
all these ideas bad been lodged in !ier
beautiful head by no less a personage Ban
the Archbishop of Paris, weut off into a fit
of mild, moist hysterics, and sinking back
In her chair, covered her face with her
handkerchief and spoke no more.
A French photographer has dicovered a
process for obtaining photographs of a red
green, violet or blue color.
