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MIDLEDGhEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JUNE 91, 1859. NUMBER 25. Lr,^ tn XE aX OBME & SON, eiliroR* ANr> PKQ plllETOtts - roitoictt is published weekly, atthelow „ I ARS per annum, when paid in ad- •7e Hi" 1 '* . -dvanne. Two Dolurs and Fifty : a „ within the year. Three Dollars “Yj-simI •’ ] subscription received for less than six * \,[ a lwavsin advance. Remittancesby in;!— ! '!;’',j ( iletters at nnr risk. . . nVtne the direction of their paper "^- p, uify us7«m» what office itisto betrans- TS conspicuously inserted at $1 00 " fl rst insertion,and 50cents persquare ,,,jn re!l ’ rl insertion. Those sent without a r . suhseqt ■ nu[n j, ef of insertions, will be pub- °!. e a out, and charged accordingly. 1 j 1 >Je< T roes,l>y Administrators, Exec- - - ’i h ,n '^ is nr p required by law to be held on ... or G a '-' ‘ ; n [he month, between the honr3 often . it Tuesday j ,j, r ee in the afternoon, at the Court .... 'j- T ’ :! " ll ’‘ i m which the property is situate. No- ino<l be given in a public gazette - f^revions to the day of sale. f ' Tr ^rfrtlie -ale of Personal Property mm S ,:icesf*>rti vioas to the day of sal least 1 1 i r-^^.toors nt an Estate nstbe siv- 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 tf 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.