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VOLUME XLII.
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JULY' 23, 1861.
NUMBER 30.
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(OlW CALENDAR FOR 1861.
REVISED BY TIIE SOUTHERN RECORDER.
SUPERIOR COURTS.
JANUARY,
jj Monday, Chatham
4th Monday, Richmond
Lumpkin
‘Floyd
FEBRUARY.
.it Monday, Clark
~i Monday, Campbell
Dawson
d Monday, Forsyth
tPoik
Glascock
Meriwether
Walton
b Monday, Baldwin
J ackson
Montoe
Paulding
Taliaferro
Walker
MARCH.
iitTiiursday,Pierce
"iiMonday, Appling
Chattooga
Cherokee
Coweta
Columbia
Crawford
Gwinnett
Madison
M arion
Morgan
Mnaay, Butts
Cass
Coffee
Elbert
Fayette
Greene
Pickens
Washington
Webster
toidayaffr. Montgomery
dMonday, Cobb
Calhoun
Hall
Hart
Heard
Macon
Newton
Putnam
Talbot
Tattnall
Ware
;™hy after,Bulloch
it Monday, Clinch
flChattahooeltee
Emanuel
Lee
Twiggs
White
Wilkes
av af.)
-MthMon- \ Uchols
day. ) Effingham
APRIL.
•tkSd Mon. Carroll
■! Monday, Dooly
Early
Fulton
Gordon
Pike
Rabun
Taylor
Warren
Wilkinson
! y, Habersham
Hancock
Harris
Laureus
Miller
Scriven
Sumter
•esdsyafter .McIntosh
iManday, Franklin
Glynn
Haralson
Henry
Jefferson
Jones
Liberty
Murray
Oglethorpe
Pulaski
Stewart
l Worth
l u . J Bryan
•tonday,Wayne
Banks
Decatur
DeKalb
Houston
Jasper
Lincoln
Schley
Whitfield
Wilcox
Hr after, Telfair
i> t Uamden
."‘day after,Irwin
•J “ Berrien
Charlton
u MAY.
Monday, Clayton
Gilmer
Randolph
ju , Upson
-Monday, Burke
Catoosa
Chatham
Fannin
Mitchell
j Muscogee
* tald >y. Bibb
Quitman
Spalding
Troup
Union
'■aflay
afar,
JULY
1st Monday, Floyd*
Ith Monday, Lumpkin*
AUGUST.
5.1 Monday, Campbell
Clark
Dawson
3d Monday, Forsvlh
JPulk
Glascock
Meriwether
Walton
4th Monday,Baldwin
Jackson
Monroe
Paulding
Taliaferro
W alker
Thursday after,Pierce
SEPTEMBER.
1st Monday, Appling
Chattooga
Cherokee
Columbia
Coweta
Crawford
Madison
Marion
Morgan
-2d Monday,Butts
Cass
Coffee
Elbert
F ayette
Greene
Gwinnett
Pickens
Washington
Webster
3d Monday, Cobb
Calhoun
Hall
Hart
Heard
Macon
Newton
Putnam
Talbot
Ware
Bulloch,
4th Monday, Clinch
IlCItatahoochee
Emanuel
Lee
Twiggs
White
Wilkes
Monday af-
the 4th > Echols
Monday )
OCTOBER.
1st A 2d Mon.Carroll
1st Monday Dooly
Early
F ulton
Gilmer
Gordon
Taylor
Warren
Wilkinson
Pike
Wednesday after. Rabun
2d Monday, Fannin
Habersham
Hancock
Harris
Laurens
Miller
Scriven
Sumter
3d Monday, Frauklin
Glynn
Haralson
Henry
Jefferson
Jones
Murray
Oglethirpe
Pulaski
Stewart
Union
W orth
| Montgomery
Jo , Baker
* wda jr, Dade
Terrell
^Col^itt
JUNE.
Dougherty
Lowndes
H.s.ii
(Clay
[Ki t y Th hnS ° n
S ‘ honta,
0dt )iRichuiond
•Hi
Thursday
after
4tb Monday,Banks
Wayne
Decatur
DeKalb
Houston
Jasper
Lincoln
Schley
Tattnall
Towns
Whitfield
Wilcox
^Friday after Telfair
Camden
Thursday after, Irwin
Monday after Charlton
NOVEMBER.
1st Monday, Berrien
Clayton
Effingham
Milton
Randolph
Upson
2d Monday,Burke
Catoosa
Mitchell
Muscogee
3d Monday, Bibb
Quitman
Spalding
Troup
Baker
4lh Monday, Dade
Terrell
Thursday after, McIntosh
Monday after, Colquitt
do do Liberty
Mon. after Liberty. Bryan
DECEMBER.
1st Monday, Dougherty
Lowndes
2d Monday. Brooks
'Clay
Johnson
3d Monday, Thomas
hold three weeks, if necessary, at each
IJ^ha: | ^
Court!
hw ' n . Clay county, which, under the
^hvthl 8 ' 1 between now and the times as
h ihov S Wt ’ must ®tand over till the times fix-
IThe ’
t, ( nt 7 °f Chattahoochee, by act of this
s be added to, and become a part of the
“ e e Judicial District, after 1st January,
s for sale at this Office.
Prepesed Contribution fervaah ofsoldlers-
Proporiionate share ef each County.
Comptroller General’s Office, ?
Milledgeville, May 22,1861. $
His Excellency Joseph E. Brown.
. . Sl j : r* In compliance with your request con
tained in an address to the People of Georgia, un
der date of the 1/th inst. I herewith furnish vou an
approximate statement of the “amount which’woul d
be the just proportion of each county, should each
determine to contribute its part of the one million
donate proposed [by your Excellency] to he rais-
ed, ‘to be used by the State in equipping and
ami providing tor the wants of the Georgia troops”
now or that may hereafter be in the service of the
country, during the present war.
This statement is made upon the basis of the nett
amount of tax paid into the State Treasury from
the several counties, for the year I860. It is only
an approximate apportionment, however. The
rule in this office in relation to prompt payments
by Collectors is quite stringent. The consequence
is, that, if cn the 20th December in each year, (the
day ot the “final settlement,”) Collectors fail to
have their insolvent lists at this ofiice as the law
requires, they have to pay into the State Treasury
the whole amount of the tax of their counties, after
deducting the Receivers and Collectors commis
sions. This enables the Collectors io take their own
time to obtain their insolvent lists without detri
ment to the State; and the same are allowed, if
correct and in due form, and the money refunded
for them whenever presented at this office. A
large number of Collectors make their settlements
in this way. Many have already sent forward their
insolvent lists, and have had the amounts of their
over-payments refunded to them, while the Gener
al Tax ot I860 is still indebted to a respectable
number of counties for their insolvent lists. Until
these come in, there is no arriving at the precise,
amount to be apportioned to each county ; but hav
ing made allowances for the same, I think the fol
lowiug apportionment would not be changed mate
rially, were all these over-payments refunded:
Appling, $1,779 Jasper, 11,924
i 61 *’ 7,490 Jefferson, 10,77t
Baldwin, 8,762 Johnson, 1,831
Banks, 2,304 Jones, 10,231
Berrien, 1,876 Laurens, 5,651
Bibb 22,449 Lee, 9,511
Brooks, 7,505 Liberty, 6*94i
Bry an » 3,063 Lincoln, 6*311
Bulloch, 4,095 Lowndes, 4 661
Burke, 19,261 Lumpkiu, l’dll
Butts, • 6,257 Macon, 9841
Calhoun, 4.722 Madison, 3,52-1
Camden, 4,957 Marion, 7 061
Campbell, 5,909 McIntosh, 4*916
Carroll, 5,889 Meriwether, 15,9011
Cass, 14,615 Miller, 1,955
Catoosa, 3,515 Milton, 2,045
Charlton, 1,080 Mitchell, 3.454
Chatham, 42,351 Monroe, 19,115
Chattahooclie, 5,020 Montgomery, 2,025
Chattooga, 5,333 Morgan, 12,6)46
Cherokee, 4,817 Murray, 3,759
Clark, 13,523 Muscogee, 21,364
Clay, 4,522 Newton, 13,397
Clayton, 3,090 Oglethorpe, 12,417
Clinch, 1,789 Paulding, 2,123
Cobb, 10,318 Pickens, 1,404
Coffee, 1,501 Pierce, 845
Columbia, 13,267 Pike, 9,306
Colquitt, 529 Polk, 5,547
Coweta, 14,625 Pulaski, 7,849
Crawford. 8,201 Putnam, 13,496
Dade, 1,467 Quitman, 4,734
Dawson, 1,160 Rabun, 94fc
Decatur, 11,763 Raudolph, 9,594
Dekalb, 5,613 Richmond. 33,495
Dooly, • 8,820 Schely, 4,623
Dougherty, 14 625 Scriven, 7.069
Early, 7,678 Spalding, 9,416
Echols, 722 Stewart, 15,196
Effingham, 3.641 Sumter, 14.705
Elbert, 11,588 Talbot, 15,506
Emanuel, 3,449 Taliaferro, 4,382
Fannin, 1,328 Tattnall, 2,747
Fayette, 4,657 Taylor. 5,076
Floyd, 15,641 Terrell, 5,859
Forsyth, 3,086 Telfair, 1,755
Frauklin, 3,088 Thomas, 14,027
Fulton, 13,503 Towns, 836
Gilmer, 1.463 Troup, 21,413
Glasscock, 1,540 Twiggs, 9,411
Glynn, 4,307 Union, 1,214
Greene, 14,288 Upson. 9,81c
Gordon, 6,525 Walker, 6,001
Gwinnett, 7.059 Walton, 9,086
Habersham, 2,352 Ware,* 1,357
Hall, 4,830 Warren, 10,296
Hancock, 13,798 Washington, 13,8616
Haralson, 1,070 Wayne, 1,177
Harris, 15,512 Webster. 5,043
Hart, 3,359 White. 1,214
Heard, 5,760 Whitfield, 6,494
Henry, 9,633 Wilcox, 1,105
Houston, 19,914 Wilkes, 13,324
Irwin, 897 Wilkinson, 8,531
Jackson, 6,660 Worth, 1,771
$1,000,000
Very respectfully. Your ob’t. serv’t.,
PETERSON THWEATT.
Comptroller General.
ENT, )
ICE, >
i- s
(CIRCULAR.)
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
Adjutant General’s Office
Milledgeville, Ga., May 18, 1861
As the Confederate Government does not, at
present, furnish clothing in kind, to the Volunteers
called into its service, but a commutation therefor
in money, every Volunteer ought, when mustered
in, for his own comfort and health, to be sufficient
ly provided with articles of uniform and dress to
meet his immediate wants, and lor the probable
necessities of at least three months.
It is therefore recommended that each Volunteer
will, as far as practicable, present himself at the ren
dezvous, where he is to be transferred iuto the ser
vice of the Confederacy, provided with the follow
ing articles of uniform and dress, viz:
1 Coat, or Jacket, (as may be the uniform.)
2 pr. Trousers.
1 Forage or Fatigue Cap.
2 Flannel Shirts.
2 pr’s. Drawers.
3 pr’s Socks, Woolen or Cotton, Woolen best.
2 pr’s Bootees, Ankle or Jefferson, or Brogans
with full broad soles, and low Hat broad heels.
2 Colored pocket Handkerchiefs.
1 light Black Neck Tie.
1 Comb.
1 strong Pocket Knife.
1 small Tin Cup.
1 Iron Spoon.
1 Knife, 1 Fork.
It would be well, also, if each man took with
him a flannel band, of from 8 to 19 inches wide,
provided with strings to be worn over the abdo
men, (next the skin,) for the prevention of camp
diarrhoea or dysentery when exposed to damps, or
on the first indication of a change of habit.
Red for flannel shirts is to be avoided, as it pre
sents an excellent mark for the enemy. Gray or
blue are the better colors.
High or narrow heels to the boots or shoes should
not be worn, as they are injurious to the feet.—-
Bootees are far preferable to boots of any kind in
summer. .
Such articles as are not worn or carried about
the person to be neatly packed in, or to be attach
ed to the knapsack or valise.
To facilitate arrangements for securing a regu
lar supply of clothing from home, it is recommend
ed to Companies to coDsiderthe advantage ofturn-
ingover to the Captain, orother responsible agent,
their commutation, as paid, to be applied in such
manner as may have been determined upon.
It is essential to the health of the soldier, wheth
er in barracks or in camp, that he be clean in per
son, regular in habits, and physically exercised.—-
The two first can be attained by dividing each
Company into four or more squads or messes, and
assigning to each a subaltern, or non-commission
ed officer, to supervise the persons, habits, and di
et of the men, who by a word of friendly counsel
when required may correct neglect in either, lhe
third, or physical exercise, rests with the Captain
or Commander of the Company, who, for his dis
cipline and efficiency, should in somo manner or
other employ his men actively every day.
By order of the Commander-in-Chief:
HENRY C. WAYNE.
Adj. & Ins. General.
Shoes! Shoes!!
8,000 PAIR.
xttt WOULD call the attention of Planters
W and others to our STOCK OF SHOES.
SCOTT & CABAKER.
Milledgeville, Jnne 18,1861 25 4t
Confederate
T REASURY NOTES and (BONDS taken at
PAR tor Furniture or Notes and Accounts
due WOOD & CO-, Macon, Ga.
Macon, June 18, 1861 & 261
For the Southern Recorder.
Lines Dedicated to the Ceorgla Volunteers.
BY MRS. M. V. W.
Friend of liberty and right,
Buckle on your armonr bright,
Resist the dastard foe with might
And power from on High.
Your country calls you to the field,
And nobly you respond to seal,
If God wills your hearts blood to shield,
kour loved ones from the foe.
Go on and in the patriots God,
Put all your trust, nor fear the rod
Of the invading horde, who now polutes the sod
Of our dear native land
Our hearts are wrung with anguish now,
And on each manly noble brow,
We press the parting kiss, but bow
To the supreme command.
k\ e would not for one moment breathe
A wish or hope that ere would leave.
Its impress on your hearts, to grieve
The cause of Liberty.
For our own dear bright Southern land,
We as a patriot sister band,
Resign our all into the hand
Of patriotism’s God.
Hoping that ere six months may light,
The Heavens with their raidance bright,
You’ll to our bosoms and our sight,
Return with victory crowned.
This glorious hope doth now inspire,
Your friends with proud desire
To see the day when Northern pride and ire,
Is humbled to the dust.
Should your arms falter in the fight,
Remember, that with each mornings light,
Angels to the heavenly Throne so bright,
Doth bear our prayers for you.
Let this thought nerve your arm with power,
When the storm of war shall lower,
And from the conflict pluck the flower
Of untramelled Liberty.
Hancock county, July 1861.
For the Southern Recorder.
VOUfiG SOUTHERNERS.
Awake young Southerners, awake ;
Your lives and homes are at stake;
Hoist high your bauner to the breeze :
Your glistening muskets quickly seize;
Arise young Southerners, arise,
Gird on your armor for the prize;
To deeds of glory lend thine aid,
And take good aim upon old Abe ;
Arise, young Southerners, arise ;
Stretch every nerve with watchful eyes ;
Like Spartan soldiers win the day,
Then think of Dixie far away.
Be firm, young Southerners, be firm;
For freemen’s lights your powder burn ;
Drive back the foemen of the North,
The vicious Vandal and the Goth.
Strike terror to the Northern bands ;
Erase their tracks from Southern lands ;
Let no vile foe thy home oppress
To leave your sires In distress.
Be brave young Southerners, be brave,
In making trembling Hessians rave ;
Close on their heels send glistening steel,
And draw their blood on battle field.
INVENTUS.
THE POPULAR MAN.
BY CERNIX
Late one pretty fall afternoon, I rode
leisurely into the small village of M.
, situated on a fair southern slope
of the Alleghanies. The quiet influence
of the day had so lulled me into a dreamy
thoughtfulness, and I scarcely noticed the
crowded streets and stirring throng of the
village a I entered. However the excit
ed shouts of “Hurrah lor Watson’” soon
recalled my mind to the remembrance that
it was election day, and informed of the
fact that some individual by the name
of Watson, was probably the fortunate
candidate.
“Watson,” thought I, “Watson!”—
What a name for a Congressman ! Why,
it is very little better than Watts. “Go it
Watson ?”
“Hooray for W. W.,” roared out a drunk
en fellow, stumbling iuto the streets from
a grogshop.
W. Watson. The name struck me for
cibly, and I repeated it to myself several
times. “Why, surely,” I thought, “it
can’t be Bill Watson, of college times,—
And yet, now that I remember, he was from
this State. But lie was of such a fiery,
uncompromising disposition that he never
could he elected corporal of the company,
or even secretay of t the debating society
at college. It can’t -be our W. W.”
After putting up at the inn, and clean
ing my person and apparel from the dust
of travel, as well as I could with the im
plements for that purpose, conveniently
located on the side porch of the establish
ment, I inquired of mine host, whether
there were within the circle of his acquain
tance an individual by the name ot Wm.
Wallace Watson. The jolly landlord,
who evidently thought he saw through the
joke, shut one eye and replied, “Oh? no,
not by no means. Never hearn on him.”
Not having exactly expected an affirma
tive reply- I was rather taken aback by
this ironical negative, hut in a moment re
covered sufficiently to goon.
“He isn’t about thirty years old, I sup
pose, tall aud dark ?”
“Of course not; no morc'n lie’s run
for Congress and been elected this very
day.”
And mine host rolled off chuckling to my
dry, quiet humor.
I was non-plused. W. W. Watson, same
name precisely as our W. W.; tall, dark
and thirty, the same man to fraction, aud
of the same age that ours ought to be by
this time. And then again it could not be.
Our W. W., though at heart a clever fel
low and honorable, was unpopular. He
had some of the warmest friends, but a
number of bitter enemies who continually
worked against Jiim, some openly, Others
covertly.
“Look here Satnbo,” said I to the dar
key, who had taken my horse’ “did this
Mr. Watson ever go to collego at ?”
“Lor bless you, massa, I don’t know
you, sir, dzactly. .Spect be did, though
he’s might’ly educated, sir, tell yon.
The more the mystery baffled my re
searches, the more interested I became in
solving it. Besides, Watson had always
been a favorite of mine, apd so, bending
my course up what seemed to be Main
street, I started on a voyage of discovery.
“W. W. Watson, attorney and counseller
at law,’’ soon caught my eye, painted over
the door of an office, before which a throng
of people were collected. I pushed my
way through the crowfl until I came imme
diately in front of a gentleman who seem
ed to be the ccutre of attraction. Our eyes
met, and there was a mutual recognition,
though a dozen years had elapsed since
our last meeting. Then came the warm
est greeting on both parts, and an in
troduction of myself to the crowd, who ex
tended their enthusiasm to my own person
with such hearty good will that I began to
think I could run right well for Congress
myself.
Ten o'clock that night found me snugly
ensconsed in my friend’s cheerful library,
the atmosphere somewhat redolent of Cu
ban perfume. At length I 6aid, “Well,
now, Bill, tell me candidly, how did you
ever get to be a popular man ?” Watson
reflected a moment, his eyes fixed on the
ceiling, and a slight smile of satisfaction
on Ii is handsome face, before he replied :
“It is the story of a struggle. You
know yourself what obstacle I must have
encountered in achieving such a position.”
“Yes,” I said, “you always managed to
keep on hand a plentiful stock of enemies
at college.”
“Fact,” lie replied, laughing heartily.
“But now I never allow myself to indulge
in one. They are, it is true, continually
springing up here and there, but as soon as
I find it out, I take special pains to exter
minate them.”
“How on earth do you manage to keep
on good terms with every body? What’s
the secret ?”
“Compromise, sir, compromise. I have
learned to compromise even with the pre
judices of men. A man, sir, is as inexora
ble in support of a prejudice, as of a ra
tional conviction, and frequently more so.”
“When, and how, did one of your im
petuous nature ever take time to think of
that. I should like to profit by your ex
perience.”
“Well, it is seldom a man profits much
by any other experience than his own in
the science of human nature, but to amuse
you, I will give it. For several years af
ter leaving college, I remained, as you
knew me, strictly uncompromising. I
would not put up with the slightest wrong,
real or fancied. The consequence was
that there were constantly broils aud dif
ficulties on my hands. A trifling slight
was sure to occasion some exhibition of
resentment on my part, an equivocal word
must be explained immediately, and I
would rather have lost all iny friends and
fortune than to leave unpunished the
smallest act of injustice not apologized for.
To be sure, I saw that certain good-hu
mored persons were in the habit of passing
over just such things without notice, and
they did not seem to lose anything by it.
Every one liked them, favored them in
business, and spoke kindly and respectful
ly of them. But I attributed their way
to obtuseness of preception and believed
that they were constituted as not to feel
the annoyance that stung me so keenly.
Aud so it went on for years. In every
business transaction of any extent my in-
flexability was a source of constant ani
mosity on the part of some one interested,
and of trouble to myself. If I taught
school, according to the custom of this coun
try, I did while studying law, the whole
two years was one prolonged fight be
tween me and my pupils. The slightest
infraction of good order was an offence,
and, on principle, must be punished. I did
not reflect then that many offences are the
result of thoughtlessness or impulse, and
must not be treated as deliberate badness.
Their occurrence may be checked without
punishment. I was determined, however,
to suppress all disorder by the strong hand,
and would make no compromise with the
levity of childhood. The consequence
was a spirit of resistance and revolt far
more turbulent and disorderly than the
original levity.
I would differ with a man as to the set
tlement of business. If he insisted on his
views, I could not but believe that it was
in bad faith. I made no allowance for the
blinding influence of anger, cupidity, or
any other passion. He differed with me :
it was enough ; he must be a rascal, and I
generally gave him to understand that I
thought so.
As you may imagine, the number of my
enemies steadily increased. I had, indeed,
many warm friends, for apart from my un
compromising spirit when opposed, I would
make any concession, if people would on
ly take a lower tone than that of open con
test. But men will not submit to such
terms forever and by degrees I found the
number of those ranged against me get
ting greater and greater.
One morning I was sitting alone in my
office, plunged in a rather bitter train of
thought. My friends were leaving me, my
social relations were becoming very disa
greeable, and what brought the subject to
my attention still more forcibly was that
my business was suffering materially from
this state of things. "Was it my fault? I
had done no wrong, that I knew of. I
could see that my course was rendering
me unpopular, but was a man to flinch
from asserting what he knew to be bis
rights from such a motive as that ? How
far would it go ? Where would it end,
this yielding to the wrongful whims of
others, for the sake of conciliating their
favor ? I became indignant, and spring
ing from my chair, paced the room in a
spirit of bitter determination to play the
game through at all hazards and whatever
the consequences might be.
Court was in session. I took my hat,
and rushed over to the Court house. I
entered with a kind of independent des
peration, and in so doing happened to
make a little unnecessary noise with the
chairs.
“Mr. Clerk, put down a fine of five dol
lars against Mr. Watson!” exclaimed the
Judge iu a tone of severity. He was a
harsh, stern man, very disagreeable to the
bar in general, and especially pointed in
his usual hostility to myself.
“May I ask,” said I, “if your Honor’s
order referred to me!”
“Yes, sir. I have bat this moment fin
ished a warning to all persons on the im
proper disorder which is habitual here, and
you drown the very echo of my words
with your noise.”
“I was not present when yonr Hhonor
spoke.”
“It makes no difference, sir. Yon know
the rule, and I am determined to enforce
it rigidly. I cauuot repeat my expostu
lations to every separate citizen of this
country.”
“Oh ! I'd rather paid the five dollars
than to have heard the lecture,” I replied.
“Twenty-five dollars more, Mr. Clerk,
shouted the Judge, his eyes fairly blazing
with personal animosity to myself. The
hot blood mounted to my head with that
sudden bound which upset reason for the
moment.
“I will not pay it.” I exclaimed, strik
ing the table violently with my clenched
hand.
‘ Take the man to jail, Mr. Sheriff, for
contumacy and continued contempt of
court,” said the judge, pointing his long,
bony forefinger at me.
The shades of evening were gradually
darkening the objects around me, as I sat
in my prison room, in the very same posi
tion into which I had sunk when the key
turned on me in the morning. I will not
undertake to describe to you the perfect
chaos of feeling that had in the meantime
reigned within me. The stupor as of one
just stunned by some great catastrophe
which lie hardly yet comprehends—shame
that I had at last come to this pass—self
condemnation for having so weakly given
an enemy the advantage of me—rage,
with its thousand frantic schemes of bitter
revenge, by turns had possession of all my
faculties. My friends called—no admis
sion. My servants brought dinner—no
admission. The jailor fumbled at the
door as though intending to come in and
favor me with his unwelcome condolence
—no admission. Hour after hour passed.
At length passion grew somewhat weary
from its violence, and reason began to lift
its head agaiu above the troubled waters.
And now, as I sat there, the darkness of
night creeping over me, a calm interior
light seemed to dawn, and strange
thoughts took possession of my mind. I
had been wronged, but had I not often un
intentionally wronegd others in the same
way? The Judge had find me, at first, for a
thoughtless breach of the l'ule; but 1, too,
bad often punished others for offences
which might easily have been the effect of
mere thoughtlessness, though very annoy
ing to me. I began to think that, notwith
standing my past theory and practice, au
apparent wrong may not he a real wrong
after all; that men, as well as children,
often do, without thinking, things which
seem to be bad, and are very disagreeable,
but should not, in justice, be punished,
because they lack the ingredients of ma
lice.
Then the Judge had imprisoned me for
refusing to pay my fine. Yet, how often
had I used stringent measures with meu
who refuse to pay me or give other satis
faction that I considered due ! And those
very men too, may like myself, have been
so much influenced by anger or disappoint
ment, or even avarice, as not really to see
clearly that they were wrong. I should,
therefore, have proceeded with them gent
ly and patiently, and not put them down
quite so hastily as rascals, I concluded,
finally, that often, when men are really
wrong, they may be acting under influences
which blind them to the fact, or excite
ments which make them almost irresponsi
ble for their acts.
Men were not so bad, then, after all.—
Life began to dawn on me in a more amia
ble aspect, and I felt a sensible increase
of charity. Y’es, I thought, all these fel
lows whom I have despised so much and
thought so mean, have, after all, much of
good in them, and even their badness is
more the result of warm passion than of
cold malice. They are, in fact, to he piti
ed rather than punished for nine-tenths of
their liatefulness.
The fact is, thought I, I have.not treat
ed my fellw man with common justice, and
no wonder they are turning against me.
I have under-estimated them and over
estimated myself. I see that I am subject
to the same frailties as they, myself; and
if I would but give them real credit for
their worth, and show them that I appre
ciate their merits, I might be as popular
as any body. My mind was made up.
Henceforth compromise should be my mot
to. If any other differed from me, I would,
at least, give him credit for every thing
—ignorance, prejudice, or passion—that
could palliate his error and vindicate his
sincerity, even thought it should be a l’an-
kee on the abolition question, a South
Carolinian on nullification, or a merchant
as to onr accounts. I saw clearly that
but one thing was necessary to make any
and every man like me, which was to show
him that I thought highly of him in some
respect or other, and the more respects the
better.
I thought and thought, till my mind was
clear, and my resolution fixed. I would
commence a new system of social inter
course, and I would commence immediate
ly. I was impatient to test it. But how !
Here I was in jail and oil one to operate on,
I must send in tiie fine. Still no one could
release me without an order from the Judge.
At this point my spirit recoiled. Ask a
favor of the Judge ?—the old tyrant!
Never ! I think that was the critical mo
ment of my public life. I wavered. It
was evident that I could not make an ex
ception of the Judg without giving up my
principle—my panacea just found. The
resolution I had formed triumphed, and
by dint of strenuous kicks upon my room
door, I summoned the jailor. A pen, ink
and paper were soon at hand and I wrote:
“Dear Judge—I take this mode of apolo
gizing privately, as I intend doing public
ly to-morrow, for my disrespectful couduct
and language to-day. I shall at the earli
est moment hand over to the clerk the
amount in which I am fined, aud hope that
no bad impression will be left upon your
miud by my excited mauner of this mor
ning. Though I must say that I think
your Honor sometimes a little severe, ac
cording to my inexperienced ideas; yet
my respect for your Honor’s impartiality
and ability should certainly put the im
pression, even if correct, entirely out of
view. Respectfully, &c.”
The note bad not been gone ten min
utes, when I saw lights approaching. The
Sheriff himself opened the door this time,
and the Judge entered.
“Mr. Watson,” he said, iu an agitated
tone, and hesitated a moment, “I must
acknowledge before these persons that 1
have done yon wrong. At the same time
I thank you, sir, for the lesson of modera
tion which yon have given me, and which,
from my age and position, it was my duty
to give you. I shall try to profit by it.—
Come ont of this place sir. To-morrow,
yonr fines will be publicly remitted, and
the coart will not allow you to make any
apology.”
I stood amazed at the success of my first
essay, as well as touched and embarrassed
by the tone of the Judge. From that day
to this he has been my warmest friend,
and though he still retains his constitution
al sternness, it has been remarked that
harshness has almost entirely disappeared
from liis official intercourse.
I have hitherto faithfully persevered in
my resolution, though often with great
sacrifice of my feeling, and have reaped
the reward of it. I can safely say that I
have not a single enemy, but hundreds of
friends of the most devoted kiud. It has
worked the most wonderful change, too,
for my own happiness as well as prosperi
ty, for, among all the sacrifices of which
I spoke as necessitated by it, there was
not one which a true man or gentleman
could regret or censure.
“So then,” said I “yonr secret is com
promise !”
“Y r e3. Show every man that you have a
high opinion of him, and show it especial
ly when there is any contest between you.
by compromising with his convictions, and
even his prejudices and passions.”
I was so much pleased with my old
friend that I tarried with him for a few
days, contrary to previous intentions, aud
before leaving the village ascertained con
clusively that be was the idol of the whole
district. His popularity, however, result
ed not only from his winning manner; it
was based on the strictest integrity of
character, without which, the respect ne
cessary to sustain popularity would have
been wanting.
I left with regret; but keep a constant
e}'e upon the congressional career of my
friend, expecting to see him, some day,
steppjng, like a second Clay, with his prin
ciple of compromise, betweeu antagonistic
interests of our country, to preserve its un
ion.
The Science of Language.
Professor Max Muller gave his fourth lec
ture on the Science of Language at the Roy
al Institution, before a large and distin
guished audience. The subject of this lec
ture was the classificatory stage, and the
Professor gave a connected history of the
various attempts at classifying languages
from the time of Plato to the beginning of
our century. The chief inpedimeut in the
way of a scientific classification of na
tions and languages in the ancient world
was the conventional distinction between
Creek and Barbarian, Jew and Gentile,
Brahmin and out cast. When Chrstianity
had removed these distinctions, and all
men had been recognised as the members
of one family, the classification of races
and dialects assumed a scientific, because
more than scientific, interest. WFat re
tarded, however, a truly scientific classifi
cation of human speech was the opinion of
theologians which prevailed till the end of
the seventeenth century—that all language
must be derived from the Hebrew. It was
Liebniz cotemporary aud rival of Newton,
who showed for the first time that such a
view was opposed both to the facts of the
language, and to the statements of the
Bible. For as Hebrew is one of the lan
guages that sprang from the confusion of
tongues at Babel, it could not possibly
have been the language of Adam or of the
whole earth, when the whole earth was
still of one speech. Liebniz was likewise
the first who based the study of languages
on a truly philosophical basis. He invited
missionaries, travelers, ambassadors, prin
ces, and emperors to help him in collecting
the dialects of savage tribes, because he
felt that a much larger amount of evi
dence had to be collected before it was
safe to indulge in any speculations on the
origin and nature of language. Having
become intimate with Peter the Great,
Liebniz pointed out to the Czar and the
Russian Government the great utility of
reducing all the dialect of the races
which were ruied over by the Czar to writ-
ting, an idea which nearly a hundred
years later, led to the publication of the
great Comparative Dictionary, by the
Empress Catherine the Great. It appears
from a letter of the Empress that she had
devoted a considerable portion of her time
to the compilation of this work. Her em
bassadors had to send her list of words from
foreign paits, and Washington himself
had to procure for her specimens ot the
dialects of the American tribes. The work
when published contained a list of two
hundred and eighty-three words transla
ted into fifty-one European, and one hun
dred and forty nine Asiatic languages.
Two oilier works which represent the sci
ence of languages towards the end of the
last century, the Catalogue of Languages,
by Hervas, and the Mithridates of Ade~
lung can likewise be traced back to the im
pulse given by Liebniz to the study of lan
guages as a branch of the natural history
of man. The Professor proceeded to ex
plain that the principles of classification
aodpted in these works were insufficient and
he ascribed the discovery of the true prin
ciple of classification, namely, grammatical
affinity, to the discovery of Sankrit, and
of its intimate relationship with Creek
and Latin. After giving an account of
the progress of the study of Sankrit from
the foundation of the Asiatic Society of
Bengal, the lecturer described the different
views taken by Lord Monboddo, Dugald
Stewart, and others as to the manner in
which the similarity and almost identity
of the grammatical forms in Greek and
Sankrit should be accounted for, and he
claimed for Fredrick Schiegel the merit of
having been the first to perceive the natu
ral affinity which united the languages of
India, Persia, Greece, Italy, and Germany
into one great family of speech—the Indo
Germanic, or, as it was afterwards called,
the Ind European, or Aryan.—[London
Times.
The Wat Texan Ranuers Shoot.—A
Charleston correspondent of the Richmond
Dispatch furnishes the following interest
ing item for the New York mercenaries:
“I see in yonr valnable paper a notice of
the arrival in Richmond of the advance
guard of the Texan Rangers. Allow me
to iuform your Southern readers ^rhat
kind of troopers they are. A frieml of
mine, an officer ofliigh rank iu the army
of the Confederate States has just returned
from Montgomery, and says that while
there some twenty of these Rangers ex
hibited the following feat: A loaded re
volver was thrown upon the ground ; the
Ranger puts his horse up to full speed,
and as he passes picks it op without slack
ening throws himself,’ a la Camanche,* on
the aide of the horse opposite to his fenemy,
being invisible to him, and under the
horse’s neck fires each barrel successively
iu the direction of the enemy.”
Joint Kesolotios for the Pirdon ef Ibrnham
Lincoln.
The following joint resolution to approve
certain acts of the President of the U.
States for “ suppressing the insurrection.”
has been submitted for the consideration
of Congress:
Whereas, since the adjournment of Con
gress, on the 5lb day of March last, a form
idable insurrection in certain States of this
Union has arrayed itself in armed hostil
ity to the Government of the United States,
constitutionally administered;
And whereas, the President of the U.
States did, under the extraordinary exi
gencies thus presented, exercise certain
powers and adopt certain measures for the
preservation of this Government, that is
to say—
Firstly—He did, on the 15th day of
April last, issue his proclamation calling
tipou the several States for seventy-five
thousand men to suppress such insurrec
tionary combinations, aud to cause the
laws to be faithfully executed.
Secondly—He did, on the 19th day of
April last issue a proclmation setting on foot
a blockade of the ports within South Caro
lina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Missis
sippi, Louisiana and Texas.
Thirdly—He did, on the 27th day of
April last, issue a proclamation establish
ing a blockade of the ports within the
States of Virginia and North Carolina.
Fourthly—He did, by an order of the
27th day of April last, addressed to the
commanding General of the Army of the
United States, authorize that officer to sus
pend the writ of habeas corpus, at any
point on or iu the vicinity of any military
line between the city of Philadelphia an(|
the city of Washington.
Fifthly—He did, on the third day of
May last, issue a proclamation calling in
to the service of the United States forty-
two thousand and thirty-four volunteers,
increasing the regular army by the addi
tion of twenty two thousand seven hun
dred and fourteen men and the navy by
addition of eighteen thousand seamen ; and
Sixthly—He did, on the 10th day of
May last, issue a proclamation authoriz
ing the commander of the forces of the U.
States on the coast of Florida to suspeud
the writ of .habeas corpus if necessary.
All of which proclamations and orders
have been submitted to this Congress—
now, therefore, be it
Resolved, by the Senate and the Honse of
Representatives of the United States of
of America, in Congress assembled, that
all of the extraordinary acts, proclamations,
and orders herein-before mentioned, be,
and the same are hereby'’ approved and
declared to be in all respects legal and
valid, to the same intent, and with the
same effect, as if they had been issued and
done nndnr the previous express authori
ty and direction of the Congress of the U.
States.
The Proud Duke of Somerset.
In the reign of Qaeen Anne he ordered
his servants to wear the same livery as her
majesty’s footman, and shot their dresses
from a cart into the court of the palace.
He claimed to be paid almost regal honors.
His servants obeyed by signs, and he caus
ed the roads m the country to he cleared
for him, that he might pass without obstruc
tion or observation. “Go ont of the way,”
said one of his attendants to a countryman
who was driving a hog. “Why saidthe
man. “Because my lord dnke is coming,
and he does not like to be looked npon.”
The offended countryman seized his hog
by the cars, and held him up to the car
riage windows, exclaiming, “I will see him,
and my pig shall see him too.” The duke
married twice. His second duchess once
familiarly touched him on the shoulder
with her fan; he turned roond indignant
ly and said : “My first duchess was a
Percy, and she uever took such a liberty.”
His children obeyed his mandates with a
slavish respect. His two younger daugh
ters were required to stand and watch al
ternately whilst he slept at dinner. One
of them, on snch an occasion, sat down
from fatigue’; her noble father awoke and
observing her position, declared he would
make her remember her want of deconun;
and he kept his word, by leaving her iu
his will c£20,000 less than her sister. Pride
was inherent in the Seymours. King Will
iam, at a levee, casually observed to Sir
Gowan Seymour, Speaker of the House of
Commons, that he believed he was of the
Dnke of Somerset’s family. “No sir,”
said the iudiguant baronet, “his Grace is
of mine.”
A law against obtaining husbands under
false pretense, passed by the English Par
liament in 1770, enacts:
That all women, of whatever age, rank,
profession or degree,, whether virgins,
maids or widows, who shall, after this act,
impose npon, seduce, and betray into mat
rimony any of His Majesty’s male sub
jects, by virtue of sents, paints, domestic
washes, artificial teeth, false hair, Spanish
wool, iron stays, bolstered hips, or high-
heeled shoes, shall incur the penalty of
the law now in force against witchcraft
and like demeanors; and the marriage,
nnder sncli circumstances, upon conviction
of the offending party, shall be null and
void.
Dinner and Tea Traits.—Yon never
hear one woman invite another woman out
to dinner, any more than y ou ever hear one
man ask another to come aud take tea
with him. No 1 it would seem that woman’s
heart melted and softened over the tea cap.
and that man’s soul flew open to each oth
er with tablercloth. Who is there to ex-
plaiu it ? It takes several knives and
forks to dig into a man’s secret nature,
whereas the simple key of the teacaddy
will unlock a woman’s breast at any time.
Yankee Threats.—The most extraor
dinary item of intelligence which reaches
ns by the last mail, is the announcement
that the Federal Government has notified
foreign powers, that it will cease to hold
intercourse with any foreign power which
recognizes any commissioners from the rebel
States. If the Federal Government has
adopted this course, it has acted most un
wisely. The question of recognition of a
State enjoying de facto independence,
rests npon considerations which are too
well understood and appreciated to be
affected by any threat of this description.
England, at least, will not be deterred from
acting with justice either to North or
Scuta when the subject of recognition
has to be decided.
[London Post, (Government organ.