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Newspaper Page TextVOLUME XLIV. IILLEDGEYILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JUKE 23, 1863. NUMBER 25. K. M. ORME & SON, EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS*. STEPHEN P. MILLER, ASSOCIATE EDITOR. 3 00 6 00 4 00 5 oo 4 00 Terms after first of Juoe, 1863. Subscription, per annum, in advance, $ 4 00 TRANSIENT ADVERTISING. $ 1 50 per square of ten lines for the first, tiu<] 75 cents for each subsequent insertion. Tributes of Respect, Resolutions by So cieties, Obituaries, &c , exceeding six Hues, to be charged as transient advertising. LEGAL ADVERTISING. Ordinary's— Citations for Letters of Administration, by Administrators, Executors, Guardians, &c., Application for Letters of Dismission from Administration, j Application for Letters of Dismission from Guardianship, Application for leave to sell Land and Jfegroes, — Notice to Debtors and Creditors Sales of personal or perishable property, per square of ten lines, 2 00 Sales of Laud and Negroes, per square of t, n litus, 5 00 SlteriJJ s— Each levy of ten lines, or less, Mortgage sales of ten lines, or less, All advertisements of sales by Sheriffs ex ceeding ten Hues, will be charged in pro portion. Clerk's— Foreclosure of Mortgage and other month- Uj advertisements, $1 50 per square of ten lines for each-insertion. Establishing lost papers, per square of ten tin's, For a man advertising his wife, in advance, 10 00 No deviation from the above scale of prices un der any pretence. Remittances by mail at onr risk. 3 00 t; oo 8 00 SADDLES HARNESS—SHOES. FlUIH SUBSCRIBERS are now prepared to fur- X nisli, at short notice, SADDLES, HARNESS ami SHOES. Also-, BOOTS made of line French calf-skin. Thankful tor past favors, we solicit, fur ther orders. E. J. HOGUE &• CO, Millcdgeville, May 26, 1863 26 5t* So Keward. S TOLEN from the subscriber about a week ago a brihdlo cur dog puppy, about seven months old. Said puppy has a white' breast, all other parts brindle. I will pay the above reward to any on*; will deliver the dog, or let me know.where I c.-ui lind him li. M. ORME, Jr. Millcdgeville, May 26, 1863 21 tf r GST OR MISPLACED.—A promissory note I J on J. W. &• Wilson Brauan & Co., dated in July last. The date and precise amount not re collected. Due one day after date, and made pay able to John T. Bivins and William McKinley, ex ecutors, or bearer, for five hundred and sixty odd dollars- The public are forewarned not to. trade for said note; also the makers of the note are re quested not to pay it only to myself or J.T. Bivins, agent. STEPHEN BIVINS. June 2,1863 22 3t D issolution.—The firm of Scott & Car- aker is dissolved by mutual consent. All ] rsons indebted by note or account, are requested to make payment, and those having claims will present them for settlement. The business in future will be conducted by W. 11. Scott, at the old stand, where he will be happy to see the customers of the former firm. . WM. H. SCOTT, T. A- CAKAKEli. Millcdgeville, June 1, 1863 24 4t I GST.—By miscarriage of mail, a Certificate J from Wm.B. Johnson, C. S. Depository, at Macon, Ga.,for Five Thousand Dollars, dated 22d April, 1863, numbered 277. All persons are cau tioned against trading for said certificate. T. B. LAMAR Millcdgeville, June 16, 1863 24 4t Cotton Cards, Coffee & Sole Leather. 1 I Ml PAIR WHITTMORE’S Cotton Cards, Xvl* * number 10. • 500 lbs. COFFEE. 500 lbs. SOLE LEATHER. Just received and for sale by * J. GAN8 A CO. Mnirdgeville, April 14, 1863 15 tf To the Citizens of Georgia. OFFICE CHIEF COMMISSARY, f Savannah, May 26, 1863. $ U AVING BEEN appointed by the Comuiissa ry General of Subsistence with approval of tin Secretary of War, Chief Commissary for the State of Georgia for the collection and distribution of Supplies for the Confederate Armies, -with au thority to district the State and appoint District. Commissaries, I take this public method of making known the plan to be pursued, for the information of all concerned. The State is divided iuto three districts as fol lows : First or Upper District. May. Jiiiin F. CUMMINGS, Dist. Com. Atlanta. Beginning at West Point and proceeding east- ' ardl y this district embraces the Counties of Troup Meriwether,.Pike,'Butts, New ton. Morgan, Greene. Jaliaterro, Warren, Glascock, Columbia, Rich mond, and all Counties in the State north of this line. Second or Middle District. Capt. A. M. Allen, Dist. Com. Columbus. This District is bounded north by the Counties of Harris, Talbot,Upson and Monroe; east by Bibb, Houston ami Macon, and by the Flint river to its mouth ; and west by the Chattahoochee river. All tin- above named counties are embraced in this District. Third or Lower District. ( apt. M- B Milieu, Dist. Com. Savannah. Thjs District is bounded north bv the I ii>t Dis trict ; south by the State of Florida; east by the Savannah river and Atlantic Oceau ; and west by the Second District, lu the above arrangement of Districts the facil ities tor markets and for transportation have been consulted as far as practicable. 4'iie Lji$trict Commissaries above named will 1-iiLijsh'a list of their sub-Commissaries and Agents mi soon as they can wake their nomination*. All correspondence will be addressed as hereafter di rected in the circulars of the District Commissaries aforesaid. * H is hut proper to inform speculators that their accumulations will be subject to impressment for the Government use bv the District Commissaries "ho have special powers to that end. In such ca ses (see section (5, Impressment Act) the owner hft > no other redress than to accept the prices fixed hy the schedule of the Impressment Comissioners. No Commissary nor Government Agent from a,1 .v quarter is authorized, under any prete>f, t<» leak,-' purchases of subsistence stores in thjs State, '" ‘ ‘ * ’or the Capt For the Recorder. Lines in memory of Sergeant II. E. Mitchell, who gallantly fell in the late battle at Fred erieksbiirg. May 2d, a grandson of Gov D. B. Mitchell, and son of Dr. J. J. Mitchell, late of Milledgeville, Ga. He was a member of the renowned 4th Georgia Regiment. “No more lie charges with the host, The thickest of the battle-field ; No more to join in victorious boast, No more to see the vanquish’d yield.” Hark ! there comes upom me, stealing, A sound of mourning and of woe, And I see a pale form weeping, As she, trembling, whispers.low : “Bring the lyre—tiie silent lyre, Its silvery chords long hushed, awake, And breathe a lay to glory’s sons.” Twas thus the midnight vigil spake. W cave iu song his noble virtues, Ami the liopes that lit his brow ; Oli! spread one ray of cheerfulness Upon the home so lonely now. Tell of how he led his comrades O’er the heaps of fallen brave, How gallantly he fought the foe, ’Till he, too, had found a grave. The vigil left, I seized my lyre, And swept again the gilded string, But when, alas! war’s pinions spread So dark above us, who could sing Of flowers, birds and beauty’s spell ? My minstrel spirit sung alone, •Since tlfese have ceased to charm the soul— Her dreams of poesy have flown. Bright flowers still bloom around my path. And life, its sweetest joys impart; Yet nature hath no power to break The clouds tl^at lower on my heart. My country! land of light and love, How many hearts have bled for thee ? The young, the gifted—martyrs all Upon the shrine of Liberty. And this brave youth, whose requiem The flashing steel and thunder’s roar, Fell in thy service, sunny land ; Fond mother, could ye ask for more ? Your tears are not the only ones That fell where Herbert silent sleeps, For every valiant son that bleeds For Freedom's cause, a nation weeps. ‘‘Close in, close in, the victory’s ours,” Triumphantly the soldier cried ; Loud rose the shout, but ere it ceased • To linger on the air—lie died ! Death’s heavy pail looms o’er his home, All joy and gayety depart; May Heaven send a blessing down To heal the crushed and broken heart! LEOLA. others, either by our ownlgnorance, or hy J corrupting the present ; to exhaust the re- WIT AND WISDOM. CREDULITY—An instinct of youth.- our little technical and pedantic partialities and prejudices. Every one has heard of the mathematician who objected to Shaks- peare, that his works proved nothing.— Equally luminous was the remark of the lawyer, who happened to catch the words !‘a deed without a name,”; uttered by the witches in Macbeth, repeated ; “A deed without a name !—why, ’tis void.” In the same enlarged spirit is much of' our criticism written ; but even this is better than the feeling of rancour and bitterness by which it is too often perverted from its legitimate ends, and rendered svbservient. by the most disingetiicus acts, to the grati fication of personal pique, or party manevi olence. As the devil can quote scripture for his purpose, so can the practiced critic, by serving passages from their context, and placing them in a ridiculous or dis torting light, make the most praiseworthy work appear to cotidcm itself. A book ! thus unfairly treated, may be compar- i ed to the laure of which there is honour j i in the leaves, but poison in the extract. I Of much of our contemporary criticism, i i which consists rather iu reviewihg writers j than writing, we may find a fair type in the following passage from a letter of the ' celebrated Waller : “The old blind school- I master, John Milton, hath published a te- J dious poem on the fall of man : if its length be not considered as merit, it hath no oth er.” CUNNING—The simplicity by which knaves generally outwit themselves. As the ignorant and insusnicious are often pro tected by their singleness of purpose, so are the crafty and designing not unfre quently foiled -by their duplicity. It is not every rogue that, like a bowl, can gain I»»s object the better by deviating from the straight line; although there is one straight line to which the. rogue’s deviations are very apt to conduct him. CURIOSITY—Looking over other peo ple’s affairs, and overlooking our own. If a spy may be executed by the laws of war, surely a Paul Pry may be kicked or horsewhipped hy the laws of society.— There is no peace with such a man, un less you declare war against him. Xeno- crafes, reprehending curiosity, said, “It was as rude to intrude into another man's house with your eyes, as with your feet.” Among the many illustrations of female curiosity since the time of Bluebeard, tlioio are few more amusing than the French anecdote of two Catholic young ladies, who tossed up which should con fess to fornication, in order to learn the meaning of the word; while another bought a printed catalogue of crimes, and confess ed to so many, that the confessor’s hair stood on end, until site added Simony to the list. CUSTOM—A reason for irrational sources of many ages, that it may render the pugnacity and ambition of its own more extensively inisebiovous. . DECEPTION—A principle ingredient in happiness.—Did we possess the spear of Ithuriel, or could we realise the sugges tion of Momus, we should gain a fearful loss. An enemy to education, when told that the schoolmaster was abroad, replied “I am very glad to here it; I hope he will remain there !” A friend to his species will utter a similar aspiration respecting Truth, if he believes the popular saying, that she lies at the bottom of a well. In stead of regretiug that we are sometimes deceived, we should rather lament that we are ever undeceived. But, alas ! as Seneca says—“Nemo omrtcs, netninem omnes fiftl- leruut—None deceives all, and none have all deceived. DESCRIPTION—A living critic has laid it down as a rule, that no author can succeed in describing what he lias not seen, foigetting that Dante was never in hell, nor Milton in Paradise ; and that it is the highest praise of Shakspeare to have “exhausted worlds, and then imagined new.” Inventive writers evince their tal ent by portraying the invisible and non existent, snatching a grace, not only be yond the reach of ar.t, but beyond the reach of nature. Little right had the crit ic in question to expect imagination iu others, for it is manifest that he possessed none himself. To the Editors of the Wilmington Journal: j least tolerated. General Montgomery The following narrative has been fur nished me by the Rev. Dr. Stewart, who you will recollect was dragged from bis church in Alexandria, during the perform ance of divine service, for refusing to use the prayer for the President of the United States. I have thought it would be inter csting to your seaders. A. A WATSON, Rectory of St. James. “ I he simple bcheveth every word, but the j things, and an excuse for inexcusable ones, prudent man looketh well to bis going. ; While we exercise our own judgment jn I rov. xiv, 15. Credulity diminishes as we j a jj matters of importance, we should do gather wisaorn by experience, and yet, j v ve 11, in trifles, to conform, without inquiry, even among the old and suspicious, it is j to existing modes. “A fro ward retention j probable that many falshoods are believ , n f custom,” says Lord Bacon, “is as turbu- ed, for a single truth that is disbelieved, j j (M1 t a thing as an innovation ;” a dictum l,he young having a constant tendency to, vv |,j c j, W e recommend to the special con- welcome pleasant and repel disagreeable j sideratjon of onr Conservatives. Most impressions, reject as long as they can the ! shrewd and discreet was the advice of the painful feeling of suspicion. Belief, like 0 j,j lady, who, on her first settlement at j a young puppy, is born b’ind; and must swallow whatever food i.° p'ven to it ; whon it can see, it raters for itself. Or it may be better compared to the block of marble, aud Truth to the statue within it, at which we can only arrive by perpetu ally cutting away the fragments that en close and conceal it. As a good workman is known by the quantity of his chips, so may a penetrative mind by the rubbish and heaps of discarded credulity with which it is surrounded. Taking the whole world at the present moment, can it be said to believe a thousandth part of what it believed a thousand years ago ? CREED—Compulsory,—An attempt to cast the minds of others in the same mould as our own, which is about as likely to be successful as if a similar experiment were Constantinople, advised her children to conform strictly to the manners and cus toms of the inhabitants, adding—“When people are iu Turkey, they should live as turkeys lives.” Perhaps the power of cus tom was never more strongly exemplified than in the case of Ariosto's hero, who was so habituated to fighting, that he went on combating, even alter he was dead. DAY AND MARTIN—Falsifyers of prophecy. Thirty, years ago, our wisea cres predicted, that when all could read and write, we should fiud none to black our shoes. The day of evil has arrived: everybody can read and write ; our shoes are not only better blacked than ever, but they are polished by comparatively pol ished people ; our blacking makers acquire fortunes, and build palaces, thus giving Wilmington, N. C., April 2, 1S63. Rev. and Dear Brother .’ I cannot but fail to convey in language any adequate idea of the scene which transpired iu St. Paul's Church, Alexandria, Ya., on the 9th of February, 1862, but, at your request, I will describe it to the best of my ability. The services had progressed as far as }he second suffrage of the.Litany—Rev. George Smith was kneeling at one end of the altar, and I was conducting the ser vices at the other ond—when a confiden tial agent of Secretary Seward, named Morton, arose in the front of the chancel, and demande dthat I should pray for the President of the United States. At the same time, a captain of the 8th Illinois Cavalry, named Farnsworth, began to re peat, from a front pew, the prayer for the President. Finding that I paid no regard to his demand, but proceeded iu the Litany Morton gave a» sign to Farnsworth, and the officers and soldiers who had accom panied him into the church, who immedi ately surrounded the chancel, and a ser geant was ordered to “seize that man !” The sergeant sprang over the chancel railing, and made several motions as if he would lay hold upon me, but, inasmuch as 1 still continued the Litany, he hesitated and the order was given to take the Pray er-book away from me; thereupon the book was violently wrested from my hand aud thrown upon the floor. The order to seize me was now repeated. I was about using the suffrages,' "From all evil aud mischief—from the crafts aud assaults of the devil—from envy, hatred and malice, good Lord deliver us,” wlicu I felt the of ficer’s baud upon my shoulder, as I knelt at the altar. But just at that moment a gentleman of tho congregation seized the officer aud threw him out of the chancel. Thereupon the officers and soldiers drew their sabres and revolvers, aud there was great noise aud confusion ; women were struggling to hold their husbands ; others screaming; others crying “For shame;” aud amidst it all I heard the voice of Lt. say ing, “Don’t fire.” I immediate ly arose, and facing the captain, (Farns worth,) said something in reply to which lie said : “ I arrest you as a rebel aud a traitor, in the name aud hy the authority of the President of the United States.”— I replied, “And I summon you to appear T before the bar of the Lord of Lords and Nay, they King of Kings, to answer upon the charge of interrupting His ambassador, by armed violence, while in the act of presenting the petitions of His people at His altar.” He then ordered me to tnke off the surplice. This I refused to do observing, “You have entered the Church of God and dragged religion from its altar, and now you wish to make it a personal matter by removing my vestment from me. No, you must take me as I am.” Two sergeants then seized me iu the chancel, and with great violence, holdiug a revolver at my breast, they forced me out of the Church and through the streets, with the surplice on. each of them grasping DESPONDENCY—Ingratitude to heav en, as cheerfulness is the best and most ac ceptable piety. H—, who is bilious, and hypochondriacal, may he termed a consti tutional grumbler. “If my future life,” he one day exclaimed, “be only an unex ecuted copy, an unheard echo, an invisible reflection of the past, I wish it not to be prolonged. Running after happiness, is ouly chasing the horizon, or seeking the philosopher’s stone, and I am already “ ‘Tired of toiling for the chymic gold. That fools us young, and beggars us when old.’ ” DESPOTISM—Allowing a whole peo ple no other means of escape from oppres sion, than by the assassination of their op pressor. If tyranny be an unjustifiable liberticide, may not tyrannicide be termed justifiable homicide ? We moot the point, without presuming to. decide it. Despo tism, nevertheless, has its advantages in a barbarous and ignorant country, where its evils arc little felt. Peter the Great of Russia, could hardly have accomplished so much iu civilizing his subjects, il he had not been an absolute monarch. Even a- mong a comparatively enlightened people, such is the force of habit, that a long-es tablished despotism may continue uuabat ed, without being resented by its victims. For two centuries, at least, the French presented the anomaly of a polished, in tellectual, enslaved people, could record their degradation; aud seem to glory iu it. DESTINY—The scapegoat which we make responsible for all our. crimes and follies ; a necessity which we set down for invincible, when we have no wish to strive against it. DIET—The edibles and potables that we turn into blood and bone—the matter that we metamorphose into mind. “Sir,” said Bently to one of his pupils, who had a predilection for malt liquor—“if you drink ale you will think ale;” and there was more truth in the averment than at- first sight might be imagined, for body and . - . - - mind must assimilate, to a certain extent, R u P on ^ ,e shoulder so tightly as to leave with that which sustains them. Look at | u P ou the “arks of their hands. At the the. difference of disposition between the j 8 j l,n ® ,a Y daughter, having left the carniverous aud graminivorous animals : i . °* r ’ '■ ere she had been engaged in sing the latter who seem to he natures un weaned a,, d approaching a Lieutenant, said : favorites, are peaceful as the bosom upon ! “X ou are not going to arrest my father ?” which they browse; the former, doomed to he constantly tearing one another, and to live by blood and slaughter, are consti tutionally savage and ferocious. Varie ties of temperament in animals will otten be found to have reference to the different food in which each race delights, and it is -u ,i - • • / , * , , , r by no means iinp:ohabl‘e that the national applied to the body. Hear the opinion of: encouragement to other arts than the black j trader of human societies may be modi St. Hilary upon this subject- It is a one; and it is even reported, that a Lon- fie( , . tbeir favorite diet. The taste of tablishment) to write poetical puffs. DEATH—The sleeping partner of life If to ex- souis and bears the fmit of peace. Why should a long, he less pleasant than a short sleep ? Rost natal, cannot differ from an* with the express permission and under Vr ? rs °* Maj. Ciiiuiiiuijj, Capt. Allen and C Pollen, in their Districts respectively. % 1363 J. L- LOCKE, "ft Chief Coii*uijsqiry- •jiljfipl | - . SJbLOIAL NOTICE—The undersigned huyipg - removed from Miljedgevillp, desires and iiir UIM8 to close up fiis business matters of that i'Gca as «pee,dily as possible. All person* iudebt* !, Y° nu tified that uiy notes and account* Hie in * e *'ands of J. A. Breedlove and P. H. Lawler, “ 0 are authorized to collect and make-'settle- ue,,t8 - If not arranged at an early ‘ day, settle ^‘ents will be enforced by law. A. C. VAIL,. Agent. August 19, 1862 . 33 tf. thing equally deplorable and and danger- j ,i on fi nn keeps a regular barb upon the os ous, that there are at present as many creeds as there are opinions among men. We make creeds arbitrarily, and explain them as arbitrarily. We can t be igu ( >. rant that since the council of Nice , we have done nothing but make creeds. We make creeds every year, nay every morn : we repent of what we have done ; we de fend those that repent ; we anathematize those we have defended ; we condemn the doctrine of others in ourselves, or onr own in that of others; aud reciprocally tearing one another to pieces, we have been the cause of one another’s nun.” Creeds are doubly injurious in their op eration ; they occasion a positive as well as a negative evil to the Church, by ex cluding the conscientious and upright, while they admit the subservient and un scrupulous. “Though some purposes of orJer and tranquility,” says Raley, “may he answered by the establishment ot creeds aud confessions, yet they are at all times attended with serious inconvenience : they check inquiry j they violate liberty ; tney ensnare the consciences of the clergy, by bolding out temptation to prevarication.” Tbe same writer notices another, and still more crying evil to which they inev itably tend—“Creeds and Conlessions, however they may express the persuasion, or be accommodated to tlie controversies or to the fear§ of the age in which they are composed, in process of time, and by reason of til's changes which are want to take place in the judgi<»L*nt of mankind ppdn religious subjects, -they come at length to contradict the actual opinions of the°Ch\uch, whose doctrius they profess to pontain.” Bo that these tyranical and useless shackles of the tniud actually pro mote perjury or equivocation in the phstor, while they obstruct the progress of knowl edge and of Christianity among the flock ! What more can b& added to show the ne cessity for their abolition ! . CRITICISM—Very often consists of measuring the learuitig and tiro wisdom ol “Yes, and you too,” replied tbe officer, who rudely seized her by the arin, aud forced her through the streets to be abut up in the guard room of the 8th Illinois cavalry. About the time of greatest confusion, an armed company, who had been held in re* serve at a short distance from the Church, broke iu and begged their officer to "let them fire upon these damned secession wo men aud children.” While in the guard room, being surrounded by many officers, who sought to reproach me for violation of each, taking that word in its most extend ed acception, may be traceable to the palate. Tbe suppleness and levity of the —a change of existence. This great und j Italian may be derived from tnaccaroni! canon law and rubrics, I first replied, that j insolvable mystery, which we are ever fly- i and vermicelli ; Dutch phlegm and obsti-i if I was under the jurisdiction ot the Bish ing from and running towards, is by no means the foe that our fancy represents it. To live is, in fact, to die, and to die is to live ; for the body is tbe grave of the soul, and death the gate of life. thought that his Government would dis avow the whole matter. But he was mis* taken- He tree ultimately removed from his command, aud all the Episcopal Churches closed—some of them being shookiugly desecrated. Every indignity was bestowed upon me that tbe press and tbe mob could invent; a Union flag was fastened upon my house, and eventually I had to seek, in exile from my family, that safety which even the Turk affords minis ters of religion, and the privilege of wor shipping God according to the diciates of iny conscience. A Constant Miracle.—The Bible itself is a standing, and astonishing miracle. Written, fragment by fragment, throughout the course of fifteen centuries, under dif ferent languages, by persons of the most opposite tempers, talents and conditions, learned and unlearned, prince and peasant, bond and fiee; cast into every form of instructive composition and good writing, history, prophecy, poetry, allegory, em blematic representation, judicious interpre tation. literal statement, precept, example, proverbs, disquisition, epistle, sermon, prayer, in short, all ration.*ail shapes of humau discourse, and treating, moreover, of subjects not obvious, but most difficult— its authors are not found like other writers, contradicting one another upon the most ordinary matters of fact and opinion, but are at harmony upon the whole of their sublime and momentous scheme. Cultivation ok Temper.— If happily we are born of a good nature: if a liberal education has formed in us a generous disposition, well regulated appetites, and worthy inclinations, ’tis well for us, and so indeed we esteem it. But who is there en deavors to give these to himself, or to ad vance his portion of happiness in this kind? Who thinks of improving, or so much as preserving his share, in a world where it must of necessity run so great a hazard, and where wo know an honest natuia is so easily corrupted? All other things rela ting to us are preserved with care, and have some act of economy belonging to them; this which is nearest related to us, and on which our happiness depends, is alone committed to chance; and temper is the only thing ungoverned, while it governs all the rest. Ahead of All.—Many are the jokes got up in camp, but we think this will “extri cate the dilapidated linen from the shrub bery.” Since the publication of the chaps Iain story, last week, a friend told us the following: Colonel A. and Colonel B. were commanders of rival regiments iu the same brigade. Each anxiously watched the other to prevent being outstripped i:i efficiency. One day B. was startled hy hearing that a revival was going on in A.’s regiment. He immediately turned round to bis Adjutant and instructed him to issue a general order convening a revival forth with. He then made inquiry as to tbe progress of the revival in A.’s regiment, and on learning that fifteen bad been baptized, lie ordered the Adjutant to make detail cf twenty men to be baptized forth with,‘for’ says lie, ‘I'll be hanged it I don’t get ahead of A. Iturg Whig. this time.’—Vichx- pire be an evil, it is only a uegative one, j French levity and vivacity, from ragouts which might well be eudured, since it ter- j and champagne ; and the solid but some- iniuates those that are positive. If it be a \ what crude and uncivilized chaiacter of iod, it is like that of Aaron, wlijcb bios- | John Bull, from bis feeding upon huge uacy, from fiat fish, water-zootje amt schi-j op of Virginia, I had violated no law; but, edam; German acerbity, mysticism and ! if not under his authority, then I wa^ as melancholy, from sourkrout, sausages, and j independent and free as the Presbyterian viu do grave ; insubordination of tbe Irish j or Baptist, and no rubric -could biud peelers and repealers, from potatoes 5— te-matal uucosciousness ; we were dead be fore wc lived ; ceasing to exist is only re turning to our forvipr state, speaking al- ways with reference 1 to this world. Death D the only subject upon which evnrbr.dy speaks apd writes, without a pos sibility of having experienced what he un dertakes to discuss. Contempt of it is seldom real ;,it is but the love of gloiy ; many, besides Mirabcau, have dramatized their own exits. Most consolatory is the reflection, that if this great consummation puts an end to the enjoyments of some, it terminates the sufferings of all. Death is a silent, peaceful genius, who rocks our second childhood jo slflpp in the cradle of the coffin. It is tfip proud prerogative of noble ua^ tores, that t’liey retain their influence alter death. The lamps which guided ns on earth, become'stars to light uti from afiovg, atiif tliP’freneficient may still claim our as- piraliotis as the blessed 5 a apecics of a potlieosis equally honorable to the living and the dead. DEBT-National.- Mortgaging the prop erty of our posterity, that we may be bet ter enabled to destroy our contemporaries. It may be questionable, whether any com munity has a moral right to discount the future, for the purpose of tormenting or joints of underdoue beef, -iC“ ome. Industry.—The Grecnsborough (M iss.) Motive, says we can scarcely pass a house when traveling, but that we hear the hum of a wheel aud the noise cf a loom, worked hy some fair hand, which is busily engaged in making clothes for some Bear ones in the army. Go to church and there you can tell where home industry is—see the fair ones with bright eyes and glowing choeks, dressed in their beautiful honicspun. It is not with them who can sport the finest silks, but who can make tbe prettiest homespun. Uo\y bpautiful aud comely they lqofc iq these dresses 1 God bless these Tafr Iqdies. who are doing sucli a noblo part by our sobers. Can such a people be subjugated ? — -tr Bllsihnq |NfO Womanhood.—There is a touching beauty in the radiant Jfimk of a girl just crossing the limits of youth, com mencing hpr journey through the checker ed space of womanhood. It is all dew sparkle and morniiigglory to .her ardent, buoyant spirit, as she presses forward ox- uiting iu blissful anticipations. But the withering heat of the conflict of life creeps on; tbe dew-drops pxbala; the garlands of hope, slrattered and dead, strew the path ; aud too often, ere noontide, tbe brow and sweet smile are exchange^ far tbe *weary look of one longing fortlio evening 1 rest, the twilight, t^e uigh^. tne. But being vexed by continued discussiona, I observed that there were limits to tbeir power, and that they could not hurt the hair of my head without my Master’s per mission, but that if He willed it so, yet even at peril of death iu five minutes, I would not allow military power to euter the Church and dictate prayers to the Minister of God. General Montgomery now came in anil rebuked the officers for violating the sanctity of the Lord’s day aud Church, and for going iu a Church armed with weapons of death. He told them that I was a resident of the city, aud could have been arrested ou a week day, auu that he had himself reported to the Government the uiqission of the prayer, ami had no instructions to arrest me; that he veg^rded their action as au intrusion upon his own proviuce ; he also said that I had violated no civil or military law; and that tfi^re were Church tribunals to which \ shuuld be amenable, if guilty of ecclesiastical irregularity. He thou ask ed me to go with bim to bis own quarters, where 1 remained until he obtained au thority to aot in the matter, when he at once released me. When be at first offer ed me a parole. 1 declined it, ou tbe grouud that I would accept nothing but au unconditional release. When be urged me to seettle tbe whole difficulty by pray ing for the Prcsideut, i assured him that though it might, as intimated- "make mj fortune,” yet 1 should uot do it aud that 1 regarded it as unmanly in his Govern ment to make use of women aud cbildreu, and timid clerdfctuen. to broir»beat aud crush out the li^riies of tl^e Sooth ; iLat Wo were noj\ combatants, and should he at The Toothache.—An exchange gives the following : ‘My dear friend,’said IL, ‘I can cure your toothache in ten minutes.’ ‘How 1 bow?’ inquired I.’ ‘Do it in pity.’ ‘Instantly,’ said Ire, ‘Have you any alum?’ ‘Ye*.’ ‘Bring it and some common salt.’ They were produced. My friend pulver ized them, mixed them iu equal quantities, then wet a small piece of cotton, causing the mixed powder to adhere, and placed it in my hollow tooth, ‘There,’said ii.e, ‘if that does not cure you I will forfeit iuy Lead. You may tell this to every one and publish it every where. The remedy is infallible.’ It was as Hie predicted. On the introduction of the mixed alum and salt, I experienced a sensation of coldness, which gradually subsided, and with it— the alum and salt—I cured the torment of the toothache. How Ahiiaiivm Looks.—According to the correspondent ol the Chicago Times, no oue who sees Mr. Lincoln.can now fail to be struck with his altered appearance as compared with his looks of two years ago. lie looks ten years older, ami the expression of his face is haggard and care- woru in the extreme. His eye is res ties*; and is constantly waudering, at times with a vacaut expression, at others in a manner indicative of positive teiror. He has ex actly the demeanor of a man whose rest is broken by remorse, and to whose pillow tranquil sleep is a stranger. • Voluntary Death to Save a Leader.— It is said that upon a retreat of the Con federates, ?t one point in tho lighting, our men were so near them as to plainly dis tinguish Gen. Hill, and at the moment a rifle was levelled at him, when one of his soldiers was seen to step before the Gener al and fall at the. discharge, History has but few instances of a devotion like this. During this melancholy war a similar ca.-e is kuown to have occurred,an tbe volunta ry death of a young man in Missouri, who took tbe place of another who had a de- peudaut family, but who was a total stranger to the youth who thus saved him at the expense of bis own life, j Hartford (Conn.) Times. The Better Way.—Tbe sons of tho poor die rich, while tba sons of tho rich die poor. What eneomragement !o toil through life iu acquiring wealth to rnin our children ! Better to go with our money as we go along—educate our sons—seeme tbeir virtue by habits of industry and siud- y, and lei them take care of themselves. The most agreeable of all companions is a simple, fiauk man. without any preten sions to an oppressive greatness ; one who loves life and understands the usesrot-'il ; obliging, alike at all hours; above all of a golden temper, aud steadfast an auc!;<»',

Georgia Historic Newspapers

Southern recorder. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1820-1872, June 23, 1863, Image 1