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CHA t vU^/vs^ —aea— T li E SOUTHERN RECORDER. BY 0 ]> )| ii & ii \ R in S 0 X, .7! V.tltSi, Uditor ,j pit annum, in Advance. m ,; —Per s quare often lines , eaeli i. .’ilercliants and others foiall s j;>.wcnty-five per cent .off- BA« U. AUVKR'i :u)s ni) >r fetters ol ad- e ...... j sin n lromaum n sin'ii of "uard’n of ays. (css :i do 2 00 f> 00 :j f>o f> ou i- 5 ri: i 5 00 1 50 I • So I SiSni MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, 14,1871. tjp.y.s.stra>. No. 10. Tiie Ainrricaa Mather. IiV CAROLINE MAYNARD. and 1 00 How "lad I’il be when Summer’s done end holidays are past! I think, sometimes, they’ll wear me out, and drive me inad at. last. A mother has an anxious life—perplexed and full of care: My love, you’re hurting baby now; you niusn’t pull his hair. I asked you not to w ake him up—he’s just be* gun liis nap. Oh; dear! he’s wide awake again! Pll take him in my lap. I never see a child come in but I begin to quake; Now go and play, and you shall have a great big piece of cake. I can’t— , Ex, t,e 1 •ii - ii'ii the the af- : Which 1st. be You wont unless I give 3 r ou two? they'll make you sick. Well, if I must, I s’pose I must. There! take it, and be quick! Here's Tommy now, wet through and through from playing in the street. The gardener warned him oft' the walk, but Tommy's hard to beat; given in a p lay of sale. laud, m Yd An The An when I told hi m to come in and let alone the hose, s too absurd to see him put his thumb against his no-1. 1 precious lamb! be threw a stone and broke the old man's head. ie it didut tiie him; he's weak, the doctor ICELAND. THE LAND OF FIRE AND ICE BY PROF. WILLARD FISliE Was there ever such as the island of Iceland ? Geograpb ically it belongs to the Western Con tinent, and yet, histotically and po litically, it is a member of ilie East ern. It lies close under the arctic circle, where winter prevails during three-quarters of the year, and is stock, Pope, and portions of Siiaks pea re, Byron and Burns, very little of the liteiature of other nations has been translated into Icelandic. The I 1 iierary story of the marvelous isl- au anomaly j and opens gradually with the two Eddas. The older or poetic Edda was written down from oral tradi tion by Stemund Sigfusson, a learn ed priesL of the eleventh century, who h id traveled in various coun tries ol Europe; it is, however, at least as old as the eighth century. It surrounded by seas filled w.th ice consists of a series of alliterative po- hergs; and yet boiling gpysers and | ems involving the mythology and fountains of heated steam burst eve-j legendary lote of the North, riarrat- ry where from its surface, whilegreat 1 mg the deeds of Odin, Thor, Tyr, volcanoes pour down into its valleys i .md the other divinities, who, in and upon its plains streams ol moil- j spite ol the o/erthrow of their tem- en lava, i he nearest neighbors o!, pies and hah,loins, still influence our ;he Icelanders are the Esquimaux of j daily lives, as we tell off our Tues- Gieenland ; yet while the Esqui- clays and Wednesdays and Tliurs- maux are sunk to the nether level of j days and Fridays, which hear their ignorance, the Icelanders have rais-: names. Sremund’s Edda, loo, like ed themselves to an elevated plane the early mythological works of all of enlightenment. And so the won- races, is filled with moral maxims derfui island lies there, a link he- so that an ethical code might easily a site be compiled from it. The other meets, | tween the two hemispheres where the most opposite of eh heat and cold, are constantly con-1 tending for sovereignty ; the seat of a race of the highest civilization in! close contact with a race of the low-j est barbarism. Nor does this end j in it a display m nature’s powers j How Glass Paper Weights are under forms which -hey nowhere ■ Made—Everyone knows these p :- else assume; the hater sees in it it ; per wcijjhtsof solid colorless glass nation, weak in numbers, maintain ing unchanged for almost a thousand years,against obstacles never before surmounted by man, its language, its literature, and its customs. [Cor/nil Era. Origin of the Gama of Clioss. Looking over an antique volume recently, full of the quaint and queer, we noticed this story which we transcribe with a few slight chan ges. It may be new and interes- 'ing to some of the many lovers ol this popular game. About the commencement of the fifth century of the Christian era, the sovereignty of a large kingdom, i of crvsial, to which the tub's soon Edda, Known as ltie prose or young- ei Edda, was compiled in the twelfth century by Snorri Sturluson, and it, also, chiefly busies itself with the do iugs ol the gods. In it occurs that angular episode of Thor’s visit to the chapter of contradictions. Ey- Joiu iheim, which of late years has ing almost beyond theiangeofi ilher neen made familiar to English read- animal or vegetable production, the ers by more than one translation island still yields commodities whwli Snorri Sturluson, the man to whose localities can a!y clothes lie s inking- rain, mamma must \ i ii U-CLT-. RITE, T say I "i ui I fear I dou , she wants you here! year noise!” rude by playing with the cut a ; gown, hole EVILLK. CA. ad E baby broth Oh! c XUS. I liJL p 11 o 11, -—l. -—• -* L -L ^7 * l ; W £u LJ ^ j > i - i; a .-e - of the ST OK THROAT K\\ \ i i - composed excli • ''A. \ Mnv.ia^iiious product itter which many more lavorrd not furnish. It rivals semi-tmpi. ai Italy in the value of its sulphur mines, temperate Geimanv in the I variety of its mineral waters, Scmi- in the rain to I land and Norway in the fertility ol its salmon fisheries, and annually j produces, in proportion to its popu lation. three limes the number of horses and sheep raised in our own Stale of New York. It exports sev eral articles which are e.tlier found nowhere else, or, if found, are of h , greatly inferior quality, such as the down of tin; eider-duck—which j makes iis way to evciy palate and )«".! my best, hut in the lire; mamma upon which ilie heads of all the kings uld almost frown. j of ihe earth easily or uneasily Ii,— rike your nurse, and bite her too, and , (| le feldspar so largely used III opli- ck withal! your might, ^ j cal experiments, and that semi-cur ten because she tied your shoe? riiat j fo on j zet | wood, known as surlilhrand ! ur, wliieh, as a material for the man- jufactureof (urnilure, equals the f,i- I mous ebony of the tropics. A land j of glaciers, and suffei iug keenly Iron: the chid winds that blow off ihe ic\ ■ baby’s arm: I know it shores of Greenland, Iceland’s chief | harbors are open all the year round, icreatrs that way- when While those of the Baltic, bir to the by- | south, are closed. A treeless coun try, its inhabitants often burn the costliest of woods—mahogany and rosewood and Brazd wood—which has b> cn borne to them from the tropics, at no expense for freight, bv thecuirentof the Gulf Stream. A land where wheat will not ripen, ils people possesses in abundance a ve- >d f;iu”s. one can’t most—but what is Hun 1 h X 1 Why Alary’s pushed Eli- life so , r Ned i ill shrie wn the stairs! o would bo a mother, with : care.- ? music. BY C. DAY NOBLE. She dwells by the red beating heart of things, Hie bioods the deeps of joy and pain, And ever seem her passionate inurinurings Breaking thetinite chain. To mount and eddv in the infinite, And, full released, exultant tell la in r divinely clear, melodious might The sweet unutterable. The other arts have reached b, O o 111 Iu I’hiuias’ marble, and the glow Of Kapha l’s Marys, in tiie grace and gloom Of stern browed-Angelo; In grand cathedrals domed, or forest-afsled ’Neath soaring arch and fretted spire, All carved saints and golden pinnacled To catch the sunset fire. g-tahle growth, the lichen islan (1/eu.s, id uatnr; the blour tiiiliif !1(T Color hath I bound, Iu frozen i Only aeiial, Willi pant which, in far richer countries, is ac- eounted a luxury. A nation almost destitute of schools, till ot its sons and daughters ate taught to read and write from their earliest years. The history and philology of the island present features equally sirangeand striking. It is ihe small est of all Teutonic communities, tiieir perfect w [,;| e jts speech is the most ancient and, grammatically, the richest ol all the Teutonic dialects. In it are preserved the oldest poems, the old est political orations, and the oldest religious ideas of out race. It is, as has been said, the feeblest of all Teutonic communities, yet it was the first to develop a republican sys tem of government the first lo es- I tablish trial by jury, the first lo com-! antiquarian zeal we owe the collec tion of the younger Edda, is one ol the greatest characters in Icelandic hi-tory as well as in Icelandic liler- a'u o. Waller Scoit puis him beside Cicero, who bore so mething of the same relation to his time, for the Homan lived in the last days of the Homan republic as Snorri did in the last days of the Icelandic republic. Statesman, or ilor, historian, archre- olngist, Snorri ii>11 -t long remain the rip's! prominent figure in ihe annals of the i.-Iuti.l. His histories of the Kings of Norway, which Laing has admirably translated, lorm a volu- I iht uaiioiis work, written in a clear and J iln w cil-.-u-t. mu'd style, and arc of great l.'isbU’lcal value. Thev are among the b-si of the Sagas. This word ‘‘Sag i,” literally a saying or tilling, is applied lo all kinds of prose r ar- r.iiive, whether it be historical, le gendary, or entirely m\ thical. Tnere are hundreds id Sagas, many of lliem still unpublished. In fact, ihe Saga ol almost every valley in Ice land has been written, and some of j from the these local histories are of great in terest as well as models of good -iyle. Such is especially the cass with the Ey rhyggia Saga and the Nijals Saga, of the former of which A alter Scott has given an abstract. In addition to the two Eddas and ihe multitude of Sagas, the old lil- er.iture has iis poems, mostly reli gious, its c#des of law, its annals, and even ils scientific treatises. The modern literature, especially of this century, is rich in poetry and polili- c ,1 works. near the mouth of the Ganges, de volved upon a very young mon arch. Experience had not yet taught him that he should consider his sub jects as children, and their love as the only solid prop of the stale. It was iu vain that these important truths were urged upon f im by the sage bran ins and rajahs. For ex alted with his power and grandeur, he swayed the land with unnatural Severity. Sissa, tin* son ol Dahur. the rnqyt venerable of the bramins, on whom the splendor of philosophy and wis-j should receive no injury easily and In r y ung r sister Phoebe, ap peared iu Philadelphia. In the same year, we believe, the sisters removed to this city, where thev have ever since resided, esteemed and beloved by a wide circle of friends and acquaintances. Alice, in 1S51, published a romantic poem entitled “Hualco,” which was fol lowed, the next \eir, by “Lyra, and other Poems,” and by a new col lection of poems in 1855. She pub lished, under the title of “Clover- nook,” a series of sketches of Wes tern life arid scenery, and also four novels, “Hagar,” “Married, not ma ted,” “Hollywood,” and “The Bishop’s Son.” She also publish ed, in 1866, “Lyrics and Hymns;” in 1S67, “The Lover’s Diary;” and, still later, “Snow-Berries,” a book for children. Many of her works have been reprinted in England, and have received a cordial welcome. She was an occasional contributor tiler between I to this journal, in which her iostarti- giass thus sol- j cle, “The Great Secret,” appeared dered together, it become necessary j in the number bearing date February to <_>ive ibe ball its hemisplu r>- 4th, only eight days before her death, cal form, which i* done, when the She died on the morning ol lebru- crysial is again heated, by moans ary 12lh, alter a long and pfinlul of a concave spatula of moistened j illness, at fifty years ot ag-'. wood. It then only remains loan- Appleton's Journal. neal it and to polish it on the wheel. * That a glass ornament, being cov- lass, in hemispherical shape, in the cen ter ot vvfiich are bouquets, portraits, and even watches and barometers, etc , etc., lint few persons know iiow or by what means these things are incarcerated in the center of the giass. The first thing to he done is to sort and arrange a certain quantity ot small glass tubes of different col ors in the cavities of a thick molten disc, disposing them according to the object to be represented. This done, ihe tubes are inclosed between two layers ot glass; to do this they begin bv placing on one side of the disc which contains the lubes layer become attached. When this is done the disc is removed and a sec- anW layer of crystal is placed on the opposite side. The object be ing placed in ihe these two layers of dom shone from Ins infancy lo his sevi nlieih year, saw that there vir tues in the monarch which required only the culture of rra-on to biing into life. Ami, afil cled at ihe erics of fiis countiy, he undertook to display to the monarch the cause of them. Bui, aware of the disrepute into which ihe precepts ,,t rnyralitv and virtue had fallen from the evil exam ple held im by those who taught them, Sissa w as b d lo ih-vi.-e a mode of instruction w hert-hv liis lessons should appear the icsult of ihe princes’s own reasoning, raiher than f another. With ited the game of STICK TO O.NE THING. ered with a layer of hot glass,! “Unstable as water, thou shall not or change excel,” is the language of the Bible, ol color, may be eu.-ily understood j Whoever expects to succeed in any from Us refractory nature; but is not undertaking, must enter into it with the same with objects in metal, such i a hearty and earnest will to do his as watches, barometers, etc,, which j hest. When a trade or profession a far less degree ot heat would ox- I chosen, obstacles, lie they iarge idize or even entirely destroy. The or small, must not be * 1 lowed to mode ol manufacture, therefore, of t siancl in the way ot mastering that these latter objects is quite ilifiereut l rii de or profession, from that of the first, it is easy to j However much we may de,.re prove this. cate the oldliine custom ol triden- li we look at -i paper weight, pro- Turing apprentices, the system in its videdthe interior be of glass the I l ,ra ' tical r *^ u, k? opnated almost al upper and under part of the reep- In contrived to mn-t important ml yi m >s l tie cas difficult, elended queiice ic- lo a ml be- instruction- view, he inv» slunk t>! the king. Ie this g;t ne make the king th of all the p;ei es I to attack and the defend; and oniy to he the next iu rauJ nr eon the game, in gradation. This game was first spread abr among some of ihe leading men great fame of Si-sa, came soon in vogue. The prince heard of it and directed that inventor should be his instructor. The sage bramin now attained his desire; and in the course ol his instructions took suitable occasions lo point out the dependence of trie king on the pawns, with other sea sonable truths. And the prince, horn with genius and capable of virtuous sentiments in spile of the maxiins of courtiers, applied to him self the morality which the gone so strongly exhibited, and ing his conduct, his people s the history of the English c:,mc prosperous and happy. Then the monarch, lent will be also ol glass. Il wc now examine a paper weight con taining a watch or barometer, under the lower pait of the bail will be lournl a piece ol g ecu cloth, the use ot which is to keep m place he <m- ject w hich, instead ot only forming one body with the covering ol glass which surround them, are onlv pi ced in a cavity made hefoiehand in the center td'the half sphetical ball. In a woid, to take out the giass ornaments il would be necessary to break ihe paper weight, whilst to lake out the others il w< uld suffice to take of ihe cloth. As for the paper weights iu winch are placed ways fur the laamg good of ihe ap prentice. Gene-ally it in-uitd to ind filled ber rainbow H13 lands faultless Form; Ijiitaling Sound • life is warm. P T iVi'S the dil- iVM COUHil Hi : ieving the dir caun and ple^i Adored Madonna of a million homes, Her silver tongue links land to land; With sudden splendorour lost Eden blooms ltouud us if .-he command. Our 1 if..- And ^ lt jlis Ik And i consecrates with cradle song, us wi-.ii wedding minstrelsy, aptures o’er the -abbath throng, -.vs ihose who die The Icelandic throws a flood of light upoi language. In their early stages, so nearly connected were the two longues, that we can very well ima gine an intelligent Anglo Saxon and j an intelligent Icelander making them selves mutually understood, wilh j some little slowness and difficulty, perhaps. At a later period the Ice landic greatly influenced the English, especially in iis northern dialects, so that most ol the dialectic words used by Burns were at once comprehen sible to the student of the insular language. Yet, notwithstanding its importance to the English scholar, Tth<- Icelandic has hitherto been, lo m ' or ef the EX have nuiiter- , almost iu- ippeared al- Cienr metal, string, And the bii With fresh dt mellow wood, and vibrant ; breath of whispering air rice and curious fashioning M<*; Lit EXi i£ -L.S BE ADVISED ! h*-< p u on Hand [ requires prompt action; as ■ -c, hollow cough is heard, apply 11 H is easily subdued; :, AV IS UAiHiLUOl'S ! ■T'T'ies of the EXPECTORANT ' v e. balsamic, soothing and ■o • : in-- nervous sj’stem and pro- •oid refreshing sleep. A KATES AND II ELI EVES v ESS AND DEPRESSION. qualities in a convenient i- it has proven to be the foil CALLABLE lung balsam p r , . "oln-rers from Pulmonary diseases H- TUTf & LAND. •1(1 by Ilrnon' - AUGUSTA, GA i uni2 2IS | S VlHDUtr j ei Jj-y 42 lim About her minister. And master fingers with inspired thrill Make always sweeter tones to rise, Voice our young hopes and wilh new pas sions fill Orchestral symphonies. Dawn, glittering Herald of harmonious day. Divine Interpreter of life! Rise, Scarlet Star, and burn in balm away Our dread and pain and strife! Fast Traveling.—Under the new schedules of the GuW, and Mu- con and Western roads, which went into operation Monday last, passen gers now leave Atlanta and Savan nah al six o’clock A. M-, and arrive at either place "at ten o'clock I. M. ofthe same day. The Cential wiH doubtless offer the very soon. same facilities pile codes of law. The colonization! of the island furnished a parallel in ._ i , , r, . . . . > . | to the great mass ot students of Lnfr- tne ninth century to the colonization i- _ „ , , , , t,r, ? .. ,, . .- T . , . Its. lineage, a sealed book. While of INew Lng and in the seventeenth, , ■ „ , t ^ i- 55 ... , , * the philologists of Scandinavia were its pioneers seeking its barren shmes: .. , • . . , • , .. • ... ° . tii I making broad reputations f>v th?ir Or the self-same reason that led the .i „ . , . . . j mvesligtiio.is in the Ud-North- ruritans to ifie rock-bouud coasts of Massachusetts and Connecticut, li- sturdy sons helped to delay the fall ofthe Eastern Empire by enlisting m the body-guard of the Byzantine monarchs; look part under Hunk ill the foundation of I fie Hussein monarchy ; took frart under Hollo in the establishment of I ha t Norman dynasty which subsequently con quered England ; set up kingdoms, anti left traces of their speech in Ire land and Scotland ; built churches and towns in Greenland ; and pre ceded Columbus, by five hundred years, on the dreary, watery path, which led lo the mainland of Airier- ern domain, while the philologists of Germany were cleverly availing themselves of this field, the English knew so little ol tiie harvest that was awaiting the reaper, that the num ber ol men in England and Ameri ca who had ever paid any attention lo Icelandic might almost, until with in the last decade, have been r^t Iv on t d upon the fingers of a single man. But in England a nrw era has dawned. The labors of Laing and Dasont and Thorpe in Icelandic lileratuie are beginning to excite in terest m ihe Icelandic language,and a gieut impulse has latterly been given to the new movement by the publication of Ihe first part of an ex cellent Icelatidic-English lexicon, t rough the agency of the Universi ty ol Oxford. But through it all, through the scripts in the public libraries of Eu-| present days when its speech opens rope, is at least equally great. Nor upu mine of wealth to the linguist of is '.his literature, as is the case with j ef every Germanic tiibe, as through many minor nationalities, and with j those past days when its writers most colonial communities, made up j u ere ilic chroniclers ol all the m igii- of translations, but is almost wholly i boring German nations, the venera- composed of original works. With be Gland floats upon the gray \\a- ihe exception ofthe Bible and a leva' | K- j rs <>! the distant northern sea, the theological works, Homer and one I wonder ulove No nation so small os Iceland, has so large a literature. The number of printed books amounts lo many thousands, and tiie number ol im printed wotks, preserved as manu- eager to re compense the biamin for the great good derived from his ingenuity; re quired hiin to demand what he thought competent. The bramin asked only a gift ofcorn, the amount of which should he regulated by ihe number ol houses, or squares, on the chess-board; putting one grain on the first house, two on the second, tour on the third, and so on in dnnble permutation to the sixty- lorth house. The apparent moderation demand astonished the king, and he unhesi'al ugly granted it. But when the treasurers had calculated the amount ol the donation, they found to their consternation that the king’s revenues w°re not sufficient to dis charge it. For the corn of" sixteen thousand th'ee hundred and eighty- four towns, each containing o e thousand and twenty-dour granaries, ot one hundred and seventy-three thou-and seven hundred and sixtv- ivvo measures each, and each meas ure to consist of ihirty-iwo thousand seven hundred and sixtv-eight grains could alone answer the demand. The wise Sissa then took the op portunity of pointing out to ihe youthful pr nee how necessary it was, especially f'*r king, to be guar tied against ihe arts of th >.-e who surrounded them; how much they owed their sul jeefs, and how cau tious they should he ol incons der- ately bestowing their goods waste ful I v. One of the re.-ults ot the German Arctic exploring expedition is the dis covery ot immense cod-beds in the north of Greenland. Mountains ex ceeduig Mont Blanc in height were dis covered, and the botanical specimens f. und indicate that Greenland must have been covered at one time with a ■ ich vegetation. the : portraits usually of a yellowish col- i E'har or, these profiles are made of relrac I nothin lory earth and may thus bear well I wa>3 ’ a heat which only softens glass. Manufactured successively at Venice under the name of miitefiori, and then iu Bohemia, these paper weights have been carried to per fection only by French ariists. The sole difficulty in their manufacture is in avoiding internal air hubbies, which would the more deform the is any defect would be much more increased by the thick ness ot the less.— Wonders of Glass Muhin". ielorm- , object, oon be- Oi.e of two sisters, who for many years have sung pleasant strains ol love, and beauty, and duty, has, in the fulness of fame, but with him a good irade . nd a w'h<>>esome discipline that lilted turn u»r suc< e.-s in business. At tiie present lime, va ry many young men undertake io acquiie a trade and alter a bri« t iriai abandon it. because there are unpieasa a Uu- j w „ j ties to be perferiii 1 d and obstacles to be oven ome. Tney eonsiuer themselves accountable to no one and go ami come at the bidding ot caprice, or an unsettled, uneasy mind. The result of this is lo send out mio the world young men who have ro. half learned then tnub s, of unst b'e cnaracter, who drdt from post, and who succeed in ’.roiling along the high - He o-i ncholy w rc 'k^. We woubi earnestly entreat e e- ry young man, after he has chosen his vocation, to stick to it; ao.i’l leave it because hard blows are to be struck or disagreeable work per formed. The men who have work ed their way up to wealth and use fulness do noi belong to the shiftless and unstable class, but may be reck oned among those who took off their coats, rolled up their sleeves, con quered their prejudices against la bor, and manfully bore ihe heat and burden ofthe day. Whether upon the old, worn-out farm where our fathers toiled, dili gently striving to bring back the soil to productiveness; in the machine years too few, passed into a land ! shop or factory, or in the thousand v hich she believed closely border ed this. Alice Cary is dead! Per haps of all the poets of America other business places that invite hon est toil a id skill, let the motto ever be: Perseverance and industry. whose rank has not been quite of the j The baby training ol the nurseiy was highest, Alice Cary has enjoyed the good in its place, but il won’t answer largest appreciation and ihe widest | all the demands of an active life. This is not a baby world. We must expect lo be jostled and knock ed about in stern conflict, and get run over, if we are not on the look- sweetened, they have refined, they I out and prepared to meet the duties () f || )e I fame. Tier poems have been, in the best sense of a term now be come common, household words. They have cheered, they have have touched with quirt and subtile power, the hearts of thousand liv ing in humble cottages, in the oo- seure by-w. ys of life. She proba bly came nearer to ihe sentiments and sympathies of the multitude ihan many of greater fame. She understood the level ot the heart— the emotions, and tastes, and aspira tions, and desires, and pleasures of the pure and simple—even it she did not always itach the heights of art. Not that tier skill was inferior to her power; the measure ot her perfor mance was always equal to the _ I measure of her conception. Very few have the highest flight, hut then very tew have the gaze lo follow the n. The average appreciation is kindled quick by the grace simplic ity, and naturalness of a [>oet like Alice Cary, than by the more am bitious strains of others. It is a mistake, however, to make compari sons or this character. in Art as in Nature interiority is in execution, not in measure; the violet is as ad mirable as theoak, the dove as the eagle- Alice Cary was a a native of Ohio, the daughter ot a farmer living near Cincinnati and with slen der advantages of education, began or two other classics, Milton, Klop of the naturalist and the philosopher. The former sees! d et f during the ^resent ?/ar. As many as twelve French dukes, of ' earl N m li,e t<> contribute to the news the oldest and most distinguished fin- papers and magazines essays sketch eage, have been killed or seriously worn- es, and poi-ms. In 1S50 a volume of poems, the joint work ot herself of life with a purpose not to shirk them, hut to fulfil them. A young man with a good trade or honorable profession, as Ik goes forth into the world with his mind made up to stick to his trade or pro fession is not obliged to ask for ma ny favors. He will hew his way to success, while the unstable ami shift less will grow tired, despair and tail.— Standard. A suit was commenced on in the District Court at St. Paul, Minn., against Governor Austin and the Still water and St. Paul Uadroad Company, to restrain the Governor from executing and the company from receiving a deed of land inur ing to the company. Judge Wilkins granted an order requiring ihe Governor and company to show cause why an injunction shu J not issue. The suit is concerning bonds in excess of the land granted tor the building <>fa railroad to Slillw aier, only a portion of which has been earned, in consequence ot the road being built only from white Bear Lake, a station on Lake Superior, instead of from St Paul, aud tfie parlies who bring the suit desire to have the excess of lands used in building a road to &ullwater direct from St. Paid and io connect with the west Wisconsin Radway.