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covered, the Worm was suspended an inch
from the floor. It appeared to l>e dead,
with its two ends drawn together so that it
■was in the form of a ring, suspended by
two cords descending from the under side
of the table, in the form of the letter V.—
The little architect which could not ItaVe
weighed two grains, was discovered active
ly running up and down, first one cord then
the other adding each time a fibre to give
it strength. When satisfied they were strong
enough, he ascended to the table, fastening
himself by two of his legs to the Imard and,
hauling in his rope like a sailor. The worm
was seen to swing towards hint like a pen
dulum, and thus to rise from the flunr two
or three inches, but on the opposite side
the cord gave way, showing signs of a sud
den rupture, and fall of the suspended worm.
He now made all fast where lie was, leaving
s gout or knot where he had been opera
ting, and descending to the worm soon
reached and repaired the mischief. And
now by a similar operation from this side
the worm was made again to rise from the
floor. Thus in about half an hour the
worm was raised about eight inches from
the floor, where it was Buffeted to remain.
The angle on which the cotds operated had
now become very obtuse, and the further
elevation no doubt more difficult; but the
triumph was sufficient. He had by bis skill
and energy, secured for himself an ample
store ; he had placed it out of the reach of
the ant and although Us enormous bulk was
more than twenty times his own, he de
manded neither aid from his neighbors or
othei tools than he always had about him.—
Whyshoul dmanbe proud ? — FcdcralUnion.
Rule* of Life. — Little joys refresh us
like house-bread, and never bring disgust;
Attd great ones, like sugar-bread, briefly,
and then bring it. Trifles we should let
not plague us only, but also gr atify us ; we
should seize not their poison bags only, but
their honey-bags also; and if flies often
buzz about our room, we should like Do
mitian, amuse ourselves with flies, or feed
them. For civic life and its micrologics,
we must acquire an artificial taste; must
learn ij love without esteeming U ; learn,
far as it ranks beneath human life, to etrjoy
it like another twig of this human lfe, as
poetically as we do the pictures of it in ro
mances. The loftiest mortal loves and seeks
the same sort of things with the meanest;
only from higher grounds and by higher
paths. Be every minute, man, a full life
to thee ! Despise anxiety and wishing, the
future and the past! If the second pointer
can be no road pointer into an Eden for
thy soul, the month pointer will still less
he so, for thou livest not from month to
month, hut fiom second to second ! Enjoy
thy existence more than thy manner of ex
istence, and let the dearest object of thy
consciousness be this consciousness itself!
Make not the present a means of the future;
for this future is nothing but a coming pres
ent ; and the present, which thou despisest,
was once a future which thou desiiedst!—
Stake in no lotteries—keep at home—give
and except no pompous entertainments—
travel not abroad every year! conceal not
from thyself by long plans, thy household
foods, thy chamber, thy acquaintance!—
lespise life, that thou inayest enjoy it! —
Inspect the neighborhood of thy life; evety
shelf, every nook of thy abode ; and nest
ling in, quarter thyself in the farthest and
most domestic winding of thy snail-house !
Look upon a capital as a collection of villa
ges, a village as some blind alley of a capi
tal; fame as the talk of neighbors at the
street door; a library as a learned conver
sation, joy as a second, sorrow as a minute,
life as a day ; and three things as all in all;
God, creation, virtue !— Jean Paul.
The Gentleman. —Some one thus truth
fully describes him: “Moderation, deco
rum, and neatness, distinguish the gentle
man ; he is at all times affable, diffident,
and studious to please. Intelligent and po
lite, his behavior is pleasant and graceful.
When he enters the dwelling of an inferior,
he endeavors to hide if possible the differ
ence between their rank in life ; ever wil
ling to assist those around him, he is never
unkind, haughty, nor ovei bearing. In the
mansions of the great, the correctness of
his mind induces him to betid to etiquette
but, not to stoop to adulation ; correct prin
ciple cautions him to avoid the gaitning table,
inebriety, or any other foible that could oc
casion him self-reproach. Pleased with the
pleasures of reflection, he rejoices to see
the gayciies of society, and is fastidious up
on no point of little import. Appear only
to be a gentleman and its shadow will bring
upon yew contempt; be a gentleman, and
its honors will remain after you ate dead.”
In connexion with this, Abbe Bellegard’s
remarks on ill-bteeding ate not out of place.
** 111-breeding,” says the Abbe, “ is not a
single defect, it is the result of many. It
is sometimes the gross ignorance of deco
rum, or stupid indolence, which prevents
us from giving to others what is due to
them. It is a peevish malignity which in
clines us to oppose the inclinations of those
with whom we converse. It is the conse
quence of a foolish vanity which hath no
complaisance for any other person; the
effect of and whimsical humor
which soars above all the rules of civility ;
or lastly, it is produced by a melancholy turn
of mind which pampers itself with a rude
and disobliging behavior.”
It would not be unprofitable employment
for any one to examine his own conduct
and see how far it squares with the above.
To have the appearance of a gentleman is
one thing: to be a gentleman, another.
Think of it. —One glass of liquor each
day, at 6] cents, cost 822 18 a year; this
•mount would pay the insurance of 83000
on a man’s life. What a handsome sum for
a person to leave his family, and how easy
the means can be obtained by hundreds of
our fellow-citizens who have large families
depending on their daily earnings. We
•ay in kindness to drinking men, think of
this. Take from the rum seller that which
would leave your family free from poverty
when your labors are done here upon the
earth. N. Y. Organ and Washingtonian.
A temperate, industrious, and frugal bo
dy of mechanics, is the mainspring ofa cities
prosperity,
A thrilling story. —ln the month of June
last, a pedlar and his wife presented them
selves at sun-down, at the door of a little
farm-house, at Brie, in France, and request
ed permission of the farmer to stay over
night. A small room was assigned to them,
as the farmer’s wife was confined to her bed.
Tho next day wgs Sunday, and the farmer
and his servants went to church. The ped
lar p.lso started to go, and there remained in
the house, tlie wife of the farmer, a new
born infant, the pcdlar’s wife, with feigned
illness, and a child of six years of age.—
Scarcely had the people gone out when the
pedlar’s wife, armed with a knife, presented
herself at the ised of the sick woman, and
demanded her money or her life. The poor
woman, sick and weak, delivered up her
keys, and desired the little boy to show the
apartments. She rose softly from her bed,
followed the pedlar’s wife, vsiihout being
bet:rd, and having beckoned the child out
of the room, locked the door. She then di
rected the child to run for his fathet, and de
sire him to bring assistance. The child did
not lo*e an instant, but, by a surprising fa- j
tality, met the pedlar on the road, wlm had
stolen ftom the church to assist his wife in
the preconcerted robbery. The pedlar ask
ed the child whet e he was going, who in
genuously said he was going to seek his
father, as an attempt was made to rob them.
The pedlarsaid it was now unnecessary, as
he himself would go and protect his moth
er ; and taking the child by the hand, they
returned to the house. They knocked at
the door, but the farmer’s wife, not recog
nizing the voice of her husband, refused to
open it, the pedlar made vain efloits to in
duce her, and finally thieatened to cut the
child’s throat, and then break it open. Fu
rious at being unable to prevail upon her, he
executed his horrid tin eat by killing the
chib'.
Afteir committing this useless ciime, he
tried td> get into the house to save his own
wife, ap time pressed and the farmer might
returnlfrom church. His attempts failing,
he mounted the roof and descended the
chimm y. The farmer’s wife, almost faint
ing, nr v saw nothing to deliver her from
certatr death. The wretch was almost
down l te chimney and about to enter her
cham'o r, when, collecting all her strength,
she, by sudden inspiration, drew the pailles
sce (st aw bed) to the edge of the hearth,
and as ptickly set fire to it. The smoke in
a few inutes enveloped the assassin, who,
not be ig able to re-ascend, very soon fell
into tl fire, half suffocated. The farmer’s
couraj nus wife lost not her presence of
mind, ut, in this half blindod state, struck
him s< eral severe blows on the head with
the pc er, which put him beyond the chance
of imt ediately recovering his senses. Ex
haustc I with fatigue and mental agony, she
licrsel fell senseless on the carpet of her
chants er, and remained in this situation till
her In sbatid and'hts servants returned from
churcl . The dead body of the child at the
gate o ‘the farm-house, was the first horrible
spectu rle that struck the eyes of the unhap
py fatlier. They forced open the doors, and,
after paving recovered to life the farmer’s
wife, they seized tho two culprits and deliv
ered them over to justice. The pedlar sur
vived his wounds and burns, but both he
and bis portlier received the punishment
due their crime.
Which will you do? —One of two things
must de done in this country. Parents
must expend money to educate their chil
dren, or they must pay taxes to build peni
tentiaries and to punish crime. There is a
great mistake about what is called educa
tion. Some suppose every learned man is
an educated man. No such thing. That
man is an educated man who knows himsell,
and takes accurate common sense views of
men and things around him. Some very
learned men are the greatest fools in the
world; the reason is, they are not educated
men. Learning is only the means, not the
end ; its value consists in giving the means
of acquiiing, in the discipline which, when
properly managed, it gives the mind.—
Some of the greatest men in the woild were
not overstocked with learning, but their ac
tions proved they were thoroughly educated.
Washington, Franklin, and Sherman, were
of this class ; and similar, though less stri
king, instances may now be found in all
countries. To be educated, a man must
be able to think, reason, compare and de
cide accurately. He may study metaphysics
till he is grey, and languages till he’ is a
walkng polyglot, and if he is nothing more,
he is an uneducated man. There is no
class in the country who have a stronger in
terest in the proper education of children
than farmers; and the subject should re
ceive from them the attention it deserves.
Hazel Eyes. —Major Noah says that a
hazel eye inspires at first a Plutonic senti
ment, which gradually but surely expands,
and emerges into love as securely founded
as the Rock of Gibraltar. A woman with
a hzel eye never elopes from her husband,
never chats scandal, never sacrifices her
husband's comfort to her own; never fault
finds ; never talks too much or too little ;
always is an entertaining, intellectual,
agreeable, and loveable creature. We nev
er knew but one uninteresting and utiamia
ble woman with a hazel eye, and she had a
nose which looked, as the Yankee says,
“ like the little end of nothing, whittled
down to a p’int.” Incomparable orbs!—
There is a depth of expression, a sparkling
glance that appeals directly to the inner
man, a confidential and affectionate inspi
ration ; an intellectuality; and many other
things thine undisputed right, which has
won our devotion and our admiration.—
These arc the women who makes amends
for all the faults of the sex, certain.
Sheridan said beautifully, “ Women gov
ern us ; let us try to render them perfect,
the more they are enlightened, so much
the more so we shall be. On the cultiva
tion of the minds of women depends the
wisdom of men. It is by woman that na
ture write* on the heart* of men.”
“ The future destiny of the child,” said
Napoleon, “is always the work of the
mother,” and that great man failed not to
repeat, ou all suitable occasions, that to his
mother he owed all his greatness.
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Hunt'* Merchant*’ Magazine. — With the
January number before us commences the
tenth semi-annual volume of this standard
magazine. The work has now been in ex
istence four years and a half, during all which
time it has mainlained in a remai kahle de
gree a character for ability and practical
utility second to no work of similar design
either at home or abroad. Its articles are
uniformly well consideted, and accurate in
the information they convey. Among its
contributors are numbered some of the most
distinguished men of our lime and country;
and the ability and industry ot Mr. Hunt,
the editor, has imparted to its literary and
statastira’department an enviable reputation,
and rendered it authorative in all matters
pertaining to the range of subjects falling
within its scope. It has attracted the at
tention of the principle commercial nilminis
-11 at ions of Euiope ; and is, vve learn from
umb milled authority, taken by the British
and Fiench lioaids of trade, by such men as
Baring & Brothers, Rodet. &c. The nine
volumes aheady completed furnished an
amount and vatiety of information on the
subjeats connected with the commerce and
resources of the country trade, manufactures,
mercantile law', tegulations ol commerce,
&:c. now here else to be found in a single
work—no, not in a hundred To the mer
chant, statesman, or political economist, it
is invaluable : and its past volumes should
he found on the shelves of every public libra
ry, and in the private library of every
person of general intelligence. — Phila.
Chronicle.
One Way. —A lady in Paris recently
went to a store for the purpose of pntchas
ing a shawl. After looking at a number of
shawls, she aereed to take a particular one,
and threw a 500 frank bill on the counter,
out of which she intended the merchant to
take his pay. At that instant, and before the
merchant had a chance to pick up the money,
a gentleman with n.ustaches and all the
other extras that a Frenchman usually
sports, rushed into the store, apparently in
a great rage, and exclaiming “ Ah! mad
am, this is the way you treat your husband
—this is the way you squander my money ! ’
he gave her a smalt box on the ear, which
knocked her senseless, he picked up the
note, put it in his pocket, and walked off—
The attendants in the store, of course paid
no attention to the brute if a husband, but
betook themselves to reviving the fainting
wife. After she recovered they com
menced condoling with her on the brutal
treatment of her husband, when they ascer
tained for the first time, that it was not her
husband, hut a thief, It was however too
late—he was clean gone.
Sunday at New Orleans. —A letter of re
cent date from New Orleas, published in a
St. Louis paper, gives the following ac
count of he improper manner in which the
Sabbath is observed in the former city :
A grand review of the military by the
Governor, took place on Sunday, when
about 5,000 troops turned out—cvaalry, ar
tilery and infantry. In addition to the mili
tary volunteers, which evinced much dis
cipline, the races attracted the attention of
thousands of strangers. The various exhi
bitions conflict with the good order and qui
et which should exist on Sunday, and dis
turb the meditations of those more serious
ly disposed. Full bumpers of egg-nogg.
See., were served up gratuitously at various
hotels in the evening, and three theatres
and two masquerade balls were in full ope
ration.
March of Illustration. —Young woman
hood ! “ the sweet moon on the horizon’s
verge” a thought matured, but not uttered
—a conception warm and glowiug, not yet
embodied—the rich halo that precedes the
rising sun—the rosy down that bespeaks
the ripening peach—a flow’er—
A flower which is not quite a flower,
Yet is no more a bud !
Exchange paper.
Young womanhood! molasses touched
with a little brimstone, spread on bread not
buttered ! a being all joints and angles, not
filled out—an unformed form, deformed by
stays —a pulid tiling that loves the ripening
peach—a young woman—
A woman which is not quite a woman,
Yet something more nor a gal.
Brooklyn News.
Young womanhood ! a half tnoon not yet
ris —a cake baked,but nnttutned—hot corn,
all hot and smoking, not yet sold—a tich
curdle which precedes the coming of but
ter—the thickening down upon a gosling’s
back, that bespeaks the future goose ; a
butteifly—
A butterfly which is not quite a butteifly.
And yet aint a caterpillar no how you can fix it.
Sunday Morning News.
Electors of President. —The next election
sot Piesident will be decided under the new
apportmetit of the electors; and for the
convenience of politicians we give the fol
lowing statement of the number to which
each State will be entitled. Lay it by, or
cut it out and put it up, that you may be
prepared sot calculation ;
Maine 9. New Hampshire 6, Massachu
setts 12, Vermont 6, Rhode Island 4, Con
necticut 6, New York 36, New Jersey 7,
Pennsylvania 26, Delaware 3, Maryland 8,
Virginia 17, North Carolina 11, South
Carolina 9, Georgia 10, Alabama 9, Louisi
ana 6, Mississippi 6, Tennessee 13, Ken
tucky 12, Ohio 23, Indiana 11, Michigan 5,
Illinois 9, Missouri 7, Arkansas 8. Total
875. Necessary for a choice 138.— Detn.
Signal.
A Man of Business. —A gentleman was
in treaty with a London horse-dealer for
the purchase of a mate, but could not agree
by <£lo. Next morning, however, making
tip his mind to offer to split the difference,
he posted off to the stable-yard, where the
first person he met was the groom. •• Mas
ter up, Joe 1” said he. “No master be
dead,” said Joe, “ but he left word for you
to have the mare.”
“ I can marry any girl I please,” said a
young fellow boastingly. “Yes, for you
can't please any,” instantly rejoined a blue
eyed damsel.
Monument to the Officers and Soldiers who
Fell in the Florida War. —The imposing
ceremonies which took place in 1842, (says
the St. Augustine Herald, 9th im-tant,) on
the occasion of the inhumation of the re
mains of'those who had fallen during the
recent desolating conflict in our territory,
must have formed an indelible impression
on the minds of those who had the melan
choly satisfaction of participating in them.
During the past week a very neat and plain
marble monument has been erected over
the spot where the sacred relics of those
who fell intheircountry’seause, are deposit
ed in their last resting place—at the south
side of the Barracks’Gat den.
The monument is an Egyptian obelisk,
surmounted by a blazing urn, and is 21 feet
high. On the tour faces of the monument
ire the following neat and appropriate in
set iptions :
Sacred to the memory
of the
Officers and Soldiers, killed, in Buttle,
and died oti service during the
FLORIDA WAR.
On the West face :
This conflict
In which so many gallant men,
Petished in battle, and by di ease,
Commenced 25th December, 1535, and
Terminated 14th August, 1542,
On the South face :
A minute record
Os all the Officers w ho perished
And are here and elsewhere deposited,
As also a portion of the Soldiers,
Has been prepared and placed, in the
Office of the Adjutant of the Post,
Where it it hoped,
It will be carefully and perpetually
Preserved,
On the East face:
This monument
Has been erected in token of respectful and
Affectionate remembrance
By their comrades of all grades
And is committed to the care and preserva
tion,
Os the Garrison of St. Augustine.
A word to the wise. —A wise man about
to build a bouse sits down and calculates
how much it is to cost. A wise people
about to elect a President should sit down
and calculate how much he is to cost. Let
us apply the test .to Mr. Van Buren.
Madison’s eight years expenditure, when
the nation was engaged in war, and subject
to heavy extra expense, was 8144,634,939
Montoe’s S years expenditure, 101,463,490
Adams’four years, 50,501,914
Vun Buren's four years, 140,555,321
Van Buren for four years cost the nation
neat ly as much as Mr. Madison’s eight years,
including three years of war. It cost about
$36,000,000 more than Monroe's eight years,
and $90,000,000 more than Adams’ four
years. For this immense expenditure of
money in time of peace, the people receiv
ed a bankrupt Treasury and a debt of $28,-
000,000. Truly, if Mr. Van Buren cost so
much when tried before, is it likely lie will
cost much less if tried again.— Geneva Cour.
Mr. Van Buren in Pennsylvania. —The
following paragraph from the Harrisburg
Argus, a most thorough going tocofoco pa
per, is only one among the many manifes
tations of the unpopularity of the promi
nent candidate against Mr. Clay in the Key
stone State. The Argus says :
“ This State is just as certain for Mr.
Clay, with Mr. Van Buren for our candid
ate as Kentucky. The party cannot be ral
lied for Mr. Van Buren. We do not ex
press this opinion in condemnation of Mr.
Van Buren or his administration. We ad
mired and supported both the man and his
acts. But it is worse than madness to at
tempt to disguise the fact, that Pennsylva
nia will be a Whig State next fall if Mr.
Van Buren is our candidate.”
THE H (U) M © 1%1 ®T ,
The following is an original Anecdote of
one of our humorons old ftiends, in regard
to himself from the State of “ Rip Van
Winkle.” We understand there existed
once a Stay Law, by which any one taking
advantage of it, might stay judgment for
eighteen months. An old friend of ours,
whom we ee every three or four weeks,
from that State, was one day thrown by a
horse and dangerously hurt; as soon as the
intelligence of his misfortune was received,
many of his neighbors and ft iends crowded
in to see him. Among the rest, was an
old pious Baptist Minister, who after look
ing on the unfortunate for some minutes,
took a seat in a room hard by and commenc
ed giving utterance to his pious specula
tions. Turning to his elbow friend, he ad
dressed him thus; “I think, neighbor
Jones, that this is a judgment of God on
our old friend Stephen : what do you
think 1” Ere he could reply, Stephen, who
overheard tho remark, asked loudly, “ What
did you say, Unkle Jacky I It was a Judg
7/icnt ! a judgment sot what ] If that was
all, I could stay the judgment for eighteen
months, hut I am awfully afraid it is an Ex
ecution /”
Affectation Extraordinary. —“ Mamma,”
exclaimed a beautiful girl, who had suffer
ed affectation to obscure the little intellect
she possessed, “ what is that long green
thing lying on the dish before you I”
“ A cucumber, my beloved Georgina,”
replied the mamma, with a bland smile of
approbation on her darling’s commendable
curiosity.
“ A cucumber! I always imagined, un
til this moment, that they gtew in slices !”
Hallo, mister,” said a Yankee to a team
ster, who appeared in something of a hurry,
“ what time is it I and where are you going]
How deep is the creek I and what is the
price of butter 1”
“ Past one —almost two—borne—waist
deep—and eleven pence,” was the reply.
Pointed Remarks. —” Do you keep pins
and needles ]” inquired a strapping follow
the other day at a dty goods store.
•< Yes,” replied] the store keeper, “all
soils of needles and pins.”
” Well, then, I will have some ten-pins
ami terra-pins /”— N. O. Crescent City.
At a religious meeting which was much
crowded, a lady persevered in standing on
a bench, thus interrupting the view of oth
ers, though repeatedly asked to sit down.
A reverend old clergyman at last rose and
said gravely,
“ I think if the lady knew that she had a
large hole in each of her stockings, she
would not exhibit them in this way.”
This had the desired effect; she immedi
ately sank down on her seat.
A young minister, standing by, blushed
up to the temples, and said,
“Oh, brother, how could you say what
was not the fact V’
•• Not the fact!” replied the old gentle
man, “if she had not a large hole in each
of her stockings, 1 should like to know how
she got them on.”
Rights of Property. —A negro having
purchased a hat, was observed to take it
from his head on the fall of a shower of
rain, and to manifest considerable alarm to
preserve it from the wet. On being remon
strated with for his supposed stupidity in
thus leaving his head exposed, he wittily
observed, “ Hat belong to me—head be
long to massa.”
There is a good deal of saucy wit in Lord
Byron’s anecdote of the fair astronomers.
He says, some literaiy ladies being asked
how they could be sufficiently interested in
astronomy to spend so much time in watch
ing the heavens, replied, that they had a
great couriosity to see whether there was
really a man in the moon !
The Art of Shopping. —“ What’s the price
of this article 1” inquired a deaf old lady.
“ Seven shillings,” said the draper. “Sev
enteen shillings !” she exclaimed ; “ I’ll
give you thirteen.” “ Serin shillings,’* re
plied the honest tradesman, “is the price
of the article.” “Oh! seven shillings,”
the old lady sharply rejoined; “I’ll give
you fee.”
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For the “Southern Miscellany.”
LETTER FROM MAJOR JONES.
NO. XXIX.
Pincvillr, January 19/7t, 1 S I 4.
Mr. Thompson :
Dear Sir —Ther aint nothin strange not
uncommon tuck place in Piueville sense I
wiitmy last letter, but that aint sayin ther
wont be before long. I expect to write you
a letter one of these days with some news
in it that’ll make your hair stand on eend
with joy and gratification. But wc mustn’t
count our chickens before they’re hatch’d,
you know.
Some body sent me a “Federal Union”
newspaper tother day, and as shore os I’m
a livin man if I knew who it was I’d have
him indicted for perjury. It really bangs
all the lyiinst things I ever did see, and how
upon yeath a man ever could git sich a mon
strous mean opinion of the people as to sup
pose they'd blieve sich stuff, 1 can’t see iuto
it. I red some of it jest for curiosity, and
among other things l read a letter from
some feller in Washington what’s tryin to
write the notion into our people that Mr.
Stephens and Chappell aint no account, and
that Stiles, and Cobh, and Lumpkin, and
. Haralson, is great men, rite agin ther own
knowedge and belief. He says—
“ Mr. Stephens, made his debut yester
day; and disappointed every body. The
empty newspaper puffs, which bad swelled
so much his dimensions for political effect,
had prepatcd his hearers to expect some
thing quite smart; but among friends and
foes 1 heard but one opinion, which was,
that he is a sure enough * baby.' ”
Now, did you ever read sich a piece of
infernal insurance 1 Mr. call
him a shore enough baby! Now, what kind
of metal must a man’s face be made out of
that could print siclia thingas that in Georgia 1
Brass couldn’t begin to do it—it must be
real slub-and-twist gun barrels, mixt with
rat-tail files, and tempered by old Belzebub
himself in the hottest corner of the infer
nal regions. They call Alexander H. Ste
phens ashore enough baby ! whentheechos
of his voice hasn’t died yet in the valleys
of the Cherokee Country, wher he met and
triumphed over ther Goliahs and Sampsons
rite in their own camp, aud made them flee
before him like rahits from woods afire. I
reckon Stiles didn’t think he had a baby to
deal with when he met him before his own
party last summer, nor Lumpkin, when he
backed out from the debate on account of
“ phisical inability”—the baby was enough
for him that time, and so he was for Cobb,
and Cohen, ar.d the Rev. Mr. Colquitt, and
the whole gang of lokyfokys that set on him
last summer in the Cherokee Country like
so many cur dogs on the trail of a deer, but
who turned back like hown pups would
from a panther, some of ’em with a flea in
ther ears, and all ther tails pulled out. Mr.
Stephens han’t got quite so much phisical
incumberence about him as Mr. Lewis, of
Alabama, but he’s all Whig, what ther is of
him, ami it would be a glorious thing for
the Country if ther was a few more sich
Whig babys. Small as he is, it wouldn’t
be a very thrivin bisness for one of them
gobs of reorganized hog-meat and hominy
to tackle him in debate, at home or abioad.
I’m perfecily willin people abroad should
take Mr. Stephens for a Georgia baby, like
the old man at the Charleston Commercial
Convention, who said if that was a Georgia
boy, he’d like monstrous well to see a sam
ple of Iter men. But the lokyfokys mustn’t
call him so here at home, if they don’t want
to be laughed at.
But Georgia's got somethingbesidesbahya
at Washington. If any body thinks we
han't got some great Georgians, jest let ’em
read this— *
“Gen. Haralson as you know, at the
head of the military committee, is daily be
coming more popular and has shown him
self a handsome, and efficient debatant, Mr.
Cobb, upon every occasion, upon which he
has found it necessary to make any remarks,
has shown himself ptompt and firm, taking
strong vieus, enforcing them in a manly and
becoming manner. Mr. Stiles, distinguished
himself \n the remarks he made upon the
death of Milieu. It was pronounced, by
the oldest members and the best judges in
the House, to have heen the most appro
priate and the best delivered of anything of
that kind ever pronounced there. Thrice
great praise from every quarter. Mr
Lumpkin has not as yet, made a spech • but
is found always at his post, and his friends
here have no feats of his sustaining himself
with credit to himself aud the State”
Thar now, aint that enough to make us
feel proud 1 Only to think what s lin| e
travelin has done for them fellers. Only a
lew months ago they wasn’t a match for o Ur
baby, and now they’ve got to be monstrous
men—peifect Congress lions. One of’em
has got to he “ a handsome and efficient de
batant,” another to “ taking strong views ”
(not liquor,) another lias “distinguished
himself,” and Mr. Lumpkin is “ always at
his post. I Link of that! he’s always at
his post ! What’s the Country got to fear
now, when Mr. Haralson is a “ handsome
debatant,” Mr. Cobb “ takes strong views,”
Mr. Stiles has “ distinguished himself,” anj
Mr. Lumpkin “is always at his post” ]f
any body’s got any fears that justice won’t
be done to the Georgia malitia, let ’em re
member that Gen. Haralson “ is at the head
of the Military Committee,” and ia a “hand
some and efficient debatant;” if any body
fears that Texas won’t be’lowed to come
into the Union and that the abolitionists sre
gwineto kidnap all the niggers in Gforgia,
let ’em remember that Mr. Cobb “ takes
stiong views;” if any body is fraid that
they ntay get elected to Congress some
time and dye without a funeral notiee in
the papers, let ’em remember that Mr.
Stiles has “distinguished himself ’ in that
line; and if any body’s fraid that the Gov
erment is gwine to run away and Congress
is gwine to Swart wout, let ’em lemember
that Mr. Lumpkin “ is always at his post I”
Oh ! what a consolin thought, as the old
woman said, to know that Mr. Lumpkin “is
always at his [lost.”
I sed ther wasn’t nothin new down here
well ther haiut been much—but ther was
one of the curiouscst live things here tother
day from Augusta that ever was seen in
these parts. It was sort o’ tween a dandy
and a gote, but on a slight examination it
would have passed very well for a old mon
key with its tail cut off'or tucked up nnder
its cote. The most distinguished feature
about it was a little impeitincnt lookin
gote-luiot that stuck rite strate out from its
chin, jest like these little gotes what they
have in the mountains with tails drawd up
so tight that them hind feet dont hardly touch
the ground. It had o cap on its head and a
outlandish lot-kin bag cote. It went round
town without any body with it, and I never
was so glad Mary was to home at the planta
tion. At first my dog was gwine to take
hold of it, hut soon as it turned round so he
could see its face he just snuffid a little and
diapped his tail and walked off. The far: was,
he couldn’t make out what sort of a var
ment it was, Bimeby it spoke to somebo
dy and then Smart knowd it was some kind
of a human, but he krp Ms eye on him all
the time. 1 never did ‘blieve in Metcmpsi
chosisism as they call it, before lately, but
nowr I cant help but ’blieve somethin in it.
Whether people really do turn into animals
or not after they’re dead I won’t pretend to
say, hut one thing I’m certain of, and that
is, that some people git to be monstrous
nigh monkeys and gotes before they do die.
Now, that little feller that was down here
tother day wouldn’t take more’n about five
minits work to make a complete billy-gote
of him, and I aint. certain but I’ve seen
some monkeys that had more sense than he
had. Imitation seems to be the greatest
talent of sich fellers, and monkeys is first
rate at that, you know. If they can help it,
I don’t see what our young dandies make
sich gotes of themselves foi. If it's to be
conspicuous, they don’t gain nothing by it—
for people is sure to ask questions about
’em, and then ther’re sure to find out, that
they aint much—generally some nincom
noddle, that’s sprung from nothing aud don’t
know how to live in decent people’s cir
cumstances.
You must let me know if Mr. Clay comes
to Madison, for I’m bound to see him if he
comes within a hundred miles of Pineville,
crap time or no crap time. No more from
Your friend til deth,
JOS. JONES.
SYMBITI AL.
MARRIED,
On the evening of the 16th instant, by Wm. Seele,
Esq.. Mr. THOMAS LOYD, of Jasper County, to
Miss MARY ANN PARKER, of Newton County.
On the 18th instant, by Robert A. Prior, Esq., Mr.
THOMAS L. HADAWAY, to Miss EMILY AT
KINSON—aII of this county.
In Clark county, on the 18th instant, by John Nor
ton, Esq, Mr CHARLES L. FIELDING, of Hart
ford, (Connecticut,) to Miaa ELIZA BLAKELY, of
the former place-
MONEY TA®IL E □
EXCHANGE.
(CORRECTED WEEKLY FROM THE AVGUSTA TARLBS )
Augusta Insurance and Banking Company, par.
Bank of Augusta, : : : : : i par.
Branch Bank of the State of Georgia, at Augusta, par.
Bank of Brunswick, : : : : t : par.
Georgia Rail Road and Banking Company, > par-
Mechanic’s Bank of Augusta, : : : : par.
Bank of St. Marys, ■ : ; ii : P*r-
Bank of Milledgeville, : : : i : par-
Bank of the State of Georgia, at Savannah, s par.
Branches of ditto, > : i > par-
Agency of ditto, at Greensboro*,
Commercial Bank, at Macon, : : ; : par-
Marine and Fire Insurance Bank, Savannah, t par.
Branch of ditto, at Macon, : par-
Planters'Bank, at Savanrah, : i : s par.
Central Bank of Georgia, : t 3a 4 die.
Central R. R. &. B'k’gComp’y, Savannah, 4 a 5 dis.
Bank of Hawkinaville, i : : 3 dis.
Phoenix Bank of Columbus, s : ** dis.
All other Banks in the State not quoted.
Alabama Notes, i : i i 6a 8 die*
South-Carolina Banks, : : : : t P* r *
IV. G. A A. G. Foster,
Attorneys at Law,
MADISON, GEORGIA,
Will pay prompt and strict attention to claims entros
ed to their management.
january * V 44