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THE STORM OP RIPE.
The chill blast is howling aloud,
The rain falls in torrents around,
Bat more drear the sad thoughts that crowd
O’er the heart in sorrow now drowned.
All joyless, forsaken I roam,
A'o kind friend to cheer me comes near;
Faraway from my kindred and home,
1 wander the child of despair.
What! despair did I say ? Ob no,
For a Father in Heaven I have,
Who can say to the billows of wo
‘Be still.’ Thy friendship, kind Father, I crave
My elierub babe is with Thee now,
Safe from the storms of life is he ;
A crown upon his lovely brow,
ilc sweetly sings, and smiles on me.
Take courage then my drooping heart,
Thy toils and cares will soon be o’er ;
From earth’s rude blasts thou wilt depart,
A nd tiien thou'it sigh and weep no more.
DOROTHEA.
Vineri.ilc, Ga.
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From the Richmond Enquirer.
The Compromise.
This compromise, like the law, “is a
deep well from which every man draweth
according to the strength of his under
standing.” It requires to be well consid
ered. A few days ago, when borne down
with authority from all quarters in favor
of the whole compromise, without read
ing or considering it with reference to
maps, we made some hasty remarks upon
it in connection with California and the
territories, but entirely under the belief
that its provisions were altogether differ
erent from what they in truth are. We
supposed that part of Texas proposed to be
given up for territorial purposes, consisted
of some asperities on her Northern bouo-
Varies, extending beyond 30° 30'—the
Missouri compromise line. The speech
°f Mr. Soule and others began to wake us
up, when a judicious and distinguished
friend ferretted out the lines by reference
to the best maps, and found that, instead
of trimming Texas down to the former
compromise, the boundary comes four and
a half degrees of latitude South of that
line (that is from 3Gj to 32) and six de
grees of longitude East of the Western
boundary of Texas, from 29° to 23° West
of Washington, being fiom 10G to 100
West of Greenwich; —thus taking from
|cxas about 140,000 square miles (more
1 1; m twice the size of Virginia) now actu-
J y Mave territory. To our surprise, cve
-1) body here seemed to be equally ignorant
01 this astounding fact as ourselves.
the Committee of Thirteen might just
as w °fr have proposed taking the two Con
cessional Districts of Virginia, bordering
l ' lo Ohio River, as to have demanded
( |j ls territory from Texas. Tho Virginia
i lets would make a very respectable
ll c or a handsome legacy to Penusylva-
a °> Ohio, and a fine field for abolition
t v j. 'cment. '1 here would he no difficul
• m laying the price of indemnity, if that
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NEW SERIES —VOLUME 11.
would effect the object. Congress has
precisely as much right to buy up a part
of Virginia for thepurposa of abolition, as
a part of Texas.
W e are nowsatisfied that the New York 1
Herald is light, when it says that the Mis
souri Compromise extended to the Pacific
Ocean, is the true line upon which to com
promise. All parties will know their
rights at once. Adopt this, and it slams the
door in the face of disunion and aggression
everywhere.* Whi'e Congress can impose
no binding conditions upon the principles
of Government for California, yet that
body can fix herboundarv limits. It may
probably be best, as Californian has taken
a territory belonging to the Government,
large enough for several States, to adhere
to the Missouri Compromise, and bring
her Southern boundary to that line. It
would fall about Monterey on the Pacific,
giving to the Southern States a front of
fur degrees, and to the Northern twelve
—three to one ! The North would get
all the best of the mining and farming
country, as well as the good harbors.
The proposition of the Committe of
Thirteen, besides invading the Missouri
Compromise, directly violates the solemn
resolves of nearly all the Southern States
in regard to the abolition of slavery and
the slave trade in the District of Columbia
and the States, and of interfering with the
rights of slaveholders therein. If the
Southern States yield to this Compro
mise, it will be such a backing out as no
Virginian six months ago ever expected to
see. What guaranty shall we have that
our States will not be put up in the pub
lic market at Washington,and be partition
ed off to suit purchasers, and sold for the
best price? And who can stay the hand
of the hordes of aggressors, if we once
yield an inch to the demands of injustice ?
None! no one!!
Fifty years ago this unterrified Com
monwealth, single-handed and alone, un
furled the bannerof resistanbe to the un
constitutional enactments of Congress,
and inscribed upon it a determined adher
ence to the Union, to the Csnstitution, to
the rights of the States, and the rights of
the people. She was seconded by Ken
tucky. One after another her sister States
condemned and censured her, denounc
ing her course as leading to disunion.—
She maintained her position, and called
back many to the true princi lies of the
Constitution, and saved the Union. She
will do her duty again if the present com
promise be staved off till the people can
recover from the false security into which
they have been lulied by clamordis against
the neces i y of the Nashville Convention.
Staving off will probably be better for the
present than a rejection. The bringing
in of California as she is, or her rejection
altoget her, would produce an alarming state
of affairs.
Tti a few weeks the views of the Nash
ville Convention may be known, when,
in all probability, it will lead to the con
vening of most of the Legislatures of the
South, in order to take into considera
tion the mode and manner of redress, in
case Congress shall pass any act in viola
tion of the constitution, or the solemn re
solves and compromises heretofore made.
Or, perhaps, the Convention may suggest
some new compromise, to be submitted to
the States South, for their consideration
and ratification as States; which could
then come before Congresss with a weight
calculated to command the respect and
sanction of all parties, and quiet the a
larms of the people. But any one who
supposes that the Southern people and
their legislatures will take back all their
solemn resolves, deliberately made, and
see their rights rudely trampled upon and
themselves insulted, will find himself mis
taken. That there are some who would
glory in suchhumiliation, there is no doubt,
but they are very few.
It is not for us to dictate what should
be done. Our hopes were so much elated
at the indea of a fair, honorable and satis
factory compromise, that we were almost
beguiled into an approval of the whole
scheme. But the abolition of the slave
trade in the District, which it has always
been understood was to be the death knell
of the Union, fell heavily upon our ears
and excited distrust. And now, upon, ex
amination of the fact in reference to Tex
as and California, those branches of the
compromise are found to be clear and un
doubted violations of the principals upon
which the South stands pledged. We,
therefore, hope that it is not yet too late to
make a solemn appeal to those who love
the Union for the sake of her loveliness
and not for mischief. What will she be
worth when violated by the rude hand of
force or intimidation I Let all who ad
mire that comeliness and undefiled purity
which make her lovely to the nations of the
earth and the just admiration of all people,
now rally to the rescue and save her from
disgrace. Let them demand of Congress
such amendments of the proposed compro
mise and such guaranties for the full and
entire l ights of the South hereafter as will
restore the affections of the people to the
Union they love ! Who that loves the free
republican institutions of these States, can
for one moment consent that any shall be
laid under unequal or unjust condition to
others, or can endanger the cause of liber
ty throughout the world, by putting to pe
ril our sacred Union, from motives of ra
pine and oppression among the stronger
upon the weaker parts! Who can con
sent that parts of States shall be torn from
MACON, (GA.,) SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 8, ISSO.
the rest, by compromises to build plat
forms for Presidential aspirants, or Insati
ate the morbid appetite of those who wish
to elevate the African negro to the halls of
Anglo-American legislation ? Who is
willing to put to hazard,(he happiness and
safety of seventeen millions of free white
people, for the vain hope of liberating
three millions of negroes, who, for the
most part, are unfit to be free in any coun
try ? We appeal to the right minded,
well meaning people of the North, to take
sides with us, for the protection of those
rights, which pertain to all the States in
common. Abolition cannot be admitted ;
and this whole question of destroying
Southern rights and crippling Southern
power, comes at last to this issue—gener
al Abolition! Every man, North and
South, knows this full well, and it does
not become any one to conceal it. It is
not to the interest of the North, that three
millious of negroes should be turned out
upon the commons. The British have
tried the experiment upon their West In
dia plantations, to their heart’s content.—
The Southern States cannot admit it if
they would. They must, they will resist it,
“at all hazards, and to the last extremity .”
A short Story About Honesty.
One evening a poor man and his son, a
little boy, sat by the way side, near the
gate of an old town in Germany. The
father took a loaf of bread, broke it, and
gave half to his b?y.
“Not so, father,” said the boy, “I shall
not eat until after you. You have been
working all day for small wages, to sup
port me, and you must be very hungry;
I shall wait until you are done.”
“You speak kindly, my son,” replied
the pleased father ; “your love to me does
me more good than my food, and those
eyes of yours remind me of your deai mo
ther, who has left us, and who told you to
love me as she used to do; and indeed
my boy, you have been a great strength
and comfort to me ; but now that I have
eaten the first morsel, to please you, it is
your turn now eat.
“Thank you, father; but break this
piece intwo and take a little more, for you
see the loaf is not large, and you require
much more than I do.”
“1 shall divide the loaf for you, but eat
it, I shall not. 1 have abundance; and let
us thank God for his great goodness in giv
ing us food, and in giviug us what is bet
ter still, cheerful and contented hearts.—
He who gave us the living bread from
heaven to nourish our immortal souls, how
shall he not give us all other food that is
necessary to support our mortal bodies ?”
The father and son thanked God, and
then began tocut theloaf in pieces I heir fru
gal meal. But as they cutone portion of the
loaf, there fell out several large pieces of
gold of great value. The little boy gave
a shout of joy, and was springing forward
to grasp the unexpected treasure, when
he was pulled back by bis father.
“My son, my son ! ’ he cried, “do not
touch that money—it is not ours.”
“But whose is it, father if it is not ours?”
“1 know not as yet to whom it belongs,
but probably it was put there by the baker
through some mistake We must inquire.”
“But, father, interruptad the hoy, “you
are poor and needy, and you have bought
the loaf; and then the baker may tell a lie.”
“I will not listen to you my boy ; I
bought the loaf, but did not buy the gold
in it. If the baker sold it to me in igno
rance, l shall not be so dishonest as to take
the advantage of him; remember Him
who told us to do to others as we would
have others do to us; lam poor, but that
is no sin. If we share the poverty of Je
sus, let us also share his goodness and trust
in God. We may never be rich but we
may always be honest. We may die of
starvation, but God’s will be done, should
we die in doing it. Yes my boy, trust in
God and walk in his ways, and you shall
never be pul to shame. Now run to the
baker and bring him here,and I will watch
the gold until he comes.” So the boy ran
for the baker.
“Brother workman, said the old man,
“you have made some mistake, and almost
lost your money,” and lie showed the ba
ker the gold, and told him how it had been
found. “Is it thine ?” said the father “if it
is take it away.”
“My father, baker, is very poor and—”
“Silence my child ; put me not to shame
by thy complaints. lam glad we have
saved this man from losing his money.”
The baker had been gazing alternately
on the honest father and eager boy, and
the gold which lay glittering on the green
turf. “Thou art indeed an honest fellow,”
said the baker, “and my neighbour David,
the flax dresser, spoke but the truth when
he said that thou wert an honest man.”
“Now l shall tell thee about the gold. A
stranger came to my shop three days ago,
and gave me that loaf, and told me to sell
it cheaply, or give it away tothe honestest
poor man in the city. 1 told David to send
thee to me as a customer this morning.—
As thou wnuldst not take the loaf for no
thing, 1 sold it thee,as thou knowest.for the
last penny in thy purse; and the loaf with all
its treasures —and certain,it is not small—
is thine; and God grant thee a blessing too.”
The poor father bent his head to the
ground, while tears fell from his eyes.—
His boy ran and putbis arms about his neck
and said—“l will always, like you, my fa
ther, put trust in God and do whtt is right;
1 am sure he will never put us to shame.”
From the Washington Republic.
The Cotton Crop of tUo l ulled States.
Messrs. Editors —My attention lias
been frequently called to this subject of
late, and 1 verily believe that an essay, or
rather tieatise, upon the cotton of the Uni
ted States, would be one of the most val
uable that could be given to the public
| l would first consider the peculiarity of the
1 plant in the latitudes in which we cultivate
it, the difference between it ajid that which
is produced in other parts of the world,
the demand and production, the possible
competition, and all the ramified topics
connected with this fruitful theme.
‘‘The upland cotton region in the Uni
ted States may be said to lie between 30°
4 35° of north latitude,extending,in lenqth
from east to west, from southern Virginia
to Rio Grande. Its first and most stt iking
characterestic within these bounds is, that
it is an anua! growth, and bears an anual
crop, like wheat or corn. There is the
regularreason of growth, flower, fruit, (if
I may use this expression) and decay. It
is supplied with regular rains, and is
growth, in due time, is arrested by frost.
The sap of the plant, instead of being
employed in the formation of leaf and
woody fiber, is expended in the production
of its pods and seeds. Instead of aspiring
to the character of a tree, the whole cot
ton field presents a uniform appearance,
the plant seldom exceding six feet in height,
with numerous lateral branches. The
crop is also uniform in appearance, and
staple,and is nearly all ready to be gather
ed about the same period. It is, besides,
a beautiful plant. The cotton field in
blossom is highly ornamental; and the
snow-white appearance when the bollsare
opened is, if possible, still more so. The
yield is more abundant in consequence of
the medium size of the plant, the circum
stance of its vigor being exhausted in the
production of its fruit, while the uniform
ity, strength and firmness of the staple is
precisely that which peculiarly fits it for
ninety-nine hundredths of the cotton fa
bricsentering into the ordinary use and
consumption. To show how much the
fruit is influenced by climate and locality,
I may cite the well known fact, that the
upland cotton seed, when carried to the
sea coast, and to the south of latitude 30°,
changes, in two years’ time, to the black
seed and long staple, and so vice versa.
“South of latitude 30°, there is a contin
ual effort of nature to form wood, leaves
and blossoms, at the expense of the fruit;
and beyond the region offrost, itgradually
becomes a perennial, sometimes a tree—
of course, a thin barer, its staple irregular
silky and weak ; perhaps better adapted
to some deilcate fabrics,and comparatively
united consumption. For this reason,
the American upland cotton need fear no
rival within the tropics, either in the West
lndies.the Brazils or India. It is true that
Egypt lies north of 30°, but that part of
Africa being on the Western side of
that hemisphere, the climate corresponds
with 20° on the Eastern side. It seems
now to be admitted, that, from the peculi
arity of climate and position, no part of the
globe can rival or supersede the U. Sta’es
in this invaluable production, unless it be
the British possessions in Australia ; and
the distance is too great, if the same arti
cle could be produced to transport it to the
European market in preference to other
articles produced in those countries. It
seems to be the peculiar gift of Provi
dence to our favored land.
“At one time there was thought to be
danger of over-production ; but recent
statistics prove that the danger lies in the
deficiency of the supply, and hence the
steady rise in price. As to the increaseof
production, it cannot be as rapid as here
tofore; the easily cultivated uplands of
cclton States having been pretty generally
occupied, and a large portion of them
worn out. But there are still large bodies
of low land west of the Mississippi, Red
river, &c., capable of being brought into
cultivation. Cotton, at twelve cents, is a
better crop than sugar at six; and conse
quently, the rise in price will tend to check
the establishment of sugar plantations.—
Nothing can surpass the comforts and ad
vantages of a well-regulated cotton plan
tation in G eorgia, Alabama and Mississip
pi. The labor is light, healthy, and
does not occupy the time so er.tiiely as to
prevent, the planter from raising an abun
dance of provisions for the sustenance of
his people; and even for providing them
clothing. The planter generally lives in
the midst of his people, and sees to all
their wants ; and whatever may be said or
thought by those who are not personally
acquainted with their situation, they are a
happy and contented race, with strong
mutual attachments between them and
the master’s family.
“I do not mean to pursue the subject
further, although I believe it would not be
difficult to write a volume, if I were to
view it in all its hearings.
H. M. Bkackenkiijge.”
without religion, is only a
kind of deadreckoning—an endeavor to
find our place on a cloudy sea by measur
ing the distance we have run, but without
any observation of the heavenly bodies.
The object of all ambition should be to
be happy at home. If we arc not happy
there, we certainly cannot be happy else
where. It is the best proof of the virtues
of a family circle to see a happy fireside.
The possession of superior talent cre
ates more wishes than it gratifies.
Agricultural Societies.
An appeal has been made to the Agri
culturists of the middle Atlantic States, to
form a grand Central Association to meet
in Baltimore. The appeal comes home
to the pockets, the patiiotism, and the
happiness of the whole planting communi
ty, and will apply here as well as in Mary
land or Virginia. We extract a portion
of the appeal from the American Farmer.
It has been said :
“The patriarch pupil maybe learning,
Still, dying, leave his lesson ha I fun I earned.'
And how true is this of agriculture,
where the great book of nature, in its
mystery and its truth, has to be forever
studied ; and science, art, and all contem
porary means examined and exhausted
for expounding it ? Can any intelligent
agriculturist doubt for a moment that, as
a mere matter of interest, a matter of dol
lars and cents, he would not be vastly the
gainer by an association with such a so
ciety ? Asa matter of pleasure and per
sonal gratification, he must also seek a
connexion, unless indeed lie would prefer
to make his life a solitude and his avoca
tions a monotony in which one day would
describe the cycle.
The agricultural interest of the country
requires a concentrated and well-directed
public opinion. In t lie absence of any
organization to create and give expansion
and direction to such opinion, laterally
nothing: has been done by the Government
for agriculture. It is at the end of sixty
years without its department or bureau,or
hardly records euough existing among its
archives at Washington—if we except a
few huddled away in one corner of the
Patent office—to show that such an inter
est as agriculture has existence among us.
Yet agriculture is the basis and support of
all other interests. Its surplus products
spreads the sail of commerce, and starts
the shuttle of the manufacturer ;it feeds
all, and clothes all; “like the heart, it gives
vitality, life, and motion to the whole body
politic ; and, let its mighty pulsations once
iie stopped or impeded, and a general
prostration follows.”
It is time the agricultural community
appreciated more fully their numerical
strength and their moral power.
In no country is the landed interest or
the independence and position of the free
holder so little valued and appreciated as
in our own. Placed on his own indepen
dent domain, away from the influence of
those luxuries that enervate the body,
and those associations that may corrupt
the mind, with no bargaining, chaffering
occupations to whet the soul for avarice,
and dry up the sources of a generous hos
pitality ; the firm friend of the State that
he supports by unequal taxes levied upon
his lands; always conservative, loving
liberty, and fostering and sustaining those
institutions of education and religion upon
which it most safely reposes, still, although
associated with a majority as strong as
five to one, if he does not himself actually
defer to this majority in all things, he is
more often looked upon as occupying a
position neither enviable for its station nor
disirable for any emoluments it confers.
For all this, it is true, he has generally
most himself to blame. The honors of
the Senate, or the bar, the respectability
of professional and political life, or the
wealili created by trade, are objects often
proclaimed as those mostly coveted. Yet
how uncertain are these in the pursuit,
and often how unsatisfactory in enjoy
ment ?
The difficulty heretofore lias been to
render agriculture attractive to the young
and ardent aspirer after distinction in some
form ; and hence the misapplication, and
almost total waste of talent and energy to
the country, as exhibited in our over
crowded professions, the thronged arena
of political life, and the brokers’ boards
and stock jobbing associations of our large
commercial cities.
But through these societies, and the e
clat and distinction they will contribute to
give to agriculture, with the aid of a litera
ture by which this profession as others
may now be studied—the esprit de corps
which is likely to bind the freeholders of
the soil in closer ties—our young men of
talents and education are likely many of
them to be attracted to the pursuit of agri
culture, and to prefer its more suie re
wards, its calm philosophy, its tranquil en
joyments, that “peace within and harmony
to all around,” to any uncertain honors the
professions can offer, or to any mere sordid
pursuit of Mammon.
But, like the Grecian father, who annu
ally took his sons to witness the Olympic
games to inspire them with emulation, or
school them for the contest, they should
never fail to he in attendance at these an
niversary shows in honor and promotion of
agriculture. Asa school, then, for his sons
the American planter and farmer should
encourage these associations, always at
tending them himself as an active partici
pating party, and not as an idle spectator.
Our great Washington gloried in the
name of an agriculturalist; he realized
and fully appreciated the dignity of the
calling, nor was his groat mind above giv
ing attention to all its details. The world
has generally known him but as a hero and
salesman, but we, his grateful countrymen
thould also cherish his memory as the ar
dent friend and great patron of agriculture.
Amidst the councils of cabinets, and from
the head of armies, he actually found time
(such was his love of agriculture) to direct
it: a general way, through a correspond-
BOOK AND JOB PRINTING,
Will he executed in the most approved sfylt
and on the best terms, at the Office of the
SCTTTZEPsIT TB.IBTJITE
—BY—
WM. B. HARRISON.
NUMBER 22.
ence with bis overseer, the tillage of h)i
fields at Mount Vernon, and also to con
duct an able correspondence with Sir John
Sinclair on agricultural subjects, the fruits
of which his countrymen ase now enjoy
ing.
On the very subject of these agricultural
associations and institutions, Washington
thus forcibly expressed himself in his last
message to Congress : “This species of
establishment contributes doubly to the
increase of improvement, by stimulating to
enterprise and experiment, and bydrawing
to a common centre the results evervwheie
of individual skill and observation, and
spreading them thence over the wlio'e na
tion. Experience accordingly has shewn
that they ore very cheap instruments of
immense national benefit."
Can the rural benefit of these old Atlan
tic States, with so many thronging memo
ries connected with the past, better testify
their gratitude to the Father of his country,
or better serve that beloved countiy itself
than by emulating the zeal of this great
and good man in the cause of agriculture?
Washington would have been one of the
first in time of peace to join an Agricultu
ral Society, as he was in war to join the
standard of his country. One of his hum
blest virtues we might at least seek to
imitate.
Quick Digestion—Healthy Food.
—Ol all the articles of food, boiled rice
is digested in the shortest time—an hour.
As it also contains eight-tenths nntricious
matter, it is a valuable substance for diet.
Tripe and pig’s feet are digested almost as
rapidly. Apples, if sweet and ripe, ate
next in order. Venison is digested almost
as soon as apples. Roasted potatoes are
digested in half the time required by the
same vegetable boiled, which occupy three
hours and a half; more than beef or mutton,
Bread occupies three hours and a quar
ter. Stewed oysters and boiled eggs are
digested in three hours and a half—on
hour more than is required by the samo
article raw. Turkey and goose are digest
ed in two hours and a half, and an botir
and a half sooner than chicken. Roasled
veal, pork, and beef, occupy five hours
and a half —the longest of the articles of
food. —Scientific American.
Sayings Worthy of itcmenilirance.
The grave buries qgery error, covers
every defect, extinguishes every resent
ment. From its peaceful bosom spring
none but fond regrets and tender recollec
tions.
Dr. Abernethy used to tell his scholars
that most human maladies arise from two
causes—stuffing and fretting.
Nollii ng sits so gracefully upon children,
and nothing makes them so lovely, as
habitual respect and dutiful deportment
towards their parents and superiors. It
makes the plainest face beautiful, and
gives to every common action, a nameless
but peculiar charm.
Avoid a man that is all jaw. Remember
the more a person talks, the less he knows.
It’s your lean geese that are always cack
lingnot the fat ones. Recollect this, and
avoid a man that has got the gift offgab*’
as you would one that lias the measles.
Vanity has many silly tricks ; despotism
many cruel devices; love, many strange
ways : but folly is constant.
Zeal, not rightly directed, is pernicions,
for as it makes a good cause better, so it
makes a bad cause worse.
Many have attempted to define briefly
what Poetry is—few with more success
than Dr. Shelton Mackenzie, who thus de
scribes it :—“The best thoughts in the
best language.”
When man is capable of self-knowledge,
he rarely is deceived as to his own fate ;
and presentiment is oft but jubgment in
disguise.
The aim of an honest man’s life, is not
the happiness which serves only himself,
but the virtue which is useful to others.
There is this difference between a thank
ful and an unthankful man : the one is al
ways pleased in the good he has done, and
the other only once in what he has re
ceived.
The most common things are the most
useful : which shows both the wisdom
and gooduess of the great Father of the
world.
Everybody first declares that there is
nothing like love, and then attempts to
liken it to something.
P< rsonc etidowed with strong feelings and
passions, often, like children with a box of
jewels, squander their precious things with
out knomrtg their value.
We may respect where we cannot love,
but love necessitates respect.
When one was speaking ill of another in
the presence of Peter the id real, he at first
listened with much attention, and then inter
rupted him by saying, ‘-is there no fair side
to the character of the person you arc speak
ing of ? Come tell us of his good quali
ties'’
|CT° 'Pico Irishmen travelling together to
York, passed by a gallows when said one,
'•Harney, where would you be ij the gallows
had its due?” "Faith,” said Patrick, "and
Vd be walking to Yak by myself, to be
sure.’ ’
