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WHY I LEFT THE ANVIL:
BY ELIIIU BURRITT.
I see it, you would ask me what I have to say for
myself for dropping the hammer and taking up the
quill, as a member of your profession. I will he
honest now, and tell you the whole story. I was
transposed from the anvil to the editor’s cliair by
the genius of machinery.. Don’t smile, friends, it is
even .so. I had stood and looked for hours on those
thoughtless, iron intellects, those iron-fingered, so
ber, supple automatons, as they caught up a bale of
cotton, and twirled it in a twinkling of an eye, into
a whirlwind of whizzing shreds, and laid it at my
feet in folds of snow white cloth, ready for the use
of our most voluptuous antipodes. They were won
derful things, those looms and spindles; but they
could not spin thoughts; there was no attribute of
Divinity in them, and I admired them, nothing
more. They were excessively curious, but I could
estimate the whole compass of their doing and des
tiny in finger power, so I went away, and left them
spinning—cotton.
One day I was turning my anvil beneath a hot
iron, and busy with the thought that there was as
much intellectual philosophy in my hammer as there
was in any of the enginery agoing in modern times,
when a most unearthly screaming pierced my cars;
I stepped to the door, and there was the great Iron
Horse! Yes, he had come looking for all the world
like the great Dragon we read of in Scipturo, har
assed to half a living world and just landed on the
earth, where he stood braying in surprise and indig
nation at the “base use” to which he had been turn
ed. I saw the gig.tnrie bexapid move with a pow
er that made the earth tremble for miles. I saw
the army of human beings gliding with the velocity
of the wind over the iron track, and droves of cattle
travelling in their stables at the rate of twenty
miles an hour toward their city slaughter-house. It
was wonderful. The little busy bee winged machi
nery of the cotton factory dwindled into insignifi
cance before it. Monstrous b ast of passage and
burden! it devoured the intervening distance and
wedded the cities together! But for its furnace
heart and iron sinews, it was nothing but a beast,
an enormous aggregation of—horse power. And 1
went back to the i rg ‘ with unimpaired reverence
for the intellectual philo ophy of my hammer.
Passing along the street one afternoon I hoard a
noise in an old building, as of someone puffing an
old pair of bellows. So without more ado, I-step
ped in, and there, in a corn tof n room, I saw the
chef-d’oeuvre of all the machinery that has ever been
invented since the birth of Tubal Cain. In its con
struction it was as simple as a cheese press. It
went with a lever—with a lever, longer, strong r
than that with which Archimedes promised to lift
the world.
“It is a printing press,” saiil a boy standing by
an ink trough, with a cm less turban of brown pa
per on liis head. “A printing press ’” I queried
to myself. “A printing press ? what do you print.”
I asked. “Print ?” said the hoy staring at me
doubtfully, “why wo print thoughts.” “Print
thoughts!” I slowly repented after him; and we
stood looking for a mar., nt at each other in mutu
al Admiration; lie in tli ■ ab< -lie * of an Idea, and 1
in pursuit of one. But I looked at him the hardest,
and he left another ink mark on Ids forehead, from
a pathetic motion of his 1 ft hand, to ■quicken liis
apprehension of his meaning. “Why, yes,” here
iterated, in a tone of forced confidence, as if assort
ing an idea, which, though having been current a
hundred years might still be counterfeit, for all lie
could show on the spot, “we print thoughts to be
sure.” “But my, boy;” I asked in honest soberness,
“what are thoughts, and h<w can you get hold of
them to print them I” “Thoughts are what come
out of people’s minds,” he replied. “Get hold of
them indeed ? Why minds am’t nothing you can
get hold of, nor thoughts either. All the minds
that ever thought and all the thoughts that minds
ever made, wouldn’t make a ball as big as your fist.
Minds, they say, are just like air; you can’t see them;
they don’t make any noise, nor have any color; they
don’t weigh anything. Bill Dropout, the sexton
says that a man weighs jiv-t as much when his
mind has gone out of him as he did before. No
sir, all the minds that ever lived would not weigh
an ounce troy.”
“Then how do you print thought ?” I asked.—
“If minds are thin as air, and thoughts thinner still,
and make no noise and have no substance, shade or
color;, and are like winds, and more than winds,
are anywhere in a moment, sometimes in heaven,
mid sometimes on earth, and in the waters under
the earth; how can you get hold of them ? how can
you see them when caught, cr show them to oth
ers ?”
Ezekiel’s eyes grew luminous with a now idea,
and pushing his ink-roller proudly across the medd
le page of the newspaper, he r pli and. “thoughts
work and walk cm things what make tra Its: and we
take them tracks and stamp tie m on paper, or iron,
or wood, stone, or what not. This is the way we
print thoughts. Don't you unci i land !”
The pressman let go the lever, and looked inter
rogatively at Ezekiel, beginning at the patch on his
stringless brogans, and follow ing up bis eye to the
top of “the boy’s brown paper buff cap. Ezekiel
comprehended*the felicity ot bis illustration, and
wiping bis hands upon liis tow apron, gradually as
sumed an attitude of earn, . t exposition. [ gave
him an encouraging wink, t 1 so in* went on.
“Thoughts make tracks,” he continued impress
ively, as if evolving anew p-ha>e <>: ii ■ idea’by re
peating it slowly. Seeing we a--seated to the pro
position inquiringly, he stepped to the type case,
with his eyes fixed admoni: kingly upon us.—
“thoughts make tracks,” lie repeated, arranging in
his left hand a score or two of metal slips, “and
with these here letters wo can take the exact im
pression of every thought that ever went out of the
heart of a human man; and we can print it too, ’
giving the inked form a blow of triumph with his
fist, “we can print it too, give us pap i r and ink e
nongli, till the great round earth is blanketed over
with a coverlid of thoughts as much like the pat
tern as two peas.” Ezekiel seemed to grow an inch
at every word, and the brawny .pressman looked
first at him and then at the press, with evident as
tonishment. “Talk about the living forev
er!’’ exclaimed the boy, poii mg patronizingly at
the ground, as if minds were lying there incapable
of immortality until the printer reached it a helping
hand, “why the world is brimful of live, bright, and
industrious thought, which would have been dead,
dead as a stone, if it hadn’t been for boys like me
who have run the ink-rollers. Immortality,indeed!
why people’s minds,” he Continued with his climb
ing into the profanely sublime, “people’s minds
wouldn’t be immortal if’twasnt for the printers, at
any rute, in tills lu re planetary burial ground. \\ e
are the chaps that manufacture immortality for dead
men,” he continued, slappingtlie pressman gracious
ly on the shoulder. The latter took it as a dubbed
knight of the legion of honor, for the boy had put
the mysteries of his profession in sublime apocalypse.
“Give us one good healthy mind,” resumed Ezekiel,
“to think for us, and we will furnish a dozen worlds,
as big as this with thoughts to order. Give us such
a man, and we will ensure his life; we will keep him
alive forever among the living. He can’t die, no
way you can fix it, when once we have touched him
with these bits of inky pewter. He shan’t die nor
sleep. We will keep his mind at work on all tin 1 *
minds that live on the earth, and all the minds that
shall come to live here as long as the world stands.”
“Ezekiel,” Ia ked, in a subdued tone of rever
ence, “will you print my thoughts, too ?”
“Yes, that I will,” he replied, “if you will think
some of the right kind.” “Yes, that we will,” ech
oed the pressman.
And 1 went home and thought, and Ezekiel has
printed my ‘thought tracks’ ever since.
RAISING MULES.
Mr. Parham : —1 desire to call the attention of
farmers to the importance of raising Mules. I have
been informed by those competent to judge, that a
mule colt can be reared to two years old, on the
same amount of corn that a two year old hog would
consume. Os course the mule would require some
grazing in good pasture. An acre of clover, I suppose,
would suffice for the head. Put the season of a
mare at $4 —the corn for colt at at $4 —pasturage
at $10 —the time and trouble at $‘2 —the whole cost
of the mule at two years old would be S2O ; and $lO
of the twenty is for labor performed on the farm—
in others words, it is turning into money that much
labor. I think all will agree with me that mules at
two years old, never bring less than S4O. At two
and a half years old they are more generally worth
SOO. Now these are plain figures. Any one can i
make the calculation himself, and he will sec that
my estimate is a fair one. Mules are always salea
ble—cotton can't be made without them. The gene
ral price for good mules in Georgia and Alabama is
from SBS to sllO. Almost every farmer can raise
one or two mules annually, and instead of relying
upon his hoes and corn alone, he will have from
SBO to SIOO at the end of each year more than he
now lias. Nor need he raise hogs less than he now
does, for the mule is raised principally on grass or
clover.
Horses. —l notice that the most of our farmers
are generally very careless about what kind of horses
they raise. Or rather they raise very sorry horses.
Now a good colt costs no more than a had one. A
rme horse will sell for 25 or 50 per cent, more than a
common one. They had better pay a little higher
for the season of a good horse than to have a sorry
colt given to them. The best policy is always to
raise good stoek, and the best prices will then always
be obtained. —Chattanooga Gaz ite
A Widow worth Having. —Mrs. Miranda Hines,
who has been a subscriber for twenty years to tbe
Greenfield (Mass.) Gazette, without giving the Pro
prietor any trouble about pay, shows herself, in the
following extract, a most notable Dairy Woman :
1 bare five Cows, and have sold tbe past season,
1300 ll>s. of butter, 1 resides milk, cream and butter
for family use. Our family will average eight. I
raised seven calves last spring ; some of them I got
of my n eighbors. I have fatted 768 lbs. of Pork,
mostly on sour milk. Now let us leave out one of
the cows for family use and set the credit for the
other four, —say 1300 divided by four makes 335
lbs. to each cow ; the butter sold, averaging 1 G 1-2,
makes $53 02 to each cow. The seven calves were
worth S3O, say $25 to the four cows ; and five hun
dred of the pork at SO, will be 30 ; and the $25 for
the calves makes $55, divided by 4, leaves $13,75
to each cow ; this added to $53,61, viil make $07,37
to each cow.
My cows are about middling sized, an A of the na
tive breed. They have a good pasture in summer,
and good hay in winter, I sometimes give Old Brin
dle a few smail apples and potatoes, parings, and
the like, to make her hold her milk till some of the
others come in. “When I see anything in the butter
line in your paper that beats the above, I will try
again. Miranda Hines.
Monroe, Feb. 18, 1850.
€\)t Imlwjier.
To make Table Jellies. —Use at least two oun
ces of refined Isinglass, two quarts of cold water,
one and a half pounds of sugar, put in it the white
of three eggs, the juice of three good sized 1 ;mon ,
the peel of one, a stick of cinnamon, a little nutmeg,
orange pec-1, or other spices to suit the taste; Gir all
the ingredients well together while colei, let them
soak for at least one hour, then boil the whole ma s
five or ten minutes, and pour it through a Jelly Bag,
when it may be put into glasses or moulds, and
when cold will be fit for use. The moulds should
be first wet with a little white of egg and water,
just before tbe jelly is put in them, in- order to
make it easy to turn them out on plates.
The Jelly Bag is made of flannel 8 or 10 inches
across the opening, and about half a yard deep, nar
rowing at the bottom. The liquid that runs through
first, should be poured back in the jelly bag until it
runs through clear.
Blanc Mange may he made by uring at least
one ounce of Isinglass for two quarts of milk or
j cream, the peel of two lemons, sugar and spice to
suit the taste —bring the whole to a boiling heat,
strain it, and when m arly cool stir it well to mix
the cream that will raise while cooling, pour it in
moulds, and when perfectly cold, it may be turned
out and ready for use. The moulds should be first
wet w! tli cold water, which will prevent it from stick
ing to them.
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To Refine Liquors.—Dis olve four ounces in
four quarts of Cider, Beer or Wine, (it should not
be boiled though warmed sufficient ty dissolve it,)
put it when dissolved into a barrel of liquor and
leave tbe bung out that the surface may be exposed
to the air; it should be well stirred, and when clear,
rack, and off. It should be put into Cider as soon as
it is drawn from the pres and be racked soon as it
is el ar: ii it be not racked oil at a proper time, a
fix will form and cause the sediment to min
gle again with the whole mas*.
uxrzzzjaß-yarn a
Draught for tiie Heartburn. —Drop fifteen or
twenty drops of water of ammonia (not the strong
est preparation) into two ounces of almond mixture,
or of common water. This is a powerful remedy
for heartburn, and other cases of morbid acidity of
the stomach.
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Scarlet Die. —Cream of tartar, one and three
quarters of an ounce; water, one quart; boil in a
block tin vessel, and when dissolved, add solution of
tin, (made by dissolving two ounces of grain tin in
a mixture of one pound each of nitric acid and wa
ter, and one and a half ounces of sal ammonia,)
three quarters of an ounce; boil it for three minutes,
then introduce the cloth and boil it for two hours;
drain and cool. Next take cream of tartar, a quar
ter of an ounce; water half a pint; boil and add pow
dered cochineal, one ounce, stirring well all the
time; lastly put in the goods and dye as quickly a>
possible.
For Removing Wrinkles. —Take two ounces of
the juice of onions, 2 ounces of the white lilly, 2
ounces of Narbonnc honey, and 1 ounce of white
wax. l’ut the whole into anew earthen pipkin un
til the wax is then take the pipkin off the
fire, and continue stirring briskly until it grows cold.
This should be applied on going to bed, and allow
ed to remain on until morning.
To Pickle Red Cabbage adopt the following
method: Take a fine large closely grown
Tli 33 © m ft. IJL •€ Tll slt .
j strip the outside leaves off, cut it across in rather
thin slices, and lay them on a dish, strewing salt
equally all over them. Cover with a cloth, and let
them remain so for twenty hours. Then drain the
cabbage, and put it in a jar with allspice, whole
pepper, and a little ginger, sliced; pour cold white
wine vinegar over it, and tie closely from the at
mosphere.
Mock Brawn. — Boil a pair of neat’s feet very
tender, cutoff the meat, and have ready the belly
piece of pork, salted with common salt and salt pe
tre fora week. Boil it almost enough, take out the
bones, and roll the meat of the feet and pork to
gether. Roll it up very tight with a strong cloth,
and tie up with tape. Boil till very tender, and
hang it up in the cloth till cold.
Cosmetic Juice. —make a hole in a lemon, fill it
with sugar candy, and close it nicely with gohl leaf,
applied over the rind that w r as cut out, then roast the
lemon in hot ashes; when required, squeeze out the
juice, and wash the face in a napkin dipped in the li
quid. It is said to cleanse the skin and brighten
the complexion.
Palma Chrtsti Oil.— Take one ounce of Palma
christi oil; add oil of b wgamotte, or lavender to
scent it. Let. it be well brushed into the hair twice
a day for tw o or three months —particularly apply
ing it to those parts where it may be most desirable
to render the hair luxuriant. This is a simple and
j valuable oil, and not in the hands of any monopo
list:
Bath Cakes are thus made : Mix well toge th
er half a pound of butter, one pound of flour, five
eggs, and a cupful lof yeast. Set the whole before
the tiro to rise, which effected, add four ounces of
finely powdered sugar, and one ounce of carra
ways; roll the paste out into little cakes. Bake
them on tins.
Arn.ES are Preserved by wrapping each in a
piece, of clean dry paper, and filling small w ide
mouthed ja;s or honey pots with them, packing the
pots one upon the other, and filling the space be
tween them with a sort of Blaster of Paris made
into ] a t ■ w ith water, thus making them air-tight.
Cowr well the mouth of the jars.
€\)t Utanrist.
‘•T.et dim]i!e<l mirth liis temples twine,
With tendrils of the laughing vine.”
From the Methodist Expositor.
The Mormon ant! the German.
The following incident, which is said to have oc
curred in Louisiana, was related to the writer by an
old Methodist itinerant, who traveled in that coun
try at a very early day.
A Mormon elder, one of Joe Smith's thorough
bred disciples, engaged in bis miscellaneous peregri
! nations over the southern portion of our country,
found himself in a neighborhood, where the people,
drawn out by anything that carried novelty upon its
face, were w illing to go out and listen to him every
| day for a week. Among liis hearers was an elderly,
venerable German, whose eye flashing keenly from
out its walls of ehufty cheeks and heavy brows, be
spoke that mi sluggard mind slept there only half
awake. He was the leader of the Methodist class
in the neighborhood. Every time the Mormon
would hold forth his enlightening speculations, like
many other petifoggers in divinity, he would, in the
most pompous manner possible, call for any ques
tion that any might w ish t-> ask—any objections to
anything lie had advanced—and as a farther trick
upon his auditors, would challenge any one, lie cared
not who, to controvert any position he had as>uml
knowing very m il, that tin re win no person any
where about him, who would with any likelihood at
all, think of accepting it; and after lie had finished
his lecture, reiterating liis call, he w ould add, that if
there was any passage of scripture at all, which anv
of his hear is did not understand in accordance
with liis theory, if they would call upon him, he
would gladly explain it to them.
After lie had been there about a week, the old
German became heartily tired of him, and concluded
to try his hand on him; so, in the morning, after the
people assembled, and before the Mormon had be
| gun his lecture, he ro.-c up, and addressed the Mor
i moil thus:
“if 1 da h unterslitant you, you dash vant any of
us to ar k you any questions bout vat you ses.”
“i eg certainly any que- tion you may w ish to pro
pound, I will answer with pleasure.”
“Veil, if I unterriitants you right, you ses you
dash believe in languages an dc iutarpretation of
languages.”
“Yes, exactly.”
“Also in dreams an do iutarpretation of dreams.”
“Just so; so far you understand me exactly, sir.”
“Yell den, Iliad a dream last night; vi!l you be
so kind as to intarpret it for me an my neighbors, if
1 viil tell it to you ?”
“Certainly, sir. I vrill give you the exact inter
pretation; and 1 am sure 1 will be enabled by it to
convince you all fully.”
“Yell, my neighbors,” said the German turning
around and facing the congregation, “you must al l
listen gout to do dream, and see if se dash give a
goot intarpr. tation.”
“\ ell, I. dreamt last night dat 1 vasli very sick; an
dat at last, 1 vasli so sick dat 1 diet. An ven 1 diet,
1 goes avay oif, an off very far; an ven I did go a
gi (at vays, I come to do gate of heaven; an ven 1
got (I re, 1 did knock; den Gabriel, from do inside,
ses, ‘\\ ho comes dero ?’ I told him. ‘Vat du-Ji
you vent A I told him I vauts to come in. ‘You
cannot come in here:’ Yat for l cannot come in ?
‘You is not gate enough.’ Yell den, vat inusht 1 do,
if I cannot come in here? ‘You see avay offyouter
ish te gate of hell. You go dere an knock, an dey
mu ht let you in due.’ So I goes avay otT, till 1
Comer, to do gate of hell; an veil 1 gets dere, I dush
knock at u • gate. ‘\\ ho comes acre ?’ ses one iti
. ide. 1 ufld him. ‘Vat dusli you vant ?’ 1 v.mts
to come in. ‘You cannot come in here.’ Yat for I
cannot come in ? Gabriel ses 1 must, come in. ‘Yel
den, 1 vil see vat Be lzebub ses bout it’ So lie
goes avay off into bell, to sec Belzebub. After a vile
lie com* s back, an I ses, vat did Beelzebub say ?
‘Beelzebub ses you cun not come in.’ Yat for, (be
coming quite excited in his tone of voice, at the
thought of being so pertinaciously denied an en
trance,) ‘Yat for l cannot come in ? ‘Beelzebub sis
pecause be expects Choc Smit an all liis company
here in a few days,’ an ve will bo crowded out /’
1 he uproarious laughter which followed, can bet
1t be imagined than described. Suffice it to say,
tlie Mormon mysteriously disappeared, some said
through the back window-, before silence was restor
ed, and has never been heard of since. L. D. N.
‘Lezar ! Lezar! you are a fool.’
‘I know I am a fool,’ answered Eleazar, Vlrawing
in bis hanging tongue; but Blnlemon, you are a
tool, and don t know it.’ Philemon, is one of a nu
merous class.
Epitaph “Writing, —On tbe death of General
WMf, a premium was offered fertile best written
epitaph on the brave officer. A number of poets,
of all descriptions, started as candidates, and among
the rest w as a poem, ot which the follow ing was one
of the stanzas :
“ lie mnrclied without dread of fears
At tlie bead of liis bold Grenadiers:
And w hat was more remarkable—nay, very particular ,
■ He dim'd up rocks that were perpendicular.*’
Receipts.—To have Music at Dinner.—Tell your
w ife she is not as handsome as the lady across the
way.
To save Butter. —Make it so salt that nobody can
cat it.
To lighten your Worldly Troubles.—Punish your
child w hen it is naughty, and caress it again if it
cries.
To make Superior Bread. —Make it of flour in
which mice have played.
A man who had a long score at his grocer’s, com
plained of suffering from the ‘tiek-dollar-owe.’
■a—WMna
Hard Boiled Eggs—‘Go thou and dream,’ a* the
vender of hard boiled Eggs said to his customer, was
once considered a very fine bon mot. It is not equal
in raciness to a little incident that happened a few
days since, in the private office of a crabbed old phy
sician of our acquaintance. Enter a tall, gaunt,
haggard individual of the masculine gender. “Oh,
Doctor! I had such terrible dreams last niglit! 1
dreamed that I saw-my father and mother! ’ ‘What
did you eat before going to bed ?’ gruffly asked old
Burdock, raising bis glasses and peering at the bed
ridden hypochondriac w ith bis big green eyes. ‘Oh,
Doctor, I cat nothing at all! ’ * ‘You eat nothing!
Then it is strange you should dream ! ’ and the Doc
tor lowered his glasses and continued perusing the
work on diseases of the spinal column, in which lie
had been interrupted. “Oh, yes, T eat nothing!
absolutely nothing! ’ drawled out the miserable
w retch, ‘liothcn but a Welsh rare bit, and a half
a-dozen hard boiled eggs, and yet I saw my father
and mother.’ ‘Half-a-dozen hard boiled eggs and a
Welsh rare bit! ’ growled old Burdock, ‘well, to
night, eat a Welsh rare bit and a dozen hard boiled
eggs, and you will see your grandmother, and very
likely all your ancestors.’ — N. 0. True Delta.
e-ww***® mm iiiira
A scamp who used to raise a particular purgatory
about Middle bury College, had ‘taken a shine’ to
the daughter of a staid old deacon, who, used fre
quently to invite him to dinner. The deacon called
upon him one day to ask the customary blessing,
and not wishing to have it understood that there was
any one thing he could not do, he made T he effort.
Hastily recollecting all that he could of the usual
form, he began, and made an excellent start of it,
but for his life he could not tell how to close it. —
It was easier to go on than to stop. Finally, ma
king a desperate dafli after the period, he closed
thus : “In conclusion my dear sir, 1 remain very re
spectfully and truly your obedient servant! ” lie
has not dined with that deacon since.
Stripping to it. — A Western New York corres
pondent of the New York Spirit of tlie Times, does
not think ‘that any of the lost stories,’ for which
that capital journal is so famous, ‘can beat one told
by Justice G of the Sixth District. He was
holding the summer circuit in Chenango county. —
The day was very hot and sultry. Avery fat old
lady was called upon the stand as n witness. She
took a scat, pulled.out a handkerchief, and tried to
w ipe off the perspiration from her face, but the more
she rubbed, the redder her face grew, and the faster
the great drops of sweat rolled down. At length,
in a perfect agony of heat, she began to untie her
bonnet-strings but her ‘fingers were all thumbs,’ and
she only succeeded in tying a hard knot. Finally
she turned to the Judge, who is celebrated for liis
urbanity and kindness to the sex, and asked him to
untie it for her, which of course he did.
‘There, thank ve. Judge,’said the old lady, with
a profound courtesy ; ‘when 1 have any thing to do,
1 always like to strip to it!’
r ihe court immediately took a recess.
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Love Geography. —‘Bob, where is the state of
Matrimony ? ’
‘lt is one of the United States. It is bounded by
bugging and kissing on one side, and cradles and
babies on the other. Its chief products are popu
lation, broom sticks and staying out o’nights. It
was discovered by Adam and Eve w hile trying to
find a northwest pa-sago out of Bartulise. Tiff cli
mate is rather sultry, till you pass the tropics of
housekeeping, when squallv weather sets in with
sufficient power to keep all hands as cool as cucum
bers, For tlie primitive roads leading to tins in
teresting state, consult the first pair of blue eyes you
run against! ’
Kt-SLAage; vc C.lfM 1 TH
Expounding the Law. —A Scotchman called at
the house of Fletcher, of Vermont, to consult that
legal gentleman professionally. “Is the squeer at
home ‘. ’ he enquired of the law yer’s lady who opened
the door at liis summons. He was answered nega
tively.
Disappointment was now added to Scotia’s son,
hut after a moments consideration, anew thought
relieved him. ‘Mebby yourself can gie me the neces
sary information as well as the Squeer —seeing as
ye’re his wife.’
Hie kind lady readily complied to do so, if on
learning the nature of his difficulty, she found it in
her power, and the other proceeded to state the ca e
as follows:
‘Spoze ve was an null white mear, an T bony ye
to gang to mill, with a grist on yer back, an’ we
•should get no farder than Stair hill, w hen all at
wonce, ye should back up, and rear up, and pitch
up, and kneel down backwards, and break yer
d* al lied neck, who’d pay for ye ? not 1, dearn me if
1 would! ’
The lady smilingly told him, as she closed the
door, that as he had himself passed sentence on the
case, advice would he entirely superfluous.
, v s*rra*sn
Filing cpthe Agony. — “Well, Anne, have you
consented yet to be tlie wife of Mr. W bite ?’ ‘No,
•Sally, L didn’t quite consent.’ ‘Why not? 1 think
he loves you.’ ‘Yes, but he didn’t pile up the ago
ny high enough. When I give my hand to a
wooer, 1 w ant him to call upon the gods to witness
his deep devotion to me. 1 want him to kneel at
my feet, take olio of my hands between both of liis,
and with a look that would melt an adamantine rock
to pitv, to beg me to take compassion on his dreadful
suffering; and then 1 want him to end by swearing
to blow his brains out on the spot if I do not com
passionate his miseries.’
The heart-broken individual supposed to be the au
thor of the follow ing lines, was seen last Sunday with a
“ card of ging-rim ml’ under his arm, walking rap
idly towards tlie river. He has not been heard ot
since:
Hut sickness and affliction is trials sent
By tlie will of a wise creation,
And always oiiflit tobo underwent
With fortitude and resignation.
Then mourn not for your pardner's death,
But to submit, endevver;
For sposen she liadent died so soon,
She eouldent a li\od forever.
The Brooklyn * Advertiser is responsible lbr the
following outrageous paragraph:
Dip the Atlantic ocean dry with a .teaspoon —
stop this journal from going ahead, twist your heel
into the toe of your boot—make postmasters per
form their promises, and subscribers pay the prin
ter —send up fishing hooks with balloons and fisli
for stars —get astride of a gossamer and chase a
comet —w hen a rain storm is coming down like the
cataract of Niagara, remember w here you left your
umbrella —choke a musquito with a brickbat —in
short, prove all things hitherto considered impossi
ble, to be possible, but never coax a woman to say
she will, when she has made up her mind to say
she won’t.
GREAT ATTRACTION!!
attention of every man, woman and child in Georgia and adjacent
States, is specially directed to the following
PROSPECTUS of the
UJ& yai Sii a 1 & if1
An independent and racy Weekly Journal, jest commenced in Ma-*
con, Ga. under the exclusive control of
L. F. W. Andrews, Editor and Proprietor,
\\ ho for five years past, had the charge of the JYlflSCOgcc l>CllloCratf
of Columbus:
Ist. His motto will be —■“lndependent in all things,
neutral in nothing.' 1 ' 1 This is indicative of the position
winch the Editor designs to take in relation to men, princi
ples and measures—a position above the influence of party
or sect, and which will reserve to himself the largest liberty
of speech and most unrestrained latitude of criticism upon all
matters, moral, social and political, winch may pass in review
before him, as a public Journalist.
id. As the paine imports, the Editor’s aim will be to de
velope the resources of Georgia and advance the interests of
her people in the pathway of true greatness and prosperity.
I ruler this head, the agricultural and mineral capabilities of
the state—its commercial facilities—its varied industrial pur
suits, and the educational enlightenment of every class of
its citizens, will be embraced, as leading objects of concern
ment.
dd. Hie “Georgia Citizen’’ will lie the foe of moiiojx-ly
an l exclusive privilege, in their every phrase and feature,
and the special friend of honest industry of head and hand.—
W iiile “every form of tyranny over the mind of man” will
be strenuously opposed, the ‘‘Citizen” will ever be found en
forcing the constitutional requirements of toleration towards
every Guide of opinion which may be entertained “for eon
s.ienee’ sake,” and defending the rights of the humblest from
abuse or infringement.
4th. The “Citizen” will contain a weekly transcript of
the current news of the day, gleaned with care from every a
vailable source, foreign and domestic. Cud or this head the
Editor will introduce anew and interesting feature —that o
special correspondence from the prominent cities of the
State and Union, in which all that is rich in incident and
racy in thought, will be garnered, weekly, for the reader's
information and amusement.
3th. The “Citizen” will have its Literary Department,
where will be found the gem of poetic inspiration and the
ftP li IMS; OF Xm PRESS;*
The folio wing unsolicited end unbeught opinions <_( the Frcss, of Georgia and
Alabama, ol both parties, as io the character of the “Georgia Citizen** and the abil
ity ot the Editor to make it one of the most readable and valuable FAMILY
JOURNALS now published in the Union, arc only a part of the many flattering
testimonials which have greeted the Editor since the appearance of his first
Number, lie submits them to the public, as the unbiassed evidence of a far-see
ing and enlightened Fraternity, who must, from their vocation, he qualified to ren
der a just verdict in the case, and whose united and disinterested opinions are
certainly entitled to respectful consideration; from the reading community :
The Georgia Citizen.
Independent in all things—neutral in nothing.
The above are the title and motto of anew paper just com
menced at Macon, Ga., by Dr. L. F. W. Andrews, late Ed
itor of the “ Muscogee Democrat.” If .No. 1, now before
us, is to be taken as a specimen, the “ Georgia Citizen,” will
be a valuable paper. We like his motto, and hope the Doctor
will maintain his present high position. We. have long dr
tested the devotion of the strictly party press to stereotype
sentiments, manufactured for them by interested politicians.
| We go ior the “ freedom of the press” always, and under a!!
j circumstances. \\ e welcome the Georgia Citizen to our ex-
I change list.— So. Fain. Journal.
Tun Georgia Citizen.—The publication of anew paper,
under rliis title, has been commenced in Macon, edited bv
Dr Andrews, the first number of which is before us. “ lu
j dependent in ail things—neutral in nothing,” it appears to
i have for its object the dissemination of truth, the advance
: ment of literature, and the fostering of the arts and sciences.
From the experience, zeal and energy of the editor, and his
knowledge of the wants of the reading community, we may
j salely predict that a well deserved patronage will be bestow
; ed upon it. Terms, per annum— Aug. Republic.
The Georgia Citizen.—The first No. of the “ Georgia
Citizen,” published by Dr. L, F- W. Andrews, Macon, Ga.,
lias been received and contents duly scanned. It is a taste
fully gotten up sheet, and the specimen number does credit
to the able editor, in a literary point of view. Dr. Andrews is
well known to the public as the former editor of the “ Mus
cogee Democrat,” and the interest he imparted to that pa
per, is sufficient guaranty that ‘The Citizen’ will he worthy
of public patronage. — Forsyth Her.
The Georgia Citizen.—This is the title of anew paper
just started in Macon by L. F. W. Andrews, formerly of the
Muscogee Democrat. Its motto is — “independent in all
i tilings—neutral in nothing”—from which we may infer, it
is devoted to no party or sect. The Editor is a warm friend
; of State improvement and of our own sea-port, and as such,
we cordially welcome his re-appearance among the corps
editorial.— Stir. Republican.
The Georgia Citizen. —We have received the first No.
of the Georgia Citizen published in the city of Macon, and
edited by Dr. L. F. \V. Andrews, former Editor of the Musco
gee Democrat, liis motio is, “ independent in ai! things—
neutral in nothing.” The first No. of the Georgia Citizen
is printed on good paper, and is an interesting sheet.— Sar.
Georgian.
The Georgia Citizen.—We are pleased to find on our ta- \
ble the first number of this paper lately established in Macon,
under the editorial management of L. F. W. Andrews, for
merly of the Mus. ogee Democrat. The editor is already
so well known throughout the tState as an able writer, that
comment from us is unnecessary. The first number of the
Citizen opens rich, with a large stock of original and inter- i
esfing matter. — Atlanta Intelligencer.
The Georgia Citizen.—We have received the first num
ber of a paper bearing the above title, published in Macon,
Ga., by l)r. L. F. W. Andrews, formerly the Editor of the
“Muscogee Democrat.’’ It is a large sheet and well filled
with an unusual amount of original matter. The Dr's, well
known capacity in this line gives promise of a popular and
readable sheet. —Columbus Sentinel.
Tiik Georgia Citzf.n. —V.'e have received the first num
ber of the Georgia Citizen, anew paper just started in the
city of Macon, under the editorial management of our late
fellow-townsman, Dr. Andrews. The specimen sheet before
us is one that will bear inspection. It is well filled with orig
inal and sole ted matter, and presents itself with a fair and
comely face. We v\ ish the Doctor all the success in his new
enterprise which his industry and ability command. It lias
been our fortune to break a lance, or rather to have his occa
sionally splintered over our pates, and we give the fraternity
fair notice that he will hold his hand in the ordinary skir
mishes of the brotherhood.— Columbus Enquirer.
TtiK Georgia^itizen.-- -Well, our old friend, Dr. Andrews,
has got tip steam again, and commenced his new paper at
Macon, “ The Georgia Gitizen.” Ills motto is “ Indepen
dent in all-things—neutral in nothing,” from which the rea
der can form a pretty good idea of the character of the pa
per. From a hasty perusal of the first number, we are in
clined to think well of it.— Athens Whig.
The Georgia Citizen. —The above is the title of new
paper which we find among our exchanges. It is published
in the city of Macon, by Mr. L. F. W. Andrews, former ed
itor of the Muscogee Democrat. The number before us, is
a large imperial sheet, neat in its nn-chanical execution and
replete with interesting matter. It abounds in original arti
cles, and correspondence from different sections of the coun
try, among which, we notice Marietta is represented. Who
is “ Kennesau) ?” That's the question. Its motto is, “ In
dependent in all things—neutral in nothing.” Price tjsti.iiO
per annum in advance. We congratulate onr brother An
flreics upon the appearance of his paper, and wish him abun
dant success in business.— Marietta Helicon.
The Georgia Citizen. —This to the title of a large and interesting
independent (taper just started at Macon, Ga., by L.F. W. Andrews,
formerly editor of the Muscogee Democrat. Mr. Andrews is a very
strong amt racy writer; well qualified l'er his present post. —EuUtw
(.Hu) iJriiun rat.
The Georgia Citizen. —This is the title of anew weekly paper is
sued in this citv, on Thursday last, L. by F. V,. Andrews, Esq., late of
the filuicoerg Vernier at. It to a neatly printed and spiritedly edited
ADVERTISEMENTS.
Professional and Business Cards, not excecdings (>lines, per annum, $5 00
Transient Advertisements per square of 12 lines, one insertion, - 100
Each subsequent insertion, - - - 50
Yearly Advertisements, per square, 10 00
A Liberal arrangement made with those who advertise by theyeiu\
choice excerpts of a chaste anil instructive Miscellany, togeth
er with original contributions from some of our most gifted
writers.
Otli. There will bq a Department of Science, Art ams
Domestic Economy, in which useful diets and improvement*
will be recorded, for the benefit of the artizan, the housowif*
and the man of Science.
7th. A corner will be devoted to the passing facet ice of
the age, in which will be preserved the piquant anecdote,-
the lively bon-mot and sententious epigram, together with
the quirks and comicalities of these who are, by nature, Son*
of Mom us—or the laughing Philosophers of the times.
From the Editor’s experience in the business of Nawspd*
per publication—his new and central position—and his thor
ough appreciation of the wants of the reading public, he flat
ters himself that he will be able to make the “Georgia Citi
izcii” a welcome visitor to the fireside of every denizen of
our noble old Commonwealth. At least, he will enter upon
the work* with a just sense of the magnitude of the task be
fore him, and with an ardor of zeal and energy in the honor
able vocation, which shall know no abatement until succaaa
be won, or failure inevitable.
CONDITIONS.
The Citizen xcill he printed on a large imperial sheet ,
icith new type and materials, and furnished at the follow
ing rates :
One copy per annum , in advance. - - $2 50
” “ If not so paid, - 300
7'iro copies per annum, in advance, - - 450
Five “ “ “ “ “ - - -10 00
One copy of the Citizen and one copy of Godey's La
dy's Booh-, for a year. - - - - - 500
’ Address, free of Postage, L. I'\ H r . Andrews,
Macon, Ga.
she<i and wc liave no doubt, will command a full share of public pat
ron.!™.—.l tr.cn M'Stcsgcr.
The Georgia Citizen. —We have received the first num
ber of a large, beautiful sheet, bearing the altove title. To
use the Editor’s language it will be “ Independent ill all
things—Neutral in nothing!” It is edited and published by
L. F. W. Andrews, a gentleman well known to the reading
! public of Georgia, as the late able editor of the Muscogee
I Democrat. Friend Andrews is a spirited writer, and w ill
make a paper worthy the patronage of every “ Georgia ('it
izen.’’ Success to you, Doctor. Terms, § 50 ]>er annum,
in advance. Macon, Ga. — Ringgold Republican.
ITiik Georgia Citizen.— We have received the first nnni
berof a m w paper under the above title, just commenced ia
the city of Macon, Georgia, by Dr. L. F. W. Andrews, for
merly of the Musccgee Democrat,Columbus. The Georgia
C'it zcn is handsomely gotten up, and the first number shows
that the Doctor 4s determined to lavish upon it all his indus
try, energy, an 1 talent. We doubt not that ihe “Citizen” will
bea well-behaved individual, and, we hope, eminently eus
, cessful.— M con (Ala.) Republican.
7i:e Georgia Citizen.—Me take much pleasure in in
forming the reading public, that Dr L. F W. Andrews, lato
ofihe “ Muscogee Democrat,” has established himself in ths
chair editorial, of a very neat and spirited bheet, bearing ibe
above caption, the receipt of the first number of which we nro
happy to acknowledge. I lie •“ Citizen decidedly lu-ars the
i impress of the Doctor’s genius, and we predict for it a very
prosperous and useful existence. —Central Georgian.
The Georgia Citizen —ls the title of a large and hand
somely printed sheet, just issued in Macon, by Dr 1,. F. W.
Andrews, formerly of the Msscogec Democrat. The motto
!is “ Independent in ail things—neutral in nothing.” We are
’ pleased with the general appearance of this number, and
doubt not the paper will lie liberally supported The editor,
we are glad to see, takes up the cudgels against the South
ern Convention.— Cassrille Standard.
The Georgia Citizen. —Wc have received the first nnni
j her of the Georgia Citizen, edited and published in Macon
i by L. F. \\ . Andrews, former editor of the Muscogee Dem-
I ocrat. It is a neatly printed and well filled sheet. —Albany
Patriot.
The Georgia Citizen.—We have received a number of a
I paper bearing the above name, published at Macon, Ga.., and
| edited by L. F. W. Andrews, former Editor of the Muscogee
| Democrat. The appearance of the Citizen is neat and iaste
i ful—the matter choice and interesting.
Wc wisli the newly launched bark, in its perilous voyage,
! prosperous gales and many returns.— Fed. Union.
Tue Georgia Citirbn, — IVe have received the first num
ber of the “ Georgia Citizen,” edited and published in Ma
con by L. F. IF. Andrews, former editor of the Muscores
Democrat. It is a beautifully printed sheet, and filled witft
fresh, racy and interesting matter. The editor is possessed
of taste ami i lent to make a most acceptable paper ; and as
he promises to da his devoirs iu this behalf, we doubt not will
make the Citizen eminently so.— Milicdgeville Recorder.
Tys Georgia Citizen —Is the name of a paper started at
Macon, < la., the first number of which is on our table. Dr.
Andrews—the editor and proprietor—formerly of the Musco
gee Democrat, is a man of very fine talents, and will make
file Citizen one of the most readable papers in the country.
Ala. Commonwealth.
Ti;e Georgia Citizen.—We have received the first num
ber of a paper bearing this title, published in Macon, Ga.,
by Dr. L. F. W. Andrews, formerly editor of the Muscogee
D.*u -rat. The paper is to be an imh pendent sheet, and
if we are to judge by the editor’s past history, it will be oue
in every respect. Dr. A. is a strong and racy writer, and we
expect to derive ranch pleasure and information hereafter
from the “ Citizen.” If our readers desire to subscribe io n
good paper—one that posessess that clement so uncommon,
originality, we would advise them to subscribe to the Georgia
Citizen, instead of bestowing their patronage upon the hum
bug weeklies, (or rather iceakWes) and tinsel monthlies of the
North. The mechanical appearance of the Citizen is equal
to any in the country. —Dallas {Ala.) Gazette.
The Georgia Citizen. —This is the title of anew paper,
just started in tins city, the first number of which, was pub
lished on Thursday last. The Georgia Citizen is edited and
published by I* F. W. Andrews, Esq , late of the Muscogeet
Democrat. The first number of the Citizen is handsomely
printed and a well filled sheet. —Macon Telegraph.
The Georgia Citizen istlietitle of anew paper just started at Va
con. (by our o[(J friond. l)r. Andrews. The Doctor is a tan and
pointed, as well as nrgumentat ivc writer. He has long been in the edito
rial field, and has boci me so used to the threats of the scaup* he has
lashed, that he don't mind the sight of a bowie, or the crack of a re
volver.—r tyV. H.) Democrat.
Muz Georgia Citizen. —The first number of anew paper bearing
this title.hasjust been received from Macon,Ga. It has a brand-new
appearance, and in typographical neatness and bcauty.it is unsuqiaus
ed.
Dr. Andrews, formerly of the Muscogee Democrat, is the editor,
whose name alone is sufficient to give it an extensive circulation. Tha
Doctor is a well-known democrat, though as “mA-pendent as a wood
sawyer,” and sometimes quite as saucy,"—Jfcx'rwry (.11a.) Atlas.
The Georgia Citizen.—Dr. 1,. F. YV. Andrews, for several years
the editor and proprietor of the .Muscogee Democrat, published in Co
lumbus, Ga„ has s‘arted a paper in Macon, Ga„ entitled -Tt>
Georgia I'itiim."’ Dr. A. wields a racy and ready pen, and understands
thoroughly the business in which he is engaged. The motto of his sheet is
alike novel and forcible—“• Independent in nil things—neutral in nntA
tng.” Th** paper is of good size, neatly printed, and well tilled.—Greens
boro>’ (.h’a.) Beacon.
