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VOL. 2.
Sfys Sw,
For the Georgia Citizen.
• Sons.
nr T. H. CIIIVXM, M. D.
1.
My early love, my early love,
Thy music once w as sweet!
But now, alas ! my early love,
We never more shall meet!
Ah ! how my heart doth beat
To see again my early love,
Whose music once was sweet;
But now, alas ! my early love,
We never more shall meet!
2.
My early love, my early love,
Thy soul can never know
The sod that hides thy wandering Dove
In this wide world below !
Ah ! how my tears do flow
To see again my early love
Whosesoul can never know
The sod that bides her wandering Dots
In this wide world
Ah ! no, no, no—
Can never more know
The sod that hides her wandering Dove
In this wido world below !
The Wine Cap.
BY MRS. CAROLINE M. SAWYER.
Dash down that sparkling eup !—its gleam,
Like a pale corpse-light o’er the tomb,
Is but a false deceitful beam,
To lure thee onward to thy doom,
The sparkling gleam will fade away,
And round thy lost, bewildered feet,
’Mid darkness terror and dismay.
The ghastly shapes of death will meet.
Dash down the cup!—a poison sleeps
In every drop thy lips would drain.
To make thy life-blood seethe and leap,
A fiery flood through ever vein—
A fiery flood that will efface,
By slow degrees, that god-like mind,
Till ’inid its ashes not a trace
Os reason shall be left behind.
Dash down that cup!—a serpent starts
Beneath the flowers that crown its brim,
’l’hos* deadly fangs will strike thy heart,
3 And make thy flashing eye grow dim :
Before whose hot and maddening breath—
More fatal than the simoon blast-.-
Thy manhood, in unhonorcd death,
Will sink a worthless wreck at last.
Dash down that cup !—thy father stands
And pleads in accents deep and low,
Thy anguished mother clasps her hands,
With quivering lips and wordless woo.
They who hav-?* thee on their breast,
And shielded thee through many a year :
Oh, - ould’st thou make their bosoms blest,
Their lilt- a joy-—their pleading hear.
Dash down that cup ’.—thy young wife kneels ;
Iler eyes, whose tears have often gushed,
Are turned with mute and soft appeal,
Upon the babe in slumber hushed,
Didst thou not woo her in thy youth
With many a fond and solemn vow ?
Oh, turn again, and all her truth
And love shall be rewarded now !
Dash down that cup !—and on thy brow,
Though darkened o’er with many a stain,
Thy manhood’s light so feeble now,
Shall bright and study burn again,
Thy strength shall like the fabled bird,
From its own ashes upward spring 1
And fountains in thy breast be stirred,
W hose waters living joys shall bring!
Something Good in Every Heart,
BV THEODORE A. GOULD.
Would’st win the crime-tained wanderer back,
From vice’s dark hideous track—
Let not a frown thy brow deform,
’Twill add but fierceness to the storm ;
Deal kindly—in that bosom dark
Still lingers virtue’s glimmering spark ;
Plead with him—’tis the nobler part--
There's something good in every heart!
Bring to his mind the early’ time,
E’er sin has stained his soul with crime ;
When fond affection bless’d his hours—
And strewed his joyous path with flowers ;
When sportive jest, and harmless glee
Bespoke a spirit pure and free;
Plead with him—’tis the nobler part—
There’s something good in every heart!
There was a time that head did rest,
C’ose to a mother’s yearning breast—
A time his ear the precepts caught,
A kind and virtuous father taught ;
It matters not what treacherous ray,
First lured his steps from virtue’s way—
Enough to know thou yet mav’st save
That soul from sin’s engulphiug wave.
Plead with him-—act the nobler part—
There’s something good in every heart !
Charles Raymond—An Original Tale,
Written for the Georgia Citizen
BT CinCUAW MINISTREL.
CIIAPTEB I.
‘* How fleeting and ephemeral are the joys of life !
Hon- lasting and impressive its woes ! The thought
less stripling of to-day, is the care-worn man of to
morrow. To-day we are listening to the pious admo
nitions of parents, whose affections, like the lamp in
Kildare’s sane, will but brighten amid the gloom und
-darkness that may settle around us—to-morrow, we are
wending our way through the mazes of life alone, soli
tary and friendless. To-day we are surrounded by
the beauties and luxuries of hope’s vernal season—to
morrow, the flower has lost its bloom, the rose its sweet
ness and pleasure's Syren Strain lias died into an echo.
To-day, we tread the soil where our childhood gam
boled in its sportive innocency, reviewing those pleasant
retrospections which must ever constitute an oasis in
the desert of the past —a ‘green spot in the wastes of
memory,’— to-morrow we are ‘strangers in a strange
land.’ without a congenial heart to condole with us in
misfortunes or participate in our pleasures.’’ Such was
the soliloquy of Charles Raymond, as he sat by his win
dow, pensively musing upon the prospect before him.
Dn the morning of the next day he leave New
York for Eugland, for the purpose of passing through
the long tedium of College life. For its toils, its neces
situdes, its oares he was well prepared ; but to leave a
home surrounded by so many endearments ; a home
where pleasure wedded with affection had ever held
118 undisputed sway, to listen no longer to the voice
whose kindly admonitions had warned him of the
Sylla and Charybdis of vice and shame, were reflec
l'°ns we W calculated to melt the heart of a youth of
‘‘t’entcfn
Young Raymond was the only son of a wealthy
merchant who appreciating the advantages of educa
tion, had resolved to spare no pains in preparing his
son to act well his part in the great drama of human
life. He had, consequently, been sent to school at an
early period, where he mastered his academic studies
with a rapidity that startled his fellows and won for him
self the admiration and applause of his tutors. With a
winning address, pleasing manners, a highly intellectual
contour of features, a mind bold, active and vigorous ;
a heart that would melt at the wailings of distress and
a courage that would remain unbent amid the stoutest
strokes of fate, lie riveted upon himself the attention of
strangers, won the adinirat ion of passing acquaintances,
and secured the lasting regards of all who had the
happiness to become intimately associated with him.
And, now, he is (oeut loose, for a time, from the ties
that have bound him to his home and friends, and he
feels sad and sickened at the thought, and in restless,
sleepless vigils, he spends the weary hours of the night.
But there was still another and a stronger tie that
bound him to the city of hia nativity. lie had secured
and reciprocated the affections of the amiable and ac
complished Ellen Stuart. She, like himself had been
nurtured in the lap of affluence. But two years his
junior, an attachment had been formed in earlier
life which ‘grew with their growth and strength
ened with their strength.’ They had mingled togeth
er in the hilarity of childhood, and now. in adult years
they cherished for each other an affection, which like
the stars of their genial clime would shine the brighter,
when the darkness was thickest. But though they
loved with an earnestness, a zeal, a fervor,of which mu
tual refinement and high-toned intellectuality alone are
susceptible, yet were they novices in the vissicitudes and
disappointments which are inseparable concomitants of
the Archer Boy. Their path had been strewn with
roses, their breezes laden with delicious fragrance, not
a cloud had dimmed the radiance of life’s morning
sky, but all had gone ‘merry as a marriage bell.’ But
now they must experience the agony of a separation
for years, aud (she shuddered involuntarily as the
thought obtruded itself upon her mind) perhaps
forever. It was as the separation of the ivy from the
protecting oak around which its tendrils had long and
closely clung. Without him the minstrely of wood
land warblers was harsh and discordant, the gorgeous
splendors of noon-day were butas the lurid flame of the
cannon that reveals the dismal carnage that sur
rounds it, and nature’s sumptuous paraphernalia of
spring but as a splendid mockery of the joys 6he had
tasted in other days. But with him, ah! with him,
the barren desert were a green pasture. Misfortunes
and adversities were but as the howlings of the temp
est without, while the happy inmates of the mansion
arc vocal with pleasure regardless of its pelting fury and
securely protected from its undiminished rage.
Julian Stewart (as very a stoic as Zeno himself)
was the brother of our accomplished heroine, and to
the great p’casure of Raymond was to be the compan
ion of his travels and his toils. Neither the tasteful
ness and persuasion or his sister, nor the wealth of his
father had sufficed to render Stewart by any means
careful in the arrangement of his apparel. With un
obtrusive manners (that were truly deserving) he sel
dom ventured an opinion on any subject, and was (still
more seldom asked to give his views. By his teai.Yers
and schoolmates he had been regarded as a clever, ,sto
lid, worthless fellow—as regardless of his text-books
as was Sir Isaac Newton of the beauties of poetry.
For the world around him he had no congeniality, he
neither sought its friendship nor avoided its enemity.—
But notwithstanding the apparent dissimilarity of their
dispositions and indeed of their entire mental organiza
tion, he had become the inseparable companion and
friend of Charles Raymond, who received with inex
pressible sa’isfaction the intelligence of his friend's an
ticipated voyage on the same vessel with himself.
CHAPTER 11.
“ So brg\t the tear in beauty's eye
f.ove half regret* to kits it dry .”
It was a lovely morning in the month of June, 18—
Nature's vocal choir were warbling their softest lays,
the sun beaming in the radiance of a oloudless sky, as
a group of people assembled upon the wharf, some to
ride off upon the restless deep, while others came to
bid them adieu, and with them a ‘happy voyage and a
safe return.’ Among that groupstood Ellen, sad, pen
sive and melancholy, the tear drop glistening in her
eye. Her brother and her lover approached to give
her the parting hand, when the latter involuntarily
paused, in mute admiration of a creature so beautiful,
aud so sylph-like, in whom were blended so many of
those characteristics which render woman truly lovely
and serve to elevate her to her proper and enviable po
sition in the scale of being. Her features were cast in
beauty's mould, her eye beamed with intelligence, and
yet modesty spoke her unconscious of merit. On a neck
whose whiteness would rival the plumage of the Swan
gracefully hung the woven tresses of her hair, and up
on her blooming chet-ks were stamped the rosy impress
of fifteen summers. These added to a symmetry of
lortn which the fairest nymph that sports upon the
verge of oceau would be found to possess and a sweet
ness of disposition which the most austere had not the
soul to chide, were enough, at least, to secure her a
‘place in the heart and memory’of Charles Raymond.
And can you chide him, generous reader, for pausing
to gaze on one so charming, so beautiful and yet so
innocent! And suddenly gathering courage from ne
cessity ho planted a kiss upon her hand, shook it warm
ly and was soon riding with his oompanions, upon ths
waters; where we will leave thorn till a ‘more con
venient season.’
Eiltn returned, sad and melancholy, to a home now
no longer gladdened by a brother’s presence or visited
by a lover’s smile, but there still remained her insepara
ble friend, Sarah Stephens, to administer the balm of
consolation to her troubled bosoin, and to some ex
tent, to make reparation for the losses she had sus
tained, and cheer her with hopes of future happiness
with the man of her choice. Her friend—with the kind
ness which is ever woman’s, was now constantly at
her side, and by judicious management, soon dispelled
from the mind of Ellen, those foreboding.” of gloom
which hung like a pall of death around her, and gave
her something of resignation to the temporary depri
vation she was called upon to sustain—Reading,
promenading, visiting and attending to the duties of
home, she soon, like the prisoner of Chillon, became
contented with her lot. The letters of Charles were
frequent and ever replete with that fervent feeling
which he had delighted to breathe into her listening cars,
when at home; thus she lived blessed with the conscious
ness of his happiness and undeviating, changeless affec
tion. One morning, as 6ne sat by her table writing
a note to her friend Sarah, relative to a projected ex
cursion into the country, a servant came into her
room, and announced that two young gentleman were
below wishing to see her. Arranging her toilet as
speedily as convenient, she entered the parlor, and
formed the acquaintance of Reginald Eldridge, an ac
complished Southerner. Possessing all the blandish
ment of a polished mind, a lofty mien, an air of con
descending superiority, a physiognomy highly intellectu
al and a captivating gracefulness of manners, many
were the females that yielded his unresisting captives.
Though but twenty eight years of age, he had the ex
perience of a veteran of three score ; he had learned
every weak point in the fortress of the human heart, eve
ry avenue by which access is obtained to its secluded
recesses, and could sport with the affections of a fe
male, as a obild with the toy of an hour. By his accom
plish Tents, be soon, from being a B’ranger, attained so
“SntojtfnltHtt in nil firings—Bmtritl in noting.”
MACON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 2, 1851.
enviable position among the first circles of the city,
and was (as previously mentioned) introduced into the
presence of Ellen, in weaving the thread of whose des
tiny he was in future to act an important part. He
had now resolved to mend his broken fortunes by form
ing an alliance with some rich heiress, and with tills de
termination, he was not long in making the selection
of his victim, in the person of Ellen. lie sought her
hand, she rejected him. He brought into requisition
all the energies and accomplishments with which he
was so Lighiy gifted ; but all to no purpose. Like the
tender reed that stands unbent amid the fury of the
blast, that will prostrate the proudest oak, she remained
impervious to his wiles, her heart stiff true to her lover
as the needle to its pole. Believing that his failure of
success was attributable to the prior claim of some
favored lover he brought his ingenuity to bear in
attempting to ferret out his identity, and soon succeed
ed by making the Post Master a ‘particeps criminis.’
CHAPTER 111.
‘All lean on things that rot beneath our weight
And waste our strength away in wrestling with the air.’
Bmox.
One morning in the month of June, about twelve
months from the time of the incidents recited in the
first Chapter, Ellen received and read a letter to the
following effect:
Dear Ellen —l once thought I loved you and in
deed I still cherish for you feelings of which will re
main undiminished by the flight of time : but I will
acknowledge with that candor for which I am sure you
will give me credit, that I have found on the classic
soil of England, an American lady whose charms have
won the homage of iny hmrt. Let us cherish the mem
ory of our childish love but as a joke sparkling with the
eflerescence of fun. Your brother has gone, l know
not where, and bade mo tell you that you would
never see or hear from him again, but that you might
rest assured that around home and kindred would ever
cluster the warmest affections of his heart. Your re
marks relative to the recent excitements, &c. &c. are
all interesting. I have no more to write, you may
never doubt but that in whatever clime my lot may
be cast, you will ever have the friendship of
Your obedient servant,
CHARLES RAYMOND.
She sat mute and motionless for a moment, then
dropping the letter from her she gave vent to her feel
ings by a flood of tears. ‘lt is his ebirography, so like
the writing with which he once breathed the language
of love, and then he answers my remarks concerning
the excitements, 0I1! it is his, it is his,’ and she sobbed
convulsively at the palpable reality, the evident absence
of deception. Iler health now began to decline, her
spirits to ebb. Her father who hud long feared for the
fate of his eccentric 6on ; who had long mourned his
apparent mental abbeation, his entire destitution
of every thing like positive character, now felt
a stroke which his lacerated feelings could but poorly
brook. Being necessarily confined by a lingering spell
of rheumatism to his room he was prevented from go
ing iu seat cl) of his prodigal son, who was now given
over as irredeemably lost, as it was apprehended that
before the convalescence of his father he would be
gone forever. 11 is sympathetic friend Mr. Eldridge
however weut in search of him, but search was vain
and fruitless. The attention of the parents were at
length divert< and from Julian and directed to the alarm
ing declension of Ellen's health which neither the con
dolence of her parents, nor the sympathy of her con
fident, Sarah Stephens, together with that of her large
circle of friends could revive. The rose had faded
from her cheek and tho icy fingers of death seetrmd
planted there. Iler friend (now considered a friend
indeed.) Eldridge having returned with no tiding”
from Julian, again pressed his suit and was again re
jected. Chagrined by disappointment and apprehen
sion of detection he resolved to stop, at one stroko, the
throbbings of that heart which could never be his or
compel her to accede to his proposals. He accordingly
secured her consent to make oue of a party to be given
at the house of a friend and to accept his company, as
her guide and gallant. As her friend, he bad won up
on her affections; with manners which savored of
consciousness of merit and yet indicating an unresisting
resignation to the fate she had assigned him, indeed
displaying in every respect, so much of the unexcep
tionable gentleman, his overtures soon overcame her re
luctance to mingle in society, and as above stated, she
consented to go. Accordingly at the appointed time
his carriage drove up to the door and alighting lie hand
ed her in (a dove in the claws of a falcon) and they were
soon wandering through the streets which led to their
destinaiion. The night was lovely, the atmosphere
pleasant and tranquil, the moonbeams softly slept upon
the lap of earth as they journeyed on, he waiting with
the impatience of a greedy tiger the moment when she
should be his defenceless captive ; she on the contrary
reflecting upon the faithlessness of her lover, and
the certain and speedy decay of every plant that blooms
in the gaiden of hope. Thus she remained uncon
scious of tlie direction she was going, or the distance
she had traveled, when suddenly her reverie was dis
turbed by seeing a number of men surround the car
riage, making the most threatening protestations sgainst
her if she resisted them. She turned to her protector,
but the unfeeling villian catching her by the throat,
seourely gagged her to prevent her from exposing his
plot: assisted by his myrmidons he bore her to a se
questered cell, and by restorative appliance enabled her
soon to recover her consciousness whieh had fled when
first apprised of Bis dangerous aifi treasonable designs.
‘Ellen,’ said he, (as soon as she had sufficiently recov
ered to heed him.) ‘I addressed you at first for the sake
of your father's fortune. Afterwards I became ena
mored of your charms, and now love yoH as truly, as
sincerely as it is possible to love. Be mine and we
will be joined in wedlock now, and you shall bo mis
tress of a home where elegance and luxury shall reign;
refuse and this dagger shall drink the life-blood
of your heart. The nectar of those rosy Ips shall be
mine or its sweetness will be wasted in the tomb.’ ‘Sir’
said she, ‘your offer I reject with disdain. Life has
lost its sweetness to me ; earth has lost its pleasures, I
welcome death as a friend who will relieve me from
troubles, beneath whose Upas influence this mortal
frame would soon have sunk. This spirit is like a
bird that loathes its cage and longs to soar upon its gold
en plumage to a happier clime. Take my life and you
but do me a favor—my hand I will not give you.’ With
tho fury of a demon, he rushed madly towards her,
with the gleaming dagger in his hand, ready to do its
work of death, when a blow from behind prostrated
him, upon the floor, aid his affrighted troupe seizing
their prostrated leader fled with dismay.
CHAPTER IV.
u And doth not a meetiing like this make amends
For all the long years I’ve been wandering away?”
Moore.
It was late on the morning of the day subsequent to
the occurences related in the foregoing Chapter before
Ellen recovered her consciousness, when opening T her
eyes she beheld leaning over her, in tearful silence, her
former lover, Charles Raymond. ‘You have written
me to regard you no longer as my expected bride,
as one who can love me, but to lavish my affections for
the future upon others,’ said he. ‘lt was then as a friend
I released you from the cabals of a fiendish clan, hav
ing just landed in the city on my return. As it is
your request I will so far as I may be able endeavor to
bury the hopes you onoe bade me cherish, in the desert
waste of oblivion. I hope that you will not regard
the service I have done you as any thing more than
the steers decrees of friendship wou’d imperiously de- 1
demand. Farewell,you will see ir.o no more : I will
conceal those feelings I cannot extinguish.’ So saying
he was in a moment more upon the threshold. ‘3top,
stop’cried she (with resolution, as the whole plot for
the first time, burst upon her mind.) ‘You have becu
made the dupe of an atrocious mendacity. I main
tained my fidelity even whon the grave seemed yawn
ing to receive me, und was ready to have died a martyr
to the vows Iliad plighted.’ The matter was soon ex
plained and a reconciliation effected which gave to
the waning spirits of Ellen an elasticity they had never
known before. It is only after a storm that we can
appreciate tho beauues of a serene sky. It is only when
the prisoner has been incarcerated, for years, that he
can fed the blessings of liberty after hia shackles have
been unbound. It w-sAhus with Ellon and her
lover. \
‘\\ here is olslisn said Ellen after the foregoing
expressions had been made and elucidated. ‘Alas!
his noble spirit has fled’ replied Charles. ‘While in
America as you know, he was censured for careless
ness in his dress and manners and regarded as the
victim of mental imbecility. The latter charge
was untrue. He exchanged the loathsome text-books
which were assigned him, for the history, politics and
literature of his own and other countries. That he
lived a recluse was owing to his sedulous application to
the books of his choice. His mind became a store
house of priceless treasures ; in holding converse witli
the ethereal essences of the departed great, what won
der, that he regarded the pomp and pageantry of fash
ion as an useless appendage to the inan.
011 arriving at England, finding himself among
strangers, whose friendship it might houseful to secure,
aud feeling a pride as an American to excel, he drop
ped his careless manners and with untiring application
to his studies, soon occupied the highest station in hia
class. This devotion to studies which he could not re
lish, soon made a visible impression upon his mind,
which added to the eft’ects of a letter he received from
hfs father stating that ho had forfeited h s parental af
fection and could never be restored to h.s favor, pro
duced such a radical decline, that ho was at length,
with difficulty prevailed upon to take a tour to Italy.
Noble, kind-hearted and intelligent, lie had won tho
esteem of all who knew him and not a few were the
regrets expressed when, six weeks afterwards, intelli
gence of his death was received. Having finished my
studies and borne off the honors of my College 1 was
returning home last night, when being apprised by one
of the conspirators against your life and happiness, of
the plot that was forming—l rushed to your rescue.
Again was that family a scene of misery; the treauh
ry of Eldridge had deprived them of a son and broth
er, and 0I1 ! the thought that he had di;d under and
from the effects of an apprehension that he was no
longer tho sharer of his father’s love, was more then
the old man could bear, and he wept profusely. Hope
and resignation had deserted that little circle and they
felt indeed the luxury of despair.
But time whose ‘effacing fingers’ like the child who
builds his sand hill, is ever busied in destroying the
workmanship of his own plastic power, at length appeas
ed their sorrows and taught them to yield to that fate
they Cuuld never >. !l m.
Tho bridal dr_"'f Stewaty and Charles Ray
mond n* a , appointed—Sarah Stephens with other
friends were busily c-n.® and in making the necessary
preparation*. No expense were spared in
preparing for the expected guests a sumptuous ban
quet, and every thing exhibited such elegance, such ad
mirable taste as to plainly indicate that it was provided
ami arranged under the dm mediate superintendence of
Ellen herself. The hour at length arrived when the
nuptials were to be consummated, and Ellen trembling
ly approached the altar leaning on the arm of her affi
anced. As the last words of the ceremony were pro
nounced, a tall figure approaching the centre of the
room, presented the muzzle of a loaded pistol at the bo
som of Ellen and in a moment more tho weapon was
arrested from his hand, (having discharged itself, harm
lessly, in the ceiling) and he thrown senseless upon the
floor, by the stalwart arm of Julian Stewart. The
impious Eldiidge was thrown into prison, and the ‘wed
ding guests’ having recovered from the excitement pro
duced by his impudence and villiany, united with Ste
wart in their general rejoicings at the return of the
accomplished Julian. Instead of yielding his body to
the revelingsof the death worm, he was stout, healthy
and vigorous. In Italy ho had been confined by a
lingering spell of sickness over which the youthfulness
and elasticity of his system at length triumphed.—
Through the vicissitudes of a perilous voyage over
the deep his constitution had gathered strength, and
when at length ho arrived at New York, he was strong
and vigorous. Having heard of Eldridge's mendacity
and his father’s grief at his absence, he returned home
just in time to save his sister from his daring assault.
It remains to add that his fascinating manners made
him the favorite of the party, and especially of the
beautiful Miss Stephens, whose heart had hitherto been
impervious to the effects of love, lie addressed her,
was accepted, they married, A few days afterwards tho
suicide of Eldridge was announced in the morning pa
pers. Thus does a life of vice lead to a death of mise
ry and a life of virtue to happiness and peace. And now,
good reader, with my thanks for your patience, I rill
doff my bat and take my leave of you.
An Appeal for Education.
BY J. O. TAYLOR.
Men of wealth, of learning, ponr instruction upon the
heads of the people; yon owe them that baptism.
Look at that boy in the gutter! hatless, shoeless,
ho is a part of our king, and a part of our sovereignty.
Should he not receive a sovereign's education ?.--should
he not bo prepared for the throne our institutions
have given to him? There is a gem in every human
form ; let the diamond be polished, and let it shine in
truth and beanty. Teach and habituate the people to
make a right use of the faculties which God has given
them, then trust them fearlessly to themselves.
‘ l Uneducated mind is uneducated vice,” for God
made him to kuow. He is the creature of instruction ;
for in right education thero is a divine alohemy, which
turns all the baser part of man's nature into gold.
We are told by the ancients, that as soon as the first
rays of the morning suu fell upon the statute of Meramon,
it set up music. It is after the first lavs of knowledge
fell upon man that his nature discourses harmony ; all
before is the darkness of barbarism.
All can see that wiokedness leads to misery, yot very
few can find out that which is equally certain, that ig
norance leads to misery, and misery to wickedness. Dr.
Johnson was once asked, “ who is the most miserable
man the reply of the sage was, “ That man
who cannot read on a rainy day.’’ The writer was
once passing through a park, and saw nailed to one of
the trees this warning: “ All dog 6 found in this park
will be shot.” A friend who was with us remarked,
“Unless dogsean read they are pretty badly off here.”
Now God has not only writen His laws upon the trees,
but in tbe stars, and in the flowers!—-His laws are
about us and beueath ns, on our right hand and on oar
left; and if a mania notable to read, he is pretty badly
off here.
A maxim of more truth and force than any other I
ever remember to have seen, was thrown out by a
British statesman, a man who in learning was vivid,
varied and philosophical, and who in conversation
threw ont more gems, sparkling and brilliant as they
came, than any other man of his age. His profound
apothegm was that “Education it the cheap defence
of natives?’ and if I might put a traism by the side of
this, I would say, it is cheaper to educate tho infant
mind than to support the aged criminal. Yes, bestow
the pence on the common schools, and save the pounds
on prisons.
“ The ignorant child, left to grow np in darkness into
the deeper ignorance of manhood, with ail ils jealousies
and narrow-mindedness, and its superstitions, and its
penury of enjoyments ; poor amid die intellectual and
moral riches of the universe; blind, in this splendid
temple which God has lighted up, and fsmishiog, auiid
the profusion of Omnipotence.”
“Oh, woe for those who trample on the islnd,
That tearful thing! They know not what they do
Nor what they deal with—
Tu lay rude hands upon God’s mysteries there.’
He is to be educated, because he is a man,
and not because he is to make shoes, nails and
ains.—Channinu.
This is the substance of what we would say
to those who disparage all studies but such as
look at immediate results in the business oflife.
An educated man can very soon learn to do
anything that he applies hinselfto; an unedu
cated man will be slow to learn anything, even
how to handle a hoe, probably never will learn
what he needs to know übout his own work.
There is an expertness of mind acquired by
proper education, just as (here is an expertness
of hand acquired by practice. When a man
with that expertness applies himself to agricul
ture, he soon knows how to manage. He soon
discovers whore in he is deficient, and how to
become skilful.
One People. —Rev. W. S. Plumes, a dis
tinguished divine, has recently written an elo
quent letter to a gentleman in South Carolina
which the Richmond Enquirer, in which pa
per it was published, says, “speaks the voice
of reason, philosophic reflection and sound ad
vice.” YVe make from the letter a single ex
tract, Dr. Plumer says: “It is my belief
founded on considerable observation and cor
respondence, that a majority of the people of
this country, North and South, are, this day,
more ready and determined to support and ex
ecute the constitution and laws of the United
States, than they have ever been since 1789.
The declaration may surprise you, but I think
I have evidence of its truth.”
Exporting Manufactures to the North
—The Savannah (Ga.) Republican, of the 27th
u!t. says:
“The steamer Chatham arrived here yester
day from Augusta, bringing 800 bales of Do
mestics, manufactured by the Georgia. Mann
factoring Company, at Augusta. These goods
are to be shiped to Northern markets; large
quantities are continually pas.sing 4 through this
city, and the receipts are still increasing.”
A French Statesman at the World’s
Fair. — M. Thiers has returned to Paris full of
admiration of the Crystal Palace and its con
tents, which he spent five days in examining.
The Bulletin de Paris says “he was struck with
the fact that France is pre-eminent in ail ar
tides of luxury, which none but tho wealthiest
can buy; whereas England excels in the pro
ductions usually consumed by the middle and
poorer classes. Thus Democratic France
works for the rich, and aristocratic England
works for the poor. Since his return, M.
Thiers has frequently expressed to his friends
his admiration of the exhibition and he expa
tiates on the importance of this great page of
industrial history as a means of showing the
progress of civilization, and giving it a fresh im
pulse.
The Trial of Rev. O. S. Prescott, for
Heresy. —Our report of the proceedings of the
Ecclesiastical Court for the trial of Rev. 0. L.
Prescott, closed on Thursday with the adjourn
ment of the Court at noon. At that time, Mr.
Prescott hadwith drawn from the Court, object
ing to its jurisdiction, and refused to appear
any further. The Court reassembled on Thurs
day afternoon, and announced that as Rev. Mr.
Prescott had not appeared before them, except
under protest and for a special purpose, and
had now withdrawn from the Court, and it ap
pearing to them that he had been presented,and
hid due notice in conformity with the Canon
of the Church, and was not prevented from at
tending by sickness—it was their judgment
and decision that he be suspended from the
exercise of his clerical functions for six months.
The Court then adjourned.
Female Medical College. —The second
anual commencement of this Institution is just
out, and shows that 40 ladies attended the Col
lege last session. Os this number 34 were
from Pennsylvania ; 2 from Masachusetts ; 1
from New York; 1 from Ohio: 1 from Ver
mont, and from England. All candidates for
graduation in the Female Medical College are
required to be engaged in the study of medicine
three years—two of which must be under the
supervision of a respectable practitioner of
medicine, and must attend two full courses of
lectures, as in other colleges. The building is
located at No. 229 Arch street, and the insti
tution is said to be in a very flourishing con
dition.—Phil. Ledger.
Dismissal of Gen. Talcott.— The Union
of Sunday morning publishers the official find
ing of the Court Martial, convened for the tri
al of Brevet Brig Genl, Geo. Talcot, charged
with “wilful disobedience of orders and instruc
tions from the Secretary of YVar, in relation to
a contract for supplies and of conduct unhe
coming an officer and a gentleman.” The
Court finds the accused guilty, and sentences
“to bo dismissed the service,” President Fill
more confirmed the proceedings of the Court,
and the Adj’t General announces that Gen.
Geo. Talcott accordingly ceases to he an offi
cer of the army.
The Methodist Property Suit. —We
learn from tho Chiistian Advocate and Journal,
that the negotiations, consequent upon the
earnest recommendation of the Court, for an
amicable settlement of the unfortunate dispute
between the two branches of the Methodist
Church, has failed, the South making it a pre
requisite that the justice of her claim shall bo
admitted, and the North refusing to make any
such acknowledgement.
Exactly so.— ln conversation the other day
with a gentleman who formly mingled much in
transalantic politics, but has resided many
years in this country and is a warm friend of
our republican institutions, be wound up with
the remark, “But sir, after all it is your un
ceasing vigilance that you Americans owe tv.
erytbing—* your liberties, your walking cuae
and your umbrellas!”
Dr. Stewardson.— lt affords us pleasure
to insert the following complimentary noiice
of one of the Professors eiect of the Georgia
Military Institute. It is from the Medical Ex
aminer, published iu Philadelphia, the former
residence of Dr. S.:
Dr. Thus. Stewardson formerly of this ciy
has received the appointment of Professor of
Natural Sciences in the Georgia Military In
stitute, situated at Marietta. Dr. Stewardson’*
early devotion to these sciences, especially
Botany, of which his knowledge is extensive,
highly qualifies him for such a position. At one
time when a resident in this, his native city, his
zeal in behalf of Natural history induced him
to perform the duties of secretary of the Acad
emy of Natural Sciences, from which his pub
lic and private engagements only forced him
to retire. As a citizen of another state, where
heuith induced him to take up hia abode some
years since, hia learning and acquirements
have been appreciated, and we rejoice in the
tribute to merit which is evinced by this ap
pointment.
Singular and Lamentable Occurrence.
A few days since a lady, residing in Ann
street, purchased a large steel trap, with a view
to the destruction of rats. The trap was set,
upon Sunday night, and placed by her upon a
chair, she intending to remove it into the clos
et before retiring. In the meantime her hus
band entered the apartment, and undressing,
was in the act of sitting upon tho chair, when
the clamps seized him in such a manner as to
inflict serious injury and render a surgical op
eration necessary. Fears are entertained for
his final recovery.—Baltimore Sun.
The coinage at the Philadelphia Mint for the
last six months, has been over twenty-four mil
lions of dollars. It is thought the amount coin
ed during the same period at New Orleans
will swell the amount to thirty millions.
Singular Fact. —It is recorded as a singu
lar fact, that during the late terible conflagra
tion at San Francisco, not a single house of
worship of any kind was destroyed while eve
very gambling house but three was burned.
New Vocabulary.— The Montgomery,
(Ala) Journal furnishes the annexed list of
words and expressions, with their significations
in the perlietls of that town. It is well for stran
gers to learn the language, before they at
tempt to converse with the natives:
“Running an extra”—drinking “cider’’and
eating bivales.
To have your “chimneys knocked down,” or
to run into the woods, is to be “tight.”
“Swizzle”—means any kind of liquor, good
or bad, but especially signifies bad liquor or
ale.
“Spelter”— means money; if a man should
3ay that his friend was a smart fellow, but had
seen “swindledout 0f859, 090 in clean spel
ter,” the uninitiated would be surprised to learn
that the man was hardly ever worth 50 cents,
and owed the same friend for spelter.”
“How is your institution?”—means how is
your health? arid the reply is “unanimous.”
“How much will it pay?” and “is she pi
ous?*’ has reference to the amount of speller,
or moral character which a young lady may lie
posessed of.
“Is she sound on the southern question?”—
means the same a? above, or “how many no
grues aud mules has she?”
RECIPES.
Plum Pudoing— lngredients.-. i lb of flour,
4 lb. of currants; $ lb, of grated carrots;
of grated potatoes; £ lb. of butter, and 2 oz.
of sugar.
Instructions —Mix all together, adding a
little salt, and any other approved seasoning,
boil it in a buttered basin an itour and bait.
Serve with sweet sauce. A large spoonful of
molasses is an agreeable addition.
Tapioca OiiKtr.r.-Ingredients —1 lb. of
bread crumbs, 2 table-spoonfuls of tapioca; 1
table-spoonful of dried sage; and’Jozv of boiled
onions, chopped fine.
Instructions. —Boil the tapioca in J pint of
water till dissolved. Stir in the other ingre
diants, season with pepper and salt, and bake
1 hour in a well buttered dish.
Savoury Puz.-Ingredicnts.- Cold Omelet, 4
boiled eggs, 2 table-spoonful of tapioca, pint
of cold water, 1 oz of butter and paste.
Instructions— Steep the tapioca in water 10
or 15 minutes, cut the omelet in small pieces,
butter a pie dish, and spread a little of the
tapioca over the bottom, then the omelet and
eggs, than another layer of tapioca, adding
seasoning and a few small pieces of butter,
cover it with paste and bake it.
The following method 0/ obtaining cool wa
ter was found to work well. Those who cannot
readily procure ice, should give it a trial.
Let the jar, pitcher, or vessel used for water,
be surrounded with one or more folds of coarse
cotton, to be constantly wet. The evaporation
of the heat from the inside, reduces it to a
freezing point. In India and other tropica! re
gions, where ice cannot be procured, this is
common.
To have Green Beans, Peas and Corn
in Winter. —A gentleman says that he saw
in January green peas as succulent, to all ap
pearance, as they were when plucked from the
vino some five or six months before. The
mode of preparing them, is to pick, when of
proper size for eating, shell and carefully dry
on cloths iu the shade. All the care necessary
is to prevent them moulding; th.s done, they
will be fine and sweet the following spring.
Beans may be preserved in the same way, and
with perfect success.
Green corn may be preserved iu the follow
ing manner: Pluck tho ears of green rorn
when fit for boiling, strip off the husks, and
throw the ears into a kettle of boiling water;
leave them in until the water boil* over them,
when they must he taken out; shell off the corn
by running the prong of a fork along the basc
ofthe grain, bolding the ear with one end
against the breast; this is more expeditious, and
saves all the grain, including the heart or germ,
which is tho sweetest part.
After being thus prepared it must be spread
out thin on cloths in a shady, airy place to drv;
it should be stirred every day until dried
thoroughly. When cooked, it should be put
in cold water and boiled an hour or more, the
water to be pretty well boiled off. When the
water is nearly off a litile milk added to it
will improve the taste.
Beans, peas, and green corn wilt retain
their original flavor more perfectly by being
preserved >n hermetically sealer’ cane
psiMUtealo
4 *B;ware of northern Men.”
Said that far-seeing statesman, Roger Bar
ton, in his celebrated speech at Jacinto, whh i
looking’ a live Yankee plump is thefoce,
“ Beware of Northern Men.” Them's ODI
sentiments exactly, we say southern men, be or
your guard —watch with until mg vigilance be
ware.
Gen. Quitman and ourselves are two tud
blooded live Yankee* ; born \ atikees; and a. an
kee still; bring up an owl in a crow’s nest and
it will be an owl still—what’s bred in the bone
remains in the flesh, chips from a bass-wood
block will l>e bass-wood chips, though they are
taken to California. We were boru not a great
distance apart, in the State of New \ork---our
fore fathers fought in common in the Revolu
tionary and war of 1812, and we, patriotic like
them, fought in the Mexican war.
At an early age our friend migrated to the
Great South, which opened her broad arms to
receive all honest and industrious men. xlow
he got here, we know not---as to ourselves, we
floated on a raft, first into the State of Missouri,
next into the city of St. Louis, with a pair of
striped truwsers, dirty shirt and straw hat on.
Next day we were dressed like a gentleman,
with thirty dollars in our trowsers. At that era
in our existence we were 17 years of qge ; if
our friend was vounger than that, when hear-i
rived South, then he has the advantage of us in
that particular.
Thank God, we both left the once proud
State of New York, when she was a State that
any man might be proud of. Alas, how has the
mighty fallen ! For a time, Abolition influence
has controlled her destinies. May it soon end.
When we left it was customary to rotten egg
abolition lecturers. May those good old days
return. We left the land of our birth with an
honest name, and tolerably good character.
We owe her nothing, for we never got a pint of
guber-peas or clean dickey therein, but what
we had to ante up for cm. Our interest is
where our principles are, and our principles are
where our interest is; and both principles and
interest are in the South.
Our friend, the General, received while in the
Mexican war, some §BOO a month, more or less,
with perquisites, honors, <fcc. We, while in the
same service, received §8 a month, no more nos
less, uor perquisites about it, pork and beans,
and a good deal too many, d:c. He wtis a
great deal the smartest, and we the biggest
fool. Fora man to make himself a human tar.
get to be shot at, and worse than that, a store
house for pork and beans, all for §8 a month,
mav be very patriotic, proper, commendable,
all that sort of things, yet it’s any thing else
than agreeable. It shows a great deal more
smartness to be a General than a private; then
the pay is a great deal better, and the chances
for getting home in the same proportion. Gen
erals stand back and order—soldiers go in and
fight—one conies home with blue breeches, bad
habits, and a land warrant —the other with lota
of tin, credit, and blushing honors.
Friend Quitman’s popularity got him a Gov
ernorship—ours got us credit: neither lasted
long. He is without office, acd we without
credit. Not a very sensible sign in either of
ÜB.
Our aged friend has been a whig, then a dem
ocrat, and is now a disunionist. We have never
voted in anv political election in our life, and
now are a Union man. He is so rich that he
i don’t want to be any richer. We are so poor
I that we don't want to be any poorer. He is a
big-bug Yankee—we are a little-bug Yankee.
He is a very respectable man. We are the
same. He is a grey-headed, We are black
headed. He is prepared to receive votes for
Governor. We are prepared to receive sub
scription, advertising and job work, at usual
prices, on time, with good men till Christmas.
Southern men., we cay emphatically “Beware
of Northern men.’’ We arc a poor specimen
that runs on tick, and one that can’t run away
unless *edoit on time. Watch us, see that
we don’t swallow, put it in our pockets, or run j
away with a curly-head. Watch.
What shall we say of this old Yankee, this
man that’s as rich 3 a jew—this man that’s a ]
great General—this tnan that’3 a woild renown- !
ed politician; Watch him. If you watch us
for one nigger, watch him lor thousands. See 1
if the end of this means is not to break up our
civil and religious institutions—destroy our na
tional prosperity— blot out the name of freedom ]
- -spread carnage, desolation, and bloodshed >
over this land. Watch a little Yankee for one
nigger as long as you please, but for God’s sake
don’t forget to watch a big Yankee for the
whole race of niggers.
Again we say with that patriotic statesman,
Roger Barton, who is a true Southern man, bora
and bred in the South—who knows all about
this subject: who is a great lover of his country ,
—and who give none but the best advices to his
countrymen— I '"Beware of Northern men,” and |
be very cartful that you don’t vote for a Yan
kee for Governor— North Mississippi Union.
The Southern'Rights, party,’is they rail them
selves, in Alabama, have, it seems, adopted the l
following as their platform:
* st - —riie “Right” to dissolve the Union at
pleasuro.
2d.—The necessity of dissolving it sconer or
later.
3d —The duty to dissolve it.
4th.—The obligation to assist any other State to i
destroy the Union, whenever caded upon.
A Coortiods and lUrrr Retort.—The Camden
fS. C.) Journal says:
“We btlive that England wonlj acknowledge us an
independent Republic, and come in and trade with ua,
s imp!y passing these blockading ships by; and if, in their 1
passage, tlu-se ships shoqid fire on them, why, a broad j
sid* from an English sieamthip would settle it, we j
think, rather to the disadvantage of a Yankee blockade i
cutter.”
The Y aahtagton Republio, in noting the above,
says:
“We do not choose to comment upon the com pi i- I
merit to ‘English brrvidsides’ contained in the quotation, j
It would be in bad taste to vaunt our national prowess I
W e may say, however, that the example of Fort ‘
Moultrie itself proves that “ British Broadsides”
bring Utile terror to American bosoms.”
SvbTiciovs Coincidence —“The Constitution of tbe
United States ought to be torn to pieces and trampled
under foot.’’ Wendall Philips, tbe Abolitionist. “The
Constitution of tbe United States is a fetid mass, gen
erating disease and death. It stinks in our nos
trils'’ Langdon Checks, the Sooth Carolina Seces
sionist
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