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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 NO. 18