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THE POET’S 00RHER.
I'll Come to Thee, Lore.
W lien the wind woes the leaves
With its whispering song,
T\ hen the music of dream-land
Is wafted along—
When the air is all radiant
With forms from above,
With the wind and the music,
111 come to thee, love.
V\ ith pure, holy worship,
Beside thee I'll kneel,
And pour out in words
The devotion I feel
And through moonlight and starlight
Together we'll rove
Thus forever and ever ;
I’il come to thee, love !
The stars shall glow round us,
And visions of bliss
W ill smile on us gently.
And bless each wild khs.
Yes, amid the bright forms
Through the dream-land which rove,
Like the south wind of summer,
I'll come to thee, love.
Y\ ith perfume from flowers,
I will bend o’er thy sleep,
W ith the sky and the wave
A sweet vigil I’ll keep,
And, as flies forth to meet thee,
My soul, like a dove,
Set king out its true dwelling,
Oh, come to vie, love !
Railroad Epitaphs.
‘Sweeping round a curve
W hose outer flexure bordered an abyss.
The cars were canted down the precipice,
And seven of us killed. But what of that?
’Twas tiic curve did it. And the engineer,
Biing upon a bender was excused.’
‘Here are deposited the hones,
(The flesh being torn ofi',)
Os an unknown man;
M ho, being deaf, and blind, and lame,
Neglected to obey the customary signals,
And was run over as a punishment
For his contumacy.
The engineer promptly stopped the engine
After it had cut the body in two,
And, with most exemplary humanity,
Conveyed the remains to an adjacent wood shed,
\\ here all uie-ans of resuscitation were tried ;
.But alas!
The vital spark had fled !
For the humanity they displayed,
1 lie engineer and signal men
W ere presented by the company
With a service of plate,
Go thou and do likewise.’
An exchange thinks that this railroad epitaph sys
tem might be applied with advantage to the banks of
the Mississippi. The monotony of a voyage up stream
would be agreeably relieved by a perusal of the affect
ing testimortals of remembrance and esteem, with which
the margin of the great river might appropriately be
adorned. He thinks something of this sort might an
swer :
‘Fnder this cypress,
Smashed by a high press
Os steam, 1 lie.
Too fondly T trusted
To a boat what busted,
And blew me sky high.’
Another might record an accident in this way :
‘Sacred to the sad mishaps
Os the ten who died by a collapse.’
Parody.
[Most readers will remember a poem entitled ‘The
Modern Belle,’ published several weeks since, and
much admired for its truthful home thrusts. The fol
lowing Parodj- is equally as good.]
The son sits in the bar-room,
In a place most convenient to stare,
lie's clad in very fine broadcloth,
And his face is covered with hair—
lie smokes and spits and drinks,
And drinks and smokes and spits,
The saliva he ejects from his mouth
Is much more plenty than wits.
Hi? mother goes clad in Iter cotton,
And faded and ragged at that—
She’s minus of shawl and bonnet,
But her son wears an elegant hat.
She's toiling and earning ‘The Shillings,’
So weariedly Bight and day,
While he at the theatre and tavern,
Is throwing them all away.
lie never gets up in the morning,
If his mother calls him at noon,
lie comes down cursing and swearing,
Because she called him so soon ;
Ilis eyes are sunken and red,
Ilis cheeks are hollow and thin,
Caused by last night's debaucheries
And indulging too freely in gin.
ITo sits down to breakfast,
And then finds fault with the hash,
His mother says, ‘The greesc it needs
Yon used to oil your moustache,’
At this lie flies in a passion,
And hastily leaves the room,
To the tavern he bends his footsteps,
And with wine dispels his gloom.
From his vest there dangles a seal
That is set with a brilliant red stone,
But the sparkling toy is only wax,
Tho’ this he never will own ;
On his feet are patent gaiters,
On his mother’s there are nt nr,
For all her honest earnings
Bedeck the back of her son.
At length he married a lady,
Who’s as rich he thinks as she’s fair
But finds her in truth as poor as himself,
And then gives up to despair ;
Two cheats make an even bargain,
Both are well mated for life.
She thought she had got a rich husband,
lie thought he had got a rich wife.
He is Dead. Yes, the friend who was by our
side but yesterday, whose laugh was as loud as our
own, and whose spirits u'ere as light as the mostactivo,
is now dressed in the habiliments of the tomb. Ilis
voice will enliven no more—-no more will his presence
cheer ; no more will joy and gladness spring up in the
hearts of those who were wont to be relieved from the
benevolence of his heart. lie is dead ! He has
looked his last on the field and flower, spoken the last
kind word and given the last kiss of affection. The
flowers of spring will bloom and wither upon his grave,
the birds will sing high above his resting place, and the
merry voices of children will float upon the air, but
the sleeper will not awake till the sound of the archan
gel’s trump shall call the dead to life. May we learn
a useful lesson from the sudden departure of one who
so recently was engaged in the active scenes of life. —
May we so live, that if called as suddenly from the
pursuits of time, we may be prepared for that better
world where the weary are forever at rest.
MACON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 26, 1852.
miscellany.
Tlie Twins,
OR, ‘SELLING’ A AVI DOW.
BY AN OLD CONTRIBUTOR.
Dr. W illianison, formerly of Staten Island,
New York, was renowned for Dis eccentricity,
as well as his excellence as a physician, a pecu
liar feature of which was a nervous horror of
being stopped in the street by very inqusitive
persons, many of whom particularly in country
places, will leave any and all business at the
sight of an approaching doctor’s gig, to rush
upon him with a shower of queries respecting
the condition of his patients, <fcc., some of which
are often put in the hope of eliciting general
information of a private character, for the edifi
cation of gossips.
Within the doctor's circuit lived two cousins,
both widows—buxom and middle-aged, between
whom a sort of feud had existed for many vears.
The elder of the two was a notorious newsmon
ger, and was generally better posted up in the
affairs of her neighbors than in her own, devo
ting the greater portion of her time to that
pursuit. Ihere was not a family on the island
with whose history she was noL familiar, and
could tell volubly and circumstantially, in full
and at extreme length, every flaw in the repu
tation of man or woman far and wide; knew
the circumstances of every courtship for twenty
years back, and could telF why this one ‘had to
get married,’ or why that one didn't.
Os course she was, or wished to be, ‘liand
and-glove’ with every physician in the place,
and being in what is called comfortable circum
stances, was usually listened to with more at
tention than is ordinary given to more needy
tattlers.
M ith the old doctor, the widow Mehitable
was of light esteem, in fact, especially avoided,
whenever practicable; nevertheless, she con
trived to annoy him to a greater extent than any
other woman of his acquaintance. The widow
Sally, her cousin, being of a different stamp —
sensible and discreet, and with tact enough to
descry his peculiarities and respect them, was
of course very popular, and in speaking of the
twain, the comparison was always drawn in her
favor.
Between the cousins, nothing like social in
tercourse had for a long time existed, never re
cognizing each other with anything more than
a cool courtesy ; and the widow, Sally, was con
scious of being an object of envy and close ob
servation with her censorious cousin, any little
tale to her discredit being laboriously circulated
by her amiable relative.
About the time in which occurred the inci
dent we are narrating, politics raged fie reel v,
and men’s minds were busily occupied in their
consideration. Just after election, a ‘Whirr
Supper’ was held in the county town, which the
doctor attended, participating freely in the
festivities of the occasion.
Though usually of a reserved turn, and na
turally taciturn, it was observed that on this
occasion hisspirits were unusually buoyant, and
his conversation free and animated. The sit
ting was a protracted one, and not until well
among the small hours did the doctor order his
gig.
Having made a friendly call upon Sally dur
ing his l ido in the afternoon, it occurred to him
that it would he no more than fair to call upon
Mehitable on his way home, which lie .accord
ingly did, though at the expense of some addi
tional travel.
Arrived at the door, the doctor cautiously tied
his horse, and gave a very portentous knock.
A few moments elapsed, when, up went a
window, and out came a nightcap, with a head
in it.
‘Who's there.’
‘Oh, is that you. widow? its Williamson, the
doctor, 1 want to see you a minute.’
‘Why, mercy sakes, doctor, is that you ? why,
what —where—eh?—who—w-w-wh-at is the
matter? I'll be down directly.’
The widow’s ‘help’ was aroused, and a fire
hastily made, the lady attiring herself hastily
in the most becoming garments at hand, and at
length the door was opened.
‘Why, doctor, do walk in. Why, is any one
dead ?’
‘No, n-n-not that I am aware of, but— ’
‘But what ! doctor don't keep me in suspense,
w hat is the matter ?’
‘Well, well. How long is it since you saw
Sally ?’
‘Sally Decker ! ine ? whv its a vear.’
Well, I suppose I shall surprise you, or have
you heard of it? as being probable, though I
think no one suspected it—l (speaking very
slowly,) I—was ’
(Widow interrupted.) Heard of it. Heard
of it! doctor, for Heaven’s sake, oh! will you
tell me what you mean, what has happened ?’
‘Well! well! 1 suppose, being a relative, I
ought to tell you , but, poor Sally, she— ’
‘She what? doctor; if you don't want me to
have a fit, tell me, what, where, how is Sally,
what of her ?’
‘Well, she is doing well, full as well as could
be expected, erne? a finer pair of twins, 1 never
saw /’
‘Twins P (screamed bis bearer,) tvvi—doct—
Sally Decker! my soul,’ (and down she went
completely overpowered.)
The doctor left and hastened home. Before
sunrise, Mehitable bad traveled five miles with
the news, and before nightfall, had reasou to
regret her precipitancy, having unfortunately
met her degraded relative ‘taking tea,’ in robust
health, with a mutual friend, to whom Mehita
ble had imparted the awful intelligence, in the
strictest confidence, at the street door, unable to
wait until t hey could reach the parlor.
On the following day the talkative widow
met her informant.
‘Doctor, what did you mean by that awful
story V
‘Why, my dear madam, I was prevented from
finishing it by your swooning, and being in a
hurry was compelled to leave.’
‘Why, there was'nt a word of truth in it;
doctor.’
‘Pardon me,madam, itwa- as true as Genesis,
more beautiful twins I never saw.’
‘ Twins, doctor, what? Sally Decker’s?’
‘ Heaven forbid, my dear madam; not hers
but the poodle's her poodle, madam, you know
she calls it Sally.’
‘Oh, oh ! what will become of me ? I’ve been
and reported it the other way P
The doctor declared that from that day forth
he never knew a less inquisitive person than
that widow.
A Poor Endorser.— “ A worthy but poor
minister,” writes a friend from the country, re
quested a loan of fifty dollars from a cashier of
our bank ; and in a note requesting the favor,
he said he would “pay in ten days on the faith
of Abraham.’’’ The cashier returned word
that by rules of the bank, the endorser must re
side in the State.’’
Chinese letter to Gov. Bigler.
We observe that an appeal lias been made
f ° Gov. Bigler by the Chinese residents in Cali
fornia, against their ejectment or exclusion from
the mines, which presents, many strong points
calculated to produce a favorable influence upon
the minds of all those who may read as well as
Him to whom it is addressed. The present is
a document of some interest, and is drawn up
in a style creditable to the sliolastic merits of
Had Ha, Long Aciiick, by whom it is signed.
We select the following:
The emigration of the ‘Coolies,’as your Ex
cellency rather mistakingly calls us, is attended
with the opening of all this Chinese trade, which
if it produces the same results here as elsewhere
will yet be the pride and riches of this city and
State. One of the subscribers of this letter is
now employed as a clerk in an American store,
because of the services he can render them as a
broker in business with his countrymen ; he has
some times sold SIO,OOO a day of Chinese
goods. Chy Lung, who arrived a few days
since with some SIO,OOO in China goods, lias
sold out and returns for another cargo on the
Challenge. Fei J Chaong, who brought in a car
go about a month ago, has sold out, and also
returns in the Challenge. So does the partner
of Sam-wa of this city; Tuk-Shaong for the
same purpose—for more than a year he has been
continually importing and selling cargoes. A
great many otheis send for goods by the Chal
lenge, and all the other ships which you speak
of as being expected, will bring cargoes of
goods as well as Chinamen. Nor does this by
any means give you a full idea of the trade of
the Chinamen. They not only freight your
ships, but they have bought many of them, and
will buy more ; and as to the freighting of ships,
it may be worthy of your attention to know, that
such is our preference for your countrymen, that
we employ your ships in preference to any others
even when we could get them cheaper. When
a ship arrives, every body sees how actively and
profitable your drays, steamboats, wagons, Ac.
arc employed by us. Some of us read in the
papers, the other, that the Government of the
United States were goingto send ships to Japan,
to open that country to American trade. This
is what we supposed your country wished with
China as well as other countries, but it cannot
all be on one side, aiul it is plain that the more
advantages we get from your country, the faster
you will get the benefits of our trade. The
gold we have been allowed to dig in your mines,
is what has made the China trade grow up so
fast, like everything else in this country. If you
want to check immigration from Asia, you will
have to do it by checking Asiastic commerce,
which we supposed from all that we have ever
known of your Government, the United States
most desired to increase.
W hat your Excellency has said about passing
° Uvv to prevent Coolies sliippM to California
under contracts irom laboring v'o the mines, we
do not conceive concerns us, for there are none
such here from China, nor do we believe any
are coming except a small number, perhaps,
who work on shares, as We have before explained,
just as people from all other countries Some
times do. \\ e will not believe it is your inten
tion to pass a law treating usas Coolies wheth
er we aieso or not. You say there is no treaty
provision for the manner in which Chinese emi
grants shall be treated, and that the Chinese
Government would have no right to complain
of any law excluding us from the country, by
taxation or otherwise. This may be true of the
government, but it would certainly alienate the
present remarkably f.iendly feelings of tlie
Chinese people, and in many ways interfere with
the full enjoyments of the commercial privileges
guaranteed to the Americans by the treaty of
Wanghiya.
In what we here say we have most carefully
told your Excellency the truth, but we fear you
will not believe us, because you have spoken in
your message of us as Asiatics, ‘ignorant of the
solemn character of the oath or affirmation in
the form prescribed in the Constitution and the
Statutes,’ or ‘indifferent to the solemn obliga
tion to speak the truth which an oath imposes.’
It is truth, nevertheless, and we leave it to time
and the proof which our words carry in them to
satisfy you of the fact. It lias grieved us that
you should publish so bad a character of us, and
we wish that you could change your opinion and
speak well of us to the public. \Ve do not
deny that many Chinamen tell lies, and so do
many Americans, even in the courts of Justice.
But we have our couris, too, and our forms of
oaths,which are as sacredly kept by our country
men as other nations respect theirs. We do not
swear upon so many little occasions as you do,
and our forms will seem as ridiculous to you as
vours do to us when we first see them.
You will smile when we tell you that on or
dinary occasions an oath is attested by burning
a piece of yellow paper, and on the more impor
tant ones by cutting off the head of a cock ;
vet these are only forms, and cannot be of great
importance, we would think. But in the im
portant matters wo are good men ; we honor
our parents; vve take care of our children ; we
are industrious and peaceable; we trade much;
we are trusted for small and large sums; we
pay our debts and are honest, and of course
must tell the truth. Good men cannot tell lies
and be ignorant of the difference between right
and wrong. We do not think much about your
politics, but we believe you are mistaken in sup
posing no Chinaman has ever yet applied to be
naturalized or has acquired a domicil in the
United States except here. There is a China
man in San Francisco who is said to be a natu
ralized citizen, and to have a free white Ameri
can wife.
lie wears the American dress, and is consi
dered a man of respectability. And there are,
or were lately, we are informed, Chinamen re
siding in Boston, New York and New Oilcans.
If the privileges of your laws are open to us,
some of us will doubtless acquire your habits,
your language, your ideas, your feelings, your
morals, your forms, and become citizens of your
country ; many have already adopted your reli
gion as their own; we will be good citizens.
There are very good Chinamen now in the
country, nad a better class will, if allowed,
come hereafter, men of learning and of wealth,
bringing their families with them.
In concluding this letter, we only beg your
Excellency not to be too hasty with us, to find
us out and know us well, and then we are cer
tain you will not command your Legislature to
make laws driving us out of your country. Let
us stay here, the Americans are doing good to
us, and we will do good to them.
Your most humble servants,
II AB Wa, Sam Wo A Cos.
Long Achick, Ton M o A Cos.
For the Chinamen in California.
Some minds are proportioned to that which
may be dispatched at once, or within a short
return oftime ; others to that which begins afar
off, and it to be won by length and pursuit.
Silent Goodness.
A Boston correspondent of the ‘Buffalo Courier’
gives the following interesting instance of the benevo
lence of a lady well known to the public :
‘A h|4y named Henderson, living at the north part
of the city, found herself on one of the coldest days
about two months since, without a slick of wood or a
morsel of food. Her family consisted of five children,
the eldest about ten years of age. The father started
a year or more since for California, and as nothing had
been heard from him it was believed that at the time of
which wc write that he was one of a small party of
Americans murdered by natives on the Isthmus.
Since her husband’s departure, Mrs. 11. supported her
family by the exertions of her needle; but the inces
sant toil necessary to acquire any means of subsistence
from this source, soon wore upon her health, and she
lay upon the bed of sickness, in a cold apartment, and
not a crust in the closet. The pangs of hunger at
tacked her little brood, and the mother’s heart was
compelled to suffer the agony of hearing their moans
for two entire days and nights. Your readers may
imagine the poor woman's anguish during these forty
eight hours. .On the morning of the third day, her
eldest daughter, a sweet and unusually bright eyed girl
named Emily, went into ;he street without acquainting
her parent. With feeble steps she tottered through
dock square, up Cornhill to Washington street. When
near S street, her strength failed her, and she sat
down on the stone stops just cleared of snow, and wept
bitterly. In a little while, one of K.'s baker carts
came along. Before her father’s departure, its daily
morning visits had gladdened her joyous heart at her
o.vn then happy home, and the hot and steaming bread,
as the driver stopped to supply a customer, catne like
the fragrance of sweet flowers, upon her reviving fac
ulties. Emily had been taught that it was sinful to
take that which belonged to another, and that God
would punish her if she did. But her own hunger,
and the thoughts of her mother, and her little brothers
and sisters at home, overcame her scruples, and as the
driver entered the dwelling of his customer, Emily
hastily snatched a loaf and placed it under her apron.
The poor little creature trembled with affright, when
the act was committed, and came near sinking to the
ground.
The theft was observed by a lady, whose kind heart
was instantly touched at the sight before her. She
approached the little girl, and asked her why she had
taken the bread. This was too much for Emily. She
had been detected in a deliberate act of theft, and all
the admonitions of her good mother came upon her
with such overwhelming force that simply uttering
‘mother, brothers, sisters,’ she sunk insensible upon
the icy pavement. It was the work of but a few mo
ments for the lady to have the fragile and inanimate
form carried into a druggist’s near by, where the pro
per remedies were administered, and poor Emily re
vived. The lady looked kindly upon her as she in
quired where she lived. The directions were readily
given, when her benefactress called for a carriage, and
accompanied Emily home. The scene which presented
itself to the lady as she entered the dismal abode,
struck her heart sadly and solemnly. The mother lay
.nln>o*t in vim jnwi <>f death, wnn-liko as a spectre —
three little children were huddled close to her body, as
if to obtain a sensation of warmth. At the breast of
the mother moaned an infant who in vain endeavored
to obtain nourishment from tho exhausted fountains of
nature. Tho lady, recovered from her first emotions,
proceeded energetically to relieve the distresses of this
afil'etod family. Her purse was opened—wood, food,
raiment and medical attendance immediate!) procured,
and in a short time she had the delightful satisfaction
of beholding this but now desolate household restored
to comparative health and comfort, with Hope enliven
ing the countenance of the mother, and the pretty laugh
of her sweet little children ringing through the house.
For some three weeks did this kind-hearted lady
daily visit Mrs. Henderson and her family, giving words
of consolation and encouragement, with something
more substantial and necessary for bodily comfort. At
tho expiration of this time the lady made ono of her
usual visits, when what was her surprise and great joy
to be introduced to the husband of Mrs. Henderson,
who, sunburnt and rugged, Lad returned the evening
previous, after a period of unparalleled hardship in
California, with as beautiful a pile of gold dust as any
one could wish to see. Tho blessings which were
poured upon the head of the lady, who had kept the
breath of life in the bodies of this now happy family,
may be imagined ; wc will not attempt to describe
them. That benevolent lady was, reader, whom do
you imagine ? None other than the talented and kind
hearted Elizabeth Kimberly, who has won so much
honorable fame in her profession as an aetress and
ShaKsperian reader. The above incident is true, every
word of it, ns can be vouched for by the most respec
table authority. Such deeds go far to make one be
lieve that this world is not such a bad one after all.
Bon and his Pointers.— Bob was a singu
lar sort of genius, but not half so singular as
bis two pointers ; they were canities of singular
habits, singular iu their looks, and bothofthem
were as contrary as their master was cross. If
one took alter a rabbit, the other wouldn’t budge
an inch. It one found a bone, the other would
snarl and snap till the bone had disappeared.
One of the aforesaid pointers had been pre
sented with the name of “ Nick,” and was con
sidered by his master to be the biggest fool of
a dog I ever seed!
One morning the dog started a fox, and away
they went, fox, dog and Bob; the two former in
a very short space of time leaving Bob in (lie
lurch—clear out of sight. Bob, however, fol
lowed on, and presently came to a wood-chop
per, whom he immediately questioned:
“ Have you seed a fox go by here ?
“ Wal, yes.”
“ Have you seed a dog go by here ?’’
“ Wal, yes ; they wos i minin’ like blazes.”
“ How wos they ?’’
“ Wal, about nip and tuck—dog a little
ahead !”
Bob sloped and gave the dog up for a hard
one.
Queer, if True.— A correspondent in D
county, Ohio, relates the following incident, as
occuring in a village-church in his neghbor
hood:
‘At the close of service, last Sunday, the fol
lowing announcements were made, with due so
lemnity, by ono of the fathers:
‘Prayer-meeting at Brother Wood's next
Thursday evening ; also, a ‘shooting match’ at
Brother Ren’s on Christmas. We hope the
lovers of the good cause, andgood venison, will
turn out generally on both occasions. With
respect to the latter, we may remark : Broth
er Ren is a worthy man, though poor, and any
assistance in this way will be thankfully re
ceived.’
‘An actual fact, without the slightest exagger
ation.’
Siierman and Randolph. —Roger Sher
man was representative in congress froqi Con
necticut ; his business had been that of making
shoes. John Randolph rose, and, tvith his
usual squeaking sounds, said, “ I should like to
know what the gentleman did with his leather
apron before he set out for Washington. ’ Mr.
Sherman replies imitating the same squeak,
“I cut it up, sir, to make moccasins sos the de
scendants of Pocahontas
Wornau’.s Rights’ Convention—Ridoland
A large and enthusiastic Woman’s Rights
Convention was held in this village a few days
since. Mrs. Amadilda Renley was chosen Pre
sident, and Miss Celestina Syllabub, Secretary.
The President opened the Convention with the
following speech:
Female Beings, I arise to address you on the
important subject of woman’s rights. For ages
and ages have we been imposed upon by that ‘
wicked biped, known as man; for ages and ages
have we listened to his lioneved humbug, and
now, in the might of majestic womanhood and
womanly majesty, we stretch forth our bands
and exclaim, ‘Forbear !’ To understand the
subject, my hearers, we must go back to the
beginning. Several hundred years ago, some
rash man ordained that woman should attend
to household affairs, yea ! that while yet l in
maiden hesitation, frantic free ,’ she should be
versed in the mysteries of baking bread and boil
ing cabbages, and other cuiineous matters. —
For years this state of things went on, progress
ing from no better to much worse, with steam
engine rapidity, until, finally, a woman was ex
pected to darn her husband’s stockings. Fe
male beings, probably most of you have darned
stockings —I can sympathise with you. Os a’l
the miserable and excessively wretched employ
ments that our cruel tyrants have imposed upon
us, darning stockings is pre-eminently heart
rending. But, alas! the cup was not yet full.
From the time that woman began tamely and
passively to darn stockings, still more brutal
measures were enforced. The luckless fair ones
were impudently informed that they must stay
at home more, and look after things. With
the malignant ferocity of infuriated catamounts,
the men told the women that they must do their
share of making home pleasant— that they
must be neat in attire, have contented faces,
use kind and loving words, be, ready to take
tbeir share of trouble and misfortune, A, in fine,
devote themselves to tbeir husband’s interests.
This ‘devoting themselves,’ the unnatural bipeds
bad the hardihood to assert, was the object of
a man’s taking a wife, so that he could have
one to depend on, in time of trial and tribula
tion, to stand by him. Female Beings, are you
not ready to shriek as Miss Freedom (I dont re
member her first name) shrieked when Hossey
busco fell ! My speech is did ! I am hungry
and thirsty, and I intend to take a lunch hav
ing brought some coffee and peanuts with me.
The lady sat down amidst great applause,
and gracefully buried her face and feelings in
a bowl of coffee. Miss Rosa Posa then got up,
amidst tlm most enthusiastic cheering. This
young lady was tall, quite pale, and had on long
ringlets and a short josey. In a faltering voice
she said :
“ Beloved Sisters, I have been long convinc
ed, if not longer, that our gentle sex does not
find that sympathy, the genial intertwining of
soul with soul, without which life is indeed
; wretched. When heart seeks heart, and soul
seeks soul, and the infinite seeks the destiny,
the search, alas! is vain. It is a cold world,
beloved sisters, a desert waste, a Seekonk Plain.
Men are harsh, wicked and unfeeling—they have
no tender out-gusliings of heart.”
The lady's feelings were too much for her at
this point, and she sat down, weeping as the
poet says ‘like an union.’ Miss Betty Banks
(a girl fourteen or fifteen years of age, in full
Bloomer costume,) then had the floor. She
said:—
My Ma told me to tell this Convention that
she was convinced now or never the blow was
to be struck. My Ma is a shining light in the
town of Rareripe, a prominent member of the
New Jerusalem Knitting Society, and has found
ed four societies for the relief of the poor, viz :
one each for tho Arabs, Hottentots, Muscovites,
and Patagonians. My Ma sent some resolu
tions, which she hoped would be passed bv
the Convention, and scatter destruction in the
ranks of the enemy. I will now read the reso
lutions:—
1. No smoking in the house or on the pre
mises.
2. No tea, coffee or wine drinking, except for
the ladies.
3. No breakfast to be kept hot for the lazy
louts; ditto dinner; ditto supper.
4. The ladies to render no account to the
husbands of what they do with monev.
5. Wear out wbat little patience the husbands
may have; the sooner the better.
6. Claim, take possession of, and keep in
good repair, the unmentionables.
The young lady took her seat, and the resolu
tions were passed by acclamation. Loud cries
were then heard for ‘Sockdollager!’ ‘Sockdolla
ger.’ Whereupon Mrs. Sockdollager, stood up
in her seat, and made an old-fashioned curtsey to
the audience. The lady weighed about two
hundred, and carried an arm like a prize-fighter.
She began—
‘Gals, look here, there ain’t no common ’bout
me, not a bit of it. I shall come to the pint at
once. My name is Sally Sockdolager, and I'm
a wickler, I am, forty-one last May. My hus
band, poor coot, lias been dead ten years. lie
was mild-hearted; we could’nt hitch teams, and
lie—left. ’Taint much use, these here Con
ventions aint. I tell the women folks, all they’ve
got to do is, to go to work and hammer the
truth in ter home, and stick to it. I wish I’d
know’d tho truth sooner than I did ; but I be
gan to ’sert my rights ’bout five years before
my husband finally left; audit’ I didn't shake
up his understandin’, why, take my bonnet. I
stood fryin’ doughnuts one day. and by’n by
the fat frizzled and sputtered, and some on't
burnt my band. That riz my dander, and thinks
I to myself, ’haiut I got a soul abovo dough
nuts and garden sass ’ My husband was close
by, and I said ‘Jbltn Sock, (I always call him
John for the short) I want to vote, become a
miliingtary osifier, speechify, throw myself onto
my country, make money, lose money, and be
somebody.’ John Sock always was a big fool,
(I must speak right out, I'm so plain hearted.)
so he faintly smiled and shook his head, and I
told him I wished he’d shake it off, for't want
no use to him.’
The lady fainted at this juncture, and as I
left the hall, 1 saw six Bloomers holding her
head under the pump.
Yours truly, B’ARTGANAN.
At New Orleans a man who had but recent
ly commenced business, found his creditors ra
ther too prompt in urging the payment of their
little bills. ‘Whatis the matter?’ heat length
asked, ‘Do you fear me?’ ‘Yes,’ was the hesi
tating reply of a modest dun. ‘Fear me!’ he
exclaimed; ‘on what grounds ? Has any one
said lam not honest?’ ‘No, no,’replied the
other; ‘but’—‘But what, sir ?’ ‘Why, to be can
did with you, we have no confidence in your
business capacity, seeing you do not advertise !’
The man immediately made annual contracts
with three papers, and is now in excellent cred
it, and prospering finely!
Not Mach of Anythia? for Nothin?.
Under this title the ‘gem dropped of the
Chicago Journal, gives one of the prettiest do
mestic scenes, we ever met in a newspaper. Its
charming and natural simplicity will touch a
cord in every parent’s heart:
‘Yesterday we saw a wagon loaded with
wheat coming into town, nothing strange in that,
. certainly. And a man driving the team, and a
woman perched ou the load beside him and a
child throned in the woman’s lap, nothing
strange in that either. And it required no par
ticular shrewdness to determine that the woman
was the properly—personal of course—of the
man, and that the black eyed, round face child,
was the property of both of them.
So much we saw, so much we suppose every
body saw, who looked. It is a fair inference that
the wife came in to help her husband ‘trade out’
a portiou ot the proceeds of the wheat, the pro
duct <>f so much labor, and so many sunshines
and rains.
The pair were somewhere this side, a Sue
point of observation isn’t it! this side of forty,
and it is presumptive, if blessed like their neigh
bors, the}’ left two or three children at home,
‘to keep house,’ while they came to town, per
haps two girls and a boy, or as it is immaterial
to us, two boys and one girl.
V\ ell, we followed the pair, in and through,
until the wheat was sold, the money paid, and
; then for the trade. The baby was shifted from
j shoulder to shoulder, or sat down upou the floor
to run olf into mischief, like a sparkling globule
of quicksilver on a marble table, w hile calicoes
w ere priced, sugar and tea tasted, aud plates
‘rung.’ The good wife looks askance at a
I large mirror that would be just the thing for
the best room, and the roll of carpeting, of most
becoming pattern, but it won't do, they must
wait till next year. Ah ! there is music in those
next years, that Orchestras cannot make.
And so they look, and price and purchase the
summer supplies, the husband the while eyeing
the little roll of bank notes growing small by
degrees and beautifully Jess. Then comes an
‘aside’ conference, particularly confidential. She
takes him affectionately by the button, and looks
up in his face, she has fine eyes bv the by, with
an expression eloquent of ‘do now—it will please
them so.’ And what do you suppose they talk
of? Toys for the children; John wants a drum,
and Jane a doll, and Jenny a book, all pictures,
‘jist like Susan so-and-so’s.’ The father looks
‘nonsense,’ but feels in his pocket for the re
quired silver, and the mother having gained the
point, hastens away, baby and all, for the toys.
There acts the mother—she had half promised,
not all, that she would bring them something,
and she is happy all the way home, not for the
bargains she made, but for the pleasant surprise
in those three brown parcels. And you ought to
have been there when she got home, when the
drum and the doll and the book were produced
and thumbed and cradled and thumped—wasn't
it a great house !
Happiness is so cheap, what a wonder that
there is no more of it in the world.
The Loved amd Lost. A lady was rkLng some
years since through Connecticut in her father's car
riage, when they were brought to a stop by a woman
coining from a cottage, near which they passed, and
beckoning to them. Drawing the rein tight and stop
ping his horses, Mr. T waited her approach. As
she came nearer, her face appeared intelligent and very
attractive, but melancholy withal, and her eye was rest
less and roving; but as she reached the side of the
carriage, and laid her hand on the window edge, she
gazed with intense earnestness into the face of the lady,
and asked, ‘Have you seen William, anywhere?’
Startling as the proximity of a deranged person
manifestly must have been, the lady had sufficient pre
sencc of mind to assuro her that she had not seen Wil
liam, and the poor watcher by the roadside turned
away with a sigh.
Years had passed, aud the iucident was almost for
gotten, when, a few weeks ago. the same lady, bow
the wife of a lawyer of this city was riding through
Fulton street in Ilrooklyn. A loud cry attracted her
attention, and looking at the sidewalk, she saw a wo
man with streaming liair and wild eye running down
the street, screaming, ‘Willy, Willy, Willy,’ in a voice
that seemed, as she described it to be, so unutterly
mournful and thrilling, that it must reach the ear of
him she called, unless that ear was sealed in the si
lence of death.
Was it the same person she met long ago in Con
necticut? and had her poor wandering brain been
searching all these years for the boy she loved, and
searching all in vain ? Who was he, and where or
the broad earth had he kept himself out es the reach
of that wild love 1 She had asked a million persons if
they had seen him. and none knew him. She had
called him in the forest, in the crowded city, in the
day and in the night, now hopefully, now raocaafolly,
and always he Lad answered not. Or was ho per
chance beyond answering; and did the voice reach
him in that land whence he might not reply to her,
however much his soul yearned toward her ? May
hap, it’ so it be, and he strive hard, mayhap some plea
sant evening when she sits all alone and murmurs Lis
name in accents of unchanging affection, God may
grant to him utterance in tones that will reach her
worn out heart, and then, then— how will it spring
back through the lonesome years and w ith the fresh
ness and beauty of youth and youthful love go fenh fa
meet him. Or, as these lines will in one day go fur
ther than she can in a thousand, if William be auy
where on the earth, and his conscience tells him he is
wandering from the love lie owes allegiance to, let hinu
know when he reads this that, there is a voice that is
calling him mournfully, but oh how lovingly, jack to
arms that yearn to embrace him.
“Love me, Love my Cat.” —The Brookvilia
American mentions a remarkable case in that
vicinity of strong youthful attachment, baseci
upon more substantial grounds than the gener
ality of such superstructures \
“A young and beautiful but poor widow,
was about to marry a rich old widower Her
friends wished to know what sha was about tq
marry him for.
She feelingly replied, ‘Pure !ove--I love the
ground (meaning farm, probably) on which ho
walks, and the very house in which he lives.”
This is a stronger case even than that of the
young but poor widower further South, who, be
ing about to marry a rich old widow, replied to
the same searching query, “Pure love ; I love
the very cotton fields she cultivates, and the huq :
dred and fifty ‘niggers’ that wait on her ! n
Game from the West nv Teiegram*
The telegraph is used fora variety of useful pur :
poses by business men ; sending or counterman
ding orders, buying goods, selling stock, &c-
A shrewd busines woman uses it iu tbs follow
ing manner, A friend, says the New-York
Times, applied to a huckster-woman not loig
since for a brace of game of a particular des
cription. “None to-day, sir,’’ was the reply,
“but day after to-morrow you may certainly have
them for Sunday’s dinner fresh from Ilinois.
My agent telegraphed from Chicago they were
on the way!”
NO. 12.