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* ere so suspicious that this company
re? ie claim, and an action was accor
d v. Might and tried.
S T .i’ tesScariet, afterwards Lord Abin- j
jrer, was the council employed by the compa- j
ny, while Mr. Campbell the Lord Chief Jus
tice, was retained for Mi's. E., the plaintiff.
Mrs. E. gained the case, but the publicity
giv to the facts brought a volley oi letters,
volunteering information concerning the
plaintiff It then came to light that the lady
had been the inmate of a hospital for females,
die inmates of which are not remarkable for
their virtue ; that she was then cohabiting with
an eminent baronet banker of the M est End,
to whom had belonged the carriage in which
she had invariably called to effect the assur-
ance, and the appearance of which ha 1 aided
her materially in doing 30. It is supposed
that she must have poisoued more than tliir- 1
ty j versons.
Such are the facts’ derived from a careful
examination of some of the most important
London life insurance offices. The question
now naturally arises, what lias been the ex
perience of American companies ? Can any;
<ne give us the facts ?
4ccepltuice ol’Major Oonelson.
Philadelphia, Feb. ‘26, 1856.
To Hon. Andrew J. Donthon.
Sir : The National Convention in this city,
having unanimously chosen you as their can
didate for the Vice Presidency of the United
States in the approaching election, have ap
pointed the undersigned a committee to make
known to you, officially, this proceeding, and
to ask your acceptance of the position they
have assigned to you.
In the discharge of this duty, the under
signed arc happy to avail themselves of the
opportunity it affords them, to express their
personal gratification in the choice made by
the Convention, and to congratulate you up
on a result no less honorable to yoursell than
auspicious to the welfare of the country.
With the highest consideration, we have
tlic honor to be, Very respectfully,
your obedient servants,
Alex. H. 11. Stuart, of Virginia.
Andrew Stewart, of Pennsylvania,
Erastus Brooks, of New \ ork,
E. B. Bartlett, of Kentucky,
Wm. J. E vmes, of Massachusetts.
Ephraim Marsii, of New Jersey.
Tulip Grove, near Nashville. )
March 30, 1850. \ !
Gentlemen : I did not receive until yester- |
day your official note of the 2Gth ot Februa
ry last., informing me of my nomination to j
the office of Vice President by the American ;
Party, and asking my acceptance of the same. 1
For the flattering terms in which you have j
communicated this proceeding, I beg leave to |
offer you my sincere thanks. I accept the j
{>sition assigned me by the American Tarty,
with a just sense, I trust, of the responsibility ,
b longing to it. I attended the Convention
with no expectation that such an honor a- i
waited me, and if my own feelings and wish
e~ coulu have been consulted, it would have
fallen upon some other member of the Amer
ican Party, in whose ranks are so many dis- |
tinguished individuals, better known to the
country and better prepared by experience
tor the high duties of the station, should the
voice of the people be in accord with that of
which you are the organ on tiiis occasion.—
But acting upon the maxim left U3 by the
great men of the earlier days of our republic,
that public office should be neither sought nor
declined, I yield to the judgment of those who
have thought that my name be of ser
vice in advancing the important objects which
constitute the American party.
Our jea&ag idea is that the two old parties,
or inc public interest, and dial, with
out tiie intervention of reforms which they
can never effect, the beloved Constitution and
L nion, bequeathed to us by our forefathers,
will not long be preserved.
For the most of the evils with which we
are tlireatened at the present period, tiie ad
ministration of President Pierce is evidently
responsible; but instead of finding his party
engaged in the prosecution of measures to ■
avert the dangers iie has brought upon the j
land, we ace it more active than ever in scat- j
tering the seeds of sectional strife and social ‘
anarchy.
When Gen. Jackson came into the Presi
dency, lie acknowledged in his inaugural ad
dress tiie obligation of the Executive to re
strain the patronage of the Federal Govern
ment; so that it should not be brought into
conflict with the freedom of elections. But
modem Democracy stands in direct antago
nism to this obligation. There is scarcely an
election precinct in the United States which
lias not witnessed the most shameful inter
ference with elections by the ageut3 of the
Federal Government acting in die name of
Democracy.
In former times when, parties were crea
ted by patriotic and national sentiment upon
measures of general interest to the whole
country, we never heard that a measure
could be declared Democratic in one place,
and not Democratic in another, by leading
men professing to belong to this party. Yet
we see this enormity exhibited daily by the
party press in the pay of the present Execu
tive.
The necessaiy result of such corruption, if
not successfully opfiosed, must be to destroy
all political morality, and to continue power
in unfaithful and incompetent hands by the
mere influence of the money derived from the
taxes which are paid by the people for far
different purposes.. It is undeniable that the
antagonism now prevailing between the North
and the South, is mainly attributable to the
political artifice which has enabled men hold
log directly opposite opinions on the power
of Congress over the institution of slavery in
die Territories, but yet professing to belong
to the same democratic party. The Nebras
ka-Kansas act is constantly called by one
portion of Democrats, a law which will pre
vent the extension of slavery to the Territo
ries. and by another portion, a law which will
enable the South to carry slavery to the Ter
ritories. By the same fallacy, secession, nul-
LificaSioa abolition, and all other isms, have ‘
found a shelter under the flag of Democracy,
explained as it is by modern interpreters.
In former times, also, our best patriots,
without distinction of party, spoke of the ne- ,
cessky of guarding die ballot-box from the j
dangers of foreign influence, arid* of keeping j
separate die Church snd State; and of die
advantage to be derived from a frequent re
currence to the earlier advice of our fathers,
v. inch inculcated a reverence for the com
pacts- of the Constitution, and the abstinence
from whatever tended to form geographical
parties, or array one section of the Union a- j
gainst, another. Now, however, the whole
power ot the Federal Government is brought j
to bear against any individual who has the
independence to declare his attachment to
the old-fashioned sentiments. Whole classes
of men stand proscribed and ostracised for no !
kpther offence than that of joining an associa-
I: n which seek’ only to correct the excesses I
w. % i'.oivlw gotcrilX'>lT !
to the purity it possessed when we received
it from the hand of those sages who founded
and reformed it.
Looking, gentlemen, upon the American
party as destined to eradicate the evils to
which I have thus briefly adverted, 1 am
proud to be called one of its members, and
can only regret that in selecting its flag-bear
ers, the choice for tiie Vice President had not
fallen upon one who could bring to the cause
higher guarantees for its success than can be
drawn from the humble services I have here
tofore rendered my country.
Thanking you again for the kind manner
in which you have expressed your personal
gratification at tiie nominations, I subscribe
myself, Very respectfully,
your obedient servant,
A. J. Doxelsok.
To Messrs. Alex. 11. H. Stuart, of Virginia ;
Andrew Stewart, of Pennsylvania; Eras
tus Brooks, of New Pork; E. B. Bartlett,
of Kentucky; Wm. J. Eames, of Massa
chusetts; Ephraim Marsh, of New Jersey.
For the Georgia Citizen.
Leaves from nsy Diary.
RY J. OIERLOW.
I nave experienced all the sweets and sor
rows of love. My heart is now empty and
desolate. The fulness of my soul has become
extinct, and I know not what I am, and what
I have. I stray here and there in terrible dis
traction; I find no foundation 011 which I may
plant my foot—nothing by which I may take
hold. My innermost soul is a nonentity, and
deeply do I leel it.
How strange, that one only being should be
so much to us, and the eternal love to God be
capable of nothing against tiiis sorrow.
A curious tradition prevails in Salsburg re
specting an old ruin, which often occupies my
thoughts. This ruin was supposed to con
ceal a hidden treasure. One evening a
man enters it for the purpose of an explora
[ tion. A ghost appears, which leads him to a
: place, where he sees a treasure, which he is
permitted to remove on the following day.—
Observe particularly where the place is, says
the ghost. He attentively surveys the posi
tion of the desolate window and door-holes,
but, especially (so that he shall not mistake
the right entrance) the position of the towers
of which there weie two. The next day he
again makes his appearance at the ruin, but
he does not find the position of the towers
tiie same as on tiie previous day. lie now
goes the second and third time, and soon he
i is seen unceasingly about the ruin with a
madman’s gaze upon the towers, without ev
j er finding this once well-observed position.
I can esily imagine myself into the unfor
| tunate man's existence, how he every morn
ing goes to the min with the continually re
! turning conviction, that he to-day must ne
cessarily again discover the entrance, in which
he has once stood, and possess the treasure,
which he has already seen glittering in its
deep place of concealment Yes, I may well
1 imagine myself into a condition which was
| and is my own.
I have mvsclf more than once perceived,
that a youtliful heart is never more open to a
new love, than, at the moment when it is soft
: ened by a separation from the loved object,
and just then mostly feels the want of a gen
tle participation and of a bosom on which to
lean with confidence, or of a friendly eye, by
which it may refresh itself. But, that anew
i inclination, when it finds no nourishment,
! when a reciprocal feeling does not heartily
’ meet it, and the heart finds not the assua
j ging power and refreshment it sought, that it
1 should rise to so high a passion as it often
i does, tiiis is more than strange.
I have been asked concerning a remedy
i 1 ave one—Keiigion.
I do not wonder at the prevalence of such
madness at the present day, when man’s high
est and only perfect refuge and support in
good and evil days—the Faith—has lost its
power, and when every one, in whom it is
still manifest, finds himself thrown back upon
liiinself and shut up within himseff together
with his feelings, instead of feeling himself
moving in and by the whole, in an age, when
he does not even see anything whole before
him, —for which of our states is anything but
the mere caput mortuum of a state?—and
when he now perhaps at the same time wishes
to support himself on himself alone, and get
along with the whole problem of life by no
other help, than his own, —can we in such an
age wonder at the destruction of many an in
ward peace? The working reflection and
fantasy work themselves into themselves, and
finally in empty dreams create themselves a
false world, or toil and rave in their chain
like bonds, or stare with madness and despair
upon a terrible desolation.
The Foreign Vole.
Let those who pretend to believe that the
foreign vote exercises but little influence up
on our elections examine die following table,
exhibiung the strength of the foreign vote
and Pierce’s majority in die following four
teen States, at die last Presidential election:
Foreign popu- Foreign Pierce's Electoral
Blute. lation. vote, j mej’ty. vote for
Pierce.
New York, 685,221 98,817 26,201 85~
Peiin.-ylvanla 8 1 3,U 6 43,3410 19,446 27
Maryland, 61,011 j 7.927 41M5 g
Louisiana, i 67,308 9,616 1.392 6
Missouri, j 76.510 l<i,3B.s| 7.798 9
Illinois, j 1U.9f10 16 930 15.658 n
Ohio, | 418,! 99 81,167| 1,694 28
Wisconsin, 110,471 15,75 l 11,418 6
lowa, I 211,96-S 2,996 1,180 ! 6
Rhode Maud 28.882 ’ 8,40>; 1,1(4, 4
Conn. ! 88.874 6,482 j 2,390! g
Delaware, ; 6.248 749 25 8
N. Jersey, j 69.8n4 8.522 5 749 7
California, I 21,449, 10,(HJ0| 6,694) 4
| 253,548 120,094 162
From the above it appears that the foreign
vote in each one of die above States ie larger
than the majorities for Gen. Pierce, who was
j elected by an unprecedented vote; wlrile the
aggregate in the above fourteen States—en
titled as the}’ are to 152 electoral votes—is
more than double Pierce’s majority! And
yet we are told by die tools of foreign priests
that the foreign vote is insignificant, and that
Americans do rule America! The fact is, die
foreigners have held the balance of power for
the last ten or twelve years, and have elected
three Presidents for us! If the American
people are not capable of self-government, it
is well enough, perhaps, to call in die aid of
the foreign legions; but we have always been
simple enough to believe that the descendants
of the “fathers of the Republic” were better
prepared to make a wise selection of rulers
than die great mass of the ignorant and vi
cious serf of European depotism can be ex
pected to do.
Nomination for Governor. —The Demo
cratic State Convention of North Carolina
assembled at Raleigh, on Wednesday, and
by acclamation, nominated Governor Bragg
for re-election. The Convention pronounc
ed in favor of President Pierce for the next
Presidency, and Secretary Dobbin for Vice-
President.
Rhode Island Election.— The Providence
Journal says the representation from all the
towns in that State, is now complete. The
Americans and Republicans, counting the
Lieutenant Governor, will have 22 of the 32
members of the Senate, and 52 of the 72 mem
ber;: of the Horne.
Letter from Ekisbop Elliot to the
Hon. Hiss .Hurray.
The following is an extract of a letter writ
ten by Bishop Elliot to Miss Murray, tiie
“Maid of Honor,” who recently published a
book concerning the United States:
“It is well for Christians and philanthropists
to consider whether, by their interference
with tiiis institution, they may not be check
ing and impeding a work which is manifest
ly providential.
“For nearly a hundred years the English
and American Churches having been striving
to civilize and christianize Western Africa,
and with what result ? Around Sierra Leone
and in the neighborhood of Cape Palmas, a
few natives have l>een made Christians, and
some natives have been partially civilized;
but what a small number in comparison with
the thou-sands, nay, I may say millions who
have been learned the way to Heaven, and
who have been made to know their Savior
through tiie means of African Slavery ! At
this very moment there are from three to four
millions of Africans, educating for earth and
for Heaven in the so vilified Southern States
educating in a thousand ways of which the
world knows nothing—educating in our nur
series. in our cliambers, in our parlous, in our
workshops, and in our fields, as well as in our
churches—learning the very best lessons for
a semi-barbarous people—lessons of self-con
trol, of obedience, of perseverance, of adapta
tion of means to ends; learning, above all,
where their weakness lies, and how they
may acquire strength for the battle of life.—
These considerations satisfy me with their
condition, and assure me that it is the best
condition they can, for the present, be made
to occupy.
“Asa race, they are steadily improving.—
So far from the institution being guilty of de
grading the negro, and keeping him in deg
radation, it has elevated him in the scale of
being much above his nature and race, and it
is continuing to do so. Place an imported
African (of whom a few still remain) side by
side with one of the third or fourth genera
tion, and the difference is so marked that
they look almost like distinct races—not on
ly in mind and knowledge but in physical
structure.
“That monkey face, the result of an exces
sively obtuse facial angle, has become, with
out any admixture of blood, almost as human
as that we are accustomed to see in the white
race, and it has a lacial angle, as distinctly a
right angle as that which belongs to the Cau
casian family. The thick lips have become
more thin —the dull eye is beaming with
cunning, if not with intelligence, the under
standing is more acute and ingenious, their
knowledge more respectable.
“A man has been made out of a barbarian,
an intelligent and useful laborer out of an ig
norant savage—a Christian and a child of
! God out of a heathen; and this is called de
grading the African race by holding them in
; slavery I Such false sentimentalism as thinks
it cruel that a child should be disciplined
: which looks so tenderly upon the means as
quite to overlook the end those means may
be working out. God’s ways are not discor
dant with the way of slavery. He who sees
everything in all its aspects, with whom a thou
sand years are as one day—in whose sight
the light afflictions of this life, which is but
; for a moment, are far outweighed by the glo
ry that is to follow—cares very little for the
present means through which His will is
working.
“What is it that man should be a slave if
through that means he may become a Chris
tian ? What is it that one, or even ten gen
erations, should be slaves, if through that ar
: in S’3 (putting them’ at the worst,) which the
inhumanity and self-interest, and the re
straints of law can inflict, for a few genera
tions , compared with the blessings which
may thus be wrought out for countless na
tions inhabiting a continent ? What is to be
the course and what the end of tiiis relation,
God only knows.
War willi England.
The following sensible article is from the
London Daily Telegraph:
“Those who are disposed to attach but lit
tle value to the preservation of peace with
the United States, should carefully exam
ine the Blue Book which has recently ap
peared. They will their find that the value
of the exports to foreign countries, in the
years 1851, of the products of the United
Kingdom was as follows:
To Russia £ 54,801
Swt'deu and Norway, 735 gog
Prusaia 798,434
Hanse Towns, 7,418,716
Holland, 4,573,434
Belgium, 1,406,932
Fra ce 8,196,290
Portugal, 1470,608
Spain,.... 1,270,464
Cuba and other Spanish Inlands, 1,088,150
E ?ypb 1,258,853
Buenos Ayres, 1,2(57,125
CMH, 1,421,655
China, (exclusive of Hongkong) 532,689
United States of America, £21,127,631
Total £61,277,054
Thus we are furnished with a result which
should always be prominent in the public
eye of every patriotic Briton, that the Uni
ted States consume £21,127,631 of the in
dustrial products of these isles, while the oth
er foreign countries designated take only
£30,159,500.
The declared value of the raw cotton im
ported into the United Kingdom in 1854
was £20,173,393. The declared value of the
cotton goods exported during the same year,
including cotton twist, was £31,745,851. —
No one is so ignorant as not to know where
and in what manner this cotton was pro
duced, upon which, after supplying ourselves
and our Colonies with the manufactures
proceeding from it, we are enabled to fur
nish the rest of the world with a surplus to
the amount of £11,570,464.
We arc happy to perceive that the Times
has ceased to rail against America since we
undertook to expose its absurdities. We
shall expect to see it, ere long, advocating
with ourselves the true British policy of an
entire abstinence from interference, directly
or indirectly, in the affairs of our trans-At
lantic kindred.
The Date of Tnt Treaty of Peace.—Singu
tar Coincidence. —A letter from Paris savs:
“The so much discussed treaty of peace is
signed at last, and signed on the anniversary
of a great event. On this day, forty-two
years ago, was fought the battle of Paris,
the last act of the great drama of which Europe
was the theatre ; and on the following day
the Russians entered the capital, and dicta
ted terms of peace where now their Ambas
sadors have come to ask for it. On the fol
lowing day, which many remember as cold,
sombre and cheerless, the allies entered
Paris. That Fiance is now able, in concert
with her allies to dictate peace to Russia, may
be considered as full satisfaction for the past,
and I am not quite sure that it was without
design that the 30th of March was selected
for the occasion.”
The Democratic convention of California
has appointed delegates to the Cincinnatti
convention in favor of Mr Buchanan
Written for the Georgia Citisen.
Indications ot tbe Age.
BT LAVRA EGGLESTON.
L
Truth’s mighty waves ascendant,
Are rolling on the strands :
And bearing pearls resplendent,
Above tbe brilliant sands 1
11.
Fair Charity is waking,
From sleep of ages, long:
And monkish fetters breaking,
With arms divine and strong t
111.
List! Error’s walls are tumbling,
And Dagon, headless , falls I
And altars old are crumbling
With Bigotry’s “black Halls,”
IV.
Christianity celestial.
Is shaking moral lines:
And from their old pedestals
Fall down the Moloch shrines I
V.
The rills of Love supernal,
Are gliding down the hill;
And Peace’s anthems vernal,
In melodies distill.
VI.
Hark! on the gales of morning,
The notes of Mercy ring :
Ten thousand spirits warning,
Os her auspicious spring !
VII.
*****
O! what a mighty shaking !
Along the land is heard:
’Tis Liberty awaking:
Her million wings are stirred.
VIII.
In Halls of Legislation,
The voice of Mercy rings:
A glorious indication
Os great and better things t
IX.
O’er mountain, plain, and valley,
May Freedom’s trumpet thrill:
And millions wake and rally,
To guard their “ charter ” still!
X.
Our nation ! 0! how glorious !
Blest by Jehovah’s hand !
Their forces, erst victorious,
Adorn the sea and land.
XI.
In amity cemented,
Long-may our people dwell:
By error not demented,
In anarchy’s black cell!
XII.
May Isral’s God befriend us,
In every righteous cause :
His Love and Peace attend us,
And guide us in Ilis Laws !
XIII.
Then shall our country flourish,
As Eden in her time :
And pure Religion nourish,
Our moral bands sublime.
The will of God be ever done ;
And hearts refulgent with Love’s sun !
For the Georgia Citisen.
The call for I*cacc.
Respectfully inscribed to the Military of Macon,
BY J. OIERLOW.
Happy, thou Georgia ! on whose fertile plains
In wanton pride luxurious Plenty reigns ;
Happy—while Heaven bestowed one blessing more,
And placed thee distant from rebellious power.
Let Tyrants from afar to slaughter train
Their hireling warriors on the embattled plain;
Let Volga’s sons in squadrons rise,
And pour in millions from thefrosen skies :
Bold Volunteers ! seek ye the peaceful streams;
And look with pity on the martial flames :
In your own laurels’ shade, brave RiFLKßSstay,
There charm the thoughts of conquered lands awaj-
Great Washington ! Scourge to his country’s foes !
Spoke, and his word gave half the world repose.
We safety boast, defended by his fame,
And armies—in the memory of his name 1
Then crest the Eagle with his victorblade;
War, be thou chained ! ye streams of blood be staved!
Though injured rights may your just vengeance feel,
Ye war to save, and where ye strike ye heal.
Macon, May 1, 1556.
From the Louisville Journal.
The 01*1 Man’s Dream.
BY JEANNIR.
The old man sits in his oaken chair,
By the ingle-side to-day,
With his wrinkled brow and his frame so weak,
And his palsied limbs and his sunken cheek,
And his locks so thin and gray.
And he seems to see in its changeful light.
The forms that the years in their rapid flight
Have borne to the death-repose.
There cometh the form of a maiden fair,
With laughing, mischievous eyes ;
He hath never beheld such another pair.
And the love-light soft that he geeth there
Seems borrowed from out the skies.
And she wreatheth a smile with her ruby lips,
Such as ne’er another hath done,
And she cometh again as she did of yore,
And bendeth low o’er his forehead hoar,
As she did in the days long gone.
And shetwineth her arms, with a loving embrace
Round his neck, as she presseth a kiss
With her glowing lips on his aged brow,
And the shrivelled old man Is young again now,
Living over rich seasons of bliss.
And then there comoth a tiny form,
And shareth his kind caress,
And his heart yearncth over the tiny one,
Asa father yearneth over h’s first-born son,
And prayeth kind Heaven to bless.
And it changcth again, and a prattling boy
Is nestled upon bis knee,
And other wee forms are around him now.
And pride sits enthroned on the old man’s brow,
As he lists to their childish glee.
The beautiful maiden, with laughing eyes,
Is the wife of his early years.
And the tiny one was his eldest child,
And that prattling group that his heart beguiled,
Are the babes of his prayers and tears.
Bat the Are burns low and dimness steals
O’er (he old man’s vision now,
And there cometh the shape of the bier and pail,
And his fondly loved wife and his children all
Arc shrouded beneath It now.
The flame dies out, and a stifled groan
Bursts forth from the old man’s heart,
The vision hath fled—he’s awake again,
A lonely old man, with anguish and pain,
Awaiting his call to depart.
Simsbury, Conn., 1555.
From Anne Shiptou’s “Whisper* In the palms.”
Words.
Oh, never say, a careless Word
Hath not the power to pain;
The shaft may ope some hidden wound,
That closes not again.
Weigh well those light-winged messengers;
God marked your heedless Word,
And with it, too, the fallen tear,
The heart-pang that it stirred.
IVord*! what are Words? A simple Word
Hath spells to call the tears
That long hath lain a sealed fount.
Unclosed through mournful years.
Back from the unseen sepulchre,
A Word hath summoned forth
A form—that hath its place no more
Among the things of Earth.
Words—heed them well; some whispered one
Hath yet a power to fling
A shadow on the brow ; the Soul
Iu agony to wring ;
A name—forbidden, or forgot,
That sometimes, unawares,
Murmurs upon our wakening lips,
And mingles in our prayers.
Oh, Words I—sweet Words I A blessing comes
Softly Jroni kindly lips;
Tender, endearing tones, that break
The Spirits drear eclipse.
Oh, are there not some cherished tones
In the deep heart enshrined,
Uttered but once—they passed—and left
A track of light behind ?
Words!--what are Words? Ah, knowest thou not
The household names of lore?
The thousand tender memories
That float their graves above ?
Long buried by the world’s cold tread,
Yet mid the crowd they rise,
And smile, as Angel-guests would smile,
When gentle, earnest eyes.
A It row a Study.
I sat me down in thought profound,
This maxim wise I drew:
It’s easier far to like a girl,
Than make a girl like you!
But after all I dou’t believo
My heart will break with woe;
If she’s inclined to love that “chap,”
Why, bless her, let her go I
Why, bless her, let her go !
The Hon. Henry D. Moore has been nom
inated as the Fillmore candidate for Mayor
of Philadelphia.
IIOYOR AMOIG BOYS.
If, as it is said, there is “honor among
thieves,” why should this noble quality be
lacking in so many little boys?’
‘Boys will be boys,” said one in reply to
a remark of mine on this subject This I
know, and do not desire to see ‘old heads
upon young shoulders.’ What I want is
to beg boys to be governed by honor, and
honesty, in their dealings with one anoth
er.
“Why don’t you lend your skates and
sled to the other boys when you are not
using them ?” I have asked, and been an
swered, “Because boys think nothing of
breaking one another’s things, and some
times consider it smart, and then laugh at
you for being so green as to lend them.”
‘But don’t they pay the damages?’
Now was my time to be laughed at for
the absurdity of my question. “Pay dama
ges never!” This grated harshly upon a
mother’s ear, and I'll tell you why. Because,
in the first place, I know how much a boy
thinks of his first sled, first skates, and fir t
pocket knife. Many rich men who live in
free-stone palaces in New York will confess
that they never had a greater prize than
their first sled, with its bright paint and
well-ironed runners, and that the posession
of skates gave them many sleepless hours of
delight. Now when boys know so well how
much they prize their things, is it not very
much like stealing, to carelessly injure anoth
er boy’s property and make no effort to re
pair the loss?
“But how can a boy pay, when he has got
no money ?” I hear one of my readers say,
perhaps impatiently.
He can go home and tell his father what
he has done, and beg him to give him the*
means of repairing his k>3s. If his father
sees fit to refuse his request, he can save his
pennies until he has enough money of his
own; or he can select from among his play
things something worth enough to pay for
the harm he has done, even if he has to give
away a very precious toy. If he is too poor
for this and has a little Yankee contrivance,
perhaps lie can mend the injured article, and
make it as good as new. If this cannot be
done, he can go to his play-mate, and say
he is very sorry lor the accident, and that
he is not able to repay the damages, and then
show his sorrow by improving the first
chance to do his injured friend a favor. H e
| will not have to wait long for an opportunity
to show kindness which is better than mon.
i ey.
This is as much a young boy’s duty as it
will be, when he is a few years older, and
accidentally injures a borrowed horse and
carriage, to repay the owner for his loss. A
boy who will break another’s knife, lose his
ball, drop his new book in the mud, or break
his sled and then laugh at his playmate’s
distress, or even refuse to pay him in some
way for his loss, will be very likely to make
a forger, defaulter, burglar, or perhaps some
thing worse.
A mean, unfeeling boy is a sad, hopeless
sight. Like a crooked, dwarfed young tree,
nothing grand or noble can be made out of
it.—Age will make it more ugly and des
pised.
It is too much the fashion among boys to
| scorn gentle loving manners, or leave their
; sisters to learn such ways, while they try to
be what they call men. A boy who wishes
j to be a true man , “the noblest work of God,”
must begin while he is young to be honest
i and honorable, and “do as he would be done
| by,” for lie will be the same person when
i lie grows up that he is now, only stronger.
! larger, in mind and hodv *nd
[ ‘-honor among boys." — X. Y. Independent.
Tiie Price of Oi.d Aldermen.—A good
: thing is going the rounds about one of our
j new Aldermen, which is related in this wise:
The Grand Jury summoned Alderman
1 before them for the purpose of asking him
j some questions. lie came before them, and
i the following conversation occurred :
“Alderman , has any one offered you
any money in the shape of a bribe, since your
| election ?”
“Yes, Sir.’’
“Who was it?” said one of the Grand ju
ry-
“Mr. ”
“And how much did he offer you?” in
quired one of the other jurors.
“Twenty-five dollars,” responded the Al
derman, with a curl of his lip.
“Did you take it? ’ said the foreman.
(Emphatically.) “No, Sir.”
Mr. . the briber, was sent for.
“Mr. did you offer Alderman
twenty-five dollars as a bribe for voting so
and so ?”
“Yes, Sir.”
“Did he take it ?”
“No, Sir.”
“Why didn’t he take it?” said one of the
jurors, much surprised.
“Well, he said that he couldn’t sell him
self for twenty five dollars, as that uas the
prtce of old Aldermen—the new ones range
higher l ‘ [Buffalo Republic.
A Child'* Answer.
A father once said playfully to his little
daughter, a child five years old:
‘Mary you are not good for anything.
‘Yes I am, dear father,’ replied she look
ing thoughtfully and tenderly into his face.
Why, what are you good for ? Pray tell
me, my dear.’
‘I am good to love you father,’ replied
she, at the same time throwing her tiny arms
around his neck, and giving him a kiss of
unutterable affection.
Blessed child! may your life ever bean
expression of that early felt instinct of love!
The highest good you or any other mortal
can possibly confer, is, to live in the full ex
ercise of your affection.
A BriefDisrour§e.
Text.— ‘There is a way that seemeth right
unto man, but the way thereof is, Ac.”—Prov
erbs,
We hope that it will not be deemed sacri
ligious to quote here, this sublime precau
tion from the oracles of divine truth, as a
text to discourse from in the manner that
follows, although in aid of subjects of a some
what secular nature, appertaining however
to morality.
It may seem right to a man to neglect
paying his debts for the sake of lending or
speculating upon his money, but the end
thereof, is—a bad paymaster.
It may seem right to a man to attempt to
live upon the fashion of the times, but the
end thereof, is—disgusting to all sensible
folks, and ruinous to health, reputation, and
propriety.
It may seem right to a man to keep bor
rowing from his neighbors, but the end
thereof, is—very cross neighbors.
It may seem right to a man to trouble
himself about his neighbor’s business; but
the end thereof, is—the neglect of his own.
It may seem right to a man to always be
trumpeting his own fame, but the end there
of, is—that his fame don’t extend very far.
It may seem right to man to indulge his
children in everything; but the end there
of, is—hi3 children will indulge in dishonor
ing him.
It may seem right in a man to be constant
ly slandering his neighbors, but the end there
of, is—that nobody will believe anything he
says.
It may seem right to a man to attempt to
please everybody; but the end thereof, is—
he pleases nobody.
It may seem right to a man to excel his
neighbors in luxury ; but the end thereof, is
—he only excels them in folly.
It may seem right to a man not to take
a newspaper; but the end thereof, is—that
a man has a vain idea of what is right, and
his family are totally ignorant of the ordina
ry occurrences of the day.
It may seem right to a man to worship a
creature more the Creator; but the end
thereof, is—an idolater.
It may seem right for a man to obtain his
news by borrowing of his neighbors; but
the end thereof, is—fraud upon the prin
ter.
It may seem right to a man to be inces
santly occupied in hoarding up treasures of
this world; but the end thereof, is—he has
none in the world to come.
It may seem right to us to further extend
this discourse at the expense of the reader;
but the end thereof, is—here.— Exchange.
The Lai-e Tail.
The following good story is told by The
Columbian and Great West:
Not many days since a gentleman who
had lost a bet with a lady and bad heard
her say that she had lost a lace vail which
she prized much, thought he would pay his
debt and do the polite thing by purchasing
anew vail of fine quality and present it to
his fair creditor.
It must be stated for a fair understanding
of what followed, that the gentleman was a
bachelor of long standing, and a man of lit
tle information touching the world of fancy
goods, though a proficient in sugar, cotton,
and provision speculations.
He accordingly stepped into a fashionable
milliner’s establishment, and asked to see a
lace vail of fine quality.
“Here is one, Monsieur,” said the amiable
priestess at the head of the temple.
“How much is it ?”
“It is only fiftee, Sair.”
“What! only fifty?” Dear me! I thought
these things were exceedingly dear. It
that’s all they cost I don’t wonder at the
ladies being fond of wearing such flimsy
knick-knacks. Only fifty! Dear me! Show
me something better.”
The priestess stared; the bachelor re
mained perfectly cool. Here was a custo
mer! A man who wanted something bet
ter, dearer. More vails, lace ones, were dis
played.
“Dis is only sixtee, sair, and dis one sev
enty-five.”
“Dear me, only seventy-five? Well that
is wonderful, tb_.be sure. It is a very pret
ty article, I see, but can’t you show me some
thing better?”
“No, sair; dis is de most dear—de plus
cher article in de eittee.”
“You don’t say so! Well, well, who
who would have thought it? These women,
these women I they always were a mystery,
ever since the daj sos Adam. Give me the
change for a dollar—in quarters?”
The milliner did so.
“I'll take this one,” said the simple-min-
I ded bachelor_.f<ildjf'.St, ,W alhf KFep tile sev
en *y-fi re for yourself. Dear me, how cheap!
Who would have thought it?”
“I see no seventy-five, sair. You have
no hand them to me,” said the milliner.
“I beg your pardon, ma'am,” said the
Bachelor, amiably and smilingly ; there they
are on the counter,” pointing to the three
quarters.
“Disl” exclaimed the milliner with an as- j
ton ished look.
“That,” said the bachelor, more smilingly .
than ever, preparing to put the vail in his j
pocket.
“Ah, de man sou crack-o-braiti! I tel*
you, Monsieur, dat article be de most dear
in the citee! You onderstan me—you no
onderstan de English ? De most dear. I tell
you—seventy-five dollar.”
*‘VVhat I said the bachelor, turning rath
er pale and dropping the vail as if it had sud
denly turned to a coal of fire in his hands,
“Seventy-five dollars!”
“Yes, sair, and very sheep at dat.”
“Seventy-five dollars for that cobweb? I
thought you meant seventy-five cents!”
If ever a bachelor walked fast, that one
did. He goes around in a stew of indigna
tion, relating his adventure, and winding up
his story with the words—
u\ es, Sir, the female French woman ac
tually asked me seventy-five dollars for the
short end of a cobweb.”
An inexperienced bachelor going into a
fancy milliner’s store is pretty much like an
innocent fly venturing into a spider’3 nest.”
Butter. —Not one pound in five of the
butter sold in the market is fit for human
food. Buttermakers should remember these
few shoi t rules:
The newer and sweeter the cream, the
sweeter and higher flavored w ill be the but
ter.
The air must be fresh and pure in the
room or cellar where the milk is set.
The cream should not remain on the milk
over thirty-six hours.
Keeep the cream in the pails, or stone
pots, into which put a spoonful of salt at the
beginning, then stir the cream lightly each
morning and evening; this will prevent it
from moulding or souring
Churn as often as once a week, and as
much oftenor as circumstances will permit-
Upon ohurning, add the cream upon all
the milk in the dairy.
Use nearly an ounce of salt to a pound of
butter.
Work the butter over twice, to free it
from the butter milk and brine, before lump
ing and packing.
Be sure that it is is entirely free from ev
ery particle of buttermilk, or coagulated milk,
and it will keep sweet as long as desired.
In Scotland, a syphon is sometimes used to
separate the milk from the cream, instead of
skimming the pans.
Knitting Machine. —One of the neatest
pieces of mechanism exhibited at the New
York Fair, is a knitting machine. It was the
only one in the fair, and attracted a great deal
of attention. It knits silk, linen, cotton or
woolen, equally well, and makes 1,400 stitches
per minute. One machine can easily knit 100
legs of half hose per day.— Exchange.
‘One of the neatest piece of mechanism,’ as
a knitting machine, we ever saw, had gentle,
blue eyes, and a most encouraging smile.
But that was some time ago, and we fear
that sort of kuitters are going out of fashion,
with the soft-toned little wheel and the old
loom in the garret, and the apron of check,
and the home-made woolen gown, and a
thousand things besides, that the world is not
a whit better for losing. — Chicago Journal.
A little child, seven years old, one day said
to her mother,
‘Mother, I have learned to be happy, and
I shall always be happy.’
‘My dear,’ said the mother, ‘how can this
be done ?’
She said, ‘lt is by not eareing anything
about myself, but trying to make everybody
else happy.’
Close Preaching. —Some time in the sum
mer of 1806, Bishop McKendree, then pre
siding elder of the district, was preaching
near Maysvilie, or Limestone, as it is usually
called, the landing place for the most of the
emigrants to the upper part of the state of
Kentucky. His subject naturally led him
to enlarge on extortion. It wa3 here that
the immigrants were frequently exposed to
impositions of various kinds from want of a
knowledge of the prices of different commo
dities; with his usual ingenuity he pressed
the subject very closely. “Yes,” said he, “it
frequently happens that some take the ad
vantage of the poor emigrant too, that has
removed to your fine country to become your
neighbor and fellow citizen; you sell him
your corn or other produce at a double price,
and for the corn, when it is only worth fifty
cents the bushel, you ask a dollar; ah! and
receive it too of the poor man who has to
grapple with misfortuues to support his fam
ily !” An aged gentleman sitting near the
door was discovered to become more and
more uneasy; his hoary locks gave him a
venerable cast, but the emotions of his mind
were such as to operate upon the muscular
features. As the subject was pressed, his
agitation increased ; he could stand it no long
er; but rising from his seat, thus addressed
the preacher, “If I did sell my corn for a
dollar a bushel, I gave them six months to
pay it in.” “Sit down, my friend,” calmly
replied the Bishop, “sit down sir, if you
please, we are discussing a subject and delin
eating a character; we are not in the habit
of making personal reflections!”
.Murder in (’rittenden Cos., Ark.
Great Excitement. —The Memphis Whig, of
Friday last, says:
On Tuesday last a mail by the name of Jenk
ins, who resided within four miles of Marion,
Crittenden county, Ark., was waylaid and shot
from his horse while riding within three hundred
yards of his residence. Two men, one by the
name of Garrett, who formerly resided in South
Memphis, and another by the Dame of Hendricks,
who did business in Marion, have been arrested
on suspicion. They were examined day before
yesterday before three magistrates, who com
mitted them to jail without bail. Circumstances
were very strong against Hendricks. Some
four or five days ago Jenkins told Hendricks
that he intended to prosecute him for stealing
his hogs, and putting his (Hendricks') brand up
on them. The next day Hendricks borrowed a
pistol, and took his gun with the avowed inten
tion of going hunting. That afternoon Jenkins
was found by the roadside, partly in the water,
pierced through with buckshot, and a bullet hole
through him. The pistol must have been placed
| directly against his body, as his clothes were
! on fire at the time he was found.
Several persons stationed themselves around
| Hendrick s house to arrest him when he came
! home. He did not come in until about mid-
I night, when as he entered the door someone
asked him what luck he had. He replied, “D —n
bad, I shot a turkey and lie fell in the water.”
He was immediately arrestol Yesterday morn
ing the excitemeut in Marion was intense. A
large 0 tvTwing theft
intention of hanging Hendricks. Crump replied
that the deputy had them. They applied to the
deputy witli no better success; and at the time
our informant left Marion yesterday evening,
the mob were supplying themselves with crow
bars, and the Sheriff expressed his opinion that
he could not prevent the mob from hanging him;
that nine men out of every ten be summoned to
liis assistance were in favor of the hanging, and
that he believed Hendricks would be hung before
nightfall, and that the mob in its fury might al
so sacrifice Garret.
Speculations ox the Presidency.- A Wash
ington letter to the Mobile Register says:
“Ueu. Pierce will go into the Ciucinnatti
Convention with delegates representing 140
electoral votes. Douglass and Buchanan
have about 50 each. This is exclusive of
New \ ork and Ohio, which may be set
down as doubtful. I think a majority of the
Ohio delegates will go for Douglass. If the
party in New York can settle their squabbles
so as to have a peaceable representation in
the Convention, the vote of the State will
most likely be cast for Mr. Buchanan. Take
the 34 votes of th at State, and 8 from Ohio,
(and it is said he will get at least that num
ber.) and add them to the other 50, we have
92. This makes the relative strength of the
three prominent candidates thus : Pierce
140; Buchanan 92; Douglass 64.
“This is about the way delegates will stand
at the meeting of the Cincinnatti Conven
tion. 198 votes will be required to secure a
nomination. Should the Douglass men go
to Pierce, they would swell his vote to 204,
and thus secure his nomination; should they
go to Buchanan, they would bring him up to
156.”
[From the Comic Times.]
Kew Curiosities or Literature.
Divers of our readers have taken offense
at the plain garb in which many of the En
glish proverbs have been so long attired. We,
therefore, dress them up in a light garment
of our own, suitable to eyes of fashion and
the fastidious refinement of all “in whose
mouth butter would not melt,” and who‘look
as though they could not say boo! to agoo.e,’
To begin at the beginning :
Feathered bipeds of similar plumage will
live gregariously 1
That which is engendered in the 00-eoua
portion of the frame will never be extracted
from its carnal covering!
Those the illumining apertures of whose
messages are vitrified, should never project
fragments of granite I
The capital of the Papal States was not
constructed in the diurnal revolution of the
globe.
An abrupt inclination of the bead is equiv
alent to the sudden closing of the eye to a
racer laboring under a cataract.
It is a sage infant that is intimately rc
quainted with hisown parental relative.
The Infernal being is not so sable as lim
ners have represented him.
No ablution will convert an African into
an Albino.
In the absence of the miniature tiger the
muscipnlar race will become festive.
Do not oalculate the number of your juven
ile poultry, before the process of incubation
be completed.
In what a prodigious candicular append
age our domestic Grimalkin rejoiceth.
Do not exclaim vociferously before you
have passed beyond the forest.
Let every person pursue the bent of his
ow n genius, as the elderly matron observed,
while saluting her vaccine favorite.
Too great a number of culinary aZ—
may impair the flavor of the cuj n ,
Royalty may be contemplated wt]l
punity even by a feline quadrup e ,j ‘ 5| ’
GEORGIA CITIZEN:
x- g- W. AKDBEWS. Ed ilt ,
MACON, GA. .'..MAtTJJ’
To Correspondent*.
tST' “Nelly Craig” and the “Broken n
on file for examination.
{ySeveral other favors received
which we shall be obliged to lay under th<? ° * i
for lack of merit and proper preparation f, *
Press. We wish our correspondents to
sending us “common-place” or “nambv •
effusions, that have neither mind, pid t ij/,, ,T
in them. We have no room for any thi De
will not rank ‘from fair to middling ’
cotton men have it, except our own !
Sabbatli School Festival
Annual Celebration of the Sabbath ScLc
this city, will take place this day. The dp,.
Schools will meet and form their
Academy Square, at 8 o’clock, and p r
the Methodist Church, where the Ann-;/
dress will be delivered by Professor Stan!. •
the usual speeches by the Pupils. At th- ■’
of the exercises at the Church, the sft
Schools will repair to the places selected, J.-
purpose of partaking of refreshments.
The Parade.— On Thursday U*
Floyd Rifles, Capt Hardeman, ceHm t(l u
Anniversary of their corps, by Parade, T
Shoe ting and Dinner, to which last the M
Volunteers were invited guests. After tr
practice in the morning the Rifles were jo
by their military guest; and proceeded to ti*
ner saloon, where the balance of the dav x
spent in a very pleasant manner. We jp,.
see these tokens of good feeling between otr •
izen soldiery, and hope no other rivalry ..
er exist between the two gallant companies
that generous emulation to excel in the r„ l ,
of arms, which is at once their pride and •„
duty. Our citizens generally appreciate the %
fies” and the “Volunteers” as they dt*rr,
They are our dearest home institutions —tliebr*
of our people in time of need, and the adna
tion of all for their chivalrous deportrutt.
gallant bearing. May their banners ever u-
The prise. a silver goblet, for the best Tap
shooting of the Rifles was won by Corpora;
Riley.
FooilNll Hail —Thomas Sorrels, ■
fined in Bibb County Jail, on charge ofnE*
an old negro man, near this city, a few w*.
ago, has made two or three vain attempt tor- ji
lease himself from durance vile. Week Its? 2
last, he tied up one of hi3 legs with cord., a 1
cut himself with a piece of broken bottle-; |
order, as is supposed, that on the alarm
raised and the cell being opened for the m
to see the man who had committed suicide • I
•
might, in the confusion, make his escape,
searching his cell, subsequently, another p, t .|
of broken bottle and another cord were fca -
secreted, and it had leaked out that he nuc
again to try the same experiment on Wether,
night last, with the like intent! Os course
had no notion of committing suicide—but out 1
to make believe. And now that his plans r.
known to our vigilant Jailor, he might as v-, |
give over his efforts to escape. He can t qua j
come it.
An Old Fatly burnt to Dcatb-
We ltarn that an old lady of the name of Hi
vey, who lived with her sous near Culk:
Monroe Cos, Ga., was found by them on hi
return from the field, one day last week, bum
to death ! Her pipe was picked up in the y
ftn.l .♦ to oiiht.l .I—* L,,r , -1, ,♦ l,,fijl
a spark therefrom, and that she gained the W
before she fell and perished. She was
of age!
Dead. —Mr. John I. Ridgway, of the
of Ridgway, King A Sorsby, died in Columl.e
24Ui ult. The deceased was extensively ko
aud highly esteemed.
Americans Moving— Tholast fc:
(Ga.) Courier contains a call tor a conveiitk.il
the Americans of Floyd, Cos. on the 3d oat
June, for the purpose of electing Delegate:
I State Convention of the American Paity prop,
j ed to be held in July next at Millcdgevilk .:
the absence of a call for such a State Convent,
by the Executive Committee, we are requestu
to suggest the 2ud Wednesday of July as
tune for the meeting of said convention and UK j
all the Counties in the State follow the eitu;.-
of Floyd, and meet in county convention out i
first Tuesday in June or any other couveoia
day, to elect Delegates thereto.
That “Tulip Grove ”—Weareiaj
that our “fhoetiousness ” on the subject of Ma ’
Donelson s nomenclature, has so disturbed tk* j
equanimity of the learned Pundits of the Savi..
nah Republican, as to induce that print to t
minister a rebuke for our ignorance ol Ameria:
Botany. We “stand corrected,” having bee
green enough to take the common acecptatia
the word “Tulip,” instead of the technical.
we are not satisfied that the Republican's lea*
**# will be of any } pertinency, unless it can M
shown that the Major's tulips are yellow pp*-”
and nothing shorter, and that he knew that tie
latter were classed by Botanists as Amenm
Tulips when he selected the title. If the latter fc
true, we will own upas to the ‘incongruities t:
the question, but will have to fall back uponfUK
ther position — that of miserable affectation inst
on the part of the owner of “Tulip-Grove.” h
short, if the Major’s Tulips are indeed
poplars , why, in the name of simplicity, did 1*
not call his plaoo yellow popular Grooe. at 01
aud be done with it? He should not thu? **
the world into error on a point so impottau’ ’
Our “distress ’ will, we fear, not be “relief
until our friends of the “Republican” will wa
a professional visit to the Mecca of their pol®*
idolatry up in Tennessee, and give us a cone
botanical classification of the aforesaid Tuif
But badinage, aside, why should the Republic*:
assume the position of Censor-General of the f
country press? We fear, we will have to hand ye 3 j
over to the tender mercies of the Griffin Union,
if you do not abate a little your ze;d as whip
per-in of your brethren. In such a case, we ctf
promise you that it will be no bed of roses
will fell into, but one that partakes more ofif
pungent nature of the Burr !
Judge O. 11. Kenan not Dead-
The Dalton papers announce that it w* s *
gentleman by the name of John Keenan
recently departed this life at that place rl
not Judge O. H. Kenan as reported in all t"--”
papers. The latter was well enough to vh-t
Dalton on the 23d ult.
Mercer University.— At am
the Board of Trustees held in Savannah on Tll
- 24th, the Rev, 11. 11. Tucker, of Kichro^ 1
Va., was chosen Professor of Belles Letters ij
the above Institution, vice Prof. Ilillyer, rest
ed. R, 13. Ililton, Esq. of that city, was ele> Uu
a member of the Board of Trusty's, to supph ’*’•
vacancy occasioned by the death of Rev.
cent Thornton,
Central America.— Gen. Y*ak>
has met the Costa Ricans and won a gloria 3
victory. On the 11th ult with 500 troep 3
he engaged and con quered 2000 of the enemy,
with a loss of 600 of the Costa Ricans * D
30 killed ami as many wounded on his
Things are getting interesting in that qu* 1 *
ter.