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■\V*Vfc 1 > •’EW VOIIK CAN
“icon ‘ * be t the Maaufac-
fWfifj.
For the Georgia Citizen.
To ni.v Sister Dear.
O’er rny spirit gently stealing,
Mem’ries fraught with saddened feeling,
Come like dUtant music stealing
On the quiet summer air;
And the voices of our childhood
Call me to the sunny Wildwood,
M here again as then beguiled would
My sad soul be freed from care.
Gentle Sister ! I’ve been dreaming
Os the light of joys once gleaming
Ail around our home, and seeming
Earth to make a paradise;
Then in happiness united,
Love, each transient grief requited—
Can we more be thus delighted
’Till tre meet above the skies ?
A\ liispers no, a voice a calling
From the shadow deeper falling,
That our hearth-stone dark is palling
With its silent settled gloom ;
Yet we’ve calmed our griefs first madness,
And amidst our songs of sadness,
Learned to look with tears of gladness
Where immortal flowerets bloom.
For we know that o’er the sleeping
Watch, celestial bands are keeping
And above that lie is reaping
Joys that live forevermore.
When our weary steps we’ve wended
To the bourne where sorrow’s ended,
Then again our spirits blended
■Will be parted evermore.
’Till the rapture of that meeting,
’Till are o’er life’s moments fleeting,
And has ceased the warm heart’s beating
Let us cheer our darksome way;
And our souls in sweet communion,
Bound in golden iiuks of union ;
Calmly wait for that reunion
Lingering on to endless day.
When life’s summer day is dying,
And its lingering echoes sighing,
C.er the .raves'of past joys lying
In the dust of sad decay;
Still with holy faith unshaken,
May thy spirit’s lute-chords waken,
Though from earth’s loved objects taken,
One unceasing joyful lay.
In my heart are feelings gushing,
Like o’er earth the sunlight rushing,
When the morn with beauty Hustling
Leave the gloomy caveaof night.
Home ! ye loved ones! distance never
My fond soul from thee shall sever ;
Bnt around thee hovering ever
Spirit free ’twill wing its flight.
RUTH.
SmutUmf;
[For the Citizen.]
licavcH from my Diary.
BY J. GIERLOAV.
ITow is it, asked a friend who was a great
admirer of Jean Paul, and who could often
’ live for days on a mental poly m a thy by that ,
1 author— how is it. t}iat a Bible-test is capa
ble of affecting cue iu an entirely different
manner from that of the most beautiful and
forcible words of Jean Paul, as if the pow
er of the Bible belonged to an entirely dif
ferent sphere from anything else of great
ness and de-pta ?
I no longer remember, what I answered
him. But this question has once more
arisen within me; for wherever I read in
the New Testament, I always feel the dif
ference. In all those lofty thoughts and
portrayals there may’ more a deep philoso
phy, an infinitely glorious mqi.] apq peart; ,
but in the words of Scripture there moves
a Holy God ;—they directly proceed from
the holy centre of an infinite world of spir
its, and meet the soul in its innermost depth.
They do not teach, remind or enlighten, as
regards this or that, but as regards the 0N(
thing necessary’. This one thing is in the
midst of them, and proceeds directly from
them. At the least of thes* words the
soul feels as if immediately summoned be- 1
fore the throne of the Eternal, whose inex
haustible love harmonizes with an all pene-
I trating justice. Even where this pr that is
mentioned —the eating oi the meat offer
ing, courtship and marriage—we are imme
j diately led back to the centre. In the for
■ mer, there is deep idea, philosophy and
j poesy; but in these -words moves the spirit
jof God. Those proceed lVoni genius <.nd
| profound meditation; but these are spoken
j as by one who has authority ;—they are
i not spoken as by one, who will sutler us to
! contemplate this or that; but as by one,
1 who is determined \o haye ourselves, our
j whole soul and being, in his power.
For the Georgia Citizen.
Tlie invisli Period ol Oevelop
ment.
by j. gikrlow.
The Jews v. ere wqdcr the Persian Satraps
in Syria, whose government was in nq wise ,
oppressive; the actual rule beingm the hands
of the Chief Priest, The popstjßition wlneh J
was theocratic became hierarchial, “ !, u a
council of seventy (72) members, which was
called Syhedrium (Sanhedrim). Moses bad
seventy co-workers;* Jeliosaphat instituted
i a superior court at Jerusalem,** analogous
! with which a college sprang up, which at a
later period old aim'd grpat power ip thc*af
j fop-g 0 f Judea. It was during this period of
j development, that a great change took place
j in the people’s judgment, culture and exter
nal life. The Jews began to be a mercantile
I people, being particularly favored by the sit
j nation of Palestine; wherefore a constitution,
! which was based on an agrarian condition,
| was the less suited to their present de\ e< p
| ment. A multitude of traditional additions
and plausible interpretations were now to
smooth the misalliance between the then ex
isting development and the strictly though
little observed lawgiving, which during this
| contest continually appeared more and more
antiquated. Great events took place on the j
! stage of the world, in which the Jews became
I involved, and which became of the greatest
! importance for the promotion o( the king
dom of God. The Persian monarchy fell ,
! before the conquests of Alexander the Great; !
j the East and the West began to unite; anew
(Greek or Ilolehic) life was developed; the
Greek language was spread over the whole
known world, and thus an alliance was form
ed between the mo:-* different nations, which
were more and more brought into contact
with each other. But by means of these ;
conquests much that was excellent from the
old world died away; party-spirit and selfish- i
: ness, Asiatic luxury, the neglect of tlie old |
faith, and vice, began to undermine the pil- !
la is at public and private life; the results o!
science assumed the character of learned eel- j
lections, while they’ had formerly boon the ‘
, immediate productions of e/enins. Every
thing made it manifest, that the age of child- !
hood and youth of the human race was at
an end: the most beautiful regions of the
globe were flooded with streams of human
blood, shed by the party-spirit. The follow
ing will show tlie influence of tlie new-de
veloping world-life upon the Jews.
hen Alexander the Great, after the vic
tory’ over Darius Codomannus, turned his
arms against Tyre and besieged it with ex
traordinary’ exertions, he sent his generals in
to Palestine, in order to demand a surrender
and aid. The Samaritan governor Sanballat
joined him with troops, for which the Samar- j
itans were to be with a permission
to build a temple of their own on mount |
Gerizzim, in which Sanballat’s son-in-law
Manasseh high priest. Jaddua, the ‘
high priest at Jerusalem,.on the contrary,
would not violate the oath of alligiance he
1 had sworn to D.trius; wherefore Alexander,
after the taking of Tyre, marched against
Jerusalem, (332. B. C.) But tlie high priest, i
together with, a k.ng procession of priests, in
their full canonicals, went forth to meet him ;
and this sight, which harmonized with a
dream he had at an earlier period, so wrought
upon the feeling of Alexander, that lie for
gave the city, entered if. and offered in the
temple. The high priest showed him Dan
iel's prediction respecting himself (the Greek
prince, that was to destroy’ the Persian
throne,) and the conqueror gave several pri- .
vileges to the people. He, and still more his
successors, peopled the lately constructed
city of Alexandria with a great number ot
Jews, who lived there qqder peculiar favors
and loaned from this tune forth Tin. central
POINT OF A GbEEK-JjEWI*H CULTURE AND LITE
RATURE. which extended over all North Afri
ca, Asia Minor an 1 Greece, the fruit of which
; constitutes the Apoehrvplial books of the
(H<l Testament.
•Nam. \l., 16. *?U Chron. X(X., 8-
i Glut it Going suit! Couhln’l
Stop.
A little box’, named Frank, was standing
in the yard, xvhen his father called him:
“Frank!”
“Sir?” said Frank, and started full speed
and ran into the 3[rejH.
His fauna - called him back, and asked him
if he did not hear his first call.
“Yea, sir,” said Frank.
“Well, then,” said his father, “xvliat made i
you run into tlie street ?”
“0,” said Frank, “I got a going and couldn’t
Tins is ttie xvay that a great many boys
get into difficulty: they get a going and
can't stop. The boy that tells lies began
first to stretch the truth a little—to tell a
large story, or relate an anecdote .with a
very little vaiyitfop, tjl iic gyt a going and
couldn't stop till fee came out a full groxvn
liar.
The boy that xvas brought before the po
lice and sent to the House of Correction for
stealing, began by taking little things from ‘
his mother—by stealing sxveet meats and
Oilier nice tilings time were put away. Next j
he began to take things tfom his companions ;
at school. He got a going, amt could not
stop till he got in jail.
I These txvo boys that you see fighting out
on the green, began by bantering each other
in fun. U length they hpgan to angry
and dispute, and call cadi Other names, till
they got a going and couldn’t stop. They
xvill separate with black eyes and bloody
I noses.
There is a young man sitting late with his
oompampas at the gaining table. He has ;
flushed checks, ao anxious look, a despairing ;
countenance. lie has lost his last dollar,
lie began by playing marbles in the street,
but lie got a going and couldn’t stop.
See that young man, with a dark lantern,
stealing from his master’s drawer. He is a
merchant’s clerk. Ife came from the country a
promising boy. But the rest of the clerks
went to the theatre, and bethought he must j
too. Tt e bpgar, thinking fie Vouid only
cm once, just to say that he had been to the
theatre. But he got a going and couldn’t
stop. lie cannot resist the temptation, when j
he knows there is money in the drawer. He
has got a going— he will stop in the State
Prison.
Hark! dp yqu flear that hqi'rid qath t It
comes from the foul mouth oi a lit tie qoy in
the street. lie began by saying by-words, ;
but he has got a going and can’t stop.
Fifty young men were some years ago in
the habit of meeting together in a room at a j
public house to enjoy themselves in social ,
hilarity, where the wine-cup passed freely
around. One of them, as he was going theie ;
one evening, began to think there might be |
danger in the way. lie halted and con
sidered a moment, and then said to himself,
‘•Right about, face!” He turned on liis heel
and went back to his room, aud was never to
I h e S een at the public house again. He has
become rich, and tip; first block of buildings
which he erected was built directly in front
of the place where lie stood when lie made
that exclamation. Six of tlie young men
I followed his example. The remaining forty
ihcMAgot a going and couldn’t stop till they
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macow, ctA. &xyjsn&M isse.
wi ■ Hi .iu
f landed in the ditch and most of them in the
; drunkard’s grave.
. Beware then, boys, how you get a going.
Be sure before you start that you are in the
right xvay, for when you are sliding down
hill, it is hard to stop.
The Resurrection Flower.
In its account of the recent‘Spring Exhi
-1 bition of the Brooklyn Horticultural Society’,
the New fork Tribune says:
e must notice one very remarkable
curiosity, known as the Resurrection Ploxver.
This flower, or rather plant, resembles in its
normal state a dried poppy-head, with the
stem attached. Upon being immersed a mo
ment or txx’o in a glass of xx’atcr, and set up
right in the neck of a small vial, in a fexv
moments the upper petals began to burst 1
open gradually, yet visibly to the ey’e; they I
continued to expand until, throxvlng them
selves back in equidistant order, there was
presented a beautifully radiated starry’ floxx’er 1
somewhat resembling both the passion flow
er and the sun floxver, and y’ct more Splendid
than either. The unfolding still continued
until the petal bent backward ox’er what !
might be termed the base of the floxver, pre- 1
seating in bold relief in its centre its rosette
of the most exquisite form and ornamenta- ;
tion, and thus assuming a nexv charm, en
tirely eclipsing what, a moment before, seem- ,
ed its absolute perfection. After remaining 1
open an hour or more, the moisture gradual
ly dissipates itself, and the fibres of the flow- i
er contract as gradually as they’ expanded, ‘
and it re-a&nuntos its original appearance,
ready to tie unfolded again by’ the same sim
ple process—the number of times seeming
to he limited by the will of tlie possessor.
Dr. Beck, who brought this specimen from
Upper Egypt, suggests (hit the floxver i a
native of the Holy Lar.d, aiyl is a type or
variety of die long lost Rose of Jericho, call
ed also the “Rose of Sharon,” and the “Star
i of Bethlehem,” and highly venerated lor its .
| rarity and peculiar properties by tlie pilgrims
and Crusaders; and eagerly sought after by
them as a priceless emblem of their zeal and
pilgrimage., aqd xytsrn on their escutcheons 1
in a snmtai’ manner as the scollop-shell and
palm-branch. This idea is strengthened by
! the fact that resemblances of the flower, both
openi A and closed, are sculptured upon tombs
of two of tlie Crusaders buried in tlie Tem
ple Church of London, - and also in the Ca
thedrals of Bayeuxai jd Rouen in Normandy,
where some ot the most illustrious Crusaders
are interred. Its botanical position is diffi
cult to assign; as it presents some peculiari
ties of the highest ami lowest classes. The j
opinion most sanctioned is, that the floxver is
pericarp, or seed-vessel of the plant, that it
grows in desert or samlv places, and mils, in
due cpurj*v wj existence, frpm the parent
i stem. Retaining its seed in an arid soil and
atmosphere, it is fig months anti years wafted
about by the xx inds, and from lack of mois
ture keeping closed. Eventually its fall up
on some damp spot, near some xx'ell or oasis,
| when its opens, deposits its seedj, and thus,
I by a must exquisite, adaptation of means to
an ei;d, egliib;fed m this beautiful phenome
; nop of nature, the work of reproduction is
\ commenced and concluded.
OEM AGORIIIS
• A writer in the ifenwie(cy Cfomgmnxvealth
daguerrco.types the. the. “-demagogue' 1 so well
that xve transfer t))e picture to gup columns.
Every community has just such characters, i
| and xve need not travel far to find an original
i of the sketch here drawn:
“Who can fix bounds to the operations of
the base, pom lel demagogue ? His party is
his God that he sex', e,s, and the success of that
| party is equivalent to hfe oxvn personal profit
j and honor. To accomplish his base purpose,
the elevation of self, he comes among us cloth- j
■ ed with sophistry and impudence, modified,
i as occasion requires by mock modesty, lpa
noeuvvijig. tu eqe euiei*and opinions oi
his fellow-men.
Ilis party is right in every thing—never ,
wrong in any thing. Tlie party he opposes
is never right in anything—tilways wioiig in
everything
He m impudently officious. He becomes
the orator of his party without being selected.
On all occasions he Is on hand, and the brass
in his face is as conspicuous as his design for
notoriety. lie seems to say by every word, ‘
look, and action, “see how we apples swim “ !
He is s IJlycl;/ yi'Mpviif). Invited or unin
vited, his selfishness never permits him to be
’or remain a silent listener. The party would
go down if he failed to instruct the people. —
i And if the party were to djq, I,is hopes w ould
be buried; fr.r he is oonsoious of hi* lack of
qualification and merit. So the party must
be kept alike in order that upon its bosom he
! may float into office.
lie is a traveling patriot and dear lover of the
people. At every court, public sale, house
raising, or log-rolling the political demagogue ‘
is present, lie always has business in every
corner of his county. By a combination of
circumstances, he is either not obliged to. or ,
will not plow, make rails, work in the black
: smith shop, build houses, bake cakes, or make
brooms, any of which nature designed him to |
) do. TTe is a man of a mind of more compre
hensive conceptions and his operations must
correspond with the greatness of his inteDec- ,
tual ability? He must go out tq enlighten i
1 the people. He loves the dear people too \
well to let them remain in darkness, while his
political sun is at noon-tide ready, and he ;
willing, to dispense the blessings of knowledge (
and political salvation to the benighted and
ignorant voters of his country, liis de*r
countrymen may have been following after I
1 “Sain;” may have been deluded by that per
sonage; may have thought that native born
Americans could rule the eountry as well as
the foreign lush and Datui, and irt tine way
may have strayed away from the Democratic !
fold’ and his mission is, he feels it so, to go
and hunt up and teach the xx’uiulerers know
ledge and truth.
The demagogue is a political tyrant , and op
poses the freedom of thinking and voting as
! 01u “ pleases. The membersof his party must
think as lie does; they must not x’ote for
themselves unless they vote as ho directs
them. If they think and x’ote contrary to
his notion, they are denounced as unfriendly’
to their country, and very dishonest men.
!35arfe S&cimblicaa Sermon.
The following sermon was recently deliver
ed by one of tlie brethren at a Black Repnb
; lican meeting in lowa :
‘•My Breethering! We are told somewhere
|— I needn’t be particular where—that the
psalmist of old could play on a harp of a
Mow-sand strings, ah—but, my breethering,
in these days o{ getting tfoxvn stairs from
grace, a Sainist ain t expected to do more
than spread himself on a sing- le string, ah.
Therefore, my breethering, all, let us give !
ourselves no uneasiness about the nine hun
| dred and ninety-nine that xve oan't handle, j
all, but l*f us unite in ‘playing upon a harp
°1 a single string, spirits of xvliite men made
black, ah.’
“My Breethering! As xve came stringing ’
I a,on 3’ ‘ n(o Convention, like pack-mules
J crossing the Isthmus, I thought to myself
that each one of us might have a string of bis
i oxvq to pull, and that may be many of us
: might have several strings in his boxvs, all,
T hope I hurt no man’s feelings by this dis
! course, ah. My motto alxvays is to tell the
truth and shame the devil, ah—institution of
sin and wickedness xvho is always roaming
about like a roringlion seeking xvhere lie
can kill somebody, ah. But, my breethering,
now that politics and religion have got so
mixed up that you can’t tell one from the
other, 1 think it would lie good for us to let
go all holds, except one, and go our Billy
best upon a harp of a single string, spirits of
wdiite men made black, ah f
“My Breethering! There is a great many
kinds of smugs in this world, ah. First,
there is the latch string lning out, and tlie !
latch striftg pulled in, ah. Then, there is the
fiddle string, (and a ifery wicked string it is,
mv breethering,) and the bag string, and tlie
pudding string, xvhtoh monte pious souls con
sider the proof of tlie pudding, ah ! And
then there is string beans, and that audacious 1
varmint, .Stringfellow, all—but, my breeUier
ing, to turn to tlie discourse, let me impress
upon you the popularity of ‘playing upon a
harp of a single string, spirits of white flfen
made black, all!’
“’ \y Hremhermg! I suppose you all have j
heartt of a religious society called the Know
Nothings, ah, Well, my breethering, al
though I say it xvho shouldn't, I’ve always
been one of ’em—but, my hearers, I now
feel to beliex’e that that string xvon’t do to tie
to, ah—for it is liable so bj'eak in t\yo in the
middle Sjiyl k l u* fetl several ways tor Sun- i
day, ah. No, my breethering, though Sam, j
at the outset) gave promise of immortality
an 1 salvation, yet in these latter days this
‘sou of the sires,’ lie is seen to stray off, ah,
far beyond the travels of the produraj aOit,
and if xve don’t loph gat, tiie tatted calf xvill
glow to he bullock before he comes back
again, ah, Therefore, my breethering, let us
take to our human bosoms the sxvoet-seent
ed form of Sambo, that dark colored emblem
of equality, ah—and let us ‘play upon a harp
of a single string, spirits of xvliite men n iatfe
black, all,’ •
“M ; iiiveihemig! We shouhTut be ashamed
or afraid to oxvn our color, ah. It is a very
xvif'kod thing indeed to turn up the human
snout at the works of natur, ah. Who cares
for the color in a dog fight? A rose by any
; other name xvould smell as sweet, ah
then, if xve do fool (W ferexguers? What, if
i,.L (bi kiss the mgger babies, ah ? The Egyp
tian mummies, xvho have been mummied
these thousand years, are none the xvorse or
, the wiser noxv for anything they did xvhife jn
the flesh, all. Tt w ill yu tqe tjatue with us,
my brecthoripg, in tRe lapse (J a few ccptu
turfes, all. When Gabriel shall blow his
trumpet, ah —xvh<’U the moon shall turn to
blood, alt — xvhen the sky shall be rolled back |
as a scroll, and all natur shall be done up in a
rag, alt, then the kissing of a few innocent
little niggers, and the ru’ipi„g. an ay ol a fexv
bq v j K ones, xvill come back as a sxveet smell
ing savor, and give us a lick forward towards
Jordan, ah.
“My Breethering! There is another airing
which wy. have fth been pulling at for 10,
these many years, ah, but which, in the lan
guage of one of our great guns, we must now
let slide,’ ah—l mean, my breethering, that
] lions piece of tow twist called Temperance.
Liquor, my breethering. has color as well a
twang, ah. We can't run niggers through on
the under ground railroad, unless we also say
to liquor, ‘let it run,’ air. ‘Spirits of white
men made black—Spirits of liquor made free’
—them must be our sentiments, ah. We
can’t oppose the laws of government and aid
the insurrection in Kansas, unless we set the
example at home of spitting upon our Maine
Liquor Law. We must he consistent, ah.—
I confess that I have been a great Temper
ance man, and that I have been pulling the
Temperance string for In, these many years,
| ah, going around like a thief in the night and j
; prying into the affairs of my neighbors, and
every now then jerking them up with a
| round turn for violating the whisky laws, ah .
, —but my breethering, I have tbuinl that the
business don't pay, ah, and tor the balance
of my days I’m going to play on a harp of a
I single string, niggerism triumphant forever,
’ ah r
Pantaloons and Petticoats.—A Y°WiS’
woman has been working in the factory of
whip company, at Westfield,
during tlie last six months, attired in male
clothes. She pretended to be a nice young
mau o( 1,. smoked large Havanas made at
reeding lld Is, was a successful beau among
the young ladies, and acted her part as a
modern gentleman very xvell to all outside
appearances.
Mr. Adolphus J. Orr, in a commoni
: cation in the Southern Euterprize’ at Thom
asxille, Ga. May 30th, in reply to many en
quiring friends in different portions of the
State, says:
“Thomas county is on (lie line of Florida,
and in fifty miles of the G ulf of Mexico. The
1 population are as robust and healthy as that
ot \\ ilkes or Oglethorpe counties. .Reliable
men from upper Georgia, who have lived
here lor many years say the country is healthy,
and 1 see nothing in appearances to contra
; diet it. The country is elevated and bro-
Keu, much moresothau it is sixty or a bund
ed miles North ol this , and indeed as much
so cu s even an upper Georgian would desire.
In consequence o( this it is comparatively free
irom ponds, aad well supplied with good wa
ter; and whed I sa y good water, I mean just
what I say, for the water here is as cool and
pleasant as that of Wilkes or Jackson coun
ties, of Cherokee Georgia.
The heat of the climate is modified by the
• breeze from the Gulf, by winch the tempera
ture is rendered delightful. The nights are
almost uniformly so cool and pleasant as to
make a covering necessary to comfort, and 1
am told this is the case at all seasons, lour
ing the intense heat of the summer of 1854, I
am told, the mercury rarely went above nine
ty-six here, whilst it will he remembered that j
ill upper Georgia it went above one hundred.
Considering their intrinsic value or price in
other places lands are cheap here. The 14th ,
District is the best in Thomas county and the
best pine land in it, well improved and un- I
improved, can be bought from five to twelve
dollars per acre. 11 lias a deep, rich soil, lies
well, is clear of rocks, and en>y to cultivate,
ft is said to produce one thousand pounds of
cotton, or from twenty to thirty bushels of j
corn per acre, allowing two hundred and fif
ty pounds of sugar or thirty-live gallons of t
syrup for a barrel. The corn raised here
is of a good quality, weighing abt-mt sixty
pounds to the bushel. Oats, peas, sweet and
Irish potatoes and all kinds of vegetables do
finely here. This is a good stock country, and
I believe the people have no diiiieiiliy-.ui**ttv
ing baconenough of their own raising, to an- ,
swer their purposes. Indeed, last winter it
saved as well here as I ever ww it anywhere,
Wi; have as good society as that of Middle j
or upper Georgia. Thomasville is a beautiful j
and healthy town, with an enterprising, intel
ligent and upright population, and affords ed- |
ucational facilities suipassed by few places in ;
the State. The place is rapidly improving.
Our crops at this time look promising. Our
corn is heginUiug tassel, and our cotton
has good tonus on if. Give us good and con- j
Youicot markets, and I believe this is the best
portion of the State. And from every incli
! cation, we are soon to have railroad commu
nication with the Atlantic, as the Brunswick
company have recently contracted. for grading
and cross ties to witJyTt sixty miles of Thomas
ville.. In ttic ta-*t two years land has gone up
here about fifty per cent, and still the price
advances, and must advance one hundred per
cent, more, before it will be as high, intrinsic
value considered, as the lands of Cherokee 1
Georgia now are.
There's music enough in these three words
for the burden of a song. There’s hone
wrapped up in them, an articulate beat of
the human heart.
I>y-and-by. We heard it as long ago as
we can remember, when we madg brief but
perilous journeys I'roni.cßaiv o table, and from !
table *u 4iau’ again.
Wo heard it the other day when two par
ted that had been “loving in their lives,’’ one
to California and the other to her lonely
home.
Everybody says it somehow or other.—
The little hoy whiaflCfS it when he dreams ,
of exchanging the little stubbed hoots for
those like a man,
The man murmurs it, when in life’s middle
watch, lie sees his plan half-finished, and his
hopes yet in the hud, waving in the cold,
late Spriug.
The old man may say it, when he thinks of
the mortal for the immortal, tG-day for to- *
j morrow.
Tha weary watch for the morning, and :
while away the dark with “by-and-by.”
Sometimes it sounds like a song; some
times there is a sigh or a sob in it. What
wouldn’t the world give to find it In alman
acs, set down somewhere, no matter in the
dead of December, to know that it would
surely come! But fairy ike cs it is, flitting
like a starbeam over the dewy shadow or
years, nobod}’ can spare it, an i we look up
on the many times these words have be
guiled us, the memory of the silver “by-and
by,” as like the sunrise of Ossian, “pleasant
j and mournful to the soul.”
Tiik Force of Beautv.—The force of beau
ty is universal and the homage as general,
but it is not always that one hears in the
street as pretty a compliment as we did the
other day. Walking along one of the streets
up town, an ordinary looking pian arrested
the progress of a very beautiful young ma
tron, with a young child in her arms, by the
exclamation—“A word with you madame,
; if you please!” She atopped, aud turning op
posite to him said, ‘ what do you wish, sir.”
| “Nothing, rnadame, only to see if the baby
is as beautiful as the mother!” We thought
for a moment that she seemed a little vexed,
, but her countenance soften quickly, and
smiling, she kissed the infar.tnestling in her
arms, and passed on.—A r . Y. News.
“Divil a lie did you ever catch coming out
of my mouth. Katharine,” said an Irishtnau
to his better half.
! “You may aisy say that,” retorted Kate,
! ‘for they come out so fast that Satlian him
self could not catch ’em!”
Rose C ulture.
Four things are absolutely essential in high
rose culture—a rich and deep soil, judicious
pruning, freedom from insects, and water
ing xvhen requisite. If these be
xvrong, the success xvill be in proportion in
! complete. Soil is the first consideration;’
what is termed a sand foam, they all de
light in ; the soil should be adapted rather
to the stock than the scion, or kind worked
1 on it. The common or dog rose stock, thrives
best on loamy soil; in half-shaded situations
near water, without manure; cultix’ated roses
require the latter, because they have more
1 hard work to do ; their amount of blossom,
if xveight alone be allowed as a test, would
in most cases, double and trebly exceed that
of the dog rose—added to which they have
less foliage.
Boses, on their own rooots, require that
the soil be modified according to kind; we
should not use so adhesive a soil to a Tea or
Bourbon rose as to ordinary kinds; organic
matter is here required. Depth of soil is of
great importance to all kinds; it is the deep
er series of fibres, situated in a proper medi
um, that sustains a good succession of flow
ers, in defiance of heat or drouth.
Judicious pruning reduces the rampant
growths, and increases the energies of those
which are of a more delicate constitution—
relieves from superfluous shoots and useless
wood, and reduces the whole outline to a
compact -or consistent form. Insect rava
; ges must be guarded against—tobacco water
or water from a harrow-engine is only ob
jectionable from the time required. If yon
have not provided deep culture, watering, in
dry times, will be requisite; hut this should
be done thoroughly rather than frequently,
and the surface soil should he frequently
stirred without injuring the roots. Liquid |
i manure—say two ounces of guano to a gal
lon of water— should be given once a week.
With this treatment every one may have
tine roses.— Ilortindturiit.
Antiquity ol’ tlie 1. O. O. F.
We find the followingTn an old English
paper, from a speech delivered by Mr. Coop
i er, at a meeting of the Order, of Greenock,
Scotland. Mr. Cooper said:
j “The origin of the Order of Odd_ Fellows
is of very great antiquity. It was established
by the Roman soldiers in the camp during
the reign of Nero, in the year 55. At that
time they were “Fellow Citizens.” The
presen tuame was given them by Titus Caesar \
in the year 7‘J, from the singularity of their j
meeting and of their knowing each other by
night or day, and by their country. And he !
not only gave them the name of Odd Fel
lows, hut at the same time, a6 a pledge ol |
i friendship, presented them with a dispensa
tion, engraven on a plate of gold, bearing I
different emblems, such as thesun, moon and i
! stars, the lamb, the lion and the dove, and i
i other emblems of mortality.
The first account of the Order being spread I
in other countries is in the fifth century, 1
when it was established in the Spanish dom
inion and in thesixth century by King He
n, ry in l’ortugal, and in the eleventh century
it was established in France and afterwards
by John De Neville, in Fngland, attended
by five Knights from France who formed a
Loyal Grand Lodge of Honor in London,
which Order remained until the twelfth cen
tury, when a part of them began to form
themselves into a union, and a portion ol
them remain up to this day—the Lodges,
which are now very numerous throughout
the world and call themselves the Loyal An
cient Odd Fellows, being a portion of the
original bodv,
The Manchester Union is ofa more recent
t date, although tin re is no doubt of its emanat
ing from the same source. Its lirst introduc
-1 tion into Manchester was about the year
1800, by a few individuals from the Union
in London, who formed themselves into a
Lodge, and continued in connection with
them for some time when some difference
caused them >a declare themselves independ
ent aud thus have kept their work independ
ent.”
Supporting tlic> t.*spel.
A Keokuk corespondent sends us a story
of the Rev. Julius Ciesar, a colored preachei
ol Missouri, which ho thinks goes to show
that some of the sable brethren are quite a?
, cute as any of the Hard Shells of whom we
have heard so much of late.
(Ansar had made an appointment to
preach about twenty miles from lus master's
plantation, and there ho made his apjieaianee
with lib saddle-hags on his arm, and gave
oui at once that lie had come to preach the
Gospel to the niggers thereabouts.
I “Yah! yah!” responded a hundred voices;
but none of tlic negro'& more bold but not
worst than the rest, sung out: “Well, now.
looka here, nigger, if you jis brung a pack
j o cards wid you, you mout dun surnfiu, but
preach in is a little too slow for dis eongreg.’.-
tion.”
Carsar remonstrated with them, as they aJ!
seemed to tall in with the old fellow’s ideas:
but they told him to go home, and “de uex
time he come to bring de eai\ls.” Ctusar
started off with his saddle-bags on his arm
. but halted, opened them, and turning about
as he said, “It data what you must have,
why, you must!” and pulling out a greasy
pack sat down on the grass.
“Dat’s de talk; 0 de laud, jis look ! dat
Uiggar got some little senses left arter all:
| sensibul to de last!” they efied out one after
another. Hie preacher commenced opora
; bons, and after some five or six hours’ play
’ ing bad skinned everything around, cleaning
them out of alt the loose silver they had
picked up in many a day; C;esar shaved the
documents into the bags, and starting ofl
again, told them by way of a parting bene
diction, that whenever they had a little
more money k> support the Gospel in that
| way, just to let him know.— Harper s Mvuja
zine.
i Ford T**UoiHy idea of gratitude
u rich, liiat tehow, said he, speaking of a
neighbor lie had often befriended, without
being thanked, ‘is like a hog under a tree
eating acorns, whieffneyer thinks of looking
i up to see where they come from.’
nro. IS.
Rifle-Religion.
Christianity inculcates peace and good will
to all men. Such being the fact, it is pass
ing strange that men who undertake to ex
pouml the word of God, and who are pro
tected by the sacred desk from interruption
1 or rejoinder, should openly advocate the use
of hostile weapons, and call upon their hear
ers to subscribe money for the purchase of
rifles and revolvers. Yet so it is. Clergy
; men of the stamp of Henry Ward Beecher
are now urging their congregations to pur-
I Giasc arms for the use of fanaticism, and are
thus indirectly committing acts and rapine
and rebellion. To the praise of humanity be
it said, it is necessary to travel hack to the
days of Simon de Montford and Oliver Crom
well, before we find Christianity thus carica
tured and disgraced.
But one opinion can he passed upon the
preachers of this rifle-religion by all right-*
judging citizens, and that is unqualified coir**
deinnation. It is hut the development on a
higher scale, of the same sans cnllotte. and
bloody theories advocated by S. S. Foster,
Parker Pillsbmy, and such other known and
noted madmen. We have heard of the time
when the former gentleman announced, in
aui anti-slavery meeting at Worcester, that
! he intended to buckle on Ins sword, come
down upon Boston, and do mischief general
i ly. He did come to the city, but his sword
did not, and curiosity looked in vain for the
modern Alexander, who with one blow of
his stalwart arm was to cut the Gordian knot
j of tin* fugitive slave excitement, which act
, was to be the prelude, not of the conquest
I of Asia, but the emancipation of Africa.
Lilt now the teachings of anti-slavery
platforms find their way to the pulpit. Chris
tianity is to he measured, not by the good
acts that a man my do, but by the number
of Sharp's rifles that he will purchase. In
stead of sending bundles of tracts and Bibles
to tlie dwellers on our Western frontiers, we
arc told that we should forward to them
boxes of revolvers. Instead of communica
ting messages of peace to our distant coun
trymen, we are instructed that the feelings
ot our heart should find expression in a libe
ral supply of powder and bullets. Such are
the heathenish and cruel doctrines inculcated
at this day in many Northern pulpits, aud
they come from men who profess to interpret
truthfully the commandments of the Most
High. No wonder that churches are poorly
attended when such errors an- promulgated,
and no wonder, also, that religion itself should
thus receive a fatal injury from the conduct
and counsels of its teachers.
The clergyman has his place, anil there he
is respected and honored. It is is for him to
speak of things spiritual, not temporal, and
when he forgets the sanctity of the pulpit,
aud imitates tlie lancor of the forum, his gen
eral influence is then impaired and his sacred
mission insulted. In the political arena he
has no place. Let him, in the retiracy of hi*
study, entertain what opinions he may on
the political questions of the day. On each
recurring election let him exercise the citi
zen’s noblest privilege— tlie right of franchise
and vote for those candidates whom his judg
ment considers most worthy to hold office.
But there he must stop. His political princi
ples, predilections and prejudices should never
find voice in the pulpit, for there it is his only
duty to interpret rightly and calmly GodA
messages to man.
Least of all should the preacher inculcate
doctrines which the Bible universally con
demns. He who is appointed to speak of
peace should not breathe accents of blood
shed. But there are those, we regret to say,
who think otherwise. A recent instance at
Hew Haven, and examples, of which each
lay’s news brings us accounts, prove >,<,*•
some clergymen interpret their duty. It is
disgraceful to the American pulpit that such
things should he, anil if these men persevere
in their frenzied career, society will soon fear
fully realize that they do Hot “preach peace,
hut a sword.”
Tho plea of self-defense on which the rifle
religionist defends his conduct, is perfectly
untenable. It is the purcha.se of Sharp’s ri
des in the Fust that creates danger in the
West Every rifle bought in Massachusetts
necessitates the purchase of a revolver in
Missouri. Like begets like—arms beget arms
and it the Northerner as he moves west
ward equips himself like a pirate, he must
not be surprised il his Southern countryman
is aimed like an Arab. In this way a collis
ion, instead of being avoided, is provoked,
and if a civil war ensues we must thank those
clergymen who in their teachings imitate
the papal examples of Paul IV. or Sextus V
But true-hearted Americans do not believe
in tlie infallibility of the Church, particularly
when errors are patent. They will not be
misled by fanaticism, even when it talks from
die pulpit: and only silly men ami simpering
women will lie effected by the rifle religion
of a Beecher or a Parker—men who smell
as strongly of gunpowder as Captain Kvd or
Guy Faux. —Boston IhiUi/ Mail
ui cotash, says Mr. Beecheer “is a liquid
compromise between corn and beans. It is
ner ect when its flavor is that of'corn lapsing
nto bean, and of bean just changing into
corn. li} short it is a dish whose flavor ret~
resents the evanishing of both beans ami
join, towards a mystic vegetable union in
‘Orne happier sphere. But to be perfect
there should always be a hierophantic bit of
pork, presiding over the nuptials, and giv
ing its unctuous blessing.”
Axciext Toilet Articles Fonqt— \ hSv'
dressing box has been lately dug up n \ Cum*,
f aly con a.mng a mirror, Two fibul*
of gold, elegantly worked in filagree, a gold
nng a box or ooue, m which Vermillion for
painting the cheeks was kej>t, two hair pins
1 oon( 'i a comb, and -several other articles of
uncertain use— all showing that the ancient
Kornnn woman was essentially like the wo
man of to-day.