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iJ-Uisuilmuj.
I Wad Knott Dye in Wintnr.
BT AUTHOR OF “THOUTS OS A FADID BOKA.” j
I wild knott dye in wintnr.
When whiske punehez flo—
When pooty gals are skating,
O'er feel* of ice & sno—
When sassige meet iz phrying,
& Hickrie knots is thick !
Owe! who could think of dighing.
Or even getting sick ?
I wud not dye in spring tiem,
& miss the turnip greens,
k the pooty song ov little trawgs,
A: the ski larks arly screeui;
When bird* begin their wobbling,
<k taters gin to sprout—
When turkies go it gobbling,
1 wud not then peg out.
I wud not dye in suuimur,
& leve the gard’n sass—
The rosted lam and butter milk—
The kool place in the grass ;
1 wud not dye in sunuuur
When everythings so hott,
And leve the whiski Jew lips—
Owe no! I’d ruther knott.
I wud not dye in ortum,
With peeehes fitt for eaten.
When tiie wnvy korn is getting ripe
& kandidates are treaten,
For these and other wreasons,
I'de knott dye in the pliail;
<fc sense I've thort it over,
I wud knott dye at all!
For the Georgia Citizen.
Niagara
BY V. C. TAYLOR.
Though the wonders of this spot are ever the
theme of poetic discant andartistic delineation,
yet, like the nnrevealtd splendors of the over
arching heavens, they are ‘-ever telling, yet
never understood.” To give the reader a faint
outline of a few of the prominent features of the
river and fall, it may be stated, that, three miles
above the falls, the river presents the appear
ance of a miniature lake ; it being nearly three
miles in width, with an average depth of twen
ty feet, and running at the rate of tive miles per
hour. In descending, the surface is smooth
and unrutUed until within a short distance of
the head of Goat Island, when, suddenly the
mighty torrent begins to stagger, leap and rush
trout precipice to precipice, passing in this man
ner over the uneven declivity forming the Rap
ids, (making a descent of lifiy three leet in
about a quarter of a mile on the American side.)
it then becomes concentrated at the Falls to a
breadth of about a third of a mile —estimating
the two branches of the river as one when it
takes the fearful plunge of a huudred and silty
four leet perpendicular into the fathomless vor
texJ(ou the Canada side) below. The Ameri
can Fall, were it not eclipsed by the surpassing
splendor and majesty of the Canadian, would of
itself be a spectacle sufficient to challenge the
unbounded admiration of mankind. But, by
the side of its august rival, it is no more than
simply beautiful. Tho one, exhtlerates the feel
ings. the other subdues and saddens them. —
One is a gorgeous display of creative beauty,
the other an awful symbol of Almighty power.
In this latter regard, we have seen at the break
ing up of winter, immense fields of ice descend
the Rapids and disclose for an instant upon the
deep green of the great Cataract their huge di
mensions, (often single cakes of perhaps thirty
feet in Surface by three in thickness.) causing
one to feel that their descent like falling moun
tains would shake the surrounding earth : bub
m more than a feather upon that vast torrent,
would their fall ever send hick upon the ear
the faintest sound. Engulpbed by the boiling
children below, their reappearance (below the
American fall) would be only in insignificant
pieces, perhaps of the size of a hand. The roar
of the Falls upon their banks, is lea* than oue
would expect; while at a distance ot five miles
with a favorable wind—the noise is often like
heavy thunder. Perhaps nothing serves better
to reveal the diversity of individual character
than a first view of Niagara. A superficial
mind thinks it “prettywhile the person with
large contemplative and reflective powers be
holds in it [the concentration cf all that is oon
ceivably beautiful and sublime. 5V e have rare
ly seen a more striking exhibition ol the mystic
powers of enchantment caused by viewing this
scene, than when once beholding a child stand
ing upon the brink of the rapids and gazing up
on its foaming surface; the call of friends (near
by) was powerless to arrest its attention, and
not until folded in the arms of a father and
borne from the spot was the spell broken.
The ceaseless clouds of spray ever ascending
heavenward renders the Cedar Arbors of Goat
Island in the most swelling heat of summer a
nwat gratefsl retreat. At night, too, from the
piazzas of the Cataract House, the visitor at
once listens to the bewitching strains of dulcet
music by the band within the gay assembly
r °om, mingling with the deep diapason of the
ru *hing torrent beneath his feet. In respect to
proximity to the water, the Cataract House is
‘katinguiahed from all others at the Falla; from
tha windowa of the Assembly Room when fk
ored by a Moon, Jthe night view of the Rap-
‘Js forms one of the moet romantic scenes wit
nessed at the Falls. The reflected rays of the
! lunar orb dance upon the ruffl-d surface of the
passing stream with a fantastic witching that
appears like myriads of diamonds floating upon
a fees of moltcu stiver.
For the past two seasons, visitors at Niagara
have studied to couple social enjoyment to a far
greater degree lhai. formerly, with the natural
allurements of the place. Tne first movement
in this direction was 0/ certain distinguished
families from New Orleans, Philadelphia and
others, who, for a number of years past have
bean the guests of the Cataract House, and who
have inaugurated a state of tilings which con
tributes greatly to relieve the feeling of loneli
ness and Isolation which has hitherto been the
experience of individuals or parlies in visitiug
the Falls. Promenading, dancing and other
modes of social entertainment by which guests
have the facilities for extending their acquaiu
anee, is rapidly bringing Niagara into repute as
. place of convivial distinction, second not ev n
to its physical notoriety as one of the wonders
of the world.
Fom the Nashville Putrriof
Poetry, uud-so-tortli.
A moon struck young gentleman over
here in Rutherfoni is dishing up love
verses to his sweetheart through the col
ums of the Murfresboro’ News. He
writes himself doera “A Stranger,” and
we should say he is a stranger, eminent
ly so—not to the maiden upon whom he
I so unmercifully bestows his poetry, but
to the muses who have so unmercifully
refused to bestow their poetry upon him.
W e don’t mean to say that ‘A Stranger’
is not a poet, nor that a poet is uot a
stranger —but we take it forgranted that
the intelligent reader sees through it.
In the first place, “A Stranger” wants
to make his sweetheart a present of some
sort, but does not know what to oti'er :
“I do not kuow what offering,
To lay upon thy shriue,
And yet meihinks thy heart would ask
The warmest love of mine.”
No, stranger, you are mistaken there.
You’ve missed it the very first pas?. —
That young lady probably doesn’t care
a continental for jour warmest love, nor
lbr your coolest love either. If you’ve
g<*tas much as a hundred dollars about
your clothes, buy her a diamond hoop ;
or if you are scarce of funds, try her with
a set of patent expansions ; that might
do. Your love is no doubt a well got
ten up thing, but she might consider such
trinkets neither useful nor ornamental,
and )ou would get nothing but your
labor for your pains.
“Were I to bring the brighte.-t gem,
E'er fouud in earthly miue,
Howe’er so brigfit, it were not lit,
To deck a brow ot thine.”
Well, who ihe deuce said it would be?
We don’t suppose she did ; we know wt
didn’t. Never mind ‘decking her brow ;’
that’s none of your business. Besides, a
much less costly gem than “the brightest
e’er found in earthly mine” would, in all
probability, considerably over-size your
pile. If you can afford to deck her
ei with a ten dollar ring, and she w ill
consent to the </er&oration, you ought to
be satisfied.
“I cannot twine a wreath of flowers,
To bind upon thy brow,
For oh ! the laurel wreath of fame
Is circling round it now.”
Oh, you be hanged. Jut let us tell
you one thing, stranger : the young lady
who would’nt tear away “a laurel wreath
of fame” for the sake of a bridal wreath
of orange flowers, w hen asked to do so
by the right sort of a man, died many
years before you were born. If you are
right certain the young lady is after you
and you know you’ve got a dead sure
thing of it, never mind the laurel ; if
you can replace it with the orange, it
won't be missed m uch then—though we
suspect it very much mist now, and is all
in your eye at that.
‘•But I choose for thee three jewels bright
As Virtue, Jr ire and Truth-.
For these nietbinks are fitting gems
To deck the brow of youth.”
Come now ; that game won't win.—
Its played out long ago. If you really
intend to give the young lady a token of
your affection, do it at once, and don’t be
whipping the devil round the stump in
that way. It’s our opinion that you are
trying to back out altogether. The jew
els you are kind enough to mention and
beg her to accept, are rather fine in their
way, but they are hers already—they are
her family jewels—and you are worse
than a burglar when you rob her casket
with one hand and attempt to make her
receive the stolen goods with the other.
For shame ! if you are “strapped, ’
“cleaned out,” “dead broke”—in a word,
if you have “nary red,” say so like a
man ; or if you are too stingy to buy
your sweetheart something nice, which
we are inclined to think is the case, you
are unworthy to Rit up with her, and
ought to back out and quit.
‘And lady when all I can wish,
For thee on earth is given.
Oh ! then I pray that we mav’st be
As angels bright in heaven.”
You can wish a good many things,
stranger; you are liberal enough in that
way ; but if you wish anything for her
that coats money, and she has to wait till
she gets it before she becomes an angel
in heaven, what the thunder will be
come of her in the mean time when this
world wears out? When you shall have
answered that question you can stand
’ aside.
YYritten for the Banner of Light.
MAN AND HIS RELATIONS.
BY S. B. BRITTAN.
CIRCULATION OF THE ANIMAL FLUIDS.
Physiology as explained in the class books
and taught in the schools, furnis es no sei
ent sic philosophy of the Vital Functions.—
YY hile the anatomist maps out the osseous,
fibrous, nervous and circulatory systems, and
exhibits their organic relations and mutual
dependencies, the physiologist contributes
his descriptive and technical disquisitions on
their respective functions, all of which—with
the current knowledge of vital chemistry—
i3 insufficient to satisfy the reasonable de
mands of the fearless and philosophical in
quirer. If the writer may not hope to dis
sipate the darkness that obscures the way to
this temple of mystery, he will at least ven
ture to diverge from the beaten track.
It is ascertained that a well-developed hu
man body contains about 28 pounds of blood,
which, by a most perfect hydraulic process,
is conveyed from the heart to the extremi
ties at the rate of about three thousand gal
lons in twenty-four hours; while, in every
month of our lives, not much less than one
hundred thousand cubic feet of atmospheiic
air—passing through the six hundred mil
lions of air cells in the lungs—are required
to fan the vital fires. The force necessary
to produce the organic action and to carry
on the circulation in such a body has been
variously estimated at from fifteen to fifty
tons. The attempts to eject fluids into the
channels of the circulation—either in the
living or the life'ess subject—with other im
perfect experiments of the Faculty, scarcely
enables us to form anything like an accurate
judgment on a question of this nature. —
That an immense power is required to raise
all the valves and to loree the blood to the
minute and remote terminations of the capil
laries must be obvious to the truly scientific
observer. If, however, we adapt as our
standard the mimimum number, and esti
mate the vital force at fifteen tons, we shall
still be startled and half-inclined to disp.ute
the credibility of our own conclusions.
The first suggestion is, that the human
frame is too /rail to resist or endure the ac
tion of such an internal force. But it is an
accredited fact in science that every square
inch of the external surface of the body
sustains a column of air forty-five miles high,
the weight of which is ascertained to be
fourteen pounds. Thus it appeals that the
whole body supports the enormous weight
of more than 30,000 pounds! The hypo
thetical reason why this does not cause an
instantaneous collapse, at once extinguishing
the life of the body, is b cause the inside
pressure is the same. But that there is, in
reality, any such corresponding internal at
mospheric resistance can not be fairly inter
red from an examination of the facts and
principles involved. The outward pressure
may, however, be counterba'anced, at least
in part, by the electro-vital power within.—
When the body is thus acted on by opposite
forces in equilibria we are insensible of their
presence. Moreover, this amazing force of
fifteen tons, moving within the vital pie-
ciucts, is so equally distributed, and applied
with such precision to the different parts of
the organization, that we are quite uncon
scious of its exercise. We even rest quiet
ly with an electric engine of not less than
one horse power at work between our ribs;
at the same time a chemical laboratory —in
some sense as extensive as Nature—is all the
while in full operation within, and yet we
are only disturbed wheu from some cause
the work is partially suspended. Those sue- ‘
tion and forcing pumps—that drive the vital
fluids through innumerable channels in the
mother’s breast —at the rate of some 15,000
hogsheads per annum—all operate so noise
lessly that the little child sleeps peacefully
on her bosom while the vital tide flows close
by its ear. The tenant of the house has also
a telegraphic apparatus that connects him
with every department of the external
world, and an inherent active j ower that
destroys and rebuilds his whole establishment
once in seven years—and all of these com
plicated forces and functions are organically
combined and exercised in a space two feet
by six!
A power so vast and functions so delicate,
complicated and wonderful, must be referred
to adequate causes; and here our physiolo
gy is at a fault. The teachers of the science
leave the beautiful temple of the soul in
daikness. Viewed in its external aspects,
and from the position occupied by accredi
i ted science, the light on the altar is nothing
more than the combustion of carbonaceous
matter, while there is no divinity at the in
ner shrine. Science has faith in the reality
of so much of human nature as can be seen
and handled, dissected, weighed and put in
a crucible. Beyond this it is laithless, and
many of its professed friends resort to vari
ous shifs and quibbles to conceal their igno
rance.
The Blind Spy—A Tale of the
Spasmodic Age.
BY SYLVESTER ANACHRONISM, JR.
Night upon the battle field !
In a tent guarded by five Zouaves sat
aiound a mo-aic table General Washing
ton, Mahomnaed and Julius Caesar. They
were commanders of the allied forces at
the siege of Jerusalem. It was evident
from the appearance of the table, that
they had been playing faro and drinking
lager beer.
“Hist 1” suddenly exclaimed General
Washington, pointing his fingers to his
lips.
“Aha !” quoth Mahommed, spitting
out a volume of the Koran, bearing the
imprint of Harper Brothers.
“Hum !” spoke Julius Ctesar, placing
his finger to his nose ala Florence Hotel.
A Zouave at this juncture put his head
in the tent and said, “The murderer of
Dr. Burdell is discovered.”
MACON, GA., FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1859.
I ‘‘Then order the garrison to tirms!”
cried Gen. Washington, “and let the
Milwaukee Light Guard hold Pike’s
Peak until the Horace Greelv Cavalry
charge the Caucasians in the rear.”
“Don’t you think, General, that if the
Minnie battering ram, such as I used
with Nelson at Trafalgar, were ordered
Up, it would be better,” said Julius Ca 1
sat.
“Bring in Flora Temple, and 1 myself
will ride to the scene of action,” ex
claimed Mahommed. “Bring me a Colt's
revolver and 1 will good.”
“Ilist!” said another Z nave, puttii g
iii his head, “it is not the murderer o!
Dr. Burdell, it is the Blind Spy who ap
proaches.”
The allied Generals fell to the ground
in a fit, which was only relieved by
the entrance of the Blind Spy ! Taking
from his pocket a bottle of Hair Dye, he
sprinkled it and said, “My master, So
crates, bids you surrender, or he will
send you all to the Mammoth Cave as
prisoners of war, each toting a barrel of
lager beer.”
To be continued, ad in finitum, ad nau
seum, in the New York Ledger.
Giving the Sack in Earnest,
A green, awkward girl, the daughter of
wealthy pureuts in Arkansas, having come
during the past year to , in Massa
chusetts, to be educated, a young dentist,
named Brown, conceived a notion that his
shortest road to fortune would be to marry
her. But, then, she was the laughing stock
of the seminary, because so guant, masculine
and ungenteel in her dress,and Brown felt that
it would require all his nerve to stand the
iidicule of several young lady pupils with
whom he had flirted until he was satisfied
that they had no money nor expectations of
any. However, lie consoled himself with
the reflection that doubtless he should speed
ily obtain influence enough over the girl to
enable him to become, in a measure, her ad
viser in the matter ot costume, manner, etc.
The foremost thought was to amend her
ong, lank form by the aid of crinoline,
which she had never worn, and his flattery
had no sooner secured him a confidential
place in her good graces, before he ventured
to make her a present of a patent skirt or
sack, together with a hint to fix up pretty
handsomely for a ball, to which he had invi
ted her. The night arrived, the party were
assembled, and the Arkansas damsel made
her grand entree from the ladies dressing
room amid a tittler of laughter from the school
girls and village belles. The hoop sack was
shockingly out of shape, projecting in front
like the Spouting Horn at Nahant; but that
was nothing to the expose it made of her
somewhat incongruous black hose, the fas
cinations ot which were materially augmen
ted by the yellow roseties on her white
satin slippers (men’s size) encasing her deli
cate feet. To com | lete Brown's horror, her
flaxen hair and freckled face were “set off”
with a profusion ot green and yellow bow
knots, ot f .nnidable s ze, intend'd to do ex
edition as beau catchers. Madder than
sixty, the disappointed dentist went through
the fi.st danc-e with her, taking little or no
pains to conceal his disgust, and then hurried
away to the whist room to escap ■ the .ar
east c compliments and ridicule of his o'd
‘flames. The unlortunate partner, who wa*
clear grit, was deeply incensed when inform
ed of her abandonment, and some of tin
sympathizers advised her to ‘give him th.-
sack,’ that is, di.-miss him at once. *1 ‘ll b>
dodrotted et I don’t do it ‘lore the hull
crowd !’ she replied, in a boiling pas-ion, and
making straight lor the dressing room, fol
lowed by a bevy of laughing girls, soon
emeiged again with the hoop-sack in her
hands, and threw it at Brown’s feet. ‘Thar,
you mean good-for-nothin’ snaker-out of old
snags ! Take yer old sack, and wear it your
self! and es ever I ketch ye speakin’ to me
again, I’ll lick ye within an inch o’ yer life ;
you'd better believe it!’ Roars of laughter
iollowed this spirited conduct, and tooth
puller was fain to make his escape. The
next day he left the village, and has not re
turned to it. The Arkansas girl became a
pet, and finally made a very respectable ap
pearance in society.
Newspaper Publishing.
The veteran editor of the Chronicle it-
Sentinel j after an experience of a quarter of
a century, gives it as his opinion that the
newspaper business, if long followed, will
give any one a poor opinion of the common
honesty of mankind.
We have tried the business more than the
eighth of a century, and regret to say that
our estimate of the aggregate honesty of
mankind has been considerably lowered.—
There is a great deal of latent, undeveloped
rascality in the race, and if a man has any
of it in his composition he is sure to exhibit
when his newspaper subscription becomes
due. Within the twelve or fifteen years we
have been engaged in the business, we have
lost enough money through the rascality of
our customers to make a man of moderate
desires rich! Many of those who owe us
these small amounts, from $5 to SSO, are
rolling in wealth and could pay any day in
the year if they desired to do so. Many
others belong to the migratory tribe, who
are here to-day, and in Texas or California
to-morrow. Others belong to a class quite
numerous, who write to editors to send
them papers and they will pay when they
gather their cotton or do something else, but
pay-day never comes; and, finally, after
sending the paper four or five years, it is as
certained that they never were worth a
snap! Another class of losses grows out of
the negligence of post-masters. A subscri
ber, after taking a paper six months or a
year, leaves the couutry without giving the
editor notice, and after four or five years
have elapsed he happens to meet with the
post-master who most magnanimooriy m
lorins him that his subscriber has gone to
“parts unknown” and if he wishes to get
any pay for his paper he had better stop if!
Or, alter suffering the paper to come two or
three years, he writes to ihe editor that for
the second or third time he will inform him
that the paper is not taken out, &c.
These losses, and various others we might
refer to, absorb the profits of the business to
I such an extent as greatly to discourage those
engaged in it.
Although we have had our full share of
non-paying subscribers, and have been worse
swindled than any other publisher we know
of, we take much pleasure ro saying that we
have on our books the names of many gen
tlemen whose punctuality through a long
series of years—always paying in advance—
entitles them to be rated as the “salt of the
earth. ’ 0, for an increase of the number !
Occasionally someone long in arrears,
moved by a tardy sense ot justice, pays his
long-stan ling indebtedness. YVe regret that
these cases aie so r ue.
We ar * no w wailing b see lu\v many
will do In lae we publish our black list.
YVe would not willingly place any man’s
name on that list, but just, so sure as we
live all who neglect or roluse to pay up shall
be exposed. Tlie time i? now rapidly draw--
ing to a close.
Tin* I*opc ami tlie Com juror.
A recent, number of the Athenaeum
in reviewing a French memoir of a pro
fessor of the art of sleight of hand, gives
ihe following curious illustration of the
dexterity of the operator, and of the
bewilderment of the beguiled spectators.
Torrini was the artist’s name, or at least
the name by which he was professionally
known ; and the scene (which is describ
ed by Torrini) took place in the Vaticant
before the Pope, Pins \ 11, and conclave,
“After having selected from my re
pertory the best of my tricks, I put my
brains on the rack so imagine a some
thing which, belonging to the moment,
should present an interest worthy of so
illustrious an audience. The evening
before that on which my show was to
take place, I happened to be in the shop
of one of the first watchmakers in the city,
when a servant came into to enquire
whether the watch of his Excellency the
Cardinal was mended. It will
not be done before evening,’ said the
watchmaker, ‘and I shall have the honor
of bringing it to your master myself.’
* * * * Tis a handsome and ex
cellent watch,’ said the tradesman to
me; ‘the Cardinal values it at more than
ten thousand francs, because having or
dered it himself from the illustrious Bre
guet, he fancies it unique of its kind.—
Yet, what an odd thing ! two days ago a
mad young fcllo et of this town of ours
came to offer me, fora thou-and francs,
a watch by the same maker, exactly like
the cardinal’s.
“ ‘Do you think,’ ‘that this person has
really any intention of parting with his
watch V
“ ‘Sure,’ was the answ r er. ‘This young
spend l hritt who has already made away
with his patrimony, has now come down
to selling his family trinkets. II would
be very glad of the thousand francs.’
“ ’Where is he to be found V
“‘Nothing easier ; he never leaves the
gaming house.’
“ ‘Well sir. 1 wish to make his watch
mine ; but I must have it at <uiee.‘ lim
it for me ; hen engrave the Ca dinal’s
arms on mm - so that ihe two ma\ n !
tie dist ll ;gin -h*-d fr in the other. O
your lo II V depends tile be< ft \< ll
will dra ‘ tr m ‘lie transact ion.’’ ’
The wat'h i> bought 1 y the wat h~
niaker, and • n mp:tris.m bore our he
le-eription— w.i- duly engraved by the
confederate Inly sent le> tie —and duly
deposited in Tomni’s p >cket ready fm
the trick of trick-; which \va< to close
the evening. The Pope neither believ
ed in, nor had been dissuaded by any
tales of sorcery from countenancing the
entertainment —feeling, that, so far as
slight-of hand went, he was a wandering
layman, and the clever fellow brought
in to amuse him, the priest of many
mysteries. The exhibition accordingly
went off capitally. “To end it,” said
Torrini, “and by way of hoquel , I w r ent
on to the famous trick I had contrived
for the occasion. Here, however, 1 had
to- encounter many difficulties. The
greatest of these, without question, was
to lure Cardinal to give me his
watch and that without directly asking
for it. To gain my point, I had recourse
to stratagem. On my asking for a watch,
many had been handed to me ; but I had
given them back, on the pretext, more
or less true, that offering, as they did, no
peculiarity in the shape, it would be dif
ficult afterwards to identify the one chos
en by me, “If, Messieurs, any one among
you,” said I, “has rather a large watch,
(the Cardinal’s had precisely this pe.-u
liarity,) and would entrust it to me, I
should accept it willingly as the one fit
test for the experiment.” .
The Cardinal fell into the snaip, and
the conjuror examined, and admired, and
asked questions about the Cardinal’s
handsome watch, by way of loniment—
:he word in the French conjuror’s dic
tionary for the preliminary talk which is
to beguile time, and put an audience off
its guard. But, to return to the Cardi
nal’s watch. After praising its capital
qualities up to the skies—
“ ‘See,’ said Torrini, ‘a first proof of
them.’ And with this 1 lifted up the
watch as high as my face, and let it fall
on the parquet. There was a cry of
fright on every side. The Cardinal, pale
and trembling, got up. ‘Sir !’ said he
with ill-restrained anger, ‘what you have
done is an extremely bad joke !”
But worse was to come for the poor
Cardinal, who set such store on his Bre
guet Torrini stamped on the case,
cru-hed it in pieces, and took up only a
shapeless mass. The Cardinal was in a
rage; his watch (a chronometer too !)
was the only watch of the sort ever
made; and Toiriui handed about the
pieces of broken metal, that all night be
sure that the broken heap was the Car
dinal's w atch of w atches.
“The identity of the Cardinal’s watch
proved, the next feat was to get the real
one into the Pope’s pocket. But there
was no thinking of such a thing so long
as his holiness remained seated. Some
expedient for getting him out of his chair
must needs be found. 1 had the good for
tune to find one. They brought me in a
huge mortar and pestle, put it on the ta
ble, into which I flung the wrecks of the
chronometer, and began to pound them
with all possible fury. Suddenly a slight
explosion was hraid, and from the hot
tom of the vessel came up a reddish
flame, which gave the scene an appear
ance of real magic. All this time, lean
ing over the mortar I pretended to look
in, and exclaimed to myself a’ the won
derful things 1 -aw there. (Jut of re
spect t.o the P* pe. no one ro-e ; but ihe
P--titiff, giving wav io curiosity, at last
approached th bit*, fi> lowed by some
of he HU ‘ enve.
“*1 do no know to it < : I mto at
, tribute the bewi dei uient I said his
liolim a-, ‘but I can see. nothing.’
“It was the same with my*e f; but so
far from owning it, 1 : ejgeii the Pope to
j Come rout and ihe tab!e, to the side ihe
most favorable for seeing that which I
, announced. During this evolution, 1
i slipped into the pocket of the holy fath
ier the Cardinal’s watch. The experi
ment went on, the watch in the mortar
was broken, melted, and reduced to the
form of a little ingot, which 1 handed
round to the company.
“ ‘Now,’ said I, secure of the result
which I was about to obtain, ‘I am going
to restore this ingot to its primitive form,
and this transformation shall take place
during the pas-age it is about to make
hence to the pocket of the person in this
company the least to be suspected of
confederacy.’
“‘Ah ! ah !’ cried the Pope, in a jo
vial humor, ‘this gets stronger and strong
er. But what would, you do, Mr. Sor-v
eerer, if I were to demand that it should
be in my pocket V ”
“‘ILs holiness has only to order to
have his wish obeyed.’ ”
The ingot was again displayed—of
course instantaneouly hidden (as conju
rers can hide any small matter.) Torrini
cried, “Pass !” and lo ! the Cardinal’s
chronometer in the Pope's pocket—safe
and sound. The next day the sorcerer
received a diamond snuffbox.
Abolition Humanity.
The Detroit Advertiser , which is by no
means scrupulous as regards the rights of
white men in certain cases, however much
it may respect the asserted rights of negroes,
slaves especially, deems the forcible abduc
tion of the mulatto girl from her mistress, at
Detroit, a glorious and praiseworthy achieve
ment. It expresses the “belief that the girl
is now infinitely better off than she would
have been on a cotton plantation, or in a
Souther slave-breeder’s seraglio, one of which
would have been her fate sooner or later.”
This girl was a waiting-maid to her mis
tress, and had always been accustomed to
the luxuries and refinement of respectable
society. She, with her sister, was tiaveling
in company with her lady at the time she
was torn from them by the negroes of De
troit. and YY indsor. At lust accounts she
was quartered in a ru-irro hut at Windsor,
Canada, rnor.p r-i.-c sac a-- - she is wholly
unacc i-t’ in <i o, i, bv e ; dmi-.-ion of
the \dverVser - . sii v <re is
gr.l > ;>• and r. - <•• . i,d is
ti ‘ |> i ‘tin v And i.’t-i iht phil
anthropic papei pro! --cs to e‘ - that she
is there ti iteiy hettt-r <tf tnati sue wou'd
be at L -me, among her tiien-.ls and ft-datives.
It i-i inch -d a strange principle that actuates
the humane endeavois <>l these abolition
philanthropists. It demands freedom for the
slave, but the price of this l.berty is almost
invariably a life of misery, or evental ruin—
hardly equivalent.
One of the strongest arguments against
slavery employed by the abolitionists is i ased
upon the alleged separation of families. This
feature of the institution is held up in all its
horrors, and many are the sympathetic tears
that have been shed while listening to the
recital of scenes of domestic woe, conse
quent upon a forced separation of brothers
and sisters, parents and children. But for
this, slavery might be almost tolerated. Has
the Advertiser no tears to shed in behalf of
this girl, who has been forcibly separated
from her sister, from the comforts of the
horn® that she has always known, and from
all that she has loved from childhood? Is
the separation less painful under the circum
stances than it would have been bad it oc
curred under her master’s direction ? Or is
it any less a sin ? Is it any less an act of
violence and ir justice than the wresting of
the boy Mortara from his parents, which
that paper has so earnestly condemned in
common with the civilized world ? He who
preaches should endeavor to practice. That
is, indeed, a questionable doctrine that makes
it right for a non-slaveholder to do that
which is wrong if done by a slaveholder.—
N. Y. Journal of Commerce.
M. Blondin’a Tig-lit Rope Feat.
On Thursday last M. Emileßlondin (whose
real name, it seems, is Emile Grave'et,) ac
complished the daring feat of crossing the
Niagara River on a tight rope at the height
of one hundred and fifty feet above the river,
which is 1,100 feet wide. The crowd who
witnessed the feat is said to have numbered
12,000. He walked rapidly and firmly, as if
he had been on a bridge, says the New York
Tribune in its account of the feat, until he
chose to stop to indulge in some gymnastic
evolutions for a few minutes. He balanced
himself on one leg, sat dowD, and laid down
on the rope at full length ; then, recovering
himself, he walked to the middle of theriver,
where he asrain stopped to accomplish yet
another feat not ‘aid down in the bill. Here,
standing on the rope with as much indiffer
nce as if it had been a solid platform, he
deliberate lv lowered a small line to the little
steamboat, the “Maid of the Mist,” that had
steamed out to that point; to the line was
a bottle of wine by the captain of the boat,
and the battle being drawn up by the ad
venturer, be opened it, and making a bow
to the crowd on each side of the river, he
drank the health of all present. He then
threw the bottle into the river and walked
on, stopping no more till he reached the
Canada shore. He was exactly nineteen
minutes crossing the river, including stops.
After resting about half an hour, he returned,
stopping but once, lying down two minutes
on the rope, and accomplished the return
trip in eight minutes.
M. Blondin announces his determination
to repeat his feat at intervals during the
summer.
From the Sumter Republican.
A DISCUSSION
or THE
DOCTRINE CF UNIVERSALISM
BETWEEN
Rer. IF. J. Scott, Methodist, and Rev. D. />.
Clayton, L'niversalist.
llo'.ly Spkings, Miss., June loth, 1859.
Rf.v. YY T . J. Scott:
Deu’ s ir —Your second article cam*
to lut'd yesterday, and I adtir S3 myself D
the task f replying to su- h portions of it
as sem ro demand a reply. 1 fb.d a few
expressions in it to which I have but little
reply to make. For instance; nearly at the
commencement of your article you say:
j “Here is another compliment you perceive
but this liuie less to your candor than your
adroitness.”
In another place you say: “ But if you
refuse to do this, I shall expose the trick,
whenever it is attempted.” Once more, you
speak of some of my arguments as a “mis
erable affectation of learning serving to mis
lead the ignorant.”
To such splenetic personalities as these I
have no reply to make; further than to say,
that they are the legitimate fruit of the cruel
doctrine you have undertaken to defend;
and I leave it to your own conscience an<;
the judgment of our readers to say whether
or not, in using such language, you ‘infringe
upon the courtesies of debate,’ a thing which
you advertise I me and them, at the start von
would ‘in no event’ do. A man ‘S excusable
however, when hard pressed, tor using his
n o?t effectual weapons, and if it be a fact
that our readers are as ignorant as your lan
guage in the last extract, above quoted,seems
to implicate them with being, such sayings
as those ot which lam speaking may pass
for arguments; but I judge them to be too
intelligent to receive personal reflections for
arguments.
YVe should remember that we are putting
what we say in a form in which it can be
referred to after we are done writing; and
by referring to what I said of your interpret
ing of Malachi, you will discover that you
have misrepresented me. Instead of calling
it preposterous for you to allege that the
phrase ‘leave them neither root nor branch’
is equivalent to ‘everlasting destruction,’ I
said : “Lo say that to ‘leave them neither
root nor branch,’ means to continue them,
both root and branch, in endless misery, is, to
my thinking, about as preposterous,” Ac.
“The charge which you allege brands my
witness with falsehood, is not preferred
against Elipbaz, but against Zophar.” is the
declaration you make on this point. So,
when Job addressed himself to his friends,
all three of whom, were present, in the plu
ral, saying, “How then comfort vs. me in
vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth
falsehood?” he only meant to apply it to
Zophar. YYhat then did he mean w hen he
said in the 12lh chapter in replying to this
same Zophar, “But ye are forgers of lies,
ye are all physiciaus of no value?” That
seems to brand them all. Better have let it
rest where it was before, my dear sir. Y'our
assertion that this declaration of Job’s was
among the ‘words without knowledge’ with
which he was charged, is entirely destitute
of any semblance of proof. Only five ver
ses bes re, Job said: “the wicked is reserved
to the day of and struction; they shall all be
bri-ujzfit forth to the day of wrath,* J"b 21:
30 YY’ero these among the‘w ord- without
ki O". k- g- .’ i” wli cii you r. !•-r ?
i 1.,p1. irut l l is I judge, thrtt t was
on v )i the la*’ 4 or 5 chapters that Job ut
te cl. in which he boasted o i is own righi
eou'ii s->, a'd charged Go with becoming
ciuel ‘<> him. -hat he uttered llese words
without kuowle go’and in t- is you agree
with me,el>e why do vou sa>: “Job,although
a good man * * * was righteous in his
own eyes.” You alledge that alter this Job
saw thin iiis ‘wickedness was great, and his
iniquities infinite.’ What proof can you
give of this position ? Not a word ot pro. f
of the infinity of sin can you offer from the
whole Bible, except the words ol this forger
of lies, as Job brauds him, Eliphaz ; and yet
you reproduce them, and by the aid of small
capitals and italics, endeavor to make them
verv emphatic. How remarkably strange
if sin be infinite, that you can bring no proof
of it from the Bible, but the saying of a fake
witness! Do try again my dear sir ; for it is
a momentous doctrine you are tryingto sus
tain, and if sin be iufimte our readers would
like to have the proof from some witness
whose reputation is above reproach. You
must allow me to be a litsle pressing on this
point; and remember ‘that mere assertion,
however confident, will not be reckoned pnxil
in this controversy.’
You inform me that creed is an English
woid, the primary signification of which i,
according to Webster, ‘a summary of doc
trine.” lam your debtor for this h.forma
tion, and in order to discharge the debt, I
w ll inform you that Webster also says that
it means, that which is believed. This latter
sense is the one in which I used it. Have I
a right to use a word in the sense in which
I chose to apply it, or must I first get a per
mit from my lntnd Scott? With all my
blundering I think I am now fully even
with you.
I did not say that ‘endless punishment is
not found in the creeds’ I said it is not taught
in your creed, if your whole creed is com
prised in your 25 articles. Your reason why
it was left out is somewhat amusing. Uni
versalism ‘was so little agitated in those
early times, as not even to require a passing
notice.’ This from a gentleman whose de
nomination was founded just 130 years ago.
And then to say upon the heel of this, that
Universalism ‘is 100 young by many years.’
Well you wanted to jest a little, and so you
Silt forth that bit of innocent pleasantry.—
lut when you were writing seriously, in
your first article, you informed me that you
had carelully studied the history of tlniver
aslism, and in proof that you had, you after
wards informed me what sentiments had
been held by the advocates of the system,
from the time of Ongen down to Hosea Bal
lou. Universahsra was held by Origen in
the 3rd century, and wa9 counted important
enough, on the 4th day of May, A. D. 553,
when the sth general council was opened at
Constantinople, to call forth the following
decree : “Whoever says, or think*, that the
! torments of demons and of impious men are
! temporal, so that they will, at length, come
to an enJ, or whoever holds a restoration
either of the demons or of the impious, let
him be anathema. Anathema to Origen Ad
amantius, who taught these things among
his detestable and accursed dogmas.” This
looks like Universalism ‘was so little agitated
in those early times, as not even to require
a passing notice.’ lam fearful, my dear sir,
that you are not so fully posted as you
thought you were.
You say, that God in Isaiah 57th, express
es his willingness to heal the wicked ews.
It ought to read, in order to justify your in
terpretation : ‘I have seen his ways and am
j willing to heal him,’ but it does, read : I have
seen his ways and will heal him verse 18
I what was his way ? Was it an humble and
NUMBER 16.
contrite way ? ‘He went on frowardly in
the way of his heart,’ says the Lord; and it
was this froward way that God had seen,
and intended to heal. Nor was he only go
ing to comfort the mourners. He says: 4 1
Will restore you to uim and to his mourners.”
You will have to try again, my dear sir.—
Make as many notes as you please and all
he capitals you can, of n y construction that
God w ill not cast off the sinner to all eterni
ty It must mean this, or it would make
God contradict himself; for he says: ‘I w 9
wroth, and smote turn He did contend for
a while, and consequently when he says,
just in the preceding verse: ‘for I will not
contend loreve.r,’ he does n t mean dint he
will not contend tven for a limited time. —
Instead of fbtly coutradicting the scriptures,
this only contradicts your construction ot Ist
Chron. 28; 51. Give as good a reason for
your construction as I have for mine, and
produce another declaration of the same na
ture and we will be even that far; but you
■ire a loDg way behind, as it stands. A de
vil with horns and hoofs belongs to your
side of the house, and I shall not admit him
■to my side. You can dispose of him as you
please, on your own premises, but keep him
at home. That the D.abolsof the scriptures
is to be destroyed, Paul teaches beyoDd ques
tion, Hebrews‘2; 14, and Mr. ClaytonnorMr,
Scott neither can stiare in the honor of hisdes
truction, notwithstanding there must be ad
ded to Chrisc’s infinite remedy,* according to
Mr. Scott, ‘ the co-operation of the finite
power of man but-to Christ alone Paul as
cribes the honor of this achievement. Your
assumption that it would be ‘orthodox cruel
ty’ to annihilate the devil is quite a rich idea.
Orthodox, indeed! No, my dear sir, the
doctrine of annihilation is heaveu-bom char
ity, compared with orthodoxy, so called.
We are fully agreed that it is natural death
of the destruction of which Paul speaks, 1
Cor. lb : 2G. You admit that the rendering
is right w hich says; ‘ the last enemy death
shall be destroyed.’ You thus shoulder a
load under which you will toil and sweat
throughout this coutroversy. Death is the
last enemy. Then there is no enemy after
natural death; for it is of natural death we
speak. The luet of man’s enemies is to he de
stroyed. What will mar his peace then ?—■
But you say it might have been rendered
greatest, instead of the last enemy. What
would you gain by this? Nothing. Man's
greatest enemy is natural death. This forev
er precludes the idea of endless torture after
death; for death is no enemy at all, con pr
---ed to endless agony. Whither will you
turn ? Escape the consequences of this ad
mission, if you can. You have succeeded so
well in teaching me the true definition of
creed, that you turn lexicographer, and un
dertake to teach me the signification of Ka
targeo, the original word rendered destroyed.
Don’t accuse me of a ‘miserable affectatim of
learning,’ because I have written out a greek
word! You say this word signifies counter
worked. Liddell and Scott’s Lexicon, is, I
believe, standard authority among the learn
ed, and they say, in it, that in the New Tes
tament, this word means ‘to make void, a
nousH.’ Let us see how Paul has used it in
other places. Rom. 3;3, I find it rendered
‘without effect.’ Same chap., 31st verse, it
is rendered ‘make void.’ Romans 4 ; 14, it
is again rendered ‘of none effect.’ I CJor. 6 ;
13. ‘Meats for the belly, and the belly for
meats, but God shall destroy both it and
them.’ Here it is destroy again. 1 Cor. 13;
8. *‘ Whether there be tongues they shall
cease: whether there be knowledge it shall
vanish away.’ Here it occurs twice, and is
rendered cease,, vanish away. In the 10tL
verse of this chapter it is rendered done o
way. I hope the reader will examine ai ot
.hese places. The current i lea expressed by
this word seems t** be tt at ot a censing to
exist. Substitute counter worked in al hese
places, and see what beautiful nonsense it
makes Paul utter, in most of ihem. This
word Katargeo , is tile word use . by Paul,
Ileb. 2 ; 14, where he declares the destruc
tion of the devil.
There is not a word said in the whole 15th
chapter of Ist Corinthians, nor in the whole
bible, about the finally impenitent, and yet
you say, ‘it is said in the same chapter that
all enemies, the finally impenitent included,
‘shall be put under his feet.’ Show the phrase
‘ finally impenitent’ in God’s word, and I
give you the argument. Prove that ‘the res
urrection of the dead which is here so clear
ly stated, is to be a preparatory step to the
final judgment,’ another phrase not found in
the Bible, and I will give up the contest.
You admit that 1 Col. 1; 19, 20, teaches
that God desires and wills the salvation of
all men by Christ,’ but deny that this desire
will ever be accomplished: See my exami
nation ol this hypothesis in my third article.
Look now at the Bible declaration, where
God says: ‘my counsel shall stand, and I
will do all my pleasure,’ Isaiah 40; 10.—
‘Not so,’ says Mr. Scott. ‘lt is God’s pleas
ure to save all men; but he will never do
it.’ ‘He is in one mind and who can turn
hirn, and what his soul desireth even that he
doeth.’ Job 23; 13. ‘Not, so,’ says Mr.
Scott, “he desires the Selvatio i of ail men,
but he will not accomplish it.’ But perhaps
this is one of Job’s sayings composed of
words without knowledge. ‘ls anything too
hard for ih-i Lord?’ asks the Lord himself,
Gen. 18; 14. ‘Yes,’ says Mr. Scott, ‘ God
desires and wills the salvation of ali men by
Jesus Christ, the Mediator, and as an ex
pression of his good pleasure, he gave his Son
to die for all,’ but the work of saving all is
too hard for him.’
But yon say ‘too many will not come unto
him that they might have life.’ Now, my
dear sir, just look at your own system.—
Men will not come, you say. Your creed
says they ‘ CANNOT turn,’ without God
gives them the will See your Bth article.—
If ‘God wills,’ as you assert, * that all men
shall have eternal life,’ why does he not give
them the will to come to Him and have it ?
Here is just where your system places God.
It charges Him with mocking men with a
pretended offer of salvation, and expressing
a desire for them to come and be saved,
when He knows they cannot will to come un
less He gives them the will, and yet retu
sing to give the yvill to millions, whereby
they would be enabled to come. Can a sys
tem that charges the God of heaven acd
earth with such hypocrisy be the truth.—
No, a thousand times no. Why, sir, down
rioht nakpd Calvinism is ft system of infi
nite teauty and consistency, compared with
your doubie dealing system, which robs God
of the power to accomplish his will, and also
divests him of the will to exert his power
for the purpose of changing man’s will.—
You misrepresent me, when you say that I
affirm in my exposition of this passage, Col
1; 19, 20, that the phrase ‘all things, in
this text is to be taken in the broadest sense.
I ask in my exposition, ‘is it not obvious. to
every one that the phrase ‘all things, in
cludes all men?’ This is the extent of my
affirmation. I then ask: ‘is there anything
in the context by which we would be justi
fied or even excused, lor restricting the
meaning of the phrase all things, so as to
make it include only a part of the human
race ?’ To this question you answer, that ai