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VOLUME 10.
THE GEORGIA CITIZEN
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L. F. W. ANDREWS.
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t ’ .rhV* a bond ha# been given by the deceased, the full
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Fo THE Gl. CITJIJtS.
To a Ki ioi etl Friend in Heaven.
Jlv senile Xriead! but lwrl t<> say, adiea!
Tu one so much beloved, so kin i'and true,
Andkstow that we shall gtl-et thee never more,
Mid ins-new hero we so oft have met before,
oh’ would that we could chose the cruel thought—
With so much Inner henrt-telt anguish fraught—
Fir from our tniu<ls like some nnvpkoine dream.
Which bides away at mormugN early gleam!
But. alas, we sleep and dream dun thou art here,
And woke to shed afresh ttie mourner's tear.
We've seen thee struggling in the arms of death.
Ami watched, with sadiletied gaze, the th cliug Meath.
Then came the coffin, shrotnl. and funeral train;
Low broken sighs from itenrts eonvulsed with pain.
Ami tears fell last amid those dowers
Called front affirtiont own swe-t t lowers.
All si, felt tliat iitimau syut|tthy could claim.
For those were there* who’se hearts had felt the same,
Ami o'er that scene a holy influence wept.
Lake wings of angels fanuing her who slept.
How many hearts have lieeu oppressed with gloom,
Sim-e thoii wast laid witlrin the narrow tomb.
EVn ‘mid our festal scenes, so fraught with gladness,
it'>r ur minds would come a shade of sadness,
As memory, -taithfol to her trust.” and trtie.
Would tiring thy lovely image to our view;
So spectral form w ith grim and jmllid taee,
Hut myself with ail thy uantnd grace,
As thou wa- wont with us to live and move
Along these halls, the centre of our love.
Around thy hearth-stone orphan childhood played,
Tiicre. tois the lutpigas child of sects >w at rave, t,
To inir iufothiae ear the tafe of grief.
And always suwto Nod sons- sweet relief.
Young and joyous hearts dwelt hen *ath thy smiles;
Tnou hdst tlisir sorrows soothe and tears beguile;
1 Iwt loved to rove amid thy fragrant bowers,
In ttie soft twilight's holy vesper honrs.
itiv name from their lips in gentle accents fell.
Whose liearts seemed Imund to thee by “tiutgio spell.'’
But closer ties around thy lteart did cling.
And unto these 1 would sweet solace bring;
But no richer halm e er was poured on hearts.
Pierced through and through by death’s resistless
■ iargs.
Than /An p-irtiay icoeds, and the Heavenly gleam.
A* thy Isirk was launched on Jordan's cold stream;
And oh! how hard we strained our mortal ken.
To [f not rate the Teil which hid thee then!
But ‘m as by faith alone, and not by sight.
That we saw thee ascend the Heav’nly height.
‘Twv,- s-,d to hear n stricken husband's moaus,
A sister s sighs, an aged ntotlier s groans,
When that old familiar college lieli,
Oiitned in mournful tones, thy funeral knefl.
Hitsliand! weep not that she's gone before thee,
Though not of earth, she still niay adore thee.
Bhe did not wislt, she sai.L “on earth to stay.
Till the arm on which she leaned had passed away.”
o>r her heart that tide of grief ne’er can flow,
Which swept o'er thiue, irnd well nigh laid thee low.
Sadc.ster! if thou still dost slicd a tear.
F t her whom thy grief-worn heart held most dear,
th tiiink of her within the realms of light.
With arms entwiued around an angel bright,
That ektruMfower that bloomed fev thy side.
Till heaven called, then ri/Arrai, tiruope*! amt died.
May they not descend from their lofty height.
When the pale stars neep through the dim twilight.
And all is still save the calm breath of ev'n.
And whisper unto thee sweet thoughts of Heav’n.
Fond .Mother! ccas,*. oh. cease those heavy sighs.
Bright fOot-Meps now point thee to the skies;
•by unto thee: that thou hast lived to see
Thy liariiKg child who sat upon thy kuee.
Ijve through a life crowned with such worthy deeds:
Phine is the harvest —tkoeditU stc the
she’ll guide no more thy t*w‘ring ft-steps here.
No more to earth thou It feel her tender care:
But when all earthly things shall fail thy sight,
Htr A a,ni may lettd thee to Uie realms of light.
Ox* Who Loved He.
A Good Story.
The Cleveland Herald quotes what it
(alls a very good story of the liev. Mr.
1 inney. the revivalist preacher, now
President of Oberlin College. The Her
all say* that any one who has listened
h> ihc c *lloquia! style that Mr. Finney
i dilges.n when headdresses the Throne
of Brace, can readily imagine the anec
dote to be true to the letter. It is as
follows:
‘•<>n one occasion, in the midst of
prayer*. foe Professor ts said to have thus
•ntr dueed himself to the notice of the
I'Ord: ‘*And here, O Lord, is thy ser
vant. Prof. Finney, ready and anxious to <
he used up in thy service, but we pray
thee, if consistent w ith thy will, let him
he used up as eeonoin : ea!lv as possible.”
In the same effort, the Professor thus
took off Pro f. Morgan : “And here,
Lud, is Brother John Morgan; I xml 1
thou kuowest he has more sense than all
of us, butt) Lord, he is so lazv.”
At another time, while in the midst of
a discourse. Brother Morgan entered the
church behind time, with a pair of new
hoots, which squeaked horribly as he
walked up the aisle. The Professor ab
ruptly stopped in the middle,.of a sen
fence, turned and cutd iwn Rrother John
Morgan with, “Brother Morgan, where
did you get those boots l”
Mr. Finney, as is well known, many
)ears since, was a residcul of Jefferson
Countj, X. V., where he once preached
m B ,in that county, and was in the
habit of going round* from bouse to
house, exhorting rnd praying. Being
>'neot the clergy men—ofwhomthe world
has many—who thinks serious things in
‘•‘-son, on all occasions and in every
place, and of those, too, who thinks the
use always open, from front door
*?. hitchen pantry, for the minister, Mr.
‘ ‘ nnc 7 niade his way into the domicil of
ne °f his flock, and finally brought up in
lie kitchen, where the good housewife
preparing a pot-luck dinner. Mr.
mney’s entiance, so inopportune and
unseasonable, disconcerted the good
lonian, who stopped in her cooking, but
uiney. appreciating the value of promp
,lje in dinner, as wall as constancy in
prayer, mixed up business with religion
saying—“In with your
- lister, and then let’* to prays
Front the Youth’s Christmn Advocate.
Great Destruction Railroad
; Ami Drunkard g Transportation Com
pamj, via. Ciderrille, Porterville,
Beertoien, II uieville, Brandt/ftoro’
itotHopolis, Whiaky City, etc.
.A etc Arrange mint* Commencing Ist
i of January 1 —Various efforts to
induce the lieri>l.*itiire to repeal tie
S charter of this wcl! know n company
I having signally failed, the directors
have the pleasure of assuring their
i numerous friends that this road to
| ruin is now in a more prosperous
j condition than ever. Within the
last three months it has carried more
than three hundred thousand pass*
engers, who have gone till tlie way
through from the town of Temper
i anee to the city of Destruction, while
i the number of way passengers who
have heeii accommodated with con
, venient ‘’lifts,” has been almost in
j credible. Au enormous amount of
freight—such as workmen s tools,
( household furniture, Ac. —has also
gone forward, anu from these and
other sources of revenue, the i ecipts
of the year have been so large that
the directors have determined to de
clare a dividend of at least fivehuii
! tlretl per cent.
Meanwhile,immense expenditures
have been made upon various parts
;of the road to render it a favorite
with the traveling public. Many of
the grades have been altered and re
duced, so that only a practiced eye
can discern the difference between
them and a dead level. Much of the
track that has been worn away has !
been relaid with Messrs. Satanas &
Co’s patent rail.
Convenient depots have been es- j
tahlished at different parts of the !
route for the accommodation of pass- 1
engers who may Le waiting the arri
val of the trains.
The switches have been particu
larly guarded, and numerous turn- 1
outs have been made to avoid collis-!
ion with the total abstinence engine j
and the temperance trains, which ,
have lately caused so much uneasi- j
ness.
In short, we have spared no exer
tions or expense to make it superior
to any other road to ruin, that has
thus far been established. It further
gives us the pleasure to say that
equal attention has been given to the
improvement of the engine and the
cars.
The old and favorite locomotive—
Alcohol—-has been thoroughly re
paired, and in the hand of Mr. Belial,
(the experienced foreman of Sa tanas
A C 0.,) we are satisfied it will out
strip in speed anything on the road.
To fall in with the spirit of the
times, the whiskey, rum and brandy
cars, to forward passengers, have
been greatly enlarged, and the fare
reduced to half price. The new la
ger beer car, that has been put on
within a few months, has already be
gun to excite great attention, and
we are happy to say, has been found
to run as well on the track as any
other, and in some portions of the
route, is the only cur that is allowed
to run on Sunday. But the wine
ears (especially) are models of luxu
rious conveyance, as even ladies and
children can travel in them often
times without being aware they are
traveling at all.
Passengers, however, who prefer
the beer car, porter car, Ac., can
readily be accommodated by showing
their tickets to Mr. Mix, our polite
and gentlemanly conductor, who has
been so long and favorably* known
as the barkeeper of “Drinker's Ho
tel,” city* of Destruction.
Regulations- —The down train will
leave Ciderville at (i A. M. ; Porter
ville, 7 A. M. ; Lager beert own, 8 A.
M. ; AVineville, 0 A. M. ; Brandy
borough, 1U A. M.; Bumopolis, 11
A. M.; Whiskey city, 12 A. M. ; at
1 P. M. this train will intersect at the
town of Moderation, the various ac
commodation trains from Little
Drop, Medicinev lie, Old Pledge,
Fashiontown, r ('ustoinvlle, Ac., after
! which the speed of Uu train will be
1 greatly accelerated, stopping howev
er. to land passengers at Poorh on Se
ville, Hospitaltown, Prisonburg, and
’ various other places on the road. —
On Sundays cars will be in readiness
for the accommodation of passengers
at the above hours, until further no
i tiee.
X. B.—All baggage, at the risk of
the owner, and widows and orphans
are particularly requested not to in
quire after persons and property at
Ruin Depat, as in no ea>c do the di- j
fevtors hold themselves liable for ac
cident to passengers.
W il.i.i.vM Wholesale, Pres’t.
Uoukut Retail, Vice Pre'sl.
Farmers of the Old School.—
Adam was a farmer while yet in Pa
radise, and after his fall was com
manded to earn his bread by the ‘
sweat of his brow.
Job, the honest, upright, and pa- \
tiont, was a farmer, and his stern
endurance Las passed into a proverb.
Socrates was a farmer, and yet
wedded to his calling the glory of his
immortal philosophy.
rineinnatus was a fanner, and
one of the noblest Romans.
Bums was a farmer, and the muse
found him at the plow, and filled his
soul with poetry.
Washington was a farmer, and re
| tired from the highest earthly sta
! tion, to enjoy the quiet, rural life, and
present to the world a spectacle of
human greatness.
Every one bath enough to do to gov
ern himself well.
A man is valued as he makes himself
valuable.
MACON, tIA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1859.
The Pleasure of Knowledge.
“How charming i.* divine philosophy!
j Not harsh and crabbed, as dull tools suppose,
llut musical as is Apollo’s lute
And a perpetual feast of neetared sweets,
Where no crude surfeit reigns. - ’
So sung Miiton two centuries ago
and long before that date Plato had an
nounced that ‘ the world is God s epistle
to mankind.” It is the grand book in
which all may read, and whose pages
are so full of varied interest and general
knowledge that the being who, having
power, neglects to study it, surely may
be written down an ass, for he deprives
himself of an enjoyment such as no oth
er pursuit can give.
We arc sometimes inclined to be vex
ed with our race when we find them all
toiling after every vain fancy, some bent
i upon one ambition, some another, and
but a minority digging in the deep mine
of nature for the grandest of all posses
! sious—Truth. Granted that its gold is
not yellow, nor its silver white, for its
treasures have not the color of material
wealth, but they are as glorious aid
beauteous as the sparkle of die diamond
and as enduiing as ihe hills. Science
clothes not her votaries in purple arid
fine linen, but dresses them in lovely
fl .wers or in irridescent shells, and gives
as her reward a contented mind and pm e
. soul. The poetry of science sometimes
, flashes in the oration of a proles tr, or
! m the pages of a book, but her truest
epic is written upon all nnteriality,
which proclaims that in ail things there
is a law which, wh*n known and applied,
shall make man happier, better and more
truly human.
liy the investigation of the laws w hich
govern the objects that are all around
us, the motions of the planets, the rela
tions of life and health, the destiny of
man, and the glory of the Deity, are
better understood ; and the lighting of a
cottage, the building of a palace, or the
cooking of a dinner are better performed.
We can never lie in any position in which
knowledge is not of value to ns, and we
can never prophecy the moment at which j
we may most require it. Indeed many
of us only know that there is more to be
kiiowrn than occurs to us in the daily
round of business life, by the discovery
that something we do not know is ealeu- I
laud to make us richer or give us more
ea*e. “But,” exclaims many a petulant
person, “how shall 1 study without an
instructor V Foolish notion ! the best
workman always uses the simplest tools.
Have you eyes, ears, nose and hands ?
Then you are provided with apparatus,
and memory is the tablet on which to
write down your impressions. Each
one of us is better furnished than a col
lege laboratory, or a professor's lecture
room, and all that we have to do is to
learn the use of our apparatus; and
there is no place in the universe where
man cannot find some object to interest,
some study to pursue. Goldsmith found
time to observe nature, and record his
thoughts, and in glowing language he
tells us that “the blushing beauties of
the rose, the modest blue of the violet,
are not in the flowers themselves, but in
the light which adorns them. Odor,
softness and beauty of figures are their
own, but it is light alone that dresses
them up in ti eir robes, which shame the
monarch's glory-'’ Asa concluding in
centive to our readers to study foi them
selves, as well as to read books and sci
entific periodicals, we will give a quota
tion from a lecture by Prince Albert of
England. “Man,” observed the eminent
savant, “is approaching a more complete /
fulfillment of that great and sacred mis>
sion w hich he has to perform in the world.
His reason being created after the image
of God, he has to use it to discover the
laws by which the Almighty governs his
creation, and, by making these laws his
standard of action, to conquer nature to
his use—himself being a divine instru
ment. Science discovers these laws of
power, motion and transformation ; in
dustry applies them to the raw material
which the earth yields us in abundance,
but which becomes valuable only by
knowledge.”
Oh ! that all would study nature more
and think of themselves a little 13S;
then we should indeed be a people of
kings, whose empire would be the world,
and whose subjects would be all created
things !
The Sky.
Heaven is so bright, our Father drew
’Twixt us and it a veil of blue :
I’pwurd we bend our gaze and think
We see its pavement through a chink,
Then dazzled, turn our eyes away,
And say, “How bright the sun to-day !”
Speak Well of Others.
Were we to give a receipt for ren
dering every neigh boi hood a compara
tive paradise, it would be, “speak well of
others.” Short as it may appear and
simple as it seems, if universally adopted,
it would be found omnipotent for good
and productive of untold happiness. But
how often are we pained to find the op
po&itc disposition indulged. In almost
every neighborhood the vile slanderer
may be found, sowing the seed of pain
and sorrow. The hard-earned reputa
tion of the gray-haired sire is frequent
ly assailed ; the brilliant prospects of
the ambitious youth are darkened, and
the fond hopes of the virtuous maiden
are often blasted by the, withering re
marks of the mabcious calumniator.—
None, it is true are entirely faultless, and
we may, with much truth remark, there
are none so bad as not to possess some
good qualities, aiul as charitable beings,
it is our duty to mention their faults on
ly privately to the erring one. Then,
if done in a friendly, sympathising man
ner, it may prove salutary. When this
christian-like habit prevails, a halo of
moral grandeur will encircle the earth,
and ‘ Peace on earth, good will to men,”
will be the language of every heart,—
West Jersey Pioneer.
The violet grows low and covers itself
with its own tears, and of all fl >wers
yields the sweetest fragrance. Such is
humility. V****°*
A Touching Incident.
A little boy had died. Ilis body
was laid out in a dark and retired
room, waiting to be laid away in the
lone cold grave.
His afflicted mother and bereaved
little sister went in to look at the
sweet face of the precious sleeper, for
he was beautiful even in death. As
they stood gazing upon the form of
one so cherished and beloved, the
girl asked me to take his hand. The
mother at first did not think it best,
hut her child repeated the request,
and seemed very anxious about it, so
she took the cold, bloodless hand of
his weeping sister.
The dear child looked at it a mo
ment, caressed it fondly, and then
looking ii]) to her mother through the
tears of affection and love, and said :
‘Mother the little hand never
struck me !’
What could have been more touch
ing and lovely I
Young reader, have you been so
gentle to )our brothers and sisters,
that just such a tribute could be paid
to your memory’, were you to die ?
Could a brother or sister take your
hand and say,
‘This hand never struck me?’
The New Key.
“Aunty,” said a little girl, “I be
lieve 1 have found a nyw key to
lock people's hearts and make them
so willing ; for you know, aunty,
God took my’father and my mother,
and they want people to he kind to
their little daughter.’!
“What is the key ?” asked aunty.
“Its only one little word—guess
what ?” But aunty was no guesser.
“It is please,” said the child; “aunty
it is please ; if I ask one of the great
girls in school, ‘ Please show me my
parsing lesson?’ she says, ‘O yes,’
and helps me. If I ask ‘Sarah, please
do this forme?’ no matter, she’ll
take her hands out of the suds. If I
ask, uncle, ‘please,’ he says, ‘Yes
puss, if I can and if I say ‘please,
aunty —’ ”
“Wlmt does aunty do ?” asked her
self.
“0, you look and smile just like
mother, and that is best of all, ’ cried
the little girl throwing her arms
round aunty’s neck, with a tear in
her eye.
Perhaps other children Avill like
to know about the key and hope they
will use it also; for there is great
power in the small, kind courtesies of
life.
We’ll all Meet Again in the Morning.
Such was the exclamation of a
dying child, says the XeAvark Mer
cury, as the sunset streamed on him
through the casement. “Good-bye,
papa, good-lye! Mamma has come
for me to-night; don’t cry’, papa!
well all meet again in the morning.”
It was as if an angel lmd spoken to
that father and his heart greAV light
er under his burden, for something
had assured him that his little one
had gone to Him who said, “Suffer
little children to come unto me, for of
such is the kingdom of Heaven.”—
There is something cheerful and in
spiring to all who are in trouble in
this, “We’ll all meet again in the
morning.” It rouses up the fainting
soul like a trumpet blast, and fright
ens away forever the dark shapes
thronging the avenue of the outer
life. Clouds may gather upon our
pAths,disappointments gather around
us like an army Avith banners, hut all
this cannot destroy the hope Avithin
us if we have this motto upon our
lips, “All will be bright in tlie
morning.” ,
Hints to Wives-
All wives—especially young ones
—have much to learn. The appar
ently simple matter of “buying in,”
—or “shopping,” is not so easy as it
seems. Any woman may fancy that
she can spend her husband’s earnings, |
and without doubt sin* can, hut she j
must care how she spends them if;
she would secure his love and esteem. ;
Perhaps it is not her place to spend
them at all, but the usages of society |
among the industrial classes pro
scribe it and probaldy it is better un
der their present circumstances that
it should lie so. But if the husband
gives money to his wife, she ought
to know that he expects it to be ju
diciously disposed of, and spent that j
it may* provide a clean, neat, and hap- 1
py home in return. It is, therefore, j
her duty to study economy in dross, !
in furniture and food—-not only in j
buying, but also in using.
“A penny saved ia two pence oloar,
A pin a day’s a great
is a maxim worth remembering. A
steady husband depends mainly upon J
his wife for rising in the world. The
first dollar is often saved by her, and
she should understand that the first
dollar is often the beginning of a for
tune, which will increase more rap
idly by and by. Economy, (we do j
not mean penuriousness) is one of
the most important duties of house
keeping, and no wife can he said to
be truly just to her husband, her
children, or herself, who neglects or
despises it.
A Hint. —“ Thomas,” said a troublesome
family visitor to the footman, who had been
lingering around the room for half an hour
to show him the door, “my good fellow it’s
getting Tate, isn’t it? How soon will din
ner come up, Thomas ?” “The very minute
you are gone, sir,” was the answer.
Hope dwellelh within good men, and giv
eth unto all they meet a happy greeting.
“ I see why lam not at rest. lam dis
posed to think that if I had not been so sin
fid, I would have been more easily forgiven.
| Thus I am limiting the Lord, and imagin
ing that Hi* mercy cannot overtake such a
I one as I am.”
Some of Franklin's Maxims.
Plow deep while sluggards sleep,
and you will have corn to sell and to
keep.
Pride is as loud a beggar as want,
and a great deal more saucy.
Silks and satins, scarlets and A*io
lets, put out the kitchen fire.
Diligence is the mother of good
ii° h
luck.
Pride breakfasted with Plenty’, di
ned with Poverty, arid supped with
Infamy.
Extravagance and improvidence
end at the prison door.
It is easier to build two chimneys
than to keep one in fuel.
If you would know the value of
money, go and try to borrow some.
The eye of the master will do more
work than both of his hands.
What maintains one vice would
bring up two children.
He that goes a borrowing, returns
sorrowing.
Rather go to bed supperless than
rise in debt.
Sloth, like rust, consumes faster
than labor wears.
A life of leisure and a life of lazi
ness are two different things.
Three removes are as bad as a
fire.
Creditors have better memories
than debtors.
The rolling stone gathers no moss.
If you would have your business
done, go, if not, send.
it is foolish to lay’ out money in
the purchase of repentance.
“These maxims by r Dr. Franklin,”
says a contemporary’, “though often
printed, lose nothing of their value
by repetition.
The Three Brothers.
Throe robbers murdered and plun
dered a merchant, who hearing with
him much goldand other valuable ar
ticles, was passing through a lonely
wood. TC-y brought; their ill-gotten
treasures into their cave, and sent
the youngest one into the village to
bu v food.
When lie had gone, the two re
maining said to one another, ‘Why
need we share these great riches
with this fellow ? Let us kill him
when he returns, and then jus part
will fall to us.’
But the younger robfior thought to
himself as lie Avent : ‘llow fortunate
would I he if'all these treasures wore
mine alone. I will poison my two
associates, and then all will he mine.’
He bought Food and drink, put pois
on in the wine, and returned to his
companions.
As he entered the cave the other
two sprang upon him, plunged a dirk
into his heart, ami he dropped dead
on the ground! Whereupon they
sat down, ate the food and drank the
wine, and died in the greatest agony.
Surrounded Avith stolen treasures
they were found dead,
On their own heads the wicked draw
Thu judgment of the broken law.
Runaway Wife.
On Thursday of last week, a man
of 25 years, of the name of Rockwell,
came to Salem, front Warren, in
search of his wife, who had left his
bed and board rather unceremoni
ously on the Monday morning pre
vious. lie had been married but
three short weeks—“ Frailty, thy
name is woman”—and was nearly
distracted at his loss. She had on tv
pink dress when she left —a pretty
pink dress lie said ; lie heard she had
been seen in town, and as evening
came, and the faces of the fair ones
in the dusk were dim, he chased af
ter every lawn and calico spread ov
er mystic hoops, to find his er
ing partner —still his darling thick,
his “Annie Laurie”—the eyes where
in he saw the universe, the bosom
where lie slept the sleep of jov in
love too rich for reckoning. He fail
ed to find his “Julia Atm,” and in the
morning went home to live in hope
—the ugly thing that most makes
hungry where most it feeds.
Someone suggested to the unfor
tunate man that perhaps his wife did
not love him, hut beset any doubt on
that score to rest, by the reply that
no woman ever kissed and hugged
like she did without she loved, if he
had said that no woman ever did so,
without she loved the kissing and
hugging, be might have hung up phi
losophy, and conquered another -1 uli
et. He consulted the lather of the
lady, who lives near town, and the
old man advised him to go home and
wait for her ; that her mother used
to take tits of running off, but al
ways came back, and he had no
doubt the daughter would do the
same.
“ : Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.”
Kero Lisbon , Ohio, Patriot.
- —■——
Disappointed men, who think that
they have talents, and who hint that
their talents have not been properly
rewarded, usually finish their career
bv writing their own history; but in
detailing their misfortunes, they on
ly let us into the secret of their mis
takes; and in aceusing their patrons
of blindness, make it appear that
they ought rather to have accused ,
them of sagacity; since it would !
seem that they siAv too much, rath
er than too little ; namely, that sec- j
ond-rate performances were too of
ten made the foundation for first
rate pretensions.—Colton.
Buy what thou needest
will oblige thee to sell thy necessi
ties.
Beautiful Extract.
Some fifteen years ago, Rev. John
N. Maffit, then in his prime, deliver
ed a lecture which closed with the
following fine passage:
r°. J ” .
The Phoenix, fabled bird of anti
quity’, when it felt the chill advances
1 of age, built its own funeral urn and
fired its pyre by means which na
ture's instinct taught.
All its plumage, and its form of
beauty became ashes, but ever would
rise the young—beautiful from the
urn ot death, and chambers of decay
would the fledgeling come, with its
eyes turned towards the sun,and es
saying its dark velvet wings, sprin
kled Avith gold and fringed with sil
ver, on the balmy air, raising a little
higher, until at length, in the full
confidence of flight, it gives a cry of
joy, and soon becomes a glittering
speck in the deep bosom of aerial
ocean a lovely voyager of earth,
Ixuind on its heavenward journey to
the sun!
So rises the spirit bird from the
ruins of the body, the funeral urn
which its maker built, and death
fires. So towers away to its home
in the elements of spirituality’, tlie
intellectual Phoenix, to dip its
proud wings in the fountain of
eternal bliss.
So shall dear, precious humanity,
survive from the ashes of a burning
world. So beautiful shall the un
changeable soul soar within the dies
of Eternity’s great luminary, with
undazzled eye and unscorched
wings—the Phoenix of immortali
ty —taken to its rainbow home, and
Cradled on the heating bosom of
eternal love.
SCRAPS.
Labor is a business and ordinance
of God.
The sun and moon are the red and
white roses of the field of heaven.
A public fault ought not to suffer
a secret punishment.
It is folly to attempt any wicked
beginning in hope of a good ending.
Lies are hiltless swords, which cut
the hands that wield them.
Nothing elevates us so much as the
presence of a spirit familiar, yet su
perior to our own.
Knowledge is proud that he has
learned so much, wisdom is humble
that lie knows no more.
Wholesome sentiment is rain,
which makes the fields of daily life
fresh and odorous.
A person who tells you of the faults
of others, intends to tell others of
your faults.
Secret prayer is a spiritual ther
mometer ; it tells the warmth of the
heart, indicates the rise and fall of
religious a tfe ft ions.
Intense mental activity, steadily
directed to some leading pursuit, is
the source of all distinction.
Zeal, not rightly directed, is per
nicious, for as it makes a good cause
better, so it makes a had cause worse.
As dreams are the fancies of those
that sleep —so fancies are hut the
dreams of men awake.
A newspaper is a sermon for the
thoughtful, a library foY the poor,
and a blessing to everybody. It is
the best public instructor.
He is bappv whose circumstances
suit his temper, hiu lie is more ex
cellent who can suit his temper to
any circumstances.
Personal respectability is totally
independent of a large income. Its
greatest secret is self-respect. Pov
erty can never degrade by pretence
or duplicity.
Dignity is often a veil between us
and the real truth of filings. Wit
pierces this veil with its glittering
shafts, and lets in the ‘insolent light.’
When Aristotle was asked what
wore the advantages of learning, he
replied : “It is an ornament to a man
in prosperity, and a refuge in adver
sity.
Pointed Preaching - .
Father Moody was an eccentric man.
He had in his congregation, a Colonel
Ingraham, a wealthy farmer who had
kept back his large stock of corn from
the market, in hope of raising the price.
The pastor heard ol it, and resolved to
make a publie attack upon the transgres
sor. < >ne Sabbath he read from his text,
“He that withholdeth the corn, the peo
ple shall curse him; but blessings shall
i>e upon the head of him that selleth it.”
Prov. 11 : 26. Colonel Ingraham could
not but know - to whom the reference was
made, but he held up his head and faced
his pastor with a look of stolid uncon
sciousness. Father Moody went on with
very strong remarks, became still warm
er, and touched the Colonel still more
closely, who, however, still held up his
head, apparently determined not to feel.
At last the preacher lost all patience,
and cried out, “ Colonel Ingraham , you
know that I mean you ; why don't you
hang down your head?”
An eminent modern writer beauti
fully says: “The foundation of do
mestic happiness is faith in the vir
tue of woman ; the foundation of all
political happiness, is confidence in
the integrity of man ; and the foun
dation of all happiness, temporal and
eternal, is reliance on the goodness
of Cod.”
That is a beautiful thought where
someone says : Habit in a child is at
first like a spider’s web ; if neglected it
becomes a thread or twine, next a cord
or rope, finally a cable—then who can
break it 1
Heaven is not to he had by men mere
ly wishing fur it.
The Mother Moulds the Man.
That it is the mother who moulds the
man is a sentiment beautifully illustrated
by the following recorded observation of
a shrewd writer:
“When 1 lived among the Choctaw’
Indians, I held a consultation with one of
their chiefs respecting the successive
stages of their progress in the arts of
civilized life; and, among other things,
he informed me that at their start they
fell into a great mistake—they only sent
boys to school. These boys came home
intelligent men, hut they married uned
ucated aud unciviliz. and wives; and the
uniform result was, the children were
all like their mothers. The father soon
lost all interest in his wife and children;
and now,” said he, “if we would educate
but one class of our children, we should
choose the girls, for when they become
mothers they educate their sons.” This
is to the point, and it is true. No na
tion can become fully enlightened when
mothers are not in a good degree quali
fied to discharge the duties of the home- j
work of education.
Pcnctuahty.—Ah ! that’s the word,
punctuality! Did you ever see a man
who was punctual who did not prosper
in the long run ? We don’t care who or
what he was—high or low, black or
white, ignorant or learned, savage or
civilized—we know if he did as he
agreed, and was punctual in all his en
gagements, he prospered, and was more
respected than his shiftless neighbors.
Men who commence business should
be careful how they neglect their obli
gations, and break their word. A per
son who is prompt can always be accom
modated, and is therefore “lord over
another man’s purse,” as Franklin would
say. Never make promise upon uncer
tainties. Although the best men may
sometimes fail to do this as they would,
the case is exeedingly rare. He who is
prompt to fulfill his word avH never
make a promise where it is not next to a
moral certainty that he can do as he
agrees. If you would succeed, be punc
tual to the hour. Return borrowed
money the moment you promised. Io
all things, if you are thus prompt in busi
ness affairs, you arc generally so in eve
ry department of life. You never know
them to he late to church, to the polls,
to pay the printer for advertising. A
promptness in everything characterizing
them.
The Corner Stone
Os the Masonic Building to be erected
in this city, was laid, on Thursday last,
with Masonic ceremonies. M. W.
Grand Master, Wm, S. Rockwell, con
ducted the ceremonies, assisted by R.
W. David E. Butler, P. G. M., R. W.
Samuel Lawrence, D. G. M., R. W.
-John Harris, D. G. M., \V . Joseph E.
Wells, G. Trcas., W. Simri Rose, G.
Secretary, and other officers of the Grand
Lodge. Notwithstanding the inclemency
of the weather, and the intolerable mud
dy condition of our streets, a large pro
cession was formed, and “split the mud,”
to use a common expression. The order
of Odd Fellows, Knights of Jericho, Fire
Companies No’*. 1 and ‘2, joined in the
procession, in proper uniform and rega
lia, fearless of the spoiling of their trap
pings by the rain and mud. Col. C. R.
Ilanleiter acted as Marshall of the day.
After the usual services at the build
ing had been gone through w T ith, the pro
cession repaired to the Athenaeum, where
an able, learned, and appropriata address
was delivered by Grand Master Rock
well, to a large and attentive audience.
At night, the craft, with the members of
the other orders, Fireman, and Military,
assembled at the City Hall, to partake of
the Banquet prepared for the occasion.
A large collection of the female sex
graced the occasion “with their presence
and their smiles, and the whole assem
blage appeared to enjoy themselves fine
ly, in promenading, social chit chat, and
in partaking of the delicacies prepared
for the occasion. The Fulton Band
coursed instrumental music in a style
which did them honor, and the choir of
vocal music performed their part well.
We would mention the active part per
fumed, in carrying out the programme
of the day, by Brothers Lawshe, Mayer,
Campbell, Adams aud others, but lest
we be made liable to the charge of invid
ious distinctions, we forbear. The Ma
sonic Fraternity deserve great credit for
the successful manner in which the pro
gramme of the day was carried out, un
der such unfavorable circumstances. —
Atlanta Intelligencer.
From the Mountain Signal.
Tetter from Kansas
Georgia Gulch, Kansas, )
June 17th, 1859. £
Messrs. Editors: As it is likely that any
news relating to the mining operations in
tins country, will not be uninteresting to
you or your readers, I will endeavor to give
you a few statistics relative to what is going
on in our immediate neighborhood :
The prospect in the veins or mountain
diggings, as they call them here, is improv
ing. There are cow about 75 sluices in op
eration, all washing the ore taken from the
veins, which is paying variouslyj from $5 to
SSO dollars per day to the hand. Some few
are prepared and haul their dirt, but most of
them put it in sacks and carry it to the
branch or creek. New discoveries are being
rnade every day. There is a company of
five men working within 200 yards of this
place, on a vein which they lately discover
ed, and yesterday they carried the ore to
the branch, washed it in a common box
sluice, and made $125; and to-day they
have taken $5 out of a single pan of ore.
The gluehes and ravines are as yet but very
little worked or prospected. We commenc
ed operating there last Saturday with one
tom or sluice, five hands and here is the re *
suit of the first five day’s labor:
Saturday, June 12, 260 dwts.
Monday “ 14, 360 “
Tuesday, “ 15, - 2 ? 4 “
Wednes’y, “ 16,
Thursday, “ 17,
There are several other companies work
ing on the same gulch, and are generally
making fair wages. John B. Graham and
NUMBER 21.
cempany, of Dawson, and McClusky of Hall
county, are working on the same gulch, mak
ing at present about an ounce per day to the
hand. Tuere are several other gulches in
this vicinity that are expected to pay Avhen
worked equally as well as this one.
Quite a number of accidents have lately
happened—several persons have been shot
through awkardness or carelessness. Wil
liam Herbert, of Georgia, shot himself when
at the base of the mountain near Clear
creek, and died instantly. Quite a number
have been drowned trying to go down the
Platte in badly constructed boats or bateaus.
Five persons were frozen to death on the di
vide between the Platte and zVrkansas, dur
ring a snow storm on the 24th of June. A
number of persons who started to cross the
plains early this spring, on foot and without
money, (or brains,) have died of starvation.
It is reported here that the bodies of
eighteen men have been found in the moun
tains, who were burned to death by the
burning of the pine forest of the mountains.
The forests are still burning and will in all
probability continue to burn for sotpe time.
I am goiDg to start out to-morrow on a
prospecting tour of eight or ten days, aud if
any thing should be developed during ihat
time worthy of notice I will let you know
it Yours respectfully,
William G. Russell.
From the .Louisville Courier.
Mammoth Cave-Cllosial Cav
ern—A New Diiu oveiq.
Editors Louisville Courier:— ln the
fall of 1853, Mr. L. J. Procter, the proprie
tor of the Mammoth Cave, in company with
two assistants, undertook the exploration of
a cave, one entrance to which is situated in
Barren county, a mile and a half from the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad, and ten
miles from the Mammoth Cave. Up to the
time of the exploration made by Mr. Proc
ter, nothing was known as to the direction,
distance or dimensions of this vast subtera
nean region, which I have ventured to name
Collossal Cavern, and which, in extent,
grandeur and sublimity, as much exceeds
the Mammoth Cave as the latter exceeds
any cave heretofore discovered. Since the
explorations of Mr. Proctor Avere made, the
writer of this article has verified that gentle
man’s observations, and, in order to facilitate
the description of the cave, has conferred the
names mentioned below upon the principal
points of interest.
The first mile of the avenue leading from
the entrance of Collossal Cavern runs in a
northeastern direction, and varies from twen
ty to sixty feet in width, and from ten to
forty in height Stalactites and stalagmites
of almost every conceivable form and great
variety of color are found in this avenue.
This is called Stillo Avenue, from the stalac
tic formations which are found in it.
On leaving Stillo Avenue, an avenue is
entered which is three miles in length, and
which gradually ascends for its entire dis
tance. The walls, floor, and ceiliog of this
avenue are lined with alabaster flowers of a
variety of forms and of indescribable beauty,
many of which are over eight inches in di
ameter. Like the flowers in Cleveland’s
Cabinet in the Mammoth Cave, they are
composed of the sulphate of lime, and are of
a pure w’hite color. On the floor of this ave
nue, successive crops of stucco flowers may
be observed resting one above another, which
have detached themselves from the walls and
ceiling, from time to time, by their own
weight.
These flowers always form in avenues
destitue of moisture, and with exceeding
slowness. The seasons required for the suc
cessive growths of subteranean flowers are
not to be reckoned by months, but by cen
turies, for, as can be observed in the Mam
moth Cave, where gypsum flowers have been
detached for a period of fifty years, the crys
tals that compose them are barely percepti
ble, emerging from the parent rock at the
present time. This avenue is styled the
Floral Temple.
Floral Temple communicates with an ave
nue about a half a mile in length, which leads
to a cascade and the entrance of a river. The
river, at the point at which it is viewed, is
seventy-five feet wide, and gives an echo
louder than that of any river in the Mam
moth Cave. There being no boat upon the
river, it has not been explored, although it
has every appearance of great length. This
body of water is called the Mysterium.
On the right bank of the river Mysterium
an avenue arises which contains the rnosfc
magnificent collection of stalactites ever dis
covered. This avenue was explored for a
distance of three and a half miles without
discovering a terminus. At this point in the
explorations a stalagmite was discovered,
which is a perfect statue of Gen. Washing
ton in military costume. The stone of
which the natural statue is composed, is as
white as statuary marble, and is exceedingly
compact Washington Avenue is the name
conferred upon this portion of the cave.
On returning to the Mysterium, an ave
nue may be entered which runs directly
north for a distance of a quarter of a mile,
which terminates in a dome, and which in,
size and general appearance, resembles the
Mammoth dome in the Mammoth Cave.
This is called Procter’s Dome, in honor of
its discoverer, Mr. L. J. Procter.
From Procter’s Dome to the cliffs, on the
banks of Green rive, the principal avenue re
sembles in size the main cave of the Mam
moth Cave. The entrance to Collossal Cav
ern, on the cliffs of Green river, is one hun
dred and fifty feet above the bed of that
stream, and is eleven miles on a direct line
to the entrance in Barren county. The
Green river entrance is in Edmonson coun
ty. The avenue which leads from Procter's
Dome to the Edmohson county entrance is
named Green River Avenue. The walls and
ceiling of Green River Avenue, for a distance
of three miles and a half, are covered with
nodules of gypsum, which resemble snow
balls.
Seven days were occupied in the first ex
plorations of the Collossal Cavern by Mr.
Procter, and the second entrance was dis
covered on the fifth day, which was the first
and only time the light of the sun was seen
during the explorations.
Besides the avenues briefly mentioned,
seventy-five others, which intersect them,
have been counfed, the extent of which is
not known; and the aggregate distance
which has already been explored is not less
than forty miles.
I hope, at no distant period, to give a
more detailed account of Collossal Cavern,
which presents such a vast field for subter
ranean research to those who take an inter
est in troylodylean lore.
C. W. Wright,
Prof. Chemistry in Ky. School of Medi
cine.
Mammoth Cave, July 28, 1859.
J3f“The biggest mule ever produced, says the
New Albany Tribune, it is supposed, iB now in
Wayne county, this State, owned by Cnarlea
Frost. The weight is given as 1,835 pounds,
and Light 10J hands, which is 6 feet 6 inches.