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VOL. XIV.
THE GEOSEM JEFFEMM!
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IxTf FIRST 3XFERIBNC3 IN BA3IEB.
BY A STRAY WAIF.
I am an old bachelor, rusty, crusty, and
fas—no, not yet; although I suppose that
I shall be —one of these days. It Is my
fate: why, I hardly know. I dou’t dislike
the sex: in fact, I think I rather like wo
mankind—when they let me alone, and
don’t dog’sear my hooks. I have had vis
ions of a cosy fireside, and some body to
sew on my buttons: buttons arc not sewed
on as strong as they were in tny younger
days, as ray poor pricked fingers can testi
fy. I have fancied myself playing the pa
ternal, and buying liilipops and dolls; but,
somehow, all my visions of a wife and—
millinery bills—have proved “baseless
fabrics.”
According to the old saying, “every
Jack has his Gill;” but alas! that measure
of happiness has never fallen to my share’
I have never even been jilted. It must be
because nobody ever thought it worth
while to ask inc to have them. If anybody
had, I should certainly have yielded at
discretion—if my books would’ have let
me, and there had been no preliminary
wooing required. Wooing is all Greek to
me. I should not know bow to begin, al
though I imagine it is as tedious a process
as cutting the leaves of a book to get at
the pictures. Yet I have none of the an
tipathies of old bachelorhood: no, not one.
I like babies, bless them!—in the arms of
somebody else .-provided they don’t at
tempt to maw! me with sticky fingers, and
keep their sweet lips at a distance.
I think, however, to be candid, that it
would have been an improvement in tlie
article, if babies had been born with their
mouths sealed until crying days were pass
ed. What .an awful deal of crying they
do! No barrel-organ could stand such per
petual use; and th.m ; when they “turn up
their pipes,” how discordant the music! I
should prefer my offspring grow up at
once, without any intermediate stage.—
There is something terrible to me in the
idea of being-roused out of a comfortable
snooze, and turned dnt of bed on a cold
winter night to get the pap-spoon, or to
walk bare-legged—but that is worse in
mosquito-;ime—up and down the room,
dandling a family organ in full blast; or
perhaps to be sent for a doctor when the
pavement is like glass, and the hailstones
like bullets. I could not live through the
infliction. [ know I could not. A dis
consolate widow would soon ho left to
mourn my untimely fate, and to hear her
relative? declare that her “weeds were ve
ry becoming.”
It may seem inconsistent to say that I
like babies, and then begin to find fault
with them; but there is no inconsistency
about it. i like babies, but dislike annoy
ance. Perhaps if I were a widow with
nine small, aunt!ess children, I might be
come used to it, as they sty cols do to
skinning.
They say—l cannot specify who—but
they say “that a burned child dreads the
fire,” and that probably i.-> the reason why
I am so filled with terror at tlie thought
of baby-iuuuing. Nov-r, although I should
live t > tud-sgu of Methuselah—l wonder
whothcr&M!*hus-eia 1 1 ever did any baby
nursingrnwiunet have had a constitution
of iron to stand it so long—never shall I
forget my first experience in that lino. It
makes me feel as if I shall turn into a
thrashing machine every time a child blub*
bets. Yet years have passed since then.
The little toddlers of those days can now
almost look over :ny head. By the by,
that reminds me that I m r;t be getting
old. Why, how kindly time has used me!
I can perceive no signs of my gray hairs
yet, and my heart is without a wrinkle. —
How warm my blood is, too! It makes
me laugh to see. youngsters mnffleil up to
the cye3, ‘ Why, the coldest day of last
winter could not drive me into an over
coat.
Still, the symptoms of age have been
stealing upon rue unawares; for I used to
look forward, and now I love to peep o
yer shoulder at the past. lam becoming
garrulous frr my reminiscences. Weil, well,
white I am in the humor for it, let me re
late an occurrence of my life which the
sight “squalling comfort” re
calls.
Years ago—l was young and unsophis
ticated then, and had but an indistinct
idea of what a baby was; at leiftt, I had
as much faith in babies as I had in a kit
ten, or blind puppy, or any other animated
plaything —years ago, I was on a visit to
a friend in the country, or, to “speak by
the card” as Hamlet says, so _ near the
country that you could se n fhc green
j fields from the house door. I could des
] cribs to yon the mistress of that house stud
■ her family, and the arbor of lilacs that,
’served for my study, and the little-bridge
; spanning the little rivulet, with the road
; up'a Bandy hill, on the top of which was
| YL viiage ’buryiug-gronnd, at which point
f cottld lug in a line from Gray’-s “Elegy”
and then expatiate on tlie sublimity of a
mountain, with a canal winding round its
base —bnt I won’t. I must stick to my
subject, and that subject is tip? baby; for
there was a baby, a little chubby, rosy
faced, fat-legged baby, whose limbs would
sprawl about in all directions imaginable,
although they generally made a dead set
at their eyes and lips, and were decidedly
dangerous lo standing collars.
It was a very nice, quietbaity, however,
and I took a huge fancy to it, as a very
pretty plaything, although I would handle
it as gingerly as possible, for fear of smash
ing it like a piece of filagree-work. I had
a sort of humiliating feeling that I was
as rough a3 a bear, and, when I spoke,
afraid of the sound of my own voice, for I
was impressed with an idea that baby
might think it was a wild beast growling;
so I would try to chew the words soft, and
endeavored to talk baby- talk like a nurse.
I wonder whether babies understand En
glish chopped into minoe-meat better than
the plain words? For the life of me, I
cannot remember whether I did. I won’t
be quite certain, however, whether I ever
was a baby. I am travelling towards
that part of my life now.
But, rough as I thought myself, baby
and I got on swimmingly for some time.
I became'aa bold as a Hon ia handling it
and thought that I could manage all -the
babies in creation. Why, the little thing
would let rue take it in tny arms without
struggling to get its neck broke. It would
even crow, .as if delighted at having got
anew donkey to carry it. Sometimes I
would put it down, and try to teach it to
walk; but the feat was beyond rny abili
ties. lam ashamed to acknowledge it;
but, simple as the art of walking really is,
I could never coax it into baby’s under
standing. He or she—upon my life, J
have forgotten whether it was a boy or
gh'l—he or she seemed to imagine that the
only use of legs was to kick. Why are
children dumber ia that respect than in
fant cats? Why, my aunt had kittens
that could ran about before their eyes
were open. I saw them myself; and no
body wondered at. it
There was one excellent trait in baby,
although it would stick to “all-fours.” • It
did not require much coaxing to sleep. It
slept half the time, and I don’t think it
snored. It had a very small snore, if it
did. I think, however, there was some
ledgerdemain used in sending it to the
land of Nod; some sleight-of-hand which I
could never understand, although I watch
ed the operation again and again. There
was a walk up and down the room; a
ducklike waddling walk, with sometimes a
low’, uttered incantations of nursery, hymes
and, “hey, presto!” a little sleeper was
transfered from the mother’s arms to the
cradle. I tried the waddle and the in
cantation, and only set the baby a crow
ing. Ido believe it would have pulled
my whiskers, only I had none to pul!.
One morning—how I remember that
morning!—a bright, sunshiny morning in
early summer. All nature seemodjoyons
ly happy. The matronly hens went cack
ling about with their broods, and the cat
was stretched out baking her brains, on
tlie sloop. Even the tall, old-fashioned
clock, which stood in one corner of the
room, seemed to tick in good humor, as if
going on such a fine day was a luxury, and
r.o labor at all. It was, generally speak
ing, a sombre old clock, in a long mahog
any case, with a portion of a revolving
filobe visible above the dial-plate. On the
globe was a ship in full sail,, on a voyage
of discovery—it may have been Captain
Cook’s, or Robinson Crusoe’s, or Wilkes’
but this morning it had gone out of sight,
to cruise in the dark among the Antipodes
and a large blue-bottle fly stooclsod 0:1 the
glass, anxiously waiting to see it come up
again, as if owned part of the freight. The
face of the clock looked dingy and black,
as if it had sulked all its life in a corner,
and felt angry and hurt by neglect-: but to
day it had quite brightened up, as if the
fine weather had lei it to say to itself,
“if people dont mind in?, way should I
care?”
There was no one at home except baby’s
mother, and baby and I. Baby had just
gone to sleep, when the babys mother re
membered a trifling commission which she
had promised to execute for me in the
village. With an injunction to touch the
cardie if baby awoke, she departed, leav
ing me proud of my new employment, and
lulled by past immunity into a state of fa
tal security. History is full of similar
examples.
With ouc eye on my book, and the
other on the cradle, like a faithful watch’
dog, I listened to that retreating footfall
that should have warned me, but did not,
“to look out for squalls.” I had no idet
of the awful rcsponsiblity which I had
taken upon myself, or I should have shrank
from it as a cat does from water, or a mas
tiff from a churning-machine. In fact, I
rather suspect that I felt, in a trifling de
gree, ambitious that baby should open one
eye—only one—that I might have the
pleasure of shutting it again. Unwary
motal! How little do we know when we are
well off! My ambition was but too soon
to be gratified; I had yot to Team by
bitter experience how weary is the lot of
those who - tend on babies.
I wonder wiicther infants are conscious
in there sleep of their mother’s absence,
and know that ah opportunity has arrived
for “cutting up their didoes?”
The baby, over whose slumbers I had
trecomc the guardian genius—how the
flies pitched into its‘nose—was as sound
asleep as any baby could be when its
mother departed; but no sooner, had her
shadow faded from the room than symp
toms of wakefulness began to appear.—
First came a sigh: then a chuckle, that
said, as plain as a chuckle could say,“Now
for some fun;” then one eye opened and
shut, ami then both began peeping about,
till the head seemed inclined to bob off
the pillow.
I felt a little-nervous at these synrtpoms
only a little. “Fob!” said I to myself,
“a roll or Iwo of the cradle will sen s?t-
I “
GRIFFIN, (GA.), THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 12, 1853.
tie your business, youngster!” But it did
not. Baby was bound to have big, both
ersome blue-bottle fly, too, tired of watch
ing for the ship over the clock face, started,
on a voyage of discovery on its own ttc
count, ssfrJ the first promonotory which it
reached was the nose of the baby, a temp
ting spot, upon which it landed for refresh
ments, buzzing-most villanous as it did so.
It was a ticklish landing, however, and
baby soon drove it off with a sneeze that
astonished its neves, and mine, too, more
than the fly’s, for tlie fly was accustomed
to ticklish situations, which I was not. —
Baby was thoroughly roused. Up went
his round, chnbv arm; but a rock of the
cradle soon scut, that back .to its plaice.
I did rock that cradle beautifully. The
little head rolled to and fro as easily as if
it had been fastened on by a to v man
drain’s neck. I could not help admiring
myself for the way I done it, and I am
sure that any reasonable baby would have
gone to sleep again, if only for compliments
sake; but the baby in the cradle didn’t.
Tnc moment the rocking ceased, up popped
the little head, like Judge’s in the show,
with a small peevish crv. That cry! it
was like the “fizziug of the fuse” of a
powder magazine, sure to end in and ex
plosion.
Were you over roused in the middle of
of tlie night by the maid-of-all-work com
ing in her slippers and night-cap to inform
you that tlie house was on fire. Hid you
ever stand near a Dutchman who was
weighing gunpowder with a lighted cigar
in his mouth? Did yon ever stand over the
boilor of a Mississippi,steamboat, and ex
pect every moment to be landed on tlie
tree-top half a mile inland? If not, you
cannot conceive my horror when I heard
that cry. I was in a cold perspiration
from head to foot. I have no doubt that
hail-stones as big as peas might have been
picked off my forehaed. I rocked for dear
life, and baby bound about like a ball of
India-rubber. Bat it was all useless. I
sang all the songs I could think of, fora
the cabalistic “Hushaby!” to Cease, rude
Boreas! I tried tenor, and I tried bass;
but the baby did not know the difference.
It seemed to think it all base. The louder
I sang, the louder it cried. It was bawl
and squall; and squall peat. The cry
peevish became tlie cry indignant, and
the cry indignant became the squall im
perative. Blue-bottle buzzed with delight,
and danced a hornpipe on the window,
while the clock kept up a tantalizing, “Go
it! go it.”
In an unlucky moment, I lifted the lit-
tle tempest out of the cradle. Never,
never, never will I commit such an act of
thoughtlessimprudencagain! Before I did
so, I could have truly sung with the poet,
“Tnc* white squall raves;” but afterwards
the fiercest blast of Coreas seemed belch
ing from the little throat.
In the hope of quieting the tornado, I
took it in my arms, waddled it to and fro
the room; tossed it up and down till my
shoulders ached; dandled it on my knees,
now the right one, now the left; but noth
ing would do. L'ke an easterly gale,
that multiplied squalls seemed to be endless.
I felt really alarmed. I was completely
terrified. I saw visibns of convulsion and
such-like ills that infant “flesh is heir to.”
If I had been in the city, I am sure that a
crowd would have collected. I might
have been taken up and accused of an at
tempt to commit infantcide—perhaps,
been published in the papers as a wretch
guilty of crudity to dumb animals. Dumb!
How I wished that the dear family organ
had been dumb! I envied the deaf man
that pick up cinders.
I looked at the clock and exaimed, in
despair, “when will the, mother return?”
“Not yet! not yet!” Blue-bottle had
ceased its buzzing, and returned to its old
quarters over the dial-plate, to watch the
reappearance of the ship; perhaps asking,
as patiently as I did, the question, “when
will site return?” ‘“Not yet! not yet!”
I knew not what to do, and rushed a
dozen times to the door, hoping to see the
coming relief. But the walls of the dis
tant church and houses beyond were
thick, and I could not look through them.
The brook was laughing in the sun-shine,
and murmuring joyously as it glided over
the stones, and I felt a strong temptation
to pop the piping part of baby into it. I
ana sure the dock cried, mockingly, “Do
it! do it!” Bat the thought of a coroner’s
jury restrained me; a country jury of Dutch
boors, with shot pipes in their mouths, and
skulls two layers of brick thick.
There was a rooster on the fence fiap
pinghiswings and crowing like a Trojan,
I do believe it was over inv perplexity;
the pigs were granting in their sty, pull
ing each other’s ears for amusement; and
a cow was giving nourishment to her calf
in a distant field. Suddently, a bright
idea struck me. I seized an old to-baceo
pipe that had been stowed away upon the
mantle-piece, and, immersing the bulb in
a tumbler of water, tliurst the steam into
baby’s mouth. Baby was no genius. I
became satisfied of that iu a minute. It is
an attribute of genius to accomplish its
desires with imperfect instruments. There
was no stoppage ill the pipe. I tried it
myself.
l was at my wits 1 ends, and laid the
baby on the flour, cramming iny fingers
into my ears. It was of no use, 1 could
not shut out tho sound. It was like a
thousand “ear-pie-eing pipes” drilling
mo through and through [ was riddled
with screams that touched like galvanic
wires on every nerve. The clatter of a
three-story cotton-mill, with a, hundred
girls talking of new bonnets through the
din, was nothing to it. All the locomo
tives in the Union, tortured into a State
of agony, would alone compare with it.
Bat mill and locomotive might be stop
ped, and baby could not be quieted, even
for a moment. Anything but a baby’s
lungs would have been worn out by such
an abuse of power, But their strength
only increase, seeming to acquire new
pipes at every blftst. What would I
not have given for the sight of a pettiest
bearing dovyq to my relief? Never did
tt obit)sot) Cjrusoe on his desert island
gaze more longingly over tire ocean in
search of a sail, than 1 did down the road
for bonnet and curls. I could have smiled
lovingly on the fittest dowager that ever
sweltered in tho Weal Indies, or tho thin
nest scrub that pays her devotion to the
door-steps. But the feminine, like other
useful commodities, had all vanished
“ben must wanted. Even the eat, ac
customed to nursin-ff p* she was —even
Lie cat, sensible had disappear
ed. Like the distressed hero of a novel,
1 was left to my own resources, and bail
no resources left. There was baby flop,
pine about on the fl >or like a porpoise
on a ship’s deck, as if King on i's beam
cuds was a natural position. 1 righted h
a dozen times, but over it went again, as
A aj! its ballast had shifted to the bead
I brought tlie shovel and tongs a d ■
lows (loin the fireplace, but the ■
van|hob look at them, not a. hi’ of i,; „ -
though I took the trouble to blow the
‘.'ellows in the blue-bottle’s face and ~e
l e toreads on the carpet flying b< vi
die room. Even the clothes-brush
nutmeg-grater proved no attraction
1 broke a suspender-button hopping about
iike a ft- gon all-tours. |f } had stood
on my head, and sh *ok the ne
of nr. pirkiHS, i* would ■ ham- had no. in
fect. Even a lump of sugar would me
bribe it to lie quiet. It made wry farms
at the mirror, ui pitched tcivug*!,- (
the pillow, turned indignantly front - e
tea-kettle and squared off at the rdb -
pm. Ilf had given ii ihe oarviiig-kVt • >-.
Im> verily believe that it would nav -n
ofl its own head, and made i* q -d.
instead -of one; but I forbore. Giu me
oic it for mv magnanimity! I (Wboif
For nearly a mortal hour—an age—
was 1 thus kept in a state* of frenzy.* My
hairs stood up “iike quills upon Iho fretful
porcupine.” They have always stubborn
ly refused to lie down suw.Tihiy since. If
my trial had lasted much longer, I should
certainly have had a “gray head upon
young shoulders.” Perhaps I should have
sunk Into the grave with a nervous fever,
and had “died of baby-nursing” for an
epitaph upon my tombstone, fortunately
for the public in a catastrophe by the re
turn of the mother, who burst panting in
to the room at the critical moment when
my Job-like patience bad miserably per
ished—by degrees, as the water leaked
from a broken hooped bucket. With
what a feeling of relief did I look up at
the old clock as it announced to me, in its
most cheerful tones, “olio’s come! she’s
come!”
Would you believe it?—bnt I’m sure
you can’t, the fact seems too great in c
normity—that little piece of perversity was
as quiet as a lamb in a minute! Why the
mother was so deceived that she actually
called it her “precious lamb!” I heard
her, and was astounded. I wonder she
did’nt feel sheepish; I know I did. Lamb
indeed! If that was being alamo, what
would it be when it became mutton?—
Why, it was fast asleep again in no time,
and laughing in its dreams over the fun it
had enjoyed. Did’nt I vow never to be
caught alone with a baby again? If I am,
may I be served in the same manner
again.— Lady's Book.
From tjio Mhlolj I’rihiinf*.
PLUTARCH ?icrUliE3.
GEORGE MC’UUFFIK.
Os all - the distinguished men of South
Carolina, there was none more gifted than
George McDuffie. He was a star of the
first magnitude. Honest and sincere it>
all his actions—a profound jurist—a
statesman of the larges* experience, he re
presented His State for many years in the
national councils, with a devotion that
endeared nun to his constituents, and a
fulness of knowledge that placed him in
toe first rank of legislators. Ilisspeech
es, and Ids reports as Chairman of the
Committee of Ways and Means, not only
established his reputation in America, but
in Europe he was hailed as the champi
on of free trade, and complimented bv
the statesmen of England, as one of‘he
master spires of the age. Mis life, il
written by a competent hand, would
mike a very interesting bingfrohy. I.
would exhibit a poor boy in the humble
walks of fife, environed with diffl •uliies,
yet surmounting those difficulties with a.
iron will, that ultimately elevated him to
a position that commanded the profound
respect and admiration of his coempora
ries. His career in Con rt'ss is too gen
erally known for us to do more than give
it a passing glance; and s.icn was tho es
timation in which lie was held by
ra! Jackson, that, notwithstanding the vi
olence of the nuiefication controversy,<hv
old President uniformly expressed the
most affectionate regard fr McDuffie,
s tying, repeatedly, “that if there was an
honest man alive, that min was George
McDuffie.” Ha was undoubtedly one
of the most intellectual m ‘.i of the age;
his mind was eminently logical, and you
shall try in vain to find a flaw in his ar
guments. O.te might have differed with
hitn in the principles he expressed, hut to
grant his premises was to concede the
argument. . Mis contests with We iter
leive no doubt as to the splendor of ins
intellect; his report on the United States
Bank, was the ablest argument ever made
on that side of the question; and Ins
speeches on internal improvements, the
tariff, the removal of the deposits, and on
the expediency of amending the constitu
tion, are all masterly, and seem to ex-
haust those subjects.
When he rose to speak, there was al
ways a death-like sileoeyin the House -
you mightuave heard .pi i; drop. His
burning enthusiasm, thalsal hvlmg of bis
splendid gray eye, the emyftflic enuncia
tion that accompanied ev*rf word, held
you captive, and step by step be hurried
you along with him, from point to point,
until you were sUbdaed by tlie fascina
ting lervor of his transcendent genius.—
Nor was he diffieient it) sarcasm; his
speeches in reply to the attacks of that
miserable compound of vulgarity and im
pudence. Tnstsam Burges, abound in
wit and humor. Ills comparing General
Jackson to Jupiter Tonuns, in which Ju
piter is represented as seizing the aVm of
all thu Gods, wielding the povvete of Pan
theon, and giving ‘‘the stamp Fate,”
was one of the happiest illustrations ot
executive spoliation lhas has ever )een
exhibited by any orator of any afle or na
tion. It was worthy of Demosthenes!
HiJsfltnt in the convention wifc to the
left ot the President, and in the Vicinity
of .Vfajof Himilton, toe revolutionary re
—: ; ’ ■
terao. You could nave recognized Mc-
Duffie at a glance. He was of the medi
um height, and dressed in a claret color
ed coat that was much too large far him;
but his iotellei-iuiil face attracted you nt
once, especially when his sjdendid eye
was fired hy the excitement of discussion
H s hair v\as black, and cut wrtb mathe
matical precision, straight front, temple to
cm,dr, and e-t rlo'Vi*, s- os’ to dis
ir-i\ .he S’ *• O’ ;>j -t head, ‘which was
’ • Sir <• ■'! lit ,;!dv f.o iT-t-d U alas'!
-neve i . a hectic flue o••<*.• h - pale
too rk; \uu perceive h m s ;:riv dying
t• -*•; 1 1 ioioiud’K abie wound, iic -received .
it: Ins youth 11• s hands arc trembling
violently. Hs is up! bu‘ his voice is
■dear and cairn, Ids enr-rcta'tdn- dUnnct,
oti his not mo emnb.fn Uttetiog a
“oh l (o. ; mi.-no, tie i>v .ofl bis p;t
• I cAr y ‘sites-:. ■; •• ; n.oV AH
;s hush ■!. Yen might. : >oir i.eart
•*• ‘V. Bo .’ he (iashi . the argil- |
ow'O, : .. li( . arrior
beiorc \tv., • :. r , r 0 f
r ut.it, ...lit; i w iohuyv . -■ ji’ -sti'ce
tor libel ‘ V tOifi ihe i ,t . He
spoviks’ one i--; : • • *,.•; fi.oi^.'ils,
-i <rds t*sd l.cti-m ‘arc sublime— and when
“ r.->u-- . o ■ . make a nirghliec es-
Wi', i.u ft. oka one RRtniiiT I. and
w;.b .* oi <u ■ at it"**’ ‘Vi/'.o ivii'Si 1 or*
ic .oiit- and *-r.>qr.t;,.oe have b-u-i.o you 1
captive to his luuo.. . l e t-’
McDuffie nsc oY.*;- f ; v>.it obscurity 1
l*t eminence, bis -n ;* ; .■ . foui'm in the!
opinion ofotiny, rU;! ! o.o . •.vlto j
was the u, s‘ t- • -.* ■* •.'’ t-i-sos er:
;t;v ioi'unes ‘*i .iheoo yffv*; fjoy \}
•ped at once to the head . tn>r, and!
tinlii ii is election to i ongees; be -.ad a*-’
competitor!in South I.'arolju.f, as .* bio -i
yet His practice was vetv !a rative,
aid (ft-rhaps no-lawyer ever acquired eo
fa* gea ioriiute in so short a time. In .
ios marriage, too, he was fortunate, lead- \
mg to the altar one of the wealthiest
beauties of the la ih * ! sogVer of Col
Richard Singleton
la his manners, Vm-biffis j, rt d he sim
plicity of a child. A y shell relate an in
stance which is eharaom-.stic of the man.
‘‘Y on r Mr. McDuffie is a very sragniarj
person!” said a young lady to- us on one
occasion. “How so?” 1 Why, 1 was at
‘.he Springs, a -few months -.dace, j
and learning that the great Mr. McDuffie]
was in the house, I went into the curri
dor to catch a glimpse of him, when who
nhoub.ftappi inch me hut the great man
himself, saying Miss I have lost my
hat, won’t you help me iurnt for it?”
“Yes,” replied ihe lady,—‘and .found it!’
And his appearance!’ ordinary occa
sions. was anything but (Us'iiigue, We
siiail relate an anecdote that occurred
only a few d;i3’s before his ejection as
Governor of the State. VVe were stand
ing by his side in the House of Repre
sentatives, when a member from Charles
ton, Major John Huger, approached Me
Puiae, and said: “Give me that chair; 1
wish it for Colon-1 Warren,” “Certain
ly, sir,” replied McDuffie, and handed the
chair to Major Huger, who took it to old
Colonel Warren, requesting him to re
lieve himself ft dm* the pain-of supporting
himself on his crutch, for the old hero
had lost his leg at tlie battle of Savon
uah. A geutiernam—vvs think it was
Pickens- Butler, the present Senator iu
Congress who witnessed the occurance,
irew Major H(igyr.aside, saying: “ A hat’
have you done?” “ Woo —whu?” ex
ciuinhcd Huger, f*>r the tone of Butler
apprised him--that he -had committed
some gretvau i blunder. “Done, why,
coubt you find no chair for Cos!. *-Varreh,.
but itie one occupied by Mr. Duffle?”—
“Mr. who?” exclaimed Huger, almost
pstnfiail with astmmhm :• *■ .’l'‘Duffle,’j
replied Butler. “tJo ivens!” Hu-!
ger, ‘''.i. hv i took hiiri iota p-ndcr man!” j
A-. 1 public sp.= .ker'-he u-e* r *ooic* j
i . v ■, — iJoDuili - wa ; v • r’Bd? in lit.-.;
style ‘.’ i -.cca.Mons, be w ‘U-d bo j
exir,- nely rapid., dashing oti with th- ra
>• ‘ll*’ V'i .1 ii :’ i ■ whip :■
Ac •■{ i: (i:-i.s i, ;1 vO-i’l .V.-i’ : fir
two ‘.it low lo.io, U i’i uo; ; I ttj*> Up
candle am! remove o, a- -f jealou -of iisj
light, tie then ‘•■,• ):( •: iitfe, salience,l
:i?vl replace the :*r>;. ‘So . : •. v to-1
•xnM si ’.‘tie ) by , giving viou t■’ * j
<r;i ii. ■!-.<! .> i'~ ■ I .-•biff ."i :i -i.;J
tis* yimTctmg a blow th-t •” is h i 1 |
. nougb to hiivtt u*m>lishK.t 1 1 .. H p o>.i-ij j
him deliver his tat nous e>i-'o-..s . c os-■
ton, in’ viodica ion ■ i hfs lv hip‘v Due i-he-1
oi’v,” —tti.it he moin ained the ;-.ropes!-J
Hon ‘hut fr>y tiaj'St <ut e r ,;nj edt
were In.st ?.. i.. • pr > ii.* . ■ ■ m lu- !
lent operation of sii • protective s• .-atn j
Me spoke four hours, and verV den -e-j
ralelv, seeming to think over, and ipnuid j
ovary thought before giving it utterance, i
Mo used considerable ictioo, indeed it
•r ?s rather tl ingerom to have a seat in
his vicinity, and more’ ihcui one? we saw
‘renecnl Haytio dodge to avoid a blow
from the sweeping arm vd the orator, in j
the course of Uis argument, he won! I oc
casionally relate an anecdote that served
to amuse and relieve t'he audience, and
which atfirded him a jjomi opportunity
to take a iresh star; in the great argument
’he was elaborating.
Poor McDuffie! We sae him in our
mind’s eve, as he stood on that occasion,
uttering ‘‘thoughts that breathe the warns
that burn”—bold, impassionate, eloquent .
—and now, alas! lie sleeps the sleep tl) it
knows no waking, bat his memory will
Song be cherished by bis dear native land,
and his name embalmed in the brightest
page of his beloved Carolina.
A Per3E verging Boy —A boy, only
12 years old, who had walked ad the
way from Ohio to Washington, it is stn
led. called on the President a few days
ago. He said he was an orphan, sup
ported and educated by a poor aunt, and
had come to ask a place in the Navy.
The President was deeply affected by
nis story and the evidence of his perse
verance, and give him several pieces of
gold, and invited him to cad agjiin. The
boy left, but was followed by a gentle
man who witnessed the interview, and
who saw him exchange the gold he hat!
received for bank notes, which be mailed
in a letter to bis prior relative, fI is en
terprise is like’ to be rewarded by the
place he socks.
ihaSse t.iL'.eee.
It may almost invariably bo regard* and as
an evidence of ct want of political Ivonest-y
—nay, of a. still more heinous degree of po
litical turpitude, to eo those who, by
blind zealbtiv,.. in f vor of any particular
partisan, are likely to be numbered with
tlie minority, eager to foist upon their op
ponents issues which they themselves
know to be false That such Is the culpa
ble course marked out for action in the ap
proaching campaign, by some officious de
magogues, cannot be doubted by such as
have watched the “signs of the times,” as
developed in the leaders of some of the
factional presses, and the brawling shodo
monta.de of street declaimers.
We have seen with much concern for
the true interest of ‘democracy, the loom
ing up m the distance of this portentous
cloud, overspreading, with its gloom, not
only other portions of the state, but cast-
ing also its advancing shadow over our
own beloved Cherokee, and although the
elemental strife has not yet burst upon us
still the scarce audible muttering® of the
discordant thunders, should admonish 113
to beware of the political disasters which
threaten the harmony of our action. In
other words, for the security of our hopes
as a party, and the attainment of a tri
umph, we should be careful that we suffer
no false issues to be forced upon us, to the
alienation of fratcviial feelings, and the det
riment of our cause.
la these remarks, we have special refer
ence to the revival of that divisional ques
tion, which had, for so long a time, dia
; tme ted the democracy of Georgia, ami
I” continued its blightning influence up to
tiie adoption of the Baltimore platform:
whjch vve fondly hoped, had settled, ever*
!to “finality,” the point mooted with so
j much mutual exasperation between the
i southern rights and the constitutional
wings of the national party. We much
fear, however, from the insinuations of
street oracles, and the bolder tone of par
tizan presses, that an attempt v/11! be made
to present the issue anew. Against such
a fratricidal course, wc enter our most so
lemn protest; especially in relation to our
congressional and legislative elections. In
these, while wc have .general reference to
the political qualifications of aspirants,
and national and state interests, we should
maintain unrehixiug .vigilance on tiiQse
which are purely local y for it in the latter
we are not properly represented, one- of
the grand objects’ of our representation
will be most grievously thwarted.
Let us, therefore, hi ther selection of can
didates, be guarded against the renewal of
divisional strife. Losing sight of former
jealousies, let us act with unanimity. Sa
crificing personal predilections or the altar
of the public good, let ns bend all the’ po
litical sagacity of which we are masters,
to make s'ueh choice from our ranks as
Shall reflect honor Upon the country at
large, and secure our most valuable local
interests 1 . Why need we care, now bpth
; the right and the ncceaity of secession have
become for the present, “obsolete ieeas,”
and the patriotic cry of the “glorious
union,” the receding voice of the far-fled
past —why need we care, whether he who
is called to represent us in the legislature
and congressional councils, boa southern
right or constitutional union man, so he is
but a thorough democrat, qualified and
determined to do his duty by us?
Any and every thing calculated to dis
! turb the harmony of our actions as a par
ty, we honestly deprecate; not because of
our pre-existing partiality for either one of
the many distinguished individuals, whose
respective claims will be urged in the can
vass, —though, that we have preferences
do not pretend to conceal, —but because
we regard consentaneousness of effort as
indispensable, to the continued prosperity
lof democratic principles. Hence, among
• the number whose names have been men
tioned in connection with congressional,
legislative, and judical honors, vve are pre
pared, thus soar, to support, might and
main, any one whose claims to popular
suffrage shall be acknowledged by our
conventional delgates.— D alt or. Times,
[From the Baitimor.? American]
Too now Remscly.
Largo numbers ‘of citizcns-of baltiraorc,
i satisfied with the explanations and practl
| cal effects of the simple remedy of Dr.
j Brainerd, for the cure of defective sight,
! have applied the means with great benefit.
I Tiie following is taken from the Rcpubli
| can & Argus of Tuesday evening:
‘j Wonders Never Cease. —Last evening
| the large Ilall of the Maryland Institute
j was crowded to its uttermost capacity to
j hear the lecture and to witness the experi
ments performed on the eye *by Dr. C.
! Bainerd. of Now York. The Dr. havc-
I ing stated that he would make the blind
see, many thought it a humbug, and so
pronounced it, but at the close of his inter
esting lecture, the Doctor gave a general
invitation to those who were blind, near
-1 sighted or had weak eyes to come on the
piatfamn and he would do all he professed.
Quite a number of ladies and gentlemen
went forward and in the short space of 3
minutes each declaimed their eyes had been
improved.
This morning we visited the Doctor's
room at the Institute, and while there
saw his simple application applied to a lad
aged about 11 years, and son of Mr. Ni
cholas Uicheir, No. 223 St. Charles street,
who had been blind in the right eye for
six years. After the cup had been applied
for the space of a minute, it was removed
when the left eye was closed and the little
fellow was requested to walk across the
room. lie iramediatty complied with the
request, and cried out “Father, father l
can see!” He was then handed several
articles, all of which ho named correctly,
and described several persons who were
standing hi the room. The joy of the
father and son can be better immaginod
than described.
The application was also applied to Mr.
C. li. Cunningham, who resides at 146
fl-d imore street, and had been blind for
32 years. He in the short space of three
minutes declared he could sec distinctly,
and recognized several gentlemen lie had
not seen for 32 years Those are facts,
and any one doubting them, can call on
the above mentioned gentlemen and be
satisfied. Dr. Brainerd’s room was crow
ded this morning with those wl Q wss so i
eefor’.UGfcie a* to >.-rve b n! eyes, not one
us whom who applied live application hut
teliied tWo ii : ng him with a grateful heart.
V\ (j also dit thy 1 ‘j. -w/iog, from the
•C'dpF*. o.* \ ct srd,:y m >rWhe:
Th* ci, feiiinent were the* T rhosl satis
facioiy arid convincing. Some dozen
persons who w ere a fib clod with far and
near-sightedness, inflrmatioo of the oye
and dimness of sight, applied ih ß cups—
ami all ackuowle Iged an improvement,
though the ex pertinent in no case exceed
ed three minutes. One gentlemen, who
was very near sighted, said that he would
not take five hundred dollars and have
hia sight return to what it was before he
applied the cup3.
Another who saw better l the distance
of fourteen feet, had the focus of his sight
of changed thet he could eve best at thf
distance of about one foot. A lad} - who
could not beer the glare of a lamp before
her eyes a second without pain, was en
abled, after (he short application of the
cups, to look for any length of time at
the lamp placed close to her face, which
she said she had not beeu able to do for
a number of years.
Gov. Cobb the Southern Banner
T he last Southern B-ymer refers to tin?
course of the Advocate, and other demo
cratic. papers towards Gov Cobb. Wc
take the occasion to set the Banner right
as to the position of the Advocate t\>
have not applied the teetzt ion ttl to Gov,
Coho ‘r other Union Democrats. In ro
gke.-i t.-> G<>v Cirftb’i late letter, we are
ahogetnef satisfied with his avowal of
what will be his party relations hereafter.
With his statements as to the history of
the past, we could not concur. Wa
showed foibaarance in not attacking those
statements, while we did not coincide in
the sweeping laudations that some Dem
ocratic papers piled upon the letter. It
may he a* well here to do justice to tho
i imes, and refer to the fact that the dis
sent of tho.l p-pg- from the positions of
(iov. Cobb’s letter was respectful and
temperate. Nothing has been said by
me Tunes, much less by the Advocate,
that will preclude either of those presses
from a cordial ce-oporatioa with Gov.
Cobb and other Union Democrats, in the
maintenance of Democratic principles and
polity, and in the support of the present
Democratic administration.
The points in his letter in which thov
differ v. ill never in all probability bring
up any practical issue. It may be as
well, once for ell, to refer to thVtaunting
language of the Banner towards Gov.
Cobb and other union Democrats, such
as, “conquered subjects,” “captives,”
“slaves,” “wealing chains,” Sic. But
for the evident sincerity and earnestness
of the Banner, wa r would pronounce all
such eplTtiQis the veriest gammon and
humbug. But so far as we are concern
ed, we disclaim again the idea of pro
scriptions of union Democrats. And on
this subject the course of the Advo
cate shall not be misunderstood. That
course is equally opposed to the idea of
proscription to union Democrats, and to
the idea that they ara entitled to a re
ward for acting with the Democratic par
ty. Let them take equal positions with
j other Democrat*. They should receive
J whaUvei consideration, and honor*, and
j offices, their integrity and talents may de
serve. But no more. Let not principle
be sacrificed for expediency.’ Coalitions
made simply fbrthe sake of party strength
and at the sacrifice of principle and con
sistency will in the end be fatal and just
ly so. If any man’s acting with or oppo
sing tlte Democratic party is made to de
pend upon the assurance of office being
given <>r withheld, let him go. Better
sutler d'feat than purchase success by
such means’ Thus only can a party pre
serve self respect, and the permanent as
cendency of its principles. In this there
is no proscription.— JSl.irieiia Advocate.
PRINTER’S TEN COMMANDMENTS.
J. Thou shalt love thy printer,—for he
is the standard of thy country.
2 Thou f-halt tiuberihe to his pape;
for Itc seeketh much to obtain the news,
n{ which you may not remain ignorant.
3 Thou shalt pay him for his paper,
—for ho lahoieth hard to give you the
news in due reison.
4. Thou .shalt advertise, —that he may
he able to give you the paper.
5. Thou shalt not visit him regardless
o! his office rules—deranging the papers.
G. Thou shall touch nothing that will
give the printer trouble, —that ho may
not hold thee guiily.
7. ’’ hou shalt not read the manuscript
in the hands of the Compositor,—for he
will hold thee blameful.
S. Thou shall not seek the news he
roic it is printed,—for he will it to you
in due time
9. Thou shalt ask him hut few- ques
tions of things in the office,—from it,
thou shalt tell nothing.
[O. Thou shalt not send abusive and
threalning letters to the editor.
Su.cide in Augusta —Edmond Head
committed suicide iu Augusta, on Satur
day list', by servering the arterb-s of one
of his legs, just above the knee. He
was said to he a worthy man. He was
addicted at times to fits of melaneholly,
am! it was douhtles during one of these
lie was led to the commission of the deed
having previously retired into n wood
near by were his body was found. *
A lucifer match which has pissed
through seven processes, costs,by whole
sale about one-three hundredth of a cent.
By the most improved machine, matches
are spilt at the rate of sixty thousand
p?r minute!
A Great Hoad. —There is n Railroad
Company out west that refuses to let a
man named Flanders, pass over their road
after purchasing a ticket, because he runs
a Ime of omnibusses in opposition to lheir
cars.
Dr. John C. Calhoun, of Florida, a son
of the late Hon. John C. Calhoun, has
recently received the appointment of
\ Secretary of Legation to France.
No. 19.
