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VOL. XIV. THE GEOSEM JEFFEMM! IS HSB7.IRHED EVEUT TllCr.6C/. 7 KQHKW i BY WILLIA AT CLINE, \ At Trca PoVais ssd “ £fty Ceat* per ac- j AOVKRTISGMFKTS m inscftei at O.YK’ DOLLAR pv square, for the firel insertion, anti FIFTY CEfiTS per eqnnie, for rat h insertion thereafter. A reasonable tlixhicunt] will t> made to those wlio advertise hv the yee-. Ail i!(lvcii) rv>t otherwise ordered, will he eonlintjerl liii lor'.iid. ~ \rJ*SJtLF.S OF f.A\D$ Ity Administrators, I'x-outers or Gnar*i;i.i> re required bj law to he held on the lirji Tuesday in ihe mootli, between the honra ot ten in the (oreboon onri tiirce in the afternoon, at the Cmirt-il-oise, in tlie eoonty in which Ihe land is it'iated. # Notice of i!k p sale, must he given in a miMo gazette FORTY DAYS p'o-jou® :o the <’:tv of sale. S QLES OF VF.GRGES must in jinade at pnh he tiitction on the first Tuesday of the month, he-- tween the usual hours of safe at the plaee ot pub !te sites m the county where the letters Tesla oentnr ~ of AdminKtr tion nr Guardianship inav have been crawted; first tuvinjj- FORTY DAYS notice thereofin one of tlie public **azi’ttes of this and at the e-iiir! iiouse w he e such sales are to t-c field. Notice for the s ite of Personal Property must he given in like manner FORTY DAYS previous to ihe dav of sale. Notice In Debtors and Creditors of an estate tirt.'t he published FOR TY DAYS. Notice that apolicatioo w ii! he made to the Court of Ordinary for i.eavt. Ttl SUM. LAN D IllllSt l>C Dull- \ ishi’d fir ‘TWO MOST ns, Notice fr LEivr to sF.t r. vfgroks most tic paMi-hed TWO MONTHS ‘before anv order ob solete shall he made thereon hv the Court, CFTATIO.YS for Letters nl A-hniefttration, outst t>e punhsheil Ttttr.TY nits; for Dismission from Aeniinisfra'ion, month’ v sit mouths; for Disuj M-orsdro ii Guardianship, f- utt o\t , Hides tor the Foreclosure ‘*• vtortcage must he published monthi.y for four months, for estab lishing lost papers, lor the l"u ! I space of three months; torcompelling titles from Executors or Administrators, where a iiond hn In-en given hv If’ diseased, tlie full space of thrff months. 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.