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&l)c Central (Georgian.
IS PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
AT SA^DEKSvILLS AND SPARTA, GEO.
BY
PBXPDETOX, HODGES & EEXEAU,
PROPRIETOBS.
-Z^PAvmT HODGES. B. B. BKXXAU.
r. c. i»e*i>leto*. , *-■• !
p. c. PENDLETON, Editor.
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AHI© §AHI2)EMTlEaS<iE AKfffi) SFABTA
THE
CENTRAL GEORGIAN.
is PUBLISHED
JEYERY THURSDAY MORNING.
VOLUME IX,
BUSINESS NOTICES.
ISSUED SIMULTANEOUSLY IN SANDERSVILLE AND SPARTA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1855.
NUMBER 5.
TERMS :
,r ;-j -Ilu in ii.lrm.ee.per year, $1 50
it Li', ud ’• > v 'imeaf scribing, $2 00
KkMB 'terms '.VIM- BE STRICTLY"ADHERED j
f . imiiour resfeci to mittens, and all!
U'lLL SE REQUIRED TO BE SET- ;
JOB PR INTINO,
Of all kinds neatly Executed at
O’THIS OFFICE,
BSY R. 12. lUi^EAU.
J . a-:. W I L Bi I A iT5 S ,
I Formerly of Knoxville. Tenni]
.COMMISSION MERCHANT,
JOKltimOS* «’**-•* “ * *. } ANI, DEALER IN
tlb» »f everv' vlar. ' Bacon. Lnrd Corn, Oats, Wheat and Produce
Advertisements not exceeding tvv«Oc . eenpr;llIy> Johnson’s — 1 ' | f
|ia«i, rill be inserted at onedollarloi ic us , jfcsgT'Orders From a distanc^promptly at-
i.s.ru-*, .uid dfiy cents tor each continuance. lended to feb7—Soy
tfrertUeinonUrtiothaving the number of in-1 __
•rtioas ipcciticd, a in be published until | Depol,--Atlanta, Georgia,
^* r *v ■ if 1,vk1 and Negroes by Executors,! r j''HE subscribers expect to keep constantly
“ 5 U ;d Guardians, are required on Hand a good supply of Bacon, Lard
1 Corn, Oats, Stock Peas. Meal, Flour. &c., <^c.
and in f..ct every thing Georgia and Tennes-
see-ptodiices; and will be pleased to supply
the citizens of Sandevsville and surrounding
country; on fa /ocable terms.
SEA GO & ABOTT.
feb 7 -Joy
A iiinisirator.. ... ... ,,
hr aw to be advertised m a public gazette
fsrtv ,1 vs previous to the day of sale.
flic sale of Personal Properly must bead-
Tsrtiscd in like manner at least* ten days.
Vo;i;v o Debtors and Creditors ot an es-
Ute litnst be published forty days
N'.iia t- rliat application will be made totho
(• ottrl „f ordinary for leave to sell Land and
N-groes.mast be published weekly for two
* ijiiad.aus for letters of administration must
H« •sblished thirty ; days for dismission from
id aiiisirnt ion.monthly for six months-, fordis-
ai'.ion from Guardianship, forty days.
R„le |„r foreclosure of Mortgage must be
Mblwhed monthly for.four months—for estab-
li,n;vr lost papers, for the- full space of three
mtHlhs—foreompelling titles from Execute's
•rr A Imi-iistrators,where a bond has been SDV
sn by the deceased, the full space of 3 months.
Publications will always be continued ac-
e irdingto these,Mu-legal requiremeuts,unless
otherwise ordered. ..
All letters on business must be vost-jiam.
L TW~:N O TICES. __
!> -HT p. HARMAN,
llUDlUi
A T T ' > 11 N E
A T L A W ,
SKNDEUSVILLE, GA.
•fgill practice in the Counties of the Middle
Cirwit- All business entrusted in his care
frill rorcive prompt attention.
gv;"
vrroRNRV at law,
4 3 —tf
U; L. FRESCJATT.
ATTOK N F.Y AT LAW
H'lcyondrle. Sr. riven co.
•Vil.L
Watch Maker and Jeweler?
r r'ILE Subscriber would respectfully an-
i nounce to the citizens of W shington
and adjacent counties that he has located him
self in Sandersvillc, whore he will repair
Watches and all other kinds of Jewelry at the
shortest notice. His work-shop isin Messrs.
Ainsworth oz-Singer’s store, where he keeps
for sale a full assortment of the finest and new
fashion Jewelry. By doing good work, charg
ing moderately, and selling Jewelry on very
reasonable terms, he solicits a share of public
patronage. ISAAC FREDRICK.
December 6, 1853 45—tf
Fail and Winter Supplies,
T T. YOUNGBLOOD &• CO., have on hand.
x a general assortment of Dry Goods, Boots,
Hats arid Caps, Ready Made Clothing, Saddles,
Bridles and Harness,
ALSO
A general assortment of Hardware. Groceries,
Crockery, Glass, Tin, Earthen and Wooden-
ware.
On hand, and constantly receiving a gen
eral assortment, of Groceries, such as Flour,
Sugar. Coffee, Bacon Sides, Shoulders, Hums.
Ac.,
oct 17 tf
Faiailv Grocery.
O A INKS A WICKER would
(Eerms of Subscription.
One Pptlar and Fiftt Cents, Paid
at The TIME OF SUBSCRIBlNF *'
and TVP Dollars Paid yriTfli* i|j|t
Year
TERMS OF ADVERTISING *
One Dollar per square (of twelve line*)
will be charged for the first, and FiO*
Cents for each subsequent insertion,
iitiscellaneons.
The Death of our Almanac.
He died without a groan. He seemed
as vigorous, only the day before, as the first
day of‘his life j and held his own to the
last moment. And were it not that anoth
er child of the same family, bearing the
same general features, and apparently of,
the same temper, is ready to take his place, uously blossom.
>le
(Jr or,
attention
to
»ri«li3 i
if Was]
imanu
1853. -t:
nHVkiUT D. KVA NS.
ATTORN'RV at law,
Sandersiille. (Jeurgia.
WILL practice in the counties
; as i9D iturkc, Jefferson, driven. I
Laai'*s. Wilkinson and Hancock.
(.')4icc in Court licvi-o' on Lower
JNtL W. RUD1S1LL.
VrroKNUT AT LAW.
Sunders die Georgia
it*. 1853 rj *—‘"
\l. L. WAKTHKN.
a 11,1 It N KY A I La W,
Stnlzrsciik, Ucorgiu.
fib. 17, 1853. 4 —*- v
" MU LFORD MARSH.
Arrwivav anb col'Xsellur at law,
) sire, 175, B.tv street,Savannah,Ga.
is53. '
j.hTiiayne.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
icarborough, Georgia
-Viil itt.j id pr->m
-rj’.Mi l< ii« care in
l/iiil* Easter
C.
take
k method to inform their Friends and
public at large, tiiat they have just opened in j _
Sandersvillc an extensive family Grocery.
They intend So keen every tiling needed by Mr-
foiiiTnuiny in iiieir unc,:nm tnvnc uieir irumu.-
to call and examine their supplies.
AMONG WHICH MAY BE FOUND
-Vugar of all kinds, Collie of difil-reni sorts,
Jtolasses and Syrups. Rice, Cheese, Tobacco,
Sugars,Salt, Baggjngam! Ropc.Butter, .f/ack-
cral, B‘0ek and Green Teas, Fepper. Spice.
Flour, Bacon Tubs, ihteiiets.Tin,S.itiil. I fni's
| Coperas.Starch. Soaps of all kinds, Powder
Floor.) j Shot. Candles, Cider Vinegar, Ginger.
‘ Irish Potatoes. <J c .
FRESH SUPPLIES.
of all the above articles kepi eonstan.iy on lump
for the ac< nminodaiion of purchasers. And as
a first requisite to success in any business is
to deserve it, we expect, by a diligent, atten
tion to business, and by keeping .on hand all
sueli articles as belong to our line, and by t rict
mention totlie wants'of custotuers. to deserve
i liberal patronage,
nov ‘.51 tf
we should be inconsolable. For, no other
friend have we to whom we can go for ad
vice, as we could to him. He was of an
Oriental turn of mind, and spoke mostly
in figures. Yet his knowledge was exceed-
ingly practical. His reading was various.
He held converse with the stars, and seem
ed to know what was going on among all
the planets. He had a habit of looking
after the sun, and had become so well ac
quainted with his habits, that he «ould tell
you all that he would probably do for years
to come. lie knew all the ccquettings of
the suu and moon ; and all the seasons at
which stars would play “bo-peep’' with
each other; and all the caprices of the
moon, from her iiyest glance to the fullest
gaze of her maidenly face.
Although his thoughts seemed much on
high, he also had much earthly lore. He
was particularly fond of looking after the
tides ; he kept a calendar of various events
and days, and notched the whole year upon
bistable. *
YVe seldom'took in hand an important
matter without consulting him. We nev
er found his judgment of events wrong.
And now, his face and sides bear the
marks of our regard.
But these economical uses were but the
“exterior knowledges” of our departed
friend. Nothing pleased him better than,
on some winter night, to he drawn forth,
and held before the glowing fire, and per
suaded into a spiritual converse. How
many discourses has he thus uttered !—
Sometimes he would liken the year to hu
man life, and drew the analogies o: each
month to corresponding periods in man's
development and experience. At other
times he would divide the world’s life into
periods, and always declared that wc were
in the month of March, and rapidly coming
fivurd April. You can no more know,
Be not niggardly. Search put the cold
and resentful nooks that refused the sun
and cast back its rays from disdainful iee,
and plant flowers even there. There is
goodness in the worst. There is warmth
in the coldness. The silent, hopeful, un
breathing sun, that will not fret or despond,
ibut carries a placid brow through the un-
wrinkled heavens, at length conquers the
very rocks, and linches grow and inconspic-
What shall not time do,
l
I salt
that carries in its blossom, Love ?
...“Junk t lioBt 1 This is- tW year's
power. Sit down within it, Wipe from
thy brow the toil. The elements are thy
servants. The dews hring thee jewels.
The winds bring perfume. The earth
shows thee all her treasure. The forests
sing to the thee. The air is all sweetness,
as if all the angels of God had gone through
it, bearing spices homeward. " The storms
are but as Hocks of mighty birds that-
spread their wings, and sing in the high
heaven ! Speak to God, now, and say, ‘O,
Father, where art thou ? And out of every
flower, and tree, and silver pool, and twined
thicket, a voice will come, “God is in me.”
The earth cries to the heavens, “God is
here.” The heavens cry to the earth,
“God is here.” The sea claims Him. The
land claims Him.
lv to all business en-
,in' oftiie Courts of the
m> unties.
p. c. akriNgtonT -
ATTO ItX E V AT LAW,
Itouisrille, Ga.
S#-— tf
)«t«bar. 25. 1A53
JAMES
A ■UU-rirctiil.
S. HOOK.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ttnlersville, G&prgia.
WILL FRACVICS IN THIS COUNTIES OF
) Washington. Burke, Striven
( Jefferson and Emanuel.
t«ttkrrn Circuit- I - - - - Lannm*.
Umidget Circuit \ - - - - Wnkinson
jO.'lice* next door to Wart hen &. Carters, j
W. J. WI LG HER,
A TTORNEY AT LA W :
Vf.', It It KN TON', GEORGIA.
Will practice in the Counties of the Mother!
CiiviiU, and Washington and Jefferson of
-J»? Middle Circuit. ;
“SAMUEL FIELD.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
SANDERSVILIE, GA.
MEDICAL NOTICES.
Medical.
T HE undersigned will continue to practic-
ui'dicinc in all its branches, and respect-
iuHy offers bis services totlie citizens of tSaiv
<.<nyi)lc and the county of Washington. IK
ol.Y'c at the old stand, where, or at borne lie
*t all times may be found when not profe's
situully engaged'. A. A. CULLEN18.
jun 24 52oy
Dr. William L. Jernigam
f HAVING permanently located liiui
sell in D.ivisbnroiigii respectfully offers
bis professional services to thecitizeiu
!3 lviishinton County. -H’iien not oth-
arwiseengaged he may be found at hjsOjffice
?! 1! tilJltst t
Davisborough Aqg. j5,1854. 6—ly
IIAMIN 11.T1I1NKR. .
j ■ | ‘ J f 'recent ly rcturned-fi om Philadel-
ij. ; I' :l!l ami having determined to locale in
-■•Met ido,respectfully offers hisprofession-
to citizens of tho Town and
tf
1 . j ‘ ln, 'nbted to the undersighed are
tv-tml/i' "?*Tied, that all claims due hijn
the h, “i ! Aj'Ltcd at qnco. His papers are in
jhose wiu P / L Brant,e y- Esc l'> tc > whom all
laent Q D es!re to save cost can make pay-
' ,, §. D, BRANTLEY,
3m
B. A. Mathis & Bro.
AT CURRY'S- MILLS NE W STORE.
T IIE subscribers would respectfully announce
to their friends and the public generally,
that they have, opened at the above store a very
handsome «toek of Fall and Winter goods,
comprising,
Ladies Dress Goods,
Domestics, A ’
Silks arid Straw Bonnets,
Ribbons, Shall.s,
Ready Made Clothing,
Hats and (-aps,
Shoes and Boots,
Hardware and Crockery,
Saddles and Bridles.
Jewelry and Watches,
Groceries and Tin
ware. Medicines, Ac., cj-c., Alt of which pur
chased in New York and Philadelphia, they of
fer to sell at very low prices.
They invite purchasers to come and and
examine for themselv- s.
B. A. MATHIS, ^ BRO.
oct 17 tf
NEW FALL AND WINTER GOODS.
AT AINSWORTH & SLAGER’S.
r ff"vHE subscribers take pleasure in informing
j their friends, customers, and the public
<reneral!y, that they are receiv :ig a large and
very handsome stock of FALL and WINTER
Goods, selected with great eare, at the North
ern Marnets, where a decline in the prices of
most of the goods, will enable them'to sell
cheaper than ever. They have a full supply ot
the most fashionable ladys’ Dress Goods,
Silk and Straw Bonnets,
Ribbons, Site.,
Ready Made nothing,
Hats and Caps,
Boots and Shoes,
Jewelry and Watches ;
And ail othei articles usually kept in their
utore. T1 cv invite .purchase's to give them a
call and examine, their good-
sept 4 AINSWORTH & SLAGLR.^
he once to us, the glory of'the world
... shall be, from wlmt it has been, than,
from the scenes of February and March,
you cctlHl rii'ptSct tlic eontslTtB of J any a»<i
Oefobcv. . '
Oa one occasion, our Almanac seemed
unusually oracular. Laid on the shelf with
several imaginative authors, he seemed to
have felt their influence.
We wore sitting in our scarlet chair, our
feet upborne upon another, and pointed to
ward the fire, like artillery. We passed
iiito an “impressible” state. The wind
I was rattling the windows on the back of
the house, and whistling wild tones
through-the crevices; aud, occasionally,
we could hear the tide below rushing past
the.-piers, and plashing sullenly against
them. “Come,” said we, “rpeak out.—
Under these names, January, February,
March, April, how much is hid that the
eye cannot see ? Uncover the months aud
interpret them.” We touched the very
chord. In a low and sweet way, he began
to speak as if he were a harp, and the wind,
or. the spirit of the year, were breathing
through it.
“January ! Darkness and Tight reign
equally,
Snow is on the ground. Cold
To My Old Customers.
I HAVE this day disposed of all my stock ot
goodsand the good will of the store to
Messrs. Ainsworth and Slager I would res
pectfully bespeak for them a share of public
patronage, a..d that kindness which you have
uniformly shown to myself, whilst nt buMness
In your midst, LOUI& COOK,
oct 24
in the air. The winter is blossoming in
frost-flowers. Why is the ground hidden ‘l
Why is the earth white ? God hath cov
ered' the old soil, that lives on, from year
to year, with this new and snowy soil, em
blem of neatness and purity. Like an im
printed book, the year waits for its record.
Tho past is hidden, the future uurevetded,
the present fresh and unstained !
‘.‘February ! The day gains upon the
night. The strife of heat and cold is
scarcely begun. The winds that come
from the desolate north, wander through
forests of frostcracking boughs, and shout
in the air the wierd cries of the northern
bergs and ice-resounding oceans. Yet, as
the month wears on, the silent work begins,
though storms rage. The earth is hidden
yet, but not dead. The sun is drawing
near. The storms cry out. But the sun
is not heard in all the heavens. Yet Its
whispered words are entering the ears of
sleeping things that lie beneath the snow.
The day opens, the night shuts the earth.
They strive together, but the Darkness aud
the Cold are growing weaker. On some
nights they forget to work.
“Marcii ! The conflict is more turbu
lent, but the victory is gained. The world
awakes. Then comes voices from long-
hidden birds. The smell of the soil is in
the air. The sullen ice has slunk to the
north of every fence and rock. The knolls
und banks that face the east or south sigh
for release, aud begin to lift up a thousand
tiny palms.
“April! The singing month. Many
voices of many birds call for resurrection
over the graves of flowers, and they come
The Influence of a Wife
What is it that man seeks in thq com
panionship of a woman ? An influence
like the gentle dew and the cheering light
more felt throughout the whole of his
existence in its softening healing, harmo
nizing power than acknowledged by. any
certain rule. It is in facta being to comq
home to in the happiest sense of the expres
sion.
' Poetic lays of ancient times were wont
to tell how the old warrior returning from
hia bold figKt, wcajd. dofiFTiis plumed hel-
meat and reposing from Jus toils lay bare
Ilia weary limbs that woman’s hand might
pour the healing balm. But never wearied
knight nor warrior covered with the dust
of the battle field was more in need of
soothing power than are those care-worn
sons of toil who struggle for the bread
of life in our more peaceful and delight
ful days. And still though the romance
of the castle the helmet the waving plume
aud the
“Clarion wild end high,'*
may all have vanished from the scene the
charm of woman’s influence lives as bright
ly in tho picture of domestic joy as when
she placed the wreath of victory on the
hero’s brow. Nay more so ; for there are
deeper sensibilities at work, thoughts more
profound in our great theatre of intelleetu-
all and moral strife, than where the contest
was for heroic fame, and force of arms
procured for each competitor his share of
glory or of wealth.
Among, the changes which have taken
place in the condition of mankind it is not
the least of woman’s privileges that her
influence remains the same except only
as it is deepened and prefected as her own
character approaches toward perfection.
It is not the least of her privileges that
she can still be all to man which his neces
sities require ; that he can retire from the
tumult of the world and seek society with
a zest which nothing can inpair so long
as she receives him with a true aud faith
ful heart—true to the best and kindest
impulse of which her nature is capable ;
and faithful to the sacred trust committed
to her care.
And that it is so, how many a fireside
welcome—how many a happy meeting
after painful absence prolonged. Yes,
there are scenes witTiin’Tlie sacred' preeints
of the household hearth which, not the less
because no-stranger's eye beholds them,
p, iTepay and richly too, dark days of weary
' con flicts aud : long nights of anxeious care.—
But who shall paint them ? Are they
not graven on the hearts of wives ? And
tliose who behold jhe picture theifi in all
its beauty, vividness and truth, can scarcely
yrish to draw aside the veil which screens
it from the world.
^cmpmnuc.
“0 Sunny joys of the sunny month, yet'
soft and temperate, how soon will the ea
ger months, that come burning from the
equator, scorch you I
“July ! Rouse up ! The temperate heats
that tilled the air, are raging forward to
glow and over-fill the earth with hotness.
Must it be thus in every thing, that June
shall rush toward August ? Or, is it not
that there are deep and unreaebed places
for whose sake the probing sun pierces
down its glowing hands ? There is a deep-
er work. The oarth shall driuk deeply of
the heat, before she knows her nature or
her strength. Then shall she bring forth
to the uttermost the treasures of her bo
som. The deep things of life are not
known till the fire reveals them.
“August ! Reign, thou Fire Month !
What eanst thou do'! Neither slmit thou
destroy the earth, whom frost and ice could
not smother. The vines droop, the trees
stagger, the broad palmed leaves give thee
their moisture, and hang down. But ev
ery night the dew pities them. Yet-there
are flowers that look thee in the eye, fierce
Sun, all day long, and wink not- _This is
the rejoicing month For joyful insects.'
our unselfish eye would behold it, it is the
happiest month. The herds plash in the
sedge; fish seek the deeper ■ pools ; forest
fowl lead out their young; the air is reso
nant of inscet ovchestras; each one carry
ing his part in Nature's grand Harmony.
August thou art the ripeness of the year 1
Thou art the-center of the-cirele.
“September ! There are thoughts in
thy heart, of death. Thou art doing a se
cret work, and heaping up treasures for
another year. The unborn infant-buds are
more than all the living leaves. Thy
robes are luxuriant, hut worn with soften
ed pride. More dear, less beautiful than
June, thou art the heart’s month. Not
till the heats of summer are gone, while all
its growths remain, do we know tHe lull- j sBstence to the new Governor the former
ness ot life, lhy hands are stretched out, i w pj ^ urn against- their old confederates and
and clasp the glowing palm of August and! a?s ; slin bringing them to terms. Thus
the.frmt-smellmg hand ot October. ^°}^»! internal confusion is precisely what was
and art thyself j p re dictedJEi'om the beginning with regard
to these people. So long as they were op-
“October ! Orchard of the year ! Bend j p 0S ed and harrassed from without they had
thy boughs to the earth, redolent of glow-; opportunity of deliberately scrutinizing
ing fruit! Ripened s«eds shake in their;the character aud intention of each other
pods. Apples drop iu the stillest hours. J but, so Sbon as Left entirely to themselves
Leaves begin to let go when no wind is ; Hie case was altered—they thou were afl'or-
out. W hen the gales come through the! Jed a chance of “reading the designs of
trees, the yellow leaves trail, like sparks at \ their leaders,” as one of the dissenters
night behind the flying engine. The ’ remarked, and, as a matter of course be-
woods are thinner, so that we may .see the j caine'disaffected. Let them alone a while
heavens plainer, lying on the yet warm J longer and the prospect is that Mormonism
Song of the JJecfiiiter.
There was an old de-
printer, and. its mppfh
Wris gaping wide ! the
* rosy wino had
ebbed away
and left
its crys-
— talsicle;
and the wind
went humming-
humming,
up and
down the
sides it flew,
pnd through tho
reed-like
hollow neck
the wildest notes it
blew, I placed it ip thp
window where the blast was
blowing free, and fancied that its
pale mouth sang the queerest strains to
me. “They tell me—puny counquerors! t}i<»
plague has slain hip ten, and war hishupdrpd
thousands of the very host of men; but I
—” twas thus the bottle spake y “but J
have conquered more than all your far
mous conquerors, so feared and fam
ed of yore. Then come, ye youths
and maidens all, pome drink from
out my cup, the beverage that
dulls the brain and burns tho
spirit up ! that puts to shamq
the counquprors that slay
tlieir scores below, for hq
has deluged millions with
the lava tide of woe.—=■
Though in the paths of
battle, darkest waves of
blood may roll; yet
while I kill’d the
body, I hayg {L— d
the very soul. The
cholera, the plague,
the sword such ruin,
never wrought, as I, in
mirth or malice, on the
innocent have brought.
And still I breathe
i'ul.. i'l l —w*
But what grief-strucken group is this who
are winding their way to the Governor’*
mansion. \ They are making another *on|
moving appeal the ^governor. See 1
they are kneeling at his feet and are plea
ding for the first pledge pf their pjtrly
love. The wild streams uf the heart
broken mother ring out clear upon the air.
and reach pven the cell of their beloved
son. But there is a voice far louder tbap
the terrific wail of that mother. Justice
thundered to the officer, “jSecthou parjpn
lrim not. Blood for blood !” Hope is fled^
all is lost !
With the crowd we hasten to the prison,
The time has come to proceed to the place
where the horrible tragedy shall terminate
Behold him ! 0 God ! save me from a
scene so overwhelmingly appalling! He
comes out of his slimy cell dressed in the
habiliments of the grave. His mother—
h’s once beloved mother—is there, waitin|j
to give him one parting embrace, lie
kneels down and askes her to forgive bin#
for breaking her poor heart becoming a
drunkard and consequently, a murdcfcp.
Weep, ye angels over a scene likp this 1
O ! youth of America, be warned by bit
confession. It was that did it all. ff'h#
Sheriff proceeds to the fatal spot—followed
by an agitated crowd. After a short praye?
the criminal ascends the scaffold ; the rope
and cap are adjusted ; a sboit p?H?c ftn.d
then a dull heavy sound falU upon the air,
and the stillness of death. QOffiCS pvcf
assembled multitudo.
Justice says, “I am satisfied.'* Th*
victim was slain. Run* had d- ne its work,
upon
them, and they shrink before
mv breath: and rear bv rear
thousands tread the dismal road to Death,”
Mormons*
Late dates from Utah announce that the
Mormons were becoming divided among
themselves "and the prospect was that they
would soon split into factions that would
eventually lead to the breaking up of the
fraternity. The Gladdenites are said to
be in deadly opposition to Brigham
Young, and should he and his followers
attempt to carry out there threats of re-
dividest them asunder,
mould of them both.
moss by the singing spring. The days are | w ill-work out its own redemption. ‘A
calm. The nights are tranquil. The: house divided against itself must fall.”
year’s work is done. She walks in gorge
ous apparel, looking upon her long labor,
and her serene eye saiih, “It is good.”
“November! Patient watcher; thou
art asking to lay down thy tasks. Life is
only now, to thee, a task, accomplished. In
Cheap Pleasures.
Did you ever study the cheapness of
pleasure ? Do you know how little it takes
to make a man happy 'i Such trifles as
a smile, do the work. There are two or
the night time, thou liest down, and the j Dn-ec boys passing along—give them each
messengers of the winter deck thee with j a c h cs (, a ut and how smilingly they look—
hoar frosts. The morning looks upon thv j ,i....:n , ,-- n - *• - —. a,
Jewett and" they perTsIfwInTe it gazes. Wilt p 001 - widow lives in a neighborhood who
thou not come, 0 December ?
“December ! Silently the mantle ad
vances. There is nothing to destroy 7 , much
to bury. Bury, then, thou snow, that
slumberously fullest through the 3till air,
the hedge rows of leaves; muffle thy cold
wool about the feet of shivering trees.—
Bury all that the year hath known, and
brilliant star*, that never shine as in thy
frostiest nights, behold the work. But
know, 0 month of destruction, that in thy
constellation is set that star, whose rising
is the sign, for evermore, that there is life
in death. Thou art the month of resurrec
tion. Iu thee, the Christ came. Every
star that looks down upon thy labor and
toil of burial, knows that all things shall
come forth again. And every grave shall
forth. Go, see what they have lost. What to j , ts sleeper, as was the mountain of
7 _ i Trnnelimi vn+inn f rt frm 1' nnonmon "
Notice.
We have this'day purchased out. the entire
stock .if Mr. Louis Cook and shall continue t le
business under the name and style of J 1 )’ 8 "
worth and Slager. The business will be in the
hands as our Agent, of Mr. H. W\ Sheppard
a gentleinan.weil known and highly competent,
who will be glad to see and wait upon all the
old, and as many new, customers as may please
to give him a call. Hoping that our arrange-
ments will please, we respeotfuily solicit a
share of public patronage.
AINSWORTH & SMORR-
eetm tf
have ice, and snow, and storm, done unto
them ? Is it so fearful a thing to lie in
the grave ? In its wild career, shaking
and scourged of storms, through its orbit,
the earth has scattered awav no treasures.
The Hand that governs in April governed
in January- You have not lost what God
has only hidden. You lose nothing in
.struggle, in trial, in bitter distress. If
called to shed thy joys as trees their leaves ;
if the affections be driven back into the
heart, as the life of flowers to their roots,
yet, be patient. Thou shalt lift up thy
leaf-covered boughs again. Thou shalt
shoot forth from thy roots new flowers, Bo
Wait. When it is February,
April is not for
Transfiguration to the Redeemer,
We know not the temper of our Alma
nac for 1855. As yet, it is taciturn. But
we have hopes that in the loss of our old
friend, now silent and laid to rest we shall
not be left without a companion, as wise,
as genial, and as instructive.—Indepen
dent.
The Forexon Military Companies.
—in Massachusetts did not voluntarily
disband but were ordered by the Governor
of the State to do so and the Adjutant
General is directed to have ajl their arms
and equipments delivered to the proper
officer of the State- There were four of
these companies in Boston one at Lowell
^‘MayT Perfect the harvests of flowers ! ono at Lawrence and one a Worcester.
is the mother of a half dozen children
send them half a peck of sweet apple*,
aud they will be happy. A child has lost
his arrow—a word to him aud he mourns
sadly ; help him to find it, or make him
another and how quickly will the sunshine
play upon his sober face. A boy has qs
much as he can do to pile up a load of wood
—assist him a few moments, or speak a
pleasant word to him, aud he forgets his
toil and works away without minding it.
Your apprentice has broken a mug, or cut
the vest too large or slightly injurid a piece
of work ; sav ,‘you scoundrel,” and be
feels miseranle—remark, “I am SQryy,”
and he will try to do better. Y'ou employ
a man—pay him cheerfully, and speak a
pleasant word to him and he loaves your
house with a contented heart to. light up
his own hearth with smiles and gladness.
As you pass along the . street, you meet
a familiar fage=—say “Good morning,”
qs though J’OU felt happy and it wijl work
admirably in the heart of your neighbor.
Pleasure is cheap—who will not bestow
it liberally ? If there are smiles shunshine
and flowers all about let us not grasp
them with a miser’s first, and lock them
up iu our hearts. No. Rather let us take
them and scatter them about us—in the
cot of the widow, among the groups of
children in the crowded mart where men
of business congregate in our families aud
every-where. We can make the wretched
happy—the discontented, cheerful—the
afflicted resigned—at exceedingly cheap
rates,—Who will refuse to do it ?
A Tree Skelell
The following faithful picture drawn
by John II. Smith, Esq., associate editor
of the Wilmington Free Press actually
transpired in our own city of Raleigh.—
Wa well remember the soul-thrilJing cries
and harrowing shrieks of the heart-broken
mother. We stood near the gallows as the
unfortunate victim was prepared for the
fatal drop and warned the multitude
around him to beware of strong drink—
the foul demon that had brought him to
his fearful end. Anxiously he looked for
and seemed to expect the approach of a
courier hearing the Governor’s reprieve ;
and writing under terror and suspense
he would cry—“It is hard; for . one so
young to die a felon’s death ! Oh !
whiskey, whiskey! .cursed whiskey ! it
has ruiued me.” The last five minutes of
his time had come ; the Sheriff adjusted
the rope and death-cap ; the fatal cord
was cut; and poor Madison Johnson hung
between heaven and earth, the disgraced
and lifeless victim of strong drink — fid.
Spirit of the A<je.
In the days of my boyhood, I i^uew a
young man who was in the eighteenth year
of his age or thereabouts. Tfce. Wealthy
blood flowed iu his veins and be bid fair
to live many years. But although nurtur
ed by tender parents and. fayight to avoid
evil practices he mingled in evil company
and at last he began to, drink liquor.-™
His father who kept a grog-shop ascertain
ing that he drank to excess forbid the clerk
from letting his son have any on pain of
being discharged, A few 7 days after this
order the young piau entered his fathers’.B
shop aud demanded a drink of brandy.
“Your farther has positivly forbade me
letting you have any,” said the good-
natured clerk.
“I don't qare what he or you says either
shouted the young man ; for his passion
was becoming ungovernable.
You can-i nato any uqaUT~~Trpm this
place, sjr.”
“I eaanot V-
“Not a drop.”
“ Then I’ll have something else,” and
the young man, fiercely ; drawing a pistol
from his pocket and presenting it at tha
frightened clerk.
“Give n-q liquor 1”
“PH die first.”
“Then die !—I’ll have liquor !**
A report—and the clerk fell a corpse on
the floor. The murderer was arrested.—
Mad with the effects of brandy he raged
the more as those around endeavored to
pacify him. He became the sole oecqpaut
of a dismal dungeon—the felon’s hnfflC
and too often the drunkard’s hginq, The
unfortunate youth was left aloue; alone
with his owu conscience and with no eye
to watch the operations of remorse when
he became sober hut the eye of the Eter-
dal,
The awful day of his triul is at hand.—
He is put upon his trial and pleades”
Not Guilty,” Counsel use evary stratagem
to clear him; but after a patient inves
tigation twelve honest and capable men
pronounce bim guilty of murder. The
Judge with a sad heart and unyelding
sense of duty pronounces tho dreadful
sentence of death upon the doomed man.
He is remanded back to his dungeon-home
where cut off from hope in this world he
might prepare for eternity.
The revolving wlieeVof time bring
the fatal Friday ; the orowds of men rite
gathering here and there—-every puls*-
heating wildly. The law will he enforced.
0un5mj Heading*
Retribution.
“ There is a God in history,” however
infidelity may endeavor to exclude hi®
from the government pf the world, Npw
and then we see his retributive justice ob
viously exhibited in the oxemplary punish-;
ment of individual crime, and brought
about by agencies which wc would npvpr
have anticipated. When Napoleon I, had
Thussaint, the St. Domingo patriot, trans
ported to France,and chained in a dungeon
where he died, he seemed to be placed far
above all human power to avenge and pun
ish the cruel injustice. A few years amj
WC see This same Napoleon a pnsonef~on
an island so small that voyagers in search
of it have returned without finding it, and
declaring it was not. On this little harren
rock he lingered out a miserable existence^
but which of the great allied pow«r»
who captured him thought of pycneing.
Toussaint ? And Louis FLilip, one of hia.
successors as ruler of France, in the pride,
of his power sent a fleet to compel thri ra-i
habitants of Tahiti to admit into their is
land two agents mos| des^rn.ctive to their
incipient eiviliza*i.oi. ami Christianity—
French brandy and French Jesuits. Th«£
resisted and he bombarded their town^
landed, and burnt their houses, cut dpwn
their bread-fruit trees, and laid wart*,
their beautiful island. No monarch i<^
Europe seemed at this time to be more
frrnjy established in power. Hu so
thought himself, and was only eoncprflgd to,
provide for his family by matrimonial a!-
Rauces with the legitimate dynamic* < t
Europe, But he had, even theiij, pennac-.
herib’s hook in his, jaws. In a short time
after his inglorious triumph over the poor
defenceless Tahitians, we see him and hia
family compelled to escape for their lives
from his. kingdom, and condemned to wan
der as vagabonds over Europe. God gov
erns the world.— C. A. & Jour-.
Rclgious Statistics.
J'huu the minutes of the late Mctho-.
dist Conference, held at Ailrinta, we are.
furnished with the following interesting
items:
. The number of white members of the
Methodist Church within th-a bounds of the
Georgia Conference, is tqQ,213—colored,
21,857. Itinerant preachers, 170—local^
538- Thirty-csae preachOtA were ordained
dea*ons, and twenty-fiv* were ordained ci
ders. Twenty-three preachers were ad
mitted into the Conference on trial, ami
three re-admitted. .Sixteen thousand cijiht
hundred and ninety weight dollars, and
eighteen hundred dqilars in aid of tha
LaGrange was eleufccd for the meeting of-
the next Confcneijpe.—MilMgeidtc lie
porder, 2d.
Read anil rifou Wilt Know.
“Sir Willianj Jones,” says Aninc’ft.
Cyclopedia of Anecdotes, “ when a mere,
child was very inquisitive. Ilit, mother,
was a woman of great intelligence, and he^
Would apply to her for the ipf rination^
which he desired; but her constant reply,
was, “Bead,and you will know.” This gave
him a passion for books, which was one of
the principle means of making him wli£«
he was.”
Sir William Jones became <fS- the,
greatest scholars of any aggor.country.
obtained a knowledge qf ticenty-eiglU differ
ent languages. Au^ it was this emipept
scholar who tbps‘spoke of the J».ibrq;— *
“ I hctVj, cavcful’y and regydarjy' persu-
ed the Scriptures. - ; apyl qyn p? opinion
that this volume, independent of its di
vine origin, contains more sublimity,
purer morality, more important history,’
and finer strains of eloquence than can bei
obtained from all other bqpks, in whatever
language written.”
This great man’s habit of reading iq
worthy the imitation of the young; and
jjis habit of reading and revering thq
gcripturcs is worthy the imitation of all.
The report of the Central Rail Road
shows the amount of Copper pre transpor
ted for tho year ending 1st December ltQi*
to he 2,7Q9,863 lbs. For the year ending
December 1st 1854 9,558,985! Most or
all of £his from the Tennessee mines.—-
San: Rrj).