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VOLUME XV.
SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1861,.
NUMBER 29.
j. M G. MEDLOCK,
KDITOR AND proprietor.
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“Events Develop Men.’’
It is natural, in times of public anx-
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ieiy, to ask who wiil lead us? The- ton, Missouri, gives the following ge
Decidedly Rich.
The Vox Populi, published at Ful-
Miscellaittotw.
The Squire and tiis Wife.
The squire had a lriend to visit him
me day on business, and was very
nnch annoyed to be interrupted bv
lis wife, who came to ask him what he
vanted for uinner.
‘Go'away! let us alone!’ impatient-
y said the ’square.
Business detained his friend until
linner time, and he urged him to re-
nain. The ’squire was a generous
provider, proud of his table; he es
:orted his friend to a seat. A little to
die surprise of both, the y saw nothing
>n the board but a huge dish of salad,
which the good wife began quietly to
;erve up.
‘My dear,’ said the ’squire, ‘where
ire the meats?’
‘There are none to-day;’ replied Ins
lady. .
‘No meat! what in tne nama 01
poverty ! The vegetables not brought
in V
‘You didn’t order any vegetables.’
•Order—didn’t order anything,’ said
he ’squire.
‘You forgot,’ coolly replied the
oase wife ; ‘I asked w hat we should
ave, and you said ‘lett uce alone.
Llere it is.’
The friend burst into a laugh, and
he’squire, after looking flurried and
ugubrious a moment, joined him.
‘Wife I give it up. I owe you one.
lore is $50 you wanted for that ear-
iet, which I denied you.’ And the
squire forked over, No-.v let us have
ieace and some dinner.
The good woman pocketed the mon-
5V 1 ranthe bell, and a sumptuous re-
fast of' fish, poultry and vegetables
yas brought in.
A few days afterwards, the ’squire
’emained in the gaiden sometime after
;he usual tea hour. T .e wife grew
mpatient of delay, and went to find
lim. His excuse,* when he was asked
ivhat he was waiting for, threw her in
to a flutter of excitement.
‘Some one’s to come to supper!’ she
jxclaimed. ‘Why didn’t you tell me?
L declare you are the most provoking
man I ev r saw.’
And without asking which one of
bis friends was expected, she hastened
to change her dress and fix up her
hair for the occasion: This done, she
came out and found the ’squire seated
at the table, reading his newspapers,
‘Where’s your company?’
‘My company? I haven’t any com
pany.’
‘But you said you expected some
body to supper !’ exclaimed the indig-
‘Mv dear, I said no such thing. Y m
asked what I was waiting for, and 1
said ‘summons to come to supper’
th it was what I said I was waiting fur,
by dear, and I came at once.,
‘And you have made me go and
change rny dress? Oh, I’ll pay J 011
for all this T
‘No maiter about that, mv dear: I
lowed you one for that lettuce.,
Delectable.—Last night I walked
alohg the street-, beneath the summer
moon, and as her arm was twined in
mine, I loved her father soon. I held
her fingers twixt rity own—I raised
‘’em to mv lips—I thought that I should
•crazy go when first 1 kissed their tips.
She didn’t tell me to hold up, she di n’t
holler‘time!’—but give me rein and
•let tne went—and sol did, sublime. I
ipomed the burning words of love out
in 2,40 style, 1 called her angel—ter-
.rapin !—site listened with a smile, until
1 was wi'h happiness as ciazy as a
■'loon. Oh, count me in for moonlight
walks, all in Ihe month of June.
popular mind is restless until it can re
pose in confidence upon sumo obvious
ly proper man for the perilous hour.
It is unwise to lose our hopefulness
because some master-spirit does not
appear as quickly as our impatient de
sires demand his coming. The histo
ry of the world shows that the public
exigei cies of a people, when great
events are occurring, always call out
into prominence men for the times.
When everything is ready, and the
fullness of tune is come, Providence
places in command the guiding ruling
man. While the ungodly may see
nothing in this but the ordinary course
(if a developemei.t of character, purely
due to human and material influences,
and may philosopl ize about it as one
of the phenomena of human history,
the people who believe in the God of
the Bible will regard it as the gracious
plan of our merciful Sovereign, whose
watchfui care provides in wisdom and
love for every exigency of mankind,
and especially supplies the demand
which the well being of His own peo
ple makes upon IIis providence. The
God who gave Joseph for Egypt; Mo
ses for the Hebrews; Pauf for the
Gentiles; the Reformers for corrupt
times in the Church, and men and w<>-
tnen in evciy age competent to take
the commanding positions which ordi
nary characters could not fill, may
now he supplicated and relied on to
bring into action every needful meas
ure of intellect and moral energy, and
give heroes and heroines in abundance
to guarantee the healthful and success
ful progress of a good cause.
It is well, in this view of the matter,
to take care that our expectations and
our confidence are not rather occupied
with the servant than with the Master
who sends him. God will not give
His glory to another. Let us not for
get the duty of trusting in God and
recognizing His hand in the gift of val
uable men. The wisdom of the max
im, ‘It is better to trust in the Lord
than to put confidence in men,’ is what
the Christians of this land ought to ap
preciate and illustrate. We have a
uood cause, and, so far, Divine Provi
dence has supplied ns, step by step,
with just the men for the plac - and
hour. Let us not be unfaithful to
such goodness, but heed its suggestions,
and be encouraged by its provisions
to a larger faith. If we shall do our
duty, and humbly rely on Jehovah,
the blessing of Heaven will abide on
our tents, and t’.ie end of the troublous
times we live in shall be an issue of
srreat good to human society, and an
enhancement of every spiritual inter
est of Zion.
Let each man and woman of God in
our Confe leration offer unto the Lord
the prayer, ‘Lord, what wilt thou have
me to do?’ Let us, unreservedly,
give ourselves to the Lord, to be and
to be led as H> may determine, and
those who are faithlul over that which
is least, shall God employ in success
ively higher duties, and to- him that
hath shall be given, until we shall
lack for nothing, but prosper and
abound in every good word and work.
Tiiose who, with eager impatience,
seek place, power, arid honor, are not
the ones whose names shall be associa
ted with the history of great events
now transpiring; but when the memo
rial < f the times shall be written up,
the finger of honor shall point to
those whose unobtrusive zeal and un
selfish devotion to their country and
to the church secured them God’s
blessing, and enshrined then names in
imperishable praise.
Have you Enemies.
Go strait on and don’t mind them.
If they get in your way, walk round
them regardless of - heir spite. A man
who has no enemies, is seldom good
for anything—he is made of that kind
of material which is so easily worked
that every one has a hand in it. A
sterling character is one who thinks
for himself, and speaks what he thinks;
he is always sure to have enemies.
They are as necessary to him as fresh
air; they keep him alive and active.
A celeb rtf led "character who was sur
rounded by enemies, used to remark,
‘They are sparks which, if you do not
blow, will go out themselves.’ L t
this be vour f elmg while endeavoring
to live down the scandal of those who
are bitter against you. It you stop to
dispute, -you do but as they desiie, and
open the way for more abuse. Let the
poor fellows talk; there will be are
action if you perform but your duty,
and hundreds who were once alienated
from you will flock to you and ac
knowledge their error.
nealogical facts, but has, we suppose,
accidentally omitted to state the source
from which he has gleaned such inter
esting particulars, relative to the ori
gin of these political parties:
Once upon a time the Devil watched
the Almighty making men. lie saw
him go to a pellucid streamlet that
danced gracefully over the pebbles and
get from its channels pure, unadultera
ted clay as his material; and as he
formed one after another, and stood
them -p and ‘breathed into his nos
trils the breath of life,’ he looked ap
provingly and pronounced it ‘very
good!’
At this, the Devil’s heart swelled
with anger, and envy, and malice; and
he determined to do something by way
of a set off. So he went to a damp,
miasmatic morass and scooped up from
the bottom of a stagnant, slimy, green-
-cuinmed, wiggle-taiied, lizzardly uooh
and from this material he turned off a
Black Republican. As he contern
plated this creation of his ‘prentice
hand,’ there was a mixture of gratifi
cation and disappointment visible in
his countenance, though it was very
evident the fir-<t greatlv predominated.
At length looking around him he so
liloquized : ‘There are a great* num
ber of scraps left, and I will make an
other. I think I can do more than
that!’ So he sets himself industrious
ly to work, and soon got up an Aboli
tionist. ‘Titis suits me better,’ said he,
as with a sheet iron handkerchief he
wiped great drops of fiery perspiration
from his brazen forehe d but it does
not yefeome up to iny ideal. I per
ceive there still remains some leavings,
or tag-ends, and as the charm is said to
be the third trial, I will test it.’ So
saying he began picking up the rags,
first with his right hand, next with
his left.hand, and occasionally with the
barbed point of his iron-wire tail, unf.l
he had collected a bushel ba ket full.
He then sat down to the job, and after
much pi icing and splicing, and trim
ming, he stood the thing up.
The Black Republican and Aboli
tionist, who had beett standing quietly
by, watching the movements of their
Father with much interest, no sooner
saw the third figure standing erect,
than their mean natures began to de
velop
Trnst in God.
KlNGSLY, in his Sermons, vouches
for the authenticity of the following
statement respecting the Duke of Wel
lington :
‘Some one asked him what his se
cret was for winning battles. He said
that he had no secret; that he did not
know’ bow to win battles, and that no
man knew. For all, he said, that man
could do was to look beforehand stead
ily -.t all the chances, and lay all pos
sible plans beforehand ; but from the
moment the battle began, no mortal
prudence was of use, and no mortal
man could know what the end would
be. A thousand new accidents might
spring up every hour, and scatter all
his plans to the winds; all that man
couid do was to comfort himself with
the thought that he had done bis best,
and to trust in God.’
This is a noble testimony to the su
premacy of Providence over human
arms. Tite-skill of generals, the dis
cipiine and valor of troops, cannot
guarantee victory, if the hand and
counsel of God determine otherwise.
Every battle is fought under the cloud
in wnich that determination wraps it
self Every battle has its ‘secret,’
which tto man knows, or can know.
jdow direct and imperative, then, is
the appeal of war to the prayer of pie
ty. We have need to ask, not only
that the forces of our cownry should
tie marshalled for the field, and that
their leaders sdouhl be endowed with
wisdom in counsel, but tnat Divine
interposition, when the decisive hour
comes, should overrule the ‘thousand
new accidents’ which may insure dis
aster and deleat H ho shall say how
much of our strength in every battle
may not depeud on the supplications
of those who trust in God? Who
shall say that victory may not be due
to the faith of our armed men, of those
who remain under the roof from which
they have gone forth to war ?
O, let all who believe that God
reigneth, that he evermore doeth his
own pleasure, and that theory of a
penitent, confiding people may reach
his ear and move his hand, cease not
to call upon him fur our signal tri
uinph iu the hostilities now th eaten
ing us! ‘In the fear of the Lord is
strong confidence.’
Let our soldiers march to battle, not
which would lead them.
:ir mean natures ucgan or uc- m the spirit . _
They both went up to it. The if victorious, to say, with Gsesar, J.
- * ■ ■ * 1 came, I saw, I conquered , but in the
Black Republican pushed it with rud
violence; the
nose
its heels; the Abolitionist spat m ~—-, *—, » t" - • ,
face; the Black Republican called ita trust in chariots some in horses but
’ - K will remember the name ot the
K iv-piioiican uusiieu it vviw • > * ~ u- i - .
moe; Lhe Abolitionist pulled its spine which led John bobieski, alter
; the Bl iek Republican tripped at ins triumph over the turks to say. 1
eels; the Abolitionist spat in its came, I saw, God conquered. Some
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coward, the Abolitionist, more embol- we will remem er • the indulgence of the vice of intemper-
dened than ever, planted his right foot Lord our God. Our fathers trusted ^ ^ ih(j officer , > Tlieir C( , ra .
cn finnlv ahont the termination of his m lhee, and thou didst deliver the . , - , Y ct-irmish is said
so finnlv about the termination of his
coat tail that it landed full ten feet up
on its face.
To afl this the thing had made no
resistance, nor manifested the least re
sentment, although a number of the
men the Almighty had created shouted
to it ‘to knock its persecutors into the
middle of next week ;’ but it held up
its hands imploringly, and hung its
head in the most abject and servile
manner, so that the men went off in
disgust. But the Devil, who had
stood by all the while, his iron sides
almost “bursting with laughter, now
fairly shrieked with delight, sprang
seventy five feet into the air, turned
thirty-five well defiined somersaults,
and aliguted by its side, raised both
hands, and bringing them forcibly
down utii n its shoulders, shouted. It
is enough ; 1 dub thee a Submissionist!'
Whereup' n the creature rais- d ns head,
looked trembli igly around, partly
arose, and in a stooping posture
sneaked off.
What a noisy creature would a man
be were his voice in proportion to his
weight, as loud as that of a locust! A
locust can be heard at the d.stance ot
one-sixteenth of a mile. The golden
wren i said to weigh but half an ounce,
so that a middling-siz -d man would
weigh down not short of four thousand
of them; and it must be strange if a
golden wren would not outweigh four
of our locusts. Supposing, therefore,
that a common man weighed as much
as sixteen thousand of our locusts, and
that the note of a locust can he heard
one-sixteenth of a mile, a man of com-
mrin dimensions, pretty sound in wind
and limbs, ought to be able to make
himself heard at a distance ot one thou
sand miles.
—Religous Hercdd.
From the Richmond Fnqnirer.
Whiskey vs> Builds.
excellent advice to volunteers:
‘My boys 1 if any of you have been
in the habit of drinking much whisky,
stop it! If you co. tinue to drink hard,
you aie dished—your more sober com
rades will bury you. In the service
vou have to undergo, whisky will kill
you with more certainty than the ball
and shell. If you are exhausted after
a long march, a jorum of strong tea
and a chunk of stale bread will do you
more good thi n all the whisky that
was ever concocted. Tne boa men
of Canada w.ll tell you that. Coff-e is
not g<ioyl, but a jorum of strong tea
will cheCK a tendency to dysentery
and bowel complaint. Soup is good.
Much meat is bad in hot weather;
tlie less meat the less, the less blood
the less blood the less load to carrv—
bone and smew, make the soldier, not
blood. A light diet may go hard on
men of stro g appeiit ; but he that
lives soberly and lightly will recover
of bis wounds quicker, and trouble
tlie hospital less than the man that
drinks hard and gorges himself incess-
an ly.’
While the above is the testimony,
both of medical science and military
experience, yet L is a truth much disre-
gaided by those whom it so deeply
concerns. An extract from a North
ern journal, now before us, laments
the ‘frightful increase’ of intemperance
in that latitude. Nor does our own
service fail to furnish reasons for solic
itude in this respect, so that parents
and friends who surrunder their sons
;.nd their comrades with comparative
composure to the peril of the battle
field, tremble with dread at tlie un
necessary but greter perils which at
tend the intemperate use of spirits by
the soldier. To our brave men we
earnestly appeal to calm this solicitude,
and to show their care for themselves
and their devotion to their cause
by heeding the wise warning though
bluntly expressed, which we have
copied above.
Especially is it the duty of the offi
cers to be examples of soLriety; for
the fate of their commands, and the
success of our cause are deeply in
volved in it. A man has no right to
trifle with his own" life, surely he
should not trifle wi ll that of another
whom it is his duty, too, to watch over.
He has no right to seek a command
over men and then betray them, to
ask a post of responsibility and then
sacrafice a sacred trust to low appe
tite.
Our enemy has suffered loss from
the indulgence of tlie vice of internper-
Ttie Maitk uf Death.
Whisker vs. Ballets. Even the bloody Druses of Lebanon Eivery man must nave remar
An old soldier offers the following usually spared the women and female facility with which the kind
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(MJUUY tll^ WUI1ICI1 dim iv-muiu y . 1 \
hildren. The war that rushed like a others is sometimes gained by those to
v i i i i _ . L 1 a. .h Iri hnirn 1 m rtorf or
tornado through Italy last year, pros
trating tens of thousands in its terrible
iraiing leiis ui umusauus m us ituiiuic dwu. ^ —r .—j
sweep, destroyed but a small part of education, and habits of life, divided
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Two gentlemen wesre once dissuss-
ng their travels when one asked the
'tlier-
‘Were you .ever iu .Greece ?’
‘No, but I fell into a thundering big
ub of
bins; ?’
soap once, if you call that any-
Sharp Irony.—Among humorous
and eccentric preachers, Father Andre
holds distinguished rank. Preaching
in a moniisteiy which had recently
been struck by lightning, Father An
dre expatiated upon the goodness OP
God, who took, as he would show spe
cial care of his children, “tor,’ said
he, “atnd.ig other evidences, consider
what has happened to this holy house,
in which I am preaching! The light
ning struck the library and consumed it
but injured not a single Dtionk. If,
however, it had unfortunately fallen
upon the dining-room or buttery, how
many would have been killed now
inanv tears sh^d—what desolation
would have ensued!”
Why is a loafer in a printing office
like a shade tree? Because WQ arc
glad when be leaves.
Ol Flanigan !—Patrick O'Flani
gan being in a discum fuddled and un
certain state, and not quite able to dis
tinguish at so late an hour of the night
his°own house from his neighbor’s in a
row of similar ones, concluded to make
a bold rush and trust to luck. As
cending the steps he rang the bellj
which was answered by the lady liv
ing next to him and who knew him
well.
C-c*can vou t-t-tell me where Mr.
Patrick O’Flan hie gan lives?’said he
stammeringly. ^ _ . ,
‘Why, you are Patrick O,Flanigan,
said the lady.
‘B-b botheration ! I dtdn t ask you
who Patrick O'Flanigan is I want to
know where the ould chap lives!’
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For Washing.—I have, found this
dreparation invaluable in washing, and
can recommend it to your lady read
ers! One pound' of hard soap* three-
fdufihs of an ounde of borax to one gal
lon of soft water; cut the soap and let it
stand on the st<'ve where it will heat
so as to melt, but boil * the borax should
be put in with the soap, of course; it is
I very nice for flannels and calicoes.
Dixie Lund.
A correspondent of the New Orleans
D.-Ita gives the following as the orig
inal popular song of Dixie:
‘Now I do not wish to soil a prettv
illusion mt the truth is Dixie’s an indig
inous Northern negro refrain, as com
mon to the writer hereof as the lamp
posts in New York city seventy years
ago. It was one of the every day al
iusions ef boys at that time, in all their
out door sports. And no one ever
heard of Dixie’s land being other than
that of Manhattan Island until recently,
hen it has been erroneously sup
posed to refer to the South, from its
connection with pathetic negro alle
gory.
When slavery existed in New \ ork,
one ‘Dixy! owned a large tract of land
on Manhattan Island, af*d a large
number of si .ves. The increase of
the slaves, and the increase of the abo
lition sentiment, caused an emigration
of ibe s’aves to more thoroughly secure
slave sections, and the negroes who
were thus sent off, (many bein? born
tliere,) naturally looked back to their
old homes, where they ha I lived in
clover, with feelings of regret, as they
could not imagine any place like Dixie.
Hence it became synonymous with an
ideal locality, combining ease, comfort
and material happiness of every de
seription. In those days negro min
strelsy and singing were in their in
fancy, and any subject that could be
wrought into a ballad was eagerly
picked up. 1 his was the case with
‘Dixie.’ It originated in New York,
and assumed the proportions of a sonir
there. In its travels it has been em
larged, and has‘gathered moss’—it has
picked • p a ‘note’ here and there—a
‘chorus’ has been added to it, and from
an iudistinct ‘chant’ of two or three
notes it has become an elaborate melo
dy ; but the fact that it is not a South
ern song cannot be rub’oed out. The fal
lacy is so popular to the contrary that
I have thus been at pains to state the
real origin of it,”
mauder in the Fairfax skirmish is said
to have been in plain words, drunk.
General Butler, -it Fortress Monroe,
is but little Letter than a beast, and
has done nothing but damage his
cause. Let not the evil be found in
our service, or, if found not tolerated ;
otherwise we must not wonder if our
brave forces should be humiliated, and
put to disadvantages bv blunders and
surprises, due a I civ holic mists upon
the brain of those who should keep all
their faculties clear and wide-awake.
It is to be hop d that the most search
ing scrutiny, into onr past and our fu
ture, shall disclose no single instance
of rep‘oa< h to our service such as we
have referred to above.
In this connection we may appro
priately state, that the steam-tug, which
plies between West Point and York-
,own, narrowly escaped destruction
through the real or pretended diunk-
enness or a suspicions person. We
cannot too carefully guard against the
emissaries ot ti e enemy.
the people. And tile war that is now
surging through the length of that fair
land is overwhelming but one-man
among thousands of its inhabitants.
But even here, in our quiet villages, in
our dear homes, tliere is another kind
of war, altegether more deadly. There
is a cordon drawn around every house
hold. Tnere is a deadly array set be
fore every man. There is a fatal aim
levelled at every human heart. With
-very step of vour foot, with every
beat of the ‘muffled drum’ within your
breast, you are appioaching that point
where you shall receive not a discharge
from the war, but a fatal charge from
an enemy who will pierce you through
and through. The young, the old, the
rich, the poor, the sick, the well, the
s >ber, the reek]ess, the gay, the gloomy,
ate afl hastening in one never-halting
procession, with the tratnp of man
hood’s heavy tread, and the patter of
childhood’s lightest footsteps, to the
very point of death’s fatal ambush and
aeainst his tnyraid forms of doom.
There is no discharge in this war-
The victims fall thick and fast as the
leaves of the forest when the cloud,
full of thunder, spreads over the earth
like night, and the hail mangles and
ruins the beauty of every tree. You
cannot escape. Strength will not save
you. Beauty will not save you.
Youth will not save you. Wisdom
will not save you. The hoary head
of honor will not save y< u. The an
guish of fond parents will not save
vou. A sister’s love, or a more pas
sionate affection that swells another’s
heart, will notsaveyon. All the af
fection of the most glowing human
soul will not save you. Nothing of
ihe kind, ,not.liiiig at all, can give you
a discharge in this war.—Rev. Eph.
Whitaker.
Calico and Silk.—There are peo
ple, we know, who despise calico.
Thev ignore even a knowledge of its
suspects and qualities—very good. We
have i.o wish to quarrel with their
taste. It is well for society that tastes
differ, and that with the progress of
luxury and means, that difference oc
casions desires that fill our stores with
gay robes, shawls, mantillas, etc., in
crease tlie exertions of trade, add an
impetus to commercial enterprises, and
so swell the national wealth. But
apart from all these considerations,
why should not a modest woman look
as well in calico as in silk ?
Is there not as much real beauty,
more gracefully clad, in another?
There are women, no doubt,
much control!, d by the mere dicta of
fashion that they despise com mon sense.
They admire nothing but what is cost
ly. They prefer ancient elegance to
anything new, which does not go be
yond a'good taste ami a durable sub
stance. ’Tis “a foolish and a vain pre
tence,” and adds nothing to a sensib.e
lady’s credit for sound judgment. In
truth, it makes little difference what
material a woman Wears, so it suits the
time and her own social position. Be
it calico or silk, it is the woman that
adorns the dress—not the dress the
woman.
On Forming Friendships.
Every man must have remarked the
Iness of
whom he never C -uld have imparted
his own. We are by our occupation,
almost into different species, which re
gard one another for the most part
with scorn and malignity. Each of
thes • classes of the human race have
desires, fears, and conversations, vexa
tions and merriment; pecdliar to itself;
pleasures which he cannot partake,
and modes of expressing every sensa
tion which he cannot understand.
That frolic which shakes one man with
laughter, will convulse another with
indignation; the strain of jocularity
which in one place obtains treat and
patronage would in another be heard
with indifference, and in a third with
abhorrence.
To raise esteem we. must benefit
others; to procure lova we must please
them. Aristotle observes, that old
men do not readily form friendships,
because they are not easily susceptible
of pleasure. He that can contribut- to
ihe hilarity of the vacant hour, or par
take with equal gust the favorite
amusement, he whose mind is em
ployed on the same objects, and who
therefore never harasses the under
standing with unaccustomed ideas,
will be welcomed with ardor, and left
with regret, unless he destroys those
recommendations by faults with which
peace and security cannot consist.
It were happy if, in forming friend
ships, virtue and concur with pleasure,
but the greatest part of human gratifi
cations approach so nearly to vice,
that few who make the delight of oth
ers their rule of conduct, can avoid
disingenuous compliances ; yet certain
ly he that suffers‘himself to be driven
or allured from virtue mistakes his
own interest, since he gains succor by
means, for which his friend, il ever
he becomes wise, must scorn him and
for which at last he must scorn him
self.
LoADtNG Bomb SHELLS.-The shell
is first filled up with old fashioned,
round leaden bullets, or other missiles,
suiphur is then poured in to fill up the
interstices and bind the bullets in one
solid mass 5 the shell is then put into a
kind of a lathe, and a cylindrical hole
of the exact size of the orifice of the
shell is bored through the bullets and
the suphur ; this cavity is filled with
potvder. even with the interior edge of
the orifice, a six inch shell of the kind
here described holding about half a
pound. The fuse fitted into the orifice
is a recent Belgian invention, made of
pewter, and resembles the screw-cap
used for the patent fruit cans. An
u 1 u v_ c« o • j ^ ——-- 1 .
artistically speaking, in a form clad examination of this pewter cap sho.\ .
gracefully in one article, as a form no however, that it is made of two hollow
O J _ .. . , > n 1 * __ _ C 4^1 n /.»Aur/irl frtrrnt if»r finfl
discs of’metal screwed together, and
so filled with meal powder; a number of
fine holes are drilled in the Iovver disc,
while the outer disc is entire, and
marked with figures in a circle, 1, 2,
3, 4. In this state the shell is water
and weather proof. When taken for
use, the gunner, by means of a small
steel instrument scoops out a portion of
the outer soft metal surface, and lays
bare the charge of composition powder
below it. If the shell is desired to ex
plode in o ie second aTter leaving the
gun, the scooping is made on the figure
one. and, if in two seconds, on the
The Star Spangled Banner, as
now constituted, is not tlie flag which
floated over the battle-fields of the
Revolution ; nor is it the same as the
one which floated over our victorious
hosts in the war of 1812. The present
flan of the United States was adopted
in 1818, from a design by Capt. Samuel
C. Reid. There was nothing in its
adoption to rendef - it safired in the eyes
of any one, and there has been no:niny
in its history since to make it so. This
professed devotion to the flag of the
Union is pure bunkum.
A wise man takes all adversities and
misfortunes as blessings in disguise.
He laughs and is always happy, while
the poor, complaining simpleton fancies
happiness to consist in idle pleasures,
and never finds it.
Do Good—Thousands of men
breathe, move and bve—pass off the
stage of life and are heard of no more.
W hy? They do not a particle of good
in the world, and n me are blessed by
them, none could point to them as the
.nstiurnont of their redemption; not
a word they spoke could be recalled,
and so they perish ; their light went on
in darkness, and they were not remein-
tiered more than than insect of yester
day. Will you thus live and die, Oh!
man immortal? Live for something.
Do good and leave behind you a mon
ument of virtne that the st *rm of time
can never dest.oy. Wriie your name
in kindness, love, ana mercy, on the
l eans of thousands you come in con
tact with year by year; you will never
be f >1 gotten. N<>; your name, your
deeds, will be legihie on the blow of
evening. Good deeds will shine as the
stars of heaven.—Dr. Chalmers.
Dress and Merit.—Girard, the
famous French painter, when very
young was the bear -r of a letter of
introduction to Lanjuinais, then of the
council of Napoleon. The young
painter was shabbily attired, and his
reception was extremely cold: but
Laijuinais discovered in him such
striking proof of talent, good sense,
amiability, that on G.’s rising to take
leave, he rose too and accompanied his
visitor to the antechamber. The
Chnge was so striking, that Girard
c<mld not avoid an expression of sur
prise. ‘My young friend,’ said Lanju-
nais, anticip ting the inquiry, ‘we re
ceive an unknown person according to
his dress—we take leave of him accord
ing to his merit.’
IIonest Farmer.—Two Farmers
having a dispute as to some land, an
action at law was commenced to deter
mine it. On the day fixed for the
trial, one of them called on his oppo
nent to accompany him to the court
that each might give his own state
ment of the case. Finding his neigh
bor at work in the field, he said to
him: .
‘Is it possible that yoil have foggot-
ten our cause to day ?’
. ‘No,’ said he ‘I have not forgotton
it, but I cannot well spare the time to
so. You will be there, and I know
you are an honest man, and will state
the case fairly : justice will be done.’
And so it proved, for the farmer
stated his neighbor’s claims so clearly
that the cause was decidvd against him
and he returned to inform his oppo
nent that he gained the property.
Such a character is more than the
wealth of the Indies,
Beautiful things are suggestive of a
purer and higher life, and fill us w'th a
mingled love and fear. Ttiey have a
graciousness that wius us, and an ex
cellence to which we involuntarily do
reverence. If you are poor, vet mod
estly aspiring, “keep a vase of flowers,
on your table, and they will help to
maintain your dignity, and secure for
you consideration aud delicacy of be
havior.
A meeting, attended by 6000 unem
ployed persons, was held in Philadel
phia on Wednesday tlie 26ih June, one
».l tlie delegates to which said: “ We
have men in onr midst who 1 ave not
received two meals a day for months ;
others have lived on but one meal a
day, ami I know one man who d d
not eat anything for two days, and died
from it.”
A Physician in Wisconsin beingdis-
_ turbed one night by a burglar, and Lav-
SoUND Philosophy.—Punch says- ing no ball or shot for his pistol, noise-
and who would want better authority-— I lessly loaded the weapon with diy, hard
that the rerson Editors are so apt to j pills, and gave the intruder a dose
have their manners spoiled, is because j which he thinks will go very fa r toward
they receive such a vast number of “evil. curing the Tascal of a decidedly bad
communications.” 1 ailment.
figure two, and so on ; the idea being
that the shells of this description shall
first strike the object aimed at.and do
execution as a ball, and then explode,
sending the bullets forward as if fiom
another cannon located at the point
where the flight of the shell is arrest
ed. Large shell of eight or ten inches
are filled with powder only, and burst
ing, do executing by means of their
fragments. These large shells are
generally fired by means ot a fuse of
meal powder, extending through a
brass plug, screwed into the mouth of
the shell; in both cases the fuse is fired
by the ignition of the charge in the
gun. _____
THb Roman Sentinel—When
Pompeii was destroyed, there were
very many buried in the ruin3 of it
who were afterwards in very different
situations. There were some found
who were in the streets as if they bad
been attempting to escape ; there were
some found in deep vaults, as if they
went thither for security, there were
some found in lofty chambers. But
where did they find the Roman
sentinel? They found him standing at
the city gate, with his hand still grasp
ing the war weapon, where he had been
placed by his captain—and there, while
the heavens threatened him. there,
while the earth shook beneath him,
while the lava stream rolled, he had
stood at his post; and there, after a
thousand years had passed away, was
he found. So let Christians learn to
stand to duty, Willing to stand to the
post at which theii Captain has placed
them, and they will find that His grace
will support and sustain them.
The Cotton Subscriptions.— A
letter from Huntsville, Ala., informs
us that the planters iD that region are
contributing liberally of their cotton to
the Confederate loan. ‘Three resi
dents of our town (says the writer) sub
scribed 500 baLs each, and Mr. Wins
ton, of Tuscumbia, 1,000 bales. Hard-
lv less than 6,000 bales will be sub
scribed in this (Madison) county.’—
Richmond Dispatch.
Let not one failure discourage you.
He that has had a fall may stand as
upright as he ever did.