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THOMABTON, GEORGIA:
iatnrday Morning, January 21, IB6o*
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Vitntrt from Senator Iverson's Speech
tit Orifl iu.
“Thi lons of Kansas to the South was the legitimate
•*.! inevitable fruit of the ‘squatter sovereignty’ e!o
----•aents of the Kansas-Nebraska bill, os construed and
mjorced by its Northern authors and friends'’
Nou-iutorroursc with ttie North.
Much lately has l)ecn said and written about
non-intercoursc with the North or the building
a sort of commercial Chinese wall to shut out
the commoiities of all strangers. Tt is propos
ed to bind oursedves neither to cat, drink, wear,
buy or sell any article manufactured or impor
ted from abroad and especially from North of
Mason’s and Dixon’s line. Now such ideas
may sound very patriotic on paper and in the
Drawing Rooms of Old Virginia Ladies—they
may answer ho talk about, but it will all end in
smoke so long as we teach and preach jone doc
trine, and practice another. Trade, like water,
Vvill seek its own level and individuals and na
tions over all the world will sell for the best
price and buy in the cheapest market.
Charleston S. C. has been recently commen
ded as the great Southern market. We would
be pleased to see the “Queen city of the South”
once more arrayed in glorious commercial appa
rel. Charleston is a great old city—great in its
revolutionary associations, great in the hospitali
ty and intelligence of its population and great
as a commercial emporium. These elements of
greatness however, will avail hut little Unless
she can sell as cheap as other cities. She, like
the whole South, must diversify capital aud la
bor before she will be able to compete with her
Northern rivals. Charleston too, is filled up
with Northern Business Houses and agents in
every trade and merchandise; then we ask where
is the difference so far as patriotism is concern
ed between paying a price in Charleston to a
Northern branch and paying the same price to
a Northerner in Philadelphia or New-York ?
We had occasion a short* time ago to order a
bill of type (the impression of which you are
now reading) from Charleston, hut we could not
be supplied until the Agent there, wrote on to
the Foundery in Philadelphia. We, like oth
in this fust and degenerate age, could not
stop to calculate the measure of patriotism aud
Southern feeling it would require, before our
wants could he supplied at home.
There is oue kind of non-intercourse we de
cidedly favor. It is non-intercourse politically
with senseless brawling politicians who are con
stantly laying the foundation, and then, making
their aufcs a pretext for crying out a disolution
of the Union. The tendency of such action is
to drive away capital and labor from our midst
and impress upon Grangers the idea that we are
always on the verge of a revolution. These are
the men who look upon live Yankee’s as things
that “aint human” and still encourage Yankee
manufactures from tooth picks to steam engines.
We go in first, for placing our own Farmers,
Mechanics, Manufacturers, Merchants, Miners,
Schools and Literature ou a solid foundation and
then whip all creation if nothing else will do.—
We hate to hear (as the fellow said when he
sheared the hog) “so much cry, and so little
wool.”
The Boston Post contains a long and able ar
ticle showing the extent of the trade between
New England and the South, from which we
make the following extract:
“The aggregate value of all the merchandise
sold to the South annually we estimate at some
600,000,0 W. The basis oi* the estimate is, first,
the estimated amount of hoots and shoes sold,
whi di intelligent merchants place at iroin 830,-
000 000 to 630,000,000, including a limited
amount that are manufactured with us and sold
in New York. In the next place we know from
merchants in the trade, that the amount of dry
•roods srdd South yearly is many millions of dol
lars, aud that the amount is second only to that
of tlie sales of boots and shoes. In the third
place, vre learn from careful inquiry, and from
the best sources, that the fish of various kinds
sold realize 63,000,000 or in that neighborhood.
Upwards of 61,000,000 is received for furniture
sold in the South each year. The Southern
States re a much better market than the Wes
tern for this ••rti**!e. It is true sim*e the estab
lishment of branch houses in New York. Phila
delphia and other cities, many ot the goods man
ufactured in New England have reached the
South through those houses; but is still the
commerce of New England with the South, aud
this particular section ot tlic country rocoi\cs
the main advantage ot that commerce. And
what shall we say ot New England ship build
ing, that is so greatly sttswiined by Southern
wants? What shall we say eV that large ocean
fleet that by being the common cm.riers ot the
South have brought so large an amount ot mon
ey into the pockets of our merchants ■ 1* o \vid
not undertake to estimate the value of th<*sfe in-,
•crests, supported directly by the South. 1 fina
lly persons have not become very rich by them,
Mr very large number have either found theui
wlvtii weU-t<>-do, or else have gained a living.
Now, what does New England buy ot the
South to keep her cotton and woolen mills in
operation—to supply her lack of corn and flour, ,
to furnish her with sugar, rice, tobacco, lumber, 1
et.? Boston alone received from the slave
States in 1650 cotton valued at 822,UU0,000;
wo >1 worth 81,000,0 Ki; hides valued at 61,000,-
•90; flour 6 ?,->39,000 ; corn 61.-00,000; rice
•500,009; tobacco estimated at 63,000,000.
We thus have 831,300,0 )0 in value, only con
sidering eight articles of consumption. Nor i
have we reckoned the Urge amounts of portions
wall of these articles which arrive lit Provi
dence, N-W ll.vea, Hartford, Portland aud oth- j
er places. Nor have We reckoned the value of
other articles that arrive at Boston, very consid
erable though it be, such as molasses, navnh
“tores, beef, pork, lard, and other animal rre
duce; hemp ; early vegetables; oysters and oth
er shell fish ; game, peaches, etc. May we not
estimate then, with good reason, that Ntew Eng
land buys of the South her raw materials and
other products to the amount of some 850,000,-
000 annually? In 1858. about one-third of all
the flour sold in Boston was received from the
commercial ports of the Southern States, and in
the same year seven-twelfths of all the corn sold
in this city, was received direct froth th** States
of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. The val
ue of the product of sugar aTfit molasses,
pally produced in Louisiana, in 1858, WJ*; o a fiuut
833,000,000, ami though hut a portion of
11 came to New England, nea-’ o ne-half of the
r°Pf Consumed in the Northern Suites, reach
ing the points ot by the Mississip
pi river. • 1
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The Party on Tuesday Night.
Prof. R. j. Powell’s Dancing |School closed
here on TuesAwy night last, when the young
f *entleine. . ... _ ‘i T,, t I town made it the occa
-*t tins rem-;
sion of am >. with Liv er Chancing and Social
Party. We do not femcftifier that we were ev
er present at a more agreeable re-'iinionof young
and old—of graYe, gay, beautiful and witty.
The dunce was held at Concert Hall and a
bountiful and elegant supper was provi
ded at the Webb House under the supervision
of Mrs. Yfebb. We could not, if we would
write a volume, give the reader a better idea
than this single fact jpiat all that taste and pro
fusion could accoi” Mb. were exhausted in the
supply and dcci ta^ei ns of the table.
A French writer has happily remarked that
the invention of the Game of Whist has saved
I
thousands of characters. Dean Swift too, has
noticed the tendency of social enjoyments to re
buke slander by the interrogatory of a female—
“Whafs Trumps?" —-when something disrepu
table was said in relation to the supposed death
of the good Dean. We think that allsocial and
dancing parties (when conducted like our late
party( act as a curb to that Scriptural-condemn
ed and worst of sins—an uncharitable heart and
! an evil-speaking tongue. Solitude and Society
both have their virtues and vices and lie only is
the Christian who can extract the virtues of
each, without being contaminated by the vices
of either.
Washington City Correspondence
OF THE PILOT.
Consideration of the President’s Message-
Senator Iverson’s speech —The expected
organization of the House —Arrival of
Senator Seward —Celebration of the Lit
erary Societies of Columbian College.
Washington, l). G\, Jan. 9th 1890.
Considerable debate has already been
had on the various measures recommended
in the President’s Message. On many ot
the leading issues brought forth, a large
number of the Senator’s agree in opinion
with the President. None doubt scarcely,
that Mexico, rather than fall in the hands
of foreign powers, should receive protec
tion from the United States Government.
Although some question seriously the right
of our interference with Mexican affairs,
they admit that now is not the time ; hut
when Mexico becomes more enlightened—
when she will he better prepared to adopt
our form of government, then is the prop
er time for her annexation. If the Mexi
can treaty can he ratified by both Govern
ments, the concessions therein made- —the
privileges granted by such a treaty, will be
all that the can ask of
that distracted country.
; Senator Iverson made a speeeli of consid
erable length to-day in the Senate, cxplan
itory of his position and reasons on the va
rious questions before the public mind. —
He would venture to assert the unsound
ness of the Democratic party, on rnafty of
the leading issues that have agitated the
: country for some time. He said in many
respects they had been loyal and faithful
to the Constitution, and to themselves as
statesmen. Blit he would not sustain them
in their faults, although, some of the Dem
ocrats, both North and South, had accus
; ed him of denouncing the party unjustly,
lie would speak against their injustice as
long as he was permitted to raise his voice
in the Senate of Congress. He denied the
construction which the northern wing of
the Democracy placed upon the Kansas
question, as being in harmony with the
constitution, and with the sentiment of the
whole southern people. He further allud
ed to the Squatter Sovereignty doctrine of
i Judge Douglas, as depriving us of our
right or protection of slave property in the
Territories, under the constitution, he
would have the people of Kansas adopt.—
That under present circumstances, if there
was not more security given to the Slave
holders of the Territories by the Legisla
ture thereof, the property in slaves would
jbe no longer secured to the master, nor
could the people of such a Territory look
for the protection of their property. He
thought that Congress could erect a Ter
ritorial Government, as she had done in
cases of Florida ceded by Spain, Louisiana
purchased from France by the United
States, or rather could exercise Legislatvie
power over such a Territory. He denounc
ed Judge Douglas's Squatter Sovereignty
as productive of mischievous results, and
said, he (Douglas) would have to repudi
ate that part of the Cincinatti Platform
respecting such a clause, and not only that,
but a great many other things, before he
(Iverson) would sup] art him for the next
presidency. Aud he would have the Black
Republicans understand, that lie had no
use for them, suceringly, lie mentioned
their leaders, such men as Seward, Hale,
Wilson and many others. He would sug
gest the pure and zealous statesman 11. M.
T. Hunter of Va., or the distinguished
Stephens of On.. hut lie would never give
his vote to Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois.
If the Union must Do dissolved, he was for
having a separate and distinct confederacy
—a proud Southern Ilepo-die. And if the
North does whip the South into the Union
it would not meet with as a fall as John
Brown, but that the South would hang
them every one to trees, (and Georgia would
hang her part) just growing to hand. It
was a noble speech, hut there was a too
strong disunion sentiment pefvading the
whole.
The House expected to organise to-day,
hut the vote taken was not sufficient to a
choice. Sherman stood 105, Hamilton
(Deni.) of Texas B#, Gilmer, (American)
of N. C. IS with a rest scattering votes.
Senator Seward made his first appear
ance in the Senate to-day. He is expect
ed .to make a speech soon.
I he Ltierary Societies of Columbia Col
‘ege Vill have a celebration about the 15th’
or February. Senator Hunter is expected
to deliver the oration, and Rev. Mr. Sun
derland the poem.
It continues to snow.
PHILOPHRENIAN.
Upson Guards.
Extract from tlie proceeding's of last
meeting Saturday, Jan. 14, 1860.
Company met, The minutes of last
meeting were read and adopted. A letter
of Capt. Griffin, of the Macon Guards con
cerning Guns for the Company, was read,
after which it was agreed that tlie Captain
appoint a committee of four to correspond
with the Governor, in order to get such
Guns as the Macon Guards have.
Committee—Tlios. O. Heard, G. A. Mil
ler, A. C. Rogers and Louis Hamburger.
The Company then proceeded to elect
some Officers which resulted as follows : •
G. L. F. Birdsong, 3d Lieutenant,
W. O. Sandwich, 2nd So rgeant,
Dan. D. Spaulding, 3rd Sergeant)
T. E. Sullivan. 4th Sergeant,
0. T. Mitchel, Ist Corporal,
James 1). Russ. 2nd Corporal,
R. A. Williams, 3rd Corporal,
H. W. F. Worthy, 4th Corporal.
On motion the Company adjourned un
til Saturday, the 28th inst.
Louis Hamburger, Sec’y.
“SCOTT “RIFLES.”
Since our last issue we have received the
following communication from an esteem
ed friend ;
Talbotton, Geo., }
January 16th, I86j). j
Mr. Miller : —At your request, 1 send
you a succinct statement of tlie celebration
of the Bth of January, by the Scott Rifles
of Talbot county.
On Monday morning, at 10 o’clock, the
Company assembled in front of the Bap
tist church in this place. After a short
drill by their accomplished Captain, they
were marched tip in front of the Le Vert
Female College, where J. H. Weeks, on
behalf of the ladies, in an address, happy
in its conception, elegant in diction and
polished in delivery, presented the Compa
ny a rich and beautiful banner hearing the
inscription, “Scott Ritles.” “Presented by
the Ladies of Talbotton.”
Private Augustus Little, received the
flag on the part of the Company. Mr. Lit
tle’s speech was generally applauded, and
acknowledged by all to have been eminent
ly appropriate to the occasion.
After tlie reception of the flag, the Com
pany tired three rounders—marched hack
in front of the Hotel—fired three rounders
by sections, and then dispersed until two
o’clock, P. M.
At two o’clock the Company met for
target shooting, a silver cup to he presen
ted by Lieut. Pou, to the best shot. The
best average shot 4 3-4 inches was made
by private, 11. Hall, distance eighty
yards. The Company labored under the
great disadvantage of shooting while the
sun was shining brilliantly on their pans.
At night the young and old, gay and
handsome, imaginative and matter of tact,
regaled themselves with a “flow of soul,”
at a “military and civic” party, tastefully
and sumptuously prepared by Judge Den
nis and Lady.
Take it all in all, the celebration was
one of which our citizens may justly he
proud. May the gooijjyld patriotic spirit,
(as the signs of the times seem to indicate)
which one prevailed, of celebrating the no
ble and heroic deeds of our great men, and
of commemorating the events in our histo
ry, which give us character as a nation, be
awakened if sleep, if dead resurrected.
TALBOT.
Resolutions.
This season of the year is favorable to
| the sowing of a large crop of resolutions,
reforming had habits, the harvest of which
presents tlie same average of tares every
year. One wants to quit smoking, anoth
er drinking, another swearing, another
; buying on credit. One resolves to he more
attentive to business, go to bed sooner,
rise earlier, and fifty'othcr habits to he bro
ken and tastes to he checked. If all our
hearts were laid bare just now, we Wen id.
see with ns torn” hment what reforms were
contemplated. Bar keepers would hesitate
about taking out a license, and cigar deal
ers would seriously contemplate closing
their doors, to engage in some business,
which was less objectionable to this secret
reform society, if all our good resolutions
fueled with the beginning of the year were
faithfully carried out, what wonderful chan
ges we should see in manners as widl as
habits* hut alas ! as the new year grows
old, our firmness wanes, and the too oft
indulged appetite continue its knawings
for food until we many times end by “trea
ting a good resolution” which is simply ac
knowledging ourselves more firmly than
ever tlie slave of a cruel master. An old,
and keen observer, once remarked to us,
that the first two weeks of every new year
was nearly always a dull time with the Bar
rooms, from the number of persons who
annually resolved to break themselves of
the habit of drinking, but after the fort
night’s probation, they begin to feel like
throwing off’ the restraint, and one by one
you will see them seeking their old haunts
until another new year startles them with
its occurrence, and rinds them just as ready
as the year before to resolve on reforming,
Unquestionably there are some who adhere
to their resolutions, and we hope dear rea
der that you are one of them, but the large
majority of mankind “resolve, and resolve,
yet die the same.” — Savannah RepvMi-.
can.
[communicate!*.^
‘‘Where are we Drifting?”
Mr. Editor :— The organization of vig
ilant ossoeiations in this and other South
ern communities, and the present state of
things at the seat of’tin? general govern
ment, must excite deep feelings of anxiety
in the hearts of all men who love their
country.
If they fall back upon first principles, or
begin at the beginning ih any attempt to
account philosophically for the embarass
ment of our political condition, and follow
the history of our government from its
original conception, they will find them
selves led irresistably to doubt its perma
nence. The idea that our government will
ultimately prove a failure, will come up ;
and judging from the past, that failure, or
a radical reform, is at hand. The crisis is
upon us, and we are anxioils to see so far
into the future as to be prepared fur the
result, whatever it may he. If a peaceful
reform, We will rejoice; if civil war, we
must light it out. At all events, by peace
or war, we must again conquer our liber
ties.
The organization of a vigilant associa
tion is folly, unless it is intended to accom
| plish some purpose. Is it intended to pro
tect us in the enjoyment of life, liberty,
! eligion and propperty? If yea, then it
is an usurpation of the powers of gbvern
! ment; for our government is instituted for
the very same purpose. Has the govern
ment failed to afford this protection? Will
it fail at the proper time to do it ? If is
has ever failed, or if there is gaud reason
to apprehend that it will fail, then we must
i have anew government. But upon dem
ocratic principles, that new government
must he initiated by the people. A self
appointed, vigilance association is not a
proper substitute for it, any more than it
would he proper for an individual, under
the antiquated idea of the ‘’divine right of
King,” to lake upon himself the responsi
bility of our government.
Georgia has enjoyed to the full extent
1 till that the Democratic party has been
; competent to give her in the way of gov
ernment. If her government is not strong
! enough to protect her citizens (and vigi
! lance associations indicate the propriety of
I dispensing with the it,) who are to blame
—Democratic principles* or the Demoerat
! ic party ?
Let us now look at the General Govern
ment. Is it in its present position, “skotch
| ed” by political party factions, worthy of
the American people ? Like the Govern
ment of Georgia, if it is the best the Dem
ocratic party could do; they have been po
litical government tinkers for years, and
their great national cauldron will not hear
to he “skimmed” of the fanaticism ofslave
ry and squatter sovereignty.
Now, if the true-hearted men of Ameri
ca —men of the United States —men of the
Union —who have modestly stood aside
from the “dirty work” of political dema
agogues, will reflect for a moment on the
present political aspect of our State and
general will see the pro
priety of the question, “where are we drif
ting?” And if they will, for the occasion
dispense with their modesty, and exert
some little energy, they may “save the
country” from the misrule and fanaticism
which Congress and vigilant associations
arc fostering.
Now is the time for action. The men
of to-day must provide for the happiness
of the men oi to-morrow; outlet their do
ings he tern}) “ed by the wisdom of the
i men of yesterday.
Let us have Republican and Democrat
ic principles in their purity, and put down
Republican and Democratic sectional par
| ties, and pledge ourselves to the Constitu
| lion and Union. — Augusta Chronicle A:
Sentinel , 14.
Marion
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Truths for Wives.
In domestic happiness, the wife’s influ
ence is much greater than her husband’s ;
for the one, the first cause—mutual love
and confidence—being granted, the whole
! comfort of the house-hold depends upon
j trifles more immediately under her juris
! diction. By her management of small
| sums, her husband’s respectability and
I credit are created or destroyed. No for
tune can stand the constant leakages of
extravagances and mismanagement ; and
i more is spent in trifles, than woman would
easily believe. The one
whatever it may be, when turncu over and
carefully reflected on ore incurred ; the in
come is repared to meet it; hut it is pen
nies impereeptablv sliding away which do
the mischief; and this the wife alone can
stop, for it does not come within a man’s
province. There is often an unsuspected
tribe to be saved in every household. It
is not in economy alone that the wife’s at
tention is so necessary, hut in those nice
ti s which make a well-regulated house. —
an unfurni Lad or island, a missing key,
a buttouless shirt, a soiled table-cloth, a
mUstanl-jiot with its old contents sticking
hard and brown about, are severally noth
ings; hut each can raise an angry word or
cause discomfort. Depend on it* there’s a
great deal of donn stic happiness in a well
dressed mutton-chop or a tidy breakfast
table. Men grow anted of beauty, tired of
music, are often too wearied for conversa
tion—(however intellectual;) hut they can
always appreciate a well-swept hearth and
smiling comfort. A woman may love her
husband devotedly—may sacrifice fortune,
friends, family, country for him—she may
have the genius of a Sappho, the enchant
ed beauties of an Armida; hut melancholy
fact—if with these she fail to make his
home comfortable, his heart will inevita
bly escape her. And women live so entire
ly in the affections that without love their
existence is a void. Better submit, then,
to household tasks, however repugnant
they may he to your tastes, than doom
yourself to a loveless home. ‘Women of a
higher order of mind will not run this risk;
they know that their feminine, their do
mestic, are their first duties.
A flower for the heart—a wife full
of truth, innocence and love, is the pretti
est flower a man can wear next his hcait.
From the Greensboro N C. Patriot.
A Just Tribute to an Honest Mail.
We clip the following from the Nation
al Intel! ii/ckccr , and with the venerable
editors of that able and conservative jour
nal, we can say we do so “with pleasure,
because we know that thp character which
It draWt of that able and patriotic gentle
man is eminently just and true. :
HON. JOHN A. GILMER.
The annexed notice, from a Georgia pa
per, “Upson Pilot,” Thomaston Ga., ot
the Hon. John A. Gilmer, the respected
member of Congress From Nprth Carolina,
has been handed to us by a friend from the
South, and we insert it with pleasure, be
cause we know that the character
which it draws of that able and patriotic
gentleman is eminently just and tine:
“Hon John A. Gilmer, the nominee of
the Americans for Speaker of the House
of Representatives, is a native of Guilford
county, North Carolina. His grandfather
was a soldier under Gen. Greene, and was
wounded at the famous battle of Mart ins
burg, (known in history as the battle of
Guilford Court-house) where the celebra
ted English officer Lieutenant-Colonel
Webster lost his life, and where Cornwal
lis and Tarleton drew off their shattered
forces dispirited, if not substantially defea
ted. Mr. Benton has declared that the
bat tle of Guilford Court-house, was the
pivot on which turned the independence of
the colonies, for the surrender at York
town was not a battle, hut a siege.
Hon. John A. Gilmer has reached his
present elevated position without the ap
pliances of wealth or inliuential relations,
lie only bore the name of a spotless father
and carried in his veins the blood of a Rev
olutionary patriot and honest man. He
has, in every condition of life and under
all circumstances, proven true to his line
age. We have known him intimately for
years as a legislator, a lawyer, and in the
private and social relations of life, and we
can, in the fear of God and in the face of
man, declare that we have never known
a purer gentleman; one who would wear
the honors of Speaker more meekly, and
who would bring to hear upon the corrup
tions of a degenerated Administration the
powers of a better and more experienced
and disciplined mind and purer heart.
Mr. Gilmer is an old Whig; and lie lias
ever been firmly sustained by the descend
ants of old \\ lags oti the very spot render
ed illustrious by deeds (not words) or chiv
alry.”
Celibacy of Washington Irving.—
Instead of being a “defect,” the celibacy of
Irving was his crown of glory. Those who
have studied his writings must have been
struck with the remarkable transition from
humor to pathos, from the broadest fun to
the most meditative sentiment, -which oc
curs between the facetious history of New
York and the Sketch Book. Many, per
haps, imagine that this is accounted for
by his loss of fortune. But the feeling is
too soulful for such an interpretation. It
had its origin in mu* of those disappoint
ments of the heart which color all the sub
sequent life of a true man. We trust that
now there is no want of delicacy in allud
ing to the fact that the subject of Irving’s
love died during their betrothal. We have
heard the last interview described by a
member of her family, and to the sacred
sorrow thus engendered in to he ascribed
much that is touching and ti ue in the sen
timent of Irving’s writings ; to his fealty
to this affection, in no small degree, is ow
ing to the last ; and, above all, that res
pect for and sympathy with the innate and
holy sentiments of humanity which he so
uniformly cherished and manifested in let
ters and in life.
Not is this all. Time may have healed
the wound and reconciled the bereft to an
other relation ; hut there intervened a pe
riod of disaster which drove his eldest
brother to bankruptcy. For his 4 gftke and
that of his family of daughters, Washing
ton Irving continued single, took them all
home, and became a father to the children.
Beautiful was their mutual devotion ; hap
py their congenial household, and Suntly
side is now bequeathed to them.
No one familiar with Mr. Irving associ
ated the idea of celibacy with him ; he was
always in a domestic atmosphere ; his nei
ces were like daughters ; his fair neighbors
his favorite companions; children the de
light of his heart. With such free and
fond affections he could, under no circum
stances, lead the life of a single man, as
the phrase is usually understood. He was
domesticated iififamilies abroad ; he was
the endeared centre of one at home ; and
one of beautiful aspects of his
life, as well as one of the most honorable,
is that selected as exceptional, after the
flippant habit of those who ignorantly con
demn what they have neither the justice to
examine nor the refinement of soul tocon
jec#re may be an evidence of the highest
iove and the most heroic self-denial.
Boston Transcript , Dec. 29.
The importance of privacy as a se
cret of matrimonial happiness, is thus
beautifully described :
“Preserve the privacies of your house,
marriage state, heart from father, mother,
sister, brother, aunt, and all the world.—
You two, with God’s help, build your own
quiet world ; every third or fourth one
whom you cl aw into it with you, will form
a party, and stand between you two. That
should never he. Promise this to each
other. Renew the vow at each temptation.
Y r ou will find your account in it. Y'our
souls will grow, as it were, together, and
at least they will become as one. Ah, if
many a young pair had on their wedding,
day known this secret, how many marriages
were happier than alas ! they are.”
Punch saucily marks “A point in |
favor of America,” viz : “In England there
are certain periods of the year specially put
aside for shooting ; but in America, to
judge from the numerous duels and savage
assaults that are almost daily taking place
with pistols and revolvers, tlu? shooting
season seems to continue pretty nearly all
the year‘round.
Hints to Young Gentlemen.
Don’t give up your scat in the car,
when you are tired out with your da V
work, to a pert young Miss who has U,,
amusing herself with a little shopping
she won't even thank you for it; anil U
man is going to sacrifice his comfort, L
has a reasonable right to expect, at k a >>
a little gratitude. No use being posit,. P
some ladies—there’s an old proverb aL,: *
casting pearls before* —what’s their names 3
Don’t submit to he crowded off the ; av .
ment into a muddy gutter by twoadvntv
ing balloons of silk and wlialcl >no
Haven’t your newly blacked hoots ns i
a claim to respect as their skirts ? j, A
straight before you, and stand up tor \
rights like a man—the laches can contract
themselves a little if they see there's no
help for it!
Don’t talk literature and the fine arts to
the pretty girls of your acquaintance until
you are sure they know the difference be
tween Thomson'? Seasons and Thomson’s
Arithmetic. And if they look particular
ly sentimental, then you may know thev
don’t understand what you are talking a
bout!
Don’t ask a nice little girl about her
dolls, unless you are very certain shehusu’t
“come out,” and been engaged in two or
three flirtations already.
Don’t, say complimentary things ton
young lady at a party without first making
sure that her “intended” is not standiim
behind you tho whole time.
Don’t accept a lady's invitation to go
shopping with her, unless you have previ
ously measured the length of your purse.
Don’t stay later than eleven o'clock when
you spend the evening with a pretty friend
—the wisest and wittiest man in Christ
endom becomes a boro after that hour.
Don’t believe any woman to bean angel.
If you feel any symptoms of that disease,
take a dose ot sage tea and go to bed—it
is as much a malady as the small-pox, and
it is your business to get over it as quick
ly as possible. An angel, indeed ! If you
don’t find out pretly soon that she lacks
considerably more than the wings, we are
mistakeu!
Don’t make up your mind about any
creature in a belt-ribbon and velvet ro
settes without first asking your sister’s ad
vice. Depend upon it, one woman can
read another better in live minutes than
you can in live years !
And, above all, don’t imagine that yoti
must keep yOirr lady-talk and gehtlenmti
talk in separate budgets, labeled and stor
ed, unless you want the girls to laugh in
their slbevs at your wish-washy sentimen
talisms. Talk to them in a frank, manly
style, as you would to all intelligent gen
tlem. Don’t suppose, because they ary
women, they don’t know anything.
Remember all this advice, sir, and you
may make rather less of a fool of yourself
than you would otherwito. —Life 111 list r a
ted.
A Philosopher dN Riches. —We were
much interested yesterday listening to a
Rack-driver who was kicking his heels
against his carriage-seat while waiting tor
a job, talking to a brother “whip” who sat,
by his side. His good-looking fate and
coarser fabric coat indicated that lu* be
longed to the class of people who arc little
troubled about hanks failing; lint time
was a philosophy about his reasoning worth
thinking over. ISaid he, as tie though;fully
cracked His whip at an imaginary lly on
the tail of his otf-horse, “You see, Tom,
it’s all moonshine to be rich ; it’s a vanity
and vexation of spirit ; it costs more than
it comes to ; it don’t pay, arid 1 know it,
Tom. Rich folks don’t have half the fun
us poor devils do. They can’t buy happi
ness with money ; they have to follow fash
ion, and fashion is a humbug ; they sit up
late of nights and get up late of mornings;
they drink champagne and we drink watci,
and they have a headache next (lay while
we poor folks are as brisk and j >layt‘nl as
that nigh-horse is on Sunday. That’s so,
old hoy, and I know it. It my wife was
rich, 1 wouldn’t live with her a minute —
indeed I wouldn’t. The children couldn’t
play in the mud, or run out doors to get
the fresh air. They would have to stay in
the house and breed consumption ; they
would have to eat tea and toast, eat late
dinners, and grow up with pale cheeks,
while my little Susy is romping on the
green, eating coarse food, growing up a
handsome, rosy cheek girl, and giving pro
mise of being a happy, virtuous woman, as
is her mother, Tom. Then, Tom, if you
are poor, you don’t have these hypocrites
come to flatter you ; you can call on your
friends just when you feel like it ; you can
go without getting a straight-tailed coat
or one of these “mory antic” silks, amiyou
hain’t got to tell folks you ain’t at borne
when you are ! That’s so, Tom.
“Riches are a good thing, hut they cost
more than they come to. Gold is good to
a certain extent ; hut when you have too
much of it, somehow or other it serves yow
heart just as tea-chests are served; they
come to hand all cased up in metal, und
nothing hut the steel of sorrow will open
them.
‘‘Now, Tom, there is old .He has
lots of money, but folks don’t like him.
II is wife lias silk dresses enough to make a
circus tent of, hut she can't say ‘thank
you’ without, it seems, to me, like breaking
oil an icicle from those cold lips of hers.-”
I knew her a few years ago, when her hcait
was not like a chestnut, all hid away*in ;l
prickly burr ; and when her laugh wat the
sweetest on the green. But she is i' lC h
now, Tom, and that’s what’s the matter,
and I know it.”
“Carriage, sir,” said lie noticing us look
ing at him, ami we lost the rest of his opin
ion on riches. There are many who ag r ' e
with him on the question of riches.—’
Washington States ff* Union.
Prentice, of the Louisville Jont’
nal, thinks the democracy made a mistake
in selecting the 23d day* of April tor the
meeting of the Charleston Convention
He say*s it should have been the first d**;
of that month.
Will someone be so kind, as to lui' !l ' ’
us with three lines to fill out this co
utun.