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THGMASTON, GEORGIA.
Aug. 27. 1859. n4l tt.
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WM. G. HORSLEY,
At tornev at LaaV ,
THOM ASTON, GA.
WILL practice in Upson, Talbot. Taylor, Crawford, i
’* Monroe. Pike and Merriwether Counties.
April 7.1859—1 v.
THOMAS BEALL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
TIIOMASTON, GA.
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ATTORNEY AT LAAV,
TIIOMASTON, GA.
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G. A. MILLER,
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tiiomaston, ga.
.A.. O. TVloore,
■G-csidczit Dentist,
tiiomaston, ga.
I Ri *’ E at my House (the late residence r ‘7 > s
Mrs. Hicks,) where I am prepared
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Medical Notice.
1 j V*’ to had health for several years past. I have
hut little inclination to practice Medicine, or to !
,l) uny thing else—and. if possible. ca:e<l less. Hut 1
happy to inform my old friends and patrons that
’ health is now much better, and ifthey desire to re-
Y” °ur former relations, that they can easily do so
•C a gon me when my services are needed. I will
myself to serve them to the best of my skill and
ability.
* ‘bice at mv old stand, the Drug Store, now occupied
w - A. Snell. mar3 R. HARWELL.
Hardeman” & griffin,
DEALERS IN
STAPLE dry goods and groceries
Os Every Description
Corner of Cherry and Third Streets ,
MACON. GA.
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. >on an d adjoining counties to the above Card. I i
we can make it to their interest to deal with
Ga Xo-WBbw 19.1858. T2e-tf,
Frrmi the London Times’ Calcutta Correspondent.
A Waterfall Six Times the Depth of Ni
agara.
Did any of your readers ever hear of the
Gairsoppa Falls, near Honore ? If not
they will probably read a description which
has just appeared with some pleasure. It
is curious that a fall six times the depth
of Niagara should remain almost unknown.
From the village of Gairsoppa, reached by
the river of the same name, the writer was
carried for twelve miles up the Malimuneh
Pass, and reached the Falls Bungalow
about three and a Half hours after leaving
the top of the Pass :
“An amphitheatre of woods, and a river,
about five hundred yards wide, rushing and
boiling to a certain point, where it is lost
in a perpetual mist and in an unceasing
deafening roar, must first be imagined.—
Leaving the Bungalow on the Madras side
of the river, and descending to a position
below the river level, you work your way
up carefully and tediously over slippery
rocks, until you roach a point, where a
rock about twice the size of a man’s body
juts out over a precipice. Resting flat up
on this rock, and looking over it, you see
directly before you two out of the four
principal Falls ; these two are called the
“Great Fall” and “the Rocket,” The one
contains a large body of water, the main
body of the river, perhaps fifty yards across,
which falls massively -and apparently slug
gishly into the chasm below ; and the oth
er contains a small body of water, which
shoots out in successive sprays over suc
cessive points <f rock, till it falls into the
same chasm. This chasm is at least nine
hundred feet in depth, six times the depth
of the Niagara Falls, which are about one
hundred and fifty feet, and perhaps a quar
ter to a half mile in width.
These are the first two falls to he visited.
Then move a little below your first posi
tion, and you will observe first a turgid
i> >iiing hodv of water of greater volume
than the Rocket Fall, running and steam
ing down into the. same chasm—this is the
ikiid fall, lire “Roarer.” and then carrying
y>ur eye a iiiilc further down you will ob
-1.1 ve another fall, the loveliest, sof.est,
and most graceful of all ; being abroad ex
panse of shallow water falling like trans
] arent silver lace over a smooth surface ot
polished rock into this same chasm ; this
is “La Dame Blanche,” and the W bite
Lad', of Avvnel could not have been more
graceful and ethereal. But do not confine
\ our>. ‘ f to v v one place in order to view
ing t! - : A. Scramble everywhere you
can, and oct as many views as you can of
them, cad you will he unable to decide up
on which is the most beautiful. And do
you want to have a faint idea of the depth
of tlu chasm into which the glorious wa
iters fall ? Take out your watch and drop 1
!as large a piece of rock as you can hold
j from vour viewing place ; it will he several
| seconds bcfoiv you even lose sight ot the
; piece of rock, and then even it will not
I Have reached the water at the foot of the
i chasm, it will only have been lost to hu
man sigh 4 ;or watch the blue pigeons,
; wheeling and circling in and out the Great
j Falls within the chasm, and looking like
; sparrows iu size in the depths beneath you.
, But you have yet only seen one, and that
1 not perhaps the loveliest, and at least not
i the most comprehensive view ot the stills.
You must proceed two miles up the river
above the tails and cross over at a ferry,
where the waters are still smooth as glass
! and sluggish as a Hollander, and proceed
; to the Mysore side of the falls, walking first
to a point where yon will see them all at a
; glance, and then descending as near as you
can to the foot of these, to be drenched by
the spray, deafened by the noise, and awe
struck by the grandeur of the scene and
by the visible presence of the Creator of
it, in the perpetual rainbow of many and
brilliant hues which spans the foot of the
chasm.”
Tell Your Wise. —ls you are in any
trouble or quandary, tell your wile—that
is if you have one—all about it at once. —
Ten to one her invention will solve your
difficulty sooner than alt your logic. The
wit of a woman has been praised, but her
instincts are quicker and keener than her
reason. Counsel with your wife, or your
mother or sister, and be assured light will
flash upon your darkness. A omen are
too commonly adjudged as verdant in all
but purely womanish affairs.- No philoso
phical student of the sex thus judges them.
Their intuitions, or insights, are the most
subtle and ifthey cannot see a cat in the
meal, there is no cat there. In ‘counselling
a man to tell his trouble to bis wife, we
would go farther, and advise him to keep
none of his affairs secret from her. Many
a home has been happily saved, and many
a fortune retrieved, by a man's full confi
dence iu his “better hall.” Woman is far
more a seer and prophet than man, if she
be given a fair chance. Asa general rule,
wives confide the minutest of their plans
and thoughts to their husbands, having no
involvements to screen from them. “W hy
not reciprocate, it but lor the pleasure ot
meeting confidence with confidence ? We
are certain that no man succeeds so well in
he world as he, who taking a partner for
life, makes her the partner ot all his pur
poses and hopes. \V hat is wrong of ni>
impulse or judgment, she will cheek And
set right with her almost universally light
instincts. “Helpmeet’ was no insignificant
title, as applied to man’s companion. She
|is a meet help to him in every darkness,
d’tficuity, and sorrow of life. And what
she most crates and most deserves, is con
fidence —without which love is never free
from a shadow.
* THE UNION OF THE STATES? —DISTINCT. LIKE THE TkLQWS; ONE, LIKE THE SEA,’ !
TIIOMASTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 28, 1860.
Democratic Party.
[A Fragment.]
Joyner was a man of infinite jest and im
perturbabable gravity.
Gen. Jones was a hot-headed and impe
tuous democrat.
Joyner did not belong to the Democrat
ic party.
Gen. Jones approached.a party of men,
composed almost entirely of his own po
litical friends, in hot haste, bringing the
(to them) glad tidings of another demo
cratic victory. He was received with en
thusiastic shouts of applause. Joyner
sought and obtained an introduction to
Gen. Jones.
“How are you Mr. Joyner,” and at the
same time giving him a grip that would
have made any other man repent the em
brace.
Joyner released his hand, and with sin
cerity prominent in every lineament of his
visage, defereutly addressed the impetuous
Democrat.
“General Jones am I right in supposing
the principles of the democratic party to
be the principles of the democratic par
ty ?”
“To he sure,” dubiously retorted the
General.
“Well then,” replied Joyner, “1 am cor
rect in supposing the principlesof the dem
ocratic party to be the principles of the
democratic party, and sir, according'to
this admission, that the principles of the
democratic party are the principles of tlu*
democratic party, must be the principles
of the democratic party.”
The savage glance of Gen. Jones
could discover not the slightest trace of
mischief and with an effort to control him
self, he replied:
“How is that, Mr. Joyner P I don’t
know that I understand you. Please be a
little more definite.”
“I now feel convinced,” resumed Joyner,
“that the principles of the democratic par
ty: and sir, if the principles of the demo
cratic party are the principles of the dem
ocratic party, why, then, the principles of
the democratic party, must be the princi
ples of the dem—”
Here a row elisued. and the conference
was broken off, yet “the principles of the
democratic party,” were-as well defined as
any of tlie leaders can define them now a
days.
But though worse spec-led, in the color
of different political diseases, than Jacob’s
cattle, there is one thing, and only one.
upon which the leaders oi’ the JS'a:nitml
democratic party agree and that one llnng
is the spoils.
Dr Lord on Slavery. —Rev. Nathan
Lord, D. D., President of Dartmouth (N
41.) College, has written a letter on the
larper’s Ferry affair, to <i Virginian, who
has published it in the Richmond (Va.)
Whig. Dr. Lord is now a man in advanc
ed years —his age is about 7.3 —but he re
iterates to-day the same principles which
he Inis taught for the thirty years during
which lie has presided over Dartmouth
College. He has heretofore published let
ters upon the slavery question, which ob
tained a wide circulation from the ability
and force which characterize them. Few
men surpass him in the cogency of his
thoughts, his vigorous expression of them,
and the fearlessness and courage with which
he maintains the right. He concludes this
last letter, to the Virginian, as follows :
“But whether we have democracy, an
archy or despotism, we shall not be rid of
slavery till the day of the Lord. Its exis
tence depends n >t on forms of government
or philosophical speculations, or political
manoeuvres, or legislative enactments, or
judicial decisions, except as these may tem
porarily change its name, aspects or condi
tions, or vary its locations. The world
must live to its appointed period. It can
live as things are, only as it has lived, more
or less with all varieties of race, character
and condition. These will find their ap
propriate spheres or places, not according
to mere human judgments, Hut. hy God’s
providential ordering of Hhetn, Ham and
Japhet, agreeably to physical laws and the
plan of moral government, in reference to
the ends of the present probationary stale.
Wherever there is a place and work for
slaves, there they ill be found. All things
are fitted to all other things, and general
laws will have their course. Our only wis
dom is to study them, and liveumh-r them
and by them, in subserviency to their mix
ed righteous and benevolent design.
Without a miracle, I see not but that
slaves will yet be called for in New En
gland, and by New England men —slaves
having the attribute, if not the name of
slaves, and possibly in worse conditions
than we now complain of in reference to
the South. Why not, if our present gov
ernment should last another eight years ?
For Yankees will not perform the mental
work of life. They are above it pow. The
imported free servants of Ireland and oth
er countries will soon be infected with
Yankee independence, and have the means
of living, above servile work, on their own
freeholds ! Then who will he our servants?
Shall we have coolies or Africans to hew
our wood and draw our water ? And what
a form of government shall be over them
but that which is adapted to their com
parative rudeness and imbecility, and con
servative of system ? The chil
dren and grand'children of our present ab
olitionists may yet be the first to institute
a harder serfdom that has yet been known,
unless, indeed, they should them: e ves be
compelled to sell themselves f <r bread, and
suffer the proper chastisement ot their fa
thers’ sins for their rebellion against the
government of God.”
Tiie IVagpie.
W e might say of the magpie that na
ture has only bestowed so much loquacity,
in o, Gr to make amends for the taciturni
ty and gravity that distinguishes so many
members of its family. Os a graceful form
and beautiful plumage, it is untiring in
the display of its attractions, aud as it is
common in the most populous and cultiva
ted districts, it is familiarly known and
universally ad mired.
Attracting attention from its peculiar
chattering note, the Greeks, with conscious
irony, represented certain talkative ladies
as changed into magpies, a transformation
which they believed would sufficiently cx
plain the reasons tor itsloqu icity, and oth
er habits peculiar to its lost sex. This vo
cal uproar time has made no improvement
in. is vve see to-day,
“ From bough to bough the restless magpie roves.
And chatters as he flies,”
with the same unmusical note that centu
ries ago induced Dante to name them
‘‘Wretched birds of chattering note.”
Os an exceedingly restless disposition,
we seldom observe the magpie station {fry
for any length of timej but either iking
from place to place, or perching an the
roadside, and hopping in its peculiar man
ner along the ground. Although one oT
our most common birds, it is exceachngly
difficult to approach within shot, and at
all times conducts itself with sttfh caution
as if aware of its personal attractions, and,
like other good people in the
’ value of preserving them.
Not content with it's own assurecteafetj,
i’t watches over that of other birds: To
the owl, whom it surprises at nomidav, a
most determined exposure is offered s and
even to the fox or cat, stealing along with
the very perfection of care at the hot to ty
of the ditch, the magpie becomes perfectly
odious; chattering and calling, it will not
stop until attention is callea them, or, by
its continued outcries, forces thefti to leave
their cover. To-day perched upon the old
beech tree over the it looks
after the farmer wheff passing him, and
honors him with a chatter of recognition ;
to-morrow the master goes to shoot, and
away flies “mag,” chattering a bulletin of
caution to the neighborhood. Admirable
in its calculations, it waits until the far
mer has just gained the range of wood
quests who are luxurating so freely upon
his wheat, when raising his alarm, the
plunderers escape by the vigilance of their
friend the pie. The gamekeeper cares not
fi r the excuse of their being “vermin” no
led thieves, and of a very exceptional char
acter, but he remembers the loss of many
a good opportunity by the vigilance of the
magpie, and endeavors on every occasion
to add a trophy to the many others nailed
against the out house door.
. As the food of the magpie consists of
larval and insects, it commits no injury up
on the tanner, who only disagrees with it
fur abstracting some sickly chicken, or be
ing overwatchful of the ducks’ egg? laid
about the farmyard. Os both these char
ges the magpie is guilty; bitt as they are
circumstances which rarely happen, they
I should not prejudice his character. To
! such perfection does it carry hardihood of
roguery, that it constructs its nest and
rears its brood as near to the farmyard as
possible, and fears not the slightest dan
ger of being molested, for, with infinite
caution, he changes the scene of his thefts
to some other farmyard situated at a dis
tance from home.
In the park attached to the College sit
j uated in tbs centre of our metropolis, the
magpie yearly rears its brood.
Northern Shoes anil Boots.
There is no article which the South pur
chases more extensively of the North than
shoes and boots. To say nothing of the
whites, the whole slave population of the
South wear shoes of northern manufacture.
Millions upon millions are poured into
Massachusetts annually for* the purchase
of this article. Ts there were no other ob
jection, it is enough that the shoes are in
ferior tu those of southern make. They
j are gotten up for a southern market, are
defective in many ways, and soon wear out
and ipe useless. Every man who wants a
good and substantial pair of shot's and
hoots, either for himself or servant, is well
aware that he must have them made here,
and not manufactured hy those who think
it their mission in every way to “spoil the
Philistines.” We have seen somewhere a
scene described in one of the multitudes of
shoe manufactories with which Massachu
setts abounds. Every little knot of shoe
makers has one reader, who, while they
ply their awls, reads the New York Tri
bune, or one of Parker’s or Beecher’s abo
lition sermons to them, and they hammer
away upon the leather as if they would re
joice to have the head of some slaveholder
in its place, and crush it like a nut-shell.
But they have what is better, the slaw
holder’s‘feet, and the feet of his slaves, all
well fastened in the stocks, waiting quietly
to he shod, whilst they are pelted with the
rotten eggs of slander and blackguardism.
It is not for us to ’-econcile the principles
of these shoe manufacturers with their
practice, in living and making money on
the slave labor which they pronounce so
iniquitous, but we may at least invoke
southern men, in the name of common
manliness and self-respect, to single out at
once this shoe trade, and see if they can- ,
not shake off their dependence upon these!
Abolition incendiaries, cease from paving!
money to men who will employ it in try
ing to cift their throats, and who hold that
it is the right and duty of the slaves to re
bel and of “the North to aid them in rebel- 1
lion. —Richmond Dispatch.
Women in Railroad Cars. — The Hart
ford (Connecticut) Courant is exceedingly
indignant at some of the women passen
gers of the railroad lines, lie says on their
Connecticut roads “almost every woman
claims two seats —one for her precious self,
and one (to use a Virginia^*.> xq*-ion) “to
tote her plunder.” It mati‘i>W7o difference
how many men are standing up, the fair
creatures must have room. Sometimes
! some flounce woman (we never use the
word lady in such a connection) spreads
herself and her traps over four scats. She
: pays hut for one. The conductors (amia
ble men as they are) never interfere to give
every traveler his equal rights. They prob
ably are too much hen-pecked at home to
make the women do justice abroad. There
is nothing that so strongly exhibits the ut
terly unamiahlo character of a woman as
tffis cold, haughty contempt of the rights
and comforts of others. A man who is
; in love with a girl should, before he declares
i himself, witness how she conducts herself
in a crowded car. It is a good criterion
of her selfishness. She will never make a
i kind wife ofmother. It is recommended
to the masculine to form a ‘Men’s Rights
Society,’ and compel conductors to give
itheni seats when there are any to spare.”
What Abe Lincoln Things.—The ed
itor of the Leavenworth Herald met the
distinguished Abe Lincoln on a recent trip,
! anti in a conversation drew out the opin
\ ion entertained by him as to Douglas’ pros
; pects at Charleston :
We inquired of him what he thought of
Douglas’ prospects at Charleston. “W'ell,
: he replied, “wore it not for certain mat
ters that 1 know transpired —which I re
garded at one time aniong the impossibili
ties—l would say he stood no possible
chance. I refer,” lie said, “to the fact that
in the Illinois contest with myself, he had
the sympathy and support of Greeley, of
| Burlingame and Wilson, of Massachusetts,
I and other leading Republicans ; that at
; the same time he received the support of
Wise and Breckinridge, and other Soutli
| ern men ; that he took direct Issue with
the Administration, and . secured against
till its power, 125,000 out of the 130,000
Democratic votes cast in the State. A
man,” he continued, “that can* bring such
influences to bear with Lis own exertions,
may play the devil at Charleston.”
Longevity of our Forefathers. —No
loss than thirteen of the fifty-six signers
of American Independence reached the age
of eighty years and upward, namely :
Charles Carroll, of Maryland 05
Win. Ellery, of Rhode Island 1)3
John Adams, of Massachusetts 91
Samuel Adams, of Massachusetts 91
Robert Treat Paine, of Massachusetts 93
Benjamin Franklin, of Massachusetts 84
Wm. Williams, of Connecticut 91
Wra. Floyd, of Lotig Island S7
Thomas McKean, of Pennsylvania S3
Thomas Jefferson, of Virginia 83
George Wythe, of Virginia 89
Francis Lewis, of South \\ ales 90
Mathew Thornton, of Ireland 89
Being an average of eighty-six years atftT
two months each ; and the aggregate ex
’ cess of the ‘Time-honored thirteen,” over
fourscore, is just eighty years. No delib
erative assembly of equal magnitude was ;
ever more remarkable for virtue, temper
ance and longevity of its members, than j
the one which declared the American colo
nies free and independent.
No Money. —A correspondent of one of
the western papers says : “Washington
City is at a dead lock, pecuniarily. I am
told that no merchant can gut SSOO from
! any bank here, for the very simple reason
that the banks liaven’tgot any money. The
banks have invested all their money in post
j office drafts, and there is no appropriation
until there is a Speaker. But that money
is scarce here, is undeniably true. Every
body who wants it has more than the u%u
al difficulty in getting it. It is said that
Glnsbrenner, the Seugeant-at-Arms, has
! advanced members the sum of .$90,000,
expecting to be repaid when the Speaker
: can sign warrants. But the $90,000 have
broken him, and he shows a blank face and
an empty purse to all applicants. But this
is one fact about the tightness of money,
which may be remarked as a sign of the
times,”
Anecdote of Lamar. —A friend, who
knew the late Mirabeau B. Lamar, well, iu
other days, in a private letter to the Sen
ior Editor of the Mail, speaks as follows :
“Well, Mirabeau 13. Lamar is dead !
He made the first political speech I ever
heard, and said : “By Heaven ! I had ra
! ther see Georgia an iceberg—leafless and ,
lifeless —floating in the frozen sea, than to |
1 see her submit to Federal exaction. Nay, |
sir, I had rather see her sink into a lake of
fire, seven times hotter, than man’s con
ception P
“When he had a fever, twenty years
ago, Colquitt went to see him, and he lay j
scorching up. and raving to die. ‘Any body
can die,’ he said, ‘but me. Any body else
would die, with tiiis fever ; hut here am I. ‘
and I shall not die, but suffer on, andlive!’
But he is dead ! —a brafe man, and a po
et. But he was not happy, and we trem
ble to lift the veil that hides his eternal
future.” — Mali.
An advertisement in a Boston pa
per, lately, for a young man to work in a
store, vas answered by eighteen applica
tions. But one fora “gentleman” to trav- ■
!el and play on the Banjo, met with four ;
hundred and eleven response*
in A dvane'e.
John Bell Nominated for President,
—A dispatch from Nashville states that
the lion. John Bell was nominated the
night of the 11th by the Opposition ‘ mem
bers of the Tennessee Legislature ns tno
National Union candidate for the Presi
dency.
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A Lively Bedfellow. —One nnist be
. easy in his mind to go to sleep quietly, blit .
what must have been the feelings of the
stranger who was sent up stairs, ia a Wes
tern hotel to sleep with a backwoodsman,
who gave him this welcome :
‘•Well, stranger, I,va no objection to
your sleeping with me, none in the least;
hut it seems to mo that the bed’s rather
narrow for you to sleep < m for table, con
sidering how I dream. Veil see, I’m an
old trapper, and generally dream of hunt
ing and seal ping Ini tins. At the place I
stopped night before last, they charged me
live dollars extra ’cause 1 happened to
whittle up the headboard with my knife
while I was dreaming. But you'-an cento
| U#bed, if you like I feel kinder peaceable
j to night/’’
President’s Levee.— The President’*
levee was very well attended this evening,
considering the small number of strangers
in tlie city.
It is asserted to-day, upon the best au
thority, that Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, who
was nominated for Speaker by Mr. Davis,
j of Indiana, is not auanti-Lecomuton tlem*-
| ocrat nor in favor of squatter sovereignty;
This fact excites some talk from the fact
that Mr. Douglas was on the tloor of tho
House consulting with his confidential
friend Davis wlhji the latter nominated
Hamilton and must have been posted as
to the views of Mr. Hamilton. The qiies
tiou is, who is cheated ?
THE MAIL CONTRACTORS.
The report that the mail contractors
had secured an extension of their paper
for sixty clays turns out to he a mistake:—
At a meeting of the contractors, held this
evening, at which nearly all the heaviest
interests tvere,represented, no one appear
ed to have a knowledge of any such exten
sions. Every day brings intelligence of
the failure of contractors all over the coun
try and those present in this city are iti
despair lest the same fate overtake them
before an organization will he effected.
The Truth of History.— Appleton’s
Encyclopaedia informs us that “Jas. Buc
hanan. President of tho United States;
was born at a place called Stoncy Batter,
Franklin county, Pennsylvania, April 22,
’ 1791. A biography of the President fol
lows, written by Judge Black, tho Attor
ney General of the United States.
The same , Encyclopaedia informs ns
“Stephen A. Douglas, an American states
man, was horn at Brandon, Rutland coun
ty, Vermont, April 2d, 1813.”
It seems, therefore, that the National
Democratic Committee lias* selected the
birth-day of Senator Douglas as the day
for the holding of the Democratic Nation
al Convention at Charleston.
Toothache Kemkdy.-As anything that
will relieve pain, with which all are tifdre
| or less aflieted. should be made kndwn, we
take pleasure in publishing the following
remedy for toothache, furnished by a friend
discovered by accident: Clorotorm and
Tannin in the following proportions, v'izf:
Cloroform half once, Tannin 30 grains,
mixed. .Saturate a small piece of raw cot
; ton with the mixture, and place in the
I cavity of the tooth, and instantaneous re
lief will be afforded.
A little child had made a “tool, no two
I of the legs of which were of a length.—
While trying in vain to make it stand up
;on the floor, he looked info his mother’s
face, and asked, “Does God see every
thing?” “Yes, my child.” “Well,” rc
| plied the son, “I guess ho will laugh when
lie sees this stool.”
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“Papa,” said a little boy to his pa
tent the other day, “are not soldiers very
; small men ?” “No, my son ; why did you
j ask me that ?” Because I was reading ID.
bout oneWho went to sleep on his watch.”
‘T am afraid, dear wife, that while
I am gone, absence will conquer love.” —
l Never fear, dear, the longer you stay away
the better 1 shall like you.’’
“Landlord, you have done me too much
honor—you let me sleep among the ‘big
; bugs’ last night.” ,
“Oh, don’t be too modest, my dear lod
j ger, doubt not they have some of your own
I blood in their veins.”
The late John Y. Mason, Minister to
France, though nearly all his life filling
high public stations, died, it is said, utter
ly insolvent, and left not a single dollar to
divide between his widow and thirteen*
children.
A kfaine editor, who went fd thd opera
in Boston, prefers “a quiet seat on a mos
sy rock near some pond full of bull frogs”’
Some graceless scamp says: “It
is woman, and not her wrongs, that should
he re-dressed.”
X Bad Smell. —“ Prentice says of an
editor who said that he ‘smelt a rat,’ that
if he did, and the rat smelt him, the poof
rat had the worst of it.”
If Madder colors red, is that the reason f
why the madder tou got the redder yotf
grow ?
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